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Inside Indianapolis

THE OFFICERS’ club of the Claypopl hotel, which has "been the mecca of commissioned men for three years, closed Sunday night. More than 75,000 officers visited the club during its existence, bringing about 20,000 gueste. A group of persons consciofis of the need for such a recreation room for the servicemen organized the club and the Claypool hotel donated the room and operated the bar. Some of the organizers of the club were Mr. and Mrs. G. H. A. Clowes, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Lockwood, Mrs. Albert Beveridge Jr., Mrs. Robert M. Lingle and Miss Josephine Madden. A group of officers and patrons departed reluctantly when the club closed its doors for the Idst time Sunday. The woman at the desk was so used to asking everyone to return that she. invited one couple to “come back again’ before she remembered the club was a thing of the past,

Who's Standing in Lines? ALL THE MEN who've been turning their noses up at women for standing in line for scarce commodities should have taken a look at the line in front of Strauss’ new store yesterday. After awhile the women took up their share of the sidewalk space at the mew store at Illinois and Washington sts. but

Both men and women line up. . . . White shirts and nylons are the goals, but there weren't any.

Big Mirror

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, April 2—Life, here, calls for

exhausting decisions. This morning, for example, I had to. choose between an audience with Miss Photoflash of 1946, or going out to California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena, to observe the grinding of the 200-inch mirror, which, when as

and if completed, will be installed in the giant telescope on Mount Palomar, I chose science instead of art, and at an early hour set out for the east. There were the usual traffic complications. First, Sunset blvd, ran underground, somewhere around the Southern Pacific depot. Then it was discovered that Figueroa st., though clearly visible on the map, did not exist in real life. It was an hour before we could extricate it from the tangle of Los Angeles; and then sit was Arroyo Seco—or- “Dry Gulch,” if you prefer it in English. All this tended to unhinge the reason of my consort and chauffeur, who took to singing the “Figaro” aria from the “Barber of Seville” at the top of her lungs. Eventually—just 24 miles from Beverly Hills—we reached the tranquil Spanish cloisters of Caltech— a smallish seat of learning, with only about 700 students; but ‘one which has contributed much to our knowledge of this world, Incidentally, its founder was a Chicago businessman named. Throop.

Great Precaution Used DEAN THOMAS—an Iowa engineer—took us in charge, introducing us to Prof. John Anderson, executive officer of the grinding project. This goes on in a huge building, specifically designed for the purpose. It has special foundations, eliminating vibrdtion; and the air inside is maintained free from dust and at a constant temperature. Workers coming into the building are required

Science

SUCCESSFUL creation of a “high solids” synthetic rubber latex capable of taking the place of natural rubber latex is announced by Dr. L. B. Sebrell, direc-

tor of the Goodyear Research Laboratory, maintained in Akron by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. The development is welcome news to the rubber industry which is still handicapped by the shortage of natural rubber latex that arose with the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Dr. Sebrell expects the synthetic product to find even wider uses than did natural latex since it can be “tailored-made” to meet specific requirements. He says that it will find large-scale uses in thé manufacture of rubber gloves and other dipped articles, insulation for wire and electrical devices, crepe rubber soles for shoes, adhesives, washable paints and frothed rubber effusions suitable for the upholstery of furniture and the seats of automobiles, busses, airplanes, railway cars, etc.

Natural Rubber Shipment AS MOST readers know, natural rubber comes from the rubber tree in the form of a milky liquid known as latex. For the most part, natural rubber was shipped to this country in the form of sheets made by coagulating the latex in a spongy mass. For some purposes, however, the manufacturer preferred to work with the rubber in a liquid form and for this reasons considerable latex was shipped to this country. However, the latex was thickened or made intp a “high solids” latex by one of three methods before shipment, One was to add a “creaming agent” to the latex. This caused the thicker portion to rise f

My Day

‘was looking for a plot to plant a Victory garden

“was coming over to pick up their contribution. The

By Howard Vincent O’Brien

‘More Lines

at one time it was almost all male. They speculated back and forth on their chances of white shirts or nylons. But as Strauss warned in advertisements, there weren't any. ... Ernest G. Meyer, manager of the Otto’ Graf Jewelry store, 35 E. Ohio st, had a customer’s watch all repaired when the man came in to pick it up. The man told the jeweler he was “sure glad to get this back!” He then showed Mr. Meyer a small “Baby Ben” clock which he'd. been carrying around until his watch was repaired. Can't say we blame him for not trusting the public clocks. You can walk one block and get at least 10 different times. . . . The work stoppage in the coal mines isn't worrying the Power & Light Co yet. The utility has a 56 days’ supply of coal stored up. . .. Anybody who

could have picked up enough soil in their hair and on their faces if they were out in that wind-dust storm yesterday. Gravel, cinders and trash were being whipped through the streets and into people's eyes. . . .

