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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-20
Your Health
BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN =

ATHEN a doctor tells you to take teaspoonful
w of liquid medicine, he estimates that you will
get an exact amount known a fluid dram.
dram in the metric system of measurement is
four cubic CentmeterS. A thousand cubic cent?
meters approximate quart
Teaspoons vary greatly because of slight inoi-
vidual differences in depth and width Not long
ago doctor measured lot of teaspoons and found
that they vary from 3a cubic centimeters to 7 9-10
cubic centimeters
If. therefore, patient does not determine
whether he has a fluid teaspoon he can get from
y to two times the quantity of drugs intended.
FORTUNATELY most doctors know this and, if
Il the exact quantity makes any serious differ
ence they are careful to prescribe the medicine as
measured out in a medicine glass. if it is very
powerful medicine they will prescribe number of
drops.
Here again there all sorts of opportunities for
differences, because drops according to the
ture of the liquid and the size of the medicine
dropper.
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1t went on throughout days
which would have made a Blue
Eagle scream and it went on with
a purposefulness strange in men
who were being paid by the
month, with nothing for overtime
strange until you remember that
there was that in the conscious
ness of these workers which is sell
dom part Of Saturdays pay en-
velope.
FINALLY it was finished At
IL high tide the entire construc-
ton crew Waded out into the
channel and the lighter with the
launch on top of it was hoated in.
A line was attached to the trac-
tor ashore, to supplement the
power of Straining backs, and a
slow, grotesque procession inched
onward toward the lagoon.
Once the lighter went aground
in mid-channel, there were mo-
ments of heavjng and hauling and
cursing and prayer. But it won
through, the launch was unloaded,
and the Peales Island towing
service was ready to function.
No end, this, but a mere begin
ming The first load of material
was ferried from Wilkes Island to
Peale on May 20.
Less than three months later,
on Aug. 9, Capt. R. o. D. Sullivan
brought his Pan-American clip
per, eight hours and three minutes
out of Midway, down over
buildings, red roofs, windmills,
radio towers" down into a marked
channel and up to a regulation
landing float.
The days between we're devoted
by those who remained on Wake
to an unceasing struggle with ma
ture and the sea.
Swift pioneering, that which es-
tablished an American air base
and an American colony and the
American flag on tiny Wake Is
land-the toughest construction
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Hopkins Studies Plan TO Bring Back
Home Americans Stranded in France

By Scripps Newspaper Alliance
WAsH1NGToN, Nov. IA.
W Harry L. Hopkins, WPA adj
ministrator, has before him plan
to bring back to the United States
with Federal relief funds several
hundred Americans; many of
them war veterans, who are
stranded in France, largely in
Paris. by the backwash of the de-
preston.
His decision is expected in few
days.
Relief officials estimated that
about 1900 persons would be in
cluded, though the number is hard
to fix, and that it would cost less
than 100000 to return them.
The matter was brought up by
welfare organizations, including
the American Aid Society in Paris,
and the American Legion.
Jesse I. Strauss, U. S. ambas-
SAILOR to France. discussed the
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EuZnough
BY
WESIbR0OK PEGLER

wi American writer. brought out his interesting
little novel called Paths of Glory" dealing with the
execution of three French soldiers who were arbitrar
lily selected for this distinction he released an
American public estimate of this phase of the war to
end war which news in the United States II
years after the had ended.
Paths of Glory" was best seller. Not often does
spot news OF such dramatic power keep in pickle. so
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-20
BY SUTHERLAND DENLINGER
Times Special Writer

THEY were an odd-lookng They might have been
pirates engaged upon that md-ocean ato, in ambgu-
prelude to some nefarious business. Many of them
stood kneedeep the shallow channel grubbng for jagged
chunks of hard coral rock the salt sweat streamed from
bronzed backs to mngle with the salt and the fierce
beat of the tropc lash the shoulders The
lash, and sometimes gddness spiraed upward
from the base Of the neck until it's coil went round and
round within the head.
The to whom that happened would straghten, and
stare about for moment at the rollers breaking white
against the reef and at the garng sand and the ronwood
jungle behind it. and make his way the shore through
a dream and sit down. But the work went on.
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pie poilus. and with the attempts after the war TO
to clear their names and attain redress by their
families.
Their work is not a job of authorship in the
literary sense but OF great reporting They went to
the records for their material and they are able to
relate the actual happenings in many tragedies
which Cobb mentioned by intimaton. They give de-
tails of the final exoneraton long after Their death
OF the men who died in disgrace knowing they we're
innocent, and in some cases rested for years be-
meath black crosses which are conspicuous among
the white ones
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10 WIS IIILIIg IhdJ Ramsay
Macdonald should be crushed by
the very folk who suffered most
5orely when he deserted the cause
Of labor 1t was the miners and
their families who turned him out
Of the House of Commons.
Seaham Harbor, so the dis
patches say, is a constituency of
mean streets and miserable little
houses Everything is squalid and
dwarfed. The men have gone down
into the earth for generations and
the breed has become gnome-like
and pallid
After four wears labor had a
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BY LAURA LOU BROOKMAN

