Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 218, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 January 1930 — Page 9

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FIELD URGES ENLARGING OF STATEPOLICE Secretary of State Makes Plea in Road School Address. MORE ROADS TO GUARD Increased Mileage Cited as Reason for Need of More Officers. tv Uniti and Press LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan. 21.—Increase in the personnel of the state police department to combat a crime situation made serious by increased good road mileage and increased use of automobiles was advocated by Otto G. Fifield, secretary of state, in an address here today to highway department offl- | cials, county highway superintendents, surveyors, county engineers and city commissioners attending j the sixteenth annual Purdue uni- i versity road school. The session opened Monday to continue through Friday. “We are working on a cycle,” Fifleld told the several hundred men. “More roads are creating more taxes. TR r ~ r ' automobiles are consequently a red for more police.” The address outlined the history ' of Indiana’s road laws and the history of the state police department. Cites Extent of Roads "Five thousand sixty-five miles of road are designated as state roads under the law passed in 1919," Fifield said. “Two thousand four hundred and twenty-five miles are of hard surface concrete, brick or asphalt. Three hundred and two miles were constructed last year. “Every foot of our roads is paid for. We are not handing down a debt to our children and grandchildren. Money for the construction of these roads comes from auto license tax, gasoline tax and from federal aid. The license tax last year amounted to $6,245,383, of which $5,939,283 was turned over to the highway commission. Gasoline tax collections amounted to $16,134,568.32 and federal aid brought $2,368,772.56. Fifield called attention to the formation of the state police de- ; partment in 1921 as an institution j to aid in recovering stolen automobiles. “It was originally created as an ! Inspecting agency for the enforce- | ment of the certificate of title law j and was financed by the auto theft j fund,” he said. “In 1925 the legislature empowered ; the police with full enforcement j duties of the motor vehicle laws, including traffic regulations. License Income Gains Attention was called also to the work performed by the state police In increasing the revenue from pale : of license plates through rigid enforcement of the license law. Work of the police in recovering stolen j cars also was stressed. “During the first year, the police ! recovered 171 stolen automobiles ' and arrested and convicted ninety- j nine automobile thieves,” he said, i In 1923 they recovered 300 cars and ; arrested and convicted 165 thieves, i In 1925, 2,611 were reported stolen and all but 532 recovered. In 1926, : 4.650 were reported stolen and all ■ were recovered except 950. In 1927, 7,616 were reported stolen and 6,700 recovered, of 87 per cent. In 1923. 6,625 were reported stolen and 5,284 recovered, or 79 per cent. “During the past year, 4,620 were reported stolen and 3.431 recovered, or 72 per cent. Eighty out of 100 stolen cars are recovered." Fifield said. Other speakers on today’s program included E. L. Gates, superintendent DePage county highways, Wheaton, 111.; C. W. McClain, district engineer, state highway commission. Seymour; Ted Hollingsworth, Steuben county; Clifford Siniff, Allen county; C. J. Luellen, Henry county: E. L. Eriksen. Purdue engineering department, and J. L. Stewart. Franklin county. OVERALLS. CALICO TO BE ATTIRE AT DANCE Elks' Club to Be Scene of Stunts and Informal Festivities. Suntan backs will be permitted, but can be bounded only by calico, gingham or any other house dress material, at the "calico hop" to be given at th<* Elks’ Club Saturday night. The men are to wear overalls, or what have you, but no “soup and fish" costumes are permissible. A stunt will be the attempt of the dancers to Identify "Hiram.” a rube character. A live pig, guaranteed to squeal, will be given to the winner. Timothy P. Sexton, secretary of the Fidelity Trust Company, will be In charge. ALBERTSON IS SPEAKER Need of Training to Appreciate Leadership Stressed. Difficulties in ever}’ day life could be overcome by practicing Christianity daily, E. T. Albertson, general secretary of the Indiana Council of Religious Education, told the monthly conference of the Marion County Sunday School Association at the Fountain Square Christian church, Monday night. He stressed necessity for training persons to appreciate church leadership. Group meetings followed the bddrfgfc

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Newport county officials, meeting In Middletown, near here, today, acted favorably on an application of "The Golden Girl of Society,” as Mrs. Church commonly is known, and granted the permit. The application, it was learned, was filed on Dec. 23, shortly after Mrs. Church had discharged several servants from her household. Mrs. Church, however, refused to discuss any details of her action, other than that she wanted herself while out late nights.” The weapon which Mrs. Church will “pack” will be a .22caliber pearl-handled automatic which she recently purchased. It was understood that she was a capable shot with such a gun.

