Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 October 1945 — Page 11

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‘THE STANLEY McCUTCHAN family, 1223- N. Mount st., has enough mushroom to go with nearly

600 steaks, And then there probably would be some ' §

left over. They have a puffball, ope of “the edible types of mushrooms, which weighs seven pounds. It measures 45 inched in circumference, 13 ‘inches in diameter and 10 inches in depth. Raymond Steen, evening cook at Hotel Lincoln, says that the cooks at the Lincoln use about a pound of mushrooms to & gallon of sauce. And a gallon of sauce is enough to go with about 80 steaks.. The McCutchan puffball was grown on their farm in Wallace, Ind., about 14 miles from Crawfordsville. They found it the other day when .they went on a fishing trip. Mrs. eMcCutchan carried it on her fap while they drove home. And they tucked a couple more of the giant mushrooms in the car just for good measure. Only they weren't quite so large. However, there's one sad ‘The McCutchans don’t like puffballs. They haven't the slightest idea what they're going to do with the thing. .., The last play of the Indiana-Illinois football game at Champaign, Ill, Saturday didn't go down in the records. When the final second of the tilt had ticked away, the crowd started rushing out of the stands. Some of the spectators walked across the field. All at once.a sailor made a running block and Mrs, Milton Martin, 4703 Sunset ave., stopped him. She was unconscious for several minutes. She came home Tom

party. He says Mrs, Martin’ probably received more injuries at the game than any of the gridmen,

A YOUNG FELLOW walked into the Indiana magazine and news stand next to the Indiana theater Sunday and was looking for a tie. He wanted to go dancing at the Indiana ballroom but he couldn't get any farther than the door without -a necktie. The news shop doesn’t sell ties but that didn’t stop the customer. Suddenly a gleam came into his eye as he looked at Earl F. Blessing, one of the extra clerks, “Say, how about selling me your tie?” he asked. “I'll give you a dollar for it.” Mr, Blessing explained that his tie .only cost 55 cents and that it already was six months old. But that didn’t make any difference. The deal was transacted and both were satisfled—especially Mr. Blessing. He was ahead 45 cents, ,.. The uniformed flight announcer at the Weir Cook municipal airport got a little mixed up the other night. He walked down the passenger lane to the plane, picid up the microphone and

New Gitinei Base By Gerald R. Thorp

HOLLANDIA, New Guinea, Oct. 10.—Hollandia, the great, sprawling military base from which much of the Philippines campaign was launched, today is as desolate and fofdbrn as a fading summer resort. Only a few months ago traffic flowed noisily and endlessly along the 30-mile highway from Hollandia town, on Humbolt bay, to Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s hilltop headquarters overlooking Lgke Séntani, Now the broad, graveled thoroughfare is traveled less than a country lane. The house they once called MacArthur's mansion—actually a rambling shack—still stands in its ‘gleaming white paint on the crest of a towering hill. But its rooms are cobwebbed and bare, and its entrance door - hangs - uncertainly on one’ hinge. A score or more equally deserted buildings cluster around the white house, structures which once housed MacArthur's general headquarters. Prom the vast valley, 1500 feet below, comes the occasional drone of planes on Sentani airstrip, refueling point along the route from the Philippines to Australia, From the “mansion” one can look down the site of the air transport command and the naval air transport service offices a short distance from the Far East air forces service command.

Jungle Takes Back Own

TWO OTHER airstrips in the valley, Hollandia and Cyclops, once among the busiest in the world, are no longer in use. Cyclops is overgrown with weeds and is hardly visible from the air now. As Navy Lieutenant Paul B. Nelson, Onaka, Minn., formerly -of Chicago, assistant -and- air regulating officer at Sentani, observed, Cyclops is typical of the abandoned installations in this area. “The jungle has a way of taking back its own, once man has passed on,” he remarked. / A mile north of MacArthur's old headquarters is

Science

WE SHALL lull ourselves into an altogether false sense of security if we place too much emphasis upon the fact that it cost this nation $2,000,000,000 to make the first atomic bomb, “The next discovery may be a means of making an atomic bomb for 20 cents. In this connection let me call attention to the developments in trans-Atlantic radio telegraphy. During World War I, wireless messages were sent across the Atlantic with the aid of large and tremendously expensive - transmitting stations, making use of the so-called Alexanderson generators. These cost

many thousands of dollars to build and were expensive to operate. .

Extremely long waves were used in these original transmitting stations.

