Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 May 1946 — Page 17

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“THEIR RACE CAR numbers appatently were un- ' Jucky for ‘three 500-mile race drivers yesterday. Ace cording to Speedway reports, they went out in the Jap coinciding with their car number. George Bar-

ringer's No: 26 went out in the 26th lap, Henry Banks’ No. 31 left on the 31st lap and George Connor, driving No. 38, went out of the race in the 38th lap , , .

The beagle dog which deserted five very young

’ puppies when she wandered away from the E: H.

Seybert home, 5376 Guilford ave, is back in the fold. A family which found the dog read about the motherless puppies” in Inside Indianapolis. Although they had given what they thought was a stray dog to a farmer, they went to the country and got it back. The mother dog was delivered back to the Seyberts just as soon as they got back in town, about midnight. Mr. Seybert was awakened from a sound sleep so he didn't get the full name of the finders. He thinks it was a man named Crist, who lives somewhere on 4200 Kingsley dr.

Pupil Has Unusual Hobby

ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD Larry Green, son of Mr. and Mrs. Marion E. Green, a student in the fifth grade of

Larry Green and his vegetable figurines . , . His exhibit stole the show.

Berlin—A Year After

BERLIN, May 31.—Lines formed in front of the ticket windows and the lobby was filled. “air of expectant eagerness was evident around the old Stadtische opera house (one of the few theaters not completely bombed out), for Sergin Celibidache was conducting the Berlin philharmonic —and the name of Celibidache is on the tongue of every music lover in Berlin. Conductor Celibidache is young—32. He is a Romanian, thin, aesthetic, with a tremendous head of long black hair. He has been in Berlin quite a long time, having been in the philharmonic under Wilhelm Furtwangler. Wilhelm, you remember, was conductor of the philharmonic for years and finally in 1936 der fuehrer elevated him to an official position (commissioner of the arts for the third reich, or some such), which was the undoing of Wilhelm. Mr. Celibidache continued to study. He's a brilliant pianist and gave concerts. He became recognized as a genius. Today he stands head and shoulders above the rest. The orchestra played Mendelssohn's “Midsummer Night's Dream,” a short bit of Mussorgsky before the intermission. He conducted with great energy and feeling.

Lost Their ‘Freedom’

A YOUNG GERMAN motion picture friend took me back stage duri the intermission. He's an ardent fan of Mr. Celibidache, and they're close friends. The musicians, mostly German, stayed in Berlin and played throughout the war—"except those last six months.” I asked them about Mr. Furtwangler,

Science

NO ONE SEEMS to know just what was meant by the remarks of some congressmen "after the debate on naval appropriations that thé nayy had a new weapon “far more deadly than the atomic bomb.”

Because the name of Vice Adm. Ross T. McIntire, surgeon general of the navy, was linked with the statements, it has been suggested that the new weapon may be in the realm of bacterial warfare. That perennial topic of conversation, the “death ray,” is also suggested. Now there is this difference between the atomic bomb and death rays. In 1940, every atomic physicist in the world knew the scientific basis for an atomic bomb. It was a well established scientific fact, namely uranium fission. I think it may be fairly said that no scientist knows of any way of generating death rays other than those streams of subatomic particles: and penetrating radiations which are part “of the atomic bomb explosion. In other words, there is no known scientific principle which can be used as the foundation of a death ray. Of the two suggestions, therefore, that of bacterial warfare sounds more reasonable.

Not Just an Experiment

REGARDING BACTERIAL warfare, I wrote a week ago, in. discussing the addresses before the George Westinghouse Centennial Forum in Pittsburgh: “There may be ways of destroying civilization that are cheaper and simpler than attaching atomic bombs to supersonic rockets.” I was referring to the address made by George W. Merck, consultant to the secretary of war and chairman of the highly secret United States biological warfare committee during world war II

HYDE PARK (Thursday).—Here we are back In Hyde Park, having left New York City very early this morning, for I realized that traveling by car on Memorial day would not be easy. I have now moved to the country and, except for brief returns to New York for a day or a night now and then, the rest of my summer is going to be spent out of the city and I feel very jubilant about it. 1 must tell you a little about the past few days in New York, since they covered some rather interesting events. . On Tuesday morning, I went up to Hunter college and, as chairman of the human rights commission, made my report to the economic and social council. 1 had no idea how a report was supposed to be made, but I was told that the one presenting it was expected to say whatever he felt was important, then hand in the written document. This gave me an opportunity to point out that while nine members had been appointed to the nuclear commission, only six had served, and that we felt it important that the full commission should be appointed immediately.

