Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1943 — Page 11

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Proebstal knows aboit men who died of thirst. g has been a prospector and a mining among these snaky sands and bare mountains, and he has saved many a man from déath.

Fellow Down the Road

A FELLOW, down the road said to me, “When Ike Proebstal tells you anything about this country you a on it being true.” Proebstal is truly an un- , In the first place, he’s one of the hand. humans I ever laid eyes on. He carries his like a lord. in Oregon, studied mining engineering, then lit out. Was in the South African mines ears, spent a year on the Australian desert, four rs in Hawaii, a year in China and Japan. What careers these desert spaces gather into their Ike Proebstal has been rich and fe has been

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nside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

“IF YOU HAPPENED to notice our city policemen going around with smiles on their faces last Sept. 15, you might be interested in learning the reason. Sept. 15, you may remember /with reason, was the deadline for filing income tax estimates and making payments. RS At a press conferefice” yesterday, Mayor Tyndall got to talking about the income tax; as he ‘frequently does. And he mentioned incidentally that he had instructed Chief Beeker to order his men to smile all day Sept. 15. “Everybody was mad about income tax and I thought it might get them in better humor,” the mayor said. The reporters forgot to ask him whether similar orders would be issued each tax payment date. ,. . Henry (AW ri P. (Hank) Cotterman, of the stete sh and game division, was a marine in the other war and was wounded several times. And now, tells his friends, he has received his first wounds world war II. Hank and several friends went

t hunting near Bismarck, N. D., last week. Ac-"

+ Hank got in the line of fire of one of the Two pellets struck him, one in the left temple the othef in the left side of his jaw. They id him flat. He says he’s not going to have the removed. Going, Going, Gone ONE OF THE CITY'S landmarks, the Circle ‘theater clock, is disappearing. Workmen are removing the clock mechanism but the big framework is to remain we're-told. <The clogk ceased to work several years ago, and it’s impossible now to get it repaired. t maybe after the war the salvaged parts can be aired and the clock go into service again, . , . Tarkington is due back by Thanksgiving this because of the shortage of fuel in Maine. He remains there until around Christmas time. y' E. Ostrom, G. O. P. state chairman, is happy have found his car--or rather his wife's ear. Henry borrowed it the other day and drove up to

Washington

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—A White House announce ment says that President Roosevelt visited the battlefleld at Gettysburg, Pa., Sunday. Such a day must have given the president new Strength, and perhaps a new sense of proportion and . . a broader view about this war. Autumn air was crisp, and the sun was still warming where its direct rays fell, and one drew hew energy from a few hours out in the day.

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man rode into my prospecting ¢ mp late in the e was more dead than alive, and his horse was too. He said he had 1:ft his partner under a bush about five miles away.

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“I STARTED right out. T ran almost all the way, for I knew I could just barely make it by sundown. 1 knew that if I didn't get there before dark I'd never find him, for he'd get up at dusk and start traveling. They always do it. “Well, I found him, naked: “I said, ‘I've got some walter for you, come and get it." The fellow raised up, His face was black as coal, and his tongue was swollen and sticking out of his mouth two inches. He jumped up and ran at me and tried to take the water away from me. “But I handled him all right. I'd brought a canteen of water, and. a whisky glass. 1 gave him just one small glass of water. Then I made him put his clothes on, and told him if he'd follow me I'd give him & drink every 150 yards. “The boys back at the camp had built bonfires so I cduld find my way back. When we got about halfway I asked the fellow how he was feeling, and he said fine, that he was sweating. So I sgid, ‘All right then, you can drink all you want now.'"

the library. He left the keys in it and ran into the library to pick up a couple of books, Gone “only a couple of minutes,” he returned in time to see the car disappearing around the corner. It was abandoned in an alley near 16th and College. . . . Among the books on display in the Capitol Bookshop window, on Meridian opposite the postoffice, is one entitled: “Folks Say of Will Rogers.” It has a sketch -of the great humorist on the cover, showing Rogers wearing a hat backwards. The bow on the ribbon is on the right side. It took Joe O'Hara, merchandise manager of Strauss’ hat department, to catch that one. , . . Oh, the vanity of women. ‘One of our agents reports getting on an E. Michigan streetcar about 4:45 Monday and seeing the feminine operator clad in a bright plaid shirt and wearing a red figured bandana, under which were visible innumerable pin curlers, such as women use to curl their hair at night. »

