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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 27, 1946

Inside Indianapolis

DID YOU KNOW that pianos are like human beings in that they have personalities? Each piano is a little different in tone even though it's built by the same companys Taking tine off.from tuning a grand piano, Perry Roberts, 3102 Ruckle ave, pounded ‘ chords on seven or eigkt around the showroom of the Marion Music Co., for illustration. Sure enough--same chords—they're all pianos, but there's a difference, And not only are pianos different but they are tempermental and get out of tune at the slightest provocation, For instance, let a piano stand for sev= eral months—don't even touch it and to the experienced ear such as Mr. Robert's the thing will be off. The tension of the strings, the weather produce changes constantly, As Mr. Roberts said, “Something is giving all the time in a piano.”

Tone Must Be Perfect MR. ROBERT'S in his 25 years as a piano tuner has tuned many a visiting concert pianist's favorite grand. Maybe before the concert there's a rehearsal, It has to be tone perfect. So he goes over his tuning fork, tuning wrench, mutes and bag of odds and ends. The pianist is satisfied. The piano takes a good mauling at rehearsal. Before the keys have a chance to cool off Mr. Roberts is pecking away on the keys and turning the screws with his wrench, The grand then gets a short rest. While concert-goers are changing into clean shirts or dragging their cars out of garages the piano is tuned again, because when an artist hits the opening note, that note had better be right. To get the piano in tune Mr, Roberts begins by hitting his knee cap with the tuning fork and listening. He gets the pitch. Usually one long ping of the fork suffices. He starts on middle C and works up to the 88th key on the piano. . After about 45 minutes of pinging, twisting, listening and adjusting Mr. Roberts is ready to start on the bass section, This takes about 15 minutes. All pianos cannot be tuned in an hour. Some of the jobs Mr. Roberts runs into take him considerably longer. Say an average piano in an average home gets so bad that even an average citizen gets to the point that he can notice it's ot of whack. This type of tuning usually requires three separate operations. First a semblance of tone has to be established. Then by the time all the initial wrenching is done it's out of kilter again. He goes over the strings again. It begins to sound like a piano but not quite. Finally a sharp and clear middle C note is established and another complete adjustment gets it in tune.

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ONE WOMAN'S

ONLY HOME 15 ON STREETCARS

Chicago Peddler Asserts She’s ‘Given Up’ Search For Room.

By NORINE FOLEY Times Special Writer CHICAGO, Nov. 27.—Clang, clang, clang went the trolley. And the old

lady slept on. Finally the conductor roused her,

“Par as we go,” he said. “End of

the line.” Anna Cox blinked. She slipped swollen feet into brown moccasins and tuned up the collar of her worn coat, Picking up a bulky bag, she shuffled off the streetcar into the darkness. Three a. m. A half hour's wait for a feeder bus to Stony Island ave, then another streetcar and two more hours’ sleep. For two months Chicago's street-

Chasing the sour notes away . . . Perry Roberts, piano tuner, pings and twists the notes into shape. |

Gives Him Thump in Head WHEN MR. ROBERTS hears a high note on a piano which is out of tune he feels a decided thump in his head and it hurts. It also hurts when someone | tells him that they have a piano which hasn't been | tuned for 15 years and “it plays perfectly.” The piano | industry is short of tuners but Mr. Roberts emphasized the point that piano tuners are made not born. Schools at the present time are turning out men after eight nfonths of training. According to Mr. Roberts they are piano tuners in theory only. To be a first class tuner, a man should have three years shop experience and five years of practical on-the-job training. Then he knows about all the peculiarities that should be known about pianos. To test his tuning job| on the grand piano, Mr. Roberts beat out part of a| fancy rondo and wound up with a bit of boogie woogie. An" emphatic poke on the A key meant he was through. He plays by ear and tunes the same way.

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Where's Mr. Krug?

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.—C. Girard Davidson is a slim young fellow with a big roach of light brown hair and a nervous laugh. He is assistant secretary +0f interior. His job is to take over the minor chores, like testifying before congress, while the boss worries about important stuff, like the coal strike. Mr. Davidson, poor devil, had a tough time of it. His boss,” Secretary Julius A. Krug, is on the pan. May even get slapped with a contempt citation. Mr. Davidson is biting his fingernails. The moral, which I expeet to prove in a minute, is that you «0an’t stall all the congressmen all the time with double talk. Some catch on quickly. . Young Mr. Davidsbn, looking less like a public official than a college senior, said he'd been worrying about the big and™little fich pipelines, all right. He told Rep. Roger Slaughter’s investigating committee, in fact, that Krug & Co.. were figuring on maybe ordering natural gas into the lines, if the coal strike : weren't settled. Then he laughed. : Rep. Ross Rizley of Oklahoma, said, what? Did the interior department have a deal to help relieve the strike? - ; “Uh,” began Mr. Davidson. He said not for certain did he know it. He said the department was studying the facts.

