Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1946 — Page 21

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Inside Indianapolis * By Donna Mikels

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WELL, we climbed back In the saddle—or saould’ we say back In the brogans—with a visit to Irving ton, As a matter of fact, a Jong trek along Lowell ish we were in a spddle instead of brogéns. , ., . It wasn't a bit hard to take when a kind woman who was doing some house painting let us soak up some of the shade of her beech trees. And in a reclining position, too. While we" rested, the house painter (she wouldn't let us tell her name) told. us about the habits of beech trees. Her three owerlrig trees are much healthier than others in Irvington are, she told us, because she doesn't keep

““ her lawn closely cropped. She also lets honeysuckle

cover the ground around the roots. Beeches we learnva, have flat roots which lie close ‘to the sure © face and are weakened by any “whacking around” close to the ground. Too much “whacking” ‘and the trees die. That's our “fact for the day.” .. . Our next stop was at the home of one of the town's better known citizens, J. 'H. Armington, retired weather man, the ‘cumulus since the turn of the century, lives at

it's at the corner of the two avenues. We wish he lived on Lowell instead, though. Trying to say Mr. Armington who lives on Arlington in Irvington is a mouthful. , ; weather bureau in -1943, after 30 years of weather JJopecasting #1 Ihidtanapolis, He's taker up garden: ing, as ‘a hobby and, as might be. ‘expected of «= weather expert, he's been- very successful. But then his cronies at the bureau tell us he always was an avid gardener, ‘periodically going on sprees of “specializing in plant ang flower varieties. .

Children Losing Favorite Spot IN THE 5900 block on Lowell we strolled smack dab into the middle of a raging gun battle. The neighborhood kids were using the fringe of a thicketed and wooded lot for a jungle fort, . It’s been their favorite spot for years, but this is the last year. For one thing, it's infested with poison ivy. "What's more, it's been sold and the woods will give way to a house very soon. To most of the children it means the loss of a good playground, but net to the four Dancey youngsters, the grandchildren of Mr. and Mrs. L. W, Morris, 5931 Lowell. They're moving to the country where they're going to “raise chickens and cows and things,” according to the youngest, four-year-old Darlene. Darlene is mighty eager for farm life to begin. She almost went wild when a horse-drawn cart went by yesterday—she’'s definitely attracted to horses. The four children are going to pool the bonds they saved during the war to buy a pony for the farm. Two of the boys who were taking part in the “bloody” battle apparently have a more gentle side. The two Gable boys, Fritz, eight, and Bruce, five, sons of Mrs. Jane Gable, 5924 Lowell, collect and mount butterflies. Fritz says he

Roaring Traffic

DECATUR, Ill, Sept. 5.—We have beell through national parks and mountains in the west but in one hour yesterday afternoon we saw more wildlife than we had seen in all of the previous six weeks.

-through—Ghicago—right Road and Michigan Avenue—during the afternoon traffic peak. We found ourselves in the middle of a great rushing, roaring stream of madmen. Cars whizzed all around us, motorists honked at us, cops waved at us wildly, confusing signs flashed by. You've got to have perfect brakes and nerves to drive on Michigan Avenue when the citizens try to beat each other home, The system is to step on the accelerator, slam on the brakes, step on it again, honk at the slowpoke in front of you, cuss, watch for an opening and charge into it like a fullback hitting a hole in a line. Luckily we didn't have. to stop in Chicago, so we just let the traffic carry us along. It swept us right on through the city. We followed. the lake shore route, Highway 42, from Sheboygan to Chicago,- and passed through the industrial cities of Port Washington, Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha, Waukegan?

: Beautiful Homes

THE HEAVILY wooded residential suburbs of Chicago along Lake Michigan—Lake Forest, Highland Park, Evanston—are beautiful. There are miles and miles of magnificent homes. We were ready to stop and call it a day two ®

Aviati * WE ARE HEARING a lot of jokes, wisecracks and predictions about helicopters, The fact is, no one

knows yet what place they will finally take in the air picture of the future.

They can do things foday that no airplane can do safely, They can rise strafght up from the ground without a ground run, and land straight down without a ground run—safely.

