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ONE OF THE bathrooms in the govefhor’s new mansion. on N. Meridian st., is probably the most elaborate in Indiana ... or perhaps in the country.

It's the master's bathroom, right next to his bed-..

room. And it's equipped with just about everything, The entire room is in black and gold The semicircular wash-basin is black with gold faucets. The “master’s. chair” also ‘is black with a grayish seat. Ruilt into the wall in front of the “chair” is a maga~gine rack. To the right is a two-compartment ash tray. If you want to smoke, just press a button and P ....0ut comes a cigaret lighter, (You furnish r own cigarets.) And this isn’t all! To the left the basin is a gold-trimmed square sunk into the all. There's a gold dial on the square. If you up close to it, you'll get your exact weight. . .. anything ever went wrong with the scale, pracly half of the wall would have to be torn down air the thing. The treadle for the scale 1s emin the floor. .., The room has an original Arno shower bath with a gold-trimmed glass , The door has a serpentine motif and a gold doorknob. We're told the instrument panel for the shower would even puzzle a B-29 pilot. After careful study, it seems that the first knob turns on the water for the top shower. The second one, for the chest-high showers. And the third one, for the knee-high showers. . . . Don’t take our word for it, though, Governor. You might drown!

Tip for Trolley Busmen + THERE WAS ALMOST a flood in one of the Central ave. trackless trolleys Tuesday. About noon, Mrs. Hazel Gaston caught the trolley at 36th st, just when it had started to pour down rain. All the seats were wet and water was trickling down the floor. But the driver didn’t seem a bit concerned about it. Neither did any of the men passengers. . Mrs. Gaston tried to close the window but it wouldn't

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“Humph, the bus must be leaking.” One of the women riders got soaked. She just stayed on the same trolley

' and went back home... .. Maybe they should have ' rainy weather advice in the Indianapolis Railways

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primer, “The ABC's of Making Friends for Yourself and Our Service.” , . . Mrs. Gaston also tells us that She was the first woman radio announcer hired by one of the local stations

but. left Indianapolis about a year and a half ago. | Now she's: doing a women's program for Strauss’

Pass Up Paris

PARIS. ~There will be few travelers from the United States to France—more specifically to Paris— this year. Although che city will soon be celebrating its first

anniversary of liberation, living conditions have by no means improved. And the authorities could not begin to cope

| with anything like a large influx of visitors,

" Prance has her hands full put-

* {ing her-house inorder... Paris is

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home has been subjected to a -censiderable upheaval and is having a hard time getting things- straight sagan, 4 The lew business tycoons who

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what had happened to their business or their plants

and make a for future operations, are usually glad to get —_ They find that the mimeographed warning which the state department slipped into their passports that food and housing were difficult to obtain in Paris was all too true. Neither billets nor food are furnished by the army to U. 8. civilians. If they manage to talk their way into getting ration cards, they soon realize that it only means they will be hungry most of the time. “Unless, of course, they eat twice a day in restaurants.

$35 to $60 a Day IF THEY are prepared to do this, they find it costs them from $35 to $60 a day to live—all according to whether they patronize out-and-out “black market” restaurants or have the time to hunt around for the slightly less expensive “gray” ones. And even on $60, they couldn't begin to do the expanfive kind of enteftaining they indulged in before the war. This once most hospitable country in the world is therefore constrained to refuse to extend a. welcome to an) but those guests whose presence here will help set France on her economic feet once more. Thus only those who have very good reasons for coming here will have their visa requests granted.

Science

PLANS ARE now under way to drop 150,000,000 in= cendiary bombs on the cities of Japan in the next 12 months providing the war lords of that unfortunate country insist on prolonging the fight that long. That is the number of incendiary bombs which the

i chemical warfare service is sched-

uled to supply during the ensuing year. In terms of production, this means that the chemical warfare service, which furnished 160,000 tons of fire bombs for all theaters of war in the last six months, will double that productian in the next six months and triple it in the first half of 1946. Japan is scheduled to be treated with 850,000 tons of fire bombs in the next 12 months, This is about 80 per cent of the tonnage of all kinds of air bombs, including high explosives, used by the army alr forces in all theaters of war last year.

