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AN ANONYMOUS postcard about an artist named Baker—who'd “never had a lesson in his life”—sent us scurrying out to 2000 N, LaSalle st. to locate the budding Rembrandt. We found him to be Clayson Baker, of 2060 N. La Salle, a native son of Hillisburg,

. Ind, with a talent for “catching things” on canvas.

We had to do a little inquiring around the neighborhood to find the Baker residence. We knew we were there, though, just as soon as we.stepped on the front porch and saw a front room lined with oil paintings and with a half-finished outdoor scene on an easel in the corner, . .. Mrs. Baker told us her husband, an interior decorator, “just has a knack for painting” and has never had any instruction. Some of the old time East siders like nothing better than to gather arouna and see Artist Baker's canvasses of the scenic spots over the East side. . . . On the way to Bakers we stopped and had a chat with Mrs, Lloyd Lee, of 2401, Mrs. Baker and her small son, Teddy, were sitting out on the porch, having a snack between scrubbing sessions. Mrs. Baker, that is, was having a snack. Instead of eating, Teddy was busy taking his sandwich apart, probably trying to see if the pickle was in the middle and the mustard on top.

The Price of Family Haircuts THE RECENT HIKE in the price of haircuts was more than felt in the Clifton Bratton household, at 20567 N. LaSalle. It just so happens that both smalil sons and Mr, Bratton needed haircuts this week, so 1t g4l came at dnce. Mrs. Bratton is thinking of taking up haircutting herself, but so far the men in the family haven't given her much encouragement. . . . There was also a near barbershop operation going on at the house next door, the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Reinker, 2055. Mr, Reinker was busy with an electric razor, getting ready to go’to work. We never like to interrupt a man with a razor, so we didn't stay long. ... Naturally, there's a railroad man living in the block—what block doesn't boast a railroader? This block’s is Raymond Flora, of 2048, who works at the Nickle plate. His wife is a great needlework expert, frequently comparing stitches with another craftswoman in the block, Mrs. Baker.

Where's That 4-Leaf Clover? WE THOUGHT we saw a four-leaf clover as we walked into Chris McCutéheon's yard at 2040. If we did, it slipped back into the three-leafers, because we couldn't locate it when we retraced our steps. Finding four-leaf clovers is nothing unusual in that vicinity, though, Mr. McCutcheon told us. Just the

“other day his wife found--15-in their. yard-at-20p2.

And in the yard at 2040, she found three more. We figure that ought to make the McCutcheons pretty lucky, but Mr. McCutcheon told us he didn't “put much stock in it.” Mr. McCutcheon, who's the block's octogenarian, just recently married, making him a dual resident of the block by having two houses. He's lived on 2000 N. LaSalle 27 of his 80 years. . . . We saw 8 man who looked just too comfortable lganing back

Galloping Goose

RIDGWAY, Colo, Aug. 15.—The Galloping Goose ix one of the queerest railroad trains in America. It runs on the narrow-gauge tracks of the somewhat dilapidated Rio Grande Southern, now in receivership, from Ridgway over the mountains and down the eanyons to Dolores, 102 miles. There are several Geese in the flock. I rode Goose No. 3. It consists of a 1928 six-cylinder Piérce-Arrow automobile motor, sawed-off cab with seats for nine passengers and the operator and a small boxcar for carrying freight, express, and mail. It has flanged wheels, of course io run on rails. : We were about an hour and a half late in leaving Ridgway, and I asked our operator, Henry Wolford, the reason, He said the office at the roundhouse forgot to call him, * ; There were eight passengers, and about 4000 pounds of freight, express baggage, and mail in the boxcar behind us—wrapped quarters of beef, milk cans, bicycles and guns, camping equipment and machinery parts. ; As we ran out across the valley, Mr. Wolford tooted his whistle for his grandchild when we passed his son's ranch. Then we began a six-mile climb that was to take us 48 minutes. Mr. Wolford put his motor into second, and the long grind was on. He busied himself with paperwork since he has to handle all freight and express records. I.enjoyed the majestic scenery.

