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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 ee {he restrictions we have to put | on you. I know they must seem silly to you, 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 Re 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.

” n ” Power Equals Great Diesels

These Allison airplane engines are of 12 cylinders, in two banks of six, placed in a “V.” They are rated at 1150 horsepower—almost 100 horsepower for every cylinder You cannot but he 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 one 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

small that they pack five of them into the cabin of] an Army transport plane and fly them away to plane: factories. | There are three great engine-building plants in Americas-the Wright plant at Paterson, N. J. Pratt g§ & Whitney at Hartford, Conn, and Allison here. | lhe tirst two produce radial air-cooled motors, the 8 kind you ride behind on nearly every air line in the world today. For many years air-cooled motors have completely dominated, and liquid-cooled engines have gs been struggling back through experimental stages. t% Allison today is the only company making liquid-|§ cooled engines tor airplanes under our defense pro-| ram, E Three big companies—Lockheed, Curtiss and Bell— are building their latest fighting planes for the Government around Allison engines.

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/g= longer at high speed. You notice we didn’t say water-cooled. No, water| wouldn't do at all 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|§ that, the temperature of each individual cylinder can) 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-| cision was being attained 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!

NEXT—Machines and Men.

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soldier. In less than a week. thanks to Aunt Chloe's nursing, the sick man was again on his feet and the) party returned North | Fifteen years later, Mr. Shafer made another] trip South and one of the first things he did was| to look up Aunt Chloe. She was living in the same |

The pulsing heart of a Paris that once symbolized all that made life worthwhile in gracious living was the famed Cafe de la Paix on the Boulevard des Italiens. was the “crossroads of the world,” where, if you sal at

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one of the sidewalk tables long enough, “you would see everybody who amounted to anything in the world pass Down the boulevard swept an unstemmed torrent Horse-drawn traffic was impossible.

"2 Paris Empty Shell of a Once Gay

today—lifeless. emphasize the quiet

Above are the boulevard and, in background, the cafe, A cyclist and a peasant’s cart merely The once-crowded cafe tables are deserted. Tourist crowds are replaced by scat tered sightseeing Nazi soldiers, like those at extreme right,

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old shack, a little the worse for wear. The rosebush, |=

however, had grown to enormous proportions, “Clar to goodness,” exclaimed Aunt Chloe when 9) EX-0FFICIALS

she heard that Mr. Shafer was now a policeman. | Then cupping her hands she called to her husband: “Rastus, Rastus, come heah and cut off a paht of that bush. Massa heah, he's a policeman and he's gwine to hab a rosewood mace.” hh: 6 & i ———

Roosevelt Jr. On Destroyer

NEWPORT, R. I.. Aug. 2 (U.P). —Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., son of the President, was aboard the U.

10 TOWNS WAIT ON NATURAL GAS

Police Arrest

Sheritf—Error

PLYMOUTH, Ind, Aug. 2 (U, P.) —~Sheriff Harvey Phillips today explained to friends that it

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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.

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

‘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| to buy a watermelon. towns were filed with the commission today by the Northern Indiana Power Co. and the Public Service

Fras U.S. CALLS LOANS

S. Destroyer Lawrence as a haval ensign reserve when it steamed out of Narragansett Bay on neutrality patrol today.

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 davs when everybody still remembered that the rose was the flower of the Union

