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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-18
Washington Merry-Go-Round
by DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. ALLEN

XX7ASHINGToN, May 18.-G-
w Boss j. Edgar Hoover has
been advised quietly by an author
ity in position to give such or
ders, to stop criticising other Fed
eral detecting agencies.
Hoover's recent crack, that the
Postal Inspection Service had
given him no aid in capturing
Hdnapers, stirred up hornets
nest of indignation behind the
scenes = including the Cabinet.
Not only is the Postal Inspection
Service one of the oldest and most
efficient police forces in the gov
eminent, but postal agents aciu-
ally were responsible for j. Ed
gar'S capture of Alvin Karpis.
G-men had hunted futilely for
the gunman for months. Then,
several months ago, train was
held up and robbed at Carrots
vile, o. Postal inspectors were
called in and a few days later
picked up the trail of Karpis, who
had led the band of robbers.
Working on the theory that the
members of his gang would get
in touch with him sooner or later,
the postal agents did not arrest
Karpis, but kept him under scru-
tiny as he travelled across coun-
try to New Orleans. There he
was Joined by henchman and
woman, later captured with
Karpis.
When the time came to make
the pinch" the postal agents called
in the G-men, told them where
Karpis could be found and al
lowed them to close in. The rea-
son they did so was that the pen
atty for mail robbery is 90 years,
whereas kidnapping, even if no IN
jury is done to the victim, car
ries a maximum of 50 years i'm
priscnment.
So that the more serious charge
might be lodged against the out
law, the postal Inspectors gu city
stepped aside and permitted Hoo
ver's men to make the arrest-and
get the glory.
e
MOST Republican leaders still
YI cling to June 5-a Friday
as the day of Congress adjourn
ment. Their convention opens in
Cleveland the following Tuesday.
June 9.
Democratic leaders lack Re-
publican optimism. They think
Congress might drag on till June
Is or 20. Their convention opens
in Philadelphia, June %.
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4 AS John Morris Dorsey points
i out in The Foundations of
Human Nature" after a psychol-
ogist has developed good general
picture of persons personality
and shows him his real traits he
usually gets what psychologists call
the analytic shock" He says in
surprise why. I never dreamed
was like, that Most people know
very little about their real selves.
= In a paper entitled, Where are
n the Marriagable Men?" DR..
Paul Popenoe. noted authority on
marriage, says After IS it is prob
able there enthusiastically speak
ing-very few men who have never
married and who are yet worth
marrying. The single males of IS
and up comprise a preponderance
of mental and physical detectives,
homosexuals, incompetents and
derelicts, of men who have been
prevented from marriage by vene-
real or other diseases, or whose out
look is so warped, infantile or ego
centric that even the most optinais-
tic maiden. willing to marry, a man
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N7HEN the Pan-American
w Peace Conference first was
proposed it had some earmarks of
a political move to aid Roosevelt's
reelection. But at that time the
League had not failed in Abys-
Sinia.
With the Leagues failure, en-
phasis on the Pan-American
Congress has increased 100 per
cent. League prestige in South
America is at its lowest ebb. PAN
Americanism is riding high.
That is the reason for the
change OF conference date from
July to November. 1t means
Roosevelt wants to make proposals
which might. be risky if made dur
ing the campaign. In other words,
there is definite chance of
united American front against the
old world.
Copyright. 1886 by United Feature
Syndicate Inco
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ley and a number of important
railroad men.
The Westinghouse star had ris-
en-. The company which was to
revolutionize the railroad indus
try of America and the whole
world, the first of many success
full ventures to be launched by
Westinghouse, had made it's bow
to the world.
At the time, Westinghouse was
% years old, tall, broad-shoul-
dered young man of dynamic per-
sonality, iron will, and stubborn
persistence. His logged, tireless
battle to make the railroads rec
ognize his AIR brake was typical of
the first % years of his life. 1t
was to be typical of all the rest
of his life,
EORG WESTINGHOUSE
Wv was born in the village of
Central Bridge, N. Y, on Oct. 6,
1876. Ten years later his father
moved to Schenectady, where he
founded the firm of G. WeSting-
house g. Co. to manufacture farm
machinery and small steam en-
gines.
AS an infant young George
knew what he wanted. When he
didn't get it, he would bang his
head on the floor or against the
wall. This iron determination
never left him. In the last dec
AIDES of his life, he said one day,
Il had a fixed notion that what.
wanted I must have. Somehow,
that idea has not entirely de-
serted me throughout my life.
I have always known what I
wanted, and now to get it. AS
child I got it by tantrums; in ma
ture years, by hard work"
AS boy he was interested only
in tinkering with machinery in
his fathers shop. He had no in
terest in his schoolbooks. He had
none in working for his father.
He was a born inventor.
At the age of IA, he got ready
to run off to join the Civil War,
his father pulling him off the
railroad train a few minutes be-
fore it left the station. At II,
he enlisted. Back home from the
war, he convinced himself in a
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Very Familiar Type

