Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 January 1946 — Page 9

ie comedy is lin nts. Somewhat on Will Rogers; h the snappy nig ve.

Wn radio materis Y much on t inspiration for h

as a xid harmonic tyne, still uses th his act. His bi battle of the bulg , December fo \ve Bastogne in esult that he aban 2xcellent German is which he ha ect. ) got one p — a Gerd He found it aband’ 2 and proceeded td e mailed it ] al,. a piece at { packages in all’

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Of yr Wt ee DLs Sherwood was boasting via telephone about Indianapolis’ weather to a friend in p Miiselsing. ppl.

it’s being brought about by a wounded veteran

‘Sacred Lily of India

, kidding,

clerk was worn out by the |

That day the sunny southern state was three inches of snow and

worldwar L . . .

MRS. J. L. STETZEL, 1412 Lexington ave., is very

father-in-law found on a carried it all through the war with him and then had it framed for a keepsake. . . Herbert E. Kenney 8r.,, director of the legislative bureau, takes a lot of He's a Democrat in the very Republican statehouse. One of the jokes played on him backfired, with the result that Herb now comes to work often with a bright yellow tie on which is painted a crowing rooster. Herb got it for Christmas after

_he’d told some Republicans about seeing a $50 hand- , painted tie with the Democratic symbol on it. Instead of getting him the tie he saw, however, they

bought a 10-cent tie and had Miss Tillie Kerz paint

_ & rooster on it. Well, at least it's handpainted. And

Herb likes it so well he wears it despite the fact you almost have to put on sunglasses to face him, ,

Trapped in a Bus

TRAPPED LIKE a rat in a trap. That old axiom was the situation for a crowd of Central bus riders

101 Years Old

WINNIPEG, Canada, Jan, 28.—An elderly American Negro who says he is 101 is finishing out his life in a Canadian veterans’ home here with the jumbled memories of a crowded past to give him comfort and pleasure. - Somewhere near the end of the Civil war, George

- Brooks, then a tall, strapping young slave who had

escaped to the Union lines, was orderly and personal

_servant to Gen. U. 8S. Grant.

He is a little vague about the outfit, but he says he cooked for a pick-up lot that went, too late, to the rescue of Gen. Custer. “We found his body, all stabbed and charred, with the arrows in his side,” Mr. Brooks says.

In Spanish-American War _

HE COOKED again for units in the United States as they prepared to go to Cuba and the Philippines in the Spanish-American war. It is a matter of official record that he enlisted in the Canadian expeditionary force in 1914, and cooked in England until illness forced him to come home. By Mr. Brooks’ count, he was then 73, but the recruiting officer wouldn't believe him. “Il put you down as 40,” he said. Mr. Brooks agreed. Fabulous as his story sounds, doctors and nurses at the Deer Lodge hospital here are inclined to believe large portions of it. With more or less consistency, he has told the same account for several years. :

Aviation

(First of Two Articles)

BETHPAGE, Long Island, N. Y., Jan. 28.—The sturdy amphibian airplane is fast getting out of the wealthy sportsman plaything class, and Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. is doing something abbut it. Corporations, industrial leaders, businessmen, sales managers and many others are finding that the entire Western hemisphere is a heaven for amphibian craft. Several score orders already on the company’s hooks prove this point. The United States and Canada, with innumerable lakes and streams and both bounded by oceans, form a natural flying area for the amphibian. And the big businessman who is ordering an amphibian plane for business purposes is just the chap who needs something like that to carry him, on wheels, to out-of-the-way hunting and fishing areas where only an amphibian can land and take off. “Few people realize that the amphibian is one of the safest business or pleasure planes for crosscountry flying of all kinds and is very easy to handle,” said Leroy R. Grumman, company president; today.

