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From Indiana —Ernie Pyle |

Second Section

The Indianapolis Times

FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1939 at Postorfics, Indianapolis, Tha. PAGE 21

Riding a 'Highball Load" Through |

A New Mexico Night Straight to Coast on the 'Pride of the Fleet.'!

~ALLUP, N. M,, May 12.—We were out | of Albuquerque just at dark, with 15,000 pounds of freight for Los Angeles. That's | a light load. Ours was a highball load, straight through. Other trucks would make | the away-stops, to pick up and discharge local freight. Our truck is what the boys of the Los Angeles- |

Albuquerque call “The Pride of the Fleet.” It's the | biggest and newest one on the line. |

It can carry 26,000 pounds. It is one of these immensely

long trailer trucks. It has 12 |}

wheels, 12 forward gear speeds,

powerful air brakes and the cab |

window-sill is as high as my head.

It does not ride as smoothly as | the truck I came from Denver on. |

Don Kepler is the captain. His helper is Lee Silger—a new man, making his first trip. He's merely new on this line; he’s a truck driver of 12 years’ experience.

Mr. Pyle Kepler goes to bed as soon as |

we leave. The “sleeper,” is in the

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We have three sets of brakes. The regular hand | k The regular foot break. And a mighty set | brakes. The gadget looks exactly like the |

ake lever on a locomotive. and I talk as we grind up the long slope to of the mesa west of Albuquerque. The night and I don't need my sheepskin coat at all. cot those flannel pajamas on underneath.

s a West Kansas bov. He is 35, has a couple |

dren and a house and garden. He knocks im 12 vears of trucking. trucker at heart. He says he has never been out of work a day in his life. He can’t see why anvbodv need be out of work. When he quit his last, job. he found three new jobs the first day he

~ 4 , went looking.

An Exciting Moment

Siens along the highway say “Open Range—Look |

Out for Cattle.” Lee uses his spotlight on the curves. We come rolling swiftly down a long slope. The spot-

ws its beam, and neither of us sees a thing. |

as we hit the curve, there are Cows, on

ust as

We are right amidst them. Lee yanks |

here is a loud noise, and sort of a truck “He throws off the brake, and past the cows. If there had beer. one would have been too bad. Even with

ou can't stop the powerful momentum of

hat.

“ } went tl there a-sweatin’,” Lee said. * before 1 had time to sweat. The violent | Don in the ‘sleeper But he never |

n takes over and Lee goes to | great noise, and he ig Don |

low voice I can barely

too, is a trucker of long experience. ™ 10 vears wheeled these big babies over the Western | to the tune of 600,000 miles. And he, too, |

) ccident. He handles this truck a great e and natur Hl His gear-shifting rapid; he seems to flow around curves; he is a part the truck itself. He seems of melancholy nature. He had to miss rips recently, because his wife was in the hospital n operation. Ee is fanatical about keeping out

never had a

an Oklahoma farm. There are two | his career: One, his wife won't let |

's, because too many tank drivers bum

ere's a wreck: and, two, although he |

nd down in these rough trucks some 100,000

vet he cets “car-sick” when he rides on

My Day

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt She Entertains Writers Group Who

Laud Simple Digrity of White House. |

y rHINGTON Thursday.—I was up early this | W out on the bridle path for a short |

1 0 ‘clock the usual busy Washington upon me. I began with a press conference, saw a lady who makes some rather unique

a

then and there I began my Christmas shop- |

hasty glance at the morning mail and then

~ was at the door announcing that my guests |

1e World Congress of Writers had arrived. 11S grou p has been holding meetings at the

I's Fair in New York City under the auspices of |

merican Center of the International P. E, N. O editors, essayvists and novelists). Dorothy smpson, who is president of the American center; Jules Romains, international president of l., and my old friend, Mrs. Henry Goddard whose husband is vice president, were the first 1 the room. I asked them all

the President's office, where |

to receive them. Then we came back >» for lunch at little tables in the roon n and out on the south portico, while 3and played for us on the lawn.

