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Evening star., 1936-12-06
Only Friends Present

A THOUGH Ed East and Ralph
= Dumke have decided not to ad-
NIT studio audience to their show
in the future, the rotund wits insist
on having a crowd Of friends present
at their rehearsals. They want their
program to sound informal when it
goes on the air and the best way
to do it, they claim, is to prepare
their scripts in Q friendly, informal
atmosphere.
Evening star., 1936-12-06

THE fruits OF Britain's decision last
Spring to bar the stort-waving to
America Of a speech by Baron Aloisi,
italian League of Nations delegate,
were borne this week with the open
ing Of direct radio-telephone circuit
between the United States and Paris.
The new direct circuit, authorized by
the Federal Communications Com
mission, Is the first one to Continental
Europe. all telephone connections with
Europe heretofore having been via
England's short-wave radio system.
The circuit links the American
Telephone & Telegraph Co. stations in
New Jersey with those of the French
ministry of posts and communications
near Paris, and through them makes
conversations possible between any
telephone in the United States and
any telephone in Europe.
Although phone traffic does not bulk
too large between the United States
handle, the American and French
governments urged the additional link
via Paris to provide an extra outlet.
One OF the reasons cited for its need
was the so-called Aloisi incident, in
which the British government barred
the relaying of the Italians speech on
sanctions to America even though the
same Columbia Broadcasting System
interviewer had previously been per-
mitted to broadcast the Ethiopian
delegates views. Both speeches had
to Be sent from Geneva by wire to Lon
don thence via short wave to New
Evening star., 1936-12-06
Plans Junior Bands

p AYMOND PAIGE, musical direc-
~ tor of Hollywood Hotel" expects
to put his plan for q series Of junior
orchestras into effect soon after the
first of the year. Paige will recruit q
large portion Of the talent from Cali
fornia colleges. These bands will play
many Of the engagements offered to
Paige, which he Is too busy to accept.
Evening star., 1936-12-06
Networks Push Fight
To Obtain New Outlets
Trend Toward More Units of Less Power
Is Noted Metropolitan and Chicago
Operas to Return to Air.
Bv the Radio Editor.

BEST makt structure which, IKE iopsy just grew since aus
American broadcasng undergoing GER
tain outside
perhaps change
daling habits somewhat
Federal Commun
Evening star., 1936-07-26

hours 1t is really trick of measuring the
force of gravity, which grows less as one goes
farther from the center of the earth.
On top of mountain mile high ton of
coal would actually be lighter by about a
tenth of one ounce. The accuracy required
to measure a difference in weight due to a
alent to that of weighing ton so accurately
as not to miss thousandth part of an ounce.
A load of hay weighed with such precision
would show the loss of a single straw. This is
the kind of accuracy in weighing accomplished
by the Gulf Research scientists. If you could
stand on so delicate balance and weigh
yourself, the scales would show the difference
in your weight if you should shed one hair.
Evening star., 1936-07-26

from bit of mirror moved by the small rise
and fall of the weight, which varies its avoir
dupois as the crust of the earth rises and falls
when the moon passes overhead each day.
The beam of light records its changing posi-
ton on strip Of Photographic film hour by
hour
Now, astronomers know the pull of the
moon; they know just how much that light
beam should be moved by the moon if the
earth were rigid. From the difference between
the predicted motion of the light beam and
what actually happens, it is calculated that
the whole crust of the earth in the vicinity
of Pittsburgh, with all the everything Ale
ghenies must be lifted as much as twenty
three inches at least once every twenty-four
Evening star., 1936-07-26
E1xT6MIaHam&

- CEAN tides! Many times you have
stood at the seaside and watched
their rise and fall. But did you
~ realize the beach also rises and
falls with the rhythm of the moon? Now that
you think of it, of course the weight of tons
and tons of ocean water dowding into the
bay causes the coast line to sag bit. 1t rises
again as the tide ebbs.
But thousand miles from the shore line -
what happens there? There is rise and fall
of the earths crust as it yields to the pull
of the moon while our satellite goes round
and around Maybe you agree that this can
happen theoretically; but practically, who
could ever measure such a thing? 1t has just
been done in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, In the
heart of the Allegheny Mountains
Recently visited the Gulf Research Lab
oratories, fifteen miles out of Pittsburgh.
There, in secluded spot in the basement,
is the most delicate machine yet contrived for
measuring gravity. A nicely poised weight,
suspended from delicate spring balance, re-
sembles a gorified pair of scales such as the
fish vender uses. The whole affair is sealed in
an air-tight container, and its temperature is
controlled by thermostat such as regulates
the heat in your living room. So completely
under control is the heat regulator in this
miniature balance room that the temperature
does not vary tenth of degree Fahrenheit.
A tiny beam of light is reflected to and fro
Evening star., 1936-07-26
R|SEAu1FAL

