Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1946 — Page 11
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Inside Indianapolis Birthday Workers
THIS PROBABLY won't break any non-stop flight record but.for a gas model plane it isn't bad. David Patrick, 2856 N. Olney st, advertised in the papers for the plane, which was lost out on Post road, While the plane was aloft something went haywire and. it kept going, finally fading out of sight of Mr. Patrick’s binoculars. A couple days after it was lost he got a call from out Sunnyside way, from a man who found the plane in his field. It had glided to a perfect three-point landing, some nine miles away from the place it had started Although the girls’ basketball team from the Indiana School for the Deaf didn’t win the recent teen-can-teen tournament, it achieved something just as laudable. We understand the girls on the team have been named, to receive individual medals for good sportsmanship which they'll receive soon. ... Here's a sample of that Texas pride we've heard so much about, and Indiana is on the wrong end of the boast. We got a.letter from John C. Griffith, 2205 Edwin ave, Ft. Worth, enclosing a clipping telling of the capture of the two gunmen wanted in connection
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Conductor Charles Ensminger and Engineer Charles Yarbrough (left to right) ,.. they celebrated their birthdays on the run.
Capital Holiday
WASHINGTON, April 8-—The national capital's flowers will be blooming soon and so -will its first post-war tourist season. Washington is crowded like the rest of the country. Rooms are hard to find and parking space downtown is tight. You might have to wait to get into the popular eating places, and the big hotels might not let you stay more than five days. But that is the worst side of the story. The other side is more encouraging. ? Clarence Arata, head of the greater capital committee of the board of trade, says those who come here during the Easter holiday will be cared for somehow. He's very much of an optimist about a really big opening after June. “Reconversion should be in full swing over the country by July,” says Arata. “Fewer business people will be coming here. Congress is talking of recessing then. “There will be more hotel rooms. The pressure will be lessening considerably. We are again encouraging conventions and tourists to June.”
Not So Difficult Now
IN 1940, last full-time tourist and convention year, Washington entertained 3,500,000 tourists and 250 conventions. Even now, week-ending in Washington is not so
difficult as it was during the war, or in the begin-
ning of reconversion. The hotel demand peak here hits on Tuesday e+. it fades by Friday and rooms may be had in many
r A . ti “WELL I'M STILL working for the officers.” This was the wisecrack from a civilian mechanic who had been requested by the shop foreman to “get this job done as quickly as possible for the major.” Under ordinary conditions I would have grinned at the mechanic's remark. But the conditions are far from ordinary as the pattern becomes more apparent to discredit thé officer personnel of our armed forces. “Well, why didn’t you become an officer, so that you could have worked for still other officers?” The answer was according to form—“Oh, I didn't have. the education and the ‘pull'.” We can dismiss the “pull” angle because for the fraction of 1 per cent who got bars via the “pull” route we've got to consider the other 99 per cent. There were 828,000 officers for the fighting forces of the army. The National Guard and ROTC furnished 227,000 of this total. Of the remaining 601,000 officers—your people drawn from your walks of life and from your neighborhood. And if you don't like them, you don’t like your own people.
Time for a Few Figures IT'S HIGH time we got a few figures out into the light of day to understand how the facts contrast the propaganda concerning the formation of an officer caste in the U. 8S. The 601,000 officers in point, representing 62 per cent of all the officers in the wartime army, are all former enlisted men. In the navy and the marine corps the reserve officers were civilians, war-trained to serve as officers, and these men constituted about 87 per cent of all the officer personnel of those two fighting services. It's a sign of enlisted personnel’s health to gripe about something and anything. When they cease griping there's something wrong way down deep. But when the normal griping is exaggerated and promoted by an agency other than the standard G. I., then we know. there's something loose in the land that is not good for the land or its people,
My Day
HYDE PARK (Sunday) In talking with the Polish minister of labor and welfare, the other afternoon, I received the same picture of Poland that one gets in talking to people who have been working for relief and rehabilitation in Greece, Yugoslavia and other European countries. Italy sounds almost as badly off. Some of the stories from France and Holland are equally pitiful. How can we work to Have the needs -of these countries really understood? This generation of chilOres. «iu be tomorrow's citizens, and the scars left from starvation and illness will affect the whole history of the world. ” The Polish minister said that it was not unusual, as he went to work on winter mornings, to find*people lying frozen to death on the ground or in" doorways. In a certain part of Poland where there has been great destruction, 800,000 prople have no shelter and live literally in fox-holes. He said a well-fed people might resist the cold and hardships, but people who were reduced by lack
of food can not stand up under the attacks of illness .
