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E. WALTERS Sports Writer ly 266 teams lef$ igh school basket today and three ontenders—Evans«+ ding state champs, iden Bears and 5 Wildcats—were missing,

e to start at 1:30 th the finals at

the list of “also afternoon when ial staged perhaps | 2st upset, 46-34, in| nd at Evansville, | 16-game winner, | t round at Hama n't keep up with Washington last Wildcats held the . Ray Ragelis, to but Emory Balog | Jalker chipped in up the slack, | “Triumphs s dropped out of a title contender, Bears stayed with 2 Central confer for three periods, -46.

two of the other in the four-team. apolis last season | during yesterday's) -up South Bend} uth Bend Adams, rtime, and Indiane upset Indianapol 2-41. Huntington, 5t, advanced to th at Huntington. leading challengers onal semi-final fire mn. - ded such powers ette Jefferson, Koe! ie South Side, New Albany, Riche 5, Madison, Jasper! 7 Castle. itlists ‘Out e-time state titlist i out. Wingate lost! and Thorntown and

1 have survived f action. ted Bosse by

loating defense” a d with three field e Bosse’s pivot of«f

en Paces Quint RBURY, Ind. Pel Cpl. Bob OB oints on seven field ree toss, the Camp etball team closed by swamping Day 64-34, at the st night. s Blue Devils at the half, 30-11 gh pointer for thi , Camp Atterb r, Ill, today for night with Jame ity.

uns Seven h run. of seven, Lo ing champion, de Atkinson, 50-27, ushion cue tourne Joard of Trade par The contest lasted

Results

ITED PRESS se Oma, 180%, Detro evich, 183, Cliffside, Ni [ass.—Leo Muccucel, 1 ockdd out Bobby Eng er, . (2).

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) |, LIKE AN EXPLORER in the vast darkness of &

ick jungle, Dr. Walter Maddux has penetrated the

(walls of ignorance that have isolated thousands from

medical knowledge, : And now to Flanner house he has brought his knowledge, his understanding and visions=~that thousands more may be helped, . : This tall, impressive’ Negro doctor came to Indi-* anapolis last April as a staff member of the Children’s Bureau of Washington.

the dumps of a slum area. The new edifice stands

| ready now for occupancy—but equipment shortage has

delayed the opening, At Flanner house Dr, Maddux is the organizer

and, co-ordinator of health activity—he works through

the public health board and interprets .the health plan that will educate the masses and provide adequate care for the sick. . !

Dr, Maddux was born in Kansas City, Kas., and

went to public schools there. He was graduated from the University of Kansas in 1914 where he received his pre-medical training, and completed his work at Rush Medical college in Chicago. * It was at Genera] hospital 2, the Negro branch of the City hospital in Kansas City, Mo., that Dr. Maddux started his career. When the superintendent of the hospital died, Dr. Maddux, still in his interneship, became acting superintendent for.several months, A Negro child had no special hospital accommoda-" tions in Kansas City, Mo. When an opportunity to

| study pediatrics was: presented, Dr. Maddux, with 20

other young Negroes, started his work in. children’s care, ; Directed Clinic in Chicago IN THE MEANTIME Chicago's health conditions were appalling. Particularly the Negro section on the south side needed help and the call came to Dr. Maddux in 1930 to direct a new clinic, the Provident hospital, sponsored by the Julius Rosenwald fund. For three years the young, ambitious doctor worked to build the clinic on 36th st. and also worked as a fellow at the University of Chicago's children’s hospital. In 1933 the clinic moved to 5lst st. In the South Dr, Maddux found another challenge. With the Children’s bureau he had the opportunity to examine the health conditions in several states and in 1936 he went to Mississippi. He visited Negro physicians throughout the state, gave lectures and held clinics. He saw 3000 to 4000 midwives—some were as old as 90 years, some as young as 17 years. They’ did a great service, Dr. Maddux believes, with only 46 doctors for one million Negroes. } ~ Streaming over the hills in ox carts, mule-drawn wagons, on foot, they would come to a meeting, hungering for a little knowledge or a little help if they were sick. In some sections as many as 700 persons were crowded onto three or four plantations and the only doctor might be an herb doctor. Some of the children had never seen a Negro physician, Dr, Maddux carried on in this work, lecturing,

jl visiting, helping, exploring in Alabama, Georgia and

Mississippi. For three years he headed the Birmingham health center, '

» * : ° Missouri Basin PIERRE, 8. D., Feb. 23.—It's been a long time now since one of the world’s largest earthwork dams was ompleted across the Missouri river at Ft. Peck, Mont.

