Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 October 1946 — Page 19

J Inside Indianapolis’

go =: oo BOOKS—BOOKS, and more books, More than 350,000 books to be “almost” exact about it. And all these books are to be found .at the -Central library on St. Clair and Meridian sts. It's quite ‘a place

- end to the other. At the front desk sits Mrs. Madeline Riffey, 4916 E, 10th st. She checks books out—gives directions—and answers questions. Then there's Miss Esther Thornton, senior. librarian, who registers new atrons, At her side is Miss Grace Greene, who is in ‘harge of those books you have to wait for—various lengths of time. If you're in need of real assistance In research material, or reading material for young folks—or information about the library Miss Mary J. Cain, 22 W. 36th st., located on the first floor will help you out. The reference division on the second floor is the section where $64 questions pour in. Miss Mary Fishback, 1040 N. Delaware st. .told us about a couple of sticklers. For instance, do you know what sentence was passed on Capt. Turner of the ill-fated luxury liner, Lusitania? There was a request for the answer and it was given. Capt. Turner was exonerated. Someone wanted to know what was on the Herbert Hoover campaign buttons. The reference division again , . . “Chicken in Every Pot.” Also help ing in the division are Miss Marie Peters, 1142 N. Pennsylvania ave., and Mrs. Norris Talley, 6145 Indianola ave, There were a number of students using the tables in the room for study. Since school started, Bill Nagley, staff member, told us the library has been a popular study hall for students from all over the city, “Hitting the books” there were Willis Beltz, 6165 Crittenden ave, and James Crawford, R. R. R, Box 77-A. Both me are vetergns and first year engineering students at Purdue extension.

. Barbara Sloan tracks down a book at the Central library.

Miss Donna Mikels, who usually

Shirts for Sale

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—The come to buy shirts and I don't care what Senator I'm even inclined to

time has not yet

Cotton Elmer Thomas claims. ignore Representative Cotton John Rankin. Cotton Elmer of Oklahoma says there was a conspiracy to break the price of cotton. Cotton John of Mississippi uses the phrase, dirty work. The agriculture commissioner of Texas says politics did it. ‘The commissioner from Georgia says the Truman administration is the villain. A Mr, C. C. Smith of the agriculture department says the fact is, there's more cotton piled up around the world than anybody ealized. Not one of these gentlemen agreed with any other at Senator Thomas’ inquiry into the price of cotton, Everybody was sore at somebody and, to coin a phrase, all was confusion. Senator Thomas wouldn't even be surprised if Oklahoma went Republican.

No World Shortage REP. RANKIN, who hung around and hung around some more never did get a chance to testify, dropped his statement at the press table. It said now that the manipulators had done their dirty work and the farmers had sold their cotton at a sacrifice, the price would skyrocket. His word. I do not believe 1 ever have been so confused at a senatorial hearing. The session wound up with Mr. Smith’ saving there is no world shortage And with Tom Linder, the agricultural chief of Georgia, saying

Science

NEW ALLOY steels, developed during world war II to meet the exacting demands of that conflict, will soon be reflecting their possibilities in industrial developments, Research in steel alloys was so accelerated that ad®ances hardly dreamed of 10 years ago were ace complished. This is the opinion of Dr. Marcus A. Grossman, director of. research, and J. M. Hodge, development engineer, of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. The two experts sét forth their views in reply to a question from the editors of Machine Design They believe that users of steel alloys will find more hardenability, strength and toughness than ever before in fewer varieties of steel. 1 The war years, by their shortages of alloying materials, made it necessary for the research scientists to conceritrate on the development of sieels which used only small amounts of these critical materials. The result was the development of the so-called “National Emergency” steels, called N. E. steels, for short,

Example of Trend THE DEVELOPMENT of these steels, according to Dr. Grossman and Mr. Hodge, are an example of the trend toward the practical application of the hardenability concept. This concept, which may be somewhat new to most laymen; is that an alloy should be such that the most desirable properties, namely, strength and toughness, can be obtained by hardening or tempering processes, such as heat treating. “The importance of this concept is based primarily “upon the fact that the properties of a steel part are largely a function of its micero-structure rather than

My Day

NEW YORK, Thursday.—I sat on the platform yesterday morning on the steps of the city hall, I looked at the crowds of people who had come to take part in the ceremonies of welcome that the mayor of the|¢ity of New York was extending to the United Nations delegates. In the absence of Mayor William O'Dwyer—because of the death of Mrs, O'Dwyer—the delegates from the 51 countries here for the meetings of the general assembly were very ably greeted by Deputy Mayor Thomas L. J. Corcoran and Grover A. Whalgn, chair man of the city reception committee, The response to the greeting, made by Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgium, president of the United Nations general assembly, was a very fine and forthright speech, He said that as he drove through the city he was conscious of a friendly people who gave the ‘United Nations a cordial welcome. But he said they were still skeptical and none too enthusiastic. about the organization that has not yet proved it could § prevent war, / '

