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* the ‘week is an East Side housewife who is-richer by
to a tucked the hose away in a bureau drawer. This week, while searching through the drawer for a pattern, she came upon the hose. . .. One of our
new Roosevelt dimes as a tip yesterday in Stégemeier’s on N. Pennsylv: st. The waitress who re-
ceived one of the coins apparently didn’t know what’
it was and Mr. Schricker had to explain to her. . .. If the city had a few more street cleaners as efficierit as the man who was sweeping around the Gircle yesterday, Indianapolis wouldn't be so dirty. The man, equipped with one of the little white wagons with the: rather ironical wording, “Help keep our city clean,” on the side, did a bang up job of picking the , dirt up. He even swept under the parked cars,
Collection of Pitchers
BIG PITCHERS, little pitchers, tall pitchers, short pitchers—those are the pride and joy of Mrs, Robert J. Hocker, 734 N. Riley ave., who has been collecting them for more than five years. At the present time, Mrs. Hocker has approximately 150 pitchers of all shapes and sizes and keeps most of them in a glassdoored bookcase in her living room. Her favorite one is a slender glass pitcher which was given to her mother as a wedding present. She also has a pair of pitchers made of French glass and hand painted in gold which were bought at an antique shop. The smallest pair she owns are only one-half inch in height, Mrs. Hocker said that she has liked pitchers all her life and so she started collecting them. She admits that it is quite a job dusting them and keeping them clean but thinks the collection is worth it. . « Mrs, William J. Eddy, 1331 N. Grant ave., writes that she has a first edition copy of the old Indianapolis Gazette, first newspaper printed in the city which The Times’ Anton Scherrer described in his column last month, The date of the edition is Jan, 28, 1822,
Nation at School
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 8—Mexico's campaign to teach her 10,000,000 illiterates—nearly half of her population—how to read and write is perhaps the most spectacular educational project of our times. Personally sponsored by President Camacho, the drive was launched in March, 1945, with the slogan, “Each one teach one.” ’ The campaign was directed chiefly at adults. Every male and female between the ages of 18 and 60 able to read and write, under a special act of the federal legislature, was obliged to teach an illiterate, Obviously, it is impossible to enforce such a law, but through publicity and personal appeal, Minister of Education Jaime Torres Bodet and his associates have carried the project to every part of the country. Most of the adult literates were too busy or felt themselves incompetent to teach. ? Leaders in the cities and towns, however, entered into the spirit of the plan and raised funds to hire teachers and set up night schools. State and municipal authorities co-operated.
Many Pass Exams
BY THE end of the year 47,680 collective centers of teaching had been established out of state and local taxpayers’ funds, according to ministry of education figures. . \ Private citizens had sponsored an additional 16.778 aqult schools. Classes range from six to 50 pupils and are mostly for one hour a day. Ten million copies of a primer th did the volunteer teachers were printed and distributed. A recent count revealed that 1,750,000 persons were registered in the anti-illiteracy school. Within “the first six months 278,000 had passed their examinations.
A * t .. ‘ NEW YORK, Feb. 8.—Four alrlines soon will be flying 300-miile-an-hour airliners, some 14 months ahead of the most optimistic wartime predictions. A fleet of Lockheed Constellations are being rapidly readied in two huge TVA hangars at Kansas City, Kas., overhaul base. And, in the big Lockheed plant at Burbank, Cal, this writer saw a wartime type production line from which 8 to 10 Constellations are coming every four weeks. The names of three other large airlines are being painted on the sides of the huge triple-tailed record breaking ships. Just how many have been ordered by each line has not been announced but it is known that they will fly both oceans and to South and Central America before long.
Mass Production Continues
RAPID production at the Lockheed plant was made possible because the war's end opened the way for direct sale to airlines. Dozens of the huge ships were either on the production line or awaiting assembly. Airline orders enabled Lockheed to retain about 30,000 employees, more than half of the wartime number, with returning veterans daily joining the workers. Planes now being readied were built on military
My Day
LONDON, Feb. 8—The interest of the assembly delegates has been centered in the security council
meetings, and everywhere you go in London, you hear them being discussed. . I am very happy to find that the general feeling agrees with my own. There is a great sense of relief that questions which might ordinarily seethe under the surface and never be discussed openly are now being considered by all nations. Difficulties between people or nations that are not talked out create a potential bitter feeling of injustice on all sides. The women working in the United Nations organization met the other day to sign an appeal addressed to the women of every country in the world and their governments as well. We think it is very important, and so I am quoting from it here: “This first assembly of the United Nations marks the second attempt of the peoples of the world to live peaceably ‘in a democratic world community. This new chance for peace was won through the joint efforts of men and women working for common ideals of human freedom at a time when the need for united effort broke down barriers of race, creed and sex.
