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ALREADY A few of the local poultry dealers are getting orders for Thanksgiving turkeys. One of the retailers says he has about 50 orders on file so far. He also said that several of the business firms in the city are planning on turkey feasts for Christmas, It seems that there will be an ample supply for turkey eaters next month. Thanksgiving this year will be obseryed on Nov. 22. . .., The story about workmen of the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. discovering bones of a human skeleton as they excavated in the 1400 block of W. 30th st. Monday may have started some persons wondering, But Frank Planner of Flanner & Buchanan mortuary wasn’t a bit surprised when he read the item. He tells us that the space used to be an old country cemetery bordered by a gravel road. Later when the land was to be used for a lumber yard the bodies were moved to other graves and the headstones knocked over. Mr. Flanner said four or five skeletons have been found in the vicinity. ... Paul F. Cantwell didn’t get to celebrate his 18th birthday last month. But he can blame it on the international dateline. He crossed the dateline on Sept. 14 and lost his birthday, He is the son of Mrs. Edythe Cantwell of Beech Grove and has a brother, Flight Officer Bernard Cantwell, formerly a prisoner of war.

Makes Glass Pieces for Clarinets INDIANAPOLIS can claim the distinction of have ing the only manufacturer of glass mouthpieces for clarinets in the world. He is Harry E. O'Brien Sr. 2218 E. 76th st. But there are years and years of work behind the finished product. Mr, O’Brien, now in his 60's, experimented on his invention for 10 years. Then he had to find a glass factory which would make the “glass blank” or the rough form of the mauthpiece. He kept the business in Indiana and has the product made by the Sneath glass factory in Hartford City. Then at the Harry E. O'Brien & Sons factory at T5th st. and Keystone ave, the final cutting, trimming, polishing and testing are dons. There are 32 cutting and trimming operations before the mouthpiece has the right shape. , , . Mr, O'Brien himself is quite a clarinetist. He has played the instrument since he was 10 years old and knows many of the clarinet artists of the world. He appeared professionally ‘several years ago at the downtown theaters here and played at the Circle theater when it first opened. He also traveled and played with concert bands for about 10 years. He says he's gone from the dog and pony circus to grand opera, .... Mr, O'Brien's sons, Harry Jr. and Lowell, helped him in the business before the war. But now Lowell is in the navy in Hawaii and Harry works at a war plant here. They'll probably be back in the business soon, however. ... The O'Brien clarinet mouth-

Kurusu

KARUIZAWA, Japan, Oct. 24.-Saburo Kurusu, who was Japan's special emissary to the United States at the time of Pearl Harbor, may come out of his retirement to aid in the reconstruction of his country and re-establishment of good relations between Japan and the United States. Kurusu has no illlusions about America’s feelings toward him. Though he insists he had no knowledge of the Japanese high command's war plans, he concedes all the circumstantial evidence is against him. He believed that war was inevitable and that was only one chance in a thousand to prevent it. And when he was hurriedly thrust into a plane and rushed to the United States, he was hoping for a miracle. But if America is willing to accept his word that

“the Tojo cabinet told him nothing before that hasty

trip, he feels he can be of great assistance in promoting co-operation and he is willing to devote the rest of his life to it.-

Out of Internal Politics

KURUSU keeps to semi-seclusion in a charming villa on the outskirts of Karuizawa. He remains aloof from the turmoil and intrigue of the international set here, and~has had nothing to do with internal politics since his return from Washington. The death of his son, a flier, in the later days of the war seems to have saddened him greatly. Sitting in ‘his peaceful garden, Kurusu discussed with me Japan's problems and the difficult task of restoring the world's lost faith in his nation.

‘Science

"ALMOST as revolutionary as the atomic bomb itself has been the determination of the scientists of

America to speak their minds about the situation. Most important recent example is the statement signed by 400 scientists at the Los Alamos laboratory, the New Mexican outfit where the final stages of research on the bomb were done. The Association of Los Alamos Scientists adds its voice to that of the Atomic Scientists of Chi- IM cago and the Association of Oak i Ridge Scientists. In brief, the } Los Alamos scientists say that bombs thousands of times more powerful than the one dropped on | Hiroshima may be expected in the near future. They say further that other nations will soon have them as well as us and that there is no defense against the bomb. In this connection, they point out the most disconcerting phase of the whole situation in these words: “Advantage would lie with the aggressor. A single heavy attack, lasting a matter of minutes, might destroy the ability of a nation to defend itself.” It is a strange fact that many persons seem to be made extremely unhappy by the fact that scientists are at last stepping out of their traditional cloisters and taking part in public discussions,

Argument Shows Narrow View THE OPINION expressed by one of the spokesmen of this group seems to be that scientists, like good children, should be seen and not heard.