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MILITARY GROUP GAINS Eight Members Added at De Pauw by Scabbard and Blade. Bu Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., Jan. 21. Two of the eight members of the junior class elected to Scabbard and

Blade, national military fraternity at De Pauw university, are Indianapolis students. They are Fred Wuelfing, who is also president of the junior class, and Edwin Boswell. Boswell is a member of the De Pauw basketball squad. Scabbard and Blade is the only fraternity recog-

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nized by the United States army and only outstanding students in the advanced class .of the R. Q. T. C. unit are selected for membership. WOMAN OFFERS RINGS TO AID SICK FILIPINO pii Times Special COUMBUS, Ind.. Jan. 21.—Frank Pallot, 21-year-old Filipino, u’ho has been stranded here ill of tuberculosis, has a friend as Miss Edna Robinson, Albion. Mich., who has written Mrs. Josephine Easton, Bartholomew county nurse, that she is willing to pawn her diamond rings in order to help the young man reach his native home. Miss Robinson explains that she was with the same show company that Pallot traveled with and that while she has not money, she is willing to help. Arrangements have been made to have him return to the Philippines at government expense.

OUSTER FACED BY ‘BONE DRY’ WRIGHT

Secretary of State Otto G. Fifield announced today that he personally w’ill conduct a “thorough-going investigation” into the connection of Frank Bone Dry) Wright, state securities commission auditor, with the defunct Indiana Real Estate Securities Company, 416-419 Continental Bank building. Wright was a trustee of the company, whose president, Carollyn E. Crump, is being brought back from Chicago today to face charges of violating the Indiana securities law. Mark W. Bemis, one of the company incorporators and copromoter with Crump, was brought back to face charges last Sunday. Fifield. who returned to his office after addressing the road school at Purdue university, stated that he knew little about the matter, buthad arranged a conference with Mark W. Rhoads, securities commissioner in his office, regarding it. Measures of discipline for Wright, or possible dismissal, may follow, he indicated. Wright, who is a veteran member of the Indiana house of representatives and author of the extremely arid “bone dry law.” admitted today that his name as trustee was used to sell allegedly worthless stock to bootleggers, for which payment had been made in whisky. Wright, who for years was an In-

SPINACH AND GRAPEFRUIT ‘CURES’ DERIDED IN SPEECH BY DR. FISHBEIN

BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO. Jan. 21.—Just because sp.nach contained a pinch of one vitamin or another is no particular reason why small boys should be forced to eat it, believes Dr. Morris Fishbein, nationally known physician and editor. And the mere eating of grapefruit. sugared or not, w’ill have an effect so slight it will not even be noticed in the curing of diabetes said Dr. Fishbein here on

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Golden Girl of Society Packs Gun Muriel Vanderbilt Church Gets State Permit to Carry Pistol. * Bu United Press NEWPORT, R. 1., Jan. 21. The “Four Hundred” apparently has turned to firearms as a means of personal protection. This was indicated today when Mrs. Muriel Vanderbilt Church, prominent Boston and Newport society leader and daughter of Mrs. William E. Vanderbilt of New York, obtained a permit to carry a revolver in the' state of Rhode Island.

