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By ERNIE PYLE

~~ again. To hear the fog horns on the Sound, and the deep bellow of departing steamers. Js fr And it's good to sit in supplication before the tall and slyly outlandish tales that float up and down Puget Sound.

engine run until it 18 can of oil, then cut. in & different brand. y It had to be done, but it was very slow business to the. captain. It left him bored, and with nothing at all to do. And furthermore, his Mr. Pyle feet hurt. He stood sadly on the deck, watching the shore and now and then taking a jealous look at the water. It looked so cool. If he . could only put his aching dogs into it. Finally he decided to go ahead and do it. So he took off his shoes and socks, sat down on the low rail, and hung his feet over the side. Lordy, it felt ood ! 9 The water kept on feeling good, and the old tugboat captain ‘was enjoying it immensely, until a seal popped up and swam past. “He lganed far out for a better look. He fell overboard! ° ’ By the time he came up and had rid himself of that portion of Puget Sound which he had imbibed, his favorite tugboat had driven away from hi But all was not lost, for the tow of logs was still coming along. So the old man drifted back and” h'isted himself up. °

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» » Yelled tq Engineer BUNCH of logs on the end of a towline is no place for a dignified shipmaster to be, so our captain kept running up and down, yelling to the engineer on the tugboat, who couldn't hear him for the engine noise and couldn't have heard him anyway, for he was asieep. Somewhere along Puget Sound-lived one of those delightful people whose sole profession is watching the boats go by. He stood on the shore, pulled up his telescope, leveled it first on the tug, and then on the tow, and finally on the captain.” “Aha!” thought the watcher. “Poor Capt. Blank has gone off his nut.” S0 he phoned the tug company offices that their captain had gone crazy. . Now we shift back to the tugboat. Its five-gallon can of oil ran out. The engines stopped. The engineer woke up and went about his business of cutting in a new can and getting the engines started again. This gave the captain his chance.

8 2 »n ‘No One Wiser ; E jumped into’ the ‘water, half swam and half pulled himself along the towline up to the tug, climbed abeard, sneaked into his cabin without anybody seeing him, changed his clothes, and was out on deck by the time they got going, no one the wiser about his embarrassing ‘escapade—except the watcher on shore. - That evening they pulled into Port Angeles. with “their cargo. The company officials were all down at ‘the dock. So was an ambulance, and the sheriff, and a couple of policenien, just in case the old man should be really violent. : The captain stepped out on deck and greeted them. The company president began to fade slightly beneath his skin. “Why, captain, I understood you ‘were . « > kk.” « ; Fg o : $ .

ah "eo ¥ BEL x +. *Pit as a-fiddle,” bobnied the captain. “Never been 50 8ick a day ia my life” Biseak

Mrs Roosevelt's Day

EW HAVEN, Conn.—Thursday—I am constantly struck by the keen interest which my mother-‘in-law takes in anything which has to do with old family traditions. Yesterday she brought the old wooden cradle down to the dining room to show us during lunch. Her grandfather had it made in 1807 for his first child, and my mother-in-law told us that she believed the President was the only member of our generation who had ever slept in it. She explained that she was so sentimental about the cradle that she pulled it out of the attic on one of her visits when her baby Franklin was six months old. She did not put his head under the hood, however, because he was so active she was afraid he would sit up and hurt himself! So he slept with his head where other babies’ feet had been. We left a few minutes late, but the crowd at the various places where we stopped made us increpsingly late, so we arrived in‘Boston more than an hour after the time scheduled. I have never seen a crowd like the one on Boston Common. It looked like a sea of faces extending in every direction. In spite of the long. wait, it was a friendly, good-humored crowd. We made two more stops before reaching Worcester and the number of people in these smaller places seemed even more extraordinary, considering the population. . : : By the time we reached the train again, we: were an hour and 20 minutes behind’ schedule, and every one scurried around to.get cleaned up and ready. for the evening meeting. IAT James, Betsy and Johnnie were with us all day, "but the two boys left us about 11 p. m. Betsy stayed

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THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS— EADERS of Jamies Truslow Adams’ recent book, : “The Living Jefferson,” will be interested in comparing it with Ambassador Clande G. Bowers’ new work on his favorite statesman, JEFFERSON IN POWER (Houghton Mifflin; $3.75). Comparisons can be made, especially as to tone and style, although

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_BY H. R. EKINS “Times Stafl Writer