Then We Started Down

WHEN MR. WOLFORD finished his paper work, he leaned back, folded his arms on his chest, sucked on a toothpick, and relaxed. There was nothing for him to do but keep his foot on the accelerator,

Science

IT IS DISQUIETING news to learn that diphtheria is on the inerease in the United States. A review of the situation published in the Journal of the American Medical association shows that in the P3 largest cities of the United States there was a total of 321 deaths from diphtheria in 1945 as opposed to 213 for the same cities in 1941. This represents an increase of 108 deaths or approximately a 50 per cent increase over the 1941 rate. These same. cifies showed an amazing decline from 1935 to 1941, the number of deaths in 1935 having been 789. Many public health authorities, watching the decline after 1935, felt that the time was not tar distant when there would be almost no deaths from diphtheria, The trend, however, has reversed itself, authorities feel the war must carry the blame. The war caused a great deal of crowding in the large cities.- The growth of industries and the operation of many plants on 24-hour schedules led to crowding in housing, on streetcars and busses, etc. The situation undoubtedly was complicated by large numbers of people in rural districts with low Immunity to various contagious diseases moving into crowded areas where exposure to germs was high.

Face a Serious Situation BUT WHATEVER the causes, the fact is that the nation is now faced with a serious situation. It is particularly challenging because the means of preveniting diphtheria are at hand. The case is not like that with respect to infantile paralysis, where we are ignorant of how the disease can be controlled, This would not have been true of diphtheria in the closing years of the last century. Then diphtheria, like typhoid fever, was one of the major causes of death. While it may occur at any stage of life, it is chiefly a disease of early childhood,

My Day

HYDE PARK, Wednesday —The same good neighbor policy which we have Inaugurated in this hemisphere could and should be extended threughout the world. . In many cases, our people's only knowledge of other countries is gained through groups of their citizens who are now citizens of the United States. These groups should help us to realize conditions and needs which so far have been little understood here, and which, if we want peace in the world, we must cope with. However, in getting this help from our citizens or foreign background, we have one difficulty, which points up how hard it would be for the average citizen clearly to define the trend which he wants our foreign policy to follow, One finds relected among our groups of fairly recent foreign origin all the many different political shades that exist in’ their own ecountries—and these are even harder to grasp than our own political differences.

Want All People Fed OUR AVERAGE CITIZEN can only decide, for instance, that he wahts to help feed people in countries where they are hungry. Most of us want to feed’ all people, particularly women and children, regard-

Many

We feel that their political differences are their con-

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Never had a lesson in his life . . . Clayson Baker is the Rembrandt of N. LaSalle st.

Wm a porch chair reading. Naturally we went up and interrupted him. It was Jack Oolson, of 2030, who | was just catching up on his baseball scores. At least one member of the family erfjoyed the interruption. It was Mrs. Colson, who'd been busy working in the backyard, envying her husband his leisurely pursuits. ..+ + We found a house behind a big hedge and in the house Miss Bonnie Boyer, daughter of Mrs, Oarrie Boyer, 2021. Miss Boyer explained that her family has been commuting between Indianapolis and the West, and that the hedge has grown somewhat out of hand. It gives a lot of sun protection, though, besides giving the house a sheltered look,

A Story of Bobby Pins WE'RE AFRAID we got 11-year-old Mildred Johnson in the doghouse when we paid a visit to her home at 2014. Chatting with Mrs. Johnson and her children, we happened to hear Mildred mention making “hog pens. with bobby pins” Naturally we were curious so we asked how it worked. She explained that she straightens the pins partway out; then crisscrosses them into a sort of fence affair the way we used to do with clothespins. “So,” exclaimed her mother right in the middle of the explanation, “I! wondered what hads« been happening to all the bobby | pins around here.” We exited, but quick. . . . The | resident of the big stone-porched house on the corner | is Andy Heller, of the detective department of the | police . force. From the number of musical instru-! ments in the front room we thought a whole band | lived at the Heller residence. However, they all be-!

long to Mr. Heller's granddaughter, Joyce Dunham, a (than headlines, war bonds and no home again. Their hopes jumped

girl with many musical talents, . . , Mr. Heller is the block's “oldest resident,” but he's quick to point out that he's “oldest” only from the standpoint of residence, not in years. He'll observe his 37th anniver-

sary as an Indianapolis policeman Aug. 27.

