Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 May 1946 — Page 15

Inside Indianapolis

OFF TO THE RACES early, the Parks’ Teardom, 937 N., Pennsylvania at. has one of the first large

signs welcoming Speedway visitors that we've seen around town. The hand-painted sign in thé front window is complete with a welcome greeting and the traditional miniature race car.” Mrs. Roy V. Parks says the man who painted the sign told her it was the first he'd done this year, . . . A certain shop on the Cixcle which makes a practice of putting up slightly misleading signs aroused the ire of some high school students Saturday and down came the offending sign. The store had a sign saying “HOSE” ‘ : in large print. Several persons noticed it and looked at each other in bewilderment. Finally a couple of

high school ‘girls bit and went in, They came out *

steaming because the hose weré of the lace variety, not bona fide nylon or rayon. While they stood there letting - off steam one of their male friends came along and said “You don't like the sign?” Down it came, . , . We remember another time the store had a sign saying “NYLON” in big letters. Some women who saw it and almost. broke their necks getting there were pretty unhappy when they got close enough to read the tiny print that said “slips” gust below the huge letters that spelled out “NYLON.”

Practical Kindness * PEOPLE SOMETIMES , grouse about both taxi drivers and policemen being too hard-boiled, but here's an instance that proves they both can be softened up. The driver of Red Cab 38, whom the

company identifies as Lygora Green, stopped in the line of trafic near St. Clair and Pennsylvania st. the other afternoon. As he waited for the light to change, he noticed a blind man hesitating at the crossing. The driver left the cab, hurried over to the curb and helped the man across the street. By the time he returned the light had changed and his cab was blocking traffic. A policeman rushed over all set to make outa ticket, but put his pencil and pad back in his pocket when he heard the reason for the traffic violation. . Our item about street confusion brought calls from several persons who told us about other streets with similar names. There's a Washington st, blvd, court and ave. Also, a Forest blvd. lane, ave. and Forest’ Manor ave. . . . From the Hill Top-ic, monthly publication of the Indiana State Farm, we culled a couple of interesting items, Under the head “Celebrated Too Soon” it notes that one of ' the former inmates who was just freed from the farm was arrested on an intoxication charge just as he stepped from the bus taking him home. . . . In the population statistics, Hill Top-ic lists: Guilty Per-

Cupid Tricked

SOMEWHERE IN GERMANY, May 8. started as a routine pick-up at' the UNRRA camp of some 75 Russians who came under categories listing them for enforced transfer to Russian troops. It wound up in a two-day scramble that had everybody cockeyed. A small detachment of unarmed soldiers went to the camp and called off names of those slated to gef transportation to Russian lines—all Soviet citizens. But instead of wild rejoicing, women screamed, wept and begged the American soldiers not to take their husbands, their lovers. They knelt before bewildered G. 1.’s. Women held babies out of the top windows of the four-story Stalag and threatened to drop them if the soldiers took the men. Women deliberately pinched babes-in-arms to make them squawl In the classic words of a 1st division officer during the battle of the bulge, “Confusion was utter.”

‘We Are Not Going’ -

THE POOR G. 1.’s and the lieutenant called back for instructions. A Russian-speaking officer went up, explained that it was merely a routine repatriation move (which it wasn't) and the four leaders of the rebellion agreed to have all the men ready next morning. The next morning trucks went to pick up the Russians, But though they had signed the agreement, the Russians said: “No, we go only on our terms. We must be guaranteed thus and so.”

Science

ROCKETS helped the United States win the Battle of the Atlantic. Part of the story is told in the joint report on rockets issued by the office of scientific research and development, the army and the navy. " This was the key battle of world war II and much of the story is still a military secret. Hitler counted on the submarine to drive us out of the Atlantic, and had they succeeded, Great Britain would probably have gone down. In that event. there would probably have been no invasion of “fortress Europe.” Maj. De Seversky did a great deal of talking early in the war about the way in which air power had superseded sea power, but the fact of the matter is that command of the sea was just as important in world war II as in any previous war. ' Victory demanded first command of the Atlantic, then command of the Pacific. We were in the Battle of the Atlantic before we were officially in world war II. On Sept. 4, 1941, a Nazi submarine attacked the U. 8. destroyer Greer, on patrol .duty south of Iceland. = Thereafter our warships were ordered to use their guns when interfered with.

