Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 April 1941 — Page 20

FRIDAY, APRIL 11, Stream Moves Gauge

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES 1941

Phone Is Automatic

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PARKS SPRUCED UP Measures River . . . . . FOR CITY VISITORS

This is the heart of the river gauge equipment, The drum at the right has a float and counter weight attachment which is moved up | and down, according to the level of the river,

Here is the inside of the river gauge building. includes the standard telephone, relays and bells. answers automatically.

In this small concrete structure at the foot of Court St. in Evansville is housed the automatic river gauge equipment to determine the stage of the Ohio River,

The equipment The telephone |

I¥ s All Done With Code By SEE EAST COAST Hog Prices Unchanged Here: IRONS OUT KINKS Ingenious Telephone Device FUEL SHORTAGE 200 to 210-Pounders Draw $9 (ON BURMA ROAD

1300-1500 pounds s.esssssnssss 10.0012. )

Medium — { 750-1100 POUNAS uv vsrsnrsse [email protected]

11001300 pounds sean aT EEN YS 9.000,10.25 American Inspector-General 750-1100 pounds ....... 8.00@ #.00 . Steers. Heifers | Faces Job in Improving . | ‘ y 8.30 ; Tron Lee oe i China’s Key Feedline.

8.95 5,466 : By os 8.55 11,530 | choice : . 8.85 ,255 | a 900 pounds [email protected]| Copyright, 1841. by The Indianay » 00d~- \ and The Chicago Daily Neu ... 9.00 23% | Good 900 pounds eenss [email protected] . , 9.00 10,290 Medium | LASHIO, Burma, April - + 200 pounds [email protected] Hom I db : | Burma Road, which start og unchange i 00500 pounds... @ 9.00 enjoying the heaviest traffic day at the Indianapolis stockyards, | d | brief history, and yet the Goo es > 11 the top remaining at $9 for good | Medium American insj : Cod feed refined oll | oq choice 200 to 210-pounders. canner dh the Gulf Vealers were steady to strong with | a $12.50 top » o or ture dross “ | Beet : The Agricultural Marketing Serv- | Beef—= or 50 thing is done to reduce ice reported 283 salable cattle were sausages tionate tolls and rem rR 1 y 9 Good 4 : a vt SS lg Pres 478 calves, 10,290 hogs and | Medium .. 251 f ing. This may be one 2 sheep Cutter and Som R 50 sons for the appoint calers "re ay 2 Good and choice , [email protected] American, John Earl B Common and choice ... 00% 11 20 Chinese Government 1 h fy 8.00 " : | Burma Road. Feeder and Stocker Cattle Steers Despite these condition

HOG PRICE RANGE Uner, on whose shoulders) Top Receipts

the weather will be, (OPM Expert Says Plenty of Match 31 ore 3300 13,325 il, but No Tankers to - 8.511 . Choice Deliver It.

10,918 e Service

12,795] 500- 75° ST. LOUIS. April 11. —A shortage |of gasoline and other petioleum | products along the Atlantic Coast is foreseen by experts if there is naval warfare in the Atlantic, because of a shortage of tankers to {bring the [around Florida | Coast. | This possible lack of auto fuel {was made known by Dr. E. R. Weidlein, chief of the OPM chemical division, when he surveyed the | chemical situation for the Ameri{can Chemical Society here. Dr, Weidlein is director of the Mellon | { Institute at Pittsburgh. Dr. Weidle in emphasized the ade-

. 8.05 8.10 pounds | April | April 7 April April f April April

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prices were 0 s | appointed 3 eral of China's key tremendous job ahead of The highway's efficien be brought to a peak

crude or 1 common

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Bulls (Yearlings excluded)

HOGS Barrows and Gilts

Good and Choice

120- 140 pounds 7 8.25 (Receipts, 478)

bomb«

New been conthe drives

rearranged.

entrance has structed to the inn and and walks have been A new parking area is being built for the hotel with a capacity of 600 cars and a new parking area has also been built for the picnic grounds with the same capacity Several new bridges have been built

A new

be employed on the!

to be devel-|

will use under |

in 1942, according to unoffi-|

In about five seconds, another relay comes into play, and closes the circuit to the river guage equipment which then starts to work, A revolving contactor closes an electric circuit.

