Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1946 — Page 13

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Inside Indianapolis

THEIR HARE ruffled: the wrong way, the Marion County Rabbit Breeders today were hopping mad at the Indiana famine committee. The bunny raisers feel they've been. snubbed. Robert: M! Dodd, president of the association, charged the famine committee which is directing the state’s food conservation program, favors chickens over rabbits. ‘As proof he pointed out a recent news item in which the famine committee urged Hoosiers to eat chicken twice. a week. - “Not a word about rabbits,” fumed Mr. Dodd. “Domestic rabbit meat has a protein count equal to that of the best beef cut. ...” He implied appreciative rabbit consumers are, increasing by leaps and bounds. He further declared the Marion Counfy Rabbit Breeders association would supply rabbit meat recipes to anyone (even the famine committee, darn ‘em) if queries were sent to his office in the K. of P, building. THe way it looks to us, the only ones on the rabbit scene not ready to jump down the committee’s throat are the bunnies themselves.

“It's all a

Robert M. Dodd and a rabbit . lot of hare-splitting.”

Too Tranquil

LAKE ATITLAN, Guatemala, April 10.—This is a country devoid of major problems. Its people have achieved a decree of tranquility so complete it is almost repugnant, There are no strikes. Everyone has ample food, adequate shelter and what clothes are necessary. No one suffers either from heat or cold because there are no violent extremes in temperature. This doesn’t mean that the officials of Guatemala Like administrators of public affairs elsewhere, they develop peculiar headaches. For instance, the Indians, who comprise 80 per cent of the population, can live without working under contract for the white portion of the population. They would prefer to grow just the food they need, weave their own clothes and live their own primitive lives.

Law to Compel Work BUT THOSE of white blood are ambitious. They want to increase the wealth of Guatemala. To do so, they must export more coffee and bananas. This requires steady, hard work on the part of a large number of Indians and times have changed since the Spaniards used the Indians as slaves. Today, the Indian males are required to work a minimum of 150 days a year. Legislation was passed making this minimum amount of work obligatory and failure involves a fine or punishunent. This might be taken as a happy solution of the only outstanding problem of a small nation. But not so. Men such as these Indians require direction on the big coffee and banana plantations. That direction

Aviation

NEW YORK, April 10.—Air-minded persons throughout the country may soon have an opportunity to fly in a helicopter—and the oldtime barnstorming period of the early twenties may be repeated with the rotor-winged straight up-and-down flying mechanical “birds.” In announcing the plan, Lawrence Bell, president of Bell Aircraft, told a Wings club audience here that (1) the helicopter is here to stay; (2) that there are innumerable practical uses for it, but (3) that it will be some time before the personal flier will be using it in quantities. “We at Bell Aircraft,” said Mr. Bell, “are completely sold on the helicopter and have set our sights for mass production. We have found that it- has

. so many practical uses that -an ever-increasing de-

mand for this type of flying machine is assured.”

Many Uses Envisioned SOME OF the immediate uses listed by Mr. Bell, were: Mail carrying in areas not on regular airlines, crop dusting and other agricultural jobs, geodetic surveys, explorations in faroff lands and at the poles, coast guard rescue work, transfer of injured or ill persons from otherwise inaccessible places to hospitals, taxi service as airline feeder services, army and navy use on land and aboard all type of vessels.

My Day

HYDE PARK (Tuesday)—I got here Sunday morning by the same train as my guest, Miss Charl Ormond Williams. She wanted particularly to see the church and the little chapel that my husband had attended, and to go through the house once more before it is finally turned over to the public. A young French newspaperman, Mr. Matin, had come up, too, for the day and lunched with us. So I took them to see the top cottage in which my son, Elliott and. his wife, now live, and then they spent some time in the library in the afternoon. When I went to -pick up Miss Williams, I was surprised to hear that Madame Gouin, wife of the president of France, was going through the house, but I was happy to be able to greet her. She is'a very charming woman, and I am looking forward to her coming to tea with me today in New York City before she returns to France.

