Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1946 — Page 15

Inside Indianapolis

go MISS CAROL DAVIS, 6845 Madison ave., the In- | dianapolis stewardess who was on T. W. A's trans: ‘continental ‘Right: schedule, is back in town after her st flight to Europe. She's telling friends about & ek in Ireland, but admits she was disappointed because the time spent in Paris was brief. At one point on the trip, 32 of the passengers were en route to the Catholic consistory in Rome. The flight was Miss Davis’ first trans-Atlantic hop, and It was her last hop. She's trading her stewardess

uniform: for a wedding ring soon. ... We're only’

repeating what we were told when we say that Bill Conner, sales manager of the Northside Chevrolet, landed a 16-inch bass during the brief snow flurry

tives, Mr. Connor didn't have a ruler handy, he says, but the proof of the fish’s length is that it reached across the front page of The Times, All Kinds of Dogs

MRS. E. C. DEVER has a collection of all kinds of dogs. She has China, glass, wood, ivory and plastic

A parade of pooches. ... Mrs, DeVer and her collection of dogs, plus Brownie,

Water for ‘Desert’

PIERRE, 8. D., Feb. 26.—It is something of a shock to sit: here and listen to Gov. M. Q. Sharpe talking of millions of population. He talks of millions of tons of agricultural produce—and billions of dollars of investment. Somehow nobody ever connected astronomical figures with the destiny of South Dakota. Or of any other state in the grim upper reaches of the Missouri basin. Some of these states have bebn reasonably prpsperous. Mines and mills and oil fields have compensated for the thin yield of the barren acres that early cartographers of the West lumped together as the Great American Desert. People have somehow contrived to wring a living out of the great wide flats. Probably they would go on doing so even without help from one of the greatest reclamation projects in the history of the world. Yet it is not impossible. When the harnessing of the Missouri and its tributaries is completed, this vast region—in which only 7,000,000 people wrestle

with drouth and erosion and flood and dust—may,

support 30 or 40 million in reasonable case and comfort. The governor convinces you. of that with a few pencil marks on a worn blueprint.

Best Soil Is Eroded

THE MISSOURI river from Three Forks, Mont., to St. Louis rolls 2475 miles. It carries with it an incredible tonnage of silt that long ago gave it its name—the Big Muddy. For centuries the best topsoil of the upper basin has been moving down into the Mississippi delta. "In recent years it became a question whether lack of water or erosion would ruin a sixth of the continental area of the United States for good. A belated consciousness of this problem brought about the authorization of the Milk river project in Montana—and the North Platte project in Nebraska and Wyoming. * These works, stupendous as they were, had more

or less local effect. Such arid regions as the west ;

Scien THE Federation of Atomic Scientists, top organjzation of the various regional associations of scientists and engineers who worked on the atomic bomb, has declared itself in favor of the McMahon /bill for the control of atomic energy. I hope that Congress will listen to what this organization, representing about 90 per cent of .-the scientists who worked on the bomb, has to say rather than permitting jtself to be stampeded by the Canadian spy scare and the attenipt in this country to use it to build a backfire against the McMahon bill. There seems to be a determined effort in some quarters to keep atomic energy under the control of the war department and apparently part of the cam= paign is to discredit the scientists who made the bomb. The argument around Washington takes two forms: One is that the scientists have done too much talking, both before the McMahon committee and in various meetings around the country. The other is that the scientists are very smart when it comes to making & bomb but that outside the laboratory their opinions are not worth listening to.

No Secrets Disclosed SENATOR McMAHON has stated that both Sec retary of War Patterson and Maj. Gen. Groves have t5ld him that no secrets concerning the bomb were disclosed in testimony. Moreover, both - Secretary of State Byrnes and President Truman, himself, have gone to the unusual jength of reassuring the country that no atomic bomb secrets have gotten out, This should be enough on that score. ’ For those Individuals who think that the admirals and generals can do better than cvillians in setting

