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MRS, JOHN AMT, 915 E. Southern ave, has & very rare magnolia in bloom in her backyard. She brought it from Alabama about 12 years ago but this is the first year that it blossomed out in frag-

rant, white blooms. Nurserymen say it’s unusual for §

one of the Southern magnolias to bloom this far north. Mrs, Amt’s tree is about 10 feet high and not quite a foot in width. ... A very attractive and handy calendar by. Edna Levey Anderson probably will. be available soon. It’s the 1946 edition of The Indiana Calendar and is the first of its kind in this part of the country. The book includes pages for appointments, picturesque scenes from Indiana state parks and other scenic places and a short write-up about each spot, besides the regular monthly calendar, One of the sc¢enes is Indianapolis’ Scottish Mrs. Anderson is the daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Marshall T. Levey, 4427 'N. Pennsylvania st. . . . Mrs, William Cowden, 1341 E. Minnesota st., was busy in her kitchen the other day when the wind started blowing the screen. The next thing she saw

middle of the room. He scampered back out the

War Is Over Now

.NOW THAT the war's over, women department store customers feel that it’s their time to rule the roost. Ome of the store's delivery men started to cut across the grass recently when delivering a pack~ age. The woman, waiting on the porch, called out, “I've been patient for three years now but the war's over. Young man, you just walk around by the walk.” The delivery man was about 45 but he obeyed. , .. The front ddor of Kahn Tailoring Co. at 800 N, Capitol ave. still has the old red-white-and-blue sign, “Defense Plant, Arsenal of Democracy.” , .. At Fox's restaurant, 19 S. Illinois st.,, a sign on the cigaret machine reads: “Yes, I'm full of plenty of smokes.” . +» Since gasoline rationing ended, naptha sales at the city’s filling stations have just about dwindled down to nothing. Although all customers had to sign that they were using the fluid for cleaning purposes,

filling station attendants say their sales have dropped from 55 to 100 per cent. One company has discontinued handling the product altogether, , ,

« No longer is it strange for the Officers’ Wives club to have men guests at its meetings. Husbands of club members are returning home fast, and there were four of them present at once at a recent club meeting, The organization, which grew up with world war II, plans to continue in peace time. It will probably be more of a family organization, though, and the men will be included, too.

Service With a Smile

TIMES’ WOMEN’S Page Editor Louise Fletcher received that old pre-war service-with-a-smile while

Free Press

BAD HOMBERG, Germany. ~Eight American and two “free German” newspapers in the American zone in Germany are avidly read by more than 5,000,000 readers, judging from readers’ letters and intelligence reports. The American information control division, com=manded by Brig. Gen, Robert A. McClure, with headquarters at ‘Bad Homberg and press rooms at Bad Nauheim, is educating the German public slowly towards a free press, and at the same time training German newspaper staffs. - Already, two newspapers —the Frankfurter Rundschau (Review) anf’ the Rheinacher Zeitung, at Heidelberg, have been licensed to operate under German editorial boards. Papers at Munich, Kassel, Stuttgart and Garmisch are expected to receive their licenses shortly, As German papers are licensed, American papers published by the information control's Capt. Hans Habe, will fold. : These American-produced German-language news

papers now appear bi-weekly in Munich, Augsburg,

Berlin, Regensberg, Bamberg, Kassel, Stuttgart and Bremen, News edited by a combined American and German newsroom goes out from Bad Nauheim over the “hell screiber” system, a far more efficient machine than the teleprinter, used by American news agencies, Its inventor i§ established in Bad Nauheim producing machines with which it is hoped, eventually, to es~ tablish a news chain «throughout Germany. News comes into Nauheim from the office of war information’s ne®s office at Luxemburg and from allied radio stations.

