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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-19
Today S Science
: BY DAVID DIETZ-

THE United States has succeeded in getting ira
i choma. the principal cause OF blindness through
out the world. under control. So says Lewis H.
Carris. managing director of the National Society
for the Prevention of Blindness.
Mr. CarriS and DR. Park Lewis of Buffalo. N. Y,
now in Paris as United States representatives at
the joint meeting Of the international Association
for the Prevention of Blindness and the Interna-
tional Organization Against Trachoma.
Trachoma is now comparatively in the large
cities of the United States. Nh Carris says
L am happy to announce he continues that
reports from the United States public health service
which have Just reached us indicate a downward
trend Of trachoma in this country. The disease is
reportable in this country and for many years the
government has refused admission to immigrants
showing symptoms of it.
In the United States. trachoma is found mostly
in the Ozark and Appalachian mountain regions and
among the Indian tribes Of the southwest. Poverty
and insanitary living conditions are important fac
tors in its contraction and spread
THE ravages of tTachoma are most severe in
China. India Egypt and other countries of the
Orient and the Near East, Mr.. Carris says.
Even in countries with well-organized and
tensive campaigns for the relief and cure of suf-
ferers, he says, 1T not be hoped that trachoma
will be materially reduced until economic and gen.
eral living conditions are improved and education in
hygiene has developed sanitary living.
This disease. the greatest single world cause of
vision impairment and blindness. constitutes a seri-
Gus challenge to all national and international health
ana public welfare agencies.
The specific germ which brings on trachona has
not been definitely established Recent investga-
tons however give clews that are expected TO clear
up this mystery which has baffled medical for
centuries"
Mr.. Carris and DR.. Lewis assisted in the forma-
ton OF the international Association for the Pre-
vention OF Blindness at meeting held at The Hague
in 1929. DR.. Lewis. at the present time, is vice
president of the association
Mr.. Carris has been the director of the American
movement for sight conservation for the last twelve
years.
ME Leslie Dana sold metal awarded annually
4 for outstanding achievements in the prevention
Of blindness and the conservation of vision pre-
sented at a meeting of the association to Dr. F. De
Lapersonne, famous French eve specialist. The
medal Is awarded annually by the American society
Dr. De Lapersonne. who is now the president of
the association is the second European to be awarded
this medal. In 1929 it was given to the late DR..
Ernest Fuchs Of Vienna.
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-A~A-h VI CNAA NAAAAC2-
That Is why no less than the
attorney general himself has in
timated that if the government is
spared the expense Of trying these
men, it will be all right with him.
And they can escape trial in only
one way.
The trail of Dillinger's atroci-
ties is too fresh in every ones
mind to make it worth while to
recall it in detail.
He was born about thirty-two
years ago in a rural village,
Mooresville, Ind, of highly re-
spected Quaker parents. He went
to school, played baseball partly
learned the machinist trade. At
about Fl he left the farm where
his 70year-old father still works.
LIE drifted from job to job,
i A sticking to nothing, but fall
ing naturally among town buns
and loafers. In 1924, still just
an average aimless young NAM he
planned a clumsy stickup.
With a companion, he slugged
an aged merchant on the head
with a piece of pipe. Caught i'm
mediately, he was sent to the
penitentiary.
Despite a bad prison record,
he was paroled in 1888, and then,
aided by companions and ideas
acquired in prison, he went on
his present spree of crime and
murder.
Nobody knows just how many
of the crimes attributed to him
are really his-and it doesn't mat
ter, for there are plenty of I'M
questioned crimes which can be
pinned on him. The murder of
Patrolman William P. OMalley,
when the officer tried to stop rob-
berry Of a bank at East Chicago,
Ind, would be enough.
AS between Dillinger and his
gang, operating now together,
now separately, nobody knows
how many of the wave of mid
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Your Health
by DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN =

xTOU may be able to exist without food from
i thirty to forty days and without water from
five to days, but you can't do without oxygen for
even five minutes.
If you are deprived Of oxygen TO: even one min
ute, you would be in serious situation and If this
should be extended only slightly, you would become
unconscious and life would end.
The margin of oxygen reserve in your body is
so narrow that it is easily crossed and yet it is
margin between life and death
Anything that interrupts breathing is a menace
to life. Your whole breathing mechanism. more
over, is so complicated that various types of in
terruptOn are possible.
There is that portion Of the brain which con-
trolls the automatic character Of breathing; there
are the nerves in the spine and those leading from
the spine to the muscles that are involved in breath
ing; there are the passages through which the air
flows and the lungs themselves.
A NYTHING that blocks the passages or that
IA breaks the pathways along which the stirnu-
lus to breathing moves may bring about death.
Therefore whole lives are spent in getting suh-
The period for which any one can hold his breath
without discomfort is apparently limited to forty
five seconds. If, however, you prepare yourself for
holding your breath by breathing slowly and deeply
for a certain length of time, you may be able to
do without breathing for anywhere from FIVE to six
minutes.
If, in addition to that the air you breathe is sup
plemented with extra oxygen, you can extend the
period without the motions OF breathing to almost
fifteen minutes.
1t has been pointed out that the sprint SWIM
mers IN recent olympic games breathed oxygen be-
fore entering the races and had a considerable adj
vantage because Of that fact.
XNHEN you exert effort you breathe more oxygen
w than when at rest
At rest you breathe about one-fourth quart of
oxygen minute. While walking briskly you breathe
about a quart a minute, and during heavy work
or violent exercise, from one and one-haf to two
quarts a minute
The most oxygen that you store up in your
body is about three quarts Therefore the marathon
runner in question is using up his oxygen about as
fast as he can take it in.
However, nature provides that body with factors
Of safety that it is possible to run UP an oxygen
debt Trained athletes are able to this debt
high fifteen quarts of oxygen.
These are the athletes who are so well trained
that they do not have to worry about getting a sec
ond wind since their oxygen adequate before they
start.
Getting second wind is the development of
enough oxygen reserve to carry on activity without
disccfnfort. samasus..
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tive review mere Oh GIlG GWO pays.
Mrs. Fife has engaged the
Women's Department. Club on North
Meridian street for the scene of her
review.
AS the Theater Guild has booked
Mary of Scotland" and the orig
inal cast into English's next fall,
Mrs. Flies talk takes on new I'M
portance.
The public is invited.
Monday night at 8 at 2306 North
Pennsylvania street, Mrs. Fife will
present her Portmanteau Players in
their initial performances.
Admission is by invitation. Three
one-act plays will be presented.
DROAD RIPPLES Civic Theater
ID will make its debut tonight at
913 Rivera drive. This afternoon
from 2 to 4, an art tea will open the
theater's activities. All exhibits at
the tea will be by local artists.
Tonight at $50 two One-act plays,
one in the costumes Of the seven
teenth century, will be presented by
the Theater Players. The other, a
comedy, will be presented by the
transformers, a well-knoWn local
dramatic organization, under the
direction of Robert Malloy.
1t will be the policy Of the theater
to present a stock show each week
for three performances
The basement Of the theater is
being made into a recreation room.
Virgo de Leon, artist. will conduct
classes during the summer months
for Broad Ripple children who are
interested in art.
The art staff of the theater is
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Indiana prison. He bears on an
inner forearm a tattoo mark of
an anchor and banner with the
ironic word hope" He is es-
pecially wanted at st. Paul for
obstructing justice and bank rob-
berry.
Hamilton is the remaining link
in the Sheriff Sarber murder.
Though his index and middle
fingers on the right hand are
missing, this man who started as
an auto thief is now wanted as
Sarber'S murderer.
1t has been reported that Ham,
ilton was shot in one Of Dillinger's
recent escapes, but the true ex-
tent of his injuries is not known.
Il
~ all Dillinger's present asso-
" ciates, Hamilton has been
with him the longest, as he was
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BY WILLIS THORNTON
NEA Service STAFF Correspondent