Job of the People : IT WAS WELL, I thought, to have this point of view placed squarely before us. The sooner we, the people, realize that the delegates, no matter how hard they ‘labor, eannhot make thé United Nations work, the better itiwill be. ° The job of writing a peace, and then building a

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. * £ By Ed Sovola 4 po BEHIND THE ‘scenes where the general public seldom goes, we met a “Jill-of-All-Trades” person in the library. Her ‘name is Barbara Sloan, 3603 Boulevard pl. A junior clerk at the library in her spare hours and a’sophomore at Butler during “regular” hours, Barbara said she does “just about every- . thing.” Her main occupation is sending out delinquent slips. Now we Know who reminds us occasionally. The 19-year-old junior clerk has been working at the library for three and a half years starting as a page. The amount of work that i§ required to operate the mother branch of Indianapolis libraries almost floored us, It takes 70 workers to do all that has to be done. There are six miles of books on the shelves. Someone had figured that one out—we're merely passing it on. Popping our heads into one of the many offices and sections that resembled a maze to us, we found Mrs. Ruby Suits and Miss Dessie Alltop sorting cards on a table, They are sisters and live at 1606 Fletcher ave. The girls were using’ a new system for filing facts about songs. All the facts about a song are on the cards including the musical notes. At random we glanced at a card. “Fuddle-Dee-Duddle” was the name of the song. In parenthesis thus, it had “(Funny Little Tune).” We think so too. You have seen, of course, the number on the back of a book— the book plate, pocket and writeup slip. Well, Mrs. Ruth Wilson, 1249 W. 33d st., and Miss Rose Cresshall, 1347 E. 72d st, do the “finishing” work on a new book. The head of the library, as busy as she is, did chat with us for a few minutes. She is Miss Marian McFadden, 1701 N. Illinois st. Her secretary, Mrs. Lowell Otte, 111 E. 16th st., gave us an interesting item about her boss. Miss McFadden is the youngest librarian of a major library in the country.

Coffee Hour OF ALL THE offices and rooms we visited yesterday, the number one room in our book is the “coffee | room.” There's an adjoining kitchen complete with al sink, refrigerator and stove. All the equipment was| bought with money donated by the staff. The city furnishes the gas. “Relaxing over a cup of coffee, (we soon joined them) were Mrs. Helen Hull, West- | field, Ind., printing specialist, and Miss Viola Peacher, | 3310 Kenwood ave, Mrs, Hull's assistant, We don't know who made the coffee, but it was delicious. While we sipped coffee, Miss Marion Fay, 343 N, Alder st. came in and joined the group. After the coffee our] tour continued right into the “morgue.” That's where every copy of a newspaper ever printed in the city| is kept. Next to the file room we met the man who, is responsible for keeping the library clean. Head | custodian Lon Laughlin, with a staff of 12, gives the library a daily. going-over with broom, and mop, He| and his staff cover a lot of territory in the library. There are three floors and a basement. This may be news to you, it was to us, that the library opened and dedicated on James Whitcomb Riley's birthday | Oct. 7, 1917 has never been completed. Original plans, which were made in the trenches of France during; world war 1 by Paul P. Cret, architect, called for two statues in front of the building. The statues have ; never been put in place. It really isn't serious about | iss. the statues, though.

writes Inside Indianapolis, is ill.

By Frederick C. Othman

yes sir, and next vear's crop will be short, too, because of the fertilizer shortage. So let's talk about | shirts, .

Peach Colored Shirts - ABOUT SIX months ago one of Washington's | fi snootiest haberdashers put in a stock of shirts imported under OPA ceiling prices from Brazil. The g& cheap ones—and cheap they certainly were—sold for $7.95 a copy. The medium grade, with buttons that | seemed to be sewn on solidly, retailed at $8.50. The k good quality ones, available in pastel shades of ean -

SECOND SECTION = . CAMERA CLOSEUP . . . By Lloyd B. Walton

With the sky for their backdrop, two Indianapolis fliers have been scrawling advertising messages over the city on clear days. Ore, Ralph Biddle, an army air force veteran, with a novel attachment on his plane (above) has whipped the old bugaboo of skywriters by smoking out his message from the under side so he doesn't have to work backwards. He publicizes Sky Harbor airport. He started experiments as long as 10 years ago with phosphorous smoke for night writing.

