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“Mom” to hunMreds of soldiets who pass through Union station, The ladies sell bonds each Monday

at the A. W. V. 8. borid booth as. representatives of Broad Ripple American Legion post auxiliary. They've

MRS. JOHN A. NOON and Mrs. Wilbur Bonifield only have two sons in service but each has become

Inside Indianapolis ~~

taken it on themselves to see that servicemen in |

THE ERA OF ATO

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called off on account of

{rain in the Era of Atomic:

Power. No airplane will by-pass an airport because of fog. No city will experienck a winter

‘| traffic jam because of heawy snow.

Summer - resorts will be able to guarantee the weather and arti- © ficial suns wil make it as easy to grow ‘corn and} potatoes: indoors § as on the farm.

Mark Twain complained that everybody talked about. the weather, but that nobody did anything about it. They Mr. Dietz will do so! g about the weather in the Era of Atomic Power. . The reason is that for the first time in the history of the world, man will have at his disposal energy in amounts sufficient to cope with the forces of Mother Nature. .. The size of these forces is something not quite understood. For example, I have heard people ask] whether such explosions as that which the first bomb caused at!

the earth out of its orbit.

earth is in the neighborhood of five billion times a trillion tons” (five fol{lowed by 21 zeros). 8» BUT WHILE atomic bombs won't shake the earth out of its orbit, the use of atomic energy will enable man to deal with the forces of the weather in specific, limited -areas. It is the size of these forces that have made it impossible to deal with them in the past. This doomed all experiments in rain-making and the like to failure.

ce transit get a kindly word as they pass through. “We're ed’ glad we're over 40 so we can make friends with servicefre men easily,” gxplained Mrs. Noon, a gold star mother, ste In three years they've given hundreds of hoys direcils ! tions, watched G. I's luggage, played maid to their dogs ana cheered up lonely boys with friendly words. ke Both ladles spout G. I. terms fluently and can idenof tify division insignias a mile away. Yesterday one ot A their thoughtful gestures was getting wide grins from ice happy G. Is wearing discharge insignia. As the us Sischargees came to the booth- Mrs. Noon gad Mis. Rs dele i id ‘Bonifield both iemored their rank and kept addressing ... . , nifield tle them as “You civilians.” , , ! One of the new civilians Mss. Jot A, Noon, lefi, and Mes; Wilbur: Reo was having quite a time as he walked through the legged Foursome Match.” Each of the contestants has station. He had a box of new civillan clothes under’ one artificial limb. Winner of the match was Joe one arm and a package of good cheer clutched in his Bauer. ... The double “feature funsters are at fit a other hand, again, One of our agents got a kick out of the pairx - up at the Maywood. The titles of the two shows are ed Whetting Up An Appetite : “The Lady Takes a Chance,” and “Goin' to Town.” lle i DESK LT. JACK KALKIRE, of the police force, i8 personally we like the varied offering at the Cinema on giving personal attention to one theft. Jack was whet- —“Naughty Marietta” and “Gentle Annie.” ting up an appetite for three four-pound catfish he : cal caught at the lakes during his vacation. When he The Girl Who Lost Her Man : started to get the fish out of a container he'd left in THE SATURDAY night crowd on the Central ile the lake he found someone else had snared thém, As trolley got a big kick out of a girl who lost her man. Ife yet, the theft has not been followed’ by arrest. ... The girl climbed on the car just before the operator. als Another fish story is going the rounds with Inspector closed the door—leaving her boyfriend on the outside us Donald Tooley as the victim. Inspector Tooley, some- [ooking in. What with the manpower shortage, plus oe thing of a professional fisherman, promised to bring the fact that she dign't have ‘the fare, the girl hurlar several of his co-workers a mess of fish when he came ried off at the next stop and rushed bagk to her beback from his vacation. He thinks someone must have gwijldered escort. . . . Department stores that cover nt tipped off the fish because he” got not that first bites” the windows when they're changing displays take half an in a frantic tour of several lakes. ...One of our the fun out of life. There was quite a crowd out in nd agents got’ a big kick when he saw the Red Cross front of one store the other day, watching a mfanneAm mobile first aid unit over at the teen-age dance at quin being assembled. ® On first glance you saw a felon the war memorial the other night. Judging from some _ male dummy with strangely masculine looking arms. of the jitterbug pictures we've seen we'd say it was a The explanation was that the male window dresser Me pretty good idea. ... The T.W.S. (Those Who Serve) was in back of the mannequin and was reaching Ne club of the internal revenue department is more than around trying to adjust her before he put on her ew $144 richer after a golf tourney last week. The get- arms, ... We've got a complaint about broken glass var together was thought up by the department to get all over the downtown streets, In these days of us funds for Christmas boxes to 75 former employees in heelless and toeless women's shoes the ‘glass is danveg service. One of the featured events was the “Ome- gerous, in addition to being downright messy looking. . - 4 ’ «ll Trouble for Franco By Leigh White oy SEVILLE, Spain, Aug. 14.—Unemployment, hunger In other cities where great destruction occurred for and lack of adequate housing—these are the most during the civil war, thousands of new apartment has pressing domestic: problems facing the Franco regime houses have been erected, most of them by private her today. ! : industry. Devastated portions of Madrid, for exIf you add them up and divide by their common ample, have been almost completely rebuilt. The new ald denominator, the answer to which University City, which has been ‘built alongside the are you inevitably come is a gradual almost totally destroyed old University City, contains ng increase. in economic and social some of the most beautiful modernistic buildings in on unrest. Europe. ary Rafael Gonzalez Gallego, un- But housing projects throughout Spain have one : employment commissioner, has common defect: Far more new apartments have es, Just announced the conclusion of been made available to the middle class than to the hig his investigation into unemploy- working class. f : ment and kindred problems in Given conditions which produced the civil war, t4 Andalusia. : it might have been better from the point of view of Rew Although unemployment is long-range stability for the Franco regime to have at's Strole js Andajusis, hers Siete built new homes for the workers first. is little industry and where olives, : ay Ey Workers Must Wait Oe most to the exclusion of other crops, the worst drought IN THE devastated regions of Asturia, for exa ut Jucent Spanish history has produced a critical sit- 0 41g correspondent saw no working class housad The unemployment problem; Senior Gonzalez Gal Pg Projects at all. In the vicinity of San Sebastian, Ps lego admits, is “acquiring grave proportions.” For he saw many excellent new apartments which had is the province of Seville alone, he says, it will be neces- been built for fishermen and sailors. In the Carasary to spend 25,000,000 pesetas ($2,250,000) on un- bpanchel district of Madrid, he saw people living in ves employment benefits between now andenext Janu- ghandoned brick ovens and in patched-up ruins of has ary. war-destroyed houses. Nearby, 660 low-cost homes the Foo d Pri ces Soa r Yigte be built but they will not be finished until | AS THE combined result of drought, shortage of wai next year at the rate the work is