the sole Dnger
L 1 Of the country,
offered by the federal government whose only interest in
hce theft The motor vehicle concerned the Of Sheriff
Hoey which Dinger making
escape)
Indiana Michigan Illinois offered
$1,000 each for Dnger dead
offered another sO00 there indications that Dngr will
his head that will still further the
efforts being made round this outlaw and the desperate he
gathered around him
reckless bodies of
thirteen better who have down before their merce
why Of justice the
Joseph B. Keenan, nothing the
ntofO
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one Of the men Dillinger helped to
spring" from Michigan City, and
one Of those who returned the
favor by freeing Dillinger from
the Lima (O) prison over the
dead body of Sheriff Sarber.
Hamilton, whose trade is that
of carpenter, bears a long irregu-
lar scar in the center of his FORE
head, and a heart and banner
with the initials j. H. tatooed
on his left outer forearm.
Because of the particularly
fragrant manner in which these
men have defied the law, because
of the publicity they have re-
ceived, and because they shot
their way out of a department OF
justice trap, killing a D. j. man
in doing so, it is likely that Uncle
Sam would get greater satisfac-
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western bank robberies are theirs.
or which man has been response
BILE for what.
u
CHARLES MAKLEY, Harry
~ Pierpont, and Russell Clark,
all rounded up with Dillinger at
Tucson, Ariz., have been convicted
of the murder Of Sheriff Jess Sar-
Der when they freed Dillinger
from the small jail at Lima, O.,
the two former being sentenced
to the chair.
With him still, however, are be-
lieved to be Tom Carroll, George
(Baby Face Nelson, Homer Van
Meter. and John Hamilton. It is
unlikely that these five travel To-
gether in a pack, but probable
that they separate and reunite &C.
cordlng to plan.
Carroll. who has used the names
Of James Roy Brock, Frank Sloan,
George McLarken, Thomas Muir
ply, and Thomas Murray, is a
paroled thief, bank robber, and
gunman, especially wanted for the
murder Of Special Agent w. Car
ter Baum of the department of
justice in the gunfight near
Rhinelander, Wis, in which the
Dillinger gang escaped a trap.
He also killed a police officer in
San Antonio, Tex, in December,
1888, the law declares. He is
surly fellow with a mouth which
twists distinctly to the right
II
NELSON, escaped thief, is be-
L Y lieved correctly named Lester
M. ellis. He, too, is wanted for
the murder of Baum. A Chicago
product, he is a small, light man
with yellow and gray-slate eyes,
who has worked as an oiler.
Van Meter, who, as Kenneth
served time for robbery in I'LL
nois, later was paroled from an
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
BIZ Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen -

WASHINGTON May history finally written
w evaporation debts nothing
due to politics and postponement
The blame lies with both political
the time to
begin that particular time
embarrassing reelection chances and they
postponed.
instalmen Is, 1882 This time the
department
lime at the ms President-elect.
He could not after March
overture This time there was
the banking naturally had to take second place
They postponed economic conference dis
posponement DEBTS
could mott be stabilized.
the value OF the debts
European populations into the habit OF thinking
paid European governments found more
difficult to buck The of peoples.
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Last week all this came to a
head in a conversation between
Czechoslovakian Minister Veverka
and Billy Phillips, undersecretary
of state. Phillips had inferred
that Czechoslovakia had been
reluctant regarding its debts.
You have on file three letters
from me- replied Veverka, "all
asking when you will be ready to
discuss debts. I have in my files
only one letter from you. 1t said
you we're not yet ready.
Three times we have said We
were anxious to talk debts and
twice you did not even bother to
reply"
IT HAS been pretty well broad.
i cast that Cotton Ed" Smith,
South Cardinals walrus-mus-
tachioed chairman of the senate
agriculture committee. is opposed
to Professor Rex Tugwell as I'M
dersecretary of agriculture.
But what has not been broad
cast are Tugwell's views on Cot
ton Ed"
At a press conference in the ag-
ricultural department. Secretary
Wallace was asked what he though
about Smith.
L must ask to be excused from
answering" replied Wallace with
shy smile.
There is no use asking me that
question" broke in Tugwell, who
was sitting by his side. My
answer couldn't be printed any
way"
THIS is going to be sad news
DR.. Eat -and-teu" Writ A
new creation of the Brain Trust
has just been born.
1t is the Presidents home re-
pair and construction program.
However, the good doctor can
rest peacefully on at least one
point. There is only one profess
scr in the group.
The three principal formulators
OF the plan are Winfield Reifler,
erudite young chairman of the
governments central statiscal
board; Albert L. Deane, president
of the General Motors Holding
Corporation, and Horace NJ. Rus
sell. chief counsel of the Home
Owners Loan Corporation.
Reifler is the Brain Trust "sus-
pect." He came direct from the
Amherst campus to government
service, beginning as a research
expert for the federal reserve
board. His contribution to the
home repair plan is a scheme for
long term first mortgages, backed
by government guarantees. They
are expected to start a new crop
OF low priced American homes.
Albert Deane, long associated
with General Motors, was loaned
to Roosevelt because of his ex-
perience in credit finance. He
worked out the plan of govern
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ton from the capture of Dillinger
and his confederates than any
other of the fugitives who now
roam the country with the dread
price on their heads dead or
alive" which means that they
can have neither rest nor peace
until society's score is settled.
Settlement of these scores de-
ponds not only on the vigilance
and bravery Of police officers. 1t
depends on the support Of every
citizen. Chief Justice Hughes
himself recently said;
The roots of the evils which
beset the detection and punish
ment of crime strike deep into
the social soil, The primary need
is a robust civic sentiment, domin-
ated by sense of justice. -"
THE END)
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CHrLs and Battles

