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his new granddaughter, Martha Ann. They entered the se]f-operated elevator on the first floor, pushed . she button and waited to go up. But instead the elevator went down to the basement, then dropped another foot and stuck. For about 25 minutes Mrs. Alexander and Mr. Lloyd, four nurses and three ' Finally the emergency button brought results and

the door was pried open. One of the nurses was nearly frantic—she was supposed to be on duty. Mr. Lloyd and Mrs. Alexander had to climb to the fourth floor. By that time it was about 7:30, Visiting Jhours ended at 8. The sign in the elevator said the capacity was eight. Passengers in the elevator Sunday included eight adults and one child. ... An army announcement on an arts and crafts contest sent out by the Fifth service command at Ft. Hayes, O., has some local officers puzzled. The publicity said: “It is advisable that all prizewinners be announced the day before the opening date of the contest.”

Grateful Patient Y MRS. V. R. TEETER, 1129 Villa ave., has piled up 650 hours of duty with ‘the White Cross volunteers during the last three years and is one of the group's %» most faithful workers. While on duty as a Pink Lady at Methodist hospital recently she was assigned to feed a patient who had been severely burned. His face was covered with bandages except . for a small opening at his mouth. But even though

he couldn't see Mrs, Teeter, he'll never forget her. He wanted to meet her when the bandages were off,

Ig explaining that she was the only person who ever told

him what he was being fed. Mrs, Teeter didn’t think she was doing anything different. “I know I wouldn’t want any food stuffed down my throat without first . . State Trooper Lloyd Hickerson saved a week of his summer vacation for fall fishing. But his catch was nothing like he had anticipated. He spent all last week casting and s+ fly-fishing in northern Indiana streams and lakes. His catch’ wasn’t even worth mentioning. . . . Pfc. William Siddall, one of the members of the paperhanging family we mentioned the other day, is home , now and may be back at the old job soon... Miss Nellie Coats has been taking her laundry to the Best Grand laundry for some time and has become pretty well acquainted with clerks there. But she never thought she had become this familiar with them: Her blankets came back the other day with just “Nell” printed on them for identification.

Spy Fi TOKYO, Oct. 26.—This is the story of a frustrated kt’ spy. He bungled every job he tried for the Japs, the British and the Russians, but he wants one more chance—this time with the Americans, (Apparently he won't get his chance. American army officers on Tuesday—Oct. 23 a —arrested Hans Schweitzer charging that he had been posing as an agent for Brig. Gen. E. R. Thorpe, chief of counterintelligence at Gen. MacArthur's headquarters.) An emissary from Hans Schweitzer, who lives in a secluded cottage in a village some dis stance from Tokyo, told me Hans Schweitzer would be glad to see me any time after dark, on certain conditions, If when we called on him he came to the door with a white handkerchief in his hand, I was to go away. If he held nothing in ' his hand, there was no danger, There was no handkerchief in Schweitzer’'s hand when our jeep drove up the narrow driveway and threw our lights into his doorway, so we went in. Schweitzer carefully locked ‘the door, led us upstairs and locked that door, too. He stuck his head out the window and listened intently for fully a minute. Then he began narrating his adventures in hoarse whispers. 5

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HE IS bald and his face is scarred and pockmarked. His sunken eyes roam restlessly as he talks. He could understudy Boris Karlofl. At any rate, here is his story. Some parts of it may be true. I verified that he was imprisoned by the Japanese and that he underwent considerable torture. . Schweitzer sald he had been working “in a con-

Science

THE ATOMIC bomb jitters are beginning. I am afraid that they will grow worse instead of better and they illustrate the need for prompt, courageous action in the international field. A correspondent of the American Broadcasting Co, visits the laboratory of a Japanese scientist and is “shocked speechless” by what he sees. I don't know how easily this gentleman is shocked by things scientific. Perhaps he has never before seen a cyclotron or a Van de Graal generator, I wouldn't know. The laboratory he visited was that of Prof. Bunsaku Arakatsu, who trained in England at the University of Cambridge with Prof. Peter Kapitza. Kapitza, now one of Soviet Russia’s top atomic physicists, got his training, as did a majority of the brilliant men in the field, with the late Lord Rutherford at Cambridge.

