Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 November 1943 — Page 19

~ was sorry about the sat down and said yes it was pretty t an awful void. Your only two chil~ within a few months of each other—one operation, one In a crash in New Guinea. is about to go crazy,” Charlie said. isn't any construction any more, so Charlie the air base. He is still kind to people, and around dropping in here and there to see the who live in the scores of houses he built,

— Charlie Binkley is able to take his terrible double~ blow-=-just as most-of the rest-of us would-take it— because there's nothing else you can do but take it.

Water Tender, First Class

OUR MEAT-MAN at Campbell's grocery for years was “Mr. Mac” We were good friends and he was a2 pleasant and helpful. Yet during all those years I never knew what his name actually was, ~— Then “one -day -while- 1 was at home the phone rang, and it was “Mr. Mac” on the wire. He said, “I'm in the navy now, just home on a few days’ furlough. I'd like to come down and swap yarns with you.” Pretty soon he came walking down the street, He is nearly 50. He had on his shipboard working clothes - of navy dungaree and jacket. The little white hat cocked on the back of the head of a middle-aged man made him look odd. His name is Rupert H. McHarney. “I'm -a water tender, first-class,” he said. “That seems a funny thing for a butcher to be. But that’s

what I was in the last war, and it all came back

after a few weeks." r

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

LOTS OP FOLKS have been wondering why Bob Casey's book, “Battle Below”—his story of his ex_periences aboard a U. 8. submarine in the Pacific— mever has seen the light of day. We've just heard the Feasan—aj least one reason—via the grapevine, + As we get it, his was one of: four or five books written about the U. 8. submarine activities, Navy

‘censors found nothing partiéularly

«time, the bartender asked the soldiers what. they : The clvil- | Who will "come home, Mr. Moses

- objectionable in. Casey's book; or. in any one of the others. But collectively they give a picture of American submarine operations which the navy thinks still is news to the Japs. So all of them were held up....One of the principal figures in the still unsolved WAC murder (Aug. 28) at 4 8 =the Claypool writes sfriends. from Miaol that he thoroughly enjoys his new job there —~—with an undertaker, ... Two Butler classmates,’ both members of Sigma Chi, ran across each other recently in New Caledonia, or thereabouts, according #0 a letter received by Dr. Marvin 8. Cochran. The

classmates were Maj, Harold (Hap) Meek, who, was -

with. the Péxfection Paint. Co. helgre being calied by the marines, and John Bolte.of. the. Seabees. . of our agents reports seeing Ken McAbee, elect Arician’s..mate..2-¢, in. Ayres’ buying Christmas presents. Ken, who has been in two major battles in the South Pacific, was stationed in five states before going to sea. And so he was buying five presents «=one for a sweetheart left behind in each of the five

states. It's going to be costly for him if he ists ;

many more ports. Wotta sailor!

Around the Town

MAURICE LUNG, superintendent. of hatcheries for the state conservation department, was sworn in as a marine Wednesday. He reports at San Diego, Cal, in two ‘weeks. . . . Two elvilians patronizing the Claypool tavern the other evening reached the generWashingt WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—Congress is opening up 8 Pandora's box in its apparent intention to overrule the wage decision of Fred Vinson, stabilization director, concerning railroad employees. ~ Vinson gare them ‘an increase, but the railroad union officials said it must be more and they have gone to congress now to get it, Railroad union organizations have put on the heat. It is being predicted - that both. houses will “give the railroad employees a larger wage increase without a struggle. “7 That would ‘be in Tinie With the attitude of congress recently. _ Congress is responding to every pressure group, is backing away 3 : from every measure that might cause the slightest economic pain, Its disastrous policy. i» to put the grease on the axle that squeaks the mos ihn is refusing to vate either a sales tax or # higher income tax, both of which are needed. It oS oerly is determined to bow to the farm organigations which have begun their fight to get rid of all price control by trying to kill off the subsidy that has helped hold down commodity ‘prices during. the last year. ?

