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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-09
SALT WATER TANK
AID TO CR|PPLES
Treatment at ChiIdren'S Hos
pitaI Popular With
Youngsters.

Two large salt tanks for the treat
ment OF patients at Children'S Hospital,
one OF which was installed recently,
are proving as popular with the young
sters as the old swimmin' hole" once
was with their elders.
While the children enjoy themselves
Splashing about, the treatment is bene-
hting them by stimulating muscular
activity and acting as a SedatiVe to
defective nerves.
The buoyancy of the ocean salt solu-
ton lifts much of the weight of the
body from crippled limbs or stiff joints
and allows the children to walk and
kick and toss their arms with unac-
customed freedom.
The hydrotherapy tanks are used
to correct muscular inaction, through
1nfantile paralysis, birth injury or
other cause, to loosen stiff joints. to
build up muscles inactive because of a
broken bone, and to tone up the sys-
TEN generally.
Designed to Fit Body.
The new tank is designed to fit a
human body with outstretched arms
and legs, shallow enough to obviate
the danger of complete immersion and
large enough to allow freedom of mo-
ton. The walls are constructed to
hold the heat in the water.
Enough salt is put into the solution
to simulate sea water and the tempera-
ture is kept high enough to induce
complete muscular relaxation.
Miss Louisa C. Lippitt, physio-thera-
pist, is in charge of the Clinics where
about 100 children receive treatment
weekly. Treatments are given on Mon
days and Wednesdays, with diagnoStic
clinics on Fridays, when examining
physicians are present.
The use Of water as a healing agent,
Miss Lippitt explained, developed dur
ing the World War. in treatment of SOL
dierS who had suffered paralysis from
one cause or another. For hundreds of
years. she said, people everywhere have
gone to the seashore in warm climates
for the treatment of rheumatism and
other muscular diseases, although the
use of the tank and warm salt water is
comparatively recent.
The idea was the outgrowth Of the
efforts of wealthy Chicagoan to cure
his crippel daughter of the effects of
infantile paralysis The man conceived
the notion, from his boyhood knowledge
Of 1.-The old swimmin hole" of con-
Structing tank in which the buoyancy
Of the water would help support his
daughter while she exercised the Grip
pied members.
The Chicagoan had such tank con-
structed and it proved so beneficial to
his daughter that he had others Of a
similar design made and presented them
to a school for crippled children in
Chicago and to the University OF Wis
conSin in order that a scientific study
might be made of their use.
Miss Lippitt became interested In the
treatment while teaching hygiene at
the University Of Wisconsin during a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-09
Three WIVES CLAIM
ONE MAN IN CENSUS
Marriage Given as Occupation" Of
Northumberland Of Spend
ing Savings.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TULSA, Okla, April 9.-Marriage
was given as Joe Perrines Occupation"
by three women, who said they were
his current wives, when they called at
the county attorneys ONCE Monday
to ask his arrest on bigamy charges.
Accompanying the trio and lending
her support was divorced wife No. 2.
Tom Wallace, assistant prosecutor,
said the four women accused Perrine,
also known as j. N. Patterson, Of SPEND
Ing their savings following marriage
and then deserving them.
Mrs. Hazel Patterson of Haskell,
Okla, one of the. present wives. signed
the complaint, charging Perrine, with
marrying Mrs. Lorraine Smith at
Sapulpa, February q, without benefit
Of divorce. Mrs. Alma Patterson Of
Oklahoma City, the other current wife,
identity of the first divorced wife was
not learned by Wallace. Mrs. Mary
Duncan. East of Tulsa, said she was
Perrine'S second wife, but had divorced
him several years ago.
A search by Mrs. Alma Patterson for
her husband brought her In touch, she
related, with the two women. They
held a conference Sunday and agreed
on the criminal action.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-09

