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Fog Cleared Away

© AS LONG AS we were in the fog I was all right. Because I couldn't see. But pretty soon we came out ‘above it, and then the fright closed in over me. “The elevator began to swing up and down. I knew what that was instantly, .It was the cable fraying. and only a strand or two was left holding us. Oh for the safety of an airplane! } ~ Pinally you're up there. Then you have to step an open slice of sky about a foot wide (wide enough to fall through, all right), and then climb

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the tower clear down to the bridge floor in the center. I sure would have liked to, but unfortunately I had an appaintment with my music teacher and couldn't wait. So we climbed down the ladders, and waited for the cage, and went swinging and jerking down to sea level again, me getting braver every foot of descent. . Personally, T would joyously starve to death before I'd work one hour at the top of the Golden Gate bridge. Or any other bridge more than 10 feet high. : }

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

| ONE OF OUR readers who threatened to shoot us if we used her name reports that there's truth in the old adage that “a bad penny always turns up again.” A couple of years ago she acquired, while in Grand Rapids, Mich., a Grand Rapids streetcar token. It's ; just like the Indianapolis tokens except it has a “G” in the center instead of an “I” About six months ago, she got tired of carrying it and passed it on a local streetcar. Last week, a streetcar operator handed her three tokens and in the bunch was a Grand Rapids token, She’s sure it's the same one. . . . Earl Porter, of Aero Mayflower, says we “promoted” him in an item Friday. : We called him personnel director. ii - He says he’s “only” safety engimeer. , . Louis Carow, press agent for the state war bond staff, is in the hospital at Michigan City for removal of his tonsils and ‘adenoids. - It'll give him a chance to rest up after the recent third war loan campaign. . . . Seen on Pennsylvania near the railroad overhead: A parked car with a sign in the window reading: “Help Wanted.” . . . A classified ad Sept. 30 offering a furnished apartment to “a diseermning permanent couple, preferably books-and-symphony tastes,” brought several applicants, one of whom took a look at the place, then left and were Mrs. Fabien Sevitzky, on one arm, and Howard Harrington,” manager, of the Indianapolis Symphony, oni the other.” The fsn in the middle was Edwin Biltcliffe, of Boston, new pianist with the orchestra, He got the apartment,

| Dictionary to Africa G. L. RAMEY, the insurance man, dropped into

Stewart's book shop Saturday and asked to look at some dictionaries. After much study, he finally

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" 26 passengers on overseas jumps. Or it will carry 5¢ hospital litters, or a light tank, or a heavy ’ four jeeps. It is an efficient ‘earrier for 1500-mile jumps. But something a good deal better is on the way— Lockheed “Constellation” or the C-89. This is the

big long-range passenger transport fly above 20,000 feet. The facts have

“ been released by the OWI. It is useful to talk ahout Constellation now because we must have our eyes

Ing speed of 300 miles an hour at 19,000 feet. Jt is “designed to carry 55 passengers at a higher speed “Shan is reached by a Jap Zero pursuit ship. + Pan-America’s crack pilot, Capt. Joseph Hart, who

African headquarters. It's for his son, Lt. William S. Ramey, who was transferred from Washington to Africa in July. Lt. Ramey wrote his father that there were plenty of French, Italian and Spanish dic tionaries in the headquarters but no good English dictionaries. He said he wanted a good one but not one so big that it would tell “who burned Rome.” He added that he hoped “to learn that for myself soon, without having to get it from a dictionary.” . . . Plans for the observance of James Whitcomb Riley's birthday Thursday recall the famous Hoosier poet's sensitiveness about his age. He seldom ever discussed his age, and various encyclopedias, and Who's Who, usually gave his birth as in 1853. Most of these, including the Encyclopedia Brittanica and Who Was Who in America, still show it as 1853, although he actually was born in 1849—four years earlier. Authority for the 1849 date is a nephew who revealed the poet's. correct age after his death. All of which makes Thursday Riley's 94th birthday instead of his

90th. Around the Town .

SOMEONE LEPT a black Hudson country club sedan parked on Meridian near Ohio yesterday with the motor idling. ‘The sight of all that good gasoline going to waste caused some of the passersby great mental anguish. Among those noticing the car was Miss Blanche Young, of the school board offices. Miss Young noticed it ‘at 11:35 a. m., and saw the motor--still -was running when she returned from at 12:35 p. m. So she hailed a passing policenan and he managed to shut off the motor. ... With gasoline shortage, Crown Hill ¢emetery is bes more popular—as a place to visit. For inof our agents reports seeing a couple of drinking cokes beside Riley's tomb Sunday. other visitors were a soldier and his girl were busy taking snapshots of the autumn the'cemetery. . . . Seén on Monument circle: the dogs that seem to make the downtown their home, standing on his hind legs getting out of one of the monument drinking fountains.