‘Ash Can’ Used First

THE CLASSIC weapon of world war I against the submarine was the depth bomb, more popular ' known from its shape as the “ash can.” The usual procedure was to drop enough depth charges to blanket the area in which a submarine had been sighted. Great claims for’ success were made during world war I, but it was found after the war less than one claim in three was correct. Early in world war II the British saw the need

My Day

NEW YORK (Tuesday).—Let us examine some of the things here at home which, I think, are jeopardizing the world as a whole. We seem to be too weak to make domestic decisions, How, then, are we going to lead in international affairs? Let me point out some of the things which stare at us from the pages of the newspapers day after day. We put off deciding what we shall do about con ~seription. It seems to me it would be fairly simple to accept the fact that there are needs which” must be met at the present time, to make a decision to cover the next few years, and then to consider what our permanent policy shall be in the light of new events. But no, we just decide to do nothing for a short time! The world is starving, and we know that even Fiorello H. LaGuardia, U. N. R. R. A. director, dynamic as he is, has not been able to get us really to face the problem. Yet we, the people, do not demand to be told what must be done and agree to do it,

Should Back Commission

WE ARE horrified when Prime Minister Attlee of Great. Britain makes an announcement that, if the

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rie with findings of the joint AnglosAmerican - commission open toe which has been studying the question of Palestine d are carried out, we must bear our share of responsie or red, bility. Yet any one must have known, when the British asked us to undertake a joint inquiry, that they would expect us to do our simre in carrying out the findings. We put good men on that commission,

ILLED i "If we believe in their findings, we should be willing to back them up.

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sons—0; Innocent Persons—=850; Men Who Will Never Do It Again—850; Applicants for Pardon--850; The total population, it concludes, is 850.

Scoop Baffles Subject A CHICAGO GOSSIP columnist carries’ the item that the Indianapolis Railways expects to put into operation, within 90 days, short-wave equipment complete with FM radio. Equipment is to go in all cars

to broadcast music and commercials to passengers, says the column, The passengers couldn't be anymore surprised to hear about the new project than the Indianapolis Railways was. A spokesman for the company says the project is being considered but that it’s still in the dream stage. The probable date for

SECOND SECTION HOOSIER CHEMIST FOUNDED

IF IT'S TRUE that an institution “is but tHe lengthened shadow of a man,” then the founder of Eli Lilly & Co. has cast his shadow around the world.

On May 10, 1876, a Hoosier chemist, Eli Lilly, opened a small laboratory near the corner of Meridian and Washington sts., and began the work which grew into one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical firms. Next Friday, on the Toth anniversaryw of that date, more than 6000 employees of the 1946 plant which occupies several square blocks will receive a book which tells the story of that “shadow” and how it grew. The book, a limited edition written by the company’s public relations director, Roscoe C. Clark, is named for the age of its subject, “Three Score and Ten.”

: son of the founder of Eli Lilly & Co. has

Josiah K. Lilly,

installation, however, is closer to 90 years than to 90 days, he said. , . . The excise and local police re- | cently pooled their forces to raid a local establish- | ment. When all their forces pulled up at the scene| to launch the big.raid, however, they were confronted | by a darkened tavern. A health board order had! closed it the day before and spoiled their fun, . We're intrigued by a sign on the door of the old Ohio Cleaners at 47 W. Ohio st. The door, which is propped open with the inside facing the sidewalk, has a sign saying “Walk In.” It reads just right the way the door is now. What's worrying us is that when the door is closed, in its normal position, the sign would be backwards for people entering and would be telling the people on their way out to “Walk In.” Confusing, huh?

By Jack Bell

Followed a three-hour argument, during which the| Russians did the arguing and the American lieutenant listened to speeches he couldn't understand. Finally he said, “I can agree to nothing, and you know it. You signed to go; are you going?” “We are not,” they shouted.

Stimulating Fist Fight

THREE COMPANIES of armed infantry rushed in. The women and children were shoved into rooms and locked in. Fists swung lustily, a few women were loose and they joined in the battle and for a time confusion once more was utter. It was a beautifully executed job. Not a shot was fired. Steadily the G. I's, having the time of their lives in a fair-for-all fist fight, took the Russians to

Just before delivering them to the Russian outposts the Americans stopped for a final check. One of the leaders who had objected most strenuously, approached the lieutenant. “No hard feelings, lieutenant,” he said pleasantly, shaking hands, “we're perfectly willing to go. But you see we had no intention of going peaceably. We couldn't walk away from our women that way: we had to make a show of fight. - Everything's all right now.” Then they. all walked jauntily over to their Russian soldier comrades, and the dazed lieutenant, remembering a two-day headache, muttered, “well, I'll be darned.”

