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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-16
Today S Science
BY DAVID DIETZ

DUST is the deadiiest explosive known to the
- industrial world This may come surprise
to the layman who thinks of dynamite, INT, and
the like when the word explosive is mentioned.
The dust demon is Industrial Enemy No. l. Ac-
cording to government experts the constant threat
of dust explosions hangs over more than $4,000
factories and shops in the United States.
Despite elaborate precautions to prevent dust
explosions rigid inspections Of equipment and the
like the dust demon sometimes get loose with dis
aStrous effects. Here for example is the record of
one such event:
1t is IL O'Clock in the morning in the polishing
shop OF an aluminium ware factory in a northwestern
state. About twenty-five girls are at work in the
ROOM putting a satin finish upon the aluminium
utensils by holding them against rapidly revolving
wire brush. over each brush there is hood con-
nected with a powerful exhaust fan which sucks
in the aluminium dust.
In some unknown way. piece of wire has fallen
into the big air pipe through which the dust is
drawn. 1t falls into the exhaust fan and becomes
entanged with the blades of the fan As it is whirled
around friction causes it to strike a spark
There is a tremendous roar as the dust in the
pipe explodeS. The force of the explosion shakes
the entire building and bends steel window frames
outward Long tongues of flames flash through the
shop Six girls killed and five injured seriously
DUST explosions can occur in great variety Of
- plants under many different conditions. Gov
eminent records for example tell the following story
for the month from Aug 20 1880, TO Sept 20. 1880:
Aug. 20.-ExploSion in grain elevator at Baltimore.
Six killed Fourteen injured $4,000 damage.
Aug. 22-Feed-g grinding plant, Kansas City Two
killed. Two injured: $4,000 damage.
Aug. 26-Feed- grinding plant Minneapolis. Two
killed: 100000 damage.
Sept. 12-Fobacco factory. Richmond, Va. Minor
explosion. No injuries.
Sept. 2O-Starch factory. Decatur, H. Six killed;
$4,000 damage.
The United States Department OF Agriculture, as
means Of teaching the hazards of dust explosions,
has miniature grain elevator. This is filed with
dustS of various sorts and set of by electric
spark. The explosion is strong enough to blow the
top of the model.
a N explosion. il must be remembered. is very
rapid burning. One controlling factor in many
cases IS the availability of the oxygen 10 the sub
stance TO be oXioized. Touching match 10 a block
OF wood Will not cause the wood 10 60 up in flames
The same block OF wood reduced to fine splnters
is quickly ignited.
That explains why dust is 50 explosive. The dust
is spread throughout the air IN fine cloud Each
particle is surrounded by oxygen
Fortunately dust is temperamental Any mixture
OF dust and air is not explosive There is in the
Of each type Of dust certain proportion OF dust and
air which is explosive.
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He's Getting Sentimental

FORTUNATELY I soon was aboard a train and IN
Il a smoking compartment where the familiar boot
leg oxygen quickly brought me back to normal. But
I'm all for another spree. We never can be young
more than once or twice and if I choose to get
added with ozone whose business is it? I'm hurting
nobody but myself
OF course, one thinks more clearly in the city.
Here the weather does not warp your will and your
determination to consider all affairs realistically.
There are spots in this town where can sit and
have none of his flights of fancy stopped by seet or
snow or rain or blizzard. In fact have seen GUS
toners making out blank checks who felt con-
strained to ask What is the date George, the sea-
son and the year?"
Only from such detached point of view
anybody undertake to solve the riddles of the uni
verse A morning in the country delivers me over
to my chief vice which is sentimentality. If it
not for my sentimentality I might be really good
painter or even an adequate agtatOr But when
the hills are green and rolling it is difficult not to
fall into the frame of mind of thinking that some
of the people you oathe and despse really better
essentially than you have been willing to admit.
The earth looks good that you forget its errors.
And so in speaking of trip from here to no.
where in particular asking for myself dam
gerous indulgence. There is the present risk
that the sap will rise in me. Luckily even in the
fartherest corners of this fair land antidoe al
ways is handy. You may look to the hills and be
half way persuaded to become a mystic. But across
the greenest valley there will rise up the turretS of
the factory, mill or foundry. You need not go more
than little distance to see the scars of squalor 1t
is a swell world on a fine clear morning, but what
a mess mankind has made of it.
Downright hv
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It's For Humanity

