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Inside Indianapolis

EVERY DAY GOVERNMENT agencies get a little

. bit more secretive. Both the city hall health depart-

ment and the OPA have instructed workers not to open thelr mouths to newspapermen, but to refer all queries to an official “mouthpiece.” Now we hear about a telegram sent to all civilian production administration offices last April 22, ordering directors not to disclose the names of applicants whose petitions for building approval had been rejected. Al-

* though this is theoretically a matter of public record,

it is not possible to obtain the names of unsuccessful applicants. The names of successful applicants, hows, ever, are sent to newspapers voluntarily, The tele-

.gram ordering the clampdown is supposed-to have

come from two Washington officials, Clarence Wood ruff, director of the bureau of field operation, and Maxey Morrison, director of the information division. . Phillip Nesbit, of 1848 N. Kessler blvd. who recently returned from Hollywood, got a first look at a motion picture filming while visiting the movie capital. He saw several pictures, including “Road to Utopia” and “Song of Nevada” being shot.

Awaits Letter With Good News

THE L. 8. AYRES & CO. AUDIT department is all on edge, waiting for the arrival of a certain letter to one ef its employees, Miss Jean Monaghan, of 107 8. Belmont ave. The létter is to confirm the publication of a song by Miss Monaghan “In a Paris Cafe With You” by a Los Angeles firm. The song was

Miss Jean Monaghan , » . She's waiting for a letter from California.

Klan Aroma

ATLANTA, Ga. June 5-—Whatever may be the scope and influence of the ku klux klan elsewhere, it certainly has stirred up a distinctive aroma in these parts. The state bureau of investigation and the public safety department are investigating to discover if the revived klan is an illegal menace. Attorney General Eugene Cook, under instructions from Gov. Arnall, is looking for grounds for quo warranto proceedings against the organization to end what its charter laughingly designates as its benevolent activities. The federat government has filed suit to collect $685,305 in back taxes, alleged to be unpaid for 20 years, A demand for an investigation of the klan by the FBI was made earlier this month by the Geargia legislative council, composed of representatives of the A. P. of L, C. 1. O. and independent unions. Meanwhile, Dr. Samuel Green, Georgia klan grand dragon, sits on his throne and issues small statements in a general way maintaining the justice and good sense of his mission, : In matters of detail pertinent to the present ruckus, Dr. Green declines to argue.

Nobody Overly Concerned NOBODY in these parts seems to have given much thought to the klan when Dr. Green began talking about its reincarnation some months ago. For that matter nobody seems to be overly concerned about its growth or prospects at the moment. The klan’s membership drive got into the hair of Gov. ‘Arnall May 9 when it came out into the open with a badly-dressed pageant of initiation.

Science

A BASIC purpose of the McMahon bill, the atomic energy act of 1946, is to provide for the widest possible freedom of scientific research in the field of atomic energy. This is extremely important. The senate adopted the McMahon bill last week and it now goes to the house for action. The bill sets up government control of atomic energy under a full-time civilian five-man commission. There is, however, a military liaison committee appointed by the secretaries of war and navy and in the case of disagreement between the commission and the committee, the secretaries of war and navy may ask the President to render a decision. In its analysis of the bill, the McMahon committee pointed out that it recognized that continued progress will depend, in the future as in the past, upon the free and disinterested work of the thousands of scientists and research workers in private laboratories and universities throughout our country and in the world. : The committee states that in drafting the bill ft was particularly careful not to insert prohibitions or restrictions of any nature on scientific research.

Independent Research Controlled

THE CONTROL OF the atomic energy commission over independent research is restricted to the minimum necessary to protect national security and to prevent hazards to the public safety and health, Under the terms of the McMahon bill, the atomic energy commission is directed to assist private and public institutions extend their fund of knowledge in the following fields: 1: The basic phenomena which go in the nuclei

of atoms. : 2: The theory and production of atomic energy,

My Day

NEW YORK (Tuesday).—What rain we have been having! To see a blue sky and the sun yesterday was someru.ng really to shout about. The other day, one of my Hyde Park neighbors recited to me the Dutchess county farmers’ lament, and I think it holds good for many other parts of the country. It runs thus: “In March, the weather is so beautiful that all the buds come out, and then, in April, we have winter again and everything is frozen. In May and early June, we practically have floods, and everything we plant -is washed away or rotted in the ground. In July and early August, we have one continuous drought, and everything that was not drowned is burned up. “Then comes harvest time and, with one voice, we all lament: “There is so much produce on the market that the prices one, can get make it hardly worthwhile to grow anything.’ ”

‘Equality for All Persons’ IN READING about the discussion which occurred when the economic and social council took up the report of the human rights commission, I thought John G. Winant, our delegate, put very well the position of the United States and most of the other nations on the importance of freedom of information. There were two additional points, however, which I think the delegate from the USSR, Nicolai J. Feonov, did not quite understand. The main business of the full commission on ‘human rights will be to write a bill of rights which will include @ll the points, we hope, which Mr.

