Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 August 1940 — Page 15
- FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1940
The Indianapolis Times
SECOND SECTION
Hoosier Vagabond
(Second of a Series)
When we went through a door that said “No Admission,” and were suddenly out in the vast roofedover arena where as far as your eye could see men were standing at great machines making complicated little things, the Air Corps inspector said: “I hope you'll forgive us for the restrictions we have to put on you, I know they must seem silly to vou, but there's a reason for them. Or at least we think there is.” He needn't have said that. For the things the Army doesn't want our enemies to know are things that I don't want to know, either—partly bgcause I wouldn't understand them if anybody told me. They are technical things, about engineer-
ing. The man who took us through the Allison engine plant was Joseph R. Volmer, assistant inspector in charge for the Army Air Corps. He made the day delightful. He showed us everything, and explained it with great frankness. Then he told us what we shouldn't write. The Air Corps has a staff of 18 at the Allison plant, 13 of them inspectors, under Chief Inspector John Hedwall. And now the great Jimmy Doolittle has come back from the commercial world to active duty in the Army, and he is stationed here.
Power Equals Great Diesels
These Allison airplane engines are of 12 cvlinders, in two banks of six, placed in a “V.” They are rated at 1150 horsepower—almost 100 horsepower for every cylinder You cannot but be impressed by the power that is packed into that little space. The best example I know is a contrast with the generating room of the Allison plant. In there are great Diesel engines, driving electrical generators. These engines are the same kind that drive our streamlined trains and many of our submarines. They stand twice as high as your head and are tong and wide. Each ome would fill two good-sized rooms. ‘And ‘vet all that bulk and metal and noise is producing exactly the same amount of power that the little Allison airplane engine is—an engine so
Our Town
MORE MEMORABILIA for the book Item 1: Walter Marmon's bicycle record was 2.19 In 1893 when he was on his way home from Boston Tech. Mr. Marmon stopped off at Buffalo to participate in a bicycle race. There were 43 starters. Taxus, a famous rider, was fourth and Mr. Marmon was crowding him hard for third place when the awful spill occurred. Inside of a second a dozen of the best bicyclists of America were piled on top of Mr. Marmon. When he picked himself up, he discovered that the cords above his knee wouldn't work. With the result that Mr. Marmon had to walk on crutches several days.
The race was won in 2.17, but
the winner had a handicap of a second and a-half so that the time was really 2.18';. Mr. Marmon was sure of fourth place because the spill didn’t occur until within 175 feet of the finish. Knowing which there is every reason to believe that Mr. Marmon would have finished easily in 2.19. Those are the facts, so help me.
A Rosewood Billy
Item 2: Doss Shafer, who used to patrol the old Illinois St. tunnel, carried a billy made of rosewood, the only one of its kind in Indianapolis at the time. Mr. Shafer said that right after the Civil War he and three other men were traveling in South Carolina when one of the party became ill. To take care of the sick man, they stopped at the first cabin they could find. It was a “shake down” occupied by a Negro woman named Chloe and her husband. When Mr, Shafer entered the yard, he plucked a red rose from a little bush in front of the door That was back in the days when evervbody still remembered that the rose was the flower of the Union
Russia
(Fifth of a Seties)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—Soviet bombers are feared by Japan more than is the United States fleet If our fieet challenged a Japanese blitzkrieg on Indo-China and the Dutch and British Asian empires, not to mention the Philippines, the American war- . ships would be far away from their Hawaiian base and reiatively weak. But the Soviet Siberian bombers are within easy flight of Tokyo and of Japanese munitions and industrial centers. Japan is more exposed to incendiary bombs than any other major belligerent, In this weird world, where the impossible happens with increasing frecuency, where inde pendent nations succumb overs night, where great republics like France turn Fascist, and where Hitler and Stalin act together for Commu-Nazi conquest, diplomats no longer are sure of anything. But, if there is any certainty left, they do not believe Russia would allow Japan to control all of Asia unchallenged This belief is based on more than the ideological difference. That was not strong enough to keep Germany and Russia apart when they thought a temporary deal was to their mutual advantage. Thus, if that were all, Japan might forget her anti-Communist crusade and Moscow might find excuses again
More Than a Theory
But it is precisely the force that proved stronger than ideology in the Berlin-Moscow deal that makes anv basic Moscow-Tokyo deal improbable—namely, nationalism Russian nationalism, under the new Stalinism as under the old Czarism, requires that Japan be kept from mastery of Asia. For the stronger
My Day
WASHINGTON, Thursday.—T have a most amusing letter from a gentleman who is evidently promoting a secretarial school run by a young lady in whom he may have a personal or purely business interest. It isn't such a bad idea, so I shall tell you about it. The school will offer a course said to fit women for business, so that when their husbands are called to military service the ladies can run their businesses. This sounds rather ludicrous, but there is one thing about it which is not foolish. If the ladies can’ be taught business hours and application, they may possibly be able to grasp more about their husbands’ businesses than they have in the past. No course could teach each one of them the particular problems they will have to face, unless they are just taking over a minor job, Still, the general training may be of great value and their husbands may find them more understanding and mav be able to give them a little real education before the need arises for them actually to carry any grave responsibility. It may also make for more real companionship in everyday existence.
