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Burr, 69. Survivors daughters, Helen M, e M. Davis; sister,

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ROBERT C. WEBBER, who is making a name for himself in the refrigeration field, acquired his first patent the other day. He has invented a method to improve the efficiency of a standard-type refrigerating system. He applied for the patent back in August,

. 1944, but it took until last Sept. 25 to receive it. It's

| years ago with one in his basement.

good until 1962, ,., Mr, Webber, who lives near Southport, already has built several frozen food con= tainers in his spare time. He started out about three Now he has

bb three (and they're full of food, too) and thinks he'll

have to build a fourth, .”. . He recently applied for another patent. This time it'is on a self-sealing container for fast frozen foods. The present con-

] tainers have to be sealed with an iron, ., . The latest

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| between the poultry, pig and baby brooders. . pay it's a good device for the rural residents, how- | ever—especially those whose homes have electricity I but no furnaces.

. name for the eléctrically-heated, germ-free playhouse

for rearing. babies is “baby brooder.” But now people are wondernig how the rural folks will distinguish Some

Frederick Weber , , . His music is heard dally by thousands.

Better Gasoline

. BATON ROUGE, La.—One of the country’s biggest old refineries is now reconverted and giving motorists the best gas they've ever had. The transition to peacetime operations was .accomplished by turning off some ‘valves and opening some others. It was as simple as that, according to M. W. Boyer, vice president of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey and general manager of its Louisiana division which operates the refinery in this colorful state capital. During ‘the war, Standard’s Baton Rouge refinery was one of the largest aviation gasoline producers in the country, : “When the Japanese decided to quit, the government immediately cancelled its orders for aviation gasoline. It was then up to us to go into production of peacetime products,” said Boyer before he conducted a party of 18 newsmen through the plant. “We had a few decisions to make and we made them quickly,” continued Boyer. “Within a week's time we had converted into the production of post‘war gasoline for motorists. This gasoline is of better quality than we've ever made for automobile users.”

Best Usable Motor Fuel

OTHER OIL refiners have announced in the weeks since V-J Day that they were putting higher octane gases on the civilian market. Boyer wouldn't say what the octane rating of the new automobile gasoline was. But he made it cleat that the company was prepared to put out the best kind of fuel ft was within the capacity of motor car engines to burn. When the ooniract cancellations eame through, the refinery immediately shut down facilities that had application strictly to aviation gasoline. Despite that, Boyer added, the refinery did not Jay off a single worken, He explained that the

Science

THE ATOMIC BOMB and the radio proximity fuse Insured victory in world war II and saved the lives of millions of our men. The fuse made it possible for our navy to steam to the coast of Japan; it neu-

tralized the robot rocket bomb attack on England; it

turned the tide in the Ardenne sector, the “battle of the bulge.” Two atomic bombs convinced Japan that the time to give up had arrived. Now both these developments resulted from the fact that com= petent scientists were ‘given ade~ quate funds with which to carry on the necessary research. It might be well to point out that all the accomplishments of science during world war II were not in the direction of destruction. Equally important advances were made in the field of medicine. In this connection the researches on blood plasma, blood fractions and penicillin are outstanding.

Research Policy Needed

THE QUESTION now before the nation is the establishment of a policy with regard. to scientific research. The basic question is whether or not we ean maintain scientific progress in peacetime at the rate we did during world war IL However, there are many ramifications to be considered. Wartime researches were secret and on problems of immediate urgency to the army and navy. Peacetime researches require a different basis and a different direction, Even the problem of scientific research in military

My Day

NEW YORK, Tuesday—Last night I went to Newark, N. J. for a freedom raMy held under the auspices of the Federation of Negro College Students

and other civic groups of the city, The mayor was there and the auditorium was crowded, I was glad

ato see that it really was a joint

“meeting of many people of different national origins and of varied

Inside Indianapolis

' be no future generations!