Yes, answers Science. Experiments now
indicate that the "soId" earth has daily tides,
moving up and down almost two
feet in places. Whole continents move, too
America seems to be drifting slowly westward
by HARLAN 7. STETSON
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-21
COUNCIL AGAIN
DELAYS ACTION
ON TAXI BILL
Measure to Be Revised for
Fifth Time; Appropriation
Ordinances Pass.

Already revised four times, the
proposed taxicab ordinance is
scheduled for a fifth rearrangement
before the Indianapolis Common
Council puts it to vote.
Last night James E. Deery. city
corporation counsel, fired a salvo
of amendments at it, and the coun-
Gil deliberated for an hour over
these and others.
1t was decided to take no action
except to appoint a committee to
consider the ordinance as revised.
G hief dissenter was Councilman
Adolph Fritz, representative of or
ganized labor, who objected to cab
drivers having to work IL hours
day. He said he thought one cab
for every 1000 of population was
too many. position in which he
was supported by others on the
council.
Three appropriation ordinances
were adopted One provides for the
transfer of the gasoline tax fund
amounting to $159,953.84 to the
Works-Sanitation Board, the City
Department and the
Street commissioners Department;
another transfers $4,000 to the legal
department for the adjustment of
claims.
The third transfers $4,000 to the
city engineer to pay salaries of tenn
porary inspectors of Works Progress
Administration projects. and the
fourth transfers $903.46 to the Health
A measure which would repeal the
anti-picketing ordinance also was
held over for the next meeting, as
was an ordinance providing for the
transfer of $430 to the Board of
Safety.
John A. Royse, attorney, repre-
senting the Saddle Horse Associa-
ton, appeared in support of an Or
dinance introduced by Councilman
Ross Wallace requiring motorists to
give right of way to horseback riders
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-21
Gloomy Sunday, Chords Cry in City
as Suicides Stimulate Songs Sales

DR.. Max Bahr, superintendent of
the Central Indiana Hospital and
a noted psychiatrist, finds a psyche
logical Interpretation in the effect of
the song.
This may be similar to Goethe's
Sorrow of Werther,'" DR.. Bahr said.
When that book was published, the
German government found it neces-
sary to ban it, because an epidemic
of suicides swept the country.
"a person who is temperamentally
respondent naturally would have
his dependency increased by any,
thing of depressing nature. And
mis- dependency might be pushed SO
far that suicide would result.
"Of course, there is something
wrong with such persons funda-
mentally. No normal person would
be so affected"
A young woman, observed listen
ing to the Whiteman record in a
music store, shuddered and turned
aside. "Once is enough for me"
she said.
A clerk at she same store said,
There are songs which would cause
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-21

manded the medicines and foods he
believed suitable for himself and
Scadding.
But the promised rescue did not
take place. Sunday night, all yes
terday those on the surface assured
them it was only matter of hours.
Early today the frightful torture
of frustrated expectancy, perhaps
worse than the torture of thirst
and hunger, bore it fruit.
Robertson was seized with an OBJ
session that those on the surface
were going to blast with dynamite
and kill him and Scadding outright.
He begged them not to blast. He
demanded assurance after assur-
ance that they wouldn't blast.
Then he demanded to know why
he could no longer hear the pneu-
matte drill that had been used in
a partly dug vertical shaft when
it was decided to risk the danger
Gus Reynolds shaft. He wouldn't
be treasured, and the drill was used
periodically merely to comfort
him.
Voice Weak and Shrill
The voice of Scadding was heard
at $50 p m. through a tiny micro
phone lowered through the three
inch pipe. 1t was pitiably weak,
shrill, and those on the ground
could hear the short gasps of a per-
son breathing under either phys
ical or emotional stress.
In the Reynolds shaft, abandoned
Is years ago, because even then it's
sides and ceiling were in imminent
danger of collapse, the digging had
proceeded to the point where only
one man could work in the hole at
time.
Work Slow, Tedious
He Clipped away at the rock and
dirt, then stopped, picked up what
he had loosened, handed it to a man
directly behind him, who passed it
to man behind him, and so on I'M
til it was conveyed hand by hand to
the surface.
This tedious labor had been going
on since early yesterday, when it
was decided to risk everything on a
desperate drive to reach the impris-
oned men through the dangerous
shaft. Hourly since then, the rescu-
ers had hoped to break through.
Three hundred men worked at the
back-breaking task in short shifts.
All we're exhausted.
Three feet of water were on the
floor of the mine tunnel. To get the
brandy and concentrated liquid food
lowered in test tubes at intervals,
DR.. Robertson had to leave the damp
crevice where he and Scadding
perched and wade through the water
to the end of the pipe that was
sunk into their tomb early Sunday
with a diamond drill.
The water was rising very slowly
and apparently it would be a matter
of days before it could get nigh
enough to endanger them. BY that
time, they will be dead or rescued.
The water was seeping through the
ceiling and walls of the tunnel, max
ing their prison wet and cold.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-21