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I IMAGINE, thereforé, that the Japanese scientist has 4 pretty good laboratory. But I am inclined to doubt his statement that Japan would have had the atomic bomb if he and other scientists eould have persuaded the Japanese government to put up the money. : . But it is important to realize that Japan possesses physicists trained in Cambridge—and in American universities, too—who understand atomic energy. The Japanese scientist expressed further his belief

My Day

WASHINGTON, Thursday—Last Monday afternoon I came down to Washington, and I have been having a busy time. Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Miller, our very old friends,

were kind enough to take me in, but I am afraid I have been a rather unsatisfactory h i» guest! My time has been so m

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Four Brand New Fords

TEACHERS near Illinois and Washington sts. around noon yesterday got a special treat. A big trailer passed slowly through town with a load of four brand new Fords. Crowds filling the sidewalks pushed over to the curb to get a good look at a new car for a change. The most frequent remark was one made to the driver—“How about.dropping one off for me?” ... There's a new development in the case of the Babylonian Kings in one of Butler university's history classes. The other day Jim Mitchell, one of the history Ste mig ite the names of the Notre Dame football players those of Babylonian kings in some of his collateral reading notes. At the last minute he noticed that he had lost a page of the notes and he couldn’t remember the names of the ancient kings. So he wrote in the football players’ names and handed in the notes. In the first account of the incident, it was reported that the notes had been given a satisfactory grade. A checkup, however, by Dr. David Silver, professor of the class, showed that the grade was ui satisfactory. It seems that the notes were written in peéncil and there weren't enough of them. It looks like Jim's going to have to do a little more studying on his Babylonians and less on the’ Notre Dame football lineup.

By Sidney B. Whipple

fidential capacity” for the Japanese and Germans, but instinctively he favored the allies. He explained he was a Swiss citizen, “and the Swiss have always been great defenders of liberty.” So he secretly went to the British here soon after the European war started and offered to parachute into Germany and conduct: sabotage on a grand scale. He says he was on his way to do the job but unfortunately when he got as far as Singapore he lost all his credentials and the British secret service wouldn't believe he was on a special mission, Giving up the English as a bad job, he says he approached the Russians offefing to obtain blueprints of Japan's midget submarine. He arranged with “a high official” to throw a package over the “Russian embassy wall one night, where it would be picked up by one of their intelligence officers. ;

Flopped on Second Try

ON AN appointed night and at a fixed ‘hour, he strolled past the embassy garden. But lights were blazing, “which would have made me a perfect silhouette.” He didn't dare heave the documents over the wall. The following day he met the Russian liaison man on the street and told him to have the lights turned off for 15 minutes at 8 o'clock that evening. But the Russians ordered the blackout within hearing of their Japanese servants. The servants informed the police. So, when he tossed the package over the wall that night, it landed in the hands of a Jap gendarme, and Hans went to the clink. Late in August he pricked his finger and using a toothpick he wrote in blood on toilet paper a note to the head of the prison. He threatened retribution if conditions in prison were not improved. This was his last failure. He was released before he could deliver the note. He showed us the note. It was a neat job of lettering, strangely enough in English.

By David Dietz

that Russia already had an atomic bomb as good as ours. I think that this statement is in an probability nonsense, But it illustrates how the atomic bomb Jitters have begun and how they will grow. If all researches on atomic energy are driven underground and made a series of state secrets in each nation of the world, then we shall have no means, other than the sort of spying euphemistically called “intelligence” and “counter-intelligence” service, of knowing where any nation stands in the business,

Russia ‘Captures’ Scientists ANOTHER report from Europe quotes the French physicist, Dr. Paul Rivet, as saying that a group of German atomic physicists, captured on the Danish

island of Bornholm, have been transported to Russia. He adds the cheerful thought that in his opinion,

Russia will have an atomic bomb in six months, I

think he’s wrong about the time, but again you have an example of how_the atomic bomb jitters will

spread throughout the whole world.

