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MANY WOMEN hesitate to tell their ages because they don't want people to know how old they are, Mrs. Jeannette, McPheeters, however, would just as soon people didn't know how young she is, . . . The slender, brown-eyed war widow who took over the helm of Knoxall and Midwest soap companies after her husband's death op Anzio beachhead has found her youthful appearance a hindrance in business dealings. It doesn't take long, though, for salespeople and buyers to find the feminine industrialist is just as shrewd a business person as any executive they may have. expected to find at the vice president-gen-eral manager's desk. . . . From the time John W, McPheeters started a two-employee soap factory in the middle of the depression his wife was his “right hand man.” She handle” office details and poured forth enough new ideas and enthusiasm to balance his conservatism. By 1940 the factory had expanded many times—they no longer waited for the mailman to bring enough orders to meet the payroll—and Mrs. McPheeters, the business woman, decided to go back to being Mrs. McPheeters the housewife. :

She Proved Her Point

SHE NEVER made it back to being a housewife because of the war. That year her husband, commissioned when he left Purdue, was cglled to duty. While he led his field artillery battalion through Africa, Tunisia and into the Italian d&mpaign with one of the lowest mortality rates on record (a hall was named for him at Ft. Knox because of his personal gallantry and his excellent leadership), his wife was filling his shoes at the plant and even charting

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post-war South American expansion, . . . His death ended any thought she might have had of retiring. She became vice president and general manager and her father, O. P. Epler, who had been associated with the. company several years, became president. . One of her biggest problems was convincing em.ployees that the factory would go on. “You have to prove that, though you're a woman, you know what you're talking about. That you're not going to stand and wring your hands but that the factory is going on, Jobs will go on and that the whole building isn't going to fall in.” . , , During the war she more than convinced her workers that she “knew what she was doing.” She worked right in the factory in overalls on 10-hour shifts seven days a week, handled personnel, purchasing. merchandising and a thousand and one other problems. Neither. did the factory just keep pace with its past production. The research department stepped ahead with the discovery of a. new grease solvent, a vital factor in industrial soap in which the factory specializes. Sales increased and the business had one of the best years on record. Proposals in the Mail HER DREAM of expanding to South America was brought nearer realization recently when she was chosen to go on a tour, sponsored by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. . . . Although she ‘was probably the least executive-looking person on the tour, she spent more time making contacts than most of the other industrial representatives. . , . It got to be a joke with fellow travelers that she always had an ambassador at one side and a business contact at the other. . . . She also took time to acquaint South American business women with Altrusa International, of which she is an officer. This week she went to the Altrusa International board meeting at Racine, Wis., to speak on the possibilities of South American chapters. Altrusa, incidentally, is only one of a dozen women's organizations in which she finds time to participate, between hahdling the factory and taking additional schooling. Mrs. McPheeters dresses simply, lives alone in the Irvington apartment which she decorated herself. . . . She loves music, having studied and taught piano for years, and just recently gave up kidding herself that she'd ever have an appreciable

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“SHELLS AND TARGETS” . .. George Heaney (right) buys a box of sho. sun shells from Loren Booker, Capitol City Gun club manager, as he starts an afternoon of skeet.

SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1946

CAMERA CLOSEUPS..:.By Dan McCormack

_ State Skeet Shoot On Today

- Billy

PAGE 7 Secret Police? Implications by Russian Writer

Called Unfair

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 27, — Intimations by Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer, that the U, 8. state department assigned men to accompany him and other visiting Russians in a sort of secret police manner were termed “grossly unfair” today by the man in charge of the assignment! Mr. Bhrenburg has implied that the state ' department men were comparable to those assigned to watch U, 8. reporters and other American visitors to Russia. _The state department man in charge of the Russian visitors was Fred Warren Neal, consultant on Russian relations in the newly organized cultural division, “I resent Mr, Ehrenburg's repeatedly writing that the state department assigned persons to follow him and others with him about the coun-

A PERFECT GUN FOR A GOOD SCORE . . Harris, a manufacturer's representative, bur-

try in a sort of spying manner,” said Mr. Neal.

