Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 30, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 April 1935 — Page 11

APRIL 15, 1935

/Cover She World WM raft SIMMS WASHINGTON. April 15—The French-British-Italian accord at Stresa is regarded in diplomatic circles here as having definitely put the peace of Europe squarely up to Nazi Germany. The me. ting of the League Council at Geneva today is expected to clinch the matter. Chancellor Hitler is now regarded as having been given a limited time in which to Join the proposed European concert or see the reich encircled. Despite previous expressions of disappointment

cabled from abroad, opinion here is inclined to regard Stresa as a turning point in Europe's post-war history, and of great importance. It clearly reveals, one leading diplomat observed to the writer, that the major powers stand today at the same crossroads as in 1914. Their statesmen, therefore, and Herr Hitler in particular, have only to heed what took place in that year to avoid a similar catastrophe. Great Britain and Germany, especially, are playing today almost pxactly the same roles they took in those other days when crisis was following crisis. Great Britain then as now' was trying to maintain the European

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balance of power by refusing formally to commit herself in advance to actual military alliances on the continent. Then as now, Germany was maneuvering to split the British-French-Russian entente by playing up to Britain as far as she could without yielding on major points, such as her naval rearmament program. a tt a Memories of 19J i IN 1312, Lord Haldane, British cabinet member, visited Berlin supposedly on a direct invitation fom the Kaiser to effect a rapprochement. It fell through because Britain refused to pay the price. In July. 1914, Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg made an eleventh-hour bid for British neutrality by promising not to expand at the expense of France. This got nowhere largely because it developed that neither French colonies nor the neutrality of Belgium and Holland was included in the guarantee. Then as now the British urged Germany to cooperate to prevent war, promising that when the crisis blew over she would do all in her power to bring Russia, France, Germany and herself into some arrangement for collective insurance of the peace of Europe. Meantime, she warned, she w'ould maintain a free hand. While she would not aid France or any other power to wage an aggressive w r ar, if France were attacked Britain could not stand by and look on with indifference. a st it The Outstretched Hand THE events leading up to the Stresa conference, my informant remarked, have been, in effect, a repetition of the foregoing. Herr Hitler —Who now usurps the functions of both Kaiser and Chancellor —today faces the option of curtailing his program or facing a united Europe. Even Great Britain has shown there is a point beyond which she can not go to placate Germany as the price of peace. Stresa demonstrated, he said, that while there is no definite coalition against Hitler at the moment, one is in the making if the Fuehrer persists in his present course. It is for Hitler to say. Hitler is seen as having two or three months in which to show definite signs of seizing the outstretched hand. The Danubian parley proposed for Rome on May 20 may furnish him with such an occasion. There, he will be expected to renounce his dream of annexing Austria, and that will be diametrically opposed to the Nazi program.

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

BLIGHT'S disease, or chronic inflammation of the kidneys, is one of the most widespread conditions in medical practice. The condition was first described many years ago. More recently it has been realized that there are various types of Bright s disease characterized by different symptoms and a different course, and that the method of treatment depends on understanding its nature. . , It is important to study the excretions from the kidney and to plan the treatment according to the condition of the kidney as it is found by this type of study. For this reason the doctor invariably asks for a specimen of the fluid excreted by the kidney as a first step in the study of the disease. a tt n IN the acute form, which comes on usually after an infection like that of scarlet fe\ei 01 after poisoning with certain metallic poisons, the symptoms are sudden. Not only is a diminished amount of fluid excreted by the kidney, but usually there is change in color to a brownish or reddish hue because of presence of blood. In the acute form of inflammation of the kidney there may be swelling or puffiness of the face, with headache, nausea and vomiting. In handling this type of inflammation, the most important step is to eliminate need for action by the kidneys. By use of cathartics and by sweating, the bowels and the skin are made to get rid of the water which the kidneys can not eliminate. Application of heat seems to be of value in diminishing congestion of the kidneys. , . „ After healing begins, the diet is carefully regulated to avoid too much pressure on the kidney. a a a IN the chronic form of Bright’s disease, there is a gradual chance in the tissue of the kidney, leading to formation of fibers in place of the normal tissues of the kidney. As the normal cellular elements gradually disappear from the kidney, the body attempts to compensate for inability of the organ to get rid of its usual secretion by pushing the blood through faster. Therefore, there is an increase in blood pressure. If the condition continues, the heart may eventually become enlarged. The fluid coming from the kidney contains albumen. which is a sign of destruction of kidney tissue and also of inability of the kidney to carry out its functions normally. Treatment of this condition is most difficult, bebecause the kidneys are already severely damaged, and it is not possible to cause the normal cells of the kidney to come back to take the place of the fibrous tissue already formed.

