Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 November 1946 — Page 19

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FRIDAY. NOV. 29, 1946

your car when you are coming downtown is to leave it at home in the garage? You don’t? Then what's the secret? It's generally known the best thing to do is to park in front of the place where you're going. It's also known that's impossible, What next—a parking lot? Could be. Just for the fun of it, say you pull into the Circle Motor inn on 8 W. Market st. in the Test building. What happens after you grab your hat and check and run? Well, a dispatcher like Carl Ross, 312 S. Barton } ave, turns on the inter-floor speaking system and ¥ listens for horns on all of the six floors up and two floors down. The coast is clear on all ranmps. A driver 18 waiting for the green light on the ramp. Mr. Ross switches it on and away goes your car. The driver | - will know by the stub where he is to park it. He | also will know if he can tuck it away so it can be claimed five or six-hours later.

i : Oh, So You Changed Your Mind? THE TICKET says sixth floor. He winds around a one-lane ramp honking at every turn to warn other drivers. He parks it against the far wall. Remember you are going to call for it six hours later. In no time at all five other cars are in front of yours. For some reason you don't leave it in the garage for six hours. You want it in an hour. And you want it right now. Mr, Ross sends a driver after it and calls for the floor manager to help. Traffic is

blocked. While the driver is pulling the five cars 2 out to get to yours the floor manager is hurrying upstairs.

Your car is dug out and while it is going down with the driver, floor manager Gifford Clem, 37 W. St. Clair st., is moving the others back into the same position. You get into your car and wonder why it took so long. : There are a lot of problems in running an indoor 4 parking garage. Manager Glen Rushton, 536 Arbor 4 ave. mentioned a few. One—when motorists take | their ignition- keys and run -off. - Another is when A] the motorist has a dead battery and turns the motor i off. Traffic has to move fast and a dead duck in the center of a ramp -can be quite a problem. Driver James T. Gotlin, 5217 E. 9th st., thinks the biggest problem is faulty brakes. When the men get such a car they draw a skull and crossbones on a piece of paper and stick it on the steering gear to warn other drivers. They also report dangerous cars to Mr. Rushton, who makes it a point to tell the motorist about it.

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Inside Indianapolis

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By Ed Sovola

Let ’er go . . . Dispatcher Carl Ross switches on the go light after the ramps are clear,

Capacity 600 Cars a Day THE GARAGE can handle approximately 600 cars daily. It has parking space for 300. When the English theater is running a play, the Circle Motor drivers run their legs off. It's not unusual for them to clear out 225 cars in a half hour. Automobiles are getting longer and wider, which cuts down parking space. Niches which formerly accommodated three cars now take two. An escalator affair consisting of a belt with steps on it runs from the sub-basement to the sixth floor. Drivers use this for speedy floor to floor work, It saves wear and tear on leg muscles. . When a driver scrapes an occasional fender (w must remember no one is perfect) the garage repairs it. “If the motorist is from out of town he has it fixed | and sends the bill to the Inn."

4 BUS ROUTES T0 BE CHANGED BY RAILWAYS

City Engineers Put Final Touches on Traffic Program.

By JACK THOMPSON Traffic ‘artists today added the finishing touches to the city's new traffic picture, drawn up with an eye to relieving downtown congestion. The plan, which eliminates parking at any time on sections of several of the city’s main arteries and parking during rush hours in most of the mile square, will be placed in effect Monday. Another measure recommended

by city engineers to lessen congestion is the re-routing of busses and trolleys. Indianapolis Railways announced four bus routes will be changed Dec. 8 in compliance with the suggestions. Evan Walker, executive assistant to the president of the transit com-

officials ©

Drivers are trained for a week before they solo! ay said: with cars on the ramps. For three days an Inex-| «rhe re-routing will remove from perienced man rides with a veteran. Then for three |, . circle four of the company’s 18 days he drives with an experienced man. When he | erations there. Traffic flow cut completes this routine the floor manager rides along | o¢ the central downtown area either to check him out-or prescribe more training. should be speeded considerably by Ever since gas rationing went off Mr. Rushton |, change.” in said the garage has been operating at capacity. What New Bus Routes about the Christmas rush? Mr. Rushton merely! ajteration of the existing routes

threw up his hands and shrugged his shoulders.