Difference of Emphasis on News

THE GENERAL character of news released in the

* Amierican atid British zones is alike, and co-operation

is not bad considering the poor liaison between the zones. Britain's German press chief is Seiton Delmar, former Berlin correspondent of the London Daily Express. There are differences of emphasis. The Americans have done little about the July 1944 generals’ rebellion, while the British have played it up, praising the rebels as German patriots. Readers often walk miles to deliver letters of comment and questions. An average of 1800 letters are received weekly, Prominent anti-Nazis have come forward with contributions,

Aviation

WHETHER OR not we fully recognize the sige nificance, we lived to see a major military nation surrender to American airpower. It was the American naval air arm, American marines, the American army air forces and the American army which brought Japan to her knees and surrender, Yet reports continue to circulate that the entry of the Rus- . sians into that war was a major * factor. Undoubtedly the Russian - entry did provide a powerful effect upon the Japanese people. Americans were not only intensely determined to win that war against Japan, but are just as determined to make certain that we win the peace. The game of power politics bears close analogy to poker. It's easier if you have the cards, but you don't need them to win if you play adroitly,

Kurile Island Bases

WE WON'T discuss Russia's future policy in Man-

_churia, Korea and in Northern China (where the

richest prizes in minerals and natural resources repose). On the basis of future military security, how-

My Day

HYDE PARK, Monday.—~This morning a man came around to inquire about Christmas trees, which makes me feel that summer is nearer its end than better begin to concentrate on

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Te Toemant Times .

Mrs. John - Amt « + « Magnolias like hers are rare in Indiana.

on her vacation in Chicago the other day. She bought a new blouse at Marshall Field's and was asked whether she wanted it put in a box or bag. Deciding on the box, ‘Louise explained that the blouse already was a bit wrinkled and would be even more mussed if put in a bag. She also added that she wouldn't have any place to press it. The genial clerk then replied, “Oh, I'll press it for you.” In just a few minutes she was back with the blouse, ready to wear. + + » Henry Butler, who joined The Times staff after his discharge from the army last June, was beaming as he never beamed before last week-end. Henry, a sergeant in army life, was covering the Hoosier State, Press association mustering out conference at Camp Atterbury when the shock of his life came. Brig. Gen, Ernest Bixby, the camp's commanding officer, called him “sir,” , , . Last week we mentioned that Sept. 10 probably was the first day letters from Tokyo Bay arrived in Ifdianapolis. They were postmarked Sept. 2. .But Mrs. Sidney Smock Jr. 1326 N. Key~ stone ave,, writes that she can top that, She received a letter from her husband, Radarman 3-c¢ Sidney O. Smock Jr, which was postmarked from Tokyo Bay Aug. 31. Radarman Smock wrote that his ship, the U. 8. 8. Southerland, was the first United Spates warship to enter the bay, There was some controversy as to which ship actually came in first, he said, but he was there and knows his ship took No. 1 entry spot. The letter was written Aug. 30.

By Helen Kirkpatrick

Former Harvard Prof. Frederich Meinecke, wellknown ‘historian, who has not written a word in 12 years, now pens learned manuscrips in. his 82-year-old hand. Information control's German press nets $100,000 a month, but it admits that its licensed papers are not outstanding by journalistic standards. The tendency is to grant a license to men whose records are good, but who lack newspaper - experience. This tendency will become more marked as pressure from Washington to give the Germans greater freedom increases. - American-edited papers will probably cease to exist in several months, giving way to German papers over which the information division will exercise only post-publication check. It is highly questionable whether Germans anywhere are nearly ready for this strong dose of democracy. Suspicion that the papers were merely American propaganda substituted for that of Joseph Goebbels has now given way to confidence in them. But the German. mind is not only confused by this unaccustomed liberty; it is woefully ignorant. There has been a marked trend in writing and in letters towards self-accusation, particularly during the period when the truth about concentration camps was brought home to the Germans,

Old History News to Germans

COMPLETE lack of factual knowledge is staggering and requires constant background articles, The Germans never heard of the Jap attack on Pearl

Harbor. They thought that the Ethiopians attacked Italy; that the Munich pact approved the total annexation of Czechoslovakia. Editorials and interpretive articles now fill a quarter of the newspapers and a column entitled “concealed so far” is bringing them slowly up to date on 13 years of history. Too great haste in giving the Germans press freedom will defeat our main objective. Political parties will clamor to.have their own papers and to have skilled newsmen for the jobs, but these. men are Goebbels-trained. American-edited newspapers and magazines are giving the Germans a good democratic diet. To hand over immediately to the Germans would be to promote people from kindergarten to college, who are not ready, N :

