Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1946 — Page 13

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THERE ARE PHOBIAS he wut mm Epstein,

“local representative of Warner Bréthers Pictures, has . “talent-scoutaphobia.”

He's getting the screaming meemies everytime somebody mentions “audition” and it’s all because of the report that Mr, Epstein was a Hollywood talent scout at the recent Short ridge vaudeville. There was a bona-fide scout but it

- wasn’t Mr. Epstein, -Now the poor guy’s being bar-

raged with letters and phone calls from people who want him to watch their talented kidd'es to perform. Mr, Epstein wants tq go on record right now as not being interested in anybody’s children, whether they can sing, dance, or play a flute with their little toes. Whet's more, said the irate gentleman, the wrong kind of people have become interested in him. “Last summer when I tried to convince some beautiful blonds I was a talent scout’ Ro. ‘ne would believe it!” he cracked. Anyway, the man who is NOT a talent scout showed graphically with clutching fingers what he intends to do to the next person who asks if he'd like to watch their little Poisonetta jmperson= ate Mae West.

Quite a Combination QUITE A COMBINATION of selections is playing at the Indiana theater, The calm and Dpeaceful feature “Bells of St. Mary's” is followed immediately by “Frontier Days,” one of the bloodiest, rootingest, tootingest shorts we've ever sat on the "edge of a seat to....Mad because you can't get your typewriter repaired or even a typewriter? One of our agents: tells us that thousands of typewriters are being held up because of the scarcity of six small ball bearings used to make the carriage operate smoothly. With the steel strike a thing of the past, the typewriters should be rolling off the line again soon, though . , , Several Boy Scouts attend the city council meeting weekly, because it is required to win a civic merit award. We wonder if it” wouldn't be a good idea to require some of the councilmen to attend a scout meeting. Turnabout and so on. ... Two signs of the too swift passage of time: Troy restaurant, at Georgia and 8. Illinois sts, still has a Christmas wreath in the window. The elevators to the Press club and points up over the Canary Cottage still have a license issued in 1943. Tsk, tsk.

Mr. Sevitzky's Missing Cutaway DID YOU HAPPEN to see a red lantern in the sky around 10:30 p. m. Monday night? We didn’t, but Charles Allen, 5035 Primrose, did. He saw the bobbing red light “sorta like a lantern” coming from the direction of Irvington. It drifted over the house and headed toward Broad Ripple. Mr. Allen got kidded about seeing things until he found some people out in Brightwood and some of his neighbors

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ra Epstein ... “If you mention audition so help me rn on

who said they saw it too, ... We wouldn't ‘want to insinuate Conductor Fabien Sevitzky is absentminded but... In case you noticed that Mr, Sevitzky .wore a short coat instead of his usual cutaway at a recent concert it was because he couldn't find the cutaway. “It has been stolen,” the conductor told his fellow searchers after a fruitless hunt, Later, too late for the concert, it was found packed in a trunk that Mr. Sevitzky had taken on tour. ... An old friend of the Indianapolis Symphony, Pranklin Minér, former manager, is in town today. Mr, Miner is now assistant to the president of the National Concert and Artists’ Corp. in New York City. ... The same story about the Shortridge vaudeville that brought the earlier mentioned Mr. Epstein discomfort .as brought young Bill Stephenson much renown. The youthful student has had communications from Hollywood (not through Mr, Epstein) and is to be the subject of an article in the magazine “Calling All Boys.” A few weeks ago the chubby boy wonder was written up in a syndicated column “Tops Among Teens,” telling about his musical ability and his many sidelines which include composing, painting and writing—he has a book half finished.

Whooping Crane By Jack Van Coevering

CHICAGO, Feb. 20.—One hundred whooping cranes, relics of the past and victims of civilization, have become objects of the greatest and strangest hunt in American bird history. Ornithologists, conservation men, and even Cana-

dian mounted police were asked to help locate the

migration stopping points of the last remaining whooping cranes, This was the second move in an international campaign to save the largest wading birds in America from oblivion. First move was made by ‘the National Audubon Society in New York and the U. 8, fish and wildlife service in Chicago, which placed Df. Olin Sewall Pettingill, ornithologist for Carleton college in Northfield,

" Minn, in charge of investigations.

Dr. Pettingill has completed his survey of the wintering grounds of the whoopers. He counted 25 birds in the Arkansas migratory bird refugee near Corpus Christi, Tex. He found a few birds on Metagorda island off Texas and hopes that the island will become part of the refuge. This spring; Dr. Pettingill hopes to map the migration stopping points of the great white-bodied, redheaded birds. Planes and cars will be used to follow the flight,

Have Powerful Cry

WHEN "LOCATED; stopping poirits will be given rigid protection. Whooping cranes are easily recognized. They have a wingspread of 7 feet and stand over 4 feet high on spindly legs.” On the prairies, where clear air brings far-away objects close, they have even been mistaken for horses.

