Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 235, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 February 1935 — Page 9

It Seems to Me HEYWOOD BROUN I HAVE just got around to seeing one of the finest actesses now in America. And the young lady happens to be a German. I am to Elisabeth Bergner. who is starred in the Theater Guild's production of ‘ Escape Me Never," by Margaret Kennedy. But before dealing briefly and inadequately with the acting of Miss Bergner I want to stress the folly of artistic exclusion which now sweeps the world. England has laws discriminating against the impor-

tation of American players and it is inevitable that by law or organizational activities there should be a reply in kind. Indeed I am not prepared to say just where these barriers against the freedom of artistic interchange first began. One is inclined to find the root of the philosophy in the excessive nationalism fostered by Fascism. But democracies and constitutional monarchies have followed suit. Perhaps it is feared that fervent admiration for any visiting star may lead to entangling alliances of which Washington would not have approved.

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Of course, the doom to guest artists have not as yet been completely closed, but there is a vigorous drive for still greater restrictions. It is not at all my notion that Americans should be humble about our native theater and invariably ready to exclaim, “They do such things better abroad a a a Player, Part Fit Neatly JUDGING from many recent importations this is not the case. Specifically our theater is well equipped with a number of young actresses of great promise. It is possible that some producer could cast the role of Gemma in ‘Escape Me Never" without extending hands across the sea. In this particular case I have my doubts. This tune the part and the player fit too neatly to make any thought of substitution a happy one. But my argument that, there should be no barrier against art or artists does not. rest on the assumption that the men and women from foreign lands can excel us. If one concedes that the world stands in bitter need of closer co-operation a start at least could well be made for artistic internationalism. When a great author dies the place of his nativity usually comes to be irrelevant. During the height of the war the German theater stuck to its right to continue the production of Shakespeare's plays and only fools desired to intern Wagner's music. if thus sense of common ownership prevails in regard to the work of the nrghty dead why should wc not adopt the same notion in regard to those who live up to the hilt of high talent? Nor would I even ask for squeamishness about the pretty good, the fair to middling or even the inept, I'd like a world in which certain men and women said, "Before all else I am an artist." Ban Citizenship Should He Granted THERE ought to be a universal citizenship for any who can sing a song, write a play, act in it, or paint a picture. Perhaps already the great healers of the world have shown the way for I have never heard of any such thing as national medicine. When a doctor in Iowa or the Ukraine discovers some new weapon against scarlet fever he communicates his findings to the entire world. We have at least progressed enough to recognize the germ as a common enemy. Apparently we are slow to realize that it would be equally wise to make common cause against unemployment, war and famine. But I was going to say something about Elisabeth Bergner in “Escape Me Never.” The actress is. I believe, under ban in Hitler's Germany which is one proof of the fact that prejudice can smite those who hold to it as well as those against whom it is directed. because surely the German theater must suffer from her absence. I haven't the slightest conception of just what it i which makes a great actress. Nor am I disposed to follow the counsel of those who say, ‘‘Yes, she seems magnificent, but it would be wise not to pass judgment until she has appeared in a somewhat better play.” If is my notion that when a truly great actor or actress steps upon a stage you realize the existence of the gift within 30 seconds, it is as if you touched the door of a taxi or. a cold day. The spark is instantaneous. There is a quality of compulsion in the voice and .n the deportment. Even though there mav be 20 or iC persons on the stage the one. of greatne.v will stand out like a figure against the sky. The young 'ady from Germany is very good. I place Miss Elisabeth Bergner in nomination as a charter member of the International Association of Artists. tCopvnsht. 1935 1