» » » | WHEN he first suggested this cynical interpretation, I told him I con-

sidered it grossly unfair. But he has continued to repeat it in various

publications both here and in Moscow. So I think it is time we report (ed the facts, | “I am sure any American journal{ist in Russia would be glad to settle on equal terms and undoubtedly would feel that a great forward stride had been taken in freedom of

amount of time to devote to her music. . . . Her interests, outside of soap making, range: from politics] to ice skating, encompassing work in dramatic clubs, | on foreign trade committees, and art and decorating. ! . . Despite having her name in the paper often! enough to merit subscription to a clipping service, | she's still a little publicity shy. She hasn't recovered | from a picture and article in a national publication |

The club is host today and tomorrow to the annual state tournament

nishes his gun before practice for the tournament.

ateur, stayed in the s 78-77—155. d straight day, playe en’s open were uns te their ‘rounds bee ty Berg of Minne Kielty of Los An 4 who were able

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The war ended her plan to be a housewife . . * Mrs. Jeannette McPheeters, widow 6f war hero Lt. Col.’ John W. McPheeters.

COLORADO SPRINGS, July 27.—Here in this eity and within easy reach of it is everything a vacationist could desire—scenic wonders and grandeur, delightful climate, all kinds of facilities for sport,

recreation and fun. We could spend a month here, writing every day, and still not tell you about all the things we think

some months ago, which resulted in her being bombarded with enough letters, including many proposals, to paper her office. The proposals, in case anyone gets the idea again, went unanswered.

(By Donna Mikels) |

Garden of the Gods By Eldon Roark

the winds of the centuries. Their sheer cliffs are | §

honeycombed—holes of all sizes and shapes, and | cracks. Birds live in those holes, and what a grand place it is for them.

The birds that amazed us were small ones that | | They head right for the! #

look and fly like swallows.

side of the cliff going like a bullet. Just before they |

crash into it, they do a steep bank—turn sideways— | &

the press.” According to Mr, Neal the three {visiting Russians — Ehrenburg, a | journalist; Konstantin Siminov, au~ thor and movie board member in Russia and Maj. Gen. Mikail Galaktionov, military editor of Pravada—came here for the annual meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. » » » AFTERWARD the state department suggested they tour the country. They accepted on a three-

. | weeks’ basis, but remained here nine

ws a half weeks. { “At first they wanted to see most{ly writers and artists,” Mr. Neal

+ |explained. “That kept them in New

St T would interest you. Before we push on to other places and shoot through a small crack and go on back into} . | York. We suggested they go out ar eam I'd like to mention a few more attractions. the rock somewhere. They slacken speed very little, | § {and get a broader and more bal- , shortstop on las One of the most popular rides is the trip up Mt. and they have to turn up sideways in order to get | {anced view of the country as a

Manitou incline. Two cable cars operate on it, and as one comes down it helps to pull the' other up. And I mean up. : rr = The base of the incline is at the foot of the mountain at an elevation of 6400 feet. You get into a car, and up you go to above 9000 feet in a climb—only a mile and a quarter long. At times you are going up a grade of 68. per cent! It’s a slow ascent, and you have an unobstructed view of Manitou, Colorado Springs, the plains country of eastern Colorado, and the surrounding mountains to the north and south. From a distance the Rocky mountains look bald and severe. But when you get into the mountains you see the beauty of them. The scrubby vegetation becomes magnificent pines, spruces and firs and the occasional bare slopes turn into graceful sweeps of color.

Birds Find a Paradise

GREAT BOULDERS are everywhere, adding their curves and a touch of eternity to the scene, and cool breezes sing and moan through the tree tops. In the distance you may hear more sweet music—the roar of a stream. You wish you could settle down right there and enjoy the peace of it forever. In the Garden of the Gods are sandstone mountains that have been wearing away in the rains and

»dral high - schoo will go to Brooklyr day to compete o m against the pic h sandlot amateur: n of Mr. and Mrs yle Sr., of 6251 ., is the only Indi ed and was picked ched by Dodger rep

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as a basketball ste efore his graduatio

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’ A * t1 NEW YORK, July 27.—The war for alr supremacy south of the equator is on, the stakes are high and no punches are being pulled. And like any pioneering enterprise, feelings are being hurt, innocent bystanders—the air passengers— are being bruised and the “buck” is being passed. The result, however, is going to be good for everyone. John Q. Public eventually is going to be able to go places and see things—and fast. : Pan American World airways proved that the big Douglas four-engined 'DC-4s can maintain’ a daily schedule over the 6000-mile route. They proved the flight could be made in 38 hours, with only 33 hours actually in the air, if South American governments will fully co-operate. And they proved that, on a two-week vacation, an American will be able to spend more than ten days of recreation and sightseeing even though he makes the full round trip of more than 12,000 miles to and from Argentina. But, in failing to make the southbound flight on scheduled time, as Brazil and Argentina governments held up the plane, PAA. also proved that the international fight for Latin American air commerce not only has begun in earnest, but is going to take some “doing” to win,

