Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1946 — Page 13

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Inside Indianapolis By Donna Mikels|

WE DON'T know why Oriental st. was so named but a tour of the 500 hlock has convinced us it's a misnomer, at least in that particular block. Sure'n, we'd almost go on record with the suggestion that the name be changed to Irish ave. or Blarney blvd. after finding many more Irishmen per square foot than the name of the street would indicate, . . . Three brothers-and-sister Irish immigrants, their equally Irish spouses and a batch of offsprings give the block a very un-Oriental population. The three brothers and sisters all came from County Mayo at different times and all ended up In houses on the little street which borders Tech high school grounds. They are Mrs. John Shanahan, of 550, a resident of the block 26 years; Mrs, William P. Dalton. 524, who's lived there six years, and their brother, John Carroll, a resident of 544 for some 20 years Then there's Mr, Shanahan, a Big Four railroad employee just as Irish as his name, and Mr, Dalton, a retired city fireman o originally hailed from Dublin. . .. We ran into an Bld acquaintance, Police Sgt. Alexander Dunwoodie, when we dropped in to talk to Mr, Carroll, an ex-Big Four employee. Even though one's from North and the other's from South Ireland, the two are close friends, Mr, Carroll says he's pretty sure Sgt. Dunwoodie is an extra close buddy but that he’s never made the real test—he hasn't tried “light ing up” a cigaret on a bus or trolley when the sergeant was present. (Dunwoodie, you recall, is the policeman who enforced the “No Smoking on Trolley” ordinance so enthusiastically.)

Has Nylons—She's Popular

MR. AND MRS. HARRY WILSON, of 546, moved to their home 13 years age, because it was convenient-

William R. Wheeler A retired “boomer”

turned gardener,

- Lonely Watchman

SILVERTON, Colo, Aug. 13.—Bespectacled, 58-vear-old Jess Carey is watchman for the Highland Mary mine at the head of Cunningham Gulch. Some of the mines out here operate through the year but not those in Cunningham Gulch. It is so narrow and the slopes above it are so high and steep that in winter great avalanches are a constant hazard. So when the snow begins to pile up on the heights, the Highland Mary closes leaving Mr. Carey here alone. Sometimes he doesn't see another person for a month, and to step out of the strong mine building is to risk his life. Mr. Carey gets lonesome, of course. But he keeps busy. He makes trout flies and repairs casting rods and reels. It's delicate work that takes lots of time and patience. And when he gets fed up with that, he gets out his cake-decorating implements—he has a complete “ set with scores of little gadgets—and makes himself a fancy birthday cake. .It may not be his birthday, but that doesn't matter. He writes “Happy Birthday” on it with frosted icing.

Likes to Bake Cakes

HIS FIRST cake never satisfies his artistic self, so he eats it and starts in on another and fancier one. He saves it, hoping that friends will come up the

Science

ATOMIC BOMB No. 6 constitutes the $64 question for the world. For where and when it explodes will

“aren’t prettier is that the citizens are so busy looking |

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ly located between Holy Cross and Tech, the schools thelr .two sbns attended. ‘The boys are long out of

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school but the Wilsons remain on Oriental. One son is an army captain and the other is an air force veteran

attending the University of Chicago. Mrs. Wilson, who's an expert at needlework, was trying her hand at something new to her. a rag.rug, when we Avopped in for a chat. ,. . Mrs. T. C. Robertson, of 512, tells us she's experienced a sudden rise of popularity with her women friends here of late. The reason, she says, is a good natured attempt to tap her supply of two pairs of hose a month, the allotment to women employed at Real Silk. She's worked at Real Silk some 20 y-ars now, so we figure she’s entitled to that pair of -ylons she was pulling on when we paid our visit, , , . There's never a block without fishing entrusiasts and Mr. and Mrs, Charles Burns, of 506, seem to hold that place in the Oriental st. block. They're just resting up from a week-end fishing rip. which didn’t yield very many fish, , . . Mr. and Mrs. @. A. Tucker, of 522, traveled faster than the mailman coming back from Florida, The Tuckers beat back a card which they sent to their neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. George Shook, 528, by one day. It didn’t matter too much, although, as the Shooks left for a vacation trip in Chicago just before the card arrived. . . . The Tuckers, incidentally. had a wonderful vacation. They flew from’ Florida! over to Havana, Cuba, aid had a fine time trying to| make themselves understood. Once they rode up $7 worth of taxi fare trying to make the driver under- | stand that they wanted to go to the bus station, not | too far away. The youngest member of the Tucker | family, Randall, got quite a kick out of the way his name came ‘out, after the Cubans had “butchered” the English pronunciation with their “trilled R's”

