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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-25
Today S Science
IN DAVID DIETZ

a GORE powerful automobiles and more economical
vi ones as well are predicted by the nations chem
lists as result OF researches now gong on IN 'ie
petroleum field. What these researches are VIII DC
revealed when the eghty-eighth meeting OF the
American Chemical Society is called to order IN
Cleveland on Sept 10.
f,l chemists from all parts OF the country. repre-
senng universities technical schools ana lnouSttsl
laboratories will take part in the sessions Of the So
cierv's petroleum division. These will be presided
over by Frederick w. Sullivan Jr. of the Standard
oil COMPANY indiana chairman of the division
Researches which constitute chemical prospect
, for the autounobils business" will be described
bv three scientists from the General Motors labora-
tories Of Detroit. Wheeler G. Lowell. John NJ Camp
bell and T. A. BOYD The three Will submit a report
on the knocking characteristics OF lO3 hydrocarbons
Petroleum is a mixture of light and heavy hydro
carbons Gasoline originally was manufactured
merely by separating the lighter hydrocarbons from
the petroleum. Gasoline Is now manufactured by
the cracking process which cracks or splits up the
molecules Of the heavy hydrocarbons into lighter
ones.
The present search in the laboratory is for hydro
Carbons that free from knock. Experts say that
II the knock could be completely removed 1t would
be possible by a few simple changes. to build high
compression engness with half again and more miles
TO the gallon Of fuel
A CCORDNGLY. chemists have been making a
n detailed study OF the properties of various hy-
6rocarbonS.
Some hydrocarbons are found to be good. others
the ordinary gsSOlineS in From the investi
cation Of hundreds Of such compounds. chemists are
beginning TO learn 70 predict in advance whether
a particular hydrOCsrbon viii De good bad.
The investigation. however has not yet pro-
crossed beyond the laboratory stage. Chemists are
convinced that they can make better gasolines than
those now III use. They have not vet determined
whether or not It Is commercially practicable.
IT Is expected that more than 1000 of the leading
chemists Of the United States viii be in Cleve-
land for the meeting. DR.. Charles l. Reese Of
Wilmington. Del Is president of the society.
he has announced that the keynote Of the meet
ing viii be the slogan Chemistry catalyzeS COM
merce" A caIalyst is a substance which speeds up
and aids chemical reaction.
4 large number Of speakers at the convention
viii emphasize the fact that chemistry has not stood
sill. during TIE depression, but that in many cases,
research has gone forward unprecedented rate.
IN particular, leaders Of the society emphasize
the importance OF chemical research IN the field OF
agriculture. New processes which make it possible
10 convert the waste products OF the farm into COM
n.ercial products. they assert. VIII bring a pros
perity TO the farmer and ultimately emancipate him
from the yagaries OF crops.
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Newspapers Reflect Change

CTRANGERS passing through Chicago in those
- days, in MANY cases preferred to spend their
between trains in the railroad stations, ventur-
ing out no than they had to in going from one
terminal to another. Some strangers in fact, still
know Chicago by the tough reputation from which
the city suffered in Mr.. CapOnes time and still avoid
the streets as much as possible.
The change is apparent in the Page 1 matter
IN the newspapers. The Chicago papers. although
they sometimes did permit themselves hurt edito-
rial remonStrance against overemphass on crime,
never did play crime down. When an important
hoodum was found claimed by death in some weed
grown gully in the outskirts they laid it the line
without reservation, although these occurrences
tended to injure their town.
They do not seem to have been equally frank
about the outbreak of dysentery last year when
treatment of the epidemic suitable to its Importance
might have frightened people away from the worlds
fair But there is difference of opinion, even about
that They claim they gave the story all worth
according to their news judgment and as soon as
they heard of it.
Gambling continues to thrive, of course. There
always has been more or less open gambling in Chi
cago and it seems to be the policy of the present
administration to permit the parlors to operate. The
Daily News deplores this and prints crusade stories
accompanied by minute diagrams Of the gambling
rooms but nobody does anything to them.
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vate business has caused some
squawks from certain industries.
But there has been little COM
plant about the cattle and meat
program, for it is realized that
if any other course had been fol-
lowed, millions of cattle now SAL
vaged would have died on farms,
a stampede of other cattle would
have glutted the market and
caused disastrously low prices,
which would have resulted in
even more damage to the cattle
raiSerS.
Thereafter, a meat shortage
would have sent prices so high
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Speaking Of Mr. HOOUer-

