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"+ No Secret to His Foot-Twisting ~ Technique, Doctor Says, : Blaming Fallen Arches for Many Ailments.

ILLIAMSBURG, Ontario, Aug. 20.—Al- ~~ though Dr. M. W. Locke had received some local publicity and had scores of people coming to him every day, this little town did not become a mecca for the whole world

until after Rex Beach wrote about Dr. Locke's “miracle treatment” in Cosmopolitan magazine some Since then, the world pilgrimage to Dr. Locke's

door has been almost a spiritual frenzy. People have come devoutly, and on their one last hope, by the scores of thousands. There have been Indian princes here. There is a man here now from Jerusalem. Some go away improved. Some don’t. x Some take only a couple of treatments. Some stay for months, and take two "“foot twistings” a day. Dr. Locke says that he tells many : after their first treatmént that he Mr. Pyle can’t do anything for.them. The majority of the sufferers are ‘arthritis victims. But they come with everything else, too. With atrophied muscles. With shoulders that have been out of joint for years. With all kinds of muscular distortions. I asked Dr. Locke to explain to me, in simple language, what he does. He said that most muscular ailments come from fallen arches, or flat feet. A fallen arch is a foot-bone slipping out of place, thus creating pressure on certain nerves. What Dr. Locke does is work this bone back in place, relieving the pressure. : I asked him if this business of curing ailments by foot manipulation was some secret trick of his, or

Whether he had just gradually worked up to it.

“No secret™ to it,” he said. “I just learned by doing. Anybody could do it. But somehow they can’t

~ seem to learn. Lots of them come up here and watch

and then set up in business, but you never hear of : them after about a month.” : During the peak of the Locke pilgrimages, there were as many as 2800 people here at one time. Dr. Locke began work at 4 in the morning and didn't finish till 11 at night. The town itself can accommodate around 1500. -Others stay in nearby towns. There are two hotels here, and nearly every family keeps roomers. The town is prosperous, along with Dr. Locke. But business is- way off this summer. Only 500 patients are here now. But Dr. Locke is just as well

pleased, for he says he couldn't stand the terrific,

grind any more. The drop-off is due partly to the depression; partly to the fact that Dr. Locke was sick in the hospital this spring, and the grapevine took the false word all over America that he wasn’t treating this

/ summer. .

He Has Never Met Dr. Dafoe

Dr. Locke now works from 9 in the morning, until

all patients have been treated, which is around 4 in the afternoon. The thing that most impressed me about this whole thing is the very little contact the far-traveled patient ever has with the doctor. You don’t sign up or have a consultation or anything. You sit in the circle and have your first “foottwist,” then later that day you can have a short office discussion with the docfor. Without going at all into the history of your case, he tells you whether to stay or leave, and about how long to stay. After that you just take your turn in the circle. Dr. Locke has never been back to the “old country” since he went to school there, but would like to go. He thinks Roosevelt is going to bankrupt the U. S. He has never met Dr. Dafoe.” He doesn’t get royalties on the Dr. Locke shoes. He signed on the dotted line for a flat sum three years ago. -1 have heard it was for $60,000. It may have been more. : ” The famous foot manipulator has never taken a course in chiropody, and never intends to. His own arches, incidentally, have never fallen. For that matter, neither have mine.

My Diary

~ By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

President Returns to Hyde Park, Tells of Trip During Breakfast.

: HE PARK, Friday.—This has been a most ex-

exciting. day. We were up early to be at the Hyde Park station when the President’s train came in at 8:30. Johnny and Anne met me there and we only waited a few minutes for the train to come around the bend. We went on board to find the President looking marvelously well. Miss Le Hand and Mr. McIntyre both looked well too, in spite of the fact that last week must have been quite an ordeal in Washington, for the heat was worse there than it was here. As soon as we were in thé car the newspaper reporters crowded around to see if there was to be any news story. As far as I could gather nothing of any interest was forthcoming and we proceeded home to breakfast. We sat long over this meal and heard something of my husband's trip and something of Johnny and Anne's delightful holiday in Bermuda. Their description of the ship and the trip down was attractive enough to make me think I might like to try it some time. The photographs of their little cottage and the various scenes about them made me really feel that it would be a nice way to live on this island for a short time. Later, Johnny, Anne and I went off to ride. Johnny was interested to see many of the things which have been done on the place during the summer, so we rode about for two hours, starting from the big house . to the top of the hill back of where my husband's little retreat is going up. On coming back, we found the President and his cavalcade of Secret Service cars out: inspecting the house too. Johnny liked the house so well he made an agreement with his father that he should have first call on renting it.

