Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 187, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 December 1934 — Page 7

DEC. 15, 1934

It Seems to Me HETMBMIN IWAS one of the several hundred delegates Invited to the Attorney General’s Conference of Crime. What with one thing and another I did not get a chance to sit and so all I know of what went on comes from the stories in the papers. Apparently, as in all conferences, wise words were said and also foolish ones. But if the headline which lies before me is accurate I think the conference ended on a false and feeble note. “Restoration of vigilantes demanded in war on crime” is the particular heading to which I refer. Kenneth Clark. Universal Service correspondent, reports, “ ‘Shoot to kill’ was the prescription of leading speakers for criminal ‘mad dog,’" and he adds that the 600 delegates exhibited a “more militant attitude ” That sort of stuff is infantile and not militant. It was necessary toTiunt down Dillingers and Nelsons. Federal agents showed sill and courage in the pursuit of these fugitives and several others, but the

notion that the cure of crime lies wholly, or even in large part, in the shooting down of certain headline desperadoes seem to me pitifully inadequate. I realize that the establishment of a list in which somebody becomes Public Enemy No. 1 and so on down the line is an attempt to dramatize the war on crime. It may be good theater, but it is bed popular psychology. nan It's a Romantic Pastime AND I may cite the fact that quite the funniest thing in the

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current musical hit. “Anything Goes,” is the char-' acter played by Victor Moore, who is Public Enemy No. 13. and who hopes each year to be promoted in his ranking. By a curious illogical twist the very people who assert that newspapers encourage crime by romanticizing it are the same ones who go in for the handicap list of desperadoes. Next to Robin Hood the most romantic name for an outlaw of which I can conceive is Public Enemy No. 1. The public and the publicists are still unwilling to face reality. They like to believe that two shots ring t ut in the night upon a lonely road and that a desperate fugitive slumps forward in his car. Like Monte Cristo they cry, “one’’ and figure that in the fight societv is one up with only nine to go. But on the night that Dillinger ’was shot any man from Mars could have pointed out to you upon this earth a thousand incubators in which his successors were being reared. It is not tt new thought, but it will bear repetition. Public Enemy No. 1 is not a man. It is a tenement house. Or it could be a farm precariously held or indeed any spot or spots where misery is salted into the wounds of the desperate and the despairing. If you must have some single name for this leading public enemy call him poverty and you will not be far wrong. It has been customary to refer to the various wholesale killers as "mad dogs” and I will grant that in my opinion these men are far from normal under any test whatsoever. But in the case of animals we have been a little smarter than in our dealings with men. It is no longer customary to wait for a dog to go mad and then shoot it down. On the contrary an excellent toxin has been devised which in most cases will prevent a dog from ever having rabies. nan They Should Re Hauled In IN like manner the prevention of crime is of far greater importance than its detection and punishment. In fact, I seriously doubt whether punishment in the literal sense of the word is of any use whatsoever. Naturally Ido not mean that antisocial outlaws should be permitted to range the land robbing and killing. They must, of course, be haled up and put away for safe-keeping. But I think of it in terms of protection rather than punishment. I do not think that the conduct of children is much improved when they are made to stand in comers and I have not the slightest faith in solitary confinement as a healing factor in the treatment of the erring adult. Nobody need level an accusing finger in my direction and say “You believe in coddling criminals.” Os course T believe in coddling criminals. Almost all the crooks and assorted criminals I have ever known were tossed and banged about even before they went out on the loose. Just how more tossing and banging about is likely to help them does not appeal to my sense of logic. There is nothing sentimental or unrealistic in the very ancient notion that a lost sheep requires more attention than the ninety and nine. By the time a man is pointing a gun at your head and pumping bullets through your body it is, of course, too late for coddling. But the community might have saved itself blood, treasure and turmoil if it had been intelligent enough somewhere along the line to coddle Dillinger or pay a little kindly attention to the case of Nelson. The problem child is tough, but at the very least the case is easier than the problem of the two-gun killer with his hand upon the trigger. (Copyright. 1934)