NAIHENEVER 1 speak less than enthuSlsStically
w about the sage of Palo Alto invariably get
letters in which at the very least am asked not to
sneak harShy of a who has retired oetlnltely
from public life I wish it we're true that Herbert
Hoover were definitely out Of the American political
picture for all time.
The league will be faithess to its professions and
to practical politics If does not mold itself around
the leadership of an extremely Well-known American
Who but Hoover?
The announced viewpoints OF the new Organlza-
ton clearly indicate members feel that moth
inc can be done about employment as uhe thought
is theirs not mine) the honest and the thrifty folk
have A right 10 sit upon their money bags and eX-
claim What business is it of mine whether the
hundreds or millions go cold and hungry. Why
didn't they buy gilt-edge securities when market
prices were even lower than they are now.
Let the league Just say. Hoover is our leader and
We mean to put him back in the White House TO keep
the grass from cluttering up the city streets" just
once his name is mentioned Will have an ideal
two-party set up. The voter will not need to fret
himself Before him viii lie the simple equation OF
Anybody at all against Hoover" And who can doubt
what freemen Will do when confronted by such
choice.
,Copyright 1884 BY The Timesl
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Inst Look at Hitler

L PREFER the twO-party system and it would be
1 decidedly to our advantage to have it established
I'm America. But for all too many years We have
been living under the one-party system. Unlike the
Germans We have been given an opportunity TO
make a choice between the ma jOT parties. We have
not been under the necessity Of indicating merely
ia" or "nein" and heaven help the dolt who dares
to indicate his preference for the latter.
on the contrary. the choice Of the free and I'M
trammeed citizen of the United States practically
never has been limited TO any take-it-or-leave-lt
decision at the polling place The plain and ordinary
American should be proud Of the privileges accorded
10 me. Each November he Is not only invited but
urged 10 come around and indicate whether he pre-
fers TWeedle-Dee to Tweedle-Dum Generally, the
fate Of nations does not rest upon the voters verdict
Whichever way the election goes the happy
holder Of the franchise go home safe IN the
realization that win. lose or draw safe man WILL
come out top IN the primaries. think that 1897
actually marked a break in this tradition IL seems
TO me that the leadership OF Franklin d. RooSe-
Welt did bring us into new ground where HERBERT
Hoover never would have dared to venture.
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A BOUT $4,000 head of cattle
"a are being slaughtered each
day and proceSsed in packing
plants built or rented by FSRC
or in commercial plants under
contract with it. All the cans are
stamped as relief food, so they
can't get into the commercial
market.
But it has been pointed out
that if meat prices go higher this
winter and next spring than the
government thinks they should,
some of the FSRC food might be
put into trade.
Most commercial plants are
pressed to capacity by government
orders, as they're processing about
three-fourths of the FSRC ami
mails and doing an unusually big
business of their own
In general, the poorest and
skinniest of beef animals are
being bought up thus far at
about the ratio of three of every
ten COWS viewed by federal agents
and at an average cost of 1885.
Recent figures showed that AL
900 head had produced 1900, 900
pounds of dressed meat, which
would mean little more than
third as much canned meat.
The sheep program has not yet
gone into effect.
The AAA and FSRC has had
plenty of experience in buying for
the needy unemployed before the
drought came along. Since last
October the FSRC has taken over
35O00O,0O0 pounds of pork, more
than 100000 pounds of butter,
100000 pounds of cheese, and
much coal, blankets, apples, eggs,
potatoes, and other food and ma
terial
TN California, 10000 tons of
l. cling peaches are being canned
which otherwise would have rot
ted on the trees, and bids have
just been asked by FSRC for So
100000 pounds of rice.
And $50, 900 bales of cotton are
being acquired from the big cot
ton surplus, which $4,000 women
in $500 FERA sewing centers will
make into mattresses on which
the folks on relief may sleep.
The entry of the government
into mass production and distri-
button such as has been hereto
fore reserved to the field of pri-
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Thus far FERA has received
500, 100000 from the S525 100000
drought appropriation for its ship
ment, pasturing, and processing
of cattle, its feed purchases, its
direct drought relief and drought
work program. It's feed activ-
tiles include a recent bid for up to
10000 tons of soya-bean hay at
SIS a ton.
HOPKINS has spent the sum-
Il Il mer in Europe, studying So
cial security systems. In his alb
sence, his assistants, Aubrey Will
liamS and Lawrence WeStbrook,
have been supervising FERA
drought relief while Jacob Baker
has directed the FSRC-of which
Hopkins is president-in cooper
alton with Colonel Philip G. Muir
phy, chief of the AAA commodi-
ties purchase section.
The huge, fast-moving AAA-
FSRC livestock operation is likely
never to be duplicated. 1t involves
the buying of at least eight or ten
million cattle and about five mil
lion sheep and goats. The great
majority will be canned or cured
for relief consumption.
It is estimated that more than
10O0,O00.000 pounds of beef and
100000, 900 of mutton eventually
will be distributed through fed
eral channels.
Most of the cattle are shipped
off by FSRC, which takes them
over as soon as the AAA buys
them, but many are left in the
same state for canning or other
local needs. Some, of course,
have been killed on the spot as
unfit.
Cattle not slaughtered for proc
essing at once are shipped into
the twenty or more states where
state relief directors have ar
ranged for pasturage, usually with
the idea of slaughtering them
later. FERA remembered that
hundreds of thousands of small
farmers needed COWS to help make
them self-sustaining and it tries
to leave its cattle-all branded
with an "ERA"-with farmers on
relief or with other farm families
which need more milk.
Such cattle are distributed into
Delaware, Maryland, West Vir-
ginia, and the southern states
where FERA still is looking for
more good grazing land.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-25
STADIUM DRIVE TO
Be RECONSTRUCTED
Restricting Is Approved by
Works Board.