“By Frederick C. Othman |

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—Never tell a lady that her petticoat is showing. She knows it, poor gal. Tug as she will, the durn thing sags again and there she is with her slip in the open some more. This is final. I have spent the day with three officials (only one of whose slips was dipping below the danger mark) of the American Home Economics association. They have told me true. The ladies of this nation are weary of being played for suckers and, or, being reminded about their errant underwear. “The manufacturers have told us they'd be delighted to mike things the way we want them made,” said Miss Lelia Massey, the executive secretary. “Now we're telling ‘em.” They certainly are. The 20,000 members, all graduate home economists, are making surveys on assorted things that plague womankind, like lingerie that stretches, dresses that don't (the blame things rip), bread that tastes like plywood, thick steaks that turn out bone, and stew pans which develop leaks.

Impatient Waiting MISS MASSEY and her associates at headquarters, Mrs. Margaret Thompson and Mrs. Zelta Rodenwald (I refuse to say which one wore a slippery slip), told me about the siren songs of the bakers, the butchers, arid the dressmakers. The boys have promised to deliver the goods the way the ladies want it. The ladies are waiting, but not patiently. As of now theyre working on those slips (some good, but many sleazy, said Miss Massey), sweaters, winter coats, refrigerators, cooking utensils, and milk.

: They have completed their studies on house dresses,

bread and meat. They know what ‘they want. The meat first. The women of America are tired of buying meat and getting gristle. They insist that the butchers adopt some standards on how much bone goes with every steak. The ladies said when

they want a small roast, they want it, ‘without the| back talk. They are caught up on compromising on | big roasts. They also want thick steaks to be no thicker in Maine than in California and, of course, vice-versa. ie The bread situation perhaps is not so_ critical. | About half the ladies said they had no complaints. The other half said the bakers ought to keep-on| pumping vitamins into each loaf and be forced to! label the nutritional content as well as net weight.| Also, gents in the white aprons, the ladies want bread that doesn’t go moldy. As for dresses, Miss Massey said the little number she had on was an example. It cost like sin, but the | second time out the lining ripped. Dressmakers, the time has come, Put up or shut up.

No Gew-Gaws Wanted | NEARLY 12,000 WOMEN contributed to what 1is/ wrong with house dresses. Not one of them, gentle-| men, was satisfied. Multiply that by a 10 ‘million like some public opinion pollsters do and what do|

you get? A lot of frightened dress manufacturers., Under the new parking restric-| Capitat.ave. to Illinois st

Or so the ladies hope. A good house dress, they agree, should cost $4.98 and not one cent more. When a lady buys a size 14 dress, it ought to be size 14, and not suitable for draping a small elephant. The gew-gaws down the front should be left off.|

| days on the following streets:

| hinges on approval by the Public

Service Commission, expected soon. New bus routes will be as follows: ONE: Mars Hill—-northeast on Kentucky ave. to Illinois st., south

lon Illinois to Maryland st, west

on Maryland to Kentucky, southwest on Kentucky over the present route. TWO: Speedway — south on Meridian st. to Ohio st, west on Ohio to Senate ave, north on Senate to New York st, west on New York over the present route. THREE: East New York st.— West from New Jersey st. on Ohio st. to Meridian st., north on Meridian st. to New York st, east on New York over the present route. FOUR 21st st. and Arlington ave —same as the E. New York st. route through the downtown area. Mr, Walker said several trackless trolley routes will be changed as soon as wire and other .equipment are available. There is little -like- | lihood of any but the above changes | before next year, he said.

Parking Restrictions

tions adopted as an ordinance by| city council Monday at a special session, parking will be banned at all times except Sundays and holi-|

ONE: S. Capitol ave, both sides]

ington st. to North st.

isiana st. to Jackson p. |

{Ilinois st. to Senate ave,

THe ladies don't like 'em. The hems ought to be deep and a red dress shouldn't dye everything else, in the washing machine pink. | One other thing: I am not sneering at the ladies. from Washington st. to Ohio st.

st.