Todays Science BY DAVID DIETZ

TWO trends stand out today in the development of industrial processes, according to Dr. R. E. Hellmund. chief engineer of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Cos. These are the electrification of processes and the electrical control of non-electric processes. •‘From 1900 to the present.” Dr. Hellmund told me on my recent visit to Pittsburgh, “the trend in industry was toward motorization. The electric motor took the place of the steam engine as a source of power in the factory. Gradually, the complicated system of belts and pulleys, which was once the distinguishing mark of most factories, began to be replaced by individual electric motors attached directly to the various machines. “Large and small motors found their way into industry, the small motor often motorizing a task which had formerly been performed by manual labor. “Today the trends are going beyond this mere mechanization of industry.” Asa sample of the electrification of processes. Dr. Hellmund calls attention to electrical spot welding which is taking the place of riveting in many industries. mam DR. HELLMUND points out that electron tubes including the ones used in radio and the photoelectric cell, can be used to duplicate the human actions of seeing, hearing and feeling. Qther devices, in a limited sense of the word, may be said to smell and taste. “In some of these fields, the range of electrical devices is larger and the sensitivity greater than it is in the human being.” Dr. Hellmund says. “Thus, for example, the photo-electric cell or ‘electric eye.’ can see by ultra-violet light or ultra-red light, both forms of which are invisible to the human eye.” m • a -n ADIO devices have a greater range of hearing aV than the human ear.” Dr. Hellmund says. "For example, they will detect the sounds of insects which are beyond the range of the human ear.” he continues. “A trick of electrical devices is to feel objects without actually touching them. This can be done in various ways including electrical condenser effects.” Dr. Hellmund recently returned from a three months visit to Europe. He says that the European nations are now practically isolated from each other, not only by tariff walls but by lack of money. He says that economic recovery is being retarded by these dosed frontiers. Questions and Answers Q—Do banks pay taxes on the property which they lake over under foreclosure? A—Yes. Q— What is the highest natural elevation in Kentucky? A—Big Black Mountain, Harlan county, is 4,150 SMfc t

THE MURDER OF BABY LINDBERGH

Grief-Stricken FamilyShamefullyHoaxed byShip Builder Curtis

In bitter dlnppointnirat it the failare of hta negotiation* with the ■spoofed kidnapers of hia rhild. through the rood office* of “Jafaie,” Col. Charlra A. Lindberrh turned to John Hurhei Cnrtla. a Norfolk boat builder, who had inaiotently aaaerted lie was in loach with the actual criminal*. The followin# dispatch, fifth in the Sidney B. Whipple aerie* on the Lindberrh crime, relate* the twcond hoax in the drama. BY SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE United Prea* Staff Correspondent (Copyright, 1934, by United Pres*; 'T'HROUGHOUT Dr. John F. Condon's negotiations with the supposed kidnapers of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the Lindbergh family and the police authorities refused to do more than listen, with decidedly skeptical minds, to certain wild tales that were being poured into their ears by John Hughes Curtis of Norfolk, Va. Curtis, a 44-year-old boat builder whose business had fallen upon evil days during the depression, had gone to Hopewell in good company. Associated with him as sponsors were the very Rev. Dean Harold Dobson-Peacock, rector of Christ Episcopal Church, and Rear Admiral Guy H. Burrage, U. S. N. (retired), both highly respected citizens of the Virginia seaport. Curtis was something of a Social leader himself. As president of the exclusive Norfolk German Club, he led the annual cotillions, was a busy and popular figure in the Norfolk Golf Club, and was a prime .mover in a newly formed yacht club. Curtis told Col. Lindbergh that he had been approached by a man known to him as Sam Torresdale, alias Murray Torresdale, alias Sam Murray, alias Murray Truesdale, who claimed to have established contact with the kidnapers. n n n THE imaginative melodrama developed rapidly. In a bungalow near Freeport, Va., Curtis said he actually met the gahg —and a piratical crew it was. The leader was one known only as “Dynamite,” or “Dyn” for short. His henchmen were “John” and “Eric.” His shore managers were his wife, “Hilda,” and his sister-in-law, “Inez.” The child, Curtis “learned,” was on board a two-masted Gloucester fisherman, powered by FairbanksMorse motors, and capable of do-

The DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—For one year a feud has been raging between Cordell Hull of Tennessee and George Peek, veteran of a score of battles with the Brain Trust and Henry Wallace. Now, for the first time, it looks as if the mountaineer Secretary of State was losing out. Peek has now won the first round in the battle of extending credits to Germany. He has also won on the more important principle of barter and quotas versus unrestricted trade.