BY LAURA LOU BROOKMAN
Copyright, 1885. NEA Service. Incl
TORONTO, Ont, Nov. 20. =
Il When Charles Vance Millar
posted a purse of $500000 for
Toronto's Baby Derby, he started
an cutlery that has been swelling
in volume ever since and bids
fair to become a record clamor
during the next year.
There has been a continuous
cutlery of infants; an cutlery Of
parents wrangling over the half
million: and the outcry very in
dignanD of public officials, re-
ligious leaders, and just conven-
tional citizens, shocked by the
terms of Millar's will.
Friends who knew Charlie Mil
lar most intimately shake their
heads and say, 1T was a joke. He
never intended to carry it out. He
meant to leave another will"
But Millar's S500000 joke-if
joke it was-is an mistaken one,
after nine years of court turmoil.
And no other will ever has been
found.
Now. with a year of the race to
60, the executors of the eccentric
nlillionaire's eState-the Toronto
General Trust Corp, the National
Trust Co., and G. R. Sproat, a
member of NIillars law firm
have begun the huge task of con-
verting it into cash.
And a half dozen mothers, each
with 8 to 10 children born since
Oct. 81, 1926, starting date of the
race, look confidently forward to
victory. each claiming to be ex-
pecting another blessed event.
The winners likely will be par
ents in dire poverty Most of the
six contending families are on
relief.
DLENTY of men and women in
Il Toronto who remember Char
lie Millar shake their heads
when the will is mentioned. Often
they blush.
Yes, Millar was sportsman,
and owned a string of race
horses. Yes, he made a lot of
money in gold and silver min
ing when such investments We're
gamble. Yes, he liked ''l5 ng
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TO speak, for II years. In the fore
word of his book, Mr.. Cobb is
careful 10 say that the story OF
the execution OF the three soldiers
was not based on actual incidents.
but it has. nevertheless. been
within the bounds Of known facts.
Much less caution is shown by
a team of French writer's. Jean
Balpier-Boisiere and Daniel De
Ferbon, who publish an OCCASION
al magazine called Crapouillot,
one volume of which deals ex-
clusively with the summary
shooting of French soldiers, Off
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shot" in business as we'll as on
the race track. Enjoyed a Joke,
too.
But Millar, himself, was always
dignified. Never stopped to prac-
teal jests.
That's why Toronto can't I'M
derstand the Baby Derby"
The only explanation that ever
has been given is in the words
of Millar himself, taken from the
first paragraph of the will:
This will he wrote, sis neces-
sarily uncommon and capricious
because I have no dependents or
near relations and no duty rests
upon me to leave any property at
my death and what I do leave is
proof Of my folly in gathering
and retaining more than I re-
CURED in my lifetime"
THEN follow the strange be-
Il quests, including:
Brewery stock to every Profess
tant minister in Toronto
Ontario Jockey Club shares to
men who led crusades against
horse racing.
Kenilworth Jockey Club shares
to every Christian minister in
Walkerville, Sandwich and Wind
sor except one who shot a hotel
keeper.
Shares in OKeefe's brewery
Qong controlled by Roman Cath
olics) to every Orange lodge
(anti-Catholic) in Toronto.
The balance, according to ex-
plicit instructions, is to be paid
to the mother who has since my
death given birth in Toronto to
the greatest number of children
as shown by the registrations
under the Vital Statistics Act"
If there is a tie, the money is
to be equally divided.
The will caused no end of dis
cussion in Toronto Even today
the Child Welfare Council is con-
sidering petitioning the govern
ment to withhold the money and
use it not for the benefit of one
family, but for the unfortunate
children of unemployed of the
Province of Ontario.
THERE were nine first cousins
l. of Charles Millar here and
there in Canada and the United
States when he died. They heard
Of the will through the news
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IndHCe 10 SeIIIe lLS score WIN Ine
lost leader who sold out for the pOttGge Of prefer
ment. OF course it is too soon to say that Ramsay
Macdonald is out of British political life completely
and forever L. would be base ngratitude upon the
part Of the Baldwin ministry not to make MacDon-
aid peer so that he may idle out the rest of his
years in that haven Of the living dead-the House of
Lords But trust that he will find the ermine rk-
some
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Literary Notes

