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portant than the place where it Is
made. Hence 1t would be unfair to
ask him to take an unnecessary Jour-
ney, to say nothing of the fact that
no existing appropriation of public
funds could be legally drawn upon to
pay his travelling expenses.
EVEN when no drought or other
great weather disaster is affecting
the Land. wild schemes for regulating
weather and climate continually crop
up, and it is one of the steady jobs
of the professional meteorologists to
throw cold water on them. Strange
to say, one of the most chimerical
of these schemes was proposed by a
observation-disclosures P. Espy, the
famous author of THE Philosophy
of Storms s"-who f1ourished, however,
when meteorology was an infant
science.
1t Is a now well known fact that
when atmospheric conditions are par
ticularly favorable, enough moisture
may be condensed in the updraft of
air over big fire to produce local
shower. Espy was familiar with this
rain-making process, but greatly over
estimated its efficacy. Hence in 1845
he put forth the following proposal:
Let masses of timber to the amount
of 40 acres for every 20 miles be pre-
pared and fired simultaneously, every
seven days in the Summer, on the
West of the United States, in a line of
six or seven hundred miles long from
north to south. Then the following
results seem highly probable, but not
certain until the experiment is made
A rain of great length north and
south will commence near or on the
line of fires; this rain with travel
eastward; it will not break up till it
reaches far into the Atlantic Ocean;
it will rain over the whole country
east of the place of beginning"
Espy supposed that the rains. once
started, would be carried eastward
by the prevailing westerly winds, and
he saw in his Utopian project means
of relieving farmers of both droughts
and excesses of rainfall. He seems
to have overlooked the fact that great
forest fires often rage for weeks in
the Western States without apprecia-
bly, affecting the rainfall to the east
ward!
One of the popular recipes for
making rain is to jostle the droplets
in a cloud together by explosions
until big rain drops are formed by
the coaiescence of little cloud drops
The scientific objections to this idea
were stated as follows by the late Prof
r. Dec. Ward:
1.-The physical processes at work ir
bringing about our general rains are
on an immense scale, and involve
great masses Of air, many cubic miles
in extent. Our great storm clouds are
produced by the forced ascent of i'm
mense masses of air. The water va
por Is imported, often from greai
distances. Producing larger drops ir
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By C0lvin Fraser.

~ NE crop, at least, has flourish
ished in this Summers ter
rife drought-the crop of
~ schemes for making rain.
And the drought has produced a
deluge, but not a wet one. It has
let loose great food of letters ad-
dressed to the Weather Bureau in
Washington telling how droughts can
be broken.
Since the country's latest devas-
tating dry spell began, the bureau
has received hundreds of letters on
this subject. But these letters did
not contain hundreds of ideas Far
from it! The same ideas turned up
again and again and with hardly an
exception they were very familiar, in
deed, to the weather men,
One favorite "cure" for drought
nowadays appears to be to stop radio
broadcasting. The use of explosives
still, as of old, has many advocates.
Sprinkling dust or microscopic chem
icals from airplanes is another popu-
lar suggestion. Some of the proposals
recently received were not quite so
stereotyped, though they were similar
in principle to notions often put forth
before.
One writer suggested installing enor-
NOUS DETECTING planes along the crest
Of the Rocky Mountains to alter the
course of the transcontinental air
currents. Another advocated drawing
down cool air from aloft through
tubes mile long attached to balloons,
thus cooling the air at low levels and
causing condensation of its moisture.
He did not explain how the descend
ing air was to be kept from being
heated by compression. Still another
genius proposed to discharge steam
into. the upper air through towers
built up to cloud level. One man said
he had discovered mysterious ray"
which, when swept over the sky, would
cause rain to fall.
Other correspondents who claimed
to know how to produce rain applied
for Government jobs as rain-makers
but did not divulge their methods and
still others, equally reticent, offered
to sell their secrets to Uncle Sam at
various prices ranging up to $25,-
oo0, 900.
During a severe drought in Aus
tralia, many years ago, several people
wrote to the government of that
country offering to pray for rain if
paid for doing so. Recently man
wrote to the President of the United
States from place in the Eastern
part of the country, stating that he
would pray for rain in the drought
stricken Middle West, If provided
transportation thither. His letter was
referred to the meteorological branch
Of the Government and elected a
courteous reply. He was thanked for
his offer. but the suggestion was made
that the earnestness Of prayer Is
generally believed to be more i'm
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John Marshall Highway Years Building Will Eventually Be Parkway
"Front Door, of Mountain Playground Will Reduce Mileage
From National Capital o 72-Bsect Historic