MOT long ago, Mrs. Mclean returned from an ex-
cursion to Moscow and reported that she had
gone out in public wearing her jewels contrary to tho
customs of the country with the deliberate inten-
ton of giving the people thrill One gathered that
she also wished to flout the revolution She was quite
proud of her Independent spirit.
Mrs. Magraw told Miss Sartain she was grateful
that she would be able to keep Deauvle open to the
world. She wished to do that much for humanity.
Il feel she said that it is the reward for all my
striving to express artistic beauty There sixty
rooms We will rent them for 800 $40 and $50 day."
She also is planning to build a bathing cabana
for her little daughters dog Rex.
OF course, the conduct of Mrs Magraw md Mrs.
Mclean is not likely to endear them Immediately to
the working class but that is say that they are
not performing valuable service on behalf of the
forgotten man. Where Mrs. Roosevelt Miss Perkins
and the other avowed friends pursue slow course
which takes them into coar mines, mlltowns and
city Sums encouraging the poor and holding out
provisional promise of pie in the sky ladies like Mrs
Magraw and Mrs. Mclean achieve the quick result Of
making them hopping mad. A few hundred of them,
properly exploited, might start successful revolu
ton
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Your Health
by DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

Q OMETIMES the bronchial tubes, which carry the
- air from the wndpipe in the throat to the finer
tissues in the lung become distended and filled with
secretions.
This condition usually is associated with some in
fammation in the lung itself. leading to formation
of hbrous tissue and causing the dilatation or
spreading Of the bronchial tubes.
The amount Of material which collects is Often
sive to the patient and results in a good deal Of
hacking, coughing and expectoration
There are, of course, other conditions which may
bring about this chronic inflammation called bron-
chiectasiS If any foreign body gets into of the
main tubes and stops it up there is swelling and an
accumulation Of sputum in the other tubes.
If a cancer or any other form Of growth develops.
blocking up any portion Of the breathing tract this
condition may follow.
VXTHEN the germs associated with bronchiectasis
w destroy considerable amounts Of tissue, the
material that is expectorated is thick and some
times has a bad odor. The severity Of the condi-
ton and its effect life depend. Of course ths
original cause.
If the condition follows bronchitis. or pleurisy. or
pneumonia it is likely to last longer than in cases
in which it is associated With something which
temporarily blocks one of the tubes.
In treating this sort Of condition It is necessary
to find out first just what brought on the trouble
Nowadays it is possible not only TO examine the
terial that is expectorated but also to pass tube
down into the lungs and to look at the Inflammation
directly
1t is possible also to inject certain substances into
the tubes that lead into the lungs and then by
means Of an X-ray picture to find out the extent
to which they have been damaged
COMETIMES persons with these conditions
- helped BY lying face downward in bed, so TO
get the advantage Of easy flow Of the material out
Of the lungs and throat Occasionally inhalation Of
warm medicated vapors is helpful.
In some cases surgical procedures are used
whereby the treatment is given directly TO the lung
COMPRISING 1t stopping its activity and thus al
lowing the injured tissues TO heal.
Most surgeons hesitate to operate such
patients when the material that is expectorated IL
very large in amount and Of bad odor, because Of
the dangers Of serious infection and death follow
ing operation.
Serious conditions Of this type again emphasize
the importance OF getting good medical advice on
the very first appearance of any serious discharge
of pus blood fluid, or any other material from the
lungs and throat
Treated early, there is possibility OF help. When
the condition goes 70 become chronic, the chances
Of bringing about relief are much less
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food on the unemployed, higher
incomes for farmers, pay-off OF
closed bank depositors and cash
bonus at once for ex-service men.
He is attacking bankers and util-
ity companies.
TOHN NJ. CALLAHAN, Demo-
y cratic opponent of La Toilette,
repeatedly has denounced New
Deal measures as unconstitutional
and ill-advised He fought Roose-
welt bitterly in the 1882 conven-
ton. But in the closing days of
the campaign, he has swallowed
his words and declared himself
for Mr.. Roosevelt and the New
Deal, in the apparent hope Of
holding Democratic votes that
we're swinging toward La Toilette.
Similar manifestations have oc-
Cured in California. Frank w.
Merriam, struggling to keep the
gOvernorShip against Upton Sin
clair's menacing attack, has laid
claim to liberal leanings never
suspected during his long political
career. AS a member of the state
legislature for many years he has
been consistent old guard Re-
publican. Now he is advocating
more generous relief for the I'M
employed and has Endorsed the
Townsend old age pension plan,
which calls for paying 5000 a
month TO old persons on condition
that they spend it all in thirty
days.
In Ohio, Vic Donahey, former
Governor, who showed no enthu-
siasm for the New Deal during the
primary race, has edged over to-
ward it in the last few weeks and
gratefully has accepted help from
a variety Of Washington officials
CENATOR HATFIELD. West
, Virginia Republican, who spent
many hours criticising liberal
Roosevelt policies during the last
session Of congress, now is empha-
SlLluB HIS FOtco AOi NdlAOu 4Acds-
ures backed by labor. and the
fact that the railroad brother
hoods have Endorsed him. His OPP
ponent is Rush Holt, liberal
young coal miner
In New Mexico, Senator Bron-
son Cutting and Representative
Dennis Chaves are trying to Guido
each other IN liberal declarations.
The same thing is true in Mime
sofa, where Representative Einar
Hoidale and Senator Henrik
Shipstead are fighting it cut.
Senator Hubert D. Stephens,
one Of the most vigorous Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's critics a year ago,
made his unsuccessful race against
Theodore Bilbo by attempting 10
show his loyalty to the adminis-
tration and its approval Of him.
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HUTCHINS READY TO
JOIN BRAIN TRUST
Chicago U. Head Slated for
COORDINATION Post.
BIZ Tnitcd Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.-The
Roosevelt brain trust" today was
about to recruit it's first real college
president.
The candidate is Robert Maynard
Hutchins, 35-year-old president of
the famous University of Chicago,
founded by the Rockefeller millions.
Mr.. Hutchins is expected to join
the administration, possibly as a
co-ordinator to work with the NRA
compliance division, the federal
trade commission and the depart
ment of justice. He has been men
toned also as a successor to Lloyd
Garrison, resigned chairman of the
national labor relations board.
Mr.. Hutchins became a university
president five year ago.
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LEARNING HOW TO SAVE LIVES
80 Policemen Ttored by Red Cross at Instructors School
BY GEORGE DENNY
Times STAFF Writer