vacation period. Her account interested
In turn Mrs. Eugene Meyer, jr, who
presented the flrst tank to- the Chill
dren's Hospital, q circular container
Of ~65-gallon capacity, three and half
feet deep.
The manufacturer who built this tank
made experiments and designed an
other to fit the human body. The first
tank is retained for patients who have
improved enough to be allowed to stand
upright with the aid Of the buoyancy
of the water. The new tank is used
more for patients who have to recline
or for very small children.
The treatment Is of particular worth
to victims of infantile paralysis, whose
muscles usually are weak and wasted.
Exercise to develop. them is induced by
the relaxing of the water and its buoy
ancy. In another type of paralysis the
muscles are drawn up because Of a sort
Of Spasm, and 1t is hard to get the child
to move the afflicted member because OF
his inability to relax. Here the Sedat1Ve
quality OF the treatment is valuable.
Any start toward recovery, particu-
larly where the legs have been affected,
is accompanied by the impulse to walk
The child who cannot walk upon the
floor once in the tank often Is able to
walk little, and thus becomes accus-
toned TO the etfOrt and develops
strength in the injured members.
Gradually then he is allowed to walk
on the floor, few moments at a time,
and often improves enough to dispense
with treatments.
Responds TO Treatment.
One 10-year-old victim of an injury
at birth, who had spent most of his
time in a hospital and was considered
a hopeless paralytic, responded, to the
tank treatment with unusual rapidity,
and is only an occasional visitor at the
clinic, where he reports for examination
When the school for crippled children
was opened this boy was enrolled and is
regarded as one of its brightest pupils
His doctors say that but for the Chill
dren'S Hospital clinics, made possible
by the Community Chest, the boy would
be hopeless cripple today and could
look forward to little better in the
future. ..
The Government has sent out doctors
from the District Health Department
to examine the tanks and learn the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-09

treatments, with a view to installing
them In two schools for crippled chil-
dren here-the WakenAn J school,
Twenty-third and NJ streets, and the
Magruder School for colored children
at Seventeenth and M streets.
In all the Children's Hospital treats
over 900 children a week In its clinics.
More than 5000 children monthly re-
ceive free or part-pay attention:
The hospital Is assisted in its work
by the local Junior League members,
who drive the patients to and from the
hospital in automobiles to spare them
the necessity of making long, tiresome
trips across town in public conveyances
at times when they are in poor health
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-09

Washington Navy Yard, viii begin TO-
morrow morning. according 10 the Navy
Yard labor board.
Pay rates vary from $424 to $3.44 per
day. The age limit of 10 to 40 years
does not apply to honorably discharged
soldiers, sailors, marines and former
Government employees. Applications,
however, will not be accepted from any
one of retirable age, SIS years or more.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-09
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-09
DISTRIBUTE APPLICATIONS
Plan Designed to Augment List of
Eligible Laborers.

Distribution Of q limited number Of
common laborer applications, designed
to augment the list of applicants ELI
gible for future appointments at the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-09

