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THE DANCE is the thing—I'm quite sure it is after what I saw at Mrs, Wiliam Byram Gates’ dancing class at the Propylaeum. “Her idea of teaching youngsters the mysteries of moving their feet to music, has merit. Anyone

.who has ever tried dancing by the hit and miss

method can verify ‘that. But to teach dancing is one thing and to teach the gracious manner is another, Mrs. Gates combines the two, y By the gracious manner I hope the Lord Fauntleroy type of thing isn't implied. Not in the least. It's the sort of behavior that makes society what it should be—courteous, friendly, and appreciative of the. dignity which social relations should bring out in all of us. + ' The dancing class for the youngest group at the Propylaeum is just about to begin, A boy of 11 or 12, one of 40 boys and girls in the class, walks up to Mrs. Gates who is standing in the doorway of the ballroom. He is dressed in a suit, white shirt and tie. His shoes are. shined and he wears white gloves. As he takes Mrs, Gates’ hand he-bows and greets her. He repeats this action to Mrs. John Scott, who helps instruct the class. Then he walks across the ballroom and sits down—quietly, Girls in the same age group curtsy to their teachers, give their words of greeting and sit down on the opposite side of the ballroom from the boys. The atmosphere is genteel but not stilted. It's correct but not affected.

Youngster Forgets Gloves

ONE LITTLE fellow forgot to slip on his gloves. All he needed was a reminder. “Do you have your .gloves this morning?” “Yes, Mrs. Gates—they are in my pocket.” Johnny stepped bdck into the hallway, slipped on his gloves and made his entry. The pianist began to play a soft melodious tune. The children seemed to relax. There wasn't a strained expression in the entire group. Dancing was “fun” as Mrs. Gates explained to her class, not a painful task. One girl introduced her grandfather to Mrs. Gates. He came to “watch.” “I'm 78 and I've never been to a dancing school.” he said, “so this is quite a distinction for me.” He Joined many of the youngsters’ parents who sat in an alcove, The children were asked to form two parallel the other girls, Preliminary steps of the waltz were practiced individually. Then partners .were chosen and the pianist struck up a lively waltz number, There were suggestions from Mrs. Gates and Mrs. Scott. Those who were doing well were commended After the waltz, instruction was given in the fox trot. Partners were switched many times and each time a boy left his partner he thanked her. ‘He introduced himself to his new partner. Midway in the hour the group filed out of the ballroom by couples for refreshments. Each boy escorted his partner to a table where water was served in cups. Naturally his “ladyfriend” was served first.

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The gracious manner . . . Paul Todd and Carolyn Bull learmm the 'proprieties.

Fun Without Bedlam

THE COUPLES went back to the ballroom and sat down. Everyone sat straight, with his feet on™the floor. Conversation was as easy as the laughter. There was fun without bedlam—most unusual, I think, remembering that here were 40 healthy, brighteyed children at the age when the sky is the limit. But there's a time and place for bedlam—this

wasn't one of them and the group acted accordingly. For the Christmas party Mrs. Gates promised to teach the group the “Conga.” It wasn't long before

SECOND SECTION

New Lead to Mental Hiness Cure Found

Gland's Response to Stress ' Measured |

By Science Service WORCESTER, Mass, Dec. 3. — A gland discovery that gives a new lead to the mental disease problem

lis announced by Dr. Hudson Hoag-

(land, Dr. Gregory Pincus and Fred | Elmadjian of the Worcester . foun- | dation for experimental biology here. In the mentally sick, the Wor-| cester group finds, the adrenal glands respond to stress in a way strikingly different from their response to stress in normal persons. | The adrenals are small organs that sit like cocked hats one atop, each kidney. They produce two hormones, epinephrine, also called adrenalin, and cortin. The cortin-producing part of the! gland, which is not under nervous! control, is the part that responds! differently under stress. | A count of certain white blood cells called lvmphocytes gives one|

measure of the activity of cortinproducing part of the adrenals. Gland Function Fails In normal persons, operation of a pursuitmeter under simulated high | altitude flying conditions may drop,

