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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-17
Today's Science
by DAVID DIEEZ

DHOTOGRAPHING a projectile going four miles
l. minute by means of a flash of light which lasts
one-milonth of second is the piece of modern
scientific magic made possible by new vacuum tube
developed at the Westinghouse Research Labora-
tories
The tube, which has been named the igntron,
was perfected by DR.. Joseph Stephan and Leon r.
Ludwig, research engineers of the WESTINGHOUSE
Electric Manufacturing Company. The tube was
demonstrated for me in the course of an inspection
tour of the companys research laboratories.
While photographing high-speed projectiles is
the most spectacular demonstration of the accuracy
Of the igntron this does not constitute the most
portant of the ignitron. It's chief commercial
today is the field of electric welding because GER
tain types of welding require the order of ac-
curae control does the photography of projecties
THE ignitron is a mercury tube not greatly
Il different in its fundamentals from the mercury
rectiers used to charge storage batteries It is
essentially switch for accurately starting and stop
ping an electric current for short preiods of time
I'm welding devices, small tubes will handle cur
rents up to 5000 amperes without any difficulty"
DR.. Stephan told me. cat present see no limit in
the amount of current which could be handled by an
gnitron."
The device for photographing moving projectle
with the ignitron was set up by Dr. Phillips Thomas
another Westinghouse research engineer.
In the laboratory demonstration he uses rubber
ball for proiectile firing it out of miniature can
non with compressed carbon dioxide gas The ball
leaves the muzzle of the cannon with speed az
TOUR miles a minute.
a ignitron tube is set up with a fine wire
n stretcher in front of it. AS the ball strikes
the wire it breaks it. Thus in turn starts a relay
into action which sends tiny current into the
ignitron- At once, the mercury arc leaps up.
Dr. Thomas takes advantage of the light Of the
ac which Is rich in actinic rays and therefore espe-
c-aly suitable for Photographic work. to supply the
light for the picture.
The current sent through the ignitron Is a con-
denser discharge which lasts only a mlhonth Of
second. An interesting detail Of the photo Is that
the breaking wire can be bent around the ball.
The ignitron is used commercially in spot weld
ing that is, where pieces Of metal instead of being
riveted together are welded together at one spot
which takes the place Of a rivet. Such YIELDS are
made by sending enormous currents through the
pieces of metal for short lengths of time.
In order to make such weld satisfactory both
the magnitude of the current and its duration must
be accurately controlled. Otherwise either the weld
Is unsatisfactory or the metal Is injured DR.. Stephan
points out that the gnitrOn permis an accurate con-
tEol such as has never nsff existed.
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Your Health
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEi.

TUBERCULOSIS is spread by the germs of the
u disease. This germ is transmitted through the
material coughed up and expectorated so that it may
get into the throat and lungs of Others particularly
children
OF course children also have the chance of being
infected from milk Of COWS that tubercuous. In
the majority of human cases of tuberculosis, how
ever, the infection has from some other human
being 1t has been estimated that 90 per cent of the
cases develop in this way.
tuberculosis has been called house disease be-
it is spread by the dust in homes when proper
measures not taken to control the dissemination
of infected dust.
It has been pointed out that the child lives near
er to the ground and the dust than does the older
person. 1t creeps the floor and is likely to put
into its mouth anything that it happens to find.
IRON so to so per cent Of children infected during
the first year of life die from tuberculosis while
only 20 to so per cent die when infected in the
ond year.
Anywhere from 80 to 90 per cent of all children
who have reached Is years of age have taken the
these recover. many simply hold the infection in
check.
IT, however. the resistance of the child is broken
down from any cause. such fatigue lack of Sleep
old. attack them and they may come down with a
severe form Of tuberculous disease.
THE best way therefore, to prevent tuberculosis
= is to keep the germ from entering the body and
at the time to keep the resistance of the body
by proper hygiene at the highest possible point so
that if the germs dc enter the body they can.
not gain adequate hold.
