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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-04

hibiting riots, drunkenness. horse
racing and swearing on the streets.
There was a lot of that in those
days.
AS 9, matter of record, Indian
apolis was pretty much under the
arrogant domination of gang Of
rufflans then who had been at
tracted to the city through the
building of the National Road and
who stayed to prey upon its citi-
Zens.
These rufflans were led, accord
ing to a historian of the times, by
strong man and they we're of
bad character" Known as The
Chain Gang" they frequently as
saulted citizens and committed
petty outrages.
TT got so bad that the citizens
H. met in the Courthouse and
formed a vigilante committee,
electing Harrod Newland, presi-
dent. The first thing he did of
f1cially was to make such rous-
ing speech against the roustabouts
that it was termed radical" by
his fellow vigilantes.
Nevertheless, the riff-ra heard
it, and got frightened. For sew
. eral months nothing much hap
pened and it was felt by the
citizens that a mere speech had
driven the bad men from their
midst.
In August. the Rev. James
Ravens announced he would hold
a camp meeting in Military Park
and people came from far and
wide. Brother Armstrong, a his
torian of the era says, came down
the road with red silk handker-
chief over his head singing some
stirring Methodist hymns"
After the camp meeting had
gotten all under way, the
ruffia'is, headed by their leader,
appeared at the park and started
some rough stuff. The situation
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-04
SCIENCE DEVELOPS
SYNTHETIC RADIUM
Amount Obtained Is Small;
Identity Is Certain.
Continued From Page One)


fetal laboratory methods is radium
E, one of the intermediary products
in the slow decay of ordinary ra-
dunn to lead. The amount of ra-
dunn E so far obtained is almost
infinitesimal, but careful checks
leave no doubt as to it's identity.
Bismuth Is Source
Synthetic radium E was obtained
by DR.. Livingood through the bonn
bardment of the common, inert
substance, bismuth, with deuterons
at an energy of approximately five
and a half million electron volts.
This product behaves exactly as
does natural radium E. Tests have
shown that it decays with half
life of five days by emitting cleo
irons and is converted into polo
MUM, which continues the decay by
emitting alpha particles at a half
life rate of about 40 days. The end
product of this process is lead, al
though tests so far have been limit
ed to determining the type and rate
of radiation.
This new step in the transmuta-
tor of matter was taken in the
laboratory of Prof. E. O. Lawrence,
using the S5-ton cyclotron or atomic
disintegrator designed by him which
already has been successful in
transmitting more than a third of
all elements known to man.
Process Expensive
The conversion of bismuth,
heaviest nonradio-active element,
into radium E, is considered final
proof that the apparatus will in
duce changes in every kind of mat
ter. The deuteron bullets used in
bombarding substances to be trans
muted are the nuclei of double
weight hydrogen atoms obtained
from heavy water costing approx
mately $500 a pint.
These bullets are shot from the
cyclotron at velocities of twelve
thousand or more miles per second
at the rate of one hundred thousand
billion per second Substances
placed in the path of this barrage
are disintegrated or fundamentally
changed in nature. Recently plat
mum was converted into gold.
Seventeen different research CEN
tiers throughout the world have re-
ported that they are building or
planning to build replicas of the
atom disintegrator at the University
of California. Three of the centers
are in Russia, two in England, one
in Japan. one in Denmark, and ten
in the United States. namely the
Universities of Michigan. Chicago,
Rochester. Washington, Illinois, Cor
nell. Princeton, Purdue, Columbia
and the Franklin Institute.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-04
EDWARD MAKES
LIBERTY PLEDGE
King Assures Safeguarding
of Peoples Welfare
in Message.
By United Press


