Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 September 1946 — Page 21

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ONE OF OUR AGENTS, who eat® breakfast in the Claypool, has a problem in efiquet. Yesterday his breakfast table silverware in the Claypool coffee shop consisted of a soup spoon, an iced-tea spoon and a long-handled, short-pronged salad fork, Well, how: about it,. you experts? . . . Yesterday wasn't New 'Wear’s day but Henry Butler, Times staff, made a resolution. It was never to ‘go into a bargain basement again hatless. In Block's ‘basement hatless Henry bent over to inspect a chair. When he

& up there stood a prepossessing woman

ho wanted service—quick. It scared Henry, who

skitterad hastily toward an exit, vowing never to

barge bareheaded into. bargain basements . . . Speak-

ing of Block's, we got a query wanting to. know ita

mannequin bride who was featured in a Block's display this week “had been caught out in an Indianapolis smog.” Quite a few people commented on the bridal outfit’s sort of gray hue and asked us if it had any significance. We guess not, because it wasn’t gray—it was diamond mist, according to the bridal bureau. It lboked gray tQ us, tod, but then, we don't know what color diamond mist is.

Sidewalk Supervisors Active WE JOINED the exclusive league of - sidewalk superintendents yesterday. We crowded in at the favorite spot of the supervisors, on Maryland st. between Illinois and Meridian, where Ayres’ connecting tunnel is under construction. There was a new attraction yesterday, a huge complicated looking machine, technically known as a three-quarter rig. Cecil Abbott, 145 W. 21st st., was the operator, and J. W. Lambert, 2307 Barrett ave. his official assistant. We'd estimate that there were some 40 unofficial assistants, watching the progress of the crane—oops, rig. . . . This happened on a Central bus. A woman who was standing recognized another passenger as an old friend. Naturally, they began to discuss mutual acquaintances. They were half way through their families when the woman who was standing asked: “Oh, and where's your sister now?” “She's out at Crown Hill” replied her friend, at. which point the standee responded: “Oh, does she like it there?” There was -a horrified silence among the peofile “around the two, all of whom thought the standee . didn't know what Crown Hill was. The tting woman didn’t even notice the silence and went ght on: “Oh, she likes it fine. Thinks it's the nicest place she ever worked.” That is what we call a two-punch line story... . It was at least a month ago that we wondered aloud in Inside if anyone

Bobbie Sox Defense

WASHINGTON, Sept, 12.—Frankie Boy Sinatra is trying to make ladies of bobby soxers. He delivers lectures at ‘em. The pulpit denounces them. The medical profession says they are ruining the health

of generations to come. Comes now Dr. Icie Macy Hoobler, the celebrated child research director, to get a medal in Chicago and to sound off on the doom of the race because bobby soxers don't eat properly, Horse-feathers was the word for that, Dr. Hoobler, 20 years ago? Remember? When you were a flapper? And I was, haw, a flaming youth? We were the ruination of the nation. The most famous child specialists of the day said so. The flapper of the, twenties (I'm just trying to refresh your memory, doc) was a flat-chested young female, with her waist-line at her hips, and her hemline above her knees. She ate nothing much but candy bars, dill pickles and double chocolate ice cream sodas. Everybody denounced the flapper, except me. I thought she was fine. TI took her dancing (Japanese Sandman was our favorite tune) and about two o'clock in the morning, when we undoubtedly should have been asleep, I'd take her to a speakeasy on Debalivere blvd. in St. Louis, Mo.

