Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 September 1946 — Page 15

WE WERE taking a shortcut via alleys between Orange and Prospeet sts. when we stumbled onto Reid pl, a shady South side street that runs only oné block. . . . In one respect, Reid pl. is a “dead” street. It runs into a dead end at the old Jose homestead. In another respect, though, the street is anything but “dead.” In the one block there are 12 children under eight years of age, plus a good many older, brothers and sisters. . . . Oldtimers can recall when: Orange st. in that section was called “Joseville” because nine families of Jose’s and their 50 some children lived side by side. Ope of the members of the family, the late Gustav Jose, was one of-the realtors who developed Reid pl, right in back of “Joseville.” * Mrs. Gustav Jose still lives on Reid pl, at 1128. Out of all the Jose family, she’s the only one who still lives near the old home site. , , . “Original set_tlers” live in the two houses south of Mrs. Jose. Next door to her are Mr. and Mrs. Earl T, Talbott, 1134, who moved in when the street was opened. They preceded Mr. and Mrs, Henry Bick, 1140 Reid pl, dy only a few months, - It was Mrs. Talbott who told us: how the street got its name. When the division was opened, a Reid family owned much of the land. Because it was known as “Reid's place,” the street evolved as Reid pl, so the story goes. . . Another veteran family is Mr. and Mrs, Ira Justus, 1152, They moved in back in 1912 when the street +. was still so. undeveloped that possessions had to be moved in via the back alley.

Children Play in Street

AS FAR BACK as the older residents can remember, Reid pl. children have played in the street. Although the increased traffic has caused mothers to try to keep the children on the sidewalk, it hasn't been too successful, according ‘to Mrs. Monroe Bettner, 1161. To prove it she pointed to tricycles of her son, Steven, and his chum, Jimmy Forbes, parked at an angle at the curb. “They think they're driving cars,” she said. (In case that brings frowns from the safety department, young Steve's pop is Detective “Bet” Bettner. . , . The two boys, riding tricycles decorated with crepe paper, were the first Reid pl residents we met. We had a big‘time standing unobtrusively and listening to their chatter. Both looked like they'd been through the mill. Steve had a black eye, the result of an encounter with a puppy. Jim had a finger bandaged after he'd van-

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (U. P.).—At hand from the building” trades are statements curling smoke; s0 hot they are blistering my fingers and scorching my desk. Mow down Wilson Wyatt and plow him under on a vacant lot. Poke a two-by-four down his gullet. Bend a lead pipe on his skull while there yet is time. Or at least fire him now, urges the Home Owners’ league. Having read the statements and listened to the speeches, I thought I'd better drop in on the housing expediter and see if he had any last wishes. I presumed that I'd be frisked by his guards, ushered into his bomb-proof chamber, and find our embattled housing czar sitting in a suit of chain mail, thumbing through a tombstone catalog. I must report that I'd never met Mr. Wyatt: before, but that he is an exceedingly likeable guy. He isn't scared. Neither is he glum. He's got problems ard he's worried, as well he should be, but he's also got hopes.

May Smash Building Record HE'S NOT TALKING about them yet, but I don't believe he'll deny it if I say he expects to make his critics eat their words about failure of his housing program. . As of now 607,000 new homes have been started. His projection of the figures indicate that by the end of October 800,000 houses will be under con-

Science

LET US see what lies ahead of us if Soviet Russia continues to refuse to join In some workable plan of controlling atomic energy and it becomes necessary for us to follow the alternative plan described by our delegation to the United Nations atomic energy commission. . » “The remaining alternative,” said our delegation, “is development of superior bombs and superior ways of delivering them to the target as counter-offensive weapons.” This statement is predicated upon the belief of all scientists that there is no defense against the atomic bomb. It assumes further that the only deterrent against its use will be the fear of prompt retaliation. If then we embark upon an international atomic bomb race, we must look forward to achieving two objectives in the shortest space of time. The first will be the redistribution of our industries so that a few atomic bombs would not be sufficient to knock out our industrial potential.

