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The Indianapolis times., 1934-05-15
Your Health
-BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

DURING the World war, trench mouth was wide
II spread among the troops in France. The war is
more than fifteen years away, yet this loathsome
condition persists ane nFfact is spreading rather
rapidly throughout the United States
You can recognize t1s disease by the rather foul
odor il causes and by the destruction of the gums
around the teeth, with the formation of pus and
with such injury that bleeding is almost constant.
The gums really slough away from the teeth.
Naturally, with the mouth in this condition the
person with trench mouth is likely to have fever and
TO lose his appetite. Because 1t persists he will even
become depressed.
The only hope of control is better personal dental
hygiene and adequate treatment Of each case as 1t
develops.
physicians call the disease vincent's infection,
Il because the organism which causes it first was
discovered by French doctor named Vincent
The person who has Vincents infection may
spread the condition to others through eating uten
sis drinking cups, and fountains, by kissing, or in
many other ways.
There are innumerable methods now advanced
for treatment of trench mouth and an extraordinary
number of patent preparations which claimed to
be specific Most Of those now offered contain
sodium perborate, which has been found to have
good effect in cleaning up the condition.
MOREOVER all sorts of antiseptic mouth washes
4V1 have certain degree of usefulness in getting
rid of bacteria and in removing the debris of dead
tissue.
Because the vincent's organism is a sprochete it
has been customary to neosalvarsan. painting
directly the LESSONS and in very severe cases. in
jectng it into the body
II the mouth is put into thoroughly hygienc
condition it is difficult for any type of dangerous
bacteria to persist OF the utmost Importance.
therefore. in handling of trench mouth, is
proper attention to the teeth and the gums by COM
petent dentists
Removal of DEPOSITS around the teeth and clean
ing up the cavities and crevices make 1t difficult for
the germs TO grow and persist around the teeth and
in the gums.
The Indianapolis times., 1934-05-15
The Game and the Candle