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WE DRANK gin from teacups, doc, but not much because it was expensive. We smoked cigarets. By now it was 4 a. m. We horrified the dieticians by eating greasy slabs of barbecued spareribs with hot pepper sauce. Then we sat in my chummy roadster

Aviation

SANDS POINT, L. I, N. Y.—The navy Is still fighting a shooting war here—a shooting war without casualties that's saving U. S. taxpayers millions of dollars. The battles are synthefic ones, fought with special devices that at first remind the layman of amusement park gadgets. They are more than mere gadgets, however. Rear Adm. Louis De Florez, responsible for the creation of many of these devices, calls them “philosophers.” “War brought on a technological revolution in which machines outstripped men,” he explains. “Now science must study man, design machines for his limitations, and make allowances for his shortcomings.” The training machinery in this navy special devices center, much of which is an outgrowth of the famed Link trainer that taught instrument flying inside the hangar, is designed to teach men to fly, to shoot, to operate ships, radar and all the technical tasks of the modern navy. The realistic “gadgets” determine how men will react and function under abnormal speeds, temperaures, andthe vagaries of the elements. ~And-it is one on land, regardless of weather; the trainees go through the same experiences encountered in battle without leaving the “classrooms.” One of the special devices reproduces the “flight deck” of a navy bomber, The procedure followed simulates flight as close as can be done on the ground. ; Topography, the sky—and the enemy—are projected by movies that give all hands, pilot, navigator, bombardier and gunners, the “feel” of a real war mission,

Horizons, Targets Changed THE HORIZONS and targets and enemy fighters that trainees see on these earth-bound flights are never the same, for the movies are changed on every problem and tomorrow's synthetic flight at 20,000 feet may encounter a dozen enemy craft where yesterday’s met two or three, Reactions of the crew are recorded on graphs, and instructors, in dial-lined booths get a running account of the operation from “take-off” until the mission is completed. ’

My Day

HYDE PARK, Wednesday. —TI've “tecelved a letter from George Palmer superinfendent of the “Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt,” giving some figures which I think might be of interest to the public. On a recent Sunday, 9836 persons passed in front of the grave. During August, 104,311 people visited the grave, and 70,031 went through the home. In all, 203,628 people have visited the home, and 304,320 the grave since last April, Mr. Palmer tells me that théy have decided that 2500 visitors a day are all that can be allowed to £0 through the house. It will not stand a great

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I can remember that once, when we had a reception years ago, my husband kept urging me to get the guests to pass through the library because he ought tQo many people were standing on the floor

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M. P’s Form Group MR. PALMER also told me of 4 very nice Incident. Former members of the 240th M, P. battalion, who used to guard my husband when he was here

and ‘who trained in the nearby M. P. school for

their future overseas service, have formed an asso-

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site of Ayres’ tunnel excavation. ‘

remembered the doctor and merchant who installed downtown waste paper boxes hack in the 20's. We'd almost given up; when O. T. Roberts, over in the State Life building, came up with the answer. The pair, Mr. Roberts says, was Dr. R. B. Storms, the present coroner, and Tom Hatfield, an electrical supply merchant. Better late than never, and thanks, Mr. Roberts.

Wear and Tear on Clouds

EVEN CLOUDS show wear and tear. The Indiana Roof's “clouds” are in New York for repairs. The

clouds are the product of a mica projection wheel,

on which the clouds are painted. -The wheel revolves and projects the clouds on the dome-like ceiling. . , . The wheel does an aithentic job, too. Many times out-of-town visitors have asked roof attendants “What do you do in this place when it rains?” Maybe they think the mica projections are rain clouds. . . . You know how most men carry pictures of their offsprings in their wallet. Well, George Saas of the Citizens Gas and Coke Utility carries snaps of ‘another type of springs—his antique clocks. He explains that he has no children; hence the pitcures of his favorite possession. Mr. Saas has about 15 clocks, the oldest one dating back to 1798, He found it in a barn in Detroit, with its works in a bushel basket. It's still running.

By F. C. Othman

(doc, did you ever ride in one of those?) and watched the dawn come up. Our elders said we were on the highroad to hell This gave us great pleasure. Wicked was the word for us.