By Raymond Clapper

me into the short snorters in March, 1042, I was going from Ntal, Brazil, to Africa, once Atlantic 12 times in 13 days, making one in less than 24 hours when rush traffic was connection with military operations in theater of war is crying for transport and cargo planes. , experience that is being accumumakes inevitable a vast amount over the network of fields e-have built many of them

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By E. A. EVANS Times Special Writer _ WASHINGTON, Oct. 5. — Bold planning by business and industry for high production and high employment after the war gets important encouragement in an article just published in the commerce department’s monthly “Survey of Current Business.” Its author is S. Morris Livingston, chief of the department's national economics unit, He argues, and supports his argument by an impressive array of facts and statistics, that the American people's wartime savings can be the basis of a long period of sustained post-war prosperity. | Until 1941 individuals in this] country never saved more than 10 billion dollars in any year. This year aldne they will save over 35 billions—more than the combined savings of individuals and corporations in two years after we entered the first world war.

‘Spending Spree’ Doubled:

If this war continues through 1944 we will have been in it three years. In those years individuals probably will have something like 100 billions—much more than the total income of all individuals in the best pre-war year. The great bulk of it will be in such liquid assets as war. bonds,” bank deposits and cash, owned by people whose present incomes: are less than $10,000 a year. } Each individual is a consumer. Some believe that, after the war, consumers will dissipate these enormous savings in a brief spending spree, meaning a few months of boom and then a collapse when the reserve money has been used. Mr. Livingston thinks that won't happen. He believes most of the consumer goods bought after the war will be paid for by income earned in producing them, not by wartime savings. His. -article, detailed and technical, boils down to this:

Fast Transition Urged

People with money laid by in banks, bonds or cash will be willing to spend more and save less out of their post-war incomes. Producers who go ahead and produce, providing jobs- and paying wages; will create incomes for consumers to use._in buying goods in greater volume than before the war, when there was no such backlog of savings. Instead of being dissipated in a few months, the wartime savings will last much longer and continue to exert a favorable influence on post-war markets. The great danger, as Mr. Livingston sees it, is that the public may try to buy more goods than are immediately available, causing pricey inflation and destroying the value of both saving and incomes. To prevent that he urges the fastest possible transition from war production to peace production, so that post-war market demands can be supplied adequately. Economists in the agriculture department also are growingly optimistic about the future. Many of them now believe that, for at least five years after the war, American farmers will have a considerable larger market than they can supply.

Appetites to Expand?

During world war I farmer expanded their production capacity tremendously. Then the unprecedented war demand for food dropped suddenly, causing an agricultural depression that dealt grief to the farmers ‘for many years. They're fearful now that history may repeat. - i Agriculture . department e think it won't. For one thing, they expect more food will have to be sent abroad for post-war relief

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lease and military purposes. For another, prospects of high employment in business and industry lead them to believe that the “expendable appetites” of American workers and their families will consume

ducing. In general, their present opinion is that farm production is more likely to need further expansion than restriction after this war.

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By SHERLEY UML THE THIRD MAN to assume the post of park superintendent within the past nine months was not chosen by the "oft-criticized city

been engaged in politics or any other activity in the state for eight years, and has made, he says, no political commitments. Bronzed by years of fleld work in the National Park Service in the mountain states, Paul V, Brown, the newly-appointed superintendent who took office yesterday, is a soft-spoken young man with a firm belief in the practical application of mass rec reation. It's only natural to think that an administrator who has spent years overseeing construction and landscaping of park projects in lonely reaches of the western plateau would be primarily concerned with aesthetic, rather than human, values, }

- - wv BUT, NOT SO, according to Mr. Brown's own self-evaluation. As a matter of fact, reports the incoming park superintendent, his desire to benefit more people in his chosen profession was his prime motive for accepting the new job. When he surveyed the population of the seven state park district he supervised from Santa Fe; N. M, he disappointedly learned that his efforts serviced about eight persons per square mile. When opportunity knocked, he readily came 2000 miles to Indianapolis, where the per square mile occupancy runs well into the thousands. ’ He's proud of some of the

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World-Telephone Daily Now Prepared to Serve Territory.

