Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 March 1946 — Page 21

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SHADES OF a Hollywood musical, theres a singing bartender in Indianapolis. /.. And he’s good!

+ +» « Jimmie Simpson, a South Pacific veteran who's bartender in the cocktail room of the Sheffield Inn,

pours out drinks and songs at the same time ,,. It ‘looks just like a scene from a moving ‘picture, with the blond-haired tenor shining glasses ‘and giving

with the high notes at the same time. ... The singing "2512 Park avé, had a Jasso affair with corn in the

isn't part of his job—just an extra because he likes to sing and the customers like it.... While we're talking about the Sheffield, we like to wonder out loud how they ever chose the design for the paper napkins....In the Inn, restaurant and bar everything is veddy old English except the napkins, which are in a vivid black and red Spanish design. . . . Burnett (Burnie) Strohm bowled over everybody in the Inter-club league the other night when he rolled a cool 694....Then he went to the American Bowling Congress in Buffalo, N, Y., where that score would have netted him some cash money and his score was only in the low 500’s.... When someone commented on his high score at the University club luncheon,

William Humphrey , , , Eager beaver looking for a pigeon.

Movie Man

HOLLYWOOD, March 22.—Like me, you may not have understood the difference between'a producer of motion pictures, and a director thereof. Well, the difference seems to be as follows: The director directs—shows actors how to act, places the camera, determines timing and, in general, is the foreman of a production job. The producer is general manager, “eeping one eye on the show—the other on its cost. Roughly speaking, the producer is a man of business; the director is showman and artist. The separation is not always clearcut. William A. Wellman, for example, is writer-producer-director (and capitalist) of a picture being filmed for Columbia—~“Galiant Journey.” Incidentally, the story behind this picture is a remarkable one. It deals with the career of one John J. Montgomery, who in 1883—many years before the Wright Brothers—successfully flew an airplane on his farm near San Diego. The other day I visited a remote ranch in the Malibu hills where this picture is being made. In and around a group of buildings that looked as if they really had been erected three generations ago, the life of this forgotten inventor was being scrupulously re-enacted. The place looked like an army ordnance depor. it was crowded with a variety of motor trucks and the *olling commissary had provided lunch for 110 perSONS.

Two Chairs for Mr. Wellman

PICTURE MAKING is a vast and complicated job. Some waggish prop man had provided two chairs

Aviation

THE ENTIRE aircraft industry long has been

hammering away at the necessity for cleaning house

in the Civil Aeronautics authority in Washington and getting politics out of aviation.

The field forces of C. A. A. are hard-working. They understand the flying business and the flying man. But that Washington crowd, with the exception of Ted Wright and a few close to him, has burrowed into the structure of the government like termites. A good many of them came in with the New Deal as political favorités and appointees. A good part of the time I do not believe they understand the émplication and the consequences of what they do and propose to do. ‘Take, for instance, the most recent proposal of the C. A. A. for setting up its own overhaul and repair bases for aircraft used by its field forces. The C. A. A has been authorized to replace its old fleet of aircraft with newly converted army and navy ships. : As a result, it will have a fleet of about 240 planes, plus a five-year stock of spare parts and replace

—ments (about 30,000 items). The value of these spare

parts is approximately $1,000,000.

Plans Own Shops ©

THE C. A. A. plans to set up three storage depots— one on the West Coast, the second in Oklahoma City and the third somewhere on the east coast. This means that the C. A. A. intends to set up its own shops ands facilities and employ its own mechanics (more federal payrollees) for overhauling and maintaining its own aircraft. ‘ Why shouldn't the C. A. A. be compelled to have their overhauling and maintenance work done at the privately owned and operated repair depots located

My Day

EN ROUTE TO LOS ANGELES (Thursday)—In one of my lectures recently, I happened to mention the fact that production was extremely important to the world at the present time. During the question period, I was asked whether production in itself was sufficient or whether any other .considerations were necessary to make production effective. This led me down some fascinating paths. What do we mean when we talk about production? We do not mean, of course, merely creating things that have no value, We must produce things that people really need. Or, when you go beyond actual needs, production must be justified through its contribution to better living and the enjoyment of the finer things of life. ' For production to -have real value, it must also come up to certain standards. Just to multiply the things in the world, unless they meet the needs for which they are produced, would be a rather. stupid procedure. People everywhere soon' discover whether they are receiving value for their investment.

