Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 October 1945 — Page 9
8 I HUNDREDS OF PERSONS go in and out of the city hall every day but we'll bet not one out of a
ts due hundred knows about the hall'svsecret passageways. dinner meeting They are enclosed stairways on the north and south the Riley sides of the building. To the ordinary person the. oom enirance ways look more like supply closets. They're el. : rather Inconspleuous and a curtain covers the window ployées of the on each door. The hidden stairs enable city hall and Steel Cast= employees to go in and out of the building without erved 15 or more going out in the foyer, Some say it's a good way to ambers 350 dodge disgruntled eitizens. The stairs go up to the o mems fourth floor and also lead right down to the mayor's polis plant. Of . ‘The passageways are rather musty and are ve served , more very seldom lighted. . , . If occasionally you hear a 12 for.more than JE S0und like a herd of cattle stampeding down a run=.. ri Way, you can guess it's the various board members Ing into Mayor Tyndall's office, There usually president of the ix some stumbling and tripping as they feel for the preside at the light. . , . Once ina while strange odors drift down aymond 8, Davis the stalrways, too, They come from the testing lianapolis plant, laboratory on the fourth floor where everything the | to 50-year ema city purchases is tested. .,. The stairways evidently are hidden to most of the janitors, They seldom are 4 pins to those cleaned, d 15 years, . alton L. Woody, Help From Red Cab Driver harge of manus FROM NOW ON Jimmy Hartzer, 1322 N. Alabama 2 Cleveland ofe st., will have a warm spot in his heart for Red Cab drivers, Jimmy's dog, Kilty, got in the way of an I —————.
automabile at 14th and Central Wednesday and was hit. The car went on but a Red Cab driver went out i of his way to help Jimmy out. He picked up the dog, drove her and Jimmy to Stout's dog hospital and even offered to take Jimmy home free of charge, i Jimmy, who is 12, has had Kilty about eight months. i His sister, Mrs. Richard Miller, brought her back ] | from California. She was a constant companion on his paper route and even followed him to school, The veterinary doesn't know whether Kilty will live or not, , . , The Indianapolis symphony orchestra concert season tickets are going like hot cakes. Already as many tickets have been sold this year as were sold by the end of October last year.. There's close to a sellout on the Saturday night and Sunddy afternoon balcony seats. But there's still quite a few season seats left on the main floor. . . . The state library catalog department got quite a kick out of one of the books it listed recently. It is called “The Defining Orthographer and ‘Youth's Plain Guide to Pronunciation and Reading.” The euition was published in Lexington, Ky., in 1815 and even Lexington doesn't have such ‘an early copy on its library shelves. . The book isn’t in the library of congress either. One of the most out-of-date words in the
Captain Easy
(One of a Series)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—The story of one of the most famous Italian spies who worked for the allies during world war II can be told now by the office of strategic services. His identity is still a secret but he is known as “Captain Easy” along’ with other code names. i Captain § Easy was discovered by Maj. Alphonse 1. Thiele from Jersey City, A N. J. Thiele fl had been in i charge of infiltrating i agents into } Italy behind { the German i lines since Christmas of 1043, but results of their work hadn't been too sucs cessful and the military situation was at a standstill. 80 he was’ ordered to re-
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” Maj. Alphonse I. Thiele eruit and train additional agents, In February, 1944, Thiele got the name of Captain
Pasy from a friend who had become an agent. Easy had been imprisoned by the Germans many times during the occupation of his home for anti-Fascist activities. When Thiele located him he was.in bad | tape. Thin, ragged, about 21 years old, he looked I the toughest sort of cutthroat. } ‘he agreement was to give him $40 a month | ring training and a bonus according to the results ..e got on missions, In three months he was ready to go on his first mission, a drop behind the lines to report on traffic along certain important highways. He posed as a refugee and reported out information which established him as resourceful and dependable. He came
work was finished. FOR A MONTH thefi he celebrated on the $200
Science
TWO PROBLEMS were dumped Into the laps of the American scientists who developed the VT or radio proximity fuse for the navy. The first was to design a device that would cause a shell to explode automatically when it approached an incoming aire plane or other target. The second was to make the a device sufficiently rugged that it would not go out of commission when the shell was fired out of . a gun, Along with the necessity of solving these problems was the necessity of speed. Now that world war II is over, it is difficult for us to recapture the sense of | urgency that surrounds this research in the days immediately after Pearl Harbor, When the Jap airmen sank the British ships, the Repulse and the Prince of Wales off Malaya, there were many critics who said that navies were through, The nation was faced with the ugly possibility: that Japanese air power might make it impossible for our navy to operate at all,
Said Ships Needed Air Cover IF YOU will think back to those early days, you will remember the many things that were then being + sald, Ome was that battleships would not dare to venture out of the protection of the airplanes from
their own accompanying carriers. Another was that naval battles henceforth would be engagements in which the planes from the carriers of each side sought out and sunk the ships of the
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“Taxi Service’
Jimmy Hartzer , . . He'll never forget that Red Cab driver,
book is “hippish.” opposite of happy.
