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Has Been Lucky ; HIMSELF has been fortunate, Once he was

arm. His own skill and wisdom times; but luck has saved him

Buck. He himself had miragulously through the mine field without hitting a one. : One day Buck went stalking a German officer in . lose combat, and wound up with the German on "one side of a farmhouse and Buck on the other. They kept throwing grenades over the house at each other without success. Pinally B#itk stepped around one gorner of the house, and came face to face with the who'd had the same idea.

denly a mine went off, and following

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

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funds raised by the Toledo Zoological Society, the total 1044 maintenance budget for the zoo, botanical gardens, museum, etc., is $73,000. It was only $51,000 three years ago, but had to be upped to meet the

ioe In i Understand, this is for a 200 several times as elaborate as any Indianapolis is likely to have for a long time, And actually, Toledo's cost is less than that because it gets back $22,000 in fees for admissions, pony and elephant rides. That makes the total cost for Toledo's magnificent 200, museum, ete. about the equivalent of

they spent $73,000 this year, here ft is: Salaries and. wages, $50,145; supplies, including ‘ food. $17,704; contractual, $4000, and maintenance

$1088. Toledo's moological park is operated jointly by the city and the Teledo Zoological Society. The actual done by a board of five city officials and

‘by public solicitation for year they raised $14,216. maintenance expense.

IT DOESN'T cost near as much to feed all those hungry animals as we thought it would. Wholesale -merchants often donate excess vegetables fruit to the zoo. The z00 bakes its own special la A pound. All the animals the elephants go for it. horse meat (no ration a contract price of 7 cents a pound. The meat to beef, Frank says.

Flie THE WORLD'S largest and fastest two-motored luxury airliner, developed by three years of war service, is ready to go into post-war service—and in a big wiy. - It is the Curtiss Commando, with a military army designation of C-46 and Navy RSC. It is a “low-midwing” 36passenger airplane with about every safety and comfort innovation that has been developed. Guy W. Vaughan, president of Curtiss-Wright Corp., announces that the Commando is designed ‘to supply the needs of the me-dium-range airline traffic market, Its maximum range is 1520 miles. Each of its two 2200-horsepower Wright Cyclone “18” engines have ; power sufficient to lift a half-ton slevator at the speed of sound or drive mors than 40 average autos. Its normal takeoff gross weight is 48,000 pounds; useful load, 15900 pounds, and it will

have a maximum cruising speed of 242 miles per hour at 10,000 feet.

Model ‘Has Everything’

AVIATION WRITERS, viewing a full-sized “mockup” of the post-war Commando at the Curtiss-Wright St. Louis plant last week, saw everything from “birdproof” windshields to protect the pilot from highflying wild ducks and what not, to fingertip-control adjustable seats, overhead baggage racks, wide panoramic view windows, modern stewardess quarters with flight control room telephone, fluorescent cabin

My Day

NEW YORK, Monday.—I reached New York City yesterday afternoon in time to visit my cousin, Mrs. Henry Parish, siter having supper with a young family who were much more interested in a pumpkin the candle burned inside it, than

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‘camp left just at dusk. It was drizzling and the to both sides flashed and rumbled around the horizon,

had wanted some Ties of Great Strength | THE TIES thdt grow up between men who live savagely and die relentlessly together are ties of great strength. There is a sense of fidelity to each other among little corps of men who have endured 50 long and whose hope in- the end can be but so small. ‘ : One afternoon while I was. with the company Sergt. Buck -Eversole’s turn came to go back to rest camp for five days. The company was due to attack that night, . MER ur snd cal Bick went to his ‘company comman d, “Lieutenant, I don’t think I better go. I'll stay if you need me.” The lieytenant said, “Of course I need you, Buck, I always need you. But it’s your turn and I want you to go. In fact, you're ordered to go.” The truck taking the few boys away to rest valleys were swathed in a dismal mist. Artillery of croaching darkness was heavy and foreboding. Buck came to the little group of old-timers in the company with whom 1 was standing, to say goodby. You'd have thought he was leaving forever. He shook hands all around, and his smile : vulnerable. He was a man stalling off his departure. He said, “Well, good luck to you all” And then said, “I'll be back in just five days.” He said goodbye all around and slowly started. away. But he stopped and said goodby Sli around again, and he “Well, luck to » Be oan the truck in the dusk. He kept, his eyes on the ground, and I think he would have cried if he knew how, and he said to me very

is the first battle I've ever missed that this battalion has been in. Even when I was in the hospital with my arm they were in bivouac. This will be the first one I've ever missed. I sure do hope they have good luck.” - y And then he : “T feel like a deserter.” He climbed in, and the truck dissolved into the blackness. I went back and lay down on the ground among my other friends, waiting for the night orders to march. I lay there in the darkness thinking—terribly touched by the great simple devotion of this soldier who was a cowboy—and thinking of the millions far away at home who must remain forever unaware of the powerful fraternalism in the ghastly brotherhood of war.