I think their idea is wonderful. I think they are| THREE: Illinois st, wonderful. I am glad I am not a dressmaker. Never from Louisiana st. to Jackson pl. again will I tell a lady that her slip is showing. I'll] FOUR: Pennsylvania st, both]

inconspicuously ' sides from Washington st. to Ohio st.

merely keep my fingers crossed against it falling off altogether. | Rush Hour Bans |

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Aviation

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By Maj. Al Williams : | places:

JUST ABOUT the time aviation was ready to accept the orthodox piston aircraft engine as a permanent fixture, along came the jet and gas turbine power plants. ; z The jet, of course, is the real speed engine coming into its true zone of efficiency at and above 500 miles an hour—or just about where the propeller engine reaches its effective limits. Jet speed is attained at the expense of excessively high fuel consumption. The British Rolls-Royce jet engine, which established the present world speed record of 616 miles an hour, delivered a little more than the equivalent of 12,000 horsepower (about three times the power developed by the biggest piston engine). To develop this 12,000 horsepower the Rolls-Royce engine burns about 750 gallons of fuel an hour. The complete combustion of this amount of fuel means that about two tons of air must be supplied and burned an hour, The jet has the speed, but speed always costs money, and always* will. . The current type of jet engine burns a special grade of kerosene known as B® jet fuel, A switch from kerosene to gasoline as fuel \ for the jet engine is an absolute. necessity, because . there isn't’ enough kerosene in the world—nor is it likely that sufficient quantity can be produced— * * .to supply the. fuel needs of any air force composed of a sizable percentage of jet-engined fighters and bombers,

2500 Revolutions a Minute IN THE JET, a single shaft runs through the center of the engine. On the rear end of this shaft in the combustion chamber is a bladed turbine wheel. On the forward end of the shaft is mounted an air compressor. The ignition of fuel in the combustion chamber causes the turbine to revolve, thus rotating the compressor up forward, which sucks in air and .supplies it to the combustion chamber. The faster “the turbine in the combustion chamber revolves, the faster the compressor turns.

| Both sides of Alabama st. The “idling” speed of the jet engine, if you please, | Washington st. to North st. is 2500 revolutions a minute. That is about as fast| West side of Capitol ave. as the top speed of an orthodox piston engine. This Louisiana st. to Georgia st. idling speed can be accelerated from 2500 to about | East side of Capitol ave.

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We, the Women

« HURRY, HURRY, HURRY—the good old Christmas season is here again, We've always hurried for Christmas, of course. But every.year we start our hurrying a little sooner. A last-minute gift used to be the one papa rushed out to buy for mama on Christmas eve.’ Now a lastminute gift is one bought any time after Thanksgiving, ; Cards uded to be bought, addTessed, signed, &nd dropped in the mailbox a few days before Christmas. . ‘Now we send out so many greeting cards that the post office is begging us to mail them over a period of a month, so that the postmen’'s Christmas loads won't be quite so back-breaking.

By Ruth Millett

15,000 revolutions a minute within a space of four Ohio st. to Indiana ave. seconds—to full power output. That means that a| Both sides of Delaware st. from jet engine, unlike any other power plant developed Market st. to Massachusetts ave. by man, can deliver its full horsepower in about four _ seconds ‘after it is started and without any prelim- GLAMOUR GONE— inary warmup. Gas Turbine First in Picture Children Not THE ESCAPE of the burning gases rearward through the jet pipe into the open air creates the . reaction force which drives the jet plane forward. | t + a Complete combustion of any fuel means a smokeless n eres e In exhaust. And the complete combustion of 750 gallons of jet fuel per hour in the British racing jet engine Toys of War means the supply and burning of two tons of air, which is. approximately 50,000 cubic feet of air an| NEw YORK, Nov. 20 (U. P)—| Hour, ; : Top flight performance in air warfare justifies War toys are duds this Christmas, paying such a price for speed. But this price s{Poth in England and the United | beyond the pocketbook of commercial aviation. States, | On the other hand, we have the gas turbine where | The kids just aren't in a shooting | the major portion of ‘power developed by the burn- mood. Most of them have put-the ing of -gases in the combustion chamber is used to|water pistols back in their pockets. turn a propeller, with the exhaust contributing about | “I don't say it'll last, mind you,” | 15 per cent of the power. The British claim that | said Rolin Gage, a toy man from | their gas turbines consume about the same quantity Bristol, England, “but that's the way | of fuel a horsepower an hour as the piston engines. | it was when I left. | The gas turbine is much simpler than the piston| “And that's about the size of it, engine with only a single shaft and a few bearings. |in the United States,” said Philip Hence the lubrication is adequately handled at the Kirkham, president of F. A, O. cost of about two pints of oil an hour, versus four (Schwarz, probably the largest toy to ‘six quarts an hour of the piston engine of com- retail house in the nation. “The parable horsepower. {kid's don’t go in for war toys any Obviously, it will be the gas turbine which first | longer, will be used to propel commercial aircraft—because 8 nu =u { of its simplicity, low maintenance costs and low fuel| “IN 1941, we couldn't give them consumption. { enough guns, tanks, or other type | weapons. =====got hurt, their uncles were killed, .. jor their friends didn't come back, land it rubbed some of the glamour {off the war business.” ims Mr. Kirkham said most American - | children wanted what he still does ,A couple of days before Christmas used to be pot have, in any great numbers— plenty soon enough to pick out a Christmas tree. | roller skates, steam engines, elec- ‘ But the trees are in the stores right now, Itric stoves, electric trains. Anybody who waits until Christmas eve for one oN - is likely to end up gluing shrubbery branches onto| MR. GAGE said: “Our children a broomstick in an effort to rush Junior's “I-want-a-\ haven't seen anything but wooden Christmas-tree” wailing. 3 | toys for six years, so I held a small And if you expect to serve a turkey better get your |toy fair. I wanted to see what types order in weeks ahead. they would select. We filled up So hurry, mama. There are only so many mdte | 20 tables, and told them to help shopping, wrapping, mailing, card-addressing, tree- | themselves.” ? buying, houke-decorating, etc, etc, days until] “Not a single tank was takeh,” he Christmas, 2 Z said. “Some planes—yes. But no ~The Christmas season 48 well under way—éven if tanks. They were all left on the Christmas day is still a long way off, tables.” ; : Sa : us wv . vy