It means low in spirits or the The book came from the Borden The owner of Kay's restaurant on W. Washington st. near Senate had a good one pulled on him. the other day. Some ‘of the old customers got together, brought their own breakfasts to the restaurant and only bought a cup of coffee there for a thirst. quencher,
‘Gardening’ at Art Museum THERE ARE SOME amusing stories behind the assembling of the miniature rooms at the John Herron art museum. Mrs. Ladusca Wilson, custodian of the rooms, wasn't a bit worried if all of them weren't set-up right away. She had some gardening to do anyway. It seems that the little trees and shrubs in the gardens of the exhibit are made of sponge rubber and twigs. Most of Mrs, Wilson's gardening is done with paints, paste and brushes. Each little flower and spray of leaves is fashioned separately and fastened with wax and wire to the stem. , , . And we'll bet no other gardener in Indiana uses the garden tools that Mrs. Wilson does. Hers consist of modeling clay, wax, glue, paints, brushes, thread, wires and lipstick. Everyone asks her why on earth she uses the lipstick, The answer is to make a new apple or touch up a cherry pie.” We hear it’s just the right color. . . . Mrs. James Ward Thorne, who owns the rooms, is the former Miss Narcissa Niblack of Vincennes.
By Douglas Larsen
bonus. He was very gay and good-humored and told Maj. Thiele he was eager to try another job. He soon got his chance. The British army needed information about the important Futa Pass. The allies could see a lot of construction going on im the mountain overlooking the pass but observation didn’t show exactly what it was. They feared it was a V-bomb launching site. Captain Easy again was dropped behind the lines. He soon maneuvered into a construction gang which was working on the project in question but there was great secrecy about it and he couldn’t get inside. His job was carrying wine to the workers, One day he whispered to one of the big foremen on the job and asked if he was important enough to know that it was a V-bomb launching site they were all working on, The foreman said it was not, and to show his prestige took Easy inside to prove it was only a regular fort. That was that. He got back through the lines and got $465 for that mission.
Becomes Chief of Police THE FIRST clue as to how Easy was getting his information came from an army flier who was shot down over Italy. He landed safely and a uniformed policeman found him in a farmyard and dressed him in civilian clothes. The chief of police: took him into his office alone, closed the door and informed him that he was working for the Americans and would return-him in a few weeks. Thiele figured the chief must be Easy from the description. Close to the end of the war this city was overrun by the allies. Several days later Easy rode up to Thiele's headquarters in an expensive automobile. He told this story: The first thing he had done after being dropped was to go to the chief of police of the nearest town. He asked to be alone in his office with him because he had an important message for him. He took out his gun when the door was closed and told the chief that he was sent by President Roosevelt to take over. He told the thief that he intended to take his job and if he would be quiet about the whole thing and comply with his orders his skin would be spared. The frightened chief agreed and kept his promise. As new chief of police, it was duck soup for Easy to get the information he needed and maintain his espionage system. Easy's bonus for this ‘job was $800. He said he didn't need it but would take it anyway.
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By David Dietz
other and then found they had no carriers of their own to which to return. The third was that whatever success battleships might have at sea, no fleet would ever dare to venture within the range of land-based planes. Our navy demonstrated in time that each of these predictions was wrong and steamed to the very coast of Japan. The reason, we now know, was the VT fuse which returned the battleship to a place of superiority over the atacking plane. The construction of a successful radio proximity fuse entailed the solution of four problems. The first was to design a five-tube radio sending and receiving set small enough to fit into the nose of a shell and rugged enough to be shot from a gun.
