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1—R-100, the huge new English dirigible, as it will appear when completed and ready to fly to the United
States in June. 2—American War mothers, many of them Gold Star mothers, placing wreaths on the tomb of the
Unknown Soldier in Arlington National cemetery while Sergeant Witchey Bounded taps. 3—Christopher Columbus
monument, designed and donated by Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, unveiled in Madrid, Spain.
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Explosions, Poison Gas and
Fire Kill Scores in a
Cleveland Hospital.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
/~\NE of the most terrible and dls
V-r tresslng disasters of recent times
■sccurred in Cleveland, Ohio, resulting
in the deaths of at least 124 persons
«nd the Injury of many others. Fire
of undetermined origin broke out In
the Cleveland Clinic and soon reached
a great quantity of X-ray films stored
In the basement. These, exploding,
gave off deadly gases that spread
through the four-story building. Pa¬
tients, doctors and nurses were nearly
all unable to make their way to the
doors and window's, so swiftly did the
fumes render them unconscious; and
for a time no rescuers could enter
the building unless equipped with gas
masks. Even outside tiie structure
pedestrians passing at the time of the
blasts fell to the ground overcome
by the gas and could not be dragged
to safety until it had lifted.
Most of the victims were killed by
the gas fumes, according to the au¬
thorities. Among them were many
well-known citizens of Cleveland and
vicinity, and a number of nationally
known physicians who were In at¬
tendance on patients. Members of
the clinic staff were credited with the
utmost valor In their efforts to save
the patients, and many of them gave
their lives. The and firemen
and numerous chance passersby were
no less valorous. Dr. George W.
Crlle, noted surgeon, founder and
chief owner of the clinic, was fore¬
most In the relief work. Fire Chief
James P. Flynn was an outstanding
hero. He had his men lower him
time after time through the skylight
on the roof and he brought out 1C
living or dead.
Experts in Cleveland said the poi¬
sonous gases w’ere due to the burning
of X-ray film in large quantities. The
photographic films, which has much
the same composition ns gun cotton,
In addition to exploding with terrific
force, threw off three kinds of com¬
pounds. These were camphor, carbon
monoxide, and the gas of nitric oxide
or other nitrogen compounds. In¬
halation of the carbon monoxide re¬
sulted in death similar to the breath¬
ing of exhaust gas from an automo¬
bile In a closed garage.
'TMIE senate passed the McNary
farm relief bill, including the ex¬
port debenture feature, by a vote of
54 to 33. Only two Democrats—Wag¬
ner of New York and Walsh of Mas¬
sachusetts—were recorded In the
negative. Twenty-one Republicans
voted for the bill and 31 against It.
The action of many of the latter
was In protest against the debenture
provision which President Hoover op¬
posed. Leaders of the house at first
were disposed to refuse to accept the
senate measure on the ground that
the debenture clause was revenue leg¬
islation, which must originate in the
lower house. Then it was decided to
send the bill to conference and kill
the objectionable feature there. A
special rule was adopted, however,
setting forth that the house stood on
its rights and that its action in this
particular case should not be consid¬
ered a precedent. ■ The rule carried a
rebuke to the senate for invading the
prerogatives of the house. All the
house conferees and three of the five
senate conferees were on record as
opposed to the export debenture plan.
T~\EBATE on the tariff bill continued
In the house and the expressions
of dissatisfaction with its provisions
were numerous. Many requests for fur¬
ther increases in duties on farm prod¬
ucts were submitted to the ways and
means committee. President Hoover
6howed his good will toward agricul¬
ture by signing executive orders, un¬
der the operation of the flexible tariff,
Increasing the rates on milk, cream
and flaxseed; he also approved an in¬
crease in the duties on window glass
as asked by Pennsylvania manufac¬
turers. The increased rates on milk
and cream, not as high as provided
in the Iiawley bill, are aimed against
Canadian importation; the higher
rate on flaxseed, the same as in the
Hawley measure, is directed against
Imports from Argentina.
Speaker Longworth said last week
the house, after disposing of the
farm relief and tariff bills, might re¬
cess for six weeks or two months.
The senate probably will redess for
three weeks or a month while its
finance committee struggles with the
tariff measure.
UXESPITE the earnest fight put up
by Southern Democrats and
some drys, Senator Yandenberg’s bill
for the 1930 census and redistricting
was made the unfinished business in
the senate and given right of way
over other measures until disposed
of. Its passage was considered cer¬
tain. Favorable action by tlie house
is a matter of course, for that body
passed the reapportionment hill which
was killed by a filibuster In the clos¬
ing days of the last congress. Un¬
der the provisions 17 states will lose
23 members of congress and 11 states
will gain the same number.
pEN. vJT CHARLES ambassador G. to Great DAWES, Britain, our
new
spent a few days in Washington last
week conferring with President Hoov¬
er and Secretary of State Stimson,
Reporters swarmed about him asking
ids views on all sorts of current top¬
ics, and lie avaded the queries polite¬
ly until one wanted to know whether
he would wear silk knee breeches at
the court of St. James.