Wcrld War Veteran Silent in Crowded Courtroom at Muncie. pu Times Special MUNCIE, Ind„ Jan. 21. With bowed head, James E. S. Wood, 30, World war veteran, confessed slayer of George Heath and his wife Elizabeth, aged farm couple, sits in the crowded Delaware circuit court room here while the state of Indiana fights to end his life in the electric chair. Wood, native of Kentucky, is in garb typical of a man of the southern hUI country. Worn, but clean overalls, a jacket of the same material and a leather cap comprise his clothing. He takes little Interest In questioning of prospective jurors, not even conferring with his counsel as the trial goes on. Judge L. A. Guthrie, presiding in the case, has barred photographers from the courtroom, but Wood posed for a picture while on his way to trial from jail. Prosecuting Attorney Joe Davis is being assisted by the law firm of Lennington & Sons, employed by relatives of the slain couple. Clarence A. Benadum is chief of defense counsel. There is no denial by the defense that Wood killed the aged couple at their home near here. A plea of insanity is relied upon to prevent the death penalty. It is expected the case will be in the hands of the jury by Friday. The trial opened Monday, but a day’s proceedings failed to result in seating a jury. When court convened this morning, only five of a special venire of fifty remained to be questioned. Twelve men were in the jury box, but most of them had been interrogated only by the defense.

diana Anti-Saloon League lecturer and was Victory day speaker last week at the Central W. C. T. U. meeting, told the following tale of the hotel room drinking episode: "When the bottle was passed, I told them to cut it out as I was the author of the Wright bone dry law. Then they wanted me to stay for dinner in the room, but I refused. “I did see evidence of liquor at the office, but do not know how to tell when a man is drunk, as I never have touched a drop in my life.” A photostatic copy of a letter written by Wright at Crump’s request was used to boom stock sales for which “money, other securities or whisky” was taken in payment, according to Coble. Wright has a copy of an office memorandum in which instructions are given to salesmen telling them not to use names of officials to sell the stock, but to "sell it on merit.” In the memo, Wright is listed as “Hon. Frank E. Wright, Author of the Wright Bone Dry Law. member of the Indiana House of Representatives, and member of the state securities commission.” Wright was made trustee with Cyril L. Weston, Chicago lawyer brought here by Crump. They were to get 2Vi per cent on the preferred stock sales. Coble said. Instead, all Wright did was cash a SIOO check signed by Mrs. Weston, w’hich was returned, it was said.

Monday night in an address befor the National Canners’ Association. American citizens worry entirely too much about diets and vitamins for their own good, he continued in speaking of “food fads and fallacies.” Many advertisers of food, he said, claim that their products are good for fallen arches, rheumatism, sleeplessness and all the rest, just like the patent medicine manufacturers used to do before the postofflee department squelched them. Advertising ol food. be said,

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1930

THREE SCHOOL GIRLS MISSING; CITY SEARCHED Trio From No. 46 Seen to Enter Blue Sedan: No Clew to Companions. AUTOISTS START HUNT Neighbors Rush to Parents’ Aid; Attempt Made to Attack Child. Twenty automobiles are scouring West Indianapolis while police and detectives search the entire city for three school girls spirited away in an automobile after school hours Monday afternoon. The girls are: Ethel Robinson, 13, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Robinson, 1020

Sou th Pershing avenue. Nellie Mamie Frye, 13, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. John Frye, 1136 South Pershing avenue. Vera Adcock, 13, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Adcock 1141 South Pershing avenue. Meanwhile, police also were seeking a fiend,

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who attempted to attack a 9-year-old girl in a vacant house at 911 North Delaware street, early Monday night. The three missing girls, all students at school No. 46, were seen to enter a blue sedan at Sheffield avenue and Morris street, Monday afternoon. At least one man was in the car. Parents Not Told The girls had given their parents nor playmates no intimation of any intention to run away from home. Police are seeking a youth who previous had

been arrested for automobile thefts. First reports that three men were in the car when the girls entered it could not be verified. Fred Schoeneman, clerk at the Clary drug store at Sheffield avenue and Morris street,

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the sole witness to the incident so far as police could learn today, saw only one man. The car, he said, started away fast and skidded in the street. Later in the night a blue sedan, which proved to be a stolen car, drove into a filling station at Raymond and Harding streets. Daniel Baker, Box 344, Route 4, attendant, who has been the victim several times of motorists who drove off without paying for gasoline, took the license number of the car. Youth Drives Away Back blinds of the machine were drawn. After ordering seven gallons of gasoline, the youth driving the car, with a young girl at his side, drove away while the attendant went into the station for oil. Families of all three girls are we ! l liked in West Indianapolis. Neigh-

borhood residents who were networking today volunteered use of their cars for the hunt and several neighboring men remained away from work to aid in the search. Police had no definite clew to connect the car which appeared at the filling station with the car in which the girls were taken away.

