Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 July 1946 — Page 11

RELIABILITY of the city’s largest and most looked-at thermometer—on the Citizens Gas & Coke utility signboard at 38th and Meridian—has been questioned. . , . Qne informant reports the indicator lingered at 96 degrees at 6 p. m. Sunday, when the weather bureau here was recording 87. . , . The

company’s public relations office conceded several complaints had been received from puzzled observers, but referred queries to the General Outdoor Advertising Co. . ... There, Herb Linsmith upheld the huge thermometer's veracity by explaining the signboard faces the sun in the afternoon, adding that it quite probably was 96 in that particulai.spot. . . . The weather bureau's thermometer; he points eut, is in a sheltered nook atop the federal building, : .. The giant indicator responds immediately to the ups and downs of the mercury in a regular thermometer tube in the rear of the sign... . General Outdoor Advertising mechanics check the apparatus for accuracy every week, says Mr, Linsmith.

Purge’ Threat Faced

POLITICAL observers wonder whethér there is any omen in the fact that State Auditor A. V, Burch has the only full-sized, photostated copy of the

State Auditor A. V. Burch . copy of “the most important document in history * with the exception of the Bible.”

. +» has a realistic

Missouri Hill Farms By Eldon Roark

FORSYTH, Mo., July 16.—Ah, this is what we've been looking for! I'm sitting at a little table in front of our tent under the trees on a bluff looking down on a pretty

stream. A cool breeze is blowing, and we haven't heard a mosquito, This delightful spot is called White Swan Camp. The camp is on the point where Swan creek runs into

- White river. The cabins are lined up along the river

and the creek. We couldn't get one—all taken—but they also rent space for house trailers and tents. We pay $1 a day, which, of course, includes bathhouse privileges and water. Everybody gets clean by going swimming in Swan creek. Swimming is free. This camp is popular with little family groups and with young couples who like to fish and swim. Although the weather is wonderful right now, we expected to see the ground covered with snow this morning. We slept in our tent for the first time last night—and nearly froze! We had three blankets apiece and they weren't enough, Otto R. Wolf, one of the owners of the camp, says every night is cool because of natural air-condition-ing. After 4 p. m. Swan creek is in the deep shadow of Shadow Rock, and it keeps getting cooler and cooler. . These hill farms look poor to a man accustomed to the rich Arkansas and Mississippi delta land. Making things grow in this rocky clay must be difficult.

'A Quiet Contentment

STILL, I never feel as sorry for poor people in the hills as I do for those in the hot flat sections of the country. There is something about hills and mountains that gives people a quiet contentment. Maybe it comes from reducing life to its simplest terms.

Science

1 HAVE JUST returned from a preview of, world war IIT. It wasn't called that officially. It was Operation Crossroads, the test of the atomic bomb over the target ships in the lagoon of Bikini atoll. As I reported to you from the scene during the last several weeks, it was a military-scientific test in which there was no attempt to simulate the conditions of actual warfare. Nevertheless, for the discerning eye, it was just what I have called it, a preview of world war IIL And before I write anything more about the bomb test, I want to say a word to you about world war III: 1f world war III arrives, your chances of surviving it are about one in 10,000,000. Take the word of a science editor who traveled 15,000 miles—7500 miles to Bikini and 7500 miles

_ ‘back home—to see Joint Army-Navy Task Force One

shoot off an atomic bomb. On my return to this country, I was amazed to find that some of my fellow-correspondents from the U. S. 8S. Appalachian had belittled the atomic bomb and that many readers were inclined to the same view. ‘

Wild Stories Circulate

APPARENTLY SOMETHING of this. sort happened: Before the bomb went off there were the wildest kinds of stories in circulation. The bomb was going to cause a tidal wave that would drown everyone in Honolulu 2500 miles from Bikini. The bomb was going to split the bottom of the Pacific so that all the water would run out and leave the ships stranded on the floor of the sea. Some even thought the bomb might start a chain

My Day

NEW YORK, Monday.-—There are certain advahtages to getting old! You notice so many more everyday things that give you pleasure. For instance, walking through the woods at Hyde Park with Fala every morning is a test of whether the mosquitoes are going to eat us up or whether we can keep them under control by keeping in constant motion! In spite of the pests, I have enjoyed the ever-increasing variety of wild flowers. I was taught nothing about nature when 1 was a child, so mine is a perfectly uneducated enjoyment. I could not tell you the names of any wild flowers I see except the daisy and the black-eyed susan, but I keep seeing and enjoying the”new- varieties daily. ; The little orange-colored lizards which, after a rain, used to appear in such quantities in certain parts of the woods have almost vanished. Only occasionally now does my eye light on a bright spot of orange, and I see the little raised head apparently listening for our passing. They seem so defenseless, these little lizards, that I wonder tht any of them survive to propagate their species. They always provide a little bit of brilliant color, though at certain times the bright orange will turn to a duller, brownish color.

