Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 July 1945 — Page 9

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TR LIFE of mer re ect He never knows .what’s coming next.

readers are familiar with dogs and their agi Bait

of nipping intruders. No exception is Alfred ‘Smit

anapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

Edgewater «dr. north of town, wi was on vacation, $5 was bny PUREE 30 Duis So Roy, Mrs, Bes and 3-year-old Bobby Bevan went fishing. They ,were in front of ‘the. Kendall home nearby when Roy

WHS reads metas. gor he Nght voumpity. Mr. Smith’ caught a five-inch red sunfish, Before he could pull

© was out on the west side Wedneés- : day. He started irito a yard where there was a dog with an evil glint in its eye. Ahen he hesitated, the + dag’s mistress helpfully suggested: ~ “Wait a minute; I'll take the dog f§ in the house.” Mr. Smith willing‘ly waited until the ‘dog was shut. up, then he’ went on around the housé to the meter, which was on, - the outside. The meter was a bit

low and coveréd by some bushes:

Mr. Smith leaned over and .was about to note the meter reading, : when" “Wham-m-m, bang-g-g!”; The bang was ‘his head hitting the sidé of the house. When he managed to extricate himself, he saw the catise of ‘the trouble, The housewife had locked up ‘the dog, buk she completely forgot to do anything about the fam-

—ily’s pet billy goat. , . If you lost. & couple of auto

keys on-N. Pennsylvania st. near the war memorial Wédnesday, here's iow you can get them back: Phone MA. 1561, EXT. 364, and ask for Miss Jennie Felgman.

She found them. . ., The story of Paul E, Taylor, a

hometown boy who gave his life for his country, v *be dramatized over WIRE at 6 p. m. tomorrow, program is based on a letter Paul wrote his parents, . and Mrs. Burt Taylor, 45 S. Gladstone, on his rrival in Australia in 1942, He was killed in December that year. The letter, published in The Times after his death, began: “If is all more clear to me

"‘: now.” It went on to say how much his country meant

to him, and told of his gxperiences. . Congressman Louis Ludlow re iring letter into the Congressional Record.

. Shoots Sea Serpent. oF

. THE SEA SERPENT season is under way" here for the summer. In most instances, the serpent, ets away, but. here's one case where it didn't, oy: (Whitey) Worling, 6425 Park ave, went out: io Jisit Det. Sgt. Jack Bevan Wednesday. Jack, who vests

- Paris Interlude PARIS, July 27.—The ‘loveliness of Paris, in its first summer. at peace in six years, makes it hard-to believe that a cruel wintér, perhaps the worst ‘since

the war began, is coming. : In the Syenings music from the crowded pats and

:4t' in, the fish.was grabbed by what Jooked like a sea serpent, The monster held the fish in its By of water. Mrs. Bevan yelled for Jack Jo “bring “He grabbed a rifle and -to the scene. careful e put his first bullet through the head of the monster. ‘When he pulled it in, he found the serpent was the largest watersnake he ever saw. Jack ‘swears it was four feet long and almost four inches thick. He offered to take me out to see for myself,

Discoura ger Works .

THE PIGEON situation was going along as quietly ‘as you please until Park Superintendent Paul Brown announced he was calling off his truce with the feathered pests. And right away, the situation burst wide ‘open again. Taking things in order: Several keen

courager. installed at the I. A. C. wasn’t a failure. They thought they saw visible evidende/of failure on the sidewalk around the building. Club officials say it’s a success. The signs ‘of failure merely indicate the portions of the club ledge not protected by the device. , . . And T. D. Layman, Circle Tower, offers ok brand new idea. Catch a half dozen pigeons, he ts, and fasten on their backs lightweight imitions of an owl's head—with big, red eyes. He got the ide m a duck hunting experiment, After watching the decoys lure their fellows in to his blind, he tied a red flannel rag to the neck of one of the live decoys. The other ducks went crazy avoiding the Sred-flagged decoy. “Even today,” says Mr, Layman, it's a safe bet none of them has been back to the location.” , , . An observer up in the Traction Terminal building ‘reports that the pigeons have been counterAacting the hot weather by taking shower baths in the alr conditioning water spray atop the Lyric theater. . » +» Louise Fletcher, The Times’ woman's page editor, just back from a business trip to New York, opines that the- folks around here- have nothing to complain about. “Even the Ritz-Carlton in New York hss pigeons,” she says. ... Well, that ought to take care of the pigeons for. a while,