A further contribution to the atomic bomb jitters is the opinion gaining much circulation that the

real reason for the postponement of Marshal Georgi Zhukov’s visit to this country was the atomic bomb

situation. It is pointed out that many commentators regard the marshal as Stalin's probable successor,

Finally, we might add the report cabled from Eu-

rope that Nazi plans for an atomic bomb, captured in Germany by the British, were rushed to London. A good case of jitters will not spare the British, even

though they were our partmers in developing the atomic bomb.

SECOND SECTION

By ERNIE PYLE BROWN COUNTY, Ind.— Just as the pueblo style of building is the architectural motif of New Mexico, and the Spanish house. of South-

ern California, and the stone house of Pennsylvania—so is the log cabin the mark of Brown county, Ind. I don’t mean the log cabin of the Western: mountains, where round logs with the bark still on are used. I mean the old-fashioned hewn log, roughly adzed into rectangular shape, and left unpainted and graying with age. The kind that Abe Lincoln was born in,

5 =» ” SUCH LOG cabins, modernized, have hecome a fad in Brown county. Peqgple from the city build summer homes here. And, almost always, they are log cabins. But don't let the term “cabin” fool you. I myself am staying in a little six - room two-bath-and-basement log cabin, and there is a new one hore in Nashville that they say cost $35,000. But it's still a cabin, and you'd better not call it a house.

” » ” THIS cabin-rebuilding business started about 25 years ago. I don’t know whether they are at the base of the cabin fad, but the three men most responsible for developing property in Brown county are the following: s Fred Bates Johnson, a wise Indianapolis lawyer, one-time newspaperman, one-time teacher at Indiana university. Jack Rogers, who owns the old remodeled hotel which is the Nashville house, and operates the big Abe Martin Lodge a few miles away in the State Park. Dale Bessire, one of Nashville's best artists.

8 8 THEY STARTED buying in here 25 years ago, because they were fascinated by Brown county. They bought in partnership—timber land, orchards, town buildings — they bought a great deal of everything. And then in the early ’30s, all amicably, they decided to break up into individual ownership. So Dale Bessire took the big orchards, and Jack Rogers took the hotel, and Fred Johnson took the timber land and the log cabins. Today there probably are 250 or 300 log cabins which people from Indignapolis or Bloomington have had febuilt, and they live in them

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Brown county has come into its own again. 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. weeks in Brown county in 1940. Ernie caught the spirit of Brown county perhaps more than any other writer.

year round. o n . SOME ARE in town, others a] far out in the his, hidden by trees that you could live around here for years and not know cabins. they existed. And whether they are mere one- have antiquity. room affairs with a kitchen lean-

all lovely. Unpainted, stone-chim-| jogs.”

amid flowers, they fit the land and the personality of the hill people.|, " » 2

of these log cabins, grass has built many, too, Mrs. Snodgrass have a lovely cabin] want.

BEAUTIFUL BROWN COUNTY, AS ERNIE PYLE SAW IT—No. 4

Cabins—Modernized and Costly

The Abe Martin lodge in Brown county.

either in summer, or sometimes the of their own on the hillside, actual-

ly in town, yet so. isolated and { peaceful you feel miles away. Walter “was born in Elwood, Ind, mere walk from town, and others| —the same place and the same year Some are so as Wendell Willkie. Walter was telling me about log A genuine cabin can't Le { built out of new logs. No, it must

So you scout around the country to of unpainted boards, or whether|and spot an old log house, or maythey are $25,000 mansions, they are| be a4 barn. This is called a “set of Then you dicker with the neyed, set beneath shade trees and|owner, and buy it.

" LJ » THEN YOU number the end of : each log, take the whole place FRED JOHNSON has built many apart, haul it to wherever you want Walter Snod-|to build, and put it together again, He and| with whatever improvements you

In response to many requests, The Times is’ reprinfing some of Ernie's columns about Brown county, You will find names of people now dead, some who no longer live there. And the historic Nashville House, of course, has burned down. But the columns reprinted ‘are just as Ernie wrote them, without editing.

