Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 September 1945 — Page 9

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2 i of the day: A 7 to his mother, ease his grows the “bare cup= | Tokyo today: 'e me more to more years to ys so. She says e for the eme 20. »

o N NOTE: Sip. at the newly Press club with men, who were few weeks ago on battles.

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MARION PEEPLES, who lives at 4336 S. East st., has some lima beans that’ll make you sit up and take notice. Even in his late crop he has some eight inches long. And others were even longer ‘earlier in the season. But Mr, Peeples just doesn’t grow his beans like an ordinary farmer would. He rigged up a new contraption this spring that’s a Humdinger.. It’s a bean arbor about 24 feet long, 9 feet high and 5 feet wide. The bean vines have climbed up the wire and the wooden posts on the side of the arbor and are spread all over the top of it, All you have to do is walk through the arbor and reach mip to pluck a bean. There's no backache connected with it. . . . It isn’t strange that Mr. Peeples should build such a handy device. He has been a shop teacher at Manual high school nearly 30 years and can build just about everything

FISH Inside Indianapolis

new bean arbor. In the first place, it's a space saver. Or Secondly, straw and bean leaves strewn under the arbor hold moisture well. Thirdly, you can string tomato vines up one end of the arbor. And thus Mr, Peeples can go on and on naming the good points of his arbor. . . . In his back yard there’s a tropical-looking plant which stands out from all the other trees and bushes. It's a castor oil bean plant which started out as a tiny seed early this spring. Now it towers about eight feet into the air. The

Marion Peeples . . . his lima beans are worth talking about.

Japs’ G. I. Idol

TOKYO (Delayed) —“Moochy the Magnificent,” the man who taught the Jap guard at Umeda prison camp in Osaka about American might, military and otherwise, is on his way home to Clear Lake, Wis. And

all Osaka is grieved. For, in more than three years as a prisoner and one month as a free man, John Mucciacciaro, 27, son of R. J. Mucciacciaro of Clear Lake, became the most feared, respected and loved man in Osaka. Moochy, whose five feet eight inches body weighed 235 pounds when he was a professional wrestler before the war, was a private first ¢lass in the marines on Guam on Dec. 7, 1941. Captured three days later, Moochy was brought directly to Japan and after a brief stay in other camps was assigned to Umeda. They needed stevedores there. Moochy’s hairy chest and amazing biceps looked good to the Japs. : It was not as easy as it sounds. Bribes among the guards were plentiful but sometimes they were caught. The boys learned to take beatings when those times came. They were growing fat and liked it.

Jap Sentry's Error

THEN CAME March 14, 1944. Moochy was caught by a sentry, with a sockful of sugar strapped against his body. The poor, conceited sentry then did something he is still regretting. He struck Moochy in the face. Moochy knocked the sentry cold with an uppercut that traveled only six inches. As his fellow prisoners stood by grinning happily, other Japs came running at the wrestler. The Japs assailed him in waves of three and four. Moochy by this time had Worked himself into a temper. As he stood with his foot

Science

THE “VI” or radio proximity fuse represents a triumph for' American science second only to the atomic bomb. It is important that the citizens of the nation realize this because it has an important bear-

ing on the formulation of national policies regarding scientific research In a release at the end of last week, the navy disclosed what the VT fuse had meant to the conduct of the war. As readers will recall the VT is a five-tube radio 3 set of such small size that it can be fitted into the nose of a shell. It is both a sending set and a receiving set. The wave which it sends out bounces back on the ra-

plant is supposed to keep moles away, according % an ancient theory. And Peeples.

More Bottle News

bottles the other day brought out some more bottle news. first to use the bottles a couple of months ago. But all Indianapolis dairies are planning to make a gradual changeover from round bottles to square squats

are lost and broken, theyll be replaced with square ones.

milk in containers. about 1,000,000 bottles every five days. average bottle only lasts 40 trips before it's lost

ice collected a brown bottle which was last used by the Weber Milk Co. back in 1903. The bottle, made especially for buttermilk, was brown so the watery substance in the milk couldn't be seen. service usually can tell where people go on their vacations by the bottles they put in their milk boxes —especially if they go to the oceanside. For a sample

bottle. bottle goes back to the dairy. collection they have milk containers from the Philippines, Holland, Cuba, Argentina and many other places.