Needed Safety Valve On Fuse
THE SECOND was to design an electric battery or power supply for the set equally small and rugged. The third was to design a safety mechanism that would prevent the shell from bursting until it had proceeded a safe distance from the gun. The fourth was a so-called “self-destruction” device that would cause the shell to burst if it failed to get its target. This was necessary to prevent “duds” from falling into enemy hands. Actually, the researches had begun before Pearl Harbor, It will be recalled that the problems of “de~ fense,” as they were then called, were being studied in 1940. The office of research and development was established June 27, 1940. On Aug. 17, 1940, “Section T" was established to undertake the researches on the radio proximity fuse. This decision grew out of discussions between Dr. James B. Conant, Dr: R. C. Tolman—two of the key men in the atomic bomb project—Dr. C. C. Lauritsen, Rear Adm. H. G. Bowen and Capt. Gilbert C. Hoover.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
they see it. Many a paper expects that its writers
will write from the point of view which they pare|
‘ticularly wish to get across to the minds of the People in general, . But, that was not the case with the War corres‘pondents. They wrote the facts as they saw them, and because of their devotion to the ideals of their ge wer have seen through their eyes a color-
ful and intimate picture of the happenings in thus| (3
| Raymond Clapper and Ernie Pyle stand out In
my mind ar writers who have given me not only| W&
nt much food for thought.
SECOND SECTION
are no weaklings.
of world war II. With Wayne county's more than 250,000 servicemen .returning in ever increasing numbers the motor car manufacturers are anxious to take on as many as
poscible, Many of these G. I.'s have
job rights under the selective serve ice act. y » " ” BUT nobody knows what those rights are. Congress avoids .clarifying the law though it knows that various executive agencies are applying it with sword's point differences. The companies are caught in the middle. Whatever they do is illegal. They're squeezed by varying interpretations of the law and by their contracts with U. A. W, Nevertheless, they have succeeded in getting some veterans back on the payrolls—and often, thereafter, they have had to lay the G, I.s off again in accord with the seniority provisions of union contracts, on = » WHENEVER a G. I. thus ousted has become militant—so far as I ¢an learn without exception—the unions
have backed water and waived their alleged contract rights in his favor, At the Lincoln plant, for instance, returning G. 1.s were laid off, along with others, in strict compliance with seniority lists. They picketed the plant, protesting that under federal law they must be given work for at least a year, That is not the U. A. W's interpretation of the law, but the union made great haste to see that the G. 1.8 were reinstated on their jobs. AT THE River Rouge plant a veteran was laid off in accordance with contractual seniority requirements. Several women employees offered to
But there is one minority group with which the U. A. W. is sedulously avoiding any showdown. That is the veterans
after a layoff,
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union hastened to see that he went back to work. At Ford's Highland Park plant, veterans picketed with signs demanding, in one form or another: “Is this what we fought for?” The U, A. W. decided that it was not, and the men went back to work. Because the automobile industry s0 completely dominates the Detroit area, and because the seniority system in that industry is so almost inconceivably complicated, this city feels that it has a peculiarly difficult veteran employment problem ahead. EJ » » UP TO NOW there has been a minimum of trouble. Through Au~ gust, 34,568 servicemen had been discharged. The USES says that about half applied to it for jobs and 16,832 had been placed. The rest are assumed to have found places for themselves. But there still are more than 200,000 to come home. Half of them presumably have rights, of a sort, under the selective service act. The other half, according to Eugene E. Busha, chief of field operations for the war manpower commission here, never had regular jobs. Most. of them have taken it for granted that they would work in the automobile industry, But not one can be hired, under union contracts, until the war-bloated senidbrity lists have been completely exhausted. » » » THERE ARE, to be sure, plenty of jobs for all men who will be demobilized for some time. In theory, that is—by the kind of arithmetic that says: “10,000 unemployed, 10,000 applications for workers—no unemployment.”
The USES is besieged with requests for highly skilled mechanics
The nation’s automobile manufacturers are anxious fo employ as many returned servicemen as possible as soon as possible. Typical of those already on such payrolls are James Thornbro, left, purple heart winner, and John Yaksich, center, pictured getting shop tips from Packard department leader.
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—~but few G. I.s qualify. The USES has applications for 1200 automobile mechanics who can make up to $150 a week; but they must be skilled, they must work six and seven days a week, and they must depend upon commissions. There are some 2000 openings for building trades mechanics at as high as $160 and $1.75 an hour, with plenty of overtime at double pay. But first comes a four-year appren=ticeship starting at 65 cents an hour, with academic studies required in spare time. After a few years in the army, the veteran wants to get to work,
The Indianapolis Times AUTO FIRMS CAUGHT IN TR gs
U. A.W. Avoids Job Seniority Tangle
By S. BURTON HEATH ETROIT,. Oct. 1.—The nation’s biggest labor union, the J United Automobile Workers, doesn’t hesitate about talking to the big motor car manufacturers, ‘who themselves
OUT OF 700 men queried about their willingness to take a four-year apprenticeship ‘to qualify for the big journeyman rates, exactly 14 accepted. The demobilized enlisted man, out here at any rate, is eager to train for a trade. But he wants quickie training—no college, no fouryear apprenticeships. Then he wants to get to work, preferably in his home city’s favorite industry, automobile manufacture, Then he runs up against the enormous number of ciyilians whose seniority rights block his way.