TT sounded very strange to me, and I was almost
Il minded to set the colonel down as just another
pstachio in politics, but, fortunately, I ran into
psycniatrist who set me straight the subject. 1
described the symptoms to him, and to my surprise
he said, That's not abnormal The type is very IA
miliar, particularly among graduates of Harvard
University Is the colonel Harvard man or is he
preparing to go to Harvard"
Judging by the primary returns he isn't going
anywhere" answered.
Then the best can do is to give you an i'm
aginary case history continued the doctor "Of
course Harvard is only secondary factor The par
ticular mental type with which are dealing is in
variably conditioned in very early youth. Medical
call it, for want of better name Galloping
Amateuritis Usually the father is at fault Renem-
Der the brief life history of Light Vote Harry which
l am about TO give you is wholly imaginary although
1 believe it will be faithful in spirit I not guar
antee the details. When the colonel years old
he came home crying because he had bloody nose.
His father, great sportsman, met him in the hall
and asked, Why are you crying?
Because big boy hit me-, replied the little
colonel He took my ball away and tried to make
him give it back
You were quite right son., said Breckenridge,
senior. THE ball was your property, and anybody
who tries to disturb property rights is very wicked
you and give you motto to follow all the days of
your life: 1T doesn't matter whether you win or lose
its how you play the game"
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1890 he took out 1874 patents, at
the same time organizing new
companies and venturing into new
fields. In 1880 he organized the
Westinghouse Machine Co. to
build high-speed engines which
his brother had designed.
TN 1881, he organized the Union
L Switch and Signal Co. to manu-
facture the pneumatic, interlock-
ing switching and signaling appa-
rattis which he had invented for
use on railroads.
Two years later. attracted by the
fact that natural gas had been
struck in a suburb of Pittsburgh,
Westinghouse started drilling OPP
erationS in his own back yard and
struck a well which came in with
such violence that it occasioned a
considerable explosion.
He entered the natural gas field
now with all the intensity and
belligerence which had marked his
battles in other fields. Purchasing
the charter of an existing COM
pany, the Philadelphia Co., he
proceeded to invent a system for
the piping and metering of nat
ural gas.
At first Westinghouse was
chiefly interested in the distribu-
ton of natural gas for industrial
rather than domestic uses. 1t was
this early industrial use which
attracted the steel industry to
Pittsburgh and made of that city
the great steel center which it is
today.
Meanwhile, new industry was
appearing on the horizon, the
electrical industry. In Cleveland,
O., young inventor, Charles F.
Brush, had perfected the arc light
and developed dynamo to fur
nish current for it. The Brush
Electric co. made a contract with
the Westinghouse Machine Co. to
obtain engines to drive its dyna-
mos.
Westinghouse, about the same
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time, engaged an electrical engi-
neer by the name of William
Stanley who had invented a self
regulating dynamo and an electric
lamp, to join the staff of the
Union Switch and Signal Co.
COON Westinghouse was in COM
- petition with the company Of
another inventor, Thomas A. Edi-
son, who had organized the Edi-
son Co.
This interest of Westinghouse
in electricity was to prove as revo-
lutionary in the electrical field as
his air brake had proved in the
railroad world. For Westinghouse
was soon convinced of the limita-
lions of direct current which was
then in general use and the adj
visibility of employing alternating
current instead,
Every big city is today monu-
ment to this decision upon the
part of Westinghouse. 1t will be
found that the downtown areas,
where identification goes back to
the end of the last century, en-
ploy direct current, still employ
it because of the expense which
would be involved in a change.
But everywhere else in theScity,
alternating current is tased.oa siiz
1t was in 1885 that Westing-
house began his work With alter
mating current, purchasing i'm
portant patents abroad, improving
upon them Ivy his own work and
surrounding himself with a bril-
liant group of engineers which in
Guided Oliver B. Shallenberger,
Nikola Tesla and others.
In 1886 he organized the West
inghouSe Electric Co., the name Of
which was subsequently changed
to the Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing Co. This year, the
company is celebrating it's golden
jubilee.
TOMORROW Lighting the
Columbian Worlds Fair.
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4 S Justice McReynolds was
4 a about to enter his suite of
offices in the new Supreme Court
building. he noticed that a set of
MISUNDERSTANDING been placed
on his door.
The Tennesseean, noted for his
hair-trigger temper, glared at
the figures for a few moments,
then beckoned to a nearby guard.
Whats that for?" he demand
ed.
That's your room number,
sirr 2
81 know that. What's the a
for?" a
That's the serial, sir. That's
what the plans call for. Each
office has a serial letter.
Have it taken off-at once. I
don't want any of this alphabet
stuff around mel"
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The Rest Is Inevitable

