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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-08

Mrs. George F. Wingfield Of New York
has joined Col. and Mrs. william r.
Gibson at the Wardman Park Hotel for
visit Of several weeks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-08

The Ambassador of Great Britain and
Lady Isabella Howard will be guests in
whose honor the Secretary of Labor
and Mrs. Davis will entertain a COM
pany of 20 at dinner this evening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-08

The Secretary of Commerce and Mrs.
Lamont will entertain at dinner dance
this evening at the Montgomery Coun-
try Club, for their daughter, Miss Ger
trude Lamont.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-08

The alien property custodian and
Mrs. Howard Sutherland have as theil
guest over Sunday Mrs. James G. Allen
wife of the president of Davis anc
Elkins College at Elkins, w. Va.
Miss Katharine Sutherland has gone
to Miami Beach, where she will be with
her brother-in-law and sister, Mr.. anC
Mrs. Stanley Harris, until April.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-08

Gen. Raymond Casanave, military
attache of the French embassy, will
entertain a company Of eight at dinner
this evening at the Carlton.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-07-03
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

in the United States Commissioner s Court, Wrangell Precinct, First Division of Alaska.
 IN PROBATE In the Matter of the Estate of Jesse L. Platter, Deceased.
 Notice Is Hereby Given, That I, CURTIS J. PLATTER, was on the End day of June, 1880, duly appoint ed administrator of the above named estate of Jesse L. Platter, deceased, by order of the Probate Court.
 All persons having claims against the said estate are hereby notified and required to file same with mem oranda, duly verified, within six months from the date of this notice. Dated at Wrangell, Alaska, this 4th day of June, 1890.
 CURTIS J. PLATTER, Administrator of the Estate of Jesse L. Platter. Deceased.
 First Publication, June 5, 1890. Last Publication, July 3, 1890.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-07-03
NOTICE TO PAY SCHOOL TAX

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That the undersigned has been duly appointed School Tax Collector for Wrangell in conformity with Chap ter 29, Alaska Session Laws. 1919.
 All male perosns between the ages of twenty-one and fifty years, except soldiers, sailors in U. s. Navy or Revenue Cutter Service. volunteer firemen, paupers and in- sane persons. are subject to tax in sum of Five ($5.00) Dollars.
 Should you be living in Alaska on or prior to the first Monday in April, 1880, said tax shall be de- linquent after May 1st, 1880. Should you arrive in Alaska later than first date above mentioned. tax will be delinquent thirty (30) days after your arrival, or within ten (l0) days after notice is given you.
 All persons. firms or corporations, employing labor shall furnish a list of employees to collector and are authorized by law to deduct amount of tax from wages of employees.
 Fines and Imprisonment are pro vided by the Act above quoted for those who fail or neglect to pay tax or furnish list of employees. Dated at Wrangell. Alaska. April 4. 1880.
 L. M. CHURCHILL, School Tax Collector for Wrangell | Alaska.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-07-03
Water Sports

Accused = don't understand the question.
 Judge - Counsel means that you should tell the court what hap pened
 Accused - Indeed, 1 won't! What do you suppose I pleaded Mot Guilty for?
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-07-03

Single Gent-What is the best month to get married in? Married One-Decembruary. Single Gent-Why, there Is no such month.
 Married One-I know it.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-07-03
Street Sports---1 D. m.

High Jump, open to all n...........$ $500 ...... $sot Running Jump. ............... 500 .... 30( Slim Horse Contest IA years and under 300 20( Slim Horse Contest, all. 500 30( Shoe Race 14 years and under 300 20
 Threeegged Race, 14 and under 300 2O( Theelegged Race open to ......... 500 .. 3O( 100yard Dash, to all. 800 3OC 50yard Dah Boys 12 and under 300 2O( 50yard Girls 12 years and under 300 200 Sack Race 14 years and under. 800 2O( Sack Race open to all .............. 500 .... 3OC Girls Potato 12 years and under 800 200 Boys Potato Race, 12 years and under 300 200 Boys Bicycle Race IA years and under 500 BOG Girls Bicycle Race IA and under 500 BOG
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-12
California Again