By Maj. Al Williams

ever; we are entitled to discuss the occupation of the Kurile islands by Russian forces. Against this seizure of the Kuriles by the Russians, we find our own house naval affairs committee insisting that American bases on the Kuriles are essential to protect the right flank of the long line of island defenses we are completing and planning to hold in the Pacific. Obviously, the house naval affairs committee's opinion is a reflection of mature naval opinion: The Bering Strait is the airpower gateway‘ between the Asiatic and the North American continents, Russian appreciation for this point is recognized in the establishment of a powerful Russia base at Petropaviovsk on the Kamchatkan peninsula.

island stepping stones to Japan proper, and thence to

Have Learned Value

THE AMERICAN people know the value of such island stepping-stones from their experiences in the Jap war, We've got our Pacific bastion extending from Japan southward sewed up good and tight, But with the Kuriles in the hands of the Russians, our right flank is wide open, Hence, =if the Russians are permitted to hold the Kuriles, we will have won ‘the war and lost the right flank of American. Pacific defenses.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Perhaps, however, celebrations are the very things which one should attempt to carry on, because they serve the purpose which was the theme of Maeterlinck’s' “Blue Bird.” In that story, people went to sleep quite happily in the land of departed spirits and woke to real enjoyment only when those on earth remembered them, ie + I think it can be réal enjoyment only if those on earth think happily about them. Some persons seem to think that, when people die, it is more respectful and shows more feeling if their names are mentioned only occasionally; and then with solemnity. I believe, quite to the contrary, that-one should try to talk and to think of such people just as though they were still here and entered into our daily lives— and not as being in the past. :

Mead, junior senator from our state of New York, who came up from Washington. Also Paul Fitzpatrick, our. Democratic state chairman, as well as

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" SECOND SECTION

1. Professor Enrico Fermi, a Nobel prize winner, left Fascist Italy to work at Columbia university. At Columbia, his discovery that slow neutrons are more effec« tive in splitting atoms than fast neutrons proved an important step toward making the atomic bomb a reality,’ At a Berlin laboratory, Drs. Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn, F. Strassmann and O. Frisch, repeated Fermi’s experiment and opened a direct route that led to the unleashing of the atom's enormous energy storehouse, Heedless of the value of non-Aryan

By VICTOR PETERSON

Times Staff Writer AFAYETTE, Sept. 18.— There's one for every

home , ., in fact one for every person in Indianapolis. That is the rat population of the Hoosier capital as estimated by Galen C. Oderkirk, district agent for the U. S. fish and wildlife service, stationed at Purdue uni-

versity. A modern Pied Piper, he is leading a crusade against the long-tailed rodents in the middle west. Already this year he has inaugurated programs in St. Louis, Detroit, Milwaukee, Lansing, Mich,, and Evansville, 42 » » » “IT IS NOT just the danger of disease,” Mr. Oderkirk said, “but the terrific loss financiaily that a community suffers which makes the program valuable, “Everyone knows that rats are carriers of many diseases. Fortu~ nately disease in this area has not been widespread but there is no telling when it might come rapidly. There definitely is an increase on the way. iy e financial toll’ which rats exact over the nation every year is almost beyond calculation. Daily they gnaw electric wires creating possible fires, chew on matches, eat into buildings, undermine others with tunnels, eat through water | pipes flooding basements and con-| sume some 8905 tons of food. { “It is not hard to see what they| can do in a year’s time,” he said.| » » rr DISEASES which rats carry and)

can transmit, directly or indirectly,

to man are typhus fever, Weil's! disease, which resembles yellow jaundice, rat-bite fever, tularemia,! rabies and trichinosis. Of these, | Mr. Oderkirk said that Weil's dis | ease is growing in the Midwest. | Ready, willing and able to help!

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D. EPIDEMIC typhus fever becomes a problem during periods: of prolonged siege, when people are driven from their homes, and when they are concentrated in camps. , Control of typhus in world war II is one of the outstanding sanitary achievements of all time, + according to public. health officials, Infected lice, which contract the disease from biting the sick, spréad typhus, The bite of a single infected louse can cause typhus in a susceptible person. Onset is unusually sudden, with headache, chills, fever and generalized pains.