By Edward P. Morgan

visit the place to check up on the black market. Soldiers on leave flll' the tree-shaded streets, stare at the sights, crow loudly at the pretty wenches

observers phoned to inquire whether - pigeon dis-|

: and bargain their war loot as expertly as any French-

"man. The busiest place in town is the “gray market” or the curb in front of Rainbow Corner, the main

bistros of the Montmarire splgsh “Gz 1 Req Cross club, where the troops sell battle

into the moonlit streets, The days. are bright and warm: : On Sundays ‘the Racing- ~ ub pool swarms with mademoiselies and their soldier and. civilian, -

friends. The average female bath- . ing suit seems to be about the sizé& «-

of a pocket handkerchief and: you, spend hours trying to figure out how it stays on. Under a sky of“ pre-war Paris blue and fragile. as saucer, this is not an unpleasant pastime,” But people appear vaguely 0nloNs of the long friendly nights, thinking “of the cold ones to come. They go around in the daytime looking at the lavish, splendid sunshine ag if troubled that it were going to waste. You get the urge to bottle the stuff and store it for January. The great problem of fuel is hidden now by good weather, but will come out soon to rub raw the skins of the public, particularly the poor, and drive people back to the stuffy, fetid warmth of subway platforms. Metro trains and crowded elevators are unsubtly redolent with the fact that hot water and coal remain luxury items.

Square Meal Costly FOOD CONTINUES scarce and outrageously expensive. It will be worse this winter. If you know." the town you can get a square meal in a restaurant i but the bill for two will nudge $20 and you may find ad talking to gengarmes who have chosen to

)¢ience

‘ON OCCASION the ‘scientist, particularly if he 1s properly approached by the public relations expert, can be persuaded to do the sort of stunt that is dear to the heart of cartoonists and humorists,

Thus it came about that learned scientists. at the General Electric. Laboratories were prevailed upon to find: out just how slow molasses really is in January. All this was done with the aid of a G. E. “cold chamber,” a constant temperature room in which an ideal January temperature was maintained despite the sweltering * July weather outdoors. " Then, to find out just how “. slow molassés is in January, the »scientists made use of the new {General Electric-Zahn viscosimeter. As its name ‘indicates, this is a meter for measuring the viscosity of a fluid. Viscosity, you may be interested to know, is defined technically as “resistance to flow.” 7

Just a Simple Gadget THE VISCOSIMETER is a much simpler instrument than the popular impression of a scientific meter. Actually it's just a small metal cup with a hole in the bottom. ; The cup is immersed in the fluid to be tested and quickly removed. With the aid of a stop watch, the time necessary for the fluid to run out the hole is then determined. By comparing this with standard fluids, the viscosity is determined. a

My Day

HYDE PARK, Thursday—I had an interesting suggestion the other day from a gentleman in Ohio as to a possible use which he had conceived for the Willow Run plant. He says “I saw Willow Run

grow from a bare and forlorn acreage into the greatest industrial miracle of its kind inh, the world, and then T saw it wither and die. The best sets of business brains in Detroit are now actively investigating the wisdom and possibility of the greatest of all great world’s fairs to be a prompt post-war activity. “Willow Run is vividly im< planted into every literate mind in the civilized areas of the world. What better location than Willow Run as a base or center cell for this greatest of all world fairs?” ; This pentioman. 1 ror She to Fs ia In New York City a group has been somewhat similar lines. Another group, composed of people in the services, have" been thinking of something which 18 not quite the erdinary kind of world's fair, and yet akin to it. Their idea. is to create s fair that will hold the interest of service people throughout the United States, slowing all the sess on land and sea where they have fought.