Eighteen Women at Assembly
“IN VIEW of the variety of tasks which women performed so notably and valiantly during the war, we are gratified that 18 women delegates and advisers are representatives frgm 11 of the member states taking part in the beginning of this new phase of international effort. “We hope their participation. in the work of the United Nations organization may grow and may ine
First Immigrants Came 15,000 Years Ago
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. — Amerlca’s first wave of immigrants “came across” something like 15,000 or 20,000 years ago, states Dr, F. H. H. Roberts Jr, Smithsonian Institution anthropologist. That was at .the close of the last great Ice Age; before that the road had been’ blocked by impassable glaciers for at least another 20,000 years, and it is considered highly improbable that human beings were traveling in this direction as much as 40,000 years ago. :
from Asia moved
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The successive waves of migrants
main routes after they reached Alaska, Dr. Roberts has concluded on the basis of finds of their stone implements and the bones of the now extinct animals they hunted. One of these routes went eastward to the Mackenzie river, then southward into the plains region east of
The second, which opened a little afterwards, led southward along the
Mrs. Robert J. Hocker . , , more than 150 pitchers.
Bucket Obstacle AN OLD ASH bucket laying in the middle of E. New York st. 2000 block, was the cause of a small traffic jam yesterday evening, Motorists driving home from work were halted when the car in front tried to straddle the bucket and succeeded only in getting it stuck under his axle. He was forced to back up to disengage the bucket. Then the second car did
the same thing and so on until by the time the fourth car had run over the can it was smashed flat enough to clear the cars. People still insisted
By MARC WAGGENER IKE everyone else, the
family cabins. And like returning veterans and other Indianapolis folk, the park department has to think first of funds and building material. They don't have either right now. But they do have the plans. » » . THE TRUTH is, the park system, one of the finest in the country, is not going to be able to meet the demand of all Hoosler vacationists who want to spend their week-ends away from home.
only about 20 per cent of the pedple who wanted to y overnight in park inns were able to find accommodations, Even during the present winter many of the park inns have been filled to near capacity .on weekends. » H ”
ONE OF the solutions the park
on driving over it instead of going around the bucket.
By George Thiem
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Nobody is so optimistic as to believe that illiteracy will. be abolished within 10 or even 20 years because indifference to education is a stumbling block among many of the primitive Indians, But the extension of rural schools to remote areas is solving the problem at the source—the coming generation, The children of peons are going to school today in buildings that didn’t exist a few years ago. Every ejido or collective farm has a modern school building close to the workers’ homes.
Build on Dialects
A SPECIAL problem in Mexico is the 1,500,000 Indians who speak only their native dialects. Bi- | lingual primers in Spanish and native Indian are] being written. * They will teach first the alphabet in the native tongue in phonetic sounds, then apply the same to
|Gepartment has in mind is the con[struction of small modern cabins [that will rent at a price range well [within the means of average fami- | lies — families who cannot afford hotel rates, The cabins would be so complete that families would have to take along only overnight clothing and food to prepare meals—no expensive camping-out equipment. There are such cabins, although not as elaborate as the park department is planning, at Shakamak state park. These, which rent for from $12 to $21 per week, are par-
Spanish. The experiment is being tried in five dialects. If successful it will be extended to 12 or 15 others.
LONDON, Feb. 8.—Bickerings
> SECOND SECTION : LOW-COST HOGSIER VACATIONS PLANNED—
State Parks to Build More Cabins [si &
state park department has some wistful plans for building houses—small one-
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titioned into a kitchen and one or more sleeping rooms, They have running water and electricity but bathing facilities for all the cabins are centrally located. » » EJ
ROBERT WIRSCHING, state park division director, believes that not only would such cabins help expand park facilities, but they would give many other people who do not use state parks an opportunity for a reasonably priced vacation, The cabins, when constructed, are planned to rent for approximately $20 a week. Since establishment of the park system more than a quarter of a century ago, approximately a mil-
in the UNO temporarily are over-
| shadowed for Britons by the stunning announcement that their bacon,
At the Nueva California school near Torreon, ©8g and fat rations are to be reduced.