Left:

On May 17, 1940, Ralph von

Ahlefeldt, a brother explorer, informed Dr. Frederick A. Cook that President Roosevelt had granted him a full par-

don on mail fraud charges, plied feebly, “Thanks—Happy.” Dr. Cook as an Arctic explorer.

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effect.

Ww Worked 25 Years for Railroads WE SPENT a good part of our time talking—or rather listening to—William Richards Wheeler, of 528. a man who's been a lot of places and done a lot] of things in his 75 years. . . . For more than 25 years, | Mr. Wheeler was a ‘boomer.” That, he tells us, is| a railroad worker who switches jobs “about every! payday.” He must have been a thorough “boomer,” | for in his 25 railroading years he worked for an | estimated 25 to 30 lines, , . . During the same time | he covered the country—‘“too much of it.” in every state,” he told us, “and they're all just like | towering ML. McKinley? the other one. There's no difference any place you |oil stock swindler? go.” ' In addition to his travel in this country, Mr.| Wheeler got around abroad in his youth. making | junkets to a number of countries via cattle boats. | trek to the tip of Arctic wastes, . He finally took a job at Republic Creosoting Co. there are both laymen and scien-

By EDWARD

Was Dr

Perhaps no one will’ ever know. rocked the world with the announcement of his tortuous, nerve-wrackin

Dr. Cook's North Pole Claims Still Are Center of Disputes

(Second of a Series)

J. MOWERY

Scripps-Howard Staff Writer Frederick Albert Cook this nation’s most colossal hoax? “I been! Did this magnetic, personable little physician ever reach the crest of Did he discover the North Pole?

Was he an

(“Paper Empire” revelations of today suggest other get-rich-

Here is one of them.)

past, A month later, Dr. Cook electrified countless thousands with Ha announcement that h the 20,300-foot summit. The intrepid, fighting Cook became the toast of America. He was

lyn dusted off its royal purple. And Dr, Cook pushed his achievement

that greater things were to come. They were! = » » COOK'S scientific stature was growing in tempo with his ambition. His destiny lay incontrovertibly in the frozen icy wastes and blue heavens of the polar regions, Peary? He hadnt made it in 15 years of dogged disillusionment. Then came Peary’'s voiced intention to try his eighth and last expedition. The methodical Peary laid his plans like a scientific embattlement, There could be no joker this time!

fantry siege. Trail-blazing parties in parkas and furs would sledge to

supplies and instruments. Step by Step. The trail always open to the main base. = ” ~

and stayed on a somewhat permanent’ basis. He | tists who violently insist that he dent. Now Mr. Wheeler lives with his daughter jand | There are also legions who damn her family and divides his time three ways. He | him as a bertayer of human trust, goes through the game with someone who didn't see | homage of royalty, the tribute of it. We'd guess he has an almost photographic mem=- the United States navy. runs and fouls of recent games with a Times pho-| "THERE 1S a faint parallel betographer, also a fan, ... In his garden Mr. Wheeler twen the career of Cook and on the north side he calls his “morning seat™ be- were consumed with blind ambicause the house protects him from the sun in the tion. Both were eager to merit that it is protected from the sun in the afternoon— Both were clever manipulators hence an “afternoon seat.” of the commodity at hand—monclaim. By Eldon Roark Dr. Cook's introduction to the : ; subsequent explanation of the Mt. gulch on skis or snowshoes and enjoy it with him. mMeKinley fiasco. Born June 10, Once in a great while in the winter, Mr. Carey puts county New York, the son of Dr. on his snowshoes and heads down the dangerous gulch | Theodore A. and Magdalene C. whether he will make it or not. schooling until 1878, when he One severe winter he planned such a trip. Before adopted Gotham as his future brought out a quarter of a beef. He put it out where » » his cat could get to it. | HIS FATHER came here from the storm. He made it. And three days later, when the name was changed for conthe storm let up, he made it back. There was still venience. Besides being a rollicky . : assets: a sturdy frame, easy smile, Not a Pr etty Town (unbounded self-confidence. SILVERTON is not a pretty town. Many of the . school delivering milk. It. was his The town is in a beautiful setting in the Animas adolescent solitude, many contend, : Cook matriculated at New York up at. the natural magnificence they don’t see the | university, plodded - through the around them. land set up shop as a practicing The motor court here isn't much to look at, but the | physician in Brooklyn. little apartment—two rooms, kitchenette and bath, | the neighborhood. He struggled hot and cold water. The price is $5. {along until he learned that Lt. | Robért E. Peary. then a naval en- | gineer, needed volunteers for his PEARY accepted Cook, and the small party in 1 feeble attempts to dress them up as scientific tests Dally 1891 ‘completed the and to point out that scientists were eager to know across the ey waters leading to 81