. edged that he and his contemporaries had failed,

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Local Inventor

- FREDERICK WEBER, 5031 W, 15th st, has a noon-hour chore which can be heard blocks away.

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He rings the bells at Christ church on the Circle from noon to 12:05 p. m. If you heard a sour note the

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other day, though, it wasn’t Mr. Weber's fault, A repairman had been working on the bells and got the chains leading up to the belfry mixed up. Mr. Weber just had to hit a couple of notes to know something was wrong. So that day Indiangpolis was without noon-hour music. . . . Mr. Weber has been ringing the bells at Christ church and playing hymns on them for about 10 years. The only times they aren't heard are when something breaks or when Mr. Weber takes his vacation in the summer. . . . The bells, he tells us, date back ta the civil war days. A Southern minister was at the church back in 1858 and wanted the

But the Northerners balked. Thus the St. Paul's Episcopal church was organized when the Southern group broke away from the church.... Only one other church in the city is believed to have actual bells which are played on Sunday and on special occasions. It is St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran church on the South side. ,.. The religious music heard from 12 to 12:10 each day often is confused with the hymns played by Mr. Weber. The 10-minute program is played by Virginia Byrd and comes from the Clay= pool hotel where WIRE has its studio.

Park Board's Home

THIS HAS BEEN moving ‘week for the city park board. Superintendent Paul Brown and his staff have moved to the former governor's mansion at 101 E. 27th st. After some remodeling the house now has nine rooms on the second floor and six on the first. The kitchen was enlarged by taking out the pantries and now, along with the adjoining sun porch, houses the planning. and construction division of the park board. . . .» Mr. Brown has his office in what formerly was the dining room. In the old living room the board of park commissioners has set up its office. The music room houses the division of maintenance and the superintendent's office and personnel. Up-

stairs in what used to be bedrooms are the division

of finance and accounting and the recreation department. The two recreation rooms in the basement will be used for teen-age activities and as a lunchroom for employees, There has been some wiring and painting done and Mr. Brown thinks the new park board offices are going to be quite homey. ... The Indianapolis Power & Light Co. made sure the city wouldn't freeze during the present cold spell, It turned on the city heat for its 932 customers a week early, The date for turning on the heat usually is Sept. 25. This year it was Sept. 17,

By Sandor Klein

plant's 9000 employees had been and still are on a 48-hour work week. But beginning Oct. 22, the refinery’s. labor force will go on a 40-hour work week. “Right now there's a pretty heavy demand for automobile gasoline, Boyer said, but he expects it to fall off ‘pretty soon. He explained it this way: “In 1941 there were between 27,000,000 and 28,000,000 cars in this country. Now there are about 21,500,000. Despite this reduction, the lifting of gasoline rationing led to a flury of tank filling by gas-starved motorists. “So it's reasonable to expect,” Boyer said, that within a short time this initial flurry will die down and there will be some reduction in gasoline requirements. I think this reduction in demand will last a year or two, depending on how fast new cars come in. Then I'm sure well have plenty of business.”

No Job Problem

RECONVERSION was no problem at Ingalls’ Pascagoula shipyards either. As a matter of fact, said Monro B. Lanier, president of Ingalls, there was no need for reconversion, It’s a business-as-usual proposition there. The company has $120,000,000 in orders still to be filled and Lanier believes this is enough to keep the yards going full blast through 1046 and perhaps well into 1947. : A Right now the Ingalls plant is employing 8000 workers. By March, it expects to employ 10,500, only 500 below the war-time peak. Ingalls is representative of new-born industry in the south. It is wholly-owned and operated by southerners and is not dependent on outside capital. Lanier believes it typifies the determination of the south never again to hitch its economy almost entirely to agriculture.