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-09

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-09

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26
FOUR SLAIN AS
FEUD FLARES
At CARNIVAL
Bystander One of Dead in
Shooting Fray on
Crowded Midway.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
LEPANTO, Ark, May ga
short Lived feud, climaxing years Of
moonshinipg in this section of the
Arkansas hills, was believed today
to have caused a pistol battle on
crowded carnival midway here Sum-
day night which left four men dead
and almost dozen wounded.
Conflicting versions we're told to-
day of the manner in which Ira
(Blackie) Williams, Walter Moffett
and Clyde Keller lost their lives.
It was believed, however, that a
gang feud over liquor dealings,
started with a fist fight some days
ago and flared up again when the
principals met on the crowded car
nival street.
William (Doc) Laudermilk, by
Stander. was killed by the flying
bullets. Officials said several others
were seriously injured and still 9TH
ers received slight wounds.
Hugh Luttrell, one of the princi-
pals, was arrested after the shooting
and charged with murder. He eS-
capped injury.
Witnesses said Williams, Luttrell
and Moffett met Keller on the car
nival street.
Luttrell, it was said. GAGE his
weapon to Williams, yelling at him
to shoot. In the first exchange of
shots Keller was wounded.
He fell to one knee, but emptied
his gun at the trio, killing Williams
and wounding Moffett. Luttrell fled
unhurt.
Keller continued to fire, witnesses
said, sending the bullets into the
crowd which milled excitedly over
the street.
Constable Refus Adams rushed to
the scene to find Keller still firing.
He ordered him to stop.
Keller refused, witnesses said, and
Adams shot the gun from his hand.
The wounded man reached for the
weapon again and resumed his wild
firing. His gun was silenced only
after Adams had fired four more
shots into his body.
Keller was lifted into an ambu-
lance with his rival. Mofett, and
was started for the hospital.
Ambulance attendants said the
two men resumed fighting in the
ambulance and had to be forced
apart. Both died later.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26
GANG AVENGERS
MURDER ENEMY
Two Men Flee in Car From
Chicago Death Scene.

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, May 26.-Two re-
volvers, one empticd of its bullets
and the other clutched in the hand
of Peter PleScia as he lay dying in
dark west side alley, told police a
mystery story of gangiand vengeance
which they sought to solve today.
Witnesses reported hearing the
shots Sunday night and seeing two
men leap into an automobile and
speed away from the spot where
Plescia, gunman and extortionist,
was found moment later. He had
been struck by three bullets and
died as he was being taken to a
hospital
From an undertaken with whom
Plescia was associated in an auto
mobile livery enterprise, police
learned the, dead gangster had been
involved in an alcohol deal which
resulted in serious disputes among
competitors.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26
SMART IS JUST THE
WORD FOR THIS FILM
Norma Shearer Is at Her Best as an ExWife Who Tries
to Make Merry in The DVorCee' at the Palace.
BY WALTER D HICKMAN

FAVE just about Norma Shearer
IL
beautifully acted and
nteligently talking
promise not to gel ali bothered and expect the worse will
that THE Divorce other than the book
that leopard does not
spots jerry the exwife has
a her
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26

/ timer of the stage. Tall, broad
Shouldered, heavy set, he looks the
Snowman that he portrayS.
Hank is waving small sign di-
recting his visible audience to chat
ter on as though they were at q
circus. At the same time he is
booming into the microphone:
This way, folks, this way to the
big show! The original Hank Sim
mons Dramatic Comedy Company
playing Oliver Browns four-act
English melodrama entitled, 1.-The
Inside Track" -Four big, smashing
realistic acts"
And so on, amid the blare of the
band, the cries of the bankers and
the noise of the crowd.
Actors Are Enthusiastic
The actor is these weekly radio
melodramas are as enthusiastic and
serious as they would be were they
actually on Hank Simmons show
boat. They stand in two groups,
their copies of the evenings script
in their hands.
Miss Elsie May Gordon is May
belle and always eracts the part of
the heroine. Harry Browne, as
Hank Simmons, lis the hero Law
renee Grattan, as Dewitt Schuyler,
plays the villain. Edith Clinton is
Lefty Simmons, wife of Hank, and
is the villainess or the heavy
woman"
Edith Thayer becomes Jane Nc
Grew on the showboat, enacting the
soubrette or childrens parts, Frank
Readick becomes Happy Jack Lewis,
the light comedian and juvenile.
Harry Swan is Joe Carroll, who
takes the comedy and character
roles; James Ayres is George Morris
doing the heavy" character parts
such as the spy or the gambler
and Eva Taylor, as Jeanette Mar
low, is the character woman.
Hank Gives Cues
The show is about to start, the
audience" is seated, but is still
the floor. Turning the pages might
cause a noisy rustic.
AS the show goes on, the audi
ence" applauds, laughs, boos and
Kisses, just as Hank directs with
his waving signs.
It is all melodrama of the old
type, boiled down to slightly less
than an hours performance, to meet
radio limitations.
For the past two years, this
Showboat hour has offered new
melodrama each week. Yet it re-
mains one of the favorites of radio
fans.
noisy and restless as directed by
Hank, and his waving sign.
"Howdy, folks" Hank speaks into
the microphone, as he holds up the
card marked, Applause" The audi
ence" applau6s until he withdraWS
the card.
Everybody happy?" At the same
time he shows the card marked
Laugh" and the crowd obeys.
Now the show is on. Those low
whispered stage directions are from
Hank himself.
AS the actors finish page o.
their script they drop it silently tx
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26