“Do you want a diplomatic an¬
swer,” responded Ambassador Dawes,
“or the answer that question de¬
serves!”
“Shoot,” his Interrogator replied.
“You can go plumb to hell,” General
Dawes retorted; “that's my business.”
TT WAS announced at the White
I House that President Hoover had
offered the post of governor-general
of the Philippines to Dwight F. Davis
of St. Louis, former secretary of war,
and that his early acceptance was ex¬
pected unless lie decided that Mrs.
Davis’ healtli precluded it. Tills ap¬
pointment was a surprise as Mr.
Davis had been prominently men¬
tioned for an ambassadorial position,
probably in Paris. However, the
Philippines post would be especially
acceptable to him because of its good
salary—$25,000 a year—and because
be lias long been deeply interested in
the affairs of the islands and desired
to visit them. In Washington it is
now understood that the place of
ambassador to France wiii be given
to Senator Walter Edge of New Jer¬
sey after the close of the special ses¬
sion of congress. •
'T'HE Washington Post, having re
-*• cently printed an article predict¬
ing the recall of the Belgian ambas¬
sador, Prince De Ligne, which brought
an apology from the secretary of
state, the Philadelphia Record came
out with a story of the alleged con¬
duct of Edward McLean, publisher of
the Post, during a function at the
Belgian embassy, stating he was
asked to leave by Prince De Ligne,
and implying that this supposed oc¬
currence was the real reason for
the attack on the ambassador in the
Post. Now Mr. McLean, who is prom¬
inent 1n Washington society, lias
brought suit against the Record for
§1,000,000 damages, denying that pa¬
per's story in toto and asserting that
as a result of the story lie “has been
and is greatly injured in his said
good name, fame, reputation and cred¬
it .. . and is brought into public
scandal, scorn, infamy, shame, and
disgrace, . . . has suffered and en¬
dured great mental pain and anguish
. . . and is subjected to great hu¬
miliation and endured great injury in
his feelings, and has otherwise been
permanently damnified.’’
rpLEETING r quired by the notoriety otherwise has rather been ob¬ ac
scure Des Moines university, a funda¬
mentalist institution conducted by the
Baptist Bible Union of North Amer¬
ica. Dr. T. T. Shields, chairman of
Its board of trustees, and Miss Edith
Rebman, secretary of the board, didn’t
seem to be satisfied with the funda¬
mentalism of some of the faculty
members, and besides they had been
the objects of an attack concerning
CLEVELAND COURIER
moral behavior. The students, or a
majority of them, sided with the fac¬
ulty, so Shields dismissed the entire
teaching staff, including President II.
G. Wnyman, and ordered the univer¬
sity closed. Meanwhile the students
indulged In some rioting and drove
from their midst a few Canadians
whom they blamed as spies, and
then the university was reopened un¬
der a court injunction. Shields and
Miss Rebman carried the case to the
annual convention of the Baptist
Bible Union which had just opened
in Buffalo, and (he delegates sought
a way to settle the trouble through
arbitration.
/'COMPLAINT comes from Senator
'- J Robert M. La Follette of Wiscon¬
sin that President Hoover Is not en¬
forcing the seamen’s act which bears
the name of the senior La Follette.
Administration of the law is commit¬
ted mainly to the Department of
Commerce and under Mr. Hoover’s
administration of that department en¬
forcement of the law was relaxed on
the plea that strict compliance with
, It, especially in regard to manning of
ships, would make it Impossible for
American vessels to compete with
those of foreign registry.
“I know this is the excuse for non
enforcement of tiie law," said Senator
La Follette. “But It will not hold
water. It might be tlmt ships manned
with the prescribed crews would
make u little less profit, hjjt they
would still make plenty and they
would be far safer for passengers
and crews. If the President means
what lie says about law enforcement,
I do not see liow lie can refuse to
enforce the seamen's act.”
DOUCE of Vienna and Budapest
* have uncovered a plot for another
communist revolt in Hungary, and have
arrested a number of men on charges
of forging passports and promoting
political conspiracies. Documents were
taken revealing that tiie prisoners were
acting under orders from Moscow;
also that Bela Kun, leader of tiie com¬
munist revolution in Hungary during
1919, and who was expelled from Aus¬
tria last September after spending
three months In prison for having en¬
tered without permission, lias been
visiting Vienna since ills expulsion in
order personally to direct preparations
for the Hungarian revolt.