Production for Better Living WE IN THIS country, however, have always believed that, in ordinary times, volume production was what we were after, since that would bring down the cost and therefore make it possible for more people to enjoy more things. This belief of ours is

one reason why we want to avoid a depreggion if “

possible. ' During a depression, less money is in circulation, Fewer things are produced, fewer men are employed, and the cycle of a contracting economy is upon us, which requires different and sometimes drastic meas-

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Inside Indianapolis

the wrong place—just 550 miles in the wrong place.”

By Howard Vincent O’Brien

Mr, Strohm answered: “If was the right score but in

Maybe He's Still Trying. TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER Victor Peterson was & wee bit curious when he saw a teen-age boy kneeling over a strange-looking contraption on the Circle. ... The boy, who turned out to be William Humphrey.

loop, a pigeon trap....The Shortridge sophomore said he was there to trap a pigeon, too,...He's been trying ever since Tuesday and he intends to keep it up until he gets one. . . . The reason he wants a pigeon is because his zoology class is currenly drawing birds. ++. “We have to draw the beak, head and feet and I thought it would be easier if I had a real pigeon

to draw from,” the student explained. ... As far as| :

we know he’s still trying. . . . Even without pigeon trappers, the monument’s a busy place these days, with workmen making spring repairs and improvements. . . . A woman in a downtown grocery looked perplexed when she asked for tea balls and the grocer told her they were fresh out—would she like some round steak instead? . .. After the woman looked startled both: she and the grocer started laughing as they realized he had understood. her to ask for “T= bones.”

Mexico Has Nylons SOME OF the hosiery manufacturers who are sending their wares to Mexico for big prices and leaving American women bhre-legged would feel funny if the women would blacklist them after the shortage is over... . And it wouldn't be hard to tell who they are. . . , Mexican papers daily ade vertise nationally known brands for fabulous sums. « +» The report that some nylons are selling ‘as high as $50 a pair is exaggerated, however, according to Mrs. William Bartlett, 434 E. 49th st., who just returned from Mexico. . . . She brought back three pairs of nylons, priced at $4 and $5. ... Mrs. Bartlett says the nylon shelves are well stocked and that hose are as plentiful as other scarce items such as refrigerators, stoves, plumbing, new cars and so on. «++ The articles the American workers make are going into Mexico because the absence of price ceilings allow the manufacturers to sell them at their own prices. ... Meanwhile the United States goes without. . . . A trackless trolley veered too far out of the groove on Pennsylvania, south of Washington st., and was holding up traffic while two men tried to re-fasten the wires and stuff, ,,. They were having trouble, though, because the trolley was too far away from the wires. ... Then along came a small coupe which pulled Wp in back of the trolley and pushed it back in line. , , , It looked like a mouse pushing an elephant.

for Mr. Wellman. One was labeled “producer.” On the other, in large black letters, was the word “director.” : ' Between them was strung a dummy telephone line.

Mr. Wellman, who is considerable of a wag him-|

self, occupied the two chairs alternately. When there! vas some delay, he would be producer and scold the director for wasting so much time and money. Then he would take the other chair and groan that it was such besotted money-bags as Producer Wellman who kept artists dike himself from expressing themselves. Watching the slow growth of a movie, from idea to screen. you begin to understand why the cost runs into millions. It % not an efficient process; and Y doubt if it even can Ye. There are too many unpre- | dictables. Typical of this was the scene in which a heavily Jaden hayrick was driven from the horizon toward the camera—a long shot, using a prodigious amount of film. |

Rear Axle Breaks

JUST AS IT WAS being completed, the rear axle broke.

vairmen toiled in the broiling sun.