In Poor Position WE MIGHT as well face the fact that at the moment we are in a poor position for an exchange of atomic bombs with Soviet Russia—assuming for the moment that the present international situation might drift from bad to worse and end in war at a time when Russia had developed bombs of its own. = There is at the moment no secret about where the industrial strength of America lies. Everyone is well aware of the Pittsburgh-Cleveland-Detroit triangle. There-is no secret about the mighty line of freighters that move iron ore down the Great Lakes. Our major industries are for the most part concentrated in cities and have been so well publicized for so many years that there is no secret at all about

My Day

HYDE PARK—The American Public Health association sent out a statement a few days ago giving some extraordinarily interesting facts which I think

should be utiderlined for us all. Each year, about $27,000,000 is spent in this country for industrial research. This is spent because it pays business to spend it. Yet for medical research, which is the only way of saving more human lives, comparatively little money is spent. The association’s statement tells us, for example, that the diseases which took the greatest toll in 1944 were those of the heart and arteries. Next came cancer. One out of every average family of three will probably die from a disease of the heart and arteries. One out of every eight Americans will probably die of cancer, if the present death rate is allowed to continue,

Winged Victory Statue : ONLY THROUGH research can we change this, f Yet the American Heart association’ estimates that i only $615,00- was spent in 1944 on research of the heart and arteries. In addition, the life insurance companies have guaranteed $588,000 for this year and for the next four years. This brings the total expended on these diseases, which cause our highest death rate, up to $1,115,000. The same thihg nappens, apparently, in many other diseases,

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PRESIDENT E CHANTERS

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Inside Indianapolis

By Donna Mikels|

They think

Jimmy Forbes and Steve Bettner. . .. their tricycles are automobiles. quished a wart and he was wearing ofie shoe of one kind and one of another, because he'd run a splinter in his toe. Battered but unbowed, they chased off Margaret Brink (“We don’t play with girls”) and

planned a parade. (When we left the three were back playing happily together.) ... We were amused by one of Steve's mother’s shopping problems. Friday morning the women shopping in a nearby store rioted over scarce articles, tearing the items in half. “I'm afraid to take Steve there,” his mother said. “I've told him no one hut bad little boys fight. If he sees that—well.” That last word spoke volumes.

‘We're Not Boys’ MRS. THOMAS F. SCULLY, of 1158, also had an anecdote about the inseparable 4.yedar-olds. | Jimmy and Steve were sitting ‘on the front walk)

when Mr. Scully came home from work. “Hi, boys,” he greeted-~them, as he went up the steps. The youths looked at each other, conferred seriously, and | then followed Mr. Scully for u talk. Tapping him| |

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on the shoulder they gravely informed him “We're not ‘boys,’ we're Jimmy and Steve.” . Mr. Scully, | who's worked for Fairmount Glass some 38 years, | used to be a glass blower.-4Mrs. Scully has a chain of | glass-blown links decorating her »rchwav, which her| husband made. (The links, not the archway.) :

| By Frederick C. Othman

struction, and by Jaiuar®, better than 1,000,000. If he manages that, the all-time building record will have been smashed. The get-rid-of-Wyatt forces say what good is a house started, but not finished? Mr. Wyatt agrees, but says give him another few weeks. Lumber now is coming out” of the sawmills at a tremendous rate. Also twice as many brick were baked in June as in the same month last year; clay sewer pipe production is up 45 per cent and cement 62 per cent. ® Never before has so ‘much gypsum board and lath been made.