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Item 3: Sometime around the turn of the century, | Oscar Pflumm, then the chief draftsman of the Park | Ordered to Account Irish politicians of the 15th Ward. Just before the | For Funds. party, a wag took Mr. Pflumm aside and prepared | Young Roosevelt was taken in a gig from the Government landing and dwelt at great length on the temper of the Irish! ’ ‘der t ear | when under excitement. So Mr. Pflumm went to Sials have Ween Srieren 0 apy | ing with the socially-prominent before the State Board of Accounts Beverley Bogerts at their Anglesea After an hour or so, Mr. Pflumm approached Councilman Scanlon and whispered: “John, you haf 2n alleged shortage and misuse of | Bay View Hotel, Jamestown, after | funds. missing the last ferry. “Why, of course,” replied Scanion, "what's on your . mind?” Township justice of the peace until | gyuty. Jan, 1, 1939, and Marion Klippel. | “In about 20 minutes.” said Scanlon ! 1! Mr. Pflumm seized his hat, sought his host and superintendent until Jan. 1, 1939. eo ie Cet pre explained that he had to go home because of a sud- Fdward P. Brennan. chief exam- . | &sorsext, Pree ty Jot id The petition of the former covers | : Item 4: The reason so few Indianapolis lawyers an investigation revealed a shortage | the installation of natural gas in] ON ELEVATOR CORN 3 UPavigient, Ying a fre/ght — own “Elliott's Supplement” of 1889 (a volume supple- of $1804.25 in the accounts of Mr. | Heer he Iota Deiter coves) next to one which was deralled, to Webb during his term of office. and | | by - u : ei : 1038 corn !,. : NS the Bowen-Merriil fire of 1890 burned up what was the misuse of $1040.80 by Mr. Klip-| Nineteen 4-H Clubs and seven | Bloomington, Bedford, Mitchell,! Loans on 1937 and 3 0 transients riding the damaged cars, left of the original edition, : | Warren |gevmour (will not be extended beyond their i...,eq under the derailed equipil oe Webb's books | Township competed with exhibits | Utility officials said that all the maturity date, Aug. 1, L. M. Vogler men chowed no form of cash book was and demonstrations today at War. {0% govening bodies had passe tural Conservation 8 te an. | Approximately 500 feet of track kept, a number of cases were omit-| ren Central High School to select °TC Ia cos APproving the change lcars. The cars burst into flames

He Left Early : | be Sur | Warrick County Men Are Board, received an invitation to attend a party of] him for the worst. He said anything might happen| Two former Warrick County offito the destroyer after breakfastthe party with some misgiving. : : : before Aug. 7 to explain respectively | home. He spent the night at the always been a good frent of mine—haf vou not?” They are Albert C. Webb, Boon | He will serve two weeks patrol “Ven does the fighting begin,” asked Pflumm, Boonville, county surveyor and road den stomach ache. iner of the Board of Accounts, said jcaped injury. WARREN 4-H SHOW creencastie Cloverdale and Mar- ‘nex mentary to the Revised Statutes of 1881) is because | police that he saw two or threa p i i stored in elevators and warehouses | ; : . pel in the construction of a road gomemakers Clubs of | Franklin, Edinburg, Columbus and He said the men might have been q!charman of the Indiana 4 today {were ripped up by the damaged i ; ‘ates nounce y. ted from the docket and in & nUM-| cop setitors in’ the Marion County 0S that the approval of the rates

Russia

(Fifth of a Setfes) WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. —Soviet bombers. are feared by Japan more than is the United States fleet If our fleet 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 relatively 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 frequency, where independent nations succumb overnight, where great republics like France tum Fascist, and where Hitler and Stalin act together for CJommu-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 any basic Moscow-Tokyo deal improbable—nmamely, nationalism Russian nationalism, under the new

V by the commission was a formality. Owners of the corn which Is so immediately on overturning. Fire wor th ere: | contest at the State Fairgrounds | They said that the natural gas stored under the A. A. A. commodity | fighting equipment from Indianape Mr tL said | next week (would be obtained from pipelines loan program may pay off the loan |olis, Martinsville and Bloomington "Nr Wahh'e aa : | j . : lgoing to Michigan from the Texas by Monday. Notes are held at the was called. ma Web . Sar ney Hes Hote More than 350 boys and girls par- Pan Handle and other southern and | office of the Commodity Credit I a up BS Aug fs | |Ucipated under the supervision of western gas producing areas. |Corp., 164 W. Jackson Blvd. Chifacts of Far Eastern history that has not varied | y tn nave | VOcational teachers. The six P.-T.| The change will be made as soon | cago, and payment of the orginal If it were not for Russia, Japan might have long] Mr. Klippel was alleged to have |

