Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 2, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 May 1934 — Page 9

It Seem to Me HOTO® BROUN AT"ANKEE STADIUM. One hundred sixty-first street, the Bronx. May 14.—We were churning along steadily on our way to California, but I noticed a wistful look in the eyes of Earl Wilson, who was driving. At the moment we happened to be passing an impressive structure gavly bedecked with American flags. ‘That's the Yankee stadium.” I ventured. H" nodded and said: ‘I suppose it will be quite a while before either of us sees a baseball game again. I mean a real baseball game.” Now, of course, I have been eager for many days to get away from the dull grind of metropolitan life and strike out into the open counrty like Lewis and Clark or Daniel Boone Still. I will admit that 1 had a sudden and sharp attack of nostalgia. After all. I was a baseball reporter long before I became a columnist or an explorer. Hardly a man is now alive who remembers the old Hilltop

grounds of the Yankees. The site has now been converted into an asylum for the deaf and dumb in partial remembrance of the teams which used to represent our city in the days when the American League first broke into the enemy territory. n tt tt We Had Solidarity IN those days being an American League rooter was a little like being a criminal syndicalist. Every man's hand was against you, indicating both hands of the players of the seven rival teams.

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I was a Yankee rooter, although we called them Highlanders. Babe Ruth was still a gangling lad in a parochial school, and instead of Gehrig on first base we had Ganzel. affectionately known to us all as Pop-Up John.” I suppose being a Yankee rooter colored nr' whole life, as it did in the case of the seven or eight other regular rooters. We dedicated ourselves to taking the side of the underdog. You did not go to see the Yankees win. Nobody expected that, at least of all the players who composed the team. But we were with them whether they came bark with their shields or on them. That was a fortunate break all around, since thp old Yankees were regularly stripped of everything save honor every afternoon, except Saturdays, when they played double-headers and died gallantly twice. tt tt tt Some Memories Pass a Given Point ALL these thoughts passed'very rapidly through mv head, the green light bping on. And so I said: I see no harm in breaking our journey for a little while and going into the baseball park. We have come full niney blocks without a single stop. By all means let us see a ball game.” Os course. I forgot that the While Sox were the visiting team and whpn we reached our seats at the close of the first inning the score was already 5 to 0 in favor of New York. Nor a.d the Yankees attempt to draw the issue fine by merely protecting this slim margin. At the end of the sixth it stood New York, 13; Chicago. 0. In the old days this was my dream of bliss. If the Yankees of the Hilltop had ever run up such a lead I would have known ecstasy. But now the situation was all wrong. I sat pensive in my seat, wondering what sense there could possibly be in my term of banishment. I was doomed by editorial ukase to quit the city of Ruths and Gehrigs in order to visit towns of Bonuras and Applings. Twice I saw Lou Gehrig smash the ball high into the right field bleachers, and twice hp doubled solidly. And I was expected even so to stick to my derision that New York wasn't good enough for me And I must seek Toledo. * tt tt m The Charm of Imperfection YET possibly the situation is less ironic than it seems. Lucifer leaped from heaven to throw in his lot with a community reputed less attractive. Not. every man who gazed upon fair Helen remained forever enthralled by her charms, but sought and found happiness with others more meagerly endowed. Ruth and Gehrig quite accurately symbolize the might and majesty of the greatest metropolis the world has yet contrived. And vet into my heart there stole some element of the feeling I used to have upon the ancient Hilltop grounds when the team of my affections was ruthlessly trodden into the dust. My mission came to me like a flash. Gone was my early brash intention of traveling to remote places identified by me as pari of the “hinterland" and my notion of talking to distant strangers secretly labeled by me as "hicks.” Now I knew that it was my privilege to come to Buffalo. Toledo and Akron saying: “I am here in all humility. I realize that this city is not New York, and never will be. I count it no hardship, but a privilege to share your disabilities. Meager as your existence may be. i allow me to become a part of it. After all, I am an ambassador of good will.” And so I crawled back into the car again and said: "California, Earl, and don't be too quick about it.” (Copyright. 1934)