Realize Importance of Work

WE WERE all entirely willing, if the economic and social council is able to name the full commission before our year of service runs out, to hand in our resignations, ‘ Every member realized the importance of the work which the full commission on human rights would have to undertake, and we felt it should be begun and carried through as soon as possible.

1 then .pointed out the method we had recom

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school 78, has an unusual hobby. He carves figures

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from vegetables and fruits. Last winter while pursuing his hobby of carving from cork, he heard about the vegetable carving. Encouraged by his

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principal, he did some cork and vegetable figurines for the spring hobby show at the school and his exhibit stole the show. Among the 18 objects he had on display were an elephant, made of a beet head with leaves for ears, a root for a trunk, an orange for a body and cork legs. ‘A cucumber man was made of carrot legs and pipe cleaner arms. He was reclining in a doll chair, smoking a pipe, wearing glasses and reading a miniature newspaper. Another faney one was a half grapefruit made intp a baby buggy and containing two pea pods made to look like babies. . . . One of the post race rumors is that James Melton, singer who has a large collection of old cars, is angling to buy George Robson's winning Speedway car.

Well, One Problem Is Solved

REMEMBER ‘ FORMER naval lieutenant and Mts, James P. Osgood, who couldn't figure out how to convert collarless navy white shirts to civilian wear? Well, the problem is all solved now, after Mrs. Osgood asked in Inside Indianapolis how

to make the shirts wearable. She got some 30 telephone calls and two letters from interested persons

the shirts. ‘Far from being annoyed over the constant ringing, Mr. and Mrs. Osgood are very impressed with the helpful attitude of the people who were interested enough in their problem to call They wish they ‘could take advantage of all the aid and advice offered them, but they've pleced together a solution from three callers. One woman caller told Mrs. Osgood “I wouldn't think of letting you cut up perfectly good shirts to make collars. I have material that's useless to me and you can make collars from it.” Another woman, an experienced seamstress, who often made collars, said she'd be glad to do the job. Then came the call that made everything perfect. James H. May, of the James H. May Engineering Co., read about the problem and offered his help. Mr. May, who has designed shirts and collars for one of the largest shirt manufacturers in the country, is drawing up a special design for Mr. Osgood's collarless shirts, complete with blueprint for the seamstress,

By Jack Bell

“It was wrong to give him official position,” they agreed. “One must be free, in music. he was not free; we were not free.” “But Hitler was der fuehrer, and what he did was supposed to be right,” I suggested. The musicians sneered contemptuously. reply to you, “bah, Hitler; that crank,’ my companion’s translation. “You see,” continued an old bull fiddle player coming over to me, “der fuehrer was crazy.” “Musicians are not politicians.”

Audience Eats Bread

“HITLER WOULD have it otherwise, but it cannot be so. A musician is a musician anywhere, everywhere; that's all.” The concert had started at 6 p. m. When we went back to our seats I saw the audience quietly munching bread. Virtually every patron had brought a slice or two in his pocket, her handbag. Carefully they nursed every crumb. No food must be lost. That was one meal The lights blinked, the colorful and artistic Mr. Celibidache came out. They played Tschaikowsky's 4th symphony. The crowd sat breathless through a beautiful rendition, then broke into thunderous applause—and the shy lad ordered his musicians to stand up, and retreated among them as the people applauded. Then we walked into the broken streets past crumbled buildings through a cold rain—Berlin, one year after!

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By David Dietz

This committee included representatives of both the army and the navy and many of the best known research institutions and universities in the country. “Biological warfare,” Mr. Merck, who is president of the well-known pharmaceutical house, Merck & Co., said, “can no longer be regarded as a laboratory experiment. “It has advanced far beyond the laboratory stage and its possibilities have been sufficiently explored to permit its serious consideration as a very real type of warfare.