Royal and Strasburg. and the safest
route to Shenandoah National Park
George Washington National Forest
and the United States Remount Res
ervation because of the lack Of steep
grades and almost total absence Of
fogs At Front Royal it intersects
U. S. Route No. 3 to Richmond in
one direction and Winchester and
Berkeley Springs in the other, pro-
ceeding with Route II to Luray, Elk
ton and Waynesboro. and at Stras-
burg connecting with Route II to
Newmarket. Harrisonburg and Staun-
ton, on to Lexington. Thus it makes
Front Royal a hub for distribution
of the heavy tourist travel over some
half dozen important routes.
RESIDES attracting the tourist tide
~ flowing through Washington, the
chief advantage of John Marshall
Highway to the National Capital is
that motorists who desire to enjoy
the entire 100-mile stretch of the
Skyline Drive save so miles by TAX
ing it. The distance from Washing
ton over the present Lee Highway
approach is 80 miles, and then the
Skyline Drive is divided, 80 miles to
the right on the northern end, just
being completed from Panorama to
Front Royal, and the other branch
southwark through Big Meadows and
Swift Run. To see the whole stretch
of the drive motorists now have to
double back over the 32-mile section
BY taking John Marshall Highway
from Washington to Front Royal the
entire length of Skyline Drive can
be covered straight away.
The northern end. from Panorama
to Front Royal. is open to the public
today for the first time, so that CEN
tennial visitors may have an oppor.
tunity to see what experts declare is
the drives most beautiful section
1t was through the insistence of Maj
w. A. WEIGH of New York, appointed
to the original Southern Appalachian
Park Commission by Secretary Work
which commission eventually Sc
lected the Blue Ridge Mountains OF
Virginia for the Shenandoah National
Park-that the 80 miles on the north
ern end panorama to Front RoyaD
were included.
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Once Spent Money Hope Lung Water From Heavens but Found
Based Wild TheoryChaatns and Dmers Have Been Active
For Many YearW Without Results - Verdict of Science

place Of smaller droplets, locally, Is
not the line of attack for any effective
result. Even small drops will fall if
the ascending currents of air are weak
and slow. Our general rains result
from cooling, and continued cooling, of
masses of air imported from a dis
tance, and not from any local cause.
Even if we could bring down, as rain,
all the water in a great cloud mass
overhead at any one moment, the re-
sulting precipitation would be prac-
tically negligible. The experiments of
nature which give the earth its benefl-
cent rains are on far too vast scale
for man to deal with"
MOST famous in the long and pic
A'A turesque history of rain-making
experiments were those carried out in
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1891 and 1892 by Gen. Robert Dyren-
forth with the aid of funds provided
by the United States Government.
The methods employed consisted Of
exploding dynamite, rackarock and a
mixture of oxygen and hydrogen (sent
aloft in balloons, and Dyrenforth
himself believed that the experiments,
though not conclusive. indicated that.
under favorable conditions, rain could
be produced in this manner. Scientific
experts who observed the experiments,
however, did not agree with him. and
neither does any scientific authority
of the present day.
The experiments were conducted un-
der the auspices of the Department of
Agriculture. In response to numerous
Continued on Page B-5)
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Net GOSSIP

Notice to all managers of Co.
operative League teams: The last
meeting of the season will be held
tomorrow night at 7:3o at the
Smith Hassler-S turm store. Impor-
Ntant business will be taken up and
all managers are urged to attend.
oppose the Corrugated Box five tonight at
on the Beech Grove floor. The River
side Cubs and Beech Grove Boys Club will
tangle in curtain-raiser at 7.
The final schedule of the Big Six League
will be played tonight at the Pennsy gym
with Keifer- Setwart opposing Shelby Motor
Inn. at z, Ohio Cleaners playing Apaco
at 8, and Red Devils meeting Eastman
Cleaners at 3.
oHara Sans defeated the South Side
call Nick at Cherry 3575.
Tonight's Em-Roe Hoosier Basketball
League card follows: 1880: E; c. Atkins
D, Adams; $50. Wayne Park Garage VS..
Midland Life.
For games with the Christamore teams
this week call Belmont ITS after 7.
The Industrial League schedule for to-
night at the Broadway NJ E. Church gym
follows: 1880. Central Christian VS.. j. c.
Penney; $50, Phillips S. VS., McCrory; ESQ,
indianapolis Railways VS.. Kresge.
A vacancy in the tournament to be
held at st. Joseph Hall Feb % has been
caused by the withdrawal of the lockwood
Junior team. For information communicate
dianapoiiS
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Coach Tony Hinkle, with what is
probably the strongest starting COM
bination he has had this season, an
nounced that 80 members of the
varsity and freshman teams would
make the trip for games with the
Little Giants. Butler defeated the
Wabash men, 43 to 80, on the local
floor earlier in the season before
skidding into losing slump. The
rhinies have won both engagements
this year with Indiana State and
De PAW frosh teams.
Scott Armstrong, veteran center
who was injured in the Western
State game, was believed ready to
resume his post tonight. Armstrong
was withheld from the Central Nor
NAL game to rest leg injury which
had permitted him to play only a
few minutes in each of the games
against Marquette, Wisconsin, North
western and Kentucky.
Arthur (Red) Cosgrove, who per-
formed we'll in the Danville game,
apparently is the much-needed link
in the Bulldog combination. He will
be used at guard with Toy Jones,
permitting Ralph Bradford to move
to forward, at which position he was
a scoring find" on the recent road
trips. Roscoe Bats will be the fifth
member of the starting lineup. But
Ter is to close the season after games
with Indiana State, Franklin and
Notre Dame.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-18
Blue Thinlies Begin
Workouts on Track