By Eldon Roark

Then we started down—and the old Goose began! to gallop. Mr. Wolford unfolded his arms and placed

clip, swaying and rocking. We were doing 30, which was plenty farsi on those bowlegged rails. We made a couple of stops to unload mail, express, and milk cans, and we stopped on flag to pick up a passenger,

Train Parks Itself in Shed

queer railroad from L. 8. Elwell, shop foreman, i One cold night in February, 1945, with Mr. Elwell

By Donna Mikels|

{bent and burned limbs goes on day

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SECOND SECTION

MENDING PROCESS CONTINUES DAILY AT WAKEMAN GENERAL HOSPITAL—

GI's Here Still Paying in Pain-and Time

(First of three articles.)

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1946

By LARRY STILLERMAN Times Staff Writer

CAMP ATTERBURY, Ind, Aug. 15.—Wakeman Gen-

army camp.

From the outside, each of the 57 buildings mirrors the | row after row of white two-story barracks standing like

white-capped military police at attention. Unbarbered grass pushes up here |

and there, higher than any top kick Paraplegic and occupational and | camp physical therapy wards.

would permit when the housed thousands of the roaring 106th infantry.

~ » o ONLY THE rumble of a heavy truck breaks the silence that has settled over acres of this camp outside Edinburgh, Ind. But in the corridors and throughout the wards in the hospital army | life continues. Here in the cool grey-and-brown lined halls . ceiling, gauze-smelling wards the! slow, methodical process of healing!

after day . , . day. Not all of the 1500 patients are! war casualties. Some are recovering from contagious diseases, broken arms and minor illnesses all incurred while on-army duty.

|gasoline, however, with+ a trip

« » here in the high-!

eral hospital here is a huge, sprawling medical plant tucked | ‘away in the southwest section of what was once a teeming

through the orthopedic surgery,

Here I visited G. I.s still on hospital beds all suffering from a common malady—time,

{ “1 wonder just how many people!

remember that we're still here”

{one soldier in the orthopedic surgery ward mused. our relatives—sure, they remember

“I don't mean

all right—1 mean the other people,

even ex-G. Is."

THIS G. operator on a Liberator

I. was a former radio in Eng-

land, who wished to. remain anonyone year after V-J mous. “so I wouldn't scare my

folks.” He's had 12 operations on his leg, his hip and his ear. This 23-year-old Ohio lad has

ibeen in three hospitals since he was

injured in a plane crash in May, 944. All the boys in the ofthopedic

~ o Ed . YOU REALIZE that war is ‘more surgery wards are hopeful of seeing

SWINDLERS ALL—By Edward J. Mowery

Philip Musica Had No Peer For Greed

(Fourth of a Series)

In 1913, when Philip Musica blushingly admitted to District Attorney his hand on the air brake. Down we went at a lively Charles S. Whitman that he swindled 22 banks out of $600,000 in a mansion near exclusive Shore rd.' quick-Wallingford stories of the

human hair fraud, Musica muttered:

“I guess I'm" money mad.”

On Dec. 15, 1938, when New York police excitingly revealed that the coons. fingerprints of Philip Musica and Dr.