A long time, tbo, since people bothered to wonder hat good it was going to be to anybody. So far as pbservers on the ground were concerned its principal Immediate effect was to spread great quantities of ater over the graves of a lot of dinosaurs previously ncovered by the steam shovels. The war came along just then and the Missouri> nt on doing the same erratic things it had been for thousands of years unchecked and un"A war-harried world forgot about such minor matters as floods and drouths, With the return of thouands of soldiers to the towns and farmlands of the eat basin the matter has once more taken on acute importance, Governor M. Q. Sharpe expained all this as he forecast the creation of a new paradise in the arid Vest river country between the Missouri river bluffs nd the Black Hills, Frankly his chief interest is in reclamation and power projects in South Dakota but he pointed out hat his state’s share will be only a miner portion of he benefits arising from what will eventually be one bf the most comprehensive water contrel projects in the history of the world.

poks Pretty Important THE FT. PECK dam, which backs up a sizable ike far up in the middle of Montana in the northest corner of the basin, has already turned out to be a factor in the determination of flood conditions in he lower valley. : Whatever its value may have been as an individual project it begins to look pretty important as a unit In a far-seeing plan, The maps show the Missouri basin to embrace bout one-sixth of the area of the continental United States. The records of the agricultural department how little desert in the region but any quantity of asteland. It is not surprising that some of the tes in the basin are just about as sparsely poputed as any in the: country.

Science

PLATINUM, palladium, gold and silver, long assosiated in the public mind with jewelry, tableware, te., are finding ever increasing uses in chemistry and

dustry. An exhibit of the part played by precious metals n chemistry and industry during world war II is being ‘prepared by Baker & Co. of Newark, N. J, the orld’s largest refiners of precious metals, ‘or the pth annual Exposition of Chemical Industries. The position opens in New York at Grand Central Palace on Feb. 25. Chemists have long ‘employed platinum for tiny bles, dishes, and the like used in the laboratory or delicate chemical analyses. The value of platnum in this respect is its resistance to corrosiqn. It s long realized that the precious metals would be deal for many of the devices used in the ~hemical dustries but the cost was thought prohibitive, But’ pparently that is no longer the case. Baker & Co. say that a number of the chemical Hevices using the precious metals played an impornt part in the development of the atomic bomb.

Typical Products THE PRECIOUS metals have also come into vse catalysts, that is, as agents which promote chemreactions, permitting them to take place at ‘'em~ peratures and pressures at which they otherwise ould not occur. Q Typical products used in world war II which will be placed on exhibition include a platinum-rhodium uge cylinder used in promoting ammonia oxidation,

My Day

Hes of lové) tothe countries of their origin and to 8 people who today are suffering: in ways that we ely understand, Some day, unless we act wisely, they aré going p say to their leaders: “How did it happen that ou didn’t tell us what our actions here meant to e people throughout the world with whom we have a deep concern?” In addition, we must remember that other nations re watching us today, because the trend in the vorld is towards Socialism and we are the greatest oc capitalist nation, If we show lack of unity and allow our differs Ld "to such magnitude that we are unable 0 r $0 mest the Increasing Deges, not

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Inside Indianapolis

America as » whole, *

Since he arrived for. duty - at Fanner house, he has seen realized the dream of ° | & new health center for the underprivileged rise from

Dr. Walter Maddux . . . he will meet the challenge for better health,

Taught Pediatrics in College

" MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE in Tennessee was his next stop along the road to success. Here he was a professor of pediatrics, continuing his work with the Children’s bureau. . .. And now he’s in Indianapolis. Nineteen years ago he met a graduate nurse named Willa Mack who was practicing in Missouri at the same time he was . . . and they were married. They have no children, And at present they have no house—the housing shortage hits again—and are living with Mrs. Maddux’s mother and step-father, the Rev. and Mrs, J. W. Crook. The Rev. Mr. Crook has been pastor of the Scott Methodist church on Martindale ave. for six years, In the corner of his office at Flanner house, Dr. Maddux has stacks of boxes. In them are complete notes of his work through the years, and hundreds of negatives of pictures that portray unbelievable conditions existing in our own country today.