Unrestricted trade has been Hull’s passion, #and he has stood out for it valiantly. He contends that exchange restrictions, quotas, other trade barriers merely force commerce out of normal channels, tend to throttle it in the long run. Peek, on the other hand, contends we should do business with those who do business with us. He put this to a test recently through sales of cotton to Germany. A deal is now arranged whereby Germany buys 500,000 bales, paying 25 per cent in cash and 75 per cent in frozen German marks which can not be shipped to the United States. This latter is most important. Since the marks can not be shipped here, American business men must buy German goods in order to secure the use of the marks. Thus the plan boils down to plain, unadulterated barter. Either the United States buys German goods or else it doesn’t get the remainder of the money for the 500,000 bales of cotton. sum REALIZING what a bargain this is, the Germans are willing to pay 3 cents more than the world price. Imagine Mr. Hull’s mortification! Imagine also, his mortification at the fact that Brazil, just a few weeks ago, turned the Germans down on this same proposition. They gave their veto out of deference to Mr. Hull, whose views they knew, and because they were negotiating a commercial treaty with the United States. And having deferred to Mr. Hull, they turn around and find the United States doing exactly the same sort of thing which Brazil refused to do. a MICHIGAN'S Senator Arthur Vandenberg is no mean politician. as the results of the recent election proved. But he got a lesson in the art of glad-handing the other day that aroused even his admiration. Accompanied by a friend, he stepped into a Capitol elevator on his way to the Senate munitions investigation, of which he is a leader. In the car he was greeted by a massive, well-dressed man who exuded all warmth of an old and close friend. “Helio, Senator,” he said, heartily shaking Vandenberg's hand, “how are you? You certainly are putting on a great show across the way.” After he left the elevator, Vandenberg inquired: “Who was that fellow?” “Don't you know? Why that was Bill Shearer, the 'big bass drum’ of the Navy lobbyists.” a a Bertie snell will continue to marshal Republican battalions of the House. Despite his personal unpopularity with a considerable section of his cohorts, despite the strident demands from ncn-congressional young Republican chieftains that he be ousted, the dapper little cheesemaker of Potsdam, N. Y., will be re-elected parly floor leader hands down. A secret poll of the Republican side of the chamber just completed by Snell’s lieutenants shows that his opposition is negligible. On the basis of this poll, not more than a dozen out of 113 votes will be cast against him. Fast is, there is no real leader to run against him. , None of the Odd Guard veterans

I never knew such people that 4 1 n—4 to Colonel] Lindbergh end t they, were creatures of distorted nlnd \ with tho excepti* of. who hsd no connection with the crlae* I exceedingly regret tb*t;i ceased snd'other* snj inconvenience end wish;it were.in my power to correct my wrong. In Justice to my wlfo snd j thst ) itjisjin.the,po* i •f Colonel Lindbergh *t o's argivejthe Jnd)in Job tioo 1 4U him in'hie time es "grief. This by rthmlrenl2**tion, £ hsve done. A 4:S®fA*.Mfsy.l7th.l932. ' ' „ * A photograph of the confession dictated and signed by the Norfolk ship builder, John Hughes Curtis.

