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The Indianapolis times., 1934-04-11
Today S Science
by DAVID DIETZ.

(YNIHET1C rubber that is a rubber made in the
~ chemical laboratory, appears now to be definitely
commercial commodity which may sllpplant nat
ural rubber for certain important uses, according
to Arthur D. Little Inc. of Cambridge Mass one
OF the nations foremost firms of chemical con-
sultants.
The creation of synthetic rubber has long been a
dream Of chemistry. Chemists began to think about
IL early IN the century when the rapidly growing
automobile industry sent the price of natural rubber
to So pound. 1t was tried with some success in
Germany during the World war when that nation
found its supply of rubber cut off by the blockade
Nothing was done about it. however after the
war. In 1925 when the price of natural rubber
rose to 81 pound. chemists again began to study
the subject. 1t is interesting to note that success
comes now at time when the depression has
pushed the price of natural rubber on several occa-
sions down to less than 3 cents pound
The present efforts, according to Mr.. Little have
not been based so much on attempts to get prod
uct cheaper than natural rubber but TO get product
which be used where natural rubber is un-
satisfactory. Despite its many fine properties nat
ural rubber has plenty Of bsd 1t deteriorates
with age, oxidation, heat and contact with various
oils and solvents.
THE new synthetic rubber is known as "Du
Il Prene" 1t resembles natural rubber in chem
ical composition, and according to Mr. Little is
superior TO it in its resistance to heat and chemical
deterioration.
Because Of its resistance to petroleum products
it is finding considerable market in the atonnobila
industry, being used where there is likely to be ex-
posure TO gasoline oil. It is also being used for
the inner ply Of hose for use on tank wagons and
for the handling of oil at refneres and on tank
steamers and so on.
1t is also being used for hose in apparatus for
spraying paint because is resistant to turpentine
lacquer solvents and similar materials.
Another use to which it is being put is as coat
ing for the insulation of wire for portable lamps
in garages filing stations, reneres and industrial
plants where there is a likelihood of the wires
coming ir contact with gasoline or oil.
At present Du Prene sells at several times ,ths
cost Of natural gubbeA
The Indianapolis times., 1934-04-11
Your Health
-BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

TN all forms of heart disease rest in bed has long
4 been advised as the important item in treatment.
All physicians are agreed that rest important
in angina pectoris and coronary thrombosis.
In fact many experts assert that if you are
troubled with any of these conditions you should
main at complete rest until you able to sit up
without pain.
Some British doctors recently decided to test
scientifically the results of controlled rest among
twentythree patients with angina pectoris. The pa
tiens varied in from "A to 10 years-eighteen of
them and five women.
All these persons had had angina pectoris with
severe pain for some time and had been endeavor
ing to obtain relief by attending a medical dispen
Sary regularly, where their conditions studied
and where prescriptions given to them.
In most Of these cases the pain came on following
any physical eXertion and there some patients
in whom any sudden strong emotion also would in
duce an attack
THESE twenty-three patients were taken into
l. hospital and put to bed and absolute rest
given to them for at least one month Even slight
movements were prohibited and they were given the
best possible nursing attention
During the fifth week the patients allowed
to be up for short periods of time and in the sixth
week to walk quietly about. The exercise in
creased gradually in the seventh week.
The patients did not receive medicines of any
kind. except for the amyl nitrite which is usually
used to relieve the pain of angina pectors. The OBJ
SerVauonS resulted IN some exceedingly interesting
facts
EIRST. complete rest in bed for month or longer
Il led to subsequent improvement in seventeen of
these twentythree patients, and the improvement
continued during periods of from four to nine
months after they returned to their ordinary habits
OF life.
Nevertheless, the attacks of angina pectoris we're
not completely abolished in any Of the patients.
They did however. decrease greatly in severity.
The Improvement wa lie in,
those patients who had had the disease for only a
few months. 1t became apparent that complete rest
IN bed for two to six weeks is important measure
in treatment of angina pectors
Moreover, associate fact Of exceeding i'm
portance the proof that these patients who had
high blood pressure with their angina pectors
showed Improvement which was especially great
Rest Is perhaps the most important of all the
remedies that physician prescribe, but at the
same time, unfortunately, it is the one hardest to
get patients to take.
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ginning to realize that their huts curious and
they are not any too well pleased about it. But
that's story of the Red Mayor in Trinidad and
ought to make another column some time.
Always the shTewd arranger, l managed to hit
upon driver who spoke not single word of
English with the exception of the phrase 20. K"
Caracas is 1000 feet straight up mountain. was
willing to face death in the afternoon, but not in
the morning.
american newspaper in nasty accident
when car falls 1000 feet" is not much of story.
Don't drive so damn fast" said to the Venezuelan
Barney Oldfeld.
20. X" he answered and did the next curve on
one Wheel tried the pantomime they use. in radio
studios to indicate. Stretch it out Go slower"
Barney said something in his South American Span
ish and 1 couldn't be sure. but think it was, mo,
I don't swim At any rate it had effect on his
driving.
I tried sarcasm. Let's fix it like this I sug
gested, "on the straightaway you go very SLOW but
make it fast around the curves" This he seemed
to understand for he took the instructions literally.
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Real Action Awoited