give up their jobs in his favor. The
who does it.
children, has not only owned a plane for eight years, but
has his own hangar and runway, too. The hangar and runway, on a two-and-a-half< acre strip of land behind his cottage home, make the DeSilvio back yard a convenient take-off ‘point for the family’s jaunts to cities and places of interest throughout New England. A machine operator by trade and an amateur mechanic only by inclination, DeSilvio says that far from being a “rich man’s toy,” a light plane costs no more to own and operate than the family ear, e # # SOMETIMES he puts a dollar's worth of gas in his 40-horsepower plane and takes the family on a Sunday cruise about the countryside. When he's “flush,” he says, he tells the gas attendant at an airport to “fill ’er up.” The plane's gas tank holds nine gallons. In a fair wind, his small, two-seated plane does better than 20 miles on a gallon of gas. It requires no more than a quart of oll “for every two or three hundred miles.” DeSilvio paid $850 for his plane, second-hand, back in 1837. He couldn’t afford hangar charges so he built his own hangar—and air= strip, too He made the hangar from trees he cut down in his back field while he was clearing space for his home-made runway. He spent $14 at a local sawmill to have the pine trees cut up into boards. This, plus the cost of nails and tarpaper, represents total expenditures for the small T-shaped hangar,
IT WAS landing and taking off in his father-in-law's pasture,
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' {lunch; this broke | the tension for
Samuel DeSilvio of Littleton, who has a wife and two
while he was courting his wife, Desilvio will tell you with a laugh, that developed his skill in negoti= ating small airfields. ’ The DeSilvios took their honeymoon trip in the little plane and their elder child, 4-year-old Vaelina, has virtually grown up in it. DeSilvio, who had never tinkered with a plane until he owned his own, spends not more than “an hour or two” a week checking and cleaning the plane. He still has time to keep the lawn out and help take care of a truck garden he shares with a neighbor. On his $50 income he manages to support a wife and two chil~ dren, keep up the payments on his house—and run the plane, too. If there's a secret to it, it's just “ordinary thriftiness,” he emphasizes.
EXPANSION PLANNED AT SKY HARBOR PORT
Plans for expansion of Sky Harbor airport, including construction of five new hangers and develop-
ment of two new 3000 foot runways, were announced today by Gordon Lackey, president of Sky Harbor, Inc. The five new hangers will house 30 additional airplanes, Mr, Lackey said, Increasing the storage space at Sky Harbor to take care of 72 aircraft. Also as a part of the development program, two new 10,000 gallon gas oline tanks for high octane aviation gas are being installed, he stated, A modern restaurant building, completed last month, is now open dur-
$50-A-WEEK FAMILY MAN BUILDS A PRIVATE 'AIRPORT
Flies From Own Backyard Runway
By NEA Service LITTLETON, Mass., Oct. 1.—You‘can own and operate your private. plane on a salary of $50 a week—and buy shoes for the children, too! That's the assertion of a $50-a-week factory worker
Here the DeSilvio family prepares to take off from their own back In the rear seat are Mrs. Samuel DeSilvio and the two DeSilvio children, Valina, 4, and Linda May, 9
yard on a cross-country jaunt.
months, DeSilvio sits in the pilot's
ing daylight hours.
DeSilvio takes off from his backyard runway om an errand fo Fitchburg, Mass., 20 miles away, He'll be home in 45 minutes.
