Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1945 — Page 17

‘Inside Indianapolis

“STRANGE REQUESTS are getting to be right upbers and U.S. congressmen of the G. O. P. were

obbs- Merrill's #lley. Every day’ the local publishing fompany’s order department has to stop a minute to figure out just what its customers want, One com- * pany ordered several copies of the book, “Is There A Lady?” and another wanted s"Bottle Below." QOome to find out the books they really wanted were “Tnere Was A Lady” and “Battle Below.” Another - request gcame In, for a copy of “Virgin in Carpet Slippers.” Barbara West quipped: “We don't have Virgin in Carpet Slippers’ but we , can supply you with ‘Diplomat with Butterflies’ ” « . « Incidentally, _Bobbs = Merrill

there. They had ‘just finished eating a sumptuous | meal of a juicy T-bone steak (about an inch and a| half thick, we're told) and mushrooms. All the trim- | mings were on the menu, too. And then came the speeches. Congressman George W. Gillie of the 4th district “couldn't have had time to digest the dinner when he said it was a lot of hooey that there would be plenty of beef in Indianpolis soon, He added that there wouldn't be good steak on the market for a long time. Congressman Forrest Harness of the 5th district was on tke other side of the fence; though. He said that no where had he tasted such good steak as he had in Indiana since he had been home from Washington And while the congressmen argued about the meat situation, about 50 others at the dinner were still smacking their lips and remenibering that big, juicy steak they'd just cleaned up. ...Joe DeYoung of the state forest fire prevention bureau waited two hours for Rudolph Grabow to show up for an appointment. But his wait was in vain, Forestry Service Supervisor Grabow was waiting too, just one block away. One was on the Circle and the other on N. Illinois st. They're still arguing as to who was at the right spot. Post-War Recovery THE CIRCLE Monument is just recovering

from the beating it took from V-J day celebrants. | They turned the fountains back on Tuesday after |

"The Indianapolis

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By VICTOR PETERSON Times Staff Writer

Miami COUNTY FAIR, Converse, Aug. 23.— In modern language there are two kinds of tomatoes. One is a fruit—defined by Webster as having a large rounded or oblate (whatever that is) pulpy berry which is red or yellow when ripe. Other characteristics are pinnate leaves and yellow. flowers. They can be served raw or cooked. n ” y

THE OTHER is defined by any

THURSDAY, AUGUST ‘JUDGES DECIDE CREAM OF THE CROP—

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U. S. May Soon | Withdraw From

Seized Firms

By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. —What should be done” with the 287 private businesses. which were seized by the government during the war because of labor-man-agement troubles?

One report is that President Truman probably will withdraw fed-

wade histor ot : : nade ’y hn giving the pools a good cleaning.

long ago when it published 2 books by the same au‘thor on the same day. They were Bob Casey's “This Is Where I Came In” and “Battle Below.” President David Laurance Chambers said the two books are having a race as far as sales are concerned. Right now they're running about neck and neck. Mr. Chambers convinced us, however, that they're both good. +... The Claypool hotel drugstore is making enemies fast. At least, that's the way we hear it from the city's red-nosed sniffling hay fever sufferers. One of the drugstore’s windows on Washington st. is full of hay. Buried in the hay are bottles of hay fever cure. But red-eyed passersby say just one look at the window makes you “want to go in and kill that window decorator.”

Steak Befuddlement

BEFUDDLEMENT prevailed Tuesday night at the Republican political parley, State committee mem=

David Laurance Chambers... his company’s having name trouble,

Midnight Serenade

NATAL, Brazil.—The great silver four-engine C-54 dropped out of the Brazilian midnight after a nonstop flight from Dakar, Africa, It wheeled at the end of the runway, Then it came purring back on two engines and sank into a hole in the lineup afront the operations building like a giant mother whale among her baby C-47's. The propellers stopped, steps were wheeled to the plane door, and when the door opened the first man in was a Brazilian health department guy with a giant flit gun that he turned loose pronto. No European or African bugs are getting into Brazil! Close behind the flit gun was a tiny G. I. who said, “Lissen, you guys; you all gotta have your temperatures taken before you get off. If they's something too wrong with you you'll be taken off the alert list, going home, but you gotta be damn near dead before you can make this hospital.” He went briskly along sticking thermometers in the mouths of figurés dim amid the anti-bug spray. A few minutes later he had collected them and said, “Now if the flit ain't killed anybody, follow me.”