Used Vacuum Tubes

THEN after world war I, scientists developed short-wave radio generators making use of vacuum tubes. By the time Adm. Byrd took his expedition tosthe South Pole, it was commonplace for amateurs

: to talk across the Pacific or the Atlantic with home-

? made equipment, Many an amateur kept in touch with Adm. Byrd's expedition by means of a home-made radio set that oocupled no more space than a phonograph and cost less than $50 to build, As Dr. Edward U. Condon, associate director of the Westinghouse Research labatories, and one of

My Day

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Tuesday.—On Sunday eve ning I attended the annual dinner given by Freedom House, when their award for this year was presented to Gen. Eisenhower. Since he could not be there in

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I enjoyed t: , m, and kept wishing that his family and *¥ ~ his neighbors could be there. They | are all proud of him for his battle poisé in the face of such a large ~~ ~~ © audience, and when he was carrying out such an hon- ~ orable assighmient; would have added to their pride. 1g he y symbol of all our

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started calling out: “First call for T. W. A. flight No.——" And then he paused d studied a mo=ment. Finally he hung up the mike, walked back and asked one of the T. W. A. men: “Say, what flight is this anyhow?” He found out right away and went back to his job. ... Earl Richert, former Times political writer, stopped in Indianapolis a couple of days this week before going on to Oklahoma on his vacation. This is the first time he has been back here since he went to Washington, D. C, last December. He's now head of the Washington ‘bureau of Scripps-Howard newspapers in Ohio,

Siren Distraction THREE BUS LOADS of bobby-soxers ought to have at least part of the credit for helping Muncie's football team swamp Tech high school gridmen last Friday. They came down here from Muncie ahd filled a section of the Tech stands. All through the game ‘they'd scream out at various intervals: ‘‘Here we are, you lucky boys.” Techites claim the girls distracted the Green and White players. ... A passenger on a Shelby streetcar drew more than one laugh on the way to town the other day, He was wearing a high white cap, similar to those worn by a railroader. It looked like it might have been splashed with ripe tomatoes. But hehind the bill was a small bunich of fresh pink roses. He had on new trousers and a khaki jacket. The price and size tags still were on the back of the pants. ;

the spot where the Tth fleet rest camp once snugly nestled against the base of Mt, Cyclops, whose rugged peaks knife through and above clouds 8000 feet high. A mecca for marine aviators and navy personnel, it was once the site of Vice Adm. Thomas C. Kinkaid’s 7th fleet headquarters. ] Here as everywhere the navy did a magnificent job in taking care of its own, such as providing mattresses with sheets, tennis courts, a damned up mountain stream for swimming, baseball diamonds, recreation halls, and meals which would make swank

SECOND SECTION

(First of a Series)

By ERSKINE JOHNSON NEA Staff Writer

HOLLYWOOD. — Whatever atomic energy -and other new-fangled things may do to

hotel fare seem unappetizing. ov y Se: Near Hollandia Town, is the site of army supply [OUT Way of life, it's movies base G, and adjacent to it that of the navy hospital.{that are in for the most

But now only an occasional ship anchors in the harbor where U. S. naval craft once were ‘so numerous the bay was almost spanned by them,

Chapter in History IT WAS only 17 months ago that Hollandia was Jap territory. Our forces made a three-pronged landing here against little opposition, on April 22, 1944, and then drove rapidly up the coast to capture Cyclops, Sentani and Hollandia. . Almost immediately personnel and material began flowing into the new base. Between Sept. 1 and 10 Gen. MacArthur's headquarters were moved to Hollandia from Brisbane (Australia) and Port Moresby (Néw Guinea) along with the headquarters of the Tth fleet and Par East air forces. + But with the Leyte invasion, Hollandia assumed a secondary role in the Pacific militaty picture. Leaving the rear echelon here, Gen. MacArthur moved his headquarters to Tacloban about the middle of November, Now there is not a single general headquarters installation in Hollandia, Hollandia today seems a pleasant stopover along the Pacific's network of airways. But it will claim a thick chapter in history as one of our greatest military bases; from which our all-out assault against Japan was launched.

By David Dietz

the key figures in the bomb development says, there may be vastly simpler ways of harnessing atomic energy than this nation has used. : I think the great majority of scientists feel certain that there are vastly simpler ways. The whole question is how soon they will be discovered. Scientific discoveries have a way of going in bunches. "Apparently there is a great deal df groping in a given fleld and then suddenly a large number of inevstigators seem to find their way at about the same time.

Simultaneous Discoveries

IT IS amazing how many times great discoveries have been made simultaneously or nearly so in several places. Thus Newton and Leibnitz independently invented the calculus at the same time, :Leverrier and Adams each predicted the existence of the planet Neptune and calculated its position without heing aware that the other was working on the same problem. It is also significant that a basic discovery sometimes brings a whole train of other discoveries in its wake, Fermi's discovery of the “slow neutron” technique is such a discovery, It led to the discovery of uranium fission and to the atomic bomb. But it would be a rash individual indeed who would claim that the last possibility of Fermi's discovery. has been. exhausted. The plain and simple fact is that we do not know what the next great discovery in the understanding of the atomic nucleus may be and we do not know where it may be. ho is important that our statesmen understand .

