Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 January 1946 — Page 9

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INDIANAPOLIS musicians must be just naturally ‘superstitious. ‘The other day we mentioned that

because he had seat 13 on aisle-13. And now: Ross Christena of the Christena orchestra agency tells us there's a long string of superstitions among local musicmakers. For one thing, they won't light three cigarets on ‘one ‘match. Neither will they lay their hats on a bed, play “Home, Sweet Home” at night at the end of a dance or walk gn opposite sides of a post. They always tie their left shoe string first— it's supposed to be lucky that way. Another superstition is never to play the “Rosary” ~t a dance. ‘The musicians claim’ this invariably leads to bad things. Once a dance hall burned down and another time the band boys had an accident after they played the number, Ross says. It's also considered bad luck to wish anyone good Ilugk at an audition. It's a sure sign of bad results, . Christena, who recently got out of the army, now has his offices at Southern mansion, :

Girl Can Fiz Flats

WHEN IT COMES TO greasing a car, changing the oil or fixing a tire, Miss Frances Teague can keep up with any man. Miss Teague, who lives at 811 Vir-, ginia ave. is the night attendant at Les Frank's

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ignated personnel. Phillips 66 service station at 16th and Meridian sts. ‘mation. available |" © She fills the gas tanks, works on cars, supervises the

5, 168, 178, 237, 449 and ignated navy personnel, 651, 708, 1029, 1030 and signated navy and coast

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service department at night and might even give. your car a wash if it’s necessary. Many a time she has changed the head gasket without a bit of trouble. + + « Miss Teague says she learned all she knows about cars from her boss, Mr. Frank. She has been working for him since April, 1943, and was at the Phillips 66 station at Laurel and Prospect sts. before going to 16th and Meridian. Two or three times she has quit her job but she likes it so well that she always comes back. She craves the outdoor work and likes to meet the public. ,.. Miss Teague works from 10 p. m. until 8 a. m. and she has made loads of friends through her pleasing personality. She says Business is never dull and the time passes swiftly. She never has any trouble keeping awake during the wee hours. Before going into the filling station business, Miss Teague worked for the U. 8. Rubber Co: ... The station has another woman attendant. She's Miss Marjorie Johnston, who does the “cashiering and bookkeeping.

One Suit to a G. I.

LT. JOHN R. MUNSON, 813 E. 53d st. is a little late in playing Santa Claus. But that's exactly what he’s doing. Recently discharged from the army after 27 months ih Australia, Leyte and Manila, he has found two suits of clothes that don’t fit him anymore. So he decided to give them to a couple of returning G..Is. They'll fit anyone about 5 feet 81

‘Job Bureau’

military government authorities are successfully using applied psychiatry to find “good Germans” to fill a

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in the United States zone of ocgupation. But, ironically enough, although it has just been started, this scientific approach to one of the occupation’s most difficult problems--placing dependable persons in responsible positions—is in danger of being scrapped within six months. Pressure of redeployment, and the army's haste to turn everything over to American civilian administration by the end of June may ‘fail to leave place for this Ce comparatively simple operation. . In contrast, the British are planning to use psychiatry on a major scale to select German personnel in their zone. They are now se up an organization nearifFfive-thitéé<the site of ours ~~ To date the army's information control division, which supervises newspapers, radio, magazines, theaters, movies, music and other such activities in the American zone, has screened approximately 40 Germans by psychiatric tests. This experiment, according to Dr. David M. Levy of New York, psychiatric Institute, who is one of its chief supervisors, is not merely to find anti-Nazis but to locate persons intellectually and ‘temperamentally suited to accomplish a sound job of reconstruction. In other words, if a man is found to have the socalled Prussian type of mind, he is rejected whether His anti-Ndzi record is clean or not.

