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q veloped by Dr. Bernhard Gottlieb of Baylor. “I read about it in Collier's,” I said “and rd like to have some of the stuff put on my teeth.” The dean asked ‘me to close my mouth since he didn’t do work in the reception room. Then he proceeded to tell me that Dr. Gottlieb’s theory of preventing tooth decay hasn't had sufficient clinical study.
Gave Dentists an Ache ig “THE American Dental Association is of the same opinion,” added Dean Hine. “Oh, did that article causé dentists trouble. Everybody wants us to spray their teeth and do away with tooth decay for all time.” “That's for me.” It seems Dr. Gottlieb’s
theory isto block the
That's it, gentlemen « . Dr. Ralph McDonald (white coat] explains the latest on preventing tooth decay.
cause they would lose a lot of business. Boy, did I get the dickens for that. Dr. Dudley Smith of Lafayette drew this pictare for me. He said if all the dentists in the
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filling teeth, by the time they reached Pit they would have to turn back. .
that more time is spent in preventing tooth decay than treating decay. How, he wanted to know, could I even think that dentists were trying to hold back anything. (Sorry, gentlémen.)
Like Pie? Then Suffer
DR. LEON W. BERGER, of Beech Grove, program chairman of the clinic and obviously happy about the turnout, joined the discussion by pointing a long finger at me and saying, “As long as man is human and likes his pie, there will be toothaches.” No more pie for me. No
more candy, either. Or soda pop, I wonder if it's ge
worth it? I listened, practically with tears in my eyes,
° to dentists tell how much trouble premature
claims in articles cause them. Friend, better not hope for a miracle treatment yet. Dr. Ralph McDonald, director of the children’s clinic and an authority on the use of sodium fluoride, was gi a group of visiting dentists
ving - the latest pitch on the chemical which 99 per|very good care of himself.
cent of the profession régards as having merit, It seemed to me we better just keep brushing our teeth, going to the dentist twice a year and staying away from too many refined sweets. Overnight miracles in dental hygiene aren't quite here. The scientists have a lot more grinding to do before that happens. Have patience, they say. Ouch! = :
Weaker Sex?
By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Jan. 12—A Chicago doctor, expert in diseases of the aged, recently confirmed a quiet suspicion of mine that the term “weaker gex” has been worn by the wrong gender. He set off a mild tempest by stating quietly that the average lady faces eight years of widowhood unless she takes steps to coddle her true love into a longer lifé expectancy. .’ His suggestion that the ladies rise, on public conveyances, to surrender their seats to poor, weak man was greeted with outraged howls of course. This is standard technique within the guild, ‘which is dedicated to the ruthless acquisition of all worthwhile male prerogatives, while clinging firmly to all the little frilly privileges which time has erroneously endowed.
Built Like Horses
ANYONE WHO Jas ever lived much in the company of ow them to be physically 8 than draft horses, with iron nerves and limitless endurance. Man, conversely, is a delicately t creation—sensitive, nervous, prone to hysteria and quick to tire. ...Some of this combat fatigue, which cuts him down before his time, is due to the fact that he. is forced to treat women as delicate blossoms. That, or have his fragile disposition further deranged by the rumpus in the roost. It is an unfortunate truth that the American woman continues to regard herself as a willowy sprite, even though in reality she may be six foot tall, with the muscles of an oarsman and the appetite of a goat. One. of the greatest ills in matrimony today is predicated on the lady's erroneous infatuation with herself as a fairy princess, destined to dwell in a rqsy fog of amorous foolishness 'til the scythe hits her. This view is held chiefly by the burly American woman, who has fattened on such a steady diet of perfume ads, romantic movies, soap operas,
«slick fiction and sweeping nonsemse from the
agony writers.that she regards matrimony as an
‘endless dream of gooey bliss, uninterrupted
by reality. — Her demands on her husband are generally
more economic than romantic, yet she squalls to the heavens that he is a lousy, inconsiderate lover, She inflicts on her mate a stifling possessiveness that would soaR“all the starch out of Benvenuto Cellini. mye : i I was reading a piece the other day by a lady writer who charges the average husband “is illiterate about love and marriage. . . . He is responsible for a great many broken homes because he is ignorant of the first rules of feminine psychology . . . that women will love any old reprobate if he gives them enough petting.”
Try t. Pet 'Em I SUBMIT that it is becoming increasingly dificult to pet the modern madame as she bustles about her career, her clubs, her political involvements, her ideological commitments. As a critic of government, an interpreter of the press, as an outspoken argufier with everything, she has become considerably less amenable to a pat on the head. She even dresses to suit the evil whims of ladies: who don’t like gentlemen, and gentlemen who don't like ladies, With education and emancipation, there has developed an active female dislike for, and resentment of men. This resentment has certainly fruited since the war, as the impassioned feminists wave their typewriters and breed a broadening dissatisfaction with what we used to call “woman’s lot.” I have recently seen one serious suggestion that marriage, as such, be abolished, with a nonexistent status. proposed for fathers. The lady could keep him around the house or not, as it pleased her. : I am pleased, in face of a growing usurpation of man’s estate by his woimenfolk, that the pendulum ‘is beginning to swing back. Git up out of that easy chair, woman, and let little weary me set down, or else I'll die and put you back to work. ?