The post office department is encouraging. bids from airlines. and other responsible operators for contracts to carry mail from airports to city centers. True, at present the helicopter cannot carry much of a payload but helicopters are in their infancy— when standard airplanes were. young they couldn't carry much cf a payload either. The speed of the helicopter is limited and will increase later, but they'll never match the winged aircraft. However, efforts already are well along to put the helicopter to work at one important job. for which it seems eminently qualified—crop dusting and pest control, Most of our American helicopters are motored with engines running between 150 and 250 horsepower, Hence we have become accustomed to thinking they always mus; small aircraft. The B However, - are building a giant “heli copter a with a Rolls-Royce engine of 950 horsepower. This machine is to weigh 15,000. pounds,

‘fully loaded, and is designed for spraying chemicals

on crops.

Develops Downward Push THERE'S A SINGULAR feature about the helicopter which fits it for such a- job. The blades of the helicopter (technically known as rotors) are virtually narrow wings. A wing develops “lift” as the air sweeps over it, A prop can be said to develop “lift” in the horizontal plane—and we call that force “thrust.” Still remembering that the orthodox airplane prop is a

My Day

ALBANY, N. Y., Wednesday.-—~The first day of the Democratic state convention came to an end with a feeling of enthusiasm, I think, among ail those

present. : I am quite sure we will be told this feeling has been equally present at the convention which the Republicans are holding in Saratoga Springs. A man in office has, of course, many practical advantages. He has state appointees ready to organize his campaign, and people who hope for fdvors or who have already received them can be called upon for active support. On the other hand, in this state there is a longstanding tradition of good Democratic government. Frequently, in the past, a Democratic adminiswation has had to carry its program through in spite of a Republican majority in the legislature. Surprisingly enough, Democratic governors have often succeeded, even under these difficult circumstances, in putting over their programs. As yesterday progressed, I think the enthusiasm of the delegates to our Democratic convention increased, as did their sense of solidarity.

Delegates Enthusiastic. THERE 18 no fight here as in Saratoga. Naturally,

it is impossible for everyone tn have the candidate of his choice named, and many counties leave a conven-

tion with a feeling that they would have, liked recog-

“nition which they haven't received. These are, how,ever, the fortunes of polities; and what you do not’ get in one as, you may get in another. . I rarely have seen a convention show nd mush

Mr. Armington, who had peered into

. Mr, Armington ‘retired from the local °

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From “bullets” to butterflies . . . Fritz and Bruce Goble alternate between mock, battles and -bisttartly. selecting... Sis mca

thinks he has * ‘about a hundred” but: his iter] more conservative estimate was at around 50. They're

‘mounted and tagged with three and four syllable

Latin monickers, a contribution from their mother | who studied botany and zoology in college. |

Free Comic Books WE WANTED to, see Harold I. Schoen, 5801 Lowell ave, about a flag the neighbors told us about, The flag is so large that it has to. be hung between two | trees, flanking thé front walk. And it's-so old, Mrs. | Gable told us, that it has only 45 stars. We don't | think Mr. Schoen was home but we aren't sure because we couldn't figure out how to get to the door. There's evidently some remodeling going on, with the materials so placed that you can see the door but you can't reach it, At least we couldn't, after two or three ventures into the maze of lumber, etc. . . . A couple of older residents of the block are’ Mr. and Mrs. John A. Clayton, 5906 Lowell. | They've lived there 30 years. Mr Clayton is retired, after carrying. mail 36 years, , . , We witnessed an amazing thing during our stroll. A milk truck pulled up to a curb and a dozen youngsters made running dashes across lawns toward it. For a minute we ‘thought the younger generation's attitude toward | milk had changed. , Not so though. The milk | man now builds up good will by distributing comic | books weekly, and yesterday was the day. |

‘ | By Eldon Roark

hours before we reached Maroa, but we couldn't find a place to stay. We came south on Highway | 54, which doesn't seem to be much of a tourist road, We kept driving, thinking we'd finally come to a

