Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1941 — Page 18

CHARLESTOWN F PONDER PLANT WELL GUARDED

Sharpshooters Patrol Area : And Even the Governor Had to Prove Identity.

By EARL RICHERT

Like the housewife who checks methodically each night to see that all doors and windows are locked, Uncle Sam doesn’t intend that anything go wrong with his newest and biggest gunpowder factory — the $74,000,000 plant now under construction at Charlestown, Ind. Every precaution is being taken to make the plant invulnerable to spies and saboteurs. A 6-foot, chain-link type cyclone ‘fence, topped with barbed wire, stretches = completely around the 6000 acres comprising the gunpowder plant site. | Guards Are Husky

Af night, flood lights play on every foot of the fence, making it Jorgen as day. usky guards, all over five feet eleven inches and weighing more than an average 170 pounds, are stationed . at strategic points along the fence. All are armed and all crack shots. macadam road has been built paralleling the fence on the inside and guards in automobiles maintain ‘ & constant patrol. It is reported that motor patrol ts will soon be placed on the Ohio River, which bounds the plant site on the south. It is reported reliably that the Army now has at least 100 intelligence men working in the plant as common laborers, carpenters and bricklayers. Some 13,500 men are now working in the 450 buildings which will make up the plant. Every one of these men have been fingerprinted and

their fingerprints checked with the| *

Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington. Each worker wears a brass badge with his picture on it. Guards are posted at every gate and each time a worker goes through the guard looks at him and then inspects his badge. » Hold Target Practice The guards engage In target practice weeky. All carry pistols. farJone can drive into the parking lot in front of the plant and can walk into the lobby of the administration building, but there the trouble begins. As an example, a high Indiana state official recently had an appointment to confer with Lieut. Col. R.|E. Hardy, commanding officer at the plant. When he arrived in the administration building he had to write his name in a big book, the time, the

~ name of the person he wanted to

see and why. Not even the commanding officers of the plant can go through certain gates without the guards having been given written orders. Recently Governor M. Clifford Townsend and Governor-elect Henry F. Schricker visited the plant. In company with officials, they toured through the plant in automobiles. 2 fhey came to one gate and the - guard refused to let them through because he had received no orders and the tour didn’t proceed until he received them.

CRASH KILLS ELKHART MAN SOUTH BEND, Ind. Jan. 8 (U. P).—Call H. Fredericks, 22, Elkhart, as killed instantly today when his car collided with a truck-trailer . 10 miles east of South Bend on U. 8. 20.

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“Henry Ford, stand up!” The crowd at the Noble County Fair at Kendallville gawked.

of the country’s old-time county fair showmen. He was fighting to get attention for his afternoon show away from the lengthy introductions tendered to horsemen around the track. “Henry Ford, stand | up,” Billy Senior roared again. [The crowd gawked but no one arose.

the crowd, “I was sure he was here. I saw a car with his name on it standing outside a minute ago.” The joke was bad but the point was made. From that ti were forgotten and the crowd was back with the tightrope walkers, the clowns and the man who dived into the small tub of water. |

a good natured, rough-and-tumble, friendly fight among showmen, who plan revues and circus gets; horsemen, who handle the racing that every good county fair must have,

The speaker was Billy Senior, one |§

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County fairs are like that. They're i

“Funny thing,” said Mr. Senior to| fi

and the pitchmen, those men who talk in terms of “sucker,” ‘“half-a-yard,” “wheel joints” and ‘“cookhouses.” Most of them are the Hotel Lincoln today, at the close of a two-day session of [contracting |c

ing county fair problems and just|t gabbing about the new. season. The present attraction is the annual meeting of the Indiana Asso-'f

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New Legislature on 1 System’s Value.

William J. Stout, State Junior

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Association. Mrs. Walter Greenough, representative of the Indiana League of Women Voters, who has served as

athered at which has made the hotel blossom |i cut into a fanfare of posters. Lobby | a wheel goes around and you get a

for county fair attractions, discuss-|of advertisements

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Health Council

Billy Senior, oldtime showman, and W. O. Knisely of Kokomo, ace racing starter . . . they Et "mugred

“Wheel ote? are the backbone

onversation sounds like a recording kew ie: doll—maybe. “Flat joints” from Rillboard, are wheel joints with the wheel on he showmen’s institutional maga-|the horizontal. They're going out lof favor because they can be made They all talk a language, under- | | too crooked by the manipulation tood only by themselves. | from underneath.