$86,000,000 McKesson & Robbins

Donald Coster, head of the

a) ER

| { | {

Still in Wakeman General hospital one year after V-J day . .. |

| Happier than most. G. Ls in the hospital, Pfe. Jimmy

(Pup-tent)

| Norden of Rock, Mich, is visited daily by his wife, Peggy. |

ten-fold when Col. T. G. Blocker cases of 20-inch and 25-inch human |

Jr, one of the foremost plastic gy

|surgeons in the nation, was discharged from the army. They fig-

ure they must be getting well now, Percy Jones General hospital in 'because he's the doctor who has Michigan.

|repaired many a limb and molded | “Wee on the mend.” s new ears and hands for many of faced Jimmy Norden. the lads in the first floor wards more bone grafts and I'l be on at Wakeman.’ " . \my way back to Rock, Mich, with| “Well,” he said, “guess it's time. to chow up again.”

in. Wakeman. ,

~ ~ . IN THE past two weeks, all of

issued stock. Pockets of the Musicas were stuffed

with gold. They bought a veritable today

Brooklyn, Philip cultivated Wall Street tyHe dined with them, attended the opera, supplied them with saddle horses from his own

It sold on the curb.

| past, Here is one of them.)

|Drug Co., were identical, officials | gave up barbering and in a minor ample stable. Opera stars came to |

were inclined to agree that this way started an importing business. | the Musica menage. They were! BACK HERE in Ridgway I learned about this Prash Italian emigrant had no peer Then Philip's cunning took hold:

for greed.

They were sure of it the same imports? Can't customs men close his

Why. pay these terrific duties on

aboard, when the Goose started downhill they found evening, when $18000000 of the their eyes to actual weights . . .

they didn’t have any air! Down they went, gathering speed every second. The old Goose galloped that night. . “We had three passengers, Mexicans, and we made

them jump into snow banks’ Mr. Elwell said. “Then 2 shot destined to rock an incredu- | tion! (grinned, had a fine home in Bay

| Ridge, Brooklyn. Their clothes and ‘of the Musica enterprise might be tduras was a fugitives’ paradise from sistant treasu

Jimmy Copper, the operator, and I jumped. We landed in deep banks and weren't hurt. So we started hiking on down the tracks, looking for the Goose

could save the mail if the car were on fire.

“We walked and walked, but no sign of the Goose. blows up in your face. This man Finally we decided we had missed it in the darkness. flaunted the age-old format of suc-| He milked New York City suckers three times in, “And then what do you suppose? There was the the span of a quarter-century. He!

It was 5 a, m. when he trudged into Ridgway after walking 13 miles,

Goose in the shed, intact! Not even a scratch. She had come down the mountain, coasted across the valley and come to a gentle stop right where she was supposed to.” 8till, Mr. Elwell Whinig they did right in jumping.

By David Dietz

It is difficult for us to understand today how terri-

fying a diagnosis of diphtheria was in those days. It!so galling that high officials refused | | o1iaved him.

was a virtual sentence of death. There was a time when mothers—and doctors, too —could only. stand helplessly by the bedside as the choking gray membrane spread across the child's tiny throat and ended his life. |

Antitoxin Now Is Available TODAY the doctor fills a little glass syringe with

diphtheria antitoxin. He inserts the sharp needle- |

like point: of the instrument into a vein in the child's | arm, With a push of the piston he sends the anti- | toxin into the blood. - Practically no deaths occur if antitoxin is given | on the first day. But treatment is sometimes delayed and even with the best of treatment, some deaths do occur. Hence medical men constantly urge immunization against the disease. | Originally immunization was obtained with a prep- i aration kn n as toxin-antitoxin, but -today it is, usually Accomplished with formalized toxoid. This is diphtheria toxin, the poison secreted by |

rendered harmless by treatment formaldehyde.

so-called antibodies which are the protection against the disease. The greatest need for immunization against diphtheria is in early childhood, between the end of the first year of life and the age of five. Immunization

old. In the first few months of life the child usually has a passive immunity acquired from the mother and it is thought wiser not to interfere with its develop-_ ment by a too early administration of toxoid,

should be done when the child is nine or 10 months |

the next day, field, Conn.

in his palatial Fair-

Coster) fired a shot into his brain--! Overnight

lous financial world. n » »

‘drug firm's assets disappeared! And for a stipend? i Philip visited the waterfront. He mo : home, Musica (alias slipped money to the right party. tal. And Philip's jewels even daz. |... (0 4 in New York on Po0¥'s $10000000 worth of crude

transformaEast

came the

The Musicas,

| flattered by Philip's patronage. Ah, the social level, Conscious of shott stature, Philip wore wedge-heeled shoes. He was an impeccable dresser, The Italian population placed him on a social pedes-

zled the Fifth Ave. set.