Senorita Manuela Fernandez is teaching 50 children. |
They get instruction in reading, writing, spelling, |
arithmetic, history and natural science. { The modern building also is used by wives of | collective farmers who learn how to make clothes | for the children. The school lands turned in 2250 pesos to the edu- | cational fund last year. The public education campaign is lauded alike by friends and foes of the revolution. At Oaxaca] last week, Minister Bodet reported the highest bud-| get allowance for schools in Mexico's history—222,- | 000,000 pesos ($45,000,000). He said 27 grade schools
are under construction in Oaxaca state agrarian |
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By Max B. Cook
specifications as transports. As soon as the last one is off the line, Lockheed’s latest model will be manufactured. It will have a “floating cabin” which will eliminate all vibration. The cabin will be pressurized, as it is now in all Constellations, so that passengers will be as comfortable at all levels as they are on the ground. Adjustable reclining seats and large windows are specified. Two hostesses will take care of passenger needs.
TWA Spends $50 Million
PRESIDENT JACK FRYE, of Transcontinental and Western, who recently piloted the big Lockheed “Connie” from Burbank, Cal, to New York in seven hours and 27 minutes, said today his airline had paid
the TWA fleet of fast airliners. It is possible that Howard Hughes who, with Frye, developed the Constellation model, will. make the next tyy for the west-east transcontinental record —and he may beat the record established by his close friend. It will not be long before the six-mile-a-minute Constellations will be filling the skies over most of the nation's large airports. And next in line will be the jet-propelled air transports which can be promised within the next two years at least. »
By Eleanor Roosevelt
situation does not improve,
The food outlook began to assume a
the announcement that driedegg importations from America would be discontinued. Dried eggs had become an important item in the British diet for cakes, puddings, omelettes and such. Inasmuch as the statement on dried eggs included an explanation that imports could not be continued because of lack of dollar credits, there was an implication that international loan politics might be involved.:
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protest meetings throughout Eng--land. ; These resulted in one proposal that, as an alternative, no more American films be imported. Thus it appears dried eggs have mounted to a high” policy level. In any event all imports from America are to be carefully serutinized to see if eliminations cannot be made in the interest of providing more food. ° ® » » THE DAILY MIRROR is polling its readers for expressions on
HOUSEWIVES have organized
Coupled with it is the warning that bread may be rationed if the
gloomy aspect last week with
how cuts in imports should be made. Listed on the ballot are cheese, dried eggs, fllms, fruits, grain, meat, milk and tobacco, 1945 tobacco imports from the * U. 8. totaled $176 million, films $68 million, meat $48 million, dried eggs $38 million, grain and flour $24 million. Lack of dollars is only one factor in the food situation. Others are the world-wide scarcity of food and transport difficulties. In her - present dilemma Britain seems to be caught in a vicious circle. td ” »
TAKING EGGS for example, ‘almost half of the pre-war consumption was produced within the kingdom. The basic feeding ration of hogs and poultry is one-fifth of the pre-war ration and cannot be increased without a step-up of imports. The present expectation is that the ration will be cut further to one-eighth of the pre-war figure,
The state park department hopes to solve its own housing shortage
one above in Legion State park
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whenever funds and material become available,
Worry Over Food Fills Minds
By PARKER LA MOORE Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
where it was last April. . There is a drive on for wheat planting in submarginal land, but any real relief must come from abroad, requiring cash or credit. . ~ ”
MEANWHILE, efforts to increase British exports is encountering obstacles, Whisky is a case in point. Distillers were allocated 330,000 tons of barley for this season, but now they are told they will get no more than the 110,000 tons already delivered. One large distillery has closed down and others will follow. | No real suffering is in prospect for England, but the need for further belt-tightening is indicated. » » .
THE WEEKLY rations in ounces is: Bacon and ham, three; sugar, eight; tea, two and a half; cheese, two, and fats, including cooking butter and margarine, eight. } Cooking fat is to be reduced one ounce and there will be a cut in bacon and ham, On the bright side is the increase promised in milk, and the pre-war fish supply is being approached.
But unsolved is the problem of how Britain is to improve her general position,
lion dollars has been spent In building and improving the park
TO PROVIDE sufficient rooms and other hotel facilities to take care of the demand would require the investment of several million dollars, according to Mr. Wirsching. Even-f this were possible and the present rates maintained, this would not meet the needs as en-
Cabins will be the solution, park department officials believe . , .
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A suggested floor plan for cabins the park department hopes to construct some day in the state calls for ample space to accom modates a family on week-ends.
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A NATIONAL economy which had a free ride on the good ship U. 8. lend-lease does not seem to find its land legs now that it is on its own, : Invariably the first ‘question asked an American here is: “What about the loan? Are we going to get it?” But the obvious need for the loan notwithstanding, it is not regarded here as an unmixed blessing. - Even while the ministry of food is announcing bad news about ration cuts, lines were forming ‘outside London's Caxton hall to
tions attached to the loan.
