Bring Dead to Life
With Late Devices
One Stimulates Heart, An
other Restores Breathing.
New York.—Nearly 500 persons
apparently dead have been brought
back to life In New York and Chi
cago by two of the scientific Instru
ments recently developed by phjsl
clans.
Many of these 500 were quite lit
erally “dead" by ordinary tests—a
few of them new-born babies whose
bodies had been laid aside with the
last hope given up.
The 500 were restored not only to
life but to health. They are the an
swer of organized medicine to spec
tacular Ideas of reviving dogs, sui
cides and executed criminals. They
are the practical application of the
same knowledge which Is being used
for the more sensational experi
ments.
The Immediate objective is an an
nual company of American “dead’’
about equaling the number of auto
mobile fatalities. It Is believed that
as many as 50,000 In this group
could be saved yearly If the new
devices reached them soon enough.
Gold Needle Saves.
There is no progress yet townrd
restoring to life the person who has
died of a wasting disease—nor any
wish by physicians to attempt It.
About 200 of those brought back
to life here and In Chicago were
treated with the artificial pacemak
er, a gold needle which stimulates
heart beats with electrical impulses
at the rate of 30 to 120 a minute.
This needle was brought out two
years ago by the Wltkln founda
tion of Ileth David hospital, New
York city. It grew out of the fact
that up to lO.'K) about (10 persons,
apparently dead, had heen brought
back to life by hypodermic Injec
tions dW'ectly Into their hearts.
Adrenalin was frequently used,
but even a “shot” of ealTeln simi
larly given, restored some of the
“dead." This all called attention to
a mighty effort which nature herself
makes In every heart. In the first
90 seconds after it stops, to get It
to resume beating.
The heart quickly loses alkalini
ty, and Its ncidlty rises. With ris
ing acidity the heart becomes a bet
ter conductor of electricity. Its own
natural control Is partly electrical,
with exceedingly faint chemlcnl
electrlc currents.
Gives Electric Shock.
The prick of a needle, without any
hypodermic at all. Is an electric
shock to a heart In this condition.
Realization brought the protection
of the “artificial pacemaker’* to sup
ply electric Impulses.
It was found also that the heart
Son Won Part Victory
Over Dad for School
Omaha.—Lloyd Skinner, Jr., twen
ty, who sought to compel his father
to pay for his college education,
won only a partial victory when he
took his cnse to District court.
The Judge ordered the senior
Skinner to remit $3tK) for his son's
college expenses last yenr, holding
Lloyd had a right to complete the
term having entered college.
Fie refused, however, to order the
father to pay for another yenr.
Sale* of Black Walnut
Help Carolina Farmers
Raleigh, N. C.—Ice cream and
candy companies needed black wnl
nuts. Farmers needed money. The
state department of agriculture
stepped In and helped them get to
gether.
Many farmers had black walnuts
going to waste, with no hope of sell
ing them. In finding a market for
the nuts the department of agri
culture opened a new source of
much-needed revenue for the grow
ers.
has an electrical pacemaker of Its
own, a small group of cells In the
right auricle, which seem to regu
late the heat of the entire heart
muscle. The gold electrical needle
Is used to substitute for these pace
making cells.
Use of the needle tip there. In
stead of haphazardly about the
heart, appeared to be frequently the
direct source of recovery of life and
permanent health.
The other new' device for restor
ing the “dead” Is an Insufflator,
sponsored by the society for the
prevention of asphyxia! death. It
Is a pressure apparatus for mechani
cal breathing, which goes a step
farther than the "mechanical lungs,"
the equipment of emergency squads
and artificial respiration.
Insufflation forces oxygen and
carbon dioxide Into the lungs. More
over It mixes them when necessary
In proportions to stimulate as well
as give the ordinary effects of air.
Capital Squirrels
in Need of Dentist
Washington. — White House
squirrels need a dentist. They
are suffering with pyorrhea, gin
givitis and plain toothache, park
commission experts said recently.
A frisky young squirrel of the
Coolidge administration died re
cently and examination of its
teeth disclosed the shocking
truth.
The White House squirrels are
the most pampered in the world.
They are overfed on soft foods
and never gnaw any nut harder
than a peanut.
South African Carries
Whales in His Suitcase
Capetown.—“Anything to de
clare?" asked the customs officer.
"Two whales," said the man with
the suitcase. •
"Don’t be funny,” snapped the
officer. “Just open that hag."
The man opened the case—and
produced the whales.
They were contained in bottles—
whale embryos taken from a har
pooned whale.