Questions and Answers

Q —Name the capital of Florida. A—Tallahassee. Q —Can an alien be deported for refusing to become an American citizen? A —No. Q —Who was Giovanni Paolo Maggini? A—An Italian violin maker, born in Brescia. Q —Who holds the new world record for free parachute jumps? A—Victor Evceyef. who ascended to 23.760 feet, and jumped with an oxygen mask. He did not pull the rip cord of his parachute until he was 500 feet from the ground. Q— Is it correct to say. "Make a cake for Mary and I?” A—The preposition "for” takes the objective case; consequently, “Make a cake for Mary and Me” is correct. Q —What is a foreigner? A—An unnaturalized person of foreign birth and nationality.

SPANNING PACIFIC IN THREE DAYS

That’s Man’s Next Great Aim in His Conquest of the Skies

BY SHERMAN MONTROSE SEA service Writer CAN FRANCISCO, April 15.—Heralding anew epoch in man's conquest of the air, a giant Pan-Amer-can Clipper flying boat will soon be lifting itself from the famous bay here and heading out through the Golden Gate toward China —more than 8500 miles away. Back of this effort to regain the prestige of the old Yankee clippers which were the marvel of the China trade 100 years ago are millions of dollars spent on development and equipment, two years’ intensive training of personnel with one goal in mind, and a triumph of American enterprise over great obstacles. After several experimental flights over the 8500-mile route, the first regular-schedule passenger cargo flight will come late in the summer. Then passengers and important light cargo will go aboard at Alameda or San Diego, Cal., and reach Canton, China, in about three days. Today the fastest ocean ships take three weeks for the trip. tt a a 'T'HE epic journey—which even 1 in a flying age see.us Incredible —will be made in 19-ton flying boats, pow’ered by four motors that pull the huge clippers at better than 150 miles an hour. Five stops will be made en route: At Haw’aii, Eastern Island in the Midway group, Wilkie’s Island in the Wake group, Guam and the Philippines. At the end of the flight lie the great open trade areas of the Far East, already being reached by government subsidized airlines of other powers. Pan-American, only American operator of international airmail ilnes, serves 33 countries in the Western Hemisphere and operates a system in China and Alaska. Its planes carry passengers, mail and cargo over 33,000 miles of routes, easily the longest airway in the world.

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

WASHINGTON, April 15.—Chalk up another score for Senate Republican Floor Leader Charley McNary. He was behind the House Republicans’ move to liberalize the oldage pension feature of the Social Security bill. The House minority party had held several caucuses in an effort to agree regarding the bill but had got nowhere. Some of the leaders privately consulted McNary, who advised them to call the Democratic bill too parsimonious and demand that its sls a month provision be boosted to $25.