"VOU can make up the rest of it for yourself"
continued the psychiatrist. Next day little
Henry went out and got another bloody nose. He
always getting bloody nose. He took up base
ball and became the to strike out CALAMITY in
the ninth inning with the bases full he muffed the
punt and drove out of bounds the nineteenth
hole. You See he'd get it into his muddled little
head that there something immoral in winning.
1t was something gentleman didn't do.
II see it as wildly as if I were there-I mean
the day he came back from Cambridge after the
Harvard-Yale game. How the game?' his
father asked Great said Col. Henry Breckenridge
Yale only licked 68 to 0. 1t of the most
marvellous moral victories in the history of Harvard
Personally" said the doctor, Il envy the Light
Vote Harrys of this world 1 like to call it the
Prince Charlie complex. Of course, the Bonnie
Prince is always beaten but look at the satisfaction
he has. The who ticks him is always dirty
Roundhead"
Copyright 1885,
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BY DAVID DIETZ
Scripps- Howard Science Editor


THERE was the wild clat-
ter of horses hoofs, the
banging and scraping of
wagon wheels upon the rail
road tracks, the terrifying
roar of an approaching
train, the piercing screech
of the locomotive whistle.
Tugging at the reins and swing
ing his whip, the frantic driver
rose to his feet. A lurch of the
wagon and he was thrown to the
tracks. The train was less than
1000 feet away.
Suddenly there was the Shrek
ing protest of steel against steel
as the brakeshoes ground against
the wheels of the cars and the
train slid to stop, the nose of
the locomotive less than four feet
from the body of the man across
the tracks.
A life had been saved. But more
than that, the start of a career
had been forged. A man of des-
tiny had been given his cue to
walk upon the American scene
and play his part, part that was
to influence and change the life
of the whole world.
In the instant that train quiv-
cred to standStill, fate gave the
stage to George Westinghouse. for
that sudden stop was an unfore-
seen, dramatic, and irrefutable
demonstration of the value of his
newly invented air brake,
The scene was Pittsburgh upon
a September day in the year 1858.
Only few years before. the Civil
War had drawn to a close. The
assassination of Abraham Lincoln
was still fresh in the minds of
the people. Indians roamed the
Western plains. The nation was
still predomlnantly rural, lit by
coal oil lamps and candles. Travel
was by horse or by railroad and
railroads were unsatisfactory be-
cause of the lack of adequate
brakes.
II II
TINE old brakes were hand OPP
i Grated. They were slow and
unwieldy and difficult to apply.
In an emergency they were ut
terly useless. AS a result, trains
had to be restricted to a few cars
and wrecks were all too frequent.
The train which stopped SO
unceremoniously when the dray-
man fell upon the tracks was the
first in the world to be equipped
with air brakes. They had been
put on the train, which belonged
TO the Panhandle Railroad, by
young George Westinghouse and
his partner. Ralph Baggaley, at
their personal expense. Until the
directors of the Panhandle decid-
ed to make the test, Westing-
house had not been able to get a
railroad official to take the slight
est interest IN his invention.
But now the situation was
changed. A few months later, in
1869, the Westinghouse Air Brake
Co. was organized with Westing-
house as president and board of
directors which included Bagga-
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De put on MS toes Dy the threat OF
defeat. II reelected, he should
have to fight hard for all he gets
through Congress in his second
term
There may be something to
this line of argument. but there is
certainly another side to it. 1t
seems to me that this contention
rests upon the major premise that
President Roosevelt will have to be
scared into any worth while
policies.
If one can assume that MIR.
Roosevelt has any ell-thought-
out body of principles for the con-
tinuance of the New Deal, it would
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Big Breckenridge Triumph in
Maryland" / turned to the ar
ticle in some surprise and read
that Roosevelt had defeated his
rival by only six to one"
At the moment I was wholly
unfair to the newspaper and to
its correspondents because I had
not followed closely the fortunes
Of Whispering Henry" the pro-
test man, and six to one seemed
to me quite a stable licking. 1
did not know then that the
Colonel generally loses by 20 to
one or even 30. To him the Mary
land vote was truly terrapin
diYo,oor ct iUhf UOto Ho t-yyD capYr1c
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Liberal Side
by
HARRY ELMER BARNES
(Westbrook Pegler Is on vacation.)

