Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 July 1938 — Page 17
‘The Indianapolis
THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1938
Second Section
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From Indiana =Ernie Pyle
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs And the Other Disney Characters Bring Prosperity to Rubber Plant.
BARBERTON, 0., July 21.—Akron, as you | Russians’ Success, Geographica
know, is the greatest rubber center in the world. And Akron isn’t in such good shape right now. The huge rubber companies, beset by depression and labor trouble, have that worried look. But over here in Barberton, six or seven miles from Akron, is a little rubber concern which has been coining the jack. And the reason for its pros-
perity is not auto tires but—Walt Disney toys.
It is the Seiberling Latex Co. Compared with the mammoth tire | companies of Akron, it is just an |
infinitesimal atom. Its payroll has never gone nver 400 people. This company was started by A. J. Seiberling, the tire man, as a sort of civic duty to occupy an cold brokendown building in Barberton which needed a tenant. They started by making things like rubber hose, hot-water bottles, Mr. Pyle rubber balls, ousehold gadgets. : Seiberling himself was not especially active, trusting the management largely to his vice president, youngish but gray-haired Tom Casey. One night about five vears ago Casey went to the movies. On the screen was “The Three Little Pigs.”
Casev liked it. He went to see it again. After his |
third trip he went to California. He came back with the licensing rights to make the Three Little Pigs in rubber toys for children. He went to New York, hired an Italian sculptor, and set him to work modeling the Three Little Pigs. As Casev savs, the sculptor practically cut-Disneyed Disney. His models of the pigs were wonderful. They sold like hot cakes. So the sculptor went on sculpting. They made every major character Disney produced, and some minor ones I never heard of. Casev had the Snow White characters on the market last November, two months before the picture was shown. Nobody bought any. When sales reports filtered back to Casey, he woke up and found lie had 40.000 of the blasted things on his hands. He ordered production stopped. And then came January. And the opening of Snow White in New York. And almost before Casey realized what had happened, the 40,000 Snow White rubber doils were all gone and orders by the thousands were pouring in,
‘It's Off to Work We Go’
They started in again. They worked full shifts, 924 hours a day, and steadily lost ground. At one time they were 125,000 dolls behind
More than half a niillion Snow White dolls have
been sold so far. And at comparatively high prices,
too. Fifty cents for each of the dwaris, and a dollar for Snow White Counting all the Disney char-
acters. thev've sold millions and millions. And Seiberling Latex is just one of more than 100 companies making various toys and doodads
under the Walt Disney label. It has been printed, | and I'm sure it's true, that Disney makes more
from the bv-products than from the movies. And what does Disney get out of it? Well, from Seiberling he gets 5 per cent of the wholesale receipts. It seemed to me that 50 cents was pretty high for a rubber image of Dopey or Sneezy. But after going through the factory, I see why. After the model is approved, they have to make scores of steel forms in the image of Dopey, say. Then, in actual manufacture, sheets of rubber are placed, by hand, in these forms. Then the lid comes down, steam runs the temperature up to about 450 degrees, and a million pounds of pressure is applied. The rubber cooks in here for 15 minutes When it comes out and cools there is ragged rubber all around the edge of Dopey. This has to be trimmed off, by hand. Then they are painted, and this is hand work
too. It takes about 15 minutes to paint each Snow | White character—and there have been half a million |
of them
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My Diary
By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady's Neighbors May Deny |
It, but Hyde Park Has Mosquitoes.
