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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-09
Today S Science
BY DAVID DIETZ :

4 NATIONWIDE movement to bring diabetes
under control Is taking shape with the forma-
tion Of local organizations to combat the disease.
New York. Philadelphia and Cincinnati are three
cities in which action already has been taken.
Despite the fact that inSulin provides a salts
factory treatment for diabetes disease continues
TO be of the 10 major causes of death in the
United States. taking about as many lives annually
as do automobile accidents. another cause Of death
which ought likewise TO be eliminated
similar movement is already under way in
England with the formation of the English Diabetic
Association. The movement there started by
H. G. Wells who is himself a diabetic
In a letter 10 the London Times. Mr.. Wells called
for contributions TO organize such an association.
Enough contributors responded with five pounds
apiece $3.50 to make 1t possible 10 start both an
association and quarterly journal devoted to the
problems Of diabetes.
IN New York. an organization known as the New
York Diabetes Association has been formed as
branch Of the New York tuberculosis and Health
Association This latter organization has long been
potent factor in public health work in that city.
In Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Nletabolc As
ISOLATION has been formed.
THE detectives Of the New York Diabetes Asso-
citation viii serve TO illustrate the problems
which must be met. These objectives include the
following.
To act as clearing house for the study of diabetes
as a health problem and to devise measures for the
control of the disease.
10 assist ID formation OF a committee OF clinics
dealing with diabetes.
To develop more extensive and more continuous
graduate classes OF instruction for physicians.
To carry on health education Of the general public
II al matters pertaining TO diabetes.
To attempt solution Of the problem * providing
insulin 10 the INDECENT
To train groups OF nurses in the special nursing
Of diabetes
among the chief problems which must be n are
those OF early diagnosis and treatment The public
must be taught 10 recognize the early symptoms so
that prompt and effective treatment be obtained.
Q-When were the Olympic games held in Los
Angeles?
A-l932
Q-Who played The roles of Tom Thumb" and
Lavlnia Thumb" IN the motion picture The Mighty
Barnum?"
A-George Brasno was Tom Thumb" and Olive
Brasno was "Lavinia Thumb"
Q-What does the name Carmina mean?
At is an italian name meaning "a vineyard
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-09
He Just MOUed There

NEVERTHELESS members Of the pioneer breed
Y which is not dead-have been moving down
the keys, adding their numbers to those OF the
native conchs pronounced conks). who derive their
name from a shellhsh found in those waters. The
young man who the little general store at Isla-
morado was a veteran from the Middle West
who moved in. took membership in the local COM
munity and decided to stay. The old, old with
the long beard whom every one took for a typical
conch a retired Nova Scotia sailor who had come
down only few years before to sell a few lines
and keep his bones warm the rest of his days
The young woman who cooked and served stone
crabs and turtle steaks at a roadside restaurant
made Of canvas and screen over a finlsy wooden
frame was a North Dakota girl. Her 4-year-od son
was playing in the yard, end her husband down
the road a piece clearing weeds with machete so
that the tourists wouldn't miss his enthusiastic ad-
vertisements along the way.
That morning he had slapped down big RATHER
with his machete and brought it home to dump it
in the yard intending to skin it in the evening A
little while later his wife had seen the little boy
making advances to the snake, which was beginning
to revive. So she grabbed pistol from behind the
door and blew the snake through its coils making
many holes in the hide. Now she anticipating
a row with her husband, who certainly would be
hopping mad about the pelt, although, after all, it
his fault, because he shouldn't have left
it in the yard where the boy playing unless he
made sure it plumb dead first.
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Holmes, who was a member of
the Supreme Court when over 90;
of Justices Brandeis, who is 70;
Van Deyanter, rs, and Suther-
land, 70; of Chairman Duncan U.
Fletcher. of the Senate Banking
Committee, re; Senator Carter
Glass, II: Rep Edward T. Naylor,
acting Democratic floor leader,
n, and Rep. Schuyler Merritt, of
Connecticut, 81.
Senator Norris friends are also
emphasizing that he owes it to
the Tennessee Valley power de-
velopment, his greatest achieve
ment, to continue in Congress I'M
til it is completed. They contend
that his presence is needed on
Capitol Hill to safeguard the prof.
ect from attacks by hostile courts
and utility interests.
An interesting angle is that
while Senator Norris is talking of
retiring, statewide movement
is under way in Nebraska to pay
him the unique tribute of re-elec-
ton without opposition.
Senator Edward r. Burke, his
Democratic colleague, has pub
licly Endorsed the plan, has de-
clared that he would urge his
party not to put a candidate in
the field.
Copyright. 1885. BY United Featur
Syndicate. Inc1
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Onfsneedinn the Constitution

