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| REX MAYS, the West Coast speed demon, made another of his luncheon-to-dinner hops back to Los

Angeles, Cal, the other day. Mays, who was here for -

the 500-mile race, polished off his lunch and took off from here about 11 §, m. in his own P-38. He expected to be back in Los Angeles by 5:45 p. m., in time for a big dinner. , . . The Boy Scouts council shouldn't be surprised if they get some Butler university telephone calls and vice versa, especially regarding publicity. Don Barnett, scout director of cubbing and training, is filling in on some publicity work.. This makes it fairly easy to confuse him with John Barnett, Butler's publicity man. . . . Dan McCormack, Times photographer, almost got “shot” himself when he went out to shoot some pictures of a hold-up at MuesingMerrick coal company yesterday. Arriving at the coal yards at 3830 Brookville rd. in a cab, he asked a policeman about the location of an abandoned car, then went to the cat. Later, as he was returning to the yards, the same policeman jumped into the path of the cab and leveled a gun at its two occupants. When he saw it’ wasn’t the bandits returning to the scene of the crime he sheepishly replaced his gun and walked away.

An Attentive Senator

MRS. MARJORIE MAXINE RIKE, of 855 Bilt-* more st, is a little puzzled by the attention she's receiving from Indiana’s junior senator, Homer E. Capehart. Last June 15 Mrs. Rike received a handsome red, white and blue birthday greeting which was That puzzled her, but not nearly as much as another card which she received on her birthday Saturday. It also was from the senator, sending her greetings from the nation's capital. All of her friends are teasing her about the ecards, so Mrs. Rike would like some sort of explanation as to why she’s been singled out and how the senator knows about her birthdays. She's never worked for him, never béen associated in any of his concerns and it just so happens that she didn’t vote for him last time, hence her name couldn’t have been on any voter's list he has. Not that she doesn’t appreclate the thought but how about it, Senator? . . . The People’s State bank; we hear, is installing an air conditioning system, Maybe it's because Felix M. McWhirter, president, who's been in the South Pacific for some time, can’t re-accustom. himself to these hot Indiana summers.

Air Laboratory

(Last of two dispatches)

WASHINGTON, June 18.—Army air force officials are working frantically to get some kind of an agreement on just who is going to have the job of developing aircraft and guided missiles such as the German V-2 which travel at supersonic speeds— faster than sound. Recently Maj. Gen, Curtis E. LeMay proposed the construction of a fabulous air engineering development center. It would be used mainly for the development of supersonic aircraft. The cost of starting it would be $300,000,000, Final cost would probably be in the billions. As soon as Gen, LeMay’s plan was revealed loud cries of protest went up, The loudest came from army ordnance, They say supersonic weapons belong to ordnance, Scientists muttered that Gen. LeMay and the air force were trying to get control of research which is the job of the national advisory committee on aviation. Certain leaders in the aircraft industry claimed that the plan would take over functions which belonged to private industry. Gen. LeMay’s answer in effect is: The development center would be available to both industry and the scientists, The important thing is to get Americar started toward the development of supersonic aircraft to maintain the security of the country.

Facilities Now Lacking THERE IS general agreement on two points: America lacks the development and testing facilities needed for supersonic weapons. Supersonic aircraft and guided missiles carrying atomic bombs are the perfect weapons of the future. Here is the army air forces’ statement on what its duty is: _ “No other service has experience equal to that of the army air forces in designing, constructing, and operating large-scale air development facilities.

Science

EN ROUTE TO BIKINI—Devices ranging from complex scientific apparatus whose exact nature is a military secret to empty gasoline cans will aid the staff of 1000 scientists, engineers and technicians determine what happens when the B-29 drops the atomic bomb on the 74 target ships assembled in the lagoon of Bikini atoll. An empty gasoline can makes a good pressure recorder because it is easy to determine how much force is needed to cave in its sides. For the army and navy, the ships themselves will constitute scientific instruments. For a ship is a eamplex structure about which a great deal is known, and what happens to the ships themselves will reveal a great deal to naval engineers and architects. Not all of the recording devices are secret. Many of them are well known devices such as the physicist eonstantly uses in his own laboratory to measure téemperatures, pressures, radioactivity, etc. : It* has been estimated that the temperature at the center of the. exploding bomb is 100,000,000 degreds, about five times the temperature of the sun.