was there 40 years, until he lost one arm in an gcci- | spoke the truth, either tends his garden, sees a baseball game, or'a brazen knave who accepted the ory for plays, judging the way he reeled off the hits, "a. has two seats, one on either side of the house. One Charles Ponzi. Very faint. Both morning. The other is next to the garage, so placed credence. (ey, publicity, documents and acNew York scene was as dull as his Sometimes they do—just to see that he is still alive. 1865, in Callicoon Depot, Sullivan for the highway and a trip to town. He never knows: goch, he went through the usual he left, he went into his food-storage room and| nome. And he put on his snowshoes and pushed off mio Germany in 1852. Seven years later plenty of beef left. ing 13, Coek had these negotiable He worked his way through buildings and homes are unpainted and dilapidated. river gorge. Perhaps the reason the homes and stores that developed his ability of mind. need for brightening up the things immediately | medical course, received his degree cabins are surprisingly comfortable. We have a nicé| pr Cook was no ball of fire in | By David Dietz | second expedition into the Arctic. | 13-month, 1200-mile sledge trek what the radioactivity would do to the progeny of

COOK, tight-lipped, disappeared in the spring of 1907 along with John R. Bradley, New York adventurer, They would hunt near Etah, Greenland. None suspected. Brad-

afterward Cook' sent back word he had a novel plan to get to the Pole, 600 miles distant.

smilingly admitted that the hunting excursion cloaked feverish

to the Pole. Peary, noncommital, went ahead methodically, Peary's polar ship, the Roosevelt, left New York on a steamy day in 1908. Cook's where-

Today, 37 long years after he

e had scaled | construction of

deluged with lecture offers; Brook- |

base points, build igloos, secreted | tatters.

ley returned in the fall, and shortly |

equipping of Dr. Cook for a sprint |

Adm. Robert E. Peary (left), North Pole discoverer, with whom, (right) Dr. Cook as he appeared when he was | paroled from Leavenworth prison in May, 1930. |

Dr. Cook feuded;

stages, Cook and his faithful Eski-|forth mi guides, Ahwelah and Etukshuk,|he said: avoided starvation on frozen steppes | by killing bears with bow and bless him!

arrow, lance and knife. While crowds in every major city

quick-Wallingford stories of the | tensely awaited more details, the

{ messages, tantalizingly brief and in

| gulps, told of Cook's travail through the dread Arctic night while he|pjaring round of homage.

fought to return to Greenland, the “an underground den” where they remained “until {sunrise of 1909.” The ship, with the explorer, was heading for Copenhagen, »

AMERICA took her hero to her

Peary enterprise, fumed. Its rival

|deliriously paid a reported $30000| yg FIRST outright challenge to

for Cook's exclusive story for syn{dication, although he only asked {for $3000. It became scrambled in wireless

transmission. And in true, dramatic i . Je (picture of the crest in his book style, Dr. Cook, his light hair to his A mere 8000 feet up!

eyes benign, | {walked from the magic ship into!

|shoulders, his blue {the arms of Danish royalty. It was |Sept. 4. {with his achievement. »

CROWN PRINCE Christian em- | hagen. Peary’s format duplicated an in- braced him as he stood, his ragged | university, admittedly outraged, de-

|to dinner,

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for all the traffic would bear. He breast. One New York newspaper, was available . . . for $10; wrote a book and hinted to friends which had kicked in $4000 to the stormed in Maine.