Daffodils Already Blooming

IT WAS a beautiful Sunday and though it was chilly the sun gave us a touch of spring, and I noticed little wild flowers peeping up in the woods as we drove through. Last year Mr. and Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr. planted a great many bulbs, daffodils and narcissi around my husband's little cottage in the woods, and this year they are coming up and blooming bravely. In one sheltered spot the daffodils already are out, just as they are by Miss Thompson's back door.

“their foreign brides to be held April 25 in Noblesville.

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Glass Eggs for Pigeons Se

MAYBE YOU won't believe it from the number of

pigeons in the downtown area; but one local pigeon |

is a rustic. A pet of Mrs. Mary Reébedoux, 865 S. Woodrow st. it sticks close to the ‘Rebedoux residence. The pigeon’s*favorite pastime is setting on a glass egg which Mrs. Rebedoux keeps in the henhouse for-the bird. Once in awhile the pigeon sets on hen eggs, but as a rule it prefers the glass egg. The oval egg is a little big for the bird, but that doesn't seem to bother the pigeon. Maybe the answer to

the people who would like to get the pigeons out ot],

downtown Indianapélis is to provide them all with glass eggs. . . . Speaking of eggs, Mrs, Edgar Pettit, 223 8S. Audubon rd., phones to say one of Her hens said an unusuelly small egg. That's something different. are either bragging about large ones or chiding us that the column just laid one. ... The token hoarding must have slowed down a little bit. We haven't noticed many streetcar operators handing out the paper tickets in lieu of tokens in the last couple of days.

Welcome for War Brides WE MENTIONED this before, but today we got a note reminding us of the open house for G. I's and

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bonne, R. R. 4, Noblesville, a G. I. of world war I and his Belgian bride, have invited couples from Indianapolis and surrounding towns to be their guests. Mrs. Bonne would like those planning to attend to write or phone her before April 24 so she'll know how much chicken and country baked ham to prepare..... Mrs. Bernice Cashman, 5052 E. Michigan st., calls and says juvenile delinquency is really getting bad if she can believe what she-read in a late edition of The Times yes-

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SECOND SECTION

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1946

. By DAVID DIETZ Scripps-Howard Science Editor

lose in the future.

“push-button” war When an enemy rocket

oscilloscope of a home defense must be destroyed at once. It traveling several dozens of miles above the earth, at

terday. The item she was ribbing us about was a line that read “Carl N. Taylor, 3, of 129 W. 12th st. |

admitted to detectives that he stole a car last night |.

and was attempting to break in a tavern. ..." To! relieve Mrs, Cashman’'s mind we'll admit the “3” was a mistake. It should have read “36,” which is a little, different. . . . We noticed an ad reporting a’ Kappa Alpha Theta pin lost Sunday, signed by Mrs. Ralph F. Gates, first lady of the state. The pin, which js the Indiana university: chapter's president pin, was lost by Patricia Gates. Since it isn't an ordinary pin that could be replaced, ‘Governor Gates and Mrs. Gates and Miss Gates especially are anxious to get it back, I | |

By Hal O'Flaherty

in other years was supplied by German emigrees who knew how to do ‘the job and could get more work out of the natives than any other directors. During the war, hundreds of these efficient Germans were deported because of their Hitlerite sympathies and no one has been found who can direct the natives as well. Hence, a drop in production of| the crops that bring wealth. {

. . “yy. { Distressing Tranquillity | THIS IS not at all a catastrophe. The demand for, coffee and bananas is increasing and the prices are good. The cost of production has gone up, however, because the Indians will not work as hard as formerly and the plantation owners must spend more on the welfare of the workers. It means that wealth

does not accumulate as rapidly as the whole popula- war. Many of the pilots were in| iservice while others were just too

tion would like. It doesn’t bother the Indians. So, there is really nothing to disturb the placid: life of Guatemala. A national police force is main-! tained, but it has little to do. On market days, a few] Indians may get roaring drunk on aguadiente, but each drunk is looked after by a friend who sees him home or to a shady place for sleep. Such tranquility is not suitable for us North Americans. The average middle westerner would g0| mad if he were forced to live in a state so undisturbed | by pressing-decisions, burning issues, telephone calls, meetings and sudden popping of great ideas. We will never have to pass legislation to force our male population to work 150 days a year.

