Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 17, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 March 1935 — Page 7

MARCH 30. 1033

It Seems to Me HEYWOOD BROUN DEAR READER—Today 1* your birthday whet' you know it or not I have a gift prepared you wtdch I trust will be acceptable but I want to hold it over as a pleasant surprise. However, it should not be amiss for me to felicitate you on the eve of your annual festival. The relationship of a columnist to his clients is at best * peculiar thing. He has only the most inadequate resources for ascertaining the number and the mood ©f those kind folk who make his existence possible.

I always make it a point to look over my own stuff when It appears In type so that I ran truthfully say that the roltimn has not gone totally unread. Sometimes I shake my head and mutter, Not so hot.” More often the chore is received with a 'hrug and a somewhat cynical common: of. “It will suffice.” On rarer and much happier days it is possible to scan the end result and exclaim, ' No matter what you say, vou must admit that now and then the kid is clever.” But sometimes months go by without its being possible for me to agree with this estimate. I’ve

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known a whole rear to roll along with the jury still ou* and continuing to deliberate upon a just verdict. The rrdinarv defendant is tried just once but the column:'* remains in constant peril. Even when he has the good fortune to Twelve a recommendation for mercy he is still on the spot because it will still he re< r. arv for him. within 24 hours, to stick his into the? noose yet oner siskin. m m a Hr Likes Brickbats ACCORDING to rumor a columnist is like a fish . and on account of his cold blood feels very little even when a reader has nailed him through the gills. Rut w<* ar* human and want to keep our garbardmes quite spotless. Letters of commendation are elating and the more punishing ones must he taken in our stride. And still they leave remorse and scars. It isn't people hopping on top of you which hurts, btr rather the long .spells of Coventry in which the ntator 'tins one at least* r- apt to find himself. Nobody but Admiral Bvrd likes to find himself alone in an igloo just this side of the South Pole. Accordingly, may I express my thanks to hundreds of persons, many of them nameless, who have been kind enough to send communications, particularly during the last two months. I would not like to suggest to mv employers, or any other mildly interested parties, that this business ol the postman's knocking twice or thrice indicates the beginning of a national "we want more Broun’ movement. The mast casual reading indicates quite the reverse. The brickbats have outnumbered the bouquets by a proportion of at least five lo one. ........ Many of the correspondents have indicated that they are writing to a newspaper columnist for the first time and I ran well believe them. Anybody who made a constant practice of writing such indignant letters would go ofT with a stroke. There would be a popping all around. a a a Almost the Truth IT is not for me to say whether the more violent missives were animated bv a great wisdom or not Their emotion I ran not deny. Direct accusation was rather more common than argumentation In that respect the fault was largely my own on account of my failure to properly define the \> ’hings stand some of the most vehement ? vi mP *5 a soapbox orator whose only forum should be In Union Square, while others assert, that I a-n a bloated plutocrat who hopes to stay the hand of reform in order to protect my own imsgotten Wall Street gains. And again it is roundly asserted that I have been bribed by a croup of American nr-, paper publishers to act as their spokesman and None of these theories is entirely correct, but the first is closest to the truth. I have at times spoken m Union Square, although I’m only a vol- !' one lives from his contacts and this is peculiarly true of columnists, and so in aH sincerity I can thank those who wished me ill. even though I a greater affection for a tiny group of Spa. tan de sf "unlike the poet I must admit that my hp d is both bloody and slightly bowed and yet l no have a stronger determination to stick n out pass ana let the foe lay on and do their damnaesi. * iCopyright. 1935*