Some day Dr. Maddux will compile these notes and pictures, and the progress made for better health and living conditions of Negroes throughout the country will be presented. His dreams, his plans and hopes for the new health center at Flanner house have sprouted from the roots of long experience and knowledge. No other social service institution in the country has an equal to this new addition. Under the guidance of Dr. Maddux it will flourish, thousands will be helped, will learn the importance of health and better living. It is a challenge: But a man of his stature can meet that challenge, will meet it—and like an explorer, he will search to the depths until that wall of ignorance has crumbled and fallen, (By Barbara Schaeffer),

By Robert J. Casey

Little information is available concerning population conditions during the war years but it is certain that between 1034 and 1939 more farmers were leaving the district than were coming into it. Drouth, dust storms and erosion were finally discouraging men who had held on with diminishing hope for nearly a generation. , There were also occasional floods, which in the Missouri valley seemed hardly worth worrying about, and vast tides of water dumping down into the Mis sissippi valley to plague the delta,

Never Earned Its Way

THE RIVER never earned its way. The 7,000,000 people who lived in the basin in 1940 had spent upward of $20,000,000 on local efforts to keep the water between banks. The results were negligible. Out of -drouths and floods came the government idea for a dam on the upper river and finally in 1944 the nucleus for a unified development plan was provided in the Flood Control act. The first step toward co-operation has come with definite directives toward the reclamation agencies and the U. S. army engineers. In the old days the engineers were always working upriver to make navigable channels, The reclamation forces were working down river to conserve water and control floods and, if the truth be told, one of these outfits was usually contriving to undo the work of the other. The Flood Control act ended that. It is now provided that water shall be used for navigation in the dry west only insofar as such use does not interfere with “any beneficial consumptive use of such waters for domestic, municipal, stock water, irrigation, mining, or industrial purposes.” So presently, when the construction of the Garrison dam, above Bismarck, gets under way, the Missouri basin can look forward to conservation of topsoil, reforestation, recreation, promotion of wildlife, clean water for domestic and industrial purposes, navigation and power as well as irrigation, need for which has kept this vast region virtually isolated trom the rest of the country since the first days of settlement in- the west,

By David Dietz

an essential step in the production of both fertilizers and explosives. Platinum is also in general use for the spinnerets used for extruding a variety of artificial fibers, including both nylon and rayon. Since these went into such vital products as parachutes, airplane tires, etc. it is easy to see that platinum played a basic part in the preparation for world war IL

Prevents Corrosion

THE COMPANY is also showing, by arrangement with the Hercules Powder Co. a platinum-clad steel agitator which weighs about 100 pounds. The purpose of coating this stirring device with platinum~is to prevent its corrosion by the materials in which it is immersed. The agitator on exhibition was used continuously for war work over a period of two years under extremely severe corrosive conditions and it -tood up where all other materials had previously failed. The exhibit will also oontain a platinum-clad gasket of comparatively low cost, which has proved its usefulness as plant equipment for pipe joints where other corrosion-resistant gasket materials have been short-lived. Gold products on display will include several items of pure gold laboratory apparatus as used for alkali fusions, also gold linings for pressure vessels, gold anodes for electrochemical apparatus, and 7old and ribhons used for electrical contacts. y Because of their -high-wearing qualities, osmium, ruthenium and other so-called metals are being used as tipping materials for instrument pivots, phonograph needles and pointing fountain pens.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

only of our own people but of the world, what is their verdict going to be? How can we maintain that ours is the system which most nearly meets the wishes of our people if we haven't what we want ourselves and can’t help those in the rest of the world? It is not do much. our government which has failed to understand ‘our world situation. It is our industrialists who have: failed to give leadership in the economic fleld. Labor, too, should have had the world point of view. But both have served what they imagined were their immediate profits rather than

the greater profit of learning to work co-operatively |

and giving leadership in a broad point of view to our whole citizenry, - : In the long run, the world point of view is the only one which will benefit the United States: of ad} .