Twelve Shortridge thinlyclads
were issued uniforms today and be-
gan practice at the Butler Univer-
sity fieldhouse. Coach Don Knight
will have three returning lettermen
this year plus several other tested
veterans.
Returning lettermen are CAPTAIN
Jim Simmons, crack quarter miller;
Jack Brown, hurdler, shot putter
and jumper; and Emmett Stations,
middle distance man. Brown and
Simmons will join other members
of the squad after basketball is
over.
Uniforms were issued to Bill
Beaning, Elmer ellison, Emmett
Stations, Dick Rehm, Malcolm Nc
Dermott, Jim Gipe, Bob Cline, Whit
ten Lingeman, Arthur Themes, Bob
Hall, Raymond Farley and Edward
ziegner.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-18
WASHINGTON LOSES 3
VARSITY NET PLAYERS

Three varsity basketmen we're on
the Washington inactive list today
as the Continentals prepared to
play two tits this weekend.
Riley Lasley, captain and star
center, was suffering from a torn
ankle ligament incurred in the
Cathedral game. Coach Jones
stated that Lasley would be unable
to even practice until next week.
Tonsilitis put James Lentz, regular
guard, and Robert Harrah, substi-
tute forward. in bed at home.
Friday night, on the home court,
the Purple and White will enter
tain Brownsburg's five, and Satur-
day journey to Charlottesville.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-18
New Prep League
Officials to Meet
South Central Session on
Card at Franklin.

Times Special
FRANKLIN. Ind. Feb. 18.-Prin-
cipals and athletics directors of six
members of the newly formed South
Central High School Conference are
to meet at the Hillview Country
Club here tonight for dinner and
business session.
Following the game. the visitors
are to be guests at the Franklin
Bloomington basketball game.
Bloomington is regarded as a pros
pective addition to the league, which
now has seven charter members.
Connersville officials, including B.
E. Myers, league president. will not
attend, since their team is to play
a home game with Richmond to-
night. Schools to be represented
include Rushville, Shelbyville. Mar
tlnsville, Greencastle, Columbus
and Franklin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-18
REDSKINS REST UP TO
AVOID GOING STALE