{the number of visitors here at one

-down-Sheridan—good-motor-court;-but—there-weren't-any————

Friendly Tourist Home AT CLINTON No. 54 crossed No. 51, which Is more of a transcontinental highway, and we continued southward on it. The motor court at Maroa was full, but we found two large, comfortable rooms with bath in a tourist home. This is the ‘third time we have stayed in tourist homes on this trip. In each case we turned to them | as a last resort and in each instance we were pleasantly surprised at the comfort and friendliness. This morning we came on to Decatur and found the new tire we'd been hunting since we left: Denver. “Why, yes,” the man at the std ion said. “I can fix you up. How many you want?” ¢ “I guess one will take care of me,” I said weakly The new tire came pretty late on the tour—we expect to be home in Memphis tomorrow night— but we. were. glad to get it.

Decatur is ‘a grand little city. We ate breakfast!

at an attractive, clean cafeteria that serves the best coffee and doughnuts we'd had since we left home. And 1 found a barbershop with an empty chair and got sheared without having to wait a minute. We've been moving so fast I hadn't visited the barber in| four weeks.

By Maj. Al Williams

wing, we well know that it creates a strong wind | stream rearward, . : Well, the rotor blades of the helicopter drive a |

the rotors, blast of air from a helicopter.

Rebound Does the Trick

OBVIOUSLY, at low altitude§ this strong downward wind is driven against the ground. Therefore, liquid anti-pest- chemicals sprayed into this’ wind ‘stream will be speeded downward. So fast does this chemically-laden air travel, that it strikes the ground around a crop and rebounds, carrying some of the, chemical spray upward a short distance. That short upward travel of the spray is sufficient to coat the undersides of crop foliage. And it is on the underside of crop foliage that most of the destructive plant pests gather. Crop dusting with orthodox aircraft has been an operation highly remunerative to farmers and pilots in this country. But the airplane has- always been moving too fast to accomplish full crop coverage. Too, the dusting done from airplanes merely coats the upper sides of the crop foliage, while the bug armies are mostly huddled on the under leaf.

| To sum up; the helicopter-duster provides its own | windstream which not only will coat the upper leaf yarrs.

but. also the under leaf, thus providing complete plant coverage. Rather a novel fact, but the helicopter not only | carries the anti-pest chemical, it also provides its own |

two-way pumping windstream to get the chemicals |

where they can do the most good.

It will be a fairly dangerous -job to operate heli-|(pq Liberty ship Emily Dickinson,

* What's more, the situation

E | phone calls and letters, callipg our {city a “15-cent town.”

lis to be spent to install air conditioning in every Yoo.

figures for any month between now land March except December, when

"SECOND SECTION

TRAVELERS GIVING INDIANAPOLIS A NATIONAL REPUTATION—

| Rooms Toda

Sorry,

By RICHARD BERRY Indianapolis is getting a national reputation because of its lack of hotel facilities.

will not improve for along time, in the opinion of leading hotel and real estate oven here, Hotel men have received tele-

The visitors have formed their opinions from the. | inadequate: accommodations. Yet, som Indfanapolis hotel men ~ say! “Anyone who tries to build a hotel here will © broke.” : VTHE LARGEST downtown hotels have shown an average of nearly 100 per cent occupancy ever since the beginning of world war IL In recent ‘weeks, occupancy figures |have in some cases been well above 100 per cent. This is possible by putting two 'people in a single room. Hotel ree ports, however, can show only 100 per cent. This means every room is occupied. In only a few cases has occupancy fallen below 90 per cent. Indianapolis is one of the largest cities in the United States without a hotel having air conditioning in every room. It is reported that one hotel will remodel at a cost of $1,000,000, three-fourths of which

* THERE ARE 3745 first ' class hotel rooms in Indianapolis, ex{cluding some 1000 rooms in. our best residential hotels. Hotel managers say from 20- to 50 per cent of these rooms are taken by conventions, according to

| time. “They predict no letup in the hotel room shortage until the nume ber of conventions decreases. Tabulation of “Indianapolis Convention -and Visitors’ bureau figures 'on conventions booked for Indianapolis in coming months shows there will be an increase, not a | decrease. . FIGURES ~ olrplied and pub{lished by the bureau as of July 1 {show more people already booked {for next March than were here in { July. Figures for August, excluding the | state fair, are only slightly above

