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Inside Indianapolis

GILBERT FORBES, WFBM newscaster, certainly has his ups and downs. During the hottest part of the day yesterday Mr. Forbes got stuck in the self= operated elevator in the building at 48 Monument circle. He spent 10 sweltering minutes riding between the first and fourth floors before ome of the doors finally opened. His misfortune got a big howl from Mr, Forbes’ friends. They were waiting on the first floor for the elevator and learned of his accident when he finally got out and walked downstairs. It recalled an incident about five years ago when Mr, Forbes was stuck in an elevator between the second and third floors for an hour and a half, . , . Times Staffer Victor Peterson was called to task for confusIng his “smith” and “smithy” by “An Old Reader” in New Market. An anonymous postcard read: “Your yarn about the blacksmith at Thorntown (Robert ‘Old Bob’ Coolman) was good but if you read again Longfellow’s poem you'll note that the shop itself is

a ‘smithy’ while the proprietor is a ‘smith’ Go and

sin no more.” Mr Peterson had referred to “Old Bob” as “the village smithy,” for which he offers apologies to the New Market reader.

Puzzling Request

A MAN ISN'T safe from newspaper photographers anywhere , these days. A Times photographer who » " »

Siesta time at station 13 . . . This unidentified snoozer was unlucky enough to nap within a photographer's pe,

Check Those Tires

MEMPHIS, July 11.—Yesterday we told you of

some of the preparations we have made for our long

,tour and now we'd like to tell you more.

After you are sure your motor and brakes are in proper condition, you had better see about your tires. Since I have a light Ford I use a 5.50x16 tire. I decided I needed one new tire, and phoned the-sta-tion where I usually buy tires. “Youre lucky.” the clerk said. we have two 5.50's.” “Fine!” 1 replied. morrow.” The next ‘day at the station we discovered that one of the tires I thought was all right—a recap with a good tread—had a break in the sidewall. “Have you still got that other 5.50?” 1 asked anxiously. “Yep, still have it.” The two new tires cost $13.87 each.

Tire Supply Goes Quickly WHILE AT the station I asked if they had plenty of tires in the more common sizes, particularly the 6.00x16. They said no, they didn’t. As a matter of fact, they didn’t have any 6.00x16s at all, but they expected some more soon. Small shipments come in regularly, but they don’t last long. Later I checked with other big stations, and they said the same thing. The tire factories are turning out more tires today than ever before, I was told, but the production isn't yet up to the demand. “It will be six months before you can drive into a service station and be sure of getting the tire you want,” one station manager told me. “We are never completely out of stock any more. but we don’t have all sizes at all times. Motorists ought to anticipate their needs at least a week in advance.”

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Aviation

(Editer’s Note: This is the third of four dispatches on the future of the nation’s aircraft industry based on a exhaustive study of the key phases of production, small planes, new-born air freight, and how you'll fly tomorrow.) » tJ = A SIGN IN a’ Memphis, Tenn., restaurant reads: “The Oysters You Eat Tonight Slept Last Night in the Gulf of Mexico.” The sign might well be the keynote to the world’s newest haulers of freight—the airlines. The oysters in Memphis probably were delivered by Charles William Felker-and his newly-formed Air-Fresh Seafoods, Inc. They could- just as well have been delivered by any of the dozens of chartered air freight carriers that have sprung: up since the war's end, or by any of the major airlines that are augmenting revenues with air freight. It's not an entirely new business. Bush. fliers delivered equipment, supplies and. personnel to farflung Arctic and sub-Arctic outposts in the years before the war, but that was a case of necessity. There was no other adequate means of transportation and the material had to be delivered regardless of cost. Even before the war, the major airlines were hauling some priority shipments by air express. World: war II gave the air freight business its biggest push, Army, navy and commercial pilots flew everything from baby tanks to blood plasma over some of the toughest skyways of the world, in all kinds of flying conditions. Actually, most firms using air freight today are doing it as much for it sales promotion possibilities as for the speed it offers. Its future as a competitor of rail and truck lines depends on its getting sufficien volume to drastically reduce costs.

