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Inside Indianapolis

THE NEW TELEPHONE directories will be out

~¥ov..] and just 50,000 changes had to be made to While we're on

bring the 1945 edition up to date. the statistical end of things, here are a few other figures about the book. It'll have about 556 pages— almost 50 more than last year's. The total number of copies has been increased, too. Last year 131,000 came off the press but this year it will be boosted to 135,000. The. books, which up until 1842 came out every six months, require several tons of ink to be printed, They will be distributed by a St. Louis company and should-be in every home by Nov,.5. R:E. McLaughlin is directery manager but it won't do a big of good to call him up now and ask to have yofir name or address changed in the new directory, The changes stopped last month and there'll be no exceptions made. . . .' Speaking of changes, a new name will take the last spot in the name listing in the directory. Last year Uriah R. Zzowzed, 3115 N. Pennsylvania st., took the tail-end position. But this year Uriah is no more. The name was a fictitious one

- adopted by several young fellows who lived together

at the Pennsylvania st. address, The house was sold this summer, however, and the young bachelors had to move. Edward Zwicker and Eugene Zwiesler may vie for the spot this year.

Model Railroad Detailed

NOW THAT the war. scarcities are thinning out, model railroaders are getting on the ball again. Ever-

Mr. and Mrs. Everett Lehnert... They're up til midnight with their model railroad.

Bedell Smith of Indianapolis. . .

50,000 Changes

ett Lehnert, a ‘baggage agent for 24 years down at the Union station, has a dandy railroad in thé basement of his home, 846 Hawthorne lane. And that basement is really the center of attraction for the youngsters in the neighborhood, There are about 25 of them there every Sunday. . . . Mr. Lehnert started out with just one locomotive and a few cars about six years ago. Now he has seven complete trains and a complete village. He has a replica of Washington's Mt. Vernon home which is the village's country club, Mrs, Lehnert is a model railroader, too, and spends hour after hour building the houses for the village. . Mr, Lehnert’s trains can back up as well as-go forward, They can switch off to a siding and go slow or fast. The railroad covers about half of the Lehnert basement. There's a control panel- to operate all the switches electrically. And another set of switches operates the trains themselves, The Lehnert railroad has had several wrecks but there have never been any lives lost. Once Mr, Lehnert almost got a motion picture of one of the wrecks but he got so excited when he saw that the trains were going to crash that he forgot to take the picture. When something goes wrong with the railroad, they have a unique way of fixing it. There are holes cut in various parts of the table which holds the model tracks and cars. The repairman just crawls under the table, lifts out part of the village and sees what the trouble is. The set is too large to just reach across the table and find the trouble.

Customer Starts Alarm

THE BURGLAR ALARM went off at the Chaplin

pharmacy at 46th and College yesterday morning. But there was nothing. to become alarmed about. Some early bird had rattled the door about 7:30 a. m. and it accidentally came unlocked, There were quite a few people near the store when the bell went off but they weren't too anxious to find out what was wrong. . . . Mrs, Elizabeth Spahr, 202 E. 33d st., has passed her 103d birthday but still is going strong. She spends her time listening to the radio and visiting with friends, And occasionally she finds time to attend. meetings of the Friday Afternoon Reading club. She's a very good friend of Lt. Gen. Walter . Miss Favorite of Lafayette is just two years younger than Mrs, Spahr, She's a very rabid Republican but has President Truman's picture hanging on the wall. She tells her friends that if Mr, Truman “doesn’t do right by the American people” she's going to “tear his picture right down off the wall.” So far, the picture still is hanging on the wall.

Imperial Theater By William McGaffin

TOKYO.—It's quite an experience to be a firstnighter in Tokyo—or rather a “first afternooner.” Your correspondent had that experience, and from the imperial box at the Imperial theater, at that. Incidentally, the box is used by almost everybody in the royal family except the emperor, who cannot appear in such ‘worldly places. The play is built around the theme of how one little man with faith persuaded his hopeless fellowmen to get on with the job of rebuilding Tokyo after the 1923 earthquake. The anology with the present situation of the modern ‘earthquake,” wrought by B-20s, is unmistakable even before the star of the piece, Onoe Kikugoro of “Dkabuki players, comes on the stage with a curtain speech urging the audience to ‘co-operate with me in rebuilding Tokyo and Japan.”