California is about to hang one OF It's own wares
whose age is 10 years and months!
Ernest Dias is down on San Quentins books as "a
but alenists have examined him and pronounced his
mental age as Just over 10. When he committed the
double murder for which he must hang he was a
ward of the state that is to hang him. former in
mate of the home for feebe-minded paroled in spite
of the fact that he was known as mental case and
dangerous character
California of course, is to blame for the murder
this adult child committed The state, not the mental
incompetent that it turned loose upon the public is
guilty But bound by its Anticipated law that per-
mits the supreme court to review procedure and
not evidence the courts can not intervene.
TO me it appears monstrous," said Supreme JUS
tice William Langdon, that the state should hang
one of its own wards who should have been set
at liberty and who at the time of this tragic event
stn was under surveillance as a mental defective.
Monstrous it is AS monstrous as for California to
keep in its prisons Tom Mooney and Warren Billings
on the testimony of perjurers Yet it is committing
beth wrongs because of the same weakness This is
the weakness of state that is too small to admit it
has made mistake.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-12
The Presidents Address

President Hoover's appeal in his Armistice day ad-
dress for warleSs world was heartening It con-
sciously voiced the hope of the American people, for
whom the President spoke.
But the address singularly lacking in definite
suggestions or pledges which might translate that high
hope into reality. Therefore the net effect was pro-
foundy Disappointing.
The President spoke as one tired by party and po-
ntcal reyerses weary with domestic problems of eco
nomic depression; as one who had not sensed the
seriousness of the international situation and heneed
for American peace action.
How else explain his casual statement that "the
outlook for peaee IS happier than for half century?
Is it possible he does not know that virtually all
statesmen and publicsts Of Europe agree that there
is drift toward war; that conditions are more expo
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-12
The Fee System


Two wears ago the Democratic party made futile
effort to abolish the fee system in Indiana Placing
all county officials on regular salaries.
They traced the election evils of Lake county 70
the fact that county officials received sums larger tah
the salaries paid to the President of the Onlteo
States. ~
This year the political situation as far as Lake
county is concerned is changed Democrats noo teSe
sinecmes.
one of the tests of the Democratic party perhaps
the acid test is its attitude in victory WIN II nave
the same ideas upon the fee system now thaI II menu
two years ago. or will it yield to the pohtical oedl
Of Lake county and forget its high purpose?
There can be no question of the evils OF the Zee
system It should be changed. Lake county is not
the only spot which it affects 1t is absurd to make
fhe nrosecutorship of Madison county, now passing
for the first time in years to Democratic hands twice
as profitable as that of supreme court judge. Ger
tainlv it does not require twice the legal knoWeoge
twice the integrity, twice the work
In hitting the fee system, the legislature will do
well at the same time to strike at the provision OF
law which has made it SO evil thing
Originally the fee system was based upon the piece
system of work to relieve smaller counties from IN
due burdens 1t did not begin to breed It's evil cIl-
dren Of corruption until the passage OF the Wright
law, which turned into the prosecutors ana SneIIi'
more money than ever before
The particular provision of that law winch mas
made the fee system in Lake and Madison Countess
in particular as well as all other counties operat-
ing on that basis, so Objectionable is the $40 lee
given to prosecutors for all cases in connection WIN
the law. and $500 fee for all nuisance cases
That provision was the scheme of the Antl-Saloon
League to raise funds 1t expected to employ It's own
lawyers and in many counties has demanded the
privilege of prosecuting all nuisance charges.
II intended this not so much an added penalty
for the man who got drunk the operator OF boot
leg joints as did for its aim to raise funds Tor
its organization.
If it be considered wise to make getting drunk SO
burdensome by this added fine, the law should be
changed SO that this fee goes into some state or county
fund.
1t is that $25 fee for conycting drunk, who gen.
orally pleads guilty that has made the prosecutorshp
so profitable
There is no more reason for giving a prosecutor
S25 in such cases. perhaps not as much, than there
would be in putting up bonus of $1,000 for convict
ing bank bandit or bank embezzler
The Anti-Saloon League is not SO powerful as II
was when the vicious provision put into the law
It has not been successful in getting its own at
torneys a monopoly of nuisance cases.
The first amendment to the Wright law should be
the taking of the $25 fee in liquor from prose-
cutors and making it the duty of the prosecutor to
prosecute all nuisance cases.
Such amendment would remove some of the vicious
ness of the fee system, which is all wrong in prin-
cple and should be changed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-12
Caution Is Needed