Becomes Weakened Prey ~ 1P CONGRESS overrules Judge Vinson now and

by its own action grants a larger pay raise, then

‘§t- becomes a weakened prey for every other group that wants more money. The right of petition or appeal is fundamental in.our democratic system. That is our safeguard against arbitrary, discriminatory ‘or capricious action. It is more essential now than ever, when so much pater must Tnsesutlly be lodged in the hands administrative

: RR Oficl™is 1t thst this safeguard of & free country does not become a means of break down effective government. That is 3 danger mou: When Woodrow Wilson set up Bernard M.

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“of beer im front of each.- It only cost the civilian a

cost his friend. 6nly $2, called the bartender and sal

‘called Wallace Lee and told him.” “You mean Wal- Program, as a backlog, would help

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FRIDAY, NoveusE 1, 1943

and fought at the first alarm, wn PORTLAND Remember Jack Pogue?

"IN TUNISIA last winter I met and wrote about a 'pran for $75,000,000 in young lieutenant . in the Paratroopers named Jack! He was adjutant to the famous Col. Edson) PUD Improvements Rafl. -He turned out to be a fellow New Mexican, trom Estancia Valley Just over the mountain from And Expansion. ; By E. A. EVANS

erque. A lew days after I got home, Jack's mother called | Seripps-Howsrd Staff Write

She said she way teaching school at Moriarity;| WASHINGTON, Nov, 19.=There"

sit

FI Hi

i for the first time in 15 years. She called be-i much interest here in how far Port-| : cause she just-wanted to talk to somebody who'd seen land, Ore. Will go towaid cirrying|

Jack, even though it had been a long time; out its new program for $75,000,000

A month’ wernt by, and she: was “in the city and: rworth~of postswar public: imrpove-. “a

called again, just to tell me she'd had three letters | { ments. from Jack and that he was fine. City, county, Then that same evening the phone rang again. agencies retained a planning orThe person at the other end was sobbing A | ganization headed by Park ComThrough the chokes I made out the voice of Mrs. | missioner Robert Moses of New York Pogue. I knew what would be coming next, as 800N | iyjty to draw up the program at a as she could speak. But it was a little different from |. i of $100,000. “what 1 thought. It includes proposals for parks She sobbed, “I've just got word, and had to call \ a oo” pioh speed thoroughfares, ' you—-Jack's a German prisoner.” . - So I began talking fast. “Well that's okay, Mrs. jgSerne drives; A a ven, Pogue,” I said. “That means he's all right. The nicipal buildings, river purification, Germans are ethical about prisoners. He's safe, and | | direst ‘widenin gin all. one of th . Ds Sanger ew, > nd that means hell come back) | most comprehensive plans any comThe choked answer that came back was startling munity has developed. | Public officials are reported en—and thrilling too. It was the kind of answer that will make us win the war. The answer was: . ! thusiastic, but taxpayers are said to “Yes, but that isn't what Jack wanted. - He wanted, be somewhat less so. Wants Workers

” lo MIGHT! : One thing demonstrated strikingly 1s that even so ambitious a publicworks. program, even if financed and carried out in full, can be only a very partial solution of the problems many war-boomed communious stage. One noticed there were quite a few sol- | diers at'the bar, so he called thé bartender and sald: o ties will face when war production he was going to treat all the seryicemen, The soldiers * all had, been drinking beer, so, without asking’ what. they wanted, the bartender just put a fresh bottle

Shipyards and other. war industries have added 76,000 wage earn{ers to the 170,000 Portland had before Pearl Harbor. Portland- hopes

couple of dollars. The other civilian, noticing it had to keep most of these workers,

18,300, a3. SIANING - trea. Tor the soldiers. This, 70 OF, of soldiers and - sailors wanted and they all took mixed drinks, fan neafly fainted when he got the bill—more than| estimated, the community will need $8... hospital's outpatient department usually gives spec- | tators a smile. The sign says: ‘Please do not sit] on the railing,” What brings the smiles is the fact works would mean employment for the sign isn't needed, as the railing is topped with only some 20,000 persons for two a metal cover with a jagged, sawtooth effect. Only years. a knight-in..armor. could enjoy a. rest on it.. __Reconverted industries — private enterprise—will have to carry much Our Agents Report

the larger share of the load, if it ADD MUTTERINGS heard on the street:

jobs than there were pre-war jobs.

ugg.] Bets carried, although .the public

*No, I. mean: Wallace Lee. | greatly.

