Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 25, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1935 — Page 9

/ Cover theHor/d WMPHILIP SIMMS April 9 lastead of nailing the ’ * lid on the Danzig powder barrel, the weekend elections left that ancient seaport a greater danger than ever to the peace of Europe. The fear now is that Chancellor Hitler or one of his fiery lieutenants, at an opportune moment, will take a leaf from the book of the Italian poet D'Annunzio at Fiume and annex Danzig to Prussia. That, it Is predicted, might well start Polish troops marching Whereupon only by a miracle

could the thus brought about be pr .ted from lighting a blaze that w„ A sweep from one end of Europe to the other. Such is the fear behind the desire of Soviet Russia, France and Italy to show Germany such a united front at Stresa and Geneva that Herr Hitler would not dare yield to temptation. Fiume and Danzig offer several parallels. Like Danzig. Fiume in the past belonged to many different masters and at times enjoyed the status of free city. At the end of the World War, Italy claimed the Adriatic port on the princip’e of "self determination.” Its population is largely Italian. While it was occupied by an inter-

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allied force pending the settlement of its status by the peace conference, Gabriele D’Annunzio mustered a body of ‘'legionnaires” near Trieste, some 70 miles away, seized the town and set himself up as commandant of “Carnaro”—the regions old Italian name. nun Elect ions Forced by Hitler D'ANNUNZIO, however, was careful not to act in the name of Italy. But his gesture electrified his countrymen. Had Rome officially backed the poet, there would have been war between Italy and Yugo-Slavia. As it was. hostilities were narrowly averted. Until 1922 the famed poet and playwright clung to his conquest. Then Benito Mussolini’s Fascisti went to his rescue and, together with D'Annunzio’s Legionnaires, pulled off the coupe and etat that finally annexed Fiume to Italy. Adolf Hitler forced the Danzig elections expecting to obtain the two-thirds majority necessary to change the constitution as the prelude to a plebiscite and reannexation of the port to Austria. Though the vote fell short, it gave the Nazis 60 per cent of all ballots cast. On the principle of ‘‘self-determination.” Danzig is German. Few expect the Fuehrer to let the matter drop where it is. a a a And Even More Helligerent GERMANY and Poland have been on the point of war more than once over Danzig and the Corridor. They signed a truce about a y e^ r ago agreeing to drop the quarrel for 10 years. But Warsaw considers that Berlin has already violated the agreement by Nazi activities at Danzig. A powerfully rearmed Germany, Poland now fears, will take an even more belligerent view. Danzig is losing out as a port to Poland’s brand new Gdynia, a few miles down the coast. Germany would like to oust the Poles from the Corridor, wipe out Gdynia, restore territorial unity of East and West Prussia and insure prosperity to Danzig. In return, it has been suggested, she might offer Poland an outlet to the sea at the expense of Lithuania.

Today s Science . —BY DAVID DIETZ

Brrausr of delay in transmission of copy, the Daily Science article does not appear in this space today. The following substitute article is by Science Service. THE famous German I. G. chemical works of Op-pau-Ludwigshafen have Just completed a three months’ trial run with a continuous process for making gasoline from coal. A thousand kilos (450 pounds) of coal yielded 600 kilos (270 pounds of gasoline of good anti-knock quality. Using the Bergius process of hydrogenation, powdered coal and heavy oil are mixed in a chamber with catalysts under a pressure of 300 atmospheres and 460 degrees centigrade temperature Pressed by the lack of petroleum products within its boundaries and the lack of colonies which might produce petroleum. Germany for years has conhrued gasoline-from-coal research. The present trial run is one of the largest ever completed. And Great Britain, just across the North Sea, has gone into the field, not because its colonies do not yield oil for gasoline, but to encourage the industry in event of war. The British navy buys large amounts of British gasoline made from coal and low grade oils at high prices to subsidize the industry and keep it going. 000 GASOLINE from coal and low grade oils is technically possible but hardly profitable in America. It costs at least three times as much at the factory for a gallon of coal-made gasoline as for a gallon of the current American gasoline now on sale here. With the warning of the United States Geological Survey that present petroleum reserves, if used at present rates, will last only another 13 years, government scientists suggest, at every opportunity, that the United States should enter into a study of coal gasoline. The United States Bureau of Mines, while not doing this type of research at present, has the problem near the top of its list and will undertake investigations when very modest funds are appropriated. a tt a FROM the American standpoint the main problem still to be solved is the optimum conditions for using American coals, which differ decidedly from European coals. Already American oil companies have devised processes whereby low grade petroleum can be turned into superior gasoline. The next step would be to use the tarry products from petroleum distillations for the same purpose. And finally would come the use of coal dust itself. While America has not the immediate economic pressure for starting coal dust gasoline research, a decade hence the situation will be different. Government scientists, foreseeing this day, are itching to get at the preliminary work so that when the time comes they can present a whole program to relieve the problem. At present what work has been done in the United States has been mainly in university laboratories, so much so in fact, that the problem is principally of academic interest.