seat,
THE DOCTOR SAYS:
By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M.D, NERVOUS tension results in irri« tability and contracted muscles. | These are warnings to change our {way of life and learn how to relax. When we are tense, our efficiency goes down and we may become ill. One of America’s y greatest surgeons accomplished the superhuman task of directing a large ‘organization by learning how [tp relax. To be | certain that he was not overdoing, he took a nap every day after
the day and enabled him to- carry his heavy responsibility,
” » ” A: GREAT many people find their
“|! jobs~ disagreeable; although they |: realize they have to carry out their
If You're Nervous, Irritable — Relax
Diversion Combats Tension
Some people never learn the ime portance of rest. Our country has many places ‘where we can enjoy ourselyes through physical activity, but few where we can rest. » n NERVOUS tension often results in chronie fatigue. A good night's sleep is the best cure for irritability
and contracted muscles from overattention to our work, Students do better in school when they do not burn the midnight oil too late. Sedentary workers need physical activity to relieve their tension. Millions have found the victory garden ap ideal place in which to relax
. even though care of the plot re-
quired a certain amount of physical activity, It 1s to be regretted that many who learned to relax in this way will give up tha idea as soon as the pressure is off to produce more food. ”
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VISE is not a cure all for
suffer more from the effects of -tension than do women. High blood pressure is probably related to tension and conflicts in our daily lives and it is more serious in men than in women, Learn to overcome your nervous tension by directing your activities into other channels. A man with a hobby is happier and more efficient than one whose only interest is his work or one who never takes a vacation. ”
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cupy all of our time and attention. Those who have never learned to occupy their free time with interesting things actually suffer from greater tension when they are away
working.
Get a good night's sleep every night. a To vacation
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THERE isn't one job in a million: which is interesting enough to oc-|
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States Are Now Taking Hand in ‘Ending Strikes
By FRED W. PERKINS WASHINGTON, Oct, 1.-—-Stawe
management rows—a field in which federal authority built up almost a national copyright dure
ing the war, Two instances
big oil strike, which Secre tary of Labor
and his new director of concilia tion, Edgar Warren have described as the most serious impediment to post-wap changeover. : Up to this morning the dispute over paying full wartime wages for a lesser number of peacetime working hours had resisted all conciliation efforts—first in Chis cago and then in Washington, in« cluding all-day Sunday sessions here. Secretary Schwellenbach was given credit by some of his aids for bringing about withdrawal of C. I. O. oil worker pickets from the large Standard Oil refinery at Whiting, Ind. He sent a fele« gram asking the withdrawal. But when the end came to picketing, - the pickets shouted, “The troops are coming!” s n ” THAT is according to reports from Whiting, which stated also that Governor Ralph E. Gates of Indiana had caused mobilization of several units of the state guard, after an appeal from local and county officials. Governor Gates claimed, however, that the guard units were just placed on the alert, The Whiting refinery has an ine dependent union, not engaging in the C. I. O. strike. Secretary Schwellenbach sent another telegram to August Scholle in Detroit. He is direc tor of the Michigan C. L O.
The secretary urged that the
rationing program in which applicants reportedly could get their motor fuel only through convincing C. 1. O. representatives af filling stations of emergency res quirements.
o ” ” MR. SCHWELLENBACH said that if rationing is necessary in the Detroit area “it Should be done by the proper authorities.” Later the twe Michigan sena» tors, Arthur H. Vandenberg and Homer Ferguson, said they had called the Detroit rationing probjem to Secretary Schwellenbach’s attention before his telegram, and at the request of the Michigan governor, Ralph E. Kelly, The third instance of governor action was in New York City’s elevator strike. Maybe the strik« ers were. tired of striking. after a week of it, but on the surface it appears they agreed to go back to work at a request from Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. The governor said if the strikers and manages ment could not agree on an ars bitrator he would name one. » . ” . MR. SCHWELLENBACH, talke ing here to the first meeting of the labor and management spokesmen in the oll disturbance, sald: “The government of the United. States, representing 130 million people, and particularly repre« senting the young men we have overseas, is here begging and pleading with you that you get together. , , . The time is rapidly approaching when the American people as a whole are going to take some stand upon these ques= tions.”
The action feared by Mr, Schwellenbach could be congress sional adoption of some law lead« ing toward compulsory arbitration of labor disputes. » " un AS OCTOBER opens, the bass voice of John L. Lewis is threat ening more coal strikes against coal operators who are fighting unionization of mine foremen. Independent unions in the telephone business, protesting a recommendatign by a national labor relations board examiner, are threatening a “demonstrae tion” which might interrupt long« distance calls some time this week, - And the big threat--still a live one—to reconversion is the actual and potential automobile strikes in Detroit.
‘MAGIC CARPET’ IS HOMEWARD BOUND
PEARL HARBOR, Oct. 1 (U. P.), ~The 27,000-ton carrier Ticonder«
oga was west coast-bound with 2500 © dischargees today as pacemaker for the navy’s “Magic Carpet” fleet of 40 escort carriers and 200 attacks transports scheduled to bring home 3,400,000 servicemen in 1045 and 1946. : The Ticonderoga left here yesters day after Rear Adm. Henry 8, Kendall, commander o Ube Special shipping pool, revea navy plans to transport more than 400,000 men home during the next ie months and some 3008000 in; in
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