Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 September 1945 — Page 17

= TT LOOKS like Indianapolis housewives are sold | On the “square squat” That's the new squared-off milk bottle which a few of the local dairies have been | using in the last féw weeks. L. J. Tamblyn, manager | of Capitol dairies, tells us they've had about a hundred | letters from their | customers on the . new containers —

and not one comng plaint about them Ne— either. We're told that you can put eight quart square ng bottles on a re-

frigerator shelf now in the same § space that five round ones took. Dairies say the square squats ; save 45 per cent of their refrigerator space at the firm and 35 to 38 per cent. of the space in the milk trucks. The square bottle milk cases are six inches shorter. The milk bottle is a little shorter, too, and it has a 48-mm. neckline instead of a 56 mm. , .

Mrs. Loretta Kenney . . . she

Mrs. Robert A. makes hundreds of friends by Loewer, 4424 telephone. Wentworth, says ¢

thie bottles especially help a “growing family with a stationary refrigerator space. ... Columbus, O. was the first to use the square squats. But Indianapolis came in about third place. Besides Capitol, MedoSweet and Conway dairies are using the new bottles. Polk's is using the square cream top quart bottle and plans to change over to all squares as soon as all the round ones disappear. We hear that eventually they're either lost or broken, '

Cause for Pride BILL MYERS, Times’ photographer, was just placed on inactive status by the army and was on his way home on a W, Washington st. streetcar Tues-

V-2 Memoirs

THE HAGUE (Delayed).—Mary Mattison Van SBchaik, an American married to a Dutch army offieer, had an unwelcome ringside seat at the launching of the V-2’s on England: She described the sight of the speeding toward England as eerily beautiful, There was no noise at first, just a great flaming trail— then an ear-splitting crack. A considerable number fizzled out : and dropped back, killing the operatars who often were slave laborers. They damaged everything for miles around, she said,

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, fuchsia,

deadly weapons

adding that V-2's, contrary to popular belief, were launched from trucks.

“My English is practically a translation from Dutch after four ; years of not speaking it,” she said. Mrs. Van Schaik was graduated from Smith college in 1931. The couple and six children came through the occupation very well thanks to considerable land on which they grew their food and to stocks of tobacco Van Schaik concealed from the Germans,

Hid Tobacco From Germans... . . IN THE confusion following the rapid German victory in Holland, Van Schaik, a captain in the Dutch army, found his way home to Wassenaar, six miles outside The Hague. His Rotterdam factory was destroyed during the May of 1940 German air attacks. But millions of potinds of tobacco, stored elsewhere, escaped. The Germans seized 20,000,000 pounds, but other stores were not found. They served as a valuable means of barter during the four years. The Van Schaik’'s plowed up their riding ring in the back yard, planting corn, potatoes and other vegeiables. They acquired two cows and pigs, and already had chickens. The cows went “underground,”

r A ® t1 NI"W YORK.—More than 3000 war veterans will be fn airlines’ payrolls by the end of this month, And, according to the Air Transport Association of America, this number includes many who were not em"ployed by airlines prior to the war. About 850 additional skilled’ mechanics will be placed to maintain the 68 C-47's and five Lockheed Constellations which five airlines . have been allotted by army. If is predicted that, as airlines equip1.:ent increases, many more jobs for veterans will be available, 8t. Louis is doing something, about city airparks for landing light, personal planes close to the shopping district, Aviation experts, for months, have been arguing pro and con over the feasibility. of such airparks, A St. Louis airpark demonstration has been scheduled for 60 days, Oct. 1 to Nov. 30 inclusive, to prove that eity airparks are practical and necessary.

Plan ‘Shuttle’ Service

FOREST PARK, within a mile of the oldest estabMshed residential section of St. Louis and within easy walking district of two urban business districts, is the site. Aircraft producers in the personal plane field, manufacturers of hangars, wind-tees, radio apparatus, equipment. for maintaining an airport and facilities and services for private fliers, have

My Day

HYDE PARK.—1 hope a great many people read the story about the Ford plants in Germany, published in one of our newspapers the other day, with Its record of the actions permitted to these foreign

plants by the majority stockholders in this country. Although the story dealt only with . the Ford empire, there are many

