Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 September 1943 — Page 21

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I Had to Get Kissed

~ BURE ENOUGH, as soon as the ceremony was jer, Aunt Mary, crying as though she had just buried [Incle George instead of married him, wanted to kiss srybody in the place, especially me. And I couldn't pe found, The search finally got so frantic I decided p come out and get kissed and have it over with. Uncle George lived on a farm, but he wasn't a mer; he was a dreamer. He would fuss all day pund his garden and his flowers, and play his

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

.H. W. STEWART of the Hugh J. Baker Co. has & opinion of people who take puppies out into the puntry and abandon them. En route home from p Haute Wednesday evening, he saw two five or ix-week-old puppies playing in the middle of the a road with no house near. He picked them up and brought them to the dog pound, They'll prob=ably become “four-dollar dogs” | and find homes. With the dog ...pound willing to help out, why be s0 cruel as to abandon helpless animals, asks Mr. Stewart, . . . The Advertising club will open its 40th season Thursday with Ernest Niebrand, of the Coca Cola firm, as president pro tem, filling in for President George Saas who still HE has not fully recovered his voice. is » Taylor's restaurant, on Illinois just north of Dhio, is right up to date. They're using new teapons. made. of white plastic, instead of the usual variety. . . . When two autos piled up Wednesat Davidson st. and Massachusetts ave. blocking \ffic, & squad of military police was on the job in flat, beating the city police by several mingtés. The M. P.’s must have been driving past when he accident ocourred, |

Around the Town

_ H. B. DAVIS of Speedway City read in this column he other day how Ernie Pyle received a letter over nn Africa without -his- name on it—with--just--his-gture and the words; “North Africa” So, Mr. decided to try an experiment of his own. He glipped the picture that appears with this column, ; “Indiangpolis, Ind.” and mailed it. How do we know? We got it. But don't make a practice of it, H. B, or we'll have the postoffice mad at us. . . . A. Vernon Grindle, the advertising man, has received a gift from Ted Bamo! signalman 3-c, who formerly was stationed at Butler. Ted used to visit the Grindle home every ‘Wednesday and learned of their fondness for black tea. So, while in Ceylon, India, on a 50,000-mile trip

Washingt lL = WASHINGTON, Sept. 24—The manpower short. is 80 acute in war production centers that the r manpower commission labor priorities plan, now ‘effect on the Pacific coast, is to be introduced in communities where shortages are severe, ; - "Priorities on manpbwer will be . increasingly necessary. No cone gressional suspension of the drafting of fathers is likely. Army and navy chiefs have given no ground at all under pressure for slowing

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went to the city, all alone, to she did make it. She worked as She worked in care of a sick woman, She And today, at 70, she is still working. Not only making her own way, as we say of boys just out of college, but helping keep a lot of other. people. Her main interest in life still lies in the little community where she lived for 60 years. Every letter to her has to tell how Minnie's chickens are doing, and who wasn't at church last Sunday, and when Edith is going to have her baby, and what Grace's new dress looks like. And about twice a year she goes back for a féw days, and those few days are really an ecstasy, she is 80 happy. ‘ And here she is, at 70, still hammering away at life and getting the best out of it.

with the merchant marine, he picked up a couple of “pounds; had it done up fancy, then mailed it when reached this country.

Shortage of Pants

C. Ri. (PINK) GUTERMUTH, of the state OPA compliance division, is in an embarrassing predicament. Wheh he opened a mothproof bag which he thought contained two winter suits which were cleaned last summer, what do you suppose he found? Just two coats, No pants. A certain dry cleaner is catching heck. . . . By the way, his wife, who is the county ‘salvage director for the women’s division, salvaged .a well worn Masonic emblem which she found on the sidewalk Wednesday and which she'd like to return to the owner, . . Gordon O, Johnson, former teacher at Tech but on leave the last two years while serving with the army technical school at Chanute field, later at Yale, is back here, teaching industrial arts at school 60. . . . Incidentally, the drop in high school enrollment has resulted in some high school teachers ‘being shifted to elementary and junior high schools, ; eo Xe

Their Own Restaurant

THE RESTAURANT situation being what it is, some of the girls at the Chamber of Commerce have taken matters in their own hands, They have acquired an electric hotplate and each noon brew a pot of coffee, warm up some soup and add a few sandwiches. They just started this week, and may expand their activities if they find another hot plate. In--the--group-thus- far- are Marie Brown, Dorothy Bushong, Ethel Moore, Gertrude Groebel and Florence Stone. Harry McNeely, the C. of C. traffic commissioner, is a patron. . . . Looks like the news< papers are having a tough time these days with the name of the Indianapolis Symphony orchestra. Wednesday, on page 10 of The Star, the name appeared: “Sympony.” Wednesday evening in two headlines, The News blue streak had it: “Smyphony.” Then yesterday morning, The Star, on page 11, referred to it as the “Indianapolis Sympathy.” Again yesterday, in a headline, the News had it “Smyphony.” Now it's The Times’ turn,