{scheduled visitors number only 3400. Other conventions may be | booked. Most real estate. men are non= committal on the subject of a new downtown hotel for Indianapolis. Broached on the subject, they start talking in riddles, mostly {about the material shortage. » » n SOME OF them believe such a! venture would fail. But they talk |

about cost, not whether the city Want to build a hotel know nothNearly all of them | ing about the business in normal

{needs a hotel, | say they know of no new hotel ven- | times. ture in the offing. One. real. estate man, however { says three different hotel

such a new bufld- | «poral times. "

and from Illinois | st. to Delaware st. Local hotel men don't like the {other industry. | idea of this - new competition;

Dodg es M. P' S THE DOCTOR SAYS: Shampoos Required Every Other ‘Week—

Hair Often Reflects State of Health

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M.D. |are due to disease, should be treated THE HAIR, like the rest of nd by a physician. { body, receives its nourishment from | |the blood, and: it reflects the state ‘no greater value than soap and

8 Tt Gets! Caught at Sea

By WARREN W. SCHWED United Press Staff Correspondent MIAMI, Fla, Sept. 5-John J. Hand, alleged 22-year-old G. I.-| deserter, wasn't worried about MP's today for the first time in eight months. 3 He was in the ‘hands of the FBI Hand, who savs. he is the son of Zadora Wiser, of Coverdale |Pa., is being held here after being | picked up by the coast guard 15 {miles off the Florida coast. Ji Bearded and bedraggled, Hand| DANDRUFF. said he had been adrift for 13 variety, hours after going over the side of

of one’s. health.

do. The hair, and it should be

‘No Hote

comnormal times again. Many experts {| panies Have asked him to build. 2p pe wind stream downward. The diameter of this slip | pumored sites for

stream is approximately equal to the diameter of in range Ir om Wa t. At any rate, there's a strong downward | you ange st. shington st. to

say there is no such thing as|

Persons ill from any cause may

like the skin, stantly exposed to dirt and smoke, shampooed at least every other week.

the in which dry scales collect!skin thickens and scales, and the on the scalp, is an poor hygiene and not of disease. | { liberate; produces excessive hair-

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1946 RT

Where to house them? . . . Joseph J. Cripe, Mrs. Grace Schulmeyer and Miss Mary Jo Rosner (left to right), Indianapolis convention bureau, puzzle where (6 place incoming guests

“Sorry, no rooms.” , . . Earl Furry, Lincoln hotel desk clerk, speaks. the hotel man's familiar piece to three out-of-luck visitors seeking Indianapolis rooms without reservations.

Linen and toweling service: Hotel

theif theory is that people who now |are some of the inconveniences you men say that now Bind can get

| might expect. Soap shortage: Hotel associations have told members “one piece

But none of them will venture of soap to a room is justifiable at “tan opinion on when we-can cxpers| Hi time.”

Housekeeping services: Managers say they can't keep domestic help, which constitutes 85 ‘per cent of their staff. They blame the unem-

HOTEL MEN Rial the war |ployment insurance program, Say |hit them harder than it did any | may people they're forced to hire since 1941. Even | lucky Y grioush to find a room, here week than work for $30 or $35.”

if you are would rather “just sit for $20 a

Yugoslavia and the United States -

WTriey ars wsoiaduled to -sall for

- harbor bound for Yugoslavia, Aus

Reliof 3 UNRRA still Sending Aid To Yugoslavia

By JIM LUCAS United Press Stall

Correspondent - WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. <As

exchange angry diplomatic notes over the shooting down of unarmed American fliers by Marshal Tito's alr force, UNRRA continues to fun. nel supplies from this country to that Russian-dominated state. 0 Two UNRRA ships Yugoslav supplies sailed this week, Thirteen more are being loaded at Atlantic, Pacifie and Gulf. Jona...

Yugoslavia in Sptember. . "LESS THAN 2% his alter the, state. department renewed its dee mands that Yugoslavia pay indeme nities to the families of Americans killed by Yugoslav gunners, the U, 8. 8. Brown *Victory—chartered by UNRRA—moved out of New York

tria and Hungary. Aboard were 4000 tons of general cargo—food, grain, clothing, farm and indus trial equipment.

