Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1945 — Page 17

Inside Tndianapolis ~

A STRAY Dalmatian appeared last week at the home of Bill Hutchison, out on E. 86th st. and hasn't been claimed yet. ‘Bill, who's something of a Dalmatian expert, says the stranger is unusually well marked and may be a show dog. The owner can claim »by* calling BR~ ' 6375 . . . Speak- } ing of lost dogs, I Mrs. Frank Don- | nelly, 1727 Pros‘pect st, has | looked every - where - for her tox terrier who wandered off | during a storm | last week. Mrs. Donnelly, aninvalid, has had the dog for 10 years, Anyone finding “Pal,” a large brown and white dog with ia. “VV” on his forehead, can | claim a reward by calling MA1087 . .:; B.B. McMullen, as ~ sistant purchasing agent of the Citizens Gas & Coke utility, got out his army discharge recently when he applied for his hunting and fishing license. He looked it over closely for the first time in 26 years and discovered it was signed by a lleutenant colonel in the tank corps-—one Dwight Eisenhower. . . . Here are the statistics Mrs. J. R. Smith, 2511 Guilford ave., requésted for her husband in the South Pacific. The population of Indianapolis proper is 416,000, based on the number of ration books issued in November, 1943, Most of the eity’s migrant war workers come from small towns within 40 miles of here and. from Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama. Indianapolis’ rating with other cities in manufacturing is High but can't be computed exactly because of the secret nature of many war contracts,

Pigeons Add Insult to Injury

REMEMBER THE wooden cats that were hung

around ledges of the Federal building to scare the pigeons? Well, the pigeons have gotten wise and they're back, roosting all over the ledge. Some of the

Hump Rescue

CHABUA, Upper Assam Province, India. —Intrepid pilots who battle the treacherous Hump of the Himalayas to keep China in the war tell stories packed with emotional power. Fresh from the lips of a young flier who had to bail out of a heavily-loaded fourengine. transport plane, I heard this tale of dramatic jungle rescue, Lt. Albert A. Arline obviously was under terrific emotional stress when I visited him at'the 234th hospital, six or seven miles out ‘of Chabua, “It was just about dark when I was called,” said Arline, who served in the Royal Air Force prior to Pear] Harbor. “As 1 took over the controls, Montgomery, the pilot, remarked that the ship flew awkwardly. It wallowed around like a Sick alligator. It must have been the load. The plane had no lateral stability. +The soup was pretty thick at the first ridge of the Hump. We took on a little light ice, but nothing not expected. . There was not the slightest turbulence. “Yet 20 minutes from check point two we began to lose speed and altitude. We were picking up clear ice rapidly. “Number four engine spit and quit. Over we ent on one wing. Montgomery had the controls. e lost altitude fast, shuddered in a stall, and then we went into a spin,

‘Get Into Your Chutes’

“THE PILOT shouted: ‘Get into your chutes’ I ried to get into my parachute; but I was all thumbs n my panic. The thought passed through my mind at I was about to die.' I thought of my family.” “I saw Sergeant Bailey and the crew chief still fumbling with their chutes,” said Arline. “I put my hand on the rip cord and gave myself a mighty boost with my feel. “My right shoulder grazed the tail boom, and the orld whirled before me. I remember nothing else

Science

PETROLEUM is not only furnishing aviation fuel, hvnthetic rubber and high explosives for use in world ar II. It is doing such odd jobs as helping chickens ay more eggs, knocking out mosquitoes, and increasng the yield of potatoes. The story of the presentay utilization of petroleum is one bf the wonder stories of modern *hemistry and it will grow more yonderful in the post-war world. As most readers know, petroeum is a mixture of hydrocarbons hydrocarbon is a chefical com~ ound ' containing hydrogen and arbor. There are tens of thouands of hydrocarbons. The light nes have little molecules’ consistg .of few atoms and hydrogen nd carbon; the heavy ones have fant molecules containing hunireds of atoms.

