Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1945 — Page 28

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RUSSO-BRITISH FRONTIER

watched, apt old man with a burdensome bedroll emerged from the woods, looked cautiously around and then headed down the road into

the village.

‘ “He's orqeeed the green frontier and come up the Indian trail” the British captatti sald, as if reciting a passage from James Fennimore

As he five Clermans, inoluding a youth, came along the road from the opposite direction and disappeared into a thick stand of pine, ‘We were standing on the boundary of the Brit-ish-Russian zone Just north of ¥ Helmstedt, across which more than 6000 persons a day tramp in one Mr. Morgan of the weirdest migrations war-torn Europe has over seen. Here is a fragment of the chaos that is Germany today, Technically, the Germans cannot travel between the zones except on official business, But bombed-out Rhinelanders, who fled east during the fighting, now want to return to their homes, Hundreds of thousands, displaced by the Polish occupation of Silesia and East Prussia, also are drifting west. An Irresistible Tide Then, there are those Germans who have no particular excuse to move except the wistful thought that life may be easier in AngloAmerican territory than in the Russian zone, The pressure of this migration was irresistible and the British long since gave up attempts to halt it, “At first we tried shooting over their heads,” the captain sald, “But it would take the whole army of occupation to patrol the border effectively.” The red army approached the problem with beautiful Eastern logic. Sentries were ordered to ~ shoot anybody attempting to cross the border at road barriers. But, presumably, the orders said nothing about persons crossing through the woods and fields—"“the green frontier and Indian trail” which the captain ‘mentioned. This the CGiermans quickly learned, Now they carefully circle the sentry boxes and take to the open country, Many of them cross

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Thousands Cross Military Zone Boundaries in Search « For Relatives, Homes

By EDWARD FP. MORGAN Times Foreign Correspondent

IN GERMANY--(Delayed) As we

sian ground rules are always subject to change without notice, the movemena at night is heavier, . According to the British estimates, about 5000 trek westward, and 1000 eastward, daily. Many of the latter hope to locate relatives and then come out again.

return to their homes although the shattered capital's miserable shelter already is overtaxed.

“ito have it remain, .

great many years, Others are Berliners, determined to|Statuary and paintings from olden times.

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By HELEN M. DAVIS Science Service Staff Writer Hair must be one of mankind's greatest problems, to judge by the amount of ingenuity spent on it. "Men shave the hair off their faces, where it grows spontaneously, and worry because it falls out of their scalps, where they would like

Women are not plagued by either whiskers or baldness, as a rule, but no one can say hair is less of a preblem for them.

It is probably just another evidence of human contrariness that

sidered wrong. Mistaken Identity Likewise its state of curliness or, stringiness. There are plenty of beauty experts offering to change the color and texture of your hair, and at only a moderate fee, This has been going on for a to judge by

Ladies of ancient Crete, center of when classical Greece

whatever color your hair is, is con-| “ag

The gold hairdress of fair Helen of Troy . . . accentuating long, straight lines.

was just a pioneer settlement, are shown in pictures on wall paintings with elaborately curled hair-dos. So fashionable did they look that their discoverer, a French archaeologist, exclaimed, “Why, they are Parisiennes!”

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Oretan ladies would have welcomed the modern permanent, “fadies of ancient Egypt had the opposite problem. It is no secret

[that a large amount of Negro blood * | contributed to the heritage of the

early Egyptians; and some of Pharoah’s subjects evidently wished their hair were longer and straighter, Wigs—long, black and uncompromisingly straight—were the stock-in-trade of beauty shops in ancient Egypt. The early civilizations of Crete and Egypt have vanished, but their hair problems are still with us. Same Old Problem Ladies of Park ave. want curls put into their hair, | Ladies of Harlem want the kinks taken out of theirs. To the chemist the problem looks much the same for both cases, Hair, along with fingernails, antlers and hoofs, is composed of specially modified skin cells, These cells are made of a protein substance known to chemists as keratin, The molecules of kerafin are ar-

ranged in long chains ‘which make

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up the structure of the cell walls; with cross-linkages between the chains, y These cross-linkages seem to be actual forces which determine the shape and structure of hair as we see it. Major Individuality Hair, as every detective-story fan knows, is one of those es which have a great deal of individuality. ’ Blond or brunet, fine of coarse, straight or curly, a single hair can be a valuable clue to “whodunit?” Under the microscope the character of hair shows still finer detail. =~ In rectifying nature’s habitual mistake ' in supplying the wrong kind of hair, beauticiang take advantage of the fact that hair is slightly soluble in alkaline solutions. Ammonia is the typical substance used for putting in curls with permanent wave machines, When the hair is wound on curlers and wet with ammonia or ene of its compounds, in the language of the operators, it is “softened.”