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISIIBEIN THE veins are the blood vessels, near the surface of the skin, which carry the blood back toward the heart after the arteries have carried the blood into the tissues to supply them with nutrition '’'he veins in the left have valves which permit the flo ' blood only in the direction of the heart. If it were ot for this fact, the blood would tend to drop backward by the force of gravity, or to become stagnant. As it is. the pressure sometimes is so great that the valves break down and sometimes the walls of the veins stretch. Also, because of this pressure, the veins lengthen ar.d curl. When they get into this shape, they are called varicose veins. The most frequent appearance of varicose veins of the body are those in the leg. a a a ONE of the reasons for development # of varicose veins in the legs is. of course, lack of exercise. Every movement of the leg muscle compresses the veins and causes the blood to move on. while the Yalves prevent its return. Another cause of breakdown of the valves in these veins is the increased amount of pressure from above brought about by straining or by lifting heavy objects. In men. varicose veins are most common among ttiose whose occupations keep them long on their feet; for example, motormen. ticket collectors, salesmen, elevator operators, and those in similar occupations. mam THERE are cases in which the varicose veins break I down a .id ulcerate. This occurs particularly Wiien th a condition ir of long standing, and when a scratch e. bruise breads the skin near the varicose vein. Another .crious condition results when inflammation occurs in a varicose vein and in the wall of such a vein. In such conditions, clots may foim. the flow of the blood may be obstructed, and frequently secondary infection mav spread elsewhere in the bviv. Nowadays it is unwise to permit varicose veins to persist or become worse. There are many methods of treatment For prevention of varicose veins elastic stockings may be worn These may be purchased so thin as to be hardly visible. Another method of treatment is surgical removal. The third method, or the one most popular, is injection. In this method certain substances injected into the vein bnng abou’ obliteration of the vein itself. There are always extra veins which can take up the circulation deeper in the issues.

Questions and Answers

Q—How large Is the star Antares, and what is its color? A—According to measurement taken at Mt. Wilson th.- diameter is 360.000.000 miles. It has a reddish hue. Q —Name the opera “Rosenkavalier ” and state where and when it was first produced. A—Richard Straus was the composer and the first performance was m Dresden. Jan. 26, 19IL did summer begin in 1876. A—June 20. at 3.23 p. ra, C. 3. T. s

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I~R thp summer moonlight. The -' r 7. ®°uld have injected a flake of thi BO two bond young couples. .. *” ve told lncontrovertibly whethe ominous and then an appall- fessed that he had come to theli ing sound. They heard an ’ ~ f quarters at 4 o’clock on the momautomobile (rind over a ' - &>* a fter U murder and inducer *ned and silent, "and they were knew nothing about a murder, hi nore frightened when, after the said. And then that afternoor .plash, they heard no other sound. ~ and that evening they talked t< rhe girls screamed. Then the pi him, and'at 9:30 that evening hi nen—sergeants Irom the military • looked up with a lost, white face wed young woman, the wife of- '■-'' ' ~ :r ning of the killing, he said, as she fantry. Ft. Sam Houston—" Lillian , vSullenly he eyed her, he remem. Mams of Company K." j bered, for he was jealous ant A accident, it “They heard an automobile grind been at this time and that time. But presently "G men" and set- .■*- over a precipice ... and plunge into she parked the car out by the ?nce made it a story far more . gravel pit above Salado Creek. W< ugly. the water .. . they sat frightened h ad more words." Within naif an hour after the . .. , Lillian reached down and drev :rash. two significant discoveries and sl,ent * * and heard no 0 from the pocket of the car a davl *ere made. sound.” object, he said, and when sh< First, the sergeants found the .J.gr***'*' ’ struck him with it he saw that i

