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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-27
BR00KSIDE PETITION
FOR POOL REJECTED
Head of Park Board Says School
Needs Are First.

The Park Board today turned
down delegations request Tor a
swimming pool in Brookside Park.
The delegates were assured, how
ever, that the board would i'm
prove the walks in Spades and
Brookside Parks.
Jacket W. Joseph. board presi-
dent, said the cost of a pool, esti-
mated at $4,000, would be too high
to obtain Federal aid for the project.
This body would be condemned
If it spent that much money on a
pool with the schools in their pres
ent unsatisfactory condition" Al
bert H. Gisler, board member, said.
The board received bids on acous-
teal equipment for the Brookside
Community Building, but deferred
action.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-27
Niagara Falls Open

BU UNJt"U PFfSS
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y, Feb. 81.
Ice which for five weeks shut off
the flow of water over the American
Falls began disappearing today as
the mild temperatures of the last
two days continued.
The flow of water over the Amer
lean cataract increased steadily and
assumed almost normal proper
tons
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-27
BRAIN SURGEON CALLED
FOR SOVIET OFFICIAL
Rumor He Was to Treat Stain
Is Exploded.
By United Press

MOSCOW, Feb. 27.-Prof. Her
bert Olivecrona, famous Swedish
brain surgeon, is in Moscow for con-
suitation on treatment of 1. A.
Akulov, Central Executive Commit.
tee secretary, the Commissariat of
Health announced today.
1t had been rumored that Olive
crona had been called to treat Josef
Stain, but the rumor was set at rest
by the latters personal secretary,
who gave assurance that the Soviet
head is in good health.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-27
FRANCE RATIFIES SOVIET
N0N-AGGRESSION PACT
Mutual Assistance in Case of I'm
provoked Attack Promised.

By United Press
PARIS, Feb. 27.-The Chamber OF
Deputies today ratified the Franco
Soviet aggression pact follow
ing three weeks of debate. The
treaty provides mutual military as
sistance in case of unprovoked at
tack on either power in European
territory.
Contrary to an earlier decision,
the government did not ask for
vote of confidence on the question
of ratification.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-27
CITY LOANED 100000

Six Local Banks Provide Funds
Until Tax Collections.
Six local banks today loaned the
city 100000 at IL per cent inter-
est on notes issued in anticipation
of spring tax collections. The banks
gave the city a sos premium.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-27
House Damaged BY Stove Blast

Explosion OF an oil stove at the
home of William West. 1915 Lee-st.
caused 500 fire damage today. No
one was home when the stove ex-
ploded.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-27
RESIGNS LICENSE POST
Robert Loser Quits as Auditor OF
State Auto Department.

Resignation of Robert N. Loser,
State Automobile License Depart
ment auditor, was announced today
by Frank Finney, license commits
sioner. He resigned to practice law
here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-27
SMITHVILLE SCHOOLS
DESTROYED BY BLAZE
Fire of Undetermined Origin Causes
Loss Estimated at $4,000.

Loss Estimated at $4,000.
By United Press
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Feb. 81
Fire of undetermined origin des-
troyed grade and high school build
ings at Smithville, 10 miles south of
here, early today. Loss was esti-
mated at $4,000.
Fire started in the grade school
building and spread to the high
school despite efforts of firemen
from Bloomington and volunteers.
Handicapped by lack of water, the
firemen formed bucket brigade.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-27
PLANES GROUNDED HERE
Wind Keeps EastbOund Ships
From Landing.

Due to gusty west wind, airplanes
were grounded today at the Munic-
ipal Airport. Officials said that pilots
of through planes to the East had
been instructed not to attempt
landings here until the wind shifted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-27
SINCLAIR is NAMED
TELEPHONE DIRECTOR

