Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 April 1946 — Page 9

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Inside Indianapo

LOCAL TIPPLERS, who indulge too much mey end up on sliding hoard if City Councilman R. "C. (Bud) Dauss has his way.” Mr. Dauss is disturbed because policemen must lug drunks up “two flights of narrow steps to book them. Very often the officers have to fight with the drunks on the steps and more often .they have to carry them up piggyback. This, reasons Mr, Dauss, .is flirting with the risk of a dangerous fall down the steep stairs. What's more, he says, policemen are meant to be policemen, not carthorses for drunks. His solution is to take over the military lock-up room in the basewenf, which was used during the war to confine soldier's until they sobered up. Usé this, suggests Mr. Dauss, as a civilian sobering-up room. And to get them down there, install a chute—“sort of like a sliding board used in kiddies’ parks,” He'd use a gradual slide, so the trip wouldn't be too swift, and pad it at the bottom so the drunks couldn't get banged up. Let ‘em. sober up down there: and walk up to be slated

Bartender Norman Eggers and the clock . . . Time marches on—backwards!

Buckshot Bonanza By Robert J. Casey

LAS VEGAS, April 29.—Out beyond the gunnery school which was one of the war's busiest institutions, John W. Ballance, former G. I. and old-time miner, is literally cleaning up in an operation something like finding needles in haystacks. Mr. Ballance is netting something like ‘$100 a day by picking lead buckshot off the deserts dusty face. Mr. Ballance’s mine is the old skeet range where prospective airplane gunners were taught to .follow moving targets with clay pigeons and shotguns. The pellets from the shotgun shells are scattered over a couple hundred grassless, blistered acres, but with the aid of five other ex-soldiers, Mr. Ballance is gathering them in at the rate of more than a ton and ‘a half a day. The end of his “lode” is not yet in sight. It was the sight of little ridges of shot spread out like caviar in occasional open spots among the sage brush and pebbles that gave Ballance his idea to work the field over. However, a couple of experts who visited the, scene reported the total recovery of lead for the - entire area wouldn't be more than a ton and.that the cost would be prohibitive.

Diggings Prove Worthy of Effort IN THE FACE of these findings he applied for

8 government contract, recruited a crew and invented one of the most ingenious separation processes that

. has been seen since the discovery of the miner's

pickax. He hasn’t had a bad day since. The first step is sheer hard labor. Men with spades scrape off the desert surface and toss it

* against slanted screens. A wide mesh at top dis-

courages the big pieces of rock. A finer mesh below

Aviation

DENVER, April 20.—The army air forces has lifted wartime secrecy for a war-born radar device capable of locating from the air any spot on the earth's surface with all but perfeet accuracy. A. A" F, experts said the contrivance, called *Shoran”—short for “short range radar,” was the greatest geographic invention since the compass and opened vast areas of the world to mapping. The “Shoran” technique of electronic charting was hailed as the “answer te extremely accurate direction of automatically controlled missiles and other weapons” and also as the beginning of a new era of navigation. : The complicated radar device, developed originally for “through-the-overcast” bombing, is being turned by a special A. A. F. board to the gigantic peacetime job of producing a new and accurate map of the face of the earth.

For Use All Over W id

THE MAPPING possibilities have been assigned to the 311th reconnaissance wing of the A. A. F. and two business concerns—Radio Corp. of America and the Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co.—for further development in the geodetic field. Lt. Col. Carl I. Aslakson of the 311th reconnaissance wing said the device makes possible a geodetic control network of the entire world and for plotting the distance of every point within a few feet of every other point on the globe. “Shoran” will poke its charting fingers through miles of water to map the depths of thé oceans and

My Day

. HYDE PARK (Sunday).—So many tributes have been paid in the last few days to Chief Justice Harlan Stone I have waited until now to add my little word

of appreciation for a very great citizen. He was a liberal and stood out many tines for the liberal point of view. I think.the quality which a casual acquaintance, such as I was, sensed most keenly about him was his calm courage. I knew if he believed in a thing, he would stand by it. He and Mrs. Stone always seemed to me a wonderful couple, in complete sympathy in the way they faced life and lived it. I only hope that having had years when the problems of life could be shared, Mrs. Stone as she now faces life alone will be able to draw strength from the past. Justice and Mrs. Stone lived together with so much purpose in life that I am quite sure she will find the courage to continue to work toward ends they both believed in,