YDE PARK. N. Y.. Wednesday.—Of course, just as I moved all my tables for supper to the porch, last night, the weather cleared nicely. But I did not move out under the trees again The guests began to arrive at 4 o'clock and it was pleasant indeed to sit out by the swimming pool, while some went in for a dip. Then we had supper, afterward clearing the rooms for dancing and singing. We ended just before midnight with the Virginia Reel. which left evervone hot and breathless, but in fine mood to go home
marshy ground, is just beginning to come out. It makes the marsh adjoining our little ponds a blaze of color, reflected in the water I remember it all through the vear as one of the most brilliant of
By Leonard H. Engel
Science Service Staff Writer ASHINGTON, July 21. —Striking growth 'n the size of American military planes during the five years and projected aircraft of the next five has set many people wondering and arguing during recent months about the merits of huge military craft generally and about the purpose behind American trail blazing in that field specifically. America’s military planes, like her commercial airliners, have grown because of the fact that the United States is a large country and because U. S. Army strategists consider that the Monroe Doctrine requires that America be able to strike anywhere in the western hemisphere within 48 hours. These are two of the factors behind the phenomenal growth of U. S. Army Air Corps and Navy aircraft, this writer has been informed time and again bv authoritative Army sources here during discussion of this question. The Army has gone in for big, long-range planes, it was stated, so that the Air Corps will have craft which not only can knock down any planes of any foreign power, but also so that they will have sufficient range to be able to strike an invader on one coast from midcontinent bases or even from the other coast. This is something no small plane could do. ” » 5 N addition, military strategists in this country have always assumed that invasion of any coun-
try in the western hemisphere will be an act of war against the United States and will be treated as such—a policy laid down more than a century ago by President James Monroe, That policy, it was pointed out, means today specifically that planes capable of reaching any capital in South America within a day or two from the southern part of this country must be aesigned and built. It is interesting to note, too, that until a short time ago only one .other country in the world had gone extensively into the construction of big long-range planes. That country is Soviet Russia, a land with even vaster proportions than the United States and one which likewise believes in being able to shuttle her air force from one far-flung border to another in an awful hurry. The U. S. S. R. is believed to be the only nation besides the United States whose air force is equipped with any considerable number of four-en-gined bombers such as the “flying fortress.” U. S. Army Air Corps men are generally convinced ot the invulnerability of the “flying fortresses” and their brother craft on the basis of some little-known occurrences in the Spanish Civil War
and on other indications, it was also stated. s » ARLY in the Spanish War Generalissimo Franco's Rebels began using German Junkers 52 twin-engined bembers. But they proved extremely vulnerable and were relatively ineffective. American and other opponents of the big plane thereupon crowed “that the flving fortress was shot down and doomed in Spain.” However, they spoke too soon, for it soon became apparent that a serious design defect of that particular craft and not the big plane as a class was to blame. The Junkers 52 was a heritage from the days when the German Reich: was paying lip service to the Versailles Treaty and was attempting to conceal military plane construction. Since machine guns and other armament in the forepart of a plane are impossible to conceal, the designers had left the forward end of the Junkers 52 unprotected, relving on her rear armament and her great speed for defense against the attacking pursuit ship. But these proved no defense at all against a plane diving toward the oncoming bomber. The twin-engined bomber, however, was restored to good graces by the appearance of a Russian plane similar to the Martin bomber (built principally for exvort) and the B-18, the Douglas bomber which is standard equipment in the U. S. Army Air Corps. Nicknamed the Katushka by the men in Spain, it is a speedy, heavilyarmed craft and gave an exceedingly good account of itself, one officer declared. ” n ” T was, he said, the first bomber to fly successfully without accompanying pursuit ships. Its speed and its armament were ample to take care of anything it was likely to encounter. In addition, since it was flving in a small territory, it could use its excess gasoline capacity for the ~arriage of a greater military load—bembs and ammunition. German bocmb-= ers of later design have, incidentally, corrected the earlier defect. Convinced by these and similar facts, the U. 8. Army has gone ahead with the B-17. the “flving fortress”; the B-15, 60,000-pound “super-flying fortress,” of which the Army has one model for testing with 13 ordered; and is now having built to its order a 160.-000-pound aerial Goliath. So convinced is the Army, as a matter of fact, that these great multi-engined bombers are im-
A squadron of “flying fortresses” over New York City.
mune to attack by the singleseat pursuit ship of classical type and romantic legend, that they have designed the world's first multi-engined attack ship,
the Airacuda, purpose—as the ship which
bring the big babies down. Airacuda, of which 13 have been ordered, is a twin-engined plane of
for one primary
The 'Why' of Big Military Aircraft
l Factor Behind U. S. Move to Huge Bombers
The Army's B-15, described as the most powerful fighting ship in the world,
Times<Acme Photos.
revolutionary design. In addition to a speed in excess of 300 miles an hour, it has an arsenal consisting of two rapid-fire cannon and four machine guns. (Copyright, 1938)
British Bombing Planes Active in Unending ‘Secret War’ in India;
NEA Service Staff Correspondent
ONDON, July 21.—While British
really blocked disarmament, so far | as bombers were concerned. It has | there. | often been asserted (also denied) | that a former British cabinet min-
England is always having trouble Force bombers, were after Ipi and The chase cost $5,000,000, { 221 killed and 601 wounded—but no
# & = OR the past 13 years Britain's
I When the troops found the cavern |
Chief Trouble-Maker Eludes 30,000 Troops in Costly Chase
The lovely purple loose-strife, which grows in |
| By Milton Bronner
350,000 miles. It is pointed out that bombers were not always bombing. They carried troops and supplies to the front and took back casualties.
| him a job, but also gave him a room
Our Town
By Anton Scherrer
Cap Kinney Really Had Something With Which to Excite the Hungry Reporters at the Police Station,
NE day just about 40 years ago, a group of hungry reporters were loafing around the Police Station waiting for something to turn up when the telephone in the next room rang. Capt. Jerry Kinney answered it, and after an interminable stay reported that
finally somebody had staged a perfect murder. Cap was all excited and said he had waited all his life for a perfect murder, and here within six miles of Indianapolis—in Southport, of all
| places — somebody had actually | turned the trick. Cap said he had | all the details at his fingers’ ends.