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Baker, the attendant, knew one ol the missing girls, but could not sc n into the rear of the car and does not know whether she was in the machine. Attack Attempt Reported Robinson started out to find the girl, and met Frye, also seeking his daughter. The two did not know identity of the third girl until this morning. The attempted attack on the 9-year-oiu girl was reported to police early Monday night. Sent from her home to a nearby drug store to purchase a newspaper, the girl was dragged into a vacant home by a white man, described as about 21 years old, five feet seven inches fall, slim and of fair complexion, wear- ! ing a soft gray hat. a tan sheepskin j coat and black shoes. In the vacant house the man attempted to attack the child, holding his hand on her throat. She struggled free and screamed and the man fled. Physicians said the girl was uninjured except for the nervous shock from fright.

has degenerated into “a morass of hokum and folly.” u n m “TTIITH new prosperity and States,” said Dr. Fishbein, “citizens now look upon food as one of the pleasures as well as one of the necessities of life. The American citizen now uses much less energy and requires a smaller number of calories to meet the demand for the energy output. “Much less wheat and com is consumed than before. Consumption of dairy products and

Honest Face? There Is None, Says Edgerton

liv SEA Service C CHICAGO, Jan. 21—There’s no i thing as an honest face. Authority for this statement is Justin H. Edgerton, president of the National Retail Credit Asso-

ciation. For seventeen years, Edgerten has been appraising human nature in its relation to credit risks. Never yet, he says, has he ever run across that much touted physiognomy which in itself is popularly presumed to be sufficient recommendation for opening a charge account or having a check cashed without identification. “The honest

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face is a myth, an exploded fallacy judged in the light of scientific credit knowledge,” he says. “Honest today is not measured by the angelic smile, but by facts recorded on the 60,000,000 master cards filed away in 1,060 branch offices and bureaus of the Nationai Retail Credit Association. “Where it was once the custom for a credit manager to size up his prospect by such superficial evidence as the whole or tern condition of her gloves, today that same manager has recourse to accurate financial information on nearly every person applying for credit.” DALEFORBIBS CARD GAMING Muncie Mayor Crusades to Halt Playing. pu Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Jan. 21.—Gambling in cigar stores here for checks which can be exchanged for merchandise and ail card games will be stopped, Mayor George R. Dale announces, or the public will know he has been bribed or has failed in his efforts to enforce the law. The mayor announces his recent edict against such gambling is being obeyed and he has the word ol undercover workers for it. Dale declares he is going to take himself to task in the next issue of his weekly newspaper for what he terms his wrong tactics in handling the situation. “I served notice on them that gambling was to stop,” Dale said, “whereas I should have the department go out and catch them redhanded.” Dale has banned all card playing in his most recent order. He asserts that at first he c.’dered gambling stepped, but learned that a count of winners in games was being kept secret, and therefore he decided the only; way to stop the gambling was to completely ban the cards. TIMES CARRIER DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS Kenneth H. Louden Funeral Rites to Be Held Thursday. Heart disease, from which he had been suffering for several months, claimed the life of Kenneth H. Louden, 16, of 1545 East Raymond street Monday. Kenneth was known to

hundreds of south side citizens, having carried The Indianapolis Times in that territory until the time of hts illness. While at School 34. Kenneth was an honor student. He attended Manual Training high school until illness forced him to withdraw last fall Funeral services will be held at the home Thursday at