An Amusing Letter

were all interested in making a tour of the

second-floor rooms and I tried to tell them |

te of the history as we went our rounds. Back in

nce hall, they bade me goodby and one after | _

her told me how much impressed thev were by simplicity and dignity of the White House

s running through my mail last night and I |

> across a most amusing letter from a gentleman,

cverett Whitmyre, who said that he was sending | new invention in the wav of children’s books

ugh I did not know it, I was partly responsi-

his success. He had been trying to sell his |

: had become rather discouraged when he happe ned to go up in the elevator with me in an ice building in New York City. Because I smiled looked cheerful, he took heart again, got the to finance his undertaking and is today ema number of people. These books are light and, as you read. vou turn a little button

re book rolls up a-page at a time. So, if vou |

down, there are no pages to blow and make it p you to And your Place again.

Day- by- Day Science

By Science Service

Hea! discussion among scientists over the so- |

ralled “Wandering IQ” will concern parents who

naturally want their children’s intelligence quotient |

IQ) to do any wandering in the upward direction. The IQ, according to one school of thought, is no fixed thing Sele rpuied before birth by the child's selection of ancestors. Environment, say these psychologists, can move vie IQ up or down. Children taken from stupid parents and adopted by intellectual foster parents will grow in mental stature so that the quotient, which is mental age divided by chronological age, actually increases. Sending your child to a good nursery school while he is still very young, these investigators contend, may change him from an average youngster to a genius. “Don’t grasp at the bubble,” is the warning to be

taken from a criticism of such claims appearing in the | Journal of Psychology. “Statistical incompetence | under the influence of wishful thinking.” is the verdict |

nf Dr. Benjamin R. Simpson, educational psychologist Western Reserve University, who holds faulty tatistical methods responsible for the evidence obd at the University of Towa for the “wandering

The conclusions, he indicates, are based on average

scores for the whole group rather than on a com- | parison of Johnny at the age of two with Johnny |

when he is 10. The dropping out of children at the lower end of the IQ scale would influence results frosty, and this influence was not taken into account, he ch Ehatpee.

cht behind our seats, separated only by a |

ne wheel and savs he’s never had an &c-

Flying the Cli

Here is what goes on duiring a trans-Atlantic flight of the Yankee Clipper, as described by Pan American Airways expertstoan NEA Service writer.

By Paul Ross NEW YORK, May 12 (NEA).—The Yankee Clipper is floating in a calm bay and in a few minutes will take off on a hop across the Atlantic. Inside the passengers are arranging their belongings, are smoking, reading their newspapers, being fussed over by the steward. Thev are settling back for what will be a quick. pleasant, easy crossing to the Old World. Up forward, on the flight deck, however, six men are working quickly and smoothly with the confident efficiency that comes of long experience and complete training. One of them bears the title of commander. Besides being a first-rate aviator, he is a graduate meteorologist, a licensed radio engineer, a licensed airplane engine mechanic, and a master mariner who could guide a steamship across the ocean if he wished. Right now he sits at the controls. Next to him sits the first officer, who has the same qualifications, but not as much seasoning. Not far away is the radio officer, a specialist in his field, and down the line a bit is the engineering officer, a specialist in airplane engines. At a table with various navigational instruments before him sits the pilot-navigator, and nearby is the junior flight officer. Both these men have the same qualifications as the commander and first officer. In short, the Clipper has on board at least four men who are capable of taking over any or all of the four departments of flight, navigation, communications and contro! of power plants.

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O° getting reports that evervthing is in Yeadiness, the

commander taxis to takeoff A

along its route. the great flying boat.

tion, opens the throttles and lifts the Clipper into the air.

the plane climbs, taking about an hour to reach the level necessary

the commander turns over control of the plane to the . When gines to the engineers and steps

: : > hh into his role of executive, where (©

the home base. the activities of

The pilot-navigator has, while, begun taking his bearings. Studying wind ) condition of the ocean, ¢ r moon and stars, modern Valens

constantly checks on the direction the Clipper is taking. He is aided in this by check-ups with the radio operators of surface vessels and with the radio stations at the Clipper's home bases. All this radio communication is handled by the radio officer. the data are collected and checked by the flight commander, radio officer sends them to There is a halfhourly report on general position and speed, an hourly report on general progress and weather conditions.