Times Special . BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Oct. §5.— The assets of the Bloomington Evening World and the Bloomington Telephone have been combined and the publication will now be known as the World-Telephone, Articles of incorporation list Blaine W. Bradfute Sr. publisher of the Telephone, as agent, and the incorporators as Mr. Bradfute, Mrs. Anna W, Bradfute and George W. Henley, Bloomington attorney, who was majority leader in the lower house of the last legislature. The incorporation papers listed

value. The amount of money involved in the purchase of the Worid by the Telephone was not disclosed The World was established in 1892 by John W. and Oscar H. Cravens as a semi-weekly. They later purchased the Courier from Henry J. PFeltus and published the combined World-Courier at times both in the morning and evening fleld and then as a weekly” Oscar Cravens purchased his brother's interest and operated the paper until Nov, 16 1926 when It was sold to George W. Purcell, now Bloomington postmaster, who was principal stockholder in the World until its sale yesterday, The Telephone was established as a weekly in 1877 by the late Walter S. Bradfute. In 1802 a daily was added and some years later the weekly was suspended. Since the death of his father in 1929, Blaine W. Bradfute Sr, had been publisher and editor.

By DAVID M. NICHOL OV nk Cite aly Bos oe MOSCOW, Oct. 5—~In a village three members of the Puchkov family were routed out of their log house

one night by a German policeman and told they must leave for the

family has been a Russian army man since the beginning of the war, and they do not know if he is alive. In the early light of the next morning, the people of gathered near the woods, were subjected to

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sweeping park projects developed under his direction as a national park administrator, but admits that “it's mighty discouraging to see your work wasting away for lack of utilization.” Mr. Brown is still trying to get his bearings on most phases of the city recreation setup, but he’s pleased with the general layout, which {is intensive rather than extensive. location, rather than size, makes for a better patronization of facilities, he believes. As for the much discussed proposal to enlarge the park system, Mr. Brown pointed out that while the -city itself it short on park acreage, the situation might be cushioned in the near future by development of more recre-

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By NAT A. BARROWS

ard The Chicago Daily News, “ | LONDON, Oct. 5—You wouldn't believe ft, unless you saw it yourself, what 10 months’ service with the American Red Cross has done for some of our U, 8. girls Here's a case in point, This particular girl was a spoiled little rich girl who had always been sheltered, pampered and idolized. 8he couldn't “bear” to get her hands soiled, or to go out to dinner with anyone fess in rank thin a lieutenant coloReally, she couldn't. , , . ‘Well, today, this girl—who might have come from Beacon Hill or Park Avenue or the Main Line or the North Side—is giving up her weekly day and a half leave because she doesn't want to miss anything at the U’ 8. 8th airforce aero club, She's got good hard callouses on

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Desire to Benefit More People Prompted

ational areas in the county. Such & plan, he averred, might require ‘establishment of a co-ordinating Agency such As has been set up in Milwaukee and Chicago, where the metropolitan districts are supervised under single, centralizing government units. The manpower problem might | be alleviated, he thinks, by hiring park employees who are genuinely and professionally interested in their jobs. Too many political appointments, he admitted, are | likely to pad the payroll with half-hearted help. Mr. Brown's emphasis on the non-partisan, “human Interest” phase of administration is in line with reports that his appointment ''was not engineered by the city hall patronage committee which earlier this year roundly rocked the park department boat by ousting Lloyd Pottenger from the $4700 a year job, allegedly for political reasons.

” 8 = THE FUTURE OF Indianapolis’ park system, Mr. Brown pointedly remarked, “lies with the people of Indianapolis” Good admin- | istration; he feels, stems from the electorate Itself, and not from behind « the - scenes politictans | mending fences In smoke-filled “back rooms.” The son of Hilton U. Brown, Mr. Brown is a Butler university graduate, and former Indianap- | olis’ newspaperman. He's served | with the National park service | in Indianapolis, Omaha and Santa Fe. Prior to that he was with the state conservation department. He succeeds Andy Miller, who has been serving in an acting capacity.

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| those lovely hands and she talks a lingo that is strictly G. I.—but strictly, She works longer hours than the American Red Cross-would approve if they knew about it. And she grins when she thinks of her | former life, ’ She has taught scores of her combat crew lads to speak French with a good Parisian accent, she plays pingpong, darts and shovepenny with them at any hour of the day or night and she pounds the plano for their rollicking sing- | SONS. : She “has a sympathetic -ear- for their troubles and sound advice for their personal affairs. She has) learned how to jitterbug and to] help the kitchen staff rustle snacks when an Influx of hungry “dog-

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: ve Sulfa Drugs Aid Rheumatic Fever By Science Service WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (U. P). —Wider use of the sulfa drugs to prevent repeat attacks of rheumatic fever may be started soon, Dr. Martha M. Eliot, associate chief of the U. 8. children’s bureau, suggested today in opening a conference between public. health - officials and research workers on this heart-crippling childhood plague. Trials in a number of research centers have already shown that the sulfa drugs can drastically reduce the danger of recurrence of the disease, she pointed out.