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By Eleanor Roosevelt

first baptism of fire in the retreat to and from

Dunkirk. Only two turned from Dunkirk to England, so that the Salva

tion Army began to chalk up its first casualties at

that time.

_Balvation Army mobile units; or “invasion canteens,” have rolled down the ramps of LST's: along

4 the score of red shield canteens re-

equivalent to going four times around the world. These mobile canteens often were equipped with 1ipraries, radio sets, a film projector and films, a record

sweeping immediate change in the post-war era. And you'll notice it first in the number of new stars and starlets on the screen. Naturally, there's going to be a battle for survival between old and new favorites, with a lot of factors favoring the latter, » » » WHILE Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, Wayne Morris et al were in uniform, making war heroes out of themselves, younger gents the services wouldn't take or had dised early in the conflict were making hay while the sun shone. Or rather, that stuff ain't hay. Guys such as Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Bill Williams, Dale Andrews, Dick Haymes, Robert Walker and Dane Clark, to name just a few at random, had muscled in on the male star billing.

Stewart, Tyrone Power and others can write ‘their own tickets for fu-

ture screen work. doing it, by electing to make only one or two pictures per year, which of course is fine news for the newcomers.

cause, returning to those top bracket salaries they left when they went off to the wars, they once more face

“Prom This Tay Barwa, »

True, our old friends Gable,

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct, 10—If the American Bankers association has any complaints about this dispatch, I'd appreciate them being sent direct to the navy department, which always wears its rubbers and never forgets its long ainderwear. "It's: cautious, the navy is, and while it doesn’t - actually distrust bankers, it gfivocates taking no chances. So it is that the sea-going archi~ tects have drawn up their plans for the rebuilding of Agama, the capital of Guam, with straight boulevards, coral-walled houses, a modern sewer system, a postoffice, schoolhouses, courthouse and (keep your fingers crossed, bankers) a combination jail and bank. Like Combination “May 1 ask” inquired Senator Leverett D. Saltonstall of Massachusetts, a member of the naval affairs committee, “why you have seen fit to put the bank and she jail in the same building?” “Because we believe in prepareds ness,” replied Maj. Gen, Henry L. Larson of the marine. corps, he commander at Guam. The big, red-faced Larson went on to explain that one and I'll leave

that star had already made all the

; Holy spirit.» The gift of this power

| | identified with the will of God.”

WEDNESDAY: OCTOBER. 10, 1945

Fans Will Find Newcomers i in Top Roles In Tests of Budding Stars’ Popularity

And they're

» " » THE BIG name stars do this be-

Dat Ol’ Debbil, Income Tax. Get~ ting the weekly moola they receive, they have to make fewer pictures to avoid putting their earnings up into the confiscatory bracieets. The newcomers have no such problems, and they are taking advantage of the situation by getting into choice roles that otherwise would be filled by *hame” stars. A typical example is the casting of young, virtually unknown Mark Stevens opposite Joan Fontaine in

THE Eh hr have pre-~ ferred, let us say, Cary Grant, but

it to the bankers whether he pulled himself and the navy out of a hole, or dug it deeper, He said the navy took over the government of Guam in 1808 and that for 45 years the

the same, indivisible. The people liked it that way, he said. Bo the Japs captured Guam .In 1941; three years later we blasted 'em out, wrecking the city, including the combination bank and jail. “The people are sentimentalists, kind of,” Gen. Larson added, “and

By EMMA RIVERS MILNER . Times Church Editor . Dr, Harold John Ockenga of Bos-

ton will speak on “The Solution of

the Intellectu Difficulties with Christianity” tohight at 7:30 at the popular meeting of the Second Synod of the United Presbyterian church in ‘the Woodruff church. Dr. Ockenga. is a former president of the National Association of Evangelicals and pastor of the Park Street Congregational church in Boston. The association is a federation of churches ‘which is said to hold more conservative views than the Federal Council of Churches. Elder H. H. Bodey of Dayton, O., will preside at tonight's meeting in the capacity of new moderator. He was elected by vote of the synod yesterday. His elevation to the highest office of the body is in the nature of a gesture of appreciation since he has served the synod as treasurer for the past quarter céntury. The synod is expected to be adjourned at noon tomorrow. Cites Atomic Energy Dr.. Ockenga’ spoke - on “The Atomic Energy of God” last night taking his text from 2d Timothy 1:7, In the address, he discussed the rise of material power in past and pres ent ages including the recent development and use of atomic energy. Dr. Ockenga asked this question: “Is there any comparable power fn the spiritual world to match this atomic power of the physical world?” Then he gave this reply to his own query: “The source of atomic energy in the spiritual world is God's omnipotent power fn thé gift of the

attends the use of the word, is given only in connection with the exaltation of Jesus, and is released | only throligh the prayer of ‘those

