Ontario Will Guard
Dionne Quintuplets
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Plan Board of Guardian*
to Prevent Exploitation
Toronto.—The Hepburn govern
ment Is prepared to create a new
board of 90 guardians for the Di
onne quintuplets, If such a step Is
necessary to safeguard them from
exploitation.
The Ontario legislature, at Its
present session, may he asked to
constitute Itself the protector of the
world’s most famous babies, and to
pass special legislation In their be
half.
This Is the answer given by Pre
mier Mitchell Hepburn, to the $1,
000,000 suit for broach of contract,
filed In Chlcngo by Ivan I. Spear,
promoter, against the parents and
guardians of the quintuplets, Hon.
A. W. Roebuck, nttomey-general of
Ontario, and a number of Canndlan
and Amerlenn publishing organiza
tions.
Charges Broken Pact.
Spear alleges that three days aft
er the birth of the Dionne babies
last May. their father signed a con
tract giving his organization exclu
sive rights to exhibit them nnd all
other members of the family, nnd
that this has since been violated.
Hephurn declares that "If there
Is any action the legislature can
take to prevent the exploitation of
tbeae babies, we shall avail our
selves of It.’’
Attorney-General Roebuck has al
ready declared the contract with
Spear null nnd void, nnd has warned
the promoter "he won’t have a leg
to stand on" If he seeks to press
his action. Cnnadlun courts, he de
clares, would never snnctlon such a
contract, which might place the
lives of the five balden In Jeopardy.
Guardians Sued, Too.
It wns at Roebuck’s request that
Noted Flyers Plan
-€
$100,000 in Prizes Pledged
for the Contest.
Washington.—Speed flyers from
six foreign countries tiuve Indicat
ed desire to participate in the pro
posed around-the Americas air rnce,
the committee In charge disclosed.
Klllott Roosevelt, committee di
rector, and CapL Frank llnwks,
■peed flyer, will go to Central and
South America to build up enthu
siasm for the flight.
At the same time, Roosevelt said,
the governments of those countries
will be appronched oillcially to se
cure consent for (he flyers to cross
over or land within their borders.
Owing to requirement of time to
build plnnes or add special equip
ment, the race, which was original
ly planned for October tills yenr,
now is expected to lie flown in
April, 1980.
The event will have official sanc
tion of the National Aeronautic as
sociation, and its president, William
Gibbs McAdoo, United States sena
tor from California, will head the
race organization.
Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, former
NRA head who was previously an
nounced in charge of the race com
mittee. has resigned, It was stated.
Flyers from Spain, England,
France, Germany, Poland nnd Aus
tralia have requested details of the
contest.
More than $100,000 has been
pledged by Individual sponsors as
prizes, Roosevelt said. At lenst
$200,000 will be needed, according
to the committee.
The committee hopes to make the
race an annual event. The 20,000
mlle course follows the shore line
down the east coast of Buenos
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Log Cabin School in U»a
Camdeuton, Mo.—A log cabin
school house Is still doing service
for pupils of Chappell Bluff, near
here. The one-room structure was
erected GO years ago and still Is In
good condition, nnd Its facilities
adequate for the number of chil
dren In the district
the court of Nlplsslng district ap
pointed a board of four guardians
for the quintuplets—Dr. A. R. Da
foe. their physician; Oliver Dionne,
their grandfather; W. II. Alderson,
head of the Red Cross in northern
Ontario; and Kenneth Morrison,
Callander merehnnt, and friend of
the family. All of these are named
ns co defendants In the suit filed
by Spear.
Premier Hepburn states he Is not
concerned ns to whether Mr. and
Mrs. Dionne appear on the stage or
not.
“They have no value, except as
the parents of the quintuplets,” he
says. "But 1 should be surprised If
the American authorities would al
low babies to be exhibited on the
stage. We would not permit It In
Ontario, The whole business Is a
disgrace, and I deprecate to the
fullest extent, the disgusting Inci
dents which have developed. We
are not going to let these children
get Into the hands of self reeking
promoters.”