Worried About Veterans

PRACTICALLY all of this material must go , nto houses. Mr. Wyatt hopes there ‘soon will be so much building material that the new houses can be finished promptly and that théir costs inevitably will come down. They'd better. He knows it. A five-room house for a veteran on the outskirts of a big city costs today around] $9000 and means monthly payments of at least $80. In smaller towns the price is less, but the overall average is $7500. Most veterans have got to scrimp to meet such charges. Some already are about to lose their homes. Mr. Wyatt is worried about this and its possible after-effects on the nation, but he looks like a competent citizen, doing his dead-levelest to make the housing program work. Let’s not shoot him—yet. -

GRIPSHOLM

SECOND SECTION

By S. BURTON HEATH NEA Staft Writer ; NEW YORK, Sept. 16.— Through-

out world war II, while most ships sneaked through the sea in anonymous gray paint, with radios silenced and lights blacked out, the whiteHulled liner Gripsholm blazed Jer

way blatantly around the world as though her officers didn't know a war was going on, : With the same nonchalance, she backed her. way out of a pier into the Hudson river the other day, without benefit of tugs or longshore« men, and stood out to sea while countless other snips lay idle at dockside or anchorage in the grip of a maritime strike. Except for the fact that her of- | ficers wrestled with mooring lines land her passengers wrestled with [their own baggage, her sailing was as serene as her voyages into war, in which she never had as much as la phony scare while her stealthy {sisters were being sunk or having| There was the sitdown crew strike {hair-breadth escapes® at Mormagau because somebody Hn Captain Ericson never learned THE -Gripsholm spent much of the! whether the Portuguese of the Britwar under charter from the Swed- | ish—wouldn’t let sailors from his |ish-American line, to ‘the United | neutral ship go . ashore "in that States government ‘as an exchange neutral port. ship. : “But,” the captain hastened to As such enjoyed a. diplomatic Im- { explain, “it wasn't the crew mem-

munity that Captain Sigfrid Ericson says, the Germans respected Wy Soe oll passengers ¥ho absolutely, Whether or not by de-.| struc. was deck and engine |sign, the Japs weren't sub (room men, many of them tempor- : p Te ubjected to | ary hands we had picked up in New | temptation. The Gripsholm met york and let go as soon as we got them na closer to Nippon than the|yack The stewards and walters

west coast of India, - y " Combing memory and diaries for wers loyal ang J Sick ® their Jobe: |interesting episodes of those war| Apso there was a 45-day race with years, Captain Ericson finally con-! the stork, which the Gripsholm won cluded that they were few, .in-|hy two hours. A doctor, his wife nocuous and far between, |and five children had spent more

nw n n i {than a year in a Jap prison cam THERE was the American aboard | | UF Eieson promised to do his up. the Toa Maru, homeward-bound |to see that the from a Jap internment camp, who | ashore in the

with lights ablaze during the war. liner got into trouble, but it wasn't

States.

as So Ddverjoyed at seeing the| «rhe mother said she didn't care, ripsholm enter Mormogau harbor, | now. that she was away from the

Portuguese India, that he fell off ‘a! Japs. She wasn't worried, but I got winch and broke his arm. her to Jersey bid in time. We had

"The Indianapolis ra

Diploma Ship Sails Serenely|

Immune to war, immune to strikes: The Gripsholm sails from New York unaided during maritime strike, just as she sailed alone and

Tug at right stood by in case the needed,

an ambdlance waiting. and two hours after she reached the hospi tal the baby was born.” That was the only American baby {born on any of the exchange trips, so far as the captain can remem- , but several were born to pros-| perous, healthy Japanese women be- | ing returned to the empire they | thought, sen, would win the war. ” ” MORE shan any single incident,

the captain and his officers were

impressed by the general condition) gq Nazi general, whom she exchanged {at Barcelona for a'British general. |The Nazi was polite and restrained, “made one courtesy call on the cap-

which Chief Engineer G. Svenson |! remarked on their first exchange with the Japs, at Lorenco Marques, | Portuguese East Africa. “I'll never forget the contrast be-|t tween the fat, happy, Japs we carried out from the Unit- |

ed States, where they had been liv- | were among 18 Thai returned on ing on the best of everything, and Captain Ericson's first diplomatic sixth baby was born |the dirty, ragged, hungry-looking | |trip, and Ambassador and Mrs. Grew came back with him.

