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PAGE SIXTEEN THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1922. ELLIOTT TO TAKE UP CASE OF VETERAN, VICTIM OF SHOCK The case of Charles Joseph Bart lett. University of Pennsylvania grad uate, veteran of the World war and a native of Belleville, 111., -who Is at Hold Memorial hospital Buffering from the effects of shell shock, will be taken up through the British embassy at Washington by Rep. R. N. Elliott, it was announced Friday. Bartlett is being cared for under the direction of Harry Ray Post, American Legion. Bartlett is subject to periodic at tacks of nervousness as the result of injuries sustained in the war. He en tered the police station Thursday evening and asked for help. While there he became so ill that he was removed to the hospital on recommen dation of Dr. W. G. Huffman, city physician, who was called by Ray Weisbrod, member of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. Reports from the hospital Friday were that Bartlett was extremely nervous and. would have to be kept in bed for several days at least. Bartlett is an educated man, about 30 years of age. He was penniless when he struck Richmond Thursday. According to his service record, -he enlisted with the Royal Fusileers Oct. 5, 1914, and served four and one-half years, and was discharged as unfit for service May 1, 1919. He was regi mental sergewit-major of the Cold stream Guard3 when discharged. Although he received a pension when . bja left tho army it was with drawn about two years ago, he said. His last help from the British govern ment came in October, 1920. Efforts will be made by Congress man Elliott to have Bartlett's name placed on the pension list once more. The case will be taken up through the British embassy at Washington. Bartlett claims he had no relatives except a brother, who was killed while serving in the American army in the Argonne. Democratic Men, Women To Meet at Cambridge Both men and women voters will at tend a meeting of Democratic voters of western Wayne county to be held at Cambridge City Friday evening, starting at 7:30 o'clock. Frank Mc Fail, county chairman, will attend the meeting with a number of Democratic workers from this city. Robert Watt Graduates From Technology Institute Robert H. Watt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank N. Watt, 69 South Fif teenth street, was graduated Friday morning at Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburg, with a degree of Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering, college of engineering. The graduating class numbered 365. one of the largest in the history of the institution. The speaker at the commencement exercises was Dr. John Huston Finley, an editor of the New York Times, and formerly New York state commissioner of education. Mr. Watt graduated from the Rich mond high school in 1917 after which he spent a year in Earlham. "At the time of the S. A. T. C. he was en rolled in this service at Miami uni versity at Oxford, Ohio, but when the unit there was disbanded after the signing of the armistice, he completed the year's school work at Earlham. He has spent the last three years In Carnegie Institute. Watt will drive home and probably will arrive in Rich mond Saturd-ay night or Sunday. "CORNS Lift Off with Fingers Uncle Sam's Junk Business By FREDERIC J. HASKIN WASHINGTON, D. C. June 16. America's real work In the naval dis armament program is being started In earnest The conference- itself is his tory and the men who reduced to writ ing the agreements are engaged in other affairs. The actual scrapping of the ships of war is just beginning. It is a jog which is making the United States the seat of the biggest junk in dustry the world ever has known. Dismantling a battleship Is a task second only to building one. A battle ship is designed to withstand destruc tion. In war It is its function to en dure the pounding of the heaviest shells which the ingenuity of man has invented, to say nothing of the pound ing of the seas. And now, under the disarmament treaties, a whole fleet is to be destroyed. Practically all of the work Is to be done in private yards of Junk men or shipbuilders. A Philadelphia firm made the government a proposal to take over the entire fleet scrapped by the treaty, but as a matter of public policy it was decided not to give the entire job to one company. However, this company has obtained the job of scrapping several battleships and a number of smaller vessels. Among the important warships to be scrapped at Philadelphia are the battleships P Missouri, Wisconsin and Maine, the cruiser Columbia, the cruiser Raleigh, which was with Admiral Dewey at Manila Bay, and the Monitor Mon terey. The junk company's yard is on the waterfront and it now is dredging a channel deep enough to receive these great ships. The most, useful implement In the destruction of an armon-clad battle ship is the oxy-acetylene torch. This is a device which shoots a flame of ex tremely high temperature into a, mass of steel and cuts it as a knife cuts bread. These torches are used in cut ting the huge armor plates into com mercial shapes and sizes. The pneu matic drill and the chisel are used in the dismembering of lighter parts, and a ponderous hammer something be tween a trip-hammer and a pile-driver Is used to crush and break up large blocks of metal into smaller, more workable chunks. Material for Automobiles Battleships are made of the best quality of material and therefore have a large value as junk. Armor plate is made of the finest nickel steel. This is cut into billets and sold to automo- 1 ri Doesn't Hurt a bit! Drop a little "Freezone" on an aching corn, instant ly that corn stops hurting, then short ly you lift It right off with fingers. Truly! Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of "Freezone" for a few cents, sufficient to remove every hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, and the callouses, without soreness or Irrita tion .-Advertisement. Call 1727 and ask about Our Stock Investment Savings Plan PRUDENTIAL LOAN & INVESTMENT CO. 20 S. 8th St. Phone 1727 trininimraiuniiuituv! uinnt uitiiinnninfimimtHUHnitHiimnittuitiinmHiii I Ladder Stools, the Best Made I I $1.49 ittuuHtniiinniiiuniumnnnimniifiiimimiiinuimfiitmiiiminniHniiiiiitiiw Thistlethwaite's The Original Cut-Rato E VERY-DAY PRICES In Effect at All 7 Stores GET THE HABITI Thistlethwafte's ICE CREAM 20c Pint 35c Quart It Is Delicious Eat It with your meals. COCKROACHES WATERBUGS ANTS EASILY KILLED BT USINO THE GENUINE STEARNS' ELECTRIC PASTE Also SURE DEATH to rats nd mice. These pests are the treated carriers of dis ease. They destroy both food and property. Keady for Use Better than Traps Directions in 15 languages in every box. 2 ox. size. 35c IS oz. size, f 1.50 MONEY BACK IF IT FAILS Try Our l2-lb. Loaf of Bread, 12c Henry Farwig & Son 1031 Main St. hile manufacturers who remake the material Into engines, springs and other parts requiring great strength. The heavy machiney used In operating gun turrets is sold to manufacturers of farming implements or to Iron foundries. There is much copper, brass, gun-metal, bronze, lead, zinc and manganese on a battleship. These are all used in shipbuilding as well as in other lines of manufacturing. When taken from the battleship they are sorted and sold to dealers or direct to manufacturers. All the material is as carefully sort ed and graded as new metal. It is stacked In neat piles and classified by shapes and sizes. Experience has taught the junkmen the best forms in to which to convert their materials to attract buyers and the big modern junkyard looks more like a depart ment store than the ordinary backyard Junk piles of small dealers. To make the required sizes, crocodile shears are used. These have jaws which cut with a ten-ton pressure. Also, tangled frag ments of lighter material are pressed into blocks in a sort of mould on which an enormous pressure is exerted. While great fighting ships ol the navy will be reduced absolutely to scrap some of the lesser craft will be dismantled only so far as fighting equipment is concerned. The hulls will be used for merchant ships, new interior arrangements being effected to make them suitable for the carrying of cargo. Three old destroyers, the Truxton, the Worden and the Whipple, which were retired some time ago, have been rebuilt as merchant ships and now ply in the fruit trade between the United States and tropical Amer ica. Many of the destroyers are fast, oil-burning ships and are easily sus ceptible of conversion into passenger or cargo ships. A modern battleship costs $30,000, 000 or more; as junk it brings not more than one one-hundredth part of that sum. The battleship Maine was bid in &s junk for $48,000. There are not many persons or companies who are in the market for second-hand bat tleships and the buyer must regard as part of the price he pays the enormous cost of the wrecking. While the seller of the second-hand figthlng ships gets little in proportion to original cost, the ultimate cost to the Junkman is many times what he pays for the complete vessel. Almost as many men are re quired to take a ship apart as to put one together. More than half a million tons of the American navy are being scrapped un der the disarmament treaty and the junk is to be handled in such a way that many people will ride In automo biles, sail in ships, use electrical ap pliances and use tools which formerly constjtuted parts of the great ships. Other Junking Enterprises It is the greatest and most spectacu lar junking enterprise which has fol lowed the war but there are many others. The government bought a tre mendous quantity of material of all sorts and built many buildings espe cially for war use. Many of these are all being scrapped. ' In every big city in the country can be found important evidences of this vast Industry which was so much stimulated by the war. Washington is a typical example. A business man purchased or leased a portion of Camp Meigs, the temporary camp where the war garrison of Wash ington was quartered. Using the camp site as a junk yard, he proceeded to scrap the camp buildings as well as other temporary buildings erected in Washington in the emergency of war. In such deals, the purchaser at second hand of a building takes everything in it lumber, bricks, steel, plumbing, lighting fixtures and all other materi als which go to make up a house. This results in the accumulation of stock for a sort of department store of the building trade. Builders can find in such yards almost anything in the way of materials for any sort of building. This industry is thriving in many cities, especially those near which great army camps were located during the war. The process of reducing to IJ5 A Clean Shave Gives you new pep. 5 skilled barbers Harter's Shop In the Murray Bldg. 