No Women in Cast

BETWEEN ACTS there are half-hour intermissions to permit change of scenes. This playgoer went into a private sitting room to while away the time with beer and hors d'oeuvres. He also went behind scenes to talk with the actors as they dressed. Men take the part of the women in this produc« tion, a la Elizabethan Shakespeare. Onoe Kikugoro, who is one of Japan's leading classical actors-——the only one to have been decorated

Joy the emperor—looks much younger than his 60

years, when on the stage, made up and minus his steel-rimmed spectacles. In this play he demonstrates his amazing versatility by appearing first in a modern role, then as a classical dancer.

Science

THE PLAN for a National Research Foundation, proposed by Dr. Vannevar Bush in a report to President Truman, seeks to maintain traditions of the sicentific world and the American way of life and at

the same time to carry into the post-war world the wartime structure that produced the atomic bomb, the radio proximity fuse, blood plasma and penicillin, The top scientific organization of the war was the office of scientific research and development, of which Dr, Bush was director. This functioned by making contracts with existing universities, research foundations and industrial con- | cerns for desired scientific research. Until the time was reached where it was felt desirable for the army to take over

'the production of the atomic bomb, the researches

were carried out under such contracts with the Uni« versity of Chicago, California, Columbia, Princeton, etc. The radio proximity fuse was developed under a contract with Johns Hopkins university.

Machinery for Research THE accomplishments of the OSRD are being told to the public as security considerations permit. Undoubtedly many months will elapse before the full story is told. The OSRD made more than 3000 contracts with a total of more than 300 scientific laboratories. Some 7500 scientists, the leading scientists of America, worked on these researches. The foundation suggested by Dr. Bush would step Into the field vacated by the OSRD. It would not Interfere in any way with the scientific bureaus of the various agencies of government such as, for example, the stations and laboratories of the depart ‘ment of agriculture.

NEW YORK, Thursday.—On Tuesday evening T

attended the dinner given to gain support for the downtown community school,

This school, which started its career in Greenwich house on Barrow st., has grown so rapidly that they

have now acquired their own ‘building on 17th st, opposite St. Marks-in-the-Bowrie. The bullding was a hospital and adapts itself very well, they tell me, to the needs of the school. It includes a nursery school and more primary grades than they were

The basic concept of the school is that it shall really be a community school. It proposes to take part in the life of the community and include all the ele-

ments of the community among its students, thereby helping them to live and work in the future n a

community.

The part I like best is the fact that they expect "work with the parents as well as with the children, ; arid this seems to me to_make a great deal of sense. ‘in any educational adventure! "2

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First, in the blue denim garb of a restaurant keeper, who stubbornly starts a restaurant in a shack on the Ginza after the earthquake and eventually, by word of mouth and heroic example, Onoe gefs doubting Thomases to join him in rebuilding the devastated city, “The World Will Not Go Back,” is his theme.

Does ‘Tiger’ Dance THIS DRAMA, reminiscent of U. S. group theater productions, occupies the first half of the performance, In the second half Onoe does the famous centuries-old stylized Dance of the Tiger: Attired in a gorgeous kimono with geisha wig, he dances in the exciting role of a young girl who was transformed into a tiger, complete with white mane. . In this part he is accompanied by oriental musie, rendered by a variety of drums, strings and woodwinds and a “Greek chorus” of Nagauta singers, which chants the story in a minor key. In traditional oriental fashion, the stagehands shift the scenery during the dance wthout dropping the curtain. The Imperial theater, which seats 1300, is the principal legitimate theater in the country, It %as closed in the middle of the war during the “Spartan life” movement and just re-opened yesterday. Undamaged by raids, it is as modern and attractive as any theater in the western world. For the premier, the nondescript clothed audience contrasted impressively with the magnificently costumed players. But whatever their clothes, these people, from all patterns of life, seemed to have plenty of money to spend. Tickets ranged in price up to 19% yen, comparable in Japanese eyes to about $19.50. Top-price tickets are only 6% yen but there is an additional 200 per cent luxury tax.

By David Dietz z |opals, sapphires, topazes, and the | jewels of kings.

On the other hand, there would be no interference with the present plafis of universities and research institutions to conduct their work in their own way. The plan would, however; set up the mathinery by which research work could be accelerated and conducted on the scale that it was during the. war. By means of contracts, the National Research Foundation would make available the funds for researches Which were deemed of special importance to the security and welfare of the nation. Dr. Bush emphasizes the particular necessity of carrying on large-scale researches in so-called fundamental or “pure” science. He points out that too often we have, with Yankee irigenuity, made spectacular and important industrial applications of fundamental discoveries that had been made by the scientists of Europe.