Americans who had been brought | from Japanese prison camps for return to the States,” he says. In all, exchange trips,

|diplomatic personnel and civilians, {and later service men being -exchanged. There were two to Portu{guese East Africa, and trips to Lisbon, Barcelona, Marseilles and other neutral ports. She was under United {States charter, but acted in behalf of all the Allies.

well-dressed | himself.

Indian seamen who insisted on carthe Gripsholm made 10{rying their new shoes slung around at first hana their necks and going barefoot. °

Multiple Duties In Supervising White House

By DOROTHY WILLIAMS 4 " WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (U. PY, ~Mrs. Mary E. Sharpe dares : serve President Truman leftovers, Furthermore, she gets paid for 5] As the new White House hquse~ 3 keeper, she supervises menus and {otherwise runs the 70-room execus tive residence at 1600 Pennsylvania | ave, Mrs. Sharpe, a native of Pittse burgh, is well acquainted with the ‘|muitiple duties of her job. She can tell you, for example, that even the White House has difficulties these days in replacing table and bed : |linens. When it comes to food, she knows Mr, Truman's relatively simple pref - erences and the desserts that Mrs, Truman and their daughter, Mar. garet, like best,

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FOR MORE than three years Mrs, Sharpe was assistant to Mrs. Hen rietta Nasbitt, whose skill in caters ing in general and particularly in baking whole wheat bread won her the executive housekeeping job durs ing the administration of the late Franklin D. Roosevelt, When Mrs. Nesbitt retired last May, the brown-eyed Mrs. Sharpe, who looks like a magazine adver tisement version af the young homemaker, succeeded her. Mrs. Sharpe can tell you a week in advance what the Trumans are expected to eat- for breakfast, lunch and dinner. But she won’, She respects her employer's pris vacy.

Capt. Ericson: His ship's episodes were few, innocuous, far between,

. o » rr FROM North Africa she picked up

. . ” ” ALTHOUGH she never cooks at the White House, she plans and supervises the preparations of all the meals for both the first family and the 27 servants who eat an average of one meal there daily. Like any housewife, she has hep favorite butchers, bakers and green grocers and she orders by telephone for. delivery the next day. For menus and recipes she cone sults her library of about 25 cook= books. But usually she finds all the

ain but otherwise kept entirely to

A Siamese prince and princess

At Barcelona he took aboard some

By SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE Scripps-Howard Staff Writer YOKOSUKA, Japan, Sept. 16.—This naval base city is on the way| to becoming the first democratic, Americanized municipality of Japan. The economic and social revolution has been accomplished in less! th Bye FURIES by an American naval officgr, plus a small but efficient pius the women of Yokosuka, 58,00 ihe he Namen of bh 0 Strong, who have come to The American boss of Yokosuka | — is Capt. Benton W. Decker of San laboratories. Now the Jap navy | Diego. An Annapolis graduate, class: Was dead ag So was the. industry.

By David Dietz where they are. It is now equally well known where | our chief atomic energy plants are located. On the other hand, the German drive across European Russia made it necessary for Stalin to transport

his industries behind the Ural mountains with the, result that they are scattered over a wide area anda in

many cases located ‘at places that have never been)

publicized. Our job will be to distribute our industries. It has | been suggested that abandonod mines and deep caves would be ideal places for them. Tunnels uuder the Rocky mountains have also been suggested.

Invitation to Bomb IN SIMILAR FASHION, it will b= necessary to redistribute the population of the United States. A city the size’ of New York or Chicago will be an invitation to an atomic bomb. Our second big job eventually will be to establish rocket stations from which rockets carrying atomic bombs can be launched at a moment's notice in defense of the nation. Eventually we might have great launching stations, deep down under the. Rocky mountains with lauuching tubes pointed at every capital in the world. Our military staff would consist of a group of scientists

trained to push the right buttons and pull the right “levers.