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bank and the jail were one and|lI

Hollywood Reconversion...No. 1

This sextet is typical of the

Hollywood stardom. The girls, left to right, are Olga’ San Juan, Porto

Rican singer; Lisabeth Scott, who

Paige, who isypeing groomed for stellar roles. The leading men who are replacing old favorites are, left ot right, John Hodiak, Van John-

son and Dane Clark.

deals his income tax would bear. Same with other “big name” stars. Then there is John Dall, onetime janitor who won stardom after playing opposite Bette Davis in “The Corn Is Green,” and Cornel Wilde, who had been languishing around Hollywood for a long time before these new conditions gave him the chance to display his outstanding talent in “A Song to Remember.” Though the war situation might appear at first glance to affect only male newcomers, actually it is giv~ ing young actresses almost as good a break, » " » WAR-HIKED income taxes Aftect the “big-name” feminine stars as «ithey do their masculine counter parts; of course. But there is a second factor that is bringing many new and pretty feminine faces to the screen in stellar roles, or roles that should lead to stardom.

That factor is the youth of most

af the new male sensations. The|.

producers simply had to dig up some

Navy Plans to Rebuild Guam's Combination

we would like to make the bank and jail the way Shey were in the first place.” You don’t catch me commenting on banks, jails, or auld lang syne; ‘Il simply report that Gen. Larson flew in from Guam to urge upon the naval affairs senators the appropriation of $15,000,000 to rebuild the things the navy had to wreck in dislodging the Japs. There is nobody so patriotic, he sald, as a citizen of Guam. He testified that when the big guns

Boston Minister Will Speak Tonight in Woodruff Church

host pastor,

TWO SOLDIERS ARE

LAFAYETTE, Ind, Oct. 10

thorities,

in an’ automobile stolen at Shep herdsville, Ky,

Ohio, Tennessee, West Virginia and Virginia. The Rev. W. C. Ball is

HELD AT LAFAYETTE

(U. P.) ~Two youths who admitted they had fled the army disciplinary bar-

racks at Ft. Knox, Ky.,, were held today by Tippecanoe county au-

Indiana state police apprehended Walter Knapp, 20, and Paul F. McGowan, 21 for questioning ag they walked along a highway, They told the officers they stole a gun from a guard at the harracks and escaped

newcomers who are reaching for

scored an overnight hit, and Janice

younger screen heroines to go with those fuzzy-cheeked new film heroes. The usual method is to put the new girl opposite some very popular mature star at first, by way of grooming her and introducing her to the “right people”—that is, to. you and you and you, her tuture film audience. A good example 1s the pairing of Olga San Juan, torrid Porto Rican singing sensation, with Bob Hope in “Monsieur Beaucaire.” " » ” SOME OF THESE newcomers became over-night hits when brought forth in such a manner, Example: Lauren Bacall. Example Two: Lisabeth Scott. And in the process right now, we might mention Barbara Hale and Martha Vicars, two of per! Ph. Senin Who sip bei gr for stardom. Among the dozen are names you haven't heard, in all probability, but will hear in the future: Joan Lorring, Jane Greer, Jan Paige and—but this could go on and on!

(Next: Better Film Fare in PostWar Period.)

Bank and Jail

rolled up fo attack, the natives were notified to flee into the hills, “There they stood and cheered, while we demolished their homes,” he continued. “Not a one of them filed a claim for damages. The damage commission had to go in there and ask for claims.”

Gen. Larson sald thousands of Japs had been killed and captured during the invasion, but that the jungles are so thick that some still were hiding out, The day before he left for Washington, the natives killed three. ! “They'd got some inkling that these Japs were coming in to steal a caribou and they asked for permission to set an ambush,” he said. “We gave this permission; they killed three; one escaped.”