3? Boys Attend Picnic ON SATURDAY, we had the second of our picnics for the boys, from the Wiltwyck school. About 37 came, and T think we managed to fill them up on <Ramburgers, macaroni and cheese, and ice cream. Late Sunday afternoon, we had to come to the ity, as I had promised Prof. Henrl Laugier, assistant

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‘man wearing overalls, an old straw hat and a stubble

Inside Indianapolis = Lucky Omen?

f Declaration of Independence in the statehouse. . . . After futilly hunting a reproduction of the famous document in book and departnient stores tffroughout Indiana, Auditor Burch finally obtained one from Albert Rothrock, Republican chairman of Harrison

So MF ureh id be dint wr now: CARILLONEUR WRESTLES WITH CONTROLS OF 63 CLAPPERS—

creases, ink flaws and other details. . , . Mr, Burch was originally marked for the Republican state “purge” during the primary, but administration leaders later changed their minds and he was renominated. . ... He comes from Evansville, whose county chairman, Mayor Manson Reichert, declared that city’s independence of the state G. O. P, machine last vear. . . . Mayor Reichert, incidentally, is due in Indianapolis today on an undisclosed mission,

Baffled Cub Reporters

CUB REPORTERS at- police headquarters are slightly disturbed these days. , . . Decorators applied new green, grey and beige paint to the pressroom walls and ceilings. But—the color combination isn't confounding the cubs nearly so much.as the

fact that the painters brushed over a valuable list]

of phone numbers (written on the wall) of hospitals, funeral homes and similar sources of information. ++ Old timers know the numbers by memory, but newcomers now have to resort to the phone directory. . + + A polished, highly-cultivated voice inquired of a police headquarters telephone operator yesterday: “Do you. pronounce black maria, ma-ree-a or ma-rye-a? , . . The operator informed the caller the correct pronunciation of the slang synonym for patrol wagon was pronounced “Black Ma-rye-a.” . “Thank you,” the voice cooed, “I might have occaston to use it sometime.” . . . Inspector Don Tooley, nemesis of the town’s bookies, is on vacatior, fishing in Wisconsin. . . . Assigned temporarily as his substitute is Capt. Eddie Rouls, head of the police sub~ versive activities detail, and bookies are wondering whether this has any ominous significance, . . . Add to your list of little-known occupations, if you keep one, that of bottle-smasher. . Federal law re-| quires the destruction of all liquor bottles once they are emptied. . . . Each day. busboys in downtown hotels, collect emptied bar bottles, take them to the basements where they studiously shatter them in

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Bell Ringer's Job Is Complex

barrels and tubs, sometimes using plungers, sometimes slamming ‘em into the containers fo do the trick. . . A similarity in names ‘and profession | occasionally provokes mail mixups here. . . . Burrell (Doc) Diefendorf, chairman of the Indiana Alcoholic

Beverages commission, sometimes receives Som

cations addressed to Paul Defenderfer, bar manager

at the Claypool, and vice-versa,

Inside a carillon . . . Times Photographer Lloyd Walton climbed

| up into the smog-blackened framework in Scottish Rite cathedral bel-

These hill people always build their cabins facing the road, even though there may be no view at all in that direction, and there may be a magnificent one from the rear of the house. I guess if some mountaineer were to snap his fingers at custom and build for view, the word would be spread around that poor old Matt had gone crazy—didn't know his front from his rear.

Enjoy Native Produce WHEN WE are touring around, we like to enjoy some of the native produce. So" yesterday when we saw a truck loaded with bushel baskets of peaches,

we stopped. “How much?” I asked. And the driver, a small}

of beard, said they were $3.50 a bushel. “Oh, I want just a few to eat,” I said. They were hard, but were large and beautiful. I

By HENRY BUTLER MAYBE some people think caril-lon-playing is easy. { Maybe some people think it's all done by machinery, like so much else today. But James R. Lawson, carilloneur| for the summer season at Scottish | Rite cathedral, will tell you a dif-|

ferent story. First thing: That word “carillon,” properly pronounced, sounds something like “carry on.” That matter's! easy. Mr. Lawson's summer job! isn't.

