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had to break s hole in the beach defenses and have our men flowing through that‘ hole within a few hours, or the jig wasup. Phase No. 1 came out all in our favor. We planned phase No. 2 so that we could throw

in our first follow-up waves with-

mans could bring theirs from all over Europe. Savage Air Activity Harasses Nazis

AS THIS is written no important counter-attack has developed. The Germans are having plenty of trouble moving their stuff up, because of our savage air activity. Every day that passes adds to our forces and give us greater security. If we can hold that outer line against all attack for a short while yet, then we will have won phase No. 3. And right now it certainly seems that we are winning it, Phases 1, 2 and 3 were all preliminary ones. It took three of them merely fo get us a place in Europe from which to begin. The three of them merely give us the corner lot on which we are going to build our house, Phase No. 4 is the house-building phase. This is the phase you folks at home have been working so hard to make possible. In England and America we've got the men and

Inside Indianapolis By Lowel! Nussbaum

| roses looked like props for dream

IF YOU NOTICE any of the army officers around town creaking at the joints and groaning as they walk, chances are they're from state selective service headquarters, or from the army air forces materia] center &t 420 N, Pennsylvania. Desk jobs don’t do much to keep the fellows in good physical trim, So, in order to keep from getting too soft, some of them * have started attending Ned Teany's physical torture classes at the I. A. C.... Incidentally, a certain army officer around town who went out to Ft. Harrison recently and took the infiltration course has a deep scalp wound, but he didn't get it on the course. After crawling along beneath streams of machine gun bullets, inching under barbed wire and dodging simulated grenade fire, he emerged with nothing worse than a slightly skinned knee. When he got home, he went to the medicine cabinet and got the peroxide and applied some to the knee. When he straightened up, he hit the medicine cabinet door, cutting a gash in his scalp and knocking himself gTORgY. Just goes to show that you never know when you're safe, . .. Seen on Ruckle st, during the hot spell last week: A shirtless man mowing the front lawn, His wife, seated on the front steps, was sprinkling him with the garden hose whil® he mowed.

A Battle Royal

HENRY SHANNON, veteran auditor of the J. J. Madden Manufacturing Co, witnessed an epic battie the other day at his country home on Rd. 67 near Oaklandon. The Shannons raise white rock chickens. and while he was in the house he heard the chickens raising a rumpus. Hurrying out, he saw that a rooster had captured a garter snake that was almost three feet long. The rooster had nipped the snake on the back of the neck and was shaking it like a terrier, the snake wriggling furiously. The rboster dropped the serpent, whereupon four of the braver hens took up the battle. A hit ashamed to have the hens doing his fighting for him, the rooster tried to grab the snake again, but this time the snake bit him. He

Electoral College

(Second of Series)

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WASHINGTON, June 22.—By the end of July two men will have been nominated for the presidency. But you and the rest of the voters will never have a chance to vote, directly, for either one. You will be asked, instead, to vote for members of the electoral college, an archaic institution designed by the framers of the Constitution to prevent popular election of Presidents. The electoral college was intended to be a body of experienced, wise, disinterested, judicialminded men who would meet and, in their wisdom, select the man best fitted to be President. In order to balance the power among large states and small it was agreed that each state should have as many electors as the total of its senators and representatives in congress,, In the earliest elections under the Constitution, electors were selected by the state legislatures and did not act entirely on their own responsibility. But by 1800, electors were pledged in advance of their selection to vote for some particular candidate for the presidency. By 1832, practically all electors were being selected by vote of the people in the different states. Howeyver—and this is important—the changeover came gradually and by common consent. The Constitution was never altered,

‘Within Their Rights’ ALTHOUGH FOR 112 years we have been selecting electors with the understanding that they will support for the presidency men to whom they have been pledged in advance, no law requires them to do so.

The Democratic conventions in Texas and Missis-

sippi were within their constitutional rights when they picked electors and announced that these would not be bound to vote for the nominee of the Democratic national convention, : For when the voter goes to his voting booth next

My Day

o NEW YORK, N. Y, Wednesday. — Yesterday morning as I read the news, I could not but be encouraged - by Mr. Churchill's suggestion of hope for a more rapid ending of the war than had seemed possible in the

past. There is no one who Will not pray for the war

.. to come to an end soon. In the meantime we rejoice that we have

©. make our citizenship count. We have to make up our

stockpile Germany has built up in western Europe. But we've got to get it over here into France before we go on.

