Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 December 1945 — Page 11

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Miss Delores Burden (left) and Miss Virginia Strain . , . two of the streetcar carolers.

er weather conditions around New Year's ds will be as bad as they were over Christmas. If so, to call on Indianapolis to help once more.

Carolers Ride Streetcar

STREETCAR riders Christmas eve) heard some good harmonizing on Christmas carols without even turning around. Seven girls sat in the back seat of the car and decided to carol while they rode out to the home of Miss Virginia Strain, 4089 Carrollton ave. The rest of the passengers liked the songs so well that they wanted more. Strain, carolers included Delores Burden, Henrietta Clayton, Mary Lou Wilson, Corinne Burton, Martha Gentry and Joan Funderburgh. When they got home they did a little caroling for the neighbors, too. They received quite a few compliments on their singing. . « « There was one grand rush for the hosiery counter * at Block's yesterday noon. Three or four women had stopped there to buy stockings and other shoppers thought nylons had gone on sale. In less than five minutes the crowd filled the aisle. It was all a false alarm. The counter even had displayed big signs saying “No Nylons.” . . . Bob Faulkner, former editor of the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. magazine, was home for the Christmas holiday. He's now with the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. in New York. But he has a big problem on his hands. find a place to live,

By F rederick C. Othman

thrive and first thing you know you will be harvesting your own orchids. It only takes from four to

They drifted in the Philippines sea for five days before being res-

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crew of 1196 died in the sinking or perished afterward, :

. - # QUARTERMASTER Vincent J, Allard of Omak, Wash., was among

He came here to testify at the recent court-martial trial in which Methe cruiser’s skipper, was found guilty of failure to keep the Indianapolis on a zig-sag course in dangerous waters.

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gave the United Press the sinking and what happened afterward:

“I HAD just gone off watch aboard Indianapolis the night of July 29-30 when I heard two explosions up near the bow. “I went to my locker to get some money I had hidden there. A buddy of mine asked me what

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WASHINGTON, Dee. 31.—The U. 8. department of agriculéure made & scientific study a while back on

and found one of my His feet had been steam. I offered to bandage

If the lady fo whom you ordinarily present orchids is of an impatient nature, you can swipe a cutting from somebody else's orchid plant, or even a rhizome, and you'll be pluckifig your own orchids in two years, beat the cranberry shortage by making cranberry ’ : sauce from & few cranberries and plenty of chopped- The cattleyas and the laellas are the best kinds to } grow and you ought to have a greenhouse with windowshades and a man to run same.

after the cheats who quick-frose home and called it ice cream. It came up with remove gravy from vests, how to wn underwear, and how to train a colt. from sawdust, issues you what to eat The most wonderful place is the agriculture department,

AN ORCHID likes it shady, but not toa doggone shady.” On days when clouds alternate with sunshine, your man with the window blinds is going to be a busy fellow. Fact is you ought to have three greenhouses. One should be warm, one lukewarm and the other cool. But the warm one shouldn't be too warm. If it is, your orchid plant will be soft, succulent and subject to disease. If it does get diseased, by all means write the agriculture department, the agriculture department says. Orchids revel in fresh air, but they hate drafts. - Watch this. Give them plenty of water, but not too . much, or they'll rot. It may even be that you'll have to quit yqur job during the warm seasons because then an orchid should be syringed with cool water |searchlight which was loca lightly three or four times a day. There are a few other things you've also got to do, but I'l skip them because I wouldn't want ou

AND THAT brings us to a man with a title: Dr.

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Te . : Aviation “AVIATION recently staged its yearly mental barFi Oklahoma City — the National “Aviation

By Maj. Al Williams

operators. A non-scheduled operator is a fellow who owns one or two planes which he operates between , any points whenever he manages to get a full load [80's move fast of passengers, Some day this operation will become [With Clarence Birdseye the feeder transport system. To date it's a mere vention. I tried promise. Yet, CAA wonders if it would be a good thing to legislate on the economics of'a non-existing business just in case it should ever become existent. .The flying doctors at the National Aviation clinie, : all these real issues and talked : “about the recently concocted publicity stunt of sell-|

super-flash foods on the market, but it takes an electrified super- |] flash housewife to prepare ordinary housewife . simply enough to keep

bing liniment on my . His anhydrous foods, not to.

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (U. P.).~A two-year supply of blood plasma is being turned over to

Capt. Charles B. McVay . . .

cruiser Indianapolis,

SECONI — THURSDAY, DECEMBER IADRIFT 5 DAYS IN A LIFEBOAT ON PHILIPPINES SEA

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shown as he was testifying at his recent court-martial trial in connection with the sinking of the py. ok however

“As 1 got free of the searchlight, I were very sick from swallowing

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tress and floated clear of the ship.

“I FOUND a floater net in the {water a few minutes after the ship went down and grabbed hold of it. As I tried to cut It open, I heard

someone hollering for help.

“I swam in the direction of the .jery and found a sailor who was injured sitting on a wing float which had been torn loose from the ship's airplane. I took him back to the

floater net with me. ,

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sailors who were hanging on to a crate of potatoes which was still afloat. One could not swim and the other had been to sea only eight days. They weren't injured--they

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. ” . “ABOUT 20 minutes later we saw another raft close by, It was riding 50 high in the water that at first we thought it was a surfaced submarine, “After several challenges, we could see it contained five addi= tional survivors, “We secured their raft to ours and didn't see anyone else thgt night or until the next couple of days. | # » # “THE FIRST DAY we expected to be rescued at any time. The sun was very hot. “I thought our most immediate danger was sunstroke. “After the second day the worst part of the ordeal was the salt water and oil in our eyes.

“Later we saw another raft, which we secured to ours. Only; one man We now had awa crew of 10 men in the various rafts.

was in that raft. : r » . “SOME night an unlabeled can floated by,

which the captain grabbed. He thought it might contain foamite which we could release on the water .{later to attract airplanes.

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