McNary pointed out that such a stand would kill two birds with one stone: First, Republicans would put the Administration in the position of being niggardly in its treatment of the indigent aged. Second, Republican members opposed to the Townsend plan but from districts where pressure for it is strong, could record themselves as being for an old-age pension program more generous than the Administration's. a a a TT'RIENDS of White House Secretary Marvin T. Mclntyre are joshing him over anew mode he introduced to Miami (Fla.) society while the President was on his fishing vacation. “Mac,” according to other members of the President's entourage, introduced the European custom of kissing the lady's hand upon presentation. According to his friends, he became an adept at bowing from the waist, clicking his heels, and imprinting on the lady's glove a large smack. u a a A SKED for biographical material for the Congressional Directory. Congressmen have little hesitation in listing their ac- . complishments, but they seldom mention their failures. Jack Nichols. Democrat rookie from Eufaula. Okla.. is an exception. Under his name in the directory one reads. ‘ Reported for duty at the first officers training camp. Little Rock. May 14, 1917, but failed of commission.” There is a story back of that failure. When Nichols’ term in camp was about over and he could almost feel the lieutenant's bars on his shoulders, he got into an altercation with a young “shavetail." The language Jack used in that encounter caused him to be haled before the company captain. Undaunted. Jack again expressed himself in uncensored epithets. The result was that he was rejected without a commission, and started soldiering again as a buck private. Now Nichols is a member of Congress, while both the iieutenant and the captain who “busted" him are still in the army. a a u OUT in Idaho the grandiloquent Senator William Edgar Borah is the center of some subrosa political intrigue. Several of his political enemies are out to get his scalp when he comes up for re-election in 1936. Chief conspirator, are: James P. Pope. Democratic Senator from Idaho —pompous, earnest and pontifical. D. Worth Clark. Democratic

Heavy obstacles beset the Pacific project. No plane had been made—could ever be built, said the skeptics—capable of flying such long distances over water on schedule regardless of weather conditions. tt tt a \ TECHNICAL staff, headed by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, collaborated with aircraft builders to produce the giant “clipper” type ships with their 30,000-mile range under heavy load in virtually any weather. Many routes, over and around the Pacific, were surveyed under all conditions to find the safest and fastest. Radio engineers worked for years to develop an airways radio system with a range far surpassing anything ever developed. The result is a short-wave radio direction finder with a range of 2000 miles, as compared to the ordinary land radio direction finders with their 300-mile radius. With the new apparatus Miami

Congressman from Idaho—young, able and ambitious. C. Ben Ross, two-term Democratic Governor of Idaho, now aspiring to the Senate. The plan is for all three to unite in putting Gov. Ross in Senator Borah’s place. The trio has the announced help of Jim Farley, and there is no secret about the plot. One other part of the plot, however, is a deep secret. Ross and Clark are the only ones in on it. After they have secured the help of Senator Pope in polishing off Borah, they, in turn, are expected to polish off Pope when he comes up for re-election in 1939. Ross is to back Clark to replace Pop Note.—Borah thinks it is a great joke. (Copyright, 1935. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) INDIANA EDITOR DEAD W. E. Coons of Crawfordsville Passes; Rites Set for Today. By United Press CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., April 15.—Funeral services for W. E. Coons, 67, editor of the Crawfordsville Journal and Review, were held ; here today. He died Saturday night. Mr. Coons entered newspaper work as a printer's devil here nearly half a century ago. He was appointed editor of the daily Review in 1914. He became editor of the Journal and Review when the papers merged in 1929. SLAYING CLEW BARED Stolen Car Found By Police Probing Killing of Hijacker. Police today were in possession of a anew clew in the gangland j slaying of Cecil Williams, Indianapolis hijacker, Feb. 10, on a lonely j road near Pittsboro, with the finding late Saturday of an auto which Williams was alleged to have stolen. The car. property of J. E. Bauer, 3145 N. Illinois-st, was found on a | downtown parking lot where it had been since Jan. 1. Census Completed By Times Special SHERIDAN, April 15.—Taking of the Federal farm census, which was started here early in February, has been completed. Os approximately 300 farr*=rs, 152 have signed corn-hog contracts for the coming year. Canadian Bank Chief Dead By United Press MONTREAL. Quebec, April 15. S. J. B. Rolland. 83. president of the Provincial Bank of Canada and chairman of the board of the Rolland Paper Cos, died at his home last night.

