Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 September 1943 — Page 9

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Started Playing and Singing

| BO HE started playing and singing, and they went ir and stood behind him and listened, it was so , and helped him sing a little now and then they could remember the words. Then the piano player asked them if they weren't married and they said yes, just two days ago. "The piano player must have spread the word, for or four people went over and gave the girl very sincere and earnest advice on how to live hap- , Just how to handle a husband, what not to do 80 on.

A CUSTOMER walked into the pharmacy at 1901 WW. Morris and asked the proprietor, J. Lee Miller, for § “rush automatic.” “Whazzat?” asked Mr. Miller, After some discussion, he figured out the fellow wanted “rhus aromatic” and. explained he : didn’t have any- but would have some by Monday. “Aw, heck, I'll be dead by Monday,” complained the patron, “Okay,” retorted the druggist, walking away, “then you won't be needing it.” .;. . One of our agents phones in with the ob- ‘ servation that it takes three men to paint traffic signals. He says he has been watching a crew paint the signals for several days and that one man paints the white portions, another the black, while : the third man holds the ladder. We'd like to get that ladder-holding job. . . . Bob Knight, a pressman at The Times, was walking past Maryland and Illinois the other ‘day when the woman operator of a streetcar stepped up, without a ord handed him one of those iron bars they use to throw the car track switch, then said: “Put some ‘manpower on this.” Bob did, and the car moved on.

It's An Honest Town

~ WE DONT KNOW whether there's an epidemic lof super-honesty around here, or what. Anyway, here's another case in point: Seaman Edward Johncame home Thursday from the Great Lakes after finishing boot training and took Louise Harris ‘and his cousin, Edward Holland Jr., to the Tee Pee, Fall Creek blvd, for some refreshments. While he lost his wallet containing his navy identifipapers and about $30, He didn’t know he t it until he got to the Holland residence, 1618 st., where he was told that a Tee Pee em- , who said his name was “just Carl,” had phoned t he had found the wallet. Mrs. Holland Sr. told it made her feel good “just to live in-such a town.” . + . Residents in the vicinity of 47th and Washington blvd. have at least a faint conception of what

Washington

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—American democracy in all of its power can be felt as one reads President Roosevelt's report on the war. ; ....For Mr. Roosevelt it is an unusual message. Not only is it one of the longest he ever sent to congress, but it proposes no controversial legislation; is moderate in defense of past actions, and contains no purple passages. : Mr. Roosevelt has tried in plain words to tell congress and the & * public_all that he could about the war, how it has gone, what the outlook is, why some things have ‘been done and why other things have not been done. He has been successful also in picturing the enormous labors involved, and the great work accomplished, which slow march of our forces toward

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Since the outbreak of the war in Europe we have increased production of petroleum by 60 per cent, _ chemicals by 300 per cent, bituminous coal by 40 per cent, iron ore by 125 per cent, and steel by 106

Pictures War Achievemen _ MANY SUCH FIGURES in the message help to pleture to the American people the size of the war proc achievement. It is monumental. In ra-

But I want fo express here my appreciation. A card came to me, saying, “Very best wishes for a- pleasant

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80 THE man and girl looked around, and every person in the place was looking at them, wailing. So the man, being no doubt a gentleman, leaned over and kissed her, a great big one, and then the wildest applause and.shouting and hand-clapping you ever heard broke out all over the place. And then, one by one, every person in that Hofbrau filed past and shook hands with them, and congratulated them on their marriage. : And as the last ones were filing by, the place was closing for the night, so the newlyweds left too, along with the others, and got in their car and drove

away with people still “good-wishing” them off into}

the night, ; They ‘drove away practically busting, for there was certainly a joke on somebody. For both of them had been married many years, and very happily too; and not to each other. So they drove on home and told their respective husband and wife about it, and everybody thought it was funny. ‘ And the man for one, and very probably the girl, too, was quite happy about it, for it must be true that there is a little springtime in everybody, and all the people had been so genuine and enthusiastic about it; and then, it was a little flattering too. Especially tothe man.

P. 8.1 know this story is true, for I was there and saw it. In fact I was the “bridegroom.”

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

Berlin residents feel like during a block buster attack. During the rain storm the other night there was a terrific noise that shook houses and sounded like six block buster bombs. The next day the cause was learned. Lightning had hit and damaged the George C. Van Duren home at 326 E. 47th. Moral: Buy war bonds and keep the real block busters over in Europe —not here.

