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Inside Indianapolis

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WILLIAM L. GARSTANG has some 50 inventions to his credit and has built a million-dollar enc Laboratories—to make them. And he is only 36. :

Yet it took a gag to make him famous. That was when he patented, just to see if : it could be done, a waffle iron which bakes your own initials in the center of the usual criss-cross pattern, The story, a relief from war news, got a big play in papers all over the country and in the army Stars and Stripes. Bill Garstang has a scrapbook filled with mail about it but there the waffle iron ended. He isn't making them. The incident explains why he looks baffled when anything is said abéut “wacky inventors.” He is profiting from his discovery that the public is fascinated by the novel, His company is making toys operating on electronic principles heretofore applied in the deadly serious business of winning the war. Bill Garstang is a tall, very slender fellow with a broad, high forehead. His inquiring mind is re flected in his analytical, wide-set eyes. His quiet, amiable disposition shows in his frequent, crooked smile. : His Victory Garden Grew BUT HE can—and does—crack down. He will listen to ideas of associates and not hesitate to say if he believes they are wrong. And he will fight to get his own ideas accepted. The fast growth of his company is making an executive out of him, but he is out in the shop or laboratories much of the time. He has had little time for hobbies but, typical of his thoroughness, his one hobby of a small victory garden has grown into a greenhouse and now a truck and dairy farm in Michigan, where he escapes hay fever. = His mechanical bent possibly was inherited from his parental grandfather, who was in charge of building the Big Four’s Beech Grove shops. But he got into the radio business when his maternal grandfather, Julius C., Walk, the jewelry merchant, gave him what is believed to be this city’s first radio receiver. It was in 1916 and the radio receiver was atop the Mer~ chants’ Bank building, where time signals for the clocks in Mr. Walk's store were received from Arlington, Va. naval observatory, as a publicity stunt. When the novelty wore off, young Bill got the set. Later he sold'a tube to. General Electric for its museum. : He went to grade school 60, at 33d and Pennsylvania sts, to Shortridge and Butler, the latter: foronly one year. Hearing that the University of Wisconsin had a good radio course, he transferred there, graduating in 1930.

Became Consulting Engineer A WEEK later he was working in P, R. Mallory's engineering department for $40 a week, There he developed the dry electrolytic condenser used in all radio sets today, and worked on the dry rectifier and vibrators. Meanwhile, he married Mary Fulton, whom he had known since they were sophomores at Wisconsin, having been introduced to each other by their mothers at the Monon's boulevard station, where they were

London Gloom

LONDON.—There were exactly two cheery news items in the London morning newspapers yesterday, a search for “sweetness and light” revealed. It . was announced that Canada had agreed to send 6000 tons of bacon to Britain during October and November. According to another item, _. 60,000 New York Ilongshoremen had agreed to go back to work on Monday. A Otherwise it was like a day back in 1940, only worse. The sit- 3 uation, all told, was so bad that it was almost funny. There was bad news from Washington and points west, Troops were on the move in Jerusalem, Saigon, Batavia and Buenos Aires, There was hell to pay in scientific circles. And even the mighty MacArthur was having trouble in Tokyo.

Confusion and Misery FEELING WAS GROWING. People were talking nonsense. Emotion was overcoming common sense. And the world was losing its head in a welter of confusion and misery. In Washington Americans were demanding that the British Empire abolish empire preference. In Washington and London the British were demanding that the Americans cut their own tariffs. In Liverpool they were having another big: longshoremen'’s strike.

A * t1 . NEW YORK, Oct. 6—"Railroads, steamship and bus lines are going to experience the greatest rush of business in their history as ‘the great network of cargo and passengercarrying airliners increases in size and efficiency during the coming five and 10 years.” It may seem strange but this quotation is from Gapt. Eddie Rickenbacker, president and general manager of Eastern Airlines. “What have they got to fear?” he asked. “It is true that the airlines probably will take from the railroads a large part of their passenger business, but that is the losing part of the railroad’s busi~ ness. We have found that we can make passenger-carrying pay 8 profit. It is true also that we are going to steadily increase cargo ot and express business on our airlines, but going to stimulate that business to the the other carriers will have more than they have

Mr. Garstang

with greater efficiency.”