Aviation

1 LISTENED to these words from a middle-aged executive of one of our great corporations: “Do you know, I actually learned to steer that plane and keep it on a course that the pilot told me fo follow? And kept the wings level? All within 10 minutes after I had placed my hands on the control wheel, and my feet on the rudder. I can't get over it.” The speaker, a responsible individual, had ridden the airlines, of course, but had never been in the cockpit of an airplane. Now, he had thumbed a ride for about 1300 miles in a twin-engined, privately owned aircraft. I sat back and listened some more. “And, by gosh, after about 20 minutes’ experience and getting the feel of the rudder and of the cuntrol wheel, the pilot placed a pair of earphones on my head, telling me while he extended a map ‘before me, ‘You're hearing the signal “A,” dot-dash now. That means you're on the right hand side of the beam. And if you get to the left hand side of the beam you will hear dash-dot (N). And when you're squarely on the beam you will hear only a steady dash, interrupted at intervals by the identification signal of the airport from which the beam originates.’ ”

Kept on the Beam

AT THIS point the speaker drew a long breath ag if he was a little doubtful as to whether or not any listener could believe what he had said. “Well, sir,” he said, “I might as well tell you the whole thing—within 45 minutes I was following that beam, and pressing the proper rudder to get back on the beam every time we wandered off a bit, And

My Day

NEW YORK, Feb. 20.—By asking innumerable questions while I was in Germany, I think I gained some insight into the problems confronting our army in their administratidési of the American zone, In the future, I shall be slower tq criticize because I understand the difficulties, By and large, I think we are doing a job we need not be ashamed of. However, we need really able people to take over the key positions as the main military establishment shifts ‘responsibility to a civilian administration. I'm told that these key people are hard to find. T'm not surprised, because it means a real sacrifice for the period of time one gives to this job. Yet the job has to ‘be done for our own as well as the interests of the people of Europe. It is not only the welfare job. It is the economic job, which is a challenge to the best ability of the highest type of men in business. The whole economy of Europe has to be changed and rebuilt, The picture is still so confused that it is dimeult to find the answers to any of the thousand and. one questions we all of us would like toghave answered.

Sees Open Black Market

I SAW fairly big groups of people where the black market was being conducted. Some of them carried

‘ stiitcases, but some openly carried the things they

wished to exchange or sell. People of many nationalities were millinfesround, for there is still money which appears from hidden hoards,.but no goods. v The' house occupied by Gen, Lucius Clay, the deputy military governor, had been owned by big indistrialists who backed the Nazis and evidently prospered greatly during the war. They must have been the kind of people whom one cannot help despising. The people of Berlin were really hungry and suffered during the lastfew years of the war, but here in this rich man's house, ycre found stores of clothes and barrels of food. Life

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Within the breastbone of the birds there is a coiled windpipe, as long as the birds themselves. This amplifies the call and gives them their name. On windless days, the powerful cries have been heard as far away as three miles, The biggest gamble in the current campaign is to locate the nesting grounds this spring. The number of nests will be less than 50—scattered over three western Canadian provinces—almost as much territory as the United States east of the Mississippi. Should Dr. Pettingill succeed in locating a crane’s nest, his next task will be a study of its habits.

Too Big for Survival IT WILL not be possible to watch from an ordinary observation blind. The birds become panicstricken at the sight of man. He hopes to build a tower a mile away, and observe through a t~ ope. The last authentic record of their breeding in the United States was in Iowa in 1894. The last Canadian record was in 1922 in Saskatchewan. Most bird students fear that whooping cranes are doomed. Dr. Pettingill believes that their existence may be prolonged before nature draws the final curtain on the birds, which have grown too big for survival He 18 ¢héered by the fact thet"the birds he saw | this winter seem in good health, and that three of | the 25 birds were young. This is a low percentage of juveniles, but the birds’ breeding potential is very low. They lay only one to three eggs, and young are slow to mature.

By Maj. Al Williams

each time we would get back on the beam, the pilot would look at me, nod and smile.” And then, leaning forward as if he was about to impart something - tremendously confidential, the speaker in a low voice cogtinued: “Goodness krows, I don't mean to be sacrilegious, but as I sat there looking over the nose of the ship, watching the country unfold=thousands of feet below, I couldn't help but think of the Biblical story where Satan took | our Lord to the top of a high mountain and showed | him the world beneath.