Copenhagen was ablaze!

{beard grimy and his moccasins in King Frederick asked him |

{| The crowd went wild. They ripped

Cook. reRight,

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We, the Women tumultuous applause when |

| Wives, Are You Brow Beaten? Try This Test

By RUTH MILLETT “YOU'VE GIVEN the men a test for hen-pecked husbands—now how about. letting us wives see whether or not we're brow-beaten,” say the women, All right, Answer these questions: Does your husband expect you always to be at home and to have dinner ready the minute he comes in from work? Do you have to get your huse band’s permission before you buy a dress? : Are the couples you entertain in the evening always friends of your husband's, since he doesn't like your friends?

“If Peary won the Pole, God He worked hard and deserves his laurels. One thing is sure, the Stars and Stripes are floating at the top of the world!” New York's welcome to the former milkman on Sept. 21 was a

His flag - draped car, - moving through dense crowds, stopped at the Bedford ave. Brooklyn, store| where he once worked. Then to his Bushwick ave. home. There came lectures tours, money, acclaim. Stories of Cook's penury included one that ‘his autograph Peary ~

{Cook's veracity was a bombshell, |His guide on the Mt. McKinley | trek said the closest Cook got to

{the summit was 14 miles. The "

" n DO YOU always eat at home, bes cause your husband hates to eat out, although you would love to eat dine On Nov. 4 the National Geo- Der in a restaurant once a week? graphic society approved Peary's| Do you wear conservative clothes, claim! In late November, Cook's|because your husband wishes you to, {records were en route to Copen- although you yourself would prefer On Dec. 21, Copenhagen something a bit more colorful? Does your husband groan when |clared Cook’s papers worthless and| he is told some of your relatives are {his claims fraudulent. Cook dis-|coming to visit you, even though you are gracious about entertaining his? Do you vote the way your husband

And Cook steadfastly avoided! examination of his records.

appeared.

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his clothes, kissed his hand. Colum-| AS AN anticlimax, two unknowns tells you to?

bus fared no better! Offers with fat Who allegedly conspired with Cook |

|fees swamped him, the Pontiff ac|clamied his feat and the ren | University of Copenhagen [gently to be the first to examin [his log. Sensation, tion, {Sept. 6, another flash came out of |the polar regions. Addressed to a

Cornered by reporters, Bradley Wire service and relayed from InX |dian Harbor, came this incredible |

{sentence

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“STARS AND STRIPES nailed to | 14 Years and nine months, served

{North Pole. Peary.” | Peary said he “discovered” Pole on April 6, 1909, nearly a full year behind Cook's asserted feat.

owned | A asked | he had paid only $260 toward the]

eo | promised total of $4500 for this|story?

however, bred sensa- | ture earnings alone amounted to While dining at the palace | nearly $100,000, remained silent.

the |

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Does your husband frequently {to falsify his polar record said tell you that you never get any= they wanted to expose him because thing “straight.” and does he cone tradict you when you are telling & service.

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IS YOUR husband gruff and une | sociable if he comes home and finds | magician.” {you entertaining a woman caller?

After Peary's death in 1920 Cook| Do you always have to ask your assertedly mulcted hundreds of in-|husband for money, never being vestors in ‘a Southwestern oil-|able to write a check on a joint ac. stock swindle, received a sentence of | count? Has the spiritless reply, “Whatuntil the spring of 1925 in Leaven-|ever you think, dear,” become a worth prison and subsequently won |habit with you? a Presidential pardon. { If you answer “yes” to any three on lof those questions, you're the femi-