Questions and Answers

Q —What is the purpose of the coating on the filaments of radio vacuum tubes? A—The National Radio Institute says that coatings of various kinds of substances are used to give the tubes the property of emitting electrons with greater efficiency at lower operating temperatures. Q—What is the national language of Ireland? A—Gaelic. Q —Who owns the race horse Twenty Grand? A—Mrs. Payne Whitney. Q —When did Joe Penner get his start as a comedian? A—His first step toward becoming a regular comedian was when he got a job as property man with Rex the Mind Reader, in a traveling variety company. The bill included a tabloid revue in which there was a comedian. Joe learned his lines and took over the role one night when the actor refused to go on. Q—Which counties in Pennsylvania lead in the production of anthracite and bituminous coal? A—Allegheny County leads in the production of bituminous, and Lubeme County in the production of anthracite.

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THE ‘MIRACLE’ IN ENGINEERING

Canyon Project Is So Colossal That Imagination Is Stunned

The ilorT ol the contraction of Boulder Dam is one of the most fascinating in the history of all man-made wonders. Here is the second of the series of six stories which tell of the motives, methods, machines, men and materials which made the engineering "miracle'' possible. BY OREN ARNOLD SEA Service Special Correspondent DOULDER CITY, Nev., April 9. —You see Boulder Dam for the first time from a rocky edge perhaps 1000 feet above the bed of the Colorado—you just hang on a railing while the wind flaps your coat, and you -stare down with your mouth open. You hear a muffled roar from the depths of the canyon. Then, suddenly, it dawns on you that the massive dam is covered with ants! As your eyei focus, it comes

alive. Specks, crawling to and fro about the structure, on scaffolding, on the great U-shaped powerhouse, on “wires” that stretch everywhere, even on the very walls of the canyon. You shrink inwardly, and exclaim something under your breath. Ants! But even then you have no adequate conception of Boulder Dam’s unprecedented size. No better proof has ever been shown that men are like ants—that enough men with enough time and enough organization can do “anything.” a a a ONE man is infinitesimal here. Yet Man Power in a generic sense is quickly evident, indeed is impressive in its limitless strength and ability. Not since the great pyramid of Egypt was built has man power been so pretentiously used on an engineering project. The engineers in charge will tell you that—strangely—the depression has been responsible for pushing work on Boulder Dam almost three years ahead of schedule. That is because the construction firm, Six Companies, Inc., was able to hire twice the number of workmen it had anticipated, at a wage fair to all. Four thousand ants can build an ant hill in about half the time required by 2000 ants. But that move redoubled the demand for organization genius, too. Ringling’s circus is famous for its systematic handling of myriad details—but you should study the system at Boulder Dam! Remember, also, that the great Egyptian pyramid, heretofore a criterion for engineering achievement, required 100,000 slaves working 20 years. a a a THE 4000 workmen in Black Canyon have built a dam 766 feet high, which is about equal to the Woolworth Building in New York, and which is by far the largest dam in all the world.

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

"ITTASHINGTON. April 9.—Huey Long is making secret plans to ’ ’ launch what most political soothsayers would brand as a deliberately misleading and futile campaign. He plans to enter the 1936 Democratic primary against the President of the United States. To get the full significance of this move, it is necessary to remember that not since the days of Taft has a President been seriously contested for renomination within his own party.

Huey, however, not only plans to do this, but he plans to launch his attack in Georgia—Roosevelt’s “adopted state.” And so confident is he regarding victory in Georgia that he is taking even money bets. Reason for his confidence is that he has a strong ally in Gov. Gene Talmadge, who, running on a violent anti-New Deal platform, recently carried the state. Georgia chooses its delegates to the Democratic national convention the first week in April. If he captures this group, Huey figures that he will have won so much prestige that other state primaries will be fairly easy. It so happens that the primaries following immediately after Georgia are states in which Huey has some strength. The first is Nebraska, the second week in April. Then comes South Dakota, Alabama and Mississippi. The last two fringe on Long's so-called “Southern Empire.” The first two are in the droughtstricken Midwest where there is much agricultural unrest. Huey's hope is so to damage Roosevelt's prestige by capturing this first line of trenches, that the Democratic party could not afford to renominate him. 000 A PHOTOGRAPHIC concern sent a cameraman the other day to the Senate office building to get a shot of West Virginia's Senator-elect Rush Holt. Admitted to Holt's office, the cameraman set up his tripod in the room where a young- man was pacing up and down reading mail. When he was all set he interrupted the youth. “Say. buddy, when will the Senator be ready?” “In a few minutes.” The youth continued his pacing. Presently he stopped, put his mail aside, and said: “All right. I'm ready now.” “But— but— I want Senator Holt.” The 29-year-old Senator smiled, adjusted his tie. ' “I'm Senator Holt. Go ahead." 000 AN important shake-up in the American diplomatic service is pending. The career men are going to get a break. Hal Sevier. Parley’s appointee as ambassador to Chile, is being ousted from that post. Hoffman Philip, minister to Norway, and