Siders | oe | FIRST INDICATION that success

| |

IT'S DIFFICULT to approach the Durties) oie, indeed, flowed of kaleidoscopic hue came four days down the mountain and in the canyons, hoping we “great impersonation” by the Mu-| Vu Teacy god. sica clan in chronological order. It

cessful criminals.

swindled the same financial moguls time and again. He bulldozed millionaires across champagne bottles. He duped Who's

: : t -) Who ny publishing 8 phony blog-' close scrutiny of Musica books ally scanning the documents noted cash, : ¢ assumed diferent PAI“ showed the firm doing $500,000 an- that figures showed erasures and | (Philip's) for $225,000.

{nual business. There was no need super - impositions.

raphy. entage, made himself a physician and dreamed new identities for his family as casually snuff out a candle.

Perfection of his camouflage was |

to touch him until the Musica glass cage spattered into Wall Street inner sanctums. ” » »

as you would

sicas.

| Collateral?

Simplicity of the fraud stunned lading for goods in the full amount. {them. By ‘bribing weighers, import- |On the Fabre line pier were 216 through the doorway, yanked Aa|gjeqge ed cheese shipments shrunk alarm- hair. The bankers frowned. Philip | package from her corset and hurled wajl Street gasped as receivers lingly—on the invoices! Philip and |pleaded, cajoled. He left, sullenly,|it over the rail. A detective caught took over the Bridgeport McKes-

{before Bt. Patfick’s day in 1918. | IN 1909 federal officials, who had | Philip, seated in the Bank of Man-

{ months, carefully watched the Mu- asked for a short loan of $370,000. (and Weekses of Chicago,” Why he had bills of put up a feeble barricade.

‘my wife.”

Jimmy's undergone nine opera-

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

drive. This scheme belched forth $8000 in unset stones. The chase began. Luggage marked | “Martin” was traced to New Orleans |

and to Mobile. The fugitives were Mansion and appeared as a quiet, | bare 48 hours ahead of the trackers. | crisp executive to gullible millionA flustered Mobile hotel clerk | aires, But Mr. Thompson was worthought the “Martins” had engaged | oq about one aspect of the fitm’s

passage aboard the United Fruit Line ship Heridia, Honduras-bound. Then an officer recalled a small

Philip's desk. : Portions of the brochure, carefully underlined, asserted that Hon-

an extradition standpoint. ‘WIN. ud

The door fell, and Louise

|his father, officials charged, falsi- with $25,000—an “advance” token. |it. Just $18,000 in bills. | Later that day a bank clerk casu- |

| fied at least 54 such invoices.

for petty larcenous propriety!

manipulations. Philip's

Dramatically, he shoul{dered all blame in court. The jury On’ Oct. 29, Philip began a

1909,

MUSICA, MASTER of phantom $5000.

profits, was born in 1877 in Naples of bottom-drawer peasant stock. Antonio, his father, was an unsuccessful barber. In '83 Tony, stuffed with ‘tales of golden America, decided to open this magic door to opulence. He called his family together. It was a deliriously exciting moment.

steerage for New York. Even at 6, Philip's sharp, black eves noted every detail of the teeming “Little Italy” section of the East Side. His father opened a barber shop in Hanover Square. Philip sauntered among the merchants. He learned quickly.