That's why it took him so long to telephone, he said. Ten years ago, said Cap, one Harry La Plante, a young man of French descent, showed up in
| Southport and asked for work. Uncle
Jim Beechman, the blacksmith, took a fancy to him and not only gave Mr. Scherrer in his home. Jim had a daughter, a beautiful blond by the name of Blanche, and the way things work in
| this world, Harry fell head over heels in love with
Blanche. Which would have been all right, said Cap, had not Harold Hayman, son of the druggist, been in love with Blanche, too. One night, a year after young La Plante arrived in Southport, the Methodist Church burned down. Harold Hayman and some of his buddies gave the State evidence that Harry La Plante had set the church on fire. Harry was tried, found guilty, and sent to the penitentiary for 10 years. Blanche Beschman went to pieces when she heard the verdict, said Cap. When she came to, she said she'd stick by Harry, no matter how long it took’ Well, human nature being what it is, Harry La Plante gradually faded from the memory of Blanche Beechman. Cap said that Harold Hayman, the druggist's son, may have had something to do with it, too, because as soon as Harry was sent up for arson Harold got busy and renewed his attentions to Blanche.
Wedding Set in New Church
Apparently, Harold made some headway because when Cap picked up the telephone that day, first thing he heard was that the Beechman-Hayman wedding was to have taken place that morning. It was to have been a feature of the dedication of the new Methodist Church which, phoenix-like, had grown out of the ashes of the one supposed to have been de=stroyed by Harry La Plante. The couple was marching up the aisles. said Cap, when suddenly the side door of the church flew open and there stood Harry La Plante with a revolver in his hand. He had been paroled “I can stand no more,” said Harry, and pulled the trigger. The reporters didn't wait for Cap to finish. to learn whether Harry got Harold, or Blanche, or both. They rushed for the front door of the Police Station. honing to heaven that the presses hadn't started printing the Home Edition. That's when Cap said: “Say boys, if that story were true, wouldn't it be a honey?”
Jane Jordan
Many Problems Still to Be Solved After Leaving Husband, Wife Told.
EAR JANE JORDAN-—I have been married ale most 10 years. About two years ago my huse band began running around with a group of men. He drank a lot and stayed out all night two or three times a week while I sat at home with the children. He always came home drunk, I let it get the best of
me and was sent to the hospital for three weeks. When the doctor told him I might not get well he broke down and cried and said he still loved me. He said he would treat me better and make up for what he had done. For three months after this we were very happy and he was his old self again, but it didn’t last. Now he is worse than ever and gives me barely enough money for groceries. I know he makes good money, but I haven't seen a check for months. T think he is ashamed of me and the children for we haven't any clothes except what people give us. He has good clothes and looks very nice. He is so cross with the children. One kind word from him makes me feel like a different person. Should I take the children and leave him? I have asked him to get me some rooms, but he doesn’t seem anxious for me to go and says if I do I won't get any help from him. Do you think he still cares for me or does he just want me to stay and have his meals ready and his clothes laid out for him? I know it would be lonely without him for I love him, but I can’t hold up much longer the way things are going now. Neighbors say I am a fool to stay and that he is setting a bad example for
-4 statesmen and British news-| ister. when in office, resisted dis- | nature's shows ; ‘ ‘ : bE ) ns ee chief enemy and troublemaker | : ; a The Fakir resumed his activities i i : : I have just been sent a perfectly delightful cook | papers are expressing ihdignation BL as So pg Decause | ji, that region has been the Fakir of Ninh d had, eer his JNding place | his year. His. wilh followers: have anon, but I love him and yan. 2 ge hing book, published in Sweden and imported into this | the airplane bombing of women and | they were needed _on India's fron- |p. Now 42, with his beard dyed a British boet' to wens this ii ol killed troops, poisoned wells, .cut . widen . country by the Albert Bonnier Publishing House. Mrs. | children in Spanish Government tiers. { fiery red, he invariably tries to make | he Takiv or Tpi ih telegraph and telephone wires and Is certainly dipi-— left bombs on the roads. The Fakir
Akerstrom, the author, is the head of a famous cook- | towns by Franco end at the spec-| Waziristan, where British bombers | his fights have a religious tinge by | Answer—How do the neighbors think you would When we drop him a bomb has also been busy issuing antigov- |