Screening Laboratory THE screening “laboratory” is located at Bad Orb

near Frankfurt. Candidates go there as if they were going off for

Science

AN AMAZING packaging material used to protect airplane engines on shipments across the-Atlantic or Pacific in world war II, will soon be used to bring tree-ripened oranges and grapefruits to the American breakfast table. The stuff is “Pliofilm,” a tough transparent elastic film produced by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. It is made by reacting natural rubber with hydrogen chloride. . Because it is completely mois- * ture-proof in its original form, it was used during world war II to package all sorts of metal items for shipment to the theaters of war. These ranged from delicate replacement parts in scientific instruments to entire airplane engines. .Qriginally, these efigines were covered with thick layers of grease for shipment to overseas repair bases. It took from 50 to 75 man-hours of work to prepare them for service when they reached their destination,

Post-War Development SUBSEQUENTLY, a simple method was devised for inclosing each engine in a big bag of pliofilm. Only a light coating of grease was necessary so that an engine unloaded in Great Britain or some island of the Pacific was ready for service almost as quickly as it was removed from the pliofilm bag.

My Day

LONDON, Monday.—During the week-end the weather was. very. pleasant. In fact, all of us were faying, “What a lovely day. It feels like spring.” I think our appreciation is enhanced by the fact that we have had a great deal of rain and we are likely to have a great deal more. On Saturday we got down to the very really interesting business of electing the six temporary members. to vie serurity council. This is considered one of the most important parts of the United Nations Organization because it is charged with keeping the pe.ce of tthe worid. 1a means responding at bnce to any request made by the secretary general, trying to aver: the use of force if possible, but if necessary deciding on what shall be done to deal with any aggressor nation. The Russian ambassador to. the United States, Andrei Gromyko, arose and asked that the election “be put off in order that more. consideration could begiven the question. Our chief delegate, Secretary of State Byrnes, made a speech in opposition, saying if was necessary to continue with our orderly procedure and keep to our timetable, Yl Mr. Gromyko was supported by Mr. Fraser of New Zealand, who said that as the representative of one - of the smaller nations which was not itself a candidate, he could spéak for them. He insisted there had been too little time for consultation and considerahere was, of course, ‘Strength fo his argument, if everyone had not known in advance that the vote was coming that morning, = = orl BES a

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By BURTON BENJAMIN © NEA Staff Writer

INEW YORK, Jan. 15.— Ten years from now you |

|may look back at” the tele

cliff-hanging movies of the || silent days. It isn’t that the television of today is so bad. It is simply that it's going to be so good later on. When the stations are built and the millions of sets sold, television's tremendous costs will be shared by the advertiser. Network television will become a reality, While elaborate two-hour dramas will come at first only from films or traveling repertoire companies, eventually they will originate in mammoth studios in New York Chicago and Hollywood. Programs of tomorrow will come to you in full, three-dimensional color, They will combine, the resources of the finest talent in the land. The output should be both lavish and impressive and your reception of it startlingly clear.

» ” » LIKE ANY industry in its swaddling clothes, television today is merely making a start. Its production techniques are experimental and some of its programs admittedly crude. “We don't know what constitutes a good television show and neither does anybody else,” says Worthington Minor of C.B.S. “Nobody has done anything that you can point to and say: ‘That is distinctively for television’.” There are three types of television broadcasts today — films, “live” shows and remotes. The last in-

Miss Frances Teague . .. car trouble ean fix it,

inches tall and weighing around 165 pounds. One's a winter suit and the other a summer one but Mr. Munson says they're both all right for all-around wear. It's first come, first served and only qné suit to a person. The Munson telephone number is HU, 1203. . , . Workers at the victory clothing drive headquarters in the war memorial are trying to save themselves some time. They've made a big sign which greets you as you enter the Meridian st. door of the building. It says: “Don't ask us. We don’t know." The sign evidently is to ward off questions about the Red Cross, veterans’ affairs and the OPA. The Red Cross and veterans’ offices are. still in the war memorial but the OPA recently moved out. . . . Gus Hitzelbetger, former proprietor of the Liberal View

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Mayo clinic in Rochester, Minn. He sold his club on Bluff rd. just recently. ,.. The morning after his recital here, Lauritz Melchior, staying at a local hotel, called room service and asked to have coffee sent up. “Sorry, sir,” came the reply; “we don't serve coffee in rooms.” “But suppose I were ill and couldn't come down to breakfast?” Mr. Melchior asked. “If you were sick, you'd belong in the hospital,” was the tart answer.