What Does It Prove : ’

“PEL NEVER forget that experience as long as I live, and above gllelse, I'll never get over my amazement at learning how simple it is to hold a plane in straight flight. “Landings and takeoffs? Oh, come, now. Even though I am a layman and this is my first experience in the cockpit, common sense tells me that while it is simple enough to keep a plane in level flight, flying fairly straight as long as the engines keep going, it must take a great deal of training to learn how to land and take off, or know what to do if those engines should stop.” “Well, I told you all this a long time ago,” I said. “Sure, I know you did, but no matter how fully you explained and no matter what you said, no words could bring me what I have learned from this experience.” So what does all this prove? Anybody possessed of normal faculties can be taught in a few minutes the rudiments of holding

a plane in level flight and to a fairly accurate course. !

“SECOND SECTION

A Date

(First of a Series) By LARRY STILLERMAN ONE out ‘of every 177 people in Indianapolis has a date with a serious automobile accident this year unless

{there is a drastic change.

. That was the average last year and with increased auto traffic and more. pedestrians on the city’s congested streets, the trend seems to be running in the tragic direction of more accidents. Where does the blame belong? The men whose job it is to police the city's intersections say one of the major faults is the city’s antiquated traffic lighting system. ” » ” THE CITY has a plan which would reduce this tragic toll in the downtown area, but it lies gathering dust in City Hall. « In subséquent articles, the present system and the one advocated in: June, 1044, by James E, Loer, former city traffic engineer, will be discussed. Indianapolis started having tratfic troubles way back in the horse and buggy era. As vehicles were motorized, traffic moved faster and the danger increased. In Indianapolis last year, 43 pedestrians were among the 69 traffic fatalities recorded. Police investigated over 6000 accidents in which 2534 persons were injured.

” ” o NATIONAL FIGURES list more than 29,000 killed and 1,000,000 injured, while in the state 860 accident deaths and 16,800 persons inJured were recorded. E These figures are gigantic when compared with a total of 261,608 soldiers killed in four years of war. What is even. more fantastic is that the economic loss in Marion county traffic accidents last year scaled the $6,000,000 mark. This includes expenditures for insurance, medical care and property damage. None of this money can be reclaimed, *

"WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY , 1946

traffic accidents, resulting in seven deaths and 215 injured persons, were reported. This is an increase over the same period in 1945 when only one person lost his life and 196 people were injured in. 528 accidents. tr» » ¥ MORE THAN 039 drivers were involved in these accidents last month with the most flagrant violations being in exceeding the legal and safe speed limits, disregarding traffic lights and not giving proper right-of-way to vehicles and pedestrians. In 445 accidents, violating city ordinances, five persons lost their lives, In pedestrian action in January, 45 men were injured, while 25 women were. hurt. The shortest cut to the hospital was jay-walking. Twenty-two persons were injured in this manner,

» ~ uy TUESDAY seemed to have been

Last month in Indianapolis 494

By MARGUERITE SMITH ELICATE long-spurred | . columbines, tall spires of |delphiniums and Shirley foxgloves, blazing red Oriental poppies, plus geums, canterbury bells, and quantities of other perennials—all for the cost of ia few packets of seed—that’'s what a cold frame has meant to the

| Raymond C. Cassadys, 6916 Park ave. Mr. Cassady made his own frame and it is only 3 by 4 feet. The seedlings, started in August, “as soon as-‘it isn't quite so hot,” are ready in February to have their winter wraps removed. They begin

{to grow at once and by late spring

many can be set into the border. “Of course,” Mrs, Cassady said as we looked at the nicely laid out perennial border that circles their rear yard, “we have wonderful soil —we just have to stick something into the ground and it grows.” “Oh, do give us a little credit,” laughed Mr. Cassady. “We do plant the seeds!”

: » » » . WITH AUGUST planting (you can start perennial seed in early spring, too) the young plants will be about an inch and a half tall before frost, when they are transplanted into the frame. “I try to keep them dormant during the cold weather,” Mr, Cassady said. “As soon as the ground freezes, I cover them with straw, about two or three inches scattered loosely over the top so that light and air can get through.” Chief advantage of fall planting is the greater germ« ination percentage of fresh seed. "Don Cassady, a freshman

'l By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D.

By Eleanor Roosevelt |

here went on comfortably while people all around starved,

Gets Letter From German Woman

I RECEIVED a letter from a 60-year-old German | woman which I think might interest my" readers.