The physician, whose lec-

|Sume dubbed him (he “boreal

degrees 37 minutes, an asserted two, degrees from the record. | abouts were unknown. The Peary group laid claim to Yai jackion; historic argument about the origin of coral atolls, | discovering ee Bay ail] BUT THE RACE was on! Peary | “I'm glad he won. . 1" ‘ 23 . Fa ; bing hit the ice floes Mar. 1, 1809, on are better than one. yo ste Pry . scr tad was hailed for guaranteeing - the {Are Sc ientists I redic tions Acc rate wsulgrty “of men 2 the Grant Land. He was 413 miles is now surely all American.” I DOUBT, however, if the navy was spending guroeon, Peary the explorer, un- from the explorers’ paradise. The skeptics sputtered. Cook the validity of his North Pole) 3 some $70,000,000 or more at Bikini to find out whether gnowingly laid the foundation for| FOF 18 months the world dozed smilingly gave lectures. ~Critics|claim still on his lips. And there| A delegation of a dozen business Charles Darwin was right. bitter enmity. contentedly upon other than polar [picked him literally to pieces. Like are many who agree with him, |Men and conservationists from Jay Both bombs at Bikini behaved the way scientists, Back in Brooklyn, Dr. Cook tXCitement. While Dr. Cook's fam-|a gorilla brushing off flies, Cook| A British scientist in the late| And Adams counties conferred with believed they would. The screwballs who expected | tossed aside his physician's badge | VY talked about a relief expedition said

his log would solidify his|'30s, known for his polar knowl- State officials today on possibilities tidal waves, earthquakes and the end of the world gng carefully tucked away his Are-|¥° search him out, a message claims. He conferred briefly with edge, said Cook's statements were | 10F a new state-park-near Geneva. were disappointed.

| . : {nine counterpart of the hen-pecked IRONICALLY, the wells which shand.

| Cook swore would produce gushed err bsm—E——— Two records out oil by the thousand. of barrels! The victory after his imprisoument. Dr. cook| STATE PARK PLANNED

|died, at 74, in Port Chester, N. Y.. NEAR AUTHOR'S HOME

determine the future of civilization. 1, for one, believe that the world will be happiest if it 1s never

the insects and land crabs on Bikini island and to

A {And then came Cook's amazing resee whether the seismic records will shed light on the

detonated. Adm. Blandy-expects to set it off next year in a deep-sea test off Bikini Atoll. But if the world 1s no nearer a solution of the atomic bomb nroblem by this time next year than it is today, things will look gloomy indeed for the future of the world. Bomb No. 1 was exploded in secret in a test on the New Mexico desert in July of 1945. Even then a majority of the scientists who had worked upon

|stabbed through Arctic ozone 3ept.|officials of the Royal Danish Geo- as truthful and genuine as those] Representing a section of the state

the bomb already realized the dangers for the whole Id which was inherent in it. Some of them did not want the bomb used against Japan. They drew up a report suggesting that the bomh be exploded on a desert island — Bikini and other islands in the Pacific would not have been available at the moment, however—and that some sort of an ultimatum then be served on the Japanese. Their views. however, got no further than a war department pigeonhole and bombs No. 2 and No. 3 dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the accompanying tremendous loss of life and even greater numbers of injuries. In extenuation, it can be pointed out that our saturation bombing of both German and Japanese cities had done equally great damage, differing only in the length of time it took.

Feeble Attempt to ‘Dress’ Tests BOMBS NO. 4 and 5 have now been exploded in tests at Bikini Atoll. It was my privilege to witness

the detonation of bomb No. 4. These were military tests, although there is some

My Day

NEW YORK, Monday.—Probably the best thing that Russia has done is to get her various races to treat each other as equals.” From one end of her far-flung empire to the other, she has succeeded in creating a union of totally different types of people. Fach group is an independent republic, and when its citizens leave their own area, they stand as equals with the citizens of any other part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. That is a very great achievement, so we must not be Surprised when, in their relations with other nations, the Russians stress the value of wiping out racial discrimination. For many of them, perhaps for the great ma jority, conditions are vastly better than they were under the tsars. In some of the countries along the Russian borders, they find conditions much worse than any which they now have to endure. In others, they find an advance beyond their own. But when-they look back over the last 25 years, they realize that the opportunities for their young people have been very. - great in this short petiod, and that strengthens their hope for the future. ;

Refuse to Be Discouraged

SOMEONE TOLD me that one often heard a slogan in Russia: say that and believe it, they cannot be discouraged.