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Spreading her giant wings over San Francisco Bay, this Pan-American Clipper will soon be setting her course .out over the vast Pacific for China, more than 8500 miles away. With her sister ships, she is America’s bid to revive the glories of the China Clippers of a century ago.

has followed the progress of PanAmerican planes flying tne Amazon River 2100 miles distant. a a a YT'OR two years a marine personnel has been trained in the laboratory of the Caribbean and the Arctic. Out over the Atlantic between the mainland and Puerto Rico, more than 500 miles of training flights w T ere completed. Crews flew r “blind” over the entire 1200 miles of w'ater. They made the entire flight by dead reckoning and celestial navigation while radio apparatus checked their route. While marine personnel was being trained and aviation and radio equipment developed, Pan-Amer-ican officials worked on the diplomatic relations involved. To form an outlet at the Asiatic end of the trans-Pacific service, an alliance was formed with the Chinese government through China National Airw'ays,

SHORTRIDGE POSTER WINNERS ARE NAMED Betty Efroymson, Mary Hesseldenz and Robert Smay Honored. Judges in the state poster contest sponsored by the Indiana University Extension Division have chosen three posters drawn by Betty Efroymson, Mary Hesseldenz and Robert Smay to represent Shortridge High School in the contest exhibit. Honorable mention was awarded to Grace Izor and Josephine Bailey. Ail posters entered in the judging are nov on display in the Rhoda Selleck Art Gallery at Shortridge. Judges in the contest were Dwight Reynolds of Sidener, Vanßiper and Keeling, Inc.; Jack Rhoades, of Rhoades, Hice and Etter, and Edward Herman, advertising manager of L. Strauss & Cos. M E DICS FORM BUREA U Speakers to Be Available for Talks on Related Subjects. The Indianapolis Medical Society announced today the organization of its speakers’ bureau to provide lectures on medical subjects before civic, luncheon fraternal and other clubs. The speakers will emphasize facts to dissipate superstitions, fads and false conceptions of health problems. Bishop Stearly to Resign By United Press NEWARK. N. J., April 15.—Bishop Wilson R. Stearly of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Newark, has announced his intention of resigning because of ill health.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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“I’ll teach him that his will is no stronger than mine!”

now operating 3000 miles of airlines between Shanghai, Peiping, Canton and up the Yangzte River. a a a Announcement of the commercial airline across the Pacific by the United States stirred a tempest in Japan. While Pan American air bases spotting the Pacific are commercial bases, they can readily be converted into military bases, Japanese claim. Although Japan is concentrating on military airlines in strategic positions in Manchukuo, it is also considering an airline linking the empire with mandated islands in the Pacific. This mandated group includes most of the islands in the Caroline, Marshall and Marianne groups. The Pan American line cuts through this Japanese-controlled group. At no time, however, will clipper ships on course actually, be flying over Japanese territory. Other international powers extend their airlines into the Far East. In this country aviation is

Baruch Attacks Flynn’s War Financing Proposal Gives Senate Committee 26-Page Statement to Correct Garbled Record.

By United Press WASHINGTON. April 15.—The John T. Flynn “pay-as-you-go” plan for financing the next war was criticized today in a slashing attack by Bernard M. Baruch, noted financier, who declared it probably would “imperil the defensive power of the United States and produce inflation.” ———

Mr. Baruch supplemented his previous testimony before the Senate committee investigating munitions, with a written statement “to correct the garbled record.” He asked the committee to read and insert in the record a 26page statement, salient parts of which follow: “We must fully realize,” he wrote, “that the war-time mobilization of the economic forces of the country are primarily for war purposes, but equal to and coincident with this, must be the consideration of the needs of the civilian population. Price control is only a part of this scheme of mobilization. This control must provide for the lowest prices possible, not only for war-making agencies, but for the civilian population as well, whose needs must be met from a constantly decreasing purse. “Throughout it seemed to be

a private business enterprise helped by airmail subsidy. But airlines of other nations are welded into one powerful unit, heavily subsidized by their governments. tt tt it TMPERIAL AIRWAYS, Great Britain's great system, already operates an airline from London to Capetown, Africa, to India and Australia. Plans are being made for a line from Burma to Hongkong and perhaps farther north. Air France is knocking at the Great Wall of China through her lines from Paris to Saigon, Indochina. Germany, in an agreement with Russia, is sending her Junkers monoplanes into China. Even Japan is considering an airline to the United States, employing Zeppelins. To date the giant clippers of the air, like the Yankee clippers of old, have taken the lead in the race for supremacy of ccean commercial airlines.