Today s Science

BY DAVID DIETZ

lass. so optically perfect that it can be used for (j eyeglass lenses and so tough that the lense<= nude from it can be dropped with impunity upon a SS-TS-r. U roponcd by Arthur D Uttle. Inc. consulting chemists. Cambridge. Mass. ™ Wo' 13 times us herd us that r*3l ■ break the erdina-u lens is required lb sma-th a Irtis of * 1 pra- material. r. whereas ordtnan (*■* o-rika into fairlv large splinters with sharp point.s and raror-ltke edges, this class breaks into smal. rounded edges The new glass, therefore, ts a safer p oduct for two reasons. the new glass was made bv uoi ltinc previously considered the rssen la. process for toughening glass. The usual practice is in cool the molten class slowly. This is to prevent the formation of strain in the class as K This process, known as annealing, has produced tlw best glass known in the past. In the new process, the class is heated to the softening pomt about 1500 decrees Fahrenheit, and then qtiick'v cooled bv either an atr jet. a steam •rt- or immersion :n oil at approximately 400 degrees Fahrenheit This causes the outside of the lens or whatever the particular piece of class is. to solidify very quickly. The interior cooltne more slowly sets up impressive forces on the exterior as it contracts. ana THF optical company which has developed the new glass plans to use It fir t in industrial goggles. It will possess value here, not only because p. toughness will make it harder to shatter the goccles. but because of the way in which it breaks. The ordinary lens, while an excellent protection in most cases, is itself a hazard when hit hard enough to shatter it. This is because of the formation of sharp splinters. The way in which the new glass breaks makes it safer if it should be hit hard enough to shatter it. ana IT is not planned, however, to restrict the use of the new glass to industrial goggles. It is now being tried out in c* eg lasses. There is one difficulty so far. however. The glass must be kept above a certain minimum thickness in order to maintain the Interna me which gives the glass its toughness. The row glass is also being applied to the manufacture of lamp chimneys, porthole glasses, gauge classes for steam boilers and the like. It is expected that in the near future it will also find use In the automobile industry, particularly for windshields. It may be possible to replace laminated glass with a single sheet of the new glass. Experiments are also being tried with windshields made of an outer sheet of tough glass laminated with an inner sheet of ordinary glass. These studies, however, are still in the experimental stage. Q Who obtained the first patent for a bicycle In the United Spates, and where was the first bicycle factory? A—The first patent was granted to William K Clarkson. June 26 1819. for an "improved bicycle." The first bicycle factory In this country was established in 1877. bv Albert A. Pope, who organized the Pop* Manufacturing Cos. His first machines were manufactured by the Week Sewing Machine Cos. at Hartford, Conn. and mere named Columbia. They were high bicycles with a large wheel in front and a small wheel trailing.

DUST STORMS—CAUSE AND EFFECT

Government Forges Weapons to War on Blasts Ravaging Granaty

This l the It es aerie *f three larlee on the Hunt etormi whleh hare .-aiared the Weft, tbeir ranrea and efTert*. and wltat otepo are brine taken to remedy the alarminc aituation. P<! \'EA Serried Kansas city, March no The calamity of wind erosion. strikingly impressed on half the country by the recent dust storms, seems so overwhelming as to condemn mere man to wring his hands."fold them, and wait. But it isn’t that bad. There are definite things that can be done to prevent formation of a vast new desert. Government experts feel sure that, given enough money and co-operation from residents of the drought-and-dust region, they can do something about it. Some of these things arc already being done. Some ar- part of the great work-relief plan for thus summer. Some arc iong-time plans. Some ? r< * public works, some consist of teaching farmers in the plains region how to avoid for themselves the worst penis of the "duster.” Probably most people think of this fight in terms of the great tree belt which is to be planted almost from Canada to Texas. First plantings are actually being made now in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. nan IATFR thus spring, planting will v begin in Nebraska and the Dakotas. Fifty counties have been selected for the work thus spring, which is largely demonstrational. Government forecasters aren't fooling themselves about this tree belt. They know it will be 15 or 20 years before its full effect can be felt. They know it may not change the climate or rainfall to any noticeable extent. But they also know that similar experiments made in Czarist Russia and other places had a beneficial effect in reducing drought and dust. Such shelter belts of trees tend to deflect the sweeping winds up off the surface of the plains, and thus protect it. They tend to raise the "water-table” or level of sub-surface water, which is falling steadily and dangerously, in the Northwest. While too far east to affect the region where recent dust storms have arisen, such a tree belt could hardly fail to have a good effect on farming conditions in its own area. ana IT will be supplemented by renewed efforts to get individual farmers to plant their own wind-

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

WASHINGTON. March 30.—The Securities Exchange Commission, once hailed as the crusading agency to clean up Wall Street, seems to have curbed ( ts zealousness. Every day it ignores market pools.” As long as they are called “stabilizers." . . . Also Joseph Fayne, former partner in Hornblower and Weeks, has been put in charge of trading. Hailed before the Senate Investigation Committee, he admitted betting on both sides of Anaconda Copper in violation of the rules.