An ordinary small cabin, with no modern improvements. can be built for between $1000 and $1500. A comfortable log cabin, with lights and water, can be put up for $2500. And a mansion can be built of old logs for just as much as you want to pay. { oN oN “SETS OF LOGS" are getting scarcer and scarcer, Walter Snod-~ grass has driven thousands of miles over the back hilly roads of southern Indiana, and even into Kentucky, looking for “sets.” He says he believes he knows every available log within two days’ drive. So there are some left, but not many. You must hurry, hurry, hurry—even to remain antique.

TOMORROW: Happy Valley.

The eagle of the

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—They September she had only about six

pecting it. All the girls she used to run Lex, the old Yorktown-—are gone. She'd known for a long time that the heart throbs of her big motors were missing an occasional beat. ' Even a queen grows tired, and the queen of the flattops has lived for a long, long time. Unless congress intervenes, the Saratoga will be towed to a junkyard and ripped apart for her steel. The queen decided if she was to die, she'd die right. That's why Adm. King put her in charge of the navy’s magic carpet. Now, between Honolulu and San Francisco, she makes regular round trips bringing high-point veterans home for discharge. Oldest Carrier Afloat The boys of the fleet don't call her queen, they call her “The Big Sara.” The queen doesn’t mind. She can call a lot of the boys by their nicknames, too. She's the oldest carrier afloat—still afloat despite six Jap claims that she'd been sunk. The young Heutenant on the

when she slid down the ways, said disdainfully that “she'd fought and won her war when these young carriers weren't even blueprints.”

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THE DOCTOR SAYS:

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Howard university. I managed during the day to stop in for a minute at the recorder of deeds office to see the bas-relief of my husband done by Miss Selma Burke. Then 1 went to the treasury department to see the poster which is to be used in this eighth

victory loan campaign,

I imagine it will be hard for people to realize that this drive is as necessary as any of the previous loans |’ during the war. Yet, just as we have to keep men}

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D.

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“The harpies of the shore shall pluck

By JIM G. LUCAS

The queen—U. 8, S. Saratoga—wasn't surprised. She'd been ex-|

quarterdeck, just starting to school

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sea.” —Qld Ironsides.

Scripps-Howard Staff Writer . rived. told the “queen of the flattops” in months more to live, When the

was there. 62-day cruise.

around with—the Langley, the Old! steamed

teakwood decks. The Sara hasn't forgotten, even though 94,000 landings have been made since. It will be Vice Adm. Mitscher who pronounces the Sara's benediction. The Queen was in San Diego when war came, But even there, she served her country. The commander of the Jap midget sub which slipped into Pearl Harbor identified the old target ship Utah as the Saratoga. The Utah was tied up at the Queen's regular berth, The Japs wasted. bombs on an old hulk which

they'd sunk the Queen.

On Jan. 11, 1942, the Sara was] torpedoed, losing six men, but by /Nimitz

Indianapolis Council 437, Knights of Columbus, has announced the passing of a resolution praising Peter C. Reilly for his million-

versity.

‘Big. Sara’ Doomed—Sailors Can't Believe If

May she was back in action. She was in Pearl Harbor when Battle of Midway began. headed out to get in her licks, but the battle was over before she ar~

“Mainstay of Fleet” marines Guadalcanal Aug. 7, 1942, the Sara It was the start of a On Aug. 24, into the battle of the eastern Solomons. the Jap carrier Ryuzo. She sank a destroyer and crippled a light and a heavy cruiser. after the Yorktown, Lexington and Hornet were sunk and the Enterprise crippled, she was our only big carrier in the Pacific. On Nov. 5, 1943, her planes took their greatest toll of Jap warships, at Rabaul. Five heavy cruisers were plastered with bombs and one of them blew up. cruiser was torpedoed. cruiser was hit by bombs and torpedoed and a second light cruiser was hit by a bomb. Two destrovthe navy hadn't bothered to sink.|..s were torpedoed. The Japs lost That was the first time they claimed | 94 planes, plus 20 probables. The Sara lost eight planes. Back in Pearl Harbor, studied the report and

