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statt. You wave farewell to your own special Jrlends, and then get-as fast as you can. to your own favori spot to watch the spectacle. My nephew, Lt. Jack Bales, wasn’t on this > 80 we drove In-a jeep to the far end of : and parked on a alongside it, at 8~ planes better bé in the air by that time—or , “If a plane starts wheeling off the-funway,” Jack said, “we gotta - xlin like hell.” : el Most of the planes would be in

us. Bub a few either had trouble getting off, or else their pilots were holding them down, for they just barely raised in the last few feet of runway, and the amateur photographers down there hit the dirt so hard we - had to laugh. The planes were. staggering just a little as they took off. The spacing betweeen them was perfect. There was never a blank spot, never a delay. When you turned from seeing one safely off the ground, here would be the next one-coming down the runway.

Over the Water in a Few Seconds

THESE MARIANA ISLANDS are so small that any plane taking off is out over the water within a few seconds. It is a .goose-fleshy sensation to see a plane clear the bluff by a mere few feet, and then

IN CASE YOU haven't noticed it, the Stanley Jewelry store is right next door to Livingston's, the clothing store, “just west of the Hotel Lincoln. Wonder how often the Stanleyites remark to their neighbors: Livingston, I presume .. . A reader. is much amused over the name of the “Olnosi Study Club.” . Irene _K. Serstad was in Hook's at Pennsylvania and Market recently, when the clerk began selling cigarets. There was a long line. After

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would say: “Now listen, folks: you all enjoy Ccigarets, and I want ‘you all to think of our brave boys fighting over there. They'd give a lot to have a smoke. -So drop

smokes for our fighting men.” And every single-person in the line contributed. . . . You can -overcome most any difficulty, if you really try. For instance, Mr. and Mrs. Edward L, Hall, Guilford, wished to congratulate a niece on the birth

on congratulatory telegrams. Finally they evolved the following: “Greatly interested . in new’ sugar and spice package, Furnish details.” They signed the name of Mr. Hall's brokerage firm. The message got through. . . . Several newspapermen around here are shifting jobs. John Bowen, of The Times’ edi~ torial staff, has taken a job in the public relations department of Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., in. New York. Paul Squires of the Star goes to the state conservation department public relations post, while “Bob MacGill of the Star goes to Spencer w. Curtiss advertising agency.

Two Kinds of Luck

MRS. E. HAVENS KAHLO, 5212 Graceland, had luck of two kinds the other day. First, bad luck, That was when she lost the- family’s ration books.

books in the street, and returned them. The books slipped. out of Mrs. Kahlo’s pocket as she got out of her car in front of the Rauh Memorial library on’ Meridian near 30th. She ‘visited the library, then drove home. The phone rang as she was reméving

_her coat. The caller’ was her friend, Mrs. Eleanor > ’ ~

America Fli HERE 18 SOME new data on the Nazi V-2 rocket bomb," carefully checked and. apparently authentie. It inspires a lot of imaginative thinking, ..“ The V-2 i§ truly a rocket in that it carries its own _mmygen, essential to! complete ‘the combustion ot Its fuel’ thts’ difteriag front: ite “detpropelled bomb which draws oxygen from the -atmgsphere. scientists believe that the V-2 is about 45 to 50 feet in length, and . about 15 to 17 feet in diameter, With an all up wing of between 20 and 30,000 pounds. The reporting of such dimensions revises some of our original gonceptions. The fuel load is approximately 8800 pounds of alcohol and “13,200 pounds of liquid oxygen. The explosive "warhead is estimated at 3000 pounds, with the pest of the weight total attributable to structure, Selection of alcohol for fuel is based on an interesting weight-saving consideration in-that one-pound } of alcohol requires only 2.1 pounds of liquid “oxygen for complete combustion—while one pound of gasoline demands 3%, pounds of liquid oxygen.

400 Pounds Per Second

THE FUER consumption is staggering—about 400 pounds per second (liquid oxygen and alcohol). This is offset in térms of engineering efficiency by the fact that the V-2 actually. attains a top speed of a little more than four miles per second. Authoritative scientific opinion tends to accept 300 miles as the maximum range, with a peak altitude of approximately 70 miles. This conforms to the formulas of elementary ballistics --the mamimum range of a gun fired at a 45-degree angle is ordinarily four times the altitude attained by the project. Apparently the V-2 is fired at an angle of approximately 85 degrees; in. order to penetrate the heavy atmospherig blankets which are wrapped around the earth as rapidly as possible,