rocessing Developed ORIGINALLY, petroleum was merely separated by istillation into various fractions which were graded nto gasoline, kerosene, lubricating oils, etc» Then ame cracking, by which the heavy molecules were broken up into light ones, thus increasing the yield f gasoline from a given amount of petroleum, Today, however, all sorts of chemical manipulaions are carried out so that the hydrocarbons of pefoleum have become the raw materials of a large egment of the chemical industry. Thus, for example, ertain hydrocarbons fromr petroleum are transrmed into butadiene and styrene, which go into vnthetic rubber; others into toluene, the basis of NT; ete. Millions of barrels of petroleum are now being sed by more than 30 basic industries in manufactur-

NEW YORK, Wednesday —New York City politics eems more confused this year than usual, First, the Republican party nominates for mayor a one-time mocrat, and Governor Dewey backs him in spite f a few things said by the candidate in a past camaign which must now be buried oblivion! Then, the Democrats hominate a-really good man, Gen. D'Dwyer. To be sure, they, too, an not get away without a little onfusion and a few changes in nning mates. But the ultimate roduct is good. And now Mayor La Guardia, ho has done much for New York ity, back8 another good man, Newbold Morris, who is a regular epublican but who does not have fovernor Dewey's backing and oes not seem to want it. He is to run on a “No peal” ticket—whatever that may mean, since no oliticians get away without some deals, The only important thing to know is whether ey are good or bad deals, because “deals” is really nother word for “plans,” and one must plan, It is e way one plans that matters, and whether the lans leave one freedorn of action for the future, ‘Well, theré is the picture, and ordinarily, as a oter of upstate New York, I would be only rémotely rned about a’ mayoralty election in the city of York. This year, however, it looks to me as the Citizens of New ¥ Ty are.

Anyone Lose a Dog?

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birds add inaiit to talufy by perching right on the cats. Charles E. Clift, the custodian, admits the birds have outsmarted him but says hes thinking of putting rattlers of some «kinds on the cats, ... of Eber 8pence’s friends are having a big laugh at his Victory garden plight. Mr, Spence has long bragged of his prowess as a tomato expert and his garden is known for its output of big, luscious red tomatoes. He put out 60 healthy plants this spring, tended them carefully all season and got- a huge crop of tomatoes. The tomatoes, howéver, are of the yellow variety, about the size of overgrown marbles... Mr. Spence sadly remembers that he did néglect to ask what kind of plants he was buying. ... Mrs. Eunice E. See, 1147 N. Illinois st., apt. 3, would like to locate her five granddaughters whom she hasn't seen for 17 years. She lost track of the girls when her daughter, Mrs. Lucy Lemon, died at City hospital. The granddaughters, who are in the late 20's or early 30's now, are named Dorothy, Genevieve, Thelma, Marjory Belle’ and Maxine. . . , Methodist hospital is having trouble finding diabetic gram scales. The scales are

—used to weigh food for diabetics and are needed. to

send home with patients when they leave the hos~ pital. Mrs. Prank Adney, who's heading the search, can be reached at TA-1541,

Stay Away From Podium ONE OF our agents informs us it isn’t. safe to sit

within three feet of the podium when Alonzo Eidson |:

is conducting. A terrific sweep of the maestros

baton sent the first oboe music flying across the room :

at a concert by the Tech summer band recently. Our agent says there was no casualties because “fortunately, no one forgot to duck.” . . Former Times Photographer Lloyd Walton says he's thé unluckiest photographer alive and we almost agree with him. The. first photographer to arrive after the B-25 crashed into the Empire State building, Wally was minus his camera-—he'd forgotten to pack it before he left Indianapolis. What's more, the New York Institute of Photography, where he was a student, was locked up because it was Saturday. The institute is loaded with cameras and is right across the street from the Empire State building. . . . Miss Betty Jane Grayson, 5350 N. Kenwood ave. wants to rent a car for 30 days. Miss Grayson and Pfc. David Scofield will be married when Pfc. Scofield gets in from Germany late this month. They want to spend their honeymoon at .a friend's cottage in an out-of-the-way part of Illinois, but they're having transportation troule. If you can offer a prospective ride to the prospective bride call BR-1591,