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

ATOMS of double-weight hydrogen are concentrated in honey, kerosene and benzene. Malcolm Dole of Northwestern university reported at a regional meeting of the American Chemical Society in Kansas City. Ordinary hydrogen consists of about 5.000 lightweight hydrogen atoms to one double-weight hydrogen atom. But in the three substances just named, the percentage of double-weight hydrogen, or deuterium. as it is now being called, is much higher, Mr. Dole said. Mr. Dole has been investigating the percentages of deuterium in various organic compounds. His method is to burn the substance in oxygen. He then condenses the water vapor which results from the combination of the hydrogen in the original substance with the oxygen. Next he purifies the water so obtained and then measures it* density, its density reveals how much double-weight hydrogen is present. He finds that there is 20 per cent more doubleweight hydrogen in honey than there is in an ordinary sample of hydrogen gas. Benzene obtained from coal, he finds, contains 40 per cent more. Samples of kerosene vary in their deuterium content. Texas kerosene was found to contain 15 per cent more, while Oklahoma kesosene contained 30 per cent more. man MR. DOLE'S experiments, as he points out. are only in their first stages. He says, however, that it is possible that the data from such experiments eventually will shed light on the origin of petroleum and upon the role of double-weight hydrogen in life processes. Other investigators have tried experiments in which bacteria, plants and animals were immersed in "heavy water." that is, water which contained only double-weight hydrogen. It was found that many varieties of bacteria, plants and fish were killed by the heavy water. These experiments, which demonstrated that certain organisms can not utilize heavy water, led Mr. Dole to the theory that there might be a natural separation of light-weight from heavy-weight hydrogen in physiological or life processes. "For this reason. I first investigated honey,” he says, "expecting to find that the hydrogen in honey has less deuterium in it than ordinary hydrogen. On the contrary, i found more deuterium in the water which I obtained by combustion of honey than there is in ordinary water.” n n n TKK experiments by Mr. Dole follow discoveries by the late Dr. E. W. Washburn and his coworker* in the bureau of standards, that heavy water was present in larger than normal percentages in he water of the Great Salt lake, the Dead sea, and in certain minerals. This natural separation, however, is believed to be due to the more rapid evaporation of the ordinary water.

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WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE! Outlaws Live Briefly in Glory; Find Trail Has One End —Doom

Thin is the first of six absorbing stories telling how butlet, rope and prison rell have been the doom of notorious bandits of the past, and including the careers and detailed descriptions of the “most wanted" criminals of today. BY WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service Staff Writer WITH the Dillinger gang running amuck, and the whole country aghast at a wave of violent crime that seems to make a mockery of law. it is good to recall the end of the legendary criminals who beat th? law —for a time. And by these signs to read the end of the Dillingers. Names like Billy the Kid, Jesse James and Harry Tracy glow in a haze of traditions about their desperate deeds. What is forgotten is the fact that at the end of even these blazing outlaw trails waited the bullet, the noose, or the lonely cell. So it has been, and so it will be. In New Mexico, even today, the name of Billy the Kid carries a charm. Billy the Kid, who killed twenty-one men—one for every year of his short life—lived, and murdered, and died, in a time when and a place where murder was commonplace, and a revolver was much more an inevitable part of a man's regular dress than his socks. Billy began his career as a murderer precociously, at 12, when he deftly thrust a pocket knife three times into the back of a man fighting in a saloon brawl. This was in Silver City in 1871. Billy fled, and

never saw home or mother again, He made his way by wits and gun as a card sharper and cattle thief. He shot down from ambush peaceful Indians, to rob them. He killed several men over card games, and, as his repute grew, his real name, William H. Bonnev, gradually dissolved into Billy the Kid. Coming to the Pecos Valley, in Texas, Billy became involved in a "cattle war.” More victims fell to his gun, and Sheriff Brady issued a “dead or alive” proclamation, with a reward for Billy, then 18. So the Kid. ambushed behind a wall, shot down the sheriff and several deputies. tt a tt BUT the old days were passing. Respectable elements rallied about anew sheriff. Pat Garrett, once friendly to Billy, but who served notice that he was going to run down his gang to the last man. Billy took to the hills. Cornered several times, he shot his way out, but one by one his men were picked off. Then Garrett and a posse drove him to bay in a ranch house, and compelled his surrender. On the way to Santa Fe, Garrett resolutely saved Billy at gunpoint from an ugly lynching mob. A jury convicted him of the murder of Brady; a judge decreed the rope. Two guards alternated watch over the shackled Kid; with one he became friendly. Inveigling him into a card game, the handcuffed Kid snatched his gun as he bent over to recover a egrd from the floor, killed him. then killed the other guard ar he came running up. Slipping his small hands from his steel cuffs, and stealing a horse, Billy rode away. tt tt tt BUT now Garrett, infuriated by the death of his deputies, bent coldly and implacably to his task. Posses combed the hills with no luck. The Kid had vanished. But Garrett and John W- Poe, his deputy, waited. From a drunken down-and-outer, finally, there came to Poe a tip that Billy had been seen at Ft. Sumner, only a few miles away. And a dollar carelessly dropped from a deputy's hand was the price of the life of Billy the Kid. Garrett and Poe reconnoitered at Ft. Sumner, but were able to learn nothing from the closemouthed residents.. Baffled.'they decided to make one last try for information at the ranch of Pete

The DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON, May 14.—Two decades ago in Chicago, a young lawyer, who had built up a lucrative practice with big business, suddenly got disgusted with it all and became the champion of the underdog. He became the attorney for labor unions and other lost causes. As special counsel for the city of Chicago he launched a vitriolic attack upon the biggest utility magnate in the midwest—a man who had built an opera house, endowed Chicago charities, held that city in the hollow of his hand. The young lawyer was Donald Richberg. The big magnate was Samuel Insull. Richberg was convinced that Insull's Peoples’ Gas Light and Coke Company was overcharging its consumers by millions of dollars annually. On behalf of the city he brought suit. From that point on Richberg's life became hell. Insull showed the same ingenuity in fighting him that he showed in his recent attempts to escape the arms of justice. The young lawyer was shadowed by private detectives. Attempts were made to frame him with women. For one year his pay and all expenses of the law suit were held up. He had to borrow’ money to push the case. Big Bill Thompson, then mayor and whose campaign received a SIOO,OOO contribution from Insull. attempted to discharge him. The city police confessed that they expected he was going to be

“rubbed out.” In the pnd the young lawyer won his case. How completely he won it, however, even he did not then realize. For while Sam Insull was trying to raise bond to gain his release from jail. Richberg now a close adviser to President Roosevelt. held one of the most powerful legal jobs in the nation—counsel for the NRA. 808 THE President is having hard luck with Puerto Rico. No matter who he sends down as governor, trouble develops. Some critics say it is because of his poor selections, others that the political and economic status of Puerto Rico is insolvable. Probably it is a combination of both. At first the attack was on Governor Bob Gore, who offended the natives. Now the attack is on Governor Blanton Winship. who is charming to the natives. The basis for the Winship attack is partly on the latter attribute. Winship, an old army , man. once military attache to j Calvin Coolidge. is polite, polished, punctillious. but completely without vision. Puerto Ricans like him personally, but not politically. The result is a drive to under- j mine him. Winship they would 1 retain as governor, but strip him of his chief duties. These would go to Puerto Ricans. The interesting thing about it i all is the part Mrs. Roosevelt is playing in the picture. A recent j visitor to the island, she took a great interest in its future. A Another recent visitor 1

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Billy the Kid. from the only photo ever made of New Mexico’s all-time No, 1 gunman. Maxwell, a known friend of the Kid. tt a tt IT was a moonlight night. Poe and another deputy waited outside, Garrett went into the house and questioned Maxwell. Soon a figure aproached the ranchhouse, a kitchen butcher-knife in one hand, apparently to cut a steak from a beef hanging by the porch. It was Billy, unrecognized by either deputy. He whipped out a six-shooter and covered them with a sharp question in Spanish, "Who is it?” Then he edged into the house to see Maxwell. In the darkness of Maxwell’s room, waited Pat Garrett. He had recognized the Kid's voice outside. He knew the figure silhouetted in the doorway in the moonlight. It was a situation where one

Tugwell, whose main job is assistant secretary of agriculture, but who performs many official errands for the first lady of the land. Tugwell and John Carter (alias Jay Franklin, Tugwell's ghost) recently have been working with Mrs. Roosevelt on the future of Winship in Puerto Rico. The war department, which has charge of the island, doesn’t like -it, but can't help it. The cabal of Puerto Rican politicians against Winship is too strong. a a a SENATOR 808 WAGNER has agreed to a 50-50 split on his bitterly contested labor disputes bill. In a last hope to obtain some sort of labor legislation he has given ground on one of the two major provisions of his original measure. They were: (1) outlawing of company unions: (2) majority rule to control membership on ! workers’ representation committees. General Hugh Johnson, secretly tried to kill both proposals. Vigorously he fought the ,creation of a powerful, independent national labor board. In the auto strike i agreement, he dealt the principle of majority rule a crushing blow by laying down the precedent of proportional representation. Wagner, with his back to the wall, and striving desperately to salvage something out of his bill, proposed a compromise. He stood pat on the majority rule requirement, but offered to give up the