Ohio Penitentiary Home
for 131 College Men
Columbus, Ohio.—Only 131 col
lege graduates are listed among the
4,323 convicts In Ohio penitentiary,
a survey has revealed. There are
804 prisoners with high school edu
cations and 2,802 completed gram
mar school work. The survey
showed that ages of 3,480 of the
convicts come within the range
from fifteen to thirty-nine years.
Lights Too Bright;
Cinema Stars Fade
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Dehydration Causes Ills
Afflicting Celebrities.
Los Angeles.—Just hs Hollywood
Is recovering from the fright and
panic of the recent decency cru
sade a new goblin Is raising a
threatening head In many of the ma
jor motion picture studios.
Dehydration Is the polysyllabic
and prosaic name of the newest
menace which, according to rep
utable medical authority, is the
cause of the Ills which In recent
weeks have laid many stnrs und
featured players low In home and
hospital sick beds, with Ann Hard
ing currently the most celebrated
victim.
A chemlco medical term, dehydra
tion, before it became a modern
movie malady, usually referred to
Long Plane Race
Aires, then ncross the Andes and
hack up the west coast to Califor
nia, thence over lighted and radio
protected airways ncross the con
tinent.
SWAGGER STYLE
in CIIKKIK NICHOLAS
Here Is a smart street ensemble
as displayed at the textile exhibit
recently held under the sponsor
ship of the Chicago Wholesale
Market council. It Is composed of a
green-amt gray checked woolen
skirt and swagger coat with blouse
the drying out process used In
fruits, vegetables and other food
stuffs—such as prunes, apricots,
raisins, etc., to preserve them for
the market.
Lights Brilliant.
"To deprive or to be freed of
water or the elements of water,"
Is the dictionary definition of de
hydration.
And that, according to physicians.
Is Just what has happened, and Is
happening to Ann Harding and
other afflicted film celebrities—
they have been deprived and sapped
of necessary body water and serums
by the action of now and more pow
erful lights now used In the studio
stages.
These lights are far more burn
ing, glaring and potent than in the
well remembered days of “klleg
eyes." Extra batteries of many huge
arc lamps must be utilised to at
tain perfect resultB In filming.
Used without diffusers or soften
ing screens of any kind, which usu
ally render the lights used in or
dinary filming harmless, these hig
lamps shed a light so heavily
charged with powerful actinic and
ultra-violet rays that they sap the
vital fluids of unwitting screen stars,
fenture player and extra alike, who
are exposed overlong to their hot
glare.
It’s No Joke.
When at first personal physicians
of Ann Harding and other players
diagnosed the ills of their celebrated
patients as being caused by de
hydration, Hollywood, traditionally
skeptical, smiled . . . even laughed.
But when the list of sick and
ailing screen players readied arm’s
length, and keen physicians blamed
dehydration for the heavy colds,
pneumonia attacks and skin ailments
with which many were rendered
hors de camera, the smiles vanished
altogether.
Half Billion Dropped
Yearly in Slot Devices
Chicago.—The National Associa
tion of CoinOperated Machine Man
ufacturers estimates that Ameri
cans drop $500,000,000 in the slot
every year. The pennies and nick
els go for chewing gum, sprays of
perfume, subway fares nnd weight
information for the most part, but
there is one machine which will
count your pulse If you want to
know nbout it.
and coat lining of green satin. The
big pointed revers and the full si!
houette which registers a decided
flare toward the front are important
style details. The wool material Is
one of the new spongy soft novelty
weaves which are such highstyle
this season. This handsomely col
orful green and gray outfit carries
a most important message, namely,
that street clothes ore to be in
bright hues for spring, each cos
tume to present a carefully execut
ed color study either in blends or
contrasts ns the case rnny be. Pros
pects are for n big suit and ensem
hie season with nccent on hand
some and novel fabrics.
“No Tricks Now!” Said the Doctor to “Pal”
Dr. \V. A. Jaquiss. noted wild animal surgeon of Hollywood. Calif., keeps a sharp eye mi I'ul, -UHt pound,
two-year-old African lion undergoing a blood transfusion, for treatment of a peculiar malady. The operation]
a rarity In wild animal care, was performed after numerous tests on the blood of various lions, with success.