» brings $18 a bottle,

s souvenirs to the civilians. Cameras, fountain pens, jewelry and watches fetch staggering prices. ’ Their money does not last long, Paris is still a soldier's town, but inflation has knocked values cockgyed. (There are still about 70,000 troops here, including 9000 on rotating leaves.) It is nothing for a man to go through 6000 or 7000 francs in an evening—§120 to $140. Champagne-is not very good and The price of love has risen steadily, too. ’

Face Readjustment Ordeal PARIS TRAFFIC is murderous even without taxis, which are laid up, awaiting tires and gasoline. Cabbies all seem to be piloting military vehicles and the practice they get with jeeps and command cars will keep their aim on Jetestinns and competitive traffic as sharp as ever. - There are constant parades. The bright noise of brass bands rolls on the summer air. French prisoners of war and displaced persons still are coming home from Germany, and the gestapo has gone, The Petain trial, one. of the greatest in French history, is on, but people would rather forget it. It is a grim rehearsal of ‘the sorry past, which nobody wants to discuss: In ‘this first . summer of peace Frenchmen | are gathering fun while they may, artificial as it may be, realizing reluctantly; iy the back of their minds, that the first winter without war is going to be an ordeal of readjustment, taming all their ingénuity and tired courage. -

& » . By David Dietz Water, milk and kerosene each made a hasty exit from the viscosimetér. in;less thah“four seconds. A household cooking oil toek 5.4 seconds, a white refrigerator lacquerf 19.5 seconds, a black lacquer used Jor painting electrical ‘instruments, 23 seconds, and a “representative varnish took 41 seconds. Molasses, tested at ordinary summer temperature, took 35 seconds. This put it in the upper bracket for slowness. Then the molasses was taken into the cold chamber and tested-af January temperatures. - It now took 3 minutes and 41 seconds. From this the General. Electric scientists calculated that in the time ‘it would take molasses to travel one foot in January, Sir Malcolm Campbell, the racing ace, could cover 24.6 miles,

Molasses -Really Ts. Slow APTER CAREFUL thought, they concluded that as slow as molasses in January was really pretty slow. However, they warned, that people will have to be more careful in using thie phrase in the future since now it is really known: just how slow molassés is in January, " The vicosimeter, it might be added, is a most useful and necessary ins ent, not only for.study ot oils, paints, and varnishédgbut in the study of many other chemical compounds. Much deep serious study has gone into the subject of viscosity. Actually it is the amount of internal friction in a fluid, Just as friction develops betweén an object over a. surfafe, so internal friction develops between the molecules of a flowing fluid. Many factors enter into determing the viscosity.

Temperature, of course, is one of the most important. | #

By Eleanor Roosevelt

; * This would be a place where a man could take his family and say: “I couldn't tell you what it was like where I was fighting, but here it is before your eyes.” And tied in with the history of his military achieve~ mehts would be a picture of .what must be achieved in the field of peaceful world relations, based on a knowledge of the economic resources and the needs of all the different parts of the world. Here, again, it is easier to understand the world of the future if you see the situation and the actual people living in it than if you read about them in a book. The Postmaster General and Mrs. Hannegan, when they arrived late yesterday afternoon, told us of their difficulties in finding this small cottage, which is well back from any road. I think I should have little road maps made to enclose in letters of invitation, because if I had not happened to meet Paul Fitzpatrick on the road he might easily have had the same difficulty. Describing to a person how to follow country roads, even for a short distance of two or three miles, is one of ‘the arts which has gone with the horse and DUGEY days, [3 Was LOVER Sn ar yery well practiced, for I can remember having to ask many to reach a particular destination. Te questionéd would usually say, “That is house over there,” in the most su ; ea everybody should know nr Mr, So and Vi ! ;

Navy Denies Asking Jobs for ‘Officers Only’

By Soripps-Howard Newspapers ‘enlisted men,” a spokesman said. ‘manpower commission

/ WASHINGTON, July 27.—The navy denied today that it. suggested the war ‘manpower gom- | mission make listings of jobs