Study Air Freight WAYNE UNIVERSITY in Detroit, co-operating with the major airlines and the A. & P. Food Stores, is making a continuing study of air freight. From its initial findings it appears that less than two-tenths of one per cent of the fresh fruit and vegetable cargoes will be transported by plane if the air-ton-mile rate is 15 cents. But if the air-ton-mile rate can be reduced to three cents, approximately that of surface trans-

My Day

HYDE PARK, Wednesday, = On the Fourth of July we celebrated our independence, but this year a ceremony took place on that day in the Philippine Islands which gave a special point to our own celebration. 3 From the time Admiral Dewey took these islands from the Spanish, a conflict went, on within the United States as to their 1 disposition, There were people who felt that, having taken them in a war which, like all wars, had cost us a certain amount, we were entitled to develop them and to get some return on our investment. There were others who felt that, when people wanted freedom, we were obligated to help them to obtain it. And besides, in the last world war, it looked as though our investment had been amply repaid by the loyalty and good will of the people of the Philippines.

We Have Fulfilled a Promise HARD TIMES are not over in the Philippines. The birth of a new nation and the development of self-government is never an easy process. But I hope we will continue to help, for the war has taken a heavy toll both of the people and the material possessions in these islands. For ourselves, I think the sense that we have fulfilled a promise will always add to our appreciation of our own Independence Day 1 have had one or two personal experiences lately wv

"away in a doorway to Station 13. He was afraid the

was glancing out the window saw a man snoozing

snoozer would move before he could get a camera but he NOC) Nave worried. The man slept right through the picture and for several minutes longer, before somebody walked by and awakened him. Miss Barbara Schaeffer, Times tood editor, is confused about a letter which she received from Mexico. The letter, addressed to the food editor of the “Indianapolis Times Journal,” reads: “Please sir: Send me the collect of the journal food recipes. I want and insist to have them. Send me price.” The writer signed only initials “C. 8.” with an almost indecipherable address in Guadalajara, Mexico, Miss Schaeffer had to write back that “want and insist” as C. 8

might, The Times has -no suth collection. . . . Al§ sympathetic crowd gathered in front of Rogers & Co. ||

jewelry store at 5 N. Illinois st. yesterday, when a big weolie dog was a heat victim. Someone hurried and got a saucer of water and a crowd big enough to block the sidewalk stood around to watch.

Discoloration Is Asset SPEAKING OF DOGS, Richard Flaherty, of 134 W. Maryland st., would like to find his brown and white terrier, which wandered away Saturday while he was in Boy Scout camp. Twelve-year-old Richard, who's a student at St. John’s academy, has searched

the neighborhood for the six-inch-high pet, and he'd & appreciate any information aoout the dog's where-|#

abouts , , . Harold Shulke, the man who's in charge of the cleanup at the state house, was supervising

the sand blasting of the Oliver P. Morton statue] About 15 years accumulation of dirt came:

yesterday.

Peaceful Siesta

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off the granite base. Mr. Shulke points out that only | the base was cleaned, since the discoloration on the|§

statue itself is an asset rather than a liability. It|Z

seems that dirt is priceless and cleaning it would be regarded as defacing, rather than enhancing. . Another bright spot in the state house yestérday was a big vase of flowers on the desk of Ulysses Lee, 1105 W. 34th st. Mr, Lee, an information clerk, frequently gets floral offerings for his desk in the rotunda,

By Eldon Roark

Lorraine Metelkeo Norma Cheatam Arpolda Bethel

Since we shall start out without any hotel reserva- |

tions, we decided to get some camping equipment and go prepared for anything. And that brought)

up the question of how best to carry that extra gear | Bed

—tent and poles, folding cots, stove, and so on. I|

went to the experts with the problem—to auto mas} %

and fo experienced campers. Should I get a light luggage trailer, or should § get a luggage rack for the top of my car?

Gets Plenty of Advice

SOME SAID get a trailer by all means. You can carry a world of stuff in one, it takes a lot of weight off the car, and you hardly know you are pulling it. Others. said get a rack for the top of the car and carry the extra equipment up there. A trailer swinging to your tail holds you back, gives you two extra tires to get punctured, and makes it difficult for you, to park in towns and cities. A good friend, who has tried both methods, said| he preferred the top rack. Furthermore, he had a good one and would lend it to me. It consists of a slatted framework resting on steel brackets embedded in rubber suction cups. Not only would it be better, | but it would save me the $125 to $200 a trailer would | cost. I decided in favor of the luggage rack. | We decided a 10x12 tent would be the most de- | sirable size for our needs—Ilarge enough to shelter | four folding cots, and still leave a little leg and head room. We inquired about materials and prices at| several places, and bought what looks like a pretty | good bargain—a regular wall tent, made of 11.6-ounce | army olive drab twill complete with poles, ropes and! stakes, for $2258. We also bought a 6x8 tarpaulin of the same material to cover the equipment we shall carry on top of the car. It cost $3.43.