Malvina Hoffman's autobiography will be pub
lshed next spring by Scribner's under the title
Heads and Tales The first part will be a sketch
of her early life. She was born on w. 43rd-st. 1-i-
liam Russell lived the street,. This early part
Of the book describes her experiences one Of
Robins pupils but the major portion deals with her
journey all the world to model racial types for
Hall of Man in the Field Museum in Chicago. She
went to the South Seas Bali China and Africa and
everywhere she had interesting experiences with
the native tribes The last part deals with Taos New
Mexico, where she stayed with Mabel Dodge Luhan,
and met FTieda Lawrence.
Editors Of the monthly magazine Campus
will include Richard Edwards Charles Hatchard,
Jerry Spngarn and James Wechser. The magazine
will be general including fiction, poetry, art-
cles on economic and political affairs humor and
criticism Campus will be "militantly progressive"
according to the editors The first issue, announced
for early next year. will include articles by Haywood
Broun. Robert Forsythe and Ben Blake, stories by
Jack Conroy, Mike Gold and Richard Edwards. c.
Day wis is contribute srst section Of long
untitled poem,
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Haywood BR0UN

7 AN Just a completely done in old man." said
Ramsay Macdonald when the news came to him
Of his defeat in Durham. All want is sleep and
still more sleep"
And this, think, is the only boon the former
prime minister has a right to ask from any who
remember the great betrayal Of August 1881 And
it may well be that that request must be refused
for the story of MacDonalds downfall is too impor-
tant in its implications ever to be forgotten
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Charles Vance Mas Baby Derby Will Stands Firm Against Bitter
NneYear Legal Attack Canada Kept in Continual Uproar

This Is the last of the series by Laura
Lou Brookman on the Toronto $500, 900
Baby Derby.
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THERE were nine first cousins
l. of Charles Millar here and
there in Canada and the United
States when he died. They heard
OF the viii through the news
, 1935-08-04
Equalization Board
Explains Valuations

Information tending TO clear up
Observation-Disclosures arising from the
city equalization boards requests for
some taxpayers to appear before It
was issued Saturday by DR.. s. X.
Hallam, chairman of the beard.
Property owners who have receiv-
ed instructions that their valuations
must be raised are assured that the
board intends to raise valuations
only TO the 1884 levels. and not above
these, DR.. Hallam said.
In some instances, especially in
cases involving property damaged
in the 1898 storm, valuations will be
placed above those Of 1884 where
reductions were granted that year
because Of the storm damage. In
those cases where storm damages
have been repaired. valuations will
be set at their previous 1888 levels,
he said.
Other members Of the equaliza-
ton board are Sherwood Bishop and
K. A. Monsees.
, 1935-08-04
Water District Tax
Deadline Extended

SAN BENTTO. Aug. 3.-An ex-
tension OF time to August 20 for
settlement Of irrigation district de-
linquent taxes. flat rates and wateF
ing charges at Is cents on the a
lar was announced Friday by FrnnlN
8. Robertson, trustee.
Time for making such settlement
expired July 81 but 1t was decided
Friday TO make the extension tor
benefit Of those who could not meet
the previous deadline. Robertson
also stated that the time win be
further extended for those who
have applications pending for loans
with which to pay taxes. He said
that more than 20 days might be
required to complete some Of the
loans for which applications have
been made.
Mr.. Robertson reported S4.757.l8
cash taken in to date under the
plan, representing O settlement or
SIS. 028.72. This Is from local tax
payers only. The money received I'm
the mails has not been added up
but viii amount TO a considerable
sum. Neither does the $4.757.i6 rep
resent any payments for delinquent
flat rates or watering charges. The
total Of these delinquent payments
Is even larger than for the bond tax
Mr.. Robertson stated.
, 1935-08-04
Texas Rangers to Go Modern, But Still
They'll Wear location Hat and Shoot
Straighter than Rustlers and Srnugglers