The Senate Committee, incidentally. has been kept alive chiefly for the purpose of checking up on the SEC in case it should “go over" Wall Street, and it begins to look as if the committee might get busy. . . . The two Harvard men helping Huev Long are Allen Blackburn of New York and Philip Johnson of Cleveland. The latter’s aunt, Mrs. George Pope, endowed the Avon School for Boys. Both men attended the swank Hackley School at Tarrytown-on-the-Hud-son. are accomplished musicians and actors, got tired of a life of ease and derided to help Huey Long “share the wealth.” a a a CHARLES A. BEARD, noted historian and blunt-spoken liberal, is being urged by some of the Brain Trusters as an addition to the White House secretariat. They would like to counterbalance reactionary Marvin Mclntyre. What to do with Mr. Mclntyre has become a problem. There has been some discussion of ' promoting'’ him to the diplomatic service. Chief difficulty is that this requires a private fortune. . The President will not replace his old friend Louey Howe no matter what his health. But since it is highly unlikely Col. Howe will ever come back to active service, anew man may be added to the White House. . Gen. Hugh Johnson's book. The Blue Eagle.” is a vast improvement over his Saturday Evening Post articles, which were severely cut. Doublcriay-Doran. publishers of book, did not take seriously Don Richberg's threat of a libel suit. It is whispered in AAA circles that testy Administrator Chester Davis and his large publicity staff plan to wage a vigorous campaign on realistic news reporting of their activities. Everytime a story appears in a paper regarding AAA operations which Mr. Davis and his staff disapprove, it is pioposed to send a protesting letter io the editor. a a a Letters to congressmen against the holding corporation bill have decreased from around four thousand a week to only a few hundred. Congressmen attribute 'this to the Norris resolution authorizing an investigation of power company propaganda. . . . E. Ficklin Brown, uniformed policeman who guards the main entrance of the Senate, is 29 years of age. 6 feet 9 '2 inches in height and weighs 305 pounds. I’ve never had to draw my gun on any one." says Mr. Brown. Displaying two huge hands, he adds, "These two things have been enough.”. . . Congressmen going to the House via the c”bway were startled to see two workmen industriously scrubbing the wail about midway through this passage. Inquiries disclosed that a zealot had painted a huge 10-foot "Vote for the Bonus" sign on the wall during the night. If Arkansas’ beefy Representative Clauae Fuller expected to win the plaudits of Democratic floor leaders for his attack on the newly formed Liberal bloc, he was sorely disappointed. Texas' scrap-

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The shelter-belt idea In miniature on an eastern New Mexico farm. . . . Note how the planted square of young trees shown in this Department of Agriculture phot© is already beginning to shield the field with In. . . . Plantings of this kind by individual fanners are pa t of the government's plan for eliminating wind erosion and dust storms.

breaks, using the Chinese elm, Russian olive. Russian mulberry, honey locust and other trees which need little water. Seedlings are being t;rown on a large scale for the purpose. But the real key to the situation lies in persuading or compelling far-western farmers to use different methods of cultivation. Dry, loose soil of the kind that blows easily must no longer be left without a protective mat of root-cover. The government operates a 150.000 acre test project near Mankato. Kas., which withstood the recent storms well, due to scientific planting of soil-retaining vegetation. Farmers will be urged to leave stubble in the fields, not burn it. until enough rain has fallen to weight down the soil and make is ready for planting the next crop. "Strip-farming.” with alternate rows of tillage and grass-sod crops,

py Maury Maverick, who heaped fire and brimstone on his head, got the quiet approval of Administration leaders. a a a AT the instigation of the Securties Exchange Commission. the Department of Justice is quietly looking into the activities of several so-called "reorganization” committees. The SEC suspects that some of these committees. instead of protecting the interests of stockholders, are being used for just the opposite. Pittsburgh's Rep. Henry Ellenbogen has framed an anti-child labor bill which he believes circumvents the Suprere Court's rejection of such legislation. Under his measure, any bass who employs workers under the age of 16 would be denied the use of the mails. . . Federal Reserve Board Governor Marriner S. Eccles established a unique endurance record in his appearance before the House Banking Committee on the banking reform bill. The youthful Utahan testified for 12 consecutive days, most of the time answering questions put to him by members of the committee. iCopvricht. 1335. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.l