. trucks and gasoline and the impossibility to import sufficient wheat and meat from abroad, the price of food in Spain has risen tg phenomenal heights. 3 There is only one housing project under way— and that is for the middle class—at a time when tens | of thousands of building workers are without jobs. . Unless Seville's contractors do something in a hurry, Gonzalez Gallego warns,” the government may have | to start building workers’ apartments itself. |. Gonzalez Gallego says, that the government will spend 600,000,000 pesetas ($5,500,000) on public works projects in Seville province in order to give employment to 20,000 persons.

Science . -..

(Second of a Series)

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14—To rescue the generation of young potential scientists now in uniform, the army. and navy are being urged by the highest scientific, educational and industrial authorities to .search out, discover and send back to college imL mediately those men who, prior to 200 or during the.war, have given evidence of talent for science. ; This is the most immediate and concrete action that could be taken to combat a shortage of 150,000 college graduates in science and technology which confronts ‘the country. This is urged by Dr. Vannevar Bush, director of the office of scientific research and development, in his report to the President, and + his recommendation WE. -. was based upon the opinion of a special committee ‘appointéd to ‘consider the development ‘of scientific talent. ’ . These scientifically talented young men, under this plan; would be ordered, by name, to duty in the United States as students for training in science and engineering of a grade and quality “available to ‘civilians in peace-time. .

Need 100,000 Students : SO IMPORTANT is this returp to college of scientificdlly talented men in the army and navy

that it is recommended that the desire of a commanding officer. to retain a potential scientist for his usefulness on the spot should not be allowed to interfere with the operation of the suggested policy ‘of returning such mem to their studies. The total number that would be

NEW: YORK; Monday.—It has always amused me how much Fala has really become a personality in this country! I had been looking for a carrier in which to take him on the train’ to New York, and I was told I ‘would :find one at a certain establishment in Manhattan. There, the man at once sad to ime; “Is this for Fala?” I explained- that Fala was accustomed to rather luxurious train vel, having always been entirely ee to roam in my husband's private car, and that I was looking for something that would not righten him, | The man very kindly explained 0 me that if'I put Fala in backds he would not be as fright[ened as he would if I forced his head in first. I really think it would be simpler if I sat with him’in the baggage car, but then I might ‘not be a, welcome passenger! « NC ifs When Fala does move to New York, it will be a the first”time in his five years of dog life that he has ad entirely on a leash. Iam

selected on

200 as thoroughly as when he

Wisely, such homes will be sold rather than rented in order to give theif inhabitants a proprietary interest in them. People selected to live in them will be required to pay from 75 to 100 pesetas (less than $10) a month for 20 years whereupoh they will become their private property. . As one Falangist sald to this correspondent the other day: “We have done a great deal for the Spanish workers—and we plan to do’ a great deal more. But because the Falange has done it, they don't like “it.” '