GONE accident the downtown
- section of Indianapolis spun around
utility pole and overturned.
thrown half through the windshield Wit
excated him. unconscious and bleeding freely from several
deep
phond police headquarters.
police squad
the
had gathered officers
space PROSTATE clothing
the extent of his injuries.
officers the the position
impossible ahx ourniquet
the severed artery by of the usual methods
Immediately it would be
before the ambulance arrived.
AT this point approached charge
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Il think l know how TO stop
that bleeding. May 1 try?"
Permission having been grant,
ed, he knelt, made a rapid exam
ination and opening the cut he
skillfully applied pressure with
his fingers, stanching the flow
at once.
TIVE minutes later the am
L bulance physician remarked
that the quick, intelligent act
probably had saved the patients
life.
Though all indianapolis police
men know the rudimentS of first
aid, the case above was one Of
many which strongly indicated a
need for more thorough and adj
vanced training. For more than
a year Chief Michael Morrissey
had considered ways and means
to achieve this end.
Recently when the Indian
apolis chapter of the American
Red Cross offered to instruct
selected group of officers, he was
quick to accept.
Thirty men were picked to take
the thirty-siX hour course. They
represent every department on
the force. Some have had previ-
Gus training. All were chosen
with their ability as teachers in
mind, for when they have COM
pleted the work and passed sat-
isfactory examination, they will
be qualified instructors and will
share their knowledge with their
fellow officers.
Details are not yet completed
but it is expected that every po-
liceman will have the opportunity
to attend the classes to be given
by the chosen thirty on compile
ton of the present course.
TWICE a week, on Monday
l. and Thursday nights, the
budding instructors gather in the
indianapolis Red Cross chapter
rooms in the American Legion
building, TIT North Meridian
street.
DR.. Herbert T. Wagner ST., is
in charge, assisted by Herbert T.
Wagner Jr., and Louis c. Rob-
bins. The thirty hours of study
and six hours of examinations
will take nine weeks to complete.
The course is the most up-to-
date training available. It has
been prepared carefully by lead
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school OF thought WnlIe ne Goes s.
If the candidates are guessing
shrewdly and the more radical
ones are elected, the era of good
feeling that has existed between
executive and legislative branches
of the government may be at an
end.
In Wisconsin, Senator La Fol-
lette's two opponents have been on
record as conservatives for many
years. John B. Chapple, Repub-
lican. denounced all Progressive
policies as dangerous radicalism
the last time he went before the
voters.
This year he is advocating jobs
for all, bestowal of all surplus
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In addition to the long and Bit
ter strife between the Serbs,
Croats and Slovenes, there are
other smaller but equally bitter
minorities - Albanians, Bulgars
and, to a certain extent Monte
negrins. Hercigovenians and Bos-
MANS
Only the firm and at times
ruthless hand of King Alexander
kept them together. Now that
hand has been removed.
His successors, faced with the
disintegration of the kingdom,
may find war the easier course.
General Zhivkovitch, iron man
under King Alexander, has pro-
nounced anti-Italian leanings.
Several times before, the French
had to put the brakes on Yugo-
slav outbursts against Italy.
Now their influence is gone.
The assassination at Marseille,
the new Franco-Italian friendship,
killed it,
That is why fear of war is be-
ing taken more seriously than any
one in officialdom will admit.
nNE thing not lacking to the
~ justice department in its
anti-crime drive is advice.
Every mail brings scores of let
tiers from Self-appointed coun-
sellers. Some suggestions are in
genious, to say the least.
One offered the brilliant idea
that all auto tires be stamped
with a number. so that when an
outlaw attempted to escape his
trail would be stamped in the dust
of the road.
Another proposed the use of
an auto-lcense mounting device
which operated on a hair trigger
This was supposed TO put an end
to hit-and-run driving, for the
moment a car struck something
the license would fall automatical-
~ to the ground.
A third was even more resource
full.
He claimed to have the one sure
method for the detection of crime
and criminalS-but it was a great
secret. SO far he has not given
the secret-away.
LUMINOUS labor trouble is
~ brewing behind the scenes IN
the automobile industry.
1t should burst around Nov. 8,
when the latest extension of the
code for this great basic industry
expires. Inner administration
rulers are holding their breath in
fear and trembling as that date
approaches.
From its inception the auto code
has been an endless source of fire.
works.
The motor mogulS. grimly anti
union, last year forced a secret
compromise from General Hugh S.
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ambulance which carried Tex on his last ride took
him past the casino on his way to the little hospital
up the beach, The last time your correspondent
saw the casino it needed tintng and there were
realtors signs the walls yelling for action OF
kind. The windows were boarded up
Mrs Mclean is the poSseSSor of the famous Hops
diamond which has become a Sunday EDITORS stand
by. A topic as durable the man-eatng pitcher
plant of Abyssinia and the Dorothy Arnold mystery.
1t is only item in large collection of jewelry
belonging to Mrs. Mclean.
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auZn0ulh
BY
WESTBROOK PEGLER