Lindbergh Reveals
Germs Travel High
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Obtains Specimens in
Flights in Arctic Regions.
Washington. — Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh, by his flights across Arc
tic regions In 1933 has enabled the
Department of Agriculture to dem
onstrate conclusively that the spores
of plant disease can be borne on re
mote air currents.
With a spore trap of his own
devising, which he called “the sky
hook,” Colonel Lindbergh obtained
specimens which confirmed the pre
vious theories of government ex
SMART SKI SUIT
l>7 CHKRIK NH'HOI.A.H
When a lady of fashion goes ski
ing or skating her costume must
be as much up to the mark In chic,
as carefully planned as If she were
dressing for an opera premiere or
a ball In the governor’s mansion. In
the way of rugged outdoor sports
wear, the onttlt pictured Is high
style lu every detail. Navy blue en
gadlne fashions this attractive ski
and skate suit. It Is belted In a
practical way and has convenient
patch pockets. The stunning white
knitted accessories have a brightly
colored Norwegian design.
perts that plant diseases may be
carrled across continents by air
currents.
That was announced by Fred C.
Meier, the department expert who
Interested Colonel Lindbergh in the
work.
Wife Helps In Work.
Colonel Lindbergh obtnlned the
specimens while he and Mrs. Lind
bergh were flying back and forth
from Denmark to the North Ameri
can mainlund during the summer
of 1933 In an effort to chart a north
ern transatlantic route for regu
lar air commerce.
Colonel Lindbergh devised his
"the skyhook,” a light, strong con
trivance easy to operate nnd well
adapted to protecting sterile glass
slides from contamination except
for the time they were exposed. Mr.
Meier prepared the slides and has
examined and photographed them.
He credits Colonel Lindbergh with
careful work.
The Lindberghs exposed 26 slides
and returned them with field notes
and free-hand maps indicating ex
actly where and for how long and
under what conditions each slide
had been exposed. Mr. Meier has
taken care of the preservation of
the slides and has examined and
photographed representative sec
tions. He has been able to identi
fy the genus and In some cases the
species of many of the objects
trapped In the petroleum Jelly which
covered the slides.
Await Further Identification.
More complete identifications will
in many cases have to await the
assistance of botanists familiar
with the characteristics which Iden
tlby various kinds of pollen, and
of scientific workers who are spe
cialists in different groups of fungi,
mosses, lichens.
On one slide exposed far north
of the Arctic circle, Mr. Meier was
able to discover under the micro
scope more than 40 different types
of objects In a space five centime
ters square. This was on a slide
exposed 3,000 feet above sea level
along the northeastern coast of
Greenland.
"This Lindbergh collection," says
Meier, "is the first of Its kind to
give concrete evidence of the part
played by air currents In the dis
tribution of fungi between north
ern lands."
Old Turtle a Bit Dated
Whitman, Mass.—Harry E. Bar
rows hauled out of Brighum pond
one of the oldest turtles in this
part of the country. It hud carved
on its bnck the date 1855.
This Parade Wasn’t as Funny as It Looked
When L’rbun l^erroux’s club of Old Bucks and LAtue Ducks marched from the Bowery in New York the
people In the streets first laughed, and then grew serious and sad. The proteges of "Air. Zero” wer«
petitioning for clothes or at least ?1 a week with which to buy them.
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SEEN*-•' HEARD
around th*
National Capital
rr-TTi-By CARTER FIELD*-*-*
Washington. — A drive against
“rackets" in so-called protective
committees of stock or bondholders
of corporations, especially those in
receiverships, is about to begin as
an altogether unexpected develop
ment of the securities and exchange
commission activities.
Every investor has realized for
some time there were grave abuses
in these committees, that they ran
up fees and charges even when they
were legitimate, and that all too
often their main purpose was to
be bought off by those really trying
to revamp the corporation in the
interest of the stockholders.
So far there Is no Indication that
the commission Is going any furth
er, but its reports to congress,
which will be made in a few
months, will, according to very re
liable sources, at least start a move
—whether It gets very far or not—
at doing something about the high
cost of receiverships.
For the present the commission
is aiming chiefly at men who have
made practically a business of get
ting unthinking stock nnd bond
holders, already faced with the
prospect of losing part of their in
vestments, to go into moves which
benefltted the operators, but in the
long run only increased the loss of
the Investors.
The next logical step, senators
familiar with the plan declare, Is
to go after the perfectly exorbitant
legal and other fees being charged
for administering financially crip
pled organizations.