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SECOND SECTION

By HENRY BUTLER “PRIDE of craftsmanship”

—that’'s sométhing a

lems. But Ray Millholland, Indianapo~ lis writer whose book, “Pay Day,” will be reviewed on The Times book page next Wednesday, its publication date, knows the satisfaction of good work. . No mere academic theorizer, Mr. Millholland has worked with machines for many years. He under~ stands work. He understands workers. » # » THAT'S WHY he decided last year to write a book that would try to explain to people why bosses and workers get into snarls. In “Pay Day,” he calls them “bosses” and “workers,” rather than “employers” and “employees.” “Highfalutin’ language misleads people,” he says. “I wanted to be as clear as I possibly could. I wanted to talk in language people understand.” » = » MR. MILLHOLLAND believes that the great problem in labor relations is to get all the facts before the public. When the public doesn’t understand labor disputes, it gets confused and irritated. People start writing angry letters to the papers demanding stronger laws. Workers and bosses are both to blame in all this. “You can't go counter to publi¢ interest indefinitely without getting a reaction. People can get emotional as the dickens about things that interrupt their habit patterns.”

GROUPS CLASH OVER: TROLLEYS,

East Michigan Street Faction Opposes ‘Turntable.’

Two East side factions will exchange verbal blows on the proposed one-block extension of trolley lines on E. Michigan st. Monday with works board members referees. > Otto T. Ferger, board secretary, revealed that the proposed extension has been pending since September, 1945, when petitions were first filed by the two opposing groups. The Indianapolis Railways Co. proposed the installation of trolley buses along E. Michigan st, if they cqouid obtain a “turntable” on the triangular piece of ground at Fllenberger park. At present the company has street cars switching at the intersection of Emerson ave. and E. Michigan st.

‘Save Walking’

More than 100 petitioners say that transportation service will be provided for more people if the extension is granted. “It would save walking five or six blocks for many people during all kinds of weather,” said Mrs. Catheryn Steiner, 5235 E. Walnut st. An extension to Ritter ave. or Arlington ave. would even be of greater value, she asserted. A. H, Gisler Sr., 5139 E. Michigan st, leader for the remonstrators, let it be known that while he was a park board member from 1934 to 1942 he obtained the pavement of Pleasant Run blvd, “And I don’t want any heavy trolley creating chuckholes in our good street,” he decalred. Fear Depreciation “Besides,” Mr, Gisler said, “I doubt the legality of using a street created by public funds under the Works Projects Administration for a private utility.” He pointed out that the construction of trolley lines for one block would not be of great benefit and would depreciate property along E. Michigan st. from Emerson ave. to Pleasant Run blvd. Furthermore, Mr. Gisler objected to the congested traffic situation that would exist with trolley cars turning where trafic from New York st., Pleasant Run blvd., Emerson ave. and E.' Michigan st. converge, “At present,” he stated, “street cars are lined up four and flive deep waiting to use the switch at the intersection. What would happen with those huge buses turning around in all that trafic?” Meanwhile, Thomas R. Jacobi,

[city engineer, is compiling data % the possibility of installing

2c crete strips in asphalt streets at bus and trolley stop intersections to prevent buckling of pavement. The Railways Cb, stated that they would pay a part of the cost of installing such strips, estimated at $500 each, Mr. Jacobi asserted. Such strips have been installed in Central ave. stops previously, Board Members Gideon W, Blain and Joseph B. Wade stated that the transit company should pay all of the cost. Under a present contract, Mr. Jacobi explained, the company pays about $16,000 annually for street repair and maintenance on roads where buses and trolley cars operate, -