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SEEN-*' HEARD
around the
National Capital
i-a By CARTER FIELD ~S
Washington.—In connection with
the proposed International loan to
China—aimed at preventing the
Japanese from obtaining a strangle
hold on that market—a very Inter
esting development, with a grpup
of American manufacturers behind
It, Is under w-ay. The government
knows about It, but has taken no
aotion.
Representing manufacturers who
use tungsten, an American is now
in China Investigating the possibil
ity of obtaining n large amount of
this valuable metal—enough to sup
ply all the needs of the country for
a period of years. The Idea would
be to ship this tungsten from China
to Seattle or some other Pacific
port, and there to hold it as a sort
of pool. Supplies would be sold
from the pool as needed by the
manufacturers.
The main object is not to aid
China, but to stabilize the price In
tills country of tungsten. The
price has fluctuated over a tremen
dous range, amounting to several
hundred dollars a ton for tungsten
ore! This Is a situation which Is
most embarrassing to those using
It, as It makes much more difficult
the making of contracts which have
any length of time to run, especially
contracts where nnv sizable fraction
of the cost Is based upon the price
of tungsten.
Rut If the plan succeeds it will
he of enormous benefit to Chinn.
The supply of tungsten bought would
be so large that it would run way
up in the millions of dollars. This
would provide a credit for China
here for any imports she wanted
from this country. It w-ould not be
barter In the sense that the word has
been used, for example, in connec
tion with the proposed exchange of
half a million bales of cotton with
Germany for blocked marks. But
It would provide China with a large
amount of exchange In this country
on which she could draw. And the
best of it, as the State department
folks see the situation, though they
nre taking no part so far in the
maneuver, Is that it would provide
a natural stimulus to trade, with
no attempt to force goods along
new channels, and with none of the
difficulties and barriers with which
most of the proposed barter agree
ments have been afflicted.
Wouldn’t Stop Imports
Nor would It even put a stop to
Imports of tungsten Into this coun
try, thus depriving Chinn of a nat
ural source of exchange. Under the
proposed plan, Just as much tung
sten would be Imported from China
for the three years, say, following
the arrival of the huge shipments
to make up the pool, as though the
pool had not been created. In a
way this would be a reserve sup
ply, which would be replenished by
purchases from China as fast ns It
was depleted. For the object of
the pool Is not to buy all at once
a supply for a long period, nnd then
not buy again until the pool is ex
hausted. The object is Just to ob
tain price stabilization. If the price
should shoot up to a point the man
agers of the pool thought unreason
able, they would sell, but do no pur
chasing until the price should de
cline. If the price should fall to
low, heavy purchases would be
made, certainly to the limit of the
pool capacity.
In effect, advocates of the plan
point out, the organization of the
pool would be an advance to China
of some millions of dollars. In ex
change for n valuable commodity,
so that no element of credit would
be Involved—as between China and
the United States. But It would
serve just ns useful a purpose as If
the government—as desired by
Britain nnd others worried about
the Japanese credit to China—bad
advanced the money. Which Is very
Important to the treasury because
only the most optimistic think of
the money were lent it would ever
be repaid.
Those working for the pool say
there would lie no difficulty In
financing the original purchases, as
banks would be glad to lend money
on tungsten stored In a bonded
warehouse.
See Trouble Ahead
A simple relief measure for
Porto Itlco has opened up with prob
ability of trouble nnd repercussion*
from now on, nnd Involving not only
Porto Itlco, but the Philippines. Ha
waii, t'uba, and Louisiana, not to
mention the beet sugar states,
It all grew out of the visits to
Porto Rico by Mrs. Roosevelt and
by Professor Tugwell. who happen*
to be under secretary of agriculture
ns well ns a brain truster At least,
critics of the move so Insist
What happened dually was that
Secretary of Agrbult lire Wallace
signed an order permitting egee* •
sugar enne in Porto Rleo to lie
ground Into molasses arid then
brought Into the United Wale. This
means, of course, that (tie sugar
so ground was unlit tills order
In excess of Porto Rleo a (plots
It could have been sold abroad
on tire world market, or It could
have been plowed under,
Obviously tld* move disturbed
the whole quota set up Already
Hawaii had been streaming that
this very quota was ruinous to ner
The beet sugar people had accept
ed It because they could get noth
ing better, but were far from happy.