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At the bottom it is thicker than two city blocks; its length on top, where you soon will drive your car, is nearly four blocks. And three years haven’t passed since the first shovel of cauh was turned. But that’s just one item, the dam proper. Before it could be started, the human ants had literally to make their holes underground. The workers dug four tunnels 56 feet in diameter through solid rock for a combined distance of three miles. A gigantic coffer dam then diverted. the roaring Colorado out of its normal bed into the tunnels, leaving the actual dam site dry. When father was a boy, those tunnels alone would have defied the best brains of engineers. a a a FIRST water in the lake is being stored now. Eventually the water will form the biggest artificial lake in the world. About 30,000,000 acre feet, if you like statistics. Or—if you don’t — about 5000 gallons for every human on earth. Soon the greatest aqueduct of which the world ever dreamed will be carrying some of this water up and down and through mountains and plains to Los Angeles there to answer a crying human need. Power houses and transmission lines will be operating by September. Ultimately they will deliver three times the power that any other project has or contemplates, bringing inexpensive comfort and happiness to millions of Americans. Thus is Boulder Dam great—a colossal physical achievement, built by about 4000 men in a total of four or five years, for the advancement of human kind. The old Egyptian pyramid was nothing but a tombstone, to salve the vanity of despotic kings. NEXT: The machines that built the dam. An engineer's paradise where things that “can’t be done” are easy to do. The engineering miracle o? the ages.

a career man of 34 years’ standing, will take his place. Promoted to the vacated Norway post will go Norman Armour, now minister to Haiti, an A-l diplomat. Sevier is famous chiefly for his wife, who is national committeewoman from Texas and a noted author. When Sevier was appointed, his wife’s name appeared in Who’s Who, but his did not. When newspapers commented on this his wife’s name was dropped from the next edition of Who's Who, his appeared. (Copyright, 1935, bv United Feature . Syndicate. Inc.) $20,861,381 RECEIVED BY STATE UNDER AAA Indiana’s Share L'p to March 1 Is Revealed by Davis. By Timet Special WASHINGTON, April 9.—lndiana’s share in the $867,512,255 of Agricultural Adjustment Administration expenditures to March 1, amounted to $20,861,381, Administiator Chester C. Davis reported today. Rental and benefit payments in the state amounted to $20,861,381, and administrative expenditures, $285,748.31. Payments were: Cornhogs. $17,573 992.13; wheat, $3,131,259.52, and tobacco, $156,129.35. Marion County payments totaled $134,729.59. corn-hogs being $106,823.43, and wheaw, $27,906.16. HARDWARE OFFICIAL ATTACKS NEW DEAL Failed to Woo Capital Ardently Enough, Stokes Charges. Paul Stokes, statistician of the National Retail Hardware Association, last night attacked the national Administration for not wooing capital ardently enough. Speaking at a meeting of the Indianapolis Association of Credit Men in the American Central Life Building. Mr. Stokes said. “By keeping politics out of any planning, business will move forward.” Fellowship Elects City Women By United Pret • LOGANSPORT, Ind., April 9 Miss Louise Morman, Indianapolis, held the presidency of the Indiana World Fellowship today following her election at 11th annual convention here.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1935

roßTirtcATioN jeSL* (Copyright, 1935, by Los Angeles Times and NEA Service. Inc.) In marvelous detail, the vast picture of Boulder Dam is spread before the reader in this sketch by Charles H. Owens, showing locations of the myriad links of this mighty engineering project.