“What Are You Going to Do?

“HOW LONG HAS it been studying them?” Rep. Slaughter asked. Mr. Davidson laughed. He said since the strike became a certainty. Ee “Well, what are you going to do now?” Rep. Slaughter insisted. “The decision will not be mine,” replied, laughing again.

We, the Women

Mr. Davidson

He wasn't amused, you -understand. He just couldn't help snickering at things that weren't funny. Rep. Slaughter asked if speed weren't of the essence? “That's your opinion,” the assistant secretary laughed. “We're doing everything we can.”

No Word From Mr. Krug ET CETERA. .HE TALKED in this vein, with laughs in the wrong places, for an hour and a half.

Rep. Slaughter suggested he cut out the gobbledegook. Mr. Davidson kept on talking, using words that meant

By Frederick C. Othman | streetcar.

cars have been Anna's only home. Night after night she rides from one end of a slumbering city to the other. “T've given up-the seatch for a room,” said Anna. “For weeks I tramped about looking for a place to sleep. I am alone and cannot afford to pay much.” Lots of Homeless Anna is not the only nomad to whom the trolley spells home. “I see many of the same people riding the cars throughout the night,” she asserted. “Before the weather turned cold there were lots of homeless young girls. ‘1 don't know where they are now. You have to be hardy to survive this life.” : . Some of the homeless spend their nights in all-night movie houses. “Not for me,” protested Anna. “I'm safe on a brightly lighted In a dark movie house anything could happen. Someone might steal my bag. Then where would I be?” In Anna's bag are needles, thread, bobby pins, combs and pencils which she peddles to loop offices and shops. When times were good, she aver-

notions. Today she makes $12. Out of this she can pay $6 for a room. But she can find none. Rides for 48 Cents Anna rides the cars from 8 p. m.

little to Rep. Slaughter. The latter said so. He said he guessed he'd have to call in Secretary Krug after all. He set the time for that at 2 p. m. Then he went to lunch. At 2 everybody was on hand, except Secretary Krug. Rep. Slaughter ordered his counsel to phone Mr. Krug with word that the committee waited. Counsel Hugh Wise tried to do so, but he couldn't

get the secretary of the interior on the line. He |

left a message with Mr. Krug's secretary.

Half an hour later there still was no word from |

Mn ‘ Krug. Rep. Slaughter called his four fellow committeemen outside for an executive session. They returned in five minutes. Rep. Slaughter said Secretary Krug was impolite. He said Mr. Krug didn't even phone to say why he couldn't testify. Then he ordered Mr. Wise to write out a subpena and serve it on the secretary. “Yes sir,” Mr. Wise said. Unless the committee changes its mind, Mr. Krug testifies on Monday, or else. The else is.a contempt citation, not dissimilar from the one the judge slapped on John L. Lewis, who caused all the trouble in the first place, I guess everything'll work ouf.

By Ruth Millett

—— AMERICAN MEN have made about as many jokes at the expense of Christmas neckties as at that of women's headgear. What Papa got for Christmas is-always good for a laugh from the men, if not from the women, What to give Papa for Christmas isn't funny to Mama. She is as bewildered when she starts looking a sporting goods clerk in the eye and trying to describe a gadget by starting off apologetically with: “I don't know exactly what you call it, but , . ." as is Papa when-he says to the helpful clerk in the lingerie department: “Well, I guess she is about your size, maybe a little taller, and ., .”

Lasts Week or Two

SO JUST what DO you buy Papa? He smokes a pipe. Swell. You buy him one of those fancy pipestands. And after a week or two, he keeps his pipes just where he always did, in the pockets of old Jackets, on the table beside his favorite

chair, in the basement-——in short, all over the house.

You buy him a box of fancy tobaccos, so that he |

can blend his owri—and he has fun for one evening. Then he goes back to using the same old readymixed brand he has been smoking for years.

Confused by Terms YOU'RE DELIGHTED when he takes up photography. Now you can find him any number of gifts. Only when you start looking at equipment you are utterly confused by the technical terms.

He is ‘still two pairs of house slippers ahead, from last Christmas.

before Christmas. It never fails. So just what is a poor woman to do? The only thing left for her is to pick out a beautiful necktie that Papa will declare is & beauty and then quietly hang on the back of the fancy tie-rack she gave him last year. If he’s still using the tie-rack.