ing 14 knots. The ship’s hull was dark green, “so dark it looked black,” and it carried sails and a bowsprit rigging. Communication between the crew of the phantom ship and those on shore was carried on through “Inez,” who had a portable radio set, carried from point , to point along the Virginia shores ’ in a small automobile. Glibly, the boat builder outlined the story of the kidnaping as related to him by the “pirates.” The crime had been carried out, he said, with the assistance of “a girl inside the Lindbergh home” —and he himself had seen the actual cradle in which the child was kept before being transferred to the schooner. He gave an excellent description of “Hilda” —a “buxom, largebosomed young woman” —and of “Inez,” who talked with a .Scandinavian accent. n n n SINCE Col. Lindbergh was firmly convinced, during the relation of these stories, that he was on the trail of the genuine kidnapers through “Jafsie,” it was not until his bitter disappointment in the fruitless chase of the

will challenge Snell’s leadership, despite the, fact that many are personally far from friendly. And there is no Progressive sufficiently outstanding to command support. (Copyright, 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) HEALTH CAMPAIGN IS. BEGUN BY METHODISTS Half-Million Pledges for Yearly Physical Tests Sought. A half-million pledges from Indiana citizens to have general physical examinations once a year by their family physicians will be the first, work attempted by the Indiana Methodism health crusade group, which has opened offices in 821-22 Occidental Building. The crusade will be in charge of Dr. John G. Benson, Methodist Hospital superintendent, assisted by C. R. Kuss, Gary Methodist Hospital board of trustees president. Aim of the crusade is reduction of hospital costs to the public, by selling certificates of hospital service, obtainable in all denominations. Dr. Valentine Deich, Dr. George H. Myers and Dr. Benjamin Rist, associated with Dr. Benson in the crusade, have built up an organization of more than 2000 persons in the last year, reaching into every Methodist Church in the state. NATURE STUDY CLUB TO MEET AT LIBRARY Year Books to Be Deposited in Vaults of Building. The Nature Study Club of Indiana will meet tonight at the new State Library Building on N. Sen-ate-av. The meeting is for the purpose of depositing in the fireproof vault of the library a copy of each of the club's year books and publications. Louis J. Bailey, State Library director, will speak and later conduct a tour of the building. All members have been invited to attend. The meeting is open to the public. CHARITY CONCERT TO BE HELD AT K. OF C. HALL Annual Old Melodies Event on Program for Tomorrow. The twelfth annual Old Melodies Concert, given for the benefit of the Knights of Columbus charity fund, will be held tomorrow night at the auditorium, 13th and Dela-ware-sts. Miss Maxine Moore. Mrs. William A. Devin and Dewitt Talbert are among the local singers who will participate. The concert is open to the public. WASHINGTON PUPILS TO GIVE YULE DANCE Annual Glide to Be Dee. 21 in Gymnasium of School. The Yuletide Glide, annual Christmas dance given for the benefit of the George Washington High School scholarship fund, will be held in the school gymnasium Friday, Dec. 21. Faculty patrons and patronesses will be Mrs. Lydia Thomas. Misk Mueller, C. O. Davies and Justin Marshall. Charles Money Is faculty chairman. Music is to be furnished by the school dance orchestra, the “Continental Melodious.” _ (

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non-existent boat Nellie, in Vineyard Haven, that he reluctantly turned to Curtis and agreed to pursue the chase through him. Curtis became the busiest man in the United States. He left Norfolk on a series of mysterious journeys carrying him to New York, Philadelphia, and other northern cities. Dean DobsonPeacock, the enthusiastic clergyman, went with him upon occasion, and became Curtis’ contact man with the press. Col. Charles H. Consolvo, Baltimore hotel o%ner, offered the use of his yacht, the Marcon, to carry the negotiators to sea in an attempt to meet the. kidnapers. In the closing week of March and all through April, the Marcon steamed off the Virginia Capes with a picked crew. Aboard were Col. Lindbergh, Curtis and E. B. Bruce, an Elmira manufacturer who had faith, as a lifelong friend, in the Norfolk boat builder. Each of these trips was futile. But each night, after the tired vestigators had landed, Curtis went away to one of his mysterious rendezvous, to return with encouragement.