struggle to take its badmen Of q
western frontier, rangers had the
fastest horses and hardest shooting
guns, and therefore were well equip
per to combat crime Of the day.
Methods were modernized in part,
OF course, but not much.
Automobiles made their advent
as ranger equipment in 1918, al
though a sure-footed horse still Is
al asset in the Big Bend country
o. west Texas and IN some spots
along the Mexican border.
Sub-machine guns in cars re-
placed long-range rifles in saddle
scabbardS.
But that's about all the modern
ization In equipment rangers can
boast.
Identification records Of criminals
and a quick communication system
essentials Of present-day crime
ccmbatting-are lacking. The new
err viii be based largely on those
aids.
The zone riot, one ranger quir
still describes, to some extent, work.
ing methods Of rangers. Singly OF
Ia pairs, as of old, rangers often
develop a case without benefit OF
aid available through coordination,
The veteran who looks forward to
tne new era summarized hopes for
thn future:
Years ago. crime was more or
less local. A lone ranger could pick
up a trial OF a thief and stolen cat
tie and follow it through. But now
stolen cattle are loaded In trucks
and marketed 100 miles away the
next days. That is typical OF how
coordination is needed.
, 1935-08-04
COUNTY COTTON
INCOME liked
Income In 1884 More Than
Four Times Over
That of 80
Especial TO Ths Heraldl


SAN BENITO. Aug. 3.-Cameron
county's cotton income in 1884 was
more than four times what 1t was
In 1882 and even considerably lar
ger than In 1888, a very favorablc
year, according to Agricultural Ad-
justment Administration figures re-
ceived this week by the county
agents office.
Cameron county farmers receiv-
ed 81, 947, 606.61 last year compared
to $458, 04Se9 in 1892 and 1885,
OH. so in 1888. The farm value Of lint
and seed last year was almost $780,
900 more than It was In 1892 and
added to this was $~l20.744-55 In
benefit payments.
The values are based on Yields
and prices as furnished by the u.
S. Department Of Agriculture an
the benefit payments include all
those to April 30,1935.
The value OF unsold Bankhead
certificates held by farmers is not in
cluded in the amount Of benefit pay
ments.
The county agents office Doints
out that there vas almost 81 100000
more cotton money in circulation In
the county the last II months than
two years ago. This increased fsrm
income has been the mems Of help
ing farmers stay in business. main
tain their farms and homes ami re-
main customers Of merchants. 1t was
stated.
, 1935-08-04
COP PREDICTS
SESSION END
Congressman To Throw Up
Work in 2 Weeks And
Go Home, Claimed

WASHINGTON. Aug. 3. R1-A re-
publican leader who knows con-
gress looked over the II major bills
awaiting final action Saturday and
predicted at least seven would be
strapped to permit an adjournment
in two weeks-cr August 20 at the
latest.
once the senate passes the tax
bill" said Senator McNary CT Ore
gon. minority floor leader, "they
won't be able to hold q quorum"
Friends of Vice President Garner
said the Texan also felt adjourn
ment in the air.
Senator Robinson. the democratic
leader was still convinced congress
would be fortunate" to get through
by August 20, although the 18th was
the goal. President Roosevelt has q
speaking engagement at Milwaukee
the 23rd and he wants to keep 1t.
The executive must be In Washing
ton to sign last minute bills"
Here are the bills McNary placed
in the "scrap or doubtful" column:
Utility holding company abolition:
ship subsidy; Guffey-Snyder coal
regulation: bus and truck regula-
ticn; food, drugs, and cosmetics con-
troll; MIRA wages, hour and child
labor requirements for government
contractors and the limitation on
war profits.
Democratic leaders stiIl felt there
was a chance for working cut q
compromise on the utility measure
and possibly ship subsidy.
They also expect these measures
to 60 TO the White House before ad-
journment:
Wealth taxes; social security; AAA
amendments: banking reform; $780,
100000 second deficiency appropria.
tons: iva amendments; gold
clause suits; rivers and harbors i'm
provements; liquor control and al
mail law changes.
, 1935-08-04
Summers Dairy Has
Cows Blood-Teste