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SE » Local Composer accepted for publication about three. months- ago, and Miss Monaghan's co-workers are anxious to learn if it will be a success. An employee of Ayres 10 years, Miss Monaghan has written one other song, “Barber From Santa Barbara,” but-it was not published. . . . The children who grew up during the war are. having their own reconversion problems. Norman Newburg, of 3036 Ruckle st., recently asked his five-year-old daughter, Susan, if she'd like to have a banana split. The girl, who grew up during almost-bananaless war years, hesitated a minute, then slowly answered: “Y-e-s, but I'd rather have a whole one.” . . . Race car 39, which Bill Sheffler drove in the 500-mile race was attracting a lot of attention

yesterday at a filling station at 16th and Meridian st, where it was parked.

Radio Programs . Available A LOT OF PEOPLE apparently are wondering why patients at Sunnyside sapitarium are not allowed Jo have individual radios. The reasons, says Dr. Frank Jennings, superintendent, are many, but there are two principal ones. The first is that ‘tubercular patients need a lot of rest, and the blare of several radios in one room isn't very restful. Anyway, the sanitarium has a central radio system, and each bed is equipped with a set of earphones. The system plays continuously from 7 a. m. to 9:30 p. m., with the exception of a two-hour period during which patients are to have absolute rest. The centralized radio is now equipped to play only one program at a time, so the schedule is decided by patients, who vote on which program they wish to hear at a certain hour. Eventually, Dr. Jennings says, he hopes the system will be enlarged to relay three or four programs, giving patients a range of choice. ... A 4-year-old boy wandered into the record department at Sears Monday night and announced to the clerk that he wanted to hear “some wecords.” The desk clerk put on some records she thought a 4-year-old boy might like and he listened appreciatively for a while. Then he began demanding a special request, which she couldn't quite decipher. It sounded something like “One-sie Twosie” but it must not have been because the boy kept getting more and more irate and repeating his lisppunctuated request. The clerk finally saw that he was pointing to an album of “Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks,” a tone poem by Richard Strauss, not generally popular with pre-school age youngsters. Just when she decided she had a quiz kid on her hands his parents, who'd been searching the store, rushed up and dragged the lad away, although he still was protesting he wanted to hear “Merry Pwanks.” The bewildered clerk might have been less confused if she'd known her visitor was Jonathan Lewis, whose father, Richard Lewis, exposed his son to classical music when he was the music critic for The Times.

By Robert J. Casey

The kleagles and wizards made a journey to Stone mountain. They burned a firey cross and swore in a number of kandidates estimhated at 600 by Dr. Green—and at 150 by photographers who had been invited to witness the konclave,

Arnall Calls Attorney General

FORMER GOVERNOR Eugene Talmadge, who is seeking a return to office, announced he would accept klan support in his campign. And after that a large percentage of the electorate began to be annoyed with the old order. The situation continued to simmer, Gov. Arnall had announced his intention to look into the klan. Then the klan brought the matter to a head by threatening to run Gov. Arnall out of public office if he continued to interfere with its post-war program fos a better and livelier world. Gov. Arnall, mentioning in effect that he was tired of all this nonsensey called in the attorney general. State action against the organization is promised on the supposition that it is not a non-profit corporation or bena fide fraternal order and that it

has violated the terms of its charter by interfering

in politics.

The investigation will have to prove these points

or produce evidence that the klan has performed illegal acts before a suit to dissolve it can be brought. ; Failure in that, the governor has indicated that he will call a special session of the legislature to revoke the charter under which Dr. Green operates,

By David Dietz

including processes, materials and devices related to such production. 3: The utilization of fissionable and radioactive materials for medical, biological, health or military purposes. 4: Industrial uses of fissionable and radioactive materials. 5: Health protection during such researches or uses.