Crime Conscious

tion attendants have been on the lookout for the crime operators. Chdrlie, a night man at the Gaseteria station at 34th st. and Central ave, heard a noise about 2:30 a. m. the other day. his shot gun and fired a few shells, Then he discovered that a cat in a bucket was the victim. Not only did he kill the cat, but he also drilled several holes in some 55-gallon full oil ‘drums sitting behind the station. . . in all four of Tommy Wadelton's books, died Sept. 13 on her late master’s birthday, Tommy, Indianapolis’ teen-aged author whose latest book is “Silver Buckles on My Knee,” stole the pup when he was 2. Johnny-the-dog, which is really a she-dog, died at the age of 17. She had transferred her affections to Tommy's father, Lt. Col. Thomas Wadelton, when Tommy went off to boarding school. of her death she had one of the colonels bed slippers in her mouth. She was named Johnny-the-dog to distinguish her from Johnny-the-boy, one of the Wadelton’s nephews. st, Beech Grove, says her brother, Radioman 2-c Gordon R. Hein, wrote a letter home from Tokyo Bay Aug. 29. time of the writing, Radioman Hein said he was anchored between the U, 8. 8. Missouri and the Towa. the press release ship for the Japanese surrender ship.

on the face of one Nip, he hurled another against the side of the concrete dock.

of blood littered the dock and none of those commodities were Moochy’s.

meet the flailing whirlwind blows. there became alarmed. They pulled Moochy off.

a jam,” they entreated.

to count the score. on. the dock, 1 minutes.

punish Moochy.

Became Local Idol

19 consecutive days. pilfering and eating better than the Jap commander.

then on. The Jap coolies, who also worked on the docks, idolized him. Moochy had names for all of them, things like Elmer.”

time got to know - Osaka. know him now as the strongest, slickest-talking and most likable character ever to come their way.

leaving for Tokyo and shipment home, big Japs and little Japs, boys and girls and mothers and grandmothers, tugged at his arms shouting, “Johnee, Johnee.”

slacken his pace. happy, fluent Japanese and waved goodby.

mumbled the Nipponese equivalent of “What a guy!”

dar principle and when the reflection occurs within a range of T0 to 100 feet, detonates the shell.

To justify my statement that the fuse was an accomplishment second only to the atomic bomb, let me remind the reader of what this fuse made possible.

Stops Suicide Bomb IT ACCOMPLISHED three great objectives:

First: By ending the menace of the Japanese sulcide bomber, it made it possible for the American

navy te procede to the very shores of Japan.

Second: It supplied the defense against the V-2 rockets with which the Nazis bombarded London. It is impossible to estimate how great the damage and

My Day

HYDE PARK, Sunday.—The news of Judge Irving Lehman's death is in the papers this morning. The state of New York has sustained a loss which its citizens will recognize with deep sorrow. For many years, the chief justice of the highest court in New

York steve held a unique position. fle was respected and regarded with great affection by all those who knew him. . To his family, this loss is a 1 can hardly

that, however, will be the loss of someone who has always stood for her, as well as for the rest of us, fn as a tower of strength and integrity. I have been reading some reports in the last few days which persharpened for me by the fact that we have Lehman's strength in the fight for the a number of

Lima Beans!

so far, it's worked for Mr.

THE STORY ABOUT the “square squat” milk

Medo-Sweet and Conway dairies were the

the next several months. When the round ones OC. W. Hunt of the Milk Bottle Service tells that it takes 2,331,060 bottles to keep Indianapolis’ And the city’s 21 dairies fill The broken. . . . The other day the Milk Bottle Serv-

+ +The

‘salt water usually is brought back in a milk Eventually it is dumped out and the milk In the city’s bottle

SINCE THE RECENT slugging wave, filling sta-

He got out

. Johnny-the-dog, a character

At the time

. Faye Hein, 1401 Albany

It was postmarked Aug. 30. At the

He is on the U. 8. 8S. Ancon which acted as

By Gerald R. Thorp

Gold teeth, silver teeth, plain teeth and a quantity

Now there were only a handful of Japs left to Other Americans “No use killing those guys and getting us all in The Yanks, with the situation well in hand, began