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serve beer,

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Square Bottles

day. One of the woman passengers started staring at him and her face began to beam. “My, I bet you're proud of that,” she remarked. Bill, looking down at his new discharge button, assured her he was. But . then the woman said, “Tell me, where did you get it?” Her eyes hadn't even reached Bill's new discharge button, They® only got as far as the box of soap chips under his arm. . .. Bob Kyle, executive secretary for the Indiana Beer Distributors, thinks he’s discovered the only tavern in the state that doesn’t ‘He went into the Washington hotel the other day—his first time there in two years—and orThe bar there hasn't sold beer for two . The Kahn Tailoring Co, got busy yesterday and took its “Defense: Plant, Arsenal of Democracy” sign down, They say they've been so busy that this is the first chance they've had to do any more than think about taking it dowm,...W, E Henderson has more than his share of ups and downs. He's the elevator operator over in the Circle monument. In one day he makes about 350 trips up to the| top of the tower. That's not counting the 850 times he comes back down. It takes about 30 seconds to go up 200 feet, Mr. Henderson says the: elevator holds about six persons but he can squeeze in from eight to 10 if they're the right size.

Club Member By Telephone

MRS. LORETTA KENNEY, who has been confined to her home more than three years due to a spinal injury, is about to complete her second telephone membership campaign for the Wednesday Book Review club. She says talking is one of her most enjoyable pastimes and thinks her job just fits her to Mrs. Kenney calls club members from her home at 1508 N. New Jersey st. and records their orders for ticket booklets for the review season. She doesn’t attend the book reviews, however, and thus doesn't get get a chance to see in person the members she talked to over the telephone. After each review she calls Mrs. Mary Busard, the club's executive secretary, for full details on the program. She especially wants to know how everyone she knows by name looks, what they have on and above all, how all the hats look. . . . The club's first review is next Wednesday in Ayres’ auditorium. ... The annual report of the Indiana Historical bureau has just been published in an attractive booklet. It's one of the few pamphlets published by a state office but not printed with state funds. . . , Butler university has six coeds studying under the G.I. bill of rights. They are Virginia Goodpasture, Virginia Collins and Betty Hawkins, all exWAVES; Margaret Christie and Mrs. Clyde Huxley, former WACs, and Irene P. Brown, who was with the army nurse corps. Dr. C. R. Maxam, Butler's registrar, says the university has 50 per cent more

veterans enrolled this year than last.

By Helen Kirkpatrick

not known to the Germans, who would have taken them. The Nazis did take four of Van Schaik’s prime hunters, but left two which served as plow

horses and means

During the closing months of the war the Germans seized untold hundreds of bicycles, the most common means of support. when he pedaled toward The Hague is search of a

doctor for one of

of transport.

his children,

Last Winter the Toughest

LIFE LAST winter in Holland was the toughest of the occupation years, Mrs. Van Schaik said. Her household consisted of 16 people, after Van Schaik’s mother and sister had been bombed from their homes The Van Schaiks also cared for children whose parents had fled from the gestapo. school children in Wassenaar were supplied lunch thrice weekly when t

by dud V-27s,

In addition,

tion became apalling.

Three of the six Van Schaik children, born since

1940, do not speak English.

“It was too dangerous to speak English,” Mrs. “I didn't dare teach it to the children in fear they would speak it outside the

Van Schaik said.

house.”

Mrs. Van Schalk, daughter of the late Henry! “Mattison, a New York attorney and sister of Col. Graham Mattison, a member of Gen. James H. Doolittle's staff, married four years before the war. + “We were well off, compared to the majority of Dutch people, thanks to our garden and the fact that the younger children stepped into outgrown

clothes of the older ones,” she said.

ones.”

“Even wooden shoes are difficult to get now,”

she added.

“Shoes were the biggest problem for everyone, and until my sis ter sent some for Dirk, the oldest boy, he and his sister, Jacoba, had been sharing one pair of wooden

By Max B. Cook

been invited to show their products at no rental

cost.

Complimentary rides will be given airlines passengers between the airpark and Lambert-St. Louis airport throughout the sixty days in a free shuttle

service.

Plans are sponsored by the St. Louis-National

Aviation Trades Association committee.

Heretofore secret military developments in planes and devices are being rushed into detailed print now that the war is over, and hush-hush orders prevented manufacturers from receiving proper credit before

peace came,

With no military security involved, however, the “restricted” lid still is being enforced through ‘“re-

lease date” orders, Pilotless Target Plane

ONE LID now is lifted on ‘the well-known but hush-hush radio-controlled pilotless target plane used

effectively by army and navy.

tubing,

It was developed by the air technical service command at Wright field. Thousarids knew its details, but they could not be published until Sept. 14. They are high-winged monoplanes of welded steel through elevator and rudder only and powered with 8 horsepower, two-cylinder, and 22 horsepower en-

Van Schaik lost two

he food situa-

radio-controlled

gines, respectively, in two types, OQ-3 and 0Q-4.