BY WILLIAM ENGLE Timn Special Writer pLACIDLY flowed Salado Creek, glimmering: in the summer moonlight. The bullheads were not biting, so two bored young couples, fishing: on the south bank near Ft. Sam Houston, Tex., could hear distinctly an ominous and then an appalling sound. They heard an automobile grind over a precipice. They heard it plunge not far from them into the water. For a moment they sat frightened and silent, and they were more frightened when, after the splash, they heard no other sound. The girls screamed. Then the men—sergeants from the military reservation—ran, and behind the wheel of an upturned Hudson coach, half submerged in the creek, they found a fair, glazyeyed young woman, the wife of Private James ft. Adams, 23rd Infantry, Ft. Sam Houston—" Lillian Adams of Company K.” She was dead. A regrettable accident, it seemed, at first. But presently "G men" and science made it a story far more ugly. Within naif an hour after the crash, two significant discoveries were made. First, the sergeants found the coach had been left in second gear with the starting motor running w T hich would have made it possible for the car to drive itself without a driver feeding it gasoline. Second, a Federal doctor, reaching the moonlit dell within twentty minutes after the tragedy, scrutinized the wounds on the young Woman s head, touched her flesh, considered the degree of rigor mortis and said she had been dead bbfore the car rolled over the embankment. "She has been dead from 45 minutes to an hour,” he said to the group that stood at his side. "The car went over the bank 20 minutes ago. maybe 25,” one of the sergeants said. "Then it’s murder,” said the other sergeant, and his fiam.ee fainted. Before morning the federals were finding out who owned than car, w’ho had last been seen driving it and at noon one of them walked over to Private Adams,

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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen WASHINGTON. Feb. 9 —On top of the Soviet impasse on debt* the State Department has run into another deadlock involving Russia. This one concerns the American Embassy in Moscow American architects have devised plans for a beautiful new edifice modeled after Thomas Jefferson's Montieello. It would look down from a Moscow hilltop. The Soviet Government had donated a choice piece of park for the new Embassy. *

But 'iow the American architect ir. charge says that Russian workmanship is not sufficiently skil’ed to build the Embassy. And the State Department is supporting him. The situation is delicate because the United States Government can not well go on record against Russian engineers. At the same time it can not proceed unless it is sure the finished building will pass final inspection tests. One difficulty is that ro much ballyhoo has been given to plans for the building that any failure to proceed can not escape notice in Russia. All of which leads the State Department nowhere, and is one reason Ambassador Bill Bullitt wears such a long face these days as he paces the hushed corridors of diplomacy a a a Fascinating are the antics of certain statesmen iiy'their more personal attitudes —especially when they rush forth to do battle over some lush morsel of patronage txxile. Only a Moliere with a genius for satire could do justice to the fourhour spectacle staged in the Senate over the appointment of Frank R. McNinch as Chairman of the Federal Power Commission. • The North Carolinian is one of the ablest and most enlightened executives in the government service. In the six years he has been a member of the commission his devotion to public interest has earned him the hatred of utility moguls. But to a small coterie of Democratic Senators this fact was of no consequence. They had personal axes to grind and they ground them unabashed.

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jl'*husband of the dead girl, and said: "You come with me.” BUB T'HE young man was arrogant and denunciatory. No matter if an autopsy had disclosed his wife was murdered, he said, he knew nothing about it. He had, said he, an iron-bound alibi. When the car went over the bank, and for some time before that, he said resolutely, he was in the barracks. Two other soldiers said that this was so. They had seen him there. They swore to it. But the special agents found a sergeant and a private in Cos. K who remembered having seen at midnight on the night of tragedy a hot fire in the kitchen stove, with Private Adams standing by. “What the idea of a fire in the kitchen at this hour?” the sergeant had asked Adams. “Just burning some old papers and rags,” Adams had answered.

CHIEF grinder was North Carolina's dour Josiah Bailey. In 1928 McNinch bolted A1 Smith, an act Bailey has never forgotten nor forgiven. So for over an hour Bailey harangued the Senate to reject McNinch But when Senator Burton K. Wheeler, McNinch’s backer, suggested a roll call, Bailey practically fell over himself in his eagerness to avoid a showdown. Another zealous foe was Pat McCarran. The large-paunched Nevadan ’ vped to the breastworks with cry of ' unfitness.” But what was really eating him was the fact that he had tried to prevail upon McNinch to appoint a McCarran henchman to a job. McNinch had turned him down. Most hilarious of all was the attitude of North Carolina's junior Senator Bob Reynolds. During his campaign he had declared that if elected he would fight for the retirement of McNinch. But as the afternoon wore on. Bob sat in his seat, a silent spectator, giving no indication he desired to say a word. a a a THIS was too much for Missouri's Bennett Clark Just as confirmation was about to be approved, he rose and with a great show of solicitude inquired if Reynolds did not want to give his colleagues the benefit of his views. Reynolds’ colleagues roared with laughter. They knew it was the last thing he wanted to do. However, he rose. And for the next 15 minutes he delivered one of the most stirring orations the Senate has ever heard —on the beauties of North Carolina’s countryside and the “velvety” glories of it* highways. < Copyright- IMS- b* United Feartui fiyiMUeeM, Zac.*