Never too Late to Help Red Cross

THE RED CROSS set up its fund drive headquarters in the World War memorial early in January and the drive got underway in March. All through March every remote section of the city was canvassed for donations. When the drive closed, the .workers sat back and decided they'd been pretty thorough. Then the bombshell came. The secretary to Frank Henley, secretary of the War memorial, who has his office a stone's throw away from the Red Cross fund drive office, came over and wanted to know if anyone

workers had missed just about the closest spot to their own GHQ. ... . The Red Cross also reports receipt of a letter, plus $10. The letter read: “I hope that it is not too late for my contribution” and was signed “An American Citizen.” The organization wants the anonymous contributor to know that the donation was not too late. As a matter of fact, it gave rise to a slogan something to the effect that it is never too early or too late to contribute, .... Tommy's Grill, 55 Kentucky ave. has a knack of putting up tricky signs. Sometimes we suspect they do it for our benefit. Anyway, the latest reads: “Our Waitresses are Sweet Enough to Eat—And Probably Do!” . . . The Luck of London letters are at it again, Mrs. Louise Trees, 2325 Shelby st. calls to tell us of receiving two of the chain letters which threaten bad luck if the letters aren't kept going.

to change their clothing, lest any injurious particle of foreign matter be brought in. The actual grinding of the mirror—nearly 17 feet in diameter—was begun in 1939. Work halted during the war, but has been resumed. The job should be finished in another year or two. Of the various bits of statistical information supplied me, the only one I remember is that four tons of glass have already been ground away. One of the technicians looked reverently at the great disc, slowly revolving.in a red bath of jeweler's rouge, amidst a forest of complicated apparatus. “Do you know,” he said, his voice trembling slightly, “there's fully a million dollars invested in that chunk of glass!”

Island Project Studied

THIS WOULD have impressed me more, were I not fresh from Hollywood, where the investment of four or five million in a scrap of techni-colored fluft is hardly considered worthy of comment. And I had talked enough with men in the Douglas and Lockheed plants to know that it takes anywhere from seven to 10 million dollars merely to develop a new model airplane, . Compared to transport and amusement, the cost of widening the door of human knowledge seemed trifiing. A million bucks? Pooh, Louis B. Mayer makes that in a year, Speaking of millions, you may be interested to know that the grinding of the great mirror must be kept to an accuracy of one millionth of an inch— which is about 1-20 the wave length of light. But all this is only one of the things going on at Caltech. Another is the huge model of a Pacific island, on which the effects of wind -and wave are being studied to aid the navy in constructing a base. 1 was reluctant to go back to Hollywood.

By David Dietz

to the top like cream on a bottle of milk. This thicker portion was then skimmed off for shipment. The second method was to centrifuge the latex in the same fashion that milk is whirled about in a cream separator. The third method consisted in removing Some of the flud from the original latex by evaporation.

Synthetic Rubber Production EARLY IN world war II, as most readers know, the government rubber program was standardized with the great bulk of production going into the socalled GR-S rubber made from butadiene and styrene. At once attempts were made to produce a highsolids latex from the synthetic latex to take the place of natural rubber latex. However, the three methods which worked with the natural product were unsatisfactory with the synthetic stuff. The chief difficulty seemed to be due to the fact that the particles in the synthetic latex were too small. The Goodyear scientists, according to Dr. Sebrell, embarked upon a second line of attack. This was to produce a high solids directly by altering the method of. polymerizing or joining the butadiene and styrene. | The new process, he says, depended upon alterations in the proportion of styrene and butadiene, upon the use of a minimum amount of soap in making the emulsion, and the development of a new method of agitating or stirring the mixture during the process of polymerization. He says that it was discovered that it was possible to vary the final latex through a wide range so that the characteristics could be suited to a wide variety of purposes.

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“SECOND SECTION ADVENTURES OF

ne Indiana

TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1946 ; SPACE:

By DAVID DIETZ Secripps-Howard Science Editor

and heard his voice bound. back For the underlying idea of radar i as mankind, in fact older. the echo.

By DICK BERRY THE BOYS’ CLUB ASSOCIATION of Indianapolis is joining 250 similar organizations throughout the country this week in the observance of Boys’ Club Week. The local association, a member of Boys' Clubs of America, is 14

years older than its parent organi=zation. Founded in 1892, the In-

the English Avenue Boys’ club, at 1400 English ave., and the Herman Lauter Memorial Boys' club at 1309 W. Market st. The association also has a summer camp, located 3'z miles northwest of Noblesville.