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TYPICAL half-hourly report would read: “10 p. m. 1257 miles out. Speed 165 miles per hour. Altitude, 8100 feet.” A a

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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1—What is the name for the whole mass of ocean waters on the earth's surface? —Name the birthplace of the Dionne quintuplets. 3—What is the correct pronunciation of the word cosmopolite? 4 Name the vast desert region of Central Asia. 5—Is a person, who was bom in the U. S. of alien parents who were never naturalized, eligible for the office of President? 6—Name the U. S. Secretary of War. 7—What is the name of the race of mankind discovered in possession of the South Sea Islands? 8—Into what river does the Snake River empty? » n on Answers 1--Hydrosphere. 2—Near Callanders Ontario, Dominion of Canada. 3—Koz-mop’'-o-lite; not koz-mo-po’-lite. 4—The Gobi Desert. s—Yes, if otherwise qualified. 6—Harry H. Woodring. 7—Polynesians. 8—Columbia.

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In the left foreground, lower photo, is the pilot- navigator plotting his course as the Clipper speeds Forward are the captain (left) and the first officer (right) at their posts in the bridge of In the right foreground is the flight engineer at his post, and immediately forward of the flight engineer is the radio officer (note small typewriter on his desk). In the photo above the giant plane is shown in flight.

hourly report would say: “10:30 Pp. m. 1347 miles out. 165 miles per hour. 8100 feet. Sunset, approximately at 6 p. m. obscured by small area alto-cumulus clouds. Every star in sky now visible, Utilizing Arcturus, Spica, Polaris, Sirius, Capella for fixes. Vega just came up at 9:25 p. m.” Sitting at his desk, the engineering officer moves levers to nake the engines do what is required of them. As on a steamship, the engineering officer gets orders from the commander for “More speed.” “slower” or whatever. He studies the performance of his engines and the consumption of fuel. Through devices on his instrument board he can cut out a motor to make a minor re-

ipper to Europe

It’s Work Every Mile of Way for Six Men on Flight Deck of Big Plane

The Radio Officer at the controls of the long-range direction finder. The finder aboard the Yankee Clipper has a range of 1000 miles and is installed so that the Clipper may take bearings on shore stations and ships at sea along its route. The direction finders at the Pan American Airways’ ground bases are capable of spotting the Clipper with accuracy up to distances of 2000 miles,

The pilot-navigator takes his sights through the navigation turret, which is located in the top center of the 152-foot wing, just aft of the flight deck. This turret is one of the unique features of the 74-passenger flying boat, and permits 360-degree visibility

of celestial sights for accurate navigation.

pair and can conirol the flow of fuel. Both are highly important.

After a four-hour watch, some of the men retire to rest, if every=thing is going well. Perhaps the pilot-navigator takes the controls, the first officer takes command, the junior flight officer takes over the business of radio and celestial navigation. In addition, a few of the assistants, who are carried on every Clipper trip to give them experience, go on duty. Thirty-five hours from the time the Clipper left America it comes down in Marseilles, France. This has been an uneventful flight to those in the passenger compartments. But up on the flight deck it has been work every mile of the way.

Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

On That Tour Look Up Dr. Clowes" Statue by Dossena, the Sculptor Who Figured in Antique Fraud.

LADY way up in Indianapolis art circles put me wise to a piece of sculpture in Dr. G. H. A. Clowes’ Golden Hill garden. She said I mustn’t miss it when I take the Garden

Tour tomorrow. The piece of sculpture, it appears, represents the work of Alceo Dossena, a modern marble mason trained in Cremona who had a remarkable gift for working in the manner of Ancient and Renaissance masters, even to the point of packaging his products in a patina which looked exactly like the real thing. Dossena turned out sculpture that fooled the experts of two continents, brought $2,000,000 to the pockets of unscrupulous dealers, and left him a poor and discredited man. Dossena made American headlines in 1928 when a law suit disclosed his imitations in several Mr. Scherrer

| American museums, among them | the Cleveland Museum, the one in Boston, and the | Metropolitan in New York. He even trimmed the late | John Marshall, a man of vast archeological erudition.

