Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 October 1943 — Page 15

YOU GET to Oyambaro you wouldn't Just some adobe shacks along the road. Oyambaro you turn off the main.road, and across the bare desert over a sandy trail. the equator monument in about a mile, as I know, this is the only monument in | marking the exact and scientific location equator. It was put up two years ago by a Spanish geodetic commission, is on a concrete base probably 30 feet square. the base rises.a stone shaft, probably 30 feet and pretty thick. On the top is a great stone ball-representing the globe, with the continents faintly carved on jt. Around it runs a bright metal strip, signifying the equator.

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LRFy 4 : | JHE NAVY, we're informed, finally has found “Petty Officer Pete White again, Chief White, was with -the naval public relations office at the ‘a until the office was closed six weeks or so ; At that time, Chief ‘White received no orders. 2 He apparently had been “lost” by the navy. He made a trip out to the armory once a day to look for ‘mall, and then had his time to himself.” But a phone call from ‘ Chicag6 came through the other day while he was making his daily visit to the armory. It was the pavy, asking for him, and assigning him to the Philadelphia navy yard. P. 8. He got his pay regu larly while he was “lost.” , , , One of the clothing dummies in one of Wasson's display windows had a stocking down yesterday. One of two women looking . the window was overheard to remark: “Look, joy won't even stay up on a dummy.” . , , Turkey state park is just getting back to normalcy After: entertaining Lana: Turner last Friday, And she wasn't wearing her white sweater either, If she Bad « == 1. , ; Andrew Olofson, assistant in the 3 relations office at Curtiss-Wright, reports at set Point, R. 1, Nov. 2 as a navy ensign, . . . J&. Gerald E. (Nig) Woods, also formerly with Cure ‘Hiss-Wright, now at Quonset Point, comes home Oct, #8 on 10-day leave. , , "Tom Kemp, general manager of the gas company, left today for Aberdeen, 8. D, on a hunting trip. Before he left, members of the Utility club, composed of utility executives, gave him “# mnicely: wrapped going away gift in an elaborate ceremony. The gift was one shotgun shell, Just Like a Nightmare * STANLEY SHIPNES, manager of Sears Roebuck, ~ and his merchandise sales promotion manager, Jimmy Clements, made a business trip to New York recently, and, of .course, they looked up Capt. Dick Evaps, the former Sears advertising manager, He was out of town but returned a couple of hours before their train was due to leave, and suggested he would take them to the station and save them taxi fare. He

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

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passing close by, on the desert trail. The view In all directions was an immense one. Long miles of rolling brown land--bare, lifeless, sweeping—and then on all sides the gaunt Ades mountains, covered with a great nothingness, We finished. Our lunch boxes blew away, We walked around the monument for a last view. On three sides were the words “France—Spain—Ecuador.” And what do you suppose was on the fourth side? Must I tell? It was “Rotary International” High up on each side of the monument was a 1 bronse letter about a foot high, marking the direc tions. There were "N” and “S" and “E,” but on the west side was the letter “0.” “Look,” I said to Mr. Von Rau. “The ‘W' has fallen off. There's nothing there but the square base they had it screwed to." “Mr. Von Rau looked at it, “No, it hasn't fallen off,” he said. “It is an 'O. It stands for ‘oeste,’ which means west, I don't know why, but for some damn reason they speak Spanish in this country.”

put their baggage into his car trunk, En route, Dick suggested food, They parked a couple of blocks from the station, in front of a restaurant. Bolting their food, they rushed to the car to get their baggage as it was only about 10 minutes before train time. Dick tried to get his trunk key into the lock, but it wouldn't work. “Let me try it,” pleaded -Shipnes. He tried the muscle approach—and broke the key

wasn't his car after all, but gpother Oldsmobile— same year and color as his. There was nothing left for Shipnes and Clements to do but dash for the train—baggageless, At Albany, Stan dashed into the station and tried to buy pajamas, razors, shaving cream, ete, but all he could get was twe tooth brushes. The brushes were the only baggage they had when they arrived here, the next morning.