| opens and

trolled mechanically through a lcounter-weighted float in the river. This causes a “buzz, buzz, buzz” in Mr. Unger's ear, him the river stage. Each buzz stands for For example, buzz, buzz-buzz-buzz,” would mean that the stage of the Ohio River is 2.23 feet The “buzzes” are Unger’'s receiver by a in the concrete building. “buzz” represents a naught. | A stop contactor operates another

sent to Mr. transmitter A long

jrelay when the cycle of operations |

is completed and restores the cir[cuit to its original state. In other words, it “hangs up.” | The new invention makes it possible for any ernmental river determine the river seconds. All they phone the station.

control level have

points to in a few to do is

al value during flood times.

"FORM NEW FIRM

A newly formed real estate firm,|

McKibbin-Elam Co., has opened of{fices at 129 E. Market St., 714. Its members, Frank B. McKibbin and John H. Elam, will engage in a general real estate business specializing in real estate sales, | mortgage loans, insurance and ap|praisals.

The State Conservation Depart-| ment today issued this tip to flower | lovers “Now is the time to see them in their native habitat.” Already April showers and balmy

Spring Beauty

seen in This |

They x he

Will Be Satisfied; Picnic Tables With the weatherman turning on those warm. balmy spring days, And it won't take many of these days, the State Park Department The department has been getlast fall and today Charles De11 Extensive improvements have | state parks during the winter 5 Los Ages Harbor Will trails and drives improved. | the various state parks: | SAN PEDRO, Cal, April 11 (TU. — The whole of the game preserve, center of the man-made Los An- | EVANSVILLE, Ind, April 11—-E. E, state park in the geagylls to a vital point in the na-| The meteorologist in charge of the U. S. Weather Bureau here just | state with 23 square miles. leased in the park, and the care-giver and freighters for the Navy a recent development of the Bell Kokomo Brunet Is . } trouble in spotting the animals. [ii amazing island as private com- guage equipment is housed in a| BLOOMINGTON, Ind., April 11 a wv ear servatory has been completed near o,.,o"ihece contracts will be more Mr. Unger can pick up a | . . v 1 1 and photograph birds without being Today more than 3000 men are happen. The water system is being en- University last night. and blasting harbor channels clear jes : : 1h [transmitted to a relay which reis being raised 10 feet to make the 5 ike “V’ the candidate of a coalition group Shaped Like “V» phone hook in the small house, I TURKEY RUN STATE PARK-— She triumphed by eight votes over long and three-quarters of a mile That's a second relay, and means | . erated in connection ! : e are to be operated erected to house men, steel, cement. Student's Association, rough lumber exterior, and each into the making of sleek fighting + large parties. 8 for lui pan In six months, approximately 20,ized California Shipbuilding Corp.'s The newest industry thousand men are working on a he constructed at a cost of —-A new camp ground is under the ways of the new company and room for 650 tents and trailers and have a 57-foot heam and will have in Mav. The company has a five-year valley north of the pavilion. The supervision and virtually all one floor. bor must be enlarged and the spickrooms. each with a bath, has been] The Navy figuratively is getting looking the canyon also has been gantic new $20,000,000 naval base sun-roof with umbrellas and shuffle- early A new shelter house, with new | built on the Navy's site and that will house is to be known as “Red Bud It has two big rooms, each with a ‘with ovens. the whole park, has been completed. use with all new equipment, inIng meets camp grounds are now confined occupies the space between that, POKAGON STATE PARK—Two | A new toboggan slide has been § Road 60 has heen completed from ary of the park. The entrance to| from the south instead of from | drive through a tract of large tim-| built near the boathouse. The new | the new sand beach will be ready temperatures have turned the Staie lake is being deepened 10 feet, mak- | overlooking the enlarged lake. Con-|is the only trillium that Hanks Lincoln Memorial. Hepaticas can be found especially | “The parks are ready for you.|the bloom period use the Manufacturing Space in the