Complaint Department

ONE OF OUR readers who is interested in traffic safety complains that the military police directing traffic are doing a good job with vehicular traffic but that they're letting our pedestrians “run wild” and get into bad habits. The M. Ps permit traffic to flow longer in each direction than the automatic traflie signals do. This makes pedestrians become impatient at the longer wait between signals, so they start on across. And the M. Ps as a rule ignore the jaywalking. The M. Ps who were on duty here a couple of months ago had two or three assistants each who kept tab on pedestrians. . . . Another reader thinks the city or someone ought to do something about all the debris piled up against. the” Fall creek bridges, insanitary reminders of last spring's floods. He says the debris causes stagnant water and provides a breeding place for mosquitoes. 3

Elephantine- Melon

BILL GUTHRIE, the Allison works production manager, sends word that he expects to carry out his bet today with Charley Hammond, president of Hoosier Cadillac. Remember, we told you the other day how he bet Charley he could raise a 169-pound melon Bill says the melon will be nearer 200 pounds than 169. Promised us a picture of it on the scales. . . . A certain Sunday school teacher was talking about having a social session in her basement. Among -the entertainment was to be a snack bar with sandwiches and other refreshments. The pastor's daughter, who happened to be a member of the class, piped up with: “And may we have a keg of beer, too?"

By Raymond Clapper

tion genius, yes, and Washington's planning and grasp of the giant shape of this war—all of those have ‘combined to ‘make victory possible. America’s contribution, as described first in Gen. Marshall's recent “epic report and now in President ‘Roosevelt's sweeping survey,. takes its historic place beside Britain's unbreakable will, Russia's rugged sacrifice, and China's patient waiting. All are essential to total victory. - During the two months congress has been In recess, America has produced about 15,000 planes and 281 merchant ships, Mr. Roosevelt says. In the first

‘eight months of this year we produced 52,000 planes;|

23,000 tanks, 40,600 artillery weapons, and 13 billion

~rounds of small arms ammunition.

Big Powers Must Carry Load

MODERN WAR is no game for little powers. War must be fought by the big powers. If we are to get rid of wars, the big powers must carry the load. This report of President Roosevelt shows so clearly what is required to win modern war. Fortunately for free civilization there happened to be joined on our

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By JOHN W. LOVE Times Special Writer ;

NEW YORK, Sept: 20.—Look to the plastics for brilliant performance in the world of tomorrow. A performance which will take up from their work of today, most of

it military or industrial.

Among those trades whose wartime advances will provide more jobs after the war than they ever imagined in 1940 or 1941 will be the manufacture of the substances which compose the “fourth kingdom,” the synthetics, Their most conspicuous group are the plastics or synthetic

resins. % Plastics have doubled their capacity since 1941, they are being produced at a rate which approaches 400,000 tons a year, and they probably employ more than 100,000 persons. They are moving too fast to be kept track of. All of this expansion and most of the old capacity is devoted to war purposes, though the consumer still gets his plastics in toothbrushes and a’ few other things. . A new civilian use is about to open up, in fact: Plastics for red and biue ration tokens by the end of the year. Most plastics now go into air‘planes, fuses, gunstocks, pistol handles, training bayonets, - gas masks, soldiers’ raincoats, navigation instruments, wire and cable insulation, and thousands of parts on ships of war, " n n

U. S. Far in Lead

WHERE ONCE the. automobile was the largest market, the airplane industry probably is today. America is far in the lead in

REV. CLEGG GETS PULPIT AT GRACE

Bishop Transfers Pastor,

Of Capitol Avenue Methodist.

The Rev. E. Arnold Clegg, pastor of the: Capitol Avenue Methodist church 11 years, will take over his new duties Oct. 3 as pastor of the Grace Methodist church.

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plastics, and without them we'd be fighting a noticeably different war. : ‘The recent expansion of these products of organic chemistry has been as rapid in some of their departments as the expansion of aluminum. Together the. annual bulk of plastics (but not their weight) exceeds that of copper. On the technical side they will come out of the war with 10 years of normal development condensed into two or three,

Among the 5000 separate formuIations in this great complex, of the synthetics are numbers of resins never yet offered in civilian markets, severil of them military secrets as yet. These will shoulder their way in alongside all- the: traditional markets, as older ones have been doing for the last dec--ade;- but they will also help to build ‘new industries, among them. Plastics will heighten competition in the older fields, no doubt of it, but they will also push back

- the frontiers of living. These last gains will compose the net addi- ~

tion to industry's jobs post-war, This series of articles will mention some of the fields in which the synthetic resins will stick out in the years to come. It will not seek to glamorize the industry: Production men complain it has been over-glamorized, though each time they've mentioned the matter, hi ho, the advertising men up and glamorize it again. ¥ »

Boundaries Hard to Define

PLASTICS ARE chiefly the products of organic chemistry in which carbon is the fundamental substance. They are defined as materials which can be formed to a desired shape under heat and’ pressure. Not included by the in-