Praise Reilly for Notre Dame Gift

mittee. Other committee members were Past Grand Knights William FP. Fox, August F. Krieg, Louis W. Krieg, Joseph A. Naughton, J. Ollas dollar gift to Notre Dame uni- Vanier, James B. Mahan, Norman E, Patrick, Daniel T. Doyle, TimDiscussing Mr. Reilly's donation othy P. Sexton, Harry E. Calland, to Notre Dame, the resolution con-|George J. Hoffman, Charles R. cludes, “His shining example shall Keogh, John J. Minta, John PF.

radioed the Sara: “You are the mainstay of the fleet.” The Sara wasn't satisfied. She went racing up to Truk, daring the Japs to come out and fight, They wouldn't. On Nov. 19, 1943, she joined .the fight for Tarawa. Before she got there she worked over the Japs on Nauru. By Jan, 19 she was at Taroa. A few days later she was at Eniwetok. In the battle of the Marshalls, she made 25 strikes in 16 days. In the spring of 1944 the Sara disappeared. She'd slipped away to the Indian ocean to join the British far eastern fleet in pounding the East Indies. After receiving an impressive tribute from the British, the Sara came home.

Weathered Seven Hits

When the marines hit Iwo Jima the Sara was 35 miles from Tokyo. She headed back, two days later, to get in the fight. Late on the afternoon of Feb, 21 the Japs sent 20 kamikaze planes against her. Seven got through and badly gored her, A less doughty Queen might have called quits. But not the Sara. She steamed away under her own power. The Sara has known them all, Her commanding officers have included Adm. Frederick Horne, assistant to Adm. King; Adm. Willlam F, Halsey, Adm. John Towers, Rear Adm. Alfred M. Pride, Rear Adm. Henry ‘Mullinix, who went down with the Liscomb Bay. Her “execs” include Adm. Mitscher, who was also her first operations officer; Vice Adm. Richmond Kelly Turner, chief of amphibious warfare, and Vice Adm. Forrest Sherman, now a carrier task

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PAGE 19 Labor Theme Song for Conference Set By'Vandenberg

By FRED W. PERKINS

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Plans for the National Labor-Mandge-ment conference, as made public by President Truman, showed today that this effort already had made one advance foward better understanding. The evidence is in the pri~ mary empha=sis placed upon a letter write ten July 30 to Secretary Schwellenbach by Senator Vandenberg (R. Mich.). This letter, according to an announcement which the President okayed, “crystalized the decision to go ahead.” The senator frequently has been criticized in‘ labor publica< tions, particularly those of .the C. I O. One of the labor spokes= men who helped draft the agenda objected to the Vandenberg let< ter's getting such prominence being made practically the “theme song” of the conference. So a member of the drafting commit= tee representing ‘‘the public” read to him a part of the letter, including the following: " » .

“RESPONSIBLE ' management knows that free collective bars gaining is here to stay and that progressive law must continue to support it and that it must be wholeheartedly accepted. Responsible labor leadership knows that irresponsible strikes and subse versive attacks upon essential production are the gravest threats to the permanent success of la bor’s bill of rights.

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“The American public knows that we cannot rebuild and maintain our national economy at the high levels required by our une avoidable necessities if we cannot have productive peace instead of disruptive war on the industrial front. American government knows that social statutes are futile“except as. they largely stem from mutual wisdom and mutual consent.”

“You don’t mean that Vandenberg wrote that?” asked the labor man, ” “But he did.” “Oh, then let's go ahead with it. I didn’t know he thought that way.” asl ARE When he wrote the letter Semator Vandenberg had just returned from the United Nations meeting in Ban Francisco, He wondered it the same method could not be used to bring men of widely differing ideas together and “lay the groundwork for peace with jus. tice on the home front.”