A NY roster Of the friends Of the common man in
n this country ought to include up near the top.
the names of two women who, at first glimpse.
would seem to be decidedly reactionary and oblivous
to the problems Of the working people.
These would be Mrs. Lucy Cotton Thomas
Ament- Ham, agraw former actress. and Mrs. E.
b Mclean of washington, D. C. Possibly when the
smoke and dust of the great readjuStment have
blown away they Will deserve rank above Mrs
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quite know what to do about it.
If he hasn't been in that posi-
ton yet, he knows that he may
be tomorrow.
He is glad of the chance to
learn how to act in the emer-
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CERTAINLY a revolutionary leader hardly could
~ ask for more helpful propagandists than these
two favorable press than that which quotes
them literally and records their extravaganza faith
fully and without comment And speakers bureau
engaged in promoting redistribution of wealth
should find one hour of Mrs. Magraw or Mrs.
Mclean before audience of poor working people to
be worth whole seasons program of radical
tors provided the ladies could be relied to express
themselves naturally Mrs Mclean, of course should
million in jewels in addressing the desperate
unemployed.
When the reform revolution whatever it
comes to, has been accomplished and they begin
erecting statues to the American Lenins in the coal
country and the slave centerS of west Tennessee,
certain pedestals should be reserved to the woman
who expresses artistic beauty in s50a-day hotel for
persons with the proper background in the fifth
winter of the long panic and the one who brought
out her jewels before the poor of Moscow just to give
them thrill.
Sometimes your correspondent wonders whether
such people honestly be that detached and reck
less seems that they must be secret agents of the
Soviet engaged to do an act and drive the common
people fighting mad.
Copyright. 1884, by United Feature Syndicate Incl
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II Seems hoM
BY
BROUN