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So were those enthusiasts Who! jc gear. He was smitten with the expected that the bomb would sink the whole target explorer's bug. In '93, he led his array. . own expedition into Greenland, reJust what many of these scientists predicted. hap- | peating the following year. pened. The bomb sank 4s many ships as could have 4 1 been expected and because this left more ships float- IN '97, he joined the Belgian ing than went down, the idea has gotten around Antarctic Expedition, heorically that the atomic bomb is “just another weapon.” tended the sick during an epidemBomb No. 5 proved more damaging than bomb) jc and received three of Belgium's No. 4 and this was in keeping with the views of sci-| highest honors, including the coventists who expected more damage from an under-| ested Order of Leopold. * water bomb. | Friends of Dr. Cook saw his marHowever, bomb No. 5 expended about half its en-| riage in 1902 to Mary Fidele, Hunt, ergy blowing a million tons of water up to an average of Brooklyn, as an indication that height of 4500 feet. lhe would settle down into the rouAll scientists agree that a deep-sea bomb will do (ine of a family practitioner. even greater damage. e was 37, well known, able. But But let everyone understand that the detonalion!y, o few months he left to conquer of bomb No. 6 will be the symbol of one of the most Alaska's Mt. McKinley, what no tragic and disastrous failures in the history of the ,... had done before, He failed. world. He tried again three years later, It will mean that the world has failed to make he world watched for his spotty any progress in the control of the atomic bomb and messages.

that world. war III is around the eorner sr.

DESPERATELY trying to find a passable trail to the mountain top, all of the party except Dr. Cook and his guide, Edward Barrill, gave up. | The explorer said he would hunt [and report on glaciers.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Even when we realize that Russia has a large number of men in her army, that her people are back of their government, that they are young and strong | and vital, that they have, some very fine scientists, | engineers and experts in ‘every field, still we do not] need to be afraid of them: We can be just as strong, | vital and unified if we will stop running away from

Dance Planned ; By Young Adults

the world situation as it is today and accept all our] The Young Adult Council of An-|

indianapolis will sponsor a mid-sum-ce Aug. 19 at the Skyline Hotel Severin, beginning *at 9 a. m. Dave Fogle anc’ Lemar Gelman are cochairmen of the dance. On the committee are

responsibilities. . Russia ya not accomplished 25 vears many of the thigs that we have achieved mer dan in 150 years. ' terrace.

We Bragged, Too

WHEN WE WERE young and weak, we bragged a good deal, we were a bit aggressive, we insisted that we would be sufficient unto ourselves, and that we would have nothing to do with the problems or re-| sponsibilities of other parts of the world." Now there | Ji . Misses Terry Abis no need for bragging or for aggressiveness, but | ama ravaya, Esther there~is need for an understanding of our situation Cohn and Charin ‘the world. | lotte Toback. We have known some shortages here, bit we have | Andy Anderknown no hunger. We car assume a great role in son's orchestra feeding the world, as well ‘as in providing manufactured goods. These are material obligations which | Miss Abravaya and tickets may will bring us economic returns in prosperity But there be purchased from members of the

‘It will be better.” If the people , is another great obligation; the obligation of spiritual committee, officers of the club or

leadership, which we must also asume, I at the door. : - |

will furnish music |-

[1, 1909. Cook had been unreported

for 30 months! | The message, from the Danish | steamship Hans Egede, had atomic significance.

DR. COOK had discovered North Pole on April 21, 1908! had endured famine, 83-degree-below temperatures! Without ammunition in the last

the

|graphical society, They would decorate him Sept, 8 in the presence of the Danish monarchs. Cook a phony? Absurd! | n ” | BEFORE the gold medal | tendered the assemblage

“Cook’s story should not be

| sion: |taken seriously. | Again the stocky doctor brought

was | contend. was | He stunned by another Peary explo-|fake?

of Peary. Other scientists insist {that Cook's actual amateur rating as an explorer prohibited him from | falsifying. his records. It would] take an expert to do this, they Was the energetic Dr. Cook a Let history decide. Per-| spective adds stamina to truth. |

Tomorrow: Cassie L. Chadwick.