Tomorrow: How You'll Fly in the Future.

By Marc J. Parsons

portation charges, nearly 25 per cent of such freight | would be handled by air. Some airlines now are quoting 12 to 15 cents an air-ton-mile for such cargoes, but only on coast-to coast hauls of full-plane loads.

Terminal Problems CERTAIN CARGOES, such as ocean fresh sea foods and flowers, can be handled more profitably by air freight, even at today’s high costs, because high speed is essential in their distribution. The business isn't limited to these items, however, Everything from 2 baby bull and a plane load of newly hatched chickens—to- shoes and dresses have been hauled by air since the war’s end. Lack of adequate terminal facilities and the bogey of part-load cargoes have been two big drawbacks to cutting air freight rates and speeding growth of the new business. Air terminals have been designed to | handle passenger traffic; few if any airports have refrigeration service for perishable cargdes en route or awaiting delivery. This problem may be eased with the formation of an Air Freight Corporation headed by an ex-navy commander, John C. Emery, who helped establish the navy overseas air cargo terminals throughout the world. Mr. Emery plans fo offer loading and unloading service at airports and pickup and delivery between shippers and terminals in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles, If such a system of handling air freight becomes nation-wide, it may ultimately reduce rates sufficiently to make the air lines active competitors with the rest of the freight handlers. There is a third bogey that the little fellows face in getting airborne via the charter air freight business. The civil aeronautics board has proposed new rules that weuld prevent the charter lines from flying between any two points more than 10 times a month. And charter advertising, under the new rules, could not hint that the charter lines offer regular services. The CAB says it will not put the new rules into effect until the non-scheduled carriers have had their say. Thus far the charter boys, using the Institute of Air Transportation as their voice, have had plenty to say. And all of it vigorously protests the new rules.

Tomorrow: How you'll fly in the future.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Gareth Henricks Kansas & Meridian

By ART WRIGHT

Josephine Holloway Meikel

THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1946

Margaret LaMar Brookside

Shirley Radelift Camp Sullivan ,

" Bonnite Watts

Bonita Thomas Northwestern Rader

A. Henzie, also will play prior to, ities of the City Park and Recrea-| tee on recreation; Mrs. Lois Etzold, on it.

Virginia Huffman Coleman

Barbara Hobbs Christian

Gearns Nancy Shepard

Judith Riley Spring & Walnut

The 20 neighborhood winners in| the judging. The concert will start! tion division as follows:

the Tiny Tot Beauty Parade will march to the tempo of the 60-piece Manual High School summer band

at 6:45 p, m. and judging will begin at 7.

Mrs. Richard Lieber, chairman of

i 20 TINY TOTS TO TAKE PART IN BEAUTY PARADE FINALS—

Susane Leland

Barbara Skidmore Fall Creek Finch

Bonnie Nevins

anita Gordon Geo. Washington Yandes

Hird -l

elect Wading Pool Queen Tomorrow:

Karen Bowman Hawthorne

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Sonje Keating Greer

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Pamela Sharp 6ist & Broadway

Bach of the pool winners

arole Geisler 46th & Indianola

| Indianapolis director of the national | will receive their gold charm braces

| Patricia Stevens Finishing school; | lets tomorrow night.

The awards

Dr. Walter Stoefler, pediatrician of | are gifts of The Times, which is volunteers for the park department; | the state board of health, and| sponsoring the event in conjunction Judges to select the girl who will| Mrs. Bert McCammon, city recrea-| Starling James, teacher at Public! with the City Park and Recreation

tomorrow night in the city-wide | be crewned City Wading Pool|tion chairman for Parent-Teacher| school 37. Queen were named by Mrs, Norma | associations and a member off The winner will receive a gold The band, conducted by Charles | Koster, supervisor of special activ-| Mayor Tyndall's advisory commit-! loving cup with her name engraved | finals, Admission is free,

finals at University park.