~ L. A. AMERY, a leading British critic of the loan conditions declared: “Our objection is not to this or that condition; it is a fundamental objection to the whole American policy to which the government has committed itself by joining the Bretton Woods scheme, and still more by pledging full support to American commercial proposals. “The object of that policy is perfectly simple, It is to clamp on the world and in particular upon the British Empire an ob-
solete economic system.”
TROOPERS SENT TO HUNT GIRL'S SLAYER
COLUMBIA, Mo., Feb. 8 (U. P.). —The Missouri State Highway patrol ordered out additional troopers today to search for the rapeslayer of shy, bespectacled Marylou Jenkins, 20-year-old graduate of swanky Stephens college. Col. Hugh Waggoner, superintengent of the patrol, told the troopers that Marylou apparently fought bitterly for her life.
crease in insight and skill. To this end, we call on the governments of the world to encourage women everywhere to take a more conscious part in national and international affairs, and on women to come forward and share inthe work of peace and reconstruction as they did in the war and resistance. “We recognize that women in various parts of the
“It is safe to assume that the
killer is scratched and his clothes probably are blood-stained,” Waggoner said.
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HOPKINS WILL FILED NEW YORK, Feb. 8 (U, P.), =
world are at different stages of participation in the life of their communities, that some of them are pre- | vented by law from assuming the full rights of citi-| zenship, and that they may therefore see their imme- | diate problems somewhat differently. {
Responsibility Stressed “FINDING ourselves in agreement on these points, we wish as a group to advise the women of all our | countries of. our strong belief that an important op- | portunity and responsibility confronts the women of the United Nations: “ONE—To recognize the progress women made during the war and to participate actively in an effort to improve their standard of life in their countries, and participate in the work of reconstruction so that there will be qualified women ready to accept responsibility when new opportunities arise. t “TWO—To train their children, boys and girls alike, to understand world problems and the need for international co-operation, “THREE—Not to permit themselves to be misled by anti-democratic: movements now or in the future. “FOUR~To recognize that the goal of full participation in the life and responsibilities of their countries and of the world community is a common ob- | jective toward which the women of the world should assist one another.”
Fraser river and out onto the Great along two great |: Eventually descendants of the people who followed this western track made their way into Arizona, southern California, and probably northern Mexico. i South America, Dr. Roberts believes, was peopled by later descendants of both streams of migrants, who funneled down through | the long peninsula of Mexico and the .narrow bottleneck of Central America,
Basin plateau, west of the Rockies. !
Mrs. Louise Macy Hopkins, widow iof Harry L. Hopkins, will receive his entire estate under the terms
the late presidential advisers
will filed in surrogate court yesterday. The amount of the estate was {not made public.
| master, got transferred out here
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Discovers How
By ANDY ANDERSON Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WIPPLE BARRACKS, Ariz, Feb. 8.—1I've discovered two amazing things. One is how Butch LaGuardia, recent mayor of New York City, picked out the big black hat he wears. LaGuardia once was a resident of this city and got his high school education here. And not long ago, the governor of Arizona wanted him back. When Butch was six years old his papa, who was an army band-
and brought his family, Wipple Barracks once was a garrison for outposts in the great Indian hunting grounds, and they tell me that after seeing pictures of the generals in the big black hats they wore in those days, this Butch LaGuardia adopted the same hat as his trademark. But the darndest thing I saw was a city that is completely out of this world. It is Jerome, Aris,
LaGuardia
Got the Idea for That Hat
the air. There was a copper mine on top of a mountain, so they built the city up there. Every so often they found another layer of strata and they built another level of the town, until they finally had so many levels and took out so much copper that the streets and buildings on the side of this mountain started sliding. Now a great portion of the business district is slipping into the canyon beJow, which is 5000 feet deep. Some 2000 folks refuse to move, however. Wipple Barracks is today a veterans’ hospital and is run by Dr. A, G. Qualkerm, a colonel in the army medical corps. Most of the patients are here for bronchial, asthmatic or tubercular treatment,
LAFOLLETTE TO TALK Charles LaFollette, Republican representative whose candidacy for senatorial nomination has recently been announced, will discuss ‘The Job Ahead of Congress” at the Open Forum at Kirshbaum center Sunday
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STORM RALLY HELD BY GERALD SMITH
CHICAGO, Feb. 8 (U, P.).— Twenty-one youths who heckled a Gerald L. K, Smith rally were released on their own recognizance early today after a brief stay at the Des Plaines street police station.