Drone Planes Play Part

BUT SCIENTISTS want to find out more about the distribution of temperatures outward from the center of the explosion. Similarly, they want to know more about the distribution of air pressure, A great many observations will be made by scientists flying in airplanes, Even greater results are expected from pilotiess planes, so-called “drones,” which will be flown by remote control into closer proximity to the explosion than a pilot would .dare fy. Some of these drones may be lost, but it is hoped

My Day.

HYDE PARK, Monday—I am constantly being asked by people how they can help to make this world “one world,” and I am constantly answering that, as far as I know, there is only one way that we; as individuals can help. That is by doing all we can ‘in our communities, first to create good feeling amongst all our neighbors, and secondly to work with all of them to make our communities strong, well-governed entities. Since a State or a nation can only be as united and as strong as each individual community can make it. Two organized activities which seem to help in this direction have come to my attention lately. One of them 1s the work of the United Urban league service fund. An appeal for this fund is made yearly on behalf of the National Urban league and the Urban League of Greater New York. The National league has 54 affiliate offices in strategic communities throughout the nation and, during the last 35 years it has worked to maintain the machinery for removing race prejudice as it affects the Negroes. .

Efforts for One Help A All | 1 THINK THE two most effective organizations in this field, working in slightly different ways, are the Urban league and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Both groups are doing a valuable service in a field which affects only one of our minorities. - But every time we strike a blow for one minority, we strike it for them all, since there is one great thing which we must learn—that humanity is all one. kes

Inside Indianapolis Puseled by Cards

Mrs. Marjorie Maxine Rike and her birthday cards . , . She's appreciative, put puzzled about greetings from Senator Capehart.

Follows Master—In Death

WALTER T. BOYER, 3022 Ruckle st., who died May 14, had a Boston bull terrier “Mitzi” who was his constant. companion. The lively little dog always followed him around and slept by his chair. After his sudden death the dog became ill. A veteranarian told Mrs. Boyer he could find nothing wrong with the dog. He even suggested that the dog might eat if Mrs. Boyer put one of her husband’s old shoes nearby, since the dog seemed to be more grief-stricken than ill. The dog continued to pine away, however, and died Sunday, on Father's day, lying in the chair where Mr. Boyer used to spend much of his time, .. The Indianapolis Famine committee, heded by Roy Badollet, has been informed that henceforth the campaign will be formally called the “Emergency collection,” to avold confusion of different cities operating the same project under different titles. Donations locally may be sent to the treasurer, Henry F. Schricker, 108 N. Pennsylvania st. The money will be used to buy high protein food to send to starving nations abroad. One Indianapolis group already planning a contribution is the Barbed Wire club. This club is made up of world war II veterans who were prisoners of war and who know what starvation is like,

By Douglas Larsen

“The army air forces are responsible for the air defense of this nation and, therefore, must control

‘the development facilities which produce air weapons.

To meet this responsibility, a comprehensive and integrated plan has been proposed for an air engineering development center which can be started at once upon allocation of funds.” Gen. LeMay claims that the development center would be unique in that it would not encroach on the fields of either research or.production, It would operate to follow closely any discovery of basic truths found by research and use the information to strengthen American security. It would also be avallable to private industry to promote the commercial interests and welfare of the American people as a whole, he says.

Seeking United Front

THE AIR FORCE has drafted a bill which would provide funds for the center, Air force officials are now having conferences with representatives from scientific groups and the aircraft industry. They are trying to iron out the differences in order to present a united front to congress. Part of Gen. LeMay’s plan would develop the use of atomic energy to fly planes. At present AAF has about 10 people working on preliminary plans for the center. If congress appropriates the money a nucleus of 40 trained men will pick a site and start working on engineering plans. The initial engineering force would be 150 civilians. They would gradually be increased to about 600 and the mechanical operating force would be brought in to become familiar with the equipment during installation. The main engineering force would continue work on design and construction until the end of the third year. It is estimated that by 1955 the center would be employing a working force of approximately 4000 persons. The site would be 100 square miles.