HARVARD SCHOLARSHIP IS PROVIDED IN WILL SISOO Award Is Offered by Estate of Mrs. Kessler. A scholarship, valued at SISOO, to Harvard University’s law school was provided under terms of the will of Mrs. Rose M. Kessler, probated yesterday. The Harvard Club of Indianapolis will select the person given the scholarship. He must pledge himself to practice law- in this city upon completion of his training. Mrs. Kessler was the widow of Walter Kessler, a Harvard law school graduate. She lived at 543 N. Audu-bon-rd. The estate was valued at $90,000. BANK CHIEF TO SPEAK State Association Secretary to Address Kiwanis Club. Don E. Warrick, Indiana Bankers Association secretary, will speak on “Present Day Banking Problems” at the Kiwanis Club luncheon tomorrow at the Columbia Club. Luther Snodgrass will be in charge of the meeting.

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SIGMA GHI GROUP TO OBSERVE STATE DAY Indiana, Michigan Members to Meet Here. Members of seven active chapters of Sigma Chi fraternity in Indiana and Michigan, and their alumni, will celebrate the fraternity's state day at the Lincoln April 27. Banquet speakers will include Hamilton Douglas Jr., dean of the Atlanta Law School, Atlanta, Ga„ fraternity grand consul; Chester W. Cleveland, Chicago, Sigma Chi Magazine editor, and Oscar McNab, Chicago, Illinois and Wisconsin province praeter. The program is under the direction of Telford B. Orbison, Indianapolis alumni group president. The general committee includes Ray Mead, Purdue; Fred Sale, De Pauw; Reid McLain, Wabash; Wilson Daily, Butler, and J. F. Frisinger, Indiana.

By George Clark

FORESTERS TO CHARTER ST. PHILIP NERI COURT Initiation Ceremonies to Be Held Sunday Afternoon. Initiation ceremonies for charter members of anew branch of the Catholic Order of Foresters, to be known as St. Philip Neri Court, will be celebrated Sunday afternoon in the St. Philip Neri parish hall. Degrees will be conferred on members of the new court and on candidates for membership of St. John court at that time by Indiana state court officers. The services will follow a communion breakfast. The new organization has been carried out by John A. Kustad, Indianapolis, state secretary and high court field representative, assisted by Peter Hickey, James Brennen and members of St. John court. PANGBORN TO CIRCLE GLOBE SEEKING RECORD Hopes to Cut Wiley Post’s Time to Four and One-Half Days. By United Prett NEW YORK, April 9—Clyde Pangborn, veteran long-distance flier, hopes to circle the world in a four-and-one-half-day nonstop flight some time this summer. A radically designed monoplane capable of averaging around 200 miles an hour is being built for the flight at Keyport, N. J. It will carry three persons, Pangborn, Bennett Griffin and Reeder Nichols, radio engineer. Pangborn’s plan is to leave San Diego in late July or early August. He would take the northern route with refueling points designated as New York, Moscow, and Chita in Siberia. Wiley Post holds the round-the-world record of 7 days 18 hours 49 minutes, made in 1933.

CULBERTSONS BOAST 14,640-POINT MARGIN Sims’ Chances Slim as Bridge Eiattle Nears Finish. Bj/ United Prrts NEW YORK. April 9.—Ely Culbertson and his wife held a strong strategic position in their family bridge match with the P. Hal Sims today with a lead of 14,640 points at the ena of the 112th rubber. The 150-rubbber match to test the Culbertsons and Sims systems entered its final week yesterday. Kibitzers established the Culbertsons as strong favorites, but their present lead admittedly was not insurmountable. With a fair run of cards and adroit piay the Sims could erase it and pile up points on the plus side. Grocery Store Is Looted Sneak thieves broke into a grocery at 348 Virginia-av last night and stole cigarets, cakes, pies, a cooked ham and a slab of bacon. Martin Barber, owner, discovered the burglary.

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Entered * Seennd Cl*** Matter at PostofTiee. Indianapolis. Ind.

Fair Enough WESTBROOK PEGLER XTEW YORK, April 9.—Something ought to be done right away to clean up conditions in the saloons of this country where nowadays a respectable working man or woman can not find elbow room at a bar or a table at which to sit down without coming into contact with the members of the younger society set who have no manners and can not hold their liquor. For that matter, a decent, respectable citizen can not even collapse in anything like dignity and peace any more because the odds

are that all the available floor space will already be congested with a couple of layers of young squirts from Park-av and Syosset and so forth who have been slapped in the face with a bar rag and stretched out to dry. Os course, everybody knows these people exist and the government should do all it can toward relieving them of their money and preparing them for membership in the human race at some future time. But this is not a job which can be accomplished in a few years, and it is rushing matters to" permit the society set, young or old, to