THE BOYS’ CLUB ASSOCIA-

mous organization controlled by adult citizens and financed ‘through the Community Fund. Membership is open to all boys between 4 and 20 who can pay the small fees. The fees actually are imposed in order that the boys will feel that they are not. being given anything, club officials say. The two local clubs have a combined membership of 1196 boys. Their enthusiasm is shown by the fact that last year visitors to the two clubs totaled nearly 78,000 , . . an average of more than a visit per week per boy. =

HARRY G. GORMAN, physical instructor at the club gyms, teaches the boys basketball, boxing, wrestling, tumbling and other gym activities. ‘Last month four club

sectional tournament. The Boys’ club Association of Indianapolis last year won second place out of 260 teams entered in the national indoor athletics com-

By Eleanor Roosevelt

1. Your uncomprehending ancestor, the caveman, was employing the basic principle of radar when he shouted toward a cliff

That

2. Bats carry their own natural “radar equipments.” That is why, in flight, they can perform their uncanny feats of dodging unseen obstacles. Harvard scientists

Mrs. Edith Robertson instructs some young Boys Club members in the fascinating art of making pdper chains. : Ti

dianapolis chapter has two. clubs, “ §

members played on varsity teams | of four local high schools in the | clinic, presided over by two local|chess, an art studio, ping pong,|summer and offers boating, swimming, fishing, hiking trips, woodand Red Cross certificates THEY CAN also make airplane|in life-saving for boys who can

then was to note the lapse of time between the ringing of the bell and the return. of the echo. Dividing this in half told how long it took the sound wave to reach the sea-bottom. Since sound travels in water at a rate of about 5000 feet per second, it is easy to calculate the distance. (The speed of sound differs with the medium and the temperature. The speed of sound in air is approximately only 1000 feet per second.)

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have found that bats issue shrill sounds beyond the range of the humsn ear. Supersonic sounds, they're called. The bats’ ear

is tuned to their echo. The sounds were recorded with electrical apparatus by the Harvard savants, who also discovered that the bats lost their dodging ability if their ears were bandaged.

from it, s as old idea is

3. As far back as 1920 scientists employed sound devices to map the ocean bottom. A bell was rung at the bottom of a ship. The echo was caught by a listening device. All that was necessary

4. Radar follows the same principle as the depth-finder but employs radio waves

EDUCATION, SPORT MARK YOUTH CLUBS ACTIVITIES HERE—

Boys Observe Annual "Week

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Ray Wesley (left), William Mitchell and Joseph Jelase of English Avenue Boys Club, admire the broad jumping trophy they won.

TION of Indianapolis is an autono- ji

Here's one thing Indianapolis Boys Club members are looking forward to next summer at their camp which is located three and a half miles northwest of Noblesville.

a 17-year-old member, recently be- | came national “pull-up” champ by { chinning himself 32 times. | ~ n

| service is donated by a local nurses’ | inets and bird houses.

| association. | The summer camp has

os THE CLUBS operate a dental|such activities as checkers and | | dentists: who donate their services. |Sculpturing and kite-making. Here the boys may obtain dental "8.9 attention for less than the price of admission to the local movie. Again |models, do art craft and play pocket | qualify for them,

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The Story of Radar . «. No. 2: Miracles of Sound = ~~

difficulty of radar begins. For unlike sound, a radio wave travels with the speed of light, namely 186,000 miles a second. Therefore radio waves cannot be timed accurately by ordinary means. the distance of an incoming airplane, the radar has to indicate time intervals of the order of a 50,000th of a second. This, as we shall see later, can be done with the’ aid of the electronic device known at an oscillograph tube.

TOMORROW: The Radio World Is Born,

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rare in fop physical condition. This|turn out chairs, book cases, cab-

accomIn their game rooms the boys find | modations for 80 boys at one time. It is open six weeks during the

of sound waves, This is where the

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Only the 'Haves' | Feel Scorn for Line-Standing

