Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 181, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 December 1921 — Page 9

CURATOR PLANS. OZONE JAG FOR * GIANT REPTILE King Cobra Will Be Treated to Snootful of Cold Weather for Operations. FILM BLINDING EYES NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—Enter the ozone Jag. The well-known Bronx cocktail went out when Volstead acted and inhabitants of that benighted borough have been hard put to it ever since to concoct a satisfactory substitute. The ozone Jag is the nearest thing they have been able to evolve. But this sort of “pifflicatlon” is not what at first blush it would seem. Omyno! In fact, unless you are peculiarly susceptible to temperature changes you can go right back to the path of thirsty rectitude and rigid observance of the Constitution, Including its eighteenth restriction. Because, to acquire the ozone Jag you don't drink anything at aU. Raymond L. Ditmars, curator of the Bronx Zoo, after consultation with eminent physicians, decided that It was necessary to perform an operation on King Cobra, the biggest snake in bis collection. There Is a big layer of skin over the cobra's eyes, blinding him, and repeated efforts to remove it have proved futile. At the last attempt the reptile wrapped Its sinuous length around the bodies of Ditmars and three assistants, and the four of them fought for more an hour to save their lives. PIERE'S WHERE OZONE FIGURES. Again, when Ditmars suddenly pushed his hand Into the reptile's cage to grab It below the flattened head he missed his aim and for about three seconds it looked like slow music and flowers for the curator. Ditmars will treat the snake to an ozone Jag as soon as the weather gets good and snappy, somewhere about four or five below zero, be said. “Good stiff, cold weather seems to have the same effect upon a snake that hard cider has on the hired man," Ditmars explained. "A couple of good whiffs and Mr. Snake loses his equilibrium. He takes on a silly sort of a grin and Just naturally wants to go to sleep. When the cobra Is pretty well piflleated from the ozone he will Inhale, then I'll make a final effort to remove the skin bag from his eyes. Each time we tried it before the snake's disposition was such that we decided to give him the ozone Jag.” This ozone Jag is something new in

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reptile study. It was recently discovered that snakes succumb to the slightest change In temperature. Aii the snakes at the j.oo are kept in a house which Is steamAieated throughout tho year, and If the temperature is permitted to drop so much as 5 degrees lower than summer heat the snakes show the effect of the change. JOY RIDE FOR BIG SNAKE. “When the weather gets below zero I am going to take King Cobra for an auto ride through the country," Ditmar; said. “I will have him placed In a wire cage and will strap the cage on the hood of my flivver. Then I'll let the bus hit the high spots in the road. “After a drive of about fifteen miles I figure this snake will be stewed to the eyebrows, so to speak, and while he is good and groggy I'll take him out of the cage and operate on him. “If he la susceptible to the cold weather as are other snakes of his family I won't have much difficulty removing that bothersome fill” from his eyes. And while I'm at it I may decide to polish his fangs If he behaves well. “After the operation the cobra will be placed iu a warm, air-tight box and hurried back to his steam-heated flat, where he will recover quickly from his ozone Jag and become a healthy snake again." Dr. Ditmars makes his formula for the ozone Jag public for what It Is worth. NECK BROKEN IN THREE PLACES Chicago Attorney Lives to Tell of Accident. CHICAGO. Dee. 9.—You can break your neck and still have a lot of fun out of life. Witness the case of John S. O'Donnell, attorney, of this city, who today is attending dances and driving a flivver. Yet early in August O'Donnell broke his neck in three places. He was diving in shallow water at Saugatuck, Mich., i when his head struck bottom, fracturing three vertebrae in his neck. He was rescued almost dead. He was rushed to a Chicago hospital. Dr. J. T. Graf put a harness-like ar- ' rangement upon the Injured man. A helmet was placed on the back of his head and a “Jury mast” was put on to furnish support while the spinal column grew back together again. Three weeks after the accident O'Donnell was able to get up from bed. Within a month from now the supporting Jury mast and harness will be removed, and. according to Dr. Graf, he will be restored to normal strength. There will be no more than 20 per cent loss of motion in the neck. I>r. Graf said Only extreme indications forward and backward or turning sideways will be Impossible.