One senator cited a case where
a hotel property Is being admin
istered by three lawyers, no one
of whom ever had any experience
in the hotel business, but who are
being paid $10,000 a year each for
their services in directing this prop
erty’s operations. Actually, of
course, no one of the three devotes
very much time to the actual op
eration of the hotel.
Hits Bondholder
*
The point this senator empha
sized Is: what chance does a stock
or bondholder have of getting any
thing when a property, already
crippled or It would not be in re
ceivership. has this additional load
put upon It?
More to the point Is the case of
nn office building where two law
yers. after performing a very minor
legal service for one of the bond
holders’ protective committees, sent
bills for $15,000 each! It so hap
pens that if this particular office
building hnd po&yessed $50,000 at
the time—Just the total of this
lawyers’ bill—It would not have
had to go into receivership at all!
And it so happens that there are
several other “protective” commit
tees operating at the moment In
behalf, allegedly, of the bondhold
ers of tills particular enterprise.
“The trouble about anything per
manent being done,” the senator re
marked, “is that there are too
many lawyers in congress. I hap
pen to be one myself, but the fact
is—and if you quote me by name I
will deny I even had such a thought
—the boys do stick together. And
the Judges who appoint receivers
and who pass on the fees of attor
neys for protective committees are
all lawyers. I do not know Just
whnt ought to be done about It, but
certainly it has approached the
stage of a scandal. And beyond the
shadow of a doubt the property
of Investors who are unfortunate
enough to have put their money In
enterprises which get into receiver
ships, Is actually looted by the pres
ent system. I hope that what the
securities commission starts will
hear fruit.”
New Dealers Fussed
New Dealers are torn between
pride and alarm over the action of
New York state electric companies
in proposing a substantial reduc
tion In rates. They are proud that
President Roosevelt’s policy of do
•ng everything possible to lessen
Ihe cost of electricity to consumers
Is meeting with such success. They
ore a little nlarmed as to what
these particular cuts in this par
ticular territory may do to the
tight approaching In the senate over
ratification of the St. Lawrence
seaway treaty.
Not that the votes of the New
York senators are involved. Both
of them are strongly against the
treaty and are expected to stand
tirmly against It regardless of the
power question. Their concern is
with the port of New York, and
the railroads leading through New
York state to it, and with the Erie
canal. The question of cheaper pow
er la very mild in importance in
deed to them in contrast with the
threat to the prosperity of their big
|H>rt and the communication lines
leading to it.
But this cut in power rates in
New York state, presupposing fur
ther cuts later on, hits a very seri
ous blow at the project as a whole,
so to speak. It makes far more
difficult the problem of convincing
other parts of tlie United States
that the whole scheme is economi
cally sound.
At present there are two sections
of the country arrayed against each
other on this treaty, for local rea
sons. All of tlie Atlantic and Gulf
seabourds are against it for the
same reason that New York Is
against It. Most of the Central and
Northwestern states are for it on
the theory that It w’ould provide
cheaper freight rates for their ex
port products by letting ocean go
ing ships come into the Great
Lakes.
Illinois is an exception. Its geo
graphic position would naturally
make It for the treaty just as Mich
igan, Wisconsin and Minnesota are
for it. The canal would make Chi
cago virtually an ocean port. But
this is complicated by the fact that
Illinois and Chicago want to take
more water out of Lake Michigan.
And President Itoosevelt has not
the slightest Intention of giving in
to Illinois on this.
Might Be Liability
This leaves the Southwest and
the Pacific coast not directly in
terested in one way or the other ex
cept as the project may tend to
prove an additional burden on their
taxpayers. And there is where the
possibilities of these rate cuts al
ready planned, and those obviously
in prospect, come into the picture.
For they mean that the current
produced by the St. Lawrence sea
way project may actually turn from
what has been regarded as an asset,
in consideration of the project as
an economic whole, into a liability.
It is even conceivable that the Pres
ident may lose some of his keen in
terest in the project, though he has
said nothing to indicate this.
But if the proposed cuts of elec
tric rate are followed by such a
program of future cuts as has been
suggested, actually the chief reason
for his being so strong for the
treaty will have disappeared. He
has never said so—publicly—but all
his close friends know that since
the beginning of his Interest in the
project his chief concern was not
the seaway to make cheaper freight
rates to Europe for the Middle and
Northwest, but the power. It was
part and parcel of his plan for forc
ing down electric rates all over the
country.
He never said so for the simple
reason that the St. Lawrence sea
way has been a very popular Issue—
as a seaway, not a hydroelectric
scheme—In the Middle and North
west for many years. But the fact
stands out that unless he pulls
wires with really extraordinary suc
cess, the treaty will be defeated
again this year.
