Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 April 1935 — Page 7

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/ Cover the World WM. PIIUP SIMMS •\\rASHINGTON Apr:’. 13 What will in effect W be a second Versailles.' to male** or break the pe<-e of Europe. first forr-ast in this newspaper two weeks aro now v:rf:a'!' a certainty. Participating would be Nazi German - , as well as Britain. Franrr It ah- Soviet R, -.a, Poland ana the Little Entente. The outcome o? this exchange of ideas, wherein the R/.eh would t ike part as an equal, not as an ■ :law ’ haled before a idee for trial and punish-

ment. would then determine the immediate destiny of Europe. From h Germany would return to the League of Nations and the table of the arms limitation conference at Geneva. Else eastern and western Europe and the Danubian states would conclude the system of encirclement which now constitutes the Allies second line of defense. Such were the indications received here today. This would mean: First, that so intense is the desire of the Allies to keep out of war, that Chancellor Hitler is on the point of getting away with the rearmament of Germany in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles.

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Second that Germany will not be • tried" at Geneva Monday by the council of the League. Instead, her Treaty violations will be cited and a general rr.rr p of League action indicated in case there are further infractions. Care will be taken to do nothing to prevent her return to the fold. On th' other hand it. distinctly does not mean that the European crisis is over. Far from it. Chance,lor Hitler has still to accept the hand which, Wa mi.Eton hears, the Allies plan to extend more than half way. If 'here is conflict, the latter are determined to make it unmistakable who the aggressor is. a a a Snfeguarding the Status Quo T 7 UROPEAN capitals, the writer learns on high I _j authority, are exceedingly apprehensive lest Herr Hitler cold-shoulder the impending overtures. T r known that just prior to Field Ma.shal Von Htnrienburg's death Reichswehr officers, in a memo, urged again, t extremes in foreign policy. But. it is admitted there is absolutely no telling what Hitler will rlo row. Should compromise with Germany prove impossible, the British are understood to have assured the French and Italians that Britain will not only give her blessing to pending mutual security pacts, but supplement existing treaties safeguarding the status quo of Western Europe bv adding an aerial Locarno. This would pledge Britain. France, Belgium and Italy Germany was originally invited in—to use their air forces to assist any of their number if attacked from the air. This, military experts declare, is more important than might appear at first glance. a a a Momentous Slioirdoirn Impending BRITAIN may refuse to extend her continental security commitments, other than this, but as nu future major conflict is possible without planes, h r participation in any new trouble would become well nigh inevitable. The moment a hostile plane crossed the French, Belgian or Italian border, British planes would be obligated to lend a hand. Once at war. it would be imperative for her to end the struggle as soon as possible Hence Britain would throw into it her entire weight, on land and sea as well as in the air. A momentous showdown, therefore, is impending. If Britain France and Italy are in accord at Stresa. as reported. Herr Hitler today becomes the mast powerful human enigma Europe has seen in 100 years. The question posed here and in other capitals is this: Will this nobody of yesterday, but today the all highest of Germany into whose ears are heating the tempestuous "hochs!" of a frenzied people, remain sufficiently sane to grasp the outstretched hand? The answer to this riddle means world peace or rivers of blood.