Fear Held Hitler Back

“BIOLOGICAL WARFARE is not new. It was known in world war I, although employed only on a very limited scale. There is clear evidence that in 1915 German agents inoculated horses and cattle shipped from the United States to the allies with disease-producing bacteria. “It might have been employed in world war II, for it offered a potential avenue of attack upon us. That it wasn't’ developed and used by our enemies was due not merely to their inadequacies but assuredly to a conviction on their part that our potentialities in terms of scientific prowess and productive, capacity were far greater than-theirs.” In this regard the situation was akin to that respecting poison gas. It was assumed that Hitler refrained from the use of poison gas because of his information as to the superior types and volume of gas which this nation was ready to use at a moment's notice. Mr. Merck's definition of biological warfare is extremely wide. “Biological warfare,” he said, “is the use of bac-. teria, fungi, viruses, rickettsias, and toxic agents derived from living organisms to produce death or disease in men, animals, or plants.”

By Eleanor Roosevelt

mended for the choice of members for the commission was a compromise between two different ways of thinking. One group felt members should represent only their own governments. Give Other Points of View THE OTHER school of thought believed those serving_on_ the commission should think primarily of the rights and interests of humanity at large. Our suggestion, therefore, was that the 51 members of the United Nations should each hand in the names of two persons. These could both be nationals of that country, or one could be a national of another country. All names would be used by the economic and social council as a panel from which they would appoint members of the commission, with due regard to geographical distribution, but with particular emphasis on the qualifications of the individuals to serve on this particular commission. The subcommission on the status of women had asked for an opportunity for its chairman, Mrs. Bodie Begtrup, to present her report in person, and so I merely mentioned we had included in our report the points in theirs which seemed to us the most important to take up“first. Mrs. Begtrup suggested that, as this subcommission represented half of the world’s population, they would like to be designated as a full commission This, of course, will have to be decided by the economic and social council. Both of us were thanked

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By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D. QUESTIONS received from readers this week included the following: Question: Is brucellosis (undulant fever) completely curable? Is it on the increase? Would you advise everyone to drink pasteurized milk for this reason alone? Answer: From 2 to 3 per cent of patients with brucellosis succumb to the infection. The average duration of recovered cases is from three to four months, but about 10 per cent last from six months to three years. Occasionally, cases of long standing (eight to 10 years) have been cured.

health department. When milk is properly pasteur-

stroyed. The animal disease germs destroyed include those of brucellosis, tuberculosis, foot and mouth disease, and certain intestinal ail-

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“I've signed my name so offen my fingers hurt.” writer's cramp, the champion signed an Suiograph tor oné of his mechanics, Chet Holland.

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Pasieurized Milk Is Safe

Undulant Fever Can Be Cured

hice Tries, Then a Winner

« + The Borg-Warner 500-mile irophy and a curious crowd of thousands

provided good background for a big kiss from George Robson fo his wife at the end of his winning drive.

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ments. Germs of typhoid fever,|years old. I had infantile paralyseptic sore throat, scarlet fever,|sis when I was three years old, and diphtheria, and tuberculosis, all of |as a result, my feet were deformed. human origin, are also destroyed Is there any way in which the calby the pestenrizalion process. louses can be removed? sn Answer: It will be necessary to QUESTION: I "is exception have a surgical operation performed to your statement that a physician on your feet to correct their condican, without causing pain,’insert an |tjon before you can be free of calinstrument between the ribs and |jouses. If your physician does not with it cut the adhesions interfering |herform this operation, he will rewith lung movement. All this iS|fer you to someone who does. true, except that cutting the adhesions does cause pain. What have | you to say about this?

» QUESTION: 1 he started sun- | bathing under a sun-lamp. Will Answer: The first stage is “his cause cancer of the skin? rendered painless by inserting, ‘Answer: Cancer of the skin de-

For information as to the inci-|instrument is passed between the exposure to the ultra-violet rays in

dence of the infection in your state,|ribs ; | write to the director of the state|Ppneumonolysis) of cutting the ad-|sure in outdoor occupations.

ized, germs of both animal dis-| eases and human origin are de-|tached to the chest wall

novocaine into the tissues before the | velops, in susceptible persons, from

for the (called | sunlight, following prolongell _expoIt is hesions. To eliminate pain when | not likely that sun-bathing under the adhesions are cut, novocaine|g lamp will be harmful, if excessive

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People, people and more people . . . out after swarming in to see the 500-mile Memorial day classic.