By David Dietz

that most of them will land. The scientists will study not only the instruments aboard the drones but the drones themselves, for their condition will reveal much to the trailed military eye. After the explosion, drone boats will be sent by radio into the lagoon. These “will collect the first samples of -water to be analyzed for radioactivity content.

Tests Will Take Months

NAVY SHIPS will not enter the lagoon until it has been determined with the aid ol these drones that it is safe to do so. At this point the most important work from the standpoint of the army and navy will begin. Scientists and military men will begin a minute study of every ship in the lagoon. It is supposed that some of the ships which formed the “bull's-eye” fop the bomb will have been sunk. Ships at a little distance may show considerable dam- | age. Others may show little damage at all. Eventually deep-sea divers will go down to examine the ships that were sunk. : Studies will likewise be conducted of the materiel that was exposed on the ships. This will have included airplanes of various types and all sorts of fighting equipment and supplies. All these tests will take months to make, The data will be forwarded to Washington, where they will be studied by an evaluation board composed of three civilians and four army and navy experts, Their report will go to the joint chiefs of staff, who will determine how much of this information can be made public. A second evaluation will be made by the committee appointed by President Truman.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

John Donne, the 17th century English poet, expressed it better than anyone I know when he said: “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; .and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”

Police Get Rare Training THE SECOND practical thing which has come to my attention in this connection is the police-training bulletin from the California department of Justice. The general digection of the police courses to im-| prove race relations has been under Robert Kenny,

the state attorney general. Psychologically, the interesting thing done was to remind the police they also suffer from majority

prejudice on the part of millions of people who think|

that “all cops have flat feet' and steal bananas off pushcarts.” California has several minority groups with which her police have to deal wisely to avoid trouble.

SECOND SECTION

Reca

By LOLA F. TAGUE Times Special Writer MORRISTOWN, June 18.—Eighty-

one years of change and progress have come and gone in the Whitewater valley since the last boats moved along the narrow-lane of the old canal. Yet there are living to-

day in Franklin county, Indiaha, three men who rode on the boats and who have vivid recollections of these long ago days.

and who have been friends since boyhood days in Cedar Grove, are Arthur H. Rockafeller of Brookville,

mel, and George Moore of Mt. Carmel. Since 1941 there has been considerable interest in restoring the

men who remember the days when travel and shipping by canal boat was an important method of transportation, are very much interested in seeing the canal restored. » » » “I REMEMBER the boats and riding on them as well as if it was yesterday. I hope they restore the canal before long. I would like to see that done,” Mr. McCafferty said. ' He will be 87 in August and is very active for his age. His father was Josiah McCafferty, well-known boat captain of his day and one of the last captains to make trips on the canal. Born in 1859, Mr, McCafferty was

canal and he helped in its construction. He latér owned and Operated boats for about seven years, and alsa, built boats.