MO one can quarrel with the
" Presidents opinion that the
United States should go no farther
at this time than to cooperate in
friendly way, and that, under ex-
isting conditions, it would be un-
wise for us to indorse a policy of
war to end war"
But when all is said and done
such opinion represents a Temporary
political viewpoint which begs the
ultimate issue.
The only reason that we should
promise no more than friendly CO.
operation is that the peace move
ment has not taken definite shape
that the world still is doing little
but send up a lot of trial balloons
and that no one knows what can be
done, much less how to do it.
But, and making allowance for all
that, we might as well recognize the
necessity of thinking this thing
through.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-12
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Injection May Revive Dead Heart

heart beat by massaging the heart
through the diaphragm.
When the heart stops, the circu-
lation of the blood naturally stops,
and if the circulation is delayed
over a long period, death inevitably
follows.
1t is said that certain portions of
the brain are damaged irreparably
after some five to eight minutes Of
the stopping of the circulation.
On the other hand, the hair folli-
cles in the skin may continue to be
alive and to grow hair as long as
seventy-two hours after the heart
has stopped beating.
Various authors disagree as to the
length of time after which resusci-
tation is possible. The longest in
terval concerned a man 70 years of
age whose heart was revived by in
lection of a drug directly into the
heart a half hour after all signs of
beating had ceased, and there are
other cases in which the heart had
stopped from fifteen to twenty min
utes and the patients recovered fol-
lowing use of this method.
The physician must make de-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-12
Adjourn Politics

Let it be hoped that the tender of Chairman
Earl Peters of the state Democratic party to adjourn
politics from the necessary reapportonment of con-
gresslonal districts will find response from Chair
man Rogers of the Republican organization.
Indiana under the last census, will lose two menu
bers of the house of representatives That will require
new political divisions.
It is but human to expect that legislature OF
which one body is Republican and the other Demo-
cratic will fnd such duty subject of debate' Each
party might be expected to try for advantage by
grouping counties in such way as to make election
certain of a majority for its party.
To have this question settled in advance by con-
ference of leaders of the party would remove the
probability of the legislature becoming SO embroied
in a political struggle this question as to forget
important legislation for which the people have voted
All that the people want is such division OF the
state that every citizen will have fair chance OF
being represented in the national congress- The peo-
pie as the parties are learning, care very little about
political parties and organizations and great deal
about Justice decency and fair play.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-12
Nothing Personal

7 CAN understand popular repug-
L nance against being represented
in any rogues' gallery, but finger
prints are wholly impersonal.
The manner in which they are ar
ranged for reference in an orderly
progression mystif1es me. The ex-
pert tried to explain, but was not
quickWitted enough to follow.
He said that if he had my prints
on file and I returned thirty years
later with a gray beard and wood
en- leg identification still would be
simple.
Seemingly it is just as easy to turn
to a set of fingerprints in a police
cabinet as to find the world de-
murrage" in a dictionary.
The arrangement has something
to do with the number of little tents
or circles found in the lines. Every
body, I gather, goes in for tents or
circles in various combinations.
Since the record includes all ten
fingertips, the potential combina-
tons are infinite. You never will
catch even an inkling of doubt as
to the accuracy of the system in the
mind of any man who has worked
at it. My friend was dogmatic on
that question.
Never in the history of the
world he said, have any TWO sets
of fingerprints been found which
were precisely alike. And there
never will. In fact, if duplication
occurred just once we'd have to
throw away the whole theory"
How about twins?" I suggested.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-12
Empty Words

