Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 December 1945 — Page 13

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‘ number and suit of the card is established and

progress in the world of_the atom. .

- the release of atomic

nside Indiana IP SOMEBODY calls and asks for “the psychic

it works: With a deck of cards and a gullible handy, you casually remark you have a

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use, then you say: “Just a minute, I'll put him on phone.” Your friend takes the receiver and is when immediately. Here's the trick: The person you call is familiar with the game and your words, “Hello, is

this the psychic genius?” is Nis clue. He immediately

starts counting aloud. When he reaches the number on the card in question you interrupt with the second cue, namely “Would you mind telling us, etc?” At that, he begins slowly naming off the various suits

off with “Just a minute . .,* By this technique, the you win the bet. :

‘Genius’ Bats About 500

THOSE WHO claim to be “psychic geniuses” aren't always reliable, Anna Patrick of 1539 Somerset ave, discovered. In rummaging through old papers, she ran across a 1923 edition of The Times. In it one, Prof. Gustave Meyer, a self-styled astrologer, made the following predictions in all seriousness: “A great European war is indicated for 1927 in which France, England and Germany fe the leading figures. Germany will be allied wisi England against France. England will have internal troubles and in 1934 wii become a Republic. . . . Between 1943 and 1949 the United States will be torn with civil dissension. Out of this a woman president will arise, the Joan of Arc of America. . . . Soviet Russia will not endure. . .. By 1925 prohibition will be a thing of the past. The saloon, however, will not come back. Wine and beer will. be under government control. ... The kaiser will never come back and the U. 8S. will never join the League of Nations.”. .. Looks like he bats about S00. . . . City Hospital Superintendent Charles W. Myers wishes he were psychic enough to learn just who left two dozen roses-on his front porch recently. He returned late-at night to find the bouquet at his front door without a card or any other identification’ He and his wife spent several days calling friends and florists in an effort to trace the gracious donor, but without success. -

'A Turkey Slaughter |

A WILD turkey to end all wild turkey stories was

- brought down by Z. E. Slaughter, grocery proprietor

at 2159 E. New York st. The bird weighs 17% pounds, has a five-foot wingspread and measures four feet, five inches from head to tail. Mr. Slaughter bagged him. in the Virginia gvoods. The gobbler is now in

“Round the U.S.

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 4.—There is a rumor around here—take it for what it is worth—that a snail will giarve to death before he'll eat anything he doesn't e. - The only purpose irr mentioning this at all is that “La Scoeite des Escargots Orleanais” (The Society of Orleans Snails) is now recovering quite rapidly from one of the annual gorges that it holds every nine months and, a dizzy guest might observe, recovering unexpectedly. The Snails are 12 enthusiasts who, as you may have gathered by this time, are interested in eating. At the moment they are probably the most exclusive collection of gourmets in this region. They meet informally every once in a while to see how things are going in the principal New Orleans kitchens. Every nine months they assemible for a formal feast to which each may invite one guest. Considerable effort is made to preserve the health and strength of the invitees, none of which may show up

"for an encore in_less than five years. It has been

said that he can go five years without eating any more. Which is probably true. Consider the feast just ended (from which two have been granted.a five-year reprieve) . . .

Catalog of the Feast THE SCENE was Antoine's. .(The Snails have taken care to include the town's principal cooking experts in their membership .. . this promotes a bit of rivalry and insures top service in the dining hall) Master Geoffrey R. Higgins presided as old chancellor,

Science

SCIENCE becomes most: exciting when it appears glearly as a search for new frontiers. This is equally. trye of an expedition to the North Pole and the hunt for a new planet in the solar system. Such an exploration of new frontiers is now in It is the search for chemical ele ments whose existence was previously unknown, elements beyond | the far end of the periodic table. |

atomic bomb and the future of that weapon of destruction and energy are

in the periodic

est known elements, No. 92 table, was named uranium. Then came discovery of tw “trans-Uranic” planets, namely

Neptune and Pluto. . And so, today, we speak also of “trans-Uranic” elements and with complete appropriateness the scientists who made the atomic bomb named element No. 93 “neptunium,” and element No. #4 “plutonium.”

Two New Elements

My Day

" NEW YORK, Monday—I am beginning to feel at the pres-

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polis don't feel flattered or alarmed. Its only the TIN fad now catching on in Indianapolis. Here's

psychic genius names his card .