My Day

NEW YORK, Feb. 25.—When TI looked at the newspapers yesterday and saw that Michael J. Quill, president 0‘ the transport workers union, had set a deadline for the threatened transportation strike in this city, I wondered whether he remembered what ‘happened in England after the last war when a

similar strike took place. I happened to be in London at the time, The trains were run by amateurs but they were run after the first day. Nevertheless, a great many people were delayed, kept from work and from their daily occupations. Many were inconvenienced and the rights and wrongs of the question at stake were completely forgotten after the first day. There has never been a strike of that kind in England since their general strike, because the inconvenience of the general public led to the setting up of such a complicated system of conciliation that the labor leaders today rarely reach the point of actually calling a strike. 1 wonder if we might not reach that desirable situation through the use of intelligent leadership on both sides, thus avoiding all the bad feeling which is bound to be created if everyone is made uncomfortable

by a transportation strike, Finds Trip to Country Wonderful

IT WAS wonderful to get up to the country Saturday evening and find my cottage looking all spic

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dogs and even a live one, 13-year-old Brownie, her favorite. That .is, Brownie is Mrs. DeVer's favorite dog. Her favorite in her collection of artificial pooches is a miniature chow that she got from California. . . . Outdoor Indiana, of the state conservation depgrtment, recently announced a photographic contest. The contest is for pictures taken In state parks, so to announce it the magazine used a picture of Spring Mill park, taken by J. R, Field IT, who gave it to Lt. Gov. James, Then came the problem, Mr. Field was interested in the contest and wanted to enter the picture which Outdoor Indiana, had already used. Was it eligible, he wanted to know. After a lot of pro and con-ing, it was decided that the picture could be entered in the magazine again, this time as a contender in the contest. . + «+ We note that an item here on the 1943 elevator licenses in a building on the Circle got results. The place now sports 1946 licenses,

Emergency Police Aid A SQUAD CAR took Carl Kiefer, 1106 Pleasant st, to church the other day, but it wasn't exactly official .business, Mr. Kiefer, organist at St. Catherine's church, was scheduled to play for a funeral, but when he started he found his car was frozen up. Hé walked over to Fountain Square, hoping to find someone he knew who would give him a lift. It was then that he saw the police squad car and explained his troubles. The officers drove him to church, getting him there on time. . .. Frank Cantwell keeps a regulation poolroom eightball on his desk in the Security Trust building. No matter what, he's always behind the eightball when he's sitting at his desk. But we suppose it evens up since the guy who's on the other side is equally behind it . . . James O'Mahoney, 18-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. O'Mahoney, 1831 N. Alabama st, home from Purdue on vacation, is a sophomore at Purdue, although he won't get his diploma from Cathedral high school until June. The answer is that he took extra work and got out ahead of his class. When he needed only one-half credit toward graduation, he decided to take it at Purdue, at the same time he took his freshman course. The O'Mahoney family is pleased with the way it worked. ‘Only thing is that James is ahead of his 21-year-old brother, Robert, a second-term freshman who re-entered college after gervice in the air force. ... Sign in the window of an auto parts shop on W. Washington st., “Now Taking Ordors.” We're pondering whether they changed the “e” to “0” or put in an extra “r.”

By Robert J. Casey

river country in North and South Dakota remained just about as dry and discouraging as they had always been. However, the results in the territories immediately affected by the dams were marked. Great blocks of jrrigated land in the upper basin freed settlérs from ¢rop hazards. They made a great contribution to the nation’s food production program when it was most needed during the war. As a natural result has come the movement for a unified plan to apply the same treatment to all the river and the network of streams that feed into it.

Water for Millions of Acres AS THE PLAN now stands, the reclamation service hopes to bring 3,000,000 acres of land under irrigation. It hopes to supply supplemental water to 60,000 more through initial projects in the upper basin alone. Twelve power plants are included in these projects to care for an immediate increase in population. These preliminary stages of the work will cost an estimated $451,483,900 of which congress has already authorized the expenditure of $400,000,000 when funds are available. The cost of the 105 dams, 22 power plants and levee system contemplated for the entire basin has been set at $1,400,000,000 under prewar prices. "The present squabble over whether a Missouri Valley authority or a co-operative group of federal agencies will .administer the project is not looked upon as. any serious dejerrent to the opening of a work program in the spring. Surveys have been completed, there are no great disagreements between proponents of various details of the plan. It is felt by most of the people affected that the plan will get under way no matter who administers it. The initial projects will supply a million new arable acres to Montana, 1,200,000 to North Dakota, a million to South Dakota, 1,100,000 to Nebraska, 500,000 to Wyoming, 100,000 to Colorado and 200,000 to Kansas.