Secret Service Men Fear Arrest

When Mrs. Scheider and I were driving up from New York City yesterday afternoon, we passed two of the Secret Service cars and, thinking we would wave .at some of our friends, we tooted loudly. They confided in me today that they thought they were being arrested. I didn’t know the Secret Service ever had such qualms, I thought that was reserved only for private individuals like myself! : : I had my hair done yesterday in a big department store and by way of entertainment, models in different costumes walked about me. The looking glasses reflect them very nicely so you have a fashion show while your hair is drying. This morning I had a letter from one of the girls saying she had not had the courage to ask me, but did I remember her? She had on a pink dress and had come by twice trying to screw up her courage to speak. I am sorry she didn’t for she looked very attractive.

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, Aug. 20.—Life is mostly like a game of put and take, only some fellas will take without

\ \ askin’ questions but will freeze up when it comes to

puttin’. Grandpa Snazzy, though, isn’t one of that kind, he always believed in tit-for-tat. I remember one time he went into the bank at | Yan Buren to borrow two hundred dollars to make a | deal he had his heart set on. When the banker asked him what security he had, grandpa said, “Two hun- | dred horses.” The banker lent him the money. .. | Later on grandpa came back with a big roll of | pills and peeled off two hundred dollars and the interest and psid it to the man and started to put the rest back in his pocket. The banker said, “Why don’t you let us keep the rest of the money for you?” ‘Grandpa looked him right in the eye and said, “How many, horses you got?” : . {copyright 1098

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The trial room of the New York Supreme Court, where James J. Hines, strongest - Tammany leader, is facing charges of “fixing” judges for racketeer Dutch Schultz, has become the stage for an -epic legal drama sketched here by George Clark, NEA-Times artist nationally famed for his “Side Glances” cartoons. At left is District Attorney

By Paul Ross |

NEA Staff Writer 1

EW YORK, Aug. 20.—“There it is,” people say as

they walk by, “the ¥ the place where they're trying

Jimmy Hines.”

In the hot August sunlight, sweltering men and women line the curbs opposite the Supreme Court Building in downtown Manhattan. They stare in curiosity at the Grecian facade of the building which has become a theater-of-law housing New York's greatest drama of crime and politics-——the trial of Tammany Leader James J. Hines as the ‘higher-up” in the late Dutch Schultz’s

$100,000,000 policy racket. Six air-conditioning machines eight feet high keep the courtroom cool . . . and provide a humming obligato to the old, droning tragedy of Justice. . . . The room is roughly 75 feet by 50 and about 20 feet high. Four big windows with yellow shades throw a quiet yellow light. A silken American flag hangs over the judge's seat.

Into this room are jammed about 150 spectators, about 75 members of the press, the prosecution, the defense, the jury and the judge . . . 250 souls combed out of the welter of New York and deposited in this room by duty or curiosity. .. .

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“Q PEAK up,” says Justice Ferdinand Pecora to a witness, “I can’t hear you and I'm only three feet away from you.” The witness speaks louder and the judge glances with irritated patience at the cooling machines. . Mr. Pecora is sun-burned to a

Await Decision On WPA Union

Times Special ’ ASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—John L. Lewis’ hand is about to be forced on: a question, which has been puzzling him and his lieutenants—whether the C. I. O. should sponsor a national union of WPA workers. : In Pittsburgh, organization wor is going on behind an office door inscribed: “United WPA-C. 1. O. Workers of Allegheny County.” C. I. O. officers in Pittsburgh are said to be making no effort to block the new organization, although they have not sanctioned it. If WPA workers were organized nationally by the C. I. O. they would be expected to vote in accordance with the policies of Labor's Nonpartisan League, the C. I. O.’s political arm. Also, a national union of WPA workers would be expected to press for a continuation of Federal relief for the unemployed for years to come. Len Decaux, publicity "director of the C. I. O,, sai® here today that the question of organizing WPA workers has been considered for months, but that no decision has been reached.

dark hue ... a wide streak of

gray spreads over the crest of his

bushy hair . , , he looks off and

rests his face on his hand, with a finger supporting his cheek . . . his mouth is drawn into a frowning, curving line . . . he looks severe and carries out his reputation for being a “bulldog” in court « . + his rulings are handed down sharply, firmly . . . when counsel takes exception he leans forward

" and argues the point with the

lawyer, using an eloquent right hand to make things clearer . . . his voice is somewhat nasal and authoritative . . . yet it takes on a kindly tone when he talks to the jury. “Here he comes,” breathes the audience and District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey enters the room . . . . he is dark, this Galahad of the Bar, and he is of middling height . . . atop his brow there are signs of beginning baldness but a couple of artfully turned wisps of his silken hair cover the spots . . . his head is massive, and it tapers a little both at the top and bottom , . . his forehead is high, his nose somewhat drawn out and turned up . . . his eyebrows

and heavy mustache form three

dark bars across his face. .. . It is strange to hear underworld terms come out of his

cultured mouth . . . but he uses — Y “the cops,” “the mob,” “gorilla,”

and “got scared. as though they were natural to him . . . his baritone voice is slow, patient, and when he speaks the room is filled with rich overtones . . . when he is making a point he holds both hands out with the fingers cupped inward . . . he grins at his own jokes and smiles up his sleeve, as it were, when opposing counsel jumps up to attack him . to know it all and frequently turns to his assistants to ask, “Is that right?” ...