Tells Them War Is Over ,The jungle Japs, he said, were living on coconuts, breadfruit and stolen meat and were in surprisingly good condition, Senator Richard B. Russell of Georgia wondered whether the general was doing anything to let them know the war Was over, o Gen. Larson sald he was tacking signs on trees, sending Jap trusties in to talk to their pals, and keeping a polly plane in the air most of thé time. -“A what ” demanded Senator Harry ¥. Byrd of Virginia. “A polly plane,” the general explained. “A ship with a loud speaker which flies low over the jungles; telling 'em that their emperor has

J. W. Fulbright, young Democrzs: from Arkansas, may be the nev president of Columbia university

of the faculty commitfge appoint ed to recommend a successor t Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, anc Mr. Fulbright has been “sound; out” by university The senator will decide within a fet: weeks,

structed to recommend three candidates: one from the universit one from public life, and one from the academic field outside the uni versity,

last two classifications. Before enter: ing congress in 1943 he was presi dent of the University of Arkansas

ton university.

| could induce him to leave a proms:

PAGE 11 We, the Wome Stampede for Fancy Lingerie Only Natural

By RUTH MILLETT DEPARTMENT stores report that they are having a terrific run on exotic lingerie, that black nightgowns are selling faster t hotcakes and the girls are rioting over any. kind of underthings tty are “sugar and’ spice and ev~ erything nice.” "The story is that wives of returning soldiers are put ting together a “second honeymoon trouse« sean” to welcome their men,

” . s WE SUSPECT, however, that & good bit of this buying is being done by the hard-working young things who have spent most of the war years in slacks and sweats ers or similar un-feminine garb, Now, with savings from their war jobs, they are splurging on the frilly things they've wanted all this time. And there probably are WACs and WAVES represented in the crowds around those lingerie counters, Who has missed the feminine things any more san our girls in ution? - » MORE POWER to them" all The war wives and war work. ers and service girls deserve the best. And if they shell out $4 to $65 for a sheer, lacy, practicall: transparent bit of fluff, cam wr really criticize it as unnecessar extravagance? Let's just put it down as morale building and indicative of ou American characteristic of ois after what we want.

Fullbright May Be New Head Of Columbia

By Scripps-Howsrd Newspapers NEW YORK, Oct. 10.—Senatc’

The senator is the first choi.

The faculty committee was Ir

a MR. FULBRIGHT fills both th’

Previously he was on the lav school faculty at George Washing-

He was graduated from the uni: versity of Arkansas and was & Rhodes scholar at Oxford. Since he is financially independ ent, only a position of thé impor. tance of the Columbia presidency

ising career in politics, his friend: say. » n n ” SENATOR FULBRIGHT Is 4 years old. He was a football playe’ in college, still keeps in- trim bi playing golf. In the senate he has conformeti to the tradition that a freshman member should be seen but seldom heard. But probably no other sena= tor gets more publicity in propors tion to the amount of talking he does. Mr. Fulbright was a victim of the seniority system in senate coms mittee assignments, Despite his interest and background in interna tional affairs, he was not assigned to the foreign affairs committee, » » » IN THE HOUSE he wrote the Fulbright resolution, which first put congress on record as “favoring a world organization ‘for peace. In 1942 Secretary Hull appointed Him head of the U. 8, delegation at the world education conference in Lone don, The young Arkansan and his wife ‘are popular figures in Washington society, They were married in 1931

given up.”

and have two children.

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Water Content Affects Teeth

Fluorine Combats Dental Decay

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M.D, CHILDREN reared in areas where the water contains #&n excessive amount of fluorine may have unsightly teeth but their teeth resist decay, and from this discovery the possibility of fluorine as a pre~ ventive of dental a caries. y Wallace D. § Armstrong, M.D, University of

| Delegates are in attendatie at

AS DENTAL decay decreases in proportion to the amount of fluorine in the water, the problem was

to find how much fluorine” the

water should contain to cause the least discoloration of teeth but develop good resistance to decay. It developed that one part of fluorine to one million parts of water was the best solution, and engineers can now increase or decrease

the fluorine in our water supplies

to this ideal standard, » » ” FLUORINE is not an absolute preventative of dental caries, but it

-|does hold the disease in check. Chil

dren who s§pénd the first eight years

lof their life in drinking water with “|the ideal fluorine content receive

the most benefit from its use. John W. Knutson, D, D. 8, United Stajes Public Health..Service, and ab Armstrong

ments on’ Minnesota children, The teeth on one side of the mouth were treated with a 2 per cent solution of sodium fluoride. The other side of the mouth was used as a control. Seven to 15 treatments were given == over a period of eight weeks and at the end of a year the treated side showed a 40 per cent reduction In decay. - x & » GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, and New» burgh, N, 'Y, have brought the fluorine content of their water sup plies to about one part per million and it will be kept at this level for at least 10 fears. This does not alter the taste of the water or have effect upon the teeth Alter formed. = Fluorine studies do not a the questions on d8

“expiti-| ing to control the