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green, and peach, were priced at $10 each. I wrote an Mr. Novak (in the plane) and Mr. Biddle item about this inflation in the shirt market at the! pump “sky Ink” inte the AT-6. It is flushing ofl time; the other day I dropped into the same store. | normally used for cleaning engines. The threeAs of now there's a shirt sale in progress; the first| quarters-of-a-mile long sky letters take about a galsince outbreak of the war. The $8.50 shirts from | lon of oil each, Brazil are marked down to $5. The $10 shirts are - priced at $6. | § 1 doubt [if anybody except perhaps a Brazilian | cares to wear peach-colored shirts at any price. The | fact remains that they are of excellent quality; the clerk said the $10 shirts now selling for $6 probably are worth by pre-war standards about $3.95, The gimmick—and I write this for the benefit of | the cotton experts—is that nobody's rushing in to take advantage of the bargain. Any day now the price is going to drop again, no matter what the legislators say. When you spy one of these gents in a peach-flavored shirt, you'll know that Cal Coolidge's normalcy has returned.

By David Dietz

its chemical composition,” Dr. Grossman explains. Thus, during the war, research scientists found that alloys could be ntade with smaller amounts of alloying elements than formerly if only the resulting alloy was one that lent itself to the form of treament | which resulted in the desired micro-structure, Basis for Stecls | § “THIS concept was used to develof the N. E.! specifications,” Dr. Grossman says, “and is now being used by metallurgists and designers as a basis for selecting suitable steels for specific applications. Since many alloy combinations. can bé used to provide a desired hardenability, the choice of a composition may be made on the basis of economy or availability. “The newer understanding of the function of hardenability has led to a demand for steels in which the - hardenability is restricted to a specified range. Such steels have come to be known as ‘H’' steels and their hardenability ranges as ‘hardenability bands'.” Another important development of the war years has been the perfection of “super-alloys” for hightemperature service in jet turbines. Mr. Hodge, whase specialty is heat treatment savs that some of these new super-alloys have compositions which include molybdenum, tungsten, cobalt, columbium, vanadium and titanium in entirely new proportions. They are being used in gas turbimes and jet engines.

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Mr. Novak studies a diagram of a message he is going to spell backwards. His technique is to start his first letter by flying into the wind, releasing the smoke and timing it for 16 seconds while he flies at a speed of 120 miles an hour.

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Mild Infantile Paralysis Handicaps Study—

BY WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D. THE SPREAD of poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis). baffles many | people who try to study it, largely because the disease is essehtially | mild in character and only oc-

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Navy veteran Bob Nuvak, employed by Stewart Motor Sales, 3209 E. Washington st, flies an AT-6 with conventional writing attachment that streams smoke from the underside of the plane so that he has Yo spell out such long words as “Kaiser-Frazier” and “Rototiller” by working backwards. A newcomer in the game, he has been writing only since July. An accomplished artist, he feels this helps him in his work. He doubles as a salesman when he's not skywriting.

found to be more effective than a mere increase in the percentage of any one,

cates that the disease is spread from the nose and throat passages by mucus containing the polio virus.

» » » THE CAUSE of poliomyelitis has

Above can be seen the difference in the writing techniques employed by the two pilots. Af left is Mr. Biddle’s NIN navy trainer plane with the smoke wiitihg' stack On Mr. Novak's plane (right) the tube extends Just below the plane belly, Hot oil vaporizes in the manifold to form white smoke,

In an Ercoupe from Hoosier airport, with Don Hood at the controls, the photographer flies alongside Mr. Novak's plane as they climb to 13,000 feet to make the top

Under CAA rules, sky writers cannot work below 8000 feet. Only requirements for the job is a clear sky and lots of smoke. The skywriter times his first

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~ » ” INFECTIONS spread through the to develop in circles, the infection being passed from one individual to another; as the disease dies down in one area it breaks out in another, So it is with poliomyelitis, Outbreaks of poliomyelitis moderate when the number of susceptible persons

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We, the Women Take Children Along When

You Go Out

By RUTH MILLETT WHEN THE Chicago school SySe tem, short of teachers, asked Mrs, Ursula Shaughnessy to resume her teaching job, she protested that she didn't have anyone to look "after her two small children,

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the bmby-sitter problem. | Ever since getting a baby-sitter to take®care of junior became an |accepted part of American social {lifey Mama has found that ‘going out is one long hegdache. “I'll have to_call you back after I find out whether or not I can get a sitter for that night,” she says when she and her husband are invited out to dinner. Then begins the job of calling one sitter after another. w » » AT LEAST half the time she ends up with a sitter she isn't sure of and spends the evening worrying about what is-going on at home. Or she may have a sitter who ls dictatorial about quitting time, or one who charges more than Mama can actually afford to pay just for the pleasure of playing bridge with. the Joneses. f r » ” ISN'T IT about time women quit the baby-sitters and started doing what Grandma did—taking the kids along? If a teacher can take two toddlers along when she goes to school, certainly any mother can take her kids along when she goes out to dine ner. Grandma didn’t spoil her evenings out by worrying about the babysitter. She took the kids along and put them to bed when they got sleepy.

