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A PAMILIAR PACE was missing from the annual dinner meeting of the Central Indiana Council of the Boy Scouts, held the other night in the North Methodist church. It was that of Wallace O. Lee, commissioner of the council for over 30 years, who is “at present vacationing in St. Petersburg, Fla. Del mer H. (Skipper) Wilson said it was the first time to his knowledge that Mr. Lee had missed the annual affair and that this is the first vacation he has had In several years. The scouts received a wire at the dinner from Mr. Lee who expressed his regrets he wasn’t there, , . . He sald he would be back Feb, 23 and would be ready to “do his part then.” , . . Rivers Milner, The Times church editor, looked twice at an envelope addressed to her by the Rev. Egon. Hessel, Indianapolis lecturer and Presbyterian clergy-. man who was a former missionary to Japan. . . . Although he has been back several years from that country, the Rev, Mr, Hessel still is deeply interested in the cause of missions in Japan. He must have been thinking of that when he addressed the letter. for it read: “The Japan Times, W. Maryland st.”

Dirt—and Hats—Blow High

INDIANAPOLIS GOT a taste of its own dirt and downtown workers were kept busy scurrying after their hats in the brisk windstorm yesterday. The dirt which has accumulated on the streets during the winter months provided good ammunition for the sharp wind. You could see many people rubbing their eyes as they walked. And on top of that, the wind was blowing their hats off right and left at the same time. , .. Time marches on! The huge’ clock on the street in front of Rost Jewelry on N. Illinois st. yesterday said 12:40 p. m.; a clock on the jewelry company building read 1:10 p: m. A check showed the latter to be 30 minutes fast. ,.. Tip for car owners who are having rouble with fogged windows on their machines these cold days. The U. 8S. Rubber Company’s magazine, U. S. Hooslers, says to rub half an onion over the windows, inside and out: They claim it works! , .. The magazine also describes a new cigaret lighter wick the textile research laboratories of the company have made. Of asbestos yarn, it hardly ever requires trimming or replacement, they say, :

Inside Indianapolis ‘+ Lineage Souvenir

Family Tree on Souvenir Chart A WAR SOUVENIR brought back to Indianapolis by a Times reporter from Germany held more than the usual amount of interest for Mrs. Charlotte Timmerman, R. R. 11, Box 630. The souvenir is a seroll which traces the lineage of a Huber family from

Arctic March

CHURCHILL, Canada, Feb. 7.—A force of eight snowmobiles under the command of Lt. Col. P. D. Baird—who heads the Muskox expedition—has left Churchill. They are making a final test before the entire group moves off next week on a 3200-mile Arctic march. Lessons learned in two earlier tests will be put into practice. > I was one of 16 men in four snowmobiles which made a fest run over a portion of the route the Muskox force will follow. : This is the only way to gain some real appreciation of the difficulties and hardships the moving force will face. Travel is a fantastic battle with great, tumbled ice barriers. They rise straight up as high as a house. Boulder-strewn ridges lie like tank traps. The lands are so empty there aren't even landmarks by which to steer. - Much of the area is uncharted. Much that has been mapped is incorrectly.

Always the Cold ALMOST NOTHING moves except the swirling snow. The light is deceptively brilliant. But after the sun is so low or obscured that there are no shadows— judging distances is difficult. Always there is the cold. Ten below was the warmest we recorded. This is a never-never land. Corks are sucked into thermos bottles instead of being forced out. Metal gets so chilled it burns the bare skin and can be dangerous to the inadvertent touch. The “Northern Lights” are in the southern sky, Even the polar bears go south from the Churchill area to James bay for the winter. To perspire is one of the worst things you can

Science

MYSTERIES still confront the medical Investigator at every turn as he seeks to solve the puzzle of infantile paralysis. That is why financial support of the research program of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis is so important. Normally, one thinks of the onset of a disease as connected in some way with constitutional weakness, temporary lowering of resistance, nutritional deficien-

cles, exposure and the like, But in the case of infane tile paralysis just the opposite may be the case. As I have previously pointed out, medical men now think that from 90 to 95 per cent of the population have suffered attacks of the virus of poliomyelitis one or more times. What is normally recognized as a polio attack is the exceptional case where the attack has been severe and reached the stage of paralysis.