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, MAY 14, 1934

"The dirty little coward that shot Dr. Howard, and laid .fosse James in his grave.” That’s how the doggerel poem described it, and here is how a magazine of the time painted the sceno. Howard was one of Jesse James’ aliases, and that is Bob Ford firing the fatal shot.

man must die. And Pat Garrett, from the darkness, fired a bullet through the heart of Billy the Kid. Unfired revolver in one hand, kitchen knife in the other, the Kid fell to the floor on his face. The boy who had killed a man for every one of his 21 years died as he had lived—by the gun. a tt tt JESSE JAMES made a name for himself which has become a synonym for banditry. He got his training in violence with Quantrell's guerrillas during the Civil war border strife. After the war James turned to train robbery, bank looting, and murder, and was said to have killed at least twenty-five men. He was outlawed in 1866. and it took sixteen years to bring him down. His deeds, meanwhile, reported through a screen r of “pen-ny-dreadful” novels, became a legend even before his death. There were teary tales of Robin. Hood adventures in which he robbed the rich and gave to the poor. He amassed a fortune by guns and violence, but his reputation. and that of his gang, "the James boys,” began to catch up with him. Governor Crittenden of Missouri offered a reward of SIO,OOO for James, dead or alive. His gang disintegrated; the end was in sight.

flat ban on company unions for a modified clause. This would recognize company organizations, but prohibit their domination by employers. Aided by Secretary Perkins, Wagner finally won Johnson's acceptance of the modified program. Wagner is far from satisfied. But he says it was compromise or nothing, and he considers it better to make one step forward than none at all. a a a THE most consistent critic of the Roosevelt administration is the man w’hose single campaign speech did more than anything else to start the vote Niagara for the Democratic ticket. He is old. querulous, crotchety, cantankerous, but eternally honest Carter Glass, senior senator from Virginia. Senator Glass has tw’o great characteristics—courage and a propensity for free, untrammeled speech. ..... Within the last ten months. Senator Glass, on various occasions has declared the following: “Devaluation of the gold dollar is dishonor. In my conception it is immoral ... I would rather die than see the disgrace of this era . . . This is not democracy. It is mobocracy . . . The blue eagle has become a bird of prey . . . This federal reserve note says payable n gold at the Unted States treasury. That is now a lie. It is not redeemable in gold. Think of a government teaching its citizens dishonesty.” “He represents a dead age—a day long gone by.” say Carter’s critics. But he still commands a tremendous following in the senate and in the south. tt tt tt SOCIAL note in the Baltimore Sun: “The Spanish ambassador and Senora de Cardenas have issued invitations for a dance to be held Wednesday evening in honor of Juan Sebastian Elcano, commander of the Spanish Training Ship.” . . . Apparently the paper which brings "Light for All” in Baltimore did not know that Juan Sebastian Elcano was the pilot of Magellan’s ship on his voyage around the world. He died in 1523 Jesus Baca, famous sheriff of Santa Fe county, reports that one of New Mexico’s chief problems is the widow Ruth Hanna McCormick, now’ Mrs. Simms. Once a candidate for the senate from Illinois, Mrs. Simms can’t get out of the habit of haranguing New Mexican crowds with: “We, the people of Illinois, etc.” !#opyrifht. IM4. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

It was in April, 1882. that James had returned to his home in St. Joseph, Mo. Staying with him there was one Bob Ford, a sort of apprentice bandit, whom James had trained in his own methods of murder and robbery. tt tt tt DICK LIDDLE, one of his gang, had opened negotiations for his own surrender and the betrayal of James; Ford was probably “in on” the plan. While Ford and James were planning still another bank robbery on the following night, a newspaper headline told James that Liddle had surrendered. James had suspected Ford, or at least Ford claimed later he thought so. And then James did a strange thing, which none of his biographers have ever been able to explain. In the presence of Ford he unbelted the four-gun belt which he always Wore, and tossed it on the bed. Ford thought James was trying to throw him off his guard by this display of confidence. Then James, remarking "that picture is awful dusty,” mounted a chair and began to dust it with a little brush. Disarmed, his back turned. Jesse James fell dead with the bullet in his head that came from the

BURGLARS BUSY OVERWEEK-END Theater Reports Theft of Scenery Worth SSOO From Storeroom. In one of a .series of burglaries during the week-end, thieves broke into the storeroom of the Rialto theater at 515 East Washington street, by removing a glass from a rear window late Saturday night, and stole scenery valued at SSOO. Russell Wilson, 124 East New York street, an employe of a restaurant, reported to police that sllO was stolen from his trousers pocket.