Phase No. 4 to Be Long Haul YOU MAY have imagined that we would hit the beach and go right on, advancing 30 miles a day till we reached the German border. We could no more do that than a baby, after taking its first step, could run a hundred-yard dash. You have to wait until your strength is built up before you can run.

That¢is phase No. 4. It will go on for some time Don't be impatient.. The wall in front of us

ginning of phase No. 5 I don’t know. But my guess is that it will take months rather than weeks, » » » NATURALLY THERE will be fighting during that time. "The Germans will try to crush us back onto the beaches. We at the same time will try to extend our holdings enough to protect our accumulating men supplies.

But phase No. 5 will be the final one. How long it will last I also don't know—and in that ignorance I haye a great deal of company. I doubt if anyone in the world knows. All we do know is that things look good and that it will definitely end in our favor. So don't be impatient if we seem to go slowly for a while. You can't lay the foundation of a house in the forenoon and move into the house that evening. We are just now laying the foundation of our house of war in Europe. It will take a while to build the walls and get the roof on. And then....

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THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1944

Using Glass

(One of a Series.)

. By MARY WELLS RIDLEY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

NEW YORK, June 22.—A bright and beautiful future for our peacetime homes can be seen reflected in the glass

- that now goes to war.

Tablecloths

It’s not too much to say that glass may well affect our whole outlook on life simply because we'll see more— through whole walls of glass, and windows far larger

than windows were before. will appear through unfogged and unfrosted panes, no matter what the weather's like.

We talked with executives of America’s leading glass manufacturers. They showed us colored glass paneling in bathrooms and kitchens that knocked the word prosaic right out in the aisle.

squawked in rage, and then he really went afteg that snake, The battle wound up with a dead snake, and much crowing by the rooster.

Rabbit Gets in Picture

MAJ. DON IRWIN is back from service in Aus-| tralia and is recuperating from an illness in Letter-| man hospital, San Francisco. He arrived Friday | night and immediately called Mrs, Irwin here, Her) mother wired Mrs. Peggy Holiday, who was in San! Francisco visiting her husband, Maj. W. G, Holiday, | just back from New Guinda. The Holidays got in| touch with Maj. Irwin (they never had met previously) | and had quite a visit Saturday night. ... Vie Peter- | son, The Times photographer, was out on N. Pennsylvania Tuesday and took a picture for the society department, It was an outdoors scene, taken in a yard, and when the picture was printed and turned over to the society editor, she asked: “What's this rabbit doing in the picture?” Pete looked, and there, in the background; sat a rabbit. No one noticed it while the picture was being taken. ... On the way back | to the office, Pete was driving on Capitol past 15th st.| Just at that moment, some firemen at a nearby fire

the interior of his car, The water also soaked pas- | sengers on & passing Greyhound bus, The shower; would have been more appreciated last Saturday or Sunday when it was hot,

Tortured Ears

THE LATEST atrocity foisted upon a p:lpless public is an innocent appearing litle instrument known as the “Boy Bugler” Its a little!

tin whistle with several] holes in it, and youngsters | produce on it what to their unpracticed ears passes for the tunes of the day. The whistles cost only a dime, but tortured neighbors have been known to! offer as high as a half dollar for them, just to get a little relief. But the relief is only temporary, however, since the youngsters can get another at the nearest drugstore. Those who know say the torture becomes most exquisite when half a dozen tootlers get together and try to play in unison. There's nothing | like it, short of a dozen Shrine bands.

By Ruth Finney

fall, and marks after the names of a long list of Republican or Democratic electors, he has done all he can do toward electing a President. The electors chosen in each state are on their own after that. They meet in their state capitols in December and ballot for President. Their votes are tabulated and the results forwarded to Washington. On Jan. 6, the senate and house meet jointly to count the electoral votes. It is only after the two houses find that a majority of the electoral vote has been received by one person that a President is elected. Inauguration follows 14 days later.