By Harry Grain

until I came to—hanging upside down with my left leg. wrapped around the harness. “I thought of my family and the sorrow, misery and worry they would be subjected to when they got the message that I was missing. Then I thought of the happiness a follow-up message would bring. “Next I thought of the other crew members, was positive I was the only one who got out: “At daylight I could not use my left leg. Looking around for the first time, I found I had landed and slept on a ledge, no more than four or five feet from a sheer drop of several hundred feet.

Saw Native Hut “AS I settled back in despair, I saw the straw roof of a hut throught the trees in the valley. “Getting to that valley was the most heart-break-ing thing I ever did. “Hours afterward I reached a little rise about a half mile farther up the valley and lay there exhausted. “There, fortunately, 1 a native caught sight of me. He had Chinese characteristics. “A man with a huge sword in a wooden case dangling at his side and wearing a tremendous hat came on the run. In broken English, he explained he was the head man, would take me to his house, and on the morow to an English officer 18 miles away. : “At 3 a. m. a man came in with a piece of paper. On it in blue pencil and in English was written, ‘To any crew member of 01610: I am at Htawgaw. Have this runner bring you here. This is an English outpost,” It was signed T/S J. N. Bailey, radio operator, “For 18 miles the trail led through mountainous jungle almost unbelievable, “At 9 that night we were met on the trail by a party led by Sergeant Bailey and a British agent, Jang Bhir Bal. : “We laid out signal panels. It wasn't long before a big Dumbo C-46 came by. The C-46 circled for an hour taking bearings. Finally the pilot came close and waved. We knew he had gotten a message through and they had our position.”

By David Dietz

ing, according to Dr. John C. Dean of the SoconyVacuum Oil Co., Inc., Paulsboro, N.J. “If one looks about he will be able to find very few articles which do not utilize a petroleum product somewhere in their manufacture,” Dr. Dean says in a report prepared for the American Chemical society. + “The clothes and shoes one wears, the furniture one sits on, the paper one sees, and a host of other everyday articles either contain petroleum or used it in the process of manufacture.” One of the important petroleum plodusts is paraffin wax. About 700,000,000 pounds of it are produced in this country each year. About 80 per cent of this water-resistant wax is used on paper and paper products, including bread wrappers, paper milk bottles, drinking cups and straws, butter cartons, cracker boxes, etc.

Helps Egg Production THE. PETROLEUM product which is helping chickens lay more eggs is this same parafin wax. Here is Dr. Dean's explanation: Paraffin wax is being used for window panes in chicken coops. Since it transmits more ultraviolet light than does glass, the chickens in the coop lay more and better eggs. Another wax’ derived from petroleum is the socalled micro-crystalline wax which resembles beeswax. This is used for waterproofing electrical instruments and for coating paper, Paper thus coated is finding widespread use in the war for the packing of countless metal articles, precision instruments, foodstuffs, field rations, small arms ammunition, etc. The, wax is also employed in packing dehydrated and frozen foods, in making laminated papers, in lining metal containers to protect the metal from the corrosive action of the contents, and in the manufacture of inks, carbon paper, crayons and rubber,

‘By Eleanor Roosevelt

concerned. This election is of importance to the state and the nation. It is the opening gun in a campaign which is already being waged-—-under cover, to be sure, but nevertheless with skill and tenacity— by certain groups in the country, represented largely

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SECOND SECTION

Northern main line in

HICAGO—U. are literally moving mountains to ‘provide speedier, more comfortable trains

after the war. The steel spike that Jim Hill and the Vangerbitts and the Goulds drove across plain 7 and mountain will never be the © same again. They built the railroads

days of the late

1900's. . Often i was a race be tween Mr. whose chief aim was to get track down first. There was neither time nor equipment— nor, often, the money—to build the kind of railroad the efrgineers would lay down today.