i Shei nbs ; as the commission approves the!loan, interest and storage charges since won the China war and now be freer to take authorized construction of a 1301-|A. groups of the township served a

advantage of the wreckage of the Dutch and French foot road off Ind. 66 through pri- luncheon. | rates, She Oa Sd lo new lings/ muy bes age bse WISER: bie MUST PUNCH CLOCK Asiatic empires. vately owned land in 1938. The land | | e ’ 1€ appii- r. vogier s

, | The morning program included ances using artificial gas will have|and elevator operators have asked | DRAVOSBURG, Pa. Aug. 2 (U, All of the world powers recognize that Russia now On Which the road was bult was not | gop onstrations of cooking, canning,|to be changed in all homes. The of- | that the corn be moved to make P.).—A time clock is the answer of is the key to the Asiatic situation and the chief offered to the county for road PUL | poking, clothing and room improve- | ficials estimated that the use of na-|room for small grains now being |Dravosburg’s semsitive police debarrier against successful Japanese aggression. That POSes until 1940, the report set out |p,g, "ang the afternoon program tural gas would mean of saving of | harvested in this area. Farm-stored |Partment to “idle talk” around the is why President Roosevelt refused the Republican Mr. Klippel said the work had |... cited of 4-H Club demonstra- from 20 to 38 per cent to customers. corn is not affected and farmers |cOmmunity that the police are never demands to break relations with Moscow. |been ordered with the knowledge of

; ; tv issioners | Lions: have until Sept. 1 to decide what |2bout the station when wanted. Hitler may yet swing to a closer Japanese alliance at least two county commissioners. |

to b : Du E | A band concert, under leadership v All policemen—including the chief aly Wr Tore Shei dare tne Hut Bt ma: | that time oer I Oct at | of Paul Hamilton, was scheduled for| TTA" WAVE KILLS SCORES | img corporation will acquire title |-must punch the clock to prove M) : 2 ssian-British alli- 3 § )

| : ; , they are on the job. ; : tonight. The Farm Bureau also] TOKYO, Aug. 2 (U. P.).-—The to all warehouse-stored not rery Yo SE Spe a ely gi aesired by London— had Be Ne the project. .onsored an amateur contest under newspaper Asahi reported today that! deemed by Tuesday and will cancel — Pi rv i TE iC ereoy Hitler Mh rere. the leadership of Mrs, Fred Mite scores of persons had been killed the producers’ obligations,” Mr.

{ nn 3 { TOY 3 { . “ { p |or were issi 15 § . “Most of the corn thus ment and the basis of his initial military suc INDIANA'S QUOTA {75 ve missing and 1500 fishing Vogler said

bri : Vocational teachers were Walter boats had been washed away as the|acquired wil be made available to the protection of his long Russian flank. Tokyo Hesitates WN NEW NAVAL UNIT

Mowrev, Mrs. Helen Helms and Mra result of a tidal wave which struck! the federal Surplus Commodities A fairly strong totalitarian Japan might be to HitThe task of recruiting Indiana

B. F. Carter |the west coast of Hokkaido Island. Corp. for export.” lers interest, but the solid Asiatic bloc planned by, PIre—or 10 youths for a new glass of U. 8.