Her family was once well off, but after the last war,

reverses came to them, She has suffered a Rreat! deal, but I want you to notice certain parts of her? ietter, because I think they illustrate what the attitude of many people is. “Please listen to me! The whole world longs for peace, but peace can only reign when love conquers| hatred and, as long as hatred rules mankind, no real: peace nor its blessings are possible, . “Mankind has become involved in a great mis understanding and confusion of thought and doés not know how to get out of it, But ‘God will have all men to be saved and to. come unto the knowledge of truth! What is truth and where is truth? ‘I am the way and the truth and the life’ He who spoke these words gave us clear directives how we can obtain life, which means peace, . . It all would be so simple if we would follow these directives, . . . “First of all, we must not judge each other. This would clear away the question of war guilt, which has been so much discussed since the first world war. ‘Judge not that ye be not judged.’ . . . “We all of us behold the mote that is in our brother's eye, but we do not consider the beam in our own eye. .. . . We have done wrong, all of us, Now let us be intelligent. * Let us feel ‘good will toward men. Let us sit around a table and find out together what will be the right thing todo, . . . " I want you to notice that, though this is a plea for us to work together, there is no feeling here that Germany has ‘any special responsiMility for the war or that its people are any different from the rest of the world. ii

IMPROPER adoptions of chil{dren are 4 common cause of neu- { rotic illness in adults and children, while successful adoptions are a source of satisfaction for all concerned. But child adoption is the job of the social worker and courts, { with phiysicians, psychologists and religious groups acting only in adJ visory ‘capacity. Milton E, Kirkpatrick, M. D., iNew Orleans, warns that we {should be objective in making | adoptions, as it is unwise to adopt a child simpiy because two adults | are lonésome and want something lto brighten their lives and pro- | vide them with entertainment. Couples should adopt a baby only when they desire to provide ‘a child with love, security and opportunity, keeping in mind all the difficulties and . disappointments inherent in

such an association. » » ” TEMPORARY pleasure in caring for a helpless, attractive infant may be replaced by unhappiness as the child grows up, for even the most attractive’ babies develop into mischievous boys and girls who must be understood and appreciated. Sympathy or pity alone is a poor reason for making an adoption. Influential people who visit an orphanage and select poor, pathetic infants may rush the adoption by cutting red tape, only to find later that the the child is suffering with some serious * disease,

were hurt and two were killed,

‘|sustained the most traffic accident

the most dangerous day in the city

Don Cassady . , . His black gardening as his parents. strictly the kind of gardener,” his|

Infants often are adopted so early or so hastily that full information is not available. Certain disease can be excluded by special examination at an early age, but it will be

necessary to wait until the child]

is older before the physician can be certain that it is free of other conditions. ” n ” REGARDLESS of how much in- | formation a physician ‘may have

' Plan Clinic for Choir Directors

INDIANA CENTRAL COLLEGE will present Morten J, Luvaas of Meadville, Pa., in a choral clinic for church choir directors over the week-end. Mr. Luvaas will address the clinic at the opening dinner § at' 6 p. m. to- § morrow and at subsequent sessions through Saturday noon at the college. f He is professor of music ab, Allegheny college. Eugene Mogle of the college voice de-

Mr. Luvaas partment is in charge of the clinio, Registration, open to all choir leaders of the city, will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. tomorrow in the adpihisiration buirding,

MR. AND MRS. INDIANAPOLIS, YOU HAVE—

ith an‘ Auto Accident

Indianapolis people ‘throng one of the city's busy downtown intersections,

last month. On that day, 80 persons were injured and two killed, The most accidents occurred when people were hurrying home from work. From 5 p. m. to 7 p. m., 90 persons

Adults from 25 to 64 years of age

injuries with 35 persons hurt. Under 14 years was the safest age with only 14 children being hurf. The carefulness of school children can be traced to the outstanding safety program conducted by the police department under Capt. Albert C. Magenheimer, Sgt. Harry Bailey and Cpl, Glen Sample. - . = = EVERY SEMESTER these policemen visit 126 Indianapolis schools and kindergartens showing . movies and lecturing on safety precautions. Each summer, schools send the future trafic patrol ‘officers to a five-day intensified course in traffic|control, first aid and fire preven-

Indianapolis’ was the first city In the country to institute this “traffic camp.” And the results are phenomenal. There has never been an accident fatality involving a school child in 15 years where a safety patrol boy has been on duty. » » » TO HELP reduce the number of accidents, H Dale Brown, director of the state license bureau, said that tests to obtain drivers’ licenses will be more stringent this year. Last year more than 48,000 beginner's permits were issued and 105,800 licenses were approved, To obtain a starting permit, persons must be 16 years and one month old, although a 14-year-old child may be permitted to drive to school over a prescribed route If no other transportation is available, T. A. Marshall, safety education state director, revealed.