FNJOW" Prudy said as he showed the shark over.
board when they begin to smell of that bIoossg
some real sharks will come along and give YOU some
thing to wreste about"
There is a hot dog and soft drink stand at Mate
cumoe. There is also railroad station and about
IoO yaros out IN the water standing on piles is the
nome OF local fisherman. His boat is awav on
business but the family skif swings at the foot Of
the LADDER. His wife comes out 20 hang some wash
on the line. closing the door quickly to keen the
mosquitoes out. When the wind blows big thew come
ashore and nope their house will be there when if is
all over. W " 10
mat is all there is to the last town on the Amer
icah mainland. You could knock a golf ball across
tne width Of the American continent at this noint
WIN drive and pitch A faded sign some what
ooscured by jungle growth offers the whole of Mate
cumbe key for sale
Inc sun bears down, frying the hides of the
Jonnny- y-come-latelys from the north and the rnos
qultoes come in clouds. But the conch fisherman
Ignore them as they shovel their catch into the rail-
road station for shipment to the north Their arms
and shoulders are bare and thousands of noso1Iito
welCs prove that mosquitoes bite conchs too but
captain Dick Morgan says a conch develops an inn
muty TO the poison and isn5 bothered by the sting
ms must be so. Otherwise they would have to
Tie loose as We are doing at this time and run off II
was Jimmy Pergoa, the news reel camera man. who
made the break VIZ
All right, am sissy and can't take it~ Mr.
Fargola SAID, but get out of this That last
mosquito bit hunk out of me and took it up q tres
to eat it, ~ 0
Copyright 1884 by United Features Syndicate rnc1
The Indianapolis times., 1934-04-11
LEASES SHOW
UPWARD TREND
2 Important Real Estate
Deals Here Reflect
Business Gain.

Expansion Of business has re-
suited in two major building leases
here during the past week..
A long-term lease has been taken
by the Grand Union Tea Com
pany on the industrial building at
$40 South New Jersey street. The
company has been occupying an
office at 1901 Cornell avenue.
The tea companys new structure
will be open April 20.
Lease of a storeroom at 2O7 North
Delaware street has been taken by
the Indianapolis branch of the
Kalamazoo Stove Company.
Mrs. Victoria H. Rentsch has
leased the storeroom at 1914 and
1916 College avenue to Minard G.
Mathews. Mr.. Mathews will open
a bar and grille.
The Hayes Transfer and Storage
Company, NATION, Ill, has ac-
quired from Schnull & Co. the one
story garage building at the south
east corner of Kentucky avenue
and Sand street.
The Indianapolis times., 1934-04-11
WHEN POLITICS WAS IN FLOWER
4 Shoe Box .Electom-1t Cost The old Man His Wife
BY TRISTRAM COFFIN
T;r.ae star Writer

young
Republican leaders moodIy saloon, thinking
plans for the old from his job
Occasionally of the would shift of tobacco
mouth and shoot straight the cuspdor
plotting
sake of their incidentally for the
that he old man. must They had pounded doors talked
pleaded with foreigners and passed out free beer
month The sentiment slowly turning in their favor
THE old
the
He reelection although could the
sion ne showed outward indication
sphinxlike calm the
formers, futile with
when thoughts
the old hesitate
of the customary political his domination.
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Their TieWs Differ