Aerial: Incendiary Bombs

FOUR outstanding weapons have been developed by the OWS for aise in world war II, These are the “aerial incendiary bombs, the flame throwers, the 4.2inch chemical mortars and the smoke generators. In a recent statement, Genera’ of the Army Marshall, the chief of staff, emphasized the importance of these weapons in the successfu' actions of the war. bombs in ‘current use include mag-

+ Incendiary . pesium, thermate, phosphorus, jellied gasoline and

oil varieties. In size they range from four-pound ‘firesticks,” usually dropped in clusters, to 500-pound “blockburners.”

My Day

NEW YORK, Wednesday.—On Sunday the papers carried a rather interesting picture of the new Big Marshal Stalin, President Truman and Prime Minister Attlee, and underneath was the picture of the Big Three as it existed at the time of the Yalta sonference—Marshall Stalin, my husband and Prime Minister urchill,

As I looked at the picture I realized what differences now exist at the very top in international negotiations, The three

Inside Indianapolis

every Wednesday. . . . The city in Florida with the city hall outside the city limits and the country club in the heart of the city is Hollywood. W, F., Sandmann over at the Chamber of Commerce says he’s been ‘there many a time, We're told that Indian®apolis planners laid out the city and expected it to build up around the city hall. Instead, i expanded around the main highway to Miami. ... A Mrs. Holmes also called up with the answer. She has gone to Hollywood every year for the last nine years, It's one Hoosier town, .she says. Half the business owners and residents there &re from Indiana,

‘Crossroads of America’

PFC. C. F. HARTLING of Indianapolis writes that he's the subject of many jibes because he doesn’t know Indiana's state motto. He and his buddy, Dave Bateman from Boonville, are with a gun battery over in Munich, Germany. They're wondering why such an all important item hasn't been publicized. Well, here it is. It's “The Crossroads of America.” Pfc. Hartling has been keeping up on Hoosier news since he landed in England in September, 1944. He says he got behind in his reading when he was in a hospital and carried 27 back issues of papers in his bag in the push across the Roer river and into Germany. . . » Mrs. Shubert B. Hammond, 415 Concord st., wonders if anyone has found 8 marine pin in the last few weeks. The pin was given to her young son by her nephew, Marine Edward Lee Brashear of New Albany, before he left for overseas. It was gold-plated and showed the marine emblem of half the globe of the world on it. Mrs. Hammond thinks it was lost in the downtown area. She's very anxious to get it back, Her nephew was killed on Iwo Jima,

By Rosette Hargrove

’ And while the French need just about everything America has to sell, from hairpins to machine tools, they will-have to do. without them for a little while “Jonger, All requests for visas are forwarded from ington to Paris for approval. As an official spokesman said: “We would love to

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_ have all our friends come, but not under these abnormal conditions.

It is not only a question of housing and feeding, but also one of transport, or rather the lack of it.” ....Incidentally, businessmen who have had to travel by “metro” or walk to their appointments have been ready to give up after the first week. _ The rush hour on the New York subway is relatively comfortable compared to the Paris one,

No Eating at Army Messes SO FAR AS accommodations are concerned, hotel rooms are at a premium and while managers will make reservations for old clients, the number is extremely limited, especially in the luxury hotels. Rather than go to a second-class hotel because he thought his contacts over here might believe his credit was not too good, the president of an important concern preferred to accept a couch in a friend's apartment. But friends’ apartments are limited, as few resident Americans have as yet returned or their homes have been requisitioned by the various allied outfits. “The trouble is,” according to William Wallace Irving, general secretary to the Paris office of the U. 8. Chamber of Commerce, “that nobody believes things are so difficult until they actually get here.” The organization has asked the embassy to persuade the French authorities to turn over a hotel where American business people could be billeted and have a mess. : : > Because. army rationing has been cut down, it is no longer possible for a visitor to Paris to eat at army messes. Guest tickets have been reduced from three to one a week per person. And pretty strict tab is kept on anyone trying to chisel in.

The only people with civilian status in Paris who|P°S¢

are sitting pretty these days are state department officials and employees who receive generous rations— sufficient, as a matter of fact, for them to set up housekeeping on practically an American scale.