There were 18 senseless Japs 8 knockouts in maybe seven or eight

Of course, the Jap commanding officer had to

MOOCHY was required to stand at attention for Then he went back to work,

Moochy lived pretty much as he wanted from

“Dreary Puss” and “Ulcerated

With the end of the war, Moochy for the first And the natives there

As he walked down the streets today, just before

But Moochy was going home, so he didn't even He cussed everyone in boomy,

The Japs shook their heads sadly, sighed and

1945, by The Indianapolis he Chicago Daily News, In

By David Dietz

loss of life might otherwise have been, Third:

iad

in demoralizing the Nazi-forces,

These accomplishments in the field, however, are only half the story. They tell what was done with the VT fuse once it had been procured. The other half of the story, and the most important half, is

the account of how the fuse came into existence,

Story Can't Be Told

OBVIOUSLY, all of this story cannot be told at this time since there are many details of the fuse which, for security reasons, the army and navy cannot reveal at this time. But, as in the case of the atomic bomb, the broad outlines of the scientific

research can be told. The basic scientific work for the development o

It -completely altered methods of artillery fire, rendering the foxhole useless as a means of protection. In the closing days of the fighting on the European continent it was one of the chief factors

SECOND SECTION

Jomo

Air Lines See

Yast Increase In Five Years

First of a Series

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

NEW YORK, Sept. 24.—U. S. air transport is preparing to spread-eagle America and the world with the greatest

commercial air fleet ever seen. Look into tomorrow with the country’s top airmen and you behold the ingredients for an almost fabulous air alchemy-—brainy leadership, technology, money, & rich market. The finest, fastest airplanes in the world will be the peacetime heritage of aviation’s devastation in war—big planes, too, which will dip fato real mass transportation for the first time. ; ” » "” THE ENGINEERS talk confidently of new designs, better power plants, smart application of electronics to aviation, of new means of combatting bad weather. The executives talk of lower fares to bring new “common man” business to the airlines. They see 8 fivefold increase in airline business in five years—make it tenfold or fifteen-fold if you look ahead a decade. Even without jet or gas turbine planes (or revolutionary atomic power—who knows?) men talk of flying twice as fast with conventional engines as with today’s alrline planes. s - # IT WON'T be done by magic, or without headaches. A lot of research and development lies ahead. Men— and airlines, too—may go broke. But few air transport men doubt they're coming into an amazing new era. The industry is rich in imaginative generalship—men like Eddie Rickenbacker of Eastern Airlines; C. R. Smith and Ralph Damon of American: W. A. Patterson and Jack Herlihy of United; Jack Frye of T. W. A.; Bedell Munro of Pennsylvania Central, T. A, Braniff and others. Charting the overseas air trans. port battle are men like Pan Amerjcan’s Juan Trippe, American Exand Tom Burke and, T. W. A's Jack Frye.

ple:

business.” In five years, he predicts, “We'l

transcontinental business.” ¥ » .

this fuse was carried out by the applied physics t $ y : laboratory of the Johns Hopkins university in Stiver ing fast transportation at or below

levels of first class rail fare plus | lower berth on many routes. That's

Springs, Md. It was charged not only with the task of develop ing the fuse, but of directing and supervising its large

scale production by a group of big industrial concerns. This meant that assembly-line techniques had to be worked out which would result in rapid production of units with all the accuracy and dependability of the]

THE STORY OF THE ATOM

original laboratory model. Moreover, these researches had to be carried o with the utmost speed.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

their treatment of German nationals whom they

round in concentration camps in Germany, We have not even removed many of these peop

from places where filth and disease are rampant. These prisoners of the .azis were largely Jewish, though among them may be found political prisoners of other religious beliefs and national origin who were opposed to the Nazis. - They have been interned, many of them for years, under horrible conThey have Jacked food and clothing; clean-~ liness has been impossible, and they have been under

ditions

constant fear of torture and maltreatment.