‘Versatile Landing Gear

“WITH WHEELS down, the amphibian can land and take off from any useable airport. With wheels up it can land on lakes, streams and ocean. In case of trouble, the amphibian’s sturdy hull makes landing in brush or field possible with very little damage to the plane and no injury to pilot or passengers.” Coming off the line here in increasing numbers are the two-engined Grumman Widgeon amphibians, capable of carrying pilot and five passengers for distances of 640 to 810 miles nonstop. The Widgeon, aimed to transport executives, played an important

LONDON, Jan. 28.—On Priday T went to lunch with Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin at the House of Commons, We walked through the great hall, which is the oldest part of that great building built by William Rufus, It was spared much harm from bombing, even though the section of the building in which the House of Commons sat was destroyed. 3 I think this great hall is one of the really majestic uildings in the world. The roof, I believe, is the greatest single, unsupported arch-of any building in Europe, Senator Townsend and I, walking through together, were wondering how we would find our des~ tination, when a member of parliament, who evidently was also in the R. A. F, kindly came to our rescue. He took us all the way through the maze of corriders and stairs to the dining room. 1 had often been in the House of Commons before, but never happened to have a meal there, Tea on the terrace has always been something I've read about in a book, and lunch in one of the little dining rooms was an entirely new experience. I am fold that during the bombings the speaker always sent the members down into these rooms lor shelter, but I doubt very much whether they were greatly protected. The windows look out on the terrace, and beyond 4s the river.

Reminded of Easter Egg Rolling

LUNCH WAS very pleasant sitting between Mr.

Bevin and Mr. Lie of Norway and talking to the dele-

gate from Mexico across the table, He reminded me of the old days in Washington when he brought his children to the Baster egg rolling on the ‘White House lawn. . We both hoped that the traditional egg rolling would begin again this year, now that the war is over. It is a little hard on the White House lawn, but 1t

ndianapolis

joining wing, He is a mere 96. Newspapers have a

-in-all the Mrs. Stetsel and her Hy . . . largest bloom In |sregodies, usually 25 years. minor.

Thursday night. Right as she turned off Market onto Delaware the lady operator found the doors wouldn't open. She finally had to summon another bus and get the passengers out through the emergency door onto the relief vehicle. Then, just as the last passen-

ger made an awkward exit through the emergency.)

the regular doors swung open. The operator must

have got disgusted with busses, too, because we saw her riding the streetcar the next day. . . We're

still getting complaints about those automatic switches |

at the waiting platform at Pennsylvania and Washington sts. Four persons waiting there the other day were spurted with slush and mud when an approaching streetcar threw the switches. At first they were all sore, clothing muddied and one woman's new permanent ruined. However, all except one man began chuckling when they looked at each other. Our informant described it as looking like the aftermath | of a pie tossing finale of a class B picture.

By David M. Nichol

Until recently he lived in a small apartment here, preparing his own meals. Now he basks in the simple comforts of the hospital. He receives visitors ‘with dignity. Not long ago he was brought into the city to- meet Paul Robeson, the singer. Gen, H. D. G. Crearar, Canadian 1st army commander, called on him in his quarters. Mr. Brooks’ only enemy, if he has one, is another elderly veteran, called “Daddy,” who lives in an ad-

way of passing him up, to his chagrin, Born in ‘K.Y. in 1845

BY HIS account, Mr. Brooks was born a slave on

county, K. Y., Kenbucky,” Jan. 1, 1845. Between wars ‘he cooked and sang and traveled with minstrel shows. He was married twice, the second time to-a wait‘ress he met where he Worked. A daughter died at 16. Brooks came to Cangda, he says, in 1911. He is - still “more than six feet tall, broadshouldered, and moves with surprising agility. He sees. and hears ‘well, although his face is sunken and his hair very gray. : “I don't feel my age,” he says, “That's only rheumatism,” he adds, indicating a stiffening knee. “How to live to be 100?” He pauses. “Leave whisky and beer alone and women and you'll make it.” Hastily. he qualifies, “I mean trashy women.”