By David Dietz

problems needs additional study. The provisional research board for national security, as now constituted, provides for a maximum of 20 scientists, 10 high-ranking army officials and 10 high-ranking navy officials. It provides for an executive committee of five of which three shall be civilians and one of the three shall be the chairman, Tt would seem, therefore, that the intent of this arrangement is to place major responsibility and control in the hands of the scientists. I believe that this is essential if the desired results are to be obtained from this board. Drew On ‘Scientific Capital’ BUT IT is also important to realize that the de sired developments in applied science were obtained during world war II because there was a backlog of achievements in pure science upon which they could be based. It may be that we have used up most of our “scientific capital” in the course of world war IL Also, it is necessary to understand that no one is capable of saying in advance where the next important “find” in pure science may come. At the moment, the world is tremendously con~ cerned over the problem of atomic energy. Astrono.mers have long believed that the energy of the sun and stars was generated by a process of atom-smash-ing in the interior of those bodies. Periodically a star that has been dim turns suddenly bright. It undergoes an explosion and becomes what the astronomers call a “nova” or “new star.” It is entirely possible that some astronomer studying novae will come forward with a hint about atomic processes as important as Dr. Lise Meltner's original guess about uranium 235,

‘By Eleanor Roosevelt

face will find no solutions as long as we, of the older generation, are making the decisions, 1 have lately come to think, however, that in this atomic age we are not going to be able to sit back comfortably and look to the future generations to solve the problems of the world. An atomic bomb moves so fast that, unless we remove any reason for its destructive use, there may

It would be comfortable to accept the pessimism of a Henry Adams who, enjoying pessimism, acknowl-

hoped future generations would do better. But the sad situation of being forced to act risk of having no future in the and our forefathers have built, the accounts of the peace conin Europe, one conviction

pass the time in many ways. ham, Edinburg, and Sgt. Charles

romances.

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e cannot help feeling that our about the necessity for peace, suspicion,

ARMY HAS NEW SECRET WEAPON

Long Distance Calls.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 3 (U. P). ~The army yesterday let the pubHe in on another of its “secret weapons” — a highly-mobile ultra short wave directional radio transmitter which in peacetime may eliminate the need for long distance telephone wires. During the war more than 10,000 of the transmitters, weighing less than 300 pounds and capable of keeping up with motorized troops, helped speed American invasion forces in Africa, Europe and the Pacific. : The army plans to use an improved model in the occupation of Japan. Device Demonstrated

, Signal corps technicians demonstrated the interception-proof highfrequency device to newsmen yesterday. There are two models using frequency modulation—the AN TRC-1 and AN TRC-8—and two which use super-high- frequency “pulse modulation”—described 4s an entirely new development in radio communications. The latter are AN TRC-8 and AN TRC-6. All can send and receive several voice or teletype channels on a single carrier wave, - According to Dr, H. H. Beverage, associate director of RCA laboratories which collaborated with the signal corps in development. of the instruments, the operation “eliminates the necessity of long lines long-distance communication.”

Improves Transmission Pre-war walkie talkies, army spokesmen said, were subject to bad weather, sabotage, jamming and interception, leading to, developmeht of the new transmitters, first used effectively in the Normandy in~ vasion, the Philippines landings of and were the sole means of communication with isolated units during last winter's “Battle of the Bulge,” The latest model sends on a su-per-frequency band of 4300 to 4900 megacycles and with a corresponding wave length of about half the length of a lead pencil. It operates perfectly in any kind of weather, army officials said. Messages are interception-proof because no mere twirling of dials can pick up the wave length, a mere fraction of those receivable on a

Device May Erase Need of

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The hours seem long to the Cyclone men as they sweat out final discharge. In their barracks waiting the first step in separation they Here (left to right) S. Sgt. Arvin Gra-

Phipps, Shelbyville, read western

__ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1945 38TH: DIVISION MEN ARRIVE AT : :

Back Home in Indiana—Glad

chimes played everytime there was a Southern victory, |

CAMP ATTERBURY

Getting ready to bed down for the night at Camp Atterbury following their long trip across the country, 38th division men (left to right) Sgt. Edward Poole, Shelbyville, and 8. Sgt. Robert Goodnight, Russiaville, are back home in Indiana and mighty glad of it. ]