Because of the susceptibility of the child, it is
even more important TO apply such methods to the
care Of the child than TO the adult
No doubt large part of the income from sale
Of Christmas seals viii be devoted this year as in
the past. to examinations Of larger numbers of chill
dren. with a view Of detecting tuberculosis at the
earliest possible moment and of applying proper
methods that cure may be brought about
I'm the child the diagnosis of tuberculosis is made
primarily by use OF the tuberculin test and by taking
x-ray pictures of the lungs. At the same time of
course. the doctor studies the lungs by all the meth
DDS Of physical diagnosis and. in certain instances
may make examinations Of the suptum as well
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announce regret that she was I'M
able to win the other powers over
to her proposals, and express the
conviction that world opinion will
finally come to understand the
real meaning of her course.
Article % stipulates that the
pact shall remain in force until
Dec. 81, 1896; shall continue
thereafter unless denounced two
years before that date, and that
notice of termination shall be
made at Washington-which Gov
eminent shall then notify the
other signatories.
The article concludes as follows:
Within one year of the date on
which a notice of termination by
any power has taken effect, all the
contracting powers shall meet in
conference"
THE japanese interpret this as
- mandatory. The article says
SHALL" not may" And they in
tend to make point of it. If
America or Britain turns the par
ley down, Japan may be counted
upon to cite the fact as further
proof that others than herself
are responsible for anything that
might happen in consequence.
Washington does not entirely
agree with the mandatory prin-
ciple. The British seemingly are
in doubt, preferring to let the
quarrel appear to be between
Japan and the United States,
with themselves as peacemakers.
Washington's position is that
harm, rather than good, would
come of a full dress conference
in 1885 unless there is advance
indication that it, too, would not
go on the rocks.
Meanwhile, a big shift has
taken place in the japanese navy,
ito COPE" it was announced un-
officially, with the coming "emer-
gency period" Japan considers
the next IL to "a months as cru
cial. When her withdrawal from
the. League of Nations and the
naval limitation treaties becomes
effective, the dispute over the
Japanese inundated islands may
become acute, and the balance Of
the western Pacific will be up
set. She also fears possible COM
plications in her relations with
China and Russia.
1t is regarded as significant
that in the shakeup the secret
naval feud-which the 1880 naval
conference at London started
played a part. The faction favor
ing the ratio principle is said to
have suffered more or less Of an
eclipse in favor of the faction
which opposed it.
The big-naYy crowd apparently
got the high commands and key
posts ashore and adoat.
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tet of master minds" in the kid
naping.
Unfortunately for Means,
Greenberg and HaSsel had only
recently been liquidated by gun
fire, in a New Jersey hotel, and
could not therefore be sum-
moned.
TIVE jury didn't believe the
l. story, and found the bland
swindler guilty of conspiracy. An
additional two years were tackled
on to the original sentence Of IS
years.
Means smiled when he was SEN
fenced. His eyes twinkled and his
dimples appeared deeper than
ever.
All the efforts of the Depart
ment of Justice failed to find the
cache in which he had hidden
his 100000 profit. To this day, its
hiding place is secret.
"And he never even split with
The Fox the Department of
Justice Sleuths declared.
Tomorrow-The Sharpe Suicide.
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Let's Hold an Election

EVEN wonder whether children do get a great
deal of fun out of the old gentleman in the sleigh
No very memories lnger in my mind. He
gave a wakeful night once a year. Always I
waited with rather more fear than anticipation for
the sound of his fat belly scraping down the Chin
ney. 1t gave me a Of insecurity. If Santa
Claus could sneak up in that way so might
the DOGGY man any evil witch of whom had read
in the fairy books.
AS q matter of fact it was my annual incna-
ton to sell Santa Claus short. My invariable bet
was that his gifts would be Disappointing You see
I took the story very literally. 1t was said that
Santa Claus would be lavish and generous with only
those children who very good and had years
record of complete compliance to all the orders of
their elders No wonder was bearish the entire
proposition.
In childhood. as in later life everybody hopes for
than he is likely to get particularly if the gifts
to be dropped in his lap. The Santa Claus myth
has made for more disappointment than Joy if you
look the statistics very carefully I know of
many districts in the large and crowded cities where
the old gentleman couldn't muster as much as sin
gle vote. OF course, from my point of view it would
be better to hold the election the day after Christ
mas rather than the night before.
The question may be asked, After we have shot
Santa Claus what be put in his placer" I think
don't need a single figure. How about just CEN
terng the spirit of the day around the factor of
versal fellowship. Not one Santa Claus. but hun
dred million.