Paints Optimistic Picture CAPT. RICKENBACKER predicted that, with the

propeller power units, much more rapidly than has been generally predicted. He painted an optimistic picture of business in general when the airlines really get fo going at top speed. “A businessman in the New York area, who now

My Day

WASHINGTON, Priday Reading the reports by Anne O'Hare ‘McCormick and Herbert L. Matthews in ‘the newspaper terday morning as I traveled back to New York City from Springfield, Mass, did very

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came from an ‘old igo Ca Jnl, her grandfather, George Pearson, ha 1 the Pearson Piano Co. : He went into business for himiself, as a consulting engineer, in 1932. ter a few months in a little letters and answered the phone, he and Norman Kevers put up $500 each to form Electronic dLaboratories in the building at 122. W. New York st, owned by the Kevers family, which had been a school, jail and garage during its career. Their main item was the vibrator power supplier for the then new auto radio. This device took the power from the six-volt storage battery in the auto, made it into pulsating direct current which a transformer stepped up to alternating current of higher voltage. The vibrator works on the same prin. ciple as the little e hammer which rings the bells on either side of it. To make a 13-year-old progress story short, the company now has five plants and two warehouses here, owning the one on W. 24th st, had 1400 employees at its war peak, made and still is making some weapons still on the secret list. Reconversion knocked employment off 30 per cent, but it is going up again. ‘Friend or Foe’ Light IT MADE an igniter for flame throwers, s power megaphone with which tanding craft could talk to troops on .the shore, the power supply for every marine walkie-talkie, the “black light” which enables pilots to see their dials even in a blacked-out plane, portable beacons for “quickie” airports in the North African campaign, and the “friend-or-foe” light with which a pilot in an airplane could press a button and if a tank below flashed an automatic light back it was a friendly tank, and if not, it was an enemy tank. The tank could do likewise with the plane, and it was used on ships, too. It could have prevented the tragedy in Italy where allled guns shot down allied

gliders didn’t have the device. The Russians used it on their infantry in the fight for Stalingrad, so their planes wouldn't bomb and strafe their own troops. This device may replace the newspaper photographer's flash bulb and is -being tested by the Santa Fe as a warning signal. It was discontinued, in the European war when the Germans’ new anti-aircraft gun made a flash which looked just like it. A new device, still secret, accounted- for many of the Jap planes knocked down at night in the Okinawa campaign. The new electronic toys his company is bringing out—a wooden cannon, inter-communications set for the house of office, buzs-ball game and ultra-violet lighting kit—were designed to cushion the shock of war’s end but is becoming more important than that to its revenues. One of the least-known facts about Bill Garstang

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By JEAN GEORGE : NEA Staff Writer EW YORK, Oct. 6.—~Tugboat Annie can have the tugboat business back. + I'm through with it. Oh, my aching bruises! I boardéd a tug to cover the arrival of the Queen Mary carrying 15,000 Yanks homebound from Europe, : hours they made me the object of their affections and the target of their chocolate bars, loaded dice, coins and blankets. A tin hat would have come in handy.

» - “OH-YOU blondie!” they shouted, and lined the rails to pepper me with gifts. Hardly the atmosphere for serious art. I left Pier 1 about 10 o'clock in the morning with the crew of the Howard C. Moore. " The Howard is a strong, red tugboat with 31 years of illustrious history, including one sinking and several minor collisions.

WE MET the Queen Mary as she approached Pier 90 after a hearty hello from New York's waterfront, “Welcome home” signs hung from every pier and building, and a storm of colored paper greeted the

Every troop ship that passes the Battery—and there is at least one a day—is received in this. fashion. Secretaries in downtown office

“ ® w JOHN JORGENSEN, “admiral” of the Howard, received word from the bridge of the Queen Mary to pull into the fantail—and then it

and slowly, after two hours of maneuvering, pulling her into the dock, » . = THE CLEAR memory, however, is that of arms and legs dangling out of portholes, and deep voices shouting: “Hey, Blondie, what's your phone number?” That good old American spirit— three years of war had not changed

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This is every girl's dream, I thought, to be whistled at by 10 city block's worth of American manhood, : » » .