By Edward P. Morgan

vacation, and spend at least two days living in one of five small, attractive resort-type pensions while Mr, cludes both established pickups, Levy and his*staff examine them and submit them to |Such as sports from Madison Square -a-series-of-six-types-of-tests: -{Garden,-and-mobile At first the subjects are usually nervous that this|the Navy day parade in New York. may be some kind of Americanized gestapo, but they a 8 8 are soon set at ease. One German was so delighted] A RECENT analysis by the Allen with the place and what the routine had helped him |B. Dumont laboratories, a television discover about himself that he wanted to stay three Pioneer, estimates that for the next weeks instead of just overnight. few years, the output of individual In the first two tests the Germans must write Stations will be 53.6 per cent films, essays on the subject: “Methods of de-Nazifitaion” |28.5 per cent live shows, and 17.9 per and “My Personal Feelings During the Nazi Regime.” cent remotes. A Nazi or Nazi sympathizer writes pretty transpar-| After the news and sports shows, ently on these topics, Mr. Levy said. - |television fans today seem to prefer Then the candidate has to prepare a list of ques-|fims. The major film companies tions which he himself would apply to a group of have invested heavily in video. Germans to separate Nazis from non-Nazis. Paramount owns a 37 per cent inA fourth test consists of 40 incomplete sentences |ierest in Dumont, RKO is a part of such as: “New leaders of German youth should be—”| RCA, and 20th Century and MGM “Critics® of the new administration should be—." “Hitlers ag plans failed because—."

See Through Answers PERSONS who respond with pat “democratic”

keeping new films off the air.

are merely replying in the way they think they are the stations have their own camsupposed to and not with sincerity. eramen for spot news coverage. The fifth test invglves informal discussion over)

vision of 1946 with the same amused surprise you feel to--{day when you see one of the

pickups such as!

have big money in the new medium. Yet the motion picture industry is

Television films are old domestics or foreign documentaries, travanswers are the most suspected, because usually they elogs and newsreels, Some of

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and angles, and director, at right, selects is the one you will get on your receiver.

Most of the films used on the: air are 16 mm although some 35 mm is also carried. » » ” LIVE SHOWS offer the greatest programming challenge. Says Philip Merryman of N.B.C.: “We cannot lape the older forms or entertain ment. The technique of the stage is not suitable, since television will use the world as its stage. The technique of the movies cannot be used. There are no retakes.™ “The greatest thing we have to compete with,” says Ben Feiner,

of radio, Television 1s utterly spe-

thé drama for example. Two figures four inches -high on the screen are not very convincing. It is difficult to get the intimacy necessary to gain acceptance in the home, - 8-8

“COMEDY shows just don't click, he adds. = “The night club and burlesque style flops. So does the fast gagman. We simply have not found a formula for humor in television.” Live television programs include such features as fashion shows,

beauty courses.

gives recipes but shows how to prepare them.

Jr. of C.B.S., “is the imagination

reific==space; time-and-image. Take shows.

interpretive dancing, puppets and

Dumont had an audience partici““ipation show ‘withy the “Contestants drinking oversize steins of beer and blowing up balloons. C. B. 8S. has a woman's program which not only

we TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, oe PROGRAMS STILL IN CRUDE EXPERIMENTAL STAGE—

Television Today—Col

cuts back amd

Two cameras are. used. They move around the principals to vary the distance and angle. Their “footage” is flashed on two control room screens. A director, sitting at & third screen, cuts back and forth betweeen the two cameras. The image he selects is the one you re-

be until James Caesar Petrillo,

tion of Musicians, and the broadcasters reach an agreement. Petrillo has prohibited all union musicians from appearing on live television