seemed to assure me DR.. Flu gets
his final papers to the cemetery
this time and that he will never
be able to kill the young doctor and
his future wife.
Maybe I expected too much out
of THE Return of Flu Manchu. 1T
is we'll acted by GLAND but the
novelty of the whole think is gone.
Probably I am the one that is
wrong. Be your own judge as
usual.
The stage show, Putin on the
Dog is just so so. Sammy Cohen
is the featured member, and to my
way of thinking he is not funny in
this show. The show says at times
and Che band is given enough to
do on the stage.
Now at the Indiana.
Nanny" is in its second week
at the Apollo. There is divided
opinion on this Jolson movie. 1
thought it weak. The box office
tells another story.
"Ingagi" is still the talk of the
town in it's third week at the Ohio.
Song of the Flame is now at
the Circle. 1t was reviewed in this
department last week. Mighty fine
entertainment.
Other theaters today Offer: isle
of Escape" at the Lyric; Speed
Girls" at the Mutual and George
Fares at the Colonial.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26

studios of the Columbia Broadcast
ing System here. Freddie Rich's
orchestra is blaring away a noisy
carnival tune, picked up by one
microphone.
Into three others are being
shouted the conglomerate noises of
the actors in this weekly radio hour
and of some seventy-f1ve visitors
who have been brought into the
action as "the audience"
In front of the hired" audience
stands Hank Simmons, who is
Harry c. Browne in real life, an
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26
$4,000 DAMAGE VERDICT
City Street Car Conductors Estate
Wins Judgment in Death.

Judgment of $4,000 was obtained
in Shelby circuit court Saturday
against the indianapolis Street
Railway Company on complaint filed
by Richard D. Evans, administrator
of the estate of Aubrey A. Kirk,
killed by a street car here Nov. 6,
1923.
Kirk, conductor, employed by
the street railway company, was
placing the trolley on the wire in
barns at West Washington street
when the car backed, passing over
him. The case was venued from
Marion county.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26

fact is, the con-
versat:on is more
rapid than any
thing that Jerry
and her bunch
pulls off. These
changes in the
book has resulted
in THE Divorce"
being even better
for entertainment
purposes than the
book, taking it
without d e b a t e
that Ursula Par
rott's book is en-
tertainment. Jerry
- tA...
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26

W AAOACCdAC AAAAAA ~ ,
the movie as well
as the character
was a sensation.
DR.. Flu in book
form prob ably
frightened all of
the reading world
into fits, but the
first movie sure did
pull the chills into
the m e-going
public. I find it
difficult to repeat
sudden hits. They
have attempted a
come back with Flu
in The Return of
- -
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26
STATES EDISON
winner WANTS
PURDUE COURSE
Michigan City Boy to Get
Indiana Scholarship,
Win or Lose.