GEARY OF MOVIES DIES HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 23 (U., P,).— Sigsbee (Bud) Geary, 47, veteran film bad man who appeared in more than 150 - western pictures,

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23,

lot of people forget when {they talk about labor prob-

“Pride of craftmanship” . . . Ray Millholland, Indianapolis author, tinkers with an electric drill in his basement workshop,

Along about the time the Rus-|the war was over. He wondered silans drove the Germans out of|what would happen in this country Stalingrad, Mr. Millholland, work-|after the war, when patriotic zeal ing for the war production board|ran out and workers and bosses got

in Washington, knew the climax of | back to their peace-time disputes.

Odd Pencil

By MARGUERITE SMITH A PLANT that’s practically minus leaves all of the time is nothing to mention to the neighbors—they're only too likely to have a few of their own in that uninteresting condition. But Mrs. Adelaide Edwards, 3465 N. LaSalle st., has one that grows that way, and oddly enough it’s very attractive. Raised from a slip given to her by a gardener who identified it only as [§ “pencil plant,” ‘it has grown in Yes four years to a nicely shaped bushy specimen, the stems branching like a small tree and completely bare of leaves except at the very tip ends of the new shoots. There they appear, only to drop off, “and a pretty poor excuse for leaves they are, anyway,” Mrs. Edwards commented. The plant from which her small slip came was of shrub size, From pictures Mrs. Edwards has seen, the

plant apparently grows outdoors in Mexico to tree size and produces flowers

Plant Has

Mrs. Adelaide Edwards with her

Obviously a succulent, from its odd growth habit and the milky Juice it exules when cut, I suspect it of belonging to that exten-

that doesn’t know the holidays are over, so it's going right on blossom ing—a pleasant habit of these temperamental beauties when they

sive and diversified plant family, the euphorbias. Since that includes such various relation as milkweed and poinseftias, the familiar snow-on-the-mountain and crown of thorns “cactus,” that supposition ought to be safe! ~ ” » MRS. EDWARDS says she’s a born collector, brings home slips of plants from every trip she takes, thereby scandalizing her friends in the Nature Study club who warn her she must restrain herself when

really like their surroundings. But they're worth pampering, for no indoor flower is lovelier than the inch-long rosy pink blooms they bear on the tip of the leaf, Miss Kerr's cactus was slipped from an heirloom plant of her family’s, the parent plant having grown during the years from a tiny slip to such a'size “it was just too heavy to handle.” It's interesting to note that it and all its descendants were free bloomers, sometimes carrying flowers from Christmas to Easter.

on the restricted territory of state parks. She uses soft water on her extensive collection of house plants, puts her pencil plant on the porch in the summer, has been trying out rabbit manure as fertilizer on them. She has made one very effective arrangement of English ivy in the base of an antique lamp (part of another collection),

» ” » I'M CONVINCED that profuse

flowering is a characteristic inherent in plants, so that when you have one that stubbornly refuses to

FIRE ON STREETCAR ROUTS PASSENGERS

Fire on ‘a northbound Illinois streetcar, caused by a short circuit, injured one passenger and routed 30 others last night.

The fire, which burst through the floor at 26th and Illinois sts, burned the legs of Miss Betty Edwards, 21, of 4113 Cornelius ave. She was taken to City hospital where she is in fair condition. Passengers were directed out of the car by the 51-year-old operator, William Archer, 3420 Kenwood ave. Firemen from Company 14 extinguished the blaze which de- : |stroyed the flooring and a ‘number of seats in the rear of the car. Robert Tyner and Howard Wesling, members of the. rescue squad, gave first aid treatment to Miss Edwards.