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‘must be attacked by a rocket with as great if not greater,

LOCAL HOOSIERS are flying 'high, wide and handsome these ! days. Since the end of the war, but mainly since the first of the year, business has boomed at. the Weir Cook municipal airport. “Every phase of flying has creased terrifically,” said Superintendent Phillip H. Roettger. “Right now we are short three times the hangar space we need.” Mr. Roettger estimates that the number of planes based at the field has doubled since the first of the year and now runs about 70. » = » “VERY FEW of these are army surplus, and new planes haven't started coming in yet in any number. I would say most of them have been in storage during the

busy with war work to get out and fly,” he said. Currently a program is under way to build six units to house 24 planes. It is hoped that the scope of the program can be doubled by the end) of the Ser. ” ” MEANWHILE planes are zooming in and out of the airport Hight and day with military traffic some 300 per cent since the closing, of Stout field. Commercial airlane traffic is way up. From 1943 to 1845 it almost 142,000 passengers through last year.

(1) There never will be a split second to atomic bomb load shows up on the giant

hundred miles away, of several hundred miles a minute, It and airplanes for

this purpose will long have been obsolete. Only a lew minutes after it shows on the

FLYING AGE TAKES ON WIDE AS WELL AS LOFTY STATURE—

Weir Cook's Business Booming

in-

radar oscilloscope in a commandant's quarters it may lay waste hundreds of square miles and kill millions of people.

(2) As soon as the enemy rocket appears

of the with its on the commandant’s base fit may be

nects his radar with the

appears. a speed

a speed The commandant's

missile.

|To date the figures still are mount, {ing with each month showing a 3000 to 4000-passenger increase. | The number of flights making In- | clariapolis jumped from 34 to 39 at the start of the year and it is pelieved that the figure will shoot to 45 by May 1. = » »

BUT THIS isn't all the business

roaring about the airport. Several several of the airlanes have air- hard taxed for ways to tie the ships

freight service and already are cov-|

commercial companies are based]

there and continuous experiments are in progress at the Civil Aero-

presses a button. This automatically con-

ment nearest to where the enemy rocket Immediately the range and direction of the defense rocket in the emplacement is automatically set. stant later it is released and is on its way, radar direction, as it speeds after the enemy's

ADVENTURES IN SPACE: The Story of Radar . . . Na. 9:

his own rocket

oscilloscope, he

ination. He sees

rocket emplaceboth disappear. enemy bomb to a

failed the result astrous.

(4) The battle

An in-

controls its

is over in a few minutes.

Control tower at Weir Cook Municipal airport . .. the air is bustling with activity over Indianapolis.

nautics Administration headquar-| ters. The air age, however, is bringing new problems. “More and more people are going; into the air-freight field” Mr. Roettger said. “We charge fees for use of the field and we now are studying the ways and means of {levying on these new freighters.

ered by charges. “It looks like it will become al

By Max B. Cook GARDENING: Would You Like to Grow Tent-size Cabbage Leaves?

Water, Compost Make Best Garden Food

He Indicated that a thorough promotional effort to educate the public in the various uses of helicopters would be launched soon. Under the plan, helicopters would be sent around | the country and pilots would take up passengers | much as did the ‘oldtime barn§tormers at a certain fee per ride.