And if there is anything he really | needs he is sure to buy it for himself a few days hands the conductor eight cents, |

{to 8 a. m. for six fares, or 48 cents. “I could pay 50 cents for a flop{house room,” she said. “But I {wouldn't rest in one of those filthy, | vermin-infested places. And I don't care to associate with people who live there, either. “I come from a long line of doc- | tors and lawyers. I still have my | pride, you see.” Anna was born (she won't say when) in Harpersburg, W. Va. Her father was Dr. Elmer C: Cox, super- | intendent of schools of Harpersburg, | she said. Anna looked down at red, roughened hands. “I studied to be a concert pianist,” | she said simply. omeless Ever Since Anna arrived in Chicago in 1916, |after the death of her parents. Until war restrictions came along she

| sold aprons and bathing caps for

ithe U. 8. Rubber Co. Last spring, she left her $5 room ‘at the Ontarior Extension hotel, 11 |W." Ontario st., for Harpersburg. | There she spent 13 weeks. Since her return she has been homeless.

“The mornings are the worst”

said Anna, “I carry cold cream and paper towels and try to clean up before the cars fill with curious people.” ’

At a hamburger stand, hot coffee |

| relaxes cold-stiffened muscles. “Anna plods the loop all day. When the shop lights: go out and {theater crowds fill the streets—she lumbers aboard a streetcar and

down payment on a night's rest. | Clang—clang—clang gbes the trol{ley. And the old lady is asleep | again.

Two of Pilgrim’

By Eleanor Roosevelt Refugees Wed

My Day :

NEW YORK, Tuesday.—~To pick up the paper these days is to realize. how many suggestions are always made whenever we: find ourselves-in a really difficult position.

On one page we see that a man from Texas thinks that he could supply the East with 50 million cubic feet of natural gas a day, beginning in about three weeks. Then there are ingenious suggestions for extricating the government and John L. Lewis from their differences and making the coal ‘mine operators and Mr, Lewis undertake to solve their problems, If the government urges this on Mr. Lewis and he accepts, it might prevent a great many coal customers from turning to other kinds of fuel, such as the natural gas suggested. , Some day our scientific research on the peacetime use of atomic energy may make all of our present fuels obsolete, but in the meantime coal is still important.

Strike a Basic Right .

NEXT WE SEE that one of our. lawmakers is suggesting that we outlaw all strikes in basic industries and compel arbitration that would be hard to swallow, for strikes have almost come to be considered one of the ‘basic human rights. However, the people, as a whole do not like to be made uncomfortable and the threat that the A. F, of L. and the C. I. O. might combine in backing up Mr. Lewis, and thus practically paralyze the country, has had a very sobering effect on a great many peaple,

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. What I personally fear is that people who ordi

narily keep their heads, are not vindictive, and do

upon them do things which they:would never do in their calmer moments. Many industries have already begun to slow down, more and more people are going to be out of work, and Ohristmas is only a month away. Coal miners can remember back some 14 or 15 years ago when their Christmas dinners were nonexistent and when Christmas morning dawned with no goys for their children. but there will be & lot of fathers in this country who will wonder why they were forced into idleness. And in other countries, many, many people had hoped to have a little warmth this year from coal imported from the U. 8. A.

Dependent World

“THERE WILL be other repercussions. Tobe de= pendent upon people of another country who have no understanding of what their actions mean ‘in faraway lands, must be a bitter thing to accept. People the world ‘over are dependent on us, and we don’t seem to realize it, This coal strike is causing serious trouble at home. But what will trouble other nations is the implication that we, the strongest nation in the world and the least hurt materially in the war, cannot’ manage our own affairs and successfully make an economic comeback. We begin to move forward, but then we are thrust back by new obstacles, Others wonder where this will end. No country in the world can hope to make -a comeback in the economic field unless we make it and are prepared to help them. Yet

MIAMI, Fla. Nov. 27 (U. P).— Ella Keidong and. Alfred Linn, two of the 48 Estonian refugees who braved an Atlantic crossing in three small vessels were mari ried last night in borrowed clothes. Today they were honeymoon-

The marriage was performed by Mrs. F. Russell Floyd, a notary

long aqua dress with sequins, and wedding rings from her jewelry store. “We hope to pay back for everything,’-the couple said, "as goon as we are permitted to work.” The work authorization is being withheld until the refugees are legally pérmitted to enter the country. President Truman recently granted the refugees a haven on the. Floridian shores until proper visas under Estonia's immigration quota are issued. ! When the Estonians are permit- | ted to take jobs the newlyweds

| are assured employment as house- || | keeper and gardener-chauffeur at

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U.S. Communist Probe Heads Toward Spy Hunt