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‘The 60,000 pounds of meat they use in a year brings the total meat bill to only $4200. There's a Jot more we could tell you about Toledo's

zoo, but we're running out of space. You might be interested in the attendance. Annually, the attendance is between 800,000 and a million. A normal summer Sunday draws 25000 to 30,000. Even now, in the late fall, they have about 10.000 visitors on Bundays. One Sunday they counted cars from 21 different states there. : Best patrons of Toledo's zoo are its 60,000 or 80 school children. "They love it. About every fourth visitor carries a camera and has a field day taking pictures. The art school classes go there to sketch the animals. Neighbors Don't Complain IF THERE'S a “most popular” spot, it is the reptile house. Even those who .hate snakes seem fascinated in watching them—safely guarded by heavy glass, The aquarium also is highly popular, especially with mouth watering fishermen. The z00 charges for admission only 87 days a year, during the summer months. Children 12 and under are free the year round. Starting April 15, they charge 30 cents per person on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and 25 cents on Sunday. Other days are always free. Toledo's zoo is situated right in the residential district, on a main trackless trolley line. And there are no complaints f the neighbors, either, we're told. There's no odor complain about—the result of cleanliness. = About the only thing that might cause complaint is that several hundred wild ducks and geese make their home in the park—voluntarily—and once in a while they get excited and fly around, honking their heads off. ‘Personally, we'd take a little honking, if we could get a 200.

By Max B. Cook

lighting with individual reading lights and special cabin air ventilation. A mechanized “sky kitchenette” is separated by the length of the large cabin from the men's room ‘and women's powder room. A Dutch oven, grill hotplates, toaster, mixer and even a baby bottle warmer and special “snack” bar are included.

More Cargo Space

ALMOST EQUAL travel by men and women Is provided for in the beautifully appointed lavatories. Wide windows above large full-plastic mirrors above a boudoir table, non-splashing wash basin and cleansing tissue dispensers feature the women's powder room. > Outlets for 110-volt electric razors and electrically operated toilet articles are installed in the men’s room, along with a full-length mirror, More cargo space per passenger is provided for in the Commando than in any other transport airplane. Two large cargo compartments in the lower section are place forward and aft, easily accessible from the ground. They can carry full-sized wardrobe trunks. Radio and directional controls, best: available de-icing equipment and hydraulic power boost for controls make it a real “pilot's airplane” for ease in handling under all conditions. It has a 108-foot wingspread, is 76.31 feet long and 21.7 feet high. Curtiss "electric three-bladed propellers pull it through the air. In its three years of war service, the Commando C-46 has done a remarkable “workhorse” job. This included cargo flying all over the world and flying gas, oil, men and munitions “over the Hump” of the Himalayas to allied bases in China. Fuel for both Gen. Chennault’s famed 14th air force and the B-29 Superfortresses of the 20th air force is mainly trans. ported to advance bases by the Commandos,

By Eleanor Roosevelt)

and played up very well, letting us children think we had thoroughly frightened our elders, I hope a great many people yesterday read fhe New York Times article giving some interviews with aviators returned from overseas and now being reconditioned. More and more, I hear about boys who want to go back to the front as fast as possible, because they cannot reconcile the “life and death” existence of the men in uniform to the “business and pleasure as usual” which they find among civilians at home. 5 I have always been a little afraid of this, because

seemed sick and}

to Greencastle and Terre Haute,

because, as he explains, he doesn’t stumping with state property. . sz » A “1 BELIEVE I'd use the Buick tomorrow to drive up to Ft. Wayne to see the President,” drawled big Forrest Pritchard, the governor's chauffeur, “Affer all, that’s kind of a state function, I guess.” But the governor, letting fly out the window with a wad of tobacco juice, shook his head. Then, pulling the soft brim of his creamy white Stetson down further over: his eyes, he reckoned as how the