THE high-powered motor car and the airplane
j not forgetting the stream-lined express, are IN
themselves sufficient to those who say that
the Constitution must be literally preserved down to
the last comma. If the most ardent advocate OF
states rights among all the founders had seen the
Bmeblrd on the wing I rather fancy that he would
have modified in some manner his theories about
local sovereignty
It is well enough to say that even little Rhode
Island is a commonwealth whose entity must be
maintained one of the independent units WITHIN
q Federal uniOn But when Rhode Island becomes
little more than a Sneeze in the path of flying
meteor It is going to become increasingly difficult
to say Just where its boundaries begin and leave of.
At zoo miles an hour state lines become pretty dim.
Nor am I referring merely to the physical fact OF
accelerated pace in transportation Our whole IN
Custrial setup is eeared to a speed of which the
founders could not have dreamed
Ironically enough it is not trade but crime which
has won the first grudging recognition Of the need
for change in the matter of extended Federal respon
sibilitv. Motor of far less speed than that
driven By Sir Malcolm have convinced legislators
that kidnapping and allied crimes can no longer be
regarded purely local issues
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Finding a LOOphOIe

A Nd though the so-caled Lindbergh law is Of
"A very doubtful constitutionality, not even that
ola watchdog of the covenant. Senator Borah. has
lifted his voice against it. 1t is even possible that
the Supreme Court itself might be inclined to find
lOCphoe for such legislation.
II is. then. very curious quirk in the minds OF
many American statesmen by which they argue for
larger Federal power to fight crime and smaller Fed
eral power for the regulation of industry. To my
mind the crime of exploiting child labor constitutes
q far more prevalent and dangerous activity than
Kidnapping itself but that is still matter reserved
to the states.
am aware that a spin in the Bluebird is pretty
dangerous business when she is set to run, but
think it might have great educational value if Sir
for ride At 500 miles an hour I rather fancy that
II must be pretty hard 10 tell which is North and
which IS South Dakota
Copyright. 1885,.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-09
They Disappeared to Florida

A T Matecumbe. the junping-of place for Key
n West, the sandwich and soft drink stand, curio
store and minor gambling hell by young
artist named Craig from Albany, N. Y who painted
pictures when he wasn't preparing hot dogs tend
ing his slot machines
About 100 yards out in the shallow water on
wobbly piles driven into the oatmeal bottom stood
conch fshermans weather-beaten home. heavily
screened at all doors and windows, with a skf
chating itself idly against the piles. The hsherman's
wife came out, flung pan of fish heads overheard
and ducked inside hurriedy. for the wind off the
Everglades and the mosquitoes thick. There
was a scuffle and furry in the water as the fish
fought the garbage.
In case of a blow the fisherman would get warm
ing and bring his family ASH to the questionable
security of Matecumbe. He might have to replace
the house now, if he lives.
The war veterans in the FEFA camp, at work on
the highway, had been sent down from the bonus
camp which sprang up in Washington to plague Mr..
Roosevelt early in his reign. Warned by Mr. HooverS
mistake in dealing with the bonus army, Mr. RooSe-
welt used charm on the squatters and at that they
disappeared peacefully.
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stored in a 200,000-gallOn reser-
voir which will serve all needs for
sanitation, mechanical operation
and fire protection.
The Chicago plant of the Elec-
tro-Motive Corp. represents a
tremendous investment and
demonstrates courageous faith
upon the part of Kettering and
General Motors in the future Of
the Diesel engine.
A survey of the facts justify
their faith and the faith of other
wise industrialistS who are turn
ing their attention to the Diesel
electric locomotive.
There are about $4,000 steam
locomotives now in use in the
United States. There have been
no requirements of any great
number during the last five years.
Orders for new steam locomotives
in the last three years have
amounted to about so.
At one time, locomotive replace
ments ran about 1900 a year. 1t
is estimated that more than half
of the locomotives in use today
are more than 20 years old and
that at least one-fifth date back
to about 1908.
Because of the economies in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-09