Copyright 1891
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Reindeer Make Tough Eating

NATURALLY it would be folly to deny that
' leadership and legislation may nick deeply into
many problems and for my own part I do believe
in paternalistc government Even so complete reli-
should not be placed any one of these three
factors or on them ali in combination There
isn't any Santa Claus. Groups of men and women
can obtain their hopes and desires only by massing
together and going out to fight and agitate for their
detectives 1t is far more satisfactory to pick an
orange directly from the tree than to find it in the
toe of your stocking.
Harsh names are hurled at those who go out
telling little children that Santa Claus is fake
These disciples of the whole truth called cynical
and grabbed and spoilsportS But man must find
out sooner or later that he stands on his own feet
and this information might as well come early rather
than late
If anybody entrusted baby to my tender care
I would spring the truth about Santa Claus the in
slant the child could walk. I'd say And now fine
fellow you have achieved the art of locomotion You
can go just as far and as fast as your feet will
carry you. Forget about the reindeer. They make
indifferent draft animals and singulary tough steak
Let me hear no nonsense out of you about Santa
Claus You and are rational human beings I'D to
the extent of our ability, hope"
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"a matter of hours" Mrs. Mclean
turned over the money to the
suave operator and impatiently
awaited the result. She was
doomed to disappointment. Means
said the contact with the kidnap-
ers had been broken.
y y
EEELING she was being de-
Il luded, Mrs. Mclean finally
asked for the return of her
money. Means was every aston
ished!"
st sent the money back to you.
Didn't you get it?" he exclaimed.
A man he had never seen be-
fore, he explained, met him near
Aiken and whispered the secret
symbol-"No. IL sent me"-into
his ear. Thinking this was an
emissary from Mrs. Mclean, he
game the man the entire 100000.
Means trial was short. Found
guilty of obtaining money under
false pretenses, he was sentenced
to Is years imprisonment at
Atlanta.
In the following year, the De-
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partment of Justice actually
picked up 1.-The Fox" willy in
dividual whose real name was
Norman Whitaker, and Means
was hailed from prison to stand
trial with 1.-The Fox for con-
spiracy.
y 4
ON this occasion, Means en1bel-
~ lished his story with addi-
tional details. He insisted that
the body of the Lindbergh baby
had been wrongly identified. "The
child is in Mexico" he said, "and
can name the actual kidnapers."
The plot, Means testified, was
conceived by wellington Hen
derson, head of the Communist
Third International in this coun-
try" and one Irving Fenton,
whom I met in the Atlanta Peni-
tertiary"
In addition to these fictitious
characters, Means brought into
the case the names of two rum
runners, Max Greenberg and Max
Hassel, who completed the quar-
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Government sleuth was greeted
either with public apathy or ILL
concealed condonement.
But today under the vigorous
crime suppression policy of
Homer Cummings, the wounding
or death in action of these men
is matter of headline interest
and nationwide sympathy.
From being generally despised
enforcers of an unpopular law,
Government agents have become
heroic destroyers of marauding
thugs and outlaws.
This change in public attitude
toward Federal crime detectors is
one of the notable achievements
of the New Deal. Through it
Atty Gen. Homer Cummings has
done much to rehabilitate the
long besmirched repute of the De-
partment of Justice and its Bu-
reau of Investigation.
copyright, 1884. by United Featur
Syndicate. Incl
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BY SIDNEY b. WHIPPLE
United Press staff Correspondent
(Convri0ht 1894. nv United Pressl

copyright. 1884. by United Pressl
DROKEN by the silent treat
- ment" given him by the po-
lice during the five days after the
finding of the Lindbergh baby,
John Hughes Curtis of Norfolk,
confessed his story of contracting
the kidnapers had been false from
beginning to end, a gigantic fab
rication of lies.
Six weeks later he was convicted
of obstructing justice and SEN
fenced to spend a year in Jail and
pay a fine of $1,000.
Cur never served the Jail SEN
tence. Perhaps his protests that
he had grown insane" on the
subject brought some ameliora-
ton, for OF Nov. 7 the imprison-
ment clause was suspended, and
he went back to Norfolk, free
man.