By David Dietz

thé atomic. energy policy for the United States, I urge a reading of the testimony in the Pearl Harbor hearings. ‘ The plain fact of the matter is that if we give the control of atomit energy over to the admirals and generals we shall have taken the first step in the destruction of that American democracy which we have fought two wars this century to preserve.

Quotes from Testimony

AS AN example of what thought scientists have given this problem I want to quote from the testimony of Dr, Harrison Davies of the Oak Ridge atomic bomb plant, who appeared before the McMahon committee for the Federation of Atomic Scientists. “Long before the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima we realized that it would affect political and economic ideas all over the world,” Dr. Davies said. “While the rest of the world was preoccupied with war, we came to the view .that our work might have more far-reaching results than the winning of the war itself. “While we debated the issues and strove for a plan which might secure safety for the world and yet realize ‘the full benefits of atomic energy, we lacked advice from other quarters. With the release of the bomb and the introduction of atomic energy legislation into the congress, it became possible to form organizations, seek expert opinion in other fields and publicize our views, We have done our best to add to our technical knowledge pf atomic energy some understanding of the complex political, legal and economic features of the problem.” I get the impression that these scientists have given much thought to the problem and that their opinion is well worth listening to.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

and span and bright and cheerful. My young cousin, Mrs. Forbes Morgan, and her children were there to greet us. White show lay deep upon the fields and even on the roads. When I let my little dog Fala out of the car, he ran all around, a little black ball rolling over and over in the snow. He seemed tO feel as much

+ excitement over the freedom of the country as I did.

Feels Thankful fer Security and Peace

WE ALL walked up the hill to dine with my son and daughter-in-law. When we walked back, the stars were shining bfightly overhead. In my heart was a great thankfulness for this country and all it holds of security and peace. When we woke on Sunday morning, the snow was

falling gently. Again, Fala and I both enjoyed our- |} selves. With all of our walking around, I had a grand | Ji

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SECOND SECTION

Reckless driving brought death at

JADIANAPOLIS’ traffic toll is rocketing toward what may be, by the end of the year, a new all-time high. At the present, there is a traffic accident in Marion county every hour and a half, And, because of these accidents, a person dies every 56 hours. There have been 24 fatalities in the county this year. That is almost one every other day. Thirteen of these deaths have occurred in

With wartime gasoline and tire restrictions lifted, a total of 895 accidents have occurred already. This is greater than the total of 874 for the same period last year: In 1044 there were only 701 in the same number of days, '@ » » 2 IF THE city’s traffic slaughter continues at the same pace, the total probably will be far greater than last year's toll of 72 and the

"44, The number of dead in traffic accidents seems headed for a new record over the tragic tolls of the

their lives in 1037.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1946

this intersection in Indianapolis.

the city, the rest on’ the outskirts, .

LOCAL AUTO TOLL FOR 1946’ ALREADY REACHES 24—

Traffic Deaths May Set ;

A head-on collision between a streetcar and an auto brought death to a driver.

There is danger at every corner, detailed study of hazards facing|and early morning other war years’ figures of 68 for but police statistics point to Noble [local Hoosiers. 1941, 86 for '42, 63 for ’43 and 76 for{st. and Massachusetts ave. as the| Meanwhile, the rest of the

intersection where a pedestrian most likely will be injured. ”

” . HOWEVER, the police depart-

Audry Jacobs continues to make a

has turned its efforts to combating the scourge of death riding Indian. apolis streets. ” Already this year 4315 traffic ar-

mid '30s when 125 died in Indian-| ment is not standing idly by. The|rests have been made. For the same apolis traffic in 1936 and 107 lost|trafic division under Inspector|period in 1044 the arrests totaled

1817; last year there were 3078.