{And in a few days they sailed in

Later | the diphtheria germs, which has been detoxified or [came more children. The studious {| Arthur, laconic George and Louise Its injection causes the blood stream to develop the [and Grace. Tony, urged by Philip, lunlim

~ BUT PHILIP'S confinement was In six months a Presidential pardon sprung the master crook because of “extenuating eir-

short lived,

cumstances” in the trial procedure

Philip headed for Bay Ridge and

an epochal session with Tony. “You know all about hair,” the son told his

{~—$800 a pound in for it now. Let's...” At 67 Front st.

ner,

a Midas touch.

dour-faded year's sentence in Auburn State Prison. His fine was

human father, “Women are paying fabulous prices the market—

a new swinging sign went. up: The United States Hair Co. Tony became senior partPhilip assumed presidency of the venture, which prospered with!

» ” ~ PHILIP CAJOLED bankers for, ited credit. He won, He then

Investigators rushed to the pier.

of hair—very poor quality!

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{

instinct burst through the boxes stuffed with $250 worth |

The stateroom yielded $80,000. in| McKesson's 82 vice presidents and policies ‘lesser executive fry shuddered.

jewels, insurance

Tony, his face drawn, jerked a George and Robert Dietrich, who They found Pistol from a drawer, screaming: | amazingly turned out to be, respee= I must kill tively, Arthur, George and Robert

“I am myself.”

disgraced!

——rtt ~ ~ 4

DETECTIVES OF the district at-| THERE WAS no need for the

Musica home stripped bare. Even linens and silverware were gone.

The electrifying news spread through | ¥

New York. The Musicas were swindlers! Before the American Bankers’ association could assign Burns opera[tives to the case, identical frauds by ' the Musicas were reported here and abroad. Some 22 banks, all victims, added to the box score, Detectives. swarmed Brooklyn and Front properties.

over th st. Musica

files. detective stumbled over a trapdoor

in the Musica stable, ~ “ ~ | THERE {from the piergshipments! Probers also found that Philip, et al, secretly

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Susceptibility to Fever Is General—

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M, D. | TYPHOID fever at one time was |a common infection in cities during

| summer and early fall.

| Journal

But. last year, according to the

of the American Medical

By Eleanor Roosevelt | association, 56 American cities re-

cern, and that our state. department should do the | deciding, wherever there are claims and counter-| claims, as to what side we are on. When the state department knows something that would affect our feeling toward any nation or would shape our decision in any situation, we feel that it, | is up to the state department to tell us the facts, and | then it is up to us as citizens to make our opinions | known, {

y Need Reports on People BECAUSE WE WANT facts, we have an interest in the kind of people who represent us in different parts of the world. We have had some representatives who accepted what they were told by officials of the governments where they were stationed and never noticed anything about the life or the feelings of the people in the countries where they were stationed. We can have no hasis for a sound foreign policy where such men or women represent us. No foreign policy can be static. It has to change as conditions change. We have economic interests all over the world, and often these are our closest ties with other nations, We want to see our interests advanced in legitimate ways, but not at the price of exploitation of a weaker nation or in a way that would create ill-will toward us in the world. These are the basic feelings which I think people have on our foreign policy. . j

ported no deaths from fever, Better sanitation las been the most important factor in reducing the typhoid-fever toll.

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typhoid

" SUSCEPTIBILITY to typhoid!

fever is general. Injections of typhoid vaccine, however, impart protection against the disease for about two years, with more permanent

immunity developing in those who|

have had the infection. Typhoid fever is caused by a germ which enters the body through the mouth, usually in food or drink. Typhoid germs pass through the stomach unharmed, and when they reach the small -intestine they produce inflammation and ulceration. The germs -enter the blood from the bowel and cause enlargement of the spleen, toxic reactions in the organs, and a. skin eruption (rose

| spots).

