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Evening star., 1935-09-24

Ben King, Washington sportsman
pilot, took off from Naval Air Sta
ton at 11:15 am. today in an at
tempt to break the world altitude rec
ord for light seaplanes Weighing less
than $50 pounds. At lis pm. he was
still aloft.
The present record of 1885 feet is
held by a French flyer and King
hopes to better this by 1000 feet.
His maximum altitude must be at
least 200 meters more than the record
to be official.
King, who already holds three world
records for light seaplanes, is flying a
36-horsepower Aeronca seaplane
weighing 524.5 pounds. The plane
carries only seven gallons of gas,
with which King said he could re-
main in the air for several hours.
A Paragraph which will calibrate
his maximum altitude was placed in
the cockpit by the National Aero
nautic Association. William r. En-
yart, secretary of the Contest Board,
N. A. A., was on hand at the take
off.
King holds the world distance
records for light single and double
scatter planeS-185.4 miles in two
place seaplane carrying 499 pounds,
22l.2 miles for a single-place sea-
plane carrying 1886 pounds, and 1854
miles for a two-place seaplane carry
ing I'll pounds.
Evening star., 1935-09-24
Home Hygiene Glass Tonight.

A class in home hygiene and care
of the sick" will be conducted by the
District Chapter of the American Red
Cross, 1870 E street, tonight from 7:30
to $50 o'clock and Thursday evening
at the same hour. Enrolment ceases
after Thursday,
Evening star., 1935-09-24
SUBWAY STUDY FAVORED
Business Mems Federation Sup.

ports Consideration of Proposals.
A study of proposals for construc-
tion of a subway system for the Dis
trict is favored by the Federation of
Business Men, Peoples Counsel VIII
liam A. Roberts was notified yesterday
by Arthur Clarendon Smith, president
of the group.
Mr.. Smith said the vote in favor
Of proceeding with the study was
II to z.
Evening star., 1935-09-24
Hygiene Glasses Begin Today.

Glasses in first aid, home hygiene
and dietetics will be held at the Gar
net-Patterson Community Center,
Tenth and U streets, each Tuesday
and Thursday, beginning today, Miss
Eta Johnson, secretary, announced.
Evening star., 1935-09-24
$500 LOOT TAKEN
Suit Case Containing Articles
Worth $21S Stolen From Truck.


Cash and articles valued at more
than $500 were taken in thefts re-
ported to police last night.
The largest single loser was Helen
F. Boyle, Portland, Ore. whose suit
case, containing articles valued at
s218.45, was reported stolen from a
truck at Union Station. =
Others reporting thefts were:
Margaret Murphy, East Clifton Ter
race, who reported 500 stolen from
q closet of her apartment; Ada Swan
son, 81 Rhode Island avenue, who
reported $98 taken from her bed room
closet, and Marvin Reichley, 1855
Thirty-f1fth street, who reported a
silver-plated trumpet, with gold ball,
valued at s1oO. had been taken.
Evening star., 1935-09-24
ACTUARY APPOINTED
Arthur o. Wise Named for D. G
Insurance Department Post.

Insurance Department Post.
Arthur o. Wise, 1926 Twenty-first
street, was appointed today by the
Commissioners as actuary in the Dis
trict Insurance Department at a sal
ary of $500, on recommendation of
Insurance Supt. John A. Marshall
The appointment is effective today
and is for a probationary period of
six months.
Evening star., 1935-09-24
REPORTS $740 THEFT
Ohio Woman Informs Police of
Robbery Of Parked Car.

Miss Ruth Brannan of Bryan, Ohio,
reported to police today the loss Of
s740 in property which she had left in
her car parked at 1881 s street.
The property, she said, included
wearing apparel, jewelry and 1lS
shares Of stock.
Evening star., 1935-09-24
1sING machines canable Of Jerk.

ing huge sections Of track
loose from concrete moorings,
workmen today went forward
speedily with the task Of removing
the Capital Transit Co.'S abandoned
street car tracks along upper Con-
necticut avenue.
The novel machines made short
work of the usually tedious job of re-
moving the tracks.
Workmen with air drills first cut
through the paving along each side of
the track and acetelyne torches were
then used to cut through the steel
rails at widely spaced intervals.
Two steam shovels were maneuvered
Evening star., 1935-09-24
PASTORS WILL MEET
WITH BISHOP FREEMAN
Prelate to Preside at Session Of
Denominations to Work Out
October Q Plans