DY the time we were soaring out of Athens and across the deep blue of the Mediterranean to the shining yellow sands of Egypt hews of The Indianapolis Times’ - determination to demonstrate the speed and ‘dependability of commercial airlines around the world had spread before me.

| “Whether in the brown dust of the desert surrounding Gaza, where British R. A. F. planes were tuning up for pursuit of Arad bands raising hob in Palestine, or whether in disillusioning Baghdad I fofind scores ready with questions as to how the journey came to pass and the developments in its preparation and execution. :

. There was but little more than a hectic week of preparation. I was assigned to the story late in the afternoon of Sept. 21 and it became apparent immediately that the start would have to be made aboard the dirigible Hindenburg on the night of Spt. 30." To answer one of the most. frequently asked questions: There was ‘a great deal to be done. The job included: Lona .. A. study of virtually ever air line schedule in the world and then a check on the regularity with which the schedules were maintained. Passport renewal and acquisition of visas. itself. I learned that between Eu< rope and the Far East we would have to stop in every country over which we intended to fly. That meant more than. a dozen visas —for Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Germany, France, Austria, Greece, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Egypt. The British Empire visa was most helpful because it. covered not only the United Kingdom but Intia, Burma and several British colonies and protectorates.

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HERE were some difficulties. I discovered that the British were anything but anxious for newspaper men to visit Palestine and India, but all objections were waived with the greatest of courtesy when I explained the nature of my journey. _ By the time the passport was in order and it appeared certain

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countered with customs and immigration officials abroad reports on the month in and month out performances of airlines abroad began to come in. One of the most striking showed. that out of 36 trips from Amsterdam to the Far East. K. L. M.— Royal Dutch Airlines—planes had arrived at Batavia .on time or ahead of schedule 32 times. That report made it obvious that K. L. M. was the line a flying reporter

That was a job in .

racing against’ time should take. Hence my bookings across Europe, the Near East, India and the Far East were made with K. L. M. ; Ja ®, 8 to ANY - interested questioners A asked: ; © “Why were you assignment?” “What Were your relations with Leo Kiergn (of the North American Newspaper Alliance) and Miss Dorothy. Kilgallen (of the International News Service) before the start of the flight?” . . “How did the: ‘press ' abroad ‘cover’ the story?” ; “Did you - encounter: difficulties in sending your dispatehes and “thi questions were ‘easy gut. 1 do not knoy

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lightful years for:the United Press before joining. the staff of The Times and the Scripps-Howard Newspapers. iy Sent ae Perhaps it was because, in the course of my. wanderings. on. four continents, I had traveled nearly 200,000 miles in commercial, private and military airplanes. Anyway it was my assignment and I was happy. A lot that happens

New Yellow Fever Menace to U. S. Reported at Meeting

BY SCIENCE SERVICE

EW ORLEANS, Oct. 23.—Here N in New Orleans, where the devastations of yellow fever are still remembered, health authorities heard this morning of a new yellow fever menace. : The dreaded disease is a “permanent threat” to this and other cities where the yellow fever mosquito exists, Dr. Fred L. Soper of the Rockefeller Foundation fold members of the American Public Health Associatioe,

"Dr. Soper is one of the scientists who last’ year discovered the new menace in the jungles of Brazil Brazilian jungle fever, the “fever of the . engaged .men,” plus modern rapid transportation by air combine to bring the threat of yellow fever batk to the United. States. Jungle fever, Dr. Soper and asso« tes found, is yellow fever, ‘with

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yellow fever that once raged in cities of? the United States are interchangeable, Dr. Soper reported. The jungle virus may cause flare-ups of the city yellow fever, and it may be carried by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which is still found in

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tacked young engaged men going out into the wilderness to clear homes for their brides. ; 2 #8 TIENTS suffering from chronic manganese poisoning, an industrial disease, can live, but they are permanently disabled and unfit ‘for work, Dr. 'W. D.-McNally of Rush Medical College, Chicago, reported. : Ro The disease is found in workers using manganese in the manufacture of steel, dry batteries, clorine, oxygen driers for varnish; as a decolorizer for molten glass, to. color

Patients suffering from this disease have trouble walking; - they have a tendency to fall forward as they walk, or their legs takes them an opposite direction from that they intended to go. They can not speak ‘distinctly and their faces have a mask-like expression. Other symptoms are weakness, languor and - Treatment of the disease, Dr. McNally said, is largely preventive and | for relief of symptoms. . : by mouth, but when it gets into ‘the body via the lungs it afs the and a part of the