Too Many Points to Count THEY WERE American veterans, 40 men from fighting outfits; 5th army outfits, 3d division, 88th division, tank units, anti-tank battalions. : Tough, tired veterans who recently left their outfits with so many points they hardly can count ‘em. They are ‘the guys who've fought through snow, mud, heat, rain and all the steel the Krauts could turn loose—men coming home on the “Green Project” of the air transport command. As they filed off the ship they passed other soldiers going out to the C-47's sitting in a long line in semidarkness, men who also came in from Casablanca a dav or two earlier, got a. good night's sleep, warm food and clean underwear. In 27 hours they'd be in Miami, It's a long haul! from Casablanca and a break here is welcome. Then too, here's one last chance to buy some gift for the folks at home,

Aviation

NOW WE can tell many things about radar that we couldn't mention earlier, though the general situation wag outlined in this column some time ago. Leading up to the Battle of Britain, the R. A. F. was mighty short of planes and pilots. What the R. A. F. had had to be used to Li best advantage and could not be strung out all over the sky. In other words, the key to the situation for the R. A. F. was in the detection of the target toward which the Nazis were flying. Radar supplied the answer. Long before the Luftwaffe. had erossed the channel, the R. A. F. was informed as to the. position, § altitude and course of the ongoming air raiders. No one yet knows why the Nazis didn’t destroy the British radar stations, even though they suspected what they were doing. And yet the Luftwaffe consistently ignored the great radar masts which were telling the R. A. F. where the next strike was aimed. Just another one of the glaring mistakes made in the use of airpower by all combatants, and with which the records of this war are loaded.

Jicked Submarine Menace IT WAS radar detection which enabled allied aireraft to lick the Nazi submarine menace. It was ground radar which located enemy aircraft in the darkest sky, or in fog. and which brought patrolling pircraft up to within gun range of the target enemy plane,

NEW YORK, Wednesday.—I would like to report to you today on two books which I have recently fead. One of them, “Zelda Popkin's “A Journey Home," should be read, I think, by both servicemen and civilians. It is a good picture of the. tension within a man when he first returns after long service abroad. t shows the unreasonableness of both civilians and returned servcemen, The final discovery in the course of a train wreck—that it s our joint participation in living’ which makes us one again, whether we have understood what he boys have gone through in le war or not—gives point to the Wiole book. > The following paragraph in particular is one that neither servicemen nor civilians can afford to forget in thesé months after the war: “That was the torment. Not fear of death. Not ilt of killing. But that he hadn't crossed over, out pf himself into life. Now, in the chaos of a wrecked passenger train; He had come unexpectedly, stumbled, hrough three little words, on his answer: is,” Suffering was life. Struggle was life. Jestrucjon was life. Even death was. You're alive. You're it. , You take what it gives. You db the best that Jou can.” . noi 1 like the end of the book because it leaves you th hope, the hope that tenderness and lave will

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am, Clarence Brooks and S. L. Ping have been working for more than a week on the job. They're still picking up confetti from the lawns. ... Manual high school is ready and waiting for its pupils to come back. All the corridors have been painted light cream and the floors waxed. They figure it may be about two years yet before the new school will be built for the South side. So they're making the old place a little brighter until moving time comes. ... There'll be some old familiar faces back behind the desks this fall at a lot of the schools.” So far, eight teachers have come back from the army or navy. J. Raymond Hall, now an ex-navy man, will be back. at Broad Ripple. W. Finley Wright, an army captain, will take his place in Manual's English department. George DeCoursey and LaVerne Newsome are comin’ back to Crispus Attucks, and Walter Reagan will be in his mathematics post at Tech again... . Robert C. Shoemaker, Sarah Smith and Price Larson are out of uniform but they'ré going to take a year’s leave of absence before going back to the school grind again,

By Jack Bell

In Europe, where they've been, there are no stores, no souvenirs, no nuthin’ but hunger. They're not permitted to enter Natal because the Brazilian government has a strict regulation that any person entering the country must have yellow fever shots. They've lifted that restriction only on Green Project men, on condition they do not leave the army base, So the army has brought stores to the base, at prices lower than the men would find in town. And this Natal post exchange is something unbelievable.