“One—two—three—kick” was resounding in the ball- | room. There was no indication that anyone wanted “South America to Take It Away.” When the hour was up, couples formed a line and filed out. Each youngster paid his respects to Mrs. Gates and Mrs. Scott, Another lesson in dancing and pleasant living was completed. the lymphocytes 40 per cent. For 21 years Mrs. Gates has worked in this way| A rise of like amount on the averwith children. Her enthusiasm for her “young ladies | age occurs in mentally sick patients and gentlemen” is limitless. | when operating the pursuitmeter “If children at this age learn gentle, courteous under the same conditions, manners, theyll have .them all of their lives and | The amount of stress” this opera- | profit continually by them,” she said. {tion involves has been called . by Most of her pupils will continue taking instruction [army pilots as tiring as close formauntil they are ready to be invited into the Junior [tion flying under poor weather] Assembly, an organization started 12 years ggo by |conditions. Mrs. Gates. The mentally sick are persons who In two years when they will be in the seventh have broken psychologically under |

or eighth grades they will go into another class. When {the stresses of life. It now appears _ :

they become freshmen in high school they make an- | that the functioning of certain

other progression. All this time they are progressing, however, on the road to finer living. adequate to meet stress situations.

Whether the gland failure is re-

scientists have long been searching)

By Frederick C. Othman

| e*piain the psychological break.

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—The only cabinet member ever-to be slapped with a subpena from congress stalked into the gold and marble committee room. He peeled off his overcoat. He doffed his hat, in‘dicating his desperate need for a haircut. Then he sat down on a spindly-legged chair, which seemed inadequate for a man of his generous fundament, and glowered at a row of empty swivel chairs while awaiting the congressional investigators Here in the flesh was chapter two of the capitol’s movié serial thriller; the second installment of its radio soap opry. Had Cap Krug insulted congress last Friday by ignoring a cordial invitation to testify about the big inch pipelines? Had Rep Roger Slaughter been within his rights in issuing the subpena? Would the secretary of interior take a poke at the gent from Missouri? Vice-versa? I was biting my

finger nails. Then the congressmen walked in and Mr. Slaugh-

_ ter was a grave disappointment to me. He shook

the mighty paw of Secretary Krug.

Mr. Krug Brings News YOU'LL NOT see 'em in fond embrace in the public prints, but that's because they took the photographers unaware. The latter begged 'em to shake hands and show their smiles again for posterity’s sake,

but they wouldn't do it. Mr. Krug brought the news, which you may have scanned elsewhere in this newspaper, about the deal he'd made to put natural gas into the Texas end of the idle pipelines and bring it out for John L. Lewis-

foiling purposes in the midwest.

Localize Gland Defect

| More successful treatment of mental sickness might follow the im-, portant lead which the Worcester discovery gives.

The gas will begin to flow within a week. Could be that some of it may be cooking the dinners of some Striking coal miners in a couple of weeks. At present the scientists are trying

Gas Would Help / to localize the mechanism re-

THE MINERS quit digging coal. The Ohio and [sponsible for the gland failure. = | Pennsylvania gas compa. _ are on the verge of 1h may be hy Of Snel fla running ok of Toul The Bove iment pump: Ha lof the adrenal gland which produces gas through its multi-million dolla: ~wv-time pipaRortin lines to stem the emergency. This flows thiCagss.., TWO: The pituitary gland in the utility companies’ gas mains, Such coal miners there n d which normally stimulates the as have gas service will, among others, get gas for |2drenal glands to produce cortin. their kitchen stoves. HREE: The hypothalamus in But to get back to Cap Krug on the hot seat. He| the base of the brain which controls said the Texas gas would help, all right, but it fqn [IPE PUlEEY gland, the final answer to John L. Lewis, because there| Since the hypothalamus is inisn’t eneugh of it. tymately related to emotional life, “When you don’t have anything to keeps warm a defect in I could have widespread with (watch that preposition, congressman), then FéPercussions in both the psychology every little bit helps,” observed Rep. Slaughter. |and physiology of the patient. “Yes sir,” agreed Secretary Krug. “We are des-|

glands in the mentally sick is in-

|sponsible for the mental sickness! ~|has not yet been determined, but | , #

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Technical institute Mr | was recently discharged after serv-| ing as a naval officer three and| one-half years. He is a graduate of Cathedral]

perately short of coal wr, zx: Name C. M. Brown thanked Krug for coming, but Krug said he wasn't | . . through. He said he'd heard somewhere that con- & surely wished he'd known the congressmen wanted to Purdue Teacher talk to him. He said their invitation came while he He added that he had been testifying before con- j.¢ peen appointed instructor in gressmen now for 10 years and that nobody had this as a compliment. Rep. Slaughter said, thanks, again. «