CITY WINS TRIBUTE IN FIRE WASTE CONTEST Receives Honorable Mention in Its Classification. Hu Timet Special WASHINGTON. March 30.—Honorable mention in the grand award for all claSses of cities was granted to Indianapolis last night when the results of the 1934 fire waste contest were made public here by the National Fire Waste Council, which sponsors the contest annually with the United States Chamber of Commerce. Winner in Indianapolis' class—cities of 250.000 to 500.000—was Providence. R. 1.. which also won the grand award for all classes. Fire losses in Indianapolis were said to be the lowest since records have been kept. Indianapolis once won the grand award. R. R. WORKERS' TO DINE Local Big Four Employes Invited to Bellefontaine tO.) Event. Local employes of the Big Four Route have been invited to attend a dinner dance in honor of C. H. McElroy. new trainmaster of the Springfield division, and Mrs. McElrov Thursday night at Bellefontaine. O. A special train will leave Union Station here at 2 Thursday for the convience of local employes. Mr. McElroy. until his new assignment, was stationed at Bellefontaine. MASONIC INSPECTION SET Royal and Select Masters to Meet Thursday at Temole. Indianapolis Council No. 2 and Noblesville Council No. 89. Royal and Select Masters, will be inspected by Herbert A. Graham, grand lecturer. at 7:30 Thursday night at the Masonic Temple, Illinois and Northsts. The Royal and Select Masters degiee will be conferred.

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is being urged to foil prevailing winds. Soil-erosion experts point to skillful farmers even in the drought belt who have suffered relatively little because of their manner of laying out their acres with windbreaks and alternate grasslands between the ploughed areas. nun NEW cultivating machinery is being urged which does not pulverize the soil so fine, making it less susceptible to blowing. In extreme cases, government men are urging the planting of emergency “cover crops” to hold the soil, even if wheat must be given up temporarily. Gov. Landon of Kansas is already in Washington with plans for a quick campaign to turn up long mounds crosswise to the wind direction with “listers,” machines like great oversized plows.

HARRY FELOGOISE LEAVES TIMES POST Myron McGeehan Named Classified Manager. Harry A. Fcldgoise, Classified Advertising manager of The Indianapolis Times for the last two years, has resigned to enter the life insurance business, it was announced today. Mr. Feldgoise terminates 13 years in the newspaper field, having served in Classified, Local and National departments of newspapers in New York. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Indianapolis. For the last four years he has been with the Scripps-Howard organization, first as assistant classified manager of the Pittsburgh Press and then as classified manager of The Times. Myron McGeehan. assistant classified manager, succeeds Mr. Feldgoise. TECH PUPILS PUBLISH LITERARY MAGAZINE 3" Have Manuscripts in Second Issue of Siftings. Thirty-seven pupils have manuscripts published in the second number of Siftings, a 23-page literary magazine. published by the English department at Technical High School, now in process of distributio at the school. A feature of this issue is the design, printed in green, both on the inside pages and on the cover. The magazine contains different, types of essays short stories and poems. written by the students for their English classes.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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These earth barriers would stop the dust drifts just as snow-fences hold back the blowing of snowdrifts. The government probably will furnish nearly a half-million dollars for the oil, gas and grease for tractors to put this plan in immediate operation. The soil erosion service, recently transferred from the Interior to the Agriculture Department, has a demonstration project under way at Dalhart. Tex., where one of the worst of recent dust storms originated. nan OTHERS will be set up in eastern Colorado and in South Dakota. In the Dalhart region, some 2.500.000 acres are lying fallow*, temporarily abandoned, due to crop failures and drought. All this means more government control, and more big jobs piled on top of the Agriculture Department, which is already

B'NAI B’RITH LODGE TO HEAR JUDGE TREANOR Indiana Supreme Court Jurist and Karabell on Program. Walter E. Treancr, Indiana Supreme Court Judge, will address the B'nai B'rith Lodge at 8:30 Monday night,. The meeting will be held in the Kirshbaum Community Center. Municipal Judge Charles J. Karabell, secretary of the organization, also will speak. Members of the arrangements committee are: Jack B. Kammins, chairman, Eph Levin, Harry Jackson, Morris Strauss and Rufus Isaacs. Richard K. Munter is president. BARUCH CONCLUDES WAR INQUIRY STORY Barred Politics in Industry Board, He Says. By United Pro,** WASHINGTON, March 30.—-Ber-nard M. Baruch, financier and adviser to five presidents, concluded his testimony before the Senate Munitions Committee late yesterday with an assertion that politics had no part in operations of the War Industries Board when he was chairman. He said he surrendered his stock holdings "openly” when he went to work for the government in 1017. "Any insinuation that you profited while in government service is without foundation?” asked Chairman Gerald P. Nye. "I can characterize it in stronger language than that,” Mr. Baruch replied.

