The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-31
Squaring
The Circle
With
THE HoosIER EDITOR

|THRo"N up for grabs Every
= time Joe Louis wins a fight.
there are a greater number than
usual of Negro couples who take out
marriage licenses here the next day.
Val Nolan and his assistants
tried unsuccessfully to get the Fed
eral government to pay the quarter
a-nlonth-more cradle phone cost in
their Office and now they pay it
themselves. When {. gets to
8 above after a warm spell the
Weather Bureau gets more pro-
testing calls than when it gets to
10 below after a protracted cold
spell. Most of the persons who
called the bureau in the 10 below
period swore when told how colo it
was. Grant Wood worked all
night to complete a picture of Sec
rotary Wallace for the cover of a
national weekly, but it never was
published because the Supreme
Court announced the AAA decision
too soon. Chuck Virgins has
given up all hopes of a comeback in
the ring and has started boxing
school,
THERE was a great epizootic
epidemic in Indianapolis in
1872 dts an influenza among
horses. In Iowa there is a
newspaper called the Orient Ava
lanche and in the same state there
is the Woodbine Twiner. Eu-
gene Ormandy, who was here lately
with his symphony orchestra, de-
spises jazz because you don't have
to think to listen" The new
transmitter of station WLW near
Cincinnati lights electric bulbs IN
nearby houses when it is on the
air. A cigaret counter girl
says some people get mad if she
gives them matches with cigarets
and some get mad if she doesn't
and she approaches the problem
pretty gingerly. One under
standing the milk marketing situa-
ton here says the distributors would
be powerless if every housewife
would hold up bottles for two days.
;. Indiana veterinarians at their
recent convention in the SEVERN
spent an afternoon discussing the
rise of diseases communicable to
man in domesticated animals, and
they called it a problem in public
health.
Drank WALLACE, state ento-
- mologist, once built an elevated
blind near where he seemed to
know herons were going to nest
and, with infinite patience, got
motion picture of mama heron feed
ing her young after the family
had moved in. Groundhogs
seem to spend their time digging
homes for rabbits and other claim
jumpers among the animals.
Jack Hendricks, former Cincinnati
Reds and indianapolis Indians
baseball pilot, is chief of legal staff
for Stewart Donnelly, Indianapolis
gift to the international confidence
game situation. =. Tommy Dill
Ion, genial host at 1.-THE Office" is
in Florida summing his Irish. self.
If there had been more of the
old-fashioned sleighs and bobsleds
around Indiana farms, those
Geneva school pupils would not
have had to stay rnarooned by the
blizzard in their schoolhouse;
sleighs could get through the drifts.
and did.
nOWN in Sparksville, nesting
- in Southern Indiana's hills,
Sherd Jones dropped in on a neigh
Dor, Bill Henderson, and noticed a
little Henderson playing horsey with
a bedraggled fiddle.
Mr.. Jones picked it up, noticed
it was pretty sturdy fiddle and in
good shape, and paid Mr.. Hender-
son $3.50 for it in spite of protesta-
lions that it wasn't worth that; that
it was mo count"
Further examination at home re-
vealed to Mr.. Jones the signature
inside the violin of Joseph Steiner
the Teutonic master. A Medora
banker heard of it and bought the
piece for $50. He has refused much
more for it, because it was genuine.
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