» » ” MISS CATHERINE KERR, 6133 College ave., has a Christmas cactus

* HANNAH ¢

SEEK FEDERAL FUNDS FOR RESERVOIR JOB

Federal funds to build the proposed $4,600,000 Cagles Mill reser | [voir on Mill creek in lower Putnam county were being sought.today by the Indiana flood control and water resources commission. The huge project would extend the million-dollar flood control program along Eel river in the White river valley. * «i The commission ' also approved the recommendations of U.S. army engineers -for a $6,000,0

died yesterday of injuries received in an automobile acoldenty

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HE WRITES A BOOK FOR 'BOSSES' AND 'WORKERS'—

Foe of Highfalutin’ Writing

SO THE IDEA of “Pay Jay” was born. “Sometimes the book reads as if I'd just clipped headlines,” Mr. Millholland says, alluding to

the series of labor disputes that|.

‘have worried the public since the war, « Unlike many of ys white-collar people, Mr. Millholland- loves to tinker. He has a basement workshop in his home at 5157 Winthrop ave., where he's turned out a ‘ot of gadgets and even made an important electrical discovery, now being patented. Working on arc-welding problems with W. F. Sully, local electrical engineer, Mr. Millholland found it was possible to send 'hree separate voltages through the ame circuit—a freak of electricity that still puzzles physics nrofessors. » . »

DURING the war, when metal things were hard to get, Mr. Millholland used to pick up odds and ends in the street. “You'd be surprised how many bolts and nuts fall off automobiles,” he says. One of his prize gadgets is an anvil he welded together from a fragment of truck spring, a piece of railroad iron and a 37-mm. shell. Speaking of the recently publicized junking of expensive machinery in local factories being reconverted, Mr. Millholland says:

” » » “YOU CAN'T pass judgment on that without knowing the facts, Anyway, people should realize that war has its own crazy economy, which doesn't follow any peacetime laws. We won the war because we had more ‘blue chips’ to throw on the table at the critical moment,” . ih Mr, Millholland will be guest of honor at an autograph party at the Meridian Book shop next Wednesday, when “Pay Day,” published by William Morrow, will be formally launched.

GARDENING: A Collector Can Gather Many Strange Items

No Leaves

aes

“pencil plant,” a specimen which

intrigues the neighbors.

bloom, in spite of good care, it's best to start all over again, preferably with a slip from a plant you know has flowered well. Since many an otherwise “greenfingered” gardener has trouble with Christmas cactus, I asked Miss Kerr how she cared for hers. She mentioned the problem of watering, “though you just can’t lay down any hard and fast rules. The amount needed depends so much on how damp the atmosphere is, how much the sun shines; and then the plant needs more when it’s coming inte bloom.” She keeps her plant “on the dry side,” and when repotting uses bone meal, about two tablespoons to four or five quarts of rather sandy soil. In summer she puts it on the porch where it gets some sunshine. In the winter it needs all the sun you can give it,

Marks 30th Year At Telephone Co.

TODAY ‘WILL mark 30 years of service with the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. for V. A. Niles, 4732 Pleasant Run pkwy., North dr. A gold emblem for service ‘will be presented to Mr. Niles, central district manager of the company’s come mercial depart ment, Mr, Niles, who % is a member of ¥F © the Telephone i Pioneers of V A. Niles America, started work in Lafayette in 1916. He rose from chief clerk to manager there before being transferred to South Bend, Crawfordsville and Bedford. He came to Indianapolis. as commercial supervisor in 1930, serving’ here until 1943 when he was sent to Evansville as mane ager,’ Returning here the following year, Mr. Niles was advanced to -his present position.

EX-CONGRESSMAN DIES HUNTINGTON, Ind. Feb. 23 (U. P.) —Rites were arranged today for former Rep. Samuel Ellis Cook (D. Ind), who died yesterday at the

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James C. Petrillo, of the American Federation of Musiclans '(A. P. ol has been

spokesmen for organized labor, was a factor in preventing committee action,

A similar warning (R. Ind), w

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age of 85 in his home. Rep. Cook| b

We, the Women

G. I's Dream Not of Trailer Or Tiny Room

By RUTH MILLETT = IT’S NOT quite the warm, com~ fortable, convenient home he dreamed about when he was overseas—that dirty-green trailer set in a row of dozens of others just like it. That furnished room in a private home isn't the apartment or cottage he hoped to share with his wife and small son when he came back home. . » IN FACT, the conditions under which thousands of G. I's and