‘Chevvy had taken him this far

and it could take him to see the President. “Durn that sunshade,” mumbled Mr. Pritchard. “I fixed her up yesterday, but I fixed her too tight.” o ” EJ IN SOME respects, the governor’s_ senatorial campaign is like his 1940 Chevrolet . . . not ostentatious. Governor Schricker’s campaign lacks completely the booming tubthumping and spontaneity of that being waged by his opponent, Homer Capehart. Noted throughout Indiana as a wily politician, the governor is playing his cards close to his vest, with one eye always on that apparently dwindling stack of Democratic chips. For this reason, his stumping is less man-to-man and more formal speech-making, and even his speeches are prefaced with the statement, “I don’t want to offend political sensibilities or infringe upon the right to choose your own party—BUT ...” s 8 8 TOURING PUTNAM county with the senatorial nominee, you get your first whiff of this Democratic defensive at Greencastle, where the governor made first for county headquarters and a conference around the hot stove with Putnam party workers. “How's the farm vote?” asked the governor.

about the farmer being against Mr. Roosevelt, but it looks good for you, as good as in 1040." The governor was herded into Ye morner by County Chairman ohn King who, in a very low voice, assured him that the “boys are working their heads off.” Suave and dapper, Mr. King continued to murmur confidentially into Governor Schricker's ear, but the governor just sat there and blinked, saying nothing much at all Over at the court house, the auditorium was chock-full, the result, one candidate averred, of County Chairman King's indefatigable prompting. s = 8 APPRAISING THE attendance gleefully, Vernon Larkin, treas-

Scientist Plans World Shaking

Midnight Event

ROME, Oct. 31 (U, P.).—An enterprising Italian scientist named Battista Lotti-Paci announced today that he plans to loose a batch of home-brewed cosmic disturbances on the world at midnight tonight (6 p. m,, Indianapolis time), when, he said, a controlled cosmic ray will stop the war and, incidentally, anything else that happens to be running at that time, : a Lotti-Paci admitted his peace"maker might also shake up a few hundred million people, but he promised to go lightly on humanity and indicated that he expects the bulk of mankind to survive, Including Lotti-Paci. » -

THE SCIENTIST announced his plan through the morming newspaper II Tempo which quoted him as saying that he has harnessed one of the cosmic rays and named it “Tau.” Lotti-Paci plans to use an elaborate mechanism set up in an old tower eight miles outside Rome. Its effects, he said, will be felt instantly throughout the world,

As far as humanity is con= cerned, Lotti-Paci explained that

“Oh, you hear a lot of talk -

the

1t is the Chevy's second campaign tour (1040 was the first) and | the mileage is mounting high. But the governor insists on using it |

want anyone one to accuse him of

urer of the Putnam county central committee, declared: “It’s - like this at all Democratic meet- . ings. Always a big crowd. . . . sometimes it almost makes you suspicious.”

His speech over, Governor

Schricker was pleased as punch

about the crowd: “I like a crowd,” he says. “I like to watch the response, the reaction.” : Then followed the interminable round-robin of hand-shaking. Although it's: doubtful whether, as some students of Sehrickerana contend, that the governor has wrung the hand of everybody in Indiana and is now starting over again, it does seem possible that his strenuous routine has con-

_ tributed thaterially to keeping

him under 150 pounds.

x = ON THE WAY to Terre Haute, the governor, noticing some logs, remarked that he's got quite a stock of firewood stored in his basement. “If Sam wins,” he laughs, “I'll let it stay there, but if Gates wins, by gosh, I think I'll take it to Washington with me.” When the governor burst unannounced into county headquarters at Brazil he found a full staff of election workers steeped to the

elbows in campaign literature. °

Flushed and tongue-tied by this unexpected honor, the electioneers at first stood motionless, then jabbed their hands out obediently, waiting to be shaken. During some palaver over campaign circulars, the governor peered about the room expectant1y, looking first in one corner and then another. “Haven't my pamphlets arrived yet?” he queried. ““They hadn't. The electioneers, abashed, hastily assured hint that

the evening mail hadn't been de-

livered. f = = A PRECINCT committeeman,. R. R. Woolverton, took Mr. Schricker in tow and down the ‘street they went, shaking hands right and left. Suddenly a husky straw-haired man in railroader’s

garb, plunged toward the governor °

as if he intended to tackle him, “You're just the man § want'ta see,” he roared, reaching for Gove ernor Schricker's hand. “You're Mr. Schricker aren't you? Well, 1 was going to write you about Thanksgiving. When is it anyway? I'm with an organization and we're going to throw a party, but I'm danged if we could find out when Thanksgiving was.” Relieved, the governor told him’ it's the 23d and the railroader thanked him profusely, still wringing his hand. Mr. Woolverton then led Governor Schricker into Chuck’s barbershop. Told his guest was the governor, Chuck grinned from ear to ear, saying, “Well sir, you're the big-