from Washington st. to Maryland Washington st. to Maryland. st.

west side Delaware st. to Alabama st.

Kentucky ave. to Virginia ave.

sti. Parking will be prohibited be-| Both sides of Meridian st. from tween the hours of 6 and 9 a. m. shuth st. to Monument Circle.

{Ohio st. to North st.

| Ohio st. to New York st.

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West side of Delaware st. from | Market st. to Virginia ave.

Both sides of East st. from Wash- |

North side of Georgia st. from

East side of Illinois st. from Lou-

Both sides of Indiana ave. from!

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Both sides of Kentucky ave. from

Both ‘sides of Market st. from!

| TWO: N. Capitol ave. east side’ Capitol ave: to Delaware st.

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LEGEND NEW PARKING RESTRICTIONS INEFFECT DECEMBER2,1946 2

NO PARKING AT A JUIN NO PARKING 6 A

TIME TO 9AM.

LETEE NO PARKING 3 PM. TO 6PM.

SEE NO PARKIN

G 6AM TO SAM A 3PM.TOSPM.

NOTE. DOES NOT APPLY SUNDAY OR HOLIDAYS

North side of New York st. from Meridian st. to Pennsylvania st. Both sides of New York st. from Pennsylvania ave. Both sides of North st. from West st. to East st. Both sides of Ohio st. from Capitol ave to Alabama st. side of Ohio st. from| South side of New Yogk st. from

North a st. to New Jersey st.

Both sides of Pennsylvania

{from Maryland st. to Washington | st. Both sides of South st. from West

[si. to East st.

North side of Market st. from Both sides of Maryland st. from

Both sides,of Massachusetts ave. from Pennsylvania st. to Delaware

Along the outside curb of Monu- |

{ment Circle, Both sides of Meridian st. from tween the hours of 6 and 9 a. m.| Monument Circle to Ohio st.

West side of Meridian st. from West side of New Jersey st. fron |

Both sides of New York st. from| Indiana ave. to Meridian st.

prepared for shipment to Dunkirk, France, following the grandest

Both sides of Vermont st. from! Indiana ave. to Massachusetts ave.

North side of Washington s

| from West st. to East st. Both sides of West st. from the {Belt railroad to North st. East side of West st. from South! st. to the Belt railroad.

Morning Restrictions

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from West st. to Senate ave. ° Southwest side of Kentucky ave.

st. to Massachusetts from Maryland st. to South st.

Northwest side of Massachusetts ave. from New York st. to East st. South side of Michigan st from West st. to Indiana ave.

West st. to Indiana ave, t.| North side of New York st. from East st. to Massachusetts ave. West side of Pennsylvania st. from {Ohio st. to North st. East side of Pennsylvania st. from {Maryland st. to South st. t | Northeast side of Virginia ave. "from Maryland st. to South st. | Evening Restrictions | Parking will be unlawful between {the hours of 3 and 6 p. m. on the | following sts. East side of Capitol South “st. to

ave. from the track élevation

There will be no parking be-!north of South st.

ion the following streets:

West side of Delaware st. | Maryland st. to South st.