Around the Town

URBAN RENNER of the Union Trust Co. suggests posies for the driver of Greyhound bus No. 4050. About 4:45 Monday afternoon, the motor of a United taxi caught fire in front of thé Hume-Mansur building. The driver heat at the flames with some rags but was making little progress. Then along came the bus and the driver stopped, got his fire extinguisher, put out the fire in a businesslike manner, and then went back to his bus oriving. . . .-Folks at the Union Trust are sad over the death of Charley Davis, the custodian of

of the bank employees and officials attended Charley's funeral yesterday afternoon. He was a regular institution around the place, was always running errands and doing other little favors for folks. A bachelor, His life révolved around the bank. . .. Lt. (j.g.) Charles Boswell, the former chief probation officer of juvenile court, is home on leave of absence. He has heen. stationed at New Orleans, but reports this week-end at Brooklyn. . . . Ensign Creath Smiley who was busy’ collecting seasickness remedies when he first was assigned to sea duty a couple of months ago, writes home that he has been to Honolulu and back on a destroyer and wasn’t seasick even once. He didn't say which of the remedies he tried.

By Raymond Clapper

and oppression of individual freedom is practiced. You can ask Carl Sandburg and he will tell you how some sneered at Lincoln because he wished not only to save she Union but to make the Union a nation of free people. Today human beings are not sold on the market block like cattle—nowhere in the civilized world—as they were in downtown Washington once. The Union was saved and the sacrifice of that bloody War vas also used to break the heaviest of human Cc le

Freedom Is Objective

OUT OF THIS war can come security, and

J. R. Williams, Cartoonist, Accedes to Demands

For Western Volume.

Times Special =, CLEVELAND, Oct. 8.—For quite a few years, now, admirers of J. R. Williams’ ‘“Out Our Way” cartoons (they appear daily in The Indianapolis Times) have urged the artist to collect some of his work— especially his cowboy drawings—into a book, Willams would say well, that wollld be pretty nice, all right, and maybe he'd get around to it sometime. But it seemed that he al-

for the next day's drawing to think very much about selecting cartoons

hundreds of newspapers, And besides his regular work, there was always ‘his 45000-acre Arizona ranch to occupy his interest. Or, his 45-acre “city place” 20 miles from Los Angeles, Or something. Meanwhile, the requests for a book piled up, along with an occas sional inquiry from a publisher, Then, several months ago, Williams got a letter from J. Frank Doble, famed western author, teacher and collector of range lore. He recountéd some incidents in which “Out Our Way” cartoons had figured, and concluded:

Publishes Book

“Seriously, for your own sake and for the sake of lots of us people who love the life’ you depict so realistically, I advise you to bring out the book (of cowboy drawings). It will talk, to people who know, like nothing else this side of Charlie Russell's ‘Trails Plowed Under’ It will, of course, reach a much wider audience than old Charlie ever reached.” Apparently, Dobie’s appeal was the final spurring needed to drive Jim “Williams between the covers of a book, For now there is a book. Charles Scribners’ Sons have just published it, and stores have it for $1.25. It's titled “Out Our Way,” and inside are 126 cartoons-—a selection from the thousands which Williams has drawn during the last 20 years, 2 3 Newspaper clippings of these same cartoons—many of them frayed and yellowed, and many of them carefully framed, already decorate ranches and bunkhouses throughout the cattle country.

Other Series Popular

In the same fashion, Williams’ machine-shop. cartoons, current and| old, are to be found on virtually all the bulletin boards and in the locker rooms of the humming war factories] of the United States. And Williams’ steady stream of fan mail indicates that most of the scrapbooks of the nation are liberally sprinkled with his cartoons of “Why Mothers Get Gray,” “Born 30 Years Too Soon,” and the “Worry Wart.” The appeal of all of these drawings was described in the letter from J. Frank Dobie (who, incidentally, is slated for a faculty post at Oxford university as a lecturer on America). He wrote to Williams: ’

Appeal Described

“Man, you've got something that beats cleverness all hollow. You've got humanity and the power of seeing things and the ability to bring

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$ $n hs rr ATRL Portrait of a Governor Governor Schricker was photographed with an oil painting of himself before it was hung in his office. The painting, to be added to the state's collection of those of former chief executives, is the work of Marie Goth, Brown county. An appropriation of 2500 to pay for it was authorized by the last legislature,

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BRITISH WOMEN ASK EQUAL PAY

Same Basis as Men Workers Slogan as Big London Parley Nears.