Praises Stone's Work LIVES such as Chief Justice Stone's contribute to the character of a nation. Each life is a brick in the nation’s wall of defense, for the spirit of the good man strengthens the spirit of those who take up his fight and follow after him, My aunt, Mrs. David Gray, and I drove up to Hyde Park yesterday morning in the cold and rain. Part of the time it was actually snowing; but when

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Clock Is Backward

NO, THE PICTURE ip the column today isn't.re< versed. That's just how the clock at Corky's tavern, 61 Virginia ave. looks—backwards. The hands run counter clockwise and the numbers are in reverse order. As a matter of ‘fact the whole thing works in reverse of ordinary clocks, Miss Hazel Cross, the manager, says the clock grew out of a brainstorm several years ago. They decided such a clock would be a novelty so they had a friend re-do their timepiece.

Since then it's caused a lot of commerit and a lot of | i

double-takes from people who thought for a minute that last one was one too many. the police station were taken down when summer weather came along a week ago. Friday they de-

cided they'd been to hasty so shivering workers got}:

the doors out-of-sterage and put them back up while shivering policemen watched, . . . Is our face red? We kidded because a book list had “A Star Is Born” listed as a best seller, instead of “Star of the Unborn.” H. P. Van Sickle, 32 Whittier pl., writes to tell us Frederic March was Janet Gaynor’s co-star in the picture. We said it was Charles Farrell. That'll teach us to make fun of someone else's mistakes.

Pigeons Conquer Spikes THE PIGEONS have finally conquered the Athletic club’s pigeon proofer, according to Ross Christena. The ¢lub put up a series of spikes, like a Hindu bed, along the ledge to discourage pigeons who were roosting there. Now Mr. Christena says some of the wise birds have completely trampled down a section so that birds can sit in there one at a time. Mr. Christena says it's an oasis in a maze of upright barbed points. . » The Fdianapolis Camp Fire Girls think they have a good selling point for their first annual do-nut drive. As you can see, they've taken the “ugh” out of doughnut. May 11 will be Do- (no ugh) nut day in IndianaPolis and deliveries to homes will be made the first three Saturdays in May. The drive opened last Saturday . .

sifts out “the concentrates which have the appear ance of ordinary building gravel. Final separation is accomplished with a gadget that resembles nothing else in the world. The gravel is poured into a hopper on tbp of a framework of two-by-fours slightly larger than a kitchen sink. It feeds into a, slanting trough past a couple of rainwater pipes toward a collector bucket. :

Stands to Clear $16,000 BUT by what looks to be a sort of continuing miracle, the gravel never gets to the bucket. The rain water pipes are connected to a gasoline-driven air compressor. A blast of air hits the concentrates as they leave the hopper, taking out .the sand in a swirling cloud. At the lip of the trough above. the collector bucket a vacuum in the second pipe removes the gravel and “dumps it in a neat pile. What goes into the bucket finally is unadulterated buckshot. This sells on a fixed market for 6 cents a pound. A bucket takes about three minutes to fill, holds 100 pounds, Mr. Ballance pays his crew a cent and a half a pound for what they take out. Another half cent goes to the government on his contract. Y His other exptnses are a few gallons of gasoline a day and the wear and tear on his shovels. The men in three weeks of the operation have averaged $72 apiece every week. Mr. Ballance estimates-the total yield of the buckshot deposit will run. to 200 tons. At a net of 4 cents a pound he stands to clear around $16,000 before the last buckshot is picked up. After that he expects to get to work on the pistol range. - The technique of that operation is something he still has to figure out.

By Webb Trout

seas and the trackless spaces of the earth's surface. Vast unchartered areas of the Amazon valley, China, Siberia, Africa and other regions for the first time will be pinpointed and utilized in aerial and navigation Lt. Col. Aslakson said.

The device already has proven itself invaluable in|

tests conducted in the Rocky Mountain region. The U. .&: coast and geodetic survey used “Shoran” in surveys of the ocean bottom around Alaska. The agency will use “Shoran” in surveys along the Maine coast this summer, and later it will be used to chart the Carribean and the reaches .of the Pacific.