SECOND SECTION

(Last of two articles.) By S. BURTON HEATH , NEA Staff"Writer (CHICAGO — The Pennsylvania railroad—or, in‘any event, some of its personnel, seemed greatly disturbed, They were concerned at having a reporter and a photographer record the conditions under which some 800 officers and enlisted men rode from Camp Kilmer, N. J., to Dl centers in the Middle West. Rallroad detectives and train per sonnel went out of their way to heckle NEA- Acme photographer Mike Ackerman and me all the way

from Harrisburg to Chicago. One detective, at Harrisburg, went so far as to threaten to break cameras and smash plates (plates haven't been used by newsmen for years) and ordered that no pictures be taken—an order that was rejected and ignored. # » » THE ARMY public relations office at Camp Kilmer had accredited us, It had gone out of its way to intro duce us to transportation officers and te clear the way for our covere age of the troop train story. But neither our explanation or our credentials satisfied the railroad detective who boarded the ain ab Harrisburg. Two MP’s had come aboard with the railroader, evidently to witness his warning that we were not to take pictures until we reached Rock= ford, Ill ” » » ACKERMAN, a veteran camerae man who served as-a war photographer overseas, simply replied that he would continue to work unless Army PRO withdrew its intial authorization. The detective failed to make good his threat either to smash the camera or throw us off the train. But he did send word ahead to every scheduled stop that two men who “didn’t belong” were aboard the train, . Thereafter, railroad dicks got ahoard dutifully at every station, in a futile effort to stop our picturetaking. » ” » THE servicemen with whom we were riding, with full approval of larmy authorities, were amused at the railroaders’ attitude. And after it hdd been exhibited long enough to prove that it was deliberate, expressed the idea that the road must have something to hide. In fact/ the railroads are very sensitive about the general criticism of their handling of returning European veterans. They have been working under an almost insupportable burden, and they feel that their side of the story |run has not been adequately presented to the public. » » »

SOME of the criticism is justi-

Rail Detectives

FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1945

he: Indianapolis TROOP TRAIN: (An Ace Regerfer Rides With Home- Corhing Heroes)

eckle Newsmen

Both the army and the railroads would like to provide a bed for each

that is impossible, even after stripping scheduled trains to the bones. ® es £13 RIGHE,"NOW the armed forces have exclusive use of 151,000 of the train beds, counting both Pullmanowned and troop sleepers. In these they assign two men to each lower and one to each upper, to get maximum use. Nevertheless, the available beds have been found sufficient only for servicemen who must travel two pr more. nights, Orders have been issued that

"sleeping cars shall be assigned to

men on one-night hops only if there are sleepers nearby that otherwise would be dead-head empty in the general direction the troops are moving. » » » THERE ARE 57,000 beds still left on scheduled trains. But on any

The boys, crowded into an ancient coach, get up to stretch their given night it will be found that legs as a troop train grinds to a stop

Weary G. L's catch 40 winks on makeshift beds.

is unsound and rests upon ignorance of the scope of the railroads’ job and the inadequacy of their equipment and manpower, In 1941—with 20,329 coaches and 7378 chair and sleeper cars, the American railroads handled 29,350,000,000 passenger-miles of business. In 1944, with only 195 more coaches and 758 more pullmans, the roads handled 95,375,000,000 passen-ger-miles, It is estimated that business this year, with redeployment will run above 150,000,000,000 passenger miles—and if there were equipment to handle it, travel would go right through the ceiling.

tJ t » THE WAR department originally scheduled the return of three million veterans from the European theater in the 11 months beginning in June, Thus far returnees appear to have about 33 per cent ahead of a These men, returning faster than anticipated, have to be moved at once by the railroads.

fiable, Some is borderline. ‘Much

Most men brought back for re-

deployment must be handled seven times, usually by rail. : 5 8 =» THE standard moves are: (1) from port to staging area; (2) from staging area, on the coast, to whichever of the 22 personnel centers is nearest the man’s home; (3) from personnel center home on furlough; (4) from home back to personnel center to assembly centers for further training and equipment, anywhere from Mississippi to Texas; (6) from assembly center to staging area on the Pacific coast; (7) the relatively short hop from staging area to port. of embarkation for Japan. \ » » EACH move, i those to and from home on furlough, is on a troop train. So the roads must detach from normal use enough cars to provide the required troop trains. Then, out of what remains, they must figure that more than half the seats will be used by men in uniform traveling as individuals or, under orders, in groups of less

than 15.