“on .. .Our|

lace O'Lee, don't you?” The 0 is Just his. middle initial, ”

e “listenifig post” agent IMs, Jarold Ross) was lsteri- HIPALCO: Dines: on] : : — Gallons-of Stew |

ing fo her radio yesterday and tuned in on the program, “Ladies Be-Seated;” broadcast from New-York.| Participating in the program were Mr. and Mrs, Rex B. Young, of Indianapolis, who won a prize in compe-! THE OLD ARMY dish of slumtition with another couple. He's with the Fletcher! gullion still is popular, Trust Co... , Pedestrians in the vicinity of Monu- To. prove it, Ft. Harrison solment Circle and W. Market st. last Monday evening diers, including wounded soldiers stared when they ohserved two auxiliary policemen; from . North -Africa and New (directing traffic) and the regular city policeman alll Guinea, and 175 civilian memwearing fancy corsages of button chrysanthemums.| bers of the Ipalco club, ate 15 They looked very nice, albeit a bit irregular. We gallons of army stew, six gallons didn't learn the- occasion for them. ... Bill Guthrie,| of coffee, 36 loaves of bread and production manager for Allison, is observing his 20th | six gallons of slaw last night at anniversary with General Motors today. Bill started | the Indianapolis Power & Light with Buick, in Flint, Mich, Co. American Legion post 300 an-

By Raymond Clapper

Six Billings General hospital soldiers .made appeals for blood donations. The Ipaleo Young . Men's forum has contributed 391 as chairman of the war industries board in the last| pints of blood since the campaign war, he put out word that nobody could hope to get | began. anything by running around Baruch into the backdoor of the White House. Nor should it be profit able to run to congress to overturn anti-inflation decisions.

CARL SCUDDER HEAD wiry 1s sani vere, mains sirsmens| OF INDIANA CANNERS

necessary to correct gross inequities. In the railroad case a wage increase was allowed, but it was less| Carl Scudder ‘of the John 8. than the railroad union leaders asked and the unions Mitchell, Inc. canneries at Windbrought about the introduction of resolutions in both fall, was elected president of the Inhouses of congress to grant the larger wage increase. |diana Canners’ association at the sean fimal session of a two-day meeting

Pressure W ould Increase Yeslerdny at the Claypool hotel.

. ‘Other officers elected were F, M. AS JUDGE VINSON said in opposing this move, | Cravens, Franklin, vice president, if. congress exempts one group from application of and three directors, H. D. Rogers, the little steel wage formula then the formula will Montpelier; Phil Schmith, Tipton, have to be abandoned in fairness to other groups.|of. Stokely Bros. & Co., Indianapolis, Congress would have told the country, Judge Vin-land J. Lawrence Reece, Shelbyville. son says, that a privileged group is outside the stabflization program and is not in the battle against inflation. Oil people are- moving on congress trying to persuade it to overthrow the action of OPA. Many other cases will be loaded on congress. It already is reeling under the pressure of farm lobbyists: But Vinson is fighting a delaying action and he probably will be bowled over. ‘He has no more hope | than Wainwright had on Bataan. Congress, the year before a general election, is driven by every kind of pressure group--business,

Stork Squadrons - ‘Bomb’ Hospital

HARTFORD, Conn, Nov. 19 (U. P.).—Hartford Hospital Direc tor Dr. Wilmar M. Allen's mater nity report to the annual direc_tor's meeting follows: “Never-ending squadrons of | storks have bombed us with 17% tons of babies. Forty-two were

school and port|

To do that, and to -providé for|

. A sign on the railing just outside the city|to maintain 72,000 more post-war" But, he said, the proposed public|-

(Fifth of a series)

By DALE McFEATTERS Times Specinl ‘Writer

I won't be long after the war until television sets will be as common in the home at radios. Great strides in the science of electronics and new pro-

| duction techniques as a result of war's urgent demands for | electronic equipment will make it possible for you to own a

television set for the price of a good pre-war radio-phono-

graph.