Many Carry Virus SOME FACTOR normally associated with good health may be responsible for the development of the acute case of polio. Medical researchers are hunting for. just such a “plus factor” as they call it. This would seem to make infantile paralysis just the opposite of a vitamin deficiency where it is the absence of an important factor that does the damage. The hunt for the plus factor has grown out of twa important observations about the disease. : One is the fact that whenever an acute case of the disease occurs, scores of persons in the vicinity are found to be carrying the virus of the disease but showing no ill effects from it. The number of car-

My Day

LONDON, Feb. 6—~UNRRA comes to an end in Europe at the close of 1946. But no one has made a study of the best type of organization to undertake the handling of the refugee problem in the future and its proper affiliation with the United Nations Organi zation. In the meetings of the social, humanitarian and cultural committee this week, there have been several speeches on this question along much the same lines as had already been developed. The resolution presented by the Russian delegate, Prof. A. A. Arutiunian, brought out the one real cleavage between our point of view and the thinking of the Russians and Yugoslavs. They consider that there are only two main categories of refugees: First, those who wish to be repatriated, and secondly, those who do not wish to return to their homelands because they are “Quislings, traitors,"war criminals or collaborators.” They acknowledge that there may be a small group of Jewish refugees who have such unpleasant memories of their homelands that they no longer wish to return, but they consider this a relatively minor question, However, it seems to me essential that we have more concrete information before we ask our various governments to commit themselves on any of the details of future procedure in regard to refugees. It is sald that, roughly, there are still a million displaced persons in Europe, but no one is sure that that figure is correct or will be correct three months from now.

Believes Problem No Simple Matter OF COURSE, if all the European governments had been stable for years past and if all of them were so secure that they had no fear of opposition, the matter might be as simple as the Russians make it sound. ‘If people holding different views from the present governments. in their count¥ies could live there un-" scathed and unhampered, just as we do ithe United achievement of

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1668 to 1935. Mrs. Timmerman appears to be a part of the same family. Mrs, Eloise Keeler, daughter of Rep. Louis Ludlow and a cousin of Mrs. Timmerman, traced the lineage some time ago to an Andrew Huber who is mentioned on the chart. One of the offspring of the original branch is ex-president Herbert Hoover, Mention of the scroll was made in Inside Indianapolis last month after Dick Berry, the reporter, brought it from the Swedish consulate in Karlsruhe, Germany. .., Seen around town! The elderly woman in the Wm. H. Block Co. store getting a big bang out of the musical powder boxes on display yesterday. She would lift the lid off each one and. put her ear as close as possible to hear the! music. . . . Then there's the fellow who makes the keys at the G. C. Murphy five and dime store who wants his customers to know when he leaves to eat lunch. He puts up a sign every noon before leaving which reads: “Out to lunch, be back at noon!”

By David M. Nichol

do. Tt destroys the insulation of your clothing. Scarves and belts must be adjusted to keep air circulating about your body and yet keep the temperafure warm. Each of our sturdy vehicles carried gas enough for a day's run. Lashed to a sledge behind was another drum of fuel. - Stowed everywhere there was room for food, ‘sleeping bags, tents, extra clothing, lamps and stoves. There were snow knives and saws for building igloos, strip beacons for aircraft, a hundred other items. Two of our four snowmobiles had radios.

Level Snow for Camp SOMEWHERE space was found in each snowmobile for four men. - We camped one night by a tiny inland lake. We leveled off a bit of snow. Someone put up the tollapsible tent pole. Someone else got out the fivesided tent with its inner lining of rayon. Tent pegs were driven deep in the snow. More snow was shoveled around the base to keep out wind. Cocoa fiber mats were laid on the floor. Over them were caribou skins, quilted pads and then the feather-filled, double sleeping bag: that tapers like an Egyptian mummy case. ¥ The bags zipper up until only a bit of the face is exposed. Men often wake with scream: nightmares. Mine were relatively mild, like suffocation. Experts insist one must sleep naked in’ the bag. I tried it—once—and found it best. But crawling | in is like diving into a mountain stream.