The Southern Plan

THE SOUTHERN plan to defeat President Roosevelt goes like this— If Roosevelt and Dewey run a close race a group

of southern electors voting for a third candidate, Senator Byrd for instance, might prevent either Roosevelt or Dewey from getting a majority of the electoral vote. The house would then proceed to ballot for President, from among the three men receiving the most votes in the electoral college, presumably Roosevelt, Dewey and Byrd. Each state would have one vote. The representatives from each state would ballot among themselves as to how that vote would be cast. If they tied no vote would be cast. The man receiving a majority of the 48 votes (or fewer if there were ties) would be President. Presumahly the election of a vice president would be similarly in doubt by reason of the electors’ defection. It would be the duty of the senate to select a vice president, and in this case each of the state's two senators would cast a vote. : If all this happens the next President probably will be a Republican. Republicans are almost sure to be in a majority in the Rouse in the next congress, and states in which a majority voted for Democratic electors might find their congressional delegations voting for the Republican candidate. The senate is likely to remain Democratic and might elect a Democrat vice president—unless the candidate is Mr. Wallace, for whom southern senators might refuse to vote,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

which can remain a fixed point in the darkness— namely, the determination that the sacrifices of youth in this generation shall not be in vain. As individuals we feel sometimes we can do very little, but in a democracy, each individual has to fully live up to the obligations of his citizenship. Unless he expresses himself, those obligations may go unfilled, : i So each of us has the obligation to know how to

minds on the big and little questions of national and policies and on the people whom we choose to t

Glass doors centered with plastic

houses, but are tough enough to take it. We stroked gleaming glass fabrics in prints and stripes, and wished they were as suitable for dresses as they are for draperies. (We still can’t quite believe the stuff wouldn't make elegant bed-sheeting, it's that silky-soft.) Houses, we were shown, can be flexible as our needs—with glass block petitions making more, or fewer, rooms in just the time it takes to set them up. Burning cigarets were dropped nonchalantly on glass tablecloths, spread over glass tables, while we looked on respectfully. And we were assured that feather-light glass in= sulation will help to keep our glass-conscious houses wonderfully warm.

Facts Not Fancies

We find all these things extremely interesting to think about.

ments that were shoved out of consumer reach by the war. Others are improvements on familiar materials that will gain much wider distribution—and with it, we can expect, eventually lowered price tags. Glass never has been particularly budget-minded, but we forgive that in the light of its other virtues. The average woman is so eager to get back to her business of home-making that we suspect she'd rather not wait around too long for miracles that are rumored—such as the all-glass refrigerator and stove, colored-glass.-

{ structural blocks, glass blocks that

soundproof the ceiling, glass fabric slipcovers and glass fabric tea gowns, Sometimes miracles don’t happen. So we're confining this discussion to what we can actually put our hands on very soon after the war is over. Until that time, war is industry's business 100 per cent, One of the nicest bits of planning to occupy your mind with is the use of Thermopane. It's a Libbey-Owens-Ford development and contributes consider bly, we believe, to both comfort ahd beauty. Thermopane consists of two or more panels of glass hermetically sealed together with metal bonding, leaving a dehydrated air space between. With such windows you need no additional storm windows. Thermopane keeps out the cold while it prevents fogging and frosting of the glass under normal humidity conditions.

Reduces Heat Loss

Because of its insulating quale ities — Libbey-Owens-Ford ~ engineers figure that double Thermopane (two-pane units) reduce by about 60 per cent the heat loss normally occurring through single panes of glass—much larger than average window areas can be planned. In one Illinois home where Thermopane is in use, a huge living room has its walls entirely windowed on two sides, with the result that you seem to be living constantly in the sunshine. Attesting to Thermopane's ability to keep out the cold, another home—this one in upstate New York—has a two-story high window with glass shelves and growing plants running up its length. The plants stay right there in safety through winter temperatures, Where enormous picture windows are desired, for the sheer beauty they provide, you might have the largest glass areas of stationary Thermopane, with small sash above or below hinged to permit ventilation, Squares, rectangles, circles up to 368 inches in diameter, and half-circle patterns will be available in Thermopane and patterned glass also will be on the market in these two-or-more pane unite. ; :

Light More Important

Executives of Libbey - Owens- |

Ford in Toledo believe that in

Solar Houses — where heat is |

brought into the rooms by the infra-red rays of the sun—There mopans will be especially effec-

& rman

due for a boost today with Governor Schricker selecting a champion lamb to go on the auction block for war

annual Hoosier Junior Market Lamb

with judges selecting the champion pen and the governor making his

the county topping $20,000,000 in its drive toward the $79,000,000 goal and

ing Fifth” war loan drive will be the 12-hour continuous free showing of authentic war movies in the auditorium of the world war memorial, starting at noon.