Robert Summers, manager of the
Summers Dairy, was the first
BROWNSVILLE dairyman to take ad-
vantage Of the offer OF blood test
ing each dairy animal which was
made by the federal government
bureau OF animal industry in an ef-
fort to stamp out the dreaded un-
dulent fever. according to reports.
The government proposition was
made to all dairymen Who were
willing to dispose OF re-actor cattle
and TO comply with all other gov
eminent requirements. The Sum-
mers dairy is claimed to be the only
enc In the county which is dispoS-
ing of its re-actor cattle as re-
quired by the federal contract.
In the Summers herd only six re-
actors appeared out Of 81 head Of
cattle. a percentage considered light,
and the six animals were sold for
slaughter.
The government is reported to be
thoroughly behind the testing pro-
gram, offering about one half the
value of the cattle in order to re-
move Objectionable cows from the
community.
The government blood test to
which Summers submitted his herd
coupled with the fact that they
Rave often been tested for tuber-
culoSS without re-actors should
prove the positive safety OF the milk
from his dairy. he said.
Though doing some retail busi-
ness, the Summers dairy caters
principally 10 grocery stores in
Brownsville.
, 1935-08-04
Life Saving Class
Planned For City

Under the auspices OF the Browns
viIle chapter OF the Red Gross Dr.
L r. Olmsted will start a life saw
ing class August II. from Q 70 7 a. m.
IN the private pool OF VIM. Brown.
Jr.
DR.. Olmsted, who represented the
Brownsville chapter at the state
REQ Cross Aquatic school lately
were ne qualified as an instructor
ard examiner. Is offering his SER
vices free. Brown also Is donating
the use Of his private pool.
According TO Red Cross Officials
here. latest statistics show that
nearly 800 persons drown In Amer
lea each year. With more people
annually learning TO swim the fig
ures for drowning remain nearly
stationary or move downward, IL
was pointed out, an indication that
agencies are at work teaching
principles Of safety and Life saving.
In q quarter Of a century Of Red
Gross life saving courses 10000
persons have completed training
work, with T2y500 certificates issued
during the last fiscal year. Large
rumber Of resorts, public beaches.
private camps, boat clubs and mum
cipal pools make Red Cross
saving q requirement for
leaders.
, 1935-08-04
'STRATO Study
TO BE MADE
NEAR SANTONE
Instruments Will Be
Sent Up On Small
Balloons To Make
M Records

SAN ANTONIO. Aug. .. R-Dr.
Robert A. Millikan came here Sat-
urday In quest Of a solution for mys-
teries OF the upper s~tratosphere new
CT penetrated BY man or his irstru-
Ments.
The internationally recognized
physicist brought an array Of SUPER
sensitive recording devices for studies
of the ccsmic ray which he hopes
TO make at levels 20 miles Or more
above the earth.
The instruments win be attached
20 balloons, which DR.. Millikan hopes
will ascend TO an altitude OF more
than 20 miles before they burst to
shower the recording devices. at
tached 20 parachutes, back TO earth,
Once the instruments do get back he
trusts whoever finds them will for
ward them to him so he can complete
his studies.
The high altitude Is desired In or
der TO obtain latitude distribution.
lie recalled o. similar experiment
conducted at Kelly field In 1922,
when an altitude Of 10 miles was at
tanned, but the instruments used at
that time were crude, he said. Those
to be employed this time have been
I'm the making for two years under
the best OF skill.
Since the Kelly Field observations.
Dr. Millikan. caused flights 10 be
made In Dallas and In North Dakota.
IN 1882. In what he termed his
Century CT Progress" flight he OBJ
tanned some excellent data. he said.
q penetration TO $4,000 feet. or about
~ miles. having been obtained.
However. experiments In Germany
have furnished data on penetration
OF from 10 to 10 miles. and these
studies revealed significant lati-
tude changes, he said.
The instruments Oh. Millkan will
use here win he similar to those de-
vised fer experiments In the equator
ial belt, where he expects to SPONSOR
flights later. Only airplane flights
have been made around the equator.
In Peru and the Philippines. where
the greatest altitude obtained was
only 5000 feet.
He said II was ascertained that the
cormic rays are 100 times more pow
erful at attitudes checked by him
than closer to the earth.