Their guess was that the job could be done in a few minutes. Actually, it took over an hour. Then | the axle broke again; that was when Producer Well- | man fired his director. He estimated that Director! Wellman’s failure to supply a dependable hayrick had cost Investor Wellman about $2200. {

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SECOND. SECTION

FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1946

CAMERA CLOSEUPS . . . By Victor Peterson

iN HR AAA AN RAR ABNER SRSA

rious Waresi

Through these doors pass the world’s curios. .,. In the basement of the Federal building is the

U. 8, customs warehouse. Here are inspected foreign shipments sent to this Hoosier area. But not everything passes. Coming toward the.door is Charles M. Evans, Camp Atterbury investigator, pushing a load of government property confiscated from packages sent home by souvenir-hungry soldiers and

sailors,

is Christmas. . so package after package, and he never fails to wonder what people will ship. Here he inspects goods sent by a G. I. from Japan. Every

Every day

serviceman is allowed to send in one foreign rifle.

Day’ after day Scots Long opens

A cross index file

catches those who try to slip in others, One soldier sent 23 home;

he got one,

By Maj. Al Williams

all over the country? That’s where the private and corporation operators take their ships and engines for overhaul, * Each overhaul job means more work for such private establishments, employing citizen mechanies, less unemployment in the ranks of aviation trade personnel and fewer people on the federal payrolls. But if the C. A. A. gets away with its proposal to operate its own overhaul and repair Maciliites and employ its own mechanics, again we find a government agency competing with private industry, or at least taking over business that legitimately belongs to private industry. At present the C. A. A. says that it wants to set up these repair facilities only for the purpose of taking care of its own aircraft. The C. A. A. supplies the fantastically low estimate that only 1.3 employees will be required to maintain each one of its planes. This would mean 300 more government payrollers for the three depots proposed, and 300 more returned army, navy, marine corps and coast guard aviation mechancs who will be out of jobs. |

Only a Starter.

"TIF EACH of these employees recelves an average

yearly wage of $3000, the salary budget alone for this project would mean $900,000 public tax money. And that’s $900,000 which would be denied to the private industry repair and overhaul shops in the country. Of course, this is only a starter, and if the C. A. A. gets away with it the next step will be for the C. A. A. to invite the other government agencies now operating planes on government business to send their planes to the C. A. A. overhaul and repair shops. Thus you have the pattern. Once in business, we know from experience that it takes atomic energy to get the government out of business. The arguments against any such plan are legion,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

ures to change the trend. We hopes that, having learned how this comes about, we will never allow it to happen in our country | again. But when I see the National Assqciation of | Manufacturers demanding that we remove price con-! trols before we are in full production, I wonder whether our greed makes it impossible for us to profit by the lessons of the past. If we were to remove price controls now, when there are so few goods on. the market, we would force prices sky-high and compete against each other,

Price Controls Vital Now

PRICE CONTROLS can be removed when there are enough goods on the market for us all to obtain what we need, but to say that these controls should be removed now as an iicentive to production is courting disaster, — | ¥ My questioner the other night suggested that pro- | ductiofi applied to many fields besides the manufacture of godts and, of course, in that he is entirely correct. But I think that, if we remember that in every fleld quality is as important as quantity, it will help us not to go astray. Of course, in the field of the arts, mass production can never be considered. In any creative art, it is beauty of execution and individual expression which is of value and each product bears the stamp of the artist—something that can never be mass produced. That ~does not mean, however, that each artist should not produce for his own satisfaction and the joy of those who appreciate his work. This brings us, I think, to the ultimate reality that each one of us, in our own way, must.be a productive member of soclety, &

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“A hogshead of-china. . . . Although the barrel consigned to L. 8.

Ayres & Co. was battered in shipment, a beautiful selection of bone china from England came through unscathed. Every piece has to be checked. Hard at the job is Howard Meyer as he delves through a mountain of excelsior. Officials believe it won't be long until foreign race cars start coming through for the 500-mile,

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ouse

Aged-in-the-wood. , . . A shipment of Cuban gin is tested by Appraiser William 8S. Reed to détermine its proof.

ERIE

The road to health. . . . Mr. Reed checks over a bag of roots from Belgium consigned to Eli Lilly & Co. In time they will go into drugs. With the customs office for 36 years, Mr. Reed well remembers many oddities. Among them have been a totem pole, a life-sized plaster

horse, stuffed animals and South

American mummies,

Enough for a regiment. ...

home from overseas await opening-by customs officials.