assumed of my plan for taking profits out of war,” continued Mr. Baruch, “that it depended solely on freezing all prices and then utilizing some modification of the World War excess-profit tax to recapture any profits due to war.” a tt a “'T'HIS assumption is completely A in error,” he said. “In simplest terms, I propose—“l—To make it unlawful to raise prices in any war from the day of declaration (or thereabouts), except as may be permitted by the President and to penalize both seller and buyer for infractions. Individual prices or whole groups of prices may be adjusted up or down by a price -adjusting committee. “2.—To take, by special taxes, 100 per cent of all profits and income in war above the average of the preceding three years of peace. “3.—To increase the regular individual and corporate income tax to the absolute point of diminishing returns. “The Flynn plan has certain characteristics that make it questionable and might defeat every purpose it asserts and that would probably imperil the defensive power of the United States. “I agree with Mr. Flynn that a prime and continuing curse of war is inflation; that we should, as far as possible, pay as we go and not pass the burdens of war and inflation to future generations, that we should see to it that nobody profits by one cent from war. “But I must, from intense experience, record myself In disagreement with Mr. Flynn's ultimate conclusions. It is my judgment that the Flynn plan would insure an exaggerted inflation far greater than if there were no plan at all, paralyze war production and render this nation practically helpless against a major attack by an enemy possessing an economic and industrial system fairly comparable with our own.” BACK PAY COLLECTED Indiana XRA Officials Set Record With $14,732 in Restitutions. Anew record for the collection of back wages under the National Recovery Administration codes was set by the Indiana headquarters in the last two weeks, Francis Wells, NRA acting state compliance officer, said today. A total of $14,732.39 in wage restitutions was made in this period to 652 employes as a result of the adjustment of 19 cases, he pointed out. These sums, he said, were found to be due workers, above that alreadypaid by their employers. Budapest Banker Dead By Unitt and Pres BUDAPEST, April 15.—Alexander Popovics, 72, governor of the National Bank, since 1924, died today.

Fair Enough WESTBROOK PEGLER NEW \ORK. N. Y., April 15.—1n Louisiana Huey Long used to look out over the statesmen sitting in his state Capitol and say that he could buy them like so many sacks of potatoes. He knew his statesmen and they knew he knew them. That was why they sat still and took it one day when a brother of Huey, having been ordered off the floor for lobbying, walked down to the Speaker's stand, dramatically faced about, put his thumb to his nose and. pursing his lips, blew a loud salute of contempt to the Legislature of the state of

Louisiana. But that was back in the piecework days of legislation in Louisiana when statesmen were bought by the jtb. Huey saw that this was a wasteful and laborious system of merchandising and adopted a method of buying them permanently with salary checks nominally directed to their relatives and friends to cover ostensible work presumed to have been performed for the state. If the relatives and friends then kicked back some or all of this salary to the individual statesmen that was deplorable, to be but