me to commit suicide much more
quickly than Gloomy Sunday spe-
officially Trees sung by a throaty
contralto."
One store had sold out its sheet
music copies and had only one pho
nograph record left. Others report
ed heavy demand.
Two years old, Gloomy Sunday"
was composed by Seress Reszo, with
words by Lazlo Javer. It did not be-
come popular until the wave of sui
cides began. The English lyric ex-
presses the mood of a lover, de-
spondent because his sweetheart is
dead, who has resolved to end his
own life.
Musically, the song is a repetitious
slow triplet figure in a minor key
with short, more cheerful inter
lude in major key. The harmony
continually changes.
Gloomy Sunday is Slavic YER
sion of hill-billy songs like "They
Cut Down the Old Pine Tree" one
music critic observed. "It is not jazz,
and people who dance to it would
dance to She's More to be Pitied
Than Censured.'"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-21
Gum Proves Costly

By United Press
CHICO, Cal, April 21-A stick
of chewing gum cost John Nopel his
automobile. He started to open it
while driving and the car crashed
into bridge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-21

Three Air Measures Passed
by House; Navy Asks
Two BattIeships.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, April 21.-A re-
newed drive to strengthen the
nations air, sea and land forces
received impetus today from Admin
istration, congressional and military
leaders.
ut has been the aim of this Ad-
ministration to make our national
defense efficient and to keep it
adequate" President Roosevelt
wrote the National Congress of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton.
Congress pushed forward legisla-
ton to raise the nations defense
forces to their highest peace-time
strength. Three measures designed
to build up the air force we're passed
by the House without a dissenting
vote.
Admiral William H. STANDBY,
chief of naval operations. asked
President Roosevelt to recommend
to Congress appropriation of $4,000
900 for construction of two new
flrst-line battleships to start the
first of next year.
House action on the three bills
came after the Military Affairs COM
mittee warned that air corps condi-
tons are ''deplorable" and that the
United States is tagging 10 years
behind in its army air program.
The bills provide for O-increase
in the army air corps from 1900 to
1000 planes over five-year period:
CD creation of an army air reserve
training corps under War Depart
ment supervision, and 60, permis-
sion to call 1850 reserve army fiiers
to active duty for a three-year
period.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-21
Pianos, Photographs Play
to Prove Psychological
Powers.
BY JOHN JOHNSON

Apparently unconcerned over the
ill-starred history of Gloomy SUM-
day." the Hungarian suicide song,
hundreds of Indianapolis residents
today played the melancholy tune
on their pianos and monographs.
Local music store clerks, a little
tired of hearing the tune pounded
on the keyboards and signing from
records, admitted their stocks were
nearly sold out.
This reporter heard the song three
times and found his reactions nor
NAL. Paul Whitman double dared"
fate by recording the song on Fri
day, the thirteenth.
To date, one University Of Mich
igan student and 26 respondent per-
sons in Budapest are supposed to
have ended ther lives after listening
to the minor strains.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-21
C.E. MASON TO LEAD
N0TRE DAME ALUMNI
Local Club Elects, Joins in
Celebration.