Urges Public Support THIS STATE of affairs, as he says, cannot con- | tinue in the future. “A nation which depends upon others for its new basic scientific knowledge will be slow in its industrial progress and weak in its competitive position in| world trade, regardless of its mechanical skill,” Dr. Bush says in his report to President Truman. Dr. Bush would have congress make available a

budget of $10,000,000 a year to the National Research | [to buy and sell the diamonds that|istence was d token of love. Foundation to begin a program of research in funda-| | eventually funnel through this in-|it is rapidly tossed from hand to ; “Eventually he would | conspicious corner at Canal st. and | hand.

mental and applied sicence. have this budget stepped up to $50,000,000 a year, In addition, he would have a budget of} $5,000,000 | a year to start a program of medical research. . This, in its turn, would eventually be stepped up to $20,000,000 a year, Finally, the Bush plan would make available a

fund of $30,000,000 a year for graduate fellowships and Eremris

undergraduate scholarships. Part of the plan would be the holding of annual examinations for high school students to find those students most worthy of the scholarships,

By Eleanor Rusencii

talk, hold a question period and attend an informal! gathering with the students and a few of the faculty | until about 10:30. This last gathering was the one I enjoyed the most. As a matter of fact, there was really nothing to apologize about, for this schedule 15 what ene ex | pects on a one-night jaunt to any college; and I) always find the contact with young people a revivifying experience, ‘Mt, Holyoke has a beautiful campus, and they told me of a custom established there which sounds delightful. One day in October before the hunting season opens, but if possible after a frost has colored the trees, the chapel bells ring out in the early morn-

* ing. This is the signal that everything in the way of classes is cancelled for the day, and the girls can

go climbing the neighboring mountains.

They like it so well that these particular girls thought they would institute such a gay wherever

they were in the future. The custom has many values, 1 think, For climb-

ing to the tops of mountains can give One courage to climb over one's academic difficulties, The early months of any semester present these ‘difficulties sharply to most students, since the return to routine jaa Sind cata 8 period of Yegunmen, ater 8 ig Mass., summer young ladies

The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION HIROSHIMA

(Ir The atomic bomb brought

member Pearl Harbor.” These

center of town.

sage to the Japanese people -- “Re-

citizens of Hiroshima, first city hit by the devastating bomb, will carry that memory in scars for a long time. The people are cared for in a damaged bank near the

° FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1945 STILL NURSES ATOMIC WOUNDS

a mes-

burned

The Japanese characters

(2) Bombed out of their stores by the atomic bomb, Japanese merchants place a sign on the rubble that was a building. The announcement says, “We're moving.”

the powerful bomb in the simple announcement of a new address,

small son, His terrific heat. tell the story of :

temporarily.

(3) A Japanese mother, injured by the blast of atomic energy, adjust the bandage on the head of her

Both are bedded on the floor of a damaged bank building, where burn and fracture cases are being treated

(4) leans over to

face was seared by the

for style, After the atomic bomb hit Hiroshima, the old custom became a necessity.

An ancient custom is revived im Hiroshima for the practical purpose of muffling the odor. of decaying bodies. There was a time when Japanese women wore masks over their noses and mouths

care this winter.

This is essentially a welfare problem, It is the joint responsibility of the army and the UNRRA. A visit to one of = these centers : where Jews have : been assembled provides convince ing evidence that the problem slowly is being licked after a bad start. But the long- : range rehabilitation of these peoie oN ple—whom Hitler . treated like the scum of the earth is an entirely different problem. This is where the international angie comes in. President Truman has Prime Minister Attlee to relax restriction so more Jews may migrate to Palestine. The chances of this being done | appear extremely remote. British

By JEAN GEORGE NEA Staff Writer

NEW YORK, Oct, 5—Down on the Bowery, just across the street from Joe's 10-cent flop house, tha most fabulous business in the world goes on—the business of buying and selling diamonds. In the windows of the diamond

.| markets, gaudy stones as big as wal-

nuts glitter temptingly. Beside them, on black velvet, lie rubies, blood red and glistening; amethysts,

Beneath the windows, ragged men sleep on the sidewalk. Dirty street urchins run up and down the steps of the rumbling 3d ave. El, playing “Al Capone and cops.” Old women pick in trash barrels for tin foil and string. Here, amid abject poverty, is the greatest diamond -market in the world, Merchants from France,

Jewelry crafts-

men work in the shadow of the : old “el” on the ° dys

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the most faburt: | lous diamonds in the world are

=! bought and sold.

oi. India, Mexico, {states journey across sea and land |

| the Bowery,

asked |

empire policy is still based on the fact that the Empire's population is predominantly Moslem, " " o

WHAT 1S to become of these stateless Jews? The last thing they

under the most ideal conditions. They say that they want to go to Palestine or to join relatives in the new world--particularly the United States and Canada. But even if they could go wherever they wanted to right now,

either mentally or physically to face life on their own, If many -of them feel that the world owes them a living, it must be blamed largely on the savage per{secutions which they have suffered in the past. : » ” ” IF A man lives 10 years In a Nazi concentration camp and survives Ihe may be pardoned for having a

want is to remain in Germany even

most of them are in no condition!