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East side of Delaware st. from! East side of Illinois st. from New

Maryland st. to South st.

East side of Illinois st.

| Louisiana st. to South st.

West side of Illinois st. from Ne

York st. to North st.

| Dunkirk Aids ‘Sister City’ in France

DUNKIRK, N. Y., Nov. 29 (U, P.). clothing and other items for In-

—Gifts valued at $75,000 today were | habitants of the French “sister” {city during the day-long program

here yesterday.

Movie Star Charles Boyer an

{Thanksgiving in the history of this|pme, Denise Davey, co-chairman of American Ald to France, were French Ambassador Henri Bon-|among those participating in the

net formally accepted tons of food,! celebration.

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| York st. to North st. West side of Illinois st. { Louisiana st. to South st. w| Northeast side of Indiana ave: from West st. tc Senate ave.

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BY CLAIRE COX United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Nov. 29.—Inventor

Leonard Z. Plebanek today suggested a new solution for the housing shortage. He wants to build

cities in the air. Mr, Plebanek, president of an in-

vention engineering firm and founder of the Inventors Club of Chicago, said an all-aluminum,

could be built in only a few years at a cost much lower than the cities now resting on the earth. In 20 years as an engineer, he has invented a cookie-making machine, |a peanut machine, a gadget that jmends runs in women's stockings, and permanent waving machines. ” ” » NOW HE WANTS to go up In the air and take his neighbors with him. | His cities not only would be clean {and airy, but they could fly south |with the birds in the winter and {hover over cool sections of the world in summer, he said. “If residents of a eity didn't like [the government which rented them ' [mooring space; they could secede {and fly away to a better country,” | he said. : | ” ” » 3 BUT MR. PLEBANEK said he was willing to make a modest beginning on his housing-in-the-air project. He offered to start by | building individual houses with a cruising speed of 150 miles an hour. He figures he could build twg'ind a

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Southwest side of Indiana ave.

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Northwest side of Kentucky ave, from Maryland st. to South st. East side of Meridian st. from New York st. to North st. Southeast side »f Massachusetts ave, from New York st. to East st, Both sides of Michigan st. from Indiana ave. to East st.

North side of Michigan st. from West st. to Indiana ave. North side of New York st. from West st. to Indiana ave. : South side of New York st. from Delaware st. to East st. East side of Pennsylvania st. from Ohio st. to North st. Southwest side of Virginia ave, from Maryland st. to South st. West side of Pennsylvania st. from Maryland st. to South st. Fiat to Curb Parking

Another ordinance passed with the no-parking measure provides for flat-to-curb parking on Market st, from Alabama st. to Delaware st. instead of parking at an angle as has been the custom in the past, All. new no-parking. restrictions will be enforced except on Sundays and holidays. Penalties for violation of the new law are a maximum of $300 fine and

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180 days imprisonment.

BIG 3 ‘LEADERSHIP’

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (U. P), —Sixteen prominent Americans toe day called on the Big Three nae tions—the United States, Britain and Russia—to lead the world to general disarmament. In a memorial to President True

man, Prime Minister Clement Atte lee and Premier Josef Stalin, the group sald that “you three men can lead im making a new one world—one with a peace that never existed in the recorded history of

Utah), Millard E. Tydings (D. Md), Harley M. Kilgore (D. W. Va), Glen Taylor (D. Idaho), C. 1. O. President Philip Murray, A, F. L. President William Green, President James G. Patton of the National Farmers union; President Karl T. Compton Of Massachusetts Institute of Tech< nology, President William A. Hig= ginbotham of the Federation of Atomic Scientists, Mrs. J Borden Harriman, former U. 8. minister to Norway; Director William Draper Lewis of the American Law institute, Mrs. Gifford Pinchot of “Americans United for World Organization®, and Dr. Mary E. Woolley and Ewe ° ing Cockrell of the United Federae

tion of Justice,

SC ——— 93 JAPS EXECUTED SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29 (U, P.).—Australian army headquarters in Melbourne announced that 93 Japanese war criminals have been executed since war trials ab Rabaul, New Britain island,

| half room homes for $1500 each— ‘on an assembly basis, "

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Australia reported today.