Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1937 — Page 17

THURSDAY, OCT. 21, 1937

BRITISH TEST OF 8 NEW GASMASKS ™ -

Try on ‘Funny Faces’ in Government Practice For Wartime.

HAWKHURST. KENT, England, Oct. 21 (U. P.).—Fifty orphan babies today tried on which may save them death-dealing gases of the next war and found it all very amusing. Acting as “guinea pigs” for the rest of Great Britain's babies, the

children were subjected to a home |

office experiment with gas masks, called “funny faces” by allay the fears of the children. The test took place at the Dr.

Barnado’s Nursing Home with the | purpose of ascertaining the size of | a respirator necessary for children | and also the earliest age at which |

they may be used. No device for babies under 2 years old was tried today The children took the test hilariously. They were not shown the gas masks before the experiment but when the test be®an nurses reassuringly repeated funny new toy, you can see right through the little window, isn’t it funny, we are going to have funny faces.” Nurses Keep Talking Cyril Wills, blond 4-year-old, and Jeffrey Webb, a red-haired youngster of 4, were the first to try the “funny faces.” Neither was frightened. As the children, boys and girls, were brought up and the masks adjusted the nurses kept talking incessantly saving “Look through the little window, look at all the peopie, let's try this one, hello, I can see you, now blow.” This instruction was intended to test the breathing apparatus in the nout of the res spirat tor

CLYDE E. PIKE NAMED HOME BUILDER HEAD

Clvde E. Pike today had assumed his duties as president of the Indianapolis Home Builders’ Association after serving as a director for the last vear. Other officers elected last night at the Athenaeum were: Hoyt H. Fulk, vice president; Everett Holloway, secretary; Fred treasurer; Walter M. Evans, ser-

“funny faces” | from the

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| project is to be halted Nov. | cause of lack of funds, Carl F. Kor- | | tepeter, Marion County WPA co-or-

Reading up the steps, the following are winners of the recent Wash=ington High School Parasol Parade: Dorothy League, Sarah Austin, Lorraine Walls, and Mirjam Potlenger,

| Smith, a C. 1. 0. organizer. Tt also | | reported that thugs tried to drag |

KLAN APPEAL MADE {the Memphis president of the { Ladies’ Garment Workers from a Ll taxi.

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TO BE HOST MARION, Oct. 21.—Marion Collece will be host to several hun- | dX ‘ed Weslevan Methodists tomorrow for the annual Harvest Day | activities.

Protests Refusal of Permit For Parade.

R Xnrrial limes Special

NEW YCRK, Oct. 21.—Demands | =— for civil rights of both Ku Klux Klansmen and C. I. O. organizers | are among the latest activities of the American Civil Liberties Union. The union, which has vigorously opposed the Klan and its doctrines, nevertheless wired to City Manager John Edy of Toledo a protest at his | refusal of a parade permit for the | Klan. : “Suppression of free speech for | i one group inevitably leads to aj } breakdown of civil rights for all,” | : the telegram said. The union, frequently assailed as | ultraradical, also mentioned its | effort to get the Kenosha, Wis., City | Council to rescind a recent ban |

| the city’s three main interceptor | | drains serving most of the North |

WORK TO END NOV. 1 Side, was started by WPA two years |

ago, Mr. Kortepeter said. The sewer The Harding ne St. sewer rebuilding | | runs from the sanitation plant to | 1 be- | Broad Ripple. Completion of the project would | require two years, it was said. Cost | | of the work already completed was | one of | estimated at $144 900.

dinator, said today.

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