More than 3500 boxes of rifles sent

Charles Mc~

Laughlin begins taking down a new load for inspection. To date

some 5000 rifies have been passed

They are sent to Camp Atterbury an

.proving grounds,

e 10,000 have been confiscated. from there to the Aberdeen

INSI

DE THE NAZI SPY NEST—LAST OF A SERIES

Atom Bomb Secret Eluded Espionage Ring

STOCKHOLM, March 22.—United States’ greatest war secret, the integration of the Nazi gang had atom bomb, seems to have eluded the master German spy ring. Despite the ‘thoroughnéss of the Nazi world-wide espionage system: to be guarded by Suen, Jest She which - headquartered here,-no hint of atomio experiments was found staff help themselves e cas

to make, broken through the secrecy guard-

ing atomic bomb production, per- take over and seal up- everything, would have ended’ interning the personnel; (c¢) dread-

haps this story differently, But time was running short for “Pandur,” “Hasso,” and the other spies in- the “Radio Bureau.” . By mid-April Germany's military situation had become so bad that the contingency of an immediate and complete collapse had to ‘be reckonéd ‘with seriously. » o ”

IN STOCKHOLM, as elsewhere, urgent preparations were made to cushion the anticipated shock and salvage as much as possible. On April 14, at 3 p. m, Maj. Heinrich Golchert, the air attache, presided over a ‘‘Betriebsappell” (shop meeting) of his bureau, the “Lufa;” which was held at a sort of bund tavern on Sveavaegen 29. After a candid talk about the gravity of the situation, Golchert described the three possible contingencies that could arise out of a German surrender for the Nazis in ‘Sweden: (a) most favorable,

but also improbable, eventuality

—that Sweden takes no actibn whatsoever; (b) more likely, and

not too bad either—the Swedes)

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|ed possibility—“the Swedes let the | allies take over, declare us out- | laws afid extradite us upon re | quest.” | In any event, however, Golchert | reassured his men, they would [have no financial worries in the | immediate future. For he already had disposed of the: remaining funds in such a manner that they are “easy to get at” and “everybody will get enough to last him at least for some months and to enable him to build a new life somewhere, somehow.”

” ~ . y WHILE Golchert himself gave no hint of the amount at his disposal, a later report to Berlin specified that the head of ‘the “Lufa” had close to one million Swedish kronor tucked away in his safe. This was followed by the significant postscript: “To be'on the safe side, we have today~April 15—equipped our two men’ up there (at the ‘Lufa’s’ attic

bonbons.”” (sic)

flat, Karlavaegen 99) with cracker |

reached a point where a safe had

| among the thousands of microphotos that the wily Herr X was able on hand! If German agents in the United States and Canada had |

Another report, filled concurrently, stated that there were still 2,000,000 Swedish kronor on hand at the “Bureau Wagner,” then in the process of liquidation, It went on to say that the two military . attaches, von Uthmann and von Watzdorff, were doing everything in their power to safe-

guard this huge sum through fictitious transfér to “reliable Swedish hands.”

8 o ” Preparations also were made to camouflage the eventual remains of the once great spy network and even to “recruit ‘- prospective - new agents! One of the last communications from the “Radio Bureau” deals with a scheme that has been used with outstanding success in the past and promises to yield equally satisfactory results in the future! young Swedish students, who are short of money, are to be offered scholar~ ships to be used first—during the period of the Peich’s oggupation— in Sweden, later in Germany, with a view to reserving their services for “future needs.” : The report is quite specific: . “Scholarship awards to students at Swedish technical and medical

Clearly, by that time, the dis

colleges aré to be made by German

cultural and industrial circles in

and physicans in German industrial enterprises abroad, “As Swedes, they will in any event have an easier time in foreign | countries than we German nationals.” ¥ nw EXAMPLES. were given of the way this sort of “economic support” was practiced earlier, ONE—The German Scientific in- | stitute (closely connected with “Bureau Wagner”) paid transla[tion and printing costs for Swedlish students desiring to publish [their dissertations in German. TWO—In special chses, students were referred directly to Professor Glesecke (of the German 8Scientific institute in Sweden, a key man in the 8. D.) and were recommended by him’ for scholarships from the German Sgientific society and the German academy, They were also advised to approach Director Quandt, a generous patron (a wedlthy Nazi industrialist), and received money from him to continue their studies. After" graduation, they usually went to Germany for practical training. "8.0 THE MOST cynical admission of the camouflage operations carried out by the Nazi gang in Stockholm