THE ARRESTS. have been accomplished despite the fact that

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deaths occurred during the

By WILLIAM H. NEWTON Scripps-Howard Staff Writer SHAN LA . Feb. 26—The little Chinese "boy bent over his workbench, On his left was a box filled with hundreds of pairs of scissors. On his right, a tub of water. In the center of the bench was a whetstone. All day long, he selected scissors from the box, and sharpened them on the long, flat stone. Every once in a while he would dip the pair he was ‘sharpening into the tub of water. ; He wore a gray woolen cap, an old shirt, and patched cotton pants. On his sockless feet was a pair of over-sized leather shoes, without laces. His eyes and forehead were twisted in a perpetidal squint, be-

cause it was gloomy in the little shop and he had to sight along each scissor blade to make sure it

His name is Ah Keng. He is three feet, nine inches tall, and he is 18 years old, Ah Keng is an apprentice, who is being taught a trade in the old Chinese fashion. He has been making scissors for his master, Mr, Ling, for three years. During that time, he has been paid two bowls of rice a day.

All around Ah Keng is evidence of his labors. The shop is filled with? scissors and knives of every size and ' description. Huge knives for meat chopping hang from the walls. A glass show case is filled with hundreds of pairs of scissors, the handles fashioned from wire in

Two Bowls of Rice Fixed as Day's

On the first day of the Chinese lunar year, Ah Keng will complete his third year as an apprentice.

first salary. He will be paid about three thousand Chinese yuan a month, or roughly $1.50 in American money. ”

“He work maybe 10 hours day,” explained Shop Keeper Ling. “All depend. Making scissor difficult. Boy must finish sharpen and polish maybe 50 pairs a day. All the time he learning trade. This good opportunity for him.”

Heedless of the conversation between his master and the interpretér, the boy worked steadily, his body swinging back ‘and forth as he ground the steel edges of the

the Chinese manner.

scissors on the whetstone. Mr. Ling

Thén he will start receiving his

and his wife sat in the back of thesmiling.

store, ready to wait on any custoL.ers.

eat two small bowls rice at meal, boy eat two big bowls, Eat very much, No understand why so little. Boy not grow on¢ inch since three years, Very strange.” Ah Keng dropped a finished pair of scissors into a box and started on another, “This good boy,” said Mr. Ling. “Many apprentice lazy, This boy work hard.” The correspondent handed the boy three American coins. The interpreter told him what they were worth. Ah Keng barely paused in his labor to tuck them in his pocket. But his little twisted face was

CALL SESSION FOR FARM PRICE STUDY

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (U. P). —State farm commissioners will meet in Washington March 18-20 to study the effects of higher prices

on farm output. : The conference was called by Tom Linder, Georgia agriculture commissioner, who said that higher farm prices were necessary fo spur production. . “Price controls are now operating to the disadvantage of the farmer and should be abolished,” he said.

NIGHT TROLLEYS ORDERED

TOKYO, Feb. 26 (U. P.).—S8upreme allied headquarters today ordered the Japanese government to provide immediate 24-hour streetcar service in Tokyo, terming the present lack of night transportation “a serious detriment to the re-establishment of normal conditions.”

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appetite for lunch, and it was an added pleasure to| J find that the chickens and vegetables, put away in|}

our deep freeze last summer, tasted just as good asi

I hoped they would. * I had an opportunity to talk to the superintendent of the place and give some orders about a few things which must be done before spring. Miss Thompson said we should spend a week up at Hyde Park, getting things straightened out. instead, we left right after lunch to drive back: to

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New York City. Fala got into the car with such re-|§

luctance, I thought he was expressing the way we all felt, ; :

‘|By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D.

Three Indianapolis men will aid with a campaign to raise $100,-| 000,000 for the United Jewish Ap-| peal for Refugees, Overseas Relief and Palestine, Louis J. Borinstein, J. A. Good-| a et NO FEAR OF RARE | DISEASE IN U. S.!

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (U.P).~| A' navy medical éxpert said today that careful study had proved there was no ‘reason to fear that returning Pacific veterans would introduce filariasis in this country. Filiariasis is a disease which causes elephantiasis or swelling of the limbs. It thrives in areas where the minimum temperature seldom drops very low and the humidity is very high. The specialist, Capt. L. T. Coggeshall, said an extensive study had shown that except for a small area in the South the conditions in which the disease thrives are lacking in this country,

CIRRHOSIS of the liver in large cities usually is caused by excessive indulgence in alcoholic beverages, while cirrhosis in rural districts is more apt to be associated with infections of the liver. 3 Alcoholics develop the cirrhosis of the liver from failure to eat while drinking, rather than from the drink itself. Large amounts of alcohol can be given to experimental animals without producing cirrhosis of the liver, but if the animal's food is cut down at the same time, the disease can be produced. Alcoholics have a tendency to substitute the calories from alcohol for calories from food, and although this tides them over temporarily, it

is damaging to the liver and cirrhosis may result, ?