/COMPLETELY recovered from his
illness, King George of England
returned last week to Windsor castle
from Bognor, his place of conva¬
lescence. Ail along liis route he was
greeted by cheering thousands of his
affectionate subjects, and at Windsor
his motor car was showered with rose
petals. Tiie joy of tiie people was so
genuine and sincere that tiie king and
Queen Mary were deeply affected.
It was announced that the king
would personally attend to nil busi¬
ness connected with tiie calling of the
new parliament and the constitution
of the new government after the elec¬
tion. These duties may be fairly heavy
If, as seems likely, no party obtains a
clear majority and tiie king is forced
to intervene to break a parliamentary
deadlock.
/C RAF ZEPPELIN, the big German
dirigible, started on a trip to the
United States last week carrying pas¬
sengers and freight; but off the east
coast of Spain two motors were dis¬
abled by broken crank shafts and the
airship turned back to Friedrich
stiafen.
D EPEATED earthquake shocks in
IN Khorasan province, Persia, killed
more than three thousand persons,
wrecked Bujnurd and other towns and
laid a great expanse of territory in
waste. The governor of the province
called on the government for relief for
thousands of Injured and sick Inhab¬
itants, and supplies were sent by air- ;
planes to regions difficult of access
otherwise.
C'UGENE GILMORE, acting gov
enor general of the Philippines,
has been informed in an official re¬
port that graft which may involve sev¬
eral millions of dollars has been un¬
covered In the bureau of commerce
and industry, and he is asked for com¬
plete reorganization of the bureau.
The director and vice director and
maybe a dozen others are mixed up In
the matter.
* Building
Health Department Is
of Highest Importance
Standards that a city health depart¬
ment ought to follow in tiie handling
of contagious diseases are explained
by Dr. IN’. W. Bauer in a series of
articles in Hygeia Magazine, entitled
“Your City and Your Health.”
The citizen has a right to expect
prompt quarantine of persons with a
contagious disease and tiiose who have
been exposed. Furthermore the health
department should investigate the
source and tiie means of spreading of
these epidemic diseases.
A community should have facilities
for hospitalizing persons with conta¬
gious diseases. There should be a
modern isolation hospital and not tiie
old-fashioned, disgraceful pesthouse.
Taking care of those who have con¬
tagious diseases is important but it is
not enough. The up-to-date health de¬
partment must be active in making
available the latest proved methods
for preventing epidemics.
There are certain definite tilings a
community should do about tubercu¬
losis, which is perhaps tlie most com¬
mon contagious disease there is except
colds. There should be clinics for
chest examinations, public health
nurses to visit tuberculosis patients
who are cared for at home and a
modern, well equipped sanatorium.
The community should also furnish an
open air school for children of tuber¬
culous parents or with apparent ten¬
dencies toward the disease.
Quebec Sees Value of
Trees Along Highways
Commendable agitation has been
started by various bodies throughout
this province for the planting of trees
along the highways of Quebec. Apart
entirely from what the province lias
done toward such planning, quite u
few rural municipalities have shown m
willingness to accept the innovation.
This is u movement that will have the
approval of all who are interested in
the beauty of our province. Tree
lined highways not only add to the
attractiveness of rural districts them¬
selves, hut are a magnet lo tourists.
The planting of trees is not a costly
undertaking and gives splendid re¬
turns for the labor arid expense it in¬
volves. In many places in the United
Slates special commissions have been
appointed by legislatures whose sole
duly it is to undertake tree planting.
In New Jersey an act provides for a
special commission “whose duty it
shall be not only to plant trees along
highways of tiie state, but to look
after their welfare as well." Such a
measure is worthy of emulation in
Canada.—Montreal Star.
“Homey” Entrances
The simplest entrance to the home
Is often the most effective. It doesn’t
take an elaboration of balconies, but¬
tresses, brackets, columns, beams and
arches to make an entrance that will
smile.
H<we Is another rule. Keep the en¬
trance close to the ground. Entrances
high above the ground look stilted,
awkward, do not properly express the
idea of home. We build high en¬
trances for formal buildings like
schools and courthouses. ’To got an
entrance that sits close to the ground
means also that the house must be
set accordingly, which is as it should
be.
Industries Important
Industrial development is a trend
In tiie entire field and is more prop¬
erly a state of mind, which is reflect¬
ed in tiie living conditions of the
army of tiie employed. This trend,
this state of mind and this reflection
Is a sharp departure from the days of
tenement districts and a steady de¬
velopment toward in divi dualistic
homes Tor working men and women.
As a result, new industries mean ad¬
ditional homes, botii contributing fac¬
tors toward the city’s growth, repre¬
sentatives of tiie chamber of com¬
merce, builders and real estate men
are pointing out.