ROYAL ARCH TO INSTALLSLATE Veritas Chapter Ceremony Tuesday to Be Open to Public. Veritas Chapter, No. 160, Royal Arch Masons, will hold public installation of officers at its temple, Roosevelt and Adams-sts, at 7:45 Tuesday. The Orders of Eastern Star and of Job’s Daughters will assist in the entertainment which will precede the installation and a special lecture will be delivered by H. A. Green, past grand officer of the California Masonic Lodge and now quarter master superintendent, United States Army, stationed at Ft, Harrison. Mr. Green, an Egyptologist of note, will discuss “The Prophecy of the Pyramids.” The, installation will be in charge of Past High Priest Clayton C. Marsh, Indianapolis Chapter, No. 5, R. A. M. E. Paul Boerner, chapter high priest, will act as marshal and Glenn W. Long, Veritas Chapter high priest, will act as master of ceremonies. Officers to be installed include High Priest A. Ambrose Robinson; Charles Overstreet, king; Charles W. Aulls, scribe; Edgar A. Leftwich, secretary; Frank May, treasurer; William Sutton, captain of the host, J. William Hurt, principal sojourner; Mr. Long, Royal Arch captain; William E. List, master of the third veil; Ray Whistler, master cf the second veil, and James F. Lynch, master of the thud veil.

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“TjrILDA says she has contacted JLJ. Dynamite, and he heard our engines today, but didn’t dare to make the transfer because of the Coast Guard,” he would explain. And he added another dramatic touch to his story. “The gang is the- same gang that took the ransom money from Jafsie,” he declared. “I, myself, have actually handled some of the ransom bills.” Thinking the yacht Marcon perhaps might be too well known, Col. Lindbergh transferred his activities to another ship, the Cachelot. The fruitless chase proceeded. On the afternoon of May 12, the colonel and his group were off the Capes again, still hunting the elusive Gloucester fisherman. Back in Hopewell, William Allen and Orville Williams, Negro truck drivers, were driving along a dirt road four miles from the Lindbergh home. Allen entered the underbrush. He returned to his truck trembling. “There’s a child’s body in there,” he told Williams. n n tt THE two men hurried to Hopewell, informed the police of the discovery, and guided them to

I COVER THE WORLD 000 000 By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—The United States will be well nigh impregnable if President Roosevelt’s “take-the-profits-out-of-war” plan is put through, a foreign military observer told the writer today. There is no tendency to go behind the President’s assurance that he is not seeking what is generally referred to as “preparedness.” But attaches here remark that nevertheless it is perhaps tljiis country’s greatest single step in that direction —if it comes off. Industrially, agriculturally, and conomically, it was pointed out, the United States is the world’s strongest power. It is perhaps stronger than any likely combination of powers. Yet experience has shown that months, even years, are required to co-ordinate these resources for the national defense.

a a a THE “next war,” it was observed, will almost certainly burst upon the world with the suddenness of a tropical hurricane. The fear, if not the expectation, of Britain, France, Russia, Italy and other major European powers is that war will come first and the declaration afterward. Recent history bears this cut. There was no declaration of war between China and Japan when China lost four of her richest provinces and suffered the destruction of scores of blocks in the center of Shanghai. And there was no declaration between Paraguay and Bolivia until the conflict had been on for three years. Had war-broken out between Germany and the United States alone in 1917, the observer said, and had the two been left to fight it out, victory might well have gone to the kaiser. The World War at least gave this country some warning. Yet, although it broke out in 1914 and from the first many feared America might be dragged in, she was quite unprepared when she finally entered in 1917. *a a a BERNARD M. BARUCH, chairman of the War Industries Board under President Wilson and

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a shallow grave. The body of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., with a tiny hole in the skull, was taken from beneath a covering of earth, leaves and branches. The child had been dead for more than two months. Word was telegraphed to the coast. Bruce, the Elmira manuturer, received the news on board the Cachelot and informed Col. Lindbergh that all hope of recovering his infant son was now gone. The colonel, motionless, stared out to sea where he had strained anxious eyes looking for a ship that had no existence except in the fantastic imagination of John Hughes Curtis. On shore, he met the Norfolk boat builder. “Curtis,” he said calmly, “ I want you to come to Hopewell with me.” Tomorrow—Means, the Genial Swindler.

one of President Roosevelt’s present advisers, is quoted as to what happened. Without any clear warrant in law, he said, and without any deliberately adopted policy, the mobilization of America’s unmatched resources proceeded haltingly. Site entered the war in April, but it was March, almost a year later, before there was any centralized control. And the war ended before this control was complete. Most European countries and Japan already have plans comparable to that proposed by the President. All have not legislated to “take the profit out of war,” as planned here, but they do have blueprints to throw a switch and co-ordinate their respective resources the moment the crisis arises. This, it is observed, is the modern idea. Advance planning costs little, yet it is worth more than fleets and army corps, if these are to be left without organized backstopping.