And the Cubans thought they were
pretty nearly ruined.
AAA has not paid much attention
to Louisiana sugar producers. They
had been benefiting. The price for
their molasses had risen from 2
to 7% cents a gallon during the
past year. In fact, the sugar sec
tion of AAA claims that Louisiana
has profited more than any other
section from the sugar program.
This was due to a more or less
unexpected development—the wide
spread use of molasses for the pro
duction of alcohol. And therein lies
more trouble from the Porto Rico
decision.
Hits Corn Belt
For It brings the corn belt boys
up standing—and screaming. They
have fought bitteriy for years for
ail kinds of legislation to increase
the price of corn. Many of them
backed the proposal to force all mo
torists to use a mixture of alcohol
—made from corn—with their gaso
line. This was never enacted, but
there has always been pressure for
it, and It illustrates their interest
in any proposal affecting the use of
corn.
Now whisky men agree that neu
tral spirits for blending with
straight whisky should be made
from grain. They Insist that the
taste Is different; that alcohol made
from molasses does not produce as
delectable a drink as if the alco
hol had been made from grain, de
spite the chemical similarity.
And so it happens that the prime
movers of this dispensation to Por
to Rico on molasses, outside the
Porto Rico Interests themselves,
were liquor people. Those most In
terested happen to be located in
Philadelphia. Which presents a
double-barreled argument for op
ponents of the concession.
Louisiana finds herself supported
by the corn belt in protesting
against this upset on the sugar
quota, whereas just recently the
corn belt was sore with the liquor
people for using molasses from
Louisiana. Moreover, the corn belt
boys are sore because if the price
of molasses had kept on mounting,
as the Louisiana planters had hoped
it would, the liquor people would
have turned back to corn anyway.
Long Perturbed
Huey Long Is said by some close
friends to be Just a little perturbed
about the selection of ex-Gov. Dan
Moody of Texns to prosecute alleged
tax evasion cases in Louisiana. This
is one reason Long has been mak
ing such n crusade against Post
master General James A. Farley.
He hopes to do just about what Sen
ator Burton K. Wheeler did to At
torney General Harry M. Daugherty.
And what Senator James Cotizens
of Michigan did to Secretary of the
Treasury Andrew W. Mellon. In
short, to beat them to the punch.
So that when later developments
are aired the country will get the
Impression that Long is being “per
secuted.’’
It is no secret that the govern
ment thinks it has the goods on
Huey. There is no doubt what
ever that Dan Moody was convinced,
in his recent interview with De
partment of Justice and treasury
officials, that they had a good case.
The really interesting part of the
story is why Moody was picked. It
was on the recommendation of some
very high New Deal advisers who
knew the Texas situation intimate
ly. They clinched their case for
Moody when they told of the pros
ecutions that made him famous.
At that time Moody, only thirty
two years old, was attorney general
of Texas. He went after a group,
which was suspected of having
made some fat profits out of road
contracts. He did n masterly job
of Investigating first, and then so
enmeshed the small fry that be
fore they knew whnt they were do
ing they had dragged the higher-ups
Into the picture. So the astonish
ing picture was held up to Texas
of actually putting the big fellows
—the men behind—In Jail.
Made Moody a Hero
All of which made Moody a hero.
He was elected governor and then
reelected. In fact, his popularity
lasted until he, although a Baptist
and thirty second degree Mason, de
cided to support the nominee of
the Hosuton convention for Presi
dent. Tills happened to tie A!
Smith, and Texas did not take kind
ly to Smith's candidacy. Nor to Its
popular governor supporting him.