Manuals city championship bas-
ketball squad was given a brief lee
ture yesterday by Coach Oral Bridg-
ford instead of a workout. Last
week-end's games proved that the
Redskins were stale" from too
much practice, and Bridgford is
taking no chances on that happen
ing this week with one of the most
important regular schedule games
coming up Friday. The Red and
White battles Shortridge at the
North Side hardwood and will make
a strong endeavor to repeat the 30
to-23 victory of the city tournament.
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Gaseteria, Inc over A. & P. Bakery and
Sterling Laundry.
In the Service Club matches, at the
Parkway, Karl Ness!er posted 645 that
easily outdistanced all rivals The top
the Interurbans the edge over Metropolitan
Triple victories went to Midwest. Fuel.
and Republic coai Cpoke over Capitol
Lumber Co., Central Motor Parts, Bayuk
Phillies and Crown Laundry. Pacific
Mutual won twice over City Securities.
Clarence Schneider's $40 was the biggest
blast of the st. Joan of Arcs gathering at
the Uptown Alleys. No other FASTENERS
reached the 500 mark during the evening.
Shutout victories were registered by Hat
field Electrics and American Estates over
Wonderbars and Fred's Sandwich Shop,
while odd-game decisions went to Scott
Trucking and Thos. Fitzgerald Goals over
Chas. DENLY Cigars and st. Joan of Arcs.
Il
The Only 900 totals of the Indianapolis
Automotive League games at the Antlers
came from Indiana Wheel g. Rim Co.
members. Ray Chrisney had 62s and
wei sfT ausn sG he other Tits Se
resulted in odd game decisions, Gulling
Electric Wreckers. Cherry 1910 and Bear
Paws Auto Top Shop and Perlne Oil CO,
Construction for the only shutout of last
nights Indiana Bell Telephone session at
the Central. Engineers and Western Elec-
tric won twice over Long Lines and Main
tenance. Chester Barkman was the lead
ing SolOiSt with a 622
Ralph Haverkamp with 621 and Bob
Hartman with 615 were the only honor
shooters of the Evangelical matches at
Pritchett,s;. In the team clashes; Tigers
Sox as Pirates. Browns. Yanks and Card
lnals nabbed odd-game decisions over
Senator'S Giants, Reds and Red Sox.
Harry Roller finally cracked the 600
Mark. He totaled 619 in his North Side
Business Mems games at the Parkway
Alleys. Beck Coal Co. and Specials
were the only three-time winners, their
victims being Bixby's Polish and Ora's
Lunch. Two-timers were taken by Indiana
Candy Co.. Coca Cola, Steves Shells and
Motor Express over Sigma Alpha Tau,
Gray. Gribben & Gray, Beta Chi Omega
anu SafpcutcfS NJ. Oh.
II
In the Transportation League matches
at PritchettS, Chesapeake & Ohio won
three times over Pennsylvania Railroad.
while New York Central Louisville g.
Nashville Chicago & Northwestern and
Illinois Central took two timers over In
dianapolis Union. Southern Pacific, Balti-
more & Ohio. Indiana Railroad, Louis
Fouts was the top scorer with 614.
=
Charley Tyner's 500 was the only honor
session at Pritchett's' Mailers No. 10 and
Moser Specials took shutout victories over
Ere stars and ROLES Printing Co., and
wrong Fonts and Mailers No / took two
eacr over Agates and Palookas.
y
Leading individuals of other league ses-
sions were: Lions Club (Antlers). Ehlers.
5el; Kiwanis Indiana. Roeder. SIS; Glib
son co. Illinois. J. CASTOR. SIS; State
Highway fPritchett'sl Pennington, 566:
City Hall (Centran. Prick $50 and Polar
Ice and Fuel tCentran. Hardin, $50.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-18
Mems Table Title
Action Tomorrow
Local Net PaddIers Keep
Busy; Alice Cole Wins.

With the final round of the mems
singles championship to be played
tomorrow night, in the annual Pad
die Club table tennis tourney, win
ners were named in the womens
singles and mems doubles last night.
Jimmy Mcclure. only scratch
player of the tournament, did not
appear. Concluding matches will
be played tomorrow night with
Frank Montfort opposing Earl Coul-
son and Jerry Jacobs meeting James
Stout in semi-f1nal matches, with
the winners meeting for the title.
Alice Cole won the womens sin
giles crown by defeating Sally Green,
1921, 24-22, 21-3. Kirk Kruger
and Don Ratliff annexed the mems
doubles title by winning from Paul
jackson and Sky Blue, 1921, 21-17,
1921, 21-12, 21-16.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-18
HeavieS Take
Over ArmOry
Ring Tonight
speer WrestIes O'Shocker
in Main Go; Dan Savage
on Deck.

One of the best balanced all
heavyweight wrestling programs of
the indoor season is promised at the
Armory tonight, where the Hercules
A. G. will offer its regular weekly
bill of three matches. Action begins
at $50. The card.
Main Go
Irish Pat O'Shocker, 227, Salt
Lake City, VS.. Frank Speer, 235, At
lanta. Two falls out of three.
Ninety minute time limit.
Semi Windup
Daniel Boone Savage, $50, Boyd
County, KY, VS.. Bill McElroy, 27O,
Boston. One fall. Thirty minute
time limit.
Opening Bout
George Tragos, 215, st. Louis, VS..
Jim Morris. 215, Memphis. One fall.
Thirty minute time limit.
The headliner between O'Shocker
and Speer is expected to produce
fireworks" Speer is one of the
toughest huskies in the game. He
is a former Georgia Tech all-Amer-
lean footballer Irish Pat, a big
favorite here, has won his only three
local bouts.
Daniel Boone Savage and his
extra large crop of whiskers, re-
turns for the third time and is ex-
pected to face a tough test in Nc
Elroy. The Kentucky hill billy has
won his only two Armory tugs. The
Bostonian is six feet, three inches
tall, with Savage an inch taller.
Jim Morris, Memphis, has replaced
Paul Jones in the prelim and will
face George Tragos.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-18