HITLER TREATED THESE PEOPLE LIKE SCUM OF THE EARTH—

The Plight of Europe's Homeless Jews

By EDWARD P. MORGAN

Times Foreign Correspondent MUNICH, -Oct. 4.—The problem of Jewish refugees in Germany is rapidly developing international complications. Following Washington's sharp rebuke, military government officials are redoubling their efforts to see that the 25,000 Jewish persons in the American zone ‘get proper

martyr complex. Still, that does not help him adjust himself to the world as a free man, When liberated from places like Dachau and Buchenwald, the inmates, both Jews and non-Jews, acted more like animals than humans. They had to be broken of the habit of living in filth. They had

to be shown that sinks weren't built to hold garbage. Above all, after years as slave

laborers, their revulsion to work has!

to be patiently removed, n ” o AT CAMP FOHRENWALD, 19 miles south of Munich, 90 per cent of the 2000 population is Jewish. This camp provides a heartening

‘example of the rehabilitation pro-

gram in action. Fohrenwald displaced persons’ “camps in the American zone. Built as a model village for Nazi armament workers, its normal capacity is 3200 persons. Inmates are moved there from overcrowded camps. At its peak ‘the community will house 900 children, mostly orphans. n ” o MRS. MARGARET JEAN HENSHAW of Ottawa, Canada— a wel{fare worker, who heads the camp

At Canal st. and the Bowery, the “el” casts its shadows over the most fabulous diamond center of the world.

Each merchant rents a stall in the large room at the amazingly low rental of $1 a. day. To him come refugees with their family | jewels, pawn brokers with diamonds {and topazes that were never claimed, | buyers from swank Fifth ave. jewel | ers, from California and Iowa, old men with beards, young men start- { ing in the business, { All of them are bursting with | | jewels and rolls of bills. A rough,| | scarred hand holds a $25,000 brace-| | let. It throws off a million sharp | lights from carefully cut facets of | many diamonds.

love, Charles.” At one time its ex-

The bracelet is now some- | one's bread and butter,

| WILLIE and JOE—By Mauldin

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Engraved on the and all 48 back are the words—'"To Paula with

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Surrounded precious jewels,

by an

coffee. “The eleventh Thou shalt not chisel.”

Never a Robbery

The rich and the poor come in,| some to buy, some to sell,

is one of the best

armload of Felix Eckler eats a | ham sandwich and drinks a cup of A sign ovér his booth reads: |

commandment | 0H family vault they will be

{ brooches and earrings,

Before | | dicker.

UNRRA staff of 16-—told visiting correspondents that Fohrenwald has a full school program, from kinder« garten to full trades courses. “Training these people for civilian life is the biggest thing we can do here,” she said. “Our greatest problem is to teach them a correct and healthy attitude toward work.” We saw Estonian, Czech, Polish and Yugosly women converting wehrmacht uniforms into warm and gaily embroidered clothes for chil~ dren. Rag dolls and muffs emerged from canvas belting material, Latvian boys are learning the fundaments of farming. Some of the men are making shoes, chopping wood and going ‘to school, o » ” THE CAMP has a good hospital with 11 refugee doctors, 11 nurses and excellent ntedical equipment, including X-ray. Conditions at this camp, admitted ~ ly, are superior to those of most others. But, for scores of Fohrenwald residents and for many others in less handsome surroundings elsewhere, this undoubtedly will be the most comfortable winter of their lives. Then what?