Licensed by v. s. Agency IN THIS WAY, thousands of persons who have never seen and only heard of helicopters would be given an opportunity to enjoy whizzing through the air in them. Both the Bell and Sikorsky helicopters have been licensed as safe, practical means of air travel by the ¢ivil aeronautics authority. The latest Bell helicopter, with a luxurious interior comparable to the finest automobile, will sell for $25,000. This, Mr. Bell pointed out, is a far cry from the price that will bring the machine down to John Q. Public's purchasing level. But, even at that price, he pointed. out, the helicopter still has tremendous possibilities for immediate uses. Mr. Bell predicted a jet helicopter for the future. Jet units would be installed in the rotor tips doing away with the fuselage engine installation and insuring even smoother performance than at present.

By MARGUERITE an GIVE cabbage plenty of moisture

{ (moré than 90 per cent of it is | water) and a lot of plant food if {vou want solid sweet tasting heads

| that snap and crackle when you [ cut them open.

Mr, and Mrs. Ralph Wikoff, 5525 fill the holes in|

East Raymond st., which they set their home grown cabbage plants entirely with com-| post.

Such humus, holding mois-| Any gardener would be wise to

E. K. GOSS, 601 E. 55th st., likes | curly leaved Savoy cabbage. Mrs. Goss considers it specially good for slaw because of its “distinct and | different flavor.” Mr, Goss points out all cabbage | likes sweet soil. In three different garden plots he has used lime, a scant” handful" cultivated into the

soil around each plant, after it be- | gins to grow.

ture around the roots even in dry | plant some cabbage seed outdoors weather, also supplies the nitrogen now for later transplants, he thinks.

that any leafy vegetable thrives on. | Seedlings grown in your own patch

They use “only yellows-resistant| have good roots and transplant

varieties. to find your cabbages drpoping in hot weather,

later to turn yellow| Manor

Then you aren't so likely| with little shock.

Mrs. R. H. Edwards, 3701 Forest

ave, uses her vacuum

and die. (Blame it on the weather | cleaner outdoors as well as in. Late it you will, ut cabbage yellows is| jast fall, using the blower attach-

caused by a fungus in the soil whose activities are increased by higher

| temperatures.)

By Eleanor Roosevelt’

Yesterday morning Elliott took me out at a quarter before seven with an old friend of ours whose advice we always are anxious to obtain. We looke over the old barns and realized anew that when a farm has not been kept up for a number of years there is bound to be a great deal of work to do when you start out to rehabilitate it.

‘Going to Learn Farming’ I KNOW nothing about farming, but I evidently | am going to learn, We are going to raise all the feed we can and keep our cows, chickens and pigs on a slowly increasing scale. We are planting a big enough garden this year to give us all the vegetables. we need this summer and

to let us put away a great deal in our deep freezé for next winter. : Our nice weather held until about 11 o'clock and then it began to get gray. Toward late afternoon yesterday I suddenly looked out to find it snowing hard. I had to take Fala for a walk but he never really enjoys it in the rain, and the snow, of course, was more like rain than real snow. Most of my day was spent in putting my linen in order and tidying up the closets which is an occupation I find one has to do oneself at least once a year. I wish I had not been obliged to come back to New York this morning. But engagements must be kept:

Drivers to Receive Safety Awards

Bus drivers and bus companies Service commission of Indiana. Highlighting the morning session ¢hairman of the National Bus Traf-

were to receive awards in recog-

nition of safety records at the Hotel was a business meeting at 10 a. m. fic _ curing which George E. Owen, vice was ‘to the all-day jresident of Transit Bus sales, St. Bus spoke on “Labor .Prob- publisher of the Grand Rapids Hér-

Lincoln today. Beginning at 9 a. m. affair of the Indianapolis Bus As- louis, Mo, sociation will’ terminate with banquet at 6:30 p. m. Principal

a lms of the Bus Industry. » Rue Alexander, secretary of state was to terminate the business fo: is to address the dele- tie .day with a talk on

In the afternoon L. H. Ristow, association, Washington, D. C., smumerate the “Value of

L. A. Rossman,

§sociations.” ald Review, Grand Rapids, Minn “Future

Jlans of the Bus Industry.” fap # y ‘ ’ >

n IN ADDITION to pm and late white varieties, the Wikoffs like purple cabbage. i's. beautiful,” Mrs. Wikoff says, al-|

most white kinds.