Three From Here to Aid In Jewish Fund Campaign

| Indianapolis citizens and 350 leaders

man and Morris Goodman will join with ‘various national officials in launching the campaign, the largest single Jewish drive in history. These

from all over the nation have pledged themselves to give un-

stinted effort to save and rebuilt the lives of 1400,000 Jewish survivors in Europe. At the meeting launching the drive in Washington, D. C., Bernard M. Baruch pointed out that. there can be no permanent peace without

the solution of the problem of dis-|,

placed peoples. “Jews have been the worst sufferers of Nazi persecution.” he stated, calling for generous support of the United Jewish appeal as a means of solving a pressing problem of humanity. He brought out the startling fact that a large percentage of the Jews of Europe are not receiving one particle of aid from UNRRA. Robert R. Nathan, former government economic adviser, estimated that Palestine could absorb more than 1,000,000 new immigrants in

SAYS WINDS MESSAGE NOT RECEIVED IN U. S.

TOKYO, Feb. 26 (U. P).—Katsuzo Okumura, first secretary of the Japanese embassy in Washington in 1941, said today that the Japanese foreign office planned to send a “winds” message to its embassies to warn of impending hostilities with Great Britain or the United States but that such a message never was received in Washington. He said he never had tried to

confirm whetheg the message was sent after he returned to Japan.

13 AT BUTLER GET ON HONOR ROLL

Thirteen Butler university college of pharmacy students have won the distinction of being ine scribed on the first semester honor roll because of average above “B.”

The students announced by Dr. Edward H. Niles, dean, are: Herbert Arnold, Miss Vera Groh, Albert Lowe, Everet Parks, Miss Betty Settle, Phillip Summers and Miss Nancy Wilcox, all Indianapolis. Out-of-town students include Miss Gloria Beckman, Jasper; Walter Bienke, Hammond; David Freeman, Winchester; Kermit Hathaway, Ko« komo; Neil Salisbury, Terre Haute, and

the next 10 years.

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Alcohol Endangers the Liver

Not Eating Causes Cirrhosis

IN A cirrhotic liver, the organ is gradually replaced by scar tissue. In the early stages, cirrhotic livers usudlly are larger than normal; it is later they become smaller from the scarring. The veins which carry blood to the liver from the stomach, spleen and intestines become obstructed, and varicose veins form throughout the abdominal cavity and fluid collects. Operative relief of obstruction to the blood flow through the liver lessens the danger of rupture of the distended veins and apparently causes some return of liver function, Operations which divert the blood from the liver to the general circulation are being tried, and although these procedures are still in the

moderate amount of carbohydrates

Lowell Willis, Greenfield.

trial stage, reports indicate benerit is obtained. ” ” » CIRRHOSIS of the liver is found at postmortem examination on persons dying of another cause without any history of the complaints. Patients who first consult a physician because of obstruction to the abdominal circulation, usually have had “stomach trouble,” loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting and flatulence for some time; but in alcoholies signs often are attributed to drinking. When the diagnosis of cirrhosis of the liver is made, alcoholic indulgence . should stop. A high caloric diet rich in protein with

is prescribed. Milk, meat, fish, eggs,

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Some observers thought they saw the Lewis shadow as an ine fluence in the Murray announces ment against the administration's present policy.

green vegetables and vitamin con-| centrates are eaten, and water and salt are restricted. ~

— We, the Women

Urges Fashion Angle to Cut

Down on Food

. By RUTH MILLETT THE PRESIDENT of the Gene eral Federation of Women's clubs, in an effort to shame American wonien into eating less so that there will be more food for Europe, has declared that overeate ing leads to “sluggish thinking.” That kind of an attack will

can't get women worked up over the quality of their thinking. [i IF THIS well-known clubwoman knew women as well as one in her position should, she would have attacked from the point of