Electronic Devices Used THE TECHNICAL side of “Shoran” is an intricatg| system of very high frequency radio waves which are transmitted and measured in terms of miles but in feet when necessary. Key to the astounding accuracy of the device is a “triangulation” formed by “pips” sent from two transmitters in a plane to two stations located on the ground. The ground stations, located about 100 miles apart, pick up the pulse signals and flash them back to the plane. During the war, a mathematical method of triangulation coupled with the “pips” located the exact position of the airplane or the intended target bebecause the distance between the ground stations was known and—through the radio signals—the distance of the plane from each station also was known. The triangulation is automatically computed by electronic devices and distances are shown on a meter similar to the automobile speedometer.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

we arrived, Fala greeted us with such warmth I had | to take him for a walk in the woods at once; regardless of the weather.

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Rain Saves Thousands of Trees

A BRIGHT wood fire burned on my hearth and when I got back I was glad to warm myself in front of it. Yesterday we had several guests at lunch. Then] Mrs, Gray and I went to the old house to hunt for| various things which belonged to other people and| which my mother-in-law had stored for them. I had been meaning to find them and send them to their owners ever since I moved them to the cot-| tage, but I have been neglectful. Triumphantly I| discovered them all and I hope this week they will] start to their destinations. | Whenever I look at the accumulation of things I| still have to. sort, and whose eventual disposition I| must decide, I am really filled with dismay as to when I shall find the time. Then we went over to the big house, as Mrs. Gray wanted to see it again. We found even in this bad weather there were .a goodly number of people wandering around and seeing the sights. We came back at last and hugged the- fire, but were nevertheless very grateful for the rain—for it Has served several thousand fittle trees which we planted, and I am sure has meant a great deal to all of the farmers of the neighborhood.

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SOUTH HAVEN, Mich, April 20

(U. P.) —Louis H. Rubenzik, sum- [ing Rifas.

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mer resort operator, Said a Chicago court had ordered the body of his daughter, Fay, 48, exhumed today as authorities investigated possibili1ies she may have been poisoned. x Miss Rubenzik died last Nov. 15 at Wymore, Neb.,-her will left niearly $1,000,000 in redl estate holdings to her business partner, Samuel L. Rifas, Kansas ‘city. Funeral services and burial were in Chicago where the woman operated a beauty : 4 |

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Mr. Rubenzik said he believed his daughter was poisoned and after months of investigation had ‘conferred with Chicago authorities. Assistant State's Attorney John L. Phillips . obtained the exhumation order from Judge Harold ‘G. Ward in an effort to determine the true cause of her death. The father also is fighting ‘execution of the will in Kansas City courts.” Cause of Miss Rubenzik’s death

Miss Rubenzik and Mr. Rifai were engaged in buying and selling hotel properties. Mr. Rubenzik said Mr. Rifas had promised to marry his daughter as {Soon as he obtained a divorce, Besides the parents, Miss Rubenzik was survived by three brothers, Dr. Harry L. Rubens, a Chicago dentisf; Dr, EU Rubens, South Bend, Ind. physician, and B. H. Rubenzik, Mercantile Trust and National bank, Chicago.

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SECOND ‘SECTION

“Crucifixion”

“Some Monday Morning” . . . Gordon R. Kelly,

“Cologne, Germany,”

By ANTON SCHERRER IRONY IS almost always a sign of maturity. In a nation as well as in a man it marks the end of ado-

| lescence and the beginning of con-

sciousness; which is to say that irony—the genuine, and ‘not the covert kind—reveals an awareness of things as they actually are rather than what we would have ourselves believe they are, For this reason it is perhaps newsworthy that this awareness is now apparent in Hoosier-produced art; and, what is better still, investing it with" a seriousness and earnestness—even with a significance—that naivete seldom achieves.