NEXT—The Indianapolis traffic

tion at the Boy Scout reservation.

GARDENING: For the Cost of a Few Packets of Seeds

Cassady’s Cold Frame Pays Off in Beauty

popcorn won a blue ribbon,

“He’s) When a neighbor, William Gerrard,

6910 Park ave, gave him some po-

at | mother said, “who has to dig things | tatoes to.plant last year, Don dug Shortridge, is just as interested in|up to see how they're getting along. | them up at least once a ‘month to

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Offer Baby a Home Only After Study

Adoption Is Serious Business

concerning the child or the prospective parents, he should never specifically recommend an adoption. Careful investigation and evaluation by impartial social workers followed by a trial period of placement is a

physician get a baby for a couple. Adoption procedures should be held before a local court skilled in handling such cases. The court] should have the assistance of the

to adoption should be obtained from | the proper persons and trial periods | of residence for one year in an adopted home should be required prior to the final decree. Such proceedings should, of course, be con- | fidential.

'VARDAMAN APPROVAL

IS BELIEVED NEAR

Commodore James K., ’ardaman Jr., President Truman's naval aide, today seemed a-step nearer confirmation as a member of the federal reserve board. A senate banking subcommittee agreed to check further !nio Mr, Vardaman's business background, but there were reports that none of the members found anything in the first two days of hearings that would prompt them to vote against him The senate usually offirms presi dential appointments unless a ques-

_ tion of character is involved.

"a wonderful crop in spite of it|"

‘the plants set out they'll be through

much better plan than having a'

State Welfare Department. Consent |

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (U. 2.).— |

light system,

see what was going on, but he had

DON EXPLAINED, with a grin, that when the family decided to experiment with freezing of certain seeds to see if that would hasten germination, he was the one elected to the ticklish job of placing tiny regal lily seeds in each of several ice cube compartments. The method works, the Cassadys said, but their yard is so full of plants they had to dispose of the seedlings. Mr, Cassady worked out on paper the plan for their. border before they began planting. “A nicely planned border is so much more effective than a little flower bed here and another one there,” Mrs. Cassady added. “But the folks who say they're going to have a perennial border so that when they get

have the wrong idea, Every plant in.our yard has been transplanted three or four times.” “A perennial border really ought to be worked over at least once every three years,” is Mr. Cassady's opiniop, - » » DON’S INTEREST in experimental gardening ranges from potatoes to a collection of violets. Last year he noticed a variegated purple and white violet on a purple plant growing beside a white one. ABut it was growing on the same plant with the purple violets,” he said. “I know, because I dug it up!” Mrs, Virginia Fisher, 1214 English ave, not only has an attractive plant window filled with oldfashioned favorites like geraniums, coleus and begonias, but she, too, likes to experiment, Her latest is a pineapple top growing in water, “just to see if it would.” | JOAN FONTAINE ILL HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 20 (U. P.).— Screen Actress Joan Fontaine will spend the next three months recuperating on the desert from an i influenza attack instead of vacationing in Cuba, her studio announced .today. The academy award-winning actress was ordered to the desert by her physician.

*HANNAH ¢

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. trial fronts to agree to the 18«

» Hn » THE SECRETARY said he Was confident the smaller steel come panies would get a price conces= slon allowing them to

profitably, If that is the oute

for 58 companies which it sald are representative ‘of 750 350,000 men, has denied that the is over so far as ; ad x asked: 5 “HOW CAN : fabricating coms pany, which was losing money even, before the strike, be ex-

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the game merely would be part 1: of the free enterprise system--plus the aim of getting produce. tion rolling.

THE SHIPBUILDING stabille

per hour for shipbuilding em= ployees. The recommendation goes to the wage stabilization board. t The aim apparently is to ine duce managements on all induse

cent pattern.

We, the Women—

Expects Nature To Beat Ban on

German Brides

py Rue MILLETT “YOU CAN fight nature for 50 years but you won't win. I'm goe ing to have my Trudy,” said an American ex-G. I, now a civillan clerk for the army In Germany, who married a German girl in an unofficial ceremony and wants the United States to legalize the marriage. ' Uncle Sam—of all people— should recognize the truth in what the former soldier says. » ” rd FOR UNCLE SAM already has fought one losing battle with hue man nature. It was Uncle Sam who made and tried to enforce a no-fraternization rule in Gere many. But human nature won out—and the ban had to be lifted.

Uncle Sam has

human nature—as the boy pointed out, ; ”

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