Right Rev. James E. Freeman,
Bishop of Washington, will preside
at a meeting cf pastors of all de-
nominations at noon tomorrow at the
United States Chamber of Commerce.
Plans of the Committee on Re-
ligious Life in the Nations Capital
will be heard as well rs the ar
rangemeuts for the mass meeting at
Constitution Hall October 2, when
Secretary of State Hull will speak
on Religion and Church Loyalty in
Democracy"
Immediately following tomorrow's
meeting, another session will he held
for members Of the committees. Pas
tors of all congregations are invited
to attend.
Evening star., 1935-09-24
Historical Society to Meet.

BLADENSBURC, Md, September
"a Especially The f1rst Fall meeting
of the Bladensburg Historical Society
will be held in the fire hall Thursday
night.
Evening star., 1935-09-24
BEN KING STARTS
ALTITUDE FLIGHT
D. C. Sportsman Hopes to
Set New World Mark
for SeapIaneS.
BULLETIN.

Ben King apparently had broken
the altitude record for light sea-
planes when he landed at the Ma
val Air Station shortly before 80
pm. His altimeter showed $4,000
feet. The old record was 1855
feet.
Evening star., 1935-09-24
SINCLAIR DEATH TRAP
TO GET TRAFFIC LIGHT

Commissioners Order Safety De-
vice for Bladensburg and Queens
Chapel Roads Northeast.
Installation OF a traffic control light
at Bladensburg and Queens Chapel
roads northeast, where Motor Cycle
Policeman Raymond Sinclair was
killed some time ago, was ordered to-
day by the Commissioners.
Many serious accidents have oc-
Cured at that point, the Commission
ers we're told.
Installation of traffic light at New
York avenue and Bladensburg road
also was ordered by the CommiS-
sioners.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-02
Your Health
-BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

HR EDWARD j. STIEGLITZ has estimated that
- from 7 to 10 per cent of all American men
under As years of have conditions of the blood
vessels which cause them to show high blood pres
In other words. as have explained previously,
they suffering from hypertensive arterlal disease
After As years of age the number is continually
greater.
Women also suffer from this condition and their
number is greater after 40 years of age than is the
case with
Low blood pressure. or hypotension. is much less
frequent than is high blood pressure 1t is also much
frequent among young perosns than among
older persons.
1t has been estimated that about IS persons in
every 1000 under 80 years of and above II years
of age suffer from low blood pressure.
GONE OF the leading authorities with insurance
- companies say that about 100000 persons die
every year in the United States from hypertensive
arteria diseases OF course many persons with high
blood pressure live long time, but the insurance
companies are convinced that the presence Of this
condition is definite menace to long life that they
frequently refuse to insure those with very high
blood pressure and they charge higher rates for
those they do insure.
Increasing damage to organs involved in circula-
ton Of the blood is likely sooner later. and prob
ably sooner. to cause the death of the person con-
cerned.
It is recognized that hypertenSve arteris disease
is a slow and insdious condition. The person who
first finds that he is beginning to develop symptoms
OF TINS CONDITION Is not IN any immediate Jeopardy,
but ne should take the discovery a warning.
IF this condition is discovered in its early stages,
a routine of life may be prescribed and treat
ment ordered that may stop the rapid progress of
the condition and quite certainly will tend to ale
vste the disagreeable symptoms.
The disease is persistent and does not. like some
other disease. tend TO cure in any definite period
of time IL let alone.
Unless hypertensive arterial disease or as DR..
William Brady would call it. in one of his alpha
betcal notions H. A. DIS suitably handled. it
may the sufferer to be a partial invalid most
Of the time.
About half Of the persons past so years of age
who have incapacitated hearts have them as the
result Of high blood pressure About one-hfth OF
all Of those with hypeitensive arterial disease die
from o stroke cerebral hemorrhage or what most
persons call apOplexy.
Q-what is the value of a Columbian half dollar
dated 1898?
A-Ffty cents only
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-02
A Summer Filtration