LONDON, Feb. 4.-King Edward
VIII assured Parliament in a mes
sage today that his chief aim would
be to maintain the liberties and
welfare of his people.
The message was read at the first
regular session of the House of
Commons in King Edwards reign
1t said:
Il have received with true salts
faction the loyal and affectionate
address of Commons concerning the
grievous loss I have sustained and
concerning my succession to the
throne.
Il thank you for the expression of
your loyal attachment to my person
and you may be assured that the
first object of my life will be to
maintain the liberties of my people
and to promote the welfare of all
classes. I pray that by the blessing
of Almighty God I may justify your
trust throughout my reign"
The Kings use of the personal
T. instead of the formal royal
"we," following the example of his
father, was noticed with satisfaction
by members of the House.
1t was disclosed that when the
King received a deputation of the
House last week to express sympathy
over the death of his father he
added after his formal reply to
them:
May I say that the formality OF
this occasion is somewhat lessened
by the presence of so many familiar
faces? You all served my father III
the different governments which
existed during his great reign and
the sight of old friends bringing me
this address gives me encouragement
and confidence for the future"
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Tt was leased to private COM
panies which took water power
from it. But the companies were
always complaining about the
moss in its bottom, and the citi-
zens raised the devil when it was
drained for cleaning.
The Legislature, tired of the
headache, sold it.
The Madison railroad was COM
pleted as far as Vernon and
graded as far as Columbus when
it was stopped. What was COM
pleted was operated by the state
until 1843, when the state was
bilked out of it's equity and a
private company took it over IN
til it was ruined by competition,
it was the largest money maker in
the country. 1t finally gave up in
1847.
MYTH the collapse of all these
w projects. In d n apolis
sagged. Only the passing of
bankruptcy law a short time later
kept the leading merchants in
business. All capital avoided the
city.
However, when there still was a
boom, JOAN Wyant decided to take
some of the profits and throw a
New Years dance. This he did,
inviting the best people. There
were two rooms to his log house.
He was in one having wee nipple
when the fiddler fiddled and the
dance began
A social slicker from Louisville,
a grand gentleman with perfect
manners, thought it would be nice,
in his southern way. to dance the
first dance with Mrs. Wyant. He
asked her and together they
whirled onto the floor.
Mr.. Wyant returned in a light
ening glance of disapproval took
in the situation, and STROBE over
to the fiddler. He stopped the
music. Then he announced to the
company:
"As far as I and my wife are
concerned we are able to do our
own dancing; it would be better
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-04
CITY CRIPPLED
BY WALKOUT;
TROOPS ASKED
General Strike of 5000
Paralyzes Pekin, Ill.,,
Industrial Town.
Continued From Page one)

out today in the first of three
threatened strikes in New York City.
Elevator operators and building
service employees momentarily were
expected to strike and los 900 gar
ment workers have declared for
walkout unless new contracts are
reached this week. The building
service strike would force thousands
TO climb stairs to their Offices in the
tallest skyscrapers.
The millinery workers. members
of the millinery workers union, left
their work-tables shortly after 10
a. m. Their act affected 400 milli-
merry shops.
The point in dispute is the unions
demand that it be permitted to in
spect employers books to enforce
the agreement that is to govern
labor relations in the industry.
Authorities did not look for dis
orders in the millinery strike but
they did fear the outcome of the
proposed strike of elevator operators
and building service employees.
Police Commissioner Lewis VAL
entine ordered 900 patrolmen. as
signed to special duty in the poten-
tial strike area yesterday and with
drawn when the strike was delayed,
to the same posts today. Building
owners organized an employment
bureau to provide strike breakers.
Union officials said they would have
reception committees for men who
attempt to operate elevators or do
janitor duty in buildings involved.
The hour of the milliners' strike,
ordered last week, was certain,
union leaders said The hatters
seek power to inspect books of EN-.
ployers to ascertain whether they
adhere to labor contracts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-04
THREE TO FACE TRIAL
FOR MURDER OF KING
Alleged Terrorists' Case to Open in
France Tomorrow.