* . » Tokyo obviously would be as much a threat to the Just Li ke Mr. Hoover Said ! Naval Reserve unit today was as- LEIA oo x on a i

new Nazi empire as to the old British Em the United States ' Therefore if Hitler under Stalin's pressure refuses sumed bv the Citizens Aviation to suppert Japan's grab for Indo-China, the Tokyo Committee with headquarters in [BS militarists probably will hesitate Indianapolis nN Even if Hitler gives them the go-sigh now—on the Indiana's quota will be around | theory that this would lead to a Russo-Japanese war {75 vouths not less than 19 nor which would weaken both—Tokvo might hesitate to more than 27. unmairvied. native add a general war to her stickv China war born, and physically fit. They will! But aiways the “incidents.” which start wars so pe given 30 davs aboard ship at sea | easily when Japanese “face” is mvolved, remain as ang 90 davs in a shore naval school | 1 4 \ Ss ee S be ; J \ a» . y il I i i Stalinism as under the old Czarism, requires that HE IEVES UANREIsENRCRIY Tor ine United Savas. | aii if -giecesshul will he conmumise

Japan be kept from mastery of Asia. For the stronger NEXT: Could We Fight in Both Oceans? sioned as officers in the Naval Re-|

serve i (Raymond Clapper is on vacation)

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. WASHINGTON, Thursday. —T have a most amusing letter from a gentleman who is evidently pro- 4 moting & 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

By Eleanor Roosevelt In addition to the qualifications you about it. The school will

listed above, the applicants must offer a course said to fit women

By Ludwell Denn y

Japan becomes, the greater the threat to Asiatic

Russia This is more than theory. It is one of the few

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dissolution they will make of it.

DEATH ON TIGHT WIRE CUMBERLAND, Md. Aug. 2 (U, P.).—A mic-step while performing a 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 Iowa is Dubuque, Iowa City, or Des Moines?

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originai or a certified copy of his 1—-“Little Flower.”

| be of good repute in their coms; One other interesting letter has come to me from munities, must possess credits for) for business, so that when their husbands are called to military

thoughtful young doctor Who read the A ial a minimum of two years in an ac8 youhg doctor who read the hDnancial credited coilege or. university, and service the ladies can run their businesses. This sounds rather

problem of another doctor, which I described the if under 21. must have the cone other day. I do not know enough about it to know sent of parents. : if tere is a germ of a solution in the paragraph I| Fach applicant must present the : 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 & minor job. Still, the general training may be of great value and their husbands mav find them more understanding and may be able to give them a little real education before the need arises for therm actually to carry any grave responsibility. It may also make for more real companionship in everyday existence.

quote below, but I think if many people come together and think about the problem, we may arrive at some helpful conclusion. Here is solution number one for consideration: “The only remedy that I could suggest for this) highly controversial problem (which I understand is attracting various social, economic groups and legisia-| tive bodies) is to adopt the federalized medical plan, so that everyone who seeks medical aid will be able to) obtain it through their respective doctors by means of a sliding scale insurance tax plan. This would obviate the free clinics and the necessity of building extra hospitals, when we have at the present time, and at all times 200000 idle beds in our hospitals throughout the country.” | It is, of course, much warmer here, but the, White House itself is always spacious and pleasant. I have enjoyed seeing various gentlemen who have! been kind enough to come and talk to me about some of the plans which are being considered as possible opportunities for youth training which will fit them for times of peace as well as wan

birth certificate.

MERCHANTS ELECT WILKING Times Special CHICAGO, Aug. 2.—Frank Wilking, president of the Wilking Music Co., Indianapolis, was elected a director of the National Association of Music Merchants at the closing session of the organization's 3Cth’ annual convention here yesterday.

FRENCH TRIALS AUG. 8

VICHY, France, Aug. 2 (U. P) — Marshal Henri Philippe Petain's government announced today the membership of France's new Su-| preme Court and ordered it into, session Aug. 8 to fix the war responscibilities of several ousted premiers,

Army leaders and cabinet ministers.

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Grass grows , , , not in the streets but in the sidewalks.

The finest stand of grass in Indiana in these drought days is growing through the cracks in the sidewalks that lead to the State Capitol. Some of it is two to threes inches high and it is a mixture of the

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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

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 and saying look what grows in the Statehouse

half acre or so of &. It gives the ! sidewalks. Like Hoover p .

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