Mosquito Boots Popular ONE BIG item is Brazilian mosquito boots. Eleven jobbers are busy making these boots and the PX sells about 1800 pairs weekly. Silk hose sell as fast as they can be put on the shelves, A few days ago 36,000 pairs came in one shipment. They lasted four hours. This morning 200 dozen pairs came in and were sold 20 minutes later. Alligator bags priced from $15 to $35 sell 150 a day, with huge sales of belts, wallets and smaller gadgets. Thousands of filligree pins and earrings sell weekly. PX workers say five out of every six soldiers buy some jewelry. : Brazilian cigars sell at the rate of a quarter million monthly. 3 Watches, mostly Swiss coming via Rio de Janiero, range from $25 to $200 and the books show a daily business of about $8500. Beer goes 250 cases a day, cola 350 cases, a local chocolate drink 130 cases—and at least one hamburger for each drink. > Capt. Harry Helioff, Philadelphia, post exchange officer, has agents working up and down the coast buying for the store. The army charges about 7 per cent above its cost, just enough to break even on the deal. The captain has 130 Brazilians doing various jobs: Clerks, tailors, shoe repair, shoe shine, janitors. It's a tremendous job. Since May 20 the transient mess has served 190,845 meals and given beds to 75,965. These are but Natal base figures. He has been held up in Europe—yes; but once in Casablanca he's been flyin'—and leaves here the same way.

| whistles, the first short, the second [drawn out, appreciatively. This vairiety is served alive and while not edible looks good enough to eat. They are human. Unlike the fruit, there are no federal grades of one, two and cull. So last night after the fair-goers had looked ‘over the fruit tomato exhibit, peeled a few, graded others, two “tomatoes” were crowned state tomato co-queens for the first time in Hoosier history. » ” AND WHAT luscious specimens of the genus they are. At the final harvesting time there were only two contestants left to| pick from. In fact, the yield was | small this year. There were only! two contestants ., period. Deserving of becoming co-queens were 16-year-old Miss Helen Peterson of Hartford City and 18-year-old ‘Mrs, Beverly Hodson of Converse.

= » » MRS. HODSON knows something about tomatoes, too. She is employed by the G. S. Suppiger Co. canners. Miss Peterson admits the closest she ever got to a tomato was in a {lettuce and tomato sandwich. { Anyway the innovation of co{queens didn't bother Lt. Gov. Richard T. James who bestowed the crown. He had the girls put their heads together and balance the crown between them.

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BECAUSE of poor spring plant-

Janitors Alva Hick-|red-blooded American man with two

Graders look, over some of the tomatoes entered in the Miami county fair contest. Inspecting are Noble Ross, Eaton, third place; J. E. Dickerson, federal state supervising inspector, Indian-

left to right:

apolis, and John A, Cole, Eaton Canning Co., first place.

ing conditions the number of exhibits was very small this veat Most of the tomato crop still is in the field and farmers are hoping for a late fall. Among the hampers entered, however, a father and son walked off with first and second places respectively. Winners were Earnest Miller and son, Albert, from Kokomo, with third place going to Albert Dickey of Eaton. u rd GRADING winners were John A. Cole, Eaton Canning Co., Eaton, first; R. E. Faulkinbury, Jamestown, second, and Noble Ross, third.

Eaton,

A trio of sisters went home with : first, second and third place honors §

in the peeling contest.

Mrs. Vivian Miller, Mrs.

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United Press Staff Correspondent

WITH 38TH DIVISION ON LU-! |ZON, Aug. 23.—An American major

[talked fast at a sandbag conference

lin the Sierra Madre mountains.

And two Japanese commanders | agreed to surrender thousands of | their men on Aug. 28, it was disclosed today. = Maj. Richard F. Jeffers of Terre Haute, Ind., and Japanese Lt. Col. Shizume Sushimi got together on the edge of a sandbagged fox hole {yesterday and after a short talk Sushimi agreed to surrender, if he can get approval from. Tokyo. Sushimi spoke for Lt. Gen. Shizom Yokoyama, commander of Japanese forces on southern Luzon, dnd Lt. Gen. Takashi Kobayashi, former Japanese commander in the