We prolong these years of horror because, legally,

they are German nationals. This seems to me unthinkable.

our should not be treated as such.

are the things which happen because general directives have to govesn situations which cover

large areas of territory, and at first it is hard foresee the exceptions which have to be made

1 am sure, that the people of our country, if they were aware of this particular situation, would feel as strongly as I do that those who have suffered under the Nazis—no matter what their nationality or religion—are not ies or the enemies of the allied nations, and

1 hope, however, that these

| making the selling job easier,

is $119.10 plus tax; Mr. Smith be

port's Jack Slater, Sumner Sewall again

THEY THINK courageously. When Maj. Gen. C. R. Smith, who helped run the army air transport command world fleet, returned to American Airlines recently as board chairman, he told the airline's peo-

“We're proud of the 86 planes we have now and we'll marvel at 100—but any man in the room who thinks we won't be operating 1000 planes in five years is in the wrong

have 75 per cent of the through

THEY'RE whacking the fares

down steadily, It used to be the fare advantage was all with the railroads, but now the airmen are sell-

Transcuntinental plane fare now

BE I.

of T. W.

Other samples of lowering air fares; Washington-Cleveland, $14.40; Pitts burgh-Cleveland, $5.75; New YorkChicago, $33.75; San Francisco-Los Angeles, $15.15—all plus tax. Many new rate schedules are based on 4% cents a mile, but Messrs. Smith and Damon of Ameri-, can foresee fares of 3 to 3% cents a mile; Jack Frye settles for four cents a mile in five years, » n » FACILITY for travel encourages travel, the airmen say, and they're talking of frequent schedules, with planes operating like street cars on heavy traffic routes such as New York-Boston or New York-Wash« ington. And they're not interested in merely nibbling away traffic from other forms of transport; they want to create their own, «1 et’s stop chewing on the fringe of present travel and make a bold new stroke to serve air transportation to the common man,” says Chairman Welch Pogue of the Civil Aeronautics Board in urging cheaper mass air transport. 8 = AIRLINES are turning increasing attention to air cargo business. Most revenue today comes from passengers, but Mr, Pogue foresees & day when cargo will bring in the greater revenue. American’s Damon talks of sixhour non-stop eastward transcontinental flights and seven hours west ward, Up to now it has hurried a man to leave New York in the morning, have two or three hours business in Chicago, and return the same night. But not in five years. Airline operating costs are bound to go up. There have been plenty of bright young university men willing to get into aviation because it offered adventure and glamor; but there'll be more wanting hard cash in the future. if » » ul LABOR relations between airlines and pHots probably have never been better. The Air Lines Pilots assn, isn't interested alone in dickering on wages and hours; it expresses a responsibility for all kinds of air transport problems. It is concerned with safety and sits down with plane builders and airline management to give its pilots’ views. Its leaders today even suggest maybe the industry needs a checkerin here and there to guard against over-optimism and overexpansion, » » ” BUT as costs go up technological advances will offset them in keep~ ing rates down, most airlines people figure. There will be big commercial superfortresses, counterpart of those born of war, and a constant search for greater fuel economy. Transcontinental and over-ocean flying will call for the biggest airliners ever flown. There must be a place to set these big fellows down, and that calls for airport development. Air- | ports at 174 places now designated by the CAB as air carrier stops are deficient in length of runways and clearness of approaches.

lleves it will be $80 in five years.

En AS ARO

Jack Frye, President

~The Indianapolis

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1945

a cach att er Amada Sapa

Ralph Damon, President of ‘American Air Lines

plications before the CAB, only 93 have airports rated satisfactory.

» # » BUILD 3000 new airports and improve 1600 existing fields in five to 10 years—that's the program of the civil aeronautics administration. Congress must say yes or no on it, of course. Behind air transport expansion is the tremendously important issue of security. Lt. Gen. Harold L. George, director of the army air transport command—the greatest airline ever known—is urging a U, 8. air transport fleet of 4000 to 5000 planes. This fleet would be military insurance and backlog for defense. » ~ ”

DEVELOPMENT of real

and servicing establishments.

fleet can be reduced.

that would

to produce low-cost air travel » » .

mass transportation in the air will bring such a fleet into being, Gen. George

says—and it can come if air travel and cargo costs are brought down low enough. He wants the airlines to force operating costs down, and say they may he able to do it through combining maintenance

Gen. George believes that as commercial fleet operations expand the size of the military transport

The airlines carried four million passengers in 1041, Airmen talk of 20 million or 25 million by 19850. But still be only 10 per cent of the 225 million rail passengers, excluding commuters, carried in 1940. Airmen see it as a challenge

hl \

Above, Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, = Head of Eastern Air Lines