Nov, 16, 1927, at Camden, N. J, Harry A young lieutenant commander named Marc A. Mitscher put the first plane down on her

MAJORITY of patients who consult heart specialists are suffering from concern which may not be based on reality. Even those who have something wrong with their more from concern than from

The average person accepts 4 diagnosis of liver

their hearts. They believe heart | patients should live normal lives in Action | spite of their symptoms if a care.

‘exemplary model for all Catholic] gtizens of our state.” william H. Bradley acted as chairman of the resolution com-

T. Rocap, John H. Blackwell, Ed-

ward J. Dowd, W. Lawrence Sexton, dle, boys don't believe it. the Queen will live forever.

Edward J. Fillenwarth, J. Emmett McManamon and P, J. Ryans

Fear Causes Patients Distress

HEART symptoms develop in normal persons when a slight heart abnormality is discovered during the course of an examination. The difficulty may have been present at birth, but complaints do not develop until the patient learns he has something wrong. The sudden death of a relative or a friend, deep grief or prolonged anxiety may focus attention on the heart. Sudden pain and skipped beats depress ,| sensitive persons who take a pessi-

The reconversion period in some ways will be more but when the |mistic view of things. expensive than the war. And if we do not meet these " heart is affected | If you take deep breaths and sigh . expenses now, it will cost more in the future. it is a different|a great deal you may get distress This last sacrifice should certainly be made with matter and he, jn the region of your heart which ls all the generosity which we can muster, and every- es anxious. not caused by heart disease, Physij one should wan Bis shais Bh dhe Ban pawioue Alf Ayers : “ gesture which can be tied to the war. a, M. D,'and P. A 1 have had time while here to have some pleasant| Dr OBrien 1,56 MD, BRITISH MEDIC DIES hours of a purely social nature. I have seen many of jwriting in the Journal of the| GAMBRIDGE, England, Oct. 26 my old friends, and since I come rarely to Washington | American Medical Association, de-

_|(U. P)~Dr, Herbert Edward Durt ham, 75, famed British expert on yellow fever, ‘died here yesterdav. Dr. Durham formerly was senior surgeon at Guys hospital in London and made several expeditions into

Heart Murmurs Often Harmless

(cians have their apprehgnsive pa|tients to make this test by breath'ing deeply and sighing for two or three minutes, Physicians must accept respons< sibility for causing a certain amount of nervousness about the heart by absentmindedly listening to a heart a little longer than usual, Without realizing it we plant the seed of doubt in the patient's mind even though we do not find anything wrong. ” » » YEARS AGO, before we knew as much about the heart as we do to-

day, all young people with murmurs were advised to take it easy and not exert themselves. Most of these murmurs were not caused by heart trouble, as the years of good health which followed will testify, but doubt still lingers minds as the result of this advice. Nervous heart trouble ‘is not a form of heart disease, as the symptoms are due to nervousness and not to heart disease. . If you do not. have beart trouble, edict for

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We, the Women Homes Wrecked By War Deserve

More Sympathy By RUTH MILLETT

EVERY community has (its share of tragic stories of servicemen coming home to their wives and after a short try at resuming their marriages deciding it won't

work and walking out. The men are blamed in almost = every such case. “That poor girl sat and waited for him for two or thtee years — (or whatever the case may be)—and now he is through with her.” The men very likely are to blame in some cases. And yet— » »

CAN they really help it if the war years and the experiences that have changed their outlook have made their ‘marriages seem dull and, somehow, an awful mistake?

Society sent them off to war, Society interrupted their marriages. Society decreed that a man’s duty to his country came before his duty to his home.

And now when many of the marriages aren't standing the un« natural strain that was put upon them~society is blaming the men for not coming back the same persons they were when they left home,

INSTEAD of condemning thé husband or wife in such cases, shouldn't we all shoulder the blame? It was “our war,” not just the war of men who left home to fight it. And If it has been hard on many marriages, then we are all to blame,

And what right have couples who have never known the forced separation that war brings to assume their own marriages would have weathered-such rocky times?

Maybe they would—and maybe = they wouldn't, It looks as though in all fairness to the men and women whose' marriages have gone to pieces due to the sti "of war, society should show