Getting up and dressing in the morning, when | only a small lamp has burned through the night, is! torture that continues until the blood begins to! circulate and the clothing warms.

By David Dietz

riers is at least 10 times the number of victims, some- | times 100 times. ‘ ! The second fact is that the victim of the disease | is frequently in conspicuous good health. Rarely is| the victim one with a record of malnutrition or previous poor health.

Immunity Builds Up IT MIGHT occur to many persons that there would | be a difference in virulence in the virus obtained! from a carrier and from a victim of the disease. But experiments with monkeys do not support this view.| There seems to be absolutely no difference in virulence. One must conclude, therefore, that the determining factor is in the individual and not in the strength ‘of the virus. Apparently adults build up an immunity to the disease although it is not quite understood how they do it. While adults sometimes come down with acute attacks, the age distribution of the disease in general supports the name, “infantile paralysis.” . Children under 5 years of age, while constituting only nine to 12 per cent of the population, provide 50 to 90 per cent of the cases. For some reason not at all understood, males seem to be more susceptible to the disease than females. Both the general prevalence of the disease and the frequency and severity of epidemics seems to increase with the distance of the locality from the equator. Scandinavia, Canada, northern United States; Australia and New Zealand are the regions where the disease is most common,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

their particular point of view but meanwhile abiding by the will of the majority, the problem would be easy. However, you must have a basic agreement on the type of government under which you live. In the United States, when a Republican administration is in power, the Democrats are constantly trying to persuade the voters to return them to power—and vice versa. But our force is all exerted by the ballot under a basic constitution. It is a long time since the Civil war settled for us once and for all, I think, any question of armed force being used instead of the ballot.

Things Are Different in U. S. IF, HOWEVER, when the Democrats were out of power, they could not live freely and unhampered within our country, I doubt if they would like to be sent back there against their will. And that, I think, Is where the real cleavage of opinion comes in the arguments on refugees that have been presented in our committee debate, The position of the United States, as presented in our resolution, is that we should ask the economic and social council to set up a special commission to make a comprehensive study of the whole problem. This council should formulate recommendations for action at the next session of the assembly. The dinner which the Pilgrims society gave for me the other evening was a very unique and delightful occasion. In their 40-odd years of existence, I was the first woman to be their guest of honor, but I realize that I owe this to the fact that they wanted to honor my husband. The beautiful letter from Lord Derby, president of the society, proposing & memorial in London to my husband, touched me deeply. Viscount Greenwood made me a charming speech of welcome and wrote a toast which I should like to keep for future years. Once my own speech was behind me, I enjoyed every minute. Before that, though

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U. S. Women Place Nylons Before Bread

By ROBERT OC. RUARK Scripps-Howard Staff Writer NEW YORK, Feb. T7.—Bread may be the staff of life. Virtue may be desirable, peace a noble proposition. } y But anybody who has read any

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woman lately knows that the nylon stocking is the most impors tant thing in the world. As far as I can make out, the war was fought to make ladies’ legs pretty. ' America’s new national emblem ought to be a nylon stock rampant on a heelless shoe. . - - ” MINK I8 luxurious, flowers are fine and jewelry not exactly repulsive, But a four-eyed with a pocketful of size 9's can travel faster and farther than Van Johnson with a quart of star

sapphires, Sitting in a restaurant the other day, two pretty girls were picking at their salads. They were talking about the foreign war brides who are arriving in America. “Two thousand more are due on the Queen Mary Saturday,” “That's 2000 more boys taken out of circulation.” “lI don't mind the manpower shortage so much,” said her com~ panion, nibbling at a non-fatten-ing cracker. “But I hate to see all this extra competition for ny--lons.”