II We arc really going TO permit man TO 60 as last
as no can or thereabOut. even our brOadest high
v7vs are still mere ribbons too narrow Tor safety.
II is wild dream perhaps but not utterly lmpossl-
bic that the future may see some national ROADS
rr~oducinr 10 some degree conditions obtaining on
The -alt fats OF Bonneville. where Sir Malcolm
made his record Construction on such scale might
indeed have an enormous effect upon the economic
rfo 81 America And so 7 think that the death
-rf,-nr governments of the British speed marvel
Should not be regarded the mere reckless manipu-
lation Of a dangerous toy
AS matter Of fact. It seems to me that SIR NAL
COINS mark Of five miles minute has political as
we'll rs economic implication I trust that no note
VIII be written TO Great Britain to complain that
here is an alien agitatOr who is undermining our
traditional institutions. Now, naturally, none OF us
is going TO ride to work next year, the year after
at a pace of 800 miles an hour And yet wonder
whether many were moved TO say, as the Bluebrd
flashed by Let US return to the days OF the horse
and buggy"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-09

the railroads are entering a period
of important development in which
new and economical equipment
will enable them to improve their
service to the public.
1--WE believe the present trend Of
applying Diesel power to railroad
requirements in the form of loco
motives and switch engines for
handling standard railroad equip
ment is only in it's infancy, with
wonderful possibilities for growth.
ct is important from the stand
point Of revenue for the railroads
to find means of reducing the cost
of operating their present pas
senger and freight equipment. The
use of Diesel-elactric power units
offers important practical posi-
bilities in this field including
greater flexibility of service and
fuel costs approximately one
fourth the cost Of fuel for a COM
parable steam locomotive.
THE decline in railroad traffic
with the accompanying curtail-
ment in the purchase of new
equipment has been one Of the
most serious problems of the de-
preston years. With any increase
in traffic there will be need for
requirements.
ANY resumption in operations
by the producers of capital goods,
such as here contemplated, will
help remove a fundamental bar
rier to recovery and stimulate
greater industrial activity"
TOMORROW-HOw Kettering
went Diesel"
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portant ideas into plant design
and manufacturing practice"
Backbone Of the plant is the
main erecting aisle, $50 feet long,
40 feet high, and with a clear
span of 104 feet.
The Diesel locomotives under
construction will move crosswise
down this aisle. But instead OF
travelling on a carrier belt, they
will move overhead on a 200-ton
crane.
On a carrier belt, a halt in pro-
duction anywhere along the line,
stops the whole assembly line.
This will not be the case with the
overhead crane.
The production line will have "a
construction bays into which
frames, parts and engines will be
moved by the big crane supple
mented by two Bottom cranes.
THE big 2O0-ton crane is the
largest ever to be entirely welded
and has a lightweight of approx
imately 205 tons" Mr.. Austin
says. 1T is the heaviest erected
in six or seven years"
IN addition to the three cranes
i in the main assembly aisle,
there are two cotton cranes in
the machine shop which extends
alongside the main aisle on the
west. The yard equipment in
cludes a 15-ton gantry crane.
Railroad tracks, two and half
miles of them in all, thread their
way through the plant and yards.
They include a special three-quar-
ter mile test track.
The entire plant consists Of nine
buildings. The eight, in addition to
the erecting and machine shop
building already described, include
a three story Office building,
blacksmith shop, annealing ovens,
sand blast building, paint shop,
warehouse and power house.
The annealing ovens are % by
200 feet and are being constructed
to receive at one heat the entire
frame of the largest locomotive
ever built.
An unusual feature of the plant
is that it will be entirely self
sustaining, having its own power
plant, water supply and sewage
disposal system.
Diesel-electric power units, like
those which go into the locomo-
tives to be built at the plant, will
furnish the electric power needed
for the operation of the plant.
Il
XXTATER will be provided by a
w we'll which is being drilled
to a depth of 1000 feet. 1t will be
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-09
1t Is Lands End