This went on for 30 minutes. gress felt he'd insulted it last Friday. He said he was out to lunch | Charles M. Brown, 3556 Salem st | greater respect for same than him. I think he meant “Thank you,” replied Mr. Krug.

Aviation

NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—“Flying,” said William P. Lear today, “is as safe as you make it.” And Mr. lear, who is president of Lear, Inc, has done something about it with a new, lightweight all-electronie automatic pilot that operates move efficiently and more quickly than any human being. We tried it out, with Mr. Lear acting as pilot, aboard a Beechcraft 18-S twin-engined airplane. Fly-

ing at about 3000 feet, we questioned the efficiency of the automatic pilot in case of a sudden downdraft that might throw the plane completely out of control. Grinning, Mr. Lear said, “Hold on!” He then kicked left rudder and gave the wheel a sudden left turn. As the speedy plane banked over and nosed down, he removed his hands and feet completely from the controls.

Plane Rights Itself _

IN SPLIT SECONDS, the airplane righted it~ self, found a straight level path ahead and smoothly sped on its way, “Now take a stroll back in the cabin and keep your eyes on the trim tab wheel,” he suggested. As passengers move about a plane, the pilot usually has to operate the trim tabs to keep the ship “in trim.” That is, it must be kept level with relation to the ground. If one wing tends to go down, it must be brought up without the necessity of turning the

—_— —— | high school and Notre Dame uni-|

| versity. At Notre Dame Mr. Brown | By Max B. Cook was awarded the Ralph Sallet prize|

for the most outstanding thesis and] the American Institute of Architects award for second highest average in the department.

trim tab so that he will not have to push forward continually on the wheel. He formerly was associated with

We walked back in the cabin, The nose gradually | Walter Scholer of Lafayette, workrose. Mr. Lear kept hands removed from the wheel, |ing on architectural plans for the but the trim tab wheel in the floor of the cockpit | Purdue hall of music, and the R. B. automatically turned, leveling off- the plane. Moore Co. and Burns and James

a Co, For Medium Light Planes RAN CIA oreE Trog

KNOWN AS the Lear Electropilot, Model L-201,| ROME, Dec. 3 (U. P.) —Valentine the instrument weighs only 39 pounds and is aimed |Schaaf; 63, a native of Cincinnati, to supply the private pilot who owns a ‘medium-light |O., who was named general of the

In addition, it can be used on the heaviest of order of Minor. Brothers of Franciscans last year, died Sunday night |

Until recently, only the larger transports | pore following a brain hemorrhage. |

plane. aircraft.

GOING, GOING, GONE—Auctioneer James Smith, Madison, yesterday conducted the sale of household goods belonging to Mrs. Lottie (Tot) Lockman, Dupont, accused of attempted murder by poison of Mrs. Mayme McConnell, also of Dupont.

THE LAST OF A HOME—Mrs. LaVerne Jeffries, daughter of Mrs. Lottie (Tot) architectural drawing in Purdve] Lockman, sadly views the sale of her mother's possessions. Mrs. Lockman failed to |at his destination they robbed him Brown| attend the auction which she held to raise

{ + . ‘School Meeting Se | The Indiana” Town and City School Administrators’ association

will hold its annual meeting at the Hotel Lincoln Thursday. A talk by Gov. Gates will open the sessions at 9:30 a. m. Election of officers will be held in the moming. Ben Watt, newly elected state superintendent of public instruction, will speak at an afternoon meeting.