" » " INFECTION develops, on the 'av-

weeks. The onset is often™so patients are up and about on their feet for some time before they take

ual that some typhoid-fever

to their beds. Typhoid germs are spread by fingers, food, and flies. Every pa-

tient with the disease is a source

{of infection to others unless special precautions are taken to de-

Sanitation Cuts Typhoid Toll

and infected raw milk is the usual cause of smaller outbreaks, (Pasteurization, of course, destroys the germs in milk.) Other sources -of infection are contamination of food resulting | from the washing of utensils in infected water, flies which have come into’ contact with infected excreta,

Istroy, by disinfection, the germs, jects. {in the stools and urine. | City and state health departments Nursing technique for conta-|supply free typhoid tests Tor all

| | gious disease should be practiced {with all bowel infections, just to {be on the safe side. » - .

thus being called “carriers.”

dozen epidemics in her lifetime,

recognized as typhoid,

Carriers who handle food are a| menace to others unless they prac-| id Setupions Sani ion Te es major triumph for the public health '| services. - : a cook who was responsible for al

Some typhoid-germ carriers do not give any history of having had| the disease. They may have had it| in such mild form that it was not!

n ” ” 5 « INFECTED water has been the our, erage, one to two weeks after. ex- commonest source of large epidemics which comes and goes. Treatment

|persons suspected of having the disease. ” »~ ~

| SAMPLES of blood,

urine, or

EVERY patient recovering {rom oois are submitted to these detyphoid fever passes the germs in|. tments for analysis. his stools and urine for a time; and |

|in exceptional cases recovered Pa-| ease, and follow-up examinations tients harbor the germs for years,|

Typhoid fever is a reportable dis-

are made on all victims, to make | sure that they aré free of the infection. t The control. of typhoid fever is &

# » ” QUESTION: What of the knee? ANSWER: Synovitis of the knee is inflammation of the synovial {membrane whicn lines the joint |cavity, It is painful, especially on ‘movement, and there is a swelling

is synovitis

as released on bail.

district attorney's office.

His career in sleuthing included a |cian” in New York Oity (comobtained | pletely false).

mysterious affidavit he

sleep and lay around all day under this here box.” .

‘keep the blood circulating,” he exe { plained.

) though,” gery treatment and orthopedic | story of one mother talking across |surgery have been transferred to the back fence to another woman.”

| business.

o from a gangster-suspect in the kill- |

{ing of one Barnet Baff, a chicken | | handler.

The Musica offices gave forth no! They had been destroyed. A|

The murder, Philip's informant and he was born in Washington planned in a Harlem | (even shop. Philip also produced two other | fraud).

swore, Was

| y ered to testify in the of leading to a subterranean chamber jugs, who offer stif)

| # x on

| WAS the hair missing

had launched a Sinmun buying:

of perjury. And known as

for subornation Philip? He now was

william Johnson” in a Nassau st.

lawyer's office.

In the face of obvious false testi-

and contaminated hands and ob-|

mony against Cohen, Governor Al Smith commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment. There came a six-year blackout

for the Musicas. They vanished completely. The transition of Musica to

Johnson to Cosfer may have been conceived near the original Brooklyn home of the .Musicas in the early "20s, ” ” ” NONE KNOWS exactly. But a Brooklyn bank reported a depositor named “Costa” opened an account with them prior to 1923, when Girard & Co., Mt. Vernon pharmaceutical house, set up shop with capitalization of $200,000 ($500 cash). In Coster’s later bogus biography tendered Who's Who he listed his mother's maiden name as Girard. Head of the new company was Philip Horace Girard. The fabulous Dr. Coster first appeared on the Girard-McKesson scene in 1925 when he strolled into the Wall Street office of Julian F.

Thompson. ”

THE GIRARD books proved this firm such an excellent business risk that Mr. Thompson arranged a $1,000,000 loan through Bridgeport interests, which Coster used to pur chase the respected McKesson-Rob-bins company. "Girard merged with McKesson. No questions asked. ny In three years the new combine

posure, and it lasts three to four of typhoidifever through the years, and outcome depend on the cause: prospered so much Mr, Thompson : wo ve ! ‘a : ! . % a ” : A :

[the years of his masquerade chals THE DEFENDANT was Joseph |lenged one phase of this docu- | Cohen, Out of this mixup came an |ment, while Coster-Musica dipped lindictment against Musica in 1920 into millions, is almost fantastic.