CAPTAIN CURTIS claims that the barracuda will
- strike anything that moves in the water whetn-
eR It is hungry or not. The shark on the other
hand attacks only when it is hungry or thinks it ia
being molested. Why, some of the sea divers work.
ing on salvage and construction jobs have seen big
Sharks come nosng right up to the windows of their
helmets and peer in while and swim away.
But there IS a professor at Miami university who
insists that both of these notorious public enemies
are misunderstood and sends students of his class
girls and boys down into the sea in ordinary swim
ming SUITS and diving helmets to study marine life
under intimate conditions.
His own faith in the good nature of the barrs-
cuoa and shark has inStlled confidence in the stu
oentS ana two news reel photograp pliers in our partv
Tell OF shooting scene last week in which some
co-eos calmly stroled along the sea bottom while a
ng shark and porpose fought CORY private battle
along a shoal close by. The porpoise killed the shark
and swan out to sea.
ana last night as our boats lay anchored couple
OF miles out Prudy, or skipper reached overheard
TO grab three-foot shark in his hands az Charlie
Canny Wrested it up to the side of the boat on his
line. N' 'A4 'ii'
Nothln' but litty-bitty shark" Pr1ldv hoI1ered
When ne got his hands it in the dark The wav
you was hopping around with that pole thought
you must had wild horse. Somebody shine A. fash
Hgnt on me so can see what I'm a'doin
In the beam of the light Prudy then pinned the
SnarK on the gunwale with his left hand and right
knee and slit it along its keel with big fish knife
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The wife, almost in tears. Plead
ed her innocence. ST didn't tell.
anybody. I didn't tell anybody"
she walled.
His words leaped sharply at her.
"You were careless then. You let
people see you. You lost the elec-
ton for me-"
The wife retaliated in turn. She
stormed at ''the old man." refer
ring him to certain unpleasant
hot climate. She even went so far
as to assign him a pair of horns
and twisting TAIL
The final result was that "the
old man" and his wife angrily sep
arated. That election was the last
time "the old man. ventured into
! politics. Youth had triumphed.
The Indianapolis times., 1934-04-11
HE'EQu6h
.bY"
WESTbR0OK:

MATECUMBE, Fla, April 11.-This is the jump-
IVA ing-of place where the jungle road across tins
Florida Keys melts away into the quick sand fats
and gives over its job to the occasional ferry If you
must 60 on from here to Key West, necessity which
confrontS few of citizens nowadays, you either
must wait for the ferry at Matecumbe if you are
driving, take the train which runs on a stilt-ne
over the shallow, green water
Our fotilla, under the high command of Captain
The Indianapolis times., 1934-04-11
DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
BY Drev Pearson and Robert S. Allen