By RICHARD G. HARRIS |

By Major Al Williams

| mal surrender ceremony next Tues-

At this point it was the radar screen in the night fighter which took over the job. In the robomb stage of the war it was discovered that there was no difference between the accuracy of radar directed anti-aircraft guns and visually pointed gunfire. As soon as the Nazis suspected that their subs were being located by radar, they pulled the wiley trick of fitting their subs with receivers to warn the sub crews that an enemy radar equipped aireraft or destrover was hunting them. For a while this receiver warning enabled the Nazi subs to submerge in time. >

Allies Had Counter Measures

THE ALLIES immediately countered with a microwave radar, which the Nazi sub receivers couldn't pick up. And thus the radar struggle continued. Switching of radar devices explains the fluctuating losses of our shipping. ’ Just before the end.of the war the Nazi navy pulled another trick. They had just about decided that if a sub expected to exist, it would have to run submerged, That's a pretty tough specification, because subs are‘ propelled by Diesel engines. And Diesels must be permitted to expel their exhaust

gases into the open air.

80 the Nazi fitted their subs with long exhaust pipes which, protruding above the surface of the sea, permitted the sub and its engine to run merrily down below, But we had a Sunday punch for that, too. This “voodoo” engineering known as radar, which enables-a man to shoot you without seeing you, just about curled the hair of this war.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

bridge the gap and find the answers to the problems which will give many of us sleepless nights in the next few months. The other book is a novel by Martha Dodd, called “Sowing the Wind.” : As the daughter of President Dodd of Princeton university, who was our ambassador in Berlin in the days just before the war, she had a good opportunity to observe the people about whom she writes, 1 kept thinking of another book which I read not long ago, called “The Arrow and the Cross,” which is a stronger book than “Sowing the Wind.* They deal with different types of German people, but “The Arrow and the Cross” leaves you with some hope in the future, horrible as it is. “Sowing the Wind" depicts in its main character a man of charm, ability and grace who belonged to the freest fraternity in the world--the .fraternity of airmen. Then you see what the doctrines of naziism can do to this type of human being. “But what you really watch is how a man degrades himself in body and soul. Only a man himself can accomplish the horrible end which came to Eric Landt—no external things such as ideologies, pressures, friendship or hates can do it. . The book holds your interest, for its characters

are alive and vivid. But it left me with a sense of

emptiness and hopelessness. There is little to hope for, evidently, from the group of educated

many. If there is to b must come apparently from. the plain people, ses i git an 1 Pa = . 4 .

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charming, sophisticated, one-time men of the ‘world in" Gerbe regeneration in Germany, it |

Manila area. They agreed tentatively to a for-

day. : Japs Luncheon Guests

| The Americans were guided to |the conference point, approximately 20 miles east of Manila, by a Japa- | nese flag tied to a tall bamboo pole. | An American artillery flag was |placed beside the Japanese banner, land the three-hour conference |started. In the middle of the meet-

Maj. Jeffers, Terre Haute, Sells Japs on Surrender

ing Jeffers called time out for lunch. [He and his fellow officers served the |

CAR IN COLLISION, | THEN HITS SIGNAL

| William Bates, 40, Bald Knob, | Ark. today was slated by police on (charges of reckless driving: and dis|regarding a traffic signal after his car was in collision with another {car and went on to knock over an |automatic traffic signal at Warman ave. and W. Washington st. | The other car was driven by Mrs. {Iréne Robinson, route 20, box 555, | Maywood. With her were her two | children, Dennis, 3, and Larry Lee, 9, both of whom were slightly in- | jured.

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Japanese with “C” rations which had been dropped from a low-flying Piper cub.

During the retuln trip about 40 scattered Japanese walked up to the American group ‘and surrendered. The conference was arranged several days ago by 1st Lt. B. M. Wachtel- of Wellington, Kas., artillery liaison pilot, and 1st Lt. Clarence E. Rubb of Vivian, La. an artillery officer. Interested in A-Bomb They made contact with a Japanese captain who said that he was unable to surrender but that he| would consult his superior officers and meet them again. |

Sushimi and the captain came to! yesterday's meeting as scheduled and Sushimi told Jeffers that he, could not surrender immediately be- | cause he needed official orders from | Tokyo but he promised that the entire group would quit fighting by Aug. 28 or he would commit hara-| Kiri. : Sushimi was very interested in the atomic bombings and asked: “Where's Admiral Nimitz?”

For the first time in Hoosier history, judges at the Miami county fair decided on state tomato eco-queens.