frequent places which are intended for the pleasure and convenience of their betters. It is a pretty terrible state of affairs when a gentleman drops into his pub of an evening after a difficult day sweeping leaves on relief and a routine fight with the loving wife at home and discovers as he glares into the depths of his crock that he has a gay young scion of the mincemeat millions on his left, and the scion of the electric belt millions cm his right, and Is standing up to his hocks in the moist and mushv figure of the scion of the hair tonic millions. Thanks to their general ignorance, these people can not realize that they are undesirable and that superior people do not wish to have any conversation with them. So they force themselves on the legitimate customers and presently drive them out of the premises. The street, the movies, even home itself, is a tempting haven when that happens. a a a This Is a Terrible Situation! 'I'HE whole trouble, like so many others, dates back to that experiment which Mr. Hoover thought noble in purpose. Any one who had any experience in pub-crawling before the tragedy of prohibition will recall, and with a deep longing sigh, too. the days when the American saloon was known as the poor man’s club and was frequented by the sort of people that one likes to meet. There were no society people in the saloons in these days. They were not Jim-Crowed out. exactly, because under the Constitution they enjoy a theoretical “quality, but they were given to understand that they were unwelcome and they took the hint. After all, they had their own segregated quarters at Newport, Bar Harbor, Palm Beach and such places, and they seemed contented to be off by themselves. But the prohibition speakeasy was a democratic institution and presently the society element got a foot in the door and then crashed. Scions got in your hair. There were scions and scionesses at or under all the tables, cackling the irritating scion dialect about their horses and jewels and divorces, and inventing drinks with whipped cream and garden truck in them which shaped up as anything from puree of gin to a New England boiled dinner au Scotch. The decent element have themselves to blame to some extent, however, because there came a time there when the more daring of them thought it would be a lark to do some slumming around Palm Beach and see how the other half lives. This came to be quite a fad, and the first thing anybody knew the society crowd considered themselves as good as anybody. Some of them even went through the motions of going to work. Not real work, to be true, but little imitation jobs selling millinery or underwear to each other. a a a It’s All Cooked Up by Moscow • THE situation now, under repeal, Is becoming unbearable. Scions and scionesses swarm the saloons, dancing the hotcha-ma-chotch and the cockfight figures of the Cuban rhumba. Columnists mention their names next to reading matter. Photographers walk around with little cameras such as blackmailers use to obtain evidence and blow little flashes wi‘h their lightning bottles as the subjects pose in attitudes of unawareness. The papers publish their faces not exactly as news, but more as a record of a growing menace of usurpation. The saloon is the poor man’s club no more. It isn’t even respectable any more. The saloon has become a society dive, and the younger set of America is driving the decent element on to the water wagon. Your correspondent suspects Moscow. Certainly nothing that the masses or the workers ever printed can compare in propaganda power with the constant pictures and text in the papers of the scions and scionesses at play in the saloons. A little more of this and the dispossessed will get really sore and pull off that revolution. (Copyright. 1935. by United Feature Syndicate Inc.)

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

PRIMARY interest in the Dionne quintuplets is held by doctors and welfare workers. Certainly, specialists in feeding and rearing of infants are going to learn a great deal from these babies. Already they have learned much concerning the factors necessary to rear premature children to successful life. It is w'ell known that the mortality among premature babies is excessive in spite of the best possible care. Mortality among twins and triplets in premature births is enormous. Survival of these babies is characterized as phenomenal. A premature baby is not developed sufficiently in its nervous system to provide for the automatic regulation of its breathing or of its body temperature. Its feeding and digestive powers are very feeble. Furthermore, the premature baby is likely to succumb to any one of a number of infections to which it is easily exposed. a a a SUCCESSFUL rearing of the quintuplets depended on the provision of the right kind of air, the maintenance of proper body temperature, the feeding of a sufficient quantity of properly collected and preserved human milk, and extraordinary vigilance in preventing development of infections. What has been accomplished for these babies may well be a lesson to parents throughout the world as to the type of care necessary to be given every infant so that he may have the best possible opportunity for health and successful growth. a a a WHILE the quintuplets appear to be identical, it will, of course, require extended scientific study to determine whether any two of them are identical or whether all five are identical. If it should turn out that some are identical ar.d the others fraternal, that is. that several came from one egg cell and the others from individual egg cells, the studies will provide most extraordinary information. No doubt, as these infants grow, they will be subjected to serious study not only of their physical characteristics, such as their sizes and measurements and thumb prints or other physical formations of their bodies, but also of their mental development. Will one learn faster than the others? Will one develop musical talents and the others ability to paint or to dance? They are going to have a life that is to be lived in a glass house, with all the world studying through special lenses. * \

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