” ” » | FOR HE has to wrestle with lev | ers and pedals controlling the clap-|

| pers of 63 bells up there in the Scotpicked out half a dozen. “How much for these?” | pore Rite Ag

The bells range

“Well, I never have sold just a few like that,” rn apout the one-room school-

he said. “I hardly know how much.” “Whatever you say,” I replied. He looked at the peaches, pushed the hat up on his head, thought a moment. “Well, I hardly know how to figger it,” he said, a silly little grin on his face. Then a woman who must have been the farmer's wife, said: “They oughta be worth three for a dime.” A look of relief swept over the man's face, and he nodded. “Okay,” I said, and handed him 20 cents. This is known as the Shepherd of the Hills country because it was up in these parts that Harold Bell Wright wrote his book of that title. Mr. Wright made a lot of money on his book, but he really didn’t get all that was coming to him. The author of a book like that ought to get an additional royalty on tourists.

By David Dietz|

reaction in the water so that the whole earth would) disappear in a blinding flash of light like an exploding star.

Plans Carefully Made

WELL, NONE of these things happened. What even seemed to bother some of my fellow-correspon-dents more, all the target ships in the lagoon weren't sunk. Just why anyone should have expected all the target ships to be sunk is hard to say. No top-ranking officer in Joint Task Force One expected it and no scientist expected it. I, for one, did not expect it. Preliminary statements made several months ago by Adm. Blandy and others indicated that the disposition of the target ships had. been made in keeping with a carefully prepared scientific plan. Certain facts about the range of the atomic bomb were well known from the original test in New Mexico and from the damage done at Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the two bombs dropped on Japan. With this data in hand, the experts of Joint Task Force One worked out a target array with the idea that ships at the center of the array would get the full brunt of the blast, other ships would get less effect, and finally, ships on the edge of the target array would experience only a little effect. That is just the way it worked out. Apparently the bomb did not explode over the orange-painted battleship Nevada, but some distance to the southwest of it. Five ships went down and it is reasonable to believe that the bomb exploded over those five. This was the first time in the history of the world that one bomb sank five ships.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

secretary general of the United Nations, to speak at a Bastille day celebration Sunday evening. The meet- | ing was under the auspices of France Forever, an| organization made up of French people who were here during the war and of Americans with special ties and interests in France.

U. S. Remains Unscratched MOST OF the French members, except officials stationed in this country, have now gone back home to help in the rehabilitation of their country, but those who are still here came to the celebration last night. There was great warmth of feeling and response to the very beautiful ‘addresses made by the French representatives. Mme. Marcella Denya of the Paris opera sang the French and American national anthems. And then a March of Time film, “The New France,” was shown. I thought this a particularly valuable film because it shows the devastation in France and what has to be rebuilt, and yet it also shows that certain French lukXury goods, like perfumes and wine and expensive clothes, are coming into this country again. The French need to establish dollar credits over here so they.can buy essentials for their rehabilitation program, and they are making sacrifices at home to produce for export. I kept thinking how fortunate we are in this country, with nothing destroyed and

only shortages which can be remedied so easily if we

use intelligence and good will, There has been friendship between France and ourselves since LaFayette came to help ‘our fore-fathers-in our revolution, and I hope good will can always exist between us.

{house handbell size up to the huge | 13,000 - pounder (deep A - flat in| pitch), which is what they call the| “bourdon.” Directly connected to the bellclappers by means of heavy steel wires is the intricate console. Hardwood levers, well polished through use, and rubber-treaded pedals enable the operator to strike bellnotes with varying degrees of force. ” ~ » “THERE'S an electric console as well,” Mr. Lawson points out, “but it gives mechanical and uninteresting results—no variation of intensity. I like to try to get expression into my playing, even though it is hard work.” Mr, Lawson, who hails from Cody, Wyo., learned to play the carillon up at Chicago university, which has

| fry to get this shot of rows and rows of bells and the controlling wires.

Carilloneur at work , . .

that it plays tones on little, tinkling tubes.

Mr. Lawson.

“THESE bells are beautifully in tune,” says Mr. Lawson with a musi-

a carillon almost identical in size with that other Rockefeller gift,|

Our own Scottish Rite carillon is] just about third in size in the country, with a range of four octaves.

cian’s affection for a fine instrument. Cast in England, the Scot-

signing the handsome Gothic belfry. Regular carilloneur at Stanford

university out in California, Mr. | Pridays’ and Sundays at 8:15 through | miss.