AUTO PARLEY TO BE HELD HERE DEC. 27 Regional Conferences of NRA Slated by Chieftains. By Times Special WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-=-Regional conferences for those interested in regularization and in other methods of improving labor conditions in the automobile industry were anounced today by NRA. T. P. Kelly of the NRA Research and Planning Division will conduct such conferences at Indianapolis Dec. 27 and South Bend Jan. 2. All who are interested are asked to present their views either orally or in writing. Mr. Kelly’s Indiana headquarters will be announced by Fred Hoke, state NRA director. General conferences on the subject are being conducted now at Detroit. FRED HOKE TO PRESIDE AT SULLIVAN DINNER NEC Director to Act as Toastmaster for Event. Fred Hoke, National Emergency Council Indiana director, has consented to act as toastmaster at the testimonial dinner to be given Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan at 6:30 Wednesday in the Claypool Riley Room. Mr. Hoke’s acceptance was announced by William H. Book, Chamber of Commerce executive vice president, who said that many reservations for the dinner already have been received and that the affair promises to be a great success. CITY EXCHANGES LAND Deeds of Transfer Are Studied by Works Board. Deeds of transfer consummating an exchange of land between the city and the Illinois Central Railroad, were received by the Works Board yesterday. By thus consolidating two tracts between White River and 8. West-st the city is furnished a 25-acre plot on which various municipal property may be

Fair Enough mmitn MICHAEL MTIGUE has raised again the ghost of an old tradition that Irishmen excel at the bootless business of dealing out furious lefts and rights to the face and body. Mr. McTigue says he has received an invitation from the Irish Free State to return home and teach boxing to the youth of Erin. He adds that, granted the correct inducements. he will sell his New York saloon and do no less. The story probably is Just a little more of that

friendly foolishness with which we sometimes blarney the Irish vote in the newspapers and I would pay it no mind except that it has long been a pet foible of mine to point out that, on the record within my time as a paid witness at the ringside. the Irish couldn't lick their weight in Dutchmen and won no titles except by the connivance of patriotic and political circumstances. From this wide generality I might except Jimmy McLarnin, the current welterweight champion of the world, but Mr. McTigue. I am sure, would be the last to claim him as an Irish champion. McLarnin