(Second in a Series)

By LARRY { STILLERMAN TRAFFIC accidents have no ceiling. Neither is there an OPA limit on the. amount of money paid in premiums and returned in cost claims

“lon collision, property damage and

public liability insurance. The more people tag each other with automobiles, the more they're going to shell out hard-earned cash. for insurance, And indications from city and state police blotters are that one of every 100 people in the state will be involved in an automobile accident in the next six months. = # ” YOU MAY not have had an accident since you've been behind the | wheel of a vehicle, but every time | your neighbor puts a $3 dent in his fender, you share the cost of repair, With the end of gasoline rationing a year ago, insurance firms have increased rates in ratio to the rising number of autos on the roads and the increased accident rate. During rationing insurance rates remained more or less stable. The most recent rate climb, effec~ tive June 10, sent property damage insurance costs up 28.2 per cent and bodily injuries for vehicle occupants up 13.6 per cent. = » ” AND CHANCES are that the rates will continue to skyrocket. According to figures released by the National Bureau Casualty and Insurity Underwriters of New York, the rate increase is proportional to the cost of repair of older automobiles. Rates also rise proportionally to the depreciation of the automobile. With fewer new cars on the market, more and more older models are returning to the highways, causing inevitably more and more accidents. Figures disclosed in October 1945 showed that while rates for bodily

{injuries were 13.4 per cent below the

pre-rationing level, property dam-

{age rates were up 10.4 per cent.

in regard to the admission of girls into- colleges, par- | ticularly co-educational colleges, which make me wonder whether we shouldn't begin a campaign to prevent the young women of tomorrow from losing the opportunity for higher education.

Veterans Crowd Colleges

THE PRESSURE of returning veterans has forced | many colleges not only to add to their facilities, but | to cut down on the number of women they are able to take in. Miss Margaret A. Hickey, president of the National Federation of Business and Professional ‘Women’s clubs, noted this fact at the opening session of their convention in Cleveland. While no one suggests that veterans should not have priority, it begins to look as though the result were going to be a lack of opportunity for young women. This would certainly mean that these young women would not be prepared to take their share of responsibility in facing the economic and political problems of Ue next few years. I think this is a very serious situation for the ols leges. And perhaps consideration should be given to providing for girls the kind of quarters that would be available to unmarried veterans. A breakdown in the higher educational oppoftunities for women, even though it may last only a Tew years, would

~ » » THIS merely indicated that although there were fewer automobiles, the accident percentage per

| mile traveled was still at a pre-war

level,

Furthermore, unobtainable parts made repairs for older cars more

WE, THE WOMEN

By RUTH MILLETT “DADDY KNOWS a man,” the 6-year-old ploudly told her teacher, in explaining how her family was able to get a scarce article. There wasn't much the teacher— trying her best during school hours to teach the kids the fundamentals of good -sportsmanship—could say in return:

have very serious Fesults,

Safe Driving=Ch

YOU SHARE YOUR NEIGHBOR'S DENTED.FENDER BILL—

eaper n<UrErice

Dora Wall, E. W. Pfaflin and Rosemary F. Smith (left to right), state insurance department em-

ployees. . . . The rising auto’ toll

expensive. Insurance agencies also| shouldered this expense. E. W. Pfafflin, supervisor of rates | and schedules for the state insurance department, reported that while 1946 accident frequency was| still below a comparable 1941 period, average accident severity was 65 to] 75 per cent higher, ¥ su | HE POINTED out that from Jan.! 1 to April 1, 1941, the average claim for bodily injury was $298, while in the same period this year, the aver- | age claim cost was $355. Property damage claims_in the same comparison periods averaged $31 in 1941 and $57 this year. Insurance companies were return- | ing 75 cents on every dollar collect- | ed in 1945 on collision-type- insur-| ance. This is 11 cents more than the firms were paying in 1944, according to loss ratio figures.

may stress fairness, taking turns, not trying to get more than’ one's rightful share of anything’ and not bullying or erowding out -the little fellow, the kids are finding out at

keeps them busy.

And underwriting firms calculate | that any return aboye 40 per cent of the premiums collected is a losing | venture. » ” » THEREFORE, agencies have filed notices with the state of rate increases that average 35 per cent on

| different types of collision cov-

erages. These types of collision insurance

|cover policies ranging from deductible, convertible, full and 80-20 per |

cent coverages.