TOR work and income and the necessities of life
Il still dependent upon Manhattan. The
role of Connecticut is the more pleasant one of
being the symbol of swimming bridge golf and
nature study. Call our tribute puppy love if you
please. but it never stales grows weary because
we move away in September
Partisans of the old Bay State used to praise her
by saying Observation-Disclosures she stands!"
wouldn't think of saying anything like that about
Connecticut On the contrary she frisk5 and she
dances. She is the first robin and the last swallow
Sometimes beneath the house 1 think I hear
rumb!ing sound which could be either the new cleo
trio pump member of the tribe of Increase
Mather turning in his grave 1t is quite possible that
the Puritans who came by this way in 1886 do not
sleep altogether easily of nights. They fought the
wilderness and cut the timber to make cearings for
an eighteenth green. And many an Indian bit the
dust to furnish forth a Manhattan holiday.
But. like all converts. more enthusiastic
than the old settlers. Few of the originals ever
fingered long to look at sunset look up into the
treetops Mind you. I'm not blaming them or assert
ing that they more materially minded than
the new horde of career boys and girls from the
whispering SOS of New York City. An old Connecticut
Yankee couldn't afford to linger a sunset, much
less look up for bird nests lest aborigine sneak
up behind him and shoot arrow into some painful
place.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-02
Things We're Fairly Quiet

THE Tenderloin, therefore, was remarkably clean
u as to prostitution. Moreover, prohibition was
new at the time and the underworld had not esab-
hshed diplomatic and trade treaties with the prohbi-
ton enforcement agencies Therefore the town was
Crawling With detectives and investigators in the en-
ploy OF the government and the Anti-Saloon Ieaeue
ana there was really nothing doing in New York Just
then. New York dead town
Dr. Straton had not yet begun to gibber in I'M
known tongues, gift which descended on him in the
latter stages of his decline and was famous at tho
moment for having conducted survey of the night
lie OF Broadway under the guidance of Harry Payne
Burton then editor of the Newspaper Enterprise As
Soclatlon Mr.. Burton current editor of Mr. Hearsts
Cosmopolitan magazine, for lack of ANYTHING better
TO do had disguised DR.. Straton as a bon vivant
and Scorted him through the dance halls and chop
Suey joints of the So-caed Rialto in one of those
pub-crawling expeditions which, when undertaken
by preachers, are called surveys.
BY prearrangement, Dr. Straton let fly his onen-
ing cry of alarm from his pulpit simultaneously with
the release of Mr.. Burton's first article 1t was all
very ScandalouS and very well done and their tim
ing was perfect, Dr. Straton became famous
throughout the land
BY the time the vacuum entirely surrounded nv
wind reached town. therefore the carcass of vice the
monster, had been picked clean
nevertheless, publicity being very poor DR. Norris
accepted an invitation from another news feature"
syndicate, Familiarity known as the wine women and
song service now defnct to survey" the horrors of
the city of terrible night and your correspondent was
delegated to guide him. On a salary of $50 a week
In the memorable postwar profiteering era YOUR
correspondents normal cruising radius was restricted
10 the movies and occasional club sandwich in the
ASIor grill out, with an expense roll of $25 the two
surveyors set out one night on the dreariest hunt
tnat ever toled well-laid plan of mouse man.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-02
One YGnkee-An Oddly

A YANKEE on our Main Street would create al
IA most as much surprise deer. Indeed. one of
the kind-hearted Italian leaders of our community
has suggested that there ought to be closed season
on old settlers.
Once the chief industry of our state wooden
nutmegs That's been changed. Connecticut has
snapped nutmegs for newspaper columnists And
that reminds me that I've always been curious to
know what megs were.
COnnecticuts greatest strength lies in the fact
that most of its sons New Workers. But
loyal to the land of allegiance. 1t wouldn't
be quite accurate to say that we look this state
our mother. New York remains our alma mater
Connecticut is a dizzy blond whom met at the
railroad station.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-02
Today, S Science
BY DAVID DIETZ-