By David Dietz

for distributipg depth charges over a given area in an instant rather than by fthe slow process of dropping them off a ship which traversed the area.

Planes Widely Used

THEY DEVELOPED a device known as the “hedgehog,” which fired the bombs ahead of the ship. This was essentially a mortar and the recoil was so great it could not be mounted on any ship smaller than a destroyer. In the autumn of 1941 the United States undertook to develop a rocket that would carry a depth bomb and which, because of the absence of recoil, could be fired from small ships. The work was undertaken by a group from the National Defense Research council at the California Institute of Technology. First tests of the new weapon were held on March 30, 1942, off San Diego. The device was nicknamed the “mousetrap” because of the appearance of the firing mechanism and by October, 1942, “mousetraps” had been installed on 100 vessels ranging from destroyer escorts to small harbor patrol vessels. They proved unusually effective. Airplanes were, of course, employed in the search for enemy submarines and the Nazi marauders were |

frequently spotted by these planes. An attempt would be made, of course, to drop a bomb on the submarine, >

At the same time the plane would radio the position of the sub to our patrol vessels. It took time, however, to bring surface vessels to the scene and there were a number. of difficulties in droppihg bombs on the sub. Accordingly, our scientists set about to develop rockets for these planes.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

” & | to pass the British loan. as walt long enough, the value to us of the use of that money by Great Britain will be far less,

Full Production, Important

THE PEOPLE seem fairly well aroused on the sub= Ject of OPA at present, but they have let it hang in the balance for months and months, until now it is very possible that, even if we succeed in gétting congress to remove the restrictions placed on OPA, it will be too late for OPA to keep the cost of living within bounds. Anyone must know that the great and important thing is to get into full production. Yet Mr. Ld | Guardia sends a letter in vain to Ezra Van Hoit,| chairman of. the bituminous coal conference, and to! John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, pointing out very clearly the effect of the coal strike on the food situation in Europe. Many of our people who have relatives in foreign countries know that, when we do not mine coal, the industries and railroads in European countries stop functioning.’ This affects world recovery, and world recovery in the long run will affect us. This is the broad picture. We can see how this type of selfishness is affecting us in the domestic picture, and yet we do nothing. We are at a point now where, if we do not get production, wages will mean very little to the average man and woman in this country, because the cost of living cannot be kept down. We, the people, must wake up and do some thinking and make some demands on our congressional leaders for positive action. Our leaders in “business” and labor must also ‘Wake up,

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only four in which sales showed a decline rather than an increase.

Mexico and Argentina.

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» » . watched the firm's growth and HERE, briefly, is its story— . As the budding industry got DPC™ 3 Part of it since ‘the be

under way, its founder and his three sinning 70 years ago.

workers had about $1200 worth of | machinery and capital to back him. The years that followed brought many economic storms and periods

wars and a couple of minor ones. But in all those years, there were 4 ” - » THE LOW point came on one memorable day in 1803 when the company received just one order, for a bottle of pills and a day's gross of $1. .. That day the two members of the shipping department tossed a coin to see which would wrap up the | day's business, The Lilly's of today has no such troubles with its branches in this country, Canada, England, Brazil, Lilly's insulin, liver - products, cines and antitoxins, to mention a few, find their way to every country on earth where. there are doctors. » = ” WITH all its expansion, the company has remained essentially a family affair. One of the three original employees was J. K. Lilly, = son of the founder and the present chairman of the board. Other officers include Eli Lilly, grandson of the original Eli Lilly, president, and = J. K.. Lilly Jr, executive . vice president. 2 While members of the family con tinued to serve actively in administration and policy-making, the corporate “family” was extended to ine clude members of the organization whose long service contributed materially to the growth of the company. Today there are about 35 active stockholders. who have been invited to participate in ownership in this way. tJ » » LILLY OFFICIALS attribute much of the organization's success to the long-range interest of the

This electron microscope is symbolic of the enterprise which keeps Lilly's abreast of swiftly moving research developments.

of-service figures are enlightening. On the board of directors, for exe ample, there is no member who has been with the company less than 30 years. If all the years served by the 465 supervisory employees were placed end to end the

GARDENING: Southern

period would exceed the length of all history—more than 6000 years.