In support of which I cite “Crucifixion,” the picture accorded the Art association prize ($300) for the most meritorious work submitted in the 39th anuual exhibition of Indiana artists. The show, embracing 108 hand-picked items of painting and sculpture, opened yesterday at the John Herron Art institute and will

| conitinue through June 2 (except on

Mondays-and Memorial day). " » " THIS YEAR'S show is the most serious .and, certainly, the most impressive of any held in the last five years. I can't account for its excel-

show contains a great deal of work| submitted by youngsters who felt | | the full impact of the war. And| among these is Harry’ Allen Davis| {Jr., the 32-year-old Hillshoro-born | boy who painted “Crucifixion.”

With terrifying directness, but not

{ without a pity for humanity in gen-|Greene concerns himself with the

eral, Harry Davis drags the inner | essence from the scene to which he and his buddies have returned. For example, he relegates the three crosses. to a remote and relatively unimportant corner of his canvas, leaving himself plenty of room to portray the behavior of those who happened to be around on the day of the execution. A pathetically small group is huddled on. the hill. As for the rest, all have their backs turned to the Cross. Some are gossiping; some are haggling; some are plotting the price of tomorrow's bread and, no doubt, the possibility of another war. All are preoccupied with their own petty affairs. And what alarms one even more is the discovery that some of the faces portrayed strangely resemble those seen on Washington st. today. All of which might lead you to suspect that Mr. Davis shrieks at-the top of his voice to get his message across, Not at all.| He is a polite. painter. Indeed, his indignation, is rooted in the power of understatement. »

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is another adult. {His picture, “Disorder and Early | Sorry,” received the Board. of Direc-| tors prize ($200), It, too, is an example of comment rather than of’ statement. And, strangely enough, [it also includes the three crosses. With this difference, however: Mr.

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confine themselves without benefit of e bewilderment of the spectators; a 22-year-old Rich whereas, Mr. their indifference, {enough (40) to be For fear .of fooling you, I feel Herron Art school. compelled at this point to dispel | Mr. Kelly captur any notion. that irony (or, indeed, | |& Co. prize ($150) comment of any kind) is a neces-| Monday Morning,” sary part of art, or to be exalted] | nostalgic reporting

for its own sake. Perhaps the great-| does, a well-laden

est paintings are free of it; for, backyard. Apparently, Soldier Kelly

when you get right down to it,/ hasn't yet learned

comment implies a certain sense of absence Wash-Monday went into superiority of the artist over his the discard along with a lot of other implies| American institutions.

subject. For instance, it amused tolerance, or contempt, or| x» utter ‘condemnation, as exemplified] MR. MATTISON in the provocative prints and paint-{J -1. Holcomb prize ings of Daumier and Goya, to name | “Candy Store,” only. two. On

Glotto, Greco and Rembrandt (tofeyeing. and appraising a distracting! {number..of, bowls containing sweet-| | meats and sugar plums, the sale of|

name only three) rarely, if ever, took advantage of it. nN which is limited to I DON'T KNOW whether yowigon., The theme is. {realize it or not, but right now I've number of variation

gotten myself out on a limb, Per-'in a few years (and

haps as good a way as any to save thirk) the same two little girls will myself is to resort to compromise be acting in precisely the same way. | and say that if satire in a painting In‘ that case, the painting will be;

can increase .its meaning or mes- labeled “Hot Shop sage then, by all means, let's have awarded Mr. Matt

it: which, apparenuy, | is $Rukly the the premiatéd o ‘oil paintings.

“Ruined Cathedral, Manila” , . . Garo Antreasian.

. » Donald M. Mattison. this year's judges figured fit

The foregoing apology, piece in fairfless to those -painters| who leave well enough alond and| this category are Gordon A. Kelly,

Davis concentrates on! Donald M. Mattison who

a delectable picture, the other hand, portraying two little girls enviously|

and Early Sorrow” . . . Stephen Greene.

“Nude” . . . David K. Rubins,

Three awards were made in the category limited to water colors. All three were captured by soldiers. Stranger still is the discovery that all three soldiers concerned themselves swith ecclesiastical subjects.