Today s Science BV DAVID DIETZ

\ N explanation for the simultaneous flashing of a large swarm of fireflies, a rare but wellattested phenomenon, is advanced by Dr John Bonner Buck of the Zoological Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University Dr. Buck finds that old demon sex. at the bottom of so many things that happen in this world, to be the cause of the phenomenon. Reports of large swarms of fireflies all flashing their lights on and off in unison have come in from such widely scattered parts of the world as Siam and the Philippine Islands as well as from various parts of the United States. A great variety of explanations have been offered for this synchronous flashing. Dr. Buck finds that the explanation of the phenomenon lies in the mating habits of the fireflies. He says that the male firefly flies about emitting a single short flash about every 5.7 seconds. The female remains in the grass and responds to the male bv flashing shortly after each of his flashes. He finds that the female invariably flashes 2.1 seconds after the flash of the male. a a a DR BUCK tells that he has verified this phenomenon experimentally by rigging up an electric flashlight and flashing it exactly 2.1 seconds after the flash of the male. Pretty soon, he says, the light is surrounded by five or 10 males all flashing in unison. Ru- explanation of how an entire swarm gets to flashing m unison is as follows: When one female is surrounded with such a group of five or 10. the intensity of their combined flash is sufficient to attract the attention of a female at a considerable distance. Sire then begins to flash and soon is surrounded a group of five or 10 males. The same thing happens again and again until the whole swarm is synchronized. a a a SEVERAL reports indicate that the synchronous flashing onlv occurs under special conditions, he savs These include calm air. unusual humidity and darkness, and a large open space crowded with insects. He says that a breeze interferes with the flashing of tiie insects and so would tend to destroy the unison of the swarm. In support of his theory. Dr. Burk calls attention to the fact that the stronger the flashlight used in experiments, the more males are attracted to it. He has succeeded thus in attracting as many as 20 at one time. ”It is Indeed an impressive sight." he writes in Science, "to see such a group converging through the air toward one point, each member poising, flashing and surging forward in short advances, all in the mast perfect synchronism ."

Questions and Answers

Q —How much gold reserve is there in the world and in the United States? A—The reserves of the central banks and governments of the principal countries of the world were estimated at $21,745,000,000 on Dec 31. 1934, and the United States held $8 390 000.000 on Jan. 31. 1935. Q -Give the names of countries ruled by dictators and the names of the dictators. A—Germany. Adolf Hitler: Russia. Josef Stalin; Italv, Benito Mussolini: Poland. Gen. Pilsudski; Hungary. Admiral von Horthy; Portugal. Gen Carmona; Turkey. Mustapha Kemal Ataturk: Albania, King Zog; Persia. Riza Khar. Pahlevi. Q—ln what sequence should one write on the pages of folded note paper A—ln the following order: First, second third and fourth pages; or first and fourth, then turn and write sideways across the second and third.

THE ‘MIRACLE’ IN ENGINEERING

Dismantling and Salvage Work Alone Will Cost Millions

With Rnuldrr Dam n*ar rnmpi*ti*n, th* mammoth ta*k farinr Huill*r riitmantlinr th* *at amount of *qipm*nt at th* it* ia told in th atopw, hit of th* i*rifi of *ix on th> *nfine*rInf m*rvfl. BY OREN ARNOLD NEA Servife Special C’nrrepond*nt Boulder city. Nev.. April 13. —One of the thrills of a circus is to stand around after the performance and watch 'em dismantle the structures and tents. It's going to be highly interesting to watch them "dismantle'' things at Boulder Dam. The finale of removing scaffolding. steel foundries, concerete plants, railroads, cables, bridges, supports, dormitories, mess halls and the thousand and one other temporary items, is going to be a Grade A engineering job itself. Man-hours, and salvaging, are bound to run into millions of dollars, although “million dollars’’ is not an impressive figure at Boulder Dam. Much of this work will be under wav by summer; in fact, it has already begun. All the old planks and forms can be knocked off the dam proper, off the huge intake lowers and powerhouses, to make them "clean" for tourists to see. BBS IN this deep canyon, many miles from a lumber tree, you can -oon get enough used lumber to build a whole town of homes, with an auditorium thrown in. Anri there is. for instance, one gate made of 3.000.000 pounds of steel, which you can have free if you will cart it off On top of the canyon and over eight miles, workmen also will soon begin dismantling a part of Boulder City. But oniy that part built by the dam construction company wall be removed. They are temporary frame houses, mostly, where the workmen live. The lovely brick and plaster residences built by Uncle Sam. some of which are palatial, will remain here, to be homes of the permanent force which will maintain and operate Boulder Dam and its power plant. Os the 5000 people now in Boulder City perhaps 3500 will remain. Some of the discharged workmen will be absorbed in building the great aqueduct from the Colorado River to Los Angeles. on the new canal projects in Imperial Valley, and subsequent jobs incident to the reclamation program there. They will not, if at all avodiable, be turned back into the ranks of unemployed. BBS THE new project. to be launched soon, is that of making Boulder Lake a great recreation center. In perhaps the most scenic spot in America, it will be developed as a fishing, boating, bathing and hunting region. a paradise for the outdoor

DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON. April 13.—There is good reason for Big Jim Farley's choice of September as the time to retire. By that time Congress will be adjourned and Jim can salve his pride by saying he retired voluntarily, not because of Huey Long. Fact remains, however, that the mounting tide of congressional and public antipathy to Mr. Farley was one of the chief reasons for the President's decision to ease him out of the official family. . . . ———

Interior Secretary Harold Ickes will remember the Florida Everglades for a long time. Visiting the Seminoles in their marshy retereat last week, he w'as obliged to leap from log to log and stump to stump to reach their hide-out. The Indians were amazed that a paleface from Washington should pay them such a compliment. They signed a peace pact, ending a 100year period of hostility, growing out of alleged deception when their Chief Osceola was captured under a flag of truce. ana BURT WHEELER, hard-fisted Senator from Montana, was invited to Pittsburgh to address a convention of 1200 traffic managers and railway executives. The meeting was held in the aristocratic Duquesne Club and the drift of the discussion before Mr. Wheeler spoke was bitterly critical of any government interference with the railroads. But Mr. Wheeler, who is chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, did not bat an eye. He launched a tirade denouncing private railway operation and told the executives why the government was going to take their roads over. The only thing he left out was the date of transfer. California politicos who so cockilv prophesied that last November's defeat meant the end of Upton Sinclair received a rude shock in the Los Angeles municipal primaries. Under the personal leadership of Mr. Sinclair, the EPIC party elected one member outright to the city council and placed candidates for ten of the remaining fifteen seats in the run-off election of May 7. Reports reaching Washington indicate EPIC will control the new city council. a a a THE Administration's behind-the-scenes effort to win senatorial backing for renewal of the NR A is getting desperate and intense. Some of the inner council master minds contend it is inconceivable the Senate should refuse to extend the life of the Blue Eagle Act. but the congressional floor leaders are not so sure. They are frantically seeking to clear aw'av all obstacles. What is seriously handicapping them is the strong under current of hostility to NR A Chairman Donald Richberg and the fact that the Administration is fighting against time. Unless the law is renewed by June 16. it expires automatically. . . . Flamboyant announcements by Oklahoma's 10-gallon-hatted Representative Perce Gassaway as to what he was going to do to Huey Long have made no impression on Capitol Hill. Reason is circulation of clippings from a McAlester lOkia.) newspaper. It reveals

The greatest man-made lake in the world stretches back from Boulder Dam. as the Colorado River, extending out over the lowlands for 25 miles upstream, fills the huge reservoir, shown in this air view from a Richfield Oil Company plane. The lake level now is far above the old river channel. In the center foreground the dam loses its look of immensity as viewed from a mile and a half height.

vacationist, all supervised by Uncle Sam. The world's biggest man-made lake should be full in four or five years. Its water would then cover all New York state to a depth of one foot! It will be 1200 feet above sea level, with mountains around it, and have 550 miles of shore line. Below the reservoir are about 2.000.000 acres of irrigable land, of which 660.000 already are irrigated, mostly in California. New irrigation, however, is not the main consideration in building Boulder Dam. Flood control, silt control, domestic water sup-