Coprrignt, 1946, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, [ac

By Max B. Cook

part in world war H, utilized by navy for many duties. It is powered with two Ranger engines and cruises up to 150 miles an hour at 6000 feet. It Has been used consistently before and since the war for weekend and vacation fishing and hunting trips and for quick business trips by executives. But the Widgeon, and the G-21 army, nayy and coast guafd-amphibian—before it, offer only the beginning on Grumman amphibians. One senses a buzz of activity in the designing department and raised eye-brows when mention is made of a new, larger, faster Grumman amphibian. And it is upcoming— soon, :

Veterans Get Jobs

THE COMPANY rapidly is converting to peacetime and still is busy turning out navy Bearcat F8F fighters and Tigercat FTF’s. Its 26,000 wartime workers have been reduced to a little over 5000 and it now has twice the business of post-war days. What required a month to turn out during the war now is requiring one year. But there was a great deal of overtime necessary along with 21,000 extra workers to do the war job. Returning war veterans are getting their old jobs biick at increased pay and the promise of equal pay within three months with those who stayed on those same jobs during the war. Two war veterans are handling them. About 500 already have returned to work. Wounded and maimed veterans who canpot take their old jobs are given other work to do but at their old pay plus increase. Every returned vet in 1945 got his full year’s bonus even though he returned as late as December. L. A. (Jake) Swirbul, executive ‘vice president, smiles when he tells of that.

Next: An amphibian cuts up over Long Island.

AND then there was. the

into the legal department in City hall Naturally the city is at fault . . claim says so. Someone stumbles in a chuckhole,

another trips ony *

a sidewalk , , ,-~

hundreds filed yearly are many with a humorous twist, at times the

By VICTOR PETERSON

hula dancer. . . .

"weren't funny when it| happened but time, ointment and a wad of folding stuff can cure most anything.

some

Daily claims against the city pour

, every

Among the Hidden Charms

« filed claim,

Fell into sewer . .

Burb . .

“MONDAY, TANUARY 5, 1065 pee WOMEN FILE MORE CLAIMS THAN MEN—

It's the Ci Who sd od

accident itself, other times the result. And that gets us back to the hula dancer, «

. glug . .. the city had a suit on its hands

It was a beautiful and balmy

the creek along Pleasant Run pkwy,

good look he got of it was from a {prone position as he lay nursing a broken nose. The break was worth . » . » THE anecdotes could run on ine definitely, There was the youngster who lost a kicking duel with a city owned horse; the woman who fell down a coal chute and asked damages to a pound of butter; the drunk who ran into a safety zone and wanted damages, and the man who got the wrong pair of pants from a cleaner, He, tally, still is waiting. The city dis~ claimed interest In such a pressing

young lady headlong and otherwise to the ground. She asked compensation for her' injuries and wages lost.

explains the injuries were so located

| down for the third time,

oe. ! A BROKEN sidewalk sent the

Blushing, the legal department | that it was inadvisable the dancer should display her charms. She was awarded a settlement, People usually don’t drown on a downtown street, but one Hoosier must have been sure he was going

. 8 8, WHILE waiting in a safety zone for a streetcar he noticed a street sprinkler bearing down, water flooding the pavement. In desperation he jumped up on the safety chain. It snapped, throwing him to the|

by. Blurp . . . glug . . . the city DOT a suit. A

through the flooring to become stuck in the opening. A male passer-by came to the rescue. No romance

basins catch almost anything these days. of local citizens. Falling into-sewers | is one of the most common cuses| for claims against the city, |

been women are more allergic to catchbasins than men.

that caught a young man's eye as| he walked by.the old Shelby street pavement as the sprinkler swooshed{ barn, 31100 ‘Shelby st. Anyway he|

Pausing by the railing to look at the moon, she suddenly plunged

. «+ + he was married. . ” » INDIANAPOLIS' sewer catch-

Among the catch are lots

What the city fathers haven't | able to determine Is why |

It may have been a passing girl

didn't see a two-by-four suddenly shoved , ifough the door. The first

problem.

the city, one vitally important fact was learned.