or under great cold. - Needless to say, they can do none of the work which is needed to rehabilitate the country.
Chose the Hard Way
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with the recent slaying near Paoli. Indiana officers were arriving to return. them to Hoosierland and the letter says: “Most crooks say: ‘Ft. Worth, in Texas, is the town you'd better go-around.’ They didn’t, so Indiana, they're yours... ,. Mr. Griffith also included a pamphlet plugging the Ft. Worth rodeo, which he didn't explain, :
‘Charlies’ Celebrate THE ENGINEER and conductor on the B. & O. passenger train to Hamilton, O., both were celebrating their birth anniversaries as they pulled .out Friday night. What's more, both of the train-.officials are named Charles, otherwise “Charlie.” The men were Charles Yarbrough, 62, 20 N. Pershing ave. engineer, and Charles Ensminger, 64, 27 Hendricks pl, conductor. Both men have been with the railroad a good many years but this year was the first time they'd been on the same run on ,their birthdays. . +. A police officer. told us of arresting a man the other night who'd apparently been devoting most of his time to his chosen career. The arrest marked the 89th time the guy had been pinched.
Bacon, Butter for Home THE HOUSING shortage has people really wracking their brains to try to get an “in” somewhere. A Times classified ad last week said that a couple wanted an apartment in a respectable neighborhood. For the same they promised to “supply landlord with ‘ bacon, butter and references.” ... A Republican candidate for, judge of the superior court informed prospective constituents in his announcement of candidacy that he had no factions and no “click.” Any comment we might make would probably make someone mad so you make up your own. .-. . A rider on a N. Illinois streetcar was puzzled the other
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By DAVID DIETZ Scripps-Howard Science Editor
trans-oceanic flights. This was
morning by two men who were walking down street- | car tracks, carrying red flags. One had some sort! of a meter with a lot of wire stretched and the other had. a T-shaped object connected by wire to the meter. It sounded to us like some sort of a divining contraption—Maybe the railways were prospecting for gold .in case the fare boost does not pan out. ,As it turned out, though, we checked and found that all they were doing was testing the electric current in the wires. . . in the window of a downtown optical goods, store; They're of the small square variety, as worn by . Ben Franklin, and on one side they have a rhinestone clip, bigger than the glasses. We suppose the clip fastens them to the ear or maybe in the hair if they're women's glasses. -
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By LARRY STILLERMAN DID YOR ever swing .your car around a corner, shift into second
By Paul R. Leach
Hotels Saturday and Sunday. It is highly advisable, however, to have reservations confirmed.
The Greater National Capital committee has a!
housing . bureau, Room 204, Evening Star building, which will assist in finding hotel or tourist home rooms. Costs for a week-end or fortnight's visit to Washington range to just about what the visitor wants to pay. That goes for food in the cafeterias and at lunch counters at prices prevailing elsewhere, to meals costing $4 or $5 a plate in the most expensive places. Z Rooms in tourist homes range from $1.50 to $2.50 a person per night. Hotel rooms have been frozen since Jan. 1, 1941, at $250 to $10 single. What is there to see? Plenty.