My Day

WASHINGTON, D. C, Tuesday. — Anyone who goes to the officers’ lounge in New York will be struck these days by the number of young families who have evidently just come from the train and are still busy soothing one child or another after a long and tiring trip. The officers’ lounge is where officers are allowed to wait with their families for housing or for theater tickets, or just plain information and advice. There the same family may be several hours later! No rooms or apartments are available for them. Tomorrow night, the American

veterans committee will hold a rally at Hunter College, 68th st. and Park ave, call attention

of the public in New York City to the acute housing situation which confronts the returning serviceman. ; The men, who stand in line an hour or two, are told that nothing is available, and they turn

over

Inside Indianapolis

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Glass Mouthpiece |

SECOND SECTION

By ERNIE PYLE

Nashville is the county seat of Brown county. It is only an hour from Indianap-

lolis, and the road is like a

= | pipe-line pouring intrusion in

Harry E. O’Brien Sr. ... The world’s only manufacturer of glass mouthpieces for clarinets,

pleces are used by the clarinet artists of the Metropolitan grand opera house, the Detroit, Minneapolis and Indianapolis symphonies and many others.

Reviving Old Football Rivalry ON NOV, 2 an old high school football rivalry will be renewed. Manual anid Shortridge will meet at the South Side field after not playing each other on the gridiron for nine years. But the reason for not meeting isn’t feuding ‘as most football followers say. Coach Thomas Woods at Shortridge says neither school has had an open date at the same time. This year they finally arranged a game, though, and hope to keep up the games every year from now on. It was feuding and fighting between the two schools which stopped the grid games from 1907 to 1920, however, « + The cape-cap rain headgear worn by the SPARS around Indianapolis is called a havelock and was named after an English general, Sir Henry Havelock back in the 1850s. It is used solely in America,

| would be worthless

upon the solitude of the hills and the brush. And yet that is all right too, for beauty if it weren't. available for seeing. Always the highways to Brown county are heavily traveled. But in the fall, when the leaves turn red and golden and yellow, Brown county seems to become a shrine for all the Midwest, and the local people have to stay home, for it is impossible for them to get any-’ where, 1 » » ” ON AUTUMN week-ends, cars stand lined motionless in traffic jams for miles and miles—they extend all the way from the state park a few miles away clear down into Nashville, and they become an almost immovable mass, choking the streets, On just one Sunday 18,000 people passed the gates of Brown County state park. Yet oddly enough they are all gone by 8 in the evening, and Nashville regains its freedom and can breathe again. They are gone because all these

* | visiting outlanders are afraid of

the hills and of the darkness, and

By Sidney B. Whipple

“I do not need to say that it is a matter of educating the Japanese people,” he said. “That is axiomatic, and everyone will agree to it. But the question is who will be responsible for that educational system. Who will guide us? Japan cannot do it alone.” “I am not an educator myself,” he continued, “but I have always regarded the American system the most advanced in the world. My feeling is that when our schools are re-established on a democratic basis it must be with your help. “I would like to see hundreds of American schools, manned by American teachers, throughout Japan. But please let them be non-secretarian. Missionary schools have accomplished less than they might have done had religious effort not been combined,

Not Pessimistic as Other Japs

“MEANWHILE, I would like to see hundreds of our young men and women absorbing the training of your institutions in America, and coming back here to train still others in your ways of thinking your ethics, your science, and your general culture.” Kurusu is not as pessimistic as many Japanese about Japan's future economic development. He believes there are many arts, crafts, and light industries in which Japan can legitimately compete for the world’s trade. He does not feel, for example, ‘that the Japamese’ silk industry is doomed by the advance of nylon or chemical substitutes. “While America used to be our greatest silk purchaser, and we may find, after trade is restored, that the market is seriously diminished,” he said, “there are still many women throughout the world less fortunate than you Americans who have no silk stockings. There is room for silk and nylon in the same world.”

By David Dietz

The argument, which I fail to understand, seems to be that it is all right for scientists to discover sulfa drugs, penicillin, blood plasma and new surgical techniques during a war. And to invent such things as radars, electrical gun pointers, radio proximity fuses and atomic bombs, but that having done so, they should keep quiet and let the really smart people run the world. It seems to be that the world hasn’t been run so very well in the past. Two wars in 25 years as destructive as world war I and world war II do not seem to be much of a recommendation for the people who have been running the world, The fact of the matter is that the years from 1919 to 1939 were for the statesmen the frustrated interlude between two world wars, but for the scien~ tist they were the years of the greatest progress in the history of civilization.