Hyg

BY WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D. ONLY a small percentage of skin eruptions on the hands and the feet are due to fungi. Most of them result, from poor hygiene, or from treatment with medicines in an effort to get .rid of “athlete's foot.” The average patient with burning, itching toes has digits which are close together. . Fat-footed persons are especially Hable to irritation, because they retain heat and moisture between the toes. Fungi collect, under such conditions, on the surface, and they are not actually responsible for the condition.

n » ” THE TOES which cause the most [trouble are the fourth and fifth, although skin irritation can develop on the side and undersurface of the foot (rarely, on the top or over the toes). Irritation between the second and third toes is common in overweight persons, So-called “athlete's foot” patients show crops of small blisters which run together and form large blisters. When the skin is broken it slips off, leaving an angry red surface from which fluid escapes. “ 4 8 ITCHING and odor are the chief complaints, Infection with skin bacteria may produce disabling complications.

| Foot hygiene for those [toes are placed close {should include a daily bath, | thorough cleansing of the

of the foot, Gentle rubbing with

a towel to dry the spaces thor-|found between the toes may de-

oughly is important.

Any powder may be used, as the suffering from “athlete's foot.”

base is more important than the medicines which are included to “kill” the fungi.

Clean stockings should be worn |represents a skin reaction rather

daily, and shoes should be permitted to dry after being worn. { » » ~

| ¥N ORDINARY skin irritation between fhe toes a few fungi are | present, but they disappear with the practice of better hygiene. The majority ‘of cases are not contagious, and there is little evidence that the foot baths employed in swimming pools are of value. Burning, itchy toes are most apt to develop in nervous people. Scratching only makes matters worse. Constant attention to the toes also aggravate the condition which improves if treatments are stopped, " ” . . ABOUT two-thirds of the young men, and almost as many of the young women, examined at a Midwestern university health had “athlete's foot.”

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Analysis of a

{and insects.

[ The roommates of many so af-|

Itchy blisters similar to those

velop on the hands of individuals

» » . FUNGI RARELY are found upon the hands in this condition, as it

than a fungus infection. True fungus infections of the feet, while uncommon, do occur. During the war, chemicals which can destroy fungi were developed. large number of remedies sold for “athlete's foot” revealed that they contained drugs to which the patients using them were sensitive.

» » ” QUESTION: Every summer I am badly bitten by mosquitoes and insects. Is there any specific type of blood that these insects thrive on? What can I do to prevent the bites? ANSWER: There is no specific blood which attracts mosquitoes Some people react excessively to their bites because of skin sensitivity or nervousness. Purchase a good insect-repellent at

| director.

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Few Skin Eruptions Due to Fungi |

iene Combats ‘Athlete's Foo

where state park facilities are scarce, the group is suggesting an artificial lake near the birthplace of Jean Statton Porter. The park would be in the area of Limberlost swamp made famous in Porter novels. The group conferred this morne ing with Lt. Gov. Richard T. James and was scheduled to meet later with Milton Matter, conservation A similar delegation cone ferred with Governor Gates several weeks ago.

ESCAPED PENDLETON PRISONER IS FOUND

LOGANSPORT, Tnd., Aug. 13 (U,

near Logansport. Frank Woodward was found by Sheriff Harold Smith and state police as he hid in a small creek “ear the edge of the city. Woodward was sentenced a month ago to a year’s imprisonment for vehicle taking in Harrison county.

SERVICES HELD FOR FORMER ATTORNEY

Times Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind, Aug. 13. Funeral services were held here today for Claude R. Henry, 66, former prosecuting attorney and county attorney. He died at his home unexpectedly of a heart ate tack. Mr. Henry is survived by the widow and a daughter, Mrs. Earl Goodwin, Shelbyville, .

2 EXPENSIVE RABBITS STOLEN, PAIR KILLED Harold Brown, 1014 Shelby st., is puzzled why a pair of his $200 rabbits should be stolen and ane other pair killed. He reported to police today that

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his pen at Keystone and de ave, was broken into last wight.