N ah iy 1944 |THE CANDIDATES YOU'LL VOTE FOR AT NOV. 7 ELECTION — NO. 7 Schricker—on Stump but No Tub

THE governor's 1940 Chevrolet smelled strongly’ of anti-freeze because the heater had sprung a leak. Besides, the oil needed changing. : . Besides, the sun-visor wouldn't fold down and as a consequence governor had to squint into the sun during much of the trip westward

Governor Schricker . . + “I like a crowd.”

gest man we've had in this shop in a long time. I certainly wish you luck sir.” »

azine started to rise, then started to sit down again, and in his con-

* fusion became tangled in his own

legs, but an elderly man in the barber chair didn’t move a muscle, not even an eye muscle. Chuck told him it was the governor. “The governor of Indiana,” Mr. Wolverton yelled, cupping his hands to his mouth. The elderly man, deaf perhaps, didn’t bat an eye. Crossing the street, the governor was introduced to another railroad man who -asked him how the election looks. “Pretty good,” replied Governor Schricker. “Wanna bet?” the man shot back. “Candidates . generally arent supposed to wager,” the governor hedged. “Well, I'm for you all the way,” the man smiled, “but there's a guy down at the tavern’ll bet $300 to $200 the Republicans carry the state. Funny part of it is, he contributed $500 to the Democratic campaign fund.” ” 2 » HITTING THE road again for Terre Haute, the Governor spied a soldier thumbing a ride and commanded his chauffeur to stop. The soldier hopped in and stiffened to attention sitting down when he learned who his benefactor was. He answered the Governor's questions with short, snappy sentences, appending a “sir” to each. Leaping out at Terre Haute, he shouted, “I never expected to meet the Governor on this trip.” At Terre Haute House the Governor headed straight for a room reserved for him by the Vigo county committee. He glanced quickly at a newspaper, then took his coat off for a cat-nap. But he no sooner laid his head on a pillow than he was summoned by a delegation of Vigo county poli= ticians, including County Chair-

man Letzkus and District Chair-

man Ura Segar, They told him they had reserved another room in the Deming hotel for refreshments and dinner. The Governor looked high and low for his driver, but

Up Front With Mauldin

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Roaring Bomber ~ Drops—Coffee

WITH U. 8. TROOPS IN GERMANY, Oet. 31 (U, P)~—~There was a roar of airplane engines in the darkness overhead and suddenly something dropped from the sky, narrowly missing Pvt. Edwin Hood of Abbeyville, Ga.

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“I'm disgusted. I been in th’ infantry two days an’ I ain't heard a shot.”

Goering Grabbed

Loot From Soviet MOSCOW, Oct. 31 (U. P)~—

had a premonition or something three weeks before the Red army broke into East Prussia. So, reports a front correspondent for the

” who explained he'd been trying to A CUSTOMER reading a mag- '

-Thumping

to no avail, so the party trudged over to the Deming hotel on foot. ” ” o ONCE IN the room, Governor Schricker wondered whether he'd

get the same wide majority in Vigo county that he received in 1940 and pored with furrowed brow over a statistical county-by-county 1940 vote break-down, After eating a pork chop, the governor said he was going to try to catch 40 winks while the others talked politics, but again he was aroused by a newcomer, a county candidate. The handshaking completed, the governor again lay back on the pillow, only to be abruptly beckoned and marched hurriedly out of the room by Chairman Letzkus, who suddenly rememsbered the govermor’s speech was set for 8 p. m. Again, Governor Schricker searched futilely for his car and the entourage trudged a good half-mile to the Laboratory high ~ school auditorium. Mr. Pritchard,

repair the automobile heater, was standing at the door. The high school auditorium was three-quarters full of people and 100 per cent full of typical Terre Haute smoke. Through the grime, blue decorations were visible. = 2 s

FOLLOWING AN extended rigamarole involving the introduction of candidates, Governor Schricker spoke in measured sentences, pausing dramatically, He won the loudest hand when he pounded home his belief that “the working man won’t let the Roosevelt ‘administration down.” Frequently during his address he squinted and winced. Later he explained it was because the lights were too strong, and furthermore, he couldn't see the audience because of the smoke. “It was a sea of black. I like to see my audience. I like to look a man in the eye.” His dfiver was disturbed over the fact that the car still smelled of anti-freeze. Moreover, he warned, he'd better replace the oil for that Ft. Wayne drive. “How about the gas?” asked the governor, “About two dollars worth,” answered Mr, Pritchard, executing some rapid mental calculation. “0. K.” said the governor, reaching for his wallet. = ” s HEADED BACK toward Indianapolis again, Mr. Pritchard felt compelled to apologize for the mediocre Terre Haute audience, explaining that some potential listeners were absorbed in Navy day celebrations, while others remained home to tune in on Mr. Roosevelt's Philadelphia address. Expounding thusly, Mr. Pritchard ran a red light and was gently reprimanded by the governor, an inveterate back-seat driver although he sits in the front seat,

chauffeur lost themselves in an involved discussion over the Chevrolet, about what needs to be done with the heater, about the oil ‘and so forth.

