Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 289, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 April 1931 — Page 7

APRIL 14, 1931

SHOW REVEALS WEIRD ARRAY OF INVENTIONS Automatic Powder Puff and Endless Ladder Among Patent Exhibits. By Untied Prtts CHICAGO, April 14.—The gadget, widget and dinkus men descended

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upon Chicago today In an eerie, dizzy and weird array for the world's first International patent exposition. Major-General George O. Squires of the United States army invented a powder puff, toted it to the exposition rooms in the gigantic Merchandise Mart, and displayed it on a war-worn nose for the edification of a wondering populace. The general's powder puff is Intended to sift just so much powder, and no more, on feminine faces. Some 3,000 inventors, including James W. Dawson, who deserves special mention, also brought_their

brain children for the admiration of the multitude. Dawson’s invention was an endless ladder to reach the moon. “No reason why it shouldn’t, either." said Dawson, the while he demonstrated the winch which automatically fed sections of ladder into the maw of the machine, joined them together and reared them heavenward. R. C. Bigelow, a pessimist from San Francisco, had an apparatus for use of automobilists who fall off mountain sides. As soon as the car turns over and jounces down to the rock-strewn canyon below, the Bigelow invention turns off the ignition switch and starts the horn to blowing. It should prove exceedingly handy,

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Bigelow explained, for motorists who turn their cars upside down. Maurice J. Jaffe, an optimist from New Haven, Conn., displayed the “irursurette,” a bottle attached to a swivel and a universal joint, so that the theoretical baby underneath could center all his attention on drinking his milk and not have to worry about hanging on to the bottle. E. P. Johnson had a model of an omicopter, an airplane which flys up, down and sideways. It actually works, too, except thsft the motors have to be stopped whenever a change in the ship’s direction is made. But then that’s a minor difficulty ’ and will be ironed out before John-

son gets a live man to fly a fullsized m*:idel, he said. The i.iece de resistance of the show is a perpetual motion machine that works on an entirely new principle, that of sixes and nines. It is a wheel studded along the rim with figure sixes made of iron. When the wheel is given a gentle push, the sixes turn upside down and become nines. The iron figure nines, of course, are topheavy, fall downward and become sixes again, thereby keeping the wheel in perpetual motion. Child Killed by Auto SOUTH BEND, Ind., April 14. Geraldine Veach, 5, is dead of injuries suffered when struck by an automobile driven by C H. Knudson, 25. He was not held.

T. 0. PLAGUE CONTROL GOAL OF CONVENTION Indiana Association Drive Outlined in Reports at Annual Meeting. Until tuberculosis Is under control, eighty-eight county associations in Indiana will not cease their es-

forts against the plague, the Indiana Tuberculosis Association heard today at the opening of its twentieth anniversary annual meeting in the Lincoln. Report of Miss Anne M. Lutz, Lafayette, president of the state association, was read by Murray A. Auerbach of Indianapolis, executive secretary. 11l with appenditicis. Mrs. Lutz was unable to attend the meeting. The report epitomized the history of development of anti-tuberculosis work in Indiana and pointed/'cut i that death rate from the disease had been reduced from 174.4 of each : 100.000 population in 1910 to 65.9 of each 100,000 in 1930. | Nationally known anti-tubercu-j losis executives and research worki ers will address the delegates today

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and Wednesday. Among them are Dr. Kendall Emerson, New York. Dr. William Charles White, Washington, D. C., and Mrs. Violet H. Hogsdon, New York. Auerbach’s report outlined progress toward disease control in the last twenty years, emphasizing increases in hospitalization, clinics, public health nursing, child health education and general organization of anti-tuberculosis groups. A Simple Application That Dissolves Blackheads No more squeezing and pinching to get rid of those ugly blackheads. Get a little Calonlte powder from any drug store, sprinkle a little on a hot. wet cloth, rub over the blackheads, and in two minutes every blackhead will be dissolved away entirely.—Advertisement „