Married a Flapper SO THE YEARS passed, doc. You became research director of the children’s fund in Michigan. I got into the newspaper business. The flappers grew up, too. Now their sons, I understand, are known as hep-cats. Their daughters are those bobby-soxers, doc, that you regard as the doom of American civilization. Dr. Hoobler, that is where I came in. years ago. So now you're prescribing three meals a day, plenty of rest, and exercise .in the sunshine for bobby soxers. - What's wrong with skipping a meal once in a while, doc, and guzzling a couple of ice cream sodas? Rest is good, too, but the only way a youngster can feel like ‘a movie star is to go out occasionally with the boy friend and howl. That's part of growing up. What I'm getting at, Dr. Hoobler, is the fact that T married one of the flappers that other doctors at other conventions condemned. Sometimef we sit by the fire and chuckle over our early escapades. Sometimes we try to recapture our youth by downing ice cream sodas. They still taste wonderful. I hate to say it, doc, but I don't think you're getting any place with your campaign to reform bobby soxers. My ex-flapper, with a smile that's reminiscent, says she doubts it, too.

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By Marc J. Parsons

These instructors: are, for the most part, battlewise veterans. They pour complicated problems at the youngsters, and by cranking various conditions into the complex machinery of the devices, each instructor can simulate some particular tough experience he had in actual warfare. The trainees like it, for they feel they're getting what the navy calls “the straight word” from men who know.

Devices Improved Often

ALTHOUGH MANY of these devices are not new, since synthetic training was widely used during the war, equipment is changed almost daily to keep abreast of new scientific developments and to bring such things as greater speeds and greater ranges of altitude up to date. There is a big economy factor in the navy’s special devices, foo. Faced by cuts in appropriations, they look to synthetic gadgets as a means of getting a training job done that otherwise might employ whole squadrons of actual aircraft. And it takes a lot of money to keep a squadron flying. At Floyd Bennett field, not far from here, a dif-

ferent phase of synthetics is combined with actual{ Rey. Robert H. Heine, Speedway, dividuals flying as navy squadron VX-3 puts helicopters through secretary-treasurer; the Rev. O, B, |themselves of various ailments or| their paces to find their greatest value to the navy. Noren, Richmond, president; and '© Promote their health by eating declare that mixing certain types | VX-3, which is helicopter development squadron the Rev. John Frank, Terre Haute, | [00ds recommended ky self-styled of food is harmful, such as acid protein and carbohy-

three, can, among other things, practice landing on a ship that's rolling in a heavy sea without once crossing the coastline. The deck they use is a 40-by-60 foot wooden plat-

form designed to roll back and forth in such-realistic | fashion that if you stand on it and close your eyes,|

you can almost taste the salt spray “breaking over

the bow”’—and almost become seasick. i

Thus far, the pilots attached to the “windmill squadron” are concentrating on learning how to fly. All are war-trained aviators, ‘but the helicopter requires a different knack from the conventional aircraft. Once these fliers become sufficiently expert, they will start seeking the helicopter's major roles in naval tactics. Cmdr. C. E, Houston, squadron commander, thinks it will boil down to air-sea rescue, gunfire observation, anti-submarine patrol, and liaison work. But the navy won't be sure what it will use the “windmills” for until Cmdr. Houston does a lot-more flying.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Sunday, Aug. 25, and visited the home and the grave. They have such a successful day, seeing friends in the village of Hyde Park and having dinner in Poughkeepsie, that they have decided to make this an annual pilgrimage. We always had two parties during the week after Christmas for the group which was stationed here. They brought their wives and sweethearts and danced in the library. We served simple refreshments and had a tree and small Christmas remembrances for them.