A WAY back in the spring OF 1884 I announced
n that intended to shake the dust Of New York
from my feet and 60 out to discover America I
Kept harping on the theme for some time and quite
few people told me that it got pretty tresome The
general feeling seemed TO be. If you're going to
jump-jump" Eventually I did get as far as St.
Paul, MINI, by the Of railroad, bus and air
plane. And now the old wanderlust is beginning to
gnaw at me once again. This time there will be no
prolonged leave-takng. Without any warning you
VIII wake up some morning and find that I am in
Perth Amboy
The destination matters very little The chief
point IS shaking of the dust In recent arguments
with friends there has come upon me suddenly the
icy feeling we talked about these selfsame things
last night. Or was it Thursday? Were at
TWenty-one or TOnys2 And does i really matter?"
Ny feeling that I'want to get away from it all
depends partly the fact that I spent Saturday
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CCC ENR0LLMENTS TO
END HERE TOMORROW
County Youths Signing Up to Be
Trained at Camp Knox.

Marion county applicants for adj
mission to civilian conservation
corps camps have until tomorrow
afternoon to apply at so West New
York street for interviews. No cam
didates will be accepted after that
time. Young men selected for
camps will be trained at Camp
Knox, Ky, for two weeks and then
assigned to CCC camps in various
parts Of the country.
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bandaging your mangled limbs.
For it is the chiefs hope that
some day every squad car will
have first aid kit and every
policeman will be qualified to
use it.
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THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP
By Ruth Finney

XXTASNGTON Oct 6Whe indications multiply that President
w entered into with industry and finance
three weeks from
relying belief that popular sentiment swing
ing leftward
The 1884 campaign already of the most unusual IN pot
makes 1t not
but
fr with the opposite
-la i. L.. danc-
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gency that is always just around
the corner.
So don't be surprised if in the
near future you tangle with
truck and awaken to find one of
Chief Morrissey's men eXpertly
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HOOSEVCIJ anu miss TIaIIVto ( U q
ms.
Who?
Mrs. Lucy Cotton Thomas
Ament- Hann-Magraw has confided
to Miss Geraldine Sartain of the
New York World Telegram. plan
of hers to develop a playground
for persons with the proper back
ground at the old Deauville casino
in Miami Beach. Fla. This is a
structure built of purple mud on a
lath frame in which Tex Rickard
was planning to establish his
American Monte Carlo when he
suddenly set down his highball
and complained Of pains. The
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
-Bu Drea0 Pearson and Robert S. Allen

XXTASINGTON, Oct 16Wha chiefly the
w ADMINISTRATION European
Yugosava longer abzng
ally, France.
Confidential reports cabed here state that MusSoni doing his
hostites
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Checking Up on Nature

A FTER making a speech I al
IA ways feel hungry and thirsty.
A Tom Collins or a quart Of milk,
or both, and a couple of orders of
ham and eggs sort Of take the bad
taste out Of your mouth. Eloquence
is distinctly exhausting. Anybody
who has been viewing with alarm
o,7d Y1oi,,t5Ycy with r1ride for an hour
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night IN WernersVille, Pa. Wer-
nersville, Pa, is all right for
visit If you don't mind the kitchen
closing at II p. m. and the train
for Jersey City leaving at $50.