COMETIMES when I come in from the fields and
~ sit down to paint I wonder whether the sac
rices these early settlers made have been justified
by the march of time. I cast critical eye at my
latest canvas, "Rockbound Coast in Heavy Fog" and
say, And did brave men work and fight and die to
make possible the freedom of these seas?"
Just how much work was done by the Puritans
who had my place I can't say They certainly didn't
get all the rocks out. They didn't even remove the
arrowheads. The north lawn and the south lawn
are just cluttered with arrowheads. Evidently the
whole plateau was the scene of fierce and furious
fighting with Indian tribe which had lot
of speed and no control. There is no evidence that
any arrow eyersso much touched the hem of a
garment
On the whole, suppose I'm glad that the Indians
were exterminated by the tenants who preceded me.
I don't want any rugs, and I wouldn't like to be
called Big Chief Ought-to- Lose -a-Lot- Weight.
don't have to get up in the morning and smoke a
pipe of peace and say ugh and heap big and
'how" and build birch bark canoes.
But most of all I am grateful to the Puritans
for having saved me from sloth and lack of char
acter Indian fighting tends to make the individual
soft and generally useless. I don't want to hurt
snybody's feelings. but I never knew old Indian
fighter who also wasn't old bum. The life gets
YOU
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Birger had tried to plead in
sanity; then he pleaded his duty
to this family and the proper up
bringing of his daughters.
But at last he received at the
end of a rope the same degree of
mercy he had extended to Mayor
Adams.
~HERE seems always a certain
l. elemental justice when the
law denies mercy to man who
has given none to the men he
murdered. But in the case of
Richard Reese Whittemore, there
was an additional grim element
in this justice.
The trap through which White
more dropped to doom was less
than 300 feet from the spot where
he had savagely murdered a peni-
tentiary guard.
There was never more con-
temptuous, defiant, or audacious
criminal than Whittemore. He
was the descendant of an old and
honorable Maryland family.
At the age of 10 he was brought
to court charged with firing a pis-
tol within the Baltimore city linn
its. This charge was dismissed,
but he was soon back with a
whole series of juvenile delinquen-
cies.
Escaping from reform school, he
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recent attacks on the new deal.
Dave Reed is finding the
going tough against Pinchot, in
Pennsylvania. The Writ
fiaSco, designed to prove the adj
ministration is setting up a dicta-
torship, was a bad boomerang TO
its Republican sponsors. q
GEORGE PEEK gaze a, large
VI and sumptuous dinner the
other day. At it was Ambassador
Luther, envoy of the nation which
hates France and loves Hitler.
Also there was Bernard Ba-
ruch. George Peek. being
good host, attempted to introduce
his guests to each other. The
German ambassador held out his
hand. . But Baruch looked
straight through him. Later
he told friend: WAS I expected
to shake hands with the repre-
sentative of a government which
has done such things to my peo-
ple?" .. 1t doesn't make any diff
ference whether you agree with
Senator Key Pittman on silver.
The fact remains that he made
silver -. Long ago, he put silver
quietly into the limelight, has
succeeded in keeping it there.
Colonel Lynch. whom General
Johnson has made second in COM
mand of the NRA, is referred to
by army colleagues as Dumb
Dora" Lynch -. Fortnight Tuck
Milligan, one of the most-hard-
listed Democrats in the house,
once was court rt-martialled for GO
ing forward too fast during the
World War. With his forces
shot to pieces, he went { afore
the signal to attack wa ven.
and captured a German INSANE
gun nest-chiefly with revolvers.
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CERTAINLY no community
~ since World war days has
been so completely at the mercy
of armed force as southern Tlli-
nois in the five coal counties
known as Little Egypt. When
newly -demobilized young miners
began to try out their war knowl-
edge on one another in Little
Egypt, there was for three years a
complete eclipse of law and order.
Feuds between Klan and boot
logger elements, equally lawless,
started the Egypt troubles, and
shootings, torture and night riding
terrorized even the tough mine
community.
Then it simmered down to a
feud between two gangs, one
headed by the three notorious
Shelton brothers, one headed by
Charlie Birger.
Before the lawleSs feud ended,
fifteen men and two women lay
dead. Birger was a New Yorker
who drifted to Harrisburg, Saline
county, Ill, when he was demobil-
lied as a cavalryman. He was
affable and kindly, a good family
man, and was well-liked. He be-
came allied with the Sheltons in
bootleg operations.
But in 1925 there was a dispute
over money, and the Sheltons and
Birger became sworn enemies.
Each fortified headquarters, the
Sheltons at Herrin, Birger at
Shady Rest, ''roadhouse" in Will
hanson county.
Using every army weapon ex-
cept gas and heavy artillery, the
two gangs turned Little Egypt
into a shambles as they fought
each other to the death.
FINALLY, Birger, convinced that
Il Mayor Adams of West City
had aided the Sheltons in their
coup which bombed and burned
Shady Rest to the ground, or
uSI6Q AudIuS QSd III.
Summoned to his door one
night by forged note, Adams
was shot down in cold delibera-
ton by two Birger henchmen.
Indicted, 3irger surrendered
without a struggle. Heavily armed
posses protected him from pos
sible reprisalS by the Shelton
gang, and one sheriff actually
provided him with a machine gun
in his cell to protect himself
against any such attack
This unique development Of
penology caused great stir. Bir-
ger was sentenced to death for
having instigated- Adams mur-
der
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TAKE. for instance, little John Stan6ish who
a lived in the stockade years ago before had the
plumbing put in. I him saying to his
mother Nav, do I have to 60 to school today?
Can't I go out in the woods and shoot Indians?"
It never did her any good to point out that he
had hunked his spelling and elementary French in
the last examination. The argument always ended
with the old Puritan mother saying wearily. We'll,
all right, John. But put on your rubbers or you'll
catch cold and remember to be home early and not
to shoot any of the varmintS near the house.
Mostly I blame the Purtans for my difficulties
in being a dirt farmer in Connecticut If they had
only titled the soil properly would be able to raise
almost anything. But there they were hddling while
the rhubarb burned 1t always "Oh. just one
more Indian, Jonathan, and we'll all 60 home"
And so I go about painfully stopped to get the
pebbles and the arowheads and the big boulders out
of the good earth. What do these Puritan loaferS
think I'm made of?
Copyright. by
The Indianapolis times., 1934-05-15
Todays Science
BY DAVID DIETZ-