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eo la " Lewis May Gain Public Esteem By Not Striking

By FRED W. PERKINS WASHINGTON, March 22.—No crippling coal striké this year that’s the limb on which this writer goes out today. ; There's the” limb. It could be sawed off by either John L. Lewis or the coal operators. Come April 1, there may be & stoppage of coal mining for a week or two, or there may be an extension of the present miner contract until a new one can be perfected, but there will be mnothing come parable to the recent destructive strike in steel, automobiles and other manufacturing industries Government officials directly cone cerned show a high degree of hope in this matter. They don't know much more than the reporters who besiege the closed-door confere ences in the Shoreham hotel here, but they are impressed by . the followings considerations: . ” . JOHN L, LEWIS can gain much in public esteem by withholding a big coal strike this year, Thus he would go along with the no-strike policy of the A. F. of L. and ine’ ferentially reprove the C.I.0. leads ership that pulled the big steel and automobile strikes. . Mr. Lewis needs some publie opinion on his side, to counteract the bad reaction from strikes he allowed in wartime; and he can use it In his projected forays against some strong unions of the C. I. O, in behalf of a united labor move ment buttoned up within the A, PF. of L. : Mr. Lewis made a tremendous show in the public sessions preced= ing the actual negotiating. He wanted a welfare fund, to be financed from a tax or royalty on coal production, and he wanted all foremen and other supervisory ems ployees placed within the jurisdice tion of his union.

#” " ” WHAT Mr. Lewis is believed to want more than anything else is a raise in basic pay of coal miners to keep their average take-home pay around the levels it reached in wartime. . This could be done by raising the basic pay of $1 an hour to $1.50, and reducing the hours from nine to eight—including portal-to-portal time. This would amount to ape proximately an 18 per cent raise, which the government has made practically standard. If Mr. Lewis can get this concession from the operators—which

because of its effect on the price of their product—the arrangement will have to go through the govern« ment agencies concerned with keepe ing the national economy moving without too much inflation,

= ” ” THE probable increase in coal prices would be weighed against the. menace of a coal strike that would further delay reconversion, and then according to all precedents, the miners will get their raise and continue to make an avers age of around $58 a week for fewer hours. The welfare fund issue could be ~ompromised by giving the miner union more of a say in employment of “company doctors” and operdtion of hospitals for miners. The forée man issue could be compromised by giving the union jurisdiction over some classes of supervisory ems ployees, but not over those the operators can show as beyond guess tion a part of management.

out a major strike, Mr. Lewis yould be able to say to the rest of organe ized labor, “See what can be done by collective bargaining.”

We, the Women ecorators Have Taken on Huge

Task for Selves

_ By RUTH MILLET THE AMERICAN Institute of Decorators in New York City is all set to lend a helping hand to the dischargee and his wife who need help in decorating their home, no matter what part of the U. 8. they live in. Its “veterans’ advisory serve ice” provides for one free consultae tion with a professional decorator,

for some tough Problems. How does one arrange the furnie ture in a traller occupied by a cols legian and his wife and baby to per=

order to employ these persons later!mit the husband a place to study, as engineers, technicians, lecturers | Junior a place to play, and Mama

a place to make up her face?

HOW DOES one give a converted garage an air of distinction? Where does one put a G. 1's unis forms and souvenirs in a two-room apartment with one closet? How does one display the shells, crude wall hangings, ceremonial drums, etc, the men gathered inthe Pacific in such a way that the husband is satisfled, yet the wife's artistic sense is not unbearably out= raged? How does one make room for Junior in a furnished apartment in such a way that the landMrd, who thought he was renting to a couple without children or pets, will be ape peased?

# » HOW DOES one convert an abane doned schoolhouse, railroad station, or chicken hatchery into HOME--the home a veteran dreamed about while he was overseas? y It looks as if they have taken on quite a job, those decorators who are offering to help the ex-service-man with his household problems, Certainly, many of the difficulties discussed will be unique. But it's a cinch many a veteran - and his wife are going to need help in making the best lodging now available in any way HOME.

they will stoutly oppose for a time -

Winning these concessions, withe *

The decorators had better get set