But running parallel with the
Norfolk hoax, and rivaling it in
many of it's more sensational as
poets, was the amazing case of
CASTOR B. Means, former Depart
ment of Justice operative, who
swindled Mrs. Evalyn Mclean out
of $1040 on the strength of stor-
les as wild as any told by Curtis.
CASTOR B. Means round and
dinpled face, his bland PERSONAL
ity, his geniality always had been
effective weapons in dealing with
women.
TN 1917, he had been acquitted
Il of the murder Of Mrs. Maude
Robinson King, a woman whose
100000 estate he managed" so
successfully that it was alleged
only a few thousand dollars re-
manned in it after his operations.
Shortly after the kidnapping in
Hopewell, Means approached Mrs.
Mclean, estranged wife of Edward
Mclean, the former Washington
publisher, with a melodramatic
story of contact" with the kid
napers. Mrs. Mclean agreed to
give Means 100000, of which
$4,000 was to go for ransom and
the remainder was to be his COM
mission for returning the child to
the Lindberghs She also adj
vanced him $4,000 "for expenses"
and Means pretended to set to
work.
In story-book style, Means as
signed numbers to each of the
principals and established a
thrilling atmosphere of secret in
trigue. Mrs. Mclean became mo.
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IL" Miss Elizabeth Nelson,
nurse, became mo 49," Means
himself was mo. 81"
THE kidnapers, Means said,
l. had discovered they could
not use the ransom money given
them by Jafsie. They wanted the
bills, whose serial numbers had
been noted, replaced by others
which should be unmarked.
The chief Of the kidnap gang,
he told Mrs. Mclean, was known
as 1.-The Fox" And the baby was
being held at Aiken, S. G.
II have seen the child" he said,
land have persuaded the gang to
have motion pictures taken of him
as proof of his Identity
Mrs. Mclean and the nurse, en-
gagged 10 care for the baby when
he should be turned over to them,
made trips at Means request to
Aiken, S. c., and as far as Ell
Paso, Tex, where the 100000 deal
was to be conSummated.
With the return of the baby only
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No Sentiment for Mr.. SchoItz!

FLORIDA is making great appeal to desirable
l. immigrants. The sun, the wine, the swimming
fishing, yachting golf, gambling and music are quite
as pleasant as the advertisements claim. The state
is the winter home of frivolity and sunshine. For
invslids Of many types. particularly old people who
are just cold in their bones, there is haven like
it on this continent.
In Los Angeles they made mistake. Thousands
OF $5OO0-milonaireS lured. in during the real
estate boom and trapped there when the crash came
They quickly became undesirables, but there was no
way to run them out. Then Upton Sinclair invited
all the unemployed to enjoy the winter SUM- He told
them they could keep warm, anyway. The result
was a great immigration of unemployed who would
be undesrables in Florida.
So Los Angeles became the poorhouse of the
U. S. A.
Mr.. Scholtz is practical about the poor. Mr. Sim
clair is sentimental. If Mr.. Sinclair Governor
he would tax the rich instead of Turing them in with
tax exemptions He would invite the poor in to share
with the rich the warmth of the Florida SUM-
1t would be nice if Mr. Scholtz could set aside one
Scrubby, backwoods county of Florida for the unde-
sirable sick and the old people. 1t needn't be near
Palm Beach. 1t could be some remote county where
they wouldn't be seen by the desirable element and
break their hearts with their sickness and poverty.
Copyright 1884 by United Feature Syndicate. Incl
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Real significance behind the
G. o. P. move is the line of tactics
it indicates the party leaders con-
template following in the COM
ing session. Frontal opposition
to the Administration will be soft
pedaled, while a guerrilla warfare
of flank and rear attacks will be
waged.
AS regards the pro-bonus stand,
there is an ironic angle to the
matter.
While favoring prompt payment
to the veterans, the Republicans
are vehemently opposed to any
thing savoring of initiation.
WHATS in a name? What's
w behind the names of the
members of the Cabinet? Trace
back their original German,
Scotch or dialect English meaning
and here are some of the answers
you get:
Dern (Secretary of War;
means hidden, concealed"
Farley POSTMASTER GeneraD
is a variant of "ferly," meaning
a strange sight"
Perkins Secretary of Labor
means weak cider"
Morgenthau (Secretary of the
Treasury means morning dew"
q
THE Huey Long-Roosevelt adj
Il ministration feud is getting
hot and personal.