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Leo Kieran, Dorothy Kilgallen and H. R. (Bud) Ekins.

in the ‘lives of working newspaper men involves little more than getting the “breaks.” ® #8 =» P=roRE being “assigned to ) travel around the world entirely by afr and in the shortest time ‘possible I. never had met either Mr. Kieran or Miss Kil galfen. Se ns I met Leo for the first time two nights ‘before “the flight - started from: Lakehurst. We were facing a microphone in the New York studios of the. Columbia Broadcasting Co. The next night we met briefly at the National Broadcasting Co. and we did not meet again until we boarded the Hindenburg. a My : first meéting. with . the charming Dorothy was 8t LaksSxeifement. of

flight imaginations. of stay-aft-homes as well ‘as travelers ‘throu the world. Beginning with Vienna .and continuing through: Athens, Alexandria,- Baghdad, Allahabad, Jodhpur, Calcutta and on through.

the Straits Settlements and up to Manila by way of the Netherlands East Indies I collected newspapers displaying prominently the - account of my-efforts to encircle. the globe: by commercial airlines. There were photographers at every halt, including such rarely-thought-of places as Djask, “Persia; Medan, ‘Sumatra and Balikapah, Borneo.

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werg no difficulties in ‘sénding “inv dispatches home. At many points: I had the cooperation of Uniicd Press correspondents who work “around he world, around the clock.” ~-.. ost, my". were. written aloft. At See Then the air ‘currents made ‘the planes “bump” seem:io fly off my knees was Thecessary to tame we never bumped fi ] : across th Palestine desert afigh Iraq, where hot blas parched earth disturbed the upper air, the pilots would: climb, sometimes to 12,000 or even

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Campaign, Says Ekins |

great deal ‘of the approximately 26,000 miles: journey was over water and deserts—the Atlantic and the Pacific, the Mediterranean, Gulf of Persia, Bay of Bengal and the Sulu Sea. Egypt, Palestine, Iraq, Iran and India gave us the deserts. pe i 2 8 8 iE HERE were four nights ef flying. Two were aboard the Hindenburg, one between ‘Honolulu and San Francisco and one

across continental United States.

Otherwise we slept on the ground —or had opportunity to, = °° There was not much time for sleep between. 7 p. m. landings and 4 a. m. take-offs when cities - ‘and towns had to be sten and ex--

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'BY MARK SULLIVAN

ASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—Conspicuous in this phase of the campaign is the effort of Mr. Roosevelt to convince conservatives that he, too, is conservative. In his Chicago speech, he said: en “I believe, I have always believed,

and I always will believe in private |-

enterprise . ...” .- . : Before that, at Syracuse, N.‘'Y, he had said:* =~ aE “I have not sought, I do not seek, I' repudiate the support of any advocate of communism . . . that is my position, it always has been my position, ‘it -always will be my position, 2. ¢ . «1 BY Now what does the reader who has lived and observed fairly long and had a: fair number of contacts with human nature—what does the reader infer om that unusual and ce repea orm of expression? I am not going to harp on Shakespeare’s “he doth protest too much,”

for I. do not think that .is Mr. |. Roosevelt's case. Mr. Raoasevelt, in | g

8 vague way, as:a result of tradition rather than f viction, takes private granted. He is not, himself, a Com munist. Those who put the.

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once a Roosevelt intimate and in this campaign a Roosevelt supporter, “Mr. Roosevelt’s mind is so ex-] ceedingly unclear that he’ doés not realize that the only way he can possibly do what he wants to do is by being a dictator.” Why does Mr. Roosevelt, again and again, use this curious way of have been,

frying to carry sincerity—“1 am, always have I always will be.” He does it often, it is a characteristic of his style— the examples I have quoted merely happen to be recent and close together in time. Does this reaching for forcefulness really achieve what it redches for? . Does it truly make the effect of strongly held conviction on the speaker’s part, and does it carry conviction of the speaker's sincerity to the hearer or reader? a 3 ade 2 8 8

Rather, he is. unconsclously trying

to convince himself. He is striving.

for self-confidence, as much as for the confidence of others. One can look at it sympathetically, as in instinctive striving to defeat’ the imp of changeableness that ‘is within himself. For the moment he does convince himself. Mr. Roosevelt is often - very sincere—but he has an extraordinary capacity for being sincere in opposite directions within a very short time. ata hs aie 3 THERE Jds:‘evidence, public and A." private, that Mr.