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Lt. Gov. Richard T. James

crowns Mrs. Beverly Hodson, Converse (left), and Miss Helen Peterson,

| Hartford City.

—— rrs——

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Death Is Final—Even If Accidental |

The Peril of Sleeping Pills

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D. | ALL OF the sleeping pill fatali- emetics are not etfective

cidal or accidental overdoses are

to public health authorities. |

Laws regulating thegsale of these drugs are found on most of the statute books, but illicit traffic has grown. It would be ideal | if these drugs were never placed in the hands of the patient, but were always administered someane Barbiturates habit-forming Dr. O'Brien gjeeping pills) are sold under many trade names,| but most of them are some form of | the barbiturates (barbitals). : They depress the brain and spinal cord and produce an effect which varies from calmness, to deep sleep, to unconsciousness. The action depends not only on the drug used but also on the way in which it is given. w

MOST barbiturate sleep occurs] in 20 to 60 minutes after taking] the drug, and it is said to be dreamless and refreshing. Some of the longer-acting drugs cause a hangover on awakening. | Barbiturates cannot produce sleep if the patient is in pain unless they are combined with some other drug. Those .who yse these drugs to in-

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delirium or take ‘an overdose. . ” " SLEEP induced by barbiturates can be deep enough to perform certain operations. It is given by vein for this purpose. ; ’ The patient falls’ asleep suddenly.

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ILLIE and JOE—By Mauldin

“Don’t get so hufly--you lked in YOUR sleep, too tie » i ul

eral control from all the enterprises and trust to peacetime methods of settling labor controversies. This report followed a conference of Willam H. Davis, director of economic stabilization, with officials of the war and navy departments, office of defense transportation and the interior department. = 2 u FOLLOWING the meeting, =a committee was named to draft a recommendation to the Preasident that federal control of the seized properties be lifted, The President's suggested action would be takén under the war labor disputes act which will expire six months after the formal end of the war.

Authority for seizure of private property is granted under a provision that the property must be returned to private control in not more than 60 days after “restoration of productive efficiency.” * One seized property is the Toledo, Peoria & Western railroad, - with headquarters at Peoria, Ill It was seized on March 21, 1942, because the company would not accept. arbitration of disputes with employees, as ordered by the war labor beard. 8 u » THE RAILROAD — complete with tracks and locomotives — is still under government supervision through the ODT. This federal agency also is officially in charge of 77 Midwest trucking companies that claimed they were not able to pay a 7-cent-an-hour increase ordered by the war labor board.

The navy is in charge of 100 machine shops in San Francisco, and of a runner and :ngineering plant. : The army is technically running about two dozen enterprises, including stores and other facilities of Montgomery Ward & Co., of Chicago. The interior department is the official boss of five companies in oil and related fields, and also of six bituminous coal mines in Kentucky and West Virginia. The seizures began in 1941 when the North American Aviation plant in Los Angeles was taken over.

We, the Women All's Rosy Now In the Service Wife's World

By RUTH MILLETT WHERE is that war wife who only the other day was worrying about her own family probléms of post-war readjustment? Who grew blue and despondent just thinking about thé job- ahead of her when her : ; man would come home

" and once more

would have to get acquainted with his wife and children again, to assume the responsibility for getting a Job and settling down? That woman who was getting so much conflicting advice on how to treat her returned serviceman, she wondered if she would ever be equal to the task? ” n » THE GIRL who was wondering if she would ever have the wisdom, the understanding. the patience. the tact to make a go of things when her man came back to her? Where is that harassed lonely creature? No wonder you can’t find The weight of uncertainty advice has slipped from shoulders. There is a spring to her step and her head is up in the clouds. She isn't “a poor little thing" any more. She doesn't need sympathy and advice, ” ” r SHE IS a sure creature, who doesn’t figure there is any probjem ‘in the world that can lick her now. Don't worry about her any more. She doesn’t need anyone to hold her hand.

There Is just one thing on her mind, now: When is Joe coming home? How many days, how many weeks, how many months? And how is she going to manage her points so as to have the pantry and ice box well stocked for his return? There may be tough problems ahead of her—and later she may want some advice—but not now, Not on anything more serious than, say, is her mew permanent ° really becoming. : That “poor little war wife” is thé happiest woman in the world.

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