THROUGH it may be brave to
L joke at death, it is ridiculously
futile, and though it may be consol-
ing to dream of a world made over
by the simple process Of academic
moralizing and good example, it
hardly squares with human expert
ence.
Peace for humanity is obviously
bigger problem than peace for the
United States, if, indeed, the United
States can claim to have arrived at
that happy state.
And there does not appear. to be
much logic in supposing it can be
maintained without force, as long
as this country finds it necessary to
keep 100000 policemen on the pay
roll, not to mention all the sheriffs,
constables and dry agents.
Of course, there must be persua-
sion, but there must also be some
thing to make people understand
that it represents more than pleas
ant conversation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-12
IT SEEMS TO ME BY HB BFoSS

alike I'd slap you into a cell in a
minute.
1T wouldn't make any difference
if you did tell me that you're a
newspaper man and that you
weren't in Brooklyn on the night OF
Oct. II. I'd have you charged with
first degree murder, with a swell
chance for conviction, because these
prints belong to K564, third Of
fender, and his name is Red, and
we're after him for a double killing
And you and he are about as
close as any two I've got in the cab
met. I hope you still don't believe
in any theory of criminal tendency
fingerprints."
/ wouldn't be so sure. I've still got
some years ahead Of me. There
may be fundamental similarities as
we'll as fingerprint likenesses be-
tween myself and Red.
I don't know his story, his back
ground or the nature of the prova-
cation. In fact, I feel inclined to
say, There but for the grace of a
few whirligigs on f1ngertip go I"
Copyright. $780, by The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-12

TITO many individuals the process
Il of being fingerprinted is high
ly repulsive. I was fingerprinted~a
week or so ago, and it isn't such
bad ordeal Having tooth
pulled is much worse.
1t is true that the recording to
which I submitted was wholly I'M
official. No charge OF conviction
lay against me at the moment.
The whole thing waS the idea of
newspaper friend, who took me
over to the expert and said
"Fingerprint this fellow. 1t may
come in handy some time or
other"
And when I had made my black
marks on the paper I was allowed
to take the identifying sheets away
with me. They were put in safe
place as souvenirs and promptly got
lost.
And so my fngerprints are by
now on some rubbish heap or being
blown helter-skel through city
streets by idle winds. 1t would have
been much more sagacious for me to
have said to the police, you put
'em in your filing cabinets and hold
them on the chance that some day
you'll want me"
THE off chance" I might have
added, with a touch of elf-right-
eouS confidence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-12
Eclipse of Star

Nov, 1t sometimes happens that
L ' the orbit Of a double star is SO
inclined with reference to the earth
that as one star revolVes around the
other, the first star at times gets
directly between us and the second
one.
This means, therefore. that the
first star succeeds in eclipsing the
second one as far as we are con-
cerned. If the two components are
OF equal brightness, the result Of
such an eclipse is to cut in half the
light which we receive from the
double and so it drops for the time
to half its usual magnitude.
Such a double star constitutes
what the astronomer calls an eclips-
ing variable.
1t sometimes happens that an
eclipsing variable consists of COM
ponent Of unequal brilliance. One
compound may be very bright. The
othef dim.
In such case the eclipsing of the
bright component by the dull one
results in a very great decrease in
the brilliance Of the star.
Algol, the second variable star to
be known, is an eclipsing variable.
The existence of eclipsing variables
first was suggested in 1882 by John
Goodricke, who suggested that the
periodic dimming Of Algol, which oc-
ours every two days twenty hours
and forty-nine minutes, might be
caused by a fainter object passing
across its face.
Subsequent study with large teIe-
scopes proved that Goodricke was
correct in his diagnosis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-12

cision in each case on the basis of
the conditions in the individual
patient If the patient is healthful,
except for some acute surgical con-
dition, a shock, an accident, or a
collapse, an injection directly into
the heart may mean restoration to
life
If, on the other hand, the patient
has a heart that is degenerated
badly, very high blood pressure,
hardening of the arteries, or if he
suddenly has died from severe in
lection, the decision may be against
the use of this method
If a person is undergoing a
surgical operation, the safer method
probably is massage of the heart
through the opened abdominal
cavity
1t is taken for granted that the
injection will be made in the proper
place by the proper method This
seems to be injection into the right
auricle or upper chamber of the
heart by the use of a slightly curved
needle, inserted between the ribs in
the right side of the sternum, or
breast bone
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-12
REASON BY FR Ita&5iS