No Colors Left

DICK HATFIELD, director of the Civic theater, phoned the offices of the Indianapolis Symphony recently and asked Miss Mary Glenn for the colors the symphony is using this year on its tickets, Dick explained that the civic and the symphony have many mutual patrons and he wanted to avoid confusion by having his tickets printed a different color. Miss Glenn lookéd up the carbon of the letter ordering the tickets and found the symphony is using 16 colors, Including such shades as amber, magenta, purple, sky blue, ochre, ete. Dick's reaction: “Gaudy, aren't they!” .¢ , The Kiwanis club this year 1s trying an interesting variation in its election of: officers, Instead of choosing two candidates for president and two for first vice president, the nominating committee just chose two - for president Toner Overley,’ of the Better Business Bureau, and Bob Mason, the builder. The winner will be president and the loser will be first vice president, The idea is to avoid the usual situation where the defeated candidate relapses into relative obscurity and, nine times out of 10, declined to run again in the future. The election is Nov. 3... . If you'd like to hear Ernie Pyle’s voice, tune in on WISH at 11:15 a. m, tomorrow. Felix Adams says that at that hour they'll be broadcasting a record entitled: “Ernie Reports on the WAC.” It's based on his observations in Africa.

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(First of two articles) ‘By DON E. WEAVER Biter, The Fort Worth Press A mountain was born one day last February in a cornfield in the little valley of Paricutin, some 300 miles, west

of Mexico City, and in eight m

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and is still belching out rocks and black sandy ash in

earth-shaking eruption. " Paricutin is no longer a

valley nestling between the

hills, but a mountain. The cornfield has disappeared and so have two villages, and other villages and towns are

doomed unless Vulcan ends subsides. Mexico's new volcano is The mountain . ranges in central Mexico contain hundreds of extinct cones, now tree covered and their bases

rich farm land. It had been nearly 200 years since the last new volcano, Jorullo, was born in 1750 in the same volLanic area. And so Dionisio Pulido, who was finishing his plowing on a Saturday afternoon last Feb. 20, is probably the only man alive who has watched the birth of a new mountain.

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HE HAD felt the earth strangely warm under his feet. The slow oxen were restless. They say that one night he slept in the field because it was warmer than his hut,

But as he plowed that day he saw a curl of smoke coming from a furrow... The earth shook, but quakes are frequent in that area and he was not unduly frightened, But then there was a muffled explosion, and Dionisio knew that this was something more than the usual earth tremor. He urged his oxen away from the field, and called to Paula, his wife, to flee. It was the last of their cornfield which had been ready for the ¥ seed. Soon the smoke was a huge pillar reaching far into the sky, with fire at its ‘base. A mound of rock and stuff thrown out of the earth began to rise, . The violence of the eruption increased.

+ The people of Paricutin fled. The

Mexican government set aside land for them elsewhere. Then the village of Parangari- . cutiro, and that of Parangaricutirimicuaro were covered with the ashes and their people moved to other lands. The towns and their

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long Indian names, are buried beneath tons of rock, San Juan de las Colchas is now the frontier town. It is about four miles from the crater. It and the country around are being covered with the black sandy stuff that is thrown out and carried by the wind. ; *

Cascade of Fire

THE CLOUDS from the sarth rise and mingle with the clouds of the sky. The thunder from the earth answers the thunder of electrical _ s . Which sweep through the mountains. Lightning stabs into the hot column of Paricutin’s smoke and is answered by spurts of red hot lava and incandescent rock from below. The scene at night is terrifyingly magnificent, PFlery gases light the lip of the 1600 - foot crater. Every minute or so a new convulsion within the seething cone tosses up geysers of white hot stone and lava. This falls out« side the crater rim and cascades down the sloping sides. Front miles away, the mountain looks like a cascade of fire. After the thunder of the eruption, you hear the great rocks crashing down and can see them, red hot, bounding down the mountain side, splitting into fragments. They cool into blackness quickly, and the mountain is dark again, except for the glow from the cra“ter. Sometimes a small burst will fall back into the crater to choke the fiery gullet. Then will come . a super explosion and the whole mass will be tossed three times the height of the cone into the air,

