Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1946 — Page 15

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‘NoBODY Now DOUBTS that Tech ‘high school wigmy firm foundation, but 25,000 years ; : it would had to swim in the same + Bn 1 non nil ri Potzger, Butler university’s famed pho has made a study of Tech's under- + » .» From an- excavation at the western the Tech campus, Dr. Potzger learned the. once had been a lake. + + + Beneath sand, identia a lake deposit, he found a layer of woody material indicating the prehistoric existence of a swamp there prior to the lake. , , . Analysis of the swamp strata revealed the remains of Canadian spruce frees, , . , Nearest Canadian spruce these days is 1000 miles north in upper Michigan, but Tech’s campus was once apparently colder than the eye of a teacher lighting on a capricious student. . . , Dr. Potzger theorized that glaciers first fringed the swamp, then advanced, damming up a lake which might have extended as far east and south as White river,

World Almanac Is Best Seller

VACATION TASTES and employment trends are are reflected in out-of-town sales at the Indiana Theater Magazine & News shop. . . . Currently the most popular “outside” papers are those from Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles and Phoenix, Ariz, all resort centers. . . + Half of those buying out-of-town sheets desire them for the help-wanted ads, says Newstand Manager Kevin Walsh. , , . The want-ad demand

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Mrs. Mildred Irons and Mrs. Emma L. Oliver + » » Strangers became friends through parallel careers,

French Prices

PARIS, Feb. 28.—France’s marriage rate, on the increase since liberation, continues to hold its own despite high cost of living and the problems of household scarcities confronting newlyweds. While there are many couples who will take a furnished room or accept parents’ hospitality until times are normal, there are countless others who want to set up their own “bide-a-wee.” Furnishing one with two rooms and a kitchen, modestly, sets a couple back about $4000. This buys only the ‘®ssential furnishings and a few trimmings. Just to find out how difficult things are, IT recently accepted my young friend Claudine’s invitation to go shopping for her new home: She and Jean, her prospective husband, both of whom belong to the white collar class and earn good money, have very definite standards of living. Armed with her official card—one which entitles newlyweds to buy certain goods—we set out. The practical Claudine headed first for the hardware shops to purchase kitchen goods. Here she was entitled to buy the equivalent of 10 pounds of enamel or ironware, or three pounds of aluminum pots and pans. Just enough cooking utensils for two people cost $10. . For her washtub, an indispensable adjunct in every French home, Claudine paid another $40. For her electric heater, a necessary household auxiliary because of lack of coal, she paid $10.

$1000 In Dining Room

TACKLING THE furniture department next, Claudine spent $1000 for a dining room set of solid wood. A single tablecloth and six napkins, which only wives-to-be can buy at official prices, cost $40. Por a bedroom divan with a good wool mattress, she spent $360. By spending $240 more, she was able to buy a complete bedroom set. Perfectly plain white

Science

THE McMAHON BILL for the control of atomic energy has the strong support of more than 1500 scientists and . engineers who formed part of the atomic bomb project as well as the support of thousands of other scientists. So Dr. Harrison Davies, representing the federation of atomic scientists, testifiled before the McMahon committee. It seems to me that every alert citizen who reads the McMahon bill and listens to the arguments of the atomic scientists will likewise support the bill and urge congress to pass it. Dr, Davies made it plain that Tong before the first bomb dropped on Hiroshima, the scientists had become aware of its implications and the difficulties of its control. In Dr, Davies’ words, “we came to the view that our wrk might well have more far-reach-' ing results than the winning of the war itself.” As 8 result, the federation of atomic scientists developed a set of policies which their members believed should be embodied in atomic energy legislation. “We now have the opportunity to compare our aims with the provisions of a specific bill,” Dr, Davies testified. “The McMahon bill satisfies these aims in great detall. The men who made the bomb are for the bill.”

Two Aims Sought

ANY BILL, Dr. Davies explained, should’ contain two aims. One is the safety and security of the nation. The other is the peaceful exploitation of the possibilities of atomic energy.