2)-Hour Layover Forced WHEN THE plane landed at Belem, Brazilian port of entry, officials at Rio de Janeiro refused

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ment air base for more than an hour. At Montevideo, Uruguay, Argentine officials refused to allow it to proceed to Buenos Alres and another overnight delay resulted. Even then the DC-4 did not proceed, but went back to Rio, leaving its passengers to keep the north-bound schedule going. Later Argentine o

My Day

NEW YORK, Friday.—The continuation of civil war in China is certainly a discouraging thing to read about every day in the newspapers. Ambassador Wellington Koo's statement from

fficials indicated PAA had

very ‘excellent diplomat. However, in most of the newspaper articles I have read, the point of Mme. Sun's statement seems to me to have been ignored. __As a I see it, she feels that China cannot be unified until there is actual representation of all parties in the government, including the so-called Communist group. “As I understand it, the democratic league is the middle-of-the-road group which forms the connecting link between the right and the left. The point that all shades of thought must be allowed to have representation seems to me absolutely reasonable. It is an essential preliminary step for a peaceful China. ” « i It is a sign ¢ _t " be.able to

Indianapolis Midge y and tomorrow, 2:30 each day. mber crash is bub teen events in this planned recklessness. + $1.25. The show is ices of the Speedway Department.

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Tires Are Scarce : 4

WE WATCHED them a good while, but never saw one miscalculate. Butter seems to be plentiful out here—78 cents a pound. One day we bought milk at 14 cents a quart. The next day the price had gone up to 17 cents. When I had my car filled with gas yesterday, I asked the station managér what about tires. “We haven't anything but retreads,” he said. “Can't get new ones. Lot of tourists are having tire trouble. They start out with old tires and think luck will take them through. But when they cross the hot belt these old tires begin to pop. Fellow in here yesterday who had had five blowouts crossing Kansas.”

And when I had my Ford greased at the Ford

agency, I asked about spare parts. | “Haven't got everything in stock we need,” the | parts manager said. “Sometimes a customer will] have to wait two or three days till we can get a| part, or longer.” This is a nice place to live, but I don't envy the poor city bus drivers who live and work here. Two-thirds of the people who get on the busses are strangers who don't know how to get where they're going, and they ask a million questions,

By Max B. Cook

“pulled a fast one” in sending a DC-4 carrying twice the number of passengers than the regulation DC-3s listed on the official schedule. They said it was unfair to the French, British and other air lines. PAA officials still later announced they had one written and one verbal permission to send that first plane in, and they are standing on that statement. : It was indicated in later interviews that both Brazil and Argentina are attempting to keep the score even on distributing air passenger business to the various nationalities enjoying landing rights. One French plane—an American DC-4—was undergoing repairs at Buenos Aires. Four large British planes were on the ground at Rio, Two British planes took off from Montevideo. The final answer will be supremacy for the airline that gives the best service—period.

12,000 Miles in 91/5 Days DESPITE inconvenience, delays and humidity, the

fact remains that the writer-party, in nine and onehalf days, flew more than 12,000 miles.

ters of both Brazil and Argentina, then was entertained by the two new U. S. ambassadors. It was royally entertained by officials of Montevideo, the press clubs of Buenos Aires and Rio and PAA representatives at San Juan, Puerto Rico and Port of Spain, Trinidad. It toured Belem, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janiero,

Brazil,” the Hotel Quitandinha, Petropolis, high in the mountains and 50 miles out of Rio. And John Q. Public soon can be enjoying these things even though the official entertainment may be somewhat reserved for visiting writers and officials. The aviation war, south of the equator, is going to be good for aviation and good for the air-minded public.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

live with your opposition and work out your problems in a peaceful manner. Years ago, I remember, the delegations from North and South China traveled to the 1919 peace

Traditionally, we in this country have a great affection for and interest in China and its people. But I think a good many of our people are beginning to hope that military occupation—outside of conquered countries such as Germany and Japan—may give way as rapidly as possible to such civilian aid as can be of value only when nationc are at peace. There is so much work to be done in China, to help the average human being to raise his standard of living, that it seems an utter waste of time for the Chinese to be fighting each other because they cannot agree on some form of representation in their government which will give a voice to all shades of

IMPORTANT MAN ... Billy Litzelton, trap boy, is the lad behind the scenes. He pulls the lever that releases the clay pigeon.