May Have Useful Advice

IT MAY BE, therefore, that the scientists who discovered penicillin and blood plasma and atomic energy may be able to contribute some words of useful advice to the running of the world. 1 have always felt that scientists have been much too prone to withdraw into the sanctuary of their laboratories and I take pride in the fact that as the first science editor on an American newspaper, I played somewhat of a pioner role in persuading scientists to come out of hiding. I hope that scientists will continue to speak their minds about the national policy with regard to the atomic bomb and about all other items facing the nation today.

Tomorrow: - Atomic bomb jitters.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

watched, since it tends to grow permanent. And there

are always many drawbacks which can be accepted}. for a short time, but with which we should not put},

up for long. In addition, the committee suggests the rehabflitating of old-law tenements by putting in central heating, hot water and private baths. This is an emergency measure which is perhaps necessary at the present time. ¢ But we should be very careful that these partially old-law tenements are not taken from condemned may not be a possible thing to do when costs are high, I have been wondering whether the trailer camps established outside the District of Columbia might not prove useful, even though the New York climate is much colder than Washington's. I have seen outside that city a whole fleld set up with trailers, with sewage systems dug and the water supply adequately

This requires some empty space, however, within striking distance

And trafler living im dents of University Heights at 7 o'clock tonight. He will at Naturally the ai committee urges a long speak .term program to accelerate new oo permanent | the University Heights United

construction, both private and public, vide sufficient funds for public housing.

of the city. And it also probably is much harder now, on return from overseas, to put UP WIE Lhe jnconveienoes which old-law tenements

They would support the Wagner-Ellender bill, which would pro-

they want to flee before the night seizes and engulfs them. It makes us old Brown countyites snicker. » n » OUTSIDERS have never been too popular in Brown county. I don’t mean that you'll get the old cold dead-eye that the Kentucky hills are famous for, You'll get courtesy and even friendliness, but still they won't like you unless you act right. Visitors have become unpopular for the same reason that you would become unpopular with me if you came into my house, stared bugeyed at me as though I were some kind of freak, and then laughed in my face. That is the way visitors have gone to Brown county, and the way a few of them still do today. ” » » THEY STAND on the street and laugh at the courthouse, which is certainly nothing to laugh at at all. They ask whether people can read and write. They are amazed to find

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1945. TE

Brown county has come into

BROWN COUNTY, Ind. — After four years of war and gasoline rationing,

the highway to Nashville is again jammed. Ernie Pyle, Times war correspondent who lost

his life on le Shima, spent a few county in 1940, Ernie caught the

county perhaps more than any other writer.

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The famous “Liars Bench” at Nashville. :

fun of the girls; and rudeness is on their tongues. The people here tolerate a great deal in silence. But once in a while the younger ones break over into an old, old custom known as “egging” —which means just what you think it does. » # » NASHVILLE has a population of around 400, and is the only settlement in the county that could properly be called a town, There is a popular misconception throughout the state that Brown county has no railroad. There is a railroad, running through Helmsburg, eight miles away. It does not touch Nashville, Yet broad black roads make warping ribbons out of Nashville in all directions, » » » NASHVILLE lies in the bottom of a valley. It is hot in summer and cold in winter. Wooded hilltops and farmed valleys radiate from it. Most of the town streets

there is a school here. They make

Times Foreign

leaders are deeply interested in the a Venezuela. The outbreak which came as a

a significant exhibition of the uses which can be made of lend-lease military equipment acquired from the United States. Rebel Leader Romulo Bettancourt, who has been declared provisional president of the new government, apparently succeeded in getting control of sufficient lend- % lease material and ; enough U, 8B & trained pilots to win the first two rounds of the revolution. A§ writer and a bitter critic of the

' |Royal Dutch Shell Co.

are oiled, and big shade trees stand

Venezuela Revolt

By ERNIE HILL

Correspondent

RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct, 24—Latin American military and political

ftermath of the bloody revolution in

complete surprise to most of South

America, is regarded generally as another important attack from the left against conservatism in government.

More important, it is seen as

court wants a sweeping liberalization of laws.