that in seven personal encounters, Gassaway came out second best in all. . . . a a a SENATE Democratic leaders have been advised by the i White House that anew St. LawI rence waterway pact will not be ! negotiated with Canada in time for consideration at this session. ... It cost Stanley Reed money to accept the post of Solicitor General. As chief counsel of the RFC. the Kentuckian drew $12,000 a year. His new' job. a far more important one, pays only ! SIO,OOO. If the same age limit were applied to the House as to the Sen- ' ate, two members would have been barred. Elmer J. Ryan of Minne- ! sota is only 27 years old. Joseph P. Monoghan of Montana has just had his 29th birthday. This is his second term. When first elected to Congress he was only 26. . . . Seventeen other members were born since the turn of the century. Old-timers declare that never bpfore has the House been flooded with such a parade of youth. I iCopvrifrht, 1935 bv United Fparure Syndicate, Inc.i J. P. SCOTT NAMED TO county liquor board I City Man Choice of Mayor Kern for Advisory Commission. James P. Scott, 4402 Central-av was appointed by Mayor John W Kern yesterday as a member o! i the Marion County Liquor Comi mission. Under the terms of the i liquor law' passed by the last Legis- | lature the commission will investigate all persons wishing to take out beer or liquor permits in the county Mr. Scott will serve with Raleigh O. Burk, recently appointed by the Board of County Commissioners, and a third member to be named by the State Excise Department. MURAT TEMPLE HOLDS INITIATION CEREMONIES Class of Neophytes Join Lodge in Annual Spring Rite. A class of neophytes was initiated ! at the fifty-first spring ceremonial at Murat Temple yesterday. The class included: Otis Albertson. Ernest Asbell, Seymour; Benjamin N. Bogue. Orval L. Easley, Leo Fenton. Noblesville; Paul Fishback F. Demiah Fiesher. Selma; Lyndell D. Foster, Harry F. Hergt. Horace B. Kemper. Kokomo; Willis E Kuhn. Harman A. Kurtz, Edward j 8.. Louden, Orville E. Miller. George N. Ross. Walter R. Snodgrass. Nash--1 ville, and Leonard L. Swartz.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

ply for Pacific coast cities, and electric power are the four big reasons. BBS 'T'HE power sale will pay for the dam under contracts for it already signed. The Boulder power plants have a capacity of 1.835,000-horse power. 'Niagara has only 452,500; Muscle Shoals 250,000, with a potential of 60.000 only; Dnieprostroy in Russia, 750.000.) The city of Los Angeles and the California Edison Cos. will operate and maintain the power plant. The greatest power lines ever con-

GETS 30-DAY TERM FOR 90-CENT THEFT Records Show 30 Previous Arrests. 15 Aliases. Georce Rogers. 54. yesterday came before Clyde Carter, Municipal judge pro tern., and wasj charged with taking 10 cents w'orth j of merchandise from a dowmtown j store. ‘‘Judge,” said Mr. Rogers, “I \ra* a victim of circumstances, and 11 hope you'll be lenient. I am a show | man, and sell these novelties at j circuses and carnivals and things.'' j Just then a policeman handed the j judge Rogers’ record. There were 30 arrests, dating from 1900. and a j record of 15 aliases. “Well, w T ell. w'ell,” said the judge. ! “It’s nothing,” Rogers said, “Just a few' little cases. The whole thing doesn't amount to much.” The policeman said Rogers had told him he had spent more than half his life behind bars. The judge fined him $lO and costs and sentenced him to 30 days in jail, remarking that that was lenient Hoosier hospitality.

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ceived already are stringing across the state to Los Angeles, nearly 200 miles away. Beginning in September, Boulder Dam ultimately will create three times the electricity any project ever offered, and there are a dozen or more other good dam sites on the Colorado, if need arises. Electricity may help wipe out human drudgery, with a good start toward it right here. BBS IV/TORE than 1000 tourists a day '*■*'*■ are seeing Boulder Dam now, and the number is increasing.

Here’s Way to Sober Up But Don’t Ever Try It Indiana University Scientists Use Poisonous Drug —on Dogs—to End Jag. •

Hi/ Science Service DETROIT. April 13.—A drug that will sober up intoxicated dogs in less than half the time it took their fellow drunks to recover from an alcohol jag was reported by Prof. R. N. Hargei and H. R. Hulpieu of the University of Indiana Schoil of Medicine at the metting here today of the American Society for Experimental Pharmacology and

Experimental Therapeutics. The drug is a yellow' powder known to chemists as dinitrophenol. It has recently been sued to cause fat people to lose weight. Because it is very dangerous when used without a physician's supervision. the Indiana scientists particularly warn the public not to use it as a home remedy after a spree. “Severe poisonings and several deaths have resulted from its rather widespread use by overweight people,” Prof. Harger said. “We wish to emphasize that our experiments were done only with dogs and that the presentation at this time is solely for its scientific interest. Until further care-