My Day

WASHINGTON, Thursday —Early this morning Adm. and Mrs. Wilson. Brown and I attended the memorial service at St. Matthews’ cathedral for the

late Gen. Edwin M. Watson, At noon we all went up to the Capitol to heer the President deliver his report to congress and to the American “people over the radio. _I almost forgot .it was going over the radio, because the Presi"dent seemed to be talking so informally to the men immediately around him. A good deal of the time he did not even look at his manuscript, so it was quite evident that he was

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There is nothing in the message, as far as I can see, that will bring any comfort to the enemy. From to end it breathes a spirit of unity and of "dstermination to keep that spirit alive. If only the peoples of the world can have the _ same feeling that these leaders have had, and that

in their work wogether, much can be sscomplished,

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sink Sut. of sight toward the’ water. This is because “the pilots nose down a little to get more flying speed. tty soon you see them come up into sight’ again. There were no accidents at the start of our mission, but not all the planes did*get off. Two were canceled on the ground before starting. Two ran halfway down the ‘airstrip, then cut the power and came rolling off the side, just like burned-out cars at Indianapolis. One of ‘them had locked brakes, and was Just barely able to pull itself, off the airstrip ‘and out of the. way, He stayed there alongside the. runway as all the’ others roared past him, seeming; from oflir position, almost to lock wings with him as they. passed,

Planes Vanish Into the Sky Y

FINALLY THEY were all in the air, formed into’ flights, and vanished into the swallowing sky from which some would never return, I had the same feeling watching the takeoff “that 1-used to have before the start at Indianapolis. Here were a certain number of cars and men. them you knew. They ‘had. built and trained “for At last the time had come. + And in a few hours of desperate living, everything would be changed.- You knew that within a few hours some would bé glorious in victory, some would be defeated in failures, some would be colorless “also rans,” and some—very probably—would be dead.

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out. It is just up to fate. In 15 hours they will be

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know ahead of time who it will be.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

Stickney Schmidt, reporting she had found the books in the street in front of the library, Mrs. Kahlo hadn't even missed them yet. . . .Not so lucky was William H. Dugger, S. M. 3-¢, 1426 N. Tremont, who is home on furlough after 14 months in the South A week ago today, he lost his billfold con-

He thinks he may have lost it at Holmes and Walnut sts, but he isn’t. sure where. He advertised it, but the finder failed to respond. He managed to scrape up enough money for his railroad fare back by cashing some of his war bonds. But he has to leave to-

morrow noon’ for duty and he can’t travel without

his identification papers. If the person who found the wallet reads this, won't he or she at. least return the billfold- and papers And do it now. His number -is BE. 4806. . . . The ladies of the, Robert E. Kennington post Legion auxiliary have a wheel chair

.which they'd like to lend to a wounded soldier con-

valescing at home. They bought it for that purpese but have been unable to get in fouch with soldiers needing a wheel chair. Applicants should contact Mrs.. John Valentine, president, Her phone number is HU, 5656.

Where's the Fire? STILL IN HIS pajamas, Ernie Lundgren .of Bozell & Jacobs sat down to breakfast at his home yesterday. Suddenly, he smelled smoke. pretty strong, so he sent his sons, Jack-and Tom, to look all over the house to see what was burning. Before they returned, he found the fire. It was in his pajamas. © He had dropped some’ sparks from his cigaret into a fold of the pajama cloth,’and it started burning. Ow-wow! , , . Some of my friends and readers have been complaining about the taste in the water these days. So I called John Kleinhenz at the water company and asked him the reason. The company’s had its troubles this winter, he said, with both White river and Fall creek being frozen over for such a’ long time. The ice prevents aeration of the water which comes with exposure to the air. This gives the water a musty taste. Now that the ice is gone, the remaining taste is aftributed to the natural condition of Indiana streams-at this time of the year. The flow in’ the streams is unusually low at this time, However, company officials emphasized

that the water is perfectly safé-to drink and use, Sol

just ignore the taste. First thing you know, it will be gone.