Used as live targets, they trained thousands of

aerial gunners,

Another “secret” release will be dh Ryan's muchdiscussed hush-hush navy fighter on Sept. 26. It has| an entirely new type of fighter-plane power plant and

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will be shown on that date in Washington,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

the Nazis profited by the attitude of the stockholders

in this country.

In a case where a labor leader was primarily swayed by his own interests and not by the interests of the people as a whole—as, for intance, when Mr. John Lewis insisted on calling a coal mine strike during the war--we can easily see now that his action was detrimental to the public interest at that time, Today, with the war no longer on, there are no men fighting for their lives overseas and depending for safety on what is or is not produced at home. On the other hand, it is important that people

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not in the public interest, since lack of production this time inconveniences the people who need the

SECOND SECTION

e Indianapolis Times

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 194

THE STORY OF THE ATOM

(1) The possibility of an atomic bomb was put before President Roosevelt by Alexander Sachs of New York who carried a letter

from Prof. Albert Einstein. Panzers had rolled into France, The Luftwaffe was threatening Britain's existence, It was feared

America could not keep out of the war and was in line for invasion.

peror Hirohito before the end By this move, it is said,

war. Also, it will afford him a uation in which a “divine” ruler is taking orders from a

foreign general. Our informants emphasized that this expected action will be taken without pressure from Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Persons familiar with the inner workings of the imperial palace told us that Hirohito seriously considered abdicating on more than one occasion during the war. But he was persuaded not to by his military advisers.

o ” ” THE SUCCESSION to the throne would be complicated upon Hiro~ hito’s action. Crown Prince Akihito, now 12 years old, would not be eligible to become ruling monarch until he becomes 18. That would be five years from now ine asmuch as the crown prince’s present age by Japanese count is 13.

Court Judge Ralph Hamill,

Grove Lions club last night. “Army wives have generally been {more faithful than our cynics like to admit,” said the judge. “As a matter of fact, we've handled mahy more divorce cases against wives accused of stepping out on civilian husbands.” ” ” ” THE divorce rate here is still climbing, he lamented. During the war the nuniber of estrangement suits averaged better than 400 a month, the highest rate in history. Judge Hamill blamed crowded divorce dockets, as well as the crime wave, on widespread “war anxiety,”

'Dry' Ganoe Club

Seeking License

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 20 (U. P.).—~The Del-Moro Canoe club petitioned yesterday for a. .reversal of the state liquor board's decision denying them a liquor license. County Court Judge Blair. F. Gunther asked, “Does your clyb promote aquatic events?” “No,” replied Edward Stack, secretary. “It’s rather dangerous to mix liquor and canoes anyway,” said the judge. The hearing was continued.

FINNS’ EMISSARY TO U. S. WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (U. PJ. ~—K, T. Jutila soon will become the new Finnish minister to the United States, it was learned today.

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sponsibility for his “unhappy” leadership of the disastrous)

Divorce cases involving cheating G. I. wives here never reached “alarming proportions,” Judge Hamill told members of the Beech

President Roosevelt sensed the urgency and appointed in strictest secrecy an “Advisory Committee on Uranium.” (2) The enemy, if its scientists were successful, might use atomic fission to destroy civilization. Or in our hands, the same power of

“the atom might save us from

annihilation. - President Roosevelt suggested to Prime Minister Churchill that British and Amer-

of this year is regarded as al;

the emperor will assume re-|

“graceful retreat” from a sit-

As prince regent until Akihito|

becomes 18, one of the emperor's

pected.

Takamatsu, 40. ” » » CHICHIBU, as the eldest of the

emperor's three brothers, would be hito, we are told, is a healthy ath- tion, after his 17-year rule, we are informed, will depend on when the emperor is satisfied that he completely fulfilled his responsibili-

the logical choice. would be surprised if the office;

Chichibu is reported to be suffering from tuberculosis, Two years emperor, Chichibu, who was promoted to major general last March 1, was educated in England. His reputation of being pro-allied is considered, even more than his health, as a reason for the semiretirement in which he lived during the war.