By George Clark

Tremendous in every sense, it is hard to grasp without prolonged study, but soon the nation will be familiar with its physical aspects, at least. Ultimately, all nations will realize that here is the greatest, single man-made wonder in all the world, because it is not just a circus or a show place, not just a monument or a statue or a private money-making scheme. It is a gigantic adventure in human progress and emancipation. THE end

fully supervised work is done this drug should not be used in treating intoxication in human beings. “Otherwise, when 'hubby' returns home ‘soused’ at 4 a. m. and takes a capsule of this drug in order to be sober when he goes to the office at 9, he might accomplish the desired result, .but again e might go to the undertaker instead.” a a a C"0 dangerous do Prof Harger j his associates consider this j drug that they have hesitated to | publish their discovery of its so-bering-up effects for fear that some unscrupulous medicine j manufacturer exploit the drug as a treatment for drunkenness and thereby produce cases of serious poisoning or even death. Their experiments showed that the drug enabled the dogs to bum the alcohol they had 'een given much more rapidly .i the usual rate. While the drug produced some fever in dogs, which caused them to breathe more rapidly, very I little of the loss of alcohol was ; by way of the lungs. Other investigators have shown that the body can bum alcohol only at a fixed rate and that exercise. expasure to cold and similar conditions will not speed up the burning of alcohol by the body. The discovery of the Indiane investigators is the first example of any procedure which will speed up the handling of alcohol j by the body. They also investigated the es- ! sects of other drugs on the body's handling of alcohol. Insulin, employed in diabetes, and thyroxin, I which is effective in reducing fat j people, have no effect on the rate 1 of burning of alcohol. Another I drug, dinitrocresol, was also found to be effectcive in speeding up the ! sobering-up process in dogs. , A recent report from Sweden, j | Prof. Harger pointed out. indicates | that Dr. E. M. P. Widmark of the ( ! University of Lund has indepen- | j dently discovered the sobering-up i I action of dmitrophenol. THEFT SUSPECT NABBED Express C*>. Agent Trapped Negro With Ixx>t, Police Say. Charles Smith, Negro, 25. was arrested by an agent of the American Express Cos. last night and slated on a charge of robbing an ex- i press trucg of packages valued at j SSO. Smith said he had no address, j The agent reported *o police that •he caught Smith taking packages j from a truck at thecompaar offices, 1 302 S. LUnCaai aL MtUMK

Fair Enough WMOMIB IF I were Dizzy TVan of thp St Louis Cardinals, I think I would have out-glared and out.-hollered Judge Landis in tha - circus interview in Chicago the other day and would have wound up telling him a few truths about himself and his office which he needs to be reminded of Knowing the old Judge quite well, I realize that this solemn warning to Dizzy Dean not to accept anv money from outsiders for anything he does on the baseball field was strictly the old Chamber of Commerce routine. It waa the sort of thing that he is paid

for at a much higher rate than Dizzy is paid for winning pennants. It was intended to impress the baseball customers with the piety of the baseball industry and to obscure the tyrannical meanness of a business which mooches its advertising in the guise of sport, lives on the sporting illusions of the customers and hires thp resounding name of an old-time news-maker of the United States District Court to indorse its questionable habits. I realize that the interview between the judge and Dizzy was a stagey operation intended to pro-