U. S. Controls Explosive Materials

THE COMMISSION is permitted to put equipment or machinery at the disposal of universities,

research institutions, etc., or to enter into contracts

with them for loans, grants-in-aid, etc.

In addition, the commission is directed to carry

on researches of its own. The bill, however, sets up an absolute government monopoly ‘in the production of fissionable

materials. There .are provisions for amending the

bill to conform to international agreements and it

must be assumed, therefore, that if Mr. Bernard M. Baruch, our delegate to the United Nations’ atomic

energy commission, follows the general plan of the Lilienthal report, this monopoly of the production of fissionable material will, in time, be turned ever to the United Nations atomic development authority. The McMahon committee points out that since fissionable material. is the basis of the atomic bomb,

it is unthinkable that such production ‘be left in

private hands.

The committee states, however, that it has done government monopoly of the production of -the basic materials with the utilization of these materials under our sys-

everything possible to reconcile this

tem of free enterprise.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

In- the meantime, the material necessary for the commission's information is to be gathered by the secretariat, if the report's recommendations are accepted by the economic and soclal

Feonov mentioned.

council. Information Freedom Vital,

A SUBCOMMISSION on freedom of information was considered vital as an aid to making this international bill of rights more than just a collection

of words to which nations would give lip service

Unless we have freedom of information, there will be no knowledge of whether nations do or do not carry out their promises, and so even the best bill of rights that could be written would be worth-

less.

1 was very much interested in reading C. I. O. President Philip Murray's analysis of the Case bill and his plea to the President. This bill is not an emergency measure to meet an emergency situation. It is a permanent bill which will affect our future

labor conditions in the country as a whole.

I think that, instead of bettering them, it will bring us more trouble and bitter resentment on the Certainly that is not what

part of organized labor. we want. I hope the President will veto the Case bill.

.the country as a whole. t,

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SECOND SECTION

By LARRY STILLERMAN

ONCE THE CENTER of the nations most extensive state network of interurban lines, the Indianapolis Traction Terminal station will celebrate its 42d birthday next September, But therell be no time off for ceremonies. Business is too brisk. Not many Hoosiers recall the first rust-colored cross country trolley cars that began operating in 18967, nor will many remember the last of the “schooners” that operated as recently as 1940. Now the terminal rumbles with the busy sounds of motor busses, pausing here on cross-country runs or stopping .to pick up commutors {to nearby communities. ” » -

FOR MANY Hoosiers the terminal has been the only link between Indianapolis and smaller outlying communities. Few local trains now operate in Indiana. More than 100,000,000 passengers have been carried on the steel | tracks and concrete roads since the formal opening of the traction house in 1904. Since the inception of the An-derson-Alexandria-Indianapolis ine terurban route in 1897, transportation facilities have catered to more than 2,000,000 passengers annually. In the past three years, this figure has jumped to more than 7,000,000 passengers annually. = ” EJ WITH THE GROWTH of Indianapolis as the center of an expanding agricultural region, Hugh J, McGowan, late president of the Street Railway Co. envisioned a need for a terminal for the mushroom operations of the interurbans. Under his impetus the construction of the present Terminal building and shed at Market and Illinois sts. began in the fall of 1903. By that time there were three different interurban firms operating with Indianapolis as the terminus. When the building was formally opened in 1904, the Interstate Public Service Co. the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Co., the Indiana Union Traction Co. and the Indianapolis & Cincinnati lines were bringing in out-

of-town visitors to the state fair.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1946 =

ALMOST 42 YEARS OLD AND GOING STRONG—

Bus Terminal—State

The Traction Terminal building has changed little in appearance since 1908 when the above picture was taken, but since then busses have replaced interurbans as the principal mode of state traffic. The white “horseless carriage” in the foreground is a Winton.

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Crossroads

senators”are beginning to view with alarm the aftermath of the bitumistrike as a sample of how | easy it would be to throw great industries into permanent government ownership—nationalizing them, as the mines have Britain.

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Senators Fear Possible Mine Nationalization |

By FRED W. PERKINS WASHINGTON, June 5. — Some

been in Great At present Interior Secretary

Krug is operating the soft-coal no dustry under a contract he with John L. Lewis after private owners of these properties had been: unable even to approach an agree« ment.