Lucey

and the day of giant steam shovels, scrapers, front-end loaders and huge carryall trucks. They've revolutionized dirt-moving and made ecoonmically . feasible a kind of railroad building impossible in earlier years. : o o GIVE Casey Jones a straight-line track without sharp curves or steep grades and that's where he pours on the speed—“balls the jack,” in railroad language. With rivers and mountains to combat, it never can come completely. But they're spending millions in whittling curves and grades to give you a faster ride in greater comfort. ‘Go out on the lines today—the New York Central, Erie, Rock Island, Denver and Rio Grande Western, Santa Fe, Missouri Pacifie, Missouri -Kansas~- Texas, Great Northern and others—and you find them engaged in vast jobs that spell smoother operating ahead. It isn't speed alone that's involved—:though, in post-war competition, Jp-ed will be mors important than ever .before. But, long-haul, this kind of line reconstruction means rail economy, too. » = » THE HEAVY cost of moving freight by rail is in pushing it up hill and down dale, not in moving it over. level ground. It takes four or five times as much power to move a ton up a 1 per cent grade —one foot rise in 100 feet—as on level track. A large. locomotive can haul 1700 tons at 70 miles an hour on level track; it can haul only 350 tons at this speed on a 1 per cent grade. ° So, too, with curves. Curves mean reduced speeds and loss of time and power in slowing a train and accelerating again. You need 70 per cent more power to pull a 10-mile-an-hour train around a long, 4-degree curve than on straight track. Curves mean greater wear on rails and equipment. Curves and grades may add’ onefifth t0 a train's running time, ” # " THE Rock Island and the “fSenver & Rio Grande Western are two railroads doing a .superior job of line. rebuilding which arms them more strongly for the post-war competitive battle in transportation.

the expert use of “off-track” equipment by Al Perlman, chief en-

a Judge Goldstein because they can use him, and||l ato

because they think by so doing they can carry certain elements with them that have been with the Demo. crats in the past.

These groups: hope that the peoplé may be { tole.

but I have great confidence in the people, , the people, are growing in wisdom politically; - if Toi learned to study. the candidates and weigh them as

men and as public servants; we weigh their backing|

and what that backing means, Newbold Morris is a good man but he cannot be elected, and I think the voters of this city are wise enough to know that if Gen. O'Dwyer could fight for the things that he considered right against such strong forces in Brooklyn, he will fight for these things in city hall. The mayor of New York in the next few years will meet great problems, problems that concern both business and labor, since their interests: are closely allied. He will need an understanding of the wider horizons that reach out from this great port to the far_ends of the world. Gen. O'Dwyer has had the opportunity to learn and to see the distant scene in the last few years. I think New York City voters, in electing him, will give themselves a “good deal” and

Delp 18 in’ the fight for control by the People against

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Railroaders everywhere talk of)’

THURSDAY, ‘AUGUST 9, 1945

Here is a portion of a major line relocation project on the Great ®

the Montana Rockies.

S. railroads 7°

in the § pick = and-shovel ¢ and wheelbarrow ;

1800's and early

rivals:

But today is the bulldozer’s day §

RAILROADING TOMORROW (4th of a Series by Charles T. Lucey)

Straighter Curves for Casey Jones

Above a long bridge being built by

John D. Farrington, president of the Rock Island, rides the cab of a streamliner on inspection trips.