Sing Christmas Carols MY HUSBAND always went over from the house. I think one of the evenings which was most enjoyable was a very stormy night when the orchestra could not get there. Many of the girls who were coming from Poughkeepsie were delayed. So thé men all sat on the floor in front of nfy husband's chair, sang Christmas carols and then’ asked him questions. He told thém things about the first world war and 'about the countries which they might some day see. : Jo od When finally, some of the lady guests arrived to dance, I think the stag party broke up rather reluctantly, . . as ‘

By Donna Mikels

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WILLIAM (BILL). COMPTON is an ambitious 15-year-old freshman enrolled at Technical high school. Already he has his eye on his future life's work, He is enthralled with the glamour of aviation, but, unlike many youths his age, he does not want to sit in the pilot's seat. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Troy Compton, 1058 N. Tremont st., Bill wants to get into the technical and designing end of the flying game. “Anything that has to do with aeronautics and electricity,” is the way Bill puts it.

~ » ~ RIGHT NOW he is cutting his “aviation eye-teeth” building model planes, He earns money for them carrying his Indianapolis Times route, Recently he finished a gas model of a P-39 which he is testing every available afternoon, He began working on it shortly after Christmas and has invested about $25 in the finished ship. » w ~ ONE OTHER gas model is in his “basement” hangar for repairs. Bill cracked it up one day and now is redesigning it so that the StratoTrainer will be transformed into a “speed job.” He intends to shorten the wings. Also cooking on the front burner in his mind is a plan for a gas model flying bat,

SEEK FUNDS T0 FINISH HISTORY

Commission Is Recording Indiana’s Part in War.

Times State Service BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Sept. 12. —The Indiana War history commission will ask the 1947 Indiana legislature for $25,000 annually for the next biennium, to complete the permanent record of Indiana's part in world war II. The resolution requesting the appropriation was adopted at 3 meet, ing held yesterday at Indiana university, ~~ . E The resolution calls for recording Indiana's part of world war II and for the establishment of a war history department, The com- { mission was started in 1943, with | Herman B Wells as chairman, Dr. | John D. Barnhart as director and | Max P. Allen as assistant director. The commission plans to compile a war history in the following categories: Directory of Indiana at war; letters of Hoosier soldiers; Indiana’s industrial and financial | role; popular history of world war {II in Indiana; gold star honor roll; | Indiana farmers In wartime; Indiana and the armed forces; the | story of civilian defense, selective service, price administration and | other government agencies; social changes in Indiana during the war | and miscellaneous monographs.

STATE OF CHURCH, | ~~ SPEAKER'S SUBJECT

Dr. Frederick M. Hanes today will | speak on “The State of the Church” at the Southern Conference of the Indiana synod of the United Lutheran church at the First church. | Dr. Hanes is the new president of | the synod. Prof. Joseph Sittler Jr., {of Chicago Lutheran seminary, will {lead a seminar today on “The Doc{trine of the Word.” Dr. J. E. Grin{nell, dean of education at Indiana { State Teachers’ college, spoke at last {night's banquet. The conference

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A 15-Year-Old Builder of Planes

His pride and joy . .. William (Bill) Compton, 1058 N. Tremont

plane, a P-39,

“I don’t have the slightest idea whether or not it will fly when I get it done, but I think I have a pretty

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CHIANG'S ARMY SEIZES CHINING

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stronghold of Chining was

wound, shek's forces moved on siege for more than a month, confirmed the capture of Kupeikou

province.

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PEIPING, Sept. 12 (U, P.).—Nationalist troops were reported today to have captured Chining, in south- | ‘eastern Sutyanan province, where

a “cease fire” team with three American members has been trapped for several days under heavy artillery fire. Capture of the Communist]

ported in Chinese press dispatches. | “THe Tatest-sMclal informdtion from’ Peiping executive headquarters said! ~ , - thet I, troops were shell. | Pent. He's serving, heipfully and ing the city and that one American —Marine Lt. R. W. Clark, Englewood, Colo, had suffered a flesh

Field dispatches said Chiang Kai | from | Chining in an attempt to rescue Tatung, 60 miles to the south, which has been under Communist

