Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 March 1946 — Page 6

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Puerto Rico Paper Blasts ‘Delay and Detail.’

By JOHN A. THALE Times Foreign Correspondent SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Mareh 6,

—Aijr passengers between Puerto

continue to be amazed and irritated on finding themselves enmeshed in

at each end of the line. “Horse and buggy” - procedures, which just don't" fit when applied to air age transportation, are blamed for much of the difficulty. El Mundo, one of the leading Puerto Rica dally newspapers, has added its voice to the chorus of those crying for more simplified procedure. U. 8. erritory Since this island is as much U.S. territory as Kansas or Nebraska, most American citizen passengers fail td understand why they should be put through the delay and detail of customs and immigration at all when they fly between here and Miami. Nevertheless, when they debark here after the five-hour, non-stop flight from Miami, they are herded into the terminal. There they wait for an hour or

| their records and get a mass of | papers in order before passing them | The same is true, of course, when the plane makes one or two 15minute stops at foreign flelds en route. 3 55-Pound Limit

Their baggage is—put—out—for-in-spection here, and they file a reg{ular customs declaration. THe same procedure. holds for Miami, Customs officials say Puerto Rico levies a different excise tax on certain items than the U. 8. and, thus, there must be a check on

customs and immigration red tape

Goes to Tokyo

Martin E. Joyce, Chicago police sergeant, has been appointed special investigator for the International Prosecution Section of the War Crimes Office in Tokyo.

be speeded up immeasurably under streamlined procedures. With more and more cities in the United States likely to become aerial ports of entry under new routes, the problem is likely to become greater and greater in We next few years. Customs and immigration procedures have not been basically changed since ships were the only form of international transportation. Airline’ Handicap With a dozen trunks and a score of suitcases, an ocean traveler could, | conceivably, carry fairly substan-| tial amounts of dutiable articles for resale. ; Likewise, a delay of three or four hours at the pier meant comparatively little to a passenger, who had | already spent four days—getting from’ Néw York to San Juan. But airline officials point out that in these days the delays work a handicap on them, when speed and convenience are what their passengers buy.

rows with a cannon. Limited to 55 | | pounds of baggage, | sengers are going to be limited to

| cigarets or bottles of rum. Alrline officials see little use for

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Washington at Capitol

OUTFITTING Indiana’s Predominant Furniture Store

Don’t Forget Him NOW!

Your Red Cross stayed at the side of your | fighting man during the‘war years. Now he's home again . . . ina hospital, or as : veteran, your “Red Cross will help him until

the need no longer exists.

Give the Most you can...then give a little more

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‘customs and immigration tieups at] |all, involving passengers between | Puerto Rico and the U. 8S. They! | argue that even the handling of international air passengers could

TE INTIANAPOLES TEs |[Move to Clean U.S. Streams Started by Outdoor Groups|

‘By JACK VAN COEVERING "Times Special Writer CHICAGO, March 6.—An amazing grass-roots movement to free America’s rivers and streams from pollution is beginning to sweep the country. While congress hesitates over passing adequate pollution laws, men and women are achieving local victories through their sportsmen’s club, conseryation associations, hor ticultural societies, garden groups and many other organizations. Their purpose is the same everywhere: Now the war = ver, let's clean up our streams. - Most of the work is being done quietly by interested groups who succeed in correcting local bad spots. Occasionally, disputes break into newspaper headlines, as in South Bend, Ind. There, the city council refused to come to grips with the sewage pollution problem. It even refused to meet with a committee of 100 citizens who demanded action. They camped on the council's doorstep until they were given a hearing. Upshot “was that a blueprint for a sewage disposal system was authorized by the council,

Walton League In Fight

. The Izaak Walton League of | America is in the midst of the fight | for clean streams throughout the

country, said William Voight Jr. of | Chicago, who is the league’s assist- | The San|

ant executive ‘director. | Francisco chapter is working on the | prevention of oil and refuse pollu- | tion from navy vessels in San Fran- | cisco bay. The ‘Baltimore chapter is trying |to eradicate sewage and industrial pollution from the Patapsco river, which flows into Chesapeake bay: The Knoxville, Tenn. chapter is

engaged in a persistent campaign to force'that city to install sewage treatment facilities and stop .dumping sewage "into the Ft. Loudoun reservoir of the TVA chain, In New York state, the Walton

chapters in Buffalo and Utica oe | busy with anti-pollution projects. The Springfield, Mass., chapter is in the middle of an ambitious campaign to clean up the entire Connecticut river basin. The Oregon division is trying to prevent completion of a government industrial alcohol plant there without installation of adequate sewage and waste treatment facilities. Stade-Wide Survey In Michigan, the United Conservation clubs, which include garden

groups and audubon societies, are about to tangle with the state which pérmits the State Normal college and state hospital near Kalamazoo to dump untreated sewage into the Kalamazoo river. The Michigan clubs are also making a state-wide survey of pollution, preliminary to turning on the heat for construction of needed treatment plants. In Alabama, the Mobile County Sportsmen’s association is leading the fight for clean streams there, | First move, according to Albert J. Tully of Mobile, president of the group, will be the creation of a state stream control comimissioh, with power to regulate and control pollution. More anti-stream pollution cam-paigns-are in the making. The Illinois division of the Izaak Walton | league will soon. announce a spec- | tacular plan for completely cleaning | up the Desplaines river and the Fox and Rock rivers, in northern. Illinois. Similarly, the Walton chapter. in Columbia, S. C., is engaged in| an interesting anti-pollution plan for waterways below that city Which| will be announced shortly.

| HANDY COMPARTMENT WASHINGTON, March 6 (U, P.).| —A storage compartment in the| back of a passenger seat in a railroad car utilizes none of the space between the seats and is large

War or Peace—Fire or Flood THE “RED CROSS" Is Helping GIVE TO THE RED CROSS

Thousands of Miles from Home, But

THE RED CROSS IS AT HIS SIDE. Keep it near him, and at the call of suffering humanity everywhere the Red Cross is at work. GIVE! GIVE TODAY! YOUR RED CROSS MUST CARRY ON. |

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__ WEDNESDAY, MARCH. 6, 1946

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Aboard the hospital ‘ship,

too, that he can find the

is at his side whenever he

his needs.

Pi IGH UP on the crowded deck of a hospital ship, a homesick Yank strains his eyes for a sign of home. “On the dock below he sees a Red Cross Motor Corps driver. At the sight of her heart-warming smile, without

even hearing her voice, he knows she’s saying:

“You'll be okay, Soldier!” He’ knows, because he’s heard other Red Cross girls say

those same simple words of cheer. On Luzon. In the hospital. On the dock where he took ship for home.

from a sympathetic and under-

standing Red Cross worker.

He knows that they are not mere words, for he has seen the help and the service that inspire them. He knows,

same spirit of friendly, under-

standing helpfulness in his home town Red Cross chapter.

Yes, he knows that the Red Cross network of assistance

needs it, ready and able to meet

And while this girl and her comrades throughout the world represent the Red Cross, in reality you are the Red Cross. She, the Red Cross worker, is still needed, and she’s on duty today where American troops are stationed. You who make the Red Cross possible also are still needed. Without you there would be no Red Cross.

So let your dollars follow your heart. Give to the Red

Cross. Give all you possibly can,

. okay Soldier |

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