If he wanted to “goldbrick” , demonstrates the electric console of the carillon. like piano rolls, the electric console could save him a lot of effort,

Mr. Lawson wrestles with levers and pedals controlling some of the lower notes in the carillon. At the rear left is a dummy console, exact replica of the real one, except “That's to save people's nerves when I practice,” says

Lawson makes most of -his musical arrangements, He's especially interested in American folk songs, {since the melancholy minor trend of

» » » { MR. LAWSON'S programs, sched- | tuled for Mondays, Wednesdays,

| porarily hushed on Meridian st., the!

. « James R. Lawson, carilloneur, Using something

Labor Foremen Issue’ |

Being Watched -} By Industry By FRED W. PERKINS WASHINGTON, July 16.—Some big labor unions say their next

major drive will be for establishe ment of the guaranteed annual

{wage in basic inaustries, but man

agers in these industries think their real impending battle will be over retaining their rights to manage. Organized labor, aided by benef

{icent laws and sympathetic ine

terpretations by the labor depart ment and the national labor rela-

tions board, already has taken over some of the territory that manage ment formerly reserved for itself, and now nearly every important industry is taking part in defense of its remaining prerogatives. ~ " »

THE SEARCH Institute of Ameri. ca, Inc., advises management today to insist on clauses in labor cone tracts definitely fencing off management functions from union encroachments. It predicts: “Stiff wage demands more and more frequently will be put forward to force concessions of non-wage matters and win greater authority for the union in the daily conduct of plant affairs. ‘As a result of these tactics, management's exes clusive authority over plant loca tion, equipment and methods, financial policles, work assignment and schedules, and direction of the work force and discipline will be under heavy pressure.” This controversy has an ime portant current illustration in the continuing government possession of ‘more than 3000- bituminous coal mines, which were seized nearly two months ago. 3 x » . n THE. LABOR contract that Interior Secretary Krug made with

question of unionization of foremen the government would be guided by the NLRB. NLRB policies, after several flipflops, now favor organization of foremen—even in unions where the foremen become union brothers of the rank-and-file they supervise That is the case in the United Mine Workers. The foreman question is the main reason why no progress has been recorded in getting the operators to take over the KrugLewis contract and thus regain ownership of the mines, ~ . »

MOST OF big industry watches while this question is being settled,

Wednesday, Aug 21, are drawing large crowds to Memorial plaza. With the colorful electric fountain

around the obelisk as an eye-filling| the Riverside church carillon in New | tish Rite bells aggregate some 60!some of them is well suited to the! treat, and with traffic noises tem- | York. Those two are the largest in|tons in weight—no mean burden! peculiar overtones of bells, the United States, Mr, Lawson said. | for the engineers to plan for in de-|

carillon concerts from the floodlighted cathedral belfry are something Indianapolis people shouldn't

showifig evidence of concern. The automobile manufacturers are deep in the foreman controversy and also in the broader question of what .| management is supposed to m A Walter Reuther, who led the strik against General Motors and is now president of the C. I. O. United Automobile Workers, laid down the doctrine that the union should have a.say in the prices at which the industry sells its products. - Congress has flirted with some aspects of the problem, and in the vetoed Case bill sought to deny foremen the collective bargaining privileges of the national labor relations act.

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Men Aren't Tactful in

By SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE Times Foreign Correspondent MAGALAND, P. I, July 16.—At dusk each night a pathetic procession of 3000 or more peasants from the neighborhood surrounding this little town stream in here seeking sanctuary from the outrages of ravaging bands of Communist Hukbalahaps. The Huks pretend through their Manila leaders that they are trying to protect the peasants from oOppressive landlords. Yet the peasants so dread the kidnapings and loot-

ings that they dare not remain on their farms after dark. Into the towns they bring families, water buffalo, pigs, chickens

and spend the night on the bare | ly crowded it was almost impossible | Arayat which is the reputed strongtile floors of churches, or in ware-|to avoid stepping on sleeping chil- hold of the Communist-patterned

houses or mansions of the wealthy planters which have been thrown open to them.

They resemble throngs of refu-

gees fleeing before the storm of Same picture while the churchyard| They have their own mayors,

battle.

Mayor Antonio Tiglao of Maga- | crowded with oxcarts, household | They appraise the earnings of peas-

land and Capt. E. M. Sadang, military police commander in this section, took me through-a church and

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BILL MAULDIN

Looting Communist Bands Drive Filipinos Into Towns

[to other places of

refuge: The |

{church was weirdly lighted by a {few candles and an occasional | flashlight. The floor was so thick-,

dren. The air reeked from the foul in-| sanitary conditions. A school ad-|

[joining the church offered the!