Authoritative sources in Peiping strategic great wall pass in Hopei| Peace negotiations in Nanking! remained deadlocked following yes- |

rejection of | Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's|

Labor Lewis Makes No Proposal to

Mine Owners

By ROBERT TAYLOR Scripps-Howard Stat Writer , WASHINGTON, Sept. 12~John L. Lewis is leaning back in his chair, with a smile on his face, and saying to the soft coal operators: “What am I offered, gentlemen? What will you give the mine workers to get your properties back from the government?” ; This is the strategy the United Mine Workers’ president outlined to reporters after a brief exploratory session which restarted tions yesterday between the coal operators and the UM. W.A. The negotiators are meeting again toe day. / It's based on the idea that “Lewis is willing” but it is accompanied with the warning that Mr. Lewis will have to decide on the equity of whatever the operators offer. If it's & good offer, the mines go back te private operation; otherwise, the government keeps them. “ » » LAST MAY 29, the government made a contract with the U.M.W,

tion. Operators complained it was a case of two parties agreeing on what a third party should pay, since government operation is at the ex pense of the operator. Now, it's a case of one party bargaining with another to get his property back frcm a third party. : : Mr; Lewis spelled it out. “If the government doesn’t wang to return the mines until a new agreement is reached, then it's up to the- operators to say on what terms they will employ the miners, to abandon the government agreenent,” he said. : “It's simple, Thére's nothing ine volved, nothing obtuse. It's open

tlemen? It presents no obstacles te return of the mines.” » . ”

MR. LEWIS has made no dee mands, but it’s generally believed he’ll want all the gains he got for his miners from the government contract, including the $1.85 a day raise, the B5-cents-a-ton - royalty, safety provisions, and rights to ore ganize foremen, Vice Adm. Ben Moreell, the

Te" | tor, convened the 36 negotiators in

running the mines for the govern-

| hopefully, as a sort of moderator. Adm, Moreell put the ball in play {by suggesting a set of contract | terms “purely as a basis for discussion” and as a starting point in the negotiations, in effect, the terms of the present government agreement, On the ticklish point of organ~ ization of mine supervisors—the probable sticking point ' of the negotiations—the admiral suggested | that the terms “managerial fune. !| tion” be defined, to determine who

{could and could not be organized, {and that limits be set on the pere sonnel exempted as managerial, As matters stand, the UM. W. A, has won a contract from the gove ernment, covering supervisors in mines of the Jones & Laughlin

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Unwise Dieting May Cause Sickness

Food Fads Can Be Harmful

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D. their teaching, as the majority eat and carbohydrate foods at the same milk and milk products in' meal. i One of the best foods for man, ~igood quality pasteurized milk, con-| | ited to meat because eggs, milk and | tains

A MEDICAL SOCIETY in a °®BES, midwestern state asked its physi-| cian members to bring reports of food deficiency disease encoun-| milk products are-animal foods. tered in their daily practices. It was learned that in each in-

stance . the cause of the food de-|

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| opened yesterday and will close late | | today. | Officers of the conference are the!

vice president. |

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FOUND GUILTY OF RECKLESS HOMICIDE

Times State Service { BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Sept. 12./ | —Floyd Staggs today faced a pen- | {alty of six months’ imprisonment | {and $300 fine as a result of a verdict | | of guilty. returned yesterday by a! Jury in his trial on a charge of | | reckless homicide in tbe death of | James Eugene Grubb. The case grew out of an accident on March 26 when Mr. Grubb, 19- | year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Alva Grubb, was struck by a car driven by Staggs. The youth died in the | Bloomington hospital ‘a few hours | after the mishap. | Staggs, a veteran of world war IT who lost a leg while in service, is married and is the father of a two-months-old baby,

VILLAIN JACK FROST MENACES CORN CROP

By. Selence Service WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—This week's weather has’ had a strong | flavor of old-fashioned “opry- [ house” melodrama. : | Just as the villain, brandishing | | the mortgage, was about to seize | the old homestead, the hero comes, | | cloppity-clop, to the rescue. This | time the villain was Jack Frost, menacing corn, which is the nation's biggest meat - and - money | | erop. The rescuing hero was the | heat, wave that spread ninety-plus temperatures clear out to the westem edge of the corn belt. The show isn't over yet, however. | The villain was forced into retreat. [but there is still a .chance that he Lmay returns Watch this space next week for another ‘episode In the exciting serial,

ficiency was food faddism.