Rates naturally rise as the car | depreciates,

but these published raises will cover all categories of automobiles, from new to those more than two years old.

» » ~ MEANWHILE, John D. Pearson, state insurance commissioner, disclosed that he will recommend rate regulation by state legislation when the assembly meets next January.

train reservation to several hundred dollars for a new car—and got what he wanted.

That is what the kids are learnIt's some character

ing at home.

home that in the adult world of| education, isn’t it?

1946 you get what you want any way you can. » ” »

got this.

As long as that is the example parents are setting at home the teachers are up against it. when DADDY KNOWS a man—and he|they try to establish better ‘ideals ‘Daddy slipped a fellow|in the classroom and on the playNo matter how much : teacher | anything from two dollars for alground. And, under the circum-

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He explained that under a 1944 congressional law, the state must establish legislation governing insurance rate regulation. This, he said, was necessitated when congress declared insurance a commercial enterprise, Under this congressional ruling the reguldtion of rates by private companies, as being done now would be contrary to the Sherman antitrust act. » ” »

BUT WHETHER state regulation]

would reduce the high rate of return on premiums collected wis answered by both Mr, Pearson and Mr. Pfafflin as depending entirely upon the individual motorist. “The increase of insurance rates can only be reduced by careful driving: otherwise . .."” Both shrugged their shoulders.

(Tomorrow: Local Death Traps)

Bribery Pays, Adults Show the Children

tances, what parents preach about fair play is just as useless,

” ” . KIDS DO WHAT parents do— not what they say. . That is why the thoughtful educators who are as interested in character-training as in booklearning are concerned about the ge: oration growing up today: Even the 6-year-olds now understand the importance . of bribery and wirepulling in the adult world. :

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division. The public is invited to see the

Laber

It Won't Be Easy to Fill

Hillman's Place

By FRED W. PERKINS | WASHINGTON, July 11—Sidney 1 Hillman’s death brings him possibly a greater compliment than he ever {received while he lived-—general {acknowledgement among foes as well as friends that it will not be easy to fill his place as chairman of the C. 1. O. Political Action Com= mittee. Mr. Hillman had two powerful

: assets, his association with Franke

lin D. Roosevelt when he was gove ernor of New York, and his record as president of the Amalgamnated Clothing Workers. Thé two assets combined for a period to make him the country's most powerful labor-political figure, By his rejection of “Jimmy” ‘Byrnes in favor of Harry S. Tru=

!

{man when the Democratic national

iconvention in 1944 in Chicago | balked at_naming Henry Wallace |as vice plesidential nominee, Mr, | Hillman had no small part in de-

| termining the present occupant of

the White House. " = »

THERE would be no uncertainty over Mr. Hillman's successor as head of the C. 1. O-P. A.C. if C. 1, O. President Philip Murray would make himself the candidate, But there are reasons why the presidency of the C, I.-O. should be kept separate from the chaire manship of its political arm. The C. I. O.-P. A. C. at times may want to condemn the administration, while for tactical reasons the C, I. O. itself remained silent—or vice versa. : * uo 8 WHILE ostensibly non-partisan, the C I. O.-P. A. C, and its sister organization, the National Citizens P. A, C, are hooked up so closely with the fate of the Democratie party they may stand or fall with this year's congrefsional elections and the presidential election two years from now. Mr. Murray also is expected to consider the New York City situa tion, where the American Labor Party has demonstrated a voting power sufficient to control state as well as city elections and to swing New York's electoral votes in presi dential elections, / The C. I. O.-P. A. C. and the N. C.-P. A. C, have been deferring to the A. L. P in New York matters, ' New York advices are that an A, L. P. split is looked for as the result of Mr. Hillman's death, because of a conflict between Rep, Marcane tonio, “ the only member of the A. L. P. has been able to place in congress, and Michael J. Quill, left wing New York councilman, » ” [J

THE A. L. P. has a number of

leaders with influence in New Yorlg politics, but none is well knoww west of the Hudson. If C. I O, leaders with nationa} reputations are sought, they would include Mr. Murmay, Walter Reuse they, president of thé United Autos mobile Workers, and R. J. now’ t of the automow bile’ Another ie Van A. ‘Bittner, who has been 2 litical force in West Vi now directing the ©. I. Ho A ern organizing drive.

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