from 50 to 80 per cent of these are used by military personnel or by civilians traveling on military business, whose reservations have been made by a special government agency for that purpose. At times it is necessary to hold troop trains while regular trains get right of way. That is becadie the equipment shortage makes it impossible to substitute when trains arrive too late to. make scheduled turn-arounds, and so many essential travelers use regular trains that the schedules must not be permitted to break down. & #8 8

THE VETERANS resent, in a mild |

way, the old, uncomfortable coaches with inadequate toilet-wash room facilities that appear” to be featured in troop trains. Explanations offered tor this do not seem to cover more than part of the situation, The nicest modern coaches cannot be used because they are built, for stream-lined, articulated trains, and railroad men say that they can not be operated in conjunction with the older types. Some better coaches are not suitable because their dimensions forbid their use on some roads, and for the troop train pool coaches must be capable of going anywhere. ¥ " ” SOME of the men still feel that they get less than their share of better coaches that are in every way suitable for troop train use, In general the soldiers with whom I have talked, and to whose conversations I have listened, concede that the railroads are up against a tough problem, and that there may be valid explanations in answeg to many Susie, » - BUT iloii pS of Pennsylvania employees to prevent news and picture reporting of.actual conditions under which troops ‘ride brought the reaction anybody familiar with: public relations might expect: “Do they think,” asked ore G. IL, “that they can keep such things secret? If they were smart they would co-operate in explaining instead of talking about smashing

cameras and breaking plates.”

By ERNIE HILL Times Foreign Correspondent SANTIAGO, Chile.~Out in the

suburbs, the United States public health service helped the Chilean government install a new sanitary sewer system. The appreciative people have put. up a me # oronze plaque in- ; scribed as follows: © “This new sewer } symbolizes the | spirit of friend-

HORSE RACES ' Chile ‘are limMr. Hill ited to holidays and Sundays, The Hipodrome starts its Sunday session at 8:20 a. m. and Club Hipico at 1:20 p. m. While in Buenos Aires there are often only three or four horses in each race, Santiago races have from 15 to 24 entries. AS a result, they pay big odds, And the horses run in the opposite direction around the track from

the way they do-it —the United

States.

operating between Argentina and Chile fly through a 200-mile pass in the Andes at 15,000 feet,

Peaks on both sides soar to 21,000. Snow ‘is above and below. Passengers chew oxygen tubes which are attached to each seat. Before the war, French line planes also flew the run, They took off regardless of wind, rain or storms. If conditions ‘were bad in the pass, the planes went up to 25,000 feet. More cautious passengers chose to wait with U. 8. . planes for better weather,

2 » » A RECENT survey put the average wage for mine and industrial workers in Chile at $1.30 a day. . . . Because of one of the worst droughts in history, a food shortage is becoming acute. , . , 2000 groceries have threatened to close unless their depleted stocks are replenished. , , .

* ; Od PAN AMERICAN-GRACE airlines| °

The base of the pass is 13,500 feet.)

When asked about this, one of the managers replied: We feel that if we eliminate news altogether the circulation will fall off 15 per cent.

# » » CHILE, like Uruguay, is a haven for’ political exiles. Enrique Penaranda, former Bolivian president, has been living here. There are numerous exiles from Argentina and sometithes from Brazil. Spanish exiles too are numerous. ” ” » CHILEAN politics are involved. The radicals are middle-of-the-roaders. The Communists are often

more conservative than the Social« ists and support President Juan Antonio Rios, a Radical party member, stronger sometimes than his own group. The Falangistas have no connection with the Spanish party and are intellectual lefists. The Libérals are not liberal but conservative, Only the Conservatives can be judged by their name and they are that way with a vengeance,

” ” » CENSORSHIP is virtually nonexistent in Chile, except in cases where Argentina might become of-

fended.

A GLIMPSE OF CHILE (Jottings of a Times Reporter Far South of the Border)

Where a Sewer’s a Good Neighbor Symbol

Chilean still keep a weather eye on the ambitions of the FarrellPeron dictatorsnip of Argentina, Of the six big. copper and nitrate

U. 8. interests—Guggenheim, Anaconda Copper and Kennicott—the sixth is locally owned.

industries. & An argument is current in the fishing industry géncerning ‘whether modern United States cannery methods. should bé ‘adopted or Spain's methods followed.