and have your motor stall? Or cross the streetcar tracks and have the ¢ar door, which you. thought was securely shut, fly open? Or stop suddenly at an intersection and have the sun shield slap you inthe face? Fr RON um 8 UNLESS you run your car 24 hours every day, use 15 gallons of gasoline daily, average 100,000. miles annually on the motor, cruise at 10 or 15 miles per hour and then attempt to swish down the road like a pebble from a slingshot, your car probably dsn’t in such a decrepit stage. The city police department have 36 such vehicles operating in their crime-chasing fieet daily. “These cars should be replaced
White House Still Closed
immediately to give the public the
THE WHITE HOUSE is still closed to ‘tourists. service that they demand,” declares
- But restrictions have been lifted from nearly all government buildings. The bureau of engraving is open Monday through Friday. That's where the money is printed. : The galleries of congress and the capifol are open. So is the “court,-the library of congress, the Folger Shakespearean library, the Mellon national art gallery and Smithsonian institute. Then there are the Arlington national cemetery and the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Mount Vernon, the new shrine at National Catholic university, and the National (Episcopal) cathedral. The Potomac is always there and the Naval Academy is 35 miles away at Annapolis. And of course you might see the President whizzing by, or a cabinet member or a senator, or even Chester Bowles.
By Maj. Al Williams
I started as an enlisted man and I well remember | what travail and hardship I had to undergo to win | officer status and a place in a cockpit. Sure, I griped about officers and food and military restrictions. Every time you hear someone make a crack about the young snipes with all the gold braid and wings just imagine yourself as one of the air cadets, You're a civilian from head to foot. You could slide along during the war, taking the easiest way, but your heart is set upon fighting in the air. Airplanes? Sure, you've seen them, but you couldn't even name the instruments in a cockpit, much less describe them. If youre normal you're scared.
From Daylight to Dark FROM DAYLIGHT, long past dark, you're being pumped full of technical stuff on radio, engines, aerodynamics, gunnery, navigation, plus marching and physical exercises, until your head “swims.
You know you're not a pilot even when boasting your loudest. But you are determined to win through those hard hours when’ it is only alertness, a little luck and the grace of God that keeps you from breaking your neck. Faster and trickier fighter ships. The strain never seems to end and you in your heart know you are only a normal guy. Then, too, you know you are not going to march through danger shoulder to shoulder with others. No. sir—you’ll be alone in the wide heavens hunting enemies, : Remember, Mr. John Q. Public, you could have had the wings and the braid if you were willing to start as an enlisted man and pay the price. And on the educational score, I challenge any man in America to offer hours and days, wasted and utilized, accounting for what he did with his time from the age of 10 onward—in a land where day schools, night schools and books are available on every hand. Even the most successful man in the land would shy away from any such reckoning.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
decided to work with his compatriots, not just for them. : Friday TI spent in Philadelphia, speaking in the morning at a meeting of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Two very good addresses were given, one by Professor Goodrich on the Ilo, and one by Arthur Switzer on the interim period between the League of Nations and the United Nations. Mr. Switzer's talk was comprehensive and authoritative, and his judgment on the changes and improvements which have been made is highly valuable, since no one has been more closely connected with the league and the efforts to build for peace.
Gifts for Jews Increase :
THEN I attended a woman's lunch for the Jewish
welfare fund. The increase in gifts over last year showed an appreciation of the misery of the remaining Jews in Europe which I wish could be duplicated by every group in this country in considering the whole European and Asiatic problem. [i Between lunch and dinner I was called for by Samuel Brown, the colored artist whose painting of “The Scrub Woman" had appealed to me many years ago in. a WPA exhibition 'in the Corcoran art gallery, He has come a long way since those days, and a series of water colors done.in Mexico last summer
| Chief Jesse P. McMurtry.
o AND THAT'S exactly what the police hope to do when the city council authorizes a $300,000 bond issue now spemding on the. council agenda. ; With the $116,027.47 allotted for police equipment, the department hopes to secure 45 new automobiles, five trucks,” two patrol wagons, one emergency car and one station wagon for the juvenile department. The rest of the money is for fire equipment. “And we need the new cars,” says Chief Mechanic Sgt. W. F. Rebmann, = ” = : ONE PATROLMAN asked the sergeant if he could install new springs in the automobile.