Referee-Lane tDetroitl. Umpire-Kobs
LANSING.
Illinois, co-champions last year
with Purdue and Wisconsin, climbed
into third place in the Big Ten
scramble with an existing 39-to-38
victory over Northwestern last
night. The defeat plunged into sew
enth place the Northwestern team,
which is in good position to disrupt
the top ranks of the conference in
games with both Hoosier teams.
The Illini overcame a 12-point
handicap and, aided largely by the
scoring of Harry Combs, waged a
logged uphill battle to win out in
the closing minutes.
Individual honors of last nights
conference games went to Sid Ros-
enthal, Iowa's newly elected cap
tain. He scored eight field goals
and five charity losses for 81 of the
Hawkeyes' points in registering a
32-to-25 victory over Wisconsin,
which dropped to eighth place in
the standing. Iowa moved up be-
hind Michigan, which it opposes
Saturday night Minnesota, with
three victories in 10 games, plays
Illinois Saturday. Chicago is to
play North Central in a nonconfer-
ence contest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-18
MacFarIane, Armour
Tie in Olson Event
By United Press

By United Press
MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 18.-Willie
MacFarlane and Tommy Armour,
second-place money already divided
and safely in their possession, will
meet here March in an 1s-hole
playoff to decide the winner of the
Walter Olson Open golf tournament.
Both had cards of 40 yesterday in
the one-day 36-hole tournament.
Armour had morning round of
II and added SO on the final 10.
MacFarlane, who had 10 on the
morning Is, matched it to tie for top
honors when he sank 30-foot putt
on the eighteenth green of the aft
ernoon round. Dividing first and
second money, they earned $500
each.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-18
Santa Anita
Derby King to
Enter Classic
Owner Decides He Did Has
Bright Chance in Rich
Handicap.
By United press

Bt tHNed Press
ARCADIA, Cal, Feb. 18.-Mrs.
Silas B. Mason's He Did. winner of
last Saturdays $4,000 added Santa
Anita Derby, will attempt to match
strides with Discovery and other
leading horses in the 100000 added
Santa Anita Handicap next Satur-
day.
Trainer Tommy Taylor disclosed
today that Mrs. Mason had decided
to give her 3-year-old star a chance
to run in the rich race because of
his unexpected victory in the Derby.
The blistering pace he did main
tain in the Derby led both Trainer
Taylor and the owner to feel that
the son of Victorian and Dinah Did
might be able to place in the Santa
Anita Handicap.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-18
HOOSIER PUG LOSES

CHICAGO, Feb. 18.-Pat Murphy,
IA, Terre Haute, lost split deci-
sion to Chuck Woods, 1862 Detroit,
in the 10-round windup at Mari
gold Gardens here last night. The
Hoosier scrapper finished strong,
but Woods had built winning
edge on points in the early rounds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-18
A bowlers, dance. sponsored by the

A bowlers' dance, sponsored by the
st. Philip Athletic Club, is to be
held Friday night in the st. Philip
auditorium. Music is to be supplied
by the Indiana Vagabonds. James
Kelly and Louis Ostheimer are CO.
chairmen of the event, proceeds of
which are to be used to defray the
expense of the clubs A. B. C. tourna-
ment entries. The public is invited.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-18
HEAVY WORKOUTS ON
CARD AT SHORTRIDGE

A stiff offensive scrimmage &C.
cupied Shortridge High School var
sity basketball players last night,
as they prepared to seek revenge
for their defeat by Manual in the
city tourney. The rivals clash in
the Shortridge gym Friday night.
Bud Mueller, forward. was absent
from last nights drill on account
of illness. A heavy drill will be
held today plus another tomorrow
and then light drill on Thursday
to put the team in shane
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-18
Louisville Seeking
Evansville Mentor
SIyker Wants mighty Good
Offer to Change.

By United Press
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Feb. 18.-Wil-
liam V. Slyker, coach and athletic
director at Evansville College, today
was considered a possible candidate
for a similar position at the Univer-
sity of Louisville.
Slyker conferred with university
officials yesterday. 1t was reported
he had not made application for the
post and has said it would take a
mighty good offer" to lure him
away from Evansville.