I COULDN'T light my cigarets. My feet slid out from under me. There were so many voices and faces that I couldn't see them all. Imagine, after nearly four years of working in offices with women, going to lunch and dinner with women, riding on buses and streetcarg operated by women, to suddenly be alone on the Hudson river with the best of American manpower in a Mardi Gras mood. It is

is that he invented the game called “Finance,” which | began. really too much. he sold, after selling some 10,000 sets, to the game| As we neared the stern, the love- ann manufacturers, Parker Bros, for $7500. It was|liest sound rang in my ears—the| XY SHALL never be able to settle changed a little and skyrocketed, rechristened as|sound of men whistling—15000/ down to a few whistles on the

“Monopoly,” to the most popular such game in

There is still more to Bill Garstang’s lighter side, along that monogrammed waffle iron line, but the chances are the public will never hear about it. At the 122 W. New York st. plant is a room, to which there is but one key. That is his “morgue” of screwy ideas. It must be a wonderful place.

By William H. Stoneman

In Jerusalem, British paratroops were searching cafes for guns. In London Jews and Arabs talked loudly of an approaching civil war. In Saigon,” the Annamites sniped at Frenchmen, and in Batavia, the Indonesians sniped at Dutchmen. In Buenos Aires, students took on the police in a shooting match. In Chicago, in Copenhagen and in London, the mild gentlemen who turned Hiroshima and Nagasaki into dust, rose in wrath to announce that they would reveal the atom bomb to the world at large.

Still Taking It : THROUGH central Europe a host of wretches tramped the roads and pried into garbage cans when they could find any. In London, Washington and Moscow, statesmen wondered how to save the wartime alliance between Russia and the west.

And so the average Londoner swallowed his tea and toast and margarine and listened to his wife's daily chatter about the dress she would buy if she had the coupons, «Then, brushing off his threadbare suit, he solemnly queued up for the bus and was off to the daily grind. © He did this in 1910. And he did it in 1940. So why shouldn't he do it in 1945?

He was duly grateful for the fact that things were |’ so quiet. No sirens, nb bombs, no rumbling doodle-

bugs, no rockets, resounding in the distance.

Saigon and Jerusalem were very far away and he

“could take it.

By Max B. Cook

picks up the phone or dictates a letter trying to sell someone in South America,” he said, “will board a plane, reach his destination in the matter of a few hours, make his contact face to face and be back in his office with his order in surprisingly quick time. “This will apply to business all over the country and will serve to speed up production tremendously. Large shipments then will go by rail and ship. Thus the railroads and steamships will begin to get business faster than ever before. Speeding up produc~ tion will necessitate hiring of more employees and this will help solve the unemployment problem.” Touching on safety in air travel, Capt. Rickenbacker announced that “the airlines are in as safe transportation.” Accepted as Safe “JUST S80 long as people live, breathe and move about,” he said, “they are going to experience accidents in all modes of transportation. No one worries much about railroad accidents any more. They are taken as a matter of course. And a bad railroad accident does not cause would-be travelers to remain off the trains. The airlines now are in that same position. an “Sometime ‘ago, after an airliner crash, scores of travelers would cancel reservations. That is not true today. Following the recent crash of one of our airliners in South Carolina, I made a personal check

as a fast, clean, efficient and safe means of getting somewhere.”

to write it.

I remember vaguely 10 little tugboats, their engines wide open, pulling on the six-inch hawsers that linked them to the Queen Mary—

WASHINGTON, a story about American before. I think you're going to be as happy to read it as I am proud

Cold and story both came from S. Sgt. Anthony Calducini of Philadelphia, who spent three and a half years as a slave laborer— haw, haw-—for the

street. Life will indeed be dull. John Jorgensen, a Norwegian of Brooklyn descent, was apparently aware of this spotlight in my life. For after towing the stern into line

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN Unjted Press Staff Correspondent Oct. 6.—What I have today is a head cold and prisoners in Japan such as nobody ever heard

Japanese in “The first thing they said for us to do was build a reinforced concrete foundation for a giant planing machine, which must have cost 'em $300,000 in gold, It was still in crates and it was a beauty, We figured we'd better give it a really fine foundation. “We poured in the cement and we reinforced it with Jap typewriters, cuspidors, coat racks, filing cabinets (with the papers still in ‘em), wheelbarrows, electric light fixtures, a couple of wash basins, a motorcycle, some new electric motors,

chinists, or so we'd told the Japs, and they had to take pretty good care of us or their machinery

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clocks; 150 shovels, the manager's

other stuff I overlooked.

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wouldn’t work.

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“I watched the tugboats, tied up alongside a Liberty ship, as they got up steam In preparation for their task of pulling and pushing the Queen Mary into dock. Ten tugs brought her to her pier.”