If you can afford it, you will have a handsome single piece of furniture that contains a television receiver, regular radio broadcast reception and a record-player, Your television screen will bring you in your living

room musical comedies, plays, championship boxing matches, ballets, the prominent personages, foot-

ball games, travel tours. The post-war child will have seen more of the world in his short span of life than his grandfather in a lifetime. The pictures you will see will not be the shadowy, wavering images of pre-war television, but clear, “sparkling “projections such as you now see on the movie screen.

They will be black and white,

for color television won't be here for some time to come. The size of the post-war tele:

vision screen will depend largely

upon you, the consumer, : Radio and television men think

. that a picture from 12 to 15

inches square will be best for the small home, where you will sit rather close to the set, Ld Te su Industry Is Prepared BUT IF THE publjc demands a

larger picture, the television -in--

dustry is prepared to offer a screen two or three feet square, Theaters will be able to project

Er oa aame, and in the middle of the war, it is

impossible to predict the retail .

price of the post-war teleyision set. But radio manufacturers Bou 10 biing out & good set for under $200, compared with prewar prices of $500 to $700, While the war ended production of commercial television apparatus, engineers have learned enough from war research to know that the post-war television set will be as superior to the

s Cites Overseas

pre-war set as a 1942 auto to a 1931 model. Dr. W. R. G. Baker, vice president of General Electric, puts it this way: “Suppose a small boat is the only. means of contact between two communitiés on opposite sides of a river and the amount of trade and intelligence passing between ‘them is limited by the boat's capacity.

_*“Then a broad new bridge is .-built across the river.

“War research has broadened the usable television frequency band just as the bridge provides greater efficiency and capacity for traffic between the two communities.” » ” ”

~ Situation Is Reversed

SOME ENGINEERS compare the present status of television with that of talking movies in 1926 and 1927—except that the situation is reversed, Radio now is adding sight to sound, while motion pictures added sound to sight. But only a few “bugs” remain to be worked out before the war's end permits the great electrical and communications industries to begin construction of transmitters and reasonably-priced receivers. Their chief problem is distri-

-bution of television broadcasts to

distant points and devising a method to interconnect broadcasting stations for networkoperation. . Unlike normal commercial radio which broadcasts on very long waves that follow the contours of the earth, television uses very short’ waves that shoot out in a straight line for comparatively short distances—usually less than a hundred miles,

“estratght

touch the walls of the tube,

The world at your doorstep will be television's post.war contribu-

tion to liome entertainment and education, is ready to bring to your living room plays,

The miradle of ‘electronics operas, musical shows,

travel tours and sports events, Above is a scene from a televised pro-

duction of Gilbert and Sullivan's Gondoliers”

television statidn at Schenectady.

over General Electrio's Below. is a home-type television

receiver. This ix a pre-war R.C.A.-Vietar set, producing a picture 7% by 9% inches on a mirror in the raised lid,

When the waves come to the horizon, instead of curving. with the earth's surface, they travel “ahead and leave the earth on a tangent ‘nm ” ”

will Need Relays

WHEN. RADIO broadcasting began to expand in the "20s it was a relatively easy job for a station in ohe city to pick up the long waves of a transmitter in another city and rebroadcast them

_..But television will need relay stations at short distances in -order to’pass its pictures from city |

to city. Very likely a combination of two successfully tested methods will be used to distribute broadcasts, ‘One is the establishment of relay stations every 50 to 100 miles, depending upon the terrain, and the other Is use of what is called a coaxial cable. Developed by the =~ American Telephone and Telegraph Co, the * coaxial cable consists of a eviindrical tube through which runs a wire that is braced so it doesn’t