The present contract is specifical-

* {ly for the period of government operation, There is no legal way fo compel Mr, Lewis to enter into the

same contract with the coal opers

ators. Nor is there a legal way of compelling the operators to agree

to the terms in the Krug-Lewils

agreement,

© » » IF EITHER THE Jabor or mans agement sides of the industry balked at the full terms of the Krug-Lewis agreement, the govern= ment could find itself with a lot of coal mines on its hands. The presumption is that Mr. Lewis and the operators eventually will adopt the government contract for the remainder of this coal year, which will end next April 1. But in the meantime numerous wrinkles

between the private operators and Mr. Krug with OPA—how much the price of coal may be advanced to take care of the concessions Mr. Lewis has won,

they consider “reasonable,” certain large groups of operators threaten to hold out indefinitely, If that con« dition became permanent the mine owners would ask or sue the gov-

properties.

thracite end of the industry) shows no hurry about reaching final ar-

managers. He is thought to be willing to delay for these’ reasons: He wants to get the mine safety rules of the U. 8. Bureau of Mines can be enforced. Under private

precedence,

Once the center for the largest interurban system in the country, the terminal now echoes to the busy sounds of cross-country and commuter busses. For many Hoosiers, the terminal is the sole link between the capital city and their home towns.

DURING THE NEXT few years)the firm was controlled by George

additional, lines were added that brought visitors to Indianapolis via Capitol ave. to Market st. into the terminal. By 1922, more than 1700 miles of glistening rails carried the low, fast-moving cars across the brown, flat plains of Indiana countryside. It was at this time that the latest “fad’ began edging the electric powered cars for room in the terminal. Bus lines started operating to Indianapolis suburbs. » s » FOLLOWING THE influx of the busses came a petition by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. that the Traction Company was in imminent danger of insolvency. From April 1030 until May 1932

|C. Forrey Jr. as receiver, When {ordered by the court to be sold, the property was incorporated and | operated by the Indianapolis Railways Corp., and Traction Terminal Corp. By 1939 all interurban lines were abandoned except the Indiana Railroad line to Ft. Wayne via Muncie and the Public Service schedule to Seymour. One year later the remaining lines were scrapped for the newer, faster bus service. » » » NOW 19 BUS lines link all of Indiana over more than 2500 miles of concrete highways,

Only different faces and changing clothes styles have marked the change-over in the terminal bee-

hive. These have been the only

altering feature of the huge silver shed. The activity is still the same.

: ‘ ~ » td THE WAFT of gasoline and oil have replaced the sparkling, hissing movement of the interurbans,

But the people still swirl in the lobby, elbow their way among the busses, crowd the waiting room. Lost babies, purses, false teeth are still found and returned. Tickets are still stamped, punched and argued over. { And through all types of natural and man perpetrated disturbances, | the Traction Terminal—still its) official title—continues to operate, as the backbone of transportation linking all of Indiana.

By MARGUERITE SMITH CORAL BELLS are not usually

GARDENING: A New Idea for Beautification—

Coral Bells Are Used to Enclose Back Yard

considered an edging plant. Mr, and Mrs. Robert F, Mannfeld, 908 Arlington ave. use them effectively to edge the mixed flower

But

A temporary measure to handle an emergency situation may be necessary if, unfortunately, we have not been able, in advance, to handle the situation and it becomes serious to the whole nation. ‘The Case bill is permanently harmful, not just to labor but to labor relations, which includes business and

border which, with a background of

shrubbery and evergreens, encloses their attractive back yard. Mrs. Mannfeld started enough coral bells to edge the entire border from just two plants. She divides her plants in the fall. It can be done immediately after the flowers are gone but then you often have to contend with hot weather and lack of moisture, she said. So resetting the plants in the fall is much easier on both gardener and plants. n » ” CORAL BELLS make good edging material, Mrs. Mannfeld pointed out, because the flowers are so long lasting. In a favorable season they will be nice for as much as a month, After the flowers are gone the round crinkled leaves are neat and attractive the rest of the season. «| To keep their flower and vegetable garden in good condition (though they had good soil to start with) the Mannfelds compost all their weeds and leaves.

out spoiling the yard's appearance, An oil barrel full of composting material hides behind shrubbery in one corner, and a “barrel” Mr. Mannfeld made of roofing paper stands behind the fireplace and evergreens at the other corner of the yard. »

chemicals.

Two piles | are kept going continuously with- g&

Tom Albright, 628 Holt rd. , .. the

are coming along fine in his

vegetable garden,

If you keep this continuously moist the materials you start out with this spring will by next spring become the city gardener’s

together this is. enough to treat' A thin layer of the, formula’ is!equivalent of barnyard manure.