By Watson Davis

merit alone would probably be no more than 100,000 which, under present conditions, would hardly have military, significance. But for building up thé nation’s scientific’ strength, that number would be very significant. These men would constitute. the premium crop of future scientists, and, to quote the Bush report, “we know that the future of our country in war and peace depends on that premium crop.” « Although these careful recommendations have heen on the President's desk for several months and the Bush report itself has been public property for several weeks, so- far as is known no steps are being taken to put into effect the suggested program or any modification of it. - High military officials are insistent that there be continued scientific research along military lines in

» order that our fighting forces in time of peace may

maintain a supremacy which will either prevent war or give us the necessary fighting power in case we _are again attacked. ~~. = Talented Boys Inducted BELIEVING that soldiers in the service being disfrom the army will need more college trainIng than they will be able to get under the G. 1. Bill of Rights, the reports urges that in the case of those’ who are found to have marked scientific talent, the amount of education given under the G. I Bill of Rights, should be. dependent upon the ability to profit from the education rather than just length of service. The 18-year-old boys who are being inducted into the armed services, month by. month, still include those of great scientific promise who, in England and ‘Russia, under the most severe conditions of the war would not have been allowed to enter the armed

services. Instead, they would have been®ordered to go

into preparation for scientific research careers,

Tomorrow—Renewal of Our Scientific Talent,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

new conditions just as successfully! . I have had to be in New York City for some time, and among other things I did a little sightseeing with several of my grandchildren, * . ’ We visited the Theodore Roosevelt house on East 20th st. There I tried to remember all the tales that my aunt, Mrs. Douglas Robinson; used to tell about their childhood in the house, since that is the only way to interest the young of this generation in their ancestors. * . - David, aged 3, had to be carried in order to see the cases in the museum side, and I f4und that quite ex~ hausting. We rode the top of a bus to Rockefeller plaza, where we adniired the colors of the water lilies in the various basins. ? Twice we lunched at the Algonquin hotel, and Iam quite sure that they rarely have such unsophisticated guests. .Our 3 and 5-year-olds were so fascinated by the many things to see that I could hardly make them eat.’ 4 "

{We visited the natural history museum together!

and enjoyed it very much, but’ the rest ,of their sightseeing was done with their father, I am quite sure it was many-years since he had seen the Bronx

People do not always realize how | the forces of the weather operate on {a world-wide scale. The cold wave that arrives some | winter day is composed of millions of tons of air that have been blown, literally, from the Arctic Circle. ” = ” OF COURSE, Mark Twain was not entirely right. Man did something about the weather when he built houses and invented stoves. But this was indoor air conditioning and Mark was talking about putdoor air conditioning. Perhaps the first successful attempt at outdoor air conditioning was when California orange growers learned to fight frost by putting smudge pots around the orchard in which oil fires could be lit. ” n 2 TOWARD the end of the European phase of world war IT attempts were made to “punch” holes in fog over airfields by means of a circle of oil heaters. 5 There were also experiments with systems of steam pipes buried in the field. : y+ These not only helped To dispel fog but kept the ground free of sno

{and ice. Ny

INDIANA LEADS IN * WAR BOND SAVINGS

Indiana still leads all cther industrial states in the nation in the payroll savings purchase of war bands, Eber M. Spence, state chairman of the payroll savings division of the Indiana war finance committee, said today. 4 According to latest treasury department figures, the state is third, with only Delaware and Kansas on

ployee participation.

sidered in the industrial group.

bond sales during the last four war loan campaigns also have topped those of all other industrial states, said Mr. Spence.