{and the small public park were]

| possessions and livestock. | “This is not unusual,” the mayor lsat. “It happens each night and |

has been going on for months. In | bership fees of more than two!

the morning they'll trudge back to] their farms and work all day in return for protection at night.” When they return home they know the chances are the Huks| have visited their places and car{ried off anything of value. They also know if they remained at home | {overnight they would be subject to

| robbery and worse. The Huks are drive seems to indicate that the or- | night?”

now recruiting by forcibly remov-)

ing the eldest sons and in fact any boy above 14. Magaland is M. Ps.

strongly It is at the foot of Mt.

“government” of the Hukbalahaps. The paper organization. of these seditionists sets up a government within a government.

treasurers and system of taxation.

ants, merchants and tradespeople. The peasants were forced to pay the “provisional government” mem-

pesos. From the richer farmers the Huks extracted five pesos a week per acre. From storekeepers they took whatever they could squeeze, In addition, the Huks required contributions of food from every-

Saying Goodbye

By RUTH MILLETT A JAPANESE phrase book, issued to occupation troops, offers such get-acquainted come-ons as, “You're very pretty,” “How about a date?”

held by| 4 “Where shall I meet you?”

It also lists 14 ways to say “Goodbye.” If the soldiers in Japan have as much trouble over goodbyes as some of their comrades in Germany have had in saying auf Wiedersehen to their frauleins, they will need instruction in how to say, “Well, T'll be seeing you," with both firmness and tact. » = " AS A MATTER of fact, even exclusive of any language barrier, most men could stand a little instruction in the gentle art of bringing a romantic friendship to a close. American men seem to be born with the knowledge of how to strike up an acquaintance with a girl and

body.

The fact that the Huks must re-|

sort to force in their recruiting

ganization is disintegrating.

The stage is set today for Indianapolis residents to begin thinking about shaking off those excess pounds. H. Wm. Stewart, program chairman of the Construction League of Indianapolis, said the “diet pledge” campaign is ready to begin Thursday and Friday to make Indianapolis more conscious of the food shortage in European countries. The diet pledge is sponsored by the league in co-operation with Mayor Tyndall's emergency food conservation committee. Must Lose 2 Pounds

When the diet pledge is taken, Thursday and Friday, it obligates a person to lose two pounds by Sept. 18, 19 and 20, the, dates when | the weighing out will take place. | | If two pounds are not taken off (it lisn't necessary that -they come off | [the tummy), Mr. Stewart added, the registrant will be obliged to pay $1. To remain for two months

‘Diet Pledge’ Campaign Opens Thursday; Europe to Benefit

at the same weight also will cost $1. It costs more, however, to gain —$1 per pound or a fraction thereof

Money collected at the weighing out dates will be put into a steel barrel, which is chained to the scales, and then turned over to Henry F. Schricker, treasurer of the mayor's committee, for purchase of. food for shipment to needy areas. Diet pledge cards may be obtained at L. Strauss & Co. Mr. Stewart urges pledge takers to fill out the blanks with all the information asked—except the weight that will be taken care of by the committee in charge of weighing in. Virgil Sheppard, executive direc~ tor?of Red Cross and members of his staff will help weigh Indianapolis resident who will take the pledge te eat less for the shrinkage that will pay off for them Sept. 18. 19 and 20 and later for starving

how to recognize just the right moment for switching a general conversation to that subtle invita-

| tion. “What are you doing to-

With a plea of lonesomeness and a bit of open flattery, they are | never at a loss when it comes to

{ finding feminine companionship in - |

a strange place. » » » BUT THEY get involved in a hurry, and when they are trying to get out of an entanglement their mastery deserts them. : With naive faith, they trust that the moment of parting will take care of itself, and that when the need for saying “Goodbye” arises, as it inevitably. does, they will he the same smoothies they were when they were using the lonesome "he" ' But they seldom are. If they knew one tactful way of saying “Goodbye”—let alone 14—life would be far simpler for them. And easier on women, too.

DOG MATCH TO BE HELD HERE SUNDAY

Cocker spanigl friends and fanclers will witness an A. K. C. sanc~ tioned match Sunday at 2 p. m. on

nels, 7601 E, Washington st. Clyde Seymour of Cincinnati will judge. Entries will be taken on the

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