men,

In this survey of calms against

Women file more claims than

A broken nese , . , worth $36,

AMERICANS LOSE MILLIONS 10 CANADIAN GOLD PROMOTERS —

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 28. —As fine a lot of brigands as ever took a gullible, doughheavy public to the

lion dollars a week from Americans in the illegal sale

ing stock. In use of lurid sucker bait, substitution of imaginative fiction for fact, in brashness of claim and boldness of operation the swindle— so called by securities and exchange commission counsel and many state investigative bodies—matches the gaudiest promotions of a Ponzi or a Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford. It's the old story of the glib oil stock salesman who never saw a drilling rig, and boom-era subdivision lots which turned out to be under seawater, s .. "8 NOW it's gold, - ring and alluring, beckoning sands of Americans eager to make a quick profit of a faraway piece of Arctic circle glacier pack they've never seen, Sometimes they're buying a piece of remote bushland that probably will never be anything more than caribou pasture. They're buying it, every often, from one of a pack of smart brokers operating out of Toronto and peddling their fish illegally, | disregarding federal and state law. ! in this country. The U. S. government has tried to get its hands on them but could not because Canadian courts have ruled the extradition treaty, dating back to 1905, doesn’t apply to them. State after state has barred them with formal “cease and desist” orders. . 2 =» BUT IN dozens of cases they neither cease nor desist. Thousands of pieces af mail pour across the border with their extravagant claims: “Will you gamble 10 minutes against the chance of a lifetime?” “Exciting profits, new fortunes, in Canadian gold stocks—why not let some of your own risk capital earn profits for you out of Canada’s amazing era of expansion?” “Yes! Every stock we selected showed gains from 50 per cent to 200 per cent—and we can do it again. Big profits if you act promptly!” “You may have heard of the sensational market profits that are be-

By Eleanor Roosevelt

does give a great many children something to remember for the rest of their lives, As we came out from lunch, we saw a baby in a| baskét waiting with its parent in the hall. For a moment I wondered just why a baby should be there!

Then Mr. Bevin reminded me that down in the crypt |

there is a church, and when members of parliament come in and bow to the speaker they are really bowing to what was once an altar. I remembered then that I had once seen this church. And I think it a rather nice idea that people come to be married and to. christen their babies in the same building where the laws of their land are made.

Women Should Be on ‘Equal Bases’

LATER in the afternoon I went to the English Speaking Union for a reception given by the National | Council of Women of Great Britain. A great many representatives of various women's organizations were there. As so often happens; I think a difference of | opinion is developing among the various groups of

women as to the exact representation or affiliation |

they desire to have with the UNO. I myself believe the important thing is to stress the attitude taken in the very beginning of the UNO charter. This reaffirms “faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small.” This really means, I think, that women should come in on an equal basis. 3

yers and social workers, all. leaders and experts in their various fields. With this type of representation, 1 believe, women really achieve what they want, which is to have on all important subjects the point of view ’ both men and women who are working together. tol frame the policies of the organization. tious

Among the ‘women now here are economists, tas

ing accumulated in shares of Cana-

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cleaner is extracting a mil- :

the plantation of the Harrodd family in “Bracken of inflated Canadian gold min-

Come On, Suckers

There's gold in them hills all

taking it. A million a week goes from

HELLO, SUCKER! ing it, and an unscrupulous lot of Canadian stock promoters are Toronto brokers, operating illegally in this country. Charles T.

Lucey, Scripps-Howard staff writer, describes this infamous racket in a series which starts here today,

right, but Americans are supply

suckers in the United States to

dian mining companies . . but you may not yet have grasped the fact that these opportunities can be yours . . . right now we know of a particular situation that is really ready for a big advance in price.. ’