Longing for Wild Flowers and Feel of Native Sod Soon And Trails Ready. By EARL RICHERT smog-accustomed Hoosiers are longing for the aroma of wild flowers | and the feel of native sod knows, to start again the wholesale week- end exodus of city residents ta the state parks. ting ready for the 1941 season COAST T0 By Turk, director, announced that "a | t is in readiness.” been made on practically all of the months. Picnic tables have been or repainted, ovens and fireplaces checked and repaired and roads, Be Vital Area in Here's What You Find : Defense W Here is what you will find new at € ork. BROWN COUNTY STATE PARK P.).—Terminal Island, wedged in the | ©" Special geles harbor, has suddenly been rests the responsibility of telling evervone what ‘hic k s been which adjoined the park, has b transformed from a strip of land doesn’t have much worry when it comes to reporting the stage of the | added to the park proper, making serving as a base for fishermen and | Ohio River. this the largest Forty tion's defense program. calls the river by telephone to see how it's coming along. new whitetail deer have been I€-| 1p a few months, building of de-| It has been made possible through | | ful observers should have little ,,q Nrerchant Marine will begin on telephone system. Automatic river | The new archery range has been panies and Gover . iment agencies small concrete building at the foot | expanded to twice the gy ie start work on almost $2,000.000,000 of Court St. and therein lies the nhaiana U. Wueen one in use last year in shipbuilding contracts By next secret, | SW A tele- U ya d Ls; “ ” Salt Creek and the swimming pool WU. P Dede Lung, attractive and here bird students can observe ah Ju 2 he Spyards move phone in his office, dial and unpub- brunet of Kokomo, was elected ) into their full stride, lished number and things begin to} : - | Junior Prom queen of Indiana Seon. rorking onetr o . 5 Wo NL be Nis gg The ringing current which operlarged and improved and the dam shipyards, building new roa a normal telephone bell is|. A member of Kappa Kappa impounding Ogle Lake, on the west, | be Gamma Sorority, Miss Lung was o7 BH Wont. moves the receiver from the tele- > lake twice as large as it has bheen.| oe ; wolie | A yt pivED hy CEE Gin Then a series of ding-dongs can : ! . : . \ ) $ ( ; ¢ ur eS . : RY Five oY Sa with SIs Ir MICS he heard in Mr. Unger's phone.| jo Ann Pierpont, Indianapolis, apiece, have en constr ’ . AS y the candidate of the Independent wide, permanent buildings are being pat the river phone is answering. | p , the inn. The cabins are of ( a great quantities of lumber and all bedroom has a fireplace and a bath of the necessary supplies which go T abins are designed especially : : THe Oat ¥ ships and streamlined freighters. Entrance Built 000 men will island. working at the newly organnew yvards, a new nhaval base and an Army transport production base. oped on Terminal Island is the huge California Shipbuilding Corp. A $4,760,000 shipyard for the firm. Here 31 new 10.000-ton frzighters . 52.000.000 on the trail : INDIANA DUNES STATE PARK Eight ships at a time will go down construction on 40 acres of land 7500 men will work on the freighteast of Duneside Inn. It will have ers. The ships will be 425 feet long, will be ready for use soon The a cruising speed of 11 knots. pavilion and hotel will open earl; Yachts to Be Ousted MOUNDS STATE PARK—A naw lease on the area it u <helter house has been built in the the U. 8S. Maritime Commission’s building is 30 by 60 feet and has end of the island will have to be reovens, fireplaces and a concrete modeled. A large private yacht harMcCORMICK'S CREEK STATE and-span pleasure boats will have PARK—The new hotel wing with 30, to find new berths. completed. A new Kitchen, a new behind each pile driver and steamdining room and & new porch over- roller as work progresses on a giconstructed. on another section of the island. On top of the dining room is a The big base will be ready for use board. The kitchen has new ice cial announcements. A large $18,boxes and cooking equipment. 000,000 graving dock also is to be comfort stations, has heen built west be completed toward the end of of the stone arch bridge. The shelter | next year. Shelter” because of the large number of red bud trees in the vicinity fireplace and ovens and there are | two terraces on the building, each SHAKAMAK STATE PARK-—A| new sewer system, which will serve A new swimming beach, twice as large as the old one, is ready for| cluding diving boards that meet all the requirements for national SWim-| The boat landing has been moved the south edge of the beach. The to the area south of the camp grounds road and the picnic ground | road and the lake. Work is just | beginning on the new hotel. new four-room cabins have been| @ completed and are ready for use. built . S SPRING MILL STATE PARK-— Road 37, one-half mile south of] Mitchell, to skirt the south bound-| the park is from this highway. | Visitors will now enter the park the west. | As vou enter the park, vou will ber. A new picnic grounds has been | jake will be used for swimming and | the elaborate new bathhouse and | for the swimming season | Parks into veritable gardens of wild | LINCOLN STATE PARK— The | flowers. Snow trilli , ing it twice as large as it was. New| >" Ww trilllums may be picnic grounds have been established all state parks except Clifty. struction is progressing on a new and it will wilt within a few minshelter house and the new Nancy utes after it is picked. No major improvements have at Spring Mill State Park. They been made at the other state parks.|vary from white to blue and during | Come and see us,” Mr. DeTurk in- | leav es that grew last vear. vited. ‘keep these leaves until after » . Office Space in the Electric Bldg., 25 Monument Circle Industrial Bldg., 38 South Cruse St. EE. |