Lawns Add Character
Any residential street, being a series
of homes, each having its lawn in
front, gives to the city’s appearance
a definite influence, good, bad or in¬
different, according to tiie character
of the development or lack of it. It
can be truly said that it is tiie street
trees, attractive homes and well-land¬
scaped lawns that give streets of char¬
acter their distinction and give cities
the name of beautiful.
Curb Destructive Vines
Climbing plants are often guilty of
vandalism. Boston ivy may not only
beautify your chimney but damage it:
Euonymus may pry off shingles and
clapboards; Wisteria has been known
to tear an ornamental iron railing
from its foundation on a brick wall.
Other garden favorites are equally de¬
structive.
Landscape Harmony
Harmony with tiie landscape always
should be in mind. Man mua, build
his house in harmony with nature if
the home is to be beautiful. By fol¬
lowing nature’s lead and carefully se¬
lecting the house to fit the site, the
home will not only be more beautiful,
but more comfortable, practical and
serviceable.
m
Easier way to
Kill Flies and
Mosquitoes!
Easier—because the new Flit sprayer
makes a clean-smelling vapor which
floats freely and does not fall in drops.
Easier—because Flit kills flies and
mosquitoes faster, though harmless to
humans. Prove it yourself. Guaran¬
teed or money back.
“T he yellow
can with the
black Sana” © 1929 Stance Inc.
Music-Weary
“Do you enjoy music when you are
at luncheon?”
“No,” answered Mr. Chuggins. “1
listen for hours to the rhythm of the
motor. When I sit down in the dining
room I’d like just to stop and look.”
Pupils in big rural schools made bet¬
ter arithmetic scores than children In
one-teaclier schools, in a recent series
of tests in a number of states.
Here’s one granddaughter
who takes advice from elders
Schoolgirl learns
simple health
measure
’V'KTTTH all the talk there is now
v the v adays about generation, the independence
of sub-deb your re¬
porter got a great kick out of hear¬
ing a grandmother describe how her
granddaughter was following a good
old tried and true method of improv¬
ing her general health.
“My granddaughter, Margaret,“says
Mrs. Zell of 6231 Catherine Street,
Philadelphia, “read about Nujol,
was interested in it, so sent for a
sample.” It seems she has been tak¬
ing a tablespoon of Nujol once a day
since and expects to continue this
treatment. Already she has found an
improvement in her general health,
her system functioning had normally
where other remedies failed.
That’s one of the best things about
Nujol. It is just as harmless for
young girls, or babies even, as it is
for adults. For Nujol contains no
medicines or drugs. It can’t upset
Berlin Exhibitions Unique
Berlin, Germany, hail a number
of exhibitions last winter that were
out of the ordinary, and crowds en¬
joyed the novel ideas. One was an
extensive display of live fur-bearing
animals, one part of which was de¬
voted to 100 Artie and silver foxes,
which were in cages framed in
branches of fir trees. Racoons, minks,
rabbits, and even costly cats were dis¬
played. The event, the first of its
kind in Berlin, was held to educate
breeders of fur animals.
Don’t forget that other people's
troubles interest them more than
yours do.
KIEX<N —Flies—Mosquitoes—Bedbugs—Roaches—Moths— An to— Fleas
Waterbugs—Crickets and many other insects
Write for educational booklet, McCormick 61 Co., Baltimore, Md,
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High Birth Rate
Palestine is one of the most pro¬
lific countries in the world. With
its 534 Births to 10,000 population in
1027. it exceeded Egypt’s ratio of 428,
Russia’s 400, was three times as great
as Sweden’s and more than two and
a half times that of England.
When a "man says good-by over the
telephone before you are through,
you may as well hang up.
Starting right
you because it works so easily and
regularly, in a normal fashion.
Nujol was perfected by the Nujol
Laboratories, 2 Park Avenue, New
York City. It can be bought any¬
where for about the price of a ticket
Nujol to a good today movie. and Get it, a bottle of
try won’t you?
In sealed packages.
Lightning Got Busy
Albert Hunt tells a believe-it-or-not
of a bolt of lightning at Horneil, N. Y.
While he was seated in the kitchen
of the Hunt homo on the Ilorneil
t'anisteo road during an electric
storm, a bolt of lightning tiit tiie
chimney and traveled downward,
knocking (lie lids from tiie stove and
lighting a fire that had been laid for
the next morning. Paper and kindling
were burning briskly when tiie family
investigated. They found no apparent
damage to the chimney or the stove.
Any man who hasn’t anything to
worry him occasionally doesn’t know;
that lie is alive.
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or operate a dental laboratory of your
own. Write the
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