Copyrigh 1045, by The Indianapolis Times an he Chicago Daily News, Ine.

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN; M. D.

Give your skin a chance to get used to exposure and you won't be sunburned this year. All you need is a little protecive Soloring before you start sun bathing.

You may not have noticed it but more adults than youngsters develop sunburns. Sunburn is not

from over exposure. Intelligent ex- — of the skin to the summer sun will prevent sunburn. Sun light is made up of different kicds of rays. The heat rays are relatively long and do not penetrate the skin, but the short ultra violet rays oa.

THE proportion of the various rays in the sunlight are always the same but they reach the earth in different amounts according to the season and the condition of the at-

"There is a certain amount of coloring matter in every skin. Under the stimulation of the ultraviolet

in _earn-|

MODERATE exposure to the sun produces a Yeeling of warmth and relaxation followed by slight flush ing of the skin, while long exposure produces redness, blisters, swelling and destruction of the skin. Patients become ill and may have a generalized reaction -with--head-ache, vomiting, fever, nausea and weakness. There is a curious sensitivity to sunlight in which some people develop brown warty spots which turn inte skin cancers early in life. » » EJ PERSONS differ greatly in their susceptibility to sunlight, Blonds are more sensitive than brunets. Skin of brunets is usually thicker, contains more oil, and tans more

. - . MOTHERS of youngsters should

clive Totions are bene-

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THE DOCTOR SAYS: Old Sol's Rays are Fine, But Take It Easy

A Bad Sunburn Is No Joke

Severe burns may develop on cloudy days as the individual .does not realize that so many rays are coming through. oa

British Vole To Bring Echoes nlU.S. -..

WASHINGTON, July 27.—The Labor party's decisive victory in Great Britain is sure to economic echoes and Jerhary repercussions in this country, in the view of U. 8. labor leaders.

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expected to re« vive efforts to form an Amer + ican counter< part of the British Labor - party. But it is held cere “fein to ene courage the work of the C. I. O. Political Action Come mittee, working probably within the Democratic party as it did effectively last year, and also possibly within the Republican party. In C. I. O. headquarters here there was an atmosphere of . jubilation, but the only formal statement came in New York

“occasion for rejoicing . . among labor, liberal and progressive forces everywhere.”

. » » WILLIAM GREEN, president of the American Federation of Labor, who is more conservative than Mr. Hillman, saw in the outcome “the insistent desire o: British workers to gain highe! living standards and a greate: degree of economic security.” He added, “the same aspirations for a better life after the grim experiences of war are mov: ing workers in our own country. Norman Thomas, Socialist par ty head, said in a cable to Ma’ Attlee: “We look to your leader ship in proposing joint peac: terms to shorten Japanese wa. and end white, as well as Jap anese, imperialism in Asta. Wher: American labor and liberals builc a mass Democratic Socialist move: ment in the United States we ca: follow Britain's forward march t( greater freedom and liberty.” — " " THERE MAY be a result af fecting the rivalry between th¢ A F. of L. and the C. L O. fo representation of American. labo; in world affairs. The British Trades Union which i the economic agent of the Britis: Labor party (the same leader: appear in both) is a part of the World Federation of Trade Unions. x ao The C. I O. Is active in this The A. F. of L. ha:

are not “free” in sense, With the Labor party anc British Trades Union Congres: riding high in Britain, the World Federation of Trade Unions may gain in prestige. One of its ap parent aims is to displace the old International Federation of Trade Unions, to which the A. F. of L

the American

" belongs and from which the C

I. O. and the Soviet unions have been barred.

mines in Chile, five are owned by|

Fishing and mining are leading

We, the Women Girls Justify Being Labeled As'Man-Crazy’ |:

By RUTH MILLETT AN - American . serviceman re= turns to this country and is shocked to find that something has happened to American girls in his absence. They have bes come in his words, “man crazy.”

wouldn't they be? All - hear about the girls of foreign coun= tries is how they chase American

“servicemen, And naturally they

get to thinking that if they don't want to be completely overlooked