INTERPRETATIONS of the thyroid gland and other
Il organs of the body constitute one of the most
important and promising fields of medical research
today.
Most important perhaps is the relationship of the
pituitary to the thyroid Apparently one horone of
the pituitary, the so-called thyro-tropic hormone
controls the activity of the thyroid gland. Through
TINS fact medical men may to a new
method of treating diseases of the thyroid by way
of the pituitary. This may lead to the elimination
OF surgery in many thyroid cases where it is now
necessary.
There are. however many other important thyroid
relationships. Attention is called to these by DR..
David Marine New York in an article in the Journal
of the American Medical Association.
DR. MARINE is a famous authority upon the sub
- ject of the thyroid. He and DR.. o. P Kimball.
two decades ago, performed at Akron, o.. a series
of experiments which established the fact that lack
of iodine in the diet caused certain types of goiter
and that these could be prevented by the admins
tration of small amounts of iodine to children under
the direction of a competent physician.
Dr. Marine points out that there is a relation be-
tween the thyroid and the functioning of the sex
glands
balance which involves less than four parties, the
thyroid, the pituitary the sex glands and the
adrenals.
A MOTHER relationship exists between the thyroid
N and the thymus. gland in the chest which
seems to be concerned with growth Rather large
in childhood, this gland grows smaller with the pas
sage of time. Experiments have shown that re-
moval of the thyroid hastens the shrinking of the
thymus Dr. Marine reports
Evidence also is accommodating of relationship
between the thyroid and the pancreas and the adj
renals Animals from which the thyroid have been
removed less sensitive to the action Of adrenan
more sensitive to the action of insulin.
There is also evidence of a relationship between
the thyroid and the liver. An excess amount of
thyroxin the hormone of the thyroid gland appears
to exha0.t the glycogen supply Of the liver.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-02
It's a Curious World

a I the Little Club pioneer night club beneath
n the stage of the Norah Bayes Theater man
named Val, the manager, gave the Texas Tornado
IN his checker-board suit a cold stare and told
him that he couldn't serve him no whisky because
he didn't have no whisky nor no gin either The
tornado compromised a vicious steak sandwich
with Bermuda onion, and the survey moved on
1t was wrong and your correspondent repents but
the survey was dying and there had to be some
thing to show for the expense roll of S25 so YOUR
correspondent led the Tornado through the side
streets and pointed out to him as opium dens and
notorious sin-bowers various brownstone boarding
houses inhabited by obscure hooters, acrobats
mdgets and stt-walkers
AT Al Woods show, Ladies Night" the Tornado
was about TO interrupt the historic brassiere bit
known as the strip-poker scene but your CORE
spondent, the fool. yanked him down by the coat
tails. The late Phil Payne, then editor of the
News, never forgave that but he had marvellous
instinct for story =
AT a. n- leg-weary, depressed and bored your
correspondent asked Gods own man from TT
Worth just how far he might 60 in ghosting the
survey under his name considering that not so
much as a game of checkers had been turned I'm
with the $25. ~
The Texas Tornado issued a carte blanche
Just give EN- some good headliners" he said
God certainly picks curious personnel tn
represent him to the trade
Copyright 1885. by United Feature Syndicate Incl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-02

serves L A. as VaIVe
Park serves London.
talked with half dozen or more but it was
this particular unemployed man who frankly an
swered my questions. After we'd got along for some
minutes 1 asked him what chance there was of
revolution in America.
"Thereu be revolution whenever we miss three
meals straight running" he answered solemny.
Then he went on: People in good homes and
with money in the bank kick about taxes and
the cost of feeding the poor, but they're getting off
cheap. Most of us will work if they'll give 1t to US
hut we won't 90 hungry Things are unsettled
and we don't know quite what want-but we
know it amt Huey or anything the Republicans got
to offer Most of us still believe in Roosevelt. He's
doing his best to help He's trying hard He'll
carry this state next year."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-02

vate secretary, she says, lis to
know enough not to talk"
No one outside his immediate
family is so close to the President.
She has her own room in the
White House, comes to the Presl-
dents room for dictation even be-
fore the breakfast tray is gone,
spends the day in an office next
to his, swims with him in the
White House pool, dimes with him
and the family, and stands ready
to take more dictation in The eve
ming.
If a caller leaving the Presi-
dents Office should miss the CEN
ter ooor and open the one at the
right, he could stumble upon Miss
LIE Hand.
Though she is there all day, in
a small Office overlooking the rose
garden, Missy" seldom sees the
President during Office hours.
IT was John and Franklin who
L started calling her Missy"
when they were too small to say
her name. The President adopted
it and made it stick. She calls
him IF. D."
A tall, slender woman, with hair
slightly grazing, Miss LIE Hand
has no brusqueneSs, no driving
manner. The lines of her face
are soft, youthful.
And she idolizeS her boss.
He has marvellous disposition.
OF course, he blows up sometimes,
but it is soon over. He never
cherisheS a crouch"
She doesn't complain about her
hours; says she could get away
more than she does if she weren't
so lazy. When she does get away
Broadway is her Mecca. and she
has an orgy of theater-going for
three days at a stretch.
She is the most capable and
most trusted of the White House
secretariat.
Copyright. 1885 BY United FeaturI
tSyndicate. Incl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-02