¥ » » HE AND his followers want free elections, investigation of the last two administrations and a bigger cut of money from U, 8. British and Dutch oll companies operating in Venezuela. The companies now pay an esti-

| {mated 20 per cent of the value of

their production to Venezuela in various taxes. The three controlling companies are: Standard Oil of New Jersey, Gulf Oil Corp. and 8hell is British and Dutch owned. Oil production accounts for about two-thirds of the country’s national income and about 80 per

conservative government, Bettan-

THE DOCTOR SAYS:

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, NEXT to smallpox a immunization against diphtheria is one of the most effective controls against a dangerous contagious disease. Diptera is an infection of the a hai upper air passa "ages (tonsils, nose, and larynx) which may develop in other body orifices or ; in_a cut in the . skin, The germs destroy the tissue, producing a dirty i gray membrane which can be scraped off, leaving a bleeding ragged surface. Physicians formerly employed this method to distinguish diphtheria from other infections, but cultures are used today,

CHINESE ADVISOR TO ADDRESS MEETING

Dr. T. Z. Koo, advisor to the Chinese delegation at the United Nations Conference and secretary of the World Student Christian

Federation, will address students of Indiana Central college and resi-

Dr. O’Brien

Brethren church on “China's Place in the New World Order.”

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WIFE DIVORCES BIDDLE

‘PARIS, Oct. 24 (U. P).— An thony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. diplo-

cent of its export business.

{the store next morning,

its own again, In response

reprinting some

Nashville House the columns re

weeks in Brown spirit of Brown

everywhere. Nashville has no movie. But it has an old, old hotel that has been modernized (Editor's note: The hotel has burned down); it has a tavern and a restaurant; an old log jail that is now a museumpiece; a grocery and a hardware and a drug store; it has many shops for the craft buyers; it has an art gallery. Nashville still abides by the old custom, now passed over in most places, of taking up a public col{lection for people in distress. n " o IT HAS gradually fallen to one young woman to be the town collector, 8he is in the hardware store with her father, and when somebody dies the townspeople automatically start dropping into leaving anything from a quarter on up. She estimates that in the last six years she has collected for 100 funerals. Nashville has no water system, and when a fire gets started it's

Seen as Leftist Move

ONE OF the quirks of the revolution found Communist forces fighting on the side of the econservative government, While Communist and labor organizations have proposed expropriation and nationalization of Colombian and Venezuelan oll properties, they have aligned themselves against the liberal revolution. Communists throughout Latin America have joined with those in power and defend even the' most conservative of administrations. Defeated in the earliest rounds of “the revolution was Gen. Isafas Medina, whose term as president was to have expired after the elections next April. Medina had been scheduled to pass the presidency back to the man who had handed it to him, » » » SCHEDULED to win had been 63-year-old Gen. Eleazar Lopez Contreras. Medina was his personal secretary at one time and later his war minister. Bettancourt has ordered the arrest of both men and investigation

Immunize Children at 9 Months

structs the larynx the

CHIEF complications of diphtheria are obstruction to breathing and damage to nerves and muscles from the spread of toxins through the system. When diphtheria obpatient

Diphtheria Control Is Effective

sary remedy if everyone was protected against the germs.

county. You will find names of people now dead, some who no longer live there. And the historic

them, without editing.

Diphtheria antitoxin is the remedy for the infection as it neutralizes the: toxin if administered early, but it would be an unneces-

| BEAUTIFUL BROWN COUNTY, AS ERNIE PYLE SAW IT—

The Liar's Bench at Nashville

to many

equests, The Times i$ of Ernie's

columns about Brown

, of course, has burned down. But printed are just as Ernie wrote

apt to be bad. It has no bad-look-ing homes, and many a fine one. The courthouse lawn is always dotted with men sitting and talking. ” " n UNDER ONE tree is a bench known ‘as The Liar's Bench, Nearly 156 years ago Frank Hohenbevger, the photographer, took a picture from behind of six men sitting on this bench talking. The picture became famous, and has been sold in every state in the Union. Today's bench is not the same one, but people still sit on it all day long.

week nights, too, a bunch of boys sit in front of Paul Percifield’s auto repair shop and sing. I have heard them, and I can say that there is nothing better in New York than the soft, low, professionally perfect harmony of the voices of Paul Percifield, Bob Bowden, Bill McGrayel and Sandy McDonald. Why, even their names.are lyrical,

TOMORROW: A Cabin Visitor,

of their use of public funds. The rebél group wants Venezuelan laws changed so that the people will elect the president at the polls ‘by secret ballot. Under pres ent regulations, voters elect only municipal councils. The councils elect senators and the senators name the new president. Latin American opposition leaders and presidents everywhere are intensely interested In the use of lend-lease as a short cut to changing presidents, or calling off elections they do not want.

» » ” LEND-LEASE equipment already has played an important part in permitting rebels to overthrow governments in Guatemala, El Salvador and Ecuador. Lend-lease helps other presidents stay in power, as in Paraguay. With variations, Venezuela's political history is similar to that of many other Latin American countries. Dictator Juan Vicente Gomez ran the country like a schoolmaster runs a classroom, for 27 years, from 1908 to 1935. When he died, at the age of T, Lopez Contreras was elected by the senate to succeed him. Contreras served until 1941 and was succeeded by Medina for a sixyear term, Contreras and Medina both have been considered good friends of the United States during the war in defense of the Panama Canal and the hemisphere.