Other tricks of the trade from the]

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Cysts and Styes Are Often Confusing

‘Eye Ailments Hit Adults Often

Wikoff garden: Last year Mr. Wikoff set his sweet potato plants in a trench full of compost on top of the usual ridge. Results were ex-

| cellent.

He used the same method with] his celery for, of all vegetables,| celery appreciates good humus to| grow in. They raised their own celery plants, giant Pascal, starting the seed in mid-March in their hot soil bed. In May they set the plants in the garden. Celery is hardy enough to get out earlier but ‘late maturing plants get the benefit of cool fall rains. » » » LAST YEAR Mr. Wikoff made the celery trench at the base of, and just west of, the sweet potato ridge and thinks the moisture and shade were beneficial. They had celery to use all winter and up to a month ago. The spot where the latest compost pile has been removed (they keep three piles going) is just the place to raise petunias or nasturtiums, Mrs. Wikoff says. She took first prize at the county fair last vear with compost raised golden gleam nasturtiums. Ronald Skyrme, 685 E. 24th st, raised such enormous heads of cabbage last year he considered selling some of the leaves for circus tents!

He set his plafits in the lower, mois- |

ture part of his garden and was careful not tb disturb the roots by deep, cultivation after the heads]

_. began to form,

‘perfectly | other treatment,’

| ment, she applied chemical weed (killer to dandelions which afflict the Edwards lawn. : “The plants began to wilt the same day. This spring only few came up and I'm giving them an- ' she said. She has (also killed buckhorn, plantain and

4| though it takes longer to head than other weeds without injury to the

| grass.

. By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D.

A CYST of an eyelid (chalazion) is an enlargement of a small gland which follows stoppage of its duct. It is more common in adults than in children, and it is usually confused with a stye. A chalazion requires weeks .or months to develop, and -there are few symptoms until it reaches the approximate size of a pea. Then a hard swelling, over which the skin {moves freely, may be detected. The patient may think it is a stye, but cannot account for the absence of inflammation. Cysts rarely disappear, and removal ' is recommended, for if allowed to remain they may become secondarily infected, and irritate the eyeball. At first, medicine is applied externally and massage and hot comspresses are tried, generally without | success.

» ” ” 3 IN A SURGICAL operation, the eye is anesthetized, and the lid is everted, An -ncision is made over the cyst, the contents are removed, and the walls are curetted and cauterized. The eye may be disfigured for a few days, but healing quickly follows, Other cysts may develop later, *-

(3) In a moment the commandant sees

enemy's buzz bomb, Both are traveling miles above ground. The enemy rocket is

still a safe distance from its intended desface of his radar scope. Then suddenly

rocket has done its work; it has blown the

[revenue for the field,” he said.

traveling toward the

the two rockets on the

could it. He knows that his own

toms. If this rocket had would have been disblinding in the push-button war Momentarily

the country has been saved. mandant with the push of a button has done more than all the defense armies of the past may have accomplished. Oute side it is night. have heard the approach of the enemy rocket, it was traveling so fast.

The come

The populace could not

Neither have heard the rush of the dee

fense rocket for the same reason. People are not aware that a battle is taking place until they are startled by an earth-shaking explosion high in the stratosphere and a

flash of light.