TINE most obdurate comrades were shipped
l. farthest and the men down on the keys were at
lands end. Now the hurricane has struck them,
compicating the wretchedness of those who lived
through it and rounding out the career of unreeved
woe of those who lost their lives in hurricane in
jungle swamp at night.
The hurricane will be forgotten soon.
Upstate at Lake Okeechobee, in 1928 the pioneers
from elsewhere who came through a terrible night
which left than 1900 bodies in a single trench
dug with a steam shovel back on their farms
starting over again as the shock wore off.
Six months later a young pioneer woman with
two babies playing the bare floor of her cabin
recalled night spent amid the rafters of the bunga-
low as the lake over the dixie but looked to the
future without fear. 1t wouldn't happen again in
thousand years and, anyway, where else could they
find land rich their black patch in the Ever
glades?
Copyright. 1885. by United Feature Syndicate. IncJ
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-09

CTALWART steel, massive concrete and shining glass
have been united into a triumph of modern industrial
architecture upon the outskirts of Chicago
1t is the first large plant be designed entirely in the
modern manner along strictly functional lines with hor
zonal windows in unbroken bands completely encircling
the buildings.
Also it is the first complete factory to be built for the
exclusive manufacture of Deseeecrc locomotives in the
United States.
factory whose modernistc lines symbolic the fu-
ture it has been built to manufacture the product which
holds the greatest promise for the future. 1t is
tangible symbol of Charles F. Keterngs faith in the dawn
of the Diesel Age.
The plant located in McCook, suburb of Chicago, is
being built by the Austin Co., known throughout the ma
ton as a designer and builder of industrial plants
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-09
GROTTO DANCE TONIGHT
500 Expected at Groups First Social
Event of Fall Season.

More than 800 are expected to
attend the first Sahara Grotto dance
of the fall season tonight at West
lake Terrace, High School-rd be-
tween Rockville-rd and w. 10th-st.
Morrey Brennans orchestra will
provide music and an augmented
floor show will be given. Eli Thomp-
son will act as master of ceremo-
niaS
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Secretary Roper boosted the
census idea. So did Census Direc-
tor Austin. 1t was enlarged to
include a census of youth, and
become the Census of Population,
OCCUPATION and Youth.
A schedule of questions was pre-
pared. to be put to every house
hold in the country by 10000
enunlerators. All the machinery
was set up ready to go.
Suddenly the President was per-
suaded to throw the project into
the discard. Advisers pointed out
that:
l. The figure would be embar-
raSsingly large.
2 Though the census would en-
ploy 10000 now on relief rolls.
the work would last only three
weeks. Then these thousands
would be dumped back on relief
again.
8. If. through the inexperrness
OF the workers, the census were
not completed in the allotted time,
the expense of overtime would be
100000 a week.
Thus, there viii be no unem-
ployment census.
CENATOR GEORGE NORRIS
~ is causing genuine alarm
among his liberal friends. The
veteran progressive champion is
telling them that he does rot in
tend running for reelection next
year.
Seventy-four years old. with 30
years of continuous, strenuous
service in the House and Senate,
Senator Norris says he feels he
has earned a rest. wants TO retire
TO private life.
Twelve years ago he announced
a similar intention. but under
pressure of a nationwide demand
that he continue in the Senate,
he was persuaded to reconsider.
Colleagues and liberal leaders
throughout the country are
arguing with him that his age IS
not a bar to distinguished public
service, are citing the cases Of the
late Justice Oliver Wendell
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-09
CITY w. C. T. u. GROUP
WILL BE ENTERTAINED
Meridian Chapter to Be Guests at
AII-Day Meeting.