A-Bomb Training

ROSWELL, N.,M., Feb. 28.—-Army air forces task force 1.5 which will join navy task force 1.6 in drop-

ping an atomic bomb orl a fleet of outmoded battle-.

ships at Biniki atoll on May 15 is holding not only a training program here, but an elimination tournament as well, Eight crews are working like mad because each one of the eight wants the honor of being the bomb

Brig Gen. Roger M. Ramey has announced that the team which makes the best record in training will get the assignment, so competition 1s keen. There is also ‘distinct rivalry between the high rankers of the A. A. F. and navy for headlines, The navy was first credited in the newspapers with running the show. This probably grew out of the fact that Adm. Blandy will be the commanding officer of operation crossroad, with Gen. Kepner as his deputy. It is admitted now on all sides that each arm of the service has an equal share, This desert area is buzzing with activity. Roswell {s the headquarters and nerve center, but practice bing is held at Albuquerque, B-17 “drone” training at Clovis, and airplane modification is ‘done at

- Oklahoma City.

AAF Hit By Demobilization

THE AIR FORCES people have had to work under a forced head of steam. . They require 3000 officers and men for the project. Due to demobilization, most of the trained men they wanted have been returned to elvilian lite. Up until today “they have only two-thirds ‘the required number and the remaining complement must

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as eld ann V.3 us. . Foreign newspapers | still struggling back to normal and so far, only

fu Scripps-Howard World “Almanac, of which 400 copies have been sold in two weeks (plug). . .. Coke and angel food were served at the county commissioners’ office in the courthouse Tuesday when County Attorney Victor Jose Jr. gave a birthday party. . , . Mr. Jose declined fo discuss county politics while munching angel food. . . . Later, some courthouse employees, not present, wondered why they weren't . When some 50 young men gathered Monday night to take the first degree in the Knights of Columbus, it looked like a reunion of the 1934-35 Cathedral high graduating classes. . . . It\was the

ex-classmates in a decade.

Butter? Try Filling Station IF BUTTER is unavailable at your grocery, fry Two butterless gals entered a gas station in the 500 block of N. Delaware st. to await a tire change. . . , Atop an oll drum was a cardboard box with red letters exclaiming: “This case contains butter.” . , , The station attendant explained he got it “through a friend.” . . the girls started drooling he gave them a quarterpound...., . On July 22, 1918, two women, both the same age, but totally unacquainted, went to work for El Lilly Co. . . . On March 15 the same two ladies, now friends, will retire, . . . They are Mrs. Mildred Irons and Mrs. Emma L. Oliver. , . . Somehow, despite other coincidences, they were never employed in the same department during their 28-year careers under Lilly’s roof. . . . Today's tough luck item: Sgt. Herbert Lausner of E. 46th st. was standing in line for his discharge papers in the last lap of the separation process at Camp Atterbury in mid-February. . . . The line progressed, but Sgt. Lausner didn’t. . . , He stumbled over a low fence, injuring his elbow. . . . He's been in Wakeman hospital since. . , . After Woody Herman's band leaves Indianapolis, where it plays the teen-age canteen sponsored dance at the Murat March 15, it goes to Carnegie hall, New York. There it will present a jazz symphony written especially for the Herman crew by unorthodox composer Igor Stravinsky. ... We hope the marriage Saturday of Miss Rosalie Snow of 648 Congress ave. to Fred H. Ball of New Augusta snowballs to phenomenal success. . . . Seeping through the grapevine here is a rumor that Indianapolis gamblers have established two “private clubs” in Shelby county, where one local businessman is said to have lost a cool $17,000.

By Rosette ‘Hargrove

rayon net curtains, however, devoured another $40. Since a pair of sheets and a single blanket for husband and wife are all that newlyweds are allowed to buy, Claudine's problem here was to buy enough warmth. Deciding that one blanket was insufficient —the standard model made of shoddy material costs $12—she figured that eiderdown would be warmer

and could serve as a bedcover by day. The least :

expensive to be had cost $75.

Light Fixtures, $160

IN OUR SEARCH for dishes, we found that the cheapest service, although as rough and unadorned as restaurant ware, was marked $20. The thickest tumblers, such as are used in canteens, cost 50 cents each. For $50 and a “tableware coupon,” which entitled Claudine to 24 pounds of tableware, she bought white metal forks and spoons and woodenhandled knives. Light fixtures and four small unadorned lamps cost $160. Two easy chairs, which Claudine insisted were necessary if newlyweds were to have in their friends, cost another $120. Floor covering presented an unresolved problem. Claudine had to make a choice between rush mats which cost $4, or a small oriental rug priced ‘at $3000. She decided #0 Jook'around before buying, but took stock at this point of we alloam rs She found that she had spent nearly $2500 and yet had to buy bath and kitchen towels, brooms, brushes, shelves Dozens of other items needed woul probably have to come from the black market. Claudine, however, is among the more fortunate young people. Many can’t afford to spend this much money. When it comes to scarcities and high prices, young parents are harder hit than newlyweds. One of the most difficult items to find in France today, for instance, is a baby’s crib.