EXPORTS OF finish pharmaceutical products to distant ports are

By MARGUERITE SMITH +MRS. A GLENN SHOPTAUGH, 8300 Westfield rd., who represents all the garden clubs of Indianapolis on the Home Show board, is a true dirt gardener. To say her experience is varied is an understatement, The Shoptaughs have. two vegetable gardens which include fruit {trees and small fruits in variety.

They raise their own plants for perennial and annual borders. Glenn Jr; ‘17, has chickens and bees. (“That window glass over his young chickens really belongs to my hot bed,” his mother told me.) Frank, 15, is mechanically minded. “I think the main reason my husband wanted two acres,” Mrs.

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Shoptaugh said, “was to give me plenty of room to raise turnip greens. He tired of seeing turnips all over the place and of eating the tough kind I bought at the store,” she laughed.

ANYONE FROM the south knows what a treat tender young turnip greens are. (Mrs. Shoptaugh is from Alabama.) We have better luck sowing the seed in rows rather than broadcasting. Then we thin out part for greens and let the rest mature into turnips.” . They raise the purple top variety. You should pick the greens young. Discard long stems. Then boil them with bacon fat, bacon skin, or best of all, a ham hock, adding some water. “I like the | ‘pot. likker’,” Mrs. Shoptaugh said. “With corn bread, that's food for {the gods.”

[ ¥ 8 nn | KOHLRABI IS another favorite vegetable. They plant” that as early as they can. A cabbage relative, it will grow in cold weather. They thin the plants in the row rather than transplant and use

them when they're not much larger than a half dollar. Peel and boil then whole, or dice and season with butter or bacon fat. Or cook them like mashed turnips and “they're one of the delicacies of {the garden.” You can plant seed now if you've| | never tried them before, They don’t | take long to mature. This year the Shoptaughs are | going to raise black eyed peas, another one of those southern specialties that go with “pot lkker and corn pone.” “Sow the seed about the time you plant lima beans,” Mrs, Shoptaugh said. © “Pick them when the pods are full but not yellow, and shell out the peas. (One of my southern friends used to pick a few imma{ture pods and slice them green | bean fashion into the pot of shelled | peas.)

” » n IF YOU LET any of .the pods mature you can shell out the peas, dry them for winter use, Mrs. Shoptaugh added.

of the original plant.

medicinals into capsules at

which the company forms between |

A far ery from the antiquated techniques of 70 years ago are these capsule-filling machines, some of which are capable of putting a rate of 175,000 a day.

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1946 WORLD'S LEADING DRUG INDUSTRY—

“Eli Lilly Co. 70 Years Old Friday

Rothschild "Hut Has 43 Rooms, Gold Plumbing

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent 4 PARIS, May 8.—I am’ lolling om the back porch of the Baron Maur ice Rothschild today. I am smoke ing’ a Havana cigar, and resting my feet on one of his granite ecupids. The baron’s out of luck, poor . He wants his shack pack (after all there is a housing short age). And who can blame him for that? It's a nice little place of 43 rooms, mostly the size of railfbad stae tions, gold plumbing, and a twoe acre back yard. ! ® ® » o THE BARON long since had fled France when Hermann Goering shipped his oil paintings to Ger many and swiped the baron’s house for a hideaway. Hermann dug himsglf an air raid shelter cams ouflaged as a rustic garden walk, He hired the best architect in

From this humble beginning 70 years ago has grown the El Lilly & Co. of today, occupying several square city blocks. This is a replica

cinnamon

bark from the East Indies and

Indianapolis apd the rest of the | senna from Africa.

world. Just a few of the strange import items are dried juice of the aloe plant which comes from the West Indies in monkey skins; asafetida from Persian Gulf ports,

Influence Helps Local Planters

Young Turnip Greens’ Called Tasty Treat B,

And though men celebrate 70th anniversaries with a backward look, Lilly and company takes the attitude that its first three score and ten is “only the beginning.”