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be here.

A DEAD: PIGEON . . . Walter Susemichel powders a clay pigeon at one of the stations with an automatic shotgun (note empty shell being ejected). The gun club also will be host to the international skeet tournament Aug. 7-11 when the nation’s top notch shooters will

PULL... ture (left to right) are Bill Allison, Mr. Booker, George Heaney and Norm Wehlage. Mr. Bidlach, Mr. Booker and Mr. Heaney are entered in today's championship shooting.

END OF THE DAY . .. After the day's shooting, members relax |

Bob Bidlach lines up his sights at one of the skeet stations, In the

pipe

in the clubhouse Al Eppler (right) checks over his gun while (left to right) L. 8. Pratt, Graydon Hubbard, Marvin Christie and Merrill

Christie check over scores in a recent out-of-town shoot in a sporting |

magazine.

By MARGUERITE SMITH “I HAVE a friend who has a beautiful

' most interesting design. Though it

is a small yard, it has several paths

{note from Mrs. Mamie Chappell, 406 | Forest st., I can tell you about one {of the most unusual and cleverly | gardened yards in the city. | It is the work of Mrs, Mary Jar- | vis, 401 Forest st. “And I think I | work pretty well for 75 years old,”

impression is one of space. | It has a pool, a “fairy garden,” | quantities of flowers, plus six dif- | ferent kinds of grapes (they make {the wall of one ‘“room”), a plum, a pear and a quince tree. And the entire cost, outside of a little fertilizer, “has been easily less than $2.50 during the 27 years I've had my garden.” ” ”

5 HOW HAS she achieved such a remarkable result? “My garden is a true friendship garden. There are only one or two of my roses (she has about & hun-

flowers she has started from seed, “many from seed my friends have given me.”

vantage.

| used to have our cistern.

tern with ashes.

over it.

two at a time.” The

garden with over 300] different kinds of flowers, with a|E

It interviewed the presidents and foreign minis-| and hidden nooks” Thanks to this|

Then she has taken every liability | the yard was so muc in her yard and turned it to ad- Oh, yes, I made the pool, 100. It'S Degdringer, now 12, and Suzanne, The tiny brick terrace,| just an old tub if you look under per just outside the door, “is where we| those flat stones I put around the | When | edge.” cify' water came, we filled the cis- goldfish flashing under a shading ,qyies, “First, have a plan to I laid the bricks umbrella plant, ’ They're good, heavy| Stepping-stone paths (“They're bricks, too, for I could carry only| just old. pieces of cement—I made) came from|the paths from necessity”)’ lead

* Mrs. Mary Jarvis . . .

vase gives the brick terrace a most elegant air.

to the tiny pool and garden” at the very back corner of the yard, “I had to make because h lower there.

Vines grow around. it, with

thought—a chance to be heard without bloodshed. a repaving job. A soft blue pottery| from the pool past the cactus garM ak iin a RS tn ras ised ¥ - a : A » . tt N a wn ° 7 t y : F - penis i mp ins “

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(GARDENING: MAKING THE MOST OF LIMITED SPACE—

300 Kinds of Flowers Grow In Small Yard

300 species of flowers in her garden.

iden to one of those shady nooks

where you may sit to watch the]

|the fairy garden, which, with its | tiny plants and figures, Mrs. Jarvis | made several years ago for her two | great-grandchildren, Carol Lee

ster. ” rvis'

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work to. 1 am a great hand to

| srom them. 1f they don't work out right 1 dispose of them. .