Alleged Terrorists' Case to Open in
France Tomorrow.
By United Press
AK EN- PROVENCE, France,
Feb. AFTER one false start, three
alleged Croatian terrorists charged
with the murder of King Alexander
of Jugoslavia and Foreign Minister
Louis Barthou 60 on trial tomorrow
before a heavily guarded Assizes
court.
The prisoners, who will be chief
actors in the drama of terror and
international intrigue are: zvoni-
mir Pospichil, 80, arrested two days
after the assassination, at Thonon,
near the Franco-Swiss frontier;
Ivan Raitch, 33, a farmer. also ar
rested at Thonon: Milo Kralj. %,
arrested in the Fontainebleau For
est a week after the crime.
On trial by default are three
others who have been in foreign
iails and whose extraction to
France has been refused
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-04
new SUDzERO
WAVE SWEEPS
DOWN ON CITY
Mercury May Slide to 5
Below, Warning of
Weather Man.
CONTINUED From Page One)

pital with injuries received when he
was knocked down by a truck last
night at 18th and Alabama SITS.
Mrs, Mary Heiny. r. r. 4, Box 673
is in serious condition in ST. Fran
els Hospital with hip injuries re-
ceived in fall on the ice yesterday
Mrs. Anna Gresham, So, of Alb Cav
inst, also victim of the ice, was
recovering in the same hospital.
Truck Driver Is Injured
Firemen yesterday chopped from
water tower over the Eli Lilly &,
Co. pharmaceutical plant, Alabama
and McCarty -sts, icicles weighing as
much as 200 pounds each.
One had crashed through the roof
Of the refrigersting building and II
was feared others would fall The
water tank had overflowed in sub
zero weather
Fred Smith, 81, Brazil, Ind, is
recovering in Methodist Hospital
from injuries received when a truck
he was driving skidded on ice into
the sbutment of the Belt railroad
at e, Westinghouse yesterday.
Northeastern Indiana was sheathed
in ice an inch thick today. Tele-
phone and telegraph communication
was threatened and hopes of re-
plenishing dwindling fuel supplies in
many small communities were shat
tered.
Reports from outlying districts
indicated that return of low tenn
peratures predicted for tonight
would cripple communications and
CO use an even more serious condi-
ton than existed during the recent
siege of subzero billiards..
All Buses Stalled
The Fort Wayne bus terminal re-
ported that all cross country Grey
hound BUSES operating through
there were stalled all night and
probably would not resume opera
tons until late today.
Lines operating between there
and Dayton, O., also had suspended
service.
Interurban cars of the Indiana
Service Corp. were operating be-
hind schedule, impeded by ice
caked over the rails by combina-
ton -sleet-snow storm.
In Fort Wayne and in Argos
Marshall County, frozen mains
threatened water supplies. Mains
swelled by the cold burst in Argos,
flooding the towns principal street
and cutting off most OF the resi-
dental supply.
A series of traffic fatalities were
recorded in other sections of Indi-
ana. Ice-covered highways were
responsible for most of the acct
dents.
Boy Killed by Fire Truck
William Heflin, 13, Muncie, was
crushed to death when he was
thrown under A. fire truck. The
youth had hitched his sled to an
automobile, which swerved sharply
to avoid striking the truck.
Rollo Mangus, 35, died in a
Plymouth hospital from a skull frac-
ture suffered when his automobile
collided with another northwest of
Plymouth.
Robert Cormican, 81, was killed
instantly when struck by truck as
he walked along State Road 1853
near Clinton. c. L. Harrington,
Charleston, ILL.,, driver of the truck,
was absolved.
Mrs. Katherine Stephanian, so,
Chicago, received fatal injuries
when struck by an automobile while
crossing street in Hammond.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-04
M'NUTT AND GREENLEE
TALK AT SAME DINNER

Governor and Dismissed Aid Are on
Princeton Program.
BY United Press
PRINCETON, Ind. Feb. 4.-Gov.
Paul v. McNutt and Pleas E. Green
lee. ousted state patronage secre-
tary. occupied the same speaking
platform at Jackson Day dinner
here last night.
The Governor was the principal
speaker, urging reelection of Presi-
dent Roosevelt and the state adj
minisSration. Mr.. Greenlee, whose
announcement as a candidate for
Governor resulted in his dismissal
by the Governor. made only few
remarks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-04
Tie Up Shipyards
RI Tinted preee