(Raymond Clapper is on vacation)
By Ernie Pyle
small that they pack five of them into the cabin of] an Army transport plane and fly them away to plane, factories. | gl There are three great engine-building plants in § Americas-the Wright plant at Paterson, N. J.; Pratt & Whitney at Hartford, Conn, and Allison here. | The first two produce radial air-cooled motors, the 8 kind you ride behind on nearly every air line in the world today. For many vears air-cooled motors have completely dominated, and liquid-cooled engines have. gs been struggling back through experimental stages. Fo Allison today 1s the only company making liquid- g§ cooled engines for airplanes under our defense program. Three big companies—Lockheed, Curtiss and Bell— are building their latest fighting planes for the Gov. ernment around Allison engines.
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Production Stepped Up
The advantages claimed for liquid-cooled engines are: (1) their frontal area is smaller, hence through streamlining you can get greater speed with less power; (2) due to controlled cooling, they will run longer at high speed. You notice we didn’t say water-cooled. No, water wouldn't do at ail in these engines. Water boils at 212 degrees, and these engines run hotter than that. They use a solution called ethylene glycol (almost the same as Prestone) which boils at 387 degrees, The cooling of this engine can be controlled by the pilot, through the speed with which the fluid is forced around the cylinders. And even more remarkable than | Sas that, the temperature of each individual eylinder can #8 be controlled. | I stood and watched a queer machine grinding the teeth on a gear wheel. The whole thing already’ § looked finished to me. But some microscopic pre-| id cision was being attained AY For five minutes I watched this machine grinding on one single gear tooth. During that time I couldn't see any progress at all. It was still grinding when we § walked away. And yet, as slow as everything seems, production is going like a whirlwind today compared with engine building in the past. The development of new ma-! chines 1s what has done it. Two years ago, the speed. with which engines are now turned out in these three!” great plants would have been considered preposterous. 8 And only a.little more than one year ago, this great. and beautiful Allison plant was a farmer's field!
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party returned North. | to look up Aunt Chloe. She was living in the same| Was the “crossroads of the world,” “Clar to goodness,” exclaimed Aunt Chloe when “Rastus, Rastus, come heah and cut off a paht of CITED BY STATE He Left Early o, Oscar Pflumm, then the chief draftsman of the Park | Ordered to Account Irish politicians of the 15th Ward. Just before the | and dwelt at great length on the temper of the Irish! ia)c have been ordered to appear | After an hour or so, Mr. Pflumm approache “Why, of course,” replied Scanlon, “what's on your! They are Albert C. Webb, Boon “In about 20 minutes.” said Scanlon | Boonville, county surveyor and road ! den stomach ache. iner of the Board of Accounts, sai | mentary to the Revised Statutes of 1881) is because Webb during his term of office. and | on private property. Webh's books | | kept, a number of cases were omit- |
soldier. In less than a week, thanks to Aunt Chloe's nursing, the sick man was again on his feet and the Fifteen vears later, Mr. Shafer made another trip South and one of the first things he did was old shack, a little the worse for wear. The rosebush, | = however, had grown to enormous proportions. i - she heard that Mr. Shafer was now a policeman. 7 EX OFFICIALS Then cupping her hands she called to her husband: . that bush. Massa heah, he's a policeman and he's { gwine to hab a rosewood mace.” | — Warrick County Men Are Item 3: Sometime around the turn of the century, | Board, received an invitation to attend a party of | For Funds. party, a wag took Mr. Pflumm aside and prepared | him for the worst. He said anything might happen | Two former Warrick County offiwhen under excitement. So Mr. Pflumm went to . | the party with some misgiving. | before the State Board of Accounts | q | before Aug. 7 to explain respectively | Councilman Scanlon and whispered: “John, you haf | ®n alleged shortage and misuse of | always been a good frent of mine—haf you not?” | funds. ming?” | Township justice of the peace until “Ven does the fighting begin,” asked Pflumm, (Jan, 1, 1939, and Marion Klippel, | Mr. Pflumm seized his hat, sought his host and superintendent until Jan. 1, 1939. explained that he had to go home because of a sud-| Edward P. Brennan, chief examItem 4: The reason so few Indianapolis lawyers an investigation revealed a shortage | own “Elliott's Supplement” of 1889 (a volume supple- of $1804.25 in the accounts of Mr. | the Bowen-Merrill fire of 1820 burned up what was ' the misuse of $1040.80 by Mr. Klip- | left of the original edition. |pel in the construction of a road The audit of Mr showed no form of cash book was B Ludw ll D ted from the docket and in a num-| y € enny of Instances cases were not |