” o " QUESTION: I have large cal-| louses on the outside of both feet,| and they hurt me a lot, I am 37

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BILL MAULDIN

3 SUMMER CAMPS

Central Indiana council of Boy | Scouts will operate three full-time) camps during the summer, C. Otto Janus announced today, He is chairman of the council's camp-| ing and activities committee. Camp Chank-Tun-Un-Gi, located 10 miles northeast of here, will be opened June 17. has been associated with the camp the last 15 years, will be director. J. W. Auble will assist. Camp Rotary at Crawfordsville will be opened July 7. Otis Phares, district Scout executive, will have| charge. The camp includes 60 acres, Camp Flat Rock, located nine miles south of Shelbyville, will be opened during July, at a date to be| announced later. It will be second] season for this site, which will be

district Stout executive, In addition, Camp Kiwanis in south Indianapolis will be available for short-term camping.

LOSING CANDIDATE SPONSORS DANCE

An appreciation dance will be given tomorrow night at Sunset Terrace for those who supported the unsuccessful Democratic candidacy of Vernon L. Anderson in the primary election. Mr. Anderson, who sought nomination as a state representative, also invited all political candidates to attend the affair, which’ will be held from 9 p. m. to 1 a. m. Duke Hampton and his orchiesir will play. A floor show will be featured. There will be no admis-

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Three times a charm , . . Grease-smudged George Robson barrelled through te win the checkered flag on his third try at the

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PARALYTIC MOTHER | STILL UNINPROVED

ALLENTOWN, Pa, (U. P.)—Allentown oy authorities said today there has been

no change in the condition of Mrs. :

Rhoda Wenger, 24-year-old San Francisco woman who gave birth to a four pound girl while in a six-month-long coma, The child, born four weeks prematurely, was reported in good, condition after three days in an incubator. Physicians said “there is no indication that Mrs. Wenger knows of the child’s birth.”

Mrs. Wenger has been in a state

These were but a few of the thousands who were trying to swarm

We, the Women Some Men Need The Wise Wives

They Spurn

By RUTH MILLETT IF IT'S TRUE what a college professor says about marriage—that the reason there are so many spinsters in «New England is that

women. there are so intelligent, and men like to' marry women who aren't as bright as they are—maybe we ought to drop the whole idea of higher education for women.

What does it profit a woman fe have brains if she can't have a

of almost total paralysis since suffering a brain injury last Nov. 30 in an automobile collision near here. Since the accident, she had| been unconscious with only a small section of her brain, independent of the injured part, keeping her alive. A normal delivery of her baby was possible because the part of| the brain controlling the process) was not injured, physicians said. At Washington, her husband, Cpl. Leland Wenger, said the baby {would be called Karen Beth, a name his wife selected before the accident. Cpl. Wenger is in Walter Reed hospital for treatment of a leg ‘injury suffered in the crash.

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husband, too? 8 8M > STATISTICS tend to back up the professor's statement. For it has long been known the more education a girl gets, the slimmer are her chances of marrying. Of course, there is one way we could double-cross the men so the girls of the future could be both smart and sought after. We could teach women the art of camouflage, how to cover up a high I. Q. with a “beautiful-bute dumb” exterior. : With the aid of camouflage, a smart girl would have just as much chance as an empty-head of share ing herself a husband. Once married, she wouldn't have to be so canny about hiding her brains. In fact, once married, she will need intelligence. For, no matter

how much men tend to fall for the

beautiful-but-dumb type, the happy, lasting marriages are usually bee tween persons who have something in common mentally. } » » » THAT ought to make a girl's hiding her brains until after marriage perfectly legitimate. After all, in 50 doing she would simply be seeing to it that her man got the kind of wife he ought to have, instead- of

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| getting their share of the husbands, the I. Q. of future generations should be raised. After all, it must often happen that Sonny gets his grains from beautiful-but-dumb Mama, rather than from brilliant Dad.

SOUTH BEND LABOR CONCILIATOR DIES

~ SOUTH BEND, Ind, May 3 (U, P.) ~Rites were planned today for William M. DeWitt, 54; labor medi ator and businessman who died

esterday. Mr. DeWitt was managing dis rector of the South Bend Citizens, Inc, a city organization for media-

And when the “smart girls-starg-