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GREAT ENGLISH SLEUTH GIVEN WORST OF DEAL Sir Basil Thompson, War Detective, Loses Job Due to Labor Pressure. CAPTURES MANY SPIES LONDON, Dec. 9. —Britain’s superdetective, Sir Basil Thompson, has been fired as a result of the pressure brought upon the government by the extremists in the labor group of the members of the House of Commons. Never a lover of the trade unionist or strike agitator. Sir Basil subjected them to a merciless vigilance during the war. Now the war is over Sir Basil has the mortification of seeing many of his forwith the government with the inevimer enemies in positions of influence table result. In war time Sir Basil Thompson was a very zealous servant of the state. Asa spy trapper he was unique, and many of the hapless foreigners who ended their lives facing a firing squad in the precincts of the Tower of London owed their dire fate to the vigilance and cunning of Basil Thompson. The special branch at Scotland lard was especially organized by him. His trained assistants were circulated throughout the munition areas of Great Britain disguised as workers and thus reported on all the agitators and pacifists In their midst. Great Britain in those sad days was suffering a good deal from decreased output of shells and other war material, and all over the country there were ominous threats of strikes and stoppages. MANY BATTLES FOUGHT. L'ndoubtedly diabolic influences were at work, 30 diabolical means bad to be administered to frustrate them. Conducting work of such delicacy, Sir Basil naturally fell foul of the genuine and loyal trades union official. There were many battles. Sir Basil triumphed In days of war, but apparently has lost out In days of peace. Now, after thirty years of battling with secret Bervlce spies of all nations, International crooks, Bolshevists, an# arebists and gunmen, he has to slumber off into inactivity at the very height of his career. Mentally one pictures him a ruthless, Implacable Individual, utt rly without a soul; yet In truth he is the very reverse. Not in any particular does he suggest the police official. In appearance he is typical of his birth—being the son of an Archbishop of York —a charming, cultured English gentleman, with courtly

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manners and an ingratiating personality. It was spy-catching that was his favorite work. He never treated a spy as an ordinary criminal. Liable to death as many of them were at any moment. Sir Basil always regarded them as supcrpatrlots who were performing risky tasks for the safety of their country. G BEAT BLUFFER. At the art of. bluffing he was a master. The trapping of the German 'spy, Reginald Rowland, in 1915, was done by a trick which would have fooled the cleverest. Rowland, pretending to be an American citizen, was telling Sir Basil that he had never been to Germany In his life and certainly could not speak the language. Nothing was said about that, and the discussion went on to other matters. Suddenly Sir Basil yelled put at him in German, “Attention!” And Rowland stiffened out as on a Prussian parade ground. “So you understand German, eh?” softly queried Sir Basil. But Rowland burst Into tears and asked if it meant death. There was one spy who put one over on Sir Basil —Matuharl, the Egyptian dancer, who was afterward caught redhanded by the French, but not until she had done a good deal of damage. Sir Basil had her brought to London for questioning early In the war. But

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she assured him, with bewitching Bmiles, that slie was not in the German pay, and perforce the great spy-catcher had to let her gc. DID SINN FEIN WORK. When the war was over Sir Basil’s special branch was switched onto Sinn Fein work, but the recent truce put an end to that. Then his restless energies were devoted to the suppression of sedition, and here again he had to battle with the trades unions, and an active campaign began against him. First he was put under the control of the commissioner of police, and naturally a rift came between the two, and iu the end the government asked for his resignation. He caused a breeze in parliament. Sir Reginald Hall, the one-time chief of the admiralty intelligence department, spoke on behalf of his old spy-baiting friend and got an adjournment in the l!use of commons in order that the question might be discussed. There was a lively discussion following the official explanation of the resignation, i. e., that the commissioner of police and Sir Basil Thompson could not get on together, and Sir Basil had to go and go he did. The division followed, with a majority of 103 in favor of the government's attitude.

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DUAL CITIZENSHIP IS DEEP PROBLEM Hundred Have Themselves Expatriated. HONOLULU, Dec. 9.—An important factor In the Japanese problem as encountered in Hawaii is that of “dual

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