This Is Important at the moment for
several reasons. First, because
Moody knew tie was running coun
ier to public sentiment. He told
friends nl the Houston convention
that lie did not think Smith would
have a chance of carrying Texas If
nominated As a delegate he did
not vole for Smith, hut for Jesse
toms But At Smith once nom
inated, Moody look the unpopular
enure, and went through for ttie
*.e*v Vork candidate,
■ o that while his lodgment was
sound Ills determination to do what
he thought was the right tiling re
gafdle«« of consequences was also
demonstrated. Afterword he retired
to private life, and has been doing
pretty well since at the practice of
law,
'I he Imng case promises to put
him hark In the national picture,
rteevrtatit.— WNU Servto*.
Through Berdoo Tunnel Will Flow Water to Southern California.
Prepared by National Geographic Society,
Washington. 1J. C.—WNU Service.
WO years ahead of schedule,
Boulder dam is rising to com
pletion. Recently one of the
50-foot tunnels through which the
Colorado was routed around the
dam site, two years ago, was closed,
and the first water was permitted
to flow into the new lake area
above the gigantic concrete barrier.
Southern California will be the
chief beneficiary of the Boulder dam
project. Here, people say “water”
about as often as Moslems say “Al
lah.” Next to money they say it
more than any other one word.
With water, work, and money,
men are reshaping the destiny of
this land, as did Nebuchadnezzar
with the plains of Babylon.
More than 3,250,000 people live
now in regions which were, until
long after our Civil war. largely dry
and empty. This mass movement of
settlers, and the huge total of pre
viously earned wealth they brought
with them, are without parallel in
the annals of migrations.
Cash spent by its visitors and the
Income that many residents enjoy
from money earned somewhere else
pay much of southern California’s
running expenses. You see why
this is so when you stop to think
that nearly a million people are
lured here each year by soft, warm
climate, and that over a long period
an average of about one-tenth of
this annual army has settled here
with its life savings.
From news, pictures, romantic
railroad folders, their own visits
here, and the talk of others who
have made similar pleasure trips,
many In the East think of southern
California as a lotus land where
life is easy. It is, for those who
come to play, to rest, or Just to en
joy laziness in a lush, subtropic
climate. Yet the truth is that here,
by the sweat of tils hrnw and with
Infinite pains, man has turned what
was a desert Into that Eden which
visitors see now as they ride over
smooth paved roads through miles
of fragrant orchards.
Man's Work Never Done.
Outwardly, it all seems so com
plete ; every trim green field, neat
grove, and bright flower bed is in
place, as the world might have
looked after the six days of crea
tion. Yet man’s work is never
done. Behind the ease and glitter
of lavish resort hotels, country
club life, and idle beach crowds of
sun worshipers from the Middle
West, the rhythm of pick and shov
el, of daily routine in stores and
factories, in oil fields and orchards,
is constant and unbroken.
Back of all this routine, a task
goes on, a stupendous, unprecedent
ed effort. Its clatter echoes
through long-silent canyons; empty
deserts are dotted now with work
men’s camps, and the shock of ex
ploding dynamite rocks the hills as
armies of men dig, drill and blast,
boring 91 miles of tunnels and exca
vating leagues of giant aqueducts
to reach and tap the mad Colorado
river and bring stili more water to
this ever-thirsting soil.
For ten years experts figured,
surveyed, drew maps, and planned,
and for a few years more thousands
of men must toil, often stripped
naked, In the stifling heHt of tun
nels shot through solid rock, to fin
ish this gigantic undertaking.
This is southern California’s su
preme effort. It has never tried a
task of such magnitude. In all the
iiistory of great waterworks, the
whole world has seen nothing like
it. These huge canals and reser
voirs will he needed, the people say,
to take care of growth in popula
tion, which has increased more
than 1,400 per cent since 1890.
Los Angeles and 12 neighboring
cities, forming the metropolitan
water district, are building and pay
ing for this vast water system; but
Its safe, steady supply will depend
on Boulder dam. being erected by
the federal government in the
Black canyon at a point on the Ari
zona-Nevada frontier.
Largest Artificial Lake.