THE marked revival of sentiment for
President Roosevelt is being widely de-
plored by some friends of the Administra-
ton. The argument is that strong and vigor-
Gus, even menacing, Republican opposition is
desirable. Unless this is the case Mr. Roosevelt
may fall into dangerous lethargy and become
co-nothing President in his second term He must
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America Goes Electric
Fate Gives Westing-
house the Stage at
Thrilling Moment.

This year. the Westinghouse Electric
and Manufacturing GO. Is celebrating Its
golden jubilee, the fiftieth anniversary
of its founding by George Westinghouse.
In many ways the story of this COM
pany's rise Is the story of America. for
Westinghouse and his associates pio-
neered in the development of many of
the things that are the foundations Of
present-day civilization. David Dietz.
Science Editor Of the Scriops- Howard
Newspapers. tells the exciting and dra-
matte story. This Is the first of a series.
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Haywood BR0lN

STAMFORD, Conn.,, May 18.-As the pri-
mary results continue to roll in be-
come more and more interested in the per-
sonality of that mysterious individual
known as Light Vote Harry" The first information
1 received about the political of Col. Henry
Breckenridge was contained in headline which said
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to me unique in American political history Others
have gone down to crushing defeat with gallantry
ard good grace, but have known not one to revel
in trimming after the manner of Col Breckenridge
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appear IlaI tne greater The evidence Of public
hdence in his Administration the greater the proba-
bility that he may do something about them in his
next term
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TOMORROW Lighting the
Columbian Worlds Fair.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-04
NATIONAL LEAGUE

st. Louis Z; Brooklyn 2.
New York 3; Chicago 0.
Boston (; Pittsburgh 3.
Others not scheduled.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-04
BRITAIN PLANNING
ANEW G|bRAL TAR
Will Be at Cape Town, Tip
of South Africa; Wash
ington Surprised
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer

Washington, June 4.-Recent news
that the English deem it necessary
to create a new Gibraltar at Cape
Town came as considerable of a shock
to navy, army and State Department
folk and to members of the Washing
ton diplomatic corps generally.
The geography of the situation IS,
indeed, obvious enough.
John Bull evidently is feartul tnaC
the Italians, intrenched on both SIDES
of the Mediterranean and along the
west coast of the Red sea, may be
able to block his line of communlca-
tons from London, through the Suez
canal. and thence onward to India
and the still farther Orient.
Therefore he proposes to establish
tremendously powerful base at the
tip of South Africa whence his war
craft and transports can cut across
the open Indian ocean to and from
oriental and Australiasm destinations
HERE is THE IDEA
The idea is all right
Manifestly it will be practical i'm
possibility for Italy or any other pow
er seriously to interfere with Brit
talns maritime pathway between
Cape Town and Cathay.
The voyage from England, to say,
the overseas ports of Bombay or Mel
bourne or Hongkong is, to he sure,
an lmpossibly long one in an emer-
gency around the Cape of Good Hope.
6ut the British plan is to make Cape
Lown' on the cape, the British base,
enl1nlnatlng 5000 knots of steaming.
TREMENDOUS EXPENSE
nrlerly' cruise from Cape Town
10 the Orient is shorter than a cruise
ION London to the Orient, via the
Meolterranean, the Suez Canal and
the lied and Arabian seas.
me rerouting arrangement is sound
naval strategy.
6ut' heavens! It's expensive.
- involves the dredging out of an
aue9uate harbor, the construction of
AoruIlcatlons and the maintenance of
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-04
ONE-ARMED GOLFER
COMING ON SUNDAY
Jimmy Nichols Will Give
Exhibition at West End
Country Club