Bomb’s Dmcovery

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A wild gobbler to end all wild tales.

the grocery cooler awaiting a family party celebrating the birthdays.of Mr. Slaughter and his two sons, Murry and James, all falling between Dec. 22 and Jan. 9. . .. Tony Lux, owner of the Lux laundry, one of the city's better-known “gentleman turkey-raisers,” sold 1500 of his prize gobblers to the A&P food stores. . . . Not bad for a fellow who considers turkeys a sideline, secondary to the laundry business... . His farm is on Rd. 20 just beyond the city limits. . . Ex-Navy Lt. Bob -Richey, former state NYA chief, Just discharged, is boasting about having bought two new suits of underwear, a hat and topcoat. . . . But won't that combination be kind of cool? ... Speaking of suits, or the lack thereof, the South Side has a new whodunit entitled “the mystery of the missing vest.” Seems that Israel Menkovitz ‘purchased a suit at Efroymson's, but somewhere between the tailor who made the alterations and Mr. Menkovitz the vest disappeared. Mr. Menkovitz got all the way to New York City before he missed the vest. Now he’s shivering while Efroymson’s, plagued by the cloth shortage, is in a dither. They think it was lost somewhere on S. Meridian st., and are offering a reward for its return. ... . The Indianapolis Red Cross chapter has been asked by the Yugoslav delegation in Rome to locate Frances Kovovich, formerly of 3774 "W. 10th st. Anyone knowing of her whereabouts is requested to notify Eleanor Dunn Moore of the home service department. . . . Incidentally, Yugoslavia has now been opened to’ direct mailing facilities. . . . Seen’ from ‘the window of Jake Feld’s tire store, 115 E. New York st.: an elderly gentleman wearing an overcoat and” earmuffs, shoving a white popsicle pushcart.

~~ By Robert J. Casey

Roy L. Alciatore was elected chancellor for the next

period. And aside from that, this is what happened : fn

Catalog of the feast: i” Jane of appetite: Champagne (American) Korbel The dish harbinger: Caviar on toast. The dish prefactory: Consomme—serrved with Tio Pepe sherry . . . white and rare. The dish of delicacy: Pompano Veronique . . . Pompano in a rich sauce served with Wente Liver more Semillion, 1938, a white American wine selected by the master cupbearer because it was exceptionally good without attempting to imitate Chablis. The great dish: Braised beef perigord ... . another dish in a rich sauce served with vegetables and

Romanee-Conti 1928, a fine red wine of exceeding |-

rarity.

"And That Wasn't All a

(BY THIS time the feast had added up to something near two weeks’ rations for an able eater, But that wasn’t all—) The dish of ceremony: Suckling pig Antoine . . . a bored pig, stuffed with ground turkey meat and truffles and served cold with a salad and Mumm’s Cordon Rouge 1933 champagne. 3 The dish of convefsation: A savory consisting of oysters fried in batter plus quiche paquay, a cheese tart, and malmsey sack. At the conclusion of this modest repast somebody

poured a lot of brandy into a bowl of coffee and set]

it afire. The guests blew out the flame, drank what was left, and washed it down with cointreau. o "There were no after dinner speeches. Looking back over the menu that doesn’t seem remarkable.

[3 . By David Dietz of California, working at the Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago, has come up with elements No, 95 and No. 96. - The name of this laboratory is an interesting one

for it does not reveal the real nature of the place. If was chosen during world war II to conceal what

really ‘went on for this was the laboratory where most|

of the preliminary work on the atomic bomb was done by a team of brilliant scientists under the direction of Dr. Arthur H. Compton. Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer worked at this laboratory until he moved his crew to the Los Alamos Lab-

oratory. on the New Mexico desert for the final stages |

of the bomb manufacture. ; . Dr. Seaborg was himself one of the co-discoverers of element No. 94 dt.the Metallurgical laboratory.

PHYSICISTS were always at a loss to explain why the table of chemical elements stopped with No. 92.

thorium, protoactinium, and uranium-—are radioactive, From this, one could argue that elements beyond No.

‘92 were not sufficiently stable to exist. But this did

not seem altogether reasonable. It perhaps is not generally recognized that the of uranium fission, the basis of the atomic

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SECOND SECTION

By BOYD LEWIS NEA Staff Writer _ THESE pictures show the warm, folksy side of America’s new army chief of staff—the man whose first utterance after his appointment called not for guns and planes but for a “complete spiritual regeneration.” Ikelis a military genius—was it not his magnificent plan for a double envelopment of the Ruhr which crushed the Wehrmacht and ended the war? But he is never austere, hard, unapproachable. He eases his big, athletic frame out of a jeep and strides across the mud to ask a doughboy how he's

»|doing, how is the chow he's get-

ting, how's the mail from home coming through, how good is his weapon. It's G. I. talk, one soldier tor another. o » . HE STANDS before a jampacked

Bulge.

bring “out beads of sweat on. his forehead as the war reporters shoot question after question at him. But Ike answers them all—honestly. And then there is Ike in his moment of triumph at Rheims, holding in hand the instrument of German surrender with that great scrawled “Jodl” still damp from the cowed Hun’s pen. . » »