W. A. Patterson, President of United Air Lines

Mal, Gen. C. R. Smith, President of the Board, American Air Lines

business. United Airlines has assets today of $51 millions; American, $39 millions; T.W. A. $26 millions and Eastern, $25 millions. American Airlines has $55 million worth of new planes ordered and President Damon thinks that is “just about half what we'll be acquiring or committing for in the next three years.” » ¥ » UNITED AIR Lines is ready to spend $52 millions on expansion and facilities. It already has ordered 50 four-engined, 300 - mile - an - hour Douglas planes costing $25 millions, and will spend another eight million on twin-engine planes. The com-~ pany has $20 millions free cash in

the till to begin. - Eastern is in good cash position; Oapt. Rickenbacker remarks that there'll be no need to borrow or float stock issues to buy new equipment, Jack Prye talks of a T.W.O. expansion costing $160 millions in the next few years. Already T. W. A. has on order 59 Lockheed Constellations —at $650,000 apiece, It has plans for 45 additional Douglas DC-3’s, which cost $135,000 each, Kitty Hawk seems far away.

(To be continued)

BIG AIRLINES are going after it, and so are new, smaller lines. 8. J. Solomon, organizing a line to link| New England and the deep South, | talks of. a “day coach air train” hd bring air travel to people other than “the wealthy and big business.” 1t takes money to back the kind of airline expansion that's ahead,

Of 678 new locations listed in ap-

but the airlines are getting to be big

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——We, the Women Do's and Don'ts For the Wives

Of Servicemen

By RUTH MILLETT

PRACTICALLY everyone hag given war wives advice on how to treat their returning husbands ~eaveryone except a war wife whe has actually gone through the experience. Here at last are the “do's” and “don'ts” of a wife who learned the hard way. DO. Let him alone. Strangle your impulse to ask where he is going every time he puts on his hat and walks : out the front door. Keep busy yourself so he can do the things he wants to do, even if they are just puttering, without feeling that he is neglecting you. ». » . DO. Give him time to fit back into his place in the family, ine stead of shoving decisions and res sponsibilities at him as soon a8 he gets home. DO. Let him be the hero. Don's pull the old feminine “You'll never know what I went through® line. 5 DO. Drop all the “my” you cam = from your conversation. It is ne longer “my car,” “my children” “my house,” “my money.” It is “our” time again. » n » DON'T. Try to cover a year of two or three all at once. Asking a man to sit down and tell you everything he has done for three years ls a big and bewildering order. Gradually you'll learn = about his life, just be patient. J DON'T. Fill your house full of people or accept numerous invie tations out unless you are sure that he needs people around his constantly. After all, sometime the two of you have to settle down to getting acquainted, and the sooner the better. i DON'T, Dump all the responsis bilities you have assumed in his absence on him at once. Let him take over gradually. DON'T. Quarrel over anything, You can’t’ afford quarrels at this

stage.

to! thing must have been just some

let out when President

(1) A few nearby newspapers carried the story of the strange i of Bolt i Now Bese? ao radio station carried it, so the

body's imagination after all. Then on Aug. 6, the whole secret was

the first practical test ever made of ‘the enormous power stored in the atom; 3

placed on top of a 100-foot steel tower in a desert area near the

No. 13: First Test of an Atomic Bomb

Almagorodo army air base, 120 Albuquerque,

brought equipment to the tower in the dead of night, about four + nights previous. (3) Wires, were strung to control points located 10,000 to 17,000 yards from the tower. It was after midnight July 16, and' on hand . were scientists and army men

miles southeast of who had participated in the proj 'N. M. Scientists, engineers, ect—Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, servicemen and other workers had in charge of the test; Ma). Gen.

Leslie R. Groves, director of the project; Dr. Vannevar Bush, head of the Office of Research and Development, and others. . (4) The setting was suited to the drama. The sky was overcast. There was occasional light-

the radio loudspeakers started broadcasting the time signals, “minus 15 minutes, minus 10 min= utes, minus . came the loudspeaker’s voice. The robot mechanism to set off the bomb was turned on. The whole exe periment was out of human power

to stop. Hes ve