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Jesse James. Missouri's post Civil War bandit, whose very name is today a synonym for banditry. gun of Bob Ford, his friend and pupil. tt a o Harry tracy cut almost exactly the same swath at the turn of the century that John Dillinger is cutting today, and there are so many parallels in their careers as almost to suggest how Dillinger may die. Tracy, too. was sent to the penitentiary (in Oregon) for a minor offense, and then, with Dave Merrill, used smuggled rifles to shoot their way out, killing three guards and wounding a half dozen others. They stole horses and fled. Cornered in a wood, riflemen and a company of national guards men surrounded them, but they slipped through the cordon at night. Through the countryside they went, stealing horses just as the Dillingers steal automobiles. Dozens of times they were shot at; several times they were surrounded and shot their way out. Then a posse came on Merrill's body, riddled with bullets from Tracy’s gun. Tracy had slain his own partner by a trick. e a a Rewards of SB,OOO were out for him. but he announced that he was going to Seattle, and did it. right through a tremendous marshaling of posses, prancing through town on a stolen horse. Twice more he shot himself out of houses when cornered, once using captives as a shield. He taunted the police by telephone. Literally thousands of riflemen by this time was buzzing through Washington like hornets. Tracy was driven into the eastern part of the state, near an Indian reservation. Trapped again at a ranch, Tracy again used the rancher for a shield, and momentarily escaped, for the last time. But the posses were on his heels. One of the riflemen wounded the fugitive. He stumbled into a wheatfield, the end of the long trail. And there in the wheatfield, with the riflemen closing in, and the “Tracy luck” played out at last. Harry Tracy's rifle ended another life—his own. , NEXT—The Gallows Galaxy: Gerald Chapman. Charles Birger, Richard Reese Whittemore.

while he slept at the above address, yesterday. The trousers were found in another room of the house, but the money was gone. Burglars who are believed to have hidden themselves in the basement of the drug store, owned by Richard Piau, at 416 North Oakland avenue, stole cigars and cigarets, valued at S9O, during the week-end. A revolver and holster valued at $lO. shirts valued at sl2. and twen-ty-four pieces of silver valued at S3B, were stolen from a grocery, owned by Theodore Veelz. at 32i6 East Twenty-third street, yesterday. Three suits of cothes. a white gold diamond stickpin and a nlady's fur coat, all valued at $213. were stolen from the home of Merle Allen. 2250 Coyner avenue, late Saturday night, by thieves who broke into the house through a basement window.

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Entered m Second Cla Matter at I’oatofficc. Indianapolis, Ind.

Fair Enough ram® KNOXVILLE. Tenn.. May 14 —The menac® of intelligence and good moral character never was illustrated more unhappily than on the present Norris dam job which the government is conducting in the Cumberland foothills outside this city. The 8.000 working gentlemen employed on this task are almost all Nordics of the conscientiouscitizen type who have approached their government job in a spirit of gratitude and terrible enthusiasm. Being intelligent, they are good workmen whose work, once they have done it, will

not have to be ripped out and done over. And. being of good character and conscientious citizens, they endeavor to do as much work as they can while they are at it. It should not be necessary to point out that this is very bad. It uses up the available work at a rapid rate so that each nightfall brings just that much closer the day when the boss-engineer will be compelled to report the job finished and lay off the 3.000 men. At the present reckless rate of progress that day will come in the spring of 1936. If a crew of New' York workmen of the kind