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A “mug joint” is a photograph gallery. A large eating house is called a “cookhouse,” but’ a small one where you stand up is known as a “grab house,” ‘probably because you grab and run. ~ When a show is running behind it can be cut without the audiences knowing it, says Mr. Senior. He stands at the sidelines and crosses his hands back and forth palms downward. Then he goes back into the “pad room,” says to the “kinkers”: “Get

| with it.”

“In other words,” said Mr. Senior,

get out into the ring, and cut their

+ | show short.”

A county fair in different sections

of Indiana can be as different as the | Columbian Exposition of 1893 and :|the New York World's Fair. :

La Porte, said Mr. Senior, will go

i | for a nice revue, with all the circus

trimmings. Kendallville is a horse

“|town, with races an attraction. ..:|Muncie has one of the biggest, and * | best-rounded, fairs. Anderson is big,

but mostly on the agricultural side. The old-timers shake their heads at the upstarts—rodeos. They're new, and by new, showmen mean they've comig up in the last 10 years. “There’s’ no getting around the fact that they're popular,” said Mr. Senior, “but, my goodness, they get a lot of horses out there and whoop and holler around and the kids go for it. That isn’t show business.”

SOVIET ‘U. S.-STYLFE’ KIDNAP PLOT FOILED

MOSCOW, Jan. 8 (U. P.).—Five

young engineering. students, ac-

Association Sends Letters 10) co-ordinate public

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health programs,|

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member, | for scrutinizing all actions the Leg-| has been elected permanent chair-|islatyre may make that will affect] man of the Indiana Merit System either

the State Flealth Board or| the WVelfare Depariment, the coun-| cil set up a legislative sub-com-| mittee: which held ‘an organization meeting yesterday. |

temporary chairman, was elected permanent vice chairman. Copies of a letter, | signed by James M. Mitchell, acting direc of the Civil Service Assembly of i United States and Canada, have been sent by the association | to members of the Legislal re. The letter cites the [advantages of a single merit Ge for 2600 employes as compared [to 21 separate systems, each covering jan average of 125 employees. Personnel costs mount single large system would amount to about $26,000 annually as compared to about $63,000 for all the smaller ones, the letter adds. | Other advantages fo system pointed out are unification of pay, hours and vacation regulations.

BRADSHAW TO GIVE REPORT ON HIS WORK

A report on his two years as judge of the Marion| County Juvenile Court was to be given today by Judge Wilfred Bradshaw at a luncheon meeting of the Indianapolis League of Women Voters at

the single

Judge Bradshaw also was te outline problems to be faced in the future by the Court. He was to be presented by Mrs. Perry Lesh, who is chairman of the Citizens’ Committee of the League which was formed 10 years ago for court reform. Mrs. Thomas D. Sheerin was to preside at the luncheon. Soon after beginning its study of the County Juvenile Court, the Citizens’ Commitee found that its first most important step was to secure well qualified judges and other personnel. Sincerthat time it has worked for the nomination of well qualified candidates by each party and has followed the functions of the Court closely.

LA PORTE POLICE ASK MORE RADIO POWER

LA PORTE, Ind. Jan. 8 (U. P.).— City officials and La Porte County commissioners today moved to widen the scope of law enforcing agencies in the county, site of [the new Kingsbury ordnance plant La Porte’ Police Chief James A. Stayton applied to the Federal Communications Commission at Washington for authority [to increase the pover of the city police radio transmitter from 40 to 100 watts. At the same time, an agreement was reached to have [ine transmitter serve county sheriff| patrol cars as well as local cars.

CRUSHED TO DEATH KOKOMO, Ind. Jan. 8 (U, P).— Fred Ereedlove, 61, was injured fatally yesterday hen a 1500over on him. were working on. the boiler in the yard of Mr.

the letter|ent. Teacher Association.

tien’s and! other public health program.

12:15 o'clock at the Columbia Club. of [the State Senate.