«Photos by Victor Peterson, Times Staff Photographer. Are these 38th divisioners happy? Look at them, Front (left to right) Sgt. John R. Baker, Cpl. Cecil Merkle and Cpl. Claude L. Mullenix. ‘Back (left to right) Cpl Gilbert Bruning, Sgt. Bill W. Purdue, Cpl Richard L. Farrington and Cpl. Jack W. Elkins, all of Indianapolis.

of It

We, the Women

‘lege, New York City, go In to ~ talk to Prof. Dora Lewis, head of the department of home econom~ ics, she tells them: lose if you choose home economics

eral arts stud-

-80 right it is a

"to make a livable home out of an

THREE QUESTIONED IN

Even Career Girls Can Use Home Traiiing

By RUTH MILLETT WHEN students at Hunter cols

“You can't along with lib-

jes. It will serve you well whether you devote ful time to home and marriage or become a career girl.” Prof. Lewis is

wonder that all colleges and universities don’t require their women students to take some courses that will fit them to be home-makers.

For whether or not women marry and rear children, practically all of them must make some kind of home, ” ” » AND IF they are to be happy, well-adjusted individuals, they must do a good job of whatever kind of home-making they at. tempt.

The working girl who, by the wise handling of her mohey and her creative cleverness, contrives

inexpensive apartment and sec-ond-hand furniture has a much better background for herself than the girl who just assumes that because her salary is small she must live in a dreary hall bed room. ®

Yet the average college girl with a career on her mind seldom realizes that along with learning a specialty whereby she can earn a living she also should be learn~ ing how to be a home-maker. td ” ” THE CHANCES are she event. ually will marry. And even if she doesn't she still has to provide some kind of home for herself.

Perhaps one reason why se many single career girls have such dreary home lives is because they have neglected to prepare themselves for living while preparing themselves to earn a living.

If schools want to turn out hap py as well as successful women, they shouldn't let girls get through school without some fun« damental home-making training.

ATTEMPTED HOLDUP

Police today were questioning

FIVE HOOSIERS FREED

When 'Butch' Makes Error— Changed Name of Sixth Ave.

ave. subway, 10,000 new subway maps, 4600 changes in the telephone directory, new tax maps, as well as new stationery for hundreds of stores and new store front signs. Michael J. Tormey, Brooklyn, .s

iL NEW YORK, Ocfr 3 (U. P)— Sixth ave, became the Avenue of the Americas yesterday, but not until after a citizen of Brooklyn had said of Mayor F, H. LaGuardia: “When he makes a mistake, it's a

North Liberty, of Shelbyville,

Five Indiana men have been liberated from Japanese prison camps, the war department announced today. The men are Nelson L. Johnson of Gary, Robert G. Martin of Decatur, Wilford L. McCommer of Earl R. Row of Clinton and Willlam D. Spurlin

three men, arrested immediately after an attempted holdup at the Mueller Auto Sales Co., 53 E. South st., last night, The three men, who are being held on vagrancy charges, were identified by George Van Stan, 470 8. Meridian st.,, nightwatchman, as the men who came into the company office and threatened to shoot him if he didn’t hand over the money,

former policeman, said the mayor had done a godd job but that even he made mistakes, Hope in Vain “And when he makes one, it's a whopper,” he said, adding hopefully: “But I know he's not going to make one this time.” His hope was in vain. The mayor spoke only once during the hearing. That was when Mrs. Nathaniel Thompson of Greenwich Village, a shapely, stylishly dressed blonde, rose to speak against the bill and said she was just a “plain person.” The mayor raised his head, adjusted his glasses, and then said soAtly : oe “You're not a plain person.” Shortly afterward he signed the bill,

MEET HERE IN DECEMBER

whopper.” The mayor signed the bill changing the name of the street after seven citizens in a public hearing at city hall had spoken in opposition, Two hours after the hearing, LaGuardia issued a statement saying the new name had received general approval, ‘ LaGuardia said that since the city councfl, at his request, had passed the bill Sept. 20, he had heard of no serious opposition, although he asserted there had been a concerted attempt to create some. Proponents of the change have said the new name is a symbol of New York's position as “center of the Americas.”