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2. Burial w’ill be made in New Crowm cemetery. The parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roland T. Louden, and five brothers, Raymond. Carl, Garnett, Donald and Eugene, survive him. Mall Worker Dies Bu Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Jan. 21.—Edgar W. Farmer, 63, veteran railway mail clerk, is dead at the family home in North Anderson. In recent years he worked on a run between Indianapolis and Chicago. H leaves his widow.’, Mrs. Elizabet: Farmer; three children, Ray Farme; St. Louis, Mo.; Miss Hallie Farmer, Monte Vallo, Ala., and Miss Dorothy Farmer, at home; a sister, Mrs. A. A. Merrick, Anderson, and two brothers, Harry W. Farmer and John S. Farmer, Anderson.

vegetables at the same time has increased.” The new “food consciousness” in America, he said, has been the cause of strange and unbelievable claims being made for certain food products. “A grower of grapefruit in one section of Florida recently insisted that the grapefruit grown in that particular section had special virtues in the treatment of diabetes,” Dr. Fishbein explained. “This utterly preposterous claim injured the grapefruit mari-pt. eveiy where else. Patients

COOPERATION 1$ PLEDGE OF NAVALENVOYS Spokesmen to Parley Voice Note of Harmony in First Addresses. CONFIDENCE IS VOICED Limitation Is Continuous Process, Secretary Stimson Asserts. Bu United Press LONDON, Jan. 21. “Japan pledges her free and loyal collaboration with the other powers in the conference, and is prepared to go, in conjunction with them, to the limit in naval disarmament.” With these words, Reijiro Wakatsuki, Japanese delegate to the fivepower naval parley, offered his country’s bid for harmony and unity in the disarmament conference which opened today in the house of lords here. Other hgihiights of Wakatsuki’s opening remarks were: "It is the unanimous desire of the Japanese nation that peace should be lastingly established and the principle of international cooperation be firmly secured and upheld. Japan’s policy of peace has been demonstrated abundantly at the conferences at Washington and Geneva, and in her earnest participation in the manifold activities of the League of Nations.” Stimson Asks Co-Operation “I deem it an auspicious event that our'first meeting at this conference, in which there must be a spirit of co-operation and understanding. should take place in the house of parliament, which has for Americans, a. deep significance as the cradle ot our jurisprudence and of our fundamental ideas of human liberty,” said Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson, spokesman for the United States, in his address at the plenary session. “I feel it is important,” he said, “to emphasize the fact that we do net look on this effort toward disarmament as final. Naval limitation is a continuous process. We regard disarmament as a goal to be reached by successive s ens—by frequent revision and improvement. Human affairs are not static, but are moving and, we believe, improving. Although recognizing “what may well seem insuperable difficulties, when considered from a purely technical viewpoint,” confidence in the success of the naval parley was expressed in the address by Dino Grandi, chief delegate of Italy. Fays Tribute to Hoover The Italian spokesman paid tribute in his opening words to President Hoover as “that chief executive of that great country to which the cause of peace owes much and who rightly has referred to this conference as the most important of those which have taken place in late years. “The nations will judge us be results,” said Grandi. “They look to us to halt that dangerous competition in naval armament, which has been checked off partially by that naval holiday obtained at the Washington conference. “Above all, they hope that this conference will lead to an agreement substantially reducing those huge naval credits which so heavily burden national resources, an agreement which will make it possible to devote to the cause of peace much of the vast sums which now are expended for naval armament.” Tardieu Pleads for Action Premier Tardieu of France emphasized his feeling that failure of the conference might postpone world disarmament for an indefinite period. “The decisive experiment” in the attempted organization for world peace, preparatory to the effort of the League of Nations committee on disarmament, was recalled by the premier and he declared that further progress was shown to be impossible until there has been a preliminary agreement by the naval powers. . “Accordingly,” he said, “the London conference takes its natural place in the necessary and logical succession of events. “The problem, in its exact terms, is this: Our success, limited to the task we are undertaking, will open the way to success of the whole effort toward disarmament.” Business Man Dies Bn Times Special COLDMUoo, Ind., Jan. 21.—John M. Newcomb. 77, business man of "••' iV ’erly while sitting up in his bed smoking a pipe and talking with members of his family. He had been in declining health for o tune. He fell at his home about two weeks ago and was seriously hurt. Pneumonia later developed, but he was believed recovering when he‘was suddenly stricken with a heart attack.