Boulder duui will Impound the
world's largest artificial lake. Un
real, hard to believe—that here, in
this dry waste of dust and mirage,
there should suddenly appear a vast
lake of cool, clear water, fringed by
resorts and dotted with pleasure
craft! About 125 miles downstream
from Boulder dam Is another,
known as the Barker; it Is the di
version dam, where water will be
taken off for use in southern Cali
fornia.
Fly east from Los Angeles any
week-end and look down on the
highways that cross the deserts.
Trains of scurrying motor cars
raise league-long dust clouds, like
army wagons on the march.
“Where are they all going?" you
ask the pilot.
"Out to see Boulder dam. They
go by thousands, month after
month.”
No wonder. Among river dams of
nil time it is Incomparable. Set be
tween the steep walls of a deep
canyon, widening toward its top,
the dam’s towering bulk, as you
look up, makes you think of one
mountain tipped upside down be
tween two others.
The dam structure will be 1,2UO
feet across its top, and over this
top will pass a highway, giving men
and wheels their first chance in his
tory to move directly between Ari
zona and Nevada.
Yet, massive as the dam is. its
size is less amazing than the
strange way they are building it.
So much work is done from the air,
overhead. Stand below the dam, Id
what used to be the bed of the Colo
rado, and look up. You see the air
filled with men flying about like
trapeze performers. They swing
dizzily about on the ends of long
cables dangling from aerial trucks
that ride around the sky on fat stee?
ropes stretched from rim to rim of
the vast abyss.
On the canyon rims are towers,
to which these long steel ropes are
anchored; and, to let the aerial
trucks travel up and down the can
yon as well as across and back, the
towers themselves move along un
der their own power. This is so
that men, tools, cement, and steel
can be moved from the canyon rims
and lowered at just the right spot
where they are wnnted on top of
the rising dam.
Still more ropes hang down close
to canyon walls, with a man seat
ed in a boatswain’s chair swinging
on the lower end of each rope.
These men are “high-scalers.” Their
task is to chip loose rock off the
face of the cliffs. Among these
were some fifty Apaches, picking
away at lofty niches where even the
cliff dwellers of former days would
have felt giddy.
“Our high-scalers have worn out
nearly ”00 miles of rope.” says the
superintendent who represents the
contractors and has built dams all
over America.
“How do you pick dare-devils for
that ticklish job?” you ask.
“We watch an applicant's face
the first day he’s ordered over the
rim and down a rope. If he’s nerv
ous, we call him back.”
I.ike high-scalers and other work
ers. the visitor, too, wears the iron
helmets issued to everybody here,
to save heads from falling stones.
Flying Concrete “Agitator."
High above you, as you talk,,
comes sailing a giant humming
creature, for ali the world like a
ten-ton bumblebee, with two men
riding on It. A flying concrete “agi
tator” it is. run by its own motor
and stirring the cement inside to
keep it liquid till the machine
swings to the place where it is to
be dumped.
“You call it a big bumblebee,”
says the superintendent. “To me
It’s more like a mud dauber.”
“What Is your hardest problem
here?” you ask.
“To keep our work in tune with
the whims of this mad river.” he
answers.
Draining seven states, the Colo
rado is about 1,650 miles long, and
may rise or fall with dramatic sud
denness.
The lake made when the dam Is
tinished will cover some 227 square
miles of land, and hold so much wa
ter that each person in the world
could dip 5,000 gallons from it.
No water will run over the dam.
Excess floods will lie carried oil"
through spillway tunnels. The rest,
guided through other tunnels
against the water wheels, will be
ample to generate 1,835,000 horse
power, more tlinn any other hydro
electric plant has ever developed.
Every day 330 carloads of cement
and gravel go Into the rising dam.
When finished, the structure will
contain enough material to build a
fair-sized city, or to make a 60-foot
paved highway from California to
Chicago!
I .eft to cool naturally, it might
take this mass more tlinn a century
to acquire a normal temperature,
for freshly poured concrete is hot.
And then it might crack or settle
unevenly. To avoid this, and insure
a solid structure, some 30o miles of
1-inch water pipe are being built
into the body of the dam, and
through these, as work advances,
Ice water is steadily pumped.