only now, he conceded, it's peace arixiety. “Psychiatrists are well acquainted with this,” sald Judge Hamill “People are anxious over something and they don’t quite realize what it is.” » » y “THE SOLUTION for our ills is

not action but rest and reflection.” Increased divorces constitute an international problem, the judge as-

serted. Judge Hamill debunked the theory

LT, ANDERSON DIES IN BOMBER CRASH

Lt! Vachel N. Anderson, formerly of 3703 N. Delaware st., has been reported killed when his bomber plane crashed near Peking, China on Sept. 14. The 26-year-old filler was the son of Mrs. Marguerite Anderson, Washington, D. C., and of the late William P. Anderson of Fadely-An-derson Motors, ! Credited with more than 650 hours’ flying time, he had earned two distinguished flying crosses, three air medals with three oak leaf clusters and three bronze stars, Lt. Anderson was a graduate of Park school and had attended Indiana university until his enlistment two years ago. His brother, Capt. Stanley Anderson was killed while piloting his Spitfire fighter plane over France two years ago. Burviving besides

. research,

But no one letic

things, is ‘known as an expert were given to Takamatsu because | horseman,

‘considerable popularizing ‘publicity younger than the was: given him in the Japanese press.

an exclusive school for peers’ sons, has appeared frequently in public with his schoolmates. Recently, his education has been giveninew emphasis in preparation for his ruling days.

that “youth marriages” lead to early separations. average length of marriages shattered by divorces is 11 years. average age of new divorcees is 35.

too many marriages hit the rocks from sheer lack of warmth and affection,” he remarked.

degenerate

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ican scientists combine in atomic

Thus, “the two groups might wia the contest. Churchill agreed, (3) Scientists of Great Britain, Canada and the United States set busily at work on the grim race with an unknown adversary —the axis with its laboratories and factories, The work of Britain and America expanded. It became a major war industry. The mys- -

ABDICATION BY END OF THIS YEAR PREDICTED—

‘Graceful Retreat’ for Hirohito?

By WILLIAM McGAFFIN and GERALD R. THORP

Times Foreign Correspondents TOKYO, Sept. 20.—The abdication of 44-year-old Em- | country villa, near Fujiyama, for| : hig first meeting with the emperor

*> . IT WAS only two days ago that care of one of Japan's most famous Chichibu was calied :

in from his;

n more than two years.

| mysteriously behind a moat and a|peror before he was of age. high wall in the heart of Tokyo, the probable abdication was most not an aftermath of defeat but of thoroughly discussed. : { Takamatsu worked in the bureau | Yoshihito, which caused him to of naval affairs during the war and ; is best known as the patron of] brothers will be named, it 1s eX-| janan's Red Cross society. In this|of Japan's “divine” dynasty, was The choice lles between capacity he succeeded Prince Koto-| constituted regent on Nov. 25, 1921, Prince Chichibu, 43, and Prince | hito Kanin, who died on May 20 and crowned seven years later, Nov, | of this year, t

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THE YOUNG Crown Prince Aki-

youth, who among other

In the closing days of the war,!t

Akihito, who formerly attended

He has been given into the|

‘Judge Says Most G. I. Wives Here Faithful to Husbands

Servicemen’s wives in Indianapolis “deserve to be congratulated” on their marital loyalty to overseas husbands, according to Superior

In Marion county, the

The

8.8 8 “WE DIVORCE judges have seen

“Husbands take too much for granted. Thus, he added, those “sweet nothings” into simply nothing. Husbands, after a while, tend to grouse and grumble, he said.

terious “Manhattan Engineer District” department with top priorities, Top scientists were called in. G-men kept careful watch, Army officers went mysteriously about with satchels chained to their wrists,

scholars.

| perial history is looming for the certainty by the best-informed Japanese, we learned today.| We were told that at this con- young crown prince, in view of the | ference in the imperial palace, lying | fact that his father also became em-

| ascend the throne prematurely.

10-14, 1928.

the smooth occupation ef Japan by American forces,

with which progressing, we are told that the abdication most certainly can be expected by the end of the year.

day now.” Copyright, 1948, by The Indianapolis Times

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was formed in the war

(4) Much of the work had to

do with the separation and purification of Uranium. 235. Could U-235 be accumulated

in any

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A CURIOUS repetition of Im-

In Hirohito’s case, however; it was

he mental illness of his father,

Hirohito, who is the 124th scion

"rn n THE TIMING of Hirohito's abdica~

has

les in connection with facilitating

In view of the extreme tranquility the occupation is

It even “might come almost any

and The Chicago Daily News, Ine,

tranquillity would be spurred by the return of wives from war plants to kitchens. H » ” “WHEN WIVES leave their war jobs and begin making hot biscuits again, we'll have more marital peace.” He advised husbands to compliment their spouses profusely on cooking talents, “However,” he concluded, “if you're contemplating either marriage or divorce, count 10 before you leap.”