CUB PAPER DRIVE

Cub Scout Pack 11, of the Garden (City Christian church; will conduct a waste paper drive in the Bridgeport area today, tomorrow and Thursday. The cubs will make a house-to-house: canvass from the city limits to the county line along the Rockville rd.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES .

baseball game will be

The state's average E series war|

MIC POWER (2d

of a Series By David Dietz)

It Will Always Be Fair

eather

Outdoor air conditioning is possible in the future by utilising atomic energy to melt winter snows or to provide artificial sunlight under a.cloudy sky across a bathing beach. :

UNTIL, now, the trouble with all}

such methods has been that they were too puny to deal with the forces of nature. ‘ 1

They forget that the weight of the 8nd too expensive to burn oil er|

coal in the amounts needed to do the job right. To see why the situation is going to be difficult in the Era of Atomic Power, let me repeat two figures that I mentioned yesterday: One pound of Uranium-235 will furnish as much energy as 10,000,000 pounds of gasoline. It will furnish as much heat as 20,000,000 pounds of coal. ‘ ' ' b 8 8-8 CONSEQUENTLY, there is no reason why every airport in the world should not be carpeted with concrete “in which ‘a network of steampipes are buried. With Uranium-235 as the fuel, it will be possible to generate any needed amount of steam to melt the heaviest snow or ice and to send enough heat above the airport to dispel the thickest fog. Similarly, it will be possible for cities to lay networks of steampipes in the streets so that winter snows can be melted as fast as they fall. A traffic jam due to icy streets will be unknown in the Era of Atomic Power, = - # CONTROLLING the weather around a baseball diamond of in a football stadium should not prove any more difficult. Steampipes, of course, would be the answer to the temperature. Driving rain away is a more difficult problem but with the order of energy at the disposal of engjpeers the problem appears to be merely one of detail. ~ 1 am not, of course, suggesting that it would be possible to chase a rainstorm away from a city, but only that it would be possible to de-

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN; M. D. DO YOU suffer excessively from mosquito bites? Do. they swell, burn, and itch for days? : Have you noticed that many people are not similarly affected? Psychiatrists tell us it is because . your'nervous constitutional ‘makeup is different that you are affected this way. They also suggest that you react differently to other things and suffer from head

Dr. O’Brien about your food, and get butterflies in your stomach rather easily. -—Dermatologists have wondered ior some time why certain people did not respond to treatment for some skin diseases as readily as others. » * . TO FIND the answer they studied the body build and personalities of

; , ; | HOWEVER, Hiroshima might not in time knock| And the reason that they were|gyajjaple in any given area, such as puny was because it was too difficult | -

{indoor farms a possibility.

flect it from a comparatively small area like a foothall stadium.

sunshine

will be |a park or bathing beach, irrespective of whether the sky is full of clouds or not. 4 Beyond a doubt, the Era of Atomic Power will see artificial suns mounted on tall steel towers. Such an installation would consist merely. of a tall tower surmounted by a platform on which there was a great globe containing some Uranium-235 at its center. This would give off light and ultraviolet light equivalent to sunlight because the sub-atomic process by which Uranium-235 releases energy is comparable to the process that goes on within the sun.itself. Similar artificial suns would make

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READERS will recall that in the case of the bomb test in New Mexico and the dropping of the first bomb on Hiroshima, observers remarked upon the blinding flash of light. The light would be released gradually by the artificial suns on the steel towers. The globes of such artificial suns, however, will’ have to screen out the lethal rays produced by the disintegration of the Uranium-235 for othérwise these would be as deadly as the rays of radium. It is obvious, of course, that every device that utilizes atomic energy will have to be designed with this point in view. s » 8 IT WAS first suggested when the original work with Uranium-235 was made public, prior to Pearl Harbor, that the easiest way to use it would be merely to drop it in a boiler of water. - Just as radium gives off energy, so it would give off greater amounts of energy and the result would be the

‘Such a boiler, however, would have to be encased in a lead-lined jacket to protest people’ from the rays that might otherwise come through it from the Uranium-235. A 4 = » » ' IT IS obvious, however, that as time goes on other ways of utilizing atomic energy will be developed. — There is no reason why an internal combustion engine cannot: be developed in which tiny explosions of Uranium-235 run the engine, Gasoline engines run today on such tiny explosions of » gasoline. That is the difference ‘between the way the gasoline behaves in your engine and the way it behaves when some moron loaks into the gas tank with the aid of a lighted match, » »® » : THE BOMB on Hiroshima let go all at once. An internal combustion engine would require. a series of controlled explosions. In developing the bemb, scientists had to develop a way of causing the Uranium-235 to let go all at once. There has been no indication from President Truman or the war department as to how.that was

No doubt that will remain a closely guarded secret until Japan surrenders. Perhaps the secret will kept longer. > ” » J "RETURNING to the utilization of atomic energy, I believe the reader

not mentioned. , But it is important to remember that the controlling factor in the use of this new energy is not merely the stupendous power but the small amount of material needed to deliver it. Twenty million pounds of coal 10,000 tons. It would take a lot of freight cars to carry that much coal. But a pound of Uranium-235 could be transported on a kiddie car.

generation of steam.