Jimmy Nichols, one-armed golf star,
will give an exhibition match at West
End Country Club Sunday afternoon
at o'clock, being teamed with Roy
Briggs, of Norfolk, Va, pro, and play
ers from the local club.
Nichols lost his right arm in an
automobile accident several years ago,
and has since perfected his game with
one arm, often playing sub par golf.
Though his right arm is missing,
Nichols uses right-handed clubs for
all of his shots with the exception
of when he is on the green.
He boosts of four hole-in-one shots,
his last being his best, a 1856 yard
drive to the cup at Douglas, Ga. He
drives consistently for $50 yards, and
has recently shot 34-31 on the par
70 course at the Naval Base at Nor
folk, Va.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-04
Visitors Limited To
Two Hits Until The
Ninth When They
Got Their Runs

Dorsey Wcodief was in the best of
form yesterday as he pitched the
Henderson Tobacconsts to a 6 to 3
verdict over Doc Smiths Angler team
at League Park.
For four and two thirds inning,
Woodlief did not allow hit. the
string being broken when Smith dou-
bled to right.
Angler got all of their tallies in
the final stanza on four hits.
Henderson's big scoring came in the
second when two Angler errors gave
life to two men, and Wimbrow tripled
to right, and scored a moment later
when Breedlove singled
Breedlove stood out afield for the
Leafs, fielding - chances without a
bo5ble, three CT them looked as
though they We're labeled for base
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-04

a naval establishment of proportions
at least equal to John Bulls home
fleet-figures running into the bill
lions.
WASHINGTON PUZZLED
And who would have thought that
the English would believe themselves
unequal to keeping the Mediterran-
can, the Suez Canal and the Red sea
open to their own shipping!-against
so comparatively triffling a naval
strength as Italy'9.
That is what stumps American
naval men.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-04
T6da8G4rnes
NATIONAL LEAGUE
PIEDMONT LEAGUE
Rocky Mount at Norfolk.
Portsmouth at Asheville.
Durham at Richmond.

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia at Cincinnati.
New York at Chicago.
Brooklyn at st. Louis.
Boston at Pittsburgh.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-04
NIPER HARRIS WINS
GAME WITH HOMER

Niper Harris won his own game
with a home run in the fourteenth
inning with three men on base as the
Weeping Willows were whipping
Franklinton IS to 10 at South Hen
derson yesterday afternoon.
At the end of the ninth, the count
was knotted at Gall, and the teams
battled on through to Harris circuit
smash
Morris pitched for the losers while
Harris worked for the winners.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-04
AMERICAN LEAGUE

st. Louis at Washington.
Detroit at Philadelphia.
Chicago at New York.
Cleveland at Boston.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-04
West End Golfers Lose
Match To- Raleigh TOTO 81

West End Country Club golfers
motored to Raleigh yesterday after
noon "a strong for their inter-city
match with the r. G.. A. team, and
then dropped the match 70 to 80 with
the competition proving a little too
strong for the local linksmen.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-04
Results

PIEDMONT LEAGUE
Portsmouth Z; Rocky Mount s.
Durham 8; Asheville 8.
Norfolk IA; Richmond 2.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-04

Raleigh will return the match at
he local course July Is.
Yesterdays turnout of golfers was
one of the largest for sometime, clear
ly showing the interest in golf here.
Next match will be with Rocky
Mount here next Thursday afternoon.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-04

AMFrICAN LEAGUE
Philadeip...,. -; -Ictroit Z.
Boston 6; Cleveland 2.
Nwe York II; Chicago 1.
Washington Z; ST. Louis 4
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-04

attend the baccalaureate
Duke University '''ihon at
Of The ne Lords Supper will be obsor,..,
at the morning service, the "3 rd
stated. '''e pastor
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-04

ted. it was announced today by the
pastor. Rev. A. S. Hale, in order that
the church might cooperate with the
State C. E. meeting at the First M.
p. church, ans chat the pastor may