duce a dramatic effort on the customers through the papers and if I had been Dizzy I would have asked him why lie didn t do a lntl** czaring on Sam Breadon. the owner of the St. Louis Cardinals That would have set the old man back on his heels because he is an employe of Sam Breadon. among other baseball magnates, and therefore is in no position to order Sam around as he bosses the ball plavers. Sam is the judges boss and when a man is dealing with his boss he doesn’t issue orders. He takes them. BBS He'd Take a Chance TF I were Dim Dean. I would have taken a chanca -*■ "ith the public because the public is Dizzy Dean's friend and if he should go in*n a serious tangle with the old judge and Sam Breadon they would certainly come out of it as badly scuffed up as himself if not more so. This Dean is a great ball plavpr and a fine figure of a young man in the imagination of the public besides being, along with his brother. Daffy, just, about all there is to the St. Louis Cardinals. Last year for a salary of $3500 he won 30 ball games and his brother. Daffy, won 19. a total of 49 between them or just about half of all the ball games the Cardinals did win. In the course of this performance for which Paul received a salary of S3OOO, later increased to SSOOO, they' pitched nobody knows how many thousands of paid admissions through the turnstiles of the Cardinals, and not only that, but they won the National League pennant and. finally, the World Series. Wiien the time came to talk salary for this season. Brother Dizzy was argued down to $19,500 front his modest asking price of $25,000. and Brother Daffy was induced to accept somewhat less. The wonder is that they were not forced to accept a cut instead of a raise, because under the peculiar arrangement which governs employment in the baseball industry and which Judge Landis stands for. the employer's judgment on salary is final. The ball player is subject to a boycott provision which prevents him from shopping around for better terms. Brother Dizzy, being underpaid for this season, w r as invited to get out and hustle himself some pickr ings on the side after the manner of a French journalist. In the course of his gleaning he hooked up with a man who promised him SSOOO He says the SSOOO is to pay him for some radio work, but explained that the same man had paid him at the rate of SIOO last year for every game he won. BBS Three Men On—Then THE judge naturally doesn't want ball players to accept outside commissions for winning ball games because there is always a danger that a player who is sore at, his boss for under-paying him will make a deal with the gamblers at a much higher rate each game for losing. That was the trouble with the White Sox of 1919 who fouled up the industry with a spectacular smell and necessitated the engagement of Judge Landis. Their employer, old Charlie Comiskey, was a great saloon-spender and host with a large following of bar flies and other back-slappers, but when it came to paying the ball players of the greatest club in the history of the industry, he always wanted change for a nickel. So they said to hell with him and threw him down and nigh onto ruin in the baseball industry. If I were Dizzy Dean and his brother Daffv, getting the sort of deal and the sort of gratitude that they arp receiving from the baseball industry this year. I would not be in a mood to take much of that Chamber of Commerce conversation from the old judge. And I know what I would do, just for devilment some day. I would wait for a tight one one fine day. then I would walk three suckers to fill the bases and throw the next one over the grand stand. (Copyright. 1935, bv Unit *d F*aure Syndicate Inc.)

Your Health -BV DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

FOR many years it has been believed that, rheumatic inflammations may be associated with errors in diet. Recently, in one of the largest hospitals in Boston, two doctors made a study of the diets of 75 persons having chronic inflammation of the joints. Some of these cases were found to be definitely due to infections, such as gonorrheal infections and tuberculous infections. The remainder were carefully studied as to the influence on their conditions of changes in the diet, and they were compared with 30 persons who did not have rheumatism. The diets were studied particularly in relationship to the amount of carbohydrates that were taken and also w’ith relationship to the vitamins. a a a ONE group of physicians argued thar. chronia rheumatic disease is usually associated with taking an excessive amount of carbohydrates in relationship to proteins. It has also been argued that arthritis is associated with overeating and, finally, it has been claimed that it bears some relationship to the vitamin and mineral content of the food. The Boston investigators were unable to find that a deficiency of vitamin D had anything to do with the chronic rheumatic inflammations. In fact, the lack of rheumatic conditions in cases in which all of the vitamins have been shown to be deficient might be used as an argument against the idea that a lack of vitamins has anything to do with chronic rheumatism. u n u STUDIES also were made to determine whether lack of calcium or other mineral salts was responsible, yet the studies indicated that the mineral content of the diet does not seem to have any part in the beginning of chronic arthritis. Moreover, it was found that 59 per rent of the persors with chronic rheumatic conditions had had an excess of calories in their diets for years, but at the same time 43 per cent of the persons who did not have rheumatic conditions had an excess of calories in their diets. Asa result of all of these studies, the investigators were unable to And any direct relationship between dietary factors and the development of chronic rheumatic conditions. However, it should be realized that the patient with a chronic rheumatic condition requires all the force that his body can master to overcome the disease. and thar. a diet based on sound scientific principles is an important factor in building up his general physical condition Q —How is the number 13. followed by 20 ciphers, read? A—One sextillion. three hundred quintillion. Q— Who is president of the Pennsylvania Rail* road? m A-W, W. Atterbury,

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