. e., v . By Maj. Al Witliams Through some sort of automatic control when the V-2 has reached an altitude of about 15 miles, ‘this weird projectile tilts gradually until its trajectory from there on up, to approximately 70 miles altitude asSumes an afigle of ‘about » degrees; Soha

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speed, namely, 400 pounds of fuel corfsuméd per second ‘for a speed of four miles a second. It's the age-old axiom all over again—you can have the speed, but yowll pay for it every time.. As to the war efficiency of the V-2 we must reserve final opinion | until all facts are available after the war. We know that its course is erratic and that to date the Nazis have either not tried, or are unable to direct its flight, or to pin-point its contact with the earth by radio traingulation. Overall, it looks like a -tremendous amount of scientific effort, labor and consumption of special materials for unpredictable returns. Its apparent value is chiefly in the field of: psychological warfare. Now just suppose that in pursuing our age-old curiosity about’ interplanetary space someone should replace the warhead in the present V-2 (about 3000 pounds of explosives) with another rocket (a step-up rocket) to be fired when the main rocket fuel is exhausted. This sort of ensemble, fired vertically, might indeed come close to probing the lower skin of the interplanetary space, A few recording instruments on board attached to a parachute, which could be automatically freed from its weird carrier as: the rocket loses headway and starts falling, might provide definite scientific data. Someone is going to make this experiment, and this time instead of fighting against the ridicule which heretofore Has greeted the efforts of the rocket enthusiasts, the experimentation will start where the present V-2 leaves off. Dispassionately viewed, the

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division places the shortage in Washington, D.C, alone, at 1000 employees. 1 realize that everybody cannot act as a stenographer or a clerk. But perhaps if you went to the veterans’ administration offices in various cities: they might find something you could do which would free someone else who had the qualifications they needed | and who could therefore give more time in essential work. . They must need help pretty badly, because when I telephoned to ask if people who applied had to have civil service status they told me “no,” adding that the veterans’ administration Would help Spplisagts to attain this status if necessary. They feel that all their work has been *lowed down and that this is going to affect the families of disabled men, as well as the men themselves, I know that this is true, for I have come across several cases myself where the records are not col through in the usual period.of time, which at best was

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large delegation. This delegation came from Minneapolis and St, Paul, the Twin Cities of Minnesota,

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By CURT RIESS ~~ Time# Foreign Correspondent. ERN Switzerland, March 2.—Many of the ‘topics and” “problems _discussed here during the re-

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je negotiations in the “se--crecy of the old diplomatic school” will never become public property.. ; This is a pity. Becausé the impression created in allied countries must be that S wit zerland was -in the role of the “accused ‘who had to de-. fend himself and finally was --sentenced” — which. is en{irely wrong. Only a few weeks before the Bern meeting, I. had a long conversation with Dingle Foot, parliamentary secretary of , the British ministry of economic warfare. Foot told me that the allied detective service maintained by the ministry knew - precisely. when and where economic collaboration with German was practiced. Foot had a most impressive dossier. He pointed out that the guilty persons were on blacklists which would be maintained long .after the war is over. : » » " FOOT MADE the point that Switzerland, surrounded by Nazis

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tion, had been extremely fair— ‘almost “heroic.” He said that many Swiss merchants passed up business ‘and gains for ideological reasons. . In short, they had refused to collaborate with the Nazis. No purely economic. conference can do justice to the enormous struggle put up,by Switzerland during this war to aid democratic ideals. Its fight, I believe, will prove important | in rebuilding Europe. " = - » MANY of us never understood or approved the neutrality of Switzerland.

We believed the fight was So. -

ideological that everybody must take sides, a ‘the country calling itself the oldest modern democracy had the duty of fighting with us against the powers of dictatorship. 7 "On The other-hand, Switzerland - established herself as a neutral . power. The League “of Nations and its ‘council freed Switzerlahd: from all obligations connected with, membership: years ago, declaring that the “constant neutrality of Switzerland is justified in the interest of general peace.”

DURING FEBRUARY

A total of 185 women enlisted in the WAC’s during February for service in army hospitals, breaking all previous state records: Capt. Louis C. Wolf, state WAC commandant, announced today that this figure ‘is 212 per cent of the quota assigned fo Indiana. Top honors for the largest percentage of enlistments in the state went to the Ft. Wayne area, which attained 350 per cent of ifs quota, Capt. Wolf said. x The enlistees will receive basic training at Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga., before assignment as medical and surgical technicians.

ELECTION SET TUESDAY

North Park chaptef, O. BE. 8. will meet at 7:45 p. m. Tuesday for election of officers at the Masonic Temple, 30th and, Clifton sts. Mrs. Georgia Billeter is worthy matron and Charles Eaton is worthy patron.

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N HEROIC NEUTRAL: THE HOPE Im HOLDS FOR PEACE’

Alpine ski 100s patrol Swiss borders constantly to guard agains; neutrality violations, .