» » . AND SO ON. And stories of farmers, housemaids, schoolteachers, ! physicians and retired small busi-| nessmen who buy in on what they hope will be small fortunes, but who in the end lose their shirts, continue to pile up in federal and state securities enforcement bureaus. There have been legitimate and important gold mine strikes in Canada in recent years and stock shares in them, based on what honest prospects might seem to be, have made spectacular gains. Many mining shares are listed on the Canadian exchanges and are dealt in fairly by legitimate houses. But, say U. 8S. officials, this situation has been exploited by dozens of wildcat promoters who are cleaning up by proclaiming fabulous prospects for supposed “finds” located near the proved gold strikes. ¥ #® . THE SECURITIES and exchange |U commission lists 138 firms as doing business here without registration, as required by law. Ontario has been criticized severely by other Canadian. provinces for’ allowing them to operate, and they have injured legitimate Ontario brokers. There’s a huge backiog of warborn cash in the U. 8, of course, and a craze among small investors to buy low-priced shares plays into the hands of the mining stock promoters. The stuff often peddles for 20 or 30 cents a share—and ft sounds impressive to say you have a thousand shares of this-or-that stock. » » » HERE, according to Edward H. Cashion, securities and exchange commission counsel, is the pattern often followed by the blue-sky boys in tapping U. S. pocketbooks: A company is organized and acquires mining claims on a piece of property which may be good or bad in point of ore deposits—it's hailed as being near the most recent big gold strike and promising. great wealth, A common basis is a capitalization at perhaps 3,000,000 shares, of

to the promoter in payment of min ing claims. Options are granted to the promoter's nominees, usually a broker, to buy blocks of the stock for maybe five or seven cents a share. » ” » THEN THEY open the bellows in the high-pressure sales campaign. Inspired “news” reports

“No. 1 of a Series

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——— fidence in the broker so that later he will invest more heavily. He may be given a quotation on | how his stock is doing in the market —a few pennies up, perhaps, but hold on for a bigger rise and buy more now, says the bulletin, » -

buyer generally doesn't realize that the quotations are what the broker says they are, and not at all the normal movement of a stock being traded freely on an exchange. You can buy at that price—but try to sell at it if you're holding the stock! The long-distance telephone is

Working from “boiler rooms” in Toronto, the mining stock salesmen follow up the mail build-up with

and obscure mining papers begin to pour down through the malls fo the U. 8. They talk learnedly of pre-Cam-brian era geologic formations, of diamond drilling, of the character of the ore seam—a lot of pseudotechnical hocus-pocus to impress the reader that the thing is the real McCoy. You can almost feel the spell of the Yukon. Then letters direct from the brokers begin to pile in. They're in

don’t want one penny of your money, sir"—and describe reports of new surveys by the prospestars, " GENERALLY. a a blank attached. It may ask for nothing more than that you send in a request for up-to-the-minute news on Canadian mining shares. Or maybe you'd like a little sound advice by an investment “counsellor” on the stocks you already own, But when you sign it and show that first bit of interest you bring down on yourself a bombardment of circulars, letters and telephone calls. Oftén the story is pegged on the notion that you're being given a great break. Such-and-such a mining issue will go on public sale soon, for, say, 40 cents a share. But you, friend, because a broker you never heard of is taking a liking to you, are being given an opportunity to get in early and pick up some easy money by buying at 32 cents, » » » MR. CASHION says the difference between the five cents paid for the share and the 32 cents or whatever it’s sold for often gets no closer to a gold mine than the pockets of the brokers working their racket out of Toronto. That's a detail the victim may never catch up with. Now and then he may be given an opportunity to sell back part of the stock he has bought, and at a little profit. Not bad, he may say. But that's the

which 1,000,000 are turned over

come-on, aimed at building his con-

a friendly, confidential tone—"We |:

calls, Extravagant as are some claims in circulars, bulletins and letters, they're rated fairly mild

. » THE TELEPHONE call is often the clincher, Does the prospect have doubts or objections? Ah, but the smoothie on the Canadian end of the wire has met them all before, and he has fast answers ready for them. It all adds up fo a kind of wildcat promotion outlawed in this country years ago. Some of the people pushing the racket, the securities and exchange counsel says, are, in fact, men who went to Canada because the statutes clamped down on their sucker list exploitation in the U.S. Ontario recently passed a new securities law supposed to make life more difficult for mining stock promoters, and it has a new securities commissioner, C. P. McTague. Officials here believe Mr. McTague will move to put teeth in enforcement as other Ontario provincial officials have not, Already he has ordered a score of brokers to show cause why their registrations should not be cancelled] And a. systematic “review of all Tegisirants ha) been ordered.