(1) Radar on wings was used by allied bombers and blimps to crush the luftwaffe, to bomb Naz industry into extinction, to sink the U-boats and Japanese shipping, to guide aircraft with unerring accuracy on plished by scientists, technicians, engineers and Others of the United Nations working
in extreme secrecy and under armed protection 24 hours a day. Using the cathode
BOGGED DOWN BEYOND
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we could top 50 miles
MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1946 “ADVENTURES IN SPACE;
revealed thé exact outlines of the enemy's forces or installations, through clouds, fog, great distances or darkness. (2) Early in the development of radar it became necessary to determine the difference, between a friendly ship or plane and one of the enemy, The British solved this difficulty through the development of
accom- the IFF—“Information, tion sends out a series of enemy ship or plane, it weakly. But a radar on to the predetermined code.
The plane wishing to make the distinc-
returns a strong message, which is in a
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The Story of Radar ' .. No.7:
(3) The axis allies used radar
the allies made Friend or Foe.” waves, From an
is reflected back a friendly craft
foot long and an widely and gave
landing parties.
"HOPE QF REPAIR, THEY SAY—
olice Plead for New
be made on enemy soil most successfully, axis radars had to be jammed. And the radars of the axis partners were jammed so effectively that they were useless when
Europe and on the Pacific. most effective devices for jamming consisted of strips of aluminum foil about a
planes in bundles of 6000, they scattered
nations as well as the
. Before landings could the use
invasion The pa their landings both in
One of the war the
inch wide, Dropped from warship
back a strong radar re-
flection that completely’screened the allied
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“Hangar Queen” . . . Police car 36 is now a part of several other police cars. Garage repair men have salvaged everything from springs to crankcases to keep other cars in running condition.
time, Sgt, Rebmann Yeports.
| factor,” he wails. » = »
old automobiles, could go.
haven't got a speedometer. But I guess that if we held the doors on, . =» 1*hope.” One car answering a burglary report stalled three blocks from the scene. The policemen halted a
“What could I tell him?” Sgt.| Rebmann asked. “Sure I'll give! him a new spring, but another car | will be minus one then.” The garage usually keeps five| spares available whenever a regular |
By WILLIAM A, O'BRIEN, M. D. The extra weight which many of us put on during the winter should be shed before we yield to that impulse to get out in the open and exercise. Our hearts are a year older than they were this time last year, and they, too, should be given a chance to pick up the slack before we try to do the things we did last summer and fall. Men in middle and the early part of late life with weakened hearts may pay the penalty for trying to be too active on the golf course or the tennis court in the spring. The legs act as a brake on the | body to prevent injury to the] heart. Most athletes find that at| about the age of 40 their legs tire|
ity to co-ordinate their movements perfectly.
» ” " MOST sedentary workers have
the winter, and there is a great
Optometrist Is Back From Army
Dr. Thomas H. Cochrane, local optometrist, - has been discharged from the army air forces medical
corps and will re- |
sume, his practice in the Odd Fellow bldg.
months in service, Dr. Cochrane was assigned to the eye, ear, nose and throat clinic
Walla (Wash) Dr.Cochrane i 014. A graduate of Shortridge high school and Northern Illinois College of Optometry in Chicago, he was associated with the Robinson Optical Co. before he entered the service.
have real charm. Mr. high school, but gives all of his spare time to paint- : i 2 hi sh La iad . iy
Brown. teaches in a vocational}
He is a member of Phi Theta Up~
silon, professional’ fraternity; is
more easily and they lose the abil- P&S
a tendency to put on weight during}
A veteran of 38 ;
of the station | hospital at Walla |b"
streetcar, but arrived just as the burglars were speeding away. The gear shift on their automobile was maintained by bolts and cotter pins. Ld ” ”
“RECENTLY, emergency car §
district car comes in for repairs. It'broke down and the only car we| “We replaced the floor boards on
temptation to work this off through exercise. But that is not advisable, for the heart, which has had to carry an extra load all winter, may not be in very good shape. The proper procedure is to diet and to get rid of the excessive weight, and then to begin a graduated exercise program. Shortness of breath on exertion results from failure of the heart to pump enough blood to the lungs to replenish the oxygen and to get rid of the waste. It may, of course, also be caused by emotional stress. During ‘the winter, sedentary workers who experienced shortness of breath on exertion took it easier, which, in turn, caused more fat to accumulate.