Members of the Meridian Chap
ter of the Women'S Christian Tenn
perance Union will be entertined at
an all-day meeting Wednesday at
the home of Mrs. Willard d. Arma-
tage, I'LL N. Pennsylvania-st. OFF,
GERS for the coming year will be
elected. during the business session
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volved, the Diesel enthusiasts be-
lieve that the railroads are going
to turn to Diesel-electric locomO-
tives rather than steam locomo-
tiveS.
This is the field into the Elec-
tro-Motive Corp. sees ahead of it.
Again it should be emphasized
that while the high-speed stream
lined Diesel electric train has cap
tured the public attention, it is
onlv one field for the Diesel-elec-
IT,, locomotive.
ID ALL cars which are not
AZ streamlined for operation on
branch lines where stops are
many, switching locomotives. and
locomotives for handling freight
all constitute important fields.
Particularly in the field of
switching has the Diesel proved its
superiority over the old-fashioned
steam driven switch engine"
Discussing the expansion of Cen
eral Motors in the Diesel-electric
locomotive field, Alfred P. Sloan
Jr., president Of General Motors
Corp, says, In making this move
we are prompted by the belief
that perhaps the most important
need looking to recovery in this
country is the entrance of private
initiative and capital into new
fields of development.
General Motors is demonstrate
ing its faith in the possibilities of
the future. The operation of our
new plant will provide increasing
opportunities for employment.
I'VE are firmly convinced that
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Fair Enough
BY
WESTBROOKPEGLER

MORE malignant. God-forsaken country than
the Florida keys, where the hurricane struck,
the mind of man hardly could imagine. Consisting
largely Of mangrove swamp infested with snakes
aIrators and MOSQUITOES by the Million it is bound
ed on both sides bv pale. milky water in which
barracuda shark spiny shelfsh and poisonous rays
abound. Hurricanes are seasonal, but many hurrl-
cane seasons may pass quietly between blows. sun
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1t is being built for the
Electro-Motive Corp, a sub
sidiary of General Motors
Corp, who expect to begin
the manufacture of Diesel
electric locomotives there
on Nov. 1.
The locomotives will be powered
with Diesel engines from the
Winton Corp. in Cleveland, an
other General Motors subsidiary.
building a type of Diesel engine
which Kettering helped to design.
H. L. Hamilton. president of
Electro Motive Corp, reveals that
the company has 100000 worth
of orders on the books to be COM
pleted by April l, 1896.
MIR. HAMILTON expects that
wi between S11,0O0,000 nd
$4,000 900 worth of Diesel-electric
locomotives will be turned out by
the plant in its first year of opera
ton.
Nothing can stop the progress
of Diesel-powered locomotives, "
Mr.. Hamilton says. ct must come
simply because of the economic
differential favoring it. Railroads
can not overlook the five or six-to-
one ratio of thermal efficiency in
favor of Diesel engines against
steam.
They are better fitted for many
railroad operations where steam is
now employed in passenger as well
as freight service, involving both
high speed and power"
Eight or 10 of the major rail-
roads of the United States are
definitely interested in Diesels,
Mr.. Hamilton says.
A unique plan of financing, in
volving the General Motors Ac-
ceptance Corp. is being worked
out. With GMAC acting as the
banker, a railroad will be given
from one to five years to pay for
Diesel equipment.
= n
TAKING its example from the
Il automobile business, the new
Chicago plant of the Electro-Mo-
tive Corp. will turn out its Diesel
electric locomotives on a cOntinu-
Gus assembly line.
This project will stand out as
a milestone on the way out of
the depression" w. j. Austin,
president of the Austin Co., says.
1T represents not only the larg-
est complete unit for the manu-
facture of heavier durable goods
built in several years. but intro
duceS a number of new and i'm
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place where all nature reslstS the
Entertainments OF humankind.
The last bad blow before the
current disaster on the keys &C
CURED in 1909. when the railroad
was being showed through to Key
West, and the laborers, nearly all
white men, were quartered in
houseboats along the shores. The
loss of life in that one was not
counted but merely estimated at
about 800. There were reports
later of the discovery of wreckage
from the houseboats down toward
South America.
The freeboard Of the Keys above
sea level, excluding the highway
and the railroad, which are built up
more than three feet. although it
as six feet in spots. At some place
wider than a mashie shot, and the
uniformly fimsy and bleak.
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VIGO COUNTY JURY Is
HEADED BY WOMAN
Former West Terre Haute Teacher
Foreman of Grand Panel.

By Times Special
TERRE HAUTE, Sept 9.-For the
first time in the history Of Vigo
County a woman is in charge Of the
Vigo County grand jury today. Mary
All, former West Terre Haute school
teacher, is the foreman of the six
jurors who have been impaneled for
service during the September term
of Vigo Circuit Court. One other
woman is serving on the grand jury.
which today began its work. She is
Lille NJ. Fears, Pierson Township.