; Roosevelt really. believes, just now, that it 1s|

time for him to'take the country

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opposing presidential candidates.

i). were in the eity that day. . Trains <1. 3 o'clock ‘the next mo: py

‘hund, and" before anybody was hep | on, they had a “kentel” full of: “hounds.”

[EXCEPT for Dr. H. R. (Frank) Allen wouldn't be able to give you the thire and I hope to Heaven the last, of my feuill tons on fox hunting in Indianapolis. / To hear Doc tell it, fox hunting got its start in Indianapolis at least 45 years a and for anybody to think that the Traders Point ple are putting over something new is nothing she of heresy. Doc ‘says he ought to know what he i§ talking about because he was a” member of the old Briarbrooke Hunt, the first of its kind here, and anybody that can think that far back, says Doc, can also recall that: Booth Tarkington, Raymond VanCamp, Howard Wiggins and: :" all the other young bloods .that : used to hang around 16th-st were mixed up in the thing, tao. - : The Briarbrooke Hunt got its start in E. 13th-st, says Doc. He's sure of it because he rsmembers, | . the historic morning, circa 1899, Mr. Scherrer that he saw the VanCamp’s stable- is man exercising the family herse up and down the street. Ray VanCamp, he recalls, was down on h knees watching the petformance and Doc says he stood it as long.as He could and then went: over and asked Ray what in the world he was up to. se rn sighting her,’ said Ray: pa Alter. that, of course, all the ‘young men of t neighborhood. got wind of what Ray was up, to an began sighting their family plygs, too. By that time, too; they began traifiing the dogs of the neighborhood, which ‘included every kind.of breed except a dachse fo ‘what was going

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Briarbrooke Hunt but it wasn’t ‘the end because rg long after ‘that, that the first real-foraure fox-hunt took. place in Indianapolis.. / er It happened. somewhere between here and Mount Nebo on the Noblesville yoad and so vivid is Doc's recollection of it that he wants me to tell you somes thing about it, especially ghout the calls and cries that accompanied it, which, cording to Doc, are just ag important and ‘much nore picturesque than anye thing I've told you about hunters’ dress and ets e. : | : Doc says ‘it isn’t everybody ‘that knows when to yell “Tally Ho” and “Yoicks” and ‘he’s ‘willing ot that nobody in the Traders Point crowd knows half the lingo the old Briarbrooke crowd did,

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was always good form in the Briathrooke Hunt, Doc ‘recalls, to: keep quiet when the fox was

| ;around. It: was. still better to coynt up to 25. That

gave the fox time enough to get away. Th not till then, was it proper to Pind “rTaliy Hol" oo had a right to shout “Tally Ho!” twice in succession, says Doc, after which you. were supposed to raise vour silk hat once." It fooled a lot of the hunters at first, says Doc, because everybody felt like lifting his sili As for “Yoicks,” it is the most powerful expressi of the lot, says Doe. It ‘has to be because t's the po to urge on the hounds. Dog says “Yoicks” and sounds like a grunt the way erowd ‘did it. Pronofinsed any other uldn’t know what You mean

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~The original Shelbyville harbectie i 1884, and no one seems to. know HON a kept. arriving up § ‘second was held Oct. 15; 1888; when anot > crowd gave the a: en

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POLITICS AS SULLIVAN SEES IT. ||

The 1892 souvenir program contains letters fi Grover Cleveland, Congressman W. Bourke Cock: of New York: Henry Watterson, famous Louisv editor; Senator John G. Carlisle, afterward secretary of Ihe ymanuy i Sevaland's Cabinet; A. E. Steven= son, vice presiden can 5 | Campbell of Ohio. Sate, ana, Gav. James The souvenir also contains interesting: early on Shelbyville, chronicling the first birth, that Martha Kaster; the first marriage, Able Sommers to Miss Nancy Sleeth in: 1822; .the holding of the first court in 1822; the building of the first Courthouse in

1827, and the first death, that of Samuel Butler

1821 —~By F. M. 4 ¥ LA # 7 : § Watch Your Health . BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Eh : Editor Amer, Medical Assn. Journal «| HERE are so ‘many ‘different kinds of headache aa a Sometimes the headache ad oe Js classed ‘an

in recent years. to permit a better of the causes. L% y : Sixteen varieties of headache recently were classie

-| fled by one specialist in nervous and mental

‘When a headache is due to a brain tumor or brain abscess, there is only one possible relief; names ly, removal py surgery. Fortunately, these are the principal causes of headache. :