Win or lose. Purdue university is
the goal Of William 10y, II, Michi-
gan City, Indiana's entrant in the
national Edison scholarship contest.
10y will go to Menlo Park to be
interviewed by the great Thomas
A. Edison. From the rorty eight
states Edison viii select a youth for
a scientific scholarship in any COL
lege the winner may select.
The Michigan City boy already
has chosen Purdue university.
Should he fail to win the national
competition. he will be given a
Purdue scholarship by the state.
Assured of Enrolment
A senior at Michigan City high
school. he is assured Of being en-
rolled at Purdue next year.
10y was selected Saturday from
a group Of eight high school boys
who had passed successfully the
tests provided by a state committee
He is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. w.
G. 10y. His father is employed by
the insult utilities in Chicago.
Logs scientific interest does not
follow those of Edison, he said. He
wants to be a scientific farmer"
I During the summer" the boy ex-
planned to the committee, Il visit
my aunt on her farm. My cousin
and 1 have great sport preparing
calves for show purposes. want to
be a scientific farmer. feeding and
showing cattle and winning all of
the prizes at the shows"
Reading Is Hobby
10y listed his hobbies as reading
and athletics" Being but five feet
four and one-half inches, he was
unable to make better than a sub
stitute position OH the Michigan
City high school football team. He
is a member of the track team at
the school, however, and completes
in both sprints and hurdles.
Growing taller" 10y Listed as one
of his LIES ambitions.
Michigan City won all the laurels
in the Edison state contest. Ferdi-
nand Klopsch, II, also a Michigan
City high school senior, was chosen
as alternate.
Final tests were held at the Office
OF Roy P. Wisehart, superintendent
of public instruction.
Sexson Humphreys, II, Bloomfield
high school, was chosen for the
Indiana liberal arts scholarship. He
will attend De Paw university.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26

Here's the Hank Simmons
Showboat gang broadcasting in
the studio, Hank directing the
audience" as it cheers and boos,
and Freddie Rich, right, leading
the orchestra that blares those
noisy carnival tunes.
At the right is a closeup OF
Hank himself, otherwise Harry c.
Browne.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26

far as my reaction to DR.. .Fu's re-
turn. did not get half the kick out
of his evil doings on his return visit
as I did on his first visit.
It is difficult 10 get new formu-
las of death because Flu used so
many of them in his first movie. We
are more concerned with what win
happen to our heroine. played by
Miss Jean Arthur. than in just DR..
Flu.
But the ending Of this mQxia
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26
Hank Simmons Gang Gives
Old MeIodrama Back to
Thousands.
BY ISRAEL KLEIN
NFA Service Writer

NEW YORK, May 26.-From the
loud speaker come the confused
sounds of a csrnival-the noisy
bIare of a brass band, the shouts of
refreshment vendors. the chatter of
spectators, and through it all the
gruff, goodNnatured ballyhoo OF
Hank Simmons.
Hank Simmons Showboat is on
the air.
It is Saturday night in the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26
DOLL FESTIVAL WILL
BE HELD EACH YEAR
Prizes Given in Elimination Trials
at Community Houses.

at Community Houses.
The municipal doll festival staged
Saturday at John Heron Art Insti-
tute will be an annual affair, Miss
Julia Landers. assistant recreation
director. announced today
Elimination contsts in six COM
munity houses preceded the final
judging.
Winners were Miss Mary Mar
garet Mccormick. COG Iowa street,
costume prize, with Dutch doll:
Miss Rosemary Mccain. 1886 How
ard street, Swedish doll; Miss Mag
dalene Sanders, 1406 South Hard
ing street. and Miss Evelyn Moor
man, 2418 East Sixteenth street,
original idea dolls. and Miss Sarah
Taylor. 2123 Columbia avenue and
Miss Rosemary Shank. 1648 Sheri-
dan avenue, best home made dolls.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-26
AGED CITY WOMAN DIES
Funeral Services to Be Held Tues
day for Mrs. Sarah Query.

Funeral services will held Tues
day afternoon for Mrs. Sarah
Query, 78, of 1948 Bellefontaine
street, who died at the Methodist
hospital Sunday night from injuries
sustained in a fall at her home a
week ago. Burial will be in Center
churchyard near Mays, Ind.
Mrs. Query is survived by her
son, Harvey Paxton, and daugh-
ter, Mrs. William Burton, both of
INDIANAPOLIS.