just another flaw in an imperfect world. Nowadays, in Baton Rouge, a man who wants a law to protect his business or permit him to steal something is just wasting his time and monev appealing to the statesmanship of the individual'legislator. The individual has no volition on anything having sold himself i n advance for the entire term •~o all appeals are addressed to headquarters. Headquarters then tells the individuals how to vote and hey vote as they are told. If they don't their roiatnes „nd fuends do not crceive any more salary checks and the erring statesman receives no S back. Moreover, come next election, he is kicked out. o a a Florida Legislators He fuddled R™ Sh °" n that this a very efficient now TIJ/ " aste no tlme in Bat °n Rouge, v°. '.. T e , J 2? not even read the bills. Thev just vo.e ’yes.; They never have to vote “no” became no proposition winch is disapproved at headquarters is ever permitted to come to a vote. This relieves hnl en 0f the mpntal strair of rememoering how they are to vote. There are two little electric buttons on each legislator's desk, one for ’ aye” and one for “nay.” and the member trains himself never under any circumstances, to press the one marked “nay.” In Florida, the piece-work system still prevails, and the results are very unsatisfactory. There are no ethics and a man may even listen to reason on both sides of a question, causing great confusion among business men who attempt to transact business. They had a terrible time passing a racing and pari-mutuel bill in Florida a few years ago. First they passed it. Then it was vetoed. When it came up again, some of the statesmen had forgotten their reasons for \oting for it in the first place, and there was a great scurrying around in New York! where the bill originated, to collect arguments to convince them all over again. A messenger hurried down to Tallahassee with the arguments in a satchel and just barely had enough arguments to go around. The New York Legislature at this time is in a most bewildeiing state of confusion. The New York statesmen operate on both systems, the piece-work plan and by the term, and the two do not mix well. A year ago, for example, a bill was introduced and went whooping through to permit pari-mutuel betting on the New York race tracks. Pari-mutuel betting in New York would return at least $5,000,000 a year and probably as much as $8,000,000 in the kitty for the state treasury. In order to become a law, however, the bill had to pass two consecutive sessions and then be referred to the people in an election. tt tt tt Bookies Argue With Cash IN the meanwhile, as a temporary convenience, bookmaking was permitted last summer. The bookmakers, who pay no tax to the state, made so much money that they appealed to the statesmanship of the individuals and headquarters. Both, to reverse themselves this year and vote against the mutuel law, which they indorsed so heartily before. You can hardly guess the strength of the bookmakers’ appeal to the statesmen, but the fact that the mutuels, taking down a kitty of, say, 5 per cent, would return from $5,000,000 to $8,000,000 will give you an idea. The bookmakers take down a kitty of at least 20 per cent. This will just suggest the potency of the arguments against the mutuel bill, which the bookmakers have been able to present both to individual statesmen and to headquarters in New York City. There is a current newspaper estimate of $250,000, but that obviously means only the down payment. Bookmaking will face a magnificent future of prosperity if the mutuel bill is killed, as it undoubtedly will be, and the arguments to be contributed by the bookmakers in the years to come will be stupendous. The gambling house magnates think nothing of sending SIOO,OOO down to Miami alone, along toward October every year, to convince the local authorities that gambling houses are an asset) to the community. The state treasury will lose from $5,000,000 to $8,000,000 a year, to be sure, but the treasury could hardly expect to win against such powerful arguments. (Copyright. 1935. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

SKULL proportions, hertofore regarded as infallible criterions of racial classification, are not always to be trusted. This is the revolutionary pronouncement just made by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, worldfamous anthropologist of the Smithsonian Institution. Dr. Hrdlicka has spent as much time, perhaps, in the measurement of skulls as any other scientist in the world. Anthropologists have worked out an index, comparing the length to the width of the skull and noting other measurements, as a definite means of classification. On this basis, many assertions have been advanced. For example, it has been claimed that a negroid population inhabited Scandinavia in prehistoric times and that the Nineteenth Century Eskimos were racially identical with the cave dwellers of France of 12.000 B. C. Dr. Hrdlicka now says that disturbing variations in all these measurements are likely to occur. Even the famed cephalic index—the relation of length to width—can vary in a most disturbing fashion. He says that if enough skulls are measured it is found that all races merge into each other as far as skull measurements go. a a a AS an example of how* skulls can change. Dr. Hrdlicka cites the case of the American Indian. There are more than 12,000 Indian skulls in the Smithsonian Institution under the care of Dr. Hrdlicka. The Indian, because of the change in his mode of life, is undergoing far-reaching physical changes, he says. During the last half century, owing to the transition from the life of a hunter in the great outdoors to the sedentary life of the reservations, the Indian has begun to grow stout. This has resulted in changing the muscular stresses and these, so Dr. Hrdlicka claims, are introducing changes in the skeleton. The face in particular is becoming modified, he claims. Moreover, the teeth are deteriorating, bringing about changes in jciW He also says that similar changes, particularly dental deterioration, are now going on in the Eskimo, a a a THIS is not the first time that Dr. Hrdlicka haa championed the cause of skeleton evolution. He has, for many years now, opposed the idea t. at Neanderthal man. the type of man which preceec! id the appearance of Cro-Magnon man, or the first true man, was a separate race. _ The generally accepted view has been that CroMagnon man drove Neanderthal man out of Europe and exterminated him. Dr. Hrdlicka, however, haa maintained that Cro-Magnon man evolved .rom Neanderthal man during the glacial period when conditions accelerated the progress- of- avoiutiaevr

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