Produce “Proof” Albert 8. Bird, one of the speak-

ers, appealed against the change on the grounds of common sense:

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The watchman backed out the door as one man held his hand in hi spocket as if he had a weapon. The trio became {frightened and: fled. Police later arrested Robert Fugate, 18, of 1101 8. Kenwood ave., and Wilbur Walker, 21, of 4111 Weaver st, walking in the vicinity of the holdup. Franklin F. Cox, 35, of 833 8. Meridian st, was taken into custody at a tavern shortly after the attempted holdup.

WELCOME PLANNED

ROCHESTER, N, Y. Oct. 3 (U. P.) ~Rochester planned to welcome its war veterans with a block dance on a bridge over the Genesse river, “Tt was decided that the roar of the river might drown out the music of the band, so the committee arranged

“pifth ave. didn't need a flossy name to become a great street, and Sixth ave, doesn’t need one either.” Albert W. Ransom, 73, produced charts to show the change will en-

civilian short wave receiving set,

tail 1700 new car signs on the Sixth

WILLIE and JOE—By Mauldin

Plans for the 1945 convention of the Indiana Association of County and Township Officials were completed today. The conference was scheduled to be held here Dec. 4 to 6.

FILLS NEW POSITION Miss Margaret Lake, Secretary to State Treasurer Frank T, Millis, prepared today wo take over her new duties as secretary of the public deposits board. She was appointed to the position yesterday by Gove

ernor Gates,

flood gates 100 yards above the bridge.

for the river to be stopped by raising

MYSTERY MONEY

NEW YORK, Oct. 3 (U, P).—~A squad of policemen patroled a sec~ tion of W, 51st st. in attempt to locate the phantom philanthropist who has been showering the streets with several dollars worth of coins almost every day. All they got was a vague rumor that the phantom had gone to Hollywood for a month's vacation,

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D. The elastic tissue jn the arteries which wears out as we grow older is replaced by scar tissue, lime and other non-elastic materials, The vessel wall thickens and becomes more brittle, which may cause it to plug * or rupture, ... i H although harden- oh ing of the arteries occurs in all of lus as we grow older, the change does not start at the same age or develop at the J same rate in everyone, Blight "aging changes are seen in the arteries of babies and throughout childhood.

As soon as we stop growing, aging {changes in. the arteries become

more marked until they. are found

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Circulation Becomes Less Efficient

Hardening of Arteries Affects All

HARDENED arteries may carry as much blood as ever, in some instances actually more because they are stretched and longer, but the vessel wall lacks elastic recoil, and this “interferes with the fexibility of circulation, The chief accident which occurs in hardening of the arteries is rupture. Most vital spot in the body for rupture to occur is the brain, where the condition is known as apoplexy. A cerebral “accident” occurs when a small or large vessel in the brain is blocked or torn, with the result apparently more serious in the be-

. |ginning than it will be later on.

' . ~ » HARDENING of the arteries results in interference with the circulation by narrowing the passage way. Favorite spots for this change to develop are the coronary arteries

In most blood. vessels in advanced years Li

of the heart, and the arteries of of |the legs and feet, foi of

efficient in the heart and the lower extremities as we grow older and we should not tax our reserve by over-exertion: Injuries of the feet, every those which are superficial, have less of a tendency to heal promptly in older persons because of insufficient circulation. 3 Difficulty in high blood press = sure occurs in the smallest arteries of the body which are composed chiefly of muscle. In the begin. = ning stages of high blood pressure, these small arteries develop spasm, which in the later stages permanent hardening occurs. Purpose of these small arteries is to distribute blood. [flow where needed. They operate