Inaugural Blues
By Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12-1 hate to wish President Truman any bad luck, but if there's a blizzard a week from this Thursday I'll be snowbound in the woods and unable, because of no skis, to attend his inauguration. This would be a blessing. Barring snow on Jan, 20, when Mr. T. leads his own parade down Pennsylvania Ave. and then leaps into his reviewing stand to watch the rest of the Democrats go by, I'm figuring on being trampled, starved, frozen, and stranded. Along with a couple of million other people. Walking down the avenue even now is Wifficult. The reviewing stands, some built of new pine planks and some borrowed from the Ringling Circus, already are jutting over the sidewalks. The closer these stands are to the White House, the costlier are the seats. But not the more comfortable. I tried one for size.
Folding Chairs at $10 DIRECTLY across the street from Mr. Truman’s spot are the $10 chairs, which are folding jobs such as used at funeral parlors and Fourth of July picnics. They are too narrow and also too hard. Sitting on one for nearly three hours, while 40,000 Democrats on foot, ahorse and en limousine pass by, is an experience I envy nobody. Particularly if it's sleeting. But that is academic. All the high-priced seats long since have been sold out. This indicates that those who would spend sawbucks for an afternoon of suffering are legion; they get no sympathy from me. 3 Down the Avenue of Presidents, close by Jimmy Lake's burlesque theater (note to visitors: The stripsteaseuses keep their clothes on) are the cheaper seats, ranging in price down to $2.50. For that kind of money a customer gets 20 inches
of a plank, but as soon a view of the parade as the carriage trade down the street. Only free seat on the avenue also is the best. It has a roof, a plate glass window in front, and an electric heater. This, of course, is the President's, He'll also-have room service. Or at least it's always been the custom of the White House butlers to snag out hot coffee for the boss while he's waving to his well-wishers. 4 There aren't many privately owned buildings left on Pennsylvania Ave.; these are renting out peéking places. from their front windows for what the traffic will bring. The Raleigh Hotel is offering seats behind its facade for $12 each. For pedestrians, who hope to watch the proceedings free, I fear there isn't much hope.
Hot Dogs Promised THE INAUGURAL Committee announces that it will have plenty of vendors with hot dogs at controlled prices. This is good. A cool dog with mustard is bétter than nothing. The town's restaurants have extra food on order; they'll try to keep the patrons from dawdling. But the overpowering hordes of the hungry are bound to keep thousands milling, foodless, in front of beanery and $5 steak. house alike. This milling business is sométhing else. The daddy of all trafic jams is building now. The police intend to keep all private automobiles miles away from the avenue during the festivities; chances of catching a cab are nil; of a streetcar, not much better. Judging by past experience at inaugurals, I can predict that trafic will be a shambles far into the night and that chiropodists next day will be beseiged. But you get the idea. I take a jaundiced view of the whole enterprise and I'm now plotting with the weatherman, who's usually a co-operative fellow on such occasions, for three feet of snow,
The Quiz Master
Is poison ivy found in all parts of this country? ‘Polson lyy In one form or another infests all parts of the country except the
practically arid lands, > 4S { Was Josh Billings the real name of the famous humorist?
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Al if he owned a gambling joint known as “The Subway.” “Mr. Wilson,” said -Al respect~ fully, “I will let my lawyer answer that for me.” The lawyer went into a lengthy legal hocus-pocus. Wilson allowed as how he hoped that Al and his lawyer understood that anything he did tell him might be used against Al | They understood. Al was as ntle as a kitten, but referred| all questidhis to his lawyer, !