Food faddists are misguided in- such diets are more palatable, who attempt to cure| n,n 8

experts. These authorities pretend and alkali, to possess secret food knowledge drate. which is not available to the rest]

of us. | culty in maintaining a slightly " a » {alkaline balance as it has the VEGETARIANS apparently be- | capacity to change acid foods into

lieve that eating: animal foods is'alkaline and alkaline into acid as

harmful. Few followers of vege- the occasion demands.

: ts | tarianism are true disciples of

addition to .vegetables and fruit. |

It is possible to obtain all the | protein one needs from vegetable | sources, but combinations of ani{mal and vegetable protein“are used! {by the majority of people because!

In health, the body finds no diffi-

It is not harmful to mix protein

both protein | bohydrate.

and ocar-

FOOD FADDISTS counter by {saying that persons with strong stomachs can mix protein and car- | bohydrates, but not those who have {weak stomachs, It is interesting {to note ‘that the food of newborn

SOME FOOD faddists solemnly infants is entirely milk.

The raw food group believes that cooking harms food. It is true that it does destroy.some of the vitamins and minerals, but as there is an excess in the diet, the loss is not felt, Cooking improves the flavor of many foods and destroys disease

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germs and is urged whenever possible, » ” ~ UNWISE selection of food In

QO dieting may be another source of

food deficiency disease. Some persons get the idea that | certain foods are harmful to them {and eliminate them from their diet | without real proof. Others follow | unwise weight reduction programs {in which only one food is eaten or in which all food is eliminated | tor several days, etc. |" In scigntific weight reduction, there must be a deficit of 2400 cal- | ories in energy foods for every | pound of weight loss and such diets | are not harmful. 1 ~ ~ \ QUESTION: I have heard that foods cooked in aluminum ware are | poisonous. . Is there any truth to | this? | ANSWER: There has never been | one case reported in medical liteiature of anyone who was poisoned by food cooked in aluminum ware. Many foods contain a small amount of aluminum and they do not harm us.

MOSCOW SAYS U. S. ‘DOESN'T NEED BASES

Steel Co. Pittsburgh, but operators are fighting such contracts at every step.

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G.I. Joe Finds Dream Castle

| Just a Dream

By RUTH MILLETT THAT vine-covered cottage the | Serviceman dreamed of coming | ome and buying is proving to be {not nearly so satisfying as was the | dream. Reports from real estate analysts, (bankers and housing authorities | show that low-cost homes that sold {for $6000 or less in 1940 have | jumped -an average of nearly 100 | per cent in price on the East and | West coasts, and only slightly less | than that in other sections of the | country,

SO, IF G.I, Joe can.swing the {deal at all, he has the sad knowledge that in order to have a roof over his head he is buying a home he will have to struggle years to pay for. ! | And he knows, too, that when it [finally is all his own, it isn't going [to be worth anything like what he | put ‘into it. x | Not only that, it isn't going to be large enough, to house comfortably | an expanding family, ” LE J { THE LITTLE house that is fine | for mamma. and papa and Junior |, Just isn't going to expand gracefully | to accommodate several brothers {

and sisters for Junior. | So its ownership may come at an even higher price than the inflated | original cost. It may. cost the young | couple a once-planned-for child or | two. No wonder the country’s colleges and universities are so crowded with married students continuing their educations under the G.I, bill of rights,

» » » GOING TO school for a few years —even though is may mean living in a university-owned trailer—gives the veteran a chance to wait and [see if the housing situation won't ease up a little. . And in the meantime papa is

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