» ” »” THE SKIN breaks out on the fifth to the seventh day with round or oval, flat, red spots, which some~ times turn to hemorrhages, Toxic symptoms in the brain, and res piratory complications are ‘common. Typhus has caused the death of more physicians, nurses, hospital attendants, and health officials than any other contagious disease. From 10 to 40 per cent of the vic-

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epidemics, When recovery oceurs, fever disappears in about two weeks, but convalescence is prolonged. : No.8 8 CAUSE of typhus 1s a special named after Howard T, the American pathologist who dis covered them and who gave his life

investigating dangerous epidemic diseases

To control typhus, it is necessary.

ry|to develop individual resistance| :

times of typhus have died in past|

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1045

THE STORY OF THE ATOM

scientists in future defense of Germany, the Nazis exiled Dr, Meitner and’ Dr, Frisch.

2. Concerned more with the importance of her work at the Berlin laboratory than expulsion from her homeland where she had made many valuable contributions to science; Dr. Meitner set about to calculate the full significance of the German scientists’ work. Where previous scientists had failed to do mote than knock small chips off the heart of the atom, they had split uranium almost in half, The products were barium,

Galen

a community fight the menace, he has evolved a short and a longterm plan for the battle. The short one merely attempts to bring the situation under control. The long one is aimed to keep it under control. “It is impossible to say that even with the long-term plan a city can eliminate every rat for good, but we can keep the matter in hand

{s0- that it no longer is a health or

economic problem,” Mr, Oderkirk said, ” » » HIS over-all proposal calls for-the creation of a rat control commit tee, ugually composed of members of “the health and works boards,

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Vaccinate Against Fever

Typhus: A Menace Eased

pared by growing the rickettsias in delouse the population, as time does the yolk sac of the developing chick {not permit wholesale immunization.

embryo. The vaccine is rendered harmless by treatment with formalin and three doses are given,

» ” " CONSIDERABLE protection is de-

veloped in this way, but more vac-|with outbreaks of this disease.

cine must be given on exposure. The

majority of vaccinated persons do|the military in their campaigns denot contract typhus, but.if they do,|stroying lice and cleaning infected

they develop it in mild form and fatalities are unknown. Most effective means of controlling typhus wnen it breaks out

{ among non-vaccinated persons is to

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY “PHYSICS BUILDING

the common metal in barium sulphate which patients swallow when doctors X-ray stomachs, and krypton, a rare gas used in neon» type lights. She calculated that energy could be released by this means on the order of 200,000,000 electron volts; or 5,000,000 times greater than the burning of coal. American scientists set at work at once to repeat the work which had been done originally in Germany. A great T5-ton cyclotron was available at Columbia where Dr, Fermi was working with Dr, George B, Pegram and ‘other

PIED PIPER OF PURDUE LEADING A NEW CRUSADE—

He Will Rid Your of Rats

C. Oderkirk . . . the Pied Piper of Purdue,

police and fire departments and representatives from schools, civic organizations and the chamber of commerce, This body clears the way for action whith is summed up in a city ordinance giving town officials power to proceed. It includes the right of inspection and prosecution for violation. The ordinance also provides for uniform sized garbage cans with absolutely tight lids, a campaign to clean up—and keep cleaned up-—all rubbish, and periodic inspection of buildings with recommendations for elimination of rat breeding and dwelling areas.

» » on NATURALLY the first step in the

campaign is to eliminate as many

n ” ” IP IS reported that DDT should be given major credit for stopping the spread of typhus in Europe, as it was used in all areas threatened

The delousing squads moved with

{quarters and camps as they went [along. | | It may be that typhus will never! | again be a serious threat if similar

{methods are employed in the future,

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.;|awaiting shipment; 253d regiment «|salled yesterday from LeHavre,

‘Moving into LeHavre staging area,

More U. S. Units Head Homeward Across Atlantic

redeployment timetable of

army divisions.