who have been doing little mending jobs along the margin of Central park had been recruited for the Norris dam. the job w'ould last forever. Under the New York re-employment system a crew r consists of eight men. One man holds a little red flag to warn motorists not to drive over the crew’. Another man has a small shovel with which he occasionally picks up a few selected pebbles. A third member then guides the shoveler over to a selected point, about twenty feet away, where the pebbles are to be dumped. a a tt Watchers and Watchers r I 'WO more workmen watch them do this and the remaining three watch them watch. When all the pebbles in the pile have been moved, the shoveler takes the flag, the flag-man becomes the third deputy-w'atcher and the whole crew moves up one notch, as in the game of one old cat. The new shoveler now carries the pebbles back to the original position, the round trip taking about two hours for a standard pile of about one peck. It is the flagman's job that gets a man down. It is the terrific high tension grind of it all pulling the flag out from under the left wing, waving it at the passing drivers and poking it back under the w'ing again. That is why they have to rotate the job. The same general system is used in the sweeping of autumn leaves, but leaves are a perishable medium, even with the most careful handling. The winds blow them aw'ay and the crew always is scattering to bring them back to the pile, by hand. Automobiles run over a number of leaves every day and these which are not lost or broken by the cars presently wear out under the broom. The champion crew of 1933 did well to make a bushel of leaves last tw’o months before the last one caught fire from a carelessly dropped match and the boys finally were burned out of their job. I do not count the claim of that other crew w'hich made a pile of leaves last two weeks longer. It was pretty definitely established that these boys brought new leaves from home to add to their original bushel, which w-as a deliberate foul. a a Too Much Speed THE intelligent, high-minded Nordics of the Tennessee valley do not seem to realize how unpatriotic they are in their zeal to give the government a full day's work for a day's pay. I was watching a crew of them lay brick and nail dow'n shingles on one of the model cottages of Norris, or Gadgetville, the new town where all the housew’ork will be done by done by electric power and even the clock will be w'ound and the cat put out at night by the flip of a switch in the wall. They were laying brick and nailing dow'n shingles so fast that it was fast work even to watch them. It seemed very unethical. They were doing their work right in the first place. Thus they selfishly deprived other men of the customary task, on public jobs, of doing it over after them. And still other men in the forests, mines and factories were being deprived of the work which is involved in the manufacture of building material to replace the material customarily spoiled in the first attempt. The gentlemen workmen of the Norris dam consider themselves enlightened citizens, but when the work is all used up they will wonder why there isn't any more. tt tt a Education in the South THE business of conducting study classes for the patriots seemed very bad. too. Study is inclined to make people smart and it is well recognized in the south that the dumber a man is the happier he is bound to be. The reason why the Negro has been exposed to education so grudgingly all those years was not that the white man had anything against him. The reason was that the Negro, being ignorant, was too dumb to know that he was unhappy. On the contrary, he thought he was quite happy and the white man did not have the heart to teach him otherwise. But, nowadays the Negro is being educated by law and some sad day in the future he suddenly will find himself smart enough to realize how smart he would have been to remain dumb. (Copyright, 1934. bv Unite and Fpature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

WHEN you hear of cancer, you probably relate it to persons of advanced age. This is generally true, especially of cancer of the stomach. The reason you fail to hear so much of this condition among younger people is that, when it occurs among them, it is often overlooked. Yet a recent survey of medical reports brought out as many as twenty cases of cancer of the stomach in persons between 13 and 20. Cancer of the stomach is one of the most serious forms of this devastating disease. In very few cases, even when the condition is discovered exceedingly early, is it posible to save life. The symptoms of the disease, when it occurs in the young, are much the same as when it occurs in older persons. Because of the nature of the cancerous growth, there is likely to be pain. There is also likely to be blood passed from the body in the excretions or occasionally vomited, and there are, of course, severe disturbances of digestion. n n n USE of the X-ray is probably the most important in all methods of studying cases of this type. A cancer in the stomach, as well as one elsewhere in the body, sometimes gives rise to secondary cancers. This occurs also in young persons who develop cancer of the stomach. In many instances nothing was done early, and secondary tumors were found in other parts of the bbdv in such numbers that operation was considered impossible as a means of help for these cases. B B B CERTAINLY all evidence that is available indicates, for cancer of the stomach particularly, the extreme necessity of diagnosing the disease at the earliest posible moment. It must be recognized that-the disease is exceedingly rare in young persons, but cases actually do occur. When they do, the course of the disease is much more rapid in the young than in the old. Whereas in older persons survival may go on for seve .il years, the life of the young person who d_j ■ velo|3 a cancer of the stomach must be estimate in terms of months and weeks.

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