serious sequel to an attack of rheumatic fever, is responsible for thousands of draft rejections,

"Next day torrents of rain came down. Cows often became mired or fell to the ground when too weak to go farther, When they couldn't move, the Germans shot them for

food. ‘The Puchkov animal was among those that perished in this

Way. : The family. took a brief halt to bury their remaining possessions beside -the road. They kept only what they could carry on their backs. Only one of the three chickens still’ remained. Petya

Rain and exposure began to take their toll. By the third day, Shura

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HERSHOLT RETIRES ‘FOR WAR'S DURATION

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Oct, 5 (U. P.) ~Danish-born movie actor Jean Hersholt today retired from the screen for the duration of the war to devote himself to advancing the welfare of his hative land. Hersholt, a veteran of 30 years on the screen, announced his temporary retirement last night dur: ing a radio broadcast. Describing activities .of the National DenmarkAmerica association, of which he is president, Hersholt sald: “Our first duty and first love, of course, will always be America, but we want to help Denmark because we came from there and be{cause she is a good ally of Amerfea”

ALLIANCE TO MEET The Alliance of Universalist Women will meet tomorrow at the home of Mrs. Harry Daniels, 261 Hampton dr.

assistance was available until a German, wearing glasses, approached and said that he had studied medicine and would prescribe in return for payment, The mother peeled off her coat and gave it to him. He told her then that he was joking and couldn’t help. After a few hours, fevered and tossing with great pain, Shura died. There was no time to bury her. Her mother could only cover the dead girl's face with a home-made towel. -- For the seventh day the dwindling column made its way west ward. This was the last of the long

dispersal point. An officer directed some to one train and some to an-

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Spokesman.

WASHINGTON, O:t. 5 (U. P.) = Ambassador Andrei A, Gromyko told President Roosevelt yesterday that development of “friendly relations and closest col~ laboration” with the American people now and after the war is the “unswerving desire and aspiration” of the Soviet government. Ciromyko made the comment in presenting his letters of credence to the chief executive at the White House. He recently was named to succeed Maxim Litvinov as Soviet envoy here. : His remarks were regarded with special interest in view of the forthcoming meetings of foreign ministers of the United States, Great: Britain and the Soviet Union,

Feels Its Duty

“In presenting you with the let ter of credence, I feel it my duty to state that the peoples of tha Soviet Unfon entertain. for the American people feelings of friendship and deep respect, and that the maintenance and further de-

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closest collaboration with them constitute the unswerving desire and aspiration of my government” {he added. After reviewing the allied war effort, he added: “I firmly believe, Mr. President, that the present joint struggle against our common foe—Hitlerite Germany and her allies in Europe will bring about closer collaboration {of our countries in the post-war period, In the interests of general - | peace and securlty | Praises Assistance

| | “I believe that the mutual under{standing and mutual confidence be[tween our countries which are so [necessary both during wartime and {in the post-war period as well, will (be forged to the maximum degree in the fire of our joint military efforts.” : Gromyko also praised the assist ance Russia has received and is receiving from the United States, “not only moral but substantial ma~ terial support as well, in the form of airplanes, tanks, guns and other military material and also food stuffs.”

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NEW YORK CLEARING DECK FOR DAD DRAFT,

NEW YORK, Oct, & (U, PP). Local draft -boards-in- New-York: city have been instructed to comb out

fathers and post-Pearl Harbor fathers before calling any prePearl ‘Harbor fathers, Col. Arthur V. McDermott, New York city .selective service director, said today. The . number of children in a family also “may become a very important factor when a man comes up for final re-classification,” McDermott said.

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AUXILIARY FIREMEN OFFICERS CHOSEN

New auxiliary fireman officers of civilian defense district 47 are Capt, Ralph Martinie and Lts. Lloyd E. Evans, Frank J. Pisse, .Gllbert 8. Robbins, John J. Roland and - Samuel H. Watts, The leaders were named at a recent meeting at the Brookside community house when Capt. Louis - Roeckle and Capt. Herbert E. Stanley of the fire department gave instructions on the new auxiliary pumpers.

Slave Caravans of Soviets Forced to Join Retreating Nazis—

Like Puchkovs, They Sicken and Die; No Gifts, No Mercy

Another week went by while the small group lived in shelters they had built for themselves. Then came the rumble of cannonade from the east. Gradually it moved forward, swept past them and moved on to the west, Cautiously they sent out scouts

once again in Soviet territory. But only Mother Puchkov ree mained. Such is Red Star's account of the

their. files for. all available none