»- ¥ . ” FORTY-EIGHT HOURS ahead of it was the U. 8. 8. Southwestern Victory, which left Newport News Monday. It carries 507 tons of supw plies for Marshal Tito’s government, - UNRRA says it has no alternative but to continue Yugoslav relief shipments. It is, however, “ready for anything,” including cancellation. If its Yugoslavian expors license is revoked, it will divers shipments destined there to other nations.

meV: The Women—

Marriageable And Eligible Not the Same

{than single women.

{have applied for the $20-a-week" less allowance available to veterans,

By RUTH MILLETT GIRLS ARE supposed to be reassured about their marriage chances by latest statistics from the census bureau which assure them that in spite of the war Americas still has 1,500,000 more single mem

But another report issued the same day--this one by the veterans administration — says that about 4,900,000 veterans, or 40 per cent of the total number from world war

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only replacements, If the shortage becomes more acute, they say, they won't be able to get along. Food: Many managers are fearfull of another meat shortage with price controls reinstated. Some | are planning meatless menus. Beds: If your-bed is lumpy, managers say, they can't help it, They haven't been able to buy a mattress The only item of fur-| nishing they have been able tp a in quantity is rugs.

Dandruff “cures” are essentially cleansing agents and usually are of|

| water,

| additional oil on it. - Any type of|

is’ cone % (mineral oil, olive oil, etc.) will |

to disease. roid gland, for example, in which common the patient becomes overweight, the

indication of movéments become slow and de-

copters close to the ground because these machines|en route from Bordeaux, France, fo| The rare types of dandruff, which. dryness,

need altitude in case of engine failure to get those|gajyeston, Tex.

WITH pothiig hy an oar, a life SILLY NOTIONS

blades going fast enough to let the craft down gently. But then it won't be half as dangerous as dusting from a low altitude in orthodox airplanes.

By Eleanor ; Roosevel t He told FBI men that he deserted

enthusiasm before the nominees themselves came to the platform. There were two demonstrations yesterday. Banners were marched around the hall, and people streamed out-after their banners.

Has to Give Second W elcome

MAYOR WILLIAM O'DWYER of New York, who was here Monday night for the caucus of leaders, spent most of yesterday in New York city struggling |

in vain to bring some kind of understanding between |

striking truck drivers and their employers. Nevertheless, when he returned here last night; he managed fo appear vigorous and enthusiastic as he stepped onto the platform to take his place as permanent chairman of the convention. 1 was so glad that my duties as temporary chairman were coming to an end that, when they asked me

to cut out a sentence which was in the program, I|

took it for granted we had covered our time on the air and did not wait for the signal to present the permanent chairman to the radio audience.

Actually, it was too early for ‘the broadcast, so I

had to ask Miss Lucy Monroe to lead us in another

song,” and then I welcomed Mayor O'Dwyer a second

time for the benefit of those listening on the air.

_It was a satisfaction, however, to repeat what I fun this month with the annuai| honestly feel—that the mayor is making a good record | picnic at the farm of Dr.-Oarl|

in the city of New York and that we can expect bet<

ter and better results as he becomes fully acquainted | being the main event - on

with all the phases of his complicated job.

As a man, he wins the respect and affection of those who know him. This was made quite clear by

him | ments. No profession meeting | : ‘will be scheduled in or Toi ‘

the enthusiastic demonstration which greeted when I handed over the gavel.’

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preserver, a wooden hatch and $10,

By Palumbo

Hand"jumped overboard after stowing away on the vessel Aug. 18.

the army tank corps for life in gay | Paris with a French mistress, after | fighting in both Africa and Europe. Eight months of dodging the MP's | made him decide to try to return to {the U. 8, Hand said. He said when he left Paris en {toute to- the U. 8. he remained hidden for eight days in Bordeaux, awaiting an American ship. | After two days at sea he gave 4 bimself up to'the captain of the ship after he became hungry. He immediately Was pu to work. » WHEN the ip oadiod the green Gulf stream, Hand. said he had planned to slip overboard at night. “I figured I could drift to the | Florida coast. But the*turrent was too strong,” he told the FBI.