gineer of the Denver & Rio Grande. In earlier days, track construction was done by crews operating from work trains, with derricks and steam shovels swinging from this train. When a regularly scheduled train was due, the work train

chugged off onto a sidetrack. Crews| A lot of time was

stopped work. lost,

But now they've put the big stuff derricks—on

—bulldozers, ditchers, caterpillar. tracks and wheels. There's no huffing and puffing off onto sidetracks; delay is momentary as a train whizzes past. On the Denver & Rio Grande, $85,000 invested in off-track equipment meant an annual saving of $220,000 in operation of the oldertype work train. Study of costs showed the change to be worth $750,000 annually in overall savings. » » 2 THE fact is that on crowded railroads today, there would hardly be .time for work trains to get on and off main tracks for work between frequent trains. Off-track machinery saves countless delays. On the Denver & Rio Grande, which climbs the Rockies over some of the world’s toughest right-of wdy, you see the ingenious use of this off-track equipment for ditching, grading, shifting tracks, spreading ballast, bank widening, riprapping, clearing away rock slides, repairing washout damage, reducing curves, making fills, even changing the course of streams rushing down through the mountains. Smart railroaders believe that this use of modern machinery for cheaper movement of dirt will be

tremendously important in opening

the way to the faster railroading of tomorrow. It used to cost 40 cents to $1 to move a yard of earth on the Denver & Rio Grande; it costs five cents. That spells out to more bee-line train mileage. 8 +n » PRESIDENT John D. Farring-

ton of the Rock Islard has di-|

WILLIE and JOE—By Mauldin

only

now

rected one of the most radical rail rebuilding jobs in the country, all based on a new concept of finer, speedier railroading.

of the Diesel locomotive of one of the flashy Rock Island Rockets, heading into open country to look over his line. He knows where his construction jobs are, has.his own mental picture of where his men sh®uld be, goes out to see if they” re there. It has always been more customary for a railroad president to hitch his private car on the rear end and

“John Farrington wants to see

marks, “and not where he has been.” ! :

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HE'S LOOKING ahead now three or four years on his Rock Island rebuilding. Cutting grades, easing curves, relocating track,

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mem are whacking down Rock Island mileage between Chicago and Kansas City from 510 miles to 490. “We've got to have modern equipment, faster service and make it cheap,” says Mr. Farrington. “You start by developing a better plant so you can operate it more cheaply; you pass this on to the public and take a smaller percent age of profit out of larger volume.” This . year, on the Rock Island, they're shortening the ChicagoKansas City line four or five miles in reconstruction between Centerville and Paris, Ia. Theyre reworking 36 miles of track altogether; another 18 miles ‘s on the books for next year. Then they'll go after the Omaha division—all a steady process of miagdy g the Rock Island a better railroad. » ”

IT'S PAYING off in operations {savings and faster schedules already. A few weeks ago they opened

BUTLER SUMMER SESSION CLOSING

The regular summer session at Butler university will close with final examinations and commence{ment this week. The post-summer | session will open Monday. Exams started yesterday and end today. Commencement exercises will be at 4 p. m. tomorrow in Sweeney chapel. The post-summer session, con-

ducted from one to three hours daily including Saturdays, will continue

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for the next three weeks, Registration will be from 8 a. m. to 4 p. m. Monday. Classes to be offered include: English and speech, speech correction, Latin-American history and politics, Far Eastern politics, abnormal psychology, criminology, education and educational psychology and graduate religion courses. Other courses will be offered if there is sufficient popular demandy From one to three hours of university credit will be given for the postsummer work.

TWO-ALARM BLAZE

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

firemen at the Cambridge fire college was BesTipleduady. a two-

0O., bay to speed New York-Chicago service.

building new bridges, he and his|?

HALTS GRADUATION

WU. P| Graduation exercises for 90 new -

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New York Central over Sandusky,

Giant earth-moving machine, above, is used to ease curves and grades on the Rock Island lines.