Charles E. Mason is to direct &C
tivities of the Notre Dame Club of
indianapolis for the coming year.
Other officers named at the thir-
teenth annual universal Notre Dame
celebration last night at the Athe-
naeum are William H. Krieg, vice
president; Francis P. Mccarthy, Sec
rotary; j. A.. Smith, treasurer, and
Thomas Jones, John Recap and
Thomas j. Meeker, board of gov
errors members.
The local club met at the same
time that IS other alumni clubs
throughout the country were observ-
ing the event.
Deery Talk Broadcast
An address by James E. Deery, city
corporation counsel, broadcast over
WIRE, was one of 200 similar radio
programs preceding national
hookup broadcast over the NBC
chain.
The local club heard DR.. Law
renee H. Bolding, head of the uni
versity pharmacy department, and
DR.. Andrew Boyle of the chemistry
department.
The Rev. John F. O'Hara, G. S. c.,
Notre Dame president, and the Most
Rev. John M. Mcnamara, D. D.,
auxiliary bishop of Baltimore, were
principal speakers in the national
broadcast originating at a meeting
of the Notre Dame Club of the Dis
trict of Columbia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-21
THREE YOUTHS BURNED
WHEN TANK EXPLODES
Fire Does $3.50 Damage to Auto.
and Garage.

Fire Does $3.50 Damage to Auto.
and Garage.
Three persons were recovering
from burns today, received in
fire last night in the garage in the
rear of 1882 Sturm-av. The esti-
mated damage to the garage and
an auto in it is $3.50.
Warren La Bonte, Is, of 1880
Sturm-av, was burned on the legs
and feet. His cousin, Paul SAKE,
20, 1880 Sturm-av, received burns
on the legs and Lewis T. Gootee,
1882 Sturm-av, was burned on the
head.
According to SAKE, the fire started
when lighted match was dropped
on an oil-soaked rug in the SAKE
garage. A gasoline tank exploded.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-21
SPEAKER GIVES
BRIGHT VIEW
Electric League Luncheon
Held Today at Home
Show.
Continued From Page One)

in advertising this program" he
said.
1T is encouraging to the national
bureau to see newspapers running
special editions and sections on
home modernization. This is espe-
cially true in Indianapolis.
Co-sponsors with the Electric
League in building the Electrohome,
centerpiece of the exposition, the
Indianapolis Home Builders Asso-
citation is to hold a dinner at the
show tonight at 6.
Speakers at the exposition yes
terday included Mrs. Alice john
son, Washington, field representa-
tive of the Federal Housing Admin
istration; Mrs. H. P. Wilwerth,
president of the indianapolis Coun-
Gil of Garden Clubs; Frank RE
man, president of the Allied Flor
lists of indianapolis, and Mrs. Minor
Golding, Garden Clubs of Indiana
secretary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-21

where bride paths intersect boule-
wards.
A committee from the Council is
to meet with Mr.. Royse next Tues
day for further study of the meas
ure.
Councilman John A. Schumacher,
who is a member Of the Indianapolis
Symphony Society, sought an ap-
preparation of $700 for free SYM
phony concerts this summer in Gar
field Park.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-21
OFFICIAL WEATHER

United States Weather Bureau
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-21

Plus insurance and a.
naneing charges, delivers
a 1886 Studebaker Sedan
in Indianapolis. Trans
portation and preparation
charges all paid! Stude-
bakers go c. /. T. bud
get plan offers a new low
in time payments.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-21
CHURCH BODY TO PICK
DIRECTORS ON MAY II
Lutheran Brotherhood to Be Named
at Synod Meeting.

Directors of the Indiana Lutheran
Synodical Brotherhood are to be
named at a regular meeting of the
synod in Evansville on May II.
Robert Maggert, Albion, and j. P.
Lantz, Middlebury, were nominated
for the directorate at closing SEES
sions of the annual convention yes
terday in st. Marks Church.
Officers named at the convention
are Oliver G. Fetta, Indianapolis,
president; j. A. Lechler, Fort
Wayne, vice president; John c.
Spiegel, indianapolis, secretary, and
w. G. Milhous, indianapolis, treas
urer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-21
GIVEN dIFE SENTENCE
Negro Pleads Guilty to Murder Aft
er Indictment.

A few minutes after he was in
dicted on charges of first and Sec
ond degree murder, James Ken
drick, 28-year-old Negro, today
pleaded guilyt before Criminal
Judge Frank P. Baker of fatally
stabbing Ranciel Williams, Negro,
last Wednesday. He was sentenced
to life imprisonment in the Indiana
State Prison.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-12-04