One set of launching tubes would send rockets flying across the Atlantic, another sot would pint over the North Pole, while a third would command the regions beyond the Pacific. Night and day scientists would sit at the control boards, ready at the first signal light to push the buttons that launched America's retaliation for an atomic bomb attack. But it is well to ask ourselves what life would. be like in such a world.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

So the American Health association, through Dr George Baehr—its chairman

of $1000 each are going to be offered through the génerosity of the Albert .and May Lasker foundation The awards will be for outstanding contributions to research related to diseases which are the most frequent causes of death and disability —such as heart and arteries, arthritis and rheumatism. Another $1000 is offered for an outstanding contribution in the" field of public health administration, and a special award of $2500 will be made for an especially important contribution in either field.

Highest Death Rate

A LITTLE bronze statuette of the winged victory will be presentéd to each winner as a symbol of the contribution which he has made in the fight against disease. Everyone should be deeply grateful for the awakening of public interest in research which will come through these awards. It will, of course, spur the whole medical profession to emphasize further research and help those who are interested in seeing government also assist research. A k came out not long ago by Roland Berg, called “The Challenge of Polio.” It is in the nature of a report to the people on the research which has been done in this field, in large part through the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. I think the public would find it interesting.

brought the number of faculty|cafeteria. members to 60. The trio are Mrs. Marie Shaw,/tions by Floria Spanish teacher; Mrs.

cial, {

The program will “include selec-

Marjorie| Student speakers will be Beverly Holloway, girls’ physical education, | Dady, Patty Watts and Mary Ellen ahd :Mrs, Charlotte Hull, commer- Halgren, Cquimittee chairmen are | | Dorothy McClamrock, . Orange Ald, all- gis organization, Emilie ‘Smith, arrangements; JoAnn! and Dan Davis.

Three Tosdhers Added to Broad Ripple Staff

Three new teachers at Broad|will sponsor a tea for beginning | Diederich, refreshments, and Carol Ripple high school, added at open-| freshmen girls and their mothers| Holliday, entertainment. ing of the semester recently, today|at 3:45 p. m. Thursday in the school

Officers of Orange Aid are Cynthia Baker, president; Miss Watts, |' vice president; Miss Holliday, secretary, and ‘Susan Stark, treasurer. A Constitution day radio program will be given tomorrow over WISH. Program chaiman is Ross invitations; | Copeland, assisted by David Myers

Harvey, harpist.

of the committee on | ‘awards—is emphasizing the fact that three awards

{ of 1920, he never » | before had specialized in mu- { nicipal govern- | ment, but during the war he commanded the bat- | tleship Maryland. The reconstruc- | tion of Yokosuka looked like an | impossible task Ie when the Americans came in. Mr. Whipple Here was a city of. some 250,000 population, economically flattened | by the war's conclusion. Seventy ple were ripe for propaganda, thousand of its inhabitants had When Capt. Decker took combeen engaged in the sole industry mand of Yokosuka in April—the

railways and caves that honey-

secret zone, That required months of ’ intensive exploration and destruction.

i country, a majority had remained,

doled out by the government. These | ragged, hungry and desperate peo-

Nelson restaurant cook whose By WILLIAM A. O'BRIFN, M. D. mine lotion are made as often as the arms. ete. forte 1s thick, light pancakes. PITYRIASIS resea, a. common indicated. If the itching interferés| Investigations as to cause of] Once, he recalls, he remarked offskin disease, is more prevalent in Wilh sleep, a sedative may be neces- | pityriasis rosea have not yielded| hand that anyone who could cook the spring and autumn, as in. many sary. If irritation is extreme, starch | definite information. pancakes like that could cook for

baths are soothing. Pityriasis rosea may present an | appearance similar to other skin] disorders and it may be necessary for the physician to rule out these

cases it seems to follow direct exnosure to new clothing or the wearing of clothing which has been kept in storage for some time. Actual cause is unknown. It runs

|a_ self-limited course of short or conditions before treatment is!are involved, there does not seeni| Decause her “sweetie” had come {long duration. but the duration can started, to be a single cause. to call on her during working be shortened by treatment. } nN I a hours. Aside from its appearance, the| ALTHOUGH the eruption usually] QUESTION: Are migraine head- And did the general want her |chief complaint of patients is mild °CCUrrs on the upper abdomen, aches caused by foods? to come right up to join. the