comes from the north of Ireland and is not an Irishman within Michael's meaning of the word. However. Mr. McTigue, if he likes may claim even the North-of-Irelander for his team because McLarnin is champion of a blurry class something betwixt the lightweight and the middleweight. 000 Was He a Champion? I CAN hardly concede that Michael, himself, in spite of his having held the title of light-heavy-weight champion on two occasions, was actually a champion by force of arms. He won the title the first time on a finely-shaded decision from Battling Siki. a Negro, in Dublin on St. Patrick's Day. He won it back some years later in a bloodless conference of the New York Prizefight Commission at a time when his manager and James A. Farley, the current postmaster-general, were as close as two fingers in a mitten. Michael was, let us say, sensitive. Not to deny Mr. McTigue his due, it will be admitted that he did enjoy a sort of life after death, returning to the prizefight business when he seemed to be permanently ex, and. in that phase of his career, did something to support the tradition that the Irish are uncommonly handy with the clenched fist. He fought with great valor then but, still being strictly factual, I will have to point out that during this period he was under the spiritual influence of a Liverpool Englishman, James J. Johnston. Mr. Johnston never ceased to tell the bashful Michael that he was very, very good and a killer when aroused. He finally convinced him. Moreover, it was Mr. Johnston who was as close to James A. Farley as one finger to another in a mitten at the time when Michael became champion by political appointment. I now come to the fact that those who cherish the tradition of which I speak have a generous habit of claiming, in support of their tradition, the achievements of a lot of native Americans who are no more Irish than the state of Kansas. John L. Sullivan, the head man, was an American, born in Boston. Joe Lynch, the bantam weight champion of some years back, is an American, out of that section of New York City known as Hell’s Kitchen. 000 Some of the Local Boys THE Gibbons boys, Mike and Tom, who fought champions, are natives of Minnesota. Mickey Walker, a fist-fighter whose bravery and general career will one day be compared to that of Sullivan in the reminiscent writings of young journalists who never saw him, is a Jerseyman. Jim Corbett was a California man. Gene Tunney was bom in Greenwich Village and Jack Dempsey, of mixed ancestry, including, as he insists, a trace of Indian, was a Colorado field hand. Jack Britton? Chicago. Who then, have been the great Irish fist-fighters out of Ireland who have upheld the tradition during a time when the profession offered the strongest incentives? Not Luis Angel Firpo of Buenos Aires nor Jack Sharkey, bom Josef Paul Cuckoschay. of Binghamton, N. Y.; nor Max Siegfried Otto Schmeling of Hamburg, Germany; nor Primo Camera, of Sequala, Italy, nor Max Baer, of Livermore, Cal.; nor Benny Leonard, born Leiner on East Side of New York; nor Johnny Dundee, whose name was Giuseppe something; nor Bill Shanks, of Chicago, who changed his name to Brennan and almost licked Jack Dempsey. Carpentier? No. Jack Delaney? A Canadian. Paul Berlenbach? Hardly. Who were they, then? That Is what I have asked occasionally with no better answer than a letter from an association of office holders avoiding the question but promising to give me my needings in their own way one of these days. Perhaps Mr. McTigue will be able to come up with a real Irish champion to hold the smelling salts up to the nose of this wobbling tradition. It is not a minute too soon. The tradition is on the ropes. (Copyright. 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

MOST significant advances in control of tuberculosis have been relatively simple. There was, first of all, the discovery of the germ wljich causes the disease. This is credited to the famous German bacteriologist, Robert Koch. Next came the building of the first sanatorium, with fresh air, good food and regulated exercises as the significant steps in the treatment. This also is credited to a German, Hermann Brehmer. It was not, however, until Trudeau established the sanatorium at Saranac Lake 50 years ago that our modern conception of rest in the treatment of tuberculosis became fully established. That sanatorium is commemorated by the little red cotiage shown this year on the Christmas seal. a tt ti MORE recently it has been found that even absolute rest in bed may be in sufficient really to bring about a stopping of the tuberculosis infection. There arose the question as to how the lung could be given more- rest. In previous columns, I have described the development of artificial pneumothorax, a system whereby air is injected into the chest cavity which collapses the lung and gives it complete rest. Os course, a lung can not be absolutely quiet if it is breathing. We can, however, breathe with one lung and keep the other at rest. S ich enforced rest is brought about by artificial pneumothorax. ana THERE are other ways as well in which a lung can be collapsed. One of these involves a surgical operation on the nerve which causes the movements; another involves opening of the chest wall and cutting away portions of the ribs. When artificial pneumothorax is used, the air may gradually be lost from the chest cavity, so that It is necessary to add air a number of times over a period of years. All these methods of surgical control of tuberculosis are being used and studied carefully In many institutions. It seems likely that means will eventually be found for applying them on even a wider scale, to bring about recovery in even a greater number of people. Q—When and why were the United States Shipping Board and the Emergency Fleet Corporation created? A—Following the crisis in American shipping brought about by the European war, the United States Shipping Board was created by act of Congress, Sept. 7, 1916, to build and operate a merchant marine to meet the needs of American commerce. After the United States entered the war, the board created the Emergency Fleet Corporation, with a capital of $50,000,000, entirely subscribed by the Government, to build as many ships as possible in the shortest time. The corporation built the ships and t.ha hoard oDerated them. HP A

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