VXTHEN DR.. Ales Hrdlcka, world-famous anthro-
w pologist of the Smithsonian institution, sails
for Kodiak island this month, he will take small
tractor with him. On Kodiak island, which is off
the coast of Alaska DR. Hrdlicka expects to the
tractor to unearth the history of the people who
form the connecting link between Asia and ancient
America.
This island in the opinion of Dr. Hrdlicka, was
one of the stepping stones used some $4,000 years
ago when successive migrations of people made
their way from Asia into America by way of Alaska.
DR.. Hrdlicka believes that these peoples were the
ancestors of the American Indian and that more
over they the first to set foot upon the Ameri-
can continent.
j He has now spent several summers excavating
upon Kodiak island. During this work he has un-
covered one of the most remarkable aboriginal cul-
lures in the new world He has found abundant
evidence that the island thckly populated
This year, DR.. Hrdlicka expects to spend all his
time working upon one large village site which he
has partially explored in past summers.
T EXCAVATIONS which Dr. Hrdicka has prevf-
IL ously mace in the old Kodiak villages indicate
that the island was inhabited by two successive
peoples differing considerably in their physical char
acterstics
The earliest inhabitants whose skeetal remains
have been found in the lowest strata of the accu-
mulated debris. approach the physical type of the
California and other west coast Indians. DR..
Hrdlicka says. These remains found in hollows
in the glacial gravels at depths ranging from eight
to fifteen feet
Iney represent Jne earnest remains OF man IN
good condition thus far found in the far north
These earliest inhabitants were apparently wiped
out. At least, they disappeared Their disappear
may have been due to epidemics, massacres, or
mass mgrations. This is of the subjects DR..
Hrdlicka's work this summer may explain.
This first type of followed by second,
the so-called Aleut The Aleut persisted down to
comparatively recent time and found upon the
island by the Russians
The earlier people brought stone age culture
to the island with them The culture was highly
developed indicating highly developed society in
the parts of Asia from which they originally came.
THERE is a considerable discussion now under
Il way in the world of science to the antiquity
of man in America. Dr. Hrdhcka's opinion has been
that man is comparative newcomer in America.
= He believes that Just asa series of waves OF
migration brought the whites to America after
Columbus historic journey. some $4,000 years
earlier the Indians made their way into America
by series Of waves of migration from Asia
The Indianapolis times., 1934-05-15

Whittemore, and Buffalo, New
York, and Baltimore detectives
we're all on his bloody trail.
Closer and closer they came,
and one night, as Whittemore left
a. west side night club in New
York and took his seat in his car
parked outside, police guns stared
him in the face.
A Buffalo jury disagreed at his
trial there for murder of two pay
roll guards, and Whittemore was
taken home to Baltimore. There
he was speedily convicted of the
murder of the guard Hoffman.
Every legal resource was ex-
hausted, even to an appeal to the
United States supreme court: the
man who had given Hoffman no
chance was given every chance
himself.
But it was in vain. There in
the Maryland penitentiary, within
few feet of the spot where he
had struck down Hoffman, Rich
ard Reese Whittemore felt the
scratchy caress of knot of new
hemp as it nestled beside his ear.
Next-Within a year, the law
has closed its books on at least
five of the most desperate men
of today; bars and bullets have
balanced the accounts.
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was sentenced to the house of cor
rection. He escaped, enlisted in
the coast guard, deserted, got into
a series of escapades and rob-
berries, and was sent to prison. Re
leased after serving three years,
he went into crime in earnest.
When they we're cornered in a
Philadelphia apartment by police
raiders, Whittemore's wife stealth
lily opened bureau drawer and
tossed pistols to two members of
the gang, opening fire with a
third.
But five members of the gang
we're rounded up here and sem
fenced to prison.
THEN Whittemore's full tiger
Il ishness revealed itself. One
day while passing through the
prison yard he whipped a piece
of iron pipe from his shirt and so
savagely assaulted Robert H. Holt
man, prison guard, that Holt
man fell in pool of blood and
died.
Whittemore stole his gun. keys.
and, money and escaped. He re-
organized his gang in New York,
and in a year is believed to have
looted stores of $1,000,000.
Six murders were attributed to
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Sometimes They Are Timed