17th Airborne and 45th Infantry Arrived in United States yesterday,

6th and 14th Armored-—On high seas, -

63d Infantry — 254th and 255th regiments in United Kingdom

U.8.

Sth Armored and 106th Infantry— Awaiting shipment in LeHavre staging area.

7th Armored and 70th Infantry— 10th Arimored—In assembly area

th Armored—Moving into Marseille staging area. . 99th Infantry-—Now shipping from Marseille; 303d regiment and other

PARIS, Sept. 18 (U.P) —Today's |

clements sailed Sept. 13; last eles | ments scheduled: to clear port

American scientists. The studies at Columbia revealed that when a uranium atom split in two, the amounts of energy suggested by Dr. Meitner actually were released. But the problem was a very coms plicated one and a number of questions needed to be answered,

3. By all calculations, the scientists believed, atomic fission should start a chain of reactions that would blow up uranium in a terrific explosion, Rut this did not happen. The results were anything but spectacular, Then Dr, Neils Bohr in Copenhagen and

of the pests as possible by killing with bait and traps. Mr, Oderkirk estimated that for Indianapolis a campaign could be initiated for $40,000 the first year. This should bring the situation into fair control in two years. Thereafter the expénditure would run approximately $20,000 a year. A staff of five to 10 inspectors with a supervisor would be necessary. And so with a plan rather than a horn, the Pied Piper tries to lead the rats to destruction, He has good reason to try. The fotal yearly economic loss runs to $189 million dollars. Ignoring the death raté, the offspring of one pair of rats could exceed 350 million in three years.

INFANT WITH HEART ON WRONG SIDE DIES

PROVIDENCE, R. I., Sept, 18 (U. P,) ~A boy born Sunday in Waterbury, Conn, with an upside-down stomach and his heart on the wrong side died here last night en route

to the Lahey Clinic at Boston. The father, Eugene Migliaro, an honorably discharged marine, was taking the baby to Boston in an automobile with two nurses and

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Dr. J. A. Wheeler at Princeton offered an explanation, They sald a chain reaction might occur if the scientists used pure U-235, the form of uranium that Dr, Dempster at Chicago University had reported upon.. Ordinarily uranium contains U-234, a form of the metal 234 times heavier than hydrogen; U-238, which is 238 times heavier than hydrogen, and U-235, U-235 acts gs a fuse to light the fire, but the fire is quenched by U-238 and U-234.

Tomorrow — Hunting for the rare U-235, ote

We, the Women Present Day's Young Couples Self-Centered |

By RUTH MILLETT

“ELDERLY Couple Evicted Onte Sidewalk by Son” says a headline in a New York newspaper, Does that shock you? Well, it shouldn't. It is jus’ carrying to a logical conclusio: the modern ¥ idea that young married folks don’t owe their parents any=-. thing and shouldn't have their lives cluttered up by having the old folks under foot. Time was when children a felt & deep sense of responsibilit for seeing their parents throug their older years—if they were i need of help. - » ” ” § THE parents looked’ after ther. when they were young, and # used to be taken for granted the when the parents were old th children would repay them, i there were any need for it.

But that isn’t the new idea. Th new ides is that young folks “ow "” more than they ow their parents. That they have : right to live their lives complete ly unencumbered by the demand of aging parents.

They are constantly warne’ against taking parents to live wit. them, for fear it will break u; their marriages. But different generations liver together under one roof in thi old days and “Granny” ant “Grandpa” were real parts of th: family, often giving their grand children a valuable 'associatio they wouldn't otherwise have had and helping the young couph through the hard years wher there was more work than the: could easily handle. » ” s WHAT would have become of some-of those old-fashioned fam. ilies of eight and 12 if Grand: ma hadn't been around to take care of Sick children, make clothes, mend, cook, etc?

But we are smarter than thal today. We think we don’t ows the generation behind us anything. Se we shouldn’t be shocked to read that a son has put his own mother and father out on the sidewalk.

That is to all practical purposes what a lot of young folks today have done with the old folks——

two relatives when oxygen apparatus in the car apparently failed.

leaving them to charity or to get along as best they can,

‘WILLIE and JOE—By Mauldin