“It's high time our husbands stop acting like bears. Give the little wife a kiss and tell her you love her.”

"Judge Hamill thought domestic | “Take a hunting or fishing trip,”

MATERNAL death rates continue to decline as more women go to hospitals for confinement. Hospital officials would be the last to take all the credit for this

|reduction, as hospitalized maternity

patients receive better care during pregnancy and following delivery, since the majority are attended by ~~ licensed doctors of medicine. In the last decade there has been a decided shift from home to hospital for confinement, un~ {til now more than three-fourths of {all babies in this country are born in hospitals.

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Mrs. Anderson is another brother, William Pope Anderson IV, also of Washington, D. C.

LOGANSPORT TO ASK NEW FLOOD SURVEY

Logansport city officials planned today to request a new flood control survey in Cass county as a replace~ ment for a $612,000 program mapped by the army corps of engineers nine years ago, Mayor R. F. Leonard told the Indiana flood control and water re sources commission and representa tives of the army engineers yesterday that’ the plan drafted in 1936 was inadequate and too expensive. He sald the $612,000 was to be paid by the federal government for construction of flood walls, However, | Leonard added, expense to Logansport was estimated at more than $1,000,000, because the local community was required to provide right-of-way, a pumping system and bridge alterations. os

HANDS AND FACE BURNED

hal

Charles Cook, 24; of 1708 8. Randolph st, was burned around the and face today when a cigited varnish remover which

IN ONE north central state noted | | for its reduction in maternal deaths, hospital ‘confinements ~<have in- | creased from 42 to 84 per cent in {the last 10 years. The success of hospital confine ments is largely the result of high standards and a specialized care program. Maternity patients are segregated in one part of the hospital. Rooms or. wards provide at least 70 square feet for each patient with at least three feet between beds. A delivery room is equipped with modern facilities for the relief of pain and the conduct of aseptic delivery. Special arrangements are provided for the reception of the newborn infant. ~ » » AS SOON as a mother shows any sign of infection, fever or other cone dition which may be harmful to the other mothers, she is isolated. When Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes reported on the contaglousness of childbed fever 100 years ago, he called attention to. the importance of crowding and carelessness ifi spreading infection.

. - h Approximately 85 pd cent of all

Another admonition to husbands: {“Don't try to kill the bottle in one night. It might kill you. “Take it easy,” the judge urged.

No. 10: The War of the Laboratories |

WE MUST BE CAREFUL / IF A NEUTRON EVER WANDERS AROUND IN HERE, THERE MIGHT NOT BE EVEN AN *X* TO MARK THE SPOT

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wandering neutron hit i. It might start a chain reaction that would blast the experimenters to their doom. Then .they made a highly useful discovery. Bombardment of the more common U-238 produced an entirely new element ~plutonium,

Tomorrow: Busy Scientists—and Spies.

'Mom' Is About Ready to Start Buying Spree

The talk over the bridge tables these days goes |

like this: “The

end all h es 2 , a hasn't been able to go in for gadgets for a long And

in the bridge club were mad for it, are a thing of the past, the urge for buying was just dormant.

» » » NOW IT is coming to life again. And you might as well be prepared. Maybe Mamma hasn't started selling you on all the stuff she needs yet. But her friends * have already sold her. And the next step is selling you. : So take your feet down off that old sofa. Your days of taking it easy are over. Mamma wants THINGS again, And you know Mamma well enough to know that

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Hospital Care Will Save More Mothers’ Lives

Maternal Death Rate Declines

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M.D, jimmediate

action with plasma, blood, fluids and operating room equipment. Hemorrhage is more liable to occur at this time and must be treated promptly. » ” ” HOSPITAL authorities recommend the following rules for maternity visitors: 1. The number of visitors to a maternity patient should not exceed two exclusive of the husband at any one time, 2. Visitors known to have an existing or recent communicable in-

it she wants them she is going to have them. _ 1

fection, as well as those having contact with such infections, shall be excluded. 3. Visitors must not sit on beds or place articles of clothing on the beds of maternity patients, 4. Children are not permitted to visit in the maternity section, 5. Visitors may not enter the nursery or have direct contact with infants. Whenever babies are shown there must be complete separation of babies from visitors by glass. No visitor should be allowed in the mother’s room during nursing of the infant.

WILLIE and JOE—By Mauldin

births to most reports.

are uncomplicated, according ~ II an emergency