By David Dietz

Flame throwers were first put into operation in this war in 1942 on Guadalcanal. The portable type comes in two models. One fires blasts of blazing crude oil. The other throws a stream of jellied gasoline. In addition, there are flame throwers mounted on tanks, which are especially equipped for this type of service, The 42-inch mortar is a rifled, muzzle-loading weapon that was developed in 1924 to lob gas shells. Since gas has not been used in this war by our army, it is being used to fire white phosphorus shells and high-explosive shells,

Smoke Screen Bombs

IT IS particularly valuable in support of infantry and other assault troops. It will bring the enemy out of the ground amid a shower of burning particles. Operators can then shift to high-explosive shells. It can also be used with different types of phosphorus shells to create smoke screens in coverage of land and amphibious operations. : Smoke generators come in two sizes. The largest is mounted on a truck or trailer and can blanket a square mile of territory in 10 minutes. The smaller model is about the size of a small trunk and can blot out an area of 200 yards wide and five or six miles long. Smoke pots come in various sizes from an 11pound one that burns for six minutes to a 30-pound one which keeps going for 20 minutes. Smoke pots which float are available for amphibious operations. The chemical warfare service also furnishes hand grenades which release smoke and ‘a number of devices which release smokes of different colors. These “canned smokes” as they are known to the troops, are used for signaling purposes.

By Eleanor Roosevelt’

flying across the seas in order-that he and my husband might discuss together the next steps. Prime Minister Churchill was if Washington when Tobruk fell. It was-a very terrible blow to the Brit~ ish. He showed his metal in a remarkable way. Never for one minute acknowledging the fact that the

British might meet ultimate defeat in Africa, he|

simply went to work with my husband and discussed what they could do to minimize the blow. Through the bad days of the war, these three men came to know each other well, and I rather think

that it is going through times of adversity together| F= * which gives you the deep trust and assurance that| -'

you know another individual. : :

SECOND SECTION

By CHARLES T., HALLINAN United Press Staff Correspondent

J ONDON—In 57 years Herbert Morrison has risen from. birth as the son of a poor cockney policeman to the lord presidency of the council in the new Labor government of Britain. . He has one more ambition to sat-isfy—-to become prime minister. In the present cabinet he will serve as government leader in the house of commons—a role in which his gift for sharp repartee and toe-to-toe debate is expected to come to the fore. ® » = . POLITICAL observers are divided on the question of whether Morrison will ever achieve his ambition of gaining the premiership. Intra-party rivalry—particularly between Morrison and Foreign Sec retary Ernest Bevin—led to selection of the neutral Clement Attlee as the party’s leader. This put Attlee in the prime ministership which both Morrison and Bevin covet. Morrison is a small, near-sighted man with an unruly mop of hair and great energy, He wears thick spectacles, » » »

HE HAS flung his energies for years into the task of reforming and rebuilding London. From 1934 to 1940 he was the leader of the Labor majority on the London county council. He devoted himself to vast projects in housing, sanitation and public works. He is regarded as a middle-of-the-road man, politically.

London county council never had any difficulty in working closely with the big financial houses of London,

THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1945 = HERBERT MORRISON (Son of a Cockney Policeman Rises to Heights)

Labor's Sparkplug In Commons

Herbert Morrison . . , “Small, nearsighted, an unruly mop of hair,

and great energy,

which handled the bond issues with which his improvements of the city were financed. »

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leader who has seriously studied these problems. His view is that such changes can be carried out gradually over

icism from those who charged that his security measures jeopardized basic British’ freedoms.

» » * HIS DEFENSE was that the war threats fully justified interference with normal liberties and -that the extraordinary powers would be relinquished as soon as the threat lifted. With the end of the war in Europe he made good on his promise, Morrison has been forced to fight every foot of his way up. And he has not won all his fights. _~ He was elected to the hduse of commons in 1923 and defeated the

next year. He was elected in 1929

and defeated two years later, He

came back to win in 1935.