he bought a freight boat and hauled wood to Cincinnati,” Walter McCafferty said. “There was a lot of produce hauled on the canal and also a lot of wood.” ” » » THE COMFORTABLE brick farmhouse built by Josiah McCafferty still stands southwest of Cedar Grove, on U, 8. 52, and it was to this farm that he retired from the canal, Walter McCafferty told of the long tunnel between Cleves and North Bend, O., through which the Cincinnati branch of the Whitewater canal ran.’ “The horses were unhitched from the tow-rope and led across the top of the tunnel while the boat was pushed through.” This branch of the canal from Harrison to Cincinnati was opened in November, 1843. BOATS WERE built at Rochester, now Cedar Grove. The “Native,” was the first boat built there. It was a packet, or passenger boat, one of the finest on the canal in those days. Boats ‘were built at Cambridge City, also, Mr. McCafferty said. Mr. Rockafeller, who will be 90 in September, also is very active and didn't want his picture taken while seated. “It would make me look too old,” he laughed. Mr. Rockafeller is very interested in current events. He often walks the two miles from his home to Brookville. He lives alone at “Rocky Ripple,” his picturesque cottage on the east fork of the Whitewater river, in a beautiful tree-shaded setting with a view of low, wooded hills. » ~ » HIS FATHER owned a tanyard and general store in Cedar Grove and it was there he spent his boyhood. He rode on the canal boats Brookville, many times. One of he boats he remembers was the “Favorite No. 2.” George Moore, youngest of the three friends, was 86 last February. He and his daughter, Miss Nell Moore, live in Mt. Carmel. “I was just a little fellow, about five. years old, when the boats stopped running, but I remember them quite well. And I remember playing in the boat yards. The boats were set on scaffolding while they were being caulked. We liked to play under them and chew the pitch, used in caulking,” he smiled reminiscently.

The three, all in their late 80%, }

Walter McCafferty of near Mt, Car- i

old canal and making a state park | in this historic and beautiful region | of Southeastern Indiana. And these °

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polis TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1946 i gos OLDSTERS REVIVE MEMORIES OF INDIANA CANAL DAYS—

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“When my father sold his packet Fis

Arthur H. Rockafeller, nearing 90, rode the Whitewater canal boats in his boyhood.

HE REMEMBERS two carpenters, Allen McAffee and George Dent, who worked on the boats. As late as 1865 boats were repaired there. Mr. Moore's father was a cooper and barrels he made were used to ship produce on the canal. . Mr. Moore and Mr. McCafferty enjoy reminiscing about their early years and recall many interesting experiences. “I ran from John Morgan, the raider,” .Mr. Moore said. “When Morgan came every one was exe cited. Walter's (McCafferty) folks and my mother and aunt and their families, ran up the creek to hide. We were afraid’ we weren't far enough away for safety, so went on farther and spent the night with some friends.” The Whitewater canal was built to meet the need for transporting the rapidly increasing farm produce of the fertile valley, Produce was brought many miles by wagon to be loaded on the boats. The canal was completed in 1839 from Lawrenceburg to Brookville, » » » THE FIRST boat, the “Ben Franklin,” arrived June 8, of that year. The canal was extended to Connersville in June, 1845, and in October of that year to Cambridge City. In 1847 it was completed to Hagerstown, Metamora and Laurel were flourishing towns in that day, each having a number of industries. Flour mills and woolen mills were run by water-power from the canal. Metamora had at one time a barrel factory, using the oak trees in the vicinity for staves. The arrival of a boat was the big event of the day in canal towns. Boats carried passengers and produce, and also brought news of the outside world. Many famous people preferred this way of travel to the jolting stagecoach and corduroy roads, often deep in mud. A fast boat traveled about eight miles an hour and in those days that was good time.

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THE “GOLDEN GATE,” and the

“Tom Herron,” were two boats that

George Moore (left) and Walter

McCafferty, in their late eighties,

remember the colorful canal days.

Old aqueduct at Metamora, Ind. on the Whitewater canal. Baill in 1847, it is to be restored soom.

plied the canal befors the railroad took precedence. A popular sport of boys in those days was to drop from a foot bridge to the boat deck and ride to the landing. Bridges were just high enough for a boat to clear, This meant passengers must go down into the cabin or lie flat on deck when the boat went under,

» " BOATS were not being an average length. Horses] or mules were hitched tandem. They were changed every 10 miles, | an extra pair being carried on the boat, A large door opened down from the side and horses were brought onto or taken from the tow-path. Boats could make a landing almost any place along the

» large, 60 feet

main street of a town, by drawing up to the bank and lowering a gangplank.

The old canal still flows through part of this beautiful valley, as unhurried as in the days of the packet and freight boat. On one side is the much travelled U. 8. highway 52, on the other the railroad. Between these lanes of transportation is the same old canal that carried passengers and pro- | duce. to Lawrenceburg and the Ohio river to the southeast, and to Hagerstown, to the north, From 1836 to 1865 it was a busy waterway, connecting the southeastern part of the state with the Ohio river and large cities, east and west.