“This Is my tugboat-eye view of the huge liner Queen Mary as soldiers crowded her decks for their first glimpse of home.”

with the dock, he brought the tug around the side, and pushed the steamer flush against the dock.

THE JAPANESE CALLED IT A FINE JOB—OF SABOTAGE.

Yank ‘Slave’ Mechanics Big Help

as we went with everything loose in that whole factory. It cértainly was an elegant foundation, “The Japs appreciated it, and while they searched our quarters for the missing stuff they never blamed us. So came the ticklish job of mounting the planing machine. “It was a whopper and we had to move it by winches and overhead derricks, carefully. Very carefully. The slightest bump and that beautiful piece of machinery would be ruined. “Somehow we managed fo drop it. Clumsy, I guess. We told the Japs we sure were sorry, but that accidents would happen. We promised em we'd place the machine a little crooked to make up for the way it was knocked out of line, We kept our promise, too.

» n » “FOR THREE and & half years those Japs worked on the machine with levels; trying to straighten it out so it could go to work. On the day peace was declared they still were working on it. “There were hundreds of other

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machine tools In operation. The Japs didn’t seem to know much about ‘em and we did our best to help ‘em out. I mean when a machine would get noisy we'd shut her down, take out a piece, show the Japs how crooked or bent or whatever it was and throw it away. Then we'd replace it with a piece out of another machine.

s . » i “IT WASN'T long before hardly a machine in the place would work. This made us pretty unhappy, as you can imagine, and we spent a great

deal of time building new pieces to replace the missing ones. These new

break, somehow, and shoot chunks of metal into the gears. “So the war ended and the Jap interpreter called us together to hear a final speech, He sald, ‘Gentlemen,

finest job of sabotage in the history of this war.’ We told him it was a pleasure.” Tony sneezed a couple more times, so did I, and we both went back to sleep.

of labor.

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army divisions:

FOOD PRIGE HIKE OF 0.71% REPORTED HERE

Indianapolis retail food prices advanced .7 per cent between mid-July and mid-August, according to figures released today by Adolph O. Berger, regional director, bureau of labor statistics, U. 8. depavément

The advance in local average food

costs was attributed chiefly to a “substantial seasonal rise In egg prices,” Dr. Berger's report staféd. The Indianapolis retail food-costs index for August stands at 137.7 per cent of the 1935-39 avemage and is 25 per cent above the level of a

During the six years between the of war in Europe and V-J Indianapolis family food has increased 51.8 per cent. In dollars and cents this means that housewife paid in $15.18 basket which cost her only $10 in August, 1939, the report continues,

5 Divisions on Seas En Route Back to States

PARIS, Oct. 8 (U.P). — Today's redeployment timetable of U.S,

70th, 106th Infantry, 5th, Armered—-On high seas. 10th Armored-—First elements on high seas, remainder to sail by Oct. 9.

Pearl Harbor B

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (U. P.) ~~ Col. Theodore Wyman Jr., stood accused today by the army’s Pearl Harbor investigating board of “mis conduct” in his former role of district engineer in Hawaii. The board reported no evidence, however, of disloyalty on his part. In releasing a hitherto -secret board repbrt, Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson held that “disclipinary action . , . is not justified upon the present record.” Wyman was in charge of defense construction from July, 1940, “until relieved after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Three years later he was in charge of the port of herbourg after its fall in the Nordy invasion, In this role he won the legion of merit for “outstanding performance.” Riotous Living The board’s report: Condemned the “highly indiscreet manner” in which Wyman associated with Hans Wilhelm Rohl, Los Angeles contractor of German descent, derscribing their “Improper conduct, drunkenness and riotous living” in Los Angeles, Hollywood and Hawaii Reported Roh] was a “man about town” on the West coast and induced,” or at _least influenced, Wyman to join “extravagant and disgraceful parties as Rohl's house guest In Los Angeles hotels, and in heavy drinking over a considerable period.” Rohl fathered four. il-

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legitimate children “by what he called a common law wife, later and that Wyman

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Colonel of 'Riotous Living’

"THREE: Made Irregular purchases of machinery, buying unneeded equipment which was worthless and obtained at an excessive price, The report added that there was no evidence that delay in construce

persons connected with such activi ties who, by intent, influenced the existing lack of progress.” Patterson concurred in this find-

chases.

tion was “due to enemy agents or to

ing but rejected the report that Wyman refused to accept the low~ est bid on Hawaiian defense work. Patterson said that there was no evidence, “opinion or hearsay,” to indicate that Wyman benefited financially from equipment pur-