» » tJ THIS YEAR-possibly with a look at the in-and-out records—

he abandoned his constituency of |-

Hackney South and ran in a.new one, Lewisham Zast. There he won with ease. Morrison once noticed that he was barred from enjoyment at local dances because. he knew nothing about dancing—he’d always had to work too hard to take out time to learn. So he saved his money and finally had enough to take dancing lessons, After he was through the lessons he practiced assiduously and most of his slender amusement money went into the public dance halls, 8 t J - TODAY he is said to be the best dancer in the Labor party. He often used to work in his office until 9 p. m. and then go out and dance until 3 or 4 in the morn-

IN THE past two years he has|a period of years, changing Brit- ing. made a particularly close study of |ain’s industrial pattern without any He no longer can enjoy his favor-

of Britain's basic industries and of controlling others. : He is virtually the only Labor

And during his career with the|the problem of nationalizing some serious disruption of commerce.

In the Churchill coalition cabinet he was minister of home affairs and home security, He drew some crit-

ite relaxation, however, - He has developed a serious foot ailment which prevents him from gliding around the ballroom floer.

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON—The time has come to kiss the boys goodby. The senators have passed their last law until the cool of Autumn. And I am desolate. 3 Where but in the U. S. senate would Theodore G. Bilbo of Mississippi spend four days explaining why he did not intend to filibuster against the fair employment practice committee? Who but senators would call in for investigation New York’s leading specialist in the sale of inlaid mother-of-pearl toilet seats?

. ® =» YOU GET the idea. It’s a sad day. The boys have cleaned off their desks—except for the silver. sprinkler bottles of sant for blotting purS. .- And they have begun two months and séven days of rest from their labors. They won't get back until Oct. 8 and I have got to. go to work, Until yesterday—when the senators knocked off for the rest of the summer—I could drop up te their joint any old afternoon and wait in air-conditioned comfort for a story to drop in my lap.. : » » . EVERY day something verging on the incredible happened-—usually about 4 p. m. And what more could an efficient reporter ask? All right, a lazy reporter. There was Jake Goldberg—who testified with tears in his eyes before the war investigating committee that he did not cheat the government when he auctioned -off some federal plumbing supplies. “Including toilet seats?” inquired Senator James Mead of New York. “Oh no,” replied Jake. “Mother-of-pearl seats were a kind of what you might say a hobby of mine. I dealt in them privately.”

» » ¥ ANOTHER witness before an-othér-committee turned out to be R. S. Reynolds, who made his fortune putting foil around cigarets, He displayed as one of his postwar projects a goldin-colored evening gown, woven of solid aluminum

If a lady dribbled gravy on her skirt, he said, she could turn the hose on it. » » ” IT WAS a wonderful place, the senate. Senator Homer Ferguson of Michigan announced that the union suit situation was so critical in Detroit his embittered masculine constituents were forced to buy ladies’ panties. Tea rose colored. Trimmed ih lace. “For their own use,” the senator lamented. » » » SENATOR Kenneth Wherry of

NO MORE LAW-PASSING UNTIL FALL (And Othman Is Very Unhappy)

Kiss the Boys of Congress Goodby

Nebraska investigated the venetian blind crisis. A dozen loud-voiced ladies and Ely Culbertson, the bridge teacher, denounced the foreign affairs committee and the San Francisco Peace Charter. One of the ladies sneered so feelingly at Senator Tom Connally of Texas that two cops eased her out.

. =x = _THE MAN BILBO, who functions as chairman of the district com-

mittee and hence as the nearest thing the capital has to a mayor,

lcampaigned to close the Gayety

burlesque theater.

He said the nekkid ladies weren't nice.

He also considered erecting the world’s greatest athletic stadium, with a hydraulic roof

® » = SENATOR Glen H. Taylor of Idaho—once a crooning cowboy—

and a master of ceremonies. Now--I weep to say it-—-the place is locked, the’ official snuff boxes arc gathering dust and my pals are

away, yourselves, fellows,

Enjoy but hurry back. I need you.

Oh, how I need you.

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D: THE CHILDREN came from the beach after their swim scratching wildly at their arms, back, chest, and legs.