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SAIPAN-Captured July 10, 1944, after four days’ pre-invasion bombardment and 25 days of some of the war's toughest fighting. U. S. lost 2359 killed, Japs over 25,000,

Saipan, Kwajalein 'Backstop' U. S. Defense Bases

. KWAJALEIN~—Captured Feb. 5, 1943, after one of war's greatest naval and air bombardments and three days’ land fighting. U. 8. lost 137 dead, while Japs killed totaled 4670.

By ROBERT RICHARDS United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Nov." 27.—Men if|Simmonds said.

Come to the big town. Here among all the unhappy dogs and tall build-

ings, you'll find Manhattan women will love ‘you.

tiny, bruisers. foot type.

politics first and his eyes later: She directs an organization matches nice lonely. men with nice lonely women. - “Politics are very important in

women want to know if a man is {a ‘Democrat, Republican, or what. And they insist that he be broadminded.” No Whiskers

But faces don't mean a thing— just so long as there's no beard. Mustaches? Yes. no whiskers.

is for you to be a shorty. tip the tape at under five feet, you|dad. may as well stay home and go to a double feature. that Miss Simmonds can do to help you.

According to a long-range U. 8. defense plan given to United Press correspondent Donald J. Gonzales by military leaders during a 25,000-mile tour of the Pacific, only Saipan and Kwajalein, of all the islands wrested from the Japs, will play major strategic roles if the U. 8S, gets United Nations trusteeship. They will “backstop” strong permanent defense bases at Guam, Pearl Harbor, the Aleutians and Alaska. Smaller islands, in the Marshall,’ Caroline and Marianas groups, will be placed in secondary roles, capable of quick ’ expansion in emergency.

Man's Politics Important, Says Lonely Hearts Lady

ure in at less than five feet, five. “But that isn't always true,” Miss “Just the other day two of my clients were engaged. youre a wall-flower in Omaha, OF rhe man was five foot even, and a dud in Duluth, flex your muscles.|the girl was four eleven.” Even when Manhattan girls are they dream of great, Almost all prefer the six-|of persons are now wearing living And they want him to know his way around town. They're And furthermore, Ann SIMMONds|jkely to get bitter if he thinks birth, stated that it was her belief that El Morocco is an African oasis, or New York women look into a man's\the Stork is just a bird. New York men, which| hand, are more demanding.

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Voices Are Important

“That's almost the first thing they ask about.”

They like for their women to | own fails, the eve-bank Is giving speak softly, but to carry a big ear training, —for listening purposes. “And, of course, they want them glamorous,” Miss Simmonds added. “But they get upset if their dates vention of Blindness meeting here. But definitely are just too, too, glamorous.” All they ask is that she look like The worst thing that can happen! a Powers model, but still be as sweet If youias the gal who married dear old

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REPORT FEB. 1 ON DISLOYALTY

G. 0. P. Also Sets Inquiry} Canada to Provide Example.

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.-GoVe ernment plans to investigate Come munist activities in the United States were headed almost inevitably today toward a spy hunt. The record of Communist activity In the western hemisphere shows two distinct methods of operation. ONE: Bold public support of Russian foreign policies through avowedly Communist organizations and the more numerous and more effective Communist fronts. ~~ TWO: Espionage conducted necessarily in secret through Russian and native citizens, The government is approaching the problem raised by such activities from two directions. President Truman has named a presidential coms mission to report by Feb. 1 on exe isting safeguards against disloyalty and subversive activities within gove ernment departments. House Announces Probe

The house committee on une American activities has announced that after.the new Republican cone gress meets, it will undertake to exe pose Communists and their syme pathizers within the government. The committee intends, also, to exe tend its investigation generally through the country, with special ate tention to the charge that Holly wood is crawling with fellow travele lers. Mr. Truman's commission and the house committee could well pre« pare for their job by learning about the Communist espionage which has been going on in Canada. The Dominion. government has pubs lished a 733-page volume on the subject in the form of a royal coms mission report. Had Stolen Documents The Canadian commissioners had the stolen documents of a Russian Communist deserter on which to base their inquiry. One by one they are sending the Canadian cone

1500 NOW HAVE GRAFTED EYES

Training in Transplanting Corneas Spreads.