The Kingfish has just been tip
ped off confidentially that treas
ury tax sleuths are using the
same tactics on him that we're
used on Al Capone.
Federal agents launched their
attack on Capone by indirection.
They first picked off his lieuten-
ants. When they we're corralled,
they got the necessary informa-
ton to put the bee on the big
boy"
Huey's friends-and he has a
great many more in Washington
than the inner White House
circle SuSpects-have been warned
that similar methods are now
being used against him.
A check of this information
disclosed the highly significant
fact that in the course of the last
few months a number of Huey's
close henchmen (two of them
only last week., have been in
dicted for income tax evasion.
When Huey was told OF the al
legged drive he expressed neither
alarm nor concern.
He assured his friends his
skirts were clear" and that he
has known for months that Gov
eminent agents we're on Dc trs1.
Note: Two liberaI Ss.satcrs
have sent the Kingfish word that
if he needs them, they stand ready
TO act as his counsel without
charge.
TIMES have changed for Gov
y eminent agents.
During the prohibition era, q
few years ago. the shooting Of .
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A CCORDING to the same
4 N sources Japan will tell the
United States and the world that
by abrogating the Washington
naval treaty she has not the
slightest intention of bringing
about a naval construction race.
On the contrary, in this view,
Japan is bent on enforcing a real
disarmament plan.
= =
CHE will refuse to accept the
~ breakdown of the London con-
versations as final, it is said. In
stead, she will insist that the main
naval conference of 1885, stipu-
lated by Article % of the Treaty
of Washington, be called regard
less.
The memo, it is understood, will
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about the age of 3 or f. The child of who still be-
lieves in Santa Claus would set down as definitely
backward.
But even after the literal belief is gone there
fingers in the mind yearning for other sort
of Santa Claus. Oppressed people of various kinds
sometimes go from the cradle to the grave without
registering any adequate protest against their lot
They waiting for the sound of the sleigh bells.
Santa Claus will come down the chimney and bestow
those rights and necessities which they lack He may
be the inspired leader he is sent in the guise of
some governmental agency act of legislation.
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CIGARETS TO GO TO
VETERAN HOSPITALS
v. F. w. Gets 1000 Packages From
Benefit Dance.

V. F. w. Gets 1000 Packages From
Benefit Dance.
Veterans in Federal hospitals here,
in Marion and in Lafayette, will re-
ceive Christmas cigarets this week
from the Marion County Council,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, as a re-
suit of a dance given last night in
Tomlinson Hall under the councils
auspices.
Admission to the dance was one
package of cigarets and more than
1000 persons attended. Fifteen
hundred of the packages will be ia
ken to the large hospital at Marion;
$50 will be distributed here and ap-
rroximately 200 will go to the insti-
tuition at Lafayette. Music for last
nights dance was provided by four
Federal Emergency Relief Admins
tration bands, with c. A. Sanders
conducting.
Earl Jones, o. L. Enyert and Mrs.
Wallace Fifer we're on the committee
of arrangements. Carl Carey was
master of ceremonies.
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Business is business and there is no sense in being
sentimental about practical matter The calloused
hands and the desire to engage in common toll would
suggest intention to look for job There are not
enough jobs to go around in Florida and anyway the
working class immigrant buys wine in the night
clubs yacht fuel in the harbors. He has no spare
money to gamble at the casinos or horse tracks,
either About the best he is able to do in this re-
spect is to club together with three other working
types few times a week and buy 50-cent share
in 50 ticket on dog race If he does this too
often, he neglects to pay mis- grocery bill.
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.SLUM DEMOLITION
STARTS TOMORROW
Civic Ceremony to Frecede
House WreCking.

Civic and government officials
today reported their plans COM
plete for ceremonies which will sig
nal launching of the Federal low
cost housing project at noon tomor-
row. Following an address at the
Lincoln by Col. H. B. Hackett, chief
of the Public Works Administra-
TONS housing division, the lunch
con party will be shown through the
36-acre residential area and will
witness the ceremony marking the
start of actual demolition.