"T0HATS how got into fighting Guys would
i leave hold of my curls and give them yank
and away would 60 I couldn't cut them of be-
cause they important in my business, but they
kept me in battles all the time. Sometimes down
in the pressroom we would fight for an hour and
a half The circulation manager would give the
winner bottle of soda. The loser got a drink of
water.
Il drawed $4,000 one fight and got $3.50 myself.
That the most I ever got.
Nov lay there a while and relax and I will take
you around town. like Dempsey said. Any time
Dempsey comes to town I take charge Of him and
any time he tells me to take care of some friend
I take care of them"
I never have met any one quite like my interest
ing friend Shifty Logan the retired newsboy,
retired pugilist and retired fireman He has been in
attendance all day and he doesn't, won't take money
present and he wants return favors. Jack
Dempsey has been his idol ever since July f. 1919,
when Dempsey knocked out jess Willard in Toledo
and any certified friend of Mr. Dempsey finds that
Shifty Logan is his to command.
Copyright 1884 by Syndicate Inc)
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INLAND OPERATIONS UP
10 PER CENT IN WEEK
Production Shows Huge Increase
c. With Last Year.

By Times Special
CHICAGO, May 19.-Ingot pro-
duction Of the Inland Steel Company
is running at about 30 per cent Of
capacity, as compared with 70 per
cent in the previous week, and 80
per cent in the correspor ing week
last year.
Operations Of steel mills in the
Chicago district Is at about IS per
cent Of capacity, while operation in
the entire state of Illinois are at
approximately so per cent of capa-
city. Operation in Chicago a year
ago we're at about 80 per cent.
The American Shet and Tin Plate
Company at present is operating its
sheet mill at about IS per cent of
capacity and its tin mill ct so per
cent. The sheet mill two weeks ago
was operating at 80 per cent of ca
pacitv ane the tin mill at Is per
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Fair Enough
by
WESTbROOK PEdLER

NEEMPHIS. Tenn. May 19.-At o'clock in the
WI morning there came a banging on the door
which continued for some time I did not answer,
however. until heard voice saying. apparently to
the manager of the hotel in the hall outside I
want FREAK. I'm going to bust that door in
The guy Is probably dead in there.
So got up and opened the door and there stood
Mr.. Shiftv Logan a retired pugilist bearing gifts.
One gift was pint flask slab as the Negro cti-
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End of q Job

Il HAD me job on the fire department for While
/ I was a pipe man That's the guy that squlrts
the nozzle on the fire. For while was the Iller
man on big aerial truck. You know what mean,
the ladder wagon But one day we are gong 10
some punk ittle 81 fire somewhere and we come TO
turn corner and have got those stern wheels in
wet street car track So I give the wheel a twist
and forgot myself and twist it the wrong way. That
tier-wheel you are supposed to turn just the oppo-
site way to what you would the steering wheel OF
car So I pull the wheel the wrong way and we
lump out of the car tracks and smash up five auto
mobiles in row.
After while 1 resigned from the fire depart
ment Fireman is a hell of a business at that. You
spend all you time sitting around playing checkers
or reading detective magazines waiting for some
Door saps house to catch on fire got sick of play
ing checkers and reading detective magazines. We
had two dogs and cat in the barn. One dogs
name was Towser and the other ones name was
Spot and tire cats name Kitty
Turn over and leave me work on your neck a
while.
Say what is this about how they won't leave
kids sell papers on the corner any more under this
child labor law? l certainly glad they didn't
have that law when I kid I was around
when I started selling papers. used to have long
curls like little girl.
My old man wasn't doing so good and my moth
er used to bring me downtown by the hand in the
afternoon and put my corner. Around she
would come and get me and I would have pretzels
in every pocket We used to have saloons all
the place then and I little I could almost
walk under the swing doors. My long curls made
me plainly money I would walk in and pick me
out the guys that pretty well along and look
sad Generally they gave a quarter for 6 paper
could do as much as four, five dollars night with
my curls around the saloons. And they always gave
me pretzels.
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HJeemC bM
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Haywood BROUN