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Your Nervous Makeup Causes Skin Trouble

Emotions . . . and Mosquitoes

these patients, and they found that they differ from those who get well in a hurry. Strange to relate all those who suffer excessively from certain skin disorders have body builds - and personalities much alike. This is particularly true of the allergic group, where emotional disturbaces play an important role in provoking the attack or prolonging it. 4

CHILDREN with asthma and hay fever, as a rule, tend to be restless. They are more than normally intelligent, ambitious, active—and selfabsorbed in their own affairs. Very often their parents are overly anxious about them, and the child uses this concern in developing dominance. To best help such children, their psychologic difficulties should be known and treated. .#

CASES OF eczema have been studied and they are found to have certain characteristics.

NEXT—What Is Atomic Energy?

and are sensitive. They are depressed because of their lack “of self-confidence. Whenever things go badly, with them, their skin disorder becomes worse. When they feel better their skin improves. 7 The nervous factor must_be recognized and treated before medicine will heal the skin. 3.

A MAN under treatment for a generalized skin condition of the allergic type failed to improve for months and then rapidly cleared. Improvement continued for nearly two months, and then. the disease promptly recurred. i A study of his personal life revealed that his wife had gone home to visit ‘her people. He protested

that they were not a congenial couple. ,

In the past we assumed that there

wife which was responsible, but apparently the emotional problem was the allergic factor.

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6 LOCAL SOLDIERS T0 DOCK WEDNESDAY

Six local soldiers are scheduled to arrive in New York Wednesday aboard the James F. Rhodes and the John Mitchell. They are Cpl. James Edwards, 1645 Central ave; Lt. Paul Dome; Flight Officer Richard Watson, 1619 E. 62d st.; Cpl. Lester Smith, 1318 Eugene st.; «Lt. John Lindahl, 1605 Shadeland dr, and Sgt. John Zeunik, 1020’ N. Holmes ave. Pfc. Robert Burton of Indianapolis is to arrive in Newport News, Va,

|WINAMAC MAN GETS RECREATION POST|

Appointment of George H. Thompson of Winamac as ‘recreational planner in charge of group camping activities at state parks

Many are shy, feel inadequate,

was announced today by Robert FP: Wirshing; director of the division of '|1ands and waters of the Indiana de-

PLAN HEALTH SURVEY

—A three-member Red Cross dele-

France

to survey child health problems ’

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W. Urges U.S. to Ease Job Slack By FRED W. PERKINS DETROTT, Aug. over this

war arsenal hangs a figurative, seven = million - dollar “bomb”

sprimed to blow up 250,000 war

Jobs.

navy cancellations of war orders involv. ing seven billion dollars, |,

R. J. Thom~ as, president of the C. I. O. United Automobile Work= ers, estimated war's end will cost 250000

Mr. Perkins jobs. Representatives of management and government said his figure was conservative. The U. A.W, is the dominant

ending, are raising a commotion over steps taken thus far by Washington toward ‘reconversion

to production of automobiles.

THE LEADERS want congress to re-assemble without & day's

.delay for passage of legislation

that will ease the shock on the civilian workers. : They hope also that President Truman's current conferences with Labor Secretary Schwellenbach and others will produce some forthright handling of war production board regulations and other obstacles to quick reconversion, Detroit is the reconversion hot spot of the country. The war years have added more than 300,000 to its peace time working - population. In this metropolis every labor problem can be found in a potentially troublesome stage. » » » DETROIT © cutbacks already announced, which had no connection with the rapid developments regarding Japan, already have removed the jobs of 75,000 fen and women, How many of these are idle is unknown because there is no sure way of checking the number that have moved to

Meanwhile, as the news from Hirohito was awaited, most of

that he loved his wife, but psychological tests revealed conflicts and

was some allergic factor about the

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (U. P).

gation will leave this month for

We, the Wome G.l. Wives Also Face Problems

- Of Adjustment

By RUTH MILLETT THE PRETTY young beauty operator talked as she worked: “It's going to be hard to get used to having to stop and consider somebody else before I do anything. Jim's been overseas two years, and I've become used to coming and going as I please.” Wives of servicemen who have been

to a new way

justing the wife being responsible for helping her band work out his problems.

TAKE that beauty shop opera-

tor, for instance. She has worked ever since her husband has been overseas. And she likes working. But chances are that when her man comes home he is going to want her to devote her entire time to being a housewife. From’ being independent, she'll have to go back to being dependent. Jim may not like her new friends, either. Husbands often don’t. } aA While she has been lonely in

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