By RUTH MILLETT AFTER just two months of civile ian life, a WAC sergeant recently re-enlisted, giving as her reason} “Everybody at home has gone crazy over luxuries. People stand in line for hours and battle each other for a pound of butter or a pair of nylons. Personally, I wouldn't stand in line five minutes for anye thing.” Well, that’s all right for a girl who is foot-loose and fancy-free, and who can chuck. civilian life whenever she wishes. But Mrs, America has no such out, » » . : IT'S ALL very well for folks to say, “I wouldn't stand in line for anything.” But have you ever noe ticed that those who talk that way usually have the necessities others are in line to get? When a woman says, “I would nog stand in line for stockings,” she is always wearing a pair—and usually nylons. Either she has been allotted her stockings in lady-like fashion by the store or stores at which she has a charge account, or she knows

somebody who can get them for her,

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| THE SAME thing is true of other shortages. The folks whose butche ers will save them butter and other scarce items can afford to say, “I wouldn't stand in line for anything.” So can those who are free to go back into the army if civilian life doesn’t suit them. But the working girls who don’t have impressive charge accounts and the housewives who aren't regular customers anywhere because they have always shopped around for penny-saving bargains are forced to stand in lines to get the things worth buying. Before you let yourself be ime pressed by any “I-wouldn’t-stande in-line” talk, make sure that the speaker isn't wearing a pair of run-free stockings. Or ask her how much butter she has in the ice-box at home.

CHARLES . FROST * TAKES SMOKE 108

Charles S. Frost today will assume the $3800-a-year position of ade ministrative assistant to the city's anti-air-pollution board, Charles H, Hagedon, board chairman, ane nounced.

The first appointee to the smoke abatement staff, Mr. Frost said that his first act would be the establishe ment of a smoke abatement budget for the remainder of the year. Meanwhile candidates were still” being sifted for the position of city combustion engineer, a job now being held tentatively by Charles E: Bacon, city building commise ° sioner. Mr. Frost attracted attention of

s 7 to 14 {petition of the Boys’ Clubs of [to make the boys feel thaf they are| There also is a completely] NATURE STUDY classes are con- anti-smoke experts with his smoke 4 98 NEW YORK: Monday. —Apparently my recent erans should be included in such a grant, because | America. paying for what they get {equipped carpenter shop. There. | qucted by qualified botanists. An abatement program when he was . bout the sale of Easter seals made a number 0any of them are as handicapped as a blind person.| Their broad jump team won first| Their pre-school clinic assures nothing within the realm of a boy's 5rnothologist teaches the boys about foreman of the Untied States Rube ick braid, COMB avo all tH int ression that these This is probably true and I am sure that it is|place in the contest. Robert Goins, that children about to enter school imagination is impossible. They pirds And during the harvesting ber Co. power plant. He directed os 7 to 12. of groups fe puss oo . ho bake nie Sonsidersyion by i ete. the e\THE DOCTOR SAYS - amar ns a——— hi wmmsets | consol the boys volunteer to Delp Te Soyesion Af re Hane he 90 Faster seals are SO 3 in adjusting. their pensions. 3 Lb . : : — short-handed farmers gather their|°"" MOY ; 5 2. J jar project for crippled children. As a matter of pass special additional grants, 3 seems to me that . Community Hospit als on Way | grain. Spoksles Be ei A Mary $ . : Children and the paralyzed young man should again receive con- | . . During the war the boys were bus graduate o am an r trim at ! fact, the Nattonal Society for Crippled : sideration according to the handicap which he has| ge ¥ y college, Carnegie Instiute of Techs 7 to 12. J adults functions throughout the nation. : a Ir rom r u e ICI ne collecting waste-paper and tin for nology and the Purdue university 1.90 | Wherever a State group affiliates with it, the or- 0 Overcome ; : : , scrap drives. They also collected| toe 0 HL married and : / panization carries on an Easter seal campaign durin Need of S upporting Self Is Felt : : of : . books and sent them to service men |, wo =o guos pottimore ave. aid. Red | ‘he month before Easter. The campaign is to sup= FOR ALL disabled veterans, particularly when By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D. psychiatrists, much mental illness medical, pediatric, and emergency and made puzzles for the men in : 12. port ‘the work done among people with physical dis- (pov gre young, I think the aim should be to make| PHYSICIANS who served in the can be treated by the general prac- |patients. Community hospitals will the merchant marine. And contri-

titioner, as the majority of the [not be used for complicated operacases are mild or are complications {tions, as special hospitals will be of physical failings. located within an hour's driving Society needs highly specialized |distance. hospitals for those suffering from | na n,n unusual injuries or illnesses, and | IF FORMER medical officers the teaching hospitals which have [have their way, group practice, in been developed in connection with [Which each physician concentrates medical schools supply this need: {upen some. particular phase of

bution of their pennies, nickels and dimes helped purchase an ice cream making machine for the men in the South Pacific. M ON THE program tonight at the | clubs are a boxing match and finals of a basketball tournament at—the English—Avenue clubhouse

abil¥ies, Including many of our retufned servicemen. So ‘1 want to emphasize here that many people can enjoy the privilege of buying these stamps and helping these organizations. ] Another thing has been brought to my attention in | connection with our disabled servicemen. I hope it will be considered in my own state of New York and —in-other-states-throughout the country, as well as by the federal government.