MOREOVER. what with the changing times, it's
4'A hard to find a market for gentlemen even
after you have them raised. Nobody wants them
any more It isn't worth the trouble of keeping
away the moths and the beetles. The rust got the
last lot I set out and about the most useless thing
in the world is a rusty gentleman.
People who never have been dirt farmers think
Of that occupation as simple. I can't speak for all
dirt farmers, but it is easy job to raise dirt in
Connecticut. Too many rocks go with it.
My plantation has been worked in way or
another for more than two hundred years including
my tenure. Late in the seventeenth century
small band of Purtans settled along Hunting Ridge
and built a stockade right at the point where my
studio now stands have some timbers in my walls
with the original loopholes still in them All my life
have collected loopholes.
The Indianapolis times., 1934-05-15
Haywood BROUN

CEvEN MILES NORTH OF STANFORD, Conn.,
- May l5.-As We came around bend in the road
"a big dog Ieaped from the woods and began to bark
at us furiousy. 1t turned out to be Captain Flagg
the Aredale, and I knew that We must have
strayed of the Albany Post road at some point in
our journey.
When you meet Flagg you know you are not in
Albany and that you are six seven miles north Of
Stamford In fact, We followed him for about half
a mile and came slap-dash into my farm
This is not altogether unfortunate because in two
davs now Of the transcontinental trip we had made
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
: BIZ DreW Pearson and Robert S. Allen =

- By DreW PSGfSon ana ROOeTt >. AtLen
VXTASHINGTON, May 15"Sunny" Watson, glad
w handing Republican senator from Indiana secretly
summoned to Washington explain his back income
Inside word that ims fairly large
bureau all $4,000
regardless politics Jim Watson has casting
toward the chamanshp of the Republican
mitee
ssie Dali pupils private
in lessons
good marks ready participate
teacher has to suggest Buzze, being
tractabe but his department is satisfactory, at
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They recall that Bryanism died
down after the Republican victory
of 1896 and that for more than
thirty years thereafter silver was
not an issue in Americal politics.
They believe that the same chain
of events would take place today
if Mr.. Roosevelt would initiate
Cleveland, would stand by gold
alone, and would. if necessary. let
his party be split on the silver
issue as Cleveland's was.
History does not repeat itself
quite SO regularly as that. And if
we look at the whole history of
the silver agitation in the United
States from 1873 to the present
day, we can see, believe. why the
events of 1896 are not likely to
repeat themselves.
The first big silver movements
ran its course sbetween 1873, when
silver Was demonetized. and 1895.
when Bryan was defeated. This
was a period of falling prices
throughout the world and within
that period the United States had
two very severe and long depres-
sionS and some minor ones.
Most of us who grew up in a
Republican atmosphere have been
taught to believe that the recovery
after 1896 and the prosperity
which followed were due to the
victory of sound gold money in
the Mckinley campaign.
u
MO doubt the ending of mon
~ etary uncertainty was a good
thing. But it may be doubted
seriously whether the nonpartisan
historians would agree today that
it was McKinley's victory which
ended the uncertainty that had
prevailed for more than twenty
years, or that it was the Repub-
lican party which made sound
money sound.
The best historical opinion to-
day is. I believe, that it was not
Mckinley and Bryan who settled
the silver question after 1896, but
the opening of the South Afri-
can gold mines and the inven-
ton of new processes for the
mining of gold. In this view it
was the unexpected abundance of
gold at the turn of the century
which ended the silver movement
of that era by reducing the pur-
chasing power of the gold dollar.
If that is the true view of the
past. then the present silver move
ment is not likely to subside un-
less for one reason or another
gold again falls in value and
world prices rise once more. Now,
the fact is that gold is not fall
ing in value. Even if the world
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posal of the silver bloc that there
be declaration of policy re-
establishing silver as reserve
money is of such great interest,
A declaration of this sort would
serve notice upon the whole world
that the weight of the United
States would be exerted to de-
press the value of gold. For if
silver becomes basic money in the
United States it means that the
United States is making silver in
terchangeable with gold, not nee
essarily at a fixed ratio, but at
the ratio which it determines is
most likely from time to time to
make gold cheaper and thereafter
to keep it reasonably stable.
(Copyrig1t 1884
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almost forty miles as the crow
flies and quite a lot more as
Eddie, the Buick, goes. Natural
ly, a real period seems indicat-
ed. I want to have a chance to
go over my notes and see just
what I have learned since leaving
New York couple of days ago.
One of the chief objectives
Of the trip is to give me chance
to acquaint myself with farm
problems. I can begin right here.
My farm has just as many prob
lens as any Of which. I ever
heard.
From the very beginning there
was always the question as to
whether I should be dirt or a
gentleman farmer. I have decided
to raise dirt. Gentlemen are very
difficult to raise. They require a
ion and YOU have to take them
The Indianapolis times., 1934-05-15
BY WILLIS THORNTON
NEA Service staff Corresponaent