ANNUAL PICNIC SET | | - BY DENTAL SOCIETY

Activities of the Indianapolis | Dental society will be limited to |

| Nichols, near Morristown, Sept. m the | agenda: On the picnie program : are baseball, horse shoes, skeet | shooting, free eats and refresh-

REX,

EXCESSIVE dryness of the hair the original color of hair are unnotice a definite change in their is counteracted by keeping the hair | founded. hair, which will improve as theyand scalp clean and by putting

EXCESSIVE dryness may be due |pgair color: Deficiency of the thy-|yag restored, of course, by feeding | professor of political Science at

| involve

So —

Gray hair is produced. by an excess of air in the hair (in and around the hair cells of the individual strands). The claims made for vitamins which are guaranteed to restore

THE SOLE basis for these statements is a few experiments on

THAT BIT of news, combined with the knowledge 6f how hard it is for anybody to find a place to live these days, may make the girls take the census figures with a grain of salt. It may put them fo thinking about the difference between the term “marriageable” men which the census bureai uses and the more exclusive term “eligible” men. So far as a girl's immediate chances for marriage are cone cerned the man who is living on parents’ roof may be marriageable —but not at the moment entirely eligible. ” =» ”

AND IT MAY be some time be{fore he has a job, a chance to rent {a house or apartment—and what is also important to some girls, the chance to buy an automobile. No wonder the competition is still so keen among the girls, There may be a nice surplus of marriageable men, but so far there are no figures to show how many men there are who are at the mo= ment able to take on the job of supporting a wife and find her as vine-covered cottage—or a twoe room walk-up.

REDS BALK. UN AIMS, EDUCATOR ASSERTS

animals in which extreme dietary deficiencies produced changes in the normal hair-color |

the animals normal diets and exits vitamins.

Instead of trying to change gray, communist world government”

hair, one should prize it. In young individuals

aging changes in the face. There are no absolutely safe hairdyes. All varieties have given trou-

‘ble at. one time or another,

BALDNESS of a certain type]

seems to run in families, The condition i, of course, more common in men, and if it develops before the individual reaches the age of

30 there is not much that can be|

done about it.

Scalp hygiene (cleanliness) is just

as important for, individuals with thinning hair as” it is for those

| who have a full head of hair, but it 'does not halt the loss of hair,

Some of life's major tragedies the extreme depression | which often follows baldness in | young men; the failure to ration- | alize the loss of hair has required

| confinement in an institution for {the mentally 111,

"MANY young men who lose their hair feel that their attractiveness

for members of the opposite sex

is gone.

The average woman, however,

discounts personal appearance in

selecting her mate. Permanent-waving of the hair,

as ‘a rule, is 4 harmless method

of making straight hair curly, for

| naturally-curly hair is formed: that | tk

way in tha soalp.

it is an attractive frame for a youthful countenance, while in older persons it is a proper complement for the

CHICAGO, Sept. 5 (U. P.).—Ruse sian-born Dr. Waldemar Gurian,

Notre Dame university, believes

there can be no “democratic; none as {long as the Soviet Union exists. Sif Addressing 300 student federalists meeting here to organize a came paign for world government, Dr, Gurian sald the United Nations never will develop into a world gove ernment as long as Russia refuses | to limit her sovereignty. International relations might ime prove, he said, If Russia would realize “that world revolution is impossible now that state capitalism is again experiencing a period of comparatively peaceful develope ment.” “If peace depends on the estabe lishment of a world government, then peace will not be possible in our time,” he added. +

WIFE SLAYER ASKS REVIEW OF APPEAL

VALPARAISO, Ind, Sept. 5 (U, P.).~William Green, 43, East Chi» cago, Ind. serving a life sentence in Michigan City prison fog the slaying of his wife, Allie Chaves, today filled ‘petition in Porter su~ perior court to review the evidence of his case. Green asked that a ruling be made on an appeal granted him | which expired when he sald his attorney failed to act. i Green was first convicted in Jas per county for the slaying of Beve erly McKinley. He was given & two to 20 year sentence on