» » - AS NEWS, a nylon sale tops a four-alarm fire, and is covered ingly. Feature writers are suffering from an occupational disease called nylon feet. This is caused by spending hours in queues to collect the bright sayings of the women who don’t mind a four or five-hour wait for a pair of the priceless stockings. ’ Presumably women were happy before nylons, when their stems were covered with silk, cotton, rayon, wool, fur or briar scratches. But now there can be no singing in the kitchen until every female has a drawer full of the gossamer treasures that make each woman feel, deep inside, that her legs look just like Marlene Dietrich’s. n = LJ ANOTHER DAY a gentleman was hurled through a plate glass window by eager nylon buyers. There is high confusion now at a 5th avenue hosiery shop, whose queue often becomes snarled with that one leading into the Radio City music hall When you get in line you don't know whether you'll wind up with

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tickets for Gable and Garson. It's a dull day when the papers don’t carry three stories about nylons. Police have been called to quell riots in department stores when a sale was in progress,

= td 2 THE WOMEN grieved aloud in New York the other day, when a hosiery manufacturer announced

take two years for a normal supply of hose to reach department store shelves, The - gloom was garter-high when the manufacturer added,

ings now being produced would be of inferior length and quality, because of antiquated machinery, Since the stockings started trickling back, I have heard more bitter complaining among the womenfolk than they indulged in during the meat shortage. / Now, when two gals meet, they dart swift, appraising glances at each other's legs. # » » IT IS frightening to observe the naked lust in a sweet little thing’s face when she picks up a paper and reads that Blank's is selling 5000 pairs that day. Unconsciously, she immediately develops a large dislike for 5000 unknown women, and a poisonous hatred for those ahead of her in the queue. Nylons apparently have ceased to be a garment, and have become a symbol. The politicians so far, seem to have missed a good bet. The first demagogue who uses “Nylons for Everybody” as a campaign promise is a cinch for election anywhere that women vote,

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baby ever born at Methodist hospital” The “Firecracker” is 17-year-oid Jo Ann Youse of 140 Berkley rd, and

tiniest baby” title for herself. In fact, that's how she won her nick‘mame. ” - ” BABY RITTER, Methodist, weighed a pound, 15 ounces when she was born. Jo Ann. ready to graduate from Shortridge high school where she’s a senior, weighed a pound, 13 ounces when the was born at Methodist on July 4, 1928. Hospital attendants told her parents, Mr, and Mrs. Clyde W, Youse, she wouldn't live, So she wasn't named immediately. But as Jo Ann clung stubbornly to life day after day, hospital attaches tagged her the “little firecracker” after her July 4 birthday, 7 Vil #” ~ JO ANN is a medium-sized girl now, tipping the scale at 100 pounds, That's a far cry from the pound, six ounces to which she dropped several days after she was born. She weighed little more than a package of butter. Meanwhile, Mary Kay Ritter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Ritter, 6314 Winthrop ave., will have to be satisfied with the title, “second tiniest surviving baby ever born at Methodist hospital.”

By RALPH TEATSORTH United Press Staff Correspondent TOKYO, Feb, 7.—Lt. Gen. Tomo-

yuki Yamashita, the once haughty “Tiger of Malaya,” must die on the gallows for his responsibility in the atrocity deaths of 60,000 Americans and Filipinos in the Philippines, His last avenue of possible escape from the penalty imposed by a U. 8. military commission in Manila was

closed today when Gen. Douglas MacArthur affirmed his conviction

was final, The supreme allied commander directed the commanding general of the Western Pacific army forces to execute the judgment. Headquarters spokesmen said they did not expect any further delay in carrying out the sentence and believed Lt. Gen. W. D, Styer, Western Pacific commander, would set the hanging date shortly.

Newsmen to Be Barred

A dispatch from Manila said that Western Pacific headquarters already had announced that newsmen would be banned from witnessing

the execution. The announcement gave no further details, Yamashita, first major Japanese war criminal to be tried, was convicted by the commission last Dec. 7 for condoning the murder, torture and rape of Filipinos and allied civilians. In announcing confirmation of the sentence, MacArthur blasted the stony-faced general for “violating the sacred trust of a soldier, profaning the military profession and threatening the very fabric of international society.” “It is not easy for me to pass penal judgment upon a defeated adversary in a major military campaign,” MacArthur's statement said. “I have reviewed the proceedings in vain, searching for some mitigating circumstance on his behalf. I can find none. . . . “A soldier, be he friend or foe, is charged with protection of the weak and unarmed. It is the very essence and reason for his being.”