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, * DETROIT, July 27

“Then I like privacy. Shrubs

give you seclusion. But for a small

lot you need to choose those that will stand a lot of trimming. Lilacs

grow bushy but they'll stand cut-|

A thin layer of shrubbery It makes

ting. is like a green fence. your yard look cool,

For paths stepping-stones nicer than grass, I think. “A cozy nook with a seat is very attractive. But don't have too

many of them. That would overdo it. Don't try to have too much of

are

“You must have a point of emphasis. Don’t spludge all over the yard but choose some one thing, as you'd do in decorating a room, and fit everything to it.” n » ” MRS. JARVIS is the widow of the Rev. M. O. Jarvis, who was pastor of the Riverside Methodist church at the time of his retirement over 20 years ago. In addition to being an unusual gardener, Mrs. Jarvis teaches music. She doubts there's another piano teacher in the city who can match her record of 60 years’ consecutive teaching.

chairs on my terrace,” she told me, “but it's a little lonely to sit there by myself.”

AUTO PRODUCTION UP (UJ. PD. American and ' Canadian automo-

| bile manufacturers produced 87,260

units this week, a new high for 1946 and only a few thousand short of the 105,635 units turned out in

look at picthres, try out ideas I get| the corresponding week in 1041,

Ward's authoritative automotive reports said today. r

whole, “While they were in New {never followed them around: - | Nine out of 10 hours a day they were on their own and could ge {anywhere they wanted, and do or

pic- |$8Y anything they liked. The only

time we joined them was when they called and wanted someone to accompany them on a shopping tour {or the like. | ~ ” » | “WHEN THEY decided to go to Detroit we asked if they wanted us |along. Mr. Ehrenburg replied that |they did, because he didn't speak English. 3 “They went to Philadelphia and {Princeton and found persons who {could speak their language and we were not around. We only went {when invited.” | To illustrate his point, Mr. Neal {said he was completely without any knowledge of a party aboard a Russian ship attended by Mr. Siminov when they were visiting: the West |Coast. The party supposedly was | attended by Charles Chaplin and | other movie people. “Certainly they were never limited {in any way,” Mr. Neal concluded.

We, the Wome

G.I. Bill Aids | All Veterans,

| Rich or Poor

By RUTH MILLETT

| When it came to light, the other day, that Alexander Biddle Jr, | whose millionaire father is execu{tive vice president of the Philadel|phia Stock Exchange, is exercising {his right. as an unemployed war | veteran to draw a $20 unemploy~

{ment check each week, there were {quite a few raised eyebrows. The Biddle heir met them with | the statement that he will continue |to draw his unemployment pay un[til he gets a job, just as does any other war veteran who is out of | work, |

| ~ 8 nN | AND, ACTUALLY, why shouldn't he? During the war we used to | swell with pride over the fact that | the son of the millionaire and the {son of the day laborer alike were

to allow it to proceed on the basis that official per- ahything in small space. Plants mission for the flight’ had not been granted. probably one of the most beautiful cities in the she said. Her yard is no more mustn't be crowded. They have subject to our democratic draft. Arriving ‘at Rio the next day, the passengers world. And it was housed and entertained In the than 36x54 feet. It is divided to have air. Use those that do best| In our democratic hearts we were herded into a small, close office on the govern- fabulous, marble-columned former “Monte Carlo of into two “rooms,” yet the entire in your soil. | loved the idea that the banker's son

land the son of the sharecropper |were wearing the same uniform, living by the same regulations, sharing the same experiences. ” ” ¥ WELL, IT'S still democracy now, when the government is handing out benefits to honorably-dis-charged veterans—distributing them not on the basis of need, which would make the benefits a form of charity, but on the basis of service. We shouldn't start complaining because a veteran collects what is rightfully his. How much money he or his father may have is entirely beside the point.

’ ’ " . . Washington—in answer to Mme. Sun Yat-Sen's ap- conference on the same steamer, in spite of the dred) Ying I haven't started from . » u sun shining on the bed of flowers I) Youd : se» ea) gardening WE WOULD have yelled loud and peal #0 the United’ States—was the statement of a fact that North and South China were carrying on|cuttings. Some of her shrubs THE STONE steps that lead down [in the sunniest part of the yard,| achievement, . r long st OULD HVS fells son ‘bad a civil war, have interesting histories. Her “sunken | Or you may follow other paths to|Yard. = “There’s room for . two

somehow managed to stay out of the war, Since he didn't—and de- . mocracy was served-he has as much right as any other veteran to collect whatever is coming to him. Besides, just WHO is refusing Uncle Sam's offers of financial assistance these days?

DEARBORN REUNION SET The Dearborn County cis will hold its 55th annual re Aug. 11 at'2 p. m. In BI

York we