‘0 severe itching. highs and arms, back and chest,

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DEVELOPMENT of pityriasis ro “We 18 signaled hy a “heia'd patrh

Japanese Naval Base City Is ‘Americanized’

| Probe was more important than|

the military.

necessary answers in her two fas | vorites. She's not telling what they e,

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MRS. SHARPE usually arrives at her office in the White House basement about 8:30 a. m. each

Capt. Decker decided to reconstitute both organizations, t:ach

| THE FIRST tack wis to dismantle] ©! the old .Japanese navy. {a naval establishment so intricate map-makers could not trace “the

combed the 60 square ° miles of six| two agencies for civic betterment,

Meanwhile, although part of a, community, frightened and starying population | merce and tie womes! s club. 4% (had fled to their relatives in the

to subsist on starvation rations| izations in Yokosuka during the

of this mysterious naval base, its U. 8. navy was given control of a arsenals, ship-ways, gun factories, shore-line strip some six miles munitions works, dock-yards and long — he decided that the social

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Clothing May Bring on Pityriasis Rosea—

Skin Eruption Cause Hidden

t may appear only in one spot as he lower abdomen and thighs or

them the American way of life and HE COULD 1 not ‘Teed 200,000 people, business, The men were skeptical, nor could he find work for more cautious. The women were en{than 10000 of them, directly and|thusiastic and responded— with | indirectly with our own naval es- amazing vigor. tablishment: He decided to force, Just as the Japanese are getting! t Yokosuka to rebuild itself. a tremendous over-all bargain in The municipal government ofl the moderate costs 6f our occupa- | Yokosuka was hopeless, The city|tion, so Yokosuka is getting, | officials were appointees and tools through the example of what an They | honest and efficient municipal gov- | were graft-ridden, do-nothing in-|ernment ean accomplish, perhaps | competents. the greatest bargain of all. Capt. Decker decided to ignore | RE I the politicians, except for keeping | |an eye on them,.and to institute

General Learns Culinary Lesson

By FRANK ANGELO Times Foreign Correspondent WHITEHORSE, Yukon, Sept. 16—An army may travel on its stomach, but a general must be careful not to overpraise his cooks, : That lesson has been well learned by Maj. Gen. F. F. Worthington, who commanded the exercise north expedition up the Ba | Alaska highway, He almost wound up with an extra cook— not “government “issued” — and her romantic problems, The general had made it a point during his travels along the highway to lavish praise on a Ft

| patterned after similar associations | that are found in every American the chamber of com-

lJ THERE had roca two such organ-

war but both were dominated by {the Jap navy which even paid the salaries of their officers and the dues . of the members. Furthermore; the Jap navy had abolished the women's club in 1943, and the chamber of commerce was a moribund association.

him any time, There was an urgent call when the general arrived in Watson Creek the other dav. It was the cook. She had just been fired

Its association with clothing (new and stored) would indicate that | there is something in the clothing ™ which the patient is sensitive,

| but as different types of ¢lothing

expedition? The general talked-fast. he made another “lessons learned”

ANSWER: They are reported fo be, in some cases, but the association is difficult to prove.

Then memo in his notebook.