The works board yesterday ap-
proved plans for the reconstruction
and resurfacing Of Stadium drive, a
continuation of Indiana avenut,
from the Fall creek bridge to Mont
calm street at an approximate cost
of S29 1922, of which the city will
pay three-fOurthS.
The board also approved plans
for sidewalk on the north side of
Beechwood street from Arlington
avenue to Good avenue at an APP
proimate cost of $1,000.
The board received specifications
for maintaining street lights from
the Welsback Street Lighting Com
pany, Philadelphia, Pa, Bids for the
lighting will close Oct. 81.
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that millions of families on the
dole couldn't have afforded to eat
meat.
incidentally, the money with
which all this relief meat is
bought doesn't come from the
relief funds at all. 1t comes from
$150,O0O,OOO appropriated by con-
gress in the Jones Connally act
for beef and dairy cattle adj
justment program.
NEXT-The consumer - what
he faces and how the govern
ment plans to protect him from
prOiteering and rOcketing prices.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-25

Clay sought out Marvin Mcintyre,
one of the Presidents secretaries,
explained his secret mission.
Talmage, he said, wanted let
ter from some one in authority"
stating that the President did not
consider him foe, was not op-
posed to his reelection.
He got a letter all right.
The miSsive CURLY stated that
the President was not interfering
in Democratic contests.
Judge Plttman is calling on
Talmage to make public a letter
he received from the President
himself last winter, when Gene
and Harry Hopkins we're warning.
The Presidents letter was hot
and emphatic.
Talmage. so far, has refused to
produce either communication.
And the chances are 100 to l that
he won't.
tCopvright 1884. bv United Featur
Syndicate. Inc
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five or more factions the decision often misleading
and Unstable. Il was certainly than nothing
for England TO elect Macdonald, ostensibly
LahOrite. al time when his rule depended wholly
upon the permission OF the Liberals. His stay in
Office not only gave Socialism a distinct black eye
but also ruined the honor and the reputation Of Ram
Sey Macdonald. Hitler need never have come into
power over the PROSTATE forms Of parties which had
killed each other off while all the while protesting
that their chief obiecte check the spread Of
FasCsm I think the eight nne-party system leads
20 many inadequate administrations
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-25