PARIS, Feb. Alive hundred
shipyard workers assigned to the
great liner Normandie at Havre, and
100 working on the steamship City
of Oran at Marseilles struck today.
Their strike was in sympathy with
workers at st. Nazaire, where the
launching of the cruiser Georges
Leygues was threatened with delay.
Five thousand men in all are out.
The cruiser is to be launched on
Feb %
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-04

nobody ever did anything about
it, not even he.
In three years the state money
ran out; all projects were sum-
marty abandoned. The canal, on
which s1,600000 had been ex-
pended and which was nearly
completed. was given up. The
segment from here to Broad
Ripple was completed, however,
and opened with a boat excur-
sion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-04
Midwest Is Paralyzed
BY United Press


The Middle West fought to dig
itself out Of paralyzing snowdrifts
TODAY before a threatened subzero
cold wave swoops down from Can
ada.
Railroad officials sought to res
cue passengers of eight trains ma
rooned by snow in Iowa, hoping
there was enough fuel on hand to
keep them warm until they could be
dug out.
Passengers snowbound on an east
bound Chicago Great Western train
one half mile cast of Tenant, Ia,
for nine hours were reported on
their way to Chicago. Section hands
and recruited helpers freed the train
this morning after working in 20 be-
low zero temperatures throughout
the night.
Highways Ice Coated
Highways In five states were
coated with ice and clogged with
snow. Zero temperatures descended
on wyoming and Colorado and
threatened to roll into the Middle
West before nightfall.
Iowa felt the brunt of the storm.
Several railroads suspended service
entirely during the night. Two pas
senger trains have been marooned
near Madrid since midnight. Three
other passenger trains were stalled
near Cedar Rapids. Ia. and Ten
nant. Two interurban trains we're
snowbound between Des Moines
and Perry and another between Des
Moines and Colfax.
Highway Workers Busy
Highway workers hurried to clear
the highways as predicted cold
wave reached the northwestern
fringes of wisconsin. Railroad and
bus schedules were shattered.
The Dakotas. Minnesota. and
parts OF Kansas and Nebraska were
affected by the snow
In Iowa. where an acute coal
shortage has threatened hundreds
of shivering families for week.
snow and zero temperatures meant
further suffering Side roads to
many Of the 500 soft coal mines in
the state were rapidly drifting with
snow.
Rural schools in northern Iowa
were closed early yesterday to per-
nit children to reach their homes
before drifts halted traffic. Concern
was felt for farm families isolated
with scanty fuel supplies.
In the area around Boston five
coast guard cutters and two patrol
boats fought to open lanes through
which to move locked fuel boats.
An acute fuel shortage threatened
II they failed
A coast guard cutter was fighting
ice in Chesapeake Bay, attempting
to carry provisions to residents ice
bound GA Tangier Island
Tires thousand residents of
Nantucket Island. off the New
England coast. received supplies by
airplanes. which reported on re-
turning that the islanders were
prepared fully for months siege.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-04
ii Injured in Bus Crash

BV United Press
DARBY, Pa, Feb. 4.-EIeven per-
sons were injured today when a bus
skidded on a hill and plunged down
a 3o-foot embankment. The injured
passengers were taken by train to
Philadelphia hospitals.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-04
BY JOE COLLIER
INDIANAPOLIS was incorporat-
od &c a cft4, Fob < 1875

Il ed as a city Feb. D, 1885.
The Board of Trustees was
elected in April and the old gov
eminent turned over to it the un-
expended balance in the city
treasury-sl24.
That is about half of what will
be expended for food when be-
ween $50 and 300 indianapolis
citizens gather at the indianapolis
Athletic Club tomorrow noon to
celebrate the centennial, under the
auspices of the Junior Chamber
of Commerce, at Is cents plate.
At its first meeting, the 1886
board did not spend cent. In
stead, it enacted ordinances pro-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-04
s1o5 THEFT REPORTED
Cash Taken From Hiding Place
After Skylight Is Broken.

Burglars early today entered a
grocery at 1888 Stasion-st and stole
sos from hiding place in the
store, Robert 10y. manager, report
ed to police. They gained entrance
by breaking a skylight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-04
AUTO TAG RECEIPTS
MOUNT 10 PER CENT
Increase Said to Represent About
10000 Sets of Licenses.