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ONE PATROLMAN was asked how fast his car, rebuilt from two
“Don’t know,” he answered. “I
4! tired from unaccustomed use.
is not unusual tg have seven or had to give them was one slated for (car 25 so many times, that now eight cars in for repaitsiat the same | the scrap heap,” Sgt. Rebmann re- | there is nothing left to which we
(4) Another method of jamming lay in
of long strips of aluminum foil
strung from parachutes, These were ems ployed by American task forces in pre-
bombardments of Japanese
rachutes were dropped from the
planes of the American forces. Late in the
Japanese developed a radar that
could not be jammed, and these helped the kamikaze suicide fliers to find their
targets. But as the war ended
the American scientists developed a radar tube that made the kamikaze radar useless.
ORROW: “Push Buiton” Warfare,
Labor
Board Denies 18-Cent Raise
Is ‘Automatic’
By FRED W. PERKINS
WASHINGTON, April 8.— The national wage stabilization board has ready for announcement its most important decision in its three ° months of riding herd on its part of the anti-inflation plan, In its first loud “no” the board by a split vote—public and industry against labor members—will ‘hold that granting of 18-cent an hour wage increases is not automatic. It will contend that this figure widely regarded as a standard set-up in the big strike cases is subject to conditions set forth in President Truman's executive. orders. By this decision the national board reverses its Detroit regional board, and also leaves 14 Detroit dairies in the predicament of have ing to pay an 18-cent wage increase to which they agreed and have been paying since March 2, but with authority to seek from OPA a price increase on milk to cover only a 10-cent pay boost.
. = » ANOTHER complication: Under board rules if the dairy companies now try to scale down wages to the
vealed. “Regular district ‘car 22{can fasten the floor boards,” helngyure of the 10-cent boost, they
5 and the car 22 crew had to use the ‘junker.” Seven different men drive each car in a 48-hour continuous run.
“And anyone knows that each
police mechanic said.
“But our cars are beyond the|was turned over to the crew of car said. stage where garage help is a major
must apply for official permission
The sergeant raised -his hands int, make the cut. And if they try
{surrender. “What can we do?”
only grease man, changes oil on the
* » » i THE POLICE garage repair de- | | partment employs five men to reman drives a car differently,” the Pair 82 vehicles,
that the companies may face threat of renewal of the 10-day strike that forced the 18-cent agreement. Board members frankly do not
Al Newman, the y,oy what the outcome will be in
this case, nor what the general
Sgt. Rebmann goes on to say that [cars four times monthly and greases | effect will be on the government
each of the cars reports some mechanical failure almost daily. 5 = » “MOTORS have been rebuilt vii
{rebored so ‘many times that the cyl- | {inder walls are thin and excessive!
| heating of the motor results,” he! { stated. . | { “The frames have been welded on|
at least 12 cars; floor boards rust; [bids for new
doors sag, and the backs of front! i seats break down,
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THE DOCTOR SAYS: Spring Exercise Burdens Heart— |
Care Needed For Outdoor Work
THE AVERAGE person has a lot! of heart reserve which he never uses, but sudden demands on the heart may cause it to fail in spite of this fact. If the exertion is gradual and followed by sufficient rest, it will not be long before ue heart can respond in an efficient way. The open air calls us at this) time of the year, and there -are many ways in which we may enjoy the benefits of healthful exercise. A daily’ walk, work {around the yard, a Victory gar|den, or a few holes of golf will get us into condition for heavier | exertion later. The heart is a muscle, and, like other muscles, it becomes sore and The sore body muscles which always follow unusual exertion are common to all, eveni young people. Get your weight down, start out gratiually, and rest at regular intervals, or have a physical examination and be guided by your
*4|-physician’s advice.