sacrifice his child public. Mr..
Lloyd knows that the juvenile
public tastes today are different
than those of ten and fifteen
years ago. The only thing that
must remain the same is that the
subject matter and the acting be
clean. Such picture is The
Cats Paw" made from a highly
successful magazine story.
1t is true that many school
children are greatly interested in
everything that Mae West and
Joe Penner do. Mr.. Lloyd in his
latest movie becomes an adult en-
tertainer with sufficient appeal to
younger people to make him the
most popular comedian on the
screen.
ITO my way of thinking, THE
Il Cats Paw" will be another
gold mine for Lloyd and the Fox
company which released it. 1t is
one of the cleanest, funniest and
best movies ever made. That's my
verdict and I think it will be
yours.
Una Merkel is wonder foil
for Lloyd. In fact, this picture
establishes her as one of the three
best condolences in Hollywood.
The character work Of George
barber is splendid
The cast is a large and an i'm
portant one. 1t is not all Harold
Lloyd this time, but a complete
triumph for actors, director,
writer, and cameramen.
1t is the comedy triumph of the
year. OF course you will not miss
it.
Now on view at the Apollo.
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Questions and Answers

c-Describe the Island of Women" and state by
whom it is ruled
Ait is a small island in the China sea, in the
northern Philippine archipelago, between the islands
of Luzon and Fornosa. The official name IS
Babuyan meaning in the Malay dialect The Place
of Wild Pigs" Nominally United States territory
the island knows no law except that OF its SOW
ereign Bernardo Rosales who originally went there
about fifteen years ago fugitive from justice
1t is populated by 400 women, score Of men, and
number Of children the greater portion Of whom
are girls.
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BY RODNEY BUTCHER
"a serrice sfan Writer

tCopyrizht. 1894 NEA Service. Ine)
VxTASHINGTON. Aug. 25.-Al-
w most from the beginning Of
the New Deal. Henry A Wallace,
agriculture secretary, and Relief
Administrator Harry Hopkins-two
sentimental realists-have found
many points in common, philo-
sophically and practically.
Mr.. Wallace's JOB was TO relieve
the farmers. heavily burdened by
SURPRISES of food crops, and Mr.
Hopkins had to relieve the needy
unemployed. who didn't have
enough TO eat. In almost no time
at all they decided TO remedy the
old paradox which found millions
starving and great piles Of food
stufs on the farms begging for a
market.
The federal surplus relief cor
poration was formed to take over
pork and other food to help feed
10000, 900 persons on the relief
rolls. Today, the federal emer-
gency relief administration and
the agricultural adjustment ad-
ministration are working together
more closely than ever before,
through the federal surplus relief
corporation, in the great federal
drought relief effort.
And the Hopkins organization,
as if in return for Wallace's dona-
tons of millions of head of cattle
purchased from drought-stricken
farms, is expanding its programs
of direct relief and work relief
all through the rural drought area
and even helping feed the live
stock.
A MILLION families are on relief
in the eighteen states hardest hit,
only a fourth of them in the good
sized cities. Hundreds of thou
sands more will be added this
winter.
4 BOUT 500, 900 persons in that
IA area are engaged on FERA
work projects, most of them able
bodied farmers temporarily robbed
of a chance to make a living ex-
cept through public aid. The di-
versity of their jobs shows the
flexibility of the FERA's emer-
gency works division and its
adsptability to special drought
problems.
Wells are being dug to supply
water for drinking and other linn
tied use. Streams are damned or
diverted and lakes tapped for life
giving water supplies. Road-build-
ing and soil erosion work are slim
ulated.
Farmers are recruited to help
handle the huge cattle movements
and in some cases to work at
processing them into relief meat.
And most lately, FERA has
come to the aid of agriculture as
a whole with a plan for "a nation
wide cleaning of the fields" in
which work relief employees will
gather every possible pound of
roughage, oat straw. wheat straw,
cornStalkS, hay and other forage
and fodder to help ameliorate the
grave shortage of livestock feed.
This extraordinary scheme to
set people everywhere to gather
ing waste material will employ
tens of thousands at harvesting,
bailing. and transporting. State
relief directors are checking avail
able sources, with special refer
ence to cornstalks ordinarily left
to rot.
Farmers with fodder crops
which they might not harvest will
be supplied with relief workers to
garner the stuff.
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I1dIOlQ 1lOyO anu OAAcA lac OAAe' PM
After two years absence from
the screen, Lloyd returns IL THE
Cats Paw" Mr.. Lloyd must have
done a lot of thinking, as we'll as
hard work, because he has de-
veloped for himself a new movie
pattern. In this picture, the CO.
median is no longer a slap-Stick
funmaker given to one acrobatic
and hair-raising stunt after an
other but a character comedian in
which the story is as important as
the cast. That may seem strange
on the surface, but it is true and it
definitely reveals a new and better
acting Harold Lloyd. In this new
type of screen entertainment there
was danger that Mr.. Lloyd might
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-25
ASK S53,250 DAMAGES
Silver Lake Couple Sues City Doc
tor in Crash.