Kinsan Official Fills Vacancy on
Board of Indiana Bell.
w. Richardson Sinclair, R. r. D,
Box $50, vice president and treas
urer of Kingan & Co.. today was
elected director on the board of
the Indiana Bell Telephone Co.
Mr.. Sinclair was named by the
board to fill the vacancy created by
the resignation of Charles P. Coop
er New York vice president of the
American Telephone & Telegraph
Co.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-01

board operators, who are firemen,
act as dispatchers and direct the
nearest fire fighting apparatus to
the scene OF the blaze.
After dispatching the first trucks
and bumpers they keep in touch
with the status of the fire until the
apparatus is back in the engine
house. Should additional equipment
be needed they order it out from
other stations.
In this city fire alarms are given
one of four classifications. A still
alarm, and one, two and three
alarms. A two-alarm fire is re-
garded as quite serious, while, of
course, a three-alarm fire amounts
to a conflagration.
The division gets it's name from
the type of it's alarm system which
is known as the Gamewell System.
When one of the city's 422 boxes is
pulled the location of the fire is
designated Immediately on paper
tape in the Office. The operator
fireman then relays the alarm to
the station nearest to the fire, over
what is known as the Joker sys-
tenn" a part of the general alarm
equipment.
The relay operation was auto
matte prior TO 1921, when regula-
tons adopted by fire insurance un'
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-01
APRIL 1, 1896
CLAIMS SAVING
OF S3,170,63S
IN PR0BATIONS
DR.. McCabe Gives Report;
1928 Criminals Free
Under System.

The state was saved an institu-
tional cost of s3,17S,63e.S0 by hav-
ing 1928 criminals on probation
last year, figures released by DR..
Francis D. McCabe, state probation
officer, indicated today.
Of the total probat1oners s113
were adults and 3155 Juveniles In
dividual cost if they had been kept
confined would have been S2s910.
DR.. McCabe reported.
Probation for 288 adults, or At
per cent, was revoked. OF this num-
Der 272 were men and Is women.
Probation of LOG boys and "A girls,
or 3 per cent of the total juvenile
cases, was revoked.
Two hundred and thirty adult
probationers, or % per cent, and II
juvenile probationers, or 2.5 per
cent. absconded and moved from the
Jurisdiction of Indiana.
Of the 1854 adults discharged with
satisfactory conduct records, 1887
were men and 277 women. OF the
1048 juvenile probationers dis
charged, 705 were boys and 343 girls.
DR.. McCabe pointed out that In
diana has an agreement with Mich
igan whereby Indiana probationers
living in Michigan can be checked
by Michigan probation officers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-01

Perhaps" replied the operator
courteously and little puzzled, "if
you will tell me what street."
That" was the quick, sweet re-
ply, sis what don't know"
We'll, if you tell me where it is
or what way it runs, may be able
to help YOU"
Il don't know that either; that's
why I'm calling you. In case you
don't know the street I'm thinking
about, I thought you might name
all the streets. I'm sure I would
recognize the one I have in mind if
you named it,"
The operator pointed out that
there is a great number of streets
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-01
EASTERN YOUTHS HELD
ON CAR THEFT CHARGE
Two Admit Taking Auto, Federal
Officials Say.

Two youths from Newark, N. j.,
are held in Federal row in the coun-
ty Jail today on charges of violating
the motor vehicle theft act. Unable
to make $500 bond each, George
McSweeney and Raymond A. Mues-
sig, both %, were returned to jail
after hearing before Commissioner
Howard S. young yesterday after
noon.
The young men have made writ
ten statement, a Department of JUS
tice official said, admitting stealing
a De Soto sedan from the Trinkle
Motor Co., New Albany, and driving
it to KirKsville, Mo-, near where
they were arrested by the Missouri
State Highway Patrol.
The boys said they were on theil
way to Texas by freight train ane
the thumb route when they took the
car. They were going to get jobs II
| the oil fields, they said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-01
OFFICERS FIND
SECRET STILL
BENEATH Yard
Swinging Walls and Hidden
Doors Lead Way to
Chamber.

While Carl Dierking, 10, today
prepared TO pay sl70 in fines, police
officers discussed the discovery oil
a still hidden by secret doors and
sliding walls in a chamber under
the back yard at 2139 Barth-av.
After being called to the Barth-av
address on March 6 ON a complaint
of an unlawful alteration of gas
lines, police officers and gas COM
pany officials detected an odor OF
alcohol. 1t was particularly strong
around a wooden case of shelves
containing fruit jars.
Convinced that the odor did not
emanate from the fruit, officers
told Mr.. Dierking's wife, only one
home at the time, to show them the
still
Mrs. Dierking pulled out a por-
ton of the wall shelves and all.
Then she pushed an iron pipe into
What appeared to be another wall
and led the way down a narrow
passage to another room. There
officers fond what they said was
apparatus for brewing liquor.
Dierking stated in court yester-
day that he did not know making
little liquor for home consump-
ton was a violation of the law
He also admitted that he had stolen
a dollars worth of gas for every
dollars worth he paid for.
Police officers estimated that the
secret chamber had been in ex-
istance for more than Is years.
Dierking, who said that he was
an interior decorator and never had
been arrested before, was fined $50
and costs for the gas line alteration
and 500 and costs for violation OF
the 1885 beverage act.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-01