.0-N WHILE THE plume of fire, rock and dust is spurting over the top, Paricutin has sent streams of

Tomorrow's Job—

Conference Exhorts U. S. Businessmen To Vitalize Selling, Insure Prosperity

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from which pours a dense colunin of gas and vapor laden with black ash and powdered rock. The ploture shows how the black, sandy material builds up in drifts and ridges. Streams of lava pour from fissures ab the foot of the volcano and push Sut under the loose surface material, The jets of white are gases escaps ing from vents in the cooling crust of the lava beds,

lava through fissures in its sides, It has filled the valley and is pushing against the ridges that

“_onee rimmed the valley but which

are now foothills of the growing mountain, > ‘ A Mexican sightseer walked on the cooled shell of the lava bed and broke through. They pulled him out with a lagiat, but his feet | had been burned by the hot lava below and had to be amputated, ~ Sclentists are in close attendafice on Paricutin. This is their first chance In modern times to watch the course of a voleano al« most from the day of its birth, How long will Paricutin erupt? Volcanos are erratic and it is hard to tell. The record left by other volcanos in the area indicate that it may not grow to much greater height, for the country Is filled with many small cones and few large ones. - Yet the intensity and

volume of the eruption seemed to be increasing on the first of October. The great smoke column is visible 50 miles away. The sand is falling like black snow, . nu»

Popo Still Tallest

POPOCATEPTL, the snows eapped volcano near Mexico Oity, is nearly 18,000 feet high, and its neighbor Ixtaccthuatl, the sleep~ ing woman, is over 16,000. Popo's last eruption was 300 years ago. The stream of sightseers has grown in proportion to the growth of Paricutin. It is a hard trip by a tough little bus and by horse back from Uruapan where the pavement ends, 20 miles away. But the government is building a

~new-road, partly. to_accommodate

the tourists and partly to give work to the people whose livelihood was taken away when their

fields were covered hy. the black ashes, It also supplied them with horses which they rent to tourists to eke out a living. The villagers will not leave until they have: to, for they and their ancestors have farmed there for many generations. Their churchés and shrines are there and they are deeply religious, One village could not be svacus ated until the sacred images and relics were removed from the doomed church and taken along. Mexico has had a lively interest in the voleano and in the probe dems it created, but most people in the were unaware of Parfeutin, If i§ keeps on erupting until wartime travel restrictions are lifted, it will be a great tourist attraction.

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Louls Ruthenburg, industrialist of Evansville, Ind, who said that “business management must do its own planning, and must take the aggressive initiative in bringing about a new order of co-operation with government, labor and agriculture.”

30 to 50 per cent greater than in that last prewar year. “Those goals must be reached if we are to avoid the disasters of too much unemployment, or too much employment by the government,” he added. “And they can be reached. The job can’t be done at the na-

By EA. EVANS Times 8 Writer

BOSTON, Oct. 20.—Business executives who atiended the Boston conference on distribution’ today carried home the message that a first task in preparation for post. war expansion is to rebuild and re-

By Raymond Clapper Col. Turner Reveals Plans

For Post-War’ Service Reaching 120 Towns.

Every Hoosier city and town of any size will have air service after

Washington

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—We are bound to have The Germans have only one chance to escape. * bad days In the war, as we did last week when we They have not the slightest source of military hope, Jost 80 Fortresses on the Schweinfurt mission that except to make the fighting as difficult and as destroyed half of Germany's ball-bearing capacity. as possible for us. They hope we shall become disFortunately, our” air force command is not dis. couraged, and unwilling to take losses, They see the

Local Employer; Civilian Jobs Varied,

The new city directory proves that Uncle Sam is Indianapolis’ bige gest employer, :

couraged by the losses but sees

possibility that the allies will be as stupid and

rather the greater damage to bungling as they were before, and that we shall fall Germany. We are going forward out among ourselves and that out of a split among with preparations for new and the allies, Berlin can save itself from total defeat. = Politicians are- likely to find it unprofitable busi- . ‘Arnold, chief ness to continue the trouble-making that some of says that the senate isolationists are trying to stir up again.