By Raymond Clapper

committee fixes the labor priorities of employers, listing the local business establishments which may expand employment to an established ceiling, those which may maintain their employment through replacement hiring, and those from which workers may be drawn for more urgent jobs. Some difficulties arise from the attempt by labor unions to continue business as usual. Service trades are hit by the manpower priorities system. For instance, elevator operators are being cut down and workers transferred to more productive jobs. Their

to losing members. Some question arise whether the unions in the should continue to transferred under the manpower priorities plan.

Bonus Plan Used

By Eleanor Roosevelt

for the ‘wonderful work the regula¢ navy and army doctors and the great number of reserves are doing. Their work is magnificent and accounts for the small

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GOP Nomination.

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer

his formal announcement as a candidate for the 1944 Republican presidential nomination, Wendell L. Willkie has officially poked his head over the parapets, as a target for those in his party who would deny his ambition. | Not that his entry came as any great surprise. He has been runining since the final count in 1940. Nor that the gunning for him has not begun already. That started a {long time ago, too. : But now he has made his formal debut, to remain until next year’s {convention the most controversial {figure in the Republican party, as {well as the most dramatic, colorful {and unpredictable man in American {public life, with the usual excep{tion—"“That man in the . White {| House.”

Starts Off All Right The splash of publicity in Look magazine was the first of a series of things planned by Mr. Willkie

stantly before the public. He has done very well up to now, what with his 1940 trip to England, his later journey around the world, and his book “One World.” : The next event is a moving picture. Next week he will be in Holly wood to engage in the usual cone fabs with movie people about a film built around his book. Some of his friends have cautioned him not to become an actor, not to let him~ self get mixed up in the film, on the theory that the effect might be detrimental.” But it will ‘be hard to restrain those movie people,

Perhaps, a Bit Hasty

Some Republican politicians here thought the Look layout was & bit “too, too"—if you get me— especially the accompanying full page newspaper advertisements, These politicians express the fear that it may seem a little expensive out in the provinces, On ‘the * way "back from Holly« wood, Mr. Willkie will stop at St. Louis for a political chore. He was asked some time ago by a group of Missourians to answer a list of questions about his views on foreign and domestic policy. Char. acteristically, he preferred to meet them face to face, for one of those “heart-to-heart talks” he has been having* with politicians all over the country recently, In an effort to charm them over. Republican politicians here, and they Include friends as well as those who would like to trip up Mr. Willkie, still are asking that he be more definite on domestic issues and the New Deal. His generalizations in his magazine article did not satisfy them. “Why Doesn't He—?" “Why doesn't he talk about OPA and rationing and all the waste on the ‘home front?” one Republican asked. “The simple things, you know, that people are interested in.” That's a sample of the strictly political mind. The strategy of those who would opposé Mr, Willkie's candidacy is becoming apparent, and will get down in the next few months to practical maneuvers. The play is to tie up as many state delegations as possible-to favorite sons, in order to block his nomination and swing the prize to someone else,

are plotting such a coup .is, now, Governor Tom Dewey of New York, date for lieutenant governor at the

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ery and equipment, ‘but they have some rough ideas of how their greatly expanded plants are going to help maintain jobs after the war.

Their business has doubled in the last two years, and their old

untried possibilities in: them to’ keep the users busy on develop~ ment work for years after the war ends

One customer who's doing this exploring on its own account is Sears-Roebuck, and a number of manufacturers have gone to see the exhibit Sears has put together in Chicago to acquaint its purveyors with the uses of synthetics, shall see a lot of r. One of the ~Ohicago isa line of tough. bottles, blown of plastic just _as glass is blown. The infantry-

of plastic. : : » ” ® Plant Is Founde DUREZ OF North Tonawanda was founded by its president, Harry M. Dent, who worked as a young chemical engineer some

years after Dr. Leo H. Baekeland found how to make Bakelite,

phenolics, the oldest branch of the

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Here at thig ancient lumber port by the river, now uffalo’s industrial district, Durez Plastics & , Inc., is cultivating the designers in the interests of the plastics business post-war, The makers of these synthetic resins today are shipping nearly all their product to manufacturers of machin-

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industry save celluloid, and in that respect - is like the raw-material end of General Electric's big works at Pittsfield, Mass, which the writer recently visited—at No. 1 Plastics avenue and every other number on the street. The whole field, these phenolics, the newer substances like the ureaformaldehydes Plaskon of Toledo worked up, and others, is one that flowered beyond the rosiest dreams of the pioneers, both in the elaboration of techniques and in the breadth of the market.