Three separate suits demanding a
total OF s53,250 for injuries suf-
fered to Mr.. and Mrs. Allison w.
Swick. Silver Lake, Ind, in an acci-
dent July 8. were fled in circuit
court yesterday.
The suit names DR.. Joseph Sto-
rev, 34S4 North Illinois street, as
the defendant and alleges that his
automobile struck the car in which
the couple was riding.
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time being, at least, due to
the repeal of prohibition.
Still. troublesome and arro-
CANT as those boys were, they
were not the kind who terror
lied the ordinary people Of the
city for so many years and
made prominent citizens en-
ploy bodyguards. Ordinary
people living in the suburbs Of
Chicago used to think twice be-
fore they dared 60 home late
at night, for the state of af-
fairs was such that travel on
the streets was fraught with
genuine risk.
A woman learned to hide
her jewelry in her hair when
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10 up AOA ~ N%~NNNS-'
Second, is the furious jangle
now at its height in that state
referred to by the President as
my second home" famous for its
watermelons and its peaches, and
last year not so favorably known
for the demagogic buffooneries OF
Governor Gene" Talmage.
The Presidents lively concern in
the Georgia governorShip melee
arises not only from the fact that
il was its curative waters which
helped restore him to health, ana
that he owns a home and farm
there.
There is a close political and
personal reason. He has been
made the issue of the campaign.
"Talmage or Roosevelt" is the
cry that has been raised all over
the state. And in Georgia. where
the President is revered with a
fierce loyalty, this is a serious
matter.
Talmage and his chief oppo-
nent. Circuit Judge Claude Pitt
man of Gainesville. are. of course,
both Democrats. In Georgia, as
in most southern states. the
Democratic nomination is equiva-
lent to election.
A S Democrat. Genes" atti-
N tude toward the New Deal
has savored strongly Of Huey
LongiSm.
Talmage has sneeringly ridi-
culed the Administrations agri-
cultural policies. He has berated
the NRA. made flip remarks about
the brain trust.
Last winter he undertook to set
himself up as dictator of FERA
grants to Georgia. In this he
came a sad cropper. Lean, two
fitted FERA boss Harry Hopkins
cracked down on him. BruSkly
he removed all funds from the
Governors jurisdiction. appointed
his own administrator.
All this has been meat for his
opponent.
1t is Gene Talmage or PreSi-
dent Roosevelt" Judge Pittman
tells his audiences, and the refrain
is getting under Talmage'S skin.
Despite his outbursts against
the administration. Talmage in
sists that he is a warm supporter
of the President. But the record
is against him.
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Fair Enough
by
WESTBROQK PEd[ER

CHICAGO, Aug. 25.-A pulling change has come
~ over Chicago since the days of the SO 900 600
prize fight the Valentines day massacre and the
steady routine Of individual aSsass.nations among
the hoodum set This Is only impression which
may be disputed by statistics but 1t does seem that
the reign of the racketeer has been broken.
Al Capone is away, to be gone a long time. and
a number of other important leaders of the under
world either are dead jailed out of action for the