|completely entered in the records, | { Mr. Brennan said. | Mr. Webb's attorney has notified | | the board that they would have the
Japan becomes, Russia This i= more than theory. It is one of the few » facts of Far Eastern history that has not varied. rmathet cleared up” by Aug. 15. | If it were not for Russia, Japan might have long| Mr. Klippel was alleged to have since won the China war and now be freer to take authorized construction of a 1301-/
advantage of the wreckage of the Dutch and French | foot road off Ind. 66 through priAsiatic empires, (vately owned land in 1938. The land |
the greater the threat to Asiatic
All of the world powers recognize that Russia now on Which the road was bult was not | is the key to the Asiatic situation and the chief Offered to the county for road purbarrier against successful Japanese aggression. That {Poses until 1940, the report set out. is why President Roosevelt refused the Republican! Mr. Klippel said the work had demands to break relations with Moscow, {been ordered with the knowledge of Hitler may yet swing to a closer Japanese alliance at least two county commissioners, | under pressure of Mussolini. But, if he does, it prob- but the commissioners in office at ably will force Stalin into the Russian-British alli-|that time told the examiners they ance so desperately needed and desired by London— had no knowledge of the project, and, unofficially, by Washington. Thereby Hitler Mr. Brennan reported. would destroy his most brilliant diplomatic achieve- | —edsemammtn . ment and the basis of his initial military success, the protection of his long Russian flank. INDIANA'S QUOTA 17 Tokyo Hesitates A feirly strong totalitarian Japan might be to | ’it- IN NEW NAVAL UNIT ler's interest, but the solid Asiatic bloc planned by | Tokyo obviously would be as much a threat to the woqpe task of recruiting Indiana! new Nan empire as 10 the old British Empire-—or to youths for a new glass of U, 8. the United States | Naval Reserve unit today was asTherefore if Hitler under Stalin's pressure refuses sumed by the Citizens Aviation to support Japan's grab for Indo-China, the Tokyo Committee with headquarters militarists probably will hesitate. | Indianapolis. Even if Hitler gives them the go-sign now—-on the| Indiana's quota will be around | theory that this would lead to a Russo-Japanese war 175 youths not less than 19 nor which would weaken both--Tokyo might hesitate to more than 27. unmairied, native add a general war to her sticky China war. / born, and physically fit, They will But always the “incidents,” which start wars so pe given 30 days aboard ship at sea | easily when Japanese “face” is involved, remain as| and 90 davs in a shore naval school the gravest danger—especially for the United States.!and if successful will be commis ——— ! " » NEXT: Could We Fight in Both Oceans? Sioned #3 oTigeISD the NAYM Ree The program was sponsored by Col. Frank Knox, secretary of the navy, and ships are sailing from New York City with recruits on | Aug. 17 and Sept. 17. | In addition to the qualitications
| listed above, the applicants must|
By Eleanor Roosevelt | be of good repute in their coms |
: { 8 t ssess credits for One other interesting letter has come to me from munities, must po g |a minimum of two years in an ac-