live if you left your husband? What is there to prevent him from skipping out of the state and leaving you without funds and the children on your hands? | I do not.know how you can reform your husband, but I do know it is folly to go from bad to worse as is often the case when a penniless woman with children gets a divorce. True your husband is setting a bad example for the children, but this does not necessarily mean that they will follow it. Children do not always copy their parents. To leave your husband would not he a guarantee that none of your children would be like him anyway. It is too bad that there is no way to remake erring husbands so that they will accept their family responsibilities, but I know of no magic formula which works in every case. A wise, steady and able wife can do a : . great deal toward keeping a pleasure loving man from another party, but this one is more serious and we squandering his money uselessly, But to move out on are meeting to discuss some of the problems of | fh TEA RY RIT 5 : 4A & 1—~Name the capital of the Fiji him is simply to increase his opportunities for wasting workers’ education. This is easier to do indoors, for BY pad Bl ids 8 4 N N . g Ta \ . SO : Islands. his wages in self-gratification. though I hesitate even to suggest such a thing— | I { By ) : 2—When should salad be ‘served Of course it is hard to live with a man who dis= most of my neighbors will not acknowledge it—honesty at a formal dinner? appoints your expectations at every turn. But if it compels me to sav there are mosquitoes about us and 3—In what round did Joe Louis would be still harder to live without him, wherein their humming and their bites are distracting to win his return bout with Max would you gain anything by leaving? When in a tight, orderly meetings Schmeling? 5 spot, don't jump unless you're sure it will improve In the midst of the party yesterday afternoon, I 4-—Can the President of the your situation. JANE JORDAN. was told that the Philadelphia operator wished to United States pardon a prisspeak to me. In a few minutes Franklin Jr. came on Le : wr i : ; NS oner convicted in a state the wire to announce that his wife, Ethel, and a new INFERS SY N * 3 “ | S & rr, court? baby boy were both doing well. I had not expected Sa . 5 gE" > 3 5—In which state is the Mount to hear quite so soon. It certain is very pleasant to of the Holy Cross? know that the two principals in this happy event are 6—What is the political status getting along so well. Sometime before long I shall of the Hawaiian Islands? have to journey down to Philadelphia to see the young a ed . : - T—What event is called The Nafamily, for Franklin Jr. tells me the baby is very ¢ ” x oki % oo NS ; > b tivity? beautiful | f a : : : Well, that's what he'd be expected to say. fi ‘ a, 9 y gn
ing school in Sweden, where Crown Princess Ingrid | tacle of thousands of hapless vic- | are at work on “police duty,” is a| using the slogan: of Denmark, daughter of :Crown Prince Gustaf of tims of Japanese bombers in Chi- | tract 160 by 60 miles inhabited by “Is is . : ~ | Sweden. and her cousins, Princesses Martha and Mar- | nese cities, British bombing planes | the war-like Moslem tribes of the Phe ie Tne sande) fanatical Mos- He's never at homb. A OE IpouDle garetha, nieces of King Gustaf, all learned to be excel- are actije in Waziristan, that trou- | Wazirs and the Mahsuds. Their | Jems anywhere than in Wagiristan. | $4 A ment. Since May, bombers have lent cooks bled region between Afghanistan | country is a mass of hills and moun- | Either through fear of or through HE Government of India does | been trying to blast him from his It is interesting that these Princesses were given | and the Northwest Frontier province | tains, cut by deep gullies and ravines | sympathy with him, the Fakir in-| not take so humorous a view of | hiding place, but without success. such practical training and are proud of their achieve- | of India. land with many long caves which | variably finds shelter when closely | the Fakir's doings. In the last | Three thousand troops are also seekments in the household arts. Each is credited with It's just another of those para- | serve as hiding places. As the land | pursued. From November, 1036, to | three months of 1937 the Air Force !ing him. So far he has been like a some special dish of her own inventing. doxes—and the basis of a charge |is bare and poor, the tribesmen live | 1937, 30,000 regular British and In-| bombers carried out 3250 hours of | Wazir flea—never where they look If many of us in this country, who have the time, | made by the Nazis that the British 'largely on loot. | dian troops, backed up by Royal Air | flying, representing flights totaling ' for him.
would give more practiéal study to tasks in our own homes, I think it would be truly valuable. We really 0
| Jasper—By Frank Owen
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do suffer from lack of interest in household arts— | Side Glances—By Cla rk SETI = :
perhaps because they are not a fashionable occupation. Son Expected to Say That hn FO
It is still cloudy today and rain threatens. I have
Put your problems in a léiter to Jane Jordan, who will answer your questions in this column daily. f~
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