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Black Taffeta and Messaline, (J- AA worth $1.50; extra special, yard J)-l-vJU 36-inch' Linesook and Naincheck, white and flesh; ideal for Lingerie; ask to see It. rA The yard DUC LADIES' GOWNS COTTON CREPE Flesh color, sizes Q-j nn 16 and 17, regular $1.75 value Olii BOYS' UNDERWEAR " BOYS' KNIT UNION SUITS, all sizes, QQrt reduced to OuC BOYS' ATHLETIC DIMITIE UNION rf SUITS, special lot at DuC Subscribe for The Delineator Now A representative of the Butterick Publishing Company is at our store for a limited time only to take orders for the Delineator at a very special price. Inquire at Pattern Dept. workable material and selling to the public for peaceful purposes the ships, buildings and many other objects used is going on constantly and will continue for some years before all the war material will be absorbed. Many peo ple will be using, unconsciously, in automobile, house, knife and fork at table, or almost any other conceivable object, some souvenir. The process of destruction and Junk- irig goes on always but is accentuated by war because then it is accelerated. John Stuart Mill, the eminent English economist, pointed out that every five years practically the whole tangible wealth of a nation is destroyed. More buildings are torn down every month, in peaceful processes of improvement. In many American cities, than were shelled down at the siege of Antwerp. Last year's wheat crop is totally de stroyed. Nearly all of last year's cotton is consumed or soon will be. The destruction of war is more spec tacular and therefore regarded as more disastrous, but in an economic sense, the loss is not greatly different from the ordinary peace-time destruc tion deliberately undertaken as a measure of progress. Use of Air Gans In City Prohibited, Says Eversman "Use of air guns within the city lim its is prohibited by city ordinance, and is punishable by a fine of $1 and costs," said Chief of Police Eversman Friday. Two boys were lectured at the city hall after they had been brought in on complaint of the neigh bors, who said they were using the guns too much. Q. R. S. WORD ROLLS Opp. Post Office Phone 1655 Will Take William Larkin, Arrested Here, to Nashville William Larkin will leave for Nash ville, Tenn., shortly, in custody of officers from that place, as a result of his arrest on the carnival grounds South. Twenty-third street, Thursday evening. Larkin is charged with, grand larceny. He has been wanted at Nashville for. some time and offi cers arrested him as soon as h wsa seen here. He was arrested on lnfoi raatioa furnished by the Nashville police. 0 ICE CREAM of Leadership Made under most sanitary con ditions, as pure and delicious as experience and money can make it. Give the children all they want these hot days. Our Ice Cream is a rich food and easily digested. Solve your dessert problems by ordering a quart of our delicious Ice Cream. At Feltman's Special Saturday Black Kid Straight last SHOES, welt sewed soles, and rubber heels. Special Feltman's Shoe Store. The World's Largest Shoe Dealers 85 Stores 724 Main Street TOMORROW From 2 to 4 p. m. Auction Sale Used Cars on South 11th Street, Just off Main Street 20 Cars at Your Own Price 6 to 10 Fords Offered Chenoweth Used Car Dept., 13 S. 11th Auto Co. Phone 1541 ) SALE of 9 ITS) j H .oam-m nits Just in time for the bathing season comes this opportune selling of splendid Bathing Suits that will make your fun so much more enjoyable. Just the correct weight; all-wool materials; elastic, snug fitting one and two-piece garments. Selection of Kelly brown, navy, black and heather, trimmed with contrasting color stripes. All sizes to 46. This price is the lowest that a standard grade, such as Bradley Knit, has been sold for in several years. KING STRAWS Require No Apologies They are made right, sold right, and are right throughout their term of service. They always please, and only good Straws do that. All the new shapes, weaves and colors are here waiting your inspection, with all the comfort, style and quality a Straw Hat can give. 00 , $ to Light Weight Summer Caps, $1.50 and $2.00 Match that Odd Coat with New Trousers Wonders Work or for Work Dress $2 J $3 Fine Finest Fabrics Made $4 S5 KING'S ' 1 N DEPEND ON US r LEE B. NUSBAUM COMPANY Main Street Bet. 9th and lOt