Seems that Mr. Marshall fell for a small figure of a | Greek maiden, but got suspicious after the purchase; with the result that the maiden was left to lie in the Metropolitan's basement forever after. When the fakes were traced to the workshop in Cremona, Dossena readily admitted authorship. He got out from under, however, by saying that he had made them on commission for a dealer with no idea that they would be palmed off as genuine antiques, He also scored when he pointed out that he got mighty little of the fabulous prices his work brought. Which, of course, left everybody in a pretty pickle—a phrase used in Higher Art Circles to express a state of hesitation or doubt. Some contended that Dossena was one of the slickest frauds in the history of art, and others, just as sure, insisted that he was a genius,

| albeit a gullible one.

Now for the Showdown Which brings me to the final phase of Dossena's

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career—the one known as the showdown. In the wineter of 1933 an auction of “genuine Dossenas” was held | in New York. Get that—"“genuine Dossenas’—if you | don’t believe we're living in a fool's paradise. Top auc | tion prices brought by any one piece was $575, instead | of the fabulous sums realized up to that time. That | was the irony of it. Soon as Dossena lost the support | of a faked name, the bottom dropped out of everything | notwithstanding the fact that his work was as beau tiful as ever. Which leaves me only to say that Dr. Clowes, thank heaven, didn’t fall for Dossena’s tricks. He bought his garden sculpture just for what it was—a genuine Dos= sena. Moreover, he doesn’t intend to fool you when you visit his garden tomorrow. I thought you ought to know. The rest of today’s piece is an unemotional listing | of some other things you ought to see on tomorrow's | Garden Tour. Don’t miss the white peacocks in Mrs, Fortune's garden; the water lilies belonging to Mrs, William Atkins, and the espalier planting done by Mrs. Walter Morton. Seems she trains ordinary fruits to grow up and lie flat against a lattice, using nothing but her hands and a ball of twine to help her out, And whatever you do, don't pass up the Quercus alba in Theodore Griffith's yard. It's supposed to be one of the original white oaks with which Indianapolis started business. Indeed, some people say the tree is 200 years old. I wouldn't know. Fact is, I'm scared to say anything since I learned what happened to Mr,

: | Dossena.

Jane Jordan—

Infatuation Will Pass, Girl Worried About Parents’ Attitude Advised.

EAR JANE JORDAN-I am 17 and a high school senior. I am in love with a young man who is a | vear younger than I am. My parents do not like him, | I do not see why they should not because he has done | nothing at all to make them dislike him. This discourages me because I always have obeyed them and would hate to break my record by disobeying them for such a thing as this. They de all they can to keep me away from him, but they haven't told me that I cannot see him. However, I am afraid that this is what they will do. I would rather do things against their wishes than not to see him again. I have tried going with other boys, but I feel so ill at ease that I can hardly wait to get home. I care for others but not the way I care for him. He goes to high school and cannot afford to take me places that other voung men can afford, but going places does not appeal to me unless he is there. I would rather stay home with him for 15 minutes than spend a whole evening with someone else. Just to be near him satisfies me. Do you think I should risk losing his happiness for the sake of minding my parents? ANXIOUS. ” ” n Answer-—You are lucky in that your parents have not actually forbidden vou to see the boy, for if you see enough of him, the chances are your feeling will die down in time. Jhe disapproval of parents nearly always intensifies a young girl's feeling for a boy. At 17 any young person is more or less in a state

| of gonflict where parents are concerned. He or she is

bound bv ties of love and affection and habits of

| obedience, vet struggling to break these bonds and | establish his own independence. Opposition only in-

creases the conflict. Many parents do not understand this conflict and still feel that they know what is best for their chil= dren. Perhaps sometimes they do, but their attitude is unsympathetic and the children harden against them. For example, your parents have taken vour ins fatuation for this young man too seriously. They are afraid that it will not be temporary and they know you are too young to become seriously involved. Try not to be worried by their disapproval and take a sane attitude toward your little affair which will pass to make way for another. Whatever you do, do not drop your friendships with other bovs. Even if you do not enjoy them as much as you do your favorite, keep as many contacts as you can. How do you know when you will meet another who will make this younger boy seem colorless? Don't shut out experience for his sake. You never know what will turn up. When you feel ill at ease it only means that you are afraid you will not make the grade, and this, too, swings you back to the boy with whom you feel come fortable. JANE JORDAN.

Put your problems in a letter te Jake Jordan who wil) answer your questions in this column daily

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