What's more, these vistas

Deep blue glass tops breakfast table and work surfaces in the kitchen. colored glass, practical as it's beautiful, is a Libbey-Owens-Ford development,

alone recommend them in our opinion, glass blocks always will be cherished by the home owner

for their practical virtues. The glass block that Owens-Illinois makes has been improved of late —no telltale silhouettes show through, so you can have perfect . privacy in a well-lighted room. In addition, there's the advantage of scientific lighting. OwensIllinois engineers tell us that the ideal lighting through a glass block wall combines two types of blocks. Set the light - directing kind which diffuses light in all directions, from the floor up to a 6 foot height; from there to the top use the kind that sends light up to the ceiling and then down onto work surfaces,

Add Rooms at Will

The blocks have fine decorative effect as whole walls in dining and living rooms; as sources of light over kitchen work surfaces, in bathtub walls and stair wells, And the ease with which large areas of

Indianapolis’ war bond sales were

bond bids at the stock yards. The auction, an event of the 15th

show and sale, began at 1:30 p. m.

choice from the pen. Latest bond sales reports showed

the state near one-fifth of its $281.000,000 goal with sales of almost

War Films to Be Shown Tomorrow's feature in the “Fight-

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glass blocks can be cleaned of youthful smudgings makes them naturals for nursery walls, It's with particular relish that an executive of Owens-Illinois brings up the use of glass blocks in clothes closets. If the outside wall of a closet which would be the outside wall of the house is made of these blocks, he maintains the closet not only will be beautifully light even unto the remotest shelf, but moths will have a pretty tough time of it. Flexibility in a house has always been a chief aim of architects as well as day dreamers. Here's where glass blocks come in again. For instance, as the {amily increases or grows up, and goes its separate ways, the number of rooms in the house can be changed. * Glass blocks for interior partitions are feasible in many cases. A nursery can be constructed at one end of a large bedroom or living room. A separate dinette can be fashioned, or a study or sewing room where you don't have to pick

Cheerful as the sunlit garden outside, this living room, above, is flooded with light through clear glass panes and glass blocks. We'll have more homes designed for light, promises Owens-Illinois, which manufactures

the blocks.

Called Vitrolite, #his

up after yourself because company is coming. Anybody can erect partitions after a carpenter has set up a wood frame in which the blocks are to be inserted.

A glass block manufacturer freely admitted his company ran into a complication, however. “We put up beautiful glass block walls in our plant, thinking the employees would be very pleased But we finally had to knock out a few here and there and put in clear glass panes. The union complained they couldn't see what was going on outside!” In figuring price—which is going to vary with labor costs in different localities—you'll want to weigh the insulating virtues of glass blocks. They are unquestionably more effective in preventing heat loss than single pane glazing, Where the temperature in the bathroom is 75 degrees, say, and zero outside, blocks prevent moisture from collecting on window frames and spciling the paint.

Auction of Champ Lamb to Boost Bond Sale

The program will consist of six by $9675 and moved the county's official war department and signal!large-firm war bond sales-pledge to-

corps films; including “Kill or be Killed,” “Communique No. 4,” and The series will be shown every two hours on the

“Baptism of Fire.”

hour from noon until midnight.

No tickets are necessary and no

war bonds will be sold. Children will not be admitted unless accom-

panied by their parents, war bond

officials said. : Pulliam Makes Appeal

Eugene C. Pulliam, state war finance committee chairman, appealed to every Hoosier to back the invasion by investing every spare dollar in bonds as quickly as possible, War workers at the Lukas-Har-old Corp. today became the first major employee group in Indianapolis to go “over the top,” Lowell Craig of the payroll savings division announced.

Employees of the naval ordnance plant topped their $630,000 quota

Up Front With Mauldin

tal to more than $9,500,000, only $500,000 short of the $10,000,000 goal set for payroll savings division volunteers. Other employee groups which joined the “V” honor roll of firms

vance Paint Co., Dr. E, 8S. Gilchrist and Strawmpyer Brothers. Standings of payroll savings division teams announced today placed Paul R. Mathews and J. BE. Whittington and their volunteer groups at the top with 73 per cent of quota achieved, and H. J, Havens third with 60 per cent.