‘Blot on Profession’ MacArthur termed Yamashita's record a blot upon the military profession and a “memory of shame

and dishonor that can never be forgotten.” The U. 8. supreme court refused a defense plea for a review of the case. The court held Yamashita

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trial and that the military tribunal was legally established under presidential order. » The defense contended no evi dence was presented to link the defendant with atrocities committed by his men who ran wild and burned, pillaged and raped the

ican troops landed. MacArthur charged in his state ment that Yamashita failed the “long and honorable traditions of ‘Peculiarly callous and purposeless,” MacArthur sald, “was the sack of the ancient city of Manila, with its Christian population, its countless historic shrines and monuments of culture, and a civilization which, with campaign condi tions reversed, had been spared.”

The Ancient Order of Hibernians will resume its customary observance of St. Patrick’s day, March 17, for the first time since 1942. Only once, before the war, had this celebration been canceled. That was on March 17, 1801, when former President

nual local observance of the feast day of the Irish saint will be highlighted by

Jack Kirby \ cakfast in the Claypool hotel, an event which in the past drew 700 to 800 persons. Jack Kirby has been named

ADMITS SACRIFICING MILLION SOLDIERS

BUDAPEST, Feb. 7 (U, P.).— Ferenc Szalasi, Hungarian Fascist leader, admitted at his war crimes trial yesterday that he sacrificed a million Hungarian soldiers to

prolong the war because he believed a new German wonderweapon would defeat the allies. The weapon, he said, was a “turbo-jaeger airplane which would

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Valentines for Traffic Rogues

CHICAGO, Feb. 7 (U. P)— The National Safety council today offered the following suggestions for valentine sentiments: To Jallopy Joe Since V-J day you've gone beserk On you V-J meégns victory jerk. : Or To Suicide Sam You, speed-crazy fiend, you would still end up dead

If the tread on your tires was as thick as your head. Or

and their families. » » y “VETERANS are begging in advertisements for any kind of roof to shelter themselves and their families. Many of the married veterans who wish to continue their edus cations are living in such places as trailers. “Certainly the American gove ernment that could transport, house, clothe and feed a wartime

To the atomic bum You blast your way, You're horsepower wacky, But you'll get it brother,

Like Nagasaki.

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D, IN ONE large clihic, one out of every 20 patients suffering with chronic disease of the joints had

gout. This disease probably is more prevalent than most people realize, The first attack of gout usually starts spddenly, lasts three to 10 days, and then disappears com-' pletely. / It may affect a toe, foot, ankle, knee, wrist, or other joint. Attacks develop while the patient is asleep. Pain increases in intensity until it becomes so severe that even the weight of the bed clothes cannot be tolerated. Toward morning the pain eases and the patient falls asleep.

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similar to’ the first, except it may be more severe, Sooner or later the disease increases in severity, attacks occur more often, and many joints are affected, but the patient still does not have any joint trouble between attacks. '

After many years of acute seizures, chronic gouty arthritis may develop with involvement of many joints, swollen hands and feet, and deposits of urates in the tissues. Those who develop gouty attacks late in life seldom have gouty arthritis, :

8 » ” GOUT is more common in men, although it does occur in women. Pirst symptoms usually _ appear after 35 years of age, but the disease can develop in children, Gout seems to run in certain families, although records are incomplete in this regard. It is primarily a disease of the well-to-do,

A patient with gout should secure specific instructions from his physician as to what to do if an attack occurs. If warning signs are recognized, the attack may be prevented. After the pain subsides, the patient should remain in bed and protect his sore joints from pres sure. Hot water compresses applied every two or three hours, and special drugs will ease the pain, » .e DIET for patients with gout should be free of purine rich foods, such as sweetbreads, liver, kidneys, brains, meat extracts, gravies, sardines, and . anchovies. Milk, eggs and cheese and many

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