derwriters brought about a return
to the manual system.
The equipment here was installed
in 1902 during the administration of
Thomas Taggert. Although it never
has happened, it is possible for is
alarms to be received Simultaneous
ly. Every alarm box is tested each
month despite the fact that when
one gets out of order a signal light
automatically goes on in the Office.
An average of IL alarms is re-
ceived daily for an annual average
of $780, False alarms average
slightly less than one day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-01

in the city and that he was busy
man, with chances that he'd be a
lot buster at any moment. He didn't
get to tell her how the Gamewell
Division was run, so he asked The
Times to do so.
Young lady, the Gamewell Divis-
ion is not operated by the city to
play guessing games, despite its
name. 1t is place where fire
alarms are received.
All still alarms telephone re-
ports) and box alarms from the en-
tire city come direct to the office
in the fourth floor of City Hail.
After fire is reported, the switch
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-01
NEXT REFORM STEPS
OUTLINED BY MIESSE
Taxpayers Association Secretary
Speaks 20 1. u. Group.

MCS npCCtnt
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, April L.
The next step in governmental re-
form must be the abolition or con-.
solidation of antiquated units of
government, Harry Miesse, Indian
spolis, secretary of the Indiana
Taxpayers Association, warned in
an address here.
Speaking to seniors Of tie Indiana
University School OF Administra-
ton and the economics department
yesterday, Mr.. Miesse said the hard
est task faced by the Taxpayers
Association lis to persuade people
to use the tax limitation and con-
troll laws enacted in their behalf"
He commended the Indiana plan
of taxation, but warned against the
tendency to restore high property
rates after broadening the tax base
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-01
MANY STUDENTS
SEEK De PAW
SCHOLARSHIPS
100 Successful Applicants
to Be Announced
on May l..

Times Special
GREENCASTLE, Ind, April L.
De Pauw University will award 100
Rector scholarships May l, Dean G..
Herbert Smith, director Of the schol-
arship foundation, announced today.
Dean Smith said that more than
400 applications have already been
received and that some personal
interviews have been held.
Competition for presidents schol-
arships, he also announced, will be
held here May 16, and awards will
be made on a basis of competitive
examinations and personal inter-
views. Fourteen scholarships, each
valued at 5000, will be awarded and
are to be applied on tuition the
freshman year.
To Entertain Applicants
This is the second year the pres
ident's scholarships have been
awarded. Applicants will be guests
of the university May is. Last year.
when the scholarships were in
augurated, high school seniors from
widely scattered areas visited the
university.
The Rector scholarships, valued
at $1,000, are drawn from a founda-
ton established by the late Edward
I Rector, De Fauw Alumnus, and COW
er tuition expenses for the four
years in the liberal arts school.
A new plan this year will sup
plant the old one in awarding Rec
tor scholarships. The old plan
called for grants to be made in
eight payments of $125 each.
Under the new plan, a freshman
is to pay $3.50 on his $3.50 tuition, a
sophomore is to pay $50, junior
is to pay no tuition, and senior
is to receive surplus equal to the
amount of tuition he paid his first
two years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-01
Lenten Sermon Scheduled

The Rev. F. r. Daries, Zion
Evangelical Church pastor, is to
speak on 1.-THE Romance of Cross
Bearing" in a Lenten sermon at
7:45 tonight at the church, New
Jersey and North-sts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-01
Business Alarming, Says
Local Gamewell Bureau
Playful Query Results in Explanation That This Division
Has Hands Full, No Time for Play.
BY JOHN MURPHY

This young
the Gamewel Division of the City
Can tell me the of a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-01
Matanuska Has Newlyweds