The news good deal in television, A man sitting at a desk reading a script can be inordinately dull. Map talks add little. Commercials are improving but still crude. At the telecast of the boxing matches, a still picture of a man shaving is flashed on the screen between rounds. To plug wrist watches, the correct time is shown on the screen. A turntable is used to show prodiycts on some shows. It revolves like a merry-go-round, stopping at each product. %

. r A IN RADIO a woman can-do her housework “nd listén ta the melancholia of the soap opera simultaneously. The trick in television will be to get her away from the dishes and come take a look at that grit-

ceive in your home. ' and Los * Angeles. In these cities, the princiALL MUSIC is récorded and will | Pel expansion of 1946 will take place

president of the American Federa- Were

commentators lose al

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Television combines the toughest features of Broadway and HollyBy the middle of the year, sta tions will ‘be on the air 28 hours a week. They have been operating upward of four hours a week in New York, Schenectady, Philadel-

less face powder.

drinks after dinner, when the examiners fry to put the subject in quief, natural surroundings and draw him out. The sixth test includes political and psychiatric interviews. The latter inciudes the so-called Roschach test, where the subject's reactions to a series of standardized inkblots are analyzed. Mr. Levy's. complete staff now consists of five per-| sons, handling 12 Germans a week. He would like to have a staff of 12, able to handle 40 candidates.

CoprIgnL Inde, by The Indianapolis Times aud

Second of a Series

A « NEA Staff Writer NEW YORK, Jan. 15.— | A serviceman who is om

e Chicago Daily News, Inc Dn : : duty in the United States By David Dietz must file his income tax re-

Post-war developments in the production of plio- |turn, like civilians, not later i make Lh avails Yor many Sew MSR eau than March 15. e packaging of fresh fruits ard vegetables, fre s meats and fish, cheese, bacon, etc, according to Dr. BE % serviceman Bi aig RP amore, Ye president in charge of research as 91 days of foreign or sea duty, What the Goodyear scientists have done is to raid 3 Se. vu) ee devise means of compounding pliofilm with a large the Sicnth in whichhé re number of modifying agents so that the resultant Yor Ie. 3 Soldier Teyarmed.” series of films vary through a wide range of char- 3anp e, seas (or a sailor left port) prior to

agterisiics. Sept. 16, 1045] He returned to

THE NEW films not only control the amount of iy x Desembes oe Honk In moisture that can get in or out of a package, but TLS) does. nol. count,

The sixth month after December they control in similar fashion the amount of oxygen and carbon dioxide. is June. So he is not required to

“Practically all fruits and vegetables demand a [lle until June 15. At that time,

proper balance of qwater vapor, oxygen and carbon |ROWever, he must file all the returns dioxide if they are to keep,” Pr. Dinsmore explains. that may have been deferred while “Apples are among the most difficult foodstuffs De Was on foreign or sea duty durto package satisfactorily. Certain varieties of apples, |!n§ the war. for example, require an atmosphere containing from 7 to 10 per cent carbon dioxide. At the same time there must be sufficient oxygen for the metabolism of the apple, A certain amount of water vapor must get through the package but not so much that it condenses on the apple in. the form of water.” Dr. Dinsmore said that tests conducted at the

» " » A SERVICEMAN on duty outside the U, S. on March 15—on the date which, otherwise, would require the filing of deferred returns —is excused from filing until the 15th day of the sixth month after

By S. BURTON. HEATH

THE SERVICEMAN'S INCOME TAX—NO. 2

Report Must Be Filed After Reluin io:UES,

Here are some items of servi

warrant officer in U.8. forces, or armed forces of an ally.

personnel.

Mustering out pay.

currencies.

men.

duty.