XXTASHTNGTON April returns from his
w fishing trip he is to find himself definitely
What
The vote veterans significance
happened President.
the
publicly ndorsed the of
specific emphacaly F1etcher-Rayburn
in letters to both
On it's fate therefore defeat
And the of
trying thwart him
Baeyau Democra-wo obsructoniSt
banking committee.
They wanted
Wall Street committee
force abandonment
schedule. them won't against it
reaches the floor, smother secrecy
this sabotage
- functioned
100000 expenses
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SO, like most ambitious young
men, they scratched their sprout-
ing sideburns and devised a coun-
ter-plan. They suspected that
"the old man" would try to switch
the ballot box. The youngsters
carefully instructed their followers
to watch every move at the polls.
The sun dawned on bright,
brisk election day. The polls were
crowded early in the morning with
foreigners eager to cast their votes
for democracy before they went to
work for capitalism. The young
men were pressing their way
through the throng, rallying the
faint hearted and whispering
hoarsely in the approved manner
with their henchmen.
THE OLD MAN" strolled cas-
Il ually down to the polls late
in the day. bantered with his
friends and left to hold council in
a neighboring saloon.
The young men we're reassured
by every voter with whom they
talked that the election was COM
ing their way. But they were un-
usually smart young men and put
off any celebration until their can
didate was actually in office.
Hawk-eyed youngsters watched
the voting. alert for any at
tempted trickery. They peered
through the curtains of the vot-
ing booth. Nothing doing" they
admitted ruefully to each other,
TITS all on the square. The old
man must have just given up"
The polls closed at 6 after the
last squirt of voters had cast their
ballots. The tellers began the long,
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The only testimony is from the
Journal of Commerce. 1t said
that:
The big topic of the day for
financial institutions is the grow
ing famine in gilt-edged bonds.
OFF the record, the Journal of
Commerce is told that number
of large financial institutions,
after much study and searching of
heart. have decided to buy long
term bond issues. Until this week
many of them had a mental reS-
ervation that they wanted no ma
turity beyond 1945. They have
crossed that Rubicon now and will
take on any maturity if the issue
is good enough and they can get
some reasonable rate of yield,
Put these two ideas together,
one coming from the spokesman
for organized labor and the other
from spokesmen for Wall Street,
and the result is highly pertinent
to the immediate problem of re-
covery. When labor announces that
the great bulk of unemployment is
now in the heavy industries, it is
saying that re-employment de-
pends upon stimulating purchaS-
ing power in the heavy industries.
u n
VXTHERE does, where can, that
w purchasing power come
from? Who buys the products Of
heavy industries? Corporations
buy them. And where do they get
the money to buy them? They
get it from banks and investors
who are willing to advance credit
or to buy bonds. Now, when it
is said in Wall Street that there
is famine" in gilt-edge bonds,
and that important institutions
have decided to buy longer-term
bonds, it is equivalent to saying
that purchasing power now exists
and is ready to be used in buying
from the heavy industries where
the bulk of unemployment exists.
Based on the diagnosis made by
the A. F. of L., the prospect of
labor is, more than anything else,
now bound up with this revival of
long term investment.
To have created situation in
which money is seeking invest
ment is the surest evidence of the.
success of the administrations re-
covery program. When it took Of
flee thirteen months ago every one
was trying to disinveSt his money.
to sell what he owned and turn it
into dollars. to turn dollars into
gold. and then to bury the gold.
1t was this flight of purchasing
power from goods that created the
unemployment and the bank
ruptcy. 1t is this flight that has
been stopped and converted into
the beginnings of an advance.
The principal measures by which
this has been achieved have been,
it seems to me: First, the resto-
ration of the government credit
by means of the economy bill;
second, the revaluation of the
dollar; third, the reconstruction
of the banks; fourth. the quick
expenditure of large funds. fifth,
cheap money and a steady reduc-
ton of the interest rate.
Some of these measures have
pleased the so-called conserva-
tives and others the so-called pro-
gressives. But the event is show
ing that this program as a whole
is a success and that the judg-
ment of the President and his
financial advisers in assembling it
out of the proposals of different
schools of thought has been un-
cannily good.
The Indianapolis times., 1934-04-11

Dave Curtis, a Texan who rode
horseback in the rangers and the
United States cavalry and flew
with the Canadians in the war,
puts in at the weatherbeaten slip
at noon. There are the Miss
Sadie and leila, cruisers, and two
speed-boats. both called Prigg.
We came in here to use the
phone.
A barracuda is seen nosing
around in the shadows under the
railroad trestle.
The barracuda, about two feet
long, does not seem big enough
to do much damage and Dick
Morgan, the skipper of the leila,
says it won't. Captain Curtis
says it will and they choose up
sides and argue an old question
whether it is the shark or the be-
the legs off people in the Florida
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experiments,

The supreme court had had be-
fore it for some time the case
involving the constitutionality of
New York's drastic milk control
act. The decision was eagerly
awaited, as the same legal ques-
tions we're at stake as regards
the NRA, the AAA, and other
new deal projects.
Wagner, who came to the SEN
ate from the New York supreme
court bench, knows that it is not
de rigueur" to inquire of judges
what their decisions are going to
be. But he just couldn't restrain
hinself. and SO he askedf
The Indianapolis times., 1934-04-11

DEHIND the heavy, musty cur
- tain the friend, stripped to
his shirt sleeves, hastily scribbled
the name on facsimile votes he
had and dropped them in the
other shoe box.
When the last vote had been
cast, the friend slipped his arm
through the curtains and switched
boxes. Armed with the whole
truth the young men went to the
contest board and won the fight
to seat their candidate.
The night following the contest
board meeting, "the old man"
thundered home and violently
charged his wife with double
: crossing him.
The Indianapolis times., 1934-04-11
Haywood BROUN