sweating blood to revise its wheat and corn schedules for this summer. For if. as seems likely, the Kansas wheat crop this year is the worst since 1866 and other stricken Western states show in proportion, the quick reverse from a policy of cutting to one of increasing wheat acreage will have to be pressed home strongly to prevent actual shortage. Means will have to be devised to persuade, buy, or force the cooperation of millions of farmers in the drought-dust area, and these means are not yet known. Any program must be nearly universal throughout the area to change conditions to any extent. It is over such details of planning that the lights burn late in the vast Department of Agriculture Building these nights in Washington. THE END

METAL TRADE GROUP HEARS NRA ATTACK Counsel for Manufacturers Bitter in Criticism. John C. Gall, associate general counsel of the National Association of Manufacturers, severely criticised the NRA codes for creating a business man’s "dilemma” when he spoke yesterday before the National Metal Trades Association at the Columbia Club, "If the business man is unable to operate at a profit, such agencies as the research and planning division of the NRA classify him as inefficient,” he declared. “If he manages to squeeze out a profit and stay in business, the consumer's advisory board treats him as a suspicious character. If he carries on business beyond the state borders, he is threatened with a 30-hour week. "If he joins his competitors to better conditions, he is branded as a conspirator by the Federal Trade Commission. If he changes prices in keeping with the rest of the industry, he is in collusion—if he doesn't he is a chiseler.’

STANDARD OIL FIRM HOLDS PARLEY HERE Officials of Three Indiana Divisions Attend Session. Officials and sales representatives of the Indianapolis, South Bend and Evansville division of the Standard Oil Cos. of Indiana, met yesterday at the Severin for their annual conference. E. P. Galbreath. Indianapolis division manager, and his assistants, H. H. Akers and G. E. Lewis, were hosts to the group. Distinguished guests at the conference included Allan Jackson, vice-president: Amos Ball, general sales manager, H. A. Lewis and H. W. Cameron, assistants to the vicepresidents; A. N. Steele, advertising manager; J. W. Curry, industrial relations director: Henry Porter and Wayne Baer, sales promotion; F. H. Fillingham, Evansville manager, and C. H, Winger, South Bend manager. The joint general committee, composed equally of elected and appointed employes’ representatives, met ’last night at the Columbia Club.

BAPTIST CHURCH TO HOLD FAMILY NIGHT ‘Fill a Pew’ Service to Be Given Tomorrow Night. The econd “Fill a Pew” service of the year will be observed at the First Baptist Church, N. Meridian and Vermont-sts, at 7:30 tomorrow night. ’ The entire program will be presented by members of the congregation who take the places of regular musicians, soloists and readers. The Rev. Carleton W. Atwater, pastr, will worship with his family in their pew. only, coming to the pulpit to deliver the sermon. CITY GIRL IS HONORED Miss Hazel Fisher Wins Stage Role at Lake Forest College. By Timet Special LAKE FOREST. 111.. March 30. Miss Hazel Fisher, Indianapolis, has been chosen to play the leading feminine role in ‘Skidding.” to be presented by the Lake Forest Col--1 lege Garrick Players April 17 and 18.

/ Cover theVhHd WM PIMP SIMMS WASHINGTON, March 30.—From a high official in a position to know the writer today obtained an outline of United States policy relating to threats of war in Europe and the Far East. First, this government plans to refrain from any acts or pacts calculated to draw the United States into a conflict, either in Europe or Asia. Second. Washington stands by President Roose-

velt's unofficial warning to Germany in the lesser arms crisis of 1933, namely that by her separate treaty with America she is as firmly bound to disarmament as by the Treaty of Versailles. But. this country has no intention whatever of joining any united front against her to bring pressure. Third, if and when the present crisis blows over, and a new* arms reduction and limitation conference can be profitably undertaken, the United States will be there. Germany and her neighbors, however, must first settle their political quarrels among themselves. Fourth, in the event of war or threat of war growing out of a