care about that Supreme Court
decision? 1t just shows that the
old-fashioned guys won't give
Roosevelt chance"
In San Francisco the head of a
broadcasting station said: "Mer-
chants and business men around
here who were kicking against the
NRA are now wishing they had it
back. The honest little fellow
who tried to pay decent wages
and treat his people right will get
it in the neck now for sure"
From big cattleman got this:
I'm not much of Roosevelt man
myself but I don't see how they're
going to defeat him out in this
section of the country. Hoover is
gone and all but forgotten. Don't
look as if the Republicans could
dig up a man who would appeal
to people all over the country.
.. That 81, 100000 sure makes
an awful nice war chest for
Roosevelt. If he can make it last
1lG II NC 11dIO W CdOCl1
From a Negro butler I received
a confirmation of what other
Negroes had told me: There is
no chance of my folks turning
back to the Republicans next year.
5. And people with money got
to get used to paying high taxes.
They'll just have to take care of
the poor people-and that costs
plenty dough"
IN the little town of Garberville,
Il on the beautiful Redwood
Highway, an innkeeper waxed
eloquent over F. D. R.
I'm a Republican but voted
for him two years ago and I'll
go to vote for him again next
year." he said. IF the bankers
and people like that would play
along with him just 10 per cent,
we'd be way out of this depres-
sion"
Directly across the street got
a directly opposite view. Here a
man over so, who apparently had
saved little money and was run
ming restaurant, ripped into the
President.
We're all getting ruined by
taxation" he said vehemently.
Business men are nothing but
tax collectors today. If there isn't
a third party I'm going to stay
away from the polls. The
AS is making things SO high that
it's defeating itself. It's plain class
discrimination. You'd think the
farmers was the only people in the
country"
At Eureka a strong Legion man,
who sells motor cars between
meetings, shook his head sadly
when I mentioned the bonus veto.
Lots of us were sore when F. d.
R. vetoed the bill, but I guess
We'll get over it after while. What
else can we do? The Republicans
haven't anything or anybody to
offer us. Roosevelt has lost some
but l don't think he can be de-
feated."
Those last two sentences pretty
much cover the feeling of Cali
fornia. Many things can happen
in the next Is months, but prob
ably not enough to upset the
Roosevelt apple cart on the coast.
TOMORROW-The promise be-
hind Grand COuIee dam.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-02

eral government, but with the
state of New York, which has
tax bill of some $4,000.
Flegenheimer, accompanied by
some of his henchmen, will go
today by motor to Syracuse, scene
of his first trial, which ended
in jury disagreement.
THE town of Malone did not
- share the opinion of Federal
Judge Frederick H. Bryant, who
told the Flengeheimer jury that
its verdict "is such that shakes
the confidence of law-abiding peo-
pie in integrity and truth" File
genheimer was the towns hero.
Wherever he went citizens stopped
him to wiring his hand. Indeed, in
the crowded little courtroom last
night the spectators cheered lust
lily, to Judge Bryant's engagement,
when the verdict was announced.
You have labored long on this
case" Judge Bryant snapped at
the jury, measuring each word
and seemingly sharpening it to
cutting edge. mo doubt you have
given careful consideratio to this
case. Before 1 discharge you,
will have to say that your verdict
is such that shakes the confidence
of law-abiding people in integrity
and truth. 1t will be apparent to
all who have followed the evil
dence in this case that you have
reached a verdict based not on the
evidence, but or some other rea-
SON."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-02
To the Old Brigade

NTOR would I be in any sense scornful of the
y pioneers who lived frugally on wild turkey and
other game. lacking the luxury of todays canned
soup Indeed I've introduced custom along the
Ridge in honor of the Yankee trappers who first
blazed the trails where the concrete roads lie
flat like tooth paste brush. When we take the
first cocktail in the evening somebody says in slightly
hushed tones. Here's to the old settlers!" And with
the last, May they not come back to haunt u.s."
And yet 1 think the fault of being gone was
partly theirs. Finding themselves in a countryside
as wantonly beautiful as any which the world af-
fords they insisted upon behaving if they were
welded to these rocks and rills Connecticut was
never meant to be a wife insist that she's blond
the third from the left. What would she do
with a wedding ring? Just look at her emerald
bracelets
Copyright 1885,