No, this isn’t the Siegfried line

MANY things which have become a matter of daily life in a country thus neutral are hard for anyone who is anti-Nazi to understand, ~ For example, the movies here are playing German-made musical comedies shot at a time when the Nazis exterminated millions in Polish camps. : Second and third rate Fascists live in luxurious grand hotels as refugees. : Perhaps these persons are not war criminals, but why are they allowed to live from the fat of

- land instead -of . being. “housed

with - other less fortunate refugees? * Or. why, when some time ago Mrs. Goering: -lived here, were newspapers strictly forbidden to mention her presence.? . Ree » " ". -A SWISS friend with whom I discussed this said that if Mrs. Goering's presence were known in wide circles of the population,

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in Germany, Anti-tank traps like these have been erected by the Swiss to guard against invasion, Thus Switzerland strives to prolect her neutrality.

then incidents might have hap-

pened... Which brings us to a fact more important than the unhappy

small characteristics of neutrality; namely, that in spite of this “neutrality,” almost the entire Swiss nation-is opposed to Hitlerism. Except for a small minority of so-called collaborationists, mainly among the industrialists, the Swiss people have always despised naziism and its teachings. . = s ”

IT MUST be said to the eternal praise of this tiny country that the government always has expressed this feeling of its people by administrative actions. . “Switzerland expelled all’ Nazi agitators and propagandists. ‘It dissolved the Swiss Nazi party—and- prohibited the im“portation of all official Nazi party organs into Switzerland including Hitler's own Voelkische Beo-

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Fancy Fruits Anofher Story

WASHINGTON, March 2 (U.P). —You can have plenty of canned applesauce for fewer blue points beginning March 4. But, on the fancy fruits, it is another story. Price Administrator Chester Bowles revealed a reduction in points for canned apples and applesauce in the new ration period and a sharp increase for canned mixed fruits, peaches, pineapple, pears and tomatoes. ‘ New values for, the most commonly used cans will be: ‘ Mixed Fruits, No. 3% can, 80 points—up 20, Peaches, No..2% can, 80 points— up 207

Pineapple, No. 2% can, 80 points -up 20. Pears, No. 2'z can, 80 points— up 20.

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Tomatoes, No. 2 can, 30 points -up 10. Apples, No.

10° can, -about six

pounds, 80 points—down 40.

Applesauce, No. 2 can, 10 points— down 20.

Bowles said that major canned fruits must remain at higher point values until “new packs are available.”

Five more blue stamps, each worth 10 points, became good yesterday for buying processed . foods. They were N-2, P-2, Q-2, R-2 and 8-2 and, will, obe good through June 30.

LEGION TO BACK TAXI ORDINANCE

When a proposed ordinance that would require taxicab drivers to obtain licenses is'introduced Mon« day night in the city council, it will have the full support of the 11th district American Legion. The ,Jegionnaires last night reiterated their approval df" the ‘proposal and made plans to attend a public hearing on the ordinance if one is scheduled. Ralph ‘Gregg, chairman of the special committee appointed to investigate . alleged - malpractices of taxicab drivers, said the Legion “is prepared to back the measure to the hilt.” The proposed ordinance was approved by the safety board last Tuesday. It contains provisions for police investigation of drivers, fingerprinting, posting of drivers’ names and pictures in a conspicuous place in cabs and other controls.

Penalties that could be dealt out includes fines up to $300 and jail

sentences up to 180 days, in addition to revocation of the licenses,

KELLEY FACES TRIAL

ON WEAPONS. CHARGE

Released under $5000 cash bond

while awaiting federal grand jury

action on gasoline black marketing charges, Williard F. ‘Kelley was ape rested immediately by state police yesterday, and taken to Anderson to stand trial on charges of draw. ing a revolver on a state police-

man.

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ISQUIRES TO EDIT

tion of the state highway department. and . the state conservation department. In addition to the editorship, Mr.| Squires ‘also will serve: as publicity director for the two departments and will supervise promotional activities of approximately 800 conservation clubs in the state. . .

the new appointee is a former éditor of the Tipton Daily Tribune where he was employed three years.” Squires also was a member of the

be heid at 2 p. m. Sunday at Paint-

It prohibited the printing and

publishing of = Hitler's - Mein Kampf. : The Swiss. government and’

people kept up their determination to oppose the influx of. Nazi ideas even during the time when the. tiny country was completely

= » 8. FOR EXAMPLE, up’ to the time of Hitler's occupation of southern France Switzerland received and played American films. Then, the Germans‘ declared that no more- American pictures could enter the country. Where-

Theater Owners declared they would stop playing German films until allowed to reimport other + pictures, This decision left them without any new films, and proved

n » » I HAVE been in England France and the occupied countries. We all know the enormous losses of these” countries in riches and other values. We don't know . enough about the .state of nerves

