Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 280, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 April 1929 — Page 16

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RADIOS CHEER LONELY VIGILS IN LIGHTHOUSES Hoover's Efforts Brighten Lives of 300 Keepers. BY JOSEPH If. BAIRD Init'd Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 12. Symphonies, sermons and jazz have replaced tlje monotonous concert ot lapping waves on the lighthouse leader's entertainment menu as the result ol Herbert Hoover's plea for donated radio receiving sets. Lighthouse keepers who formerly spent long periods without contact with the outside world now hear metropolitan dance orchestras, grand opera and educational talks at night. On Sunday they tune in on church services. Ard, according to letters made pub'ic by the commerce department tod y they are exceedingly grateful for their news bonds of contact with civllzation. Three year ago Mr. Hoover, then secretary of commerce, appealed for radio sets to di'tribute among the lighthouse-keepers. "T don't know ot any class of

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I shut-ins,” he Raid, “who are more entitled to such aid. The government does not pay them any too , well and the instruments which I they can hardly afford are in many cases their only means of keeping in touch with the world." As the result of this plea, sets began to come in one by one, until now 300 lighthouses have been supplied with receiving apparatus. In addition to the entertainment radio provides for these Isolated men. the commerce department said, | It brings them in daily touch with world news. Also, they receive advance warning of hurricanes and weather changes. They are thus enabled to prepare their stations against storms. A keeper at Key West pointed j out the value of radio in warning ! him of hurricanes. “Weather reports are broadcasted from about ten different stations,’’ he wrote, “during the hurricane season. | “The keeper receiving one of these 1 broadcast reports can take necesI sary precautions and securt light- , house service property. In addition to this he can advise small craft of an approaching storm and many Recovers 100 Suicides’ Bodies ROCHESTER, N. Y.. April 12. In the thirty years that he has run ; a boat livery here. Michael Schlegel has pulled the bodies of one hundred suicides from the Genesee river. In addition, Schlegel says he has rescued four persons from attempted suicides by drowning. He is paid a specific sum by the city 1 lor each recovered body.

DAM GULF TO STOP STORMS Fantastic Scheme to Curb Tornadoes Suggested. i INu United f J rt6B BERLIN, April 12. —A fantastic j project to abolish tornadoes in the United Sattes by draining the Gulf of Mexico was advanced today by Professor Edmund Weber, German ! scientist. He said he plans to visit the United States soon to discuss | his scheme with bankers, industrialists and governmental officials. Weber is the inventor of the high-ly-destructive German torpedo used before the war, and of the incendiary bomb used .during the war. Discussing Wednesday’s destructive tornado in Arkansas, he said, drying up the Gulf is the, only way to prevent such disasters He proposes to build a dam from the southern tip of Florida across the Caysal bank to Santa Marena, Cuba, and another dam from Cape Antonio. Cuba, to the eastern tip of Yucatan, shutting off the Gulf completely from the Atlantic and Caribbean. The scheme, incidentally, he said, would enlarge the territory of the United States by one-fifth, making the Gulf area a fertile region habitable by at least 15.000.000 people.

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‘ Bossies’ Groomed for Annual Swiss Cow Fight

Lady-Like Until April Turns Them Into Fierce, Tough Animals. Bu United Press NEW YORK, April 12.—1n a brochure entitled “Cow Fights—A Unique Event in Switzerland,” the official information bureau of Switzerland here revealed today the long-hidden secrets of this fascinating pastime, which would be unique even in Hoboken. Plans call for the holding of the annual cow fight at Martigny, in the Rhone valley late this month. The fighting cows of the Alps are bred only in the Val D'Herens. They have the regular standard equipment of horns, hoofs, tail, hair and other appurtenances, but they are different. Their horns are tougher. They take offense easily, and instead of meekly saying “moo” when addressed as “So, Boss,” they are apt to stand their ground and return glare for glare. Except during the April season, however, they are fairly weilbehaved and submit to being, milked. In fact, they are even said to be noted for their generous output of milk and other dairy products. Along towards the end of April,

however, when it is time to turn the cows from winter quarters into the high upland pastures, they go into rigorous spring training. They mostly are bantamweights. About two hundred selected scrappers are sent into the ring at Martigny. The survivor of the eliminations meets the champion of the preceding year, and they fight it out. The winner is crowned “queen of queens” of the fighting cows of Martigny and reigns for a year. It is hardly as blood-thirsty as it sounds. Injuries are comparatively few and even the good brothers of St. Bernard enter their choicest fighters in the events.

SAVE BY SAFETY Detroit Industries Find Care Means Economy. The safety program of the Detroit ndustriai Safety Council saved Detroit industries $150,000 in 1928. Elmer Hewitt, managing director of the industrial council, told the industrial committee of the Indianapolis Safety Council Thursday at the Columbia Club. In the eighty plants represented, there was a saving of 31,000 working days over the 1927 record, Hewitt declared, “In a short while you will see the results from the safety work in the balance sheets. Such campaigns are not so successful when conducted from a humanitarian standpoint,” Hewitt said. Harvey T. Griffith, president of the Udell works, and Frederick E. Schortemeier, local council president. told of plans for organizing safety work in Indianapolis industries. RAILWAY BILL PUSHED Fess Asks Hoover Help for Consolidation Measure. Bu Times Special WASHINGTON, April 12.—President Hoover w’as requested today by Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, author of the railroad consolidation bill pending in the senate, to give his approval to plans to have the j measure passed by the senate dur- | ing the extra session, which con- i venes Monday. Senator F'ess will reintroduce the ! bill on the opening day and have it referred back to the interstate commerce committee, which gave it a favorable report just before adjournment. At the first opportunity, Fess will speak in the senate, urging passage of the measure.

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