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6 VETERANS RETURN ~T0 STATE POLICE

Reinstatement of six state police employees recently discharged from military service was announced today by Col, Austin R. Killian, state police superintendent, The six reinstated are: Trooper J, Russell Prior, Hunt~ ingburg, marine corps corporal, who was wounded at Iow Jima, assigned to the department's public relations division at Indianapolis; Trooper Fred D. McClain, Hope, alr ‘corps bomber pilot, assigned to Beymour post; Trooper Russell Cox, Evansville, navy shore patrolman, assigned to Jasper post; Trooper Paul Hoge, Rochester, navy athletic director, assigned to Ligonier post; Radio Dispatcher Lewis Brown, South Whitley, merchant marine radioman, assigned to Ligonier post, and Detective Paul Rule, Lafayette, army intelligence service, assigned to Lafayette post. John R. Purry, 5514 E. Michigan st., has been promoted to technician

Kroger Offering Home Appliances

HARD-TO-GET household ape pliances, including 25 Westing~ house Laundromats, will be awarded as prizes in a Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. contest starting Monday. Announcement of the contest in connection with the firm's fall food sale was made today by E. P, Robertson, Kroger's Indianapolis branch manager, Besides automatic electric washers, 50 electri¢ sweepers and 500 electric irons will be offered ag prizes to contestants submitting the best answers to the question: “Why do you ike Kroger coffee?” Five Laundromats, 10 sweepers and 100 irons will be awarded during each of the five weeks of the contest, which is the first to be: announced by the company since before the war. : MOTORIST UNDER CHARGE RICHMOND, Oct. 6 (U. P.).—Pvt. Ronald Deissler, 18, was charged today with reckless driving in cons ‘necfion with the automobile accl-

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min istration's main hope of promoting In dustrial peace during recon= version. In fact, the fog was a bit more dense to= day after a meeting of the ; hal) main conference figures. It took. place while the long-distance telephone stoppage was on; ab about the time navy officials were expressing confidence the oil strike would be completely ended nexs. Monday, and while reports of new strikes and settlements of old ones were high-lighted by news of a Hollywood workers’ riot in which police used tear gas. The fog was thickened by ane nouncement of apart of the plans for the conference, relating to the scheme of representation, but nothing was said about the scope of subjects to be discussed. Thak is not yet fully decided and the problem is complicated by tha probability that constructive results will be less likely if the agenda is broad, Han ” . tJ 2 THE CONFERENCE will son« sist of 30 members, 18 represent ing management, 18 labor and three the general public, The three for the public will be Seo~

and

U. 8. Chamber of Commerce and - fhe National Association of Man« ufacturers, presumably they will include spokesmen for such groups as the automobile producers who handle their industry affairs more or less independently. : pa Eight of the labor representa~ tives will be named by the Amer ican Federation of Labor, eight by the C. I, O, one by the Railway Brotherhoods, and one by the United Mine Workers, now an independent union. :

to be discussed in the conference, Both the C. 1. O. and A. PF. of 1. have been urging a wider agendas

able to the labor leaders. We, the Wom

Nervous Stores To Sidestep Nylon Riots

By RUTH MILLETT

ONE OF New York's more eles gant department stores has mailed order. blanks to its charge account customers for nylon stockings 80 that the first arrival of the long = awaited nylons can be mailed out to prevent riots in the store, Sissies! So they're afraid of a bunch of women with a nyJon gleam in their eyes. They are 5, afraid to put # the stockings on the counters and let the women pull off each other's mink coats fighting for a pair of the flattering sheers. » " n CAN'T New York City—that can handle a crowd waiting for a glimpse of a national hero--hane dle a bunch of women ready to do or die for a pair of nylons The sporting thing to do, of course, would be to say, “Here they are; come and get them” and let the best women win, If Nellie the waitress can oubs shove and out-push Mrs. Plushe bottom from Park ave-then Nellie is the girl whose legs de= serve to be encased in the first nylons.

» LJ > AFTER all, this is a democracy, = isn't it? We have had gold rushes, and rushes to new terris tory to stake out’ homesteading Surely, we can face a rush for nylons. . So why not give women am equal chance at those precious

win. Why not make it a purely

sporting proposition? And maybe even sell bleacher seats for

dent in which his passenger, T iY