W WITH lie
a.uauon IS that it is a very insid-
,Sus olsease and may become es-
sapNslled before the individual has
a"y sensation Of illness. There is
w. pam attached to it, and pain
~ :" the thing that usually brings
pauehtS to the doctor. have often
S pa'a mat The patient who has a
,1e'norrhage is the lucky patient
~cSuse, when this occurs in an
AIRY case, the dramatic onset may
~ SO frightening that the patient
"IA immediately seek counsel. We
t 'e bringing more and more Of
,n early cases to the doctor, and
'.'e TACT that we are has been the
'soult OF public instruction and the
P'esd Of knowledge of the nature
u The disease.
Affects the Young
.X ~ Is disease which particularly
~ a'ecJs Young people from the age
~ ~ 40 10 as, and especially from
~, ~ % 80. It is pathetic to think
.NaI one out of six deaths among
youne men, and one out of -four
, Fails among young women in the
svefy height Of what should be
Iie" nappiest and most productive
wars, IS due to this cause.
sas symptoms show Np at TIL:
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-12-04
Tuberculosis Durable,
Victims NOaU Assured

period of life, but most cases prob
ably date back to early childhood.
Childhood tuberculosis is an en-
tirely different sort of disease from
adult tuberculosis, anC many be
confined to- lymph nodes. in the
chest years before it invades the
lung tissue itself. For that reason
many schools, under the direction
Of the National Tuberculosis So
ciety, are advocating an annual
tuberculin test among the scholars
This test Is given to students who
desire it. It is simple, scientific,
and has no i'll effects. Z It has
proved to be exceedingly valuable
in many cases. The skin tubercu-
lin test is valuable in childhood.
and selects out many cases which
by proper. care can be healed, and
thus prevent the development In
the early years Of adult life.
In the presence of such insidious
symptoms as unexplained loss OF
weight, or persistent underweight.
persistent cough, generally under
par condition especially with
cough and expectoration - all
young people should submit to a
complete examination in order to
prove or disprove the existence OF
tuberculosis.
Complete diagnostie examination
should include a careful 8 history
examination of the barred chest
with the stethoscope, x-ray picture
of the chest and a bacteriologic ex'
animation of the sputum, and 8
record of the temperature. morn
ing and evening, for a week. WITT
this means, the modern physician
is able to spot the early case at
least e5 per cent OF The time.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-12-04
LOGICAL CHOICE BETWEEN
10 TRTSfp AND SUIT

= =
40 TRTNIp AND SUIT
HERE rs an extract from a let
ter asking d question that trou-
ues nearly all players at times.
aNIu Won inform me how to choose
logically between an opening bid
d no trump and a suit, when not
informed what method partner
prefers
TIE essence Of partnership bid
ling is to inform partner as quick
wand as fully as possible concern
Ink the type Of hand held and the
number Of biddable suits COM
posing it, Without denying hold
Ing a biddable 4-card suit, an OPEN
ing bid Of 1-No Trump should mean
On its face a 1888 division
among the four suits, with stops
In at least three of the suits. That
means you hold at least three cards
Of any suit partner chooses to
show, with at least 3 in 4 chances
that you hold not less strength
han an honor Of partners suit.
Make an opening bid of 1-No
Trump on each Of the three hands
shown below.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-12-04
CONTRACT BRIDGE

so bid 2-Diamonds, telling partner
that you hold of the suit, and
have one suit which is unguarded.
If he bids 2-Hearts. instead of
either 2-Spades or 2-Clubs, sup
port his hearts, but avoid 2-No
TrumpS. In case partner bids
2-Hearts, when you have bid 1-No
Trump on Hand 2, bid 2-Spades.
He may be able to support that
suit, or he may be able to then
bid 3-Clubs, permitting you to
justly shift into 3-No Trumps
With Hand 3, overcall partners
take-out of 2-Clubs, with 2-Dia.
monds, but you may. bid 2-No
Trunps, over his take-out of
2-Hearts. The principle is very
simple.
A two-suiter does not average
to play as well at no trumps as at
one Of the suits, even if those suits
contain only 4 cards each, such as
Hand has. s%e
4-AKQ6S AA6r
y A JS4 , QJ7
Open the bidding with 1-Spade,
then bid 2-Hearts over partners
2-Diamonds or 2-Clubs. If partner
then bids three in his minor suit
or in the other minor suit, instead
of supporting one Of your major
suits, try 3-No Trumps next.
With all suits doubly stopped
from opening leads from the left,
and a probable total Of seven
tricks, bid Pho Trumps, unless a
major suit offers game chances.
Bid Hand 5 that way, but Hand
should be opened with 1-Heart.
5-A AQ6 AKQJ73
@KJ10 AJAX
Ga AQ6 AKJ10
WKQJ78 AK
The reason for bidding Hand
only 1-Heart is that game cannot
be promised at some call on the
hand. It is deception Of partner
to bid two.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-12-04

The reason for bidding Hand
only 1-Heart is that game cannot
be promised at some call on the
hand. It is deception of partner
to bid two.