On Baturday nights—and some |

PAGE En Labor

Stacy Fails To Please All

Labor Sectors

By FRED W. PERKINS WASHINGTON, Oct. 24. “ President Truman's appointment of Judge Walter P. Stacy, presid~

ing judge of the North Carolina supreme court, to be chairman of the national labor-management conference, does not please some advocates of equal job opportunities tor Negroes The reason is that Judge Stacy heads a committee which has failed to get southern railroads and certain railway unions to accept an anti discrimination directive of the fair employment practice coms mittee, The Stacy committee was set up by President Roosevelt in January, 1044. i It sald then that it would try to get compliance from the rail roads and the railway unions within the limits of an agreement which FEPC had condemned as discriminatory—mainly because it set a percentage limit on the number of Negro firemen and barred them from promotion, » » s

IN DECEMBER, 1944, the U. 8. supreme court decided the “Steele case,” a private anti-discrimin-ation suit, in a manner that up~ held the FEPC doctrine,

However, the supreme court's dictum is not self-enforcing, and the same conditions are reported still existing.

The other members of the Stacy committee are Prank J. Lausche, then mayor of Cleveland, now governor of Ohio; and federal judge William Holly of Chicago. Technically the committee is in existence.

n ” » WHETHER this “unfinished business’ will hamper Judge

Btacy's chairmanship of the conference on which administration pins hopes for industrial peace cannot be forecast but he has a record of successful handling of a number of other: labor contro versies.

He has been an associate public member of the war labor board. He was named for other tasks by Presidents Coolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt,

Judge Btaey’s appointment to his new and most important assign/ ment was cleared with both the American Federation of Labor and ° the C. I. O, as well as with the management organizations, the U, 8. chamber of commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers,

strangles to death unless the membrane i8 sucked out, a tube passed by it, or an opening made in the throat.

WILLIE and

and The Chicago Daily News, Ing,

JOE—By Mauldin

Modern parents of young children may not realize the seriousness of diphtheria because they have never seen a case, Incidence of infection rises in the fall and winter, and it is still a common cause of death in unprotected children. Diphtheria should be suspected in all throat infections in children who have not been immunized. Diphtheria toxoid is used to develop resistance against the infection, while antitoxin is used in its treatment.

Diphtheria is spread by disbcharges from the nose, throat, body openings and wounds of infected persons. It also may be spread by carriers, Infection develops two to five days after exposure in suscept« ible persons from direct contact with a case or carrier, with articles soiled by their discharges or by contaminated milk or milk products.

” ~ . IMMUNIZATION against diphtheria should be started at the age of nine-months, Several injections are given. Diphtheria toxoid may| AR be combined with other protective] | inoculations for other childhood diseases. Children should be given a booster dose of diphtheria toxoid upon entering school or: whenever they are exposed. Schick test is done in the second | { year to determine effectiveness of

{matic advisor to "U. 8. military in

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Men, Women

By RUTH MILLETT

SO that his men wouldn't walk down the gangplank with long hair, a colonel in charge of the 526th Armored Infantry Battalion assembled his men before they sailed from Germany and told them all hair had to be trim med to less than two inches. Then called “hair-cut spection” and -gave the men a persons

We, the Women Big Difference In Thoughts of

he for in-

al once-over, And some people still contend that men and women are essentially and fundamentally alike,

Huh-—who has had to tell the wives and sweethearts of men on their way home to get busy mak« ing themselves beautiful? n u » WITHOUT any prompting from anybody they have bought the stores out of sheer lingerie. They have looked over their wardrobes with a critical eye and decided they wouldn't do, and so have rushed out to buy pert hats, flat. tering suits and dresses, silly shoes, etc.

And for once—never mind the

price. The main requisite Is “Does it DO ANYTHING for me?”

Not only that, they have cleaned their houses from attics to basements, lined up baby sits ters to tay with the kids just in case the returning hero would like to be met. ” n » THEY HAVE started hoarding red points and stocking their cupboards and planning menus.

And some of them even ha refused to leave the honse, fear the long-awaited telepl call might come while they out. ¢ ?

' The girls are all in a dither getting ready for the big mos ment when the man of their life ~or the man they have hopes of making the man of their life— finally gets home. :- And how-are the men preparing for the big moment? Why, they have to be prompjed wet their hair