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Charges 'R | Union Activities

By FRED W. PERKINS Gi WASHINGTON, “April 29. ~Much lifting of eyebrows at Communists with power in American Jabot unions is credited here today for X obvious efforts within the C. I. Oo. to Fid ltsel! of an aggressive and disturbing element. 3 Among recent exposes of he subject is a special report of the Research Institute of America. It points out to businessmen that “whether your company will have stable labor relations may, curie ously, depend on future n or Russian foreign a arloan It says férvent believers in communism, even those born (un America, place foreign considerations: ahead of legl alms of trade unions, » . ” “SOVIET FOREIGN policy is the barometer of the activities of a C. P.-dominated union,” says the Research Institute bulletin. “Amer« ican C, P.'ers live by one Pringiple-s

The Research Institute of Amore fca is directed by Leo M. Cherne, well known business analyst of New | York. Its chief economist is Leon Henderson, Its labor division is headed by Aaron Levenstein, who has a wide reputation in this field. None of them has been known - a “red-baiter.” The institute report has been ‘studied by leaders of the A. F, of L. which is stated to have “no important Communist leaning in any

though “a number of the locals (in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle and Cleveland) are led by ‘left-wingers." on i JHE REPORT has been studied also by C. I. O. leaders. A copy was sald to have been under scrutiny of the resolutions coms mittee in the Atlantic City cons vention of the C. I. O. utility work= ers, which took the unusual course of barring Communists from mem=bership. “It is safe to say,” the institute says, “that Communists don’t con-' trol the national C. I. O., but leftwing unions do carry an impressive minority bloc of votes on the executive board. Sympathizers occupy important positions in the national administrative organization.” The institute observes, “C.P, success through canny politics is best illustrated in the C. I. O. today. In the fight between the C. 1. O. and the A. F, of L. (now. reine forced by John L. Lewis) C. I. O, President Murray needs every po-

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® 8 = : “THOUGH OPPCSED to the Communists,” .- the report cqus tinues, “Mr. Murray retains them in the strategic positions to which Mr. Lewis had appointed them: and Mr. Lewis put them there originally because he wanted to use Come munist organizing talent during the formative years of the C. 1. O. - “The unification of the A. F. of I and C. I, O. would fairly quickly reduce Communist influence in the

labor movement. Understanding ths, Communists will emphasize their opposition to such coa= lition.”

Nelson Williams (New York City) received the Mrs. Edgar H. Evans prize ($100) for “Prayer,” a powerful and poignant performance. The Junior League prize ($100) went to Garo Antreasian (Indianapolis); and the Art association prize (850) John Phillip Guyer (New or Mg Both recall vivid memories of the war—in the one case, “Ruined Cathedral, Manila” and in the other,

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” THE MORRIS GOODMAN prize! ($150) for the best piece of sculpture was awarded to David K. Ru-| bins for his “Nude”-—a woman, of course, Limited as is my knowledge of women (both dressed and undressed), I feel I know enough to

the outstanding work of the entire exhibition, The sensitiveness with which he has received his subject and the resultant subtlety of model-| ing is really something to rave about. Indeed, it is one of the loveliest things ever to come out of Indianapolis. At any rate, I came home feeling that “all's well with| the world.”

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We, the Women——

Law Says N.Y. Landlords Must Accept Babies

By RUTH MILLETT | WELCOME to the world, Junior. New York landlords may not hang out any such signs over legislation {just signed by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey which will make it a misdemeanor for a landlord to demand {in a lease stipulation tenants will not have any bables during the term of the lease. But the law itself is a welcome sign to babies of the future. . Mr. and Mrs. New York who already have houses or apartments are freed of one fear in regard to {having children—that if they do, they will no longer have a roof over their heads. LJ » » |AND childless young couples Who are house-hunting in the big city henceforth may be able to find a = (place to live just by promising that |they are sober people, with perma nent positions, who have no pets land give no big parties. | UNLESS, of course, something new creeps into the house- and aparts |ment-wanted advertisements. We |already are familiar with such pleas las: “Civilian couple, no children or pets, husband permanently ems ployed, desire house or apartment, References.”

WITH the new legislation in New York, some house-hunters may start inserting, “Wife past child« bearing age,” or “Couple cannot have children,” in their advertise | ments. It's a pretty personal a but house-hunters during the few years in their efforts to aps pear desirable to landlords have come through with ‘all sorts of ine formation about themselves. ! may not hesitate to be even a more personal—if it means ; PLACE TO LIVE.

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pils of Indianapolis publie music departments will get way at 1:30 p. m. May 6 at, as