GERALD CHAPMAN Charles Brger
" more in day. every desperate
lust as successfully todsys Dllngers of
hem met the end of a
In Chapman slpperiest ALL boasted
openly could hold him. while made the
parents
education quit
thiev which
acquaintance with George Anderson really we'll
educated professional
Chapman bootlegging
living
With Charles pulled
o
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Fair Enough
NENBROQK REdLER

n MEMPHIS Tenn. May 15.-At-a mountain ham,
1VI slet called Gstlinburg high in the Big Smokes,
I encountered few years ago a beautiful story Of
the character of the true Tennessee mountaineer
which intended to write at the time but did not get
around to-, probably because twas such story as
would take some pretty hard writing and king out
and re-doing.
1t the sort of piece that required, if not flow
and fiddle music. at least calm conditions and
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Row. IN killed hv Shock

Boy, 10, Killed by Shock
ARCOLA, IND, May 15.-Electric
shock suffered by Lester Butts, 10,
when he seized a high tension wire
while climbing a tree in the yard
of his home here caused his death
late yesterday.
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gold supply is sufficient, as some
experts think 1t is, the supply is
boarded and Sterilized practically
everywhere.
The gold that has been coming
out of the mines and out of the
boards of India is promptly buried
again in the central banks and in
private vaults.
AS long as this condition exists.
the silver agitation will not only
not SubSide, but will become more
intense. For what does this hoard
ing of gold mean? 1t means that
an immense part of the world
purchasing power, all the value
represented by the sterilized gold
plus all the credit that could be
built on the gold, is withheld from
the markets for goods, and from
investments and9is frozen into in
ert' gold bars. that lie underground
in Paris, New York, Washington,
London, and elsewhere.
The need of the world is to re-
lease this purchasing power that
has taken refuge in gold and is
captive there. This means that
the gold hoarders of the world,
the governments, the central
banks, the individuals frightened
by the def1ation of the past years,
somehow must be induced to be-
lieve that it is safer and more
profitable to sell gold and to buy
things.
THE way to induce them to
Il believe this is to show them
that gold itself is depreciating
while other things are appreci-
ating, that if they cling to gold
they will grow poorer, whereas,
for the last five years, the one
investment that was sure to be
profitable was in gold.
The silver movement has no
Importance except as one means
to accomplish this result. There
is no more point in buying silver
for its own sake than there is
in buying coffee or peanuts or
scrap iron. The silver producers
are entitled to no better treat
ment than any other group of
producers.
For that reason a mere pro-
posal to purchase silver and then
store it in the treasury vaults
would be of no general interest.
Unless silver is used to break up
the worldwide corner in boarded
and sterilized gold. there is no
true silver policy. There is mere
ly subsidy to the silver inter
eSts.
That is why the recent pro-
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Alaskan ouakes Recorded


NEW YORK. May - 15-Two
earthquake shocks of moderate in
tensity. appearing to have centered
in southern Alaska, were reported
today by Fordham university seis-
mological experts.
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TODAY AND TOMORROW
By Waller Lippmann

THERE policy would
be nothing
President resist the silver agitation