{ a small blemish on the skin vary|ing in size from a nickel to a silver SILLY NOTIONS dollar which appears at a site directly exposed to the suspicious | clothing. There may be more than one, but if there is no itching, the conditio’ | may pass unnoticed until a general- | ized eruption appears. In some cases there is a stomach upset before the eruption, In developed cases of pityriasis rosea, the back, chest, upper “portion of the arms and thighs are covered with pale rose-colored: spots with irregular edges and yellow crinkly centers, ” ” ” SOME patients show ‘all over red, spots with a puckered center or other varieties of eruptions Rarely is the skin over. exposed portions of the body affected. Without treatment, pityriasis rosea may last for months and if | there is no itching, and the eruption is covered by clothing, the | patient may decide to Jet well] enough alone as it recovers of its own accord, If there is. itching, or if the eruption is disturbing, special treatment is given.

” » ” | BEST RESULTS are obtained ‘by producing mild peeling of the skin with ultra violet rays. Treatment | can be administered over several days with. the result. that the course is shortened by three to four weeks When itching is severe, applica- | tions of menthol, phenol, and cala- |

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5 EMPLOYEES WILL GET SERVICE AWARD

Five employees of the Indianap{olis Water Co. will receive, the John N. Hurty service award at the 12th annual Indiana district meeting of the American Water Works association to be held in McCormick's Creek state park Sept. 24. | Recipients will be H. Johnson, C, { Cowherd, W. E, Lee, J. A. Swann |and E. R. Austin. The men joined the local firm in 1921, | An annual award, it is presented by the state health board to persons serving more than 25 years in the development of safe drinking water.

GERMAN SPECIALISTS TO AID U. S. RESEARCH WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (U. P.). —A new group of Austrian and German specialists in electronics, guided missiles and jet propulsion will be brought to the United States within a few months to aid the army and navy research pro- | gram, A joint state army-navy .announcement said all the specialists | were volunteers, screened to elimi-

nate war criminals,. They may become citizens if they meet certain

By Palumbo

week day and remains until the household problems are running smoothly, Tisually about 4:30 p. m. If there is a state function in proge

the last dish is’ washed. She also directs the necessary cleaning and mending to keep the executive mansion running like a model household. Frequently she inspects the china to make certain that there is one unghipped dinner set to serve at least 110 guests. In private life, Mrs. Sharpe keeps house for ber husband, William H. Sharpe, Washintgon insurance man and until recently a G. I.

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Parents Need A Lesson on Baby-Sitters

By RUTH MILLETT

“THANK God our prayers have been answered. We've learned our lesson. If we ever hire another maid it will be after an exhaustive investigation,” said the Kansas City father upon finding his 3-year-old daughter who had been kidnaped by a maid he hired off the street. Maybe the story, front-paged in papers all over the country, will teach other parents a lesson, too. o » ” FOR HIRING unknown girls snd women to take care of children has become a common practice. Papa and mamma are invited to a party. Comes the problem of finding someone to look after the kids. All the baby-sitters they know. are busy, and so mamma begins to telephone frantically, Finally she locates somebody about whom she knows absolutely nothing—and thankfully turns her children over to the stranger for the evening.

» SO FAR AS mamma and papa are concerned, a crisis has been met. They've solved their problem. They have heen saved from the awful possibility of having to miss a party. If the unknown baby-sitter turns out to be okay—it is nothing more than luck. For they don't know the first thing about her. For all they know she may be mentally off; she may be mean to the kids; she may frighten them into being good with scary stories, She might not even be dependable enough to get the children out of the house in case of fire, n o “WE'VE learned our lesson,” sald the Kansas City father, who was fortunate enough to have his kid |naped child. returned to: him une’ harmed, from Terre Haute, Ind, where she was found. Maybe thousands ot other pare ents also have learned a lesson.

FT. HARRISON GETS EFFICIENCY AWARD

Ft. Harrison disciplinary barracks recently received commendation

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ington, for efficient operation. Sent to Col. commanding officer of the barracks, the commendation followed A Toe cent inspection visit. : : In announcing the commendation rBrig. Gen. Clifford Bluemel, coms manding general of the fort, said the inspector reported the ‘barracks was one of the most efeient visited

qualifications.

during the pas six. month,

Benjamin Albert,

ress, shé remains practically until. :

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from the adjutant general in Washs Wd