LONDON, Oct. 6. — From the foundries, munition plants, aircraft (factories and textile shops of Britain, 300 women, representing the 300,000 women members of the Transport and General Workers union, will raise their voices here tomorrow, insisting that ‘women in industry shall be paid on the same Meeting for a two-day conference, these representatives of Britain's largest trade union, will seek to establish the principle by which women in post-war industry can find equality with men. They will seek to pass a resolution for the establishment of single rates of pay for all forms of work “finally to end the conception of women as cheap labor.” They also will ask for:

Clark Arrives in

‘Puddle Jumper’

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Oct. 8 (U, P..—Unable to -reach Naples by automobile “because of a traffic jam, Lt, Gen. Mark W. Clark, 5th army commander, hopped into a “puddle jumper” airplane Monday and astonished Neapolitans by landing on a main street of the city, Clark had called an important conference and had to get to ‘Naples. He rode in one of the tiny planes, and his British liaison officer in another. They made a 20-mile flight to Naples without incident. After the conference, both took off in their planes from the street .and._ returned to headquarters, The planes landed In the street because there was no suitable airfield near the city.

en, whether married or single. Establishment, before the end of the war, of standards of social security. ! Continuation of government cofitrol of production and consumption ‘40 meet the needs of people in the

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principle of production for use, rather than for profit.

Adm. King Will Visit City

RUMOR NAZIS

Laytex Insulation, Lighter Wires Developed for Battle Needs.

By DAVID DIETZ Times Special Writer

CLEVELAND, Oct, 6.—~Each time the American army invades an en emy coast, the U, B. signal corps is faced with the necessity af Ym- . proving a telephone system. sufficient to handle the business of an American town, How big a town depends upon how big a force goes into action. For the fact of the matter is that all the advances in radio communications, i ncluding the fae mous walkietalkie, have not y done away with Mr Diets the necessity of direct telephone lines. Consequently the first troops to and include members of the famed signal corps, carrying reels of wire upon their back. These wires establish the first telephone communioations, Wire Quite Light

The wire on these reels, ‘known As "laytex assault wire,” is so light that a reel carrying a mile of paired wire, that is, two wires twisted together, weighs only 30 pounds. There is an interesting story behind this wire and one which illustrates how wartime uses are made to peacetime developments. Two decades ago, when many cities in America were expanding rapidly, the problem arose as to how more pairs of telephone wires or signal wires might be jammed into underground conduit pipes. The problem was ‘particularly actite with

WANT ‘PEACE

Solidarity Believed

Purpose.

' LONDON, Oct. § (U. P.) ~Uncon~ firmed reports circulated here today that Germany was putting out peace feelers to Great Britain and the United States, and informed quarters linked the runiors to a Nasi

propaganda campaign desighed to widen the breach between Russia and her western allies. . Nazi propaganda minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, these quarters suggested, may be fanning these reports as part of a double-edged drive aimed at wrecking the forth. coming three-power conference in Moscow or at least deepening inter allied suspicions and friction,

Reports Parallel

Goebbels’ initial move was the circulation of rumors throughout central Europe of Russo-German peace moves, usually based on the theory that Germany would with. draw her armies to the 1939 frontiers, after which hostilities would cease, The parallel reports of a peace bid to Britain and America hinted that the Nazis have put out their feelers through a neutral intermediary in a locale similar to that in which the Italians made their initial contact with the allies. The Nazi theory apparently is an attempt to induce the allies once more that Germany is the only barrier to a wave of communism across Europe, and that the moment has

Jarrived for the allies and Germany i to join hands against Moscow.

Gives Helicopter

Model to Museum

DEARBORN, Mich., Oct. 6 (U, P.) ~Igor Sikorsky’s original flying model of the helicopter which he invented after years of disappointments will be presented toto Henry Ford's Edison museum in Greenfield village. The model, the V8-300, will be added to the transportation sec tion where Ford already has collected many other famous firsts” in aviation history. The _VS-300 first left the ground

PRESS GALLERY AID DIES IN WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (U. P).—

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Conduits Expensive

Laying more conduits would have proved expensive. But if cables could be made smaller, then a given conduit would carry more of them. Belentists of the United States Rubber Co. saw that'one solution of the problem was ‘to reduce the thickness of insulation on each wire. This could be done, of course, only by developing & superior insulation. Ordinary insulating compounds used on copper wire are 20 per cent rubber and 80 per cent other ingredients. U. 8. Rubber scientists tex wire" which hay oie a of & Po whith 90 per cen This purification was particularly important because it removed vari. ous organic substances from the

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OPA ACTS TO HALT CAR SALE PRACTICE

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (U. P)— The office of price administration acted to halt what it called discriminatory practices by dealers and assure eligible chasers a “first-come, first-served” - chance to get an automobile. It outlawed the prevalent practice by which dealers require a trade-in by a prospective eligible purchaser. It was a major step toward counter acting high prices now prevailing on the used automobile market, A regulation which reportedly would establish on used cars is still “in the works” OPA spokesmen sald, Dealers now are realizing such vast profits from used car sales, the

tant to sell new cars because any such additional sales would

qualified certificate holder, Dealers refusing to sell new cars to certificate ‘holders may prohibited from doing business new vehicles or may be denied the right to add monthly storage costs to the maximum prices, the OPA sald; ©

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