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On the left is a corner of a plastics plant, this one a du Pont, typical of the complex equipment. Upper center Is a pile of- molding compound, a form in which plastio leaves the producer. Below It a formula the industry uses, this one for the phenol-formaldehyde plastic, | Upper right a new lantern made of plastic, the ‘material Tenite, by Tennessee Eastman. Bottom, a couple of pieces of Plexiglas, the new

acrylic resin of Rohm & Hass,

rayons or newer fibers, nor even, usually, the synthetic rubbers. The boundaries become even harder to define. The chemical groupings in these resins are strange to the layman: Cellulose derivatives, like the ni trate and acetate, and the broad

—clasy-—-of purely -syathetio - sub--

stances from coal, petroleum, air and water, such as the phenolica, the vinyls, the acrylics and the 2 '&

Expansion in the last two years has been greatest in the last-three named, on the order of three or four times, but all have grown, Two years ago their production added up” to about 400,000,000 pounds. This year they will hit 750,000,000 or even 800,000,000 pounds.~ New" synthetic resins appear continually, some of them Iincluded only provisionally in the

domain of plastics, like certain.

new synthetic glasses and synthetjoc glasses and synthetic mica, Though the soybean has been

slipping as plastic material, even

Ford having abandoned it, research - workers in Knoxville, Tenn., have lately been attracting

attention to plastics. from. cottons.

seed hulls and meal. " . Mu THE TRADE names are the ones the public knows best, those words faintly suggestive of the Arable, like Durez, Bikelite, Lumarith, Tenite, Lustron and Plas-

kon. But there are more than

100 of them. The end uses crisscross in a bewildering way, sug-

‘gesting the amount of explora.

tory work yet to be done. Plastics were suddenly popular as substitutes for metals early in the war, but they bave become almost equally scarce and a few substitutes have occurred in re verse, . ;

After tho war they will stand |

on their own ¥eet, as materials in their own right, and some of the

substitutions are likely to be “permanent, as In toothpaste tubes,

They also will have to. meet the competition of the light metals and the new synthetic rubbers, Their special merits will be color, clarity, lightness, toughness, high

insulating quality, They are “warm and friendly to the touch.™ Most of them will be

used in combination with other materials, glass and metals, wood and textiles, The Society of the Plastics Industry, headquarters in New York, is preparing a co-operative Job of acquainting manufacturers in general with the values in

. plastics. William T, Cruse, the

former Clevelander who is executive vice president of the society, “Says the sim 18 to “hold the line” of the gains made in the war, A 5

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MAKERS OF THE powders or other forms in which plastics are furnished -as- raw material--are relatively few In number and large. Most of them are big

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pens that those chemical come panies which have made the large est returns to the investor have been the ones which went into consumer lines like plastics, This raw-material end of the industry is concentrated in a belt “which runs from Massachusetts down through New Jersey and Delaware and over into Pennsyle vania, with outliers in western New York, West Virginia, Miche igan and eastern Tennessee, pers haps 40 plants in all, New York is the front office of half of them. The other end of the great business consists of - the molders or other fabricators, 400 separate concerns, most of them small, z These are to be found in thelr Iargest numbess in the New York district, all through Jersey, in Massachusetts, and around CleveJand, Detroit, Cincinnati, Chicago, Ban Francisco and Los Angeles,

MURDER- SUICIDE

Jealousy Blamed in Slaying Of Woman, Soldier a

Scottsburg. . P.) ~Jealousy was blamed today for

and the slaying of a woman and & Camp Breckinridge, Ky., soldier, The victims were Mrs. Martha Stults, 20, Cedar Lake, Ind, mother 53 of three young children; Manottd Barea, 37, Cedar Lake and Sgt Joseph P, Rice 28, New York City, Sheriff Ralph Morris said thas Manotti Barea appeared yesterday at the home of a neighbor, Harlan Trueblood, and said he had shod Mrs. Btulte and Rice and that he was going to kill himself. Barea then walked into Trueblood's yard and shot himself, E Moved Here Recently 2 Trueblood said that Barea, an ine terpreter for Italian prisoners of . war working at a Scottsburg cane nery, and Mrs. Stults moved here three months ago with one of her children. The - young Woman

When Barea appeared at Truee blood’s home, he sald he had suse pected Mrs. Stults of being unfaitye ful to him. He waited until she left work at the tavern and met her and Rice. Barea said he sho§ Rice and then Mrs, Stultz four times. ; : : Barea helped the young woman into Trueblood's yard. After talking

body and killed himself. Husband Sought Divorce

Sheriff Morris said” that the woman's husband, Fred Stultz of Cedar Lake, had filed suit for dis

couple's children had remained with = the father when Mrs. Stults

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-SCOTTSBURG, Ind, Sept. 20-(U, i the suicide of an Italianvinterpreter,

worked as-a waitress in a tavern, -

vorce in Lake county. Two of the