# . ” THE KITTEM waited untill he was leaving to show his claws, Al paused to lean back in and say, “Mr, Wilson, be sure to take care of yourself.” ; : Mr. Wilson thanked the gangster and said he expected to take
There were such conferences and nobody was getting anywhere. Finally, the lawyer admitted that Al had income, but never more than $100,000 a year. Wilson requested it to be made in writing. Oddly enough it was. The letter helped convict AL It started off on a touching note. Al was the sole support of his widowed mother. Al had never made over $75 a week until 1926; the letter said. : :
Dusty Little Ledger
THEN the lawyer got generous and for the first time we had an estimate (which was later proved to be an inaccurate one) of Capone’s income. - The lawyer wrote: “I am of th opinion that his taxable income for the years 1926 and 1927 might fairly be fixed at. not to exceed $26,000 and $40,000 respectively. For the years 1928 and 1929 it did not exceed $100,000 per year.” One evening Wilson was finishing up a typical 18-hour day of “examining and re-examining
The lawyer, an imported - expert from Washington, explained that Capone wanted to pay Uncle what he owed him and would Prof. Ralph Phillips, dental materials, added|angwer any questions. Wilson said
that was very nice and asked
from the Smoke -Shop alone in| the period when he reported his income had at no time exceeded) $75 a week. Wilson quietly smuggled Shumway out of Miami and brought him to Chicago in great secrecy. Shumway talked in secret grand jury proceedings, and on Mar. 13, 1931, the jury charged Capone with evading income| taxes for 1924. The indictment was kept quiet at the government's request. n ”. ~
The Fatal Table
Then the May grand jury gave us indictments against Alphonse Capone. There were 22 counts charging evasion for 1925-1029. These plus the March jury's suppressed “indictment. resulted in the following bill against the
Big Guy: i Year. Income Tax, 1924 —oie$123,101.80 $32,430.94 1928 57,280.98 55,365.35 19% ——— loseie00 30TH 1927 eee 216.056.04 48.557.76 1928 ee 140:535.93 35.887. 1929 103,099.00 15,817.78 Total ——-—$1,038,654.84 $215,030.48
Al, grinning and nodding to his well-wishers gave himself up. In about half an hour he was free on $50,000 bail. Back at the Lexington Hotel there was much activity. Pat O'Rourke watched and listened.) He heard something that ‘sent him ambling down the street to a pay telephone. He called Frank Wilson and said, “Wilson, Capone just brought five hoodlums out from New York. They are going to shoot you, Madden and Irey.”
asked, “Why?” “Who knows.” oy “What do they look like?” “They look like hoodlums.” Four days later . O'Rourke |called again. °
ledgers picked up in previous and rare raids.
legend, “Barracks, Wilson knew the Barracks was an old Capone bagnio. He opened the book. . The entries clearly showed it to be the record for a gambling dive, , The magic words that cleared Wilson's weary brain were, “Frank paid $17,500 for AL” And as ne skimmed through the book there were other mentions of Al and every month the heavy profits were divided—after the biggest share had been set aside for “Town.” “Town,” as Wilson knew, was a gangster euphemism meaning graft paid to city officials, Wilson knew he had something. Police identified the book as having beek picked up in a flash
bling joint.
Bookkeeper Sings
IT WAS finally decided that one Leslie Shumway, beyond doubt, had been the bookkeeper, Wilson went down to Florida to see what he could see at Hialeah. Sure enough he saw. Mr. Shumway. ’ When Shumway finished talking, Wilson knew that thé Smoke Shop had cleared $587,721.95 in 22 nths. shell Even if Al got only the paltry one-sixth he had already confessed to, he made $97,970.33
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Wearily, Frank put them in a dusty safe. He pushed and tugged! » . and as he did his eyes fell on Getting Silly ; a dusty little ledger. It bore the] CAPONE and his henchmen Burnham, IIL.” were getting silly as the trial date approached. For instance,|
rald on the Hawthorne Smoke/that ‘time, Shop, a notorious Capone gam-|Frank, Capone's giving a party,
Take Part in Nursing Workshop on
+ + Participating in the three-day workshop on the future of Indiana University, Bloomington, were (left to right) Miss Thelma Britfingham, acting director of the Protestant Deaconess School of Nursing, Evansville; Miss Marian Roberts, assistant director of the IU’ Training School for Nurses; Sister M. Vincentiana Traffas, administrator of St, Elizabeth's Hospital, Lafayette; Miss Zilpha M. Burnett, director of the Good Samaritan Hospital School of | Nursing, Vincennes, and John 'W. Hicks, chief accountant, Indiana University.
Dead 19% with the largest numbe “BAN CISCO, Jan. 132|WAr dead yet to be brought to (UP)—The Army transporf Sar jpou. geant Jack Pendleton was due to
to New ed Al out of it.”
A suave young man made an appointment in New York with Joseph H. Callan, a shrewd and successful businessman, The gentleman introduced himself as Jones or Smith and asked Callan a question. “Do you know Elmer Irey?” “I know him better than any other man in the world knows him,” Callan answered truthfully. “That's what I heard,” the meticulous stranger said. “So I'll be brief. If Irey's boys let Capone off without a jail sentence, I'll give you one and a half million dollars in cash.” Callan tossed him out. Wilson got a phone call about “This is O'Rourke,
I've been invited.” ; “You going?” “Sure, It's. a going-away party. Al thinks he's going to get off easy with a guilty plea and he's giving himself a party. Johnny Torrio’s going. I think Al is going to appoint him boss while he's away. I ought to learn a lot.” “Well, carry a gun, Pat.” “That's impolite, Frank. You know you gotta check your gun at the door at Al's parties.” “Where's the party going’ to |{be?” Wilson asked. :
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When the cops went looking for Machine Gun Jack McGurn they found him playing tournament golf.
we'll park as close to the place as possible, If we hear any shooting we'll try to get in and help you.” “What'll I shoot with, Frank? Gotta check my gun at the door.”