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143 ON HIGH ROLL AT WASHINGTON

The final report at Washington

high school yesterday disclosed that

of the 265 students on the honor roll 143 were on the high honor roll. They sare: James Lines, Elizabeth Mason, Patricla

Clester, Barbara Duncan, Joanna Jennings, David Wheeler,

Mildred Wood, Marian Everett, Willian Kikendall, Gordon Whitaker, Connie Kakavocos, Virginia Reilly, Betty Agan, Marilyn Tirmenstein, Ruth

Greenlee, Dorothy King, Mary Ann Kish,

' |Anne Mae Mohr Carol Prather, Marliyn ‘| Yount, Robert Snodgrass,

Lucille Ward, Martha Overman, Pred Behning, Jacque-

{line Brookes.

Donald Reichard, Shirlene Whitaker, Barbara McQuiston, Patricia Clarke, Marjorie Haun, Margaret Whited, Evelyn Dortch, Louise Preije, Nada Lalioff, Maxine Muetzel, Shirley Scarbrough, Frances Sebano, Kathryn rris, Colleen Pollard, Doris Davis, Marjorie Shotts, Betty Jane Hoagland, Virginia Cox, Virginia Emrich, Carol Ross, Norma Schnarr, Gilbert Arbogast, David Hodson. Joan Parr, Patty Varvil, Carl Armenoff, Dorothy Beck, Alice Daloff, Angelina Geloff, Jacqueline Griffin, Marjorie Klepfer, Shirley Lines, Leona Short, Doris Tompkins,

, Barbara Shackelford, Griff

{Barb a Fischel Tous Griffith, ous Mohler, eanne ew, Arbogas Lou Paul Miller, Paul Yanich,

oversubscribing quotas are the Ad-

Your Post-War Home... Thermopane Windo

You'll Be Looking Through Entire Walls of Glass and

You can set your heart on glass draperies that won't fade in strong sunlight and heat, that shed dirt and grime easily, won't sag or shrink in difficult climatic conditions—that, in fact, practically last forever. Fireproof Fabrics Fiberglass fabrics, products of the glass fiber yarn manufactured by Owens-Corning, are fireproof in addition to their other beautiful traits. Just as an exercise for your imagination, try to grasp the fact that 97 miles of glass fiber are made from a single tiny glass marble. The Thortel Fireproof Pabric Co., distributors of Fiberglass, tell us quite frankly that their biggest market for glass fabrics has been such public places as restaurants, theaters, hotels, schools, ete.—because the safety feature has such enormous appeal. However, we see a logical market on the homeowner front, Latest developments in glass fabrics are two-tone prints that lend themselves well to home decorating, and the fireproof feature is that much extra for your money. These new prints are still in the experimental stage, of course. However, we thought the dull finish yardage—where colored grounds are used in the prints— are apt to be more appealing for home use, though the glittering finish of other pieces has an interesting formality. Content yourself with draperies, shower curtains, tablecloths and place mats of glass fabric, as it is not suitable for slipcovers or wearing apparel. Friction is fatal to it. As a matter of fact, Thortel

. doesn’t appear too enthusiastic

about glass fabric tablecloths, though they were in use to a certain extent when the war came, However, for people who can afford their fun, the glass tablecloth has potentialities, For example:

Fireman Fell for Gag

Mr. L. A. Chastel, manager of Thortel, couldn’t resist a little fun for himself at the expense of a fire commissioner. At a dinner at the Waldorf Mr. C. had supplied his own glass cloth and deliberately seated the commission er, a guest, next to him. As he rose to say a few words he casually laid his lighted cigar on the cloth. The commissioner paled and lunged for the stogie. Whereupon Mr. Chastel beamed with delight and said, “You did exactly what I intended for you to do,” and got in a plug on the virtues of fireproof materials. Whether you're willing to pay some $6 or more a yard for this kind of after-dinner entertainment will depend, of course, on how much you like to laugh. Speaking of price, don’t take the $6 too literally. We simply mean to imply that glass fabric yardage will probably be confined to the decorator fabric price range and the decorator’s corner of the department store. Speaking of decorators, you may hear them mention glass fabric more often and more enthusiastically after the war, especially when theyre commissioned to do seashore homes, Experiments may prove justification for weaving glass fiber yarn with other yarns such as silk, rayon, wool. However, only asbestos has been women with it to date. Since the greatest virtue of glass fabric in the eyes of the manufacturer and distributor is its fireproof quality, and asbestos is the only known yarn also fireproof, this combination has seemed to them eminently satisfactory.

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