Uniform allowances, or value

. Exemptions for Servicemen

income. tax, and which you can ignore when you are deciding whether or not you must file a return for any particular year: The service pay of an enlisted man in U. 8. forces. The first $1500 of service pay of an officer or a commissioned Family allowance from government to dependents of enlisted Govainment gratuity to beneficiary of

Personal cash allowances to high general Reimbursement to cover losses due to

Rental allowances or value of quarters, light and heat provided by the services; or money allowances for quarters paid to enlisted

Retired pay of persons retired for disability incurred in line of

Subsistence allowance, per diem allowance in lieu of subsistence, or rations or commutation of rations for enlisted men,

ce income that are not subject to

of a citizen or resident serving in

deceased serviceman. 4

tours, appreciation of foreign

of uniforms provided.

the month in which he returns next time.

A serviceman who: does file, and finds himself owing tax on either service, pay (in the case of officers) or on pre-service earned income, has the privilege of spreading his payment over three years in quarterly installments. Any tax obligation on pre-service “unearned”

Goodyear research laboratory showed that apples stored for 18 months in the new pliofilm wrappers possess the same firm qualities and fresh flavors that they had when they were pulled from the tree.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

The move for delay was voted down and we proceeded to the election. As you know by now, Brazil, Egypt, the Netherlands, Mexico and Poland were chosen on the first ballow Later in the day Australia was elected to be the sixth non-permanent member of the security council. I wonder sometimes whether people everywhere ture regulation and protection from have a full understanding of how this new organiza- harmful bacteria tion is being set up. The general assembly to which * and poisons are every member-nation sends five delegates is the most upset. important body. Without it the other councils could . Shock and toxnot be set up. It is through the general assembly emia result f¥om that the other councils are chosen. : destruction of the The Judges for the international coiirt will be skin and underchosen by the -general assembly and the security| lying tissue as council. And any changes that later may be made_in | - well as from inthe sétup of the organization will have to come back . terference ‘with to the genéral assembly when it meets. 1 skin function. In = The delegates to this assembly are appointed for| \ addition, the seeach session“by their governments. In the case of J verely burned pathe United States the President not only appoints| Dr. O'Brien 7 0 os the the delegates but they have to be ratified by the possibility ‘of deformities from scar sae fas bo hie Ar 100 A938 v1 ONE | santractures. vote means that within a delegation practical unani-| | : ; mity on every question has to be od before Fim ad for the severely birhed that vote is cast.’ :

| EXPERIENCE in’ the treatment of severe burns during the war has resulted in important scientific advances. When portions’ of the

skin are destroyed, body tempera. |

income must be paid in full with | the rewyrn unless the collector | grants an extension under the sol|diers and sailors relief act of 1940. ~ » »” SERVICEMEN should file in the district in which they have legal residence or a pre-war business address. Those who have no such address should file with the col-

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Seared Tissue Subject to Infection

Treatment of Burns Improved

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D. |is placed between sterile sheets, plied with oxygen, this also helps

[Attendants and patients are masked {to avoid secondary infections. Mor(phine is given to relieve pain and treatment of shock with plasma, ‘glucose and fluid is started.

first, second, and third degree—and | extents but in practice it is difficult to distinguish between second and third degree burns; To estimate extent in adults, the lower extremities make ‘up 38 per cent’ of the body surface, the trunk 38 per cent, the upper extremities 18 per cent, and the head 6 per cent. Special formulae for determining involved areas in children have been devised.