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The federal men looked at the ashes. Here was a button. Here was a shred of cloth. On the shred they trained their special microscope for textiles and found that it was serge, obviously blue, such as Adams had worn on the day of his wife’s death. The button they identified as one such as those on the suit. They believed there were blood stains on the shred, stains of human blood, but the fire had thwarted a chemical test. Nevertheless, that was Private Adams’ blue serge suit that was burned in Company K kitchen. Mrs. Adams apparently had bled a good deal, for there were brown stains—identified as human blood —on the car’s hood and on the running board. On the running board, particularly, there were many of those stains. Maybe, the “G men” speculated, young Mrs. Adams was murdered c ude the car, and her bleeding body jammed across the running ooard and under the steering wheel. They spoke about that to Adams. “I don’t know anything about anything,” he said. He did not know that at that minute a hand reached out from a plain gray coffin and touched him on the shoulder. nan THAT, of course, is figurative. But it was one of her hands —her dead hands -that clinched the case. After Adams was arrested the

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark ms rr wEAsepvtct. iwe. t. m. urge. ■sss 1

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special agents noticed that there was a fresh scratch on his right cheek. It might, they said, have been made by a fingernail. From his throat to his chest they found more scratches, pinkly new. They, too, looked as though fingernails might have made them. "Well, I had a friendly tussle with a guy. That's all.” Promptly they found the man with whom Adams said he had tussled, and the man (one of the other privates in Company K) said he had not tussled; said, furthermore, that he had seen Adams several times on the day of the tragedy and that at these times there had been no scratches on his face or neck. Military police thought that maybe Mrs. Adams, in death, might tell the meaning of those livid marks, the scratches, on his cheek and throat. Gently they lifted the pallid fingers of the girl, scraped from beneath the nails a little substance. On the desk of H. T. French, city bacteriologist, San Antonio, Texas, ten minutes later the telephone rang. “Special agents of the Division of Investigation of the Department of Justice want to drop in. Going to be there most of the day?” Bacteriology then—backed by all the other evidences—solved the case. Under the microscope the particles taken from the hand of Mrs.

Adams were disclosed to be human flesh. Even a more conclusive proof than that of the microscope was ready. The scientist could have injected a flake of the substance into a laboratory animal and by its reactions could have told incontrovertibly whether that substance was human flesh. n n THE two weaklings who had sworn to Adams’ alibi confessed that he had come to their quarters at 4 o’clock on the morning after the murder and induced them to promise they would say, in case of inquiry, he had been with them all night. But Adams, even after they confessed, remained adamant. He knew nothing about a murder, he said. And then that afternoon and that evening they talked to him, and'at 9:30 that evening he looked up with a lost, white face, and said—- " All right, all right, I did it.” Lillian, driving the car, came for him at 7 o’clock on the evening of the killing, he said, as she usually did. Sullenly he eyed her, he remembered, for he was jealous and wanted to know where she had been at this time and that time. "We had words," he said. “And she parked the car out by the gravel pit above Salado Creek. We had more words." Lillian reached down and drew from the pocket of the car a dark object, he said, and when she struck him with it he saw that it was a wrench, and he grabbed it. Blindly, then, he struck, he said, and felt the iron sink into her head. She screamed and pitched out of the door. He followed her and struck again and again. n a a SHE lifted wavering, clawing fingers that dug into his face and neck. They were fingers which in death—on the word of a bacteriologist—put him into a first degree murder defendant’s chair. Adams picked her up and pushed her limp body into the car. "Well,” he said, “I decided to send the car over the bank into the creek."’ But the “G men” were not quite through with him, They asked him to write a little for them; they suspected that in handwriting lay the real motive for the killing of Lillian Adams. “James R. Adams,” he wrote, and “Lillian Adams," he wrote, and the signature of Lillian Adams on a SIO,OOO accident policy on the life of Lillian Adams benificiary, was found to be in the handwriting of Adams. Ten days before he killed her he had taken out the SIO,OOO policy The Examiner of Questioned Documents, Treasury Department Washington, D. C„ said so. The United States Postoffice produced a money order, bought by Mr. Adams, paying the first premium of the policy. “First degree murder.” said the United States District Attorney. "Guilty," said Mr. Adams. "Imprisonment,” said Judge Duval West, "fp- the remainder of your natural life in the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan.”