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PPOSING him is Lloyd Paul Stryker . . . the dramatic type. . . . Stryker bites off his words and builds them up for theatrical effect . . . his closecropped. ears lie flat against his head .. . his small, blue eyes are close-set, his brows slant downward so that he forever looks as if he is Peering . . . his face red .*. . his voite is .like a side-show barker’s . . . his clothes are extra good . . . he struts with his hands on his hips . . . and when he scores a point against -Mr. Dewey, he glances at the other as though he were saying, “There, how do you like that?” ...

. . he doesn’t pretend .

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Here is James J. Hines, Tammany’s most powerful district leader. He is named in a conspiracy indictment as the political man-behind-the-scenes in the $100,000,000-a-year numbers racket in New York. ;

And then, there’s .James J. Hines, himself . . . he’s very polite to reporters . . . as he talks to them during recess,. his little blue eyes roam over everyone and

everything . . . when court re-

sumes again, he looks up and cries, “There it goes!” and bounds away eagerly, as if it were someone else’s trial he were going to . « «. his feet are too small for his big, beefy body, so that he walks with a kind of bouncing, loping, yet shuffling gait. ... He sits in the well of the court and listens closely . . . and looks like a very paternal father who's watching his kids cut up . . . his tiny mouth is drawn into a line, his button of a nose supports his spectacles . , . sometimes he bites

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Times-Acme Photos. Wilfrid Brunder, who for years

conducted a policy brokerage in

Harlem, is pictured outside the

Supreme Court Building after he

had testified at the Hines trial about the workings of the numbers racket. !

his lips . . . when things get hot, he rubs his big, thick fingers across his thumb , . . during a lull he looks around at gray-haired, patient, well-preserved Mrs. Hines . +. “Tired?” he asks and comes over, 2 8 =» OST of the jury is bald or near bald . .. No. 1 wears glasses and has a scrub-mustache and constantly turns in his swivel chair . . . and No. 2 vaguely re-

' sembles Jim Farley . . . and No. 3

has high, quizzical eyebrows and a thin line of a mustache and he pays extra-close attention . . . and No. 4 seems impatient and looks off somewhere much of the time . . . and No. 5 is the handsomest of the lot with his white

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Thomas E. Dewey, questioning Wilfrid Brunder, white-suited, fashion-plate policy At extreme right, watching the prosecutor intently, is the defendant, grayhaired, benign-looking Jimmy Hines. On the bench is Justice Ferdinand Pecora in pensive pose.

Apparently laughing up his sleeve at some aspect of the day’s developments, District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey leaves the Court House during a recess in the trial. He appeared. confident of winning a conviction. ;

mane and his old poet's face and his wing-collar and his black tie

/ ...and No. 6 looks like a husky

young football player . . . and No. 7 looks like Punch . . . and No. 8 looks like an earnest young man .. . and No. 9 looks like a gray copy of Jean Hersholt, the actor and No. 10 sits with his fingers at his mouth . . . and No. 11 has a

- strong nose and chin and looks

this way and that and sits on the base of his spine , . . and No, 12

- is middle-aged and pale and puts

his feet up on the rail before him and doesn’t wear garters on his socks. . . . This is the scene of Jimmy Hines’ trial . . . featured by money and power and love and violent death, ¢ :

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1-5Who is Prince of Wales now? 2—In which country is the city of Nantes? :

3—Name the U. S. Secretary the Treasury. :

4—Which gases are produced by

the electrolytic decomposition of water? :

5—Was . George Washington married more than once?

6—Name the capital of Kansas.

7—In the church calendar, when is Whitsunday?

8—Do: the Philippine Islands still belong to the U. 8,2

2 2 8 ANSWERS 1—There is none. 2—France. 3—Henry Morgenthau Jr. 4—Hydrogen and oxygen.

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6—Topeka..