Pupils Call Off Picketing After Hurried Parley

MT. CLEMENS, Mich, Oct. 31 (U. P.).—Twenty-five kid pickets from Heath Manor homes trudged three miles to Cody's Corners school in the nippy morning air today, bound by terms of a truce to resume the three Is until their elders can get to the state capital to see some people about buying a school bus. | The five to 12-year-olds stacked their strike placards in hall closets at home, temporary champs in a battle of will with Will F. Lee, McCombs county school commissioner who earlier had told the kids that all the striking in the world wouldn't get them a school bus. The voters of the district, he told them, had decided against buying a bus, 113 to 79, and tha was that. : ; 2 EJ 8 BUT ALL DAY yesterday the 25 small fry strikers paraded in front of the school, bearing placards that read: “We want a bus—we walk three miles to school,” and “why don’t people want us to have an education?”

Their mothers—and a few fathers—stood by, dashing into the rebels’ ranks now and then to tighten a muffler against the frosty air or wipe a nose. The junior pickets jeered 25 students who crossed their line with cries of “scab” or “sissy.” tJ = 2 IT WAS learned that absenteeism had been general in the school, many students attending only two days a week. Heath Manor, home of the picketing youngsters, is a subdivision of Cady’'s Corners occupied mainly by war workers who have come into the section since 1942.

* came a promising presidential

Tomorrow's Roosevelt Boosts Output Of Promises

By E. A. EVANS 5 WASHINGTON, Oct. 31—~"For 12 years in this country,” said Governor Dewey at Syracuse, “we have had an unmanageable sure plus of promises, promises lightly plus of 7 romises lghly

~violated.” Sa And Presis dent Roosevelt, at Chicago, boosted the output, at least equalling his own record for ' super prome ises: Sixty mil lien productive post-war jobs; high wages and efficient produc= tion; government encouragement to growth of business, large and small; abiding faith in free enterprise and the profit system; trebeled foreign trade; firm prosperity for farmers; America preserved as a land of action, of adventurous pioneering, of growing and building. 2 8. = SUCH promises may win votes If enough voters have short memories. $

Most of what the President said about how an abundance of post-war jobs ean be created is thoroughly sound. Just as sound as it was when Mr. Dewey said it at Philadelphia nearly two months ago.

If we could forget Mr. Roose« velt’s record since he first be-

Mr, Evans

candidate, we'd hail his Chicago speech as the utterance of an economic statesman. s ” #

THE MANY fervent promises of government frugality, followed by unprecedented government extravagafice. ‘The promises to curb bureaucracy, and bureaus ; cracy enormously swollen in size and power. 3 The promises to “stop the deficits,” and the deficits made ap invariable annual event. The promises to preserve state rights, and authority centered in Washington as never before. The promises of jobs, and WPA used as a political machine.

When Mr. Roosevelt talks now of need for vast expansion of job-creating industrial capacity, we recall the long years when he practiced the mature economy philosophy he stated in 1932 at San Francisco: “Our plant is built;

conditions it is not overbuilt.”

We, the Women Girls Think Mothers Are Just Gullible

By RUTH MILLETT THE TWO preity college girls were talking over the week-end they had spent at home and one of them told how she had man- = aged to spend an evening at & joint her fathe g er had told her t to stay away from. Ny “Parents are so gullible,” ° she said as she finished her story — and both girls { laughed indule gently. s 5» PARENTS today must be

Ruth Millett gullible, WO a SERGE NG Otherwise, how do you account for the numbers of sweet-faced young kids strolling along downtown streets at night, their giggles and sidewise glances at boys In uniform telling the world they are just waiting to be picked up. Certainly their parents don't Know what they are up to. They must think they are at a movie, or listening to records at one of the girls’ houses, or studying for a mythical exam, » 2 ¥

AND THE young girls sitting in poorly lighted taverns, growing more sentimental with each

lieve whatever them, 2 wR IT IS so comforting to # that sweet little Susie is sti algebra with Jane. I vould