rs this gag?' asked the syndicate manager in
rather high dudgeon. In order to meet his lofty
challenge I elevated my eyebrows and replied stead
tasty: Is what a gage"
Our readers he elUcidated. have been led to
expect that by now YOU would be half way TO CAL
ifornia. The coast the middle west and the south
will admit. patient enough about your pro-
iected trip but local clients FESTIVE. Irwin Cobb
used 70 tell story which goes something this this
7 know" I interrupted he still does. and it ends
up Go on Negro git hung words to that effect"
I see" said the syndicate manager that you
catch the drift Of my remarks Either you are 60
ing 10 leave New York a tour through the coun-
try or YOU are not It well be summed up in
the vulgar expression -
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WEEKS CLEARINGS RISE
Centers Outside of New York Show
Increase of 3O.S Pew Cent.

By Times Special
NEW YORK, May blast weeks
bank clearings in the United States
amounted to $4,994, 1000, a slight
decline from the previous week, but
higher than the $4,334,065,0 900 of the
corresponding 1888 week, according
to Dunn & Bradstreet, Inc.
Most Of the increase over last year
was made in centers outside of New
York where the total gain was 306
per cent. The increase in New York
amounted to SO per cent.
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+ composed of Elizabeth Leonard
Donna Lees and Wilbur Mees.
DR.. Gertrude Hinshaw is manager
of the new project and is a mem
Der of the music staff. Miss Alyce
Adair is the dramatic director of
the theater.
TJERE COMES CHARLIE" a
IL three-act comedy by Jay To-
bias, will be presented by the senior
Luther League of the Gethsemane
Lutheran church at 8 Friday night,
May 25, in School 70 auditorium.
Gladys Stevens will appear in the
title role and Fred Vogel will have
one of the leading parts, Gaylord
Allen is director.
Others in the cast will be Naomi
Dietz, Fred Reiter, Betty McCloskey,
Palmer McCloskey, Virginia Allen,
Mary Alice Burch and Donald Nc
Closkey.
DONN WATSON will present his
~ advanced violin students in re-
cita1 next Monday in the Cropsey
auditorium of the central library.
They will be assisted by the Con-
cert Trio.
The program is as follows:
."Andante con motto" ID minor Trio
Presto ID minor TRIO ... Mendeissohn
Violet Albers violin: Mary Lohrmann,
cello; Mamona Wilson, PIANO.
"a10'Aa Margaret Geckler W y Id Al
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen"
..e-.,..ss.,,, ..-.....-'...'..'.--.- White
9s'sA1D' Edward Gaylord o-a
''-''s Norma Mueller
.'Romanz45a ,.'.'--'.'.--''.-..- W5lneInl j
gypsy 'O Ruth Van Matre - ''-' -
Air Varie No. ID minor de Beriot
Beatrice Hatton
Allegro moderate and Recitativo Gocard
from Concerto Roma ntiquel
Mrs. Octavia Landers
Caprice Viennois' .------ Krelsler
Preludium and Allegro Pugnani- Kreisier
Violet Albers
O4o refrain Concert Trio - ~ 7iSie1
Accompa nists-Helen webster Geraldine
Swarthout. Helen Sommers, Mrs. Doro-
thy Sunderland, Mrs. Fanetta Hitz Brady.
Ramona Wilson.
MISS NORMA FRANCE sends
1FI word from New York that
she will visit indianapolis next week.
She formerly was contralto soloist
at the Tabernacle Presbyterian
church and student of Fred
Newall Morris
The last year she has appeared
with the Chicago Opera Company
in leading roles in Aida" Tristan
and Isolde" and Del Walkure."
She will sing at both services in
the church May 81.