breach of international obligations, the United State* is prepared to refrain from any action tending to defeat such collective efforts as the League of Nations or other group might take to restore peace—providing the United States concurs in the designation of the guilty nation. This virtual pledge, first enunciated two years ago by Ambassador-At-Large Norman Davis before the Geneva disarmament conference today assumes increased importance in view of the proposed league action against Germany. st an Departure From Neutrality UNLESS postponed or called off by pressure o( events, the council of the League will meet two weeks hence—on April 15—to “try" Germany for her violation of the arms section of the Treaty of Versailles. Chancellor Hitler is boldly defiant. In fact, he could scarcely turn back now even if he wanted to. He would almost certainly be overthrown and the all-powerful regular army, the Reirhswehr, would set up a military dictatorship in his place. Yet if the League condemned Germany and made any attempt to apply sanctions, war would explode forthwith. In that case the United States, to live up to the promise made at Geneva, w'ould have to weigh the League's action and—if it concurred—ban any and all aid to Germany. Authorities on international law hold that such a decision would be a departure from strict neutrality. Germany would then be within her rights to strike back at the United States. The United States, therefore. might find itself involved in another foreign war. nan Far Eastern Pact a Laugh TO avoid this and other dangers, anew draft law regulating American neutrality is being framed for early presentation to Congress. The United States would simply withdraw- within its shell in wartime, not only refusing to ship supplies and lend money to an aggressor, but to the victim as well. Report from Moscow that Soviet officials have proposed a Far Eastern pact to safeguard the peace of that area, with the United States a party, have fallen on entirely barren ground here. It is recalled w’ith a. touch of cynicism that the Nine-Power Treaty, designed to do even less, proved a complete failure. When Japan flagrantly violated it by seizing four of the richest provinces of China, which was one of the signatories, the United States was practically deserted by the other signers and left to face an anything but friendly Nippon alone.

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

THE immediate hazard to health from dust storms which last for a few hours, or even for a day, is not particularly serious. The real hazard to life from dust strikes those persons who are exposed continually in some industry to a dusty atmosphere. There are about 200 occupations in which the amount of dust in the air is considerable and present at all times. Flour and starch dusts in the milling industry do not do serious harm to the human body, but are dangerous because of the possibility of dust explosions. The soluble dusts are not usually serious because they are ,dissolved and eliminated from the body. 'Most of the dust that gets into the nose and throat may be washed out. blown out, or coughed out when the day’s work is ended. The dangerous dusts are those which are not dissolved. These collect in the lung and may in time set up irritations or inflammations. a a a AGAIN it should be emphasized that this hazard will not arise for the average person in connection with the dust storms that have occurred during the last few weeks. You should realize, however, that slight hazards do exist in relationship to the accumulation on the skin of considerable dirt and infectious material, and that in times when a dust storm is prevalent, it is probably desirable to bathe more frequently than under ordinary circumstances. It is also important to recognize that the presence of such contaminated material, inc’uaing germs on the skin, may make infections of the skin more frequent. a a a IN some parts of the Middle West it has been reported that there have been outbreaks of pneumonia and of other serious infections in connection with dust storms. This seems exceedingly unlikely. Pneumonia is caused by a gernl which gets into the boly that has a lowered resistance. It Ls exceedingly unlikely that a sufficient number of virulent germs of pneumonia have been spread about by dust storms to set up any serious infections. Ordinarily the storms must be looked upon as more dangerous to to furnishings, clothing, and materials than an any hazard to health.

Questions and Answers

Q-—What does the name Decker mean? A—lt is a German family name meaning “day.*’ q—When will the Philippine Islands gain their independence? A—The McDuffie-Tydings Act, signed by President R-osevelt. March 22. 1934. provides a method for complete Philippine independence. It was accepted by the Philippine Legislature, a Constitutional Convention was called which met July 4. 1934. and drew up a constitution which has been accepted by the Philippine Legislature and submitted to President Roosevelt for his approval. When approved by him it must be voted upon at a popular election in the Philippines sometime in 1935. A Philippine commonwealth government will immediately be set up, and 10 years from the final ratification of the constitution the Philippines will be given complete independence. The act calls for the withdrawal of all United States military forces in the islands after independence, and provides for a conference on naval bases. Q —What is the address of George Raft? A—Care of Paramount Studios, 5451 Marathonst., Hollywood, Cal. Q—What is the value of a United States half dollar dated 1857? A—Fifty to 55 cents. Q —ls there a legal time limit within which juries must render a verdict in a murder case? A—There is no set time limit. The jury is free to deliberate as long as it wishes. It lies within the discretion of the court to accept a report by the jury that it can not reach a verdict, or to send them back for further deliberation in an attempt to reacb an agreement.

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