}- They had gone swimming at-their

regular place, had spent some time on the sand af- * ‘terward, and then they started to itch. We quieted them down by ap- | plying soothing applica tions. From our lake, : neighbors learned ' that other swimmers had experienced the same difficulty at different times, and that it was known as “swimmer’s itch.” There were many theories as to its cause, but the majority believed it was ‘due to the green scum or algae on the water, Other suggestions were sand fleas, chiggers, or scabbies. But all were wrong as it was due to larvae.

" . » THE ITCH parasite passes fits various stages in snails and aquatic birds, or field animals. The larvae escape from the snails in the morning and ‘swim toward the light. - They attach themselves to bather's skin as the film of water evaporates. They hold on for about five minutes and then try to bore in at the pores. : Apparently our skin is not their favorite. hunting ‘ground as they die in the struggle to get through.

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Earl Carroll to

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vae stuck in the pores is the cause of ‘the itching and burning. The larvae do not carry disease; they are just a nuisance. Best way to prevent the itch is to. wipe-vigorously-with-a-towel-as soon as you come out of the water and you will never be bothered. . » » AS COLLECTORS noticed itching of the wrists after removing snails from specimen water, we asked for student volunteers fo an itch experiment. - - Larvae were placed on the skin under watch crystals, and this caused dermatitis in practically every case. Waders searching for snails get the itch on their legs. Whether we produce the itch in a laboratory experiment, or observe it at the lake, there is always & prickling sensation following evaporation of the water containing larvae. » » #” HIVES which form immediately, later turn to pimples, which may be followed by a speckled rash or secondary infection.

THE DOCTOR SAYS: A Swimmer's Towel Is His Best Friend

Beach ltch—A Vacation Peril

It usually takes a week or more for the skin to clear up, but the jtching stops in a short time. The treatment for swimmer’s

itch is ‘any soothing application]

such as calamine lotion. Avoid excessive scratching or infection will result.

EJ » » ALL SWIMMERS are not susceptible to the larvae. We found this to be true even among our volunteers, as we made heavy applications of larvae on some students without an itch appearing. should be beaches. » » - IT MAY be necessary to destroy the vegetation which favors their development. . There are both day and night larval swimming forms and you cannot escape the itch by going in only at night, i . There does not seem to be any special time when you can get the itch from the water, as it develops when the water is calm or when it

is rough.

WILLIE and JOE—By Mauldin

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‘Back Ickes in | Move fo Meet {| Fuel Shortage |

By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—~News: For the first time since he bee came government chaperone of solid fuels, Harold Ickes is backed simultaneously by both sides of the coal indus- : try, management and labor. This is in the so - far fruitless fight of the selfstyled “Old C urmudgeon” to get. the army to tum loose enough qualified coal miners to dig coal so that: f (1) War plants won't have te cut production; (2) A sure short age in domestic heating, no mate ter what happens, can be made less severe; (3) Enough coal ean be furnished to European coumtries to lessen the chance of riots and revolts which would have repercussions over here. » » » MR. ICKES seems to have & perfect case, according to both sides of the coal industry. They why the other officials concerned, particularly Under secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, have not seem the before ybe is because they the mining is a us

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quently, the output in the first three weeks of July averaged only 10,000,000. Men who know the industry say the year’s production will run about 50,000,000 tons short of requirements, under present conditions, .

But mainly they concern mane

Before the war there were

more than; "400,000 “bituminous

coal miners. Last December the number was 385,000, and in June it was 370,000. The projected figure for the end of this year is 350,000—as« suming that the armed forces do not release a large portion of the more than 100,000 coal miners now jn various kinds of uniforms, Reasgh for the forecast of only

. 350,000 men in bituminous coal

mining: The gradual toll of old age, sickness, accidents, drift to ‘other occupations—and the draft,

We, the Women— Children Are Welcomed by

One Landlord

By RUTH MILLETT

CLEVELAND has a landlord who not only welcomes families

"with children in his several aparte

ment housés—he gives a war bond

to every baby born under one of his roofs. y

How come? Well, it seems that years ago when Henry Solomon moved to Cleveland with his wife and baby daughter door

approved of children. Then and there he made up his mind that if he ever owned