ds to a : : + to en , th air Politicians. Trouble-malkers y Joree, expand the day- 1 TROUBLE-MAKING politicians do not succeed

allies are inflicting on her. When her air force is y Is left exposed. Germany can’t of productive facilities, When German fighter factory at Bremen was destroyed, the Germans set up a substitute at more remote 40 per cent of Germany's MEwas knocked out Aug. 17. We lost production which

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Germans Suffer Daily Defeats WHEREAS WE have an occasional bad day, thé. Germans are taking defeats every day, e

have Germany at the greatest disadvantage, ver now in driving home our advantage be a blunder that would cost us and of lives on the ground:

By Eleanor Roosevelt

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operating stafls and facilities of airports in the network. Col. Turner said that the program would |

the war, and many war heroes will be piloting the planes. J Plans for operating an air feeder line system to 120 towns of 2000 population and over have beeu made by Col. Roscoe Turner, president of his aeronautical corporation. He has returned from Washington, where he presented his program to the Civil Aeronautics board, Col. Turner said that communi-

landing , fields that could be converted into airports would be eligible for passenger, express and airmail service. Olheg places will get pick+ up airmail service. The service will feed into trunk line stops at Indianapolis and other large cities,

‘Employment Provided * The plan calls for using all local

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vitalize their sales organizations,

tional level. It must be done from

Elmo Roper, director of Fortune

“You cannot expand production and you cannot maintain jobs at high levels unless you expand your efforts to sell your products,” they were told by Paul G. Hoffman, president of the Studebaker Corp. and chairman of the committee for economic development, To salesmen in his audience, Mr. Hoffman said: “you must convince the top executives of your com-| panies that it's smart to plan boldly for the period after the war.”

Advises New Mobilization

Whereas the war has brought vast Industrial expansion on the production front, Mr. Hoffman pointed out, sales forces have been depleted and scattered. He urged an immediate start on programs for reconstruction of “the selling front.” The committee for economic de-

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the grassroots up, but the task is so great that it will require utmost cooperation by government, business,

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labor and agriculture, Progperity Formula Ready “All these, in the past, have been

structed. high production. We can have an economy of plenty if we

get rid of these obstacles, who-| ever is responsible for them. The

American people have more savings than ever before, and there's an

magazine's public opinion surveys, who sald: “The American people are willing to give a clean bill of health to the idea of private ownership of business. They are not, however, willing to place property rights above human rights, to regard dividends as more sacred than wages or to see government wink at any future business abuses, They are willing neither to continue to blame businessmen in general for the past abuses by certain Individual ‘businessmen, nor to give all

enormous pent-up demand for goods.

ready, and we must be ready to get into volume production of peacetime goods . quickly, so there will be no long period of unemployment during reconversion, “The least we can do for the men who are fighting and winning the war is to make certain that we win

to walk down the hard road of freedom in a land of great opportunity.” The conference, its second-day attendance swelled to more than 1100 by businessmen interested in iis discussions of post-war problems,

also heard:

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businessmen the unrestricted opportunity to be tempted into evil ways.” 8. Morris Livingston, chief of the commerce department's national economics unit, who offered government help In post-war business planning but warned that ‘it is primarily up to the individual companies to make the studies of postwar market possibilities which he called the first requisite of intelligent planning. A group of trade publication edi-

The directory of 235072 adult names, being distributed by R. Ls Polk Co, is full of the signs of war, Sprinkled on every page are

marines, air corps men, WACS, WAVES and SPARS, most of them far from home, Many thousands of civilians are in occupations much different from those of former years, The postal guide unit is a new

Indianapolis now has 800 varieties

of businesses classified from abate

tolrs to yeast manufacturers. Di

rectory enumerators counted one Nose family in the eity, found

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names ring are Miser,

maker, Duck, Goose,

the names of local soldiers, sailors, :

festure of the directory, and is noe companied by a zone map. Other special items are the designation of tenant-owned homes and a transs portation guide. ohh