I. U. TEAM TO TAKE PART IN RADIO DEBATE Hoosier Orators to Vie With Cincinnati U. for Honors. By Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Feb. B. Indiana University and the University of Cincinnati will engage in a radio debate tomorrow night which will be broadcast over station WLW, Cincinnati, at 5 p. m. (Indianapolis time.) Charles H. Sparenberger of Evansville and G. Ross Herrman of Kokomo, representing Indiana University, will argue the affirmative side of the question, “Resolved, That the nations should agree to prevent international shipment of arms and munitions.” METAL GROUP TO MEET Discussion on Amunition and Arms to Be Resumed. Indianapolis Chapter, American Society for Metals, will meet Monday night at the Antlers. Howard M. Meyer, attorney, will continue his lecture on the history of sporting amunition and arms. M. Lowe, Milwaukee, Wis., will speak. AID L i’UDY TO RESUME . i- - T>oss Classes to Meet Again Tuesday Night. The second of a series of Red Cross first aid classes will begin at 7:30 Tuesday night at Red Cross headquarters, 777 N. Meridian-st, and will continue for 10 consecutive nights. Lewis O. Robbins ■mil be instructor, |

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Fair Enough WEHIMPMR MR. FARLEY and the President have done their best to placate the outraged philatelists bv ordering the inflation of the freak postage stamps. But now that there are to be freaks for all. the stamp collectors do not want them. The only freaks which all of the nine million collectors really want er® those which most of them never can hope to acquire. So Mr. Farley, who first marveled at the outlandish values which they set upon the rarities now puzzles over the strange rejection of his amend. Th®

philatelists would prefer that Mr. Farley go about it the other way around, destroying all the ungunmed imperforates which he withdrew from circulation at the source and presented to the President, Mr. Ickes, Uncle Louis Howe and himself with best regards. Still, by printing millions of these rarities he would destroy their rarity and deflate the value of his presentation sheets and it would be arbitrary, not to say unkind, to insist on its being done the philatelists’ way. There appears to be some confusion in the stories out of the Post-

office Department accounting for the souvenir sheets, Mr. Farley took 24 hours to meditate when th® troublesome sheet of Mother's Day freaks turned up in the market in Norfolk recently, being unable to account for it off-hand. BUB That's His Story AFTER cudgeling his mind, however, he rec tiled, as in a. flash of light, that therp had beer still another of these sheets given out in addition to those which he had allotted to his distinguished friends in the official family. This sheet was one which he had given to a friend of a friend. Both the friend and the friend's friend were otherwise unidentified and it was deemed kindest not to press Mr. Farley further. If that was his story, that was his story, but unfortunately he has not stuck to it, for an official explanation issued by the Postoffice Department now explains that the embarrassing Norfolk sheet was one which had been released by inadvertence. A sure, convincing way to account for all the rare and valuable sheets involved in the case would have been to call for a complete statement of all such gifts and for a showdown by those who had received them. But then it might have turned out that one of Mr. Farl®y’s confidantes, unable to resist the temptation of an honest though questionable profit, had sold or offered to sell one or morn pages of these little gifts. In that case, the publio advantage hardly would have justified the embarrassment to the Administration, BUB It's a Great Mystery IT is easy to exaggerate the importance of the great stamp mystery because regardless of the value of the freaks as souvenirs, no dishonesty was involved and the public lost nothing. Even the strange science or mania of philately stood to suffer no damage but rather, in the long run, a certain enrichment from the creation of a set of freaks identified with very special and mildly scandalous circumstances. Mr. Roosevelt’s own acceptance of gifts from Mr. Farley having the value of philatelic treasures could hardly be compared with the discovery of the name of Calvin Coolidge on Mr. Morgan’s famous preferred list. There were understandable reasons why Mr. Farley, as an admiring, personal friend of Mr. Roosevelt, wished to give him a few' sheets of rare stamps, produced at no extra cost to the republic in the routine work of the bureau of printing and engraving. There were no such reasons why Mr. Coolidge as an ex-President of the United States and doing very well for himself as a syndicated columnist should accept favors from the house of Morgan. (Copyright, 1935, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc,)