’ » » » SWELLING about the throat may interfere with breathing and result fin an insufficient oxygen supply {for ‘the tissues. Lack of oxygen | carrying power may also develop

may Include relief of respiratory rom joss of blood in. the burn, or

Since the questions so far before us have been Obstruction and treatment of other patients may suffer from carbon

Sueitions of seganiston: it has not been difficult to|™*" . wow

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there will be occasions in the SE Shen the mem- BURNED surfaces are covered|in a tube down-the throat, or in a Mer sharply. with sterile ‘or tht’ patient|tedt. When the blood

monoxide poisoning. . is administered by mask,

15 well sup-

Burns are judged as to depth—|

.| formities result from excessive scar

the patient resist infection. ‘Patient's’ room should pe kept between T0 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit. If the patient is conscious his comfort should be the guide for the proper room temperature. . » » THE BURNED surfaces are gents {ly cleansed, and sterile vaseline gauze strips are applied one-layer thick over the entire area. These dressings are covered with packs of gauze and cotton, held in place by elastic bandages which are evenly applied. ph Side splints of folded newspapers may be included in the dressings. If an arm or leg is burned, the part is elevated to promote drainage.

earliest opportunity and as aressings are not changed until 10 days or two weeks after being applied, grafting is usually started then if necessary ‘- Contractures and de-

formation, but. ‘they can be pre-

vented by early skin avoidance of infection.

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Skin grafting is done at the|*

lector of internal revenue, Baltimore 2, Md., except that those in Alaska have the privilege of filing with the collector at Tacoma, Wash.; and those in Hawaii may file with the collector at Honolulu. Among the items that are considered as taxable pay, for officers, are: - Flight, foreign service, longevity, sea and other special duty increments, Mileage allowed for travel; transportation allowance for dependents. Retired pay, unless retirement was for physical disability; and one year's pay ‘to officers wholly retired. : : Anything received from peacetime employer, whether paid to the serviceman or to his dependents, is taxable against enlisted men as well as officers. . . . AS MODIFIED by the 1 tax law, the serviceman enjoys the following exemptions of income, in addition to those applicable to civilians: : 1. The entire service pay of enlisted men, including non-commis-sioned warrant officers, is tax-free. (If an enlisted man paid tax on service pay under the old law, he can claim refund.) 2. The first $1500 of service pay of officers and commissioned warrant officers in the U. 8. forces, and of residents and citizens serving in the armed forces of our allies, is tax exempt. & . » . THIS EXEMPTION does not cover anything ‘except service pay. If service pay is less than $1500, the remainder of the exeniption is lost; it cannot be stretched to cover other income. 3. Men who served in American “possessions” may have a further exemption. The determining factors are complicated. It would be wise; for such men to obtain guidance from an officer who has had special |° instruction in the intricacies of Section 251 (a) of the internal revenue code, ‘ . . » “POSSESSIONS,” for this pur-

pose, are American Samoa (Manus, Ww

Swains, Tutuila); Baker, Guam, Howland, Jarvis = and Johnston islands; Reef; the Mid. way and the ine Islands; Canal Zone; Sand Island; Wake Island (Peale, Wilkes); 'Pribilof Islands; Puerto “Rico; Navassa; Seranilla Bank; Swan Islands. To take advan of this exemption on 1045 i é you must be a’ citizen; you must have earned’ 80 per cent of your income for, the. years 1943-4-5 in these possessions;

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M (D. Mont.), William H. Davis, former war las bor board chairman and director of economic stabilization, is scheduled today. > He will be followed tomorrow by Dr. William L. Leiserson, fore mer member of voclens gr a

The committee has received ne acceptances from, or has had to defer the appearance of figures prominent in current labor-mans

tomobile Workers; John A. Stes vens, U. 8. Steel vice president in charge of industrial relations; Philip Murray, head of the C. I, O. and the Steel Workers and William Green, A. F. of I, = president. : Sean

ee» 8 f i MOST of these men are busy with settlement of current cons troversies, but are expected later to «tell what they think of Presi dent Truman's proposals and of the more sweeping measures likely to be Hung on to them. va The house labor committee is in a similar state of delay. The acts ing chairman, Rep. Randolph (D) W. Va), is in Chicago for a speech * and is due back here’ Thursday.

Then the committee will go over a bill for return to the states of the state units ‘of the U. 8, employment service. It has given fio promise of action on Mr. Tru man’s labor proposals. Coie

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