By Science Service NEW YORK, Nov, 27.—Hundreds

eyes that do not belong to them by

Altogether probably some 1500 persons have had this experience

on the other [since the first corneal transplant or

eye grafting operation was performed about, 100 years ago, Dr. | Herbert Katzin, head of the eye-

“Voices are important to men,” |bank’s laboratory here, estimates. Manhattan,” she explained. “Most|arics Simmonds said.

In order to give more persons this chance to see through eye tissues from other eyes when their

through fellowships, to eye surgeons from other parts of the country, Dr. Katzin reported to the National Society for the Pre-

Operate on Rabbits They perfect their skill through operating on rabbits’ eyes. This is even more difficult than operating on human eyes. For one thing. the

“The immature,” Miss Simmonds | qppit's cornea is thinner and tears There isn't much |said, “are the most demanding.” The older folks don't demand too much. They know that you can't|;, ped after the operation, which It's a hard life even if you meas-{find a prize in every package.

more easily than human corneas. The bunnies will not lie- quietly

leads to complications more often

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than in human corneal -grafting operations. Methods of preserving eyes until they can be used, the usefulness of eyes removed because of disease and | determining the suitability of a | patient's eye for the grafting operation are among the problems the eye-bank is studying in efforts to extend this sight-saving procedure. Blindness Reduced

{ Blindness caused by ‘trachoma has heen reduced almost to the van-

Cases of reservations

dians by sulfanilamide. trachoma on Indian

1937 to 3.6 per cent in 1941, Dr. Fred Loe of Carson City, Nev, reported. | This virus disease causes blindness in one out of every 17 cases that are not treated. Babies’ sore eyes can be fought more effectively with sulfanilamide than with the - silver nitrate eve drops now used routinely for newborn infants,’ in Dr, Loe's opinion.

VENISON OVERFLOWS JAIL

MAYVILLE, N. Y, Nov, 27 (U. P.) —Sheriff Clarence Bell reported today that the Chautauqua county jail was overflowing with 4200 pounds of venison, including six | deer killed by automobiles.

STUDY NEW FIRE LAW

BOISE, Idaho, Nov. 27 (U. P.).— A new fire prevention ordinance was hefore the city council today. bi, wa introduced by Councilman

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ispirators to jail. The latest sene {tenced was Capt. Gordon Lunan, & wartime official of the Canadian ine formation service, ~ Against the belief widely held in the United States that spies and espionage are something reserved for movie thrillers and light fiction, there may be cited pages 85 and 88 in the - royal commission report. {Page 85 relates that with the ase sistance of two Canadian Commu» nists named Carr and Rose, the military attache of the Soviet ems bassy in Ottawa was able to recruit at least 17 Canadian agents or cons spirators, the list is headed by Lue nana, who already has gone to jail, In conformity with Communist practice, party members and agents usually were given so-called covers names. . Lunan, for instance, was known in the records of the Come munist spy ring as Back. David Shugar was called Prometheus, Ray« mond Boyer was known as tlie proe fessor. Allan Nunn was Alek, Emma Woikin was Nora,

Important Characters

Carr and Rose, both leaders of the {Canadian Communist party, each had two cover names because they were very important characters and their names were likely to appear more often in documents than those of the mere agents who were taken into the net. The net is what the Russian ems bassy director of the Canadian cone spiracy called their spy ring. There | were several nets but the Canadian | Investigators had information ene abling them to investigate only one, The assumption is that the 17 agents discovered, exposed and named by the commissioners could {be multiplied many times if the full | facts were known.

| Special Word for Agent

| For a local Communist or an {agent who plunged whole-heartedly and without reservation into the Russian espionage project, the Rus= slans had a special word. It was Nash. Translated freely, Nash | means “he is ours.” | Esplonage has a slang all its own, | A shoemaker, for instance, was & | forger ‘or procurer of false passe ports. A shoe was such a forged { instrument. The 17 Canadians were not the {only persons involved in the Cana dian expose. The commissioners said ‘that members of the Soviet Union embassy in Ottawa also had been identified as having been ac tive since 1942 when the embassy opened in directing under«cover espionage in Canada. = By coincldence, the number of Russian em= bassy officials involved aiso was 17. Top man appears to have been a Col. Zabotin, the military attache,

|but the list included door guards,

chauffeurs and interpreters, -aki-of. whom proved to be officers in the Red’ army despite their relatively humble embassy assignments. The commissioners came to/the conclusion that the Ru ams bassador was purposely kept fignors ant of all “improper and inadmis« sible activities” in his embassy. In fact, he was.not tted enter the secret rooms in a Hpec wing on the second e : where the espionage

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