Receipts so far this year from 1896
Indiana automobile licenses in
creased approximately 10 per cent
over the figure for the same 1885
period, it was announced at the
Statehouse today. The years sale to
date aggregates $5,422 $500, COM
pared with $4,000, 1887 last year.
The increase, it was said, repre-
sents some 10000 sets of plates, and
Is in direct ratio with an increase.
OF 48,200 in the number of drivers
licenses issued. Total receipts of
the plate sale from it's opening
Dec. 9, 1885, to Jan. 81 were $685.
710.57. For the same period last
year they were S., 240, SS2.12.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-04
MEETING IS POSTPONED
March 2 Is New Date for Perry
Township Civic League.

Meeting of the Perry Township
Civic League, Inc, originally sched-
uled for last night, has been post
poned until March 2, Alfred G.
Baumgart, president, announced to-
day. 1t is to be held in the Univer-
sity Heights school.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-04
HIGHWAY BIDS RECEIVED
Department Gets 100 Figures With
None i'm Marion County.

The State Highway Department
today received 100 bids on % road
and bridge projects. The aggregate
low bid was s721.101 as compared to
the engineers estimate of s810,340.
No Marion County projects were
listed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-04
n, Y. SPEEDS DRIVE
AGAINST VICE RING
Alleged Big Shot Indicted to
Expedite Extradition.

By United Press
NEW YORK, Feb. Especial
prosecutors rushed alleged leaders
of $4,000, 000-a-year chain-store
vice ring to arraignment, indict-
ment and trial today.
An extraordinary grand jury in
dicted one man to hasten his ex-
tradition from Philadelphia, Justice
Philip j. McCook held five others
under SIS, 200 bond each, and bond
totaling almost 100000 was set
for II girls and ''madames" held as
material witnesses.
The grand jury indicted Peter
Balitzer, arrested in Philadelphia
at the same time that 125 detec-
tives were raiding resorts all over
New York. Assistants of Thomas
E. Dewey, special prosecutor of
racketeers, we're confident they had
hit big business" vice stunning
blow.
Mr.. Dewey, only 80, became
United States attorney when %, sent
Waxey Gordon, beer racketeer, to
prison on income tax charges and
broke up a racketeering industrial
union.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-04
ROOSEVELT SENDS PEN
TO AIRPORT CUSTODIAN
Implement Used to Sign Bridge
Bill Given Fred Boyce.

Fred Boyce. 1919 Reisner-st. night
custodian of the Municipal Airport
today is the owner of pen used
by President Roosevelt in signing
congressional bill. Mr.. Boyce
wrote asking for a pen and M H
Mcintyre, assistant secretary to the
President. sent the one with which
the Perry County bridge bill was
signed. A copy of the title of the
bill was incloSed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-04
BIZ United Press

By Uhlted Press
LONDON, Feb. 4.-Scotland Yard
today embarked on the biggest vice
drive in its history.
1t consulted the foreign Office and
the aliens department of the home
office as preliminary to deporta-
ton of undesirable foreigners, and
sent detectives to all ports.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-04
Mother Has Tenth Baby;
Takes 'Stork Race Lead
Mrs. Matthew Kenny Closely Pushed for s500,000 Prize
by Two Others With Nine Eligible Children

%
TORONTO Ontario Feb AIRS Matthew Kenny today claimed
undspued leadership in Toronos fantastic maternity marathon
She birth
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-04
OFFICIAL WEATHER

-United states Weather Bureau-
sunris. ....... $751; sunset ....... 500
The Redwood gazette., 1936-08-06

Mr.. and Mrs. Nick Shones and
family of Nicollet were dinner
guests at the William Johanneck
home and supper guests at the
Fred Bauer home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Simpson of
Belview were entertained at dinner
at the Wallace Simpson home Sat
urday evening in honor of Ben
Simpsons birthday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. F. Hassenstab
and family attended the game and
visited friends at Redwood Sun
day.
DR.. and Mrs. Nick Goblirsch
and family drove to New Ulm
Sunday to spend the day with Mr..
and Mrs. Alphonse Martinka.
Mrs. Hjalmar Larson and dau-
ghter, Margaret of Cottonwood,
visited Mr.. Larson here Sunday.
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