with diabetes, who should have depended on insulin and scientifically selected diets, gave up temporarily the proper method of treatment and risked their lives with grapefruit. B B B “ r T''HIS Incident can be multi--1 plied in direct relationship to almost innumerable commercialized health-food campaigns all over the country.” Just because a food, such as spinach, contains an inflnitessimal quantity of some mineral salt or vitamin, it is lolly lor Us producers

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Hoover Listens By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. President Hoover arose before daylight today to listen, along with millions of other radio hearers, while King George of England expressed his hopes for success of the five-power naval limitation conference opening today in London. Mr. Hoover listened attentively to the entire program at the house of lords, including the speech of Secretary Stimson, head of the American delegation, and those of the other delegates.

RADIO FANS OF CITY TUNE IN TO HEAR KING Scores Cut Sleep Short to Catch Broadcast of London Conclave. Pajamas, lounging robes, and even “nighties” were the “court dress” in King George’s audience this morning when radio extended the monarch’s audience beyond the usual confines of the house of lords. There were those who scoffed at the idea of “getting up before the chickens” to hear any “old king” talk, but others, sleepy-eyed for their shortened hours of rest, boasted of hearing the king’s voice as he talked before the naval parley in London. Sleepy-eyed, but intent on hearing Britain’s Sailor King in his message, they stood shivering in many cases before their radio receivers at 4:40 a..m. when the Columbia and National broadcasting hookups sent the message nation-wide. They Like Message Perhaps the early morning hour made some super-critical. Many seemed to feel that King George had side-stepped any real expression of his personal opinion. Others gave whole-hearted approval. Here are expressions from a few of the thousands who heard the message: William R. Ringer, Deputy Prosecutor—A concise expression of armament problems. Miss Emma Clinton, Assistant Clerk to Probate Judge Malcolm E. Bash —Marvelous, never to be forgotten. James McConnell, County Commissioners’ Bailiff—The king dealt gently with a problem of the day. George M. Jeffrey, District Attorney—l thought the speech was yesterday, so I didn’t tune in. Federal Judge F-obert C. Baltzell— I’m not a radio fan. English Is All Right Alexander G. Cavins, Assistant United States Attorney King George uses perfect English, the king’s English so to speak. But why the medieval idea of not announcing the speakers before they begin? Dr. Ernest N. Evans, Secretary Church Federation of Indianapolis— I set my alarm clock so I’d get up in time to hear King George. It came in fine. At first it sounded as if it was going through a lot of water, but later it got better. I was surprised at the king’s voice, for I expected to find it weak or at least showing his recent illness. The Rev. Carlos M. Dinsmore, General Superintendent of the Indiana Baptist Convention—Yes, I heard him, also Premier MacDonald, and Stimson. The reception was fine. What time did I get up? Oh, about 4:30. L STILL QUILTING 4T 84 Noblesville Woman Makes 65 In Last Six Years. pii Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Jan. 21. Mrs. Elizabeth Jennings, 84, claims

an unusual record in the making of quilts. When she and her husband retired a few years ago and located in Noblesville Mrs. Jennings, no longer able to do much hard work, but not wishing to be idle, spent much time in piecing quilts. During the past six years she has

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pieced sixty-five quilts, presenting most of them to her daughters and granddaughters. Included in this number were ten quilts pieces for a neighbor, “just to be neighborly,” to one who had been kind to her. Mrs. Jennings has lived on one farm fifty-four years. Diphtheria Test Arranged B.u T imes Special ALEXANDRIA, Ind., Jan. 21. Every child attending the Clarke school here will be given the Schick test for diphtheria, the Parent-Teacher Association announces.