On many a day you find John . Farrington climbing into the cab }

look out over track he has passed. RR

where he’s going,” an associate re- jut

Here a Union Pacific heavy freight crosses 3 bridge in the Rockies.

sas City by the Rock Island and the Milwaukee railroad. It clipped an hour from the Rock Islands Golden State Limited to California. On the Erie railroad, they've undertaken to move the Delaware river into a new course along the New York - Pennsylvania border as a means of eliminating a bad track condition and putting the railroad in shape for improved operations in the years ahead. It means clearing land for a new channel, riprapping a huge new embankment to protect against erosion, then laying new tracks— all of it done with modern machinery unknown to railroads a few years ago. " Out on the Santa Fe, they've built a magnificent new bridge over the Colorado river and have carried on new track work geared to producing a railroad with a potential speed capacity of 100 miles an hour,

(To Be Continued)

THE DOCTOR SAYS— |

“Malaria isn’t incurable.” Read Dr. William A. O'Brien's column, Page 13.

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PAGE 7. Labor A. F. L. Against | Any New Labor Laws

By FRED W, PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

' CHICAGO, Aug. 9.—The Ameri-

can Federation of Labor is against the Hatch-Ball-Burton bill" hook=-line-and-sinker. Nor does the A. F. of L. want other new legislation attempting to control ine dustrial relations. : This was clear. here today after the A. F. of L. executive council delivered its formal denunciation of the measure, nQw pending in the senate. A. F. of L. president william Green explained. the A. FP. of LL leaders think post-war labor problems shquld be solved by “cooperation of management and and labor in collective bargaining.” ‘This was in the face of newspaper headlines telling of Russia's entry into the Japanese war, following the -cataclysmic 'atomie bombing—two events that make almost everybody feel the Nips must soon collapse.

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WHEN that happens organized labor of this country will face a period that most authorities forefast will be full of trouble. The labor unions will try to maintain their positions and memberships. Some big employers may try to break the unions. Efforts to maintain wartime wage scales will run into price competition among manufacturers for civilian

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The Hatch-Ball-Burton bill was proposed by the three senators to promote American industrial peace in this dangerous period. It has drawn unqualified condemnation from all the branches of organized labor. None of tiem has offered a substitute.

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UNDER present conditions the Connally-Smith war labor disputes act will cease to operate six months after peace is attained. That will leave the Wagner labor relations act as the governing statute.

Even the A. F. of L. wants to amend the Wagner act, to protect itself from the rival C. 1. 0. Outside the machinery under the national labor relations board (cre-' ated by the Wagner act) the only protection to the country from large-scale industrial rows will be in the conciliation service of the U. 8S. department of laber. The new secretary of labor, Lewis B. Schwellenbach, has been told of the probabilities of labor strife. He has not said whether he thinks any more federal law would help. The A. F. of L. statement said: “The Ball - Burton - Hatch. bill would destroy the fundamental freedom of the nation's workers in the post-war period and prevent the progress of labor toward its goal of the future.”

We, the Women Encourage Acts For Long-Range G. I. Programs

By RUTH MILLETT PERHAPS SHE just has a smarter press agent than the rest of the Hollywood stars. Rut Anne Baxter has crashed through with a sound idea. She has asked Gen. Omar Bradley to book her ahead for one tour a year for 10 years after Vday to enters tain wounded veterans. Itisarewarding project for entertainers to sing or dance or crack jokes for servicemen today. It gives’ them more and better publicity than they can get in any other way. E But it will be. a different thing in five or 10 years. Nobody mutch will hear of the performers who entertain the servicemen who are shut off from the world in veterans’ hospitals. ”n " o THAT WON'T be big news. So any star who is making plans now for the future entertainment of servicemen ought to be encour aged. ’ And what about the rest of us? Shouldn't we be thinking of what we will do as individuals and as communities for the servicemen who will be in hospitals for years, or even for the rest of their lives?

Now is the time to make our pledges. The sick and wounded servicemen of the last war were pretty. much forgotten by all but members of their families. That shouldn't happen again, A » . SOMEHOW we should hang on, to the feeling we now have for the servicemen who are being carried from hospital ships. Right now we know how much

+we owe them, how awed we are

by the sacrifices they have made for us. And wkile we know, we

ought to make some vows that ]

they won't be forgotten when the war is over and the lucky ones

among us are picking up our lives

and going on with them. What we don’t decide to 0 now