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MR. MANNFELD'S pet idea for the vegetable garden—instead = of radish seed to mark rows of slow growers like carrots, he sticks an onion set every few inches along the row. The row is marked practically from the beginning, he remarked, the onion comes out very soon and you can use the idea in rows of flower seed, too. Tom Albright, 628 Holt rd., has some good sized potatoes (and I don't mean plants) in his excellent vegetable garden. From years of experience he offers consolation to would-be bean raisers who haven't got started yet—there's still time to raise a good vegetable garden. But you'll get better results if you don't make the beginner's common error of planting too close. Thin beets and carrots to as much as an inch apart. Parsnips, especially, will be “just little tails” if you don’t thin them. wet 8 f BOYD BURNETT, 1919 W. 10th st., got a good crop of sweet potatoes last year from late started plants. So he's repeating his fertilizing methods on this year's plants. A teaspoonful of chemical fertilizer worked into the soil on either side of each plant as soon as it begins to grow increases the crop. He's setting his plants .on the usual ridges in the lower part of his garden, but where the ground slopes and drains faster he has the plants growing on the level.

CLOVER LEAF CLUB TO MEET TUESDAY

Clover Leaf 4-H club will meet at

TO HASTEN the process and in-|one hundred pounds of dry weeds|sprinkled on about six inches of|Ben Davis High school next Tuescrease the fertilizing value of the|and leaves. As you might find it a accumulated rubble, then about an day at 9 a.m. * Miss Uldene Chriscompost they add a mixture of [little difficult to weigh out a hun-|inch of dirt is added before you tenberry is president. : The formula calls for|dred pounds on the kitchen scales begin all over again with more three pounds of ammonium sulfate,| Mrs, Mannfeld suggested that a rubble. two pounds of agricultural lime-|bale of straw gives an “approximate stone, and one pound of super-|idea of 100 pounds of dry material phosphate or acid phosphate. Mixed squeezed tightly together.

At the last meeting Jo Ann Both= well led the club in songs, Entertainment was provided by club members and Mrs. Ray Christenberry and Mrs. Harriett Wilkinson I helped the girls with their sewing.

{and health reports from federal

he signs up with them,

question. Mr. Krug agreed that this

would be satisfactory to Mr. Lewis.

Case Bill—now passed by both senate and house and awaiting presidential action—becomes law. The whole situation indicates

two months being a conservative

tion.

We, the Women Si Things Aid Women in Outliving Men

By RUTH MILLETT

women outlive men,” says no less an authority than the president of the American Medical association, Dr. Roger I. Lee. ' Dr. Lee points out that “women

from their more active years to their less active years with less difficulty and less anguish.” The “little things,” according to Dr. Lee, are their gardens, their Red Cross ‘work, their knitting, church affairs, family correspondence, ete.

” » ” THE SAD part of the story which the doctor did not go into is that it is little use to women to have added a few years to their life span—since, all too often, those years have to be lived out in lonelihess because the men with whom they shared the full years of their lives die before them. If they started soon enough, per= haps women could help their ‘hus. bands to be better prepared to meet old age. Perhaps the family could get along without so many luxuries, so that Dad's nose wouldn't be forever to the” grindstone. The man who knows nothing but work in his thirties, forties, and fifties, hasn't the time to develop the kind of interests that could make his old age a happy and contented time.

” » » AND, LOOKING toward the years ahead, perhaps a woman could make more of an effort to he a real companion to her husband in their busiest years, so that the time when the children were gone and responsibilities lessened wouldn't seem so empty.

mostly can make the transition

can’t be picked up at 60—it has to

have to be straightened out. One is |

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Without price concessions “that ]

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ernment for the value of their |

» ~ i ON THE LABOR side, Mr. Lewis | (at present engaged with the ane |

rangements with the bituminous :

established in the industry. Under | government operation .these rules |

operation state mining laws take |

Mr. Lewis is hoping for sanitation 3

sw ] HE ALSO IS willing to wait a | while on the supervisory employee | problem should be left to the rul- |

ings of the national labor relations | board, which under present policy }

These policies will be upset if the |}

that Uncle Sam is in for his longest | adventure in the coal business— |

estimate, possibly much longer in | the view of legislators who have | been looking into the seizure situa. |

“IT'S THE little things that help