President Optimistic
President Roosevelt is much more
optimistic about the financial fu
ture of this government, providing
he can hold the bonus compromlsi
down to a reasonable figure thai
either his budget message or his ex
planations of it to newspaper men
senators and members of the hous
indicate.
To begin with, there is a $4,000
000,000 “kitty,” to use his own won
in conversations about it. Onl.'
he does not speak of $4,000,000,001'
—he speaks of $2,000,000,000. Wide!
Is another Indication of how hi
mind is working. For It will be re
called that in each of his budge
messages he has gone out of hi
w-ay to put the worst foot forward
the aim always being to be able t
make the picture look better—h
contrast—at some future date.
As a matter of fact, had hi
strategy been of a different variet
—had he been trying to make th
financial picture look rosy instem
of dark with doubt—he could havi
painted a rather optimistic picture
Instance: He could have made n
fair calculation, say somewhere
from 50 cents to 90 cents on the
dollar, of the debts owed the Re
construction Finance corporation
Actually the corporation expects n
net profit when It finally winds up
He could have used the $4,000.
000,000 “kitty" on another offset
Tlds “kitty” consists of $2,000,000.
000 profit made on the revaluation
of gold, and $2,000,000,000 addi
tlonal In the equalization fund
which was voted by congress, and
Is being administered In absolute
secrecy by Secretary of the Treas
ury Morgenthati.
Profit in Silver
Experts who have tried to fig
ure, without Inside Information
which Is not obtainable, all agree
that there Is a considerable profit
already. On the silver purchase,
for example. Some estimate it as
being more than half a billion dol
lars profit right now, without cal
culating any further advance in the
price of silver.
But the President did not want to
make the budget statement any
more optimistic than he could help
He wanted as blue a picture as pos
slide for two reasons.
One is that the more rosy the
budget outlook, the greater diffi
culty he would have restraining the
bonus seekers. That is fairly obvi
ous. It fits In with his direct
threat that if congress boosts the
expenditures proposed in the bud
get In any substantial particular
congress must provide the money
by imposing additional taxation.
The other, and in a way the more
important, is for the effect at some
time in the future. There will bt
another budget message one yeai
from now, which will be in tht
year of a Presidential election. I!
things should not be so rosy for
the administration at that time
as they are now, it might be very
helpful to present a more optimistic
picture to the country.
Copyright.—WND Service.
Stratosphere Balloon Poised for the Take-Off.
Prepared by National Geographic Society,
Washington. D. C.—WNU Service.
ANOTHER flight by a huge bal
loon Into the stratosphere
will be made in the summer
of 1935, Jointly by the National Geo
graphic society and the United
States army air corps. Capt. Al
bert VV. Stevens will be in command
of the balloon which will be piloted
by Capt. Orvil A. Anderson. Like
the expedition of last summer, the
flight of 1935 will take off from a
natural basin in the Black Hills,
eleven miles west of Rapid City,
S. D.
Preparation for such a flight is
a stupendous task. From the incep
tion of the last flight in the fall of
1933, with the guidance of the sci
entific committee appointed by
President Grosvenor of the National
Geographic society, no pains were
spared to produce the best possible
instruments and equipment for col
lecting scientific data in the strato
sphere. Tiie instruments were to
be of full laboratory size to in
sure the greatest attainable accu
racy. This meant that some would
be both bulky and heavy.
To house these many large in
struments, it became necessary to
design a gondola larger than any
that had previously been sent aloft.
Finally, it became apparent that
to lift the gondola and Its cargo of
apparatus high into the strato
sphere, a very large balloon would
be required. Experts were con
sulted, skilled in such construction,
and a contract was given to de
sign and build a larger balloon than
any previously constructed—a bag
which, when fully Inflated, would
contain 3,000,000 cubic feet of gas.
It required five months to fashion
this gigantic bag, and into it went
two and a third acres of rubber-im
pregnated cloth made from long
staple cotton. While it was being
built, work was begun on the gon
dola, a globe of dow-metal, lighter
than aluminum; and in a score of
laboratories and workshops from
New York to California specially
designed instruments were being
constructed.
Meanwhile a site for the base
camp of the stratosphere flight
had been chosen in western South
Dakota. Three considerations de
termined this choice: the point was
far enough west to permit the bal
loon to drift even 700 or 800 miles
to the eastward, and still come to
earth in relatively level, unforest
ed country; the record of the re
gion was promising for good sum
mer flying weather; and the site
was sheltered from surface winds.