MaCanuSKa has NcWIyWeuS
PALMER, Alaska, April L.
Betty Herman, 10, became the first
bride of the Matanuska Valley COL
only when she married Herbert
Onkka, 81, also colonist, recently
Evening star., 1936-10-18

When you ore too busy to come downtown,
coll SoIIy Bor, our personal shopper. She
will be glad to do your shopping for you.
Sally Blair {. . District 400.
Evening star., 1936-10-18

You will find Our Letter Of Credit convenient
and easy to use with no down payment,
and three eouoI payments on November Is,
December IS and January IS.
Credit Office :. Fifth Floor.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-12-10
MISUNDERSTANDING OF
SOCIAL SECURITY PLAN

There is widespread misunder-
standing of the governments social
security program.
One mistaken belief is that it pro-
vides old age pensions for persons
already over IS years of age or over.
Truth is the old age pension it not
a pension at all but a huge insurance
scheme in which the beneficiaries
get back what they pay in premi-
ums. It's just as good as insurance,
no better, no worse. Fact that en-
ployers pay tax equal to the tax
paid by the employees reduces the
earning power of the employer and
therefore reduces the potential sal
ary-paying ability of the employer.
Another mistaken belief is that in
some way old age benefits will be
lost unless Governor Ehringhaus calls
a special session of the legislature.
There is chance that unemploy-
ment insurance benefits may be lost,
but not old age benefits. These are
two different things, and the old age
benefits are not dependent on any
state matching" legislation.-Fay-
etteville Observer.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-12-10
Tobacco Committee
Plays Santa Claus

Selecting Christmas gifts for five
thousand boys and girls who are ex-
pected to attend the Christmas party
at Planters warehouse in Winston
Salem on December %, is proving a
serious matter for Chairman George
L. Irwin, Jr. of the Joint Tobacco
Market committee; and Secretary
William T. Ritter, of the chamber of
commerce; and Chairman B. B.
Nicholson, of the Christmas party
committee. There will be present
with candy, fruit and nuts for every
child under IL years of age whose
father has sold tobacco on the Win
Salem market this year. There will
also be valuable prizes, vaudeville
acts, music and grand square dance
for the grown-folk. This is the third
annual Christmas party given by the
Winston-Salem warehouse and busi-
men in appreciation for the patron
age of tobacco growers.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-12-10
LANSING TAKES HONORS
High School Wins Four First, Three
Second and Two Third Places

LANSING, Dec. 8.-In the first
annual Arts Festival of the Appa-
lachian High School Association held
in the A. S. T. c. auditorium in
Boone last week, Lansing High
School won more points than any
other school represented. The con-
test included seven schools from
Ashe, Avery, and Watauga counties.
The Lansing music department
under the direction of Miss Lois
Dickson won first and second places
in qdartettes; first place in trios;
second, in instrumental solos; first
and second in instrumental solos;
third place in large choruses and
first place in small choruses. All
members of the small choruses were
from the high school department.
In dramatics, Lansing won third
place in the one-act play, Marriage
Proposal" which was directed by
Miss Greene. Lansing's nearest COM
petitor was Boone High School
which won two first places. They
were in large choruses and dramat-
les. The winning play was Roofing
for Ruth.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-12-10
CUNTS SISTER ASKS
ASKS OLD SANTA FOR
RETURN OF 5 GIRLS

A little girl wants Santa Claus to
give her the Dionne quintuplets for
a Christmas present-and the little
girl is the quints' sister.
She is Rose Dionne, the eight-year-
old member of the family who lives
just across the road from the nurs-
cry which the famous five occupy.
She wrote Santa Claus, in French:
Dear Santa. am the quintup-
let's oldest sister. am eight years
old. I was we'll pleased with what
got last year. This time 1 would like
a ski suit, some nuts and candies.
But what I would like best of all
Santa, if you could bring my little
quintuplet sisters back, then would
not want the suit, as when I leave
my little sisters they always cry to
come home with me.
II don't think you could bring me
anything else in the world to please
me as well as my little quintuplet
sisters. Then I would be the happiest
child on EARTH"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-12-10
TODD NATIVE STATIONED
AT EMBASSY IN CHINA