a thoughtful young doctor who read the financial! edited college or. university, and problem of another doctor, which I described the jf under 21, must have the conother day. I do not know enough about it to know sent of parents. if there is a' germ of a solution in the paragraph 1 origina or a certified copy of his quote below, but I think if many people come to- | birth certificate. gether and think about the problem, we may arrive W — at some helpful conclusion. Here is solution number | MERCHANTS ELECT WILKING one for consideration: | Times Special “The only remedy that I could suggest for this| a~picAGO Aug. 2.—Frank Wilk highly controversial problem (which I understand is ing president of the Wilking Music attracting various social, economic groups and legisla- Co. Indianapolis, was elected a di~ tive bodies) is to adopt the federalized medical plan, so; fo 06 the National Association that everyone who seeks medical aid will be able to]. ar ci Merchants at the closing obtain it through their respective doctors by Means, ion of the organization's 30th of a sliding scale insurance tax plan. This would annual convention here yesterday obviate the free clinics and the necessity of building : olin i» extra hospitals. when we have at the present time) and at all times 200000 idle beds in our hospitals throughout the country.” VICHY, France, Aug. 2 (U. P) — It is, of course, much warmer here, but the Marshal Henri Philippe Petain's White House itself is always spacious and pleasant.| government announced today the I have enjoved seeing various gentlemen who have membership of France's new Subeen kind enough to come and talk to me about|preme Court and ordered it into some of the plans which are being considered as| session Aug. 8 to fix the war responpossible opportunities for youth training which will] scibilities of several ousted premiers, ministers,
FRENCH TRIALS AUG. 8
Each applicant must present the |
sevelt Jr. On Destroyer
NEWPORT, R. L.. Aug. 2 (U.P). — Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., son of the President, was aboard the U. S. Destroyer Lawrence as a naval ensign reserve when it steamed out of Narragansett Bay on neutrality patrol today. Young Roosevelt was taken in a gig from the Government landing to the destroyer after breakfasting with the socially-prominent Beverley Bogerts at their Anglesea home. He spent the night at the Bay View Hotel, Jamestown, after missing the last ferry. He will serve two weeks patrol duty.
350 COMPETING IN WARREN 4-H SHOW
Nineteen 4-H Clubs and seven Homemakers Clubs of Warren Township competed with exhibits
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competitors in the Marion County contest at the State Fairgrounds next week,
More than 350 boys and girls par-|
ticipated under the supervision of vocational teachers. The six P.-T. A. groups of the township served a luncheon, The morning program included demonstrations of cooking, canning, baking, clothing and room improvement, and the afternoon program
tions. A band concert, under leadership of Paul Hamilton, was scheduled for tonight, The Farm Bureau also sponsored an amateur contest under the leadership of Mrs. Fred Mite hoefer. Vocational teachers were Walter
Mowreyv, Mrs. Helen Helms and Mra result of a tidal wave which struck!the Federal
B. F. Carter
10 TOWNS WAIT ON NATURAL GAS
Rate Schedules Filed by Two Utilities for Next Winter's Service.
Residents of 10 Indiana towns who have been using artificial gas for cooking and heating for years will burn natural gas next winter if approval of the Public Service Commission is obtained. - Petitions asking for the approval of new gas rate schedules for these towns were filed with the commission today by the Northern Indiana Power Co. and the Public Service Co. of Indiana, The petition of the former covers the installation of natural gas i Greencastle, Cloverdale and Mar|tinsville. The latter petition covers Bloomington, Bedford, Mitchell, Franklin, Edinburg, Columbus and Seymour, | Utility officials said tha
t all the
land demonstrations today at War-|town govening bodies had passed ren Central High School to Select |
ordinances approving the change and that the approval of the rates by the commission was a formality. They said that the natural gas (would be obtained from pipelines {going to Michigan from the Texas {Pan Handle and other southern and western gas producing areas. | The change will be made as soon (as the commission approves the (rates, the officials said. No new lines {will have to be laid, but the appli{ances using artificial gas will have {to be changed in all homes. The of(ficials estimated that the use of natural gas would mean of saving of
| consisted of 4-H Club demonstra- from 20 to 38 per cent to customers.
TIDAL WAVE KILLS SCORES
TOKYO, Aug. 2 (U, P.).—The {newspaper Asahi reported today that 'scores of persons had been Xilled {or were missing and 1500 fishing boats had been washed away as the
|the west coast of Hokkaido Island.