Making the “Stratocamp."
Early in June a camp was es
tablished In the deep, cliff-encir
cled natural “bowl” near Rapid
City. It quickly becnme known as
the “Stratocamp.” Capt. Orvil A.
Anderson was on the scene from
the start. Under his capable di
rection the camp developed from
an almost deserted basin Into a
bustling little village of more than
a hundred Inhabitants.
Three telephone lines and two
radio stations kept the Stratocamp
in communication with the outside
world; and there were two tele
graph wires leading to teletype ma
chines which constantly rapped out
weather information from points as
far away as Alaska, Cuba and Ice
land. The special weather station
set up at the camp, through the co
operation of the United States
weather bureau, the signal corps,
and the air corps, ranked, in full
: r.ess of Information furnished, with
the half dozen most important
weather stations in the United
States.
Two weeks after the camp was
started Captain Stevens went out
; by plane from Washington, taking
some special instruments. A few
[ days later Maj. William E. Kepner
j flew into Rapid City, and the flight
personnel was complete.
Freight car loads and truck loads
of the equipment necessary for a
stratosphere flight had been con
verging on the Stratocamp for
weeks. Three railroad cars filled
with heavy steel cylinders contain
ing compressed hydrogen arrived in
Rapid City. Thanks to the generous
co-operation of the National Guards
men of South Dakota and their fleet
of trucks, these tons of steel were
soon neatly piled along one edge of
the camp.
Collecting the Equipment.
The gondola rolled in by truck,
after a journey of more than a
thousand miles, from Midland,
Mich., and was Installed In the com
modious gondola house, the entire
front of which could be opened up.
A few days later another truck
brought in a huge box containing
the balloon bag, which weighed two
and a half tons.
The largest truck of all to tra
verse the winding road down Into
the basin arrived the following
week—the liquid oxygen generator
truck of the army air corps. It
supplied the essential liquid oxygen
used to make breathable air Inside
the gondola during the flyers’ stay
in the stratosphere.
Several airplane loads of instru
ments were flown to Rapid City;
and daily freight and express pack
ages arrived, their contents vary
ing from machine shop tools to deli
cate vacuum tubes.
For many weeks the gondola
house was the center of activities
that started sometimes as early as
four o’clock in the morning and
often lasting until nine o’clock at
night. Numerous Instruments and
pieces of equipment had to be as
sembled, tested, some of them al
tered and all of them firmly fixed
in the places assigned to them on
the gondola shelves or hanging from
the gondola roof.
The last of the preparatory work
was completed on July 9. From
that time on the flight could have
taken place any day. so far as the
equipment was concerned. But it
was essential that the flight be
made during very special—and, un
fortunately, rare—weather condi
tions, covering the area for seven
or eight hundred miles east.
At last. July 27, on the long
awaited high-pressure area had
drifted in from the west and prom
ised for the next day the conditions
wanted both at the Stratocamp and
to the east. When, at noon. Major
Kepner announced officially that the
weather w»as satisfactory for the
flight and that the inflation would
begin that evening, the camp was
galvanized into activity.
Off for the Stratosphere.
Guests were barred from the floor
of the “bowl”; only meu with defi
nite jobs to perform were permitted
in the camp. The balloon box was
opened and the huge, billowy mass
of fabric was spread out on the cir
cular sawdust-covered canvas-pro
tected bed that had been prepared
for It.
Bus load after bus load of sol
diers arrived from Fort Meade.
They were the men of the ground
crew who were to hold the balloon
in leash while the hydrogen poured
into it.
On all sides the preparations
moved ahead like clockwork. At
dusk the floodlights In the great ring
that extended around the floor of
the basin were turned on and a lit
tle later the hydrogen gas was
started through the canvas tubes
Into the vast maw of the balloon.
By shortly after five o’clock there
remained only a few last-minute
tasks to be performed—the careful
placing of rope ends for valve and
rip-cords; the lashing on of a small
mail sack; the loading of warm fly
ing clothes and parachutes.
Captain Anderson and Captain
Stevens climbed into the gondola;
Major Kepner to its rope enclosed
top. the better to direct the take-off.
The outer ropes were dropped;
only the gondola and ten small
hand ropes attached to It held the
gigantic bag of gas to the earth.
Major Kepner directed the final
ground activity of the flight before
the ascent—the weighing off. Ropes
were slackened to test the balloon’s
lift. Ballast was adjusted until
the upward pull seemed just right.
Then came the order. “Cast off J”_
the balloon was away for the
stratosphere.