A throng estimated at nearly 1000 young people battled police last night outside the West side meeting hall where the rally was held. Nearly 300 policemen rushed to the scene,
Shouting and jeering, the hecklers flourished signs bearing the legends “Smith is Hitler's best friend” and “Keep Smith out of America.” Three persons received minor inJuries and a score were struck by tomatoes and eggs. Mr, Smith, head of the America First party, left the meeting in a squad car after the air was released from the tires of his hired auto. Fourteen of those arrested were booked on disorderly conduct charges and three were charged with {illegal possession of stench bombs. The other four were released
without charge because they were under age.
By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D. IF AN extremity nerve is lacerated, the fibers beyond-thé injury degenerate and die, If the severed ends
connected with the spinal cord can grow into the dead nerve and restore function. Large numbers of fibers (wires) are enclosed in each nerve (cable) and each fiber originates fn a cell located in the spinal cord. Injury to a nerve trunk is a possibility in every wound of an ex‘tremity and tests will reveal if the damage has caused loss of sensation or muscle power. . Approximately. 15 per cent of all battle injuries of the extremities in Europe were complicated by nerve injuries. Primary wound healing occurred in 98 per cent of the 2873 wounds complicated by nerve injuries which were treated between
ALTHOUGH union of the nerve must be délayed until the tissue wound is treated, the severed ends should be located and anchored to a piece of adjacent tissue, pending final - operation, Nerves the size of the sciatic (index finger) down to the smallest nerves in the fingers and toes can be handled in this way. Fine stainless steel or tantalum wire is used for suturing. These materials aldo cast a shadow on the X-ray film which permits future study of operative site. ’ . - r SOFT tissue wounds complicated by nerve injuries are covered with a sterile dressing and the patient is taken to a hospital. The extremity is splinted before being transported as many nerve injuries are associated with bone injuries. Bandages, blankets, or rolls of clothing can be used; elaborate
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splints gre Dot necessary.
THE DOCTOR SAYS: Extremity Wounds Can Be Complicated
Wire Used for Nerve Suturing
At the first opportunity, the wound is thoroughly cleansed of all foreign material and dead tis sue and left open, When infection subsides, the nerve is united. The ideal time for operation is between the third and fourth week, although good results up to the ninth week are possible. » » . AFTER the nerve has been united, removable splints are applied to the extremity to permit physical therapy treatments to be given, If the patient has a stiff joint, it is manipulated following the - operation so that by the fifth week it is usually flexible. If a large section of a nerve is missing, it is difficult to join. the severed ones. Fortunately this oc-
curred in only one per cent of the|’
army cases in Europe, Although at-
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large ones have not been succegsful.
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send some sheet metal to South Dakota. Max surveyed the offi« clals, stared at the senators, looked unhappy and blurted:
‘Tll guarantee you won't lose anything,” Mr. Treacy inter rupted.
“This committee will protect you,” Senator Murray added. “This is United States. You should givé us the facts.”
» » ”n HE TOOK a deep breath and -sald; “But a year now,
what about all you government outfits? You may not even exist
by then. May Rysdon wants to Stay In business a long time.” “I hope we are out of business by then,” CPA-man Treacy said. Max's smilé ‘was grim. “But the senate stil] will be in operation,” Senator Murray said, “At least I think it will and If i is, you've got nothing to fear.” a = ” - MAX WASN'T convinced; he kept the names of the. cookies cutter carvers to himself, Last I saw of him he was same pling the fish in the senate cafes teria, It was not the best and that's a bad sign. Indicates the Joint’s shaky and likely to fold.
We, the Women—— British Brides Find American Wives Toil, Too
By RUTH MILLETT LONDON reports that at least
. 20 disillusioned British brides of
G. 1's already have turned their voyage fo America into a round trip and are back in their own country to stay, Yankee husbands. One English girl whose G. L husband owns a restaurant in Brooklyn says she headed [or home when she discovered he “wanted me to be his chief ‘cook and bottle washer.” Perhaps some of these foreign brides are a little too romantie in their notions of what life is like in America. on R
THEY have heard so much about the soft life American
women lead, it may be shocking
to learn their husbands expect them to be.chief cooks and bottle washers—at least in their own homes.
Furthermore, if their G. I. hus« bands run small businesses or farms they may be expected (as was the wife of the ex-soldier from Brooklyn) to do the work of an employee until the invest ment starts paying off,
It's actually not the, young women of America who lead soft lives. The majority of them work as hard as their men, doing their
husbands during the years when they are getting a start, ” » . BUT IF the family prospenss the women eventually have if easy, For American men are gens
erous with their money aiid ‘cons
scientious about providing « for their families, :
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