A NEW TIMES SERIAL—

General Duty Nurse + « « By Lucy Agnes Hancock

THE STORY: Sally Maynard, popular | nurse at Linton Memorial hospital, overhears Norma Holden accuse hér of being an “apple polisher.” Upset, she realizes Norma is angry because Sally has been assigned to replace her on the Hobbes case.

CHAPTER 2 At chapel next morning ‘Sally sadlffn her regular-place, Margaret Adams was beside her. The twa had visited for a moment as they stood be{fore the bulletin board exchanging items of news. Norma Holden hurried from the elevator and paused for a glance at the board then with a bare “li!” went on down

(th e hall. Jim Hallock, senior interne, came in from a rear. door and Norma

greeted him with laughing enthusi-

|asm. Apparently her ardor was

not shared by the young man for I|he passed with a casual nod and

suppose that is what has led to this ‘practical a dashed into chapel ahead of her,

at training and understandirig. Here is one little quotation to show how well that is done:

“Police officers will see an analogy between the was sure she wouldn't.

» » » MARGARET SAID nothing. Sally Margaret

immigrant Negro (from the South) testing his new [never gossiped and Sally admired freedom and a new poficeman vested with authority her for it as well as for other

for the firsy time In his life.”

traits that had made her loved and

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respected by the entire staff. Now as the superintendent approached from the rear, the two girls went on into the shabby chapel with its rows of chairs lately barely half-filled with nurses, doctors, internes and such of the employees as could be spared even for the brief service. Seventeen stars studded the field of the service flag hanging on the wall behind the reading desk and unconsciously every eye seemed to focus there as the superintendent opened the psalter and read. the morning lesson. It was a rather long psalm and Sally found her thoughts wandering. MM . » . THIS MORNING the chief of staff was present and Sally thought he looked very tired. No doubt he had been up and operating the greater part of the night. . The resident and a visiting surgeon were beside him and on the other side of the rostrum were two strange men in navy blue and wearing the insignia of the medical corps. Sally wondéred if they were here to recruit more of the staff. But if the staff was further depleted how was the hospital to go on? She joined in reciting the twenty-third psalm and at its close the older of the officers stepped forward and made an imfoned plea for recruits, ‘ \

HER EYES traveled around the sparsely filled room and she won-

dered if anyone there would sign up. They all listened attentively;

but every one of those present realized the conditions existing in Linton Memorial--the only hospital within a radius of 20 miles. The hospital still maintained— in theory--its eight hour working schedule. Actually everyone was on duty 10 and more often 12 hours while the doctors seemed to work straight through the 24. How was it possible to lose even one member of the staff and still run the hospital? » LJ » SALLY DIDN'T know and as she watched Dr, Richards’ face. she knew he was wondering the same thing. The pale rays of early morning sun were filtering through -the big stained glass window when Sally left. the chapel and hurried along to the elevator which carried her to the third floor and her new assignment. It was barely seven. “Good morning, Mrs. Hobbes,” she greeted her patient. “It seems good to have even this pale sun after last night's storm.” uN. SHE PICKED up the chart and saw that the lady had slept well. rousing but once when she demand-

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ed a hot water bottle and an alcohol rub. The woman watched her warily. “I hoped for an older nurse,” she announced truculently. “You young girls have no patience or sympathy for what I am suffering. “I'm paying good money for servfce and care and what do I get? Indifference, even neglect, or else a lot of platitudes fed me in a sugary voice that is simply maddening. “1 should have gone to Quaker City, as my husband suggested, though I have a notion he wanted me far enough away so he wouldn't have to visit me so often. “Men!” » » » SHE SPAT out the word as If she hated it. Sally listened with apparent attention but began mapping out her line of attack. This patient must be handled with firmness—kindly but firmly, She saw that she had been on a very strict diet. Linton tried to satisfy everyone and usually succeeded, But in cases like this there was little to offer. “I never eat much at breakfast,” the woman said sourly. “And before I touch a mouthful I want a glass of hot water with the fuice of