By David Dietz

Incidentally, scientists opposed the original MayJohnson bill, introduced into congress by the war department, on the grounds that it would accomplish neither of these purposes. The scientists were convinced that it would drive the world into an intefnational atomic bomb race which could only end in world war III and the destruction of civilization. At the same time, they were convinced that the bill would make it impossible for American atomic scientists to carry on their researches so that we should not even have an even chance in the race,

Says World Control Vital -

“THERE CAN be no real national.security in a world in which many nations possess atomic weapons,” Dr. Davies testified. “There can be no solution of the problem of security short of an effective international control of atomic and other weapons of offense, and-of the elimination of war as a method of settling international disputes. “Any domestic legislation must, therefore, encourage the international control of atomic energy. We believe that the McMahon bill fulfills this requirement. “The problem of the production of atomic bombs is treated specifically; responsibility is so fixed that international regulation must take precedence. “Furthermore, the provisions -of the bill for the domestic developments of atomic energy are such that international control can be introdyged without serious domestic dislocation.” »

By Jack Ka afoed

be made up of men who haven't had needed training. The technical problems are enormous. Only one bomb will be dropped by a B-29 but pressure-récord-ing Instruments and blast gauges must be dropped two-thirds of a second before the explosion. Every phase will be photographed. Radio-con-trolled flying fortresses must be flown into areas that might. be untenable for men after the explosion. : Of course, there is a heavy blanket of security on everything that concerns the bomb, and the reconversion of the ship that will drop it on the doomed fleet.”

‘Drones’ Fly Without Pilots

THE BLANKET is so heavy that even highranking officers of the task force know little about it. Their job is the tactical one of dropping the bomb and gathering and evaluating data. Probably the most interesting thing to be seen at Roswell are the “drone” planes that will be flown in where man ddres not go. from a mother ship by electronic equipment. This drone, in combination with the atomic bomb, seems to be the probable No. 1 striking force of the next war, if there is another war. It is a logical attacking weapon, even though it will be used in this experiment merely to collect data. There is, it might be added, a high pitch of enthusiasm and morale at Roswell. What is learned through operation crossroad in the middle of May may change the entire course of civilization, And this is realized by everyone from Gen. Ramey down

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THE WAR ISN'T OVER FOR HIM .... YOU HELP HIM WHEN YOU GIVE TO THE RED CROSS

By LARRY STILLERMAN* GROUP of Brightwood mothers have some anxious moments twice.a day, five school days a week. They watch their children begin walking a muddy mile at 8 a. m, hoping. that all who started for school 51, 2301 N. Olney st., will return at 3 p. m Foundation for their fears is the fact that the children must cross

two railroad grades and walk along Massachusetts ave. where auto-

per hour, : s ® . ONLY THE railroad crossing at Massachusetts ave. and Avondale st, two blocks from the James Russell Lowell’ public school, is guarded by a janitor-policeman. The more than 20 children, eight of whom are in the primary grades, must scamper unprotected across the dangerous intersection of Sherman dr, and Massachusetts ave, the Belt junction and along the avenue. ‘ “We'vé been to the school ‘board twice asking for a bus to take our little kiddies to school, but nothing has been dohe,” asserts Mrs, Lena Denton, 2502 Gladstone st., mother of two small school children,

MRS. HELEN MASSINGALE, next-door neighbor, stated, : “I've got three children going to school 51 im all kinds 5 of weal weather. 1 we I went

FASCIST LITERATURE PLACED IN LIBRARY

ROME, Feb. 28 (U. P.).— More than 40,000 volumes of Italian literature—much of it revealing the growth and nature of fascism—have been shipped to the U. 8. library of congress. Manuel Sanchez, library representative here, said the books included historical, technical and political volumes, as wéll as other types of literature ngt available during the war, “We. had to make outright purchases, and often encountered trotible with book dealers who were reluctant to sell their Fascist literature,” Sanchez sald. “It wasn’t that they didn’t want to sell their Fascist material, but rather they were afraid we might accuse them of being Fascists for having it.”