JET SHIPS ARE NEXT

LONDON, Oct. 25 (U, P.).—Brite |1sh marine engineers expect to {launch the first semi-jet propelled ship next year, effecting “the greats {est change in ocean transport since the transition from sail to steam.”

Polio Spread by Nose Throat

Diphtheria and whooping cough | fever diseases with respiratory .symptoms | cases reach their peak in November, May, can develop at different times of while chicken pox reaches its peak | January, scarlet —— | FOSPiratory passages tend

By Palumbo

it passes through the stomach and intestines unharmed. | Most of the agents which cause the common diseases would be found in the feces if such examie nations were made, ” "8 IN NO MAJOR outbreak of polio= myelitis to date has the spread of the disease resembled a waterborne epidemic, Communities which were invaded by poliomyelitis this year will be

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the government officials who go to Paris or. who come to New York and spend long hours trying to find solutions to knotty problems, It is the job of (the peoples of the world. And it will be done only| if they put their strength back of their representa- | tives. They must insist that. the main objectives of | keeping peace in the world shall always be in the| forefront of everybody's mind. | In the afternoon we gathered in the assembly hall | in the New York City building’ at Flushing Meadows. |

Press Arrangements Remarkable I WAS looking up at the rostrum, back of Which | Was a wonderful world map, flanked on either side by blue velvet curtains, The arrangements for the press and radio are really quite remarkable, There are two galleries along the sides and one at the back. And I was told that 300 seats are available for the press-of the world. Almost before I knew it, thef® was a burst of | applause and Mr. Spaak and Secretary General Trygve | Lie were escorting the President of the United States! and his aides into the hall. President Truman sat! and listened while the two speeches of welcome were given. before delivering his own address, : It 1s rather a terrifying thought that in this room peace or eventual annihilation arg at stake, Human | beings with all their. weaknesses and ‘faults have to! play. for these” high stakes, Many other human | beings® depend for their future upén what’ happens at Flushing Meadows in the next two months,

states in the Journal Lancet that,

been known for nearly 40 years to| be a small virus found in the upper | air passages. This virus is present in all cases of the disease, however mild or however severe, The monkey is the only animal which can be made, to contract the disease consistently, The virus, placed in the monkey's nose and throat, produces a polio infegtion.

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‘Booming’ Day At Police Station

WALKING through the roll call room of the police station, Patrolman. Clarence Miller this morning accidentally discharged a sawed off shotgun. The charge ripped into the ceiling of, the room, which is just | below. one of the municipal .courtrooms. The courtroom was crowded for the morning session, but’ the charge did not penetrate the, courtroom floor,

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i belief that the virus is distributed by flies and insects. Although this is theoretically possible, actually flies and insects have little influlence on polio epidemics. | Outbreaks of poliomyelitis may |increase rather than decrease after | frost. . The polio virus is found in the | intestinal secretions, It probably |is present in swallowed mucus, as | - -

U. S. FORESTS SET "NEW TIMBER RECORD

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 (U, P.),~— Chief Lyle F. 'Watts of the U, 8. | forest. service said today that the amount of timber cut from the na[tional forests during the three {months ending Sept. 30 set a new * [all-time record, : | Attributing a large part of the (heavy cuttings to. the tremendous

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demand for veterans housing, Mr.|to do with the stoppage? : | Watts said total “cuttings for the |. 1,103,484,000 board your present condition to the ate (feet. It was the first time the bil-| tention of your physician, who can |lion shark was passed in ’a single examine you and tell you ” q 'e y i wrong. 4

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up an epidemic is based on the|tible residents who have not had

|the disease will be relatively small, After a certain number of years | enough births and migrations will have occurred to make a second outbreak possible. » ” ” ONE CITY may have more cases of polio than another not so much | because of less effective control {measures as, because fewer of its residents have had the sfection previously, : It is now believed that the mae jority of adults had poliomyelitis (as children. This accounts for the fact that only 15 per. cent of epl« demic cases occur in grown men and women, 8 2 8 | QUESTION: I have sihusitis, and I am also allergic to house ‘dust, | After the first series of injections given me, I stopped menstruating,

|Did the injections have anything .

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Probably not.

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