Inquire at Real Estate Division of

INDIANAPOLIS POWER & LIGHT COMPANY Room 922 Electric Building Phone Rlley 7622

is small] 8

same |

bleoming when they

|up young, hairy leaves. Rue Anemone can be spolted in most all of It has a slender stem, about five inches tall, with divided leaves at the top. The Aower is small, white (and very

period,

[{imes cailed the wind flower.

der beach trees. The flower has

stops the bell |

The se-| ries of electrical contactors is con- |

a numeral. | “buzz, buzz-buzz, buzz- |

of the various gov-|

The arrange-| ment is expected to be of exception- |

Room |

‘The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring, Tra La, Doing Just That in State Parks

send | meadows and fields

the parks. | | leaves

delicate. It sways in the| wind and because of this is some-

| |

| Spring Beauties like to grow un-|

five peials and is veined with pink.| The flower wilts as soon as picked. |

is another the

| { The Bulb Bittercress | Apri flower. The leaves at

| bottom of the plant are round and |

(purple on the under side. It can | be distinguished from Crowfoot by ‘the leaves which are circular, (those at the top lopping over in a half circle.

| The Crowfoot is a member of the,

mustard family. The leaves are | shaped like a print a crow leaves] in mud. The flowers are white, | to purplish. | When it comes to Violets, there {are some you can find easily {others not so easily. [uncommon Kinds is the Earlv Yel- | low. It is found on dry jusually on south slopes. is short. It does no harm, (Department officials said, | the common violet, providing

Another rass. Tt | mustard tribe, and is

is a member of found

| | |

Trillium

and | One of the!

hillsides, | The stem

| chowy of {is that of also known as | lowers of this tree hang down and

| blossom groups of the whole woods.

[28 net $1.63 a common share vs.

| profit

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| soil.

Pre-election battles for the votes of junior men were marked by the bolt of Beta Theta Pi fraternity from the coalition.

BUSINESS AT A GLANCE

By UNITED PRESS American Gas & Electric Co. 12 months ended Feb. 28 net

share vs. $13,763,285 or $2.61 previ- | cus 12 months Bank of America N. March quarter earnings including bond profits ete.

Canadian Marconi Co. profit after income and excess profits taxes $273,763 equal to 6 cents a share vs. $233,030 or 5 cents in 1939. Engineers Public Service Co, and subsidiaries 12 months ended Feo. income $5,392,244 equal to $5,422,584 or $1.64 previous 12 months. Libby-Owens-Ford Glass Co. | March quarter net profit $3.400.917 equal to $1.35 a share vs. $2,897,952 or $1.15 year ago. Martin-Parry Corp. and subsidiary 4 months ended Dee. 31 net after excess profits taxes $303,216. Murray Corp of America February | quarter net profit $252,374 equal to | 26 cents a share vs. $456,662 or 48 | cents year ago. Wright Aeronautical Corp. and | | wholly -owned subsidiary 1940 net | profit after Federal income taxes 36,656,284 equal to $11.09 a common share VS. $3, 740,626 or $6. 23 in 1939.

T. & S. A, 27.690.000 recoveries,

1940 net

It grows one | |and one-half to three inches high found in patches. The small bloom makes the entire patch look white from a distance. The are rosette at the hase.