Police Arrest
Sheriff—Error
PLYMOUTH, Ind. Aug. 2 (U, P.) —Sheriff Harvey Phillips today explained to friends that it was all a mistake,
Yesterday State Police, answering a radio alarm, stopped a car in which “three heavily armed men” were riding near La Porte, The men were Sheriff Phillips, Buster French and Pat Murphy. They were returning to Plymouth after delivering a prisoner at Michigan City. State Police said the call was turned in by a boy who noted the guns when the trio stopped to buy a watermelon.
U.S. CALLS LOANS ON ELEVATOR CORN
Loans on 1937 and 1938 corn stored in elevators and warehouses {will not be extended beyond their {maturity date, Aug. 1, L. M. Vogler, (charman of the Indiana Agricultural Conservation Committee an‘nounced today. | Owners of the corn which 1s so | stored under the A. A. A. commodity {loan program may pay off the loan by Monday. Notes are held at the office of the Commodity Credit Corp. 164 W. Jackson Blvd. Chi- | cago, and payment of the orginal loan, interest and storage charges may be made there directly. Mr. Vogler said that warehouse and elevator operators have asked that the corn be moved to make room for small grains now being harvested in this area, Farm-stored corn is not affected and farmers have until Sept. 1 to decide what dissolution they will make of it. “The corporation will acquire title (to all warehouse-stored not re‘deemed by Tuesday and will cancel the producers’ obligations,” Mr. Vogler said. ‘‘Most of the corn thus acquired wil be made available to Surplus Commodities | Corp. for export.”
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The finest stand of grass in Indiana in these drought days is growing through the cracks in the sidewalks that lead to the State
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finest pasture grasses. Whereas the ordinary lawn has been in a state of suspended animation for’ the duration of the heat wave, this keeps growing bravely. All in all, there must be a linear half acre or so of #. It gives the
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sidewalks. effect, as the super-charged sun beats down, of white concrete heat trimmed in cool, spring-fed green. It also gives the effect of people who notice it calling people who haven't noticed it ying look -
141, C, FREIGHT CARS DERAILED
Burst Into Flame Near More gantown; Two or Three May Be Dead.
MORGANTOWN, Ind. Aug. 2 (U, P.).—Fourteen cars of an Illinois Central freight train were derailed near here yesterday with possibly two or three casualties. A defective
rail was tentatively held to blame, The train was en route from Effingham, Ill, to Indianapolis. No trainmen were injured. Engineer W, O. Potter and Conductor Arthur Dorsett, both of Palestine, Ill, es=. caped injury. | A transient, riding a freight car ‘next to one which was derailed, told | police that he saw two or three transients riding the damaged cars, |He said the men might have been |trapped under the derailed equipment. Approximately 500 feet of track were ripped up by the damaged cars. The cars burst into flames immediately on overturning. Fire | fighting equipment from Indianape (olis, Martinsville and Bloomington was called.
EVEN POLICE CHIEF MUST PUNCH CLOCK
DRAVOSBURG, Pa. Aug. 2 (U, P.).—A time cloek is the answer of Dravosburg's semsitive police dee partment to ‘“idle talk” around the community that the police are never about the station when wanted. All policemen—including the chief —must punch the clock to prove they are on the job.
DEATH ON TIGHT WIRE CUMBERLAND, Md. Aug. 2 (U, |P.)—A mis-step while performing la tight wire act at a carnival here last night proved fatal today to Edith Dobell, 37, of Danville, Ill. While her husband, Fed Dobell, looked on, the woman plunged 50 feet to the ground.
"TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—New York's Mayor La Guardia is known by the nickname “Pudgy,” “Sourpuss.” “Little Flower” op “Little Napoleon”? 2—Do the common houseflies bite? 3—Under which government departe ment is the National Bureau of Standards? 4—Who wrote the novel “So Big”? 9—Is the average length of life increasing or decreasing? 6—Is the Klondike in Alaska or Canada? T—What is frustration? 8—The capital of Towa is Dubuque, Iowa City, or Des Moines?
Answers
1—"Little Flower.” 2—No. 3—Department of Commerce. 4—Edna, Ferber, 5—Increasing. 6—Canada. T—Prevention, baffling of a purpose, defeat. 8—Des Moines.
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