“Take two guns and check one, Pat.” “That's a good idea. I'll do that. Bo long.”
Checks His Gun
PAT checked his gun and went in. He shared a table with' Mike Kelly, Machine Gun Jack. MecGurn and Paul Ricca, the last a promising youngster, The party was a gay one. Al circulated around, speaking to one and all in a most democratic manner. He even spoke to Pat O'Rourke. “Hiya,” he said to Pat, who loyally answered, “Sorry you're going away AL" Al just grinned nobly. Johnny Torrico walked at Al's side, and whenever Al paused to
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‘Close In On ‘Scarface Al,’ Guy Lands Behind Bars
Eleven-Year Sentence Was Shock To King-Pin Counting on Leniency
thought it was extremely humorous when he was tax evasion. He smiled broadly as he appeared ball. But agents of the Unit had done their job well. Now Elmer L. Irey, chief “The Tax Dodgers” of the big payoff. i By ELMER L. IREY, as told to William J. Slocum
TREASURY Agent Frank Wilson interviewed Al Capone and his mouthpiece, and Frank said the meeting was as pleasant a chat
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giving them the word, and they were accepting it with knowing
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“Okay. I'll get Nels Tessem and| > op Jury List ON OCT. 1, five days before the »
trial, O'Rourke walked out of the Hotel Lexington lobby and sauntered down the street to another pay-station telephone booth. He called ‘me, this time. - “They got the jury list, Chief,” he sald. “The boys are out talking to jurors with a wad of dough in one hand and a gun in the other, So long.” I made a call on Judge James H. Wilkerson and laid the prob: lem out for him. He was grim, then he grinned: “Don't worry
about it, Mr, Iréy. Don't worry.” |
The next morning was the big day. Al was dressed like a circus tent. At his side walked Phil d’Andrea, the bespectacled killer who looked like a minister. Phil carried a briefcase. Now came the business of choosing 12 good men and true, Bailiff Frank Otto called the first prospective juror. As did, Capone's attorney took a batch of papers from his brief
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“Tonight” _ THE JUDGE had ordered the regular panel of jurymen available to the rest of
be substituted for ‘the 100 me: Capone's thugs had been working on fortwo weeks, === The jury was out 10 hours and
the Atlanta, and the marshal blandly reported, “At 6:15 . ., . tonight” TOMORROW: The T-Men's "vital role in the Lindbergh kid«
naping case,
Mostly About People
Isador- Lubin, ing
Labor, Mr. Lubin is now a private busi
ness consultant in New York and Washington. The Labor Depart-|
ment position has been open since Undersecretary David A. Morse resigned several months ago. ’ » h Freshman Congressman A. NS. Herlong, a Florida Democrat, got discouraged trying to find a place
to live in Washirigton—unt{l he/dianapolis bake-
decided maybe someone had a) house to swap. He put an ad in| the Washington Post and got! more than 30 offers, | He took the firsi, from John!
Paul Jones, a Forest Glen, Md, Christmas Day
advertising man. To make the deal even, Mr. Jones will pay Mr.| Herlong's heat bill. When Con-| adjourns, each will. return to his own home. “i » " » A Sen. Glen Taylor (D. Ida) tocourt at Birmingham, Ala, on Mar. 16 on disorderly condict charges he appealed after being arrested for trying to ter a church door reserved for Ney
The hearing was postponed from Jan. 17 at Ben. Taylor's request.
» » » Blues singer Billie Holiday was free of assault charges today but her manager faces trial in connection with a night club
Hollywood
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adviser to the) late President Roosevelt, was be-| mentioned today for the {vacant post of ‘Undersecretary of dered held on three charges of
Cage % Levy, accused of slashing two trons with a 12-inch butcher knife during a kitchen fight, was or-
assault with a deadly weapon.
~ » - Karl Schuh, 2628 N. Harding St, a native of Germany, fis spending a 30day visit. with his 70 - year - old father and mother in Grobhotiwar, Ger many. An In-
ry owner, Mr, Schuh emigrated from Germany 23 years ago, He | left Indianapolis
Mr. Schuh
and plans to return Jan. 26. His wife, 17.yearold son and 14-yeariold daughter remained here, 2 ' ” . ”
Film Actor
Mexico. i The 32-year-old son of comedian Ed Wynn slipped into a little
‘marriage at 730.a, m | yesterday th 25-year-old Betty
Jane Butler, daughter of a former St. Louts, Mo., Wynn's former wife, Evie, divorced him in Mexico two years