THOSE of us who werg privileged to witness the signing of the peace

in the sprawling Industrial School of Rheims have crowded into a re-

Gen. lke—Fol

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 198 | HUMANITY, FIRST CONSIDERATION OF A FIGHTING MAN—

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‘FIVE-STAR STRATEGY is discussed by Gen. George C. Marshall,

plan the brilliant moves which led

of klieg lights. } Three men are presented before him, two in the field green of the Wehrmacht and one in the blue of the German navy. They are the German surrender delegates.

as he barks to the interpreter: “Ask | them if they kriow what they have| ed.” The Nazis bob their heads | assent and they are led out by | American officers. crepes, rani ff ff } aaa WE SHIFT our eyes back as he|

ception room just off the cubbyhole office .of the supreme com-| ander. 8

UNBLINKING in the glare of

sits bathed in illumination. He! stares straight ahead for a few) moments saying nothing. In a mo-| ment so intense that you can almost |

the ‘world spot- WITH ROYA

Ike sits at his desl in the .glare read his thoughts as on a screen

{foresaw when we hurled our armies

| This is the day we hardly dared Ike's face seems carved of granite hope for when we hit the beaches

room to tell SHAEP correspondents left, and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who succeeds him as army chief how we won the Battle of the of staff. As a colonel, Gen. Eisenhower was selected by Marshall to

the. Yanks to victory. As a five-

The floodlights which illuminate star general, Tke proved his military genius in the field. Plain-spoken, the 15-foot war maps behind him friendly, informal, Ike has made humanity his first consideration.

you know that he is saying to himself: “This is it! This is the day we

across a stormy channel in June.

of Africa. This is the day foreseen by a certain’ colonel in the planning division of the war department in Washington—a colonel who had been plucked from the field by Chief of Staff George C. Marshall and assigned the plodding, uninspired job of planning for every military possibility in the world including this. “This is the day that began at

LTY ds with the humblest G.I,

light, a smiling Eisenhower faces” a battery of klieg lights as photographers record historic surrender ceremonies at Rheims. His secretary, WAC ‘Lt. Kay Summersby, in background, had to shield

Ike feels perfectly at home. Here he explains a military move to England's King George VI during a tour of French battlefields. Looking on, smiling, ‘are Gen. Omar N. Bradley, left rear, and Lt. Gen.

It is, of course, a fact that all the elements at the heavy end of the periodic table-~radium, actinium, | %

her eyes against the glare.

Courtney Hodges, right rear.

SMILE AND SALUTE, both in the typical Eisenhower manner, won the hearts of Legionnaires who recently awarded him the distinguished service medal. This is one of Ike's most recent pictures.

Stalingrad and on thé “beaches of Normandy. This is V-E day!”

» o . AND THEN in ‘the light of the floodlamps Ike Eisenhower stands up and throws back his big shoul. ders and smiles broadly. His smile widens as he turns to Gen. Souslaparoeff of the U. 8. 8. R,, who has signed the peace for Josef Stalin, ahd wraps fim in a glant bear hug. Perhaps there is a forecast there of a relationship between America and Russia in the atomic dangerland of the future<a friendship consolidated by men of good will of both nations following the lead of Ike Eisenhower, great human being.

. HAPPY HERO, acknowledging the cheers of New Yorkers who jammed the route of his triumphant ' home-coming parade, Eisenhower waves both hands in response to their acclaim.

Printers’ Group To Hear Winkler

J. Homer Winkler, Columbus, O., will present a “Prescription for Commercial Letterpress Print-, ing” at the Indianapolis club. of Printing House Craftsmen dinner meeting Friday at the Athenaeum. . % Mr. Winkler,

educational ¢ commission of Printing House Craftsmen, Inc, is also assistant supervisor of the graphic arts’ research -division of the Batelle Memorial institute, Co-

Mr. Winkler Jumbus; secretary - treasurer of Printing Plates Research, Inc.;

and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D. PAIN: in the lower back region, extending down one or both sciatic) nerves may be caused by injury or|

is o necessary to remove the

and sciatica, for2 merly ascribed to sacroiliac may have , caused by car

degeneration of a cartilage in the press spine. In severe, recurrent cases it| Trouble with a cartilage high up amination shows the protruding or

_ cartilage which is | shoulder / compressing the|. ' nerve. .Backache

T. R. GEDDES GIVEN HIGHER NAVY. RANK

T. R. Geddes, former personnel officer in the Indiana employment security division, has been, promoted to. the rank of commander in the naval reserve, :