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Frankfurter, Apparently Favored By Western Senators and the Bar, Seems as Good as Named to Court,

(Anton Scherrer Is on Vacation)

VW ASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—It looks as if Prof. Felix Frankfurter is as good as appointed to the Supreme Court to replace the late Justice Cardozo. : For many years Dr. Frankfurter has obtained legal jobs, both in and out of the

‘Government, for his promising law students, starting

dozens of them on the road to fame or fortune or both. Now some of those former students and

devoted 'disciples, in appreciation, and as evidence of their devotion to him, have pitched in to make him Mr. Cardozo’s successor on the Supreme Court. me weeks ago they sounded out the President. He was favorably disposed, but suggested. that two possible objections might be raised, one geographical, the: other racial. Friends of Mr. Frankfurter were not concerned over the racial objection. Mr. Cardozo was a Jew. Anyway Hey do nats Tosa or. 5 Roosevelt as a man midated by a few crackpot Jew=- Mr. Clapper baiters. The geographical objection has some merit. The mountain West has no member on the Supreme Court. This is more than a matter of local pride. Justices Van Devanter, coming from Wyoming, and ‘Sutherland, from Utah, were specialists in Western law. Both are now retired. To meet this need some Administration friends of Justice Harold Stephens of Utah, now on the Federal Court of Appeals here, urged his appointment. Prof. Frankfurter’s friends, however, moved in to offset any Western drive by prompting Senator Norris of Nebraska to issue a statement urging Mr. Frankfurter’s appointment. ~ One of the most active champions of the moun tain states, Senator O'Mahoney of Wyoming, ‘said here this week that the West ought to be represented on the court because it was inadvisable not to have .at least one justice a specialist in Western law. He said the West had a number of available men but that he was active for no candidate. Personally, he said, he would regard Mr. Frankfurter as a splene did appointment.

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Neither is any trouble looked for from the bar. Some time ago the Gallup poll showed Prof. Franke furter the lawyers’ favorite for the Supreme Court. The American Bar Association Journal asked Mr. Frankfurter to write its leading editorial for the August issue on Justice Cardozo. : Mr. Frankfurter has been the subject of yards of

newspaper and magazine hooey which ‘has pictured -

him as running the New Deal by remote control. He is a liberal, whatever that is, but he hasn't always tracked with Mr. Roosevelt. For instance he thought that a lot of NRA was screwy. He never liked the code business. He was strong for the labor provisions but thought the Government was fostering business combinations instead of business competition. He was grimly silent on the Roosevelt court-enlargement plan. Not that he liked what the court had been doing. He is supposed to have had qualms about the way velt proposed to deal with the difficulty. There’s been a surprising general acceptance of Mr. Frankfurter for the Supreme Court. If that can happen, we must have made some progress since the

. day when the late Dr. Wirt excitedly told a Congres-

sional committee that the Frankfurter New Dealers were about to overthrow the Government.

Jane Jordan—

Woman's Inability to Keep Secret

May Be Traceable to Her Childhood.

EAR JANE JORDAN-I have a bad habit that I've had as long as I can remember. I know there is a reason for what we do and I've searched for a possible: reason but have found none. I can’t keep a secret no matter how serious it is. I will find a willing ear somehow. I've had things told me by people who ask me not to tell. I tell things on myself as well as others. This®has been a habit for years, even before I was 10 years old. Nearly always I am fortunate enough to tell one who doesn’t talk or perhaps I can impress that person with the need for secrecy, but I can’t hold it myself. I have no desire to spread things or to hurt anyone. Once in a while something I have repeated comes back to me and

then I vow I will never talk again but I do. . A WOMAN.

Answer—Why should I scold you for a tendency shared by the majority of the human race? Few people can keep secrets. It makes them feel too

"important to know something concealed from others,

Like you, they feel almost compelled to. pass their knowledge on, not so much from vicious motives as from the satisfaction of showing that they are in the know. Of course it is a bad habit. Nobody wants to put his secrets in a sieve and he who tells everything he knows eventuaily will pay the penalty of not knowing anything. : ‘ Why you feel such a compulsion to “tell all” I do not know. When I read that the habit started

‘when you were 10 years old I had a picture of a

little girl soundly spanked or locked in the closet for telling something the family didn't want known. I could imagine her resolving that when she was a grownup she would tell what she chose. My impression that some such incident occurred is strengthened by the fact that you feel more than the average

amount of guilt every time you relay a secret.

Each time you tell something you feel the same crushing weight of guilt that you felt when some adult overpunished you for a childish indiscre=

J tion and you feel the need for punishment again.

Think hard. Such painful incidents are hard to recall. We protect ourselves by forgetting. If you

. can recall this incident, relate it to some sympa-

thetic person such as your husband. It will help you. get it out of your system, so to speak, and lessen your desire to perpetually get even by asserting your right to tell anythiing you wish. The past holds the answer. Explore it. JANE JO.

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