World's Riches Arrayed i in Midst of Bowery Poverty

jeweler's loop and the diamond. There on the strget, bumping elbows with truck drivers and rough look-

' ing Bowery drunks, they look for

imperfections in the jewel. In the 70 years that the diamond market has been on the Bowery there has never been a robbery. The sparklers are like apples in an ore chard, They are taken for granted. This is business. A {transaction means a few dollars here, $100 there. Each merchant makes a living at it —not a fabulous living, but a secure income because diamonds are. currency. The men are in the business for many reasons. Some because their fathers were, some because they love beautiful things, some because they happened to come up in the business and never changed. In one corner of the mart, Nathan Woll, a goldsmith, sits with a jewel-

|er's blow torch and file, designing

He often wonders who will wear. them, in

stored, what lovely woman will wear the pendant. And all around him the picayune noise of small

{business talk goes on—“Whatcha

{want for it? I'm in no mood to

My sister-in-law wants a

a bargain 1s struck, the merchants] |diamond ring, and this is good

| run out into the daylight

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Consultations Benefit Patients

Physicians Prefer Teamwork

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M.D. whom -he will serve.

draw until select. their own

change physiclans, but they should give suf« ficient notice ‘so the switch will not be inconvenfent. In home illness, sufficient

ALUMNAE WILL HOLD |

at the academy, Mrs. Art Meyer, president, announced that dinner will

at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Romuald Mbollaun, O. F. M., chaplain, will be guest speaker.

| [entertainment chairman, will

| physicians

Once having | undertaken a.case, he cannot with, |

doubtful or difficult sybtiions,

served in the Academy dining room|

with al | enough.”

request

{1s of first importance,

much freer and easier in

for general

physicians {with others.

a ‘1 I Teamwork in medicine has beJhvance v 0 ge come commonplace with better hos- | Jamu 3 Ee pital staff organization, and staff | 4 " . {and medical society meetings. Iny / rien A Devemary call is Pr. O'Brien |, nal consultations in which staff rl os illness, especially in {physicians are asked by the attend-

increased | care. {physician must remain of the Patient.

the value of

ANNUAL HOMECOMING | | of Brgatment y

Alumnae of Immaculate Concep- | tion academy, Oldenburg, will hold | gency calls on other doctors’ patients| their 45th annual homecoming Sat-| when the attending physician can-| [F urday and Sunday, Oct.~13 and 14, not be reached. They provide for the immediate difficulty and suggest has| to the family that the regular phybe | sician be consulted afterward. In an accident when several phyThe Rev.| | slclans are summoned at the same former | time, the first tb arrive is considered the physician in charge and he re= Assisting Miss Alice Hesthong,| mains in charge until the family| ¥ A be| expresses another preference or asks $ {Miss Esther Nordmeyer, secretary] him to Sontise ji chmrge.: of the alumnae, and Miss Bernice ‘Waechter, president of the Cincinat he Wace Juels ios oe sonves § Feltman -of

consultation, | A physician 1s free to choose|In every consultation the bene- | {fit to be derived by the patient] therefore | honestly believe the code of medical “| patients also have the right to re-|ethics is a bar he has been released. | quest consultation.

Patients also have the right to |a stimulus to better service to We

CONSULTATIONS have become Sick. recent | years. With the development of spe- | cialism in medicine it has become a | common practice for specialists in! one field to refer patients to specialists in other fields for opinion, and to consult |

ing physician to see a patient have Kospital In any of these practices one in charge

PHYSICIANS respond to emer-

“PRINCIPLES ho edict Eines:

We, the Wome Bridge Table Held Fatal to High Secrets

By RUTH MILLETT It has finally been revealed that

the. atomic bomb. Why? Because, according to Dr. Joseph C. Morris of Tulane university, who aided in

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advertently let that secret slip out over the bridge table. a ” » THEY WERE wise men who foresaw that potential threat to military secrecy.’ For if private matters that should remain private ever coms out anywhere—it is over the bridge table. Competition for center of the stage is a strictly feminine gathe ering does something to women that make them tell things they know they haven't any business telling.

bridge game after bridge game to other women bragging about their husbands overseas—might one day weaken and say deflante ly, “Well, George isn't in uniform but...” And then go on to impress the other women with the importance , of George's civilian job, For women just can't be bested at bridge-table gossip—and what a woman knows is fully as ime portant to the enjoyment of the game as the cards she holds and how she plays them.

LUTHERAN DISTRICT ELECTS SECRETARY,

Arthur P. Eickhoff of Indianapolis will succeed Albert H. Ahlbrand of Seymour as financial secretary of the central district of the Missouri 8ynod Lutheran church, i The central district embraces 238 congregations in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia, Mr, Eickhoff was elected to the office at the recent convention of the dis trict in Ft. Wayne. He has beeh connected with the National Bank in Indianapolis for more than a quarter century.

patient and should be more widely known by the public,

Many misunderstand them and

to good medical As an actual fact, they are

service.

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