Cmdr. Geddes was graduated from |

Indiana university after serving in world war 1, and spent 11-years jn

the Far East and in France with an | §

American rabber manufacturer. | He entered the navy in August,| 1942, and was trained in military | government at Columbia university. After serving in London 18 months, | he was placed in charge of all the navy's M.G. personnel in the Pa-| cific area and stationed in Wash-

ington. ! His wife and three boys, David, | Donald and Stewart, moved from Indianapolis to Washington, D.C. | at that time, i

|THE DOCTOR SAYS: Pinched Nerve Results in Back-Ache

Cartilage Bulge Causes Pain

45-50. great that the -back~ ward ' bulge compresses a nerve] root; in other instances a tear in the retaining band allows a piece of cartilage to escape and com-| a nerve root. ’ {

in the spine may cause, chest and |

Veteran Named * By Woodsmall

Robert R. Clauer, recently dis charged from the army, has assumed the duties of assistant vice president of the H. H. Wood small Insurance _ agency, 108 BE. Washington st. «Mr. Clauer, who held the rank of captain, served four years ‘in the 517th parachute infantry, and saw action In 3 Italy, France, Belguim and R. R. Claver Germany. He was graduated from the Wharton school of ‘finance at the Univer sity of Pennsylvania. H. H. Woodsmall is presideng ot the agency. - .

TRAFFIC DEATHS PASS '44 RECORD

Seventy persons dled in traffic ac-. cidents in Indiana during November, Col. Austin R. Killian, state

police superintendent, reported today.

summary, raised the total for the year so far to 735 fatalities as compared with. 704 for the first 11 months of 1044. ; He At the same time state police were ordered to intensify their drive against inadequate lighting on vebicles “using the highways. From now on offenders will be arrested, Col. Killian said, as. written warnings have proven too easy to ignore. Topping the list of aceldent categories which claimed the November toll of lives were crashes involving | more than one vehicle which killed 23, and accidents to pedestrians which accounted for 21. \

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Nerve compression if recognised by localized tenderness and muscle spasm over the affected joint in the backbone, The small of the back is flat, and the patient fréquently favors the affected side. X-ray ex-

lacerated cartilage between the yer-

similar pains and special examina« tions are indicated in these cases. . . » ATTACKS of back pain and sci. atica caused by injury or degeneration of a spinal cartilage #re

hard mattress. ' As the pain decreases, the patient can sit up in bed until he finally is able to get around. Well-fitting braces and beits. "are helpful. Extension of the pain-

tebrae. Other conditions may cause

relieved by staying in bed on af

stead of for a foxhole, equipment

Cave Dwellers Not Bothered by Lack of Houses

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. —My .

old friend, Kermit the hermit, is the only American still ignoring the housing shortage. ‘He takes his ease in a cave in the Holly wood hills, reads p N

books, and hobnobs with the =

movie cuties who sometimes ride his way. ‘ Lack of caves has left everybody else in a mess. If you've got a house, you're plagued by involuntary guests. If you're home less, you take desperate steps. One gent set up a tent in front of Los Angeles’ Biltmore hotel, which had turned him

~ down. A mild-eyed high school

teacher in upstate New York moved his wife into the class« room apartment where feminine students learned the art of bedmaking. An advertiser in an Iowa paper offered for sale as living. quarters a butcher's re-

frigerator. Cut in a couple of windows, he said, and call it home,

. » . : THINGS ARE (ough for every body but Kermit, who won't be reading this anyhow. S80 we come automatically to congress, now trying to get roofs over the heads of the voters before the voters turn you-know-who into the cold. The outlook is bleak. First scheme before the -house banking committee was that of Rep. Wright Patman of Texas, to appoint a housing czar, who'd make the. builders build small "houses instead of $100,000 night clubs. ; The committeemen jumped on the youngish-looking Patman, - Rep, Brent Spence (Ky), the chal , sald he didn’t like the {dea-of appointing a special OPA= man for houses. Rep. Paul Brown (Ga. sald what we need is more lumber and fewer laws. . n rn . 3 REP. PATMAN said yes, but when people pay $16,000 for $8000 houses and builders chaat ‘em all over the lot, a good czar

These government bables get their claws in the claybank and you can’t stop ‘em from climbing, objected Rep. Pred L. Crawford (Mich). & “But nothing is exactly right,” Patman, getting pinker,

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We, the Wome : Let's Just Be | | Slice On Christmas |

By RUTH MILLETT KIDS in Portland, Ore., are being told that Santa Claus has abandoned his sleigh. and refrideer this year to travel by rocket ship. Look-Couldn’t we have an ens TT tirely old-fash-foned Christmas this year ~our first since ~ the war's end? Why not let old Santa forget about air planes and # rocket ships : and go back to the old peace» ful way of traveling hy sleigh and reindeer? } s =» AND instead of piling tanks and machine guns under the Christmas tree, can’t we go back to dolls and cowboy suits and such magjcal toys as music boxes?

or khaki color for him. in cans.

Dad is again going“to get loud gadgets. a i

for his civilian hobbies. n » » AND MOM —at least many moms—will not be getting exotie gifts from far-away places. What

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