Chemists believe that in at least

Ladies of Crete, on the other hand, preferred curls.

some of the processes the cross

linkages in the protein molecules break their old chemical ties, As the heat of the permanent wave apparatus drives off the ammonia and dries the hair, its structure is flatténed and twisted. : In the newer cold processes a sec-

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ond chemical treatment is used to neutralize the softening

ng chemical, . | These treatments stop the unlink-

ing of the hair molecules started by the waving solution, and start them linking up again in the new shape, The shampoo which completes the treatment washes out the last traces of the chemicals, Mere man need not jeer over the fact that a “permanent” wave lasts less than a year, The curl is permanent, but not the hair, Hair continually grows out of the scalp at one end, and wears off a$ the other. The newly grown hair has not had the benefit of rear~ rangement of its molecules. It pere sists in growing the way nature ine tended.

rmt———————————a SELL NEW BINOCULARS ROCHESTER, N.Y; Oct. 12 (U. P.), —Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. toe day disclosed that binoculars of a type never before sold to the civilian market now are available to the general public, The binoculars, with magnifica« tion seven times, are water-proof and have a new plastic carrying case impervious to all tropical cone ditions,

In Helmstedt refugees are deloused, fed, sorted out and put on] trains for Brunswick and places farther west, Few reach the cities for which they were originally destined, like Essen, Hanover and Hamburg, because of the scarcity of food and lodging. They are diverted into-camps where they can more easily be handled. Life for them will be rough this winter, but the British are straining to carry out Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's directive that no German shall dle of cold or hunger, “We hate these damned Nazis, but we must act like humans,” the captain said,

Stories are Similar

Tales of those coming out of the Russian zone bear strange similarity: “Life under the Russians is terrible , . . ghastly. Isn't it scandalous? Aren't we to be pitied?” One East Prussian family first lost some of their worldly goods during the Russian advance. The Poles took some more. But they were not really cleaned out until they arrived in™Berlin and the German porters at the railway station made off with what they had left. “Theres is not a maiden left In all Eastern Germany,” one woman wailed, All females had been raped, it seemed. In the Russian zone near Magdeburg we stopped three youths, They reported that the Russian DPs had shot two Germans one night who resisted a little looting party. “But since the DP’s have been evacuated and the Russian soldiers have come there is little trouble,” they said. They spoke with a boldness which hardly indicated that they feared the secret police.

in broad daylight. But since Rus-

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By ROBERT RICHARDS Uniied Proas Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Oct. 12. — Selling alrplanes is a anap, take it from the department store which sold 20 within the first 24 hours. - Salesman Harold ©. Chaplin of Chappaqua, N. Y., told me all about the aerial product, a low-wing, allmetal monoplane. It won't ground loop, won't spin, or run over your wife's sore foot, Chaplin came to the airplane department at Macy's via Saipan in a B-29, ” » . HE DIDN'T actually fly all the way to Herald Square, but before Jumping back into civilian clothes he completed 32 missions for Uncle Sam, Many of them were over Tokyo, “How was it over Tokyo?" 1 asked, : “Well, 111 tell you., “Young man, where's the motor of that thing?” a woman demanded “In the front, madam,” Chaplin explained. “Right up there behind the propeller.” ~ ~ » THEN his eyes flickered sidewise and he whispered, “Hey, watch those guys at 3 o'clock.” So I stretched my neck around to 3 o'clock. Two men were approach-

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"But. it won't spin?” “Nope, it won't spin.” “Why2! ” » ~ THIS was fun now, The customers pushed around. This was more than they had bargained for. The marine was smiling wolfishly. He had this ecivilan where he wanted him, This was going to be good, Chaplin played them a little. He said there was a spoiler on the wings’ leading edges that anybody could see. We all looked and there It was, plain as the red chevrons on the sergeant's sleeve, It was a bright metal strip about two inches wide and .eight inches long. “Okay,” what?”

the marine said. So ” » » 80, CHAPLIN said, this spoller caused the air flow to push out from the plane's center toward the wing tips, ‘instead of moving as fit normally would from the wing tips toward the plane, “When the plane stalls it drops its nose, instead of a wing, and immediately regains its flying speed, Chaplin explained, not without a twinkle in his eye. Chaplin said it was just about the most fool-proof thing that anyone ever had flown. He said you

ing, One was a marine sergeant, with pilot's wings. Chaplin kept his eyes on the. two marines, who were now circling for the attack, “They're just

about ready,” he said. “Watch

em.” ~ ~ ~ THEY walked up, smiling. Then one snapped: “Why won't it stall, mister?” Chaplin looked at the little plane,

“Oh, it'll stall,” he said.

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Army Offering

Men Who Re-Enlist in Service

By DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA Stsff Writer WASHINGTON, Oct.

their relatives regarding the postwar -army: ] Q-—They tell enlist in the

true and how long would we get?

A—The army Is offering furloughs on the basis of 30 days for each year served, up to 90 days, re-enlist.

for men who Q-—My neighbor's

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| e that if we rer army we will get a furlough for & while. Is this

) son was im Europe less time than my boy and he has already returned. I was

{couldn't be much safer in the air {if you were second cousin to a sea(gull, ’ LJ » ~ THE MARINE, who had flown a {PBY in Greenland, stuck out his chest until his ribbons trembled. The crowd chuckled. “You mean to tell me,” he sald, “that nobody can get hurt in that plane?” Salesman Chaplin replied: “Nobody. Not even a marine.”

Furloughs to

A~Arniy says all men who re enlist will be permitted their cholce of overseas theater and branch of service. Q—I just got In the army and think it might be a good idea to stay In. “What about retaining my rank if I re-enlist? " ! A~—Men re-enlisting in the same branch of the service in which they are now serving will be temporarily promoted to their present grade. ‘QI have been out of the army for a month and, believe it or not, would just as soon be back. I have read that the army Js. making a pretty good offer to men who have beep in once if they re<enlist. What ne the requirements to get back

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A=—Discharged veterans may re. | enlist with 90 days of discharge

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