Vernon S. Ragan, private, U. S.
Marine corps, stationed at the
American embassy, Peiping, China,
recently completed month Of small
arms practice at the Marine corps
rifle range where he qualified as
sharpshooter with the service rifle,
marksman with the AS caliber pistol,
expert with the Thompson sub-ma-
chine gun, and also expert in the use
of the bayonet, according to an an
nouncement by Captain A. G. Small,
district Marine corps recruiting Off
Ger, with headquarters at Savannah,
Georgia.
Private Raglan is the son of Mr..
Wade H. Raglan, of Todd. He is a
graduate of the Elkland High School
and will be remembered by his many
friends of the class of 1885.
Ragan enlisted in the Marine corps
in October 1885, and, upon compile
ton of his basic training at the Par
ris Island IS. CO. Marine base, en-
barked for the orient for his present
assignment with the Marine guard
at Peiping.
Thirty vacancies are yet to be fill
ed this month at the Savannah Of
flee, Captain Small announced.
Young men in this vicinity desiring
service in the Marine corps will be
furnished information and applica-
tions upon request, it was stated.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-12-10
WORK BEING DONE
WPA Authorities Urge Immediate
Completion of Negro Project

Messrs. Earl GRAPHICAL, J. A.
Reeves, and DR.. B. E. Reeves and
Mayor James Allen visited the dis
trict WPA director in Winston-Sal-
EN- Tuesday in the interest of get
ting the street paving project ap-
proved that has been sent in to that
office. While in Winston-Salem, the
group consulted with authorities
about getting work started on the
sewerage project which has already
received approval.
1t is understood that a WPA engi-
neer will be in the city Friday for
the purpose of further aiding in the
work that is being started here.
Mr.. Cole urged that town fathers
push to completion the Negro Noun
tain road in order for it to be taken
from the WPA lists and in order to
give more attention to the town pro-
jectS.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-12-10
Consider Lindbergh
as Jersey Governor
C. 0. p. Leaders Reported Ready
to Ask Famous Filler to Be
Republican Candidate

The Atlantic City Sunday Press
said it had learned through anthem
tic north Jersey sources that infuen-
tial Republican leaders have decided
to ask Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh
to become the Republican candidate
for governor of New Jersey in 1887.
The newspaper said about Is par
ty leaders from all sections of the
state reached this decision at "a quiet
little meeting" in Newark few days
ago. They virtually agreed, it said,
that the "only hope the Republican
party may hold in waging success
full fight against the prospective
Democratic candidate, United States
Senator A. Harry Moore, lies in
erecting solid front on behalf of a
candidate who holds the sympathies
and regard of the people,
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-12-10
SOME CONGRESSMAN FOR
SK-YEAR TERM OF CHIEF

Some Congressional leaders OF
both major parties reacted approx
ingly this week to a proposal that
the President be elected for one term
of six years, but most of their col
leagues reserved judgment.
The suggestion was advanced In
Omaha by Senator Burke, Demo
crat, of Nebraska, who said he would
introduce a constitutional amend
ment carrying such provision.
Senator Clark, Democrat of Mis-
souri,, said he had always been in
favor of a six-year term without
privilege of reelection.
Representative Tinkham, Republi-
can of Massachusetts,, said he had
planned to introduce similar reso-
luton, and had prepared such ar
amdendment as long ago as six OF
eight years.
Vice President Garner declined tc
comment, while Senator Borah, Re-
publican of Idaho, said his mind was
open.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-12-10
TO ORGANIZE AUXILIARY
Wives Of American LegiOnnaires to
Meet; Mrs. Denny Heads Group

Mrs. A. G. Denny, of this city, was
elected president of the American
Legion Auxiliary which met and or
ganized in the American Legion hall
in West Jefferson Saturday night.
Mrs. E. d. Barr was elected first
vice-president and Mrs. P. G. Wright
second vice-president. Mrs. Guy
Badger was made secretary and Mrs.
Ira Johnston, treasurer.
State president, Mrs. c. P. An
drews; state vice-president, Mrs. Lee
Franz; and state publicity chairman,
Mrs. K. w. Broome, were guests at
the meeting.
The organization is composed of
wives of members of the American
Legion and the work follows similar
lines. Enough members were present
Saturday to establish chapter, but
other are urged to attend and join
A second meeting will be held at the
same place Saturday night, Dec. IL