TOMORROW: A Ticket to the Moon.

big business and could mean more

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We, the Women Mrs. America

.Can Tell You If War's Over

By RUTH MILLETT “FIXING End of War Is Tough Job” reads a headline over a story about the hard time congress is having trying to figure out when it will be possible to declare the war officially over. Well, maybe congress is finding it hard to decide just when it should ring down the curtain on world war II. But Mrs. America knows when she is going to call the war over, When she can walk down and buy a washing machine or toaster

{Just by saying, “I want that,” and

no longer has to put her name at the bottom of a long waiting list, - » ” WHEN she can replenish hep waning stock of Turkish towels, sheets, and pillowcases. When she can find the kind of clothes she wants for the kids, ine stead of having to take whatever: unwanted stuff is available. When her husband can no longer veto vacation plans with the proe

” » ” WE ALSO are getting ready for the 500-mile race on May 30. How imany will fly here is a guess. It has been estimated that we will have as many as 1200 planes coming in. | “I think this is pretty high. It probably will come closer to 200. If lit goes any higher we will be pretty

down. But if they come we'll handle {them. “That's our job,” he said.

Styes tend to occur in all ages, but are more common in Young persons. The infection is chused by the entrance of germs from the edge of the lid into one of the hair sacs. Pain, tenderness, and swell-| ing develop, and a yellowish point (a boil) forms on the surface.

TUMBOVE ENTERS LEGISLATIVE RACE

Thomas ©. Tumbove, Indianapolis attorney, has announced his candidacy for state representative, subject to the Democratic primary. A veteran of world war II, including three years’ service in Europe, he advocates liberal labor legislation, simplicity in government, a greater recourse to courts instead of bureaus and a state soldier's bonus He is a member of the National social science honorary society, the Lawyers association of Indianapolis, the Indiana: Bar association, the American Legion, Veterans of :Foreign Wars, G. I. League of democratic voters and young democratic club of Indiana, He is mar-

R. H. Edwards, 3701 Forest Manor ave. .

| treatment is different.

« « Her vacuum sweeper does double duty as a dandelion spray.

In its early stages, a stye Is| treated with cold compresses. As a rule this is unsuccessful so hot compresses are next applied; to] hasten the softening of the infected | tissues, As soon as the stye points,

it should be opened through an Ihe; 5

cision. Although a chalazion and a stye| have many features in common,| they are not related, and their

» - » THERE is a tendency for multiple styes to form, since germs) spread quickly along the lid. Although styes were once considered an indication of poor health, their most common cause is eyestrain. Persons who use their eyes excessively, or those who have defective vision, may develop tlie habit of rubbing their eyes: when tired. Bacteria on the lid surface are thus rubbed in, and styes result. When the eyes are used for close work, they should be rested at frequent intervals. ‘During illness and convalescence, they should be used sparingly. Reading in bed may produce eyestrain if the reading material is not held at the proper angle, or if the

ried and lived at 428 N. Bancroft st.

test that the tires might not be able to stand a trip, and with references to such unpleasantries as the over= crowded condition of hotels and res taurants.

When she can walk into a store and buy stockings two pairs at a time, the only economical way to buy them, When she can get whatever she wants at a grocery store which doesn't consider her a “steady cus tomer.” » » ” WHEN her husband can buy a new suit and half a dozen white shirts, : When “For Rent” signs come out of hiding. When hostesses in coffee shops and tea-rooms start saying, “Is this table all right?” instead of “You'll have to wait” or “You can't sit there.” When she can go ahead and let the worn-out household equipment she has coddled and babied through out the war just fall apart. Then for Mrs. America—if not for congress—the war will be over,

DANGE PLANNED FOR ELKS LODGE 13

Indianapolis Elks, lodge 13, will hold its annual spring dance Sate urday, 9:30 p. m. in the lodge rooms in the Antlers hotel. The spring event; for members and guests, will honor the newly installed exalted ruler, James O. Gribben. - John DeMasie will have charge of entertainment. Other members of the committee who will serve for the ensuing year are Frank Spooner, Carl Bwoich, Theodore Young, Justus Dodson and Shirley Turher, Ralph Lillard and his orchestra

will play during the dance,

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