CARACAS, Venezuela. March 28-Dont pay any
~ particular attention to this date line because 1
really am back in New York, but few days ago
happened to be in South America and called at the
capital of Gomez The night before we slid into the
shallow port man in the smoking room drew me
aside and whispered He was the passenger who
knew everything.
Word has Just come by wireless" he said, that
the dictator is dying They've sent an airplane for
a foreign surgeon, and when Gomez pops off the lid
will burst. Theren be he'll TO pay in Caracas in the
morning Nobody knows whether the revolution
will be right or left simply in the palace
And so I went to bed feeling like another Richard
Harding Davis. I would stride into the square at
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to base their contest. A shoe clerk
had told a friend who told a
friend that the wife of "the old
man" had bought the shoe boxes
the day before election.
Employing the third degree and
the seducing effect of whisky the
young men unearthed the COM
plete story, bit by bit. One of the
old mans friends had hid behind
the curtain in the voting booth
the day of election.
Beside him was one of the shoe
boxes. The other shoe box was
used to hold the proper ballots. AS
each voter came up to the teller,
he called his name. If the name
was not perfectly ineligible, the
voter was asked to spell it.
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tedious task of counting. A curl
Gus crowd loafed around the poll
ing place awaiting the final word.
They told jokes and recounted
hoary stories of previous elections.
Each side talked loudly of "our
victory"
The first teller out of the place
fully realized the dramatic posi-
bilities of his position. The COM
munity dandy, he twitched his
mous ache, Strengthened his
checkered wsistcoat as the boys
shouted, "Who got it?"
Lighting a cigar casually, the
dandy said, 'The old man is still
the boss"
M OSE, the youngsters
AVA sought out their leaders and
with glum features reported a
crushing defeat. Go get up a
contest" shouted the irate leaders.
There isn't any contest. He
won fairly" the scouts reported
duly.
Profanity rung on the air. The
aroused leaders cried, Somebody
cheated. Find out how"
Furiously the young men sScur-
ried through the neighborhood.
They picked up justice of the
peace, made the rounds of the
voters and obtained aff1davits
from 1873 persons who swore that
they had voted against "the old
man." This number was more
than the necessary majority.
The purchase of two identical
shoe boxes was the first clue upon
which the amateur sleuths hoped
The Indianapolis times., 1934-04-11

n
THERE will be some who will
- say that to put the emphasis
on the essentials Of recovery is
to lose sight of the larger reforms
to which the administration is
committed.
I believe that on the contrary
1t is the one surest way to con-
solidate the reforms which ought
to be permanent. The people want
recovery. Let no one imagine
they do not want it more than
they want anything else. They
want work and wages, profits and
dividends, and an end of anxiety
and confusion.
If the President can give them
these things, they will follow him
gladly as they have followed him
since he took office. The people
want many reforms. too, but they
have sense to know that social re-
form is long business. They
know that reforms which come in
good times are likely to be more
lasting and more useful than those
which are hastily contrived during
great emergencies.
This administration received it's
mandate from the people because
of the severity of the depression.
Only recovery will bring it rati-
f1cation of its policies.
Copyright. 1884. by The Times)
Aha,.o +Lo., Leo LOO ,aorr- l.e..,.o.. :. ~. ~
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Personally Conducts Tour

T DECIDED not to go on the
Il tour arranged by the steam
er. 1 wanted to be more mobile.
There will be a two hours
drive into the interior which
viii enable the passengers to see
the curious huts of the natives"
Of that l had seen enough, and
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noon to the sound of musketry
and machine gun fire. And with
three bullet holes through my
hat I would hold the cable by
sending the first chapter of
Genesis as I wrote the thrilling
tale Of blood among the oil
wells.
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TODAY AND TOMORROW

By Waller Lippmann

EOR those who wish find where progress
there extraordinarily interesting
Tuesdays One contained the monthly
business the Federation Labor
Although heavy industries have especially
are
uthi n Of t 1o1n
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mo, I don't mind having my
photograph taken. suppose I
am the most photographed man
in Europe ...
Il understand the French peo-
pie better than my own compa-
triots. You see, I like the French
better than Americans
Originally I studied philology
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Gentlemen, when do you think
the milk decision will be handed
down? And what do you think it
will be like?"
The two supreme court justices
had been chatting freely. Now
they froze up. Both turned
cold, disapproving look upon
Wagner. Then, as if they had
not heard the question, they be-
gan talking about an entirely diff
ferent subject,