Hepatica

Then there is Pussy Toe, a memthe Dandeiion famliy. The the base are fuzzy and It grows eight inches tall is white. It can locations, in the

the flower in dry

Getting into the larger plants, there is Spicebush, with very small fiowers, One of the most the early tree blossoms the Shadbush, which is the juneberry. The | make one of the most beautiful An April flower with a history is the Blood Root. The Indians used it to paint their faces with the red roots. If you pick this flower you are likely to get some of the dye on your hands. The flower is about the size of a halfdollar and is white with about 10 petals. The root stalk is thick and grows about six inches above the The Conservation Department makes this one request of visitors: “Please don't pick the flowers.! Others want to see them. “If you must pick a flower, pick a common dandelion. It is really a beautiful flower and when you pick one you will have the blessing of every man who has to keep a lawn.”

American g that | activities industrial these occupied

of petroleum plus thetic products which is only about income | !

$15,241,070 equal to $3.02 a common | d and that tells A large percentage of our tanker built

last

During the past siderable number of ships have been | into foreign ships

and ’ to be requisitioned,

140- 160 pounds production by! 160- 180 pounds . . xy 180-~ 200 pounds E the entire military | 506° 550 Pounds Germany and Italy, | 220- 240 pounds . i ~ | 240- 270 pounds and other ac-| 5:57 309 pounds

countries and of | 300- 330 pounds en rat 330- 360 pounds areas of western |yradium— carried on with | 160- 200 pot sSyn=- |

being

Good an | 270- 300 pounds Pro=| 300- 230 pounds 330- 360 pounds Good — 360- 400 pounds and short ly i%0- 450 nou nds 5 hence 1s Medium — life 250- 500 pounds

of our present

curing war, and end of its useful two years a con- | Medium and 90- 120 pounds service to

which have been

Cholce750- 900 900-1000 rounds 1100-1300 youneds

high-speed tankers been requisitioned by several moire are 1100-1300 ’ 1 J pou nds especially |Good—

Weidlein | 750- 900 pounds 900-1100 pounds

ounds

of war, Dr.

1100-1300 pounds

go Sows d Choice—

Staughter Pigs

Good —

CATTLE Mediu

Slaughter Cattle & Vealers (Receipts

8.85 Chotcew 8.95 500- 800 pounds ? 00 800-1050 pounds 1.05 Good - 5 90 | 500- 800 pounds Ad 800-1050 pounds A 8 40 Medinm 8.35 common— 2 8.85 | 500- 900 pounds .

Gon. and ehoice— | 500 pounds down BR Medium0 500 pounds down 15 | Grad and chojce~ on! 300 pounds down 90 Medium— 500 pounds

@ 78) SHEEP, LAMBS Lambs

8 8.2 8 8 8

down

15@ "1.60 | Good and choice

Common 283) | Gand and choice

Steers g {Common and mediu

WAGON WHEAT ators Are net ubject to 1 shelled corn, 69c Ne led corn, 65¢c; No, 2

Indiananolis grain elev No. 1 wheat 83c new No 2 2 vel low White oats. 33e

500-1000 pounds sevsvesenes

Calves (steers)

Calves (heifers) (Receipts, 72)

m ani good .....

Ewes (wooled) |

| despite occasional Japai ings, the Chinese art materials through in e: [email protected] ing quantities now [email protected] trucks are moving rooming hill station da each carrying | of materials. | Japanese air attacl . [email protected] | bridges have caused 0.25@10.%5 | the traffic, but they {One of the wrecke 8. 1S@11 a5 | DEEN replaced and paired, and if eithe; 8.00@ 9.75 | he destroyed, ferri | drums stand in rea | trucks across the and Mekong Rive: 109041073 While Americar won 0 imoving 10 China 8 som 6.50 pace, the flow of tut 4.00@ 5.50 goods out of China fr | American loans 1s di small, Correcting this

10.25@ 11.00 . [email protected]

out o 8.50@ 9.25 10@ 8.25

. [email protected]

empty will “’ tasks.

vine market

more than

many trucks

ting war 1CI'ecas200 mush= r China, two tons

two vital ations in halt it, dges has other ree d again

iit of oil

to Carry

1g Salwen

rials are

accelerated ] and other repay ippointing-

ment.

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inefficiency be another of Mr.

Baker's

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