Mrs. A. G. Shoptaugh, 8300 Westfield rd. . . . there's a memory of the south in her vegetable gardening,

they like is the “little butter bean,” Carolina Sieva in the catalogs. “We grow them on poles but you can just let them climb anywhere and how they produce—right up to frost.” They sow Bibb lettuce in rows, thin out part of the plants to use as leaf lettuce, The rest will curl into little heads without further coaxing. As for sweet potatoes: “One year I had two bushel baskets and a tub full of sand and sweet potatoes in my kitchen for weeks,” Mrs. Shoptaugh said. “The

boys bury the whole potatoes in plenty of sand and keep it moist. Then as the plants grow we pull oft 256 or 50 at a time when the ground is just right to plant, and a week or so later we: can pull another 25, We like to ‘raise our own plants then we don’t have to set out 400 all at once.” ” » ” WE FINISHED our discussion of gardening. with delightful speculation about the day when Indianapolis may have a large flower show. When -it does, undoubtedly Mrs. Shoptaugh will be helping.

PLAN TRYOUTS FOR TEEN TALENT SHOW

The Jolly Jumpers Jive teen canteen will hold preliminary tryouts for their teem talent show at 7:30 p.m. Friday at school 43. The show will be held May 27. Judges for the tryouts will be Mrs. Richard Lieber, Miss Bobbie Clellan, Mrs. Norma Koster and Miss Jackie Lawson. Jim Yike and Ed Pierre are adult sponsors and

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TEEN CANTEENS WILL ENTERTAIN MOTHERS

Members of Southside Smoothies, Keystone Kanteen and Garfield Boogie Barn teen canteens will attend a mother-and-daughter dinner at 6:30 p.m. today at the South Side community center. : Speakers will include Mrs. E. A. Piepenbrock and Mrs. H, H. Amholter. Mrs. Norma Koster, vocalist, and Miss Ruth Smith, win load orn uy

France to design the drinking room. [It is a beauty, All walnut paneling, mirrors and cream-colored | leather chairs, Only Fatso soon found himself occupied in other places we need not mention here. He gave his stolen mansion to the luftwaffe as an officers’ club. ] German fliers must have found it pleasant, too, nestled between the British embassy and the presidential palace. So the f\allies marched into Paris.

THE FRENCH assigned the house

officers. And that’s what it ree mains today while the baron in New York makes plaintive. sounds about how he would certainly like to move inte his own home again some day, maybe. I hate to make him feel worse,

4 but the present occupants refuse

to be evicted.

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ONE OF THE members invited _ me to lunch in the dining room, which is white and gold and crystal. The main decoration is a life size statue of a man in black mare ble, so naked that the gallant British try to seat theit feminine guests with their backs to ft. This is difficult when the room Tis- crowded, which it usually is. The ladies are getting their anate omy lessons with their lamb chops, » rd -

THE LUNCH, I regret to report, was canary bird size. The chame pagne was served on the back tere race under a red umbrella and flowering chestnuts. The cigar was fair. The scenery was downright magnificent. I managed to explore the whole establishment, including Hermann’s bombproof shelter which is begine ning to cave in, and Baroness Rothschilds bath; The latter is a green marble chamber 40 feet square. It ‘has «one wall of ene graved crystal and one marble door. The massive tub has golden faucets. The baron's theater contains a stage not quite as big as the one at Loew’s Palace in your town. And the poker room has so many roriental snakes on the wall that I don’t see how the baron ever kept his mind on straight flushes.

We, the Women

Married Women Credited With Greater Success

By RUTH MILLETT

AT A CAREER conference held in a midwestern college, coeds were told by ‘a woman speaker: “Let's face it. Marriage isn't for every woman, Every one of you probably wants a husband, but if you're going to get married just to be married, don't do it. If you find a satisface tory career, you can live alone and like it.” There is nothing wrong in that advice, except that. the speaker should have pointed out that if a girl does take a first-rate career in preference to a second-rate mare riage, she will never be considered a really successful woman by hee family, her friends, or even her cass ual acquaintances.

” » » THE MORE successful she is, the more other people will try to find reasons for pitying her. “She must lead a lonely life,” they will say, even if she goes out five times to the average housewife's once. And always and forever there will be other women looking her over critically and saying, “I wone der why she never married.” Of course, if she had made a second-rate. marriage there would have been those who said, “I won= der what she sees in HIM?” But in that comment there is always the admitted possibility that there is something to be seen.

. ” » ” IF SHE doesn't marry, it will never be granted that she might have seen something ‘very fine in a career. The speaker should have pointed out this trust to the coeds in no uncertain terms, For it meanp that the woman. who is self reliant and courageous enough to take a first-rate career instead of a second-rate marriage Has to cling to that courage and self. assurance the rest of her life, in the face of the world's readiness to feel sorry for her.

Baron, you better sign a lease

to the British as a club for thelr

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