“capable of carrying the wide band

- of frequencies needed for televi:

is Mp

ubllcan Nationa “Vention in Philadelphia’ in 1040

“was televised fo New York With &

coaxial cible, "Relay stations, however, would be more advantageous from the standpoint that they could serve any other stations within their

radius of contact,

Nucleus Established

GENERAL ELECTRIC'S television station, WRGB at Schenectady, N. Y,, serves as a relay, regularly picking up NBC's telecasts from New York 120 miles away without intervening relays, -and rebroadeasting the programs to

“the Albany = Schenectady - Troy

| Girl Typist Takes

area,

The nation already has a nu- |

cleus of eight television stations in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. After the war others are expected to spring up in Pitts. burgh, Washingion, Cleveland, Boston, Detroit, St. Louis, Kansas City, -Denver, San Francisco and other large cities. Relay systems then will creep to smaller cities, eventually blanketing. the country with a television network similar to the present radio network. How does television work?

First a camera, similar to the

Hollywood movie camera, photographs the scene to be telecast. Inside the camera is a plate covered with myriads of photoelectric cells, each sensitive to light, As each cell receives light from the scene it creates an: electric charge that is in proportion to the amount of light falling upon it, n n »

Series of Impulses

THE PICTURE now is a series of electrical impulses. The elec tronic tube, you remember, knows the trick: of coriverting light to electrical impulses -and back ‘to light.

The impulses are removed from the cells by a beam eof electrons and are transmitted over a cable to amplifiers and to a radio transmitter that sends them into space. Both sight and sound are broadcast together, Upon reaching the receiver in the home the’ electrical impulses are separated-inside the receiving set, one signal going to the loud speaker to reproduce the sound and the other feeding into a “plc~ ture” tube, The screen in a television set actually is the flattened end of. the picture tube, coated with a fluorescent material that glows when struck by 2 beam of electrons.

It is -

Entering the picture tube, the electrical impulses are directed to the viewing end as a beam of Celectrons, inc exact g¥nehronism with the electron beam in the camera, Each electron registers with. varying intensity on the fluorescent sereen, creating me Nght and shadow a reproduction of the original scene,

FM Just Started

CALONG. WITH . television in’ radio you will have - frequency modulation (FM) after the” war, Frequency. : getting a good start when the war disrupted it. FM essentially Is high frequency broadcasting, It is broadcast at frequencies of 42,000 to 50,000 kiloeycles compared with the 550 to 1600 kilocycles of ordinary commercial broadeasts, The human ear ean hear sounds ranging from 16 to 16,000 cycles a

second, bist with ordinary radio tt

Is impossible for you to reteive and reproduce sounds of more than 5000 cycles. a second without getting interference from other stations, - - FM broadcasting, on the “Fiftity, Feproduices Th “frequencies audible to the human ear as well as the fall range pros"

other

duced by the many instruments of

A symphony orchestra, some as high as 16,800 gycles a second; At the same time, by being, in

modidation wan Jush

effect, 20 times stronger than cons

ventional radio, FM eliminates . static from lightning? sun spots, electrio razors; electrical machines, dial telephones and other sources of radio Interference, © As a matter of Tact, it is neces sary for the FM signal at your radio to be only twice as strong as with the static signal to kill it.

Next: The electronic home of tomorrow,

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" Job Seriously

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Nov. 19 (U. P.).—The manpower problem on Tennessee's capitol hill found its way into Gov, Prentice Cooper's office yesterday but it had a» feminine touch. A new girl typist, addressing form letters from the governor to the state's civic leaders, apparently toek the title of “honorable”

“too- seriously by sending -out-800-

letters being the

salutation: “Dear Honorable. » ;

AUGUST KASPER HONORED August M. Kasper Jr, of Indian apelis, a junior at Indiana univer sity, has been pledged to Blue Key, national service fraternity, bers are chosen because of thelr outstanding collegiate service,

HOLD EVERYTHING

“The charge of electricity wakes

‘em wl

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Angles Making Whisky Probe Big =

Another legislative reform ing considered by the

is to shorten the time now per-