Gatch Names Members | W. D. Gatcli, Indiana Univerity Medical School dean and |couri¢il chairman, riamed Dr. Albert M.- Mitchell, Terre Haute, chairman | of the sub-committee. Others named to it, were Dr. Norman M. Beatty, Indisnapolis, chairman of the State Medical Association’s legislative commites; Dr. H. J. Norton, Colum. bus, chairman of the advisory com mittee of the Indiana Mental Hy giene Society; Murray A. Auerbach executive secretary, of the Indiang Tuberculosis Association; Mrs. Perry W. Lesh, chairman of the Indiang State Committee on Child Welfarg Legislation, and Mis. James L. Mur ray, chairman of the Indiana Par

Urged by Hendricks The sub-committee also will reac. and deliberate on bills proposed by

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varius members of the Council foi legislative action

Bills alread)’ undir consideration would increasj

the coritrol of tuberculosis, syphilis, mental delinguency, juvenile delin/-

uency, admission of insane pato hospiflals, sterilization,

The. sub-committee was forme on the recommenfation of Thomas A. Hendricks, secretary of the Stat Medical Association, and a member

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DOCTORS DISCUSS DUTIES IN DEFENS

Medical measutes for defense al the civilian program carried on | the Indianapolis Medical Society Marion County were discussed lgs night at the annual meeting ain dirner in .the Indianapolis Athlei Club. Dr. A. M. Mitchell, Terre Hati president of the Indiana Stas Medical Association, urged the dc tors to co-operate in every way wil the selective seivice program a; warned that many things in t defense program will vitally aff¢ physicians. Dr. Ben B. Moore, retiring preiident of the society, summariz: the services of {he medical frate nh to Marion County in the lg ye! Dr. W. M. Dugan, secreta rel ad a report. | Or. James O. | Ritchey, incomi, president, presid presi. ..

REDUCE INTERURBAN SERVICE TO SEYMOU|

| Beginning Sunday, Jan. 19, ser iceé on the Indisna Railroad inte qirban line between Indianapolis a Seymour will be reduced to o round trip daily, it was announc? tocay by the Public Service Co. Indiana. The car will leave Seymour at 4. m. arriving here at 10:10 a. and will leave Indianapolis at 3

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Indiana Advisory Health| the Indiana Tuberculosis Associa-|i,., « ; » g “American-style” in an effort Couticil, set up by the Governor 10 tion, Indiana University School of [to get rich yr hn ero { Medicine, Indiana Medical Associa-|Municipal Court yesterday to terms ition, Indiana State Dental Associa-|ranging from three to 10 years.

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jciation, State Department of the|the 4-year-old son of Alexander | American Legion, Red Cross, In- Frak, a supposedly wealthy factory {diana State Nurses’ Association, In-|director. {dianapolis Manufacturers’ Associa-|have been discarded when the partion, and the State departments of |ticipants became faint-hearted and public health, safety, public instruc-|each demanded that one of the {tion and public welfare.

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Morgan Advises Immediate Medical Attention and Immunization.

An outbreak of diphtheria in Indianapolis, which already has taken the lives of two children, was reported today by Dr. Herman G. Morgan, City Health officer. Dr. Morgan warned parents to watch closely young children who have not been immunized against the disease. He urged immunization in these instances at once.

As yet, the prevalency of the disease is not sufficient to require public measures, he said... With prompt medical attention. and modern treatment methods, diphtheria can be controlled, he said. Characterizing the spread of the disease as the worst in eight years, Dr. Morgan reported that since Dec. 1 there have been 50 cases here. In the past five years, he said, there have been not more than 50 cases reported a year. Diphtheria cases reported to the Health Board in the last month, he said, appear to be of a virulent type. He cautioned parents to beware of children’s sore throat and persistent croupy cough, which may be symptoms. In the event the disease is suspected, the patient should be examined immediately by a physician, he warned. Most adults have immunity to the disease which attacks principally children of gradeschool age, Dr. Morgan said. Victims of the disease who died last week were Eleanor Halladay, 5, of 2269 Adams St., at Riley Hospital, and John Gard, 10, of 2844 N. Olney Ave. at City Hospital, Dr. Morgan reported.

RESUME STRIKE PARLEYS

PFT. WAYNE, Ind. Jan. 8 (U. P.). —Negotiations between officials of the International Harvester plant here and representatives of 2300 striking United Automobile Workers resumed today after Federal Conciliator David G. Roadley announced “definite progress” to-

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