All-State Dance Set for April 13
The annual state dinner-dance of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity will be held. April 13 in the Columbia club, George 8. Arnold, president of the local alumni a § sociation, announced today. Assisting Mr, Arnold with plans are Clyde Norman, dance com=mittee, and Damon Auble, president of the But« ler university
married, and lives at 600 E. 53d. st. |’
each car twice a month. “I could go on and on,” the sergeant said, “but I think you've got the general idea of the situation.” The police are also asking for $39,710.62 worth of new radio equipment, but replacing the depleted and outdated vehicle fleets heads the priority lists. At present the city is receiving automobiles for the police. department and local auto-
36 vehicles scheduled for trade-in.
—We, the Women
Forget Your Beauty, Men— It's Too Silly
By RUTH MILLETT MEN, you are being made to look silly. It was bad enough when you just let a tailor give you the once-over and decide which among your number were “best-dressed.” But some of the singling-out that is’ being done these days is even more ridiculous than that. An artist scrutinizes you and makes a choice of the men with the most beautiful (or was it the most exciting?) hegds. What's in ‘em doesn’t matter; all that counts is how they look on the outside, ”
- ~ AND NOW a sculptress, after
| looking you over, comes out with
the statement that ears are the true index of a gentleman's real and lasting affection. To emphasize her point, she makes specific reference to the ears of famous men, The ears of one of our ambassadors she describes as “satyr, king-size”-—which, it seems, is all"to the good. She judges a cer tain comedian’s ears “piquant and pointed; devastatingly faun-like.” How do you like that? ~ ~ ~ OF COURSE, it really serves you right that you are at last being picked to pieces by anybody with an urge for “ten-best” selection,
to such titles as “the girl with the most perfect legs,” “girl with the most perfect measurements,” and “the girl who looks best in a sweater.” There has been nothing sacred about feminine anatomy for a long, long time, ‘And so the men have it coming to them. »
it if you want to maintain the mas-
It’s slipping! FUR EXPERT TO SPEAK
chapter. State alumni and’ active mem- Mr. Arnold hers of chapters at Butler, Purdue, Indiana, DePauw, Wabash, Franklin, Hanover and Rosé Poly will
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noon in the Riley xooth of. the Cif
Women have long been subjected |
But you had better put a stop to
culine dignity you prize so highly.
‘Women guests of the Indianapolis Rotary club will hear a talk by 10. Brager-Larsen, f commercial adviser to the royal Norwegian government, tomorrow
fur industry
machinery established to hold wages in check. The Detroit dairy strike, affecting about 2700 inside workers in the milk plants, was started soon after several big labor controversies {had been settled or were proceeding {toward settlement around the 18{cent figure. The dairy companies {finally agreed to this raise, and | apparently with intimation from the | regional board that it would be ap-
{mobile dealers are appraising the | proved.
# » ” THE APPROVAL was given by C. I. O. member voting with the two {industry members against the two {public members. The A. F. of L. member withheld his vote because [the comparatively small A. F, of L. | unit involved in the controversy had | assurance of getting a 20-cent raise instead of the 18 cents won by the C. I. O. United Dairy Workers, In the national board's voting both Carl Shipley, of the C. I. O. and Walter Mason, of the A. F. of L. voted to sustain the Detroit board, and lined up against the industry members who supported Chairman W. Willard Wirtz and public member Jack Day. An opinion by the public members holds that the 18-cent raise is not covered by criteria in the President's orders, nor by relation to increase in the cost of living because the dairy workers had received other pay increases. since January, 1941.
Wayne Adams In Legislative Race
Wayne O. Adams Sr, 2056 Central ave., inspector for the Indiana highway commission, has announced his candidacy for state representa=tive on the Ree publican ticket. “, A native of
A been’ active in state and natione
activities. He served as a supers visor and engi~
During world war IT he was inspec- . tor for the Allison division of Gen«