Today s Science

A HUNDRED million atoms placed side by side would make a row one inch long. This would be .the case if you used uranium atoms, the largest in existence. If you used hydrogen atoms, the smallest, you would need 250.000,000 of them. The distance between atoms in a piece of Iron at ordinary room temperature is a hundred-millionth of an inch. Yet modern scientists have instruments of such great accuracy at their command that they can measure the distances between atoms in a piece of iron with greater accuracy than a surveyor can obtain in measuring the size of a field. X-ray apparatus used in the metals research laboratory of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, in Pittsburgh, will measure distances of the sort just mentioned to an accuracy of one part in 40,000. By such X-ray measurements, metallurgists are solving the age-old riddles of metallurgy—why some metals are more ductile than others, why some have greater tensile strength, why* in general alloys are tougher than pure metals, and so on. tt a a TWO words are the keys to this story of metallurgy. They are crystals and lattices. “As ordinarily seen,” Dr. Robert F. Mehl, director of the metal research laboratory says, “metals do not look crystalline, as snow crystals do, for example. But when polished and treated with an acid and viewed under the microscope, every metal or alloy resolve* itself into a large number of tightly packed grains, each grain a single crystal in its own right. “This granular structure may be seen on your brass door knob at home if it has been used long enough and thus worn by long handling, or on anew galvanized iron bucket where the zinc crystals are easily visible.” The X-ray in its turn reveals that each crystal is built up of a three-dimensional lattice work of atoms. “If a model of such a lattice is built, and then turned about in the hand and inspected, it can be seen that the atoms are arranged in sets of parallel planes of atoms, some of the planes having many atoms, others having few atoms,” Dr. Mehl continues. a a a THESE atomic planes serve to explain many of tho phenomena which take place in metals. When a crystal is deformed—and this is what happens to metals when they are rolled or hammered—the crystal changes along these atomic planes. These planes become “planes of slippage.” The crystal is deformed by a process of slipping along these atom planes, one part of the crystal being displaced with reference to another part. "The simple analogy of the ac- of pushing a deck of cards from the side with the displacement of th* cards by slipping, is quite accurate,” Dr. Mehl save-. Now it is evident that if you bend a deck of cards, it is more difficult to displace the cards by pushing from the side. And that is exactly why metals ar*> hardened when they are hammered or rolled. Q —How large is the Sahara Desert? A—The area is estimated at 34 million squaro miles, about same as Europe, excluding Scandinavia. Its greatest length is 3200 miles .and its breadth from north to south varies from 800 to 1400 miles. Q —Would a body weigh the same at the equator and at the poles? A—A body which weighs one pound at sea level at the equator will weigh 1.00529 pounds at the poles. Q — Why is thunder absent during a display of heat lightning? A —Heat lightning is the diffused reflection of lightning produced by a distant electrical storm beyond the horizon. The storm is too far away for thunder to be heard. Q —How many eclipses of the sun and moon will occur hr 1935? A—Sdven.

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