SET DEMONSTRATION OF TEACHING BLIND

Miss Josephine O'Brien, teacher of the sight conservation class at School 45, will demonstrate methods of teaching the blind at a meeting of the Administration Women in Education at 3:45 p. m, Monday in Ayres’ auditorium. She will be assisted by Glenn Ross of School 45. Robert Lambert, superintendent of the Indiana. State School for

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there 20 years ago and am now a good P.-T. A. member, but no improvements have been made to safeguard the children in all those years. They still have to take their lunch to school, too. “We almost decided to give up hope, until one of the mothers suggested we write The Times and ask them to help us.” They wrote to the Forum, The mothers went on to say that along the three streets of Gladstone, Euclid and Drexel more than 10 families send almost 25 children to school.

BRIGHTWOOD MOTHERS ARE WORRIED ON ‘SCHOOL DAYS

Pupils Must Travel Hazardous Route

“THE SCHOOL has a bus which | they send to pick up three of four kids from school 68, 2107 N. Riley st, for the junior classes- at B51,” averred. “Why can't the bus pick up our children, too?” the mothers chorused, . Charlotte Carter, principa® of School 51, stated that the school board transports children from other school districts where upper grades are not provided. The bus lds up six school chil

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“THE MOTHERS have never talked to me about the situation, although I would have no authority to reroute the bus through the neighborhood,” she said. ‘School 51 has 20 traffic boys on duty at other dangerous intersections profécting the crossings of 690 children in the school. There has never been a serious accident involving a school child where a traffic boy has been on duty, Miss

“We think the Times can help us correct this situation” say the mothers of these children, who must cross the Belt railroad unprotected to and from school 51, 2301 N. Olney si, daily. The mothers want the school bus to take their children to school along dangerous Massachusetts ave,

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Sanitation Can Control Amoeba

Amebiasi

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D. RECENT reports indicate that 2 to 15 per cent of our people may carry in their intestines the cysts of the parasite which causes amebiasis, a fairly common disease of tropical and oriental countries. Acute amebiasis causes diarrhea of increasing severity, leading to dysentery. Most common form of the disease is mild abdominal discomfort and diarrhea alternating with constipation, with the symptoms resembling so-called chronic appendicitis or other vague abdominal disease. Healthy individuals may carry the parasite .in its dormant stage. 8

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bowel discharges of infected persons are the usual spreaders of amebiasis. Other possibilities are hand to mouth transfer, and flies. Control measures include protection of common water handlers, and enforcement of laws regulating sanitary practices of persons ingaged in the preparation and serving of food, especially moist foods eaten raw. Most victims of this disease do not get well because they fail to continue treatment. Apparent recovery follows a few weeks’ treatment and tendency is to stop. But in the course of a few months the disease recurs, Chief complications of amebiasis is liver abscess caused by amoeba which are carried to the liver from the bowel. In areas where the dis-

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HEALTHY carriers are the principal source of amebiasis. Routine examination of food handlers has been recommended as a control measure,’ but in practice this is of little value. More effective would be teaching sanitary practices to food handlers, Severity of amebiasis is variable, as many carriers never seem to have difficulty. Some servicemen will return with this disease and may constitute an additional source of infection,

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ment until at least three examinations are negative. Relapses should be treated vigorously, and the prac-

* when he sees it, Walter Thorne

erroneously called a “rattle.”

Every Saturday the museum sponsors tours of the surrounding country — desert and mountain, These, like everything else, are free; and anyone interested is welcome. But people are funny. Most of them would rather sprawl in a deck chair, guzzling highballs, than stumble over the rocks of 8 distant canyon.

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Beauty Should Be Sought, Not Eternal Youth

By RUTH MILLETT THROW BACK your shoulders and stop worrying about a few gray hairs, you women of overs 30 who have long been sold 8 bill of goods about youth being beauty. A man whose business depends on his ability to know beauty

ton, head of a New York model’ agency, has stuck his neck out to name his choices for Amers fca's 10 most beautiful women of different types and not one of thém “is under 30. _ Ad ” » AMERICAN WOMEN need that encouragement if they are ever to be able to settle down to bee ing women instead of trying tobe | “girls” until they are in their 608,

They need to be encouraged to believe that there is nothing shameful about birthdays after a woman has had 20 or so of them,

A woman of 30 or 40 can never look like a girl of 20-—yet she has

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ing woman rather than in trying °° to remain a girl indefinitely, & That is why she spends so much |

tice of good personal hygiene should stressed.