Wide Market Seen

HOWEVER, . NEARLY everybody the writer has talked with in the industry remarked that plastics would be used mainly with other materials and often

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FUNNY BUSINESS

Mow industrial designers would use plastics after the war: Upper left, a sewing machine by Peter Muller-Munk of Pittsburgh, Below it, a cake mixer by Brooks Stevens of Milwaukee, Upper right, a refrigerator by Egmont Arens of New York. Bottom, a typewriter by David Chapman of Chicago, These designs were made for Durez Plastics, (Fifth of a series)

By JOHN W. LOVE Times Special Writer

NORTH TONAWANDA, N. Y., Sept. 24.—Industrial designers, those stylists in mechanical things, are fixing to give us a lot of new shapes and forms on the material side

" ” Packaging for Cosmetics COSMETICS. -BEG AN. going over - to the use of plastics in their packaging about 14 years ago. Later the ureaformaldehyde

- plastics, with their lighter colors,

came in and grabbed much of the market, but phenolics are still prominent, and now there's an enormous new business in packages for industrial uses, Thus plastics makers. proved -to themselves that public tastes can turn to new things pretty quickly. Several of the manufacturers of domestic appliances undertook something more ambitious in the later 1930s, in going over to plastics for coffee makers and vacuum cleaners, With all this encouragement, the Dures crowd has set out lately in spectacular directions. The pic tures on this page show some of the things industrial designers have been skelching for them.

Value Is Apparent

THE CHAPMAN typewriter is intended to be electrically operated, light and q The Mul-ler-Munk sewing nfichine and the Stevens cake mixer will be lighter in weight and lustrous. (Everybody uses the word “lustrous” around the plastics business.) The Arens refrigerator (of plas-tic-bonded plywood) has features ~ not visible in the picture, such as

..Jce cubes at the turn of the crank

on the side, and separate drawers for bottles. Then there's hardware. Some plastics hardware has been made

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Nation Faces No Undue Dietary Hardship.

CHICAGO, Sept. 34 (U, P.).—This is the story of next year's dinner table as told bythe men. who are going to set it. It comes from questioning farme-

-lers and cattlemen, dairymen and

poultry raisers, distributors and food chains, crop institutes and govern ment bureaus.

From their answers one fact stands out: The nation faces no undue die tary hardship. The housewife may not be able to buy all the foods — particularly meats——she now can afford, but food men promise there~will be no nutritional shortages. Here is how the situation shapes

up in the principal food fields.

Meat— Supplies will be smaller but there will be enough to go around. About 13 pounds per person a week. Steaks, roasts and hamburgers will

_|{be cut another 8 to 15 per cent, but

rapidly “growing supplies of pork, sausage and bacon will offset this, Lamb and mutton sales will stay about the same. A record summer chicken hatch should produce abundant offerings of pullets, broilers and roasters. Turkeys will be scarcer than ever. The government is mapping a campaign to popularize soybeans as a meat substitute. More soybeans will reach the consumer fresh, canned, frozen, roasted and in the form of margarine, shortening, salad oll and soyflower for bread.

Eggs, Dairy Products— The war food administration has given poultrymen a green light on eggs, foreshadowing an even larger produgtion than this record year. Slightly more milk and cream will be available, but delivery restric tions for city areas are predicted. Butter, cheese, evaporated milk and ice cream supplies will be curtailed.

Vegetables—

Twenty-four per cent more white potatoes and 14 per cent more sweets will reach the markets next year. Record planting of sweet corn, green peas, rice and dry and string - beans also are reported. Estimates indicate adequate offerings of care

plant, tomatoes, lettuce and olives. Reduced sales of celery, cabbage and cucumbers are forecast,

Fruitg=—

An unusually large crop of California and Florida oranges will start coming in early next month, Grape fruit and lemons will be plentiful. Apple crops are reported 30 per cent off with ‘the exception of California Jonathans. Peach; pear-and apricot marketings will be scanty. Plum prospects are fair and there should be plenty of cherries and berries. Grape reports point to a record year with a heavy offering of raisins indicated. The Concord grape hare vest, however, has been ordered set aside by the government for jams, jelltes and spreads, Dried prunes also should be available in quantity. Cantaloupe and watermelon hare vests arg reported the smallest in several years.

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to cut production 25 per cent. To-

as do Bakelite executives in New |ry,

York, that the plastif hardware the navy is using will‘ point the way for civilians, Post-war hard Ware, moreover, may work on a different principle—just push a plate and the door will unlatch.

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coffee shipment problem apparently has been resolved satisfactorily,

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