NNE of the most regrettable results of last week.
~ election was the defeat of Henry j. Allen of Kan
sas for the United States senatorship for he man
OF unSual capacity and of the greatest natural
orators in the country
But Vice-President Curtis is not inconsolabIe as
result of Aliens defeat for he and Allen have been
bitter opponents in Kansas politics for quarter of
century and when Allen was appointed to the Cur
It's seat when the latter became ce-Presdent the
blow almost killed father.
We will have an interesting situation in the next
Indiana legislature with the senate Republican and
the house Democratic and reapportionment bill due
to divide the state into eleven congressional districts
as ordained by the last census.
4 NY reapportionment which is unfair to either
party can not pass and should the legislature ad-
Journ without reapportonment, then the next con-
gressionaI delegation will be nominated at large in a
state convention and elected at large.
This would in all probability mean that one party
would win al of the eleven.
In this connection there is lot of speculation as
to the political future of VIII R. Wood of Lafayette
representative from the Tenth district and chairman
OF the powerful appropriations committee.
It's cinch that Lake county will not be put into
district with Tippecanoe.
The Calumet region now has enough population
for congressional district and its population will
CIeSe faster IMAM Inat OF any other Indiana section.
Many people III the Calumet region hope that
Wood will move to their section and permit them to
keep him where he is influential.
or course it is not necessary for representative
~ to live in his district residence in the state be-
ing all that is required but the custom this country
has been for the representative to reside in the district
he represents In fact it has acquired the force of law
The English do it differently districts frequently
hSt
statesman from distant part of the country to rep
resent them in the house Of commons
But it viii be long time until we do it in the
U. S. a.
Ten years from now We may lose more congress
men, due to the growth Of great cities and this is
not good thing for the country but that's story TO
be written in 1870.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-12

How many Indian tribes are
there?
DR.. Swanton of the bureau OF
American ethnology estimates the
number to be 1856.
How long does round last in
boxing?
In modern professional boxing it
lasts three minutes.
How does the Outpat of the dairy
industry in America compare in
value with that of other agricultural
products?
In the fiscal year 1927-1928, the
total income received by American
farmers for all farm products was
about $12,250,0OO,O0O. One-fourth OF
this, or about three billions, was
produced by dairy COWS. This was
two and half times the annual
value of the cotton crop, two and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-12
Mira and AIgoI

EOR many years. Mira and Algol
l. were the only two variable stars
known. BY the end Of the eighteenth
century, astronomers had listed
about a dozen
The application of Photography to
the study of the stars made it easier
to discover variable stars since they
could be located by the simple pro-
cess of comparing two plates of the
same region of the sky taken at in-I
tervals. AS a result about 500
variable stars were known by the
end of the nineteenth century.
At present, astronomers have
knowledge of about 5000 variable
stars. The Harvard Observatory
has been particularly active in the
search for variables and about 1000
of them must be credited to the
astronomers there.
Modern study has shown that the
varia0les can be divided into four
types. In some ways, the classifi-
cation is slightly misleading. be-
cause the first type listed, namely,
the eclipsing variables, really are
not variable stars at all but double
stars.
A double star. it will be recalled,
is really two stars so close to gether
that they appear as a single star
to the unaided eye. The telescope
reveals the true state Of affairs,
however, separating the two COM
ponents OF the double.
A double star constitutes a real
system, the two stars revolving
around a common center of gravity,
or in the case of a large and small
component, the small one revolving
around the large one.