them, as far as possible, self-supporting. The ability| armed forces or in the public health to “work and feel useful is the only thing that will make life worthwhile to many of these young people. service during the war developed a But some basic security is certainly going to be essen- | marked interest in preventive meditial for most of them. {cine, psychiatry, and more effecSince my return. to New York, I have been in 8 tive methods for the distribution whirl of family reunions. I.was afraid I would miss| | sic ded. my daughter and son-in-law buf, fortunately for ye (213 SHre ol the Mcp ana Wounded: their business kept them here and we have had a ] : ’ !

4300 SERVICEMEN DUE BACK TODAY

By UNITED PRESS Ten ships were scheduled to are rive at U. 8. ports today with more than 4300 servicemen,

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Asks Aid for Paralyzed Veterans

grand chance to see each other.

In addition, T thought I would miss my youngest

|ing in groups is the most efficient way to render medical service.

NEW YORK, April 2 (U. P). ll The last elght of the 100,000] the navy ordered y [2% | were relieved. WAVES who ‘once inhabited Hun-~|

ter college abandoned ship yester- here. that's what.’

of the United Nations that when

“I'm like a3 Neanderthal woman ' said pretty Yoe-

them away they here—we're passe.”

now that the United Nations 1s Moving vans. toted away the last of the A girls in | blue since February . n Hunter day. They felt so out of place man Jean Cole, 21, of Pinole, Cal was de-commissioned as the only ~ Midstapie pomp and circumstance ‘We all belong in another world, ladies’ boot camp in the courtry

ing. to their various communities eager to promote immunization and better sanitation everywhere. Psychiatry is the medical specialty which deals with the mentally ill. -Though there never has heen . & time when we have had enough

Urban areas have hospitals manned medicine, will be the rule. Contin

{ i f th tici hyby. doctors who can care for all ued education o e practicing phy clubhouses: J

- ] . SDE ! IT APPEARS that New York state has passed a son and his wife, but they returned from a brief trip| | wo q eat SL ITY nice other types bt Hinesses, ; Foian is a Bie A marble {ournament will be held [1eAOated troops, ad d grant which is to be given to blinded veterans in to Boston yesterday, on their way back to the West| al We fad the Highs p % Wednesday and finals in a Kite [ignated naval nel. : dditi ; federal pension they may re- coast, and lunched with us. So the last few days of wound recovery and the lowest| PEOPLE who live in the country away, and group practice facilitates fiving contest are scheduled Sat-| Madawasks ry, {rom Bremerhaven addition 10 whatever. federg. pent has i” ; incidence of disease in our battle|usually have to travel to reach the [this. Then, too, it encourages con |“Y1& ~-019 und troops. : veive. The plea I received was that paralyzed vet- have been very pleasant ones. ; _|urday. DUE AT SAN FRANCISCO: ‘ ! na. history. type of medical service which is [sultations between the group mem ho held by both| Doran, from Pearl Rarbor—38 undess 4 t———— Smt x x » supplied in cities, but many highly (bers, and this assures better service Apa] se a .. vy 5 nated. naval personnel. - . . night, from Pearl Harbor—11 undess PHYSICIANS who participated|trained specialists plan. to enter |for the patients. Doy Last WAVES Abandon Ship at Hunter College in these developments are return-|practice in small communities. Service physicians are returning JERSEY KILLER ESCAPES To Erte on Two une

The community hpspital, it is thought, henceforth- will be the center of medical activities for the general medical practitioner. In the least populated areas, these Medical schools and hospitals are | institutions will” contain eight to helping them acquire his desired '12 beds to be used for obstetric, education. ? hea

to civilian life in large numbers, but ‘many are not re-entering private practice until they can secure advanced training and experience,

women's reformatory early today.

and “Old Timers” night at both DUE AT NEW YORK:

CLINTON, N. J, April 2 (U. P). —Mrs. Martha Beer, who confessed last month that she killed Mrs, ‘Theresa Stickel of Cliffside, N. J. in a jealous rage, escaped from the

George FF. Elliot, {from -Oahu-2330 une

designated naval personnel. McCook, from Pear! Harbor--47 undess ignated . naval personnel, ; Bea rk--(no port given)—2082 une

DUE AY SAN DIEGO: :

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