to advertise that minute ingredient, added Dr. Fishbein. It is even worse folly for multitudes to eat large quantities of that particular fcod in the hope that it will cure what ails them, he said. Dr. Fishbein told his listeners, earners of fruits, vegetables, meats, that he was glad that they were taking more care in the preparation of foods than some of them did years ago, when chemical preservatives were common and when wholesale illness often was reported because of consumption of jpoiSQQOitf

RADIO CARRIES KING’S SPEECH AROUND EARTH Greatest World Broadcast Features Inauguration of Naval Parley. HUNDRED STATIONS LINK Thousands in America Stay Awake to Tune In on Historic Event. BY JULIUS FRANDSEN Unltrd Prrss Staff Correspondent NEW YORK. Jan. 21.—The greatest International radio broadcast In history lifted the veil of secrecy from diplomacy today. To radio listeners throughout the world came the words of King George V of England invoking the distinguished delegates cf five great naval powers to renewed efforts in the cause of peace. They heard also the addresses of the leading statesmen of those five powers—the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan—as they gathered in the house of lords at the opening of the London conference on disarmament. A hundred radio stations linked in the networks of the Columbia Broadcasting Company and the National Broadcasting Company brought the ceremonies to listenersin of the United States. The words spoken in London were flashed across the Atlantic by short-wave transmission and then rebroadcast from New York. Thousands Hear Program Just how many persons in America arose to hear the program could not be estimated. It was 6a. m. in the east and 3 a. m. on the Pacific coast when King George began to speak. Certainly, however, there must have been thousands who sacrificed sleep for the thrill of hearing the monarch and his prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald, and their own secretary of state, Henry L. Stimson. In the mid-town section of New York, exclusive apartment houses were dotted with lighted windows, while the streets below were dark and silent. Nine is perhaps the usual rising hour for residents of such places and observers could deduce no other conclusion but that occupants of those apartments were tuning in on London. The broadcast generally was hailed as the most successful of any of those by which Europe and America have been linked. For the most part the voices of the speakers in the house of lords came through with clarity rivaling that of a domestic program. Both the National Broadcasting Company and Columbia system opened their programs with musicai selections from their New York studios and switched to London Just before King George began his address.

For a few moments only the confused sounds rising from the floor of the conference chamber could be heard, sounding like the roar of the waves of the Atlantic itself. Then, without announcement, came the voice of his majesty. Occasional bursts of static distorted parts of the king's brief address, but the trans-Atlantic channels soon were cleared. The king’s voice was pitched low and he spoke slowly, as if deliberating over each phrase. Some words he accented in such a deliberate British manner that Americans had difficulty in catching them, but no one could have failed to understand the tenor of his address. Premlei* MacDonald’s address was at times a bit difficult to understand because of his Scotch burr, but the ringing voice of Secretary Stimson came through with utmost clarity. The words spoken in the house of lords in London traveled through many relays to reach American ears. They were transmitted by land wire to the British Broadcasting Company’s station at Rugby and flashed across the Atlantic on two wave lengths on this side. The radio waves were picked tip by stations of the American Telephone Company at Houlton, Me, and Netcong, N. J, and brought by land wire again to New York, thence to be fed by a turn of switch into networks of the broadcasting comp^n'es. Engineer Saves Program Bit rnitrtl Prctt NEW YORK. Jan. 21.— The hands of a young radio engineer, twitching with the shocks of a high voltage electric current, were literally “hands across the sea” today. Through them passed the current which enabled listeners-in on fiftynine radio stations to hear the international program, which linked Great Britain, Canada and the United States at the opening of the naval conference ih London. Just a few minutes before King George began the address, which formally inaugurated the con- ! ference, a member of the control | room staff of the Columbia broadcasting company tripped over the wires to the generator that energizes the entire network. Harold Vivian, chief control operator, grasped the wires together in his hands to restore the circuit. Leakage of current through his body to the floor Shook his arms with spasms, but he held out without a ! break for several minutes until new wires could be connected. Estate Aids College Ru Tim t* Bn trial KOKOMO, Ind.. Jan. 21.—The Haynes estate of Kokomo has made a gift of a science hall to Western college, Oxford, O,