THE SECURITIES “and exchange commission, seeking to halt illegal sale of mining stock here, early in the war brought the matter to the state department's attention. The state department conferred with the dominion government and prepared a treaty to. allow extradition of crooked brokers. The U.S. senate %atified the treaty but it was blocked in Ottawa. It has been amended and

used lavishly in promoting get-rich- |: . |quick sales,

- THE SEC COUNSEL says the.

smart, script - written telephone!

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. » ERNEST T. WEIR is head of the National Steel Corp, which among other enterprises operates the Weirton Steel plants at Weirton, W. Va. The Weirton plant is non-C. 1. O., and is operating

for 25 years, come next April. He works on the plant's narrowgauge railway. He is a union

We, the Women =

War Brides Entitled to Know Truth

By RUTH MILLETT “THE WOMEN hadn't been told what conditions to expect,” said the mother of one of the 75 babies, all children of American servicemen, crowded into a converted freighter for the 45-day voyage from New Zealand to America, Certainly foreign wives of G. I's —no matter how eager they are to join their men in America—

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is back in the Canadian parliament for approval now. But a bitter fight is being made against it, And the milking goes right on.

NEXT-—-A Wondrous New Paul Bunyan,

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M.D. THE public health officer had just finished his’ talk on cancer to

the women’s club and invited questions from the audience, A woman asked, “Is cancer contagious?” Can cer is not contagious, was his immediate reply. He had forgotten that many people still believe that it is. Cancer is a growth of our own cells. If a surgeon in operating on a cancer should accidentally cut his finger with the knife, and if cancer cells were on the knife, no| growth would result, The cancer| celis would mot survive, Cancer is {a lawless growth of our own cells and would not survive in anyone else, The smallest working part of a body is a cell. There are many different kinds of cells but.they have ¢ertain features n SOON, .

‘| CELLS can do afiything “that the

body a a whole can do. They are!

created, live and die, work and rest, eat and rid themselves of waste, and reproduce themselves. Cells of one kind never reproduce another kind. Cancer cells are like normal cells in every respect save one. They reproduce themselves in a lawless way, producing an excessive num- | ber for which there is no need. Every cancer cell possesses this power of limitless reproduction. Unless something is done to rid the body of these abnormally growing cells, the patient forfeits his life. » » . LET US trace the development {of cancer. One cell gets out of line and starts to reproduce beyond the | needs of the body. At Aarst the growth does not show. { But as the colony increases in © sie, it forms a lump which, if near the surface, pushes the skin out. A warning sign is the develop{ment of a lump in any part of the body, EE 2 remy Phish ‘has been present for ‘some time. *

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Disease Caused by 'Outlaw Cells’

Cancer Is Not Contagious

If the Jump is located under the skin, it may destroy the skin covering and form an ulcer or a sore, which is another warning sign. Any sore which does not heal within a reasonable time should be examined for possible i .

CANCER cells hay * invade blood | vessels, If a blood vessel is de- | stroyed, hemorrhage results. Bleeding from any part of the body, or body cavity, should be investigated for cancer. If the growth is near an opening, the passageway may be blocked. Cancerous growths in the stomach block the opening between the stomach and small intzstine.

who have never had stomach trou

if stomach symptoms’ ‘is

Pérsons in middle and’ late life ' ble before ' should suspect cancer| * develop. v not: poe.

should know just what hardships, if any, they are letting themselves and their children in -for before. they set sail. Not only should they know what to expect in the way of accommodations for the voyage— but they should know what conditions to expect after they are rive in America. " ” ” THEY SHOULD know what dif« ficulties to expect if they must make long train trips carrying small babies, They should know about the housing situation, ete, It is flattering to Americans to have the people in other coune tries look upon America as Utos pia and a land of plenty and a hospitable haven.