War has Britain. > In the other countries, mainly France, the people are bitter, sus- - picious, unbelieving even in their allied friends. It would be a mira~ cle if it*were different. = » FOR YEARS, perhaps a decade, this may be so. That is; the world will have to be rebuilt ‘with highly suspicious people being afraid of each other’s intentions. _.How different are the - Swiss people. The relatively small deprivations they - suffered in. the war have allowed them to remain relatively “normal.” I. am using the word in a medical sense. : & nn ONLY THOSE few like myself who. have come from the war into this peaceful country can fully understand. The people here are ‘helpful and friendly. They are not used: up by the war. They believe in a better future because somehow they have never. understood what really world outside their frontiers, though it happened only a-few miles away. » » =

THIS HEALTHY country hopes to be of help in rebuilding Europe by its mere existence. For instance, the -Swiss ‘ may

worn, neryes thin in

many. They speak the same language ‘and with their help the musical comedy situations, which necessarily ‘must/ be” created if and when we send Anglo-Saxon educators to Germany, could “be averted. s Anti-Nazis who have not actively fought the Germans won't create the same resentment we would engender.

OUTDOOR INDIANA

The magazine is the joint publica-

A graduate of Butler upiversity,

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children, he lives at 4701 Park ave.

TOWNSENDITES TO MEET L. Henry Eakins, state organizer for the Townsend Plan in Indiana, has called a special mass meeting of Marion county club members to

ers’ hall. Harry G. McKee, president of the LaPorte club, will speak.

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Paul R. Squires, a member of the editorial staff of the Indianapolis] Star, will become editor of Outdoor Indiana March 15. :

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- “except by “free men.” “Within the

last 15 months the men, working as free men in a_spirit of cooperation, have increased their Frojucuvil per “in 50 per cent,”

“They are allowed incentive pay which has increased their earnings about 30 per cent and the cost of the ships to the government is considerably reduced. Amongst the men working with- tools we find over 7000 men whose earnings average over $400 a month and they are earning every penny of it. They are producing ship§ -with fewer- man-

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hours than ever before in history.”

. 2 = 5 AS HEAD of the Sun Oil Co, Mr. Pew reports that industry increased its output 40 per cent, and also improved its products “with a slight decrease 'in emsployment.” * “This is true not only of one oil company, but the entire cross-section of the industry,” he said. “Some ‘places we find C. LL O, some places A. F. of L. and some .places ..independent unions, but all with the cooperative urge of men working .together as free men for. the common purpose.

“Why “then do--we- find the. arguments for conscription of 18,000,000 men? - America has not failed. It is futile for the government to attempt to cover up its own shortcomings in leadership by piling threat upon threat, “intimidation upon intimidation, and coercion upon coercion. “Free men produce best and we have a host of witnesses to this back through thousands of years.” = r »

A VAST majority of those who are doing the producing on farms and in factories. are united against “work-or-fight” legislation, Mr, Pew said.

“The farmers and agricultural leaders of America have solidly taken their stand against this bill.” he argued.

_ “Industry is unanimously opposed to it because management

* knows that slave labor is not only

worthless labor, but poisons every= thing it touches and undermines the productivity of free men. “THE HEADS of our gredt: labor unions have taken a strong stand against the bill, although we have heard nothing from Mr. Browder and Mr, Hillman who apparently sit chuckling because they know that such -legislation will reduce American productivity to that of the old world.. :

“We must recognize that our war effort’ must be divided into"

gv distinct parts. The art of =

production and the art of ‘destruction .are as far apart as the poles. Let every man therefore stick to his trade.”

We, the Women Ambition Can _ Be Applied to Marriage, Too

By RUTH MILLETT WHEN IN the tradition of ‘the American press a Houston coupe, celebrating their -fiftieth wed« ding anniversary, were asked for the key to married happiness they answered, “Ambition.” But they went on to explain: “Ambition to live up to the proms ises of the marriage contract.”

i —- We often as NEE say admiringly os of a.-.yotmg : 4d hysband and wife starting

their life together, “They're such an ambitious young couple.” » » »

BUT the ambition which often brings them success doesn't als ways bring them happiness to« gether. Often the striving for success keeps them from building a happy life together, The wife in an effort to “help her husband” may take om so many community? actilities or slave to stretch pennies s¢ that the couple, can put on

“py “way. of life, , And the husband, and night to become m cessful, may not even find : wonder whether or not his wife is happy.

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