GANGWAY for progress!

ichine gun bullets on Luzon, Philip. pines, in April, 1945, The * |chewed a huge chunk from leg from

hospitals in this country, most the time in Wakeman. Among the ward boys and nurses, the 24-year old private first class is known as “pup-tent Jimmy.” . >

| JIMMY pointed to a tentsshaped {sheet covered electrical contraption {that looked like a miniature sweat- | box. | duced leg: :

‘She's living in Edinburgh, until her Jimmy “comes home.”

|mised. “Life here, when you stop to think about it, is pretty dull.

aid happy- says, ‘I've got two sons in the army. “Just two |Ome's living . .

{the severe cases for future” plastic tions since he was nailed by ma-|wateh,

swung a stock flotation from the Wall Street feedbag.

dend of $350,000. — | the country, the firm chalked up.

| POLICE, BOARDING the ship, nard, who handled huge commis {suspected certain custom agents for hattan’s executive offices, vrazenly banged on the suite of the “Martins gions from McKesson, worked for a Philip mythical firm.

Tan pled

; Mf » Bay Ri ‘corny exhibition. After Philip, again Under the microscope the eminent lormey's office found the Bay Ridge shouldering all blame, pleaded guilty | Dr Coster was none other than {to grand larceny in New York, he arch-swindler Philip Musica,

Three years later—March' 28, 1916 raphy pointed up to the superb sentence was suspended! And the | thoroughness of this man's. change uncanny Philip, instead of entering of identity. Sing Sing, became a professional in- | (correct), his wife's maiden names vestigator and stool pigeon in the | (phony)

the knee to the Since then, he has been in

“Why?” he asked. “Because 1

Four huge light bulbs pro~ p terrific heat on his injured . “That's to keep my leg warm and His wife, Peg, visits him dally.

“But it's just like I said,” he sur-

“We've got a joke about he admitted. “It's

it, . the

HE CONTINUED: “The mother

. and the other's’ He didn't have to look at his

Money flowed in. A single divi3,500,000 netted Coster. ith 17 drug afliates in

$140,000,000 for the 1920 business. year,

* » =x COSTER BOUGHT a yacht, a

Ya Suny He could find neither the comdrugs nor the $8,000,000 in receivables. This department was closely watched by George Dietrich, asrer.

| MR. doggedness George Ver

The Coster-Musica myth erumlike a matchbox under a

son office Dec, 5, 1938.

80 did dapper George Vernard,

Musica. ~ . » ’ THEN CAME more headlines.

Minute perusal of Coster's biog-

He listed his clubs

his extra-curricular “practicing physi-

and occupation of

HE TOOK PhD and M.D. degrees at Heidelberg (pure fiction),

the street address was » Parents? They came out

wholecloth. : That no credulous official in al}’

mses.

David Lamar.

We, the Wome Stork Club ] -Gazers Get More Room |

By RUTH MILLETT

Tomorrow:

Four dentists and a physician are being evicted from their offices in New York so the Stork club, which has bought the property, can expand. Now the celebrities who like te be stared at can be sure of a table in the celebrated club. » » ”

WITH AN expanded Stork club, the gossip-columnists should be able to get more “Overheard at the Stork club” items for their columns. And with more tables installed, fewer persons will suffer the humiliation of being turned away because a doorman looked them over and found them wanting.

» . » WITH a bigger and better Stork club, we might even get some big ger and better cafe-society fights, some of them as good, perhaps, as the fights at private parties in Holllywood. ; bu - Certainly nothing that haj in a doctor's or a dentist's could be nearly as : are the things’ that happen night at the Stork club. y .. Not, that is, if you believe

IT Se + your. gossip-columnist. Sa