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For Bikini Blast | Hinted 1 in 10

By JIM G. LUCAS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer ABOARD U. B. 8. APPALA« CHIAN EN ROUTE TO BIKINI, June 18.—Fear that the atom bomb to be dropped in the experiment at Bikini’ may prove to be a dud is very real among the scientists aboard this ship. Their greatest apprehension is that of partial failure. The scie entists fear the press would not de-. tect the difference between a bomb 4 that went off at 30 per cent effi« i ciency and a perfect bomb, Some scientists say the possibility of a dud is as great as 10 per cent—one bomb out of 10 might fail to go off,

IF THE BOMB is a dud there are two alternatives open: ONE. The bomb can be detonated by remote control. The sclentist¥ refuse to say this will be done in event of failure, but they say it has been considered. TWO. The bomb could be re~ trieved by navy diving teams. This is not so dangerous as it might ape pear, because there is little possie bility the bomb would explode if the mechanism fails, The bomb could not be left at the bottom of the Bikini lagoon be= cause its chief ingredient, uranium, is too valuable, and escaping uranie um might poison the water. » . .

THE SCIENTISTS have told ree porters who will view the explosion from 13 miles away the bomb will explode like a ball of fire which

of the rising sun. Any explosion of a lesser size will be considered a dud. Another great factor in the experiment of testing the bomb against 75 ships anchored in the lagoon will be the weather, The tentative date for the bomb drop- * is between July 1-5. e navy says there is a good A chance to get perfect weather on schedule but it is possible the ex periment might be delayed for an indefinite period by unfavorable * weather, qd 5 0» THE THREE ships in this cone voy carrying observers, reporters, congressmen and scientists — the Appalachian, the Panamint and the Blue Ridge—were delayed during the first 12 hours out of San Fran. cisco when the Panamint went to the" rescue of a distressed freighter, The Blue Ridge developed engine trouble later 4p Shalien the convoy for a second

all involved in the test will die, caused considerable concern among the crew. >» A SCIENCE editor addressed the ‘|sailors of all three ships over a hookup at the request of the navy to allay fears. The sailors said there were not worried, but they feared the story might upset their folks back home.

We the Wome

Educated Girl Not Yes Woman To Her Husband

By RUTH MILLETT

‘DON'T BE a yes-woman for your husband.” That was the ade vice of Mrs. Thedore Roosevelt Jr, to college girls attending a career clinic of Adelphi college. Today's educated girls don’t need to be warned against becoming yes~ . women to their husbands. They have their own ideas on everything from politics to how to bring up Junior—and they're Teady fo fight for them. But there is a lot of danger that they will turn into yes-women so "far as other women are concerned, " ” . EDUCATION MAY convince a girl she has just as much right to her political ideas as her husband has to his. But it has failed to make her an individualist in the world of other women. So she moves into a community as a bride and starts yessing other women all over the place, Yes, she has to join any impore tant club that asks her because if she doesn't she will offend Mrs. Soe and-so and Mrs. Such-and-such. Yes, she has to keep up a cere tain living standard, even though it costs all out of. proportion to her husband's income, because the other women in her crowd do things that way.

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YES, SHE HAS to keep Papa's nose to the grindstone so the kids can be given certain “advantages” that mean more to Mama's social position than to the kids’ real wele fare. : Yes, she has to play bridge even’ though she really doesn't enjoy 1% because she can't let the. other women think she never gets invited anywhere. The modern, educated woman is a yes-woman, all right. But not for her husband. She is too busy yessing other women's ideas to pay much attention to what her huse band thinks—Ilet alone to yes hile

‘DRY CLEANER’ USEDFOR TYPEWRITER

WASHINGTON -Clean-keeper for

fluids are used with it,

typewriter-types is a special rubber pad on a handle that is used dry to brush over the type each day. The springy pad is béhind a sheet * of so-called blotting rubber which is well covered with tiny projec tions that remove the debris, No