{ JUSTICE HIDES WHISKY

STOCKTON, Cal, Dec. 3 (U. P.). —When workmen dismantled a statue of Justice from the county courthouse where it had perched undisturbed for 56 years, they found the robes of justice had hidden three quart bottles of whisky— now 63 years old.

have been equipped with automatic pilots. | An electro-magnetic “muscle,” known as the triple

servo unit, operates rudder, elevator and the aileron | SILLY NOTIONS

cables. An automatic “trim tab servo” keeps the ship |

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in proper pitch trim at all times, With airports throughout the country being fitted for blind landings, the Lear automatic pilot has been made adaptable to automatic .approach, automatic landing and takeoff and automatic altitude control. In addition to the automatic pilot, Lear produces a dual automatic radio compass, VHF receiver, omnirange converter, which permits reception of the new VHF omnirange beacons and localizers; a glide path receiver, marker receiver and entertainment receiver for passengers. ‘A Lear airborne public radiotelephone connects the flying executive with any telephone in

wheel. If the nose is high, the pilot must adjust the the world, while in flight. — — —— pa, We, the Women By Ruth Millett re —— i ——— a a

NO WOMAN is charming enough to seem charming while— ‘Listening with her mind on something else. Pointing out flaws in another woman, Speaking crossly’ or impatiently to a small child Saying, “How do you do,” when introduced to a person for the third time.

Frequent Apologies

OUT-TALKING the men present Commenting upon her physical defects Making frequent and {innecessary apologies, Bragging about how she got the best of someone else. . Saying truthfully, "I'm not good at telling stories” ~and then telling a long, involved one,

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Passing on some really malicious 'gossip, even though she prefaces it with, “I really can't believe it—but ...” ¢ Taking a cold to home with it.

These Don’t Help

TALKING ABOUT her children for more than five minutes at a stretch. Trying hard to make an impression. Using profanity. : Pulling a high-hat act on a clerk or waitress, Discussing the details of her health. Excusing her tardiness for an appointment with:

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Fails to Show

By VICTOR PETERSON Times Stall Writer DUPONT, Ind. Dec. 3—A crowd of more than 200 persons who ate tended Mrs. Lottie Lockman's auction sale were bitterly disappointed yesterday. Mrs. Lockman, the good SBamaritan of the Jefferson county hills who is charged with attempted murder in Dupont’s mercury poisoning deaths, didn't show up. People from as far as 60 miles away showed up for the sale of “Tot's” household goods, but the bidding lagged from the start for the crowd admittedly was there just “to see Mrs. Lockman.” “Well, if she isn't coming, let's go home, that's the only reason we came here,” said a Columbus, Ind., woman to her companion. Mrs, Lockman however shied away from the curiosity seekers and stayed at the home of her foster 'daughter, Mrs. LaVerne Jeflries. John Smith, Madison, auctioneer, was the master of ceremonies at the auction. The chief item of in- | terest appeared to be a set of fish (bone plates which somebody estimated were 50 years old. Pots, pans and coffee percolators went briskly, but the highest price [for anything was $1.25. Later, a refrigerator, gas stove and heatrola were to be sold. | It was disclosed at the auction that Mrs, Lockman had sold her house last week to Bert Phillips for $4200 The house had a $2000 | mortgage -on it, : Mrs. McConnell Ill It was also learned that Mrs. Mayme McConnell, whom Mrs. Lockman is accused of trying to murder by giving her mercury in her food, was ill at her home-pre- | sumably from the effects of the | meroury, according to local gossip, | The -bodies of several Dupont res{dents have been exhumed in eonnection with the case. Mercury was found in all of the bodies, but state | toxicologists have not yet determined

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1946

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Downtown Bus Lines Approved «

Change Will Ease Traffic on Circle

By JACK THOMPSON Indianapolis Railways officials said today rerouting of six bus lines had received final approval. The change, which will take six ] of 18 lines off of the Circle, will j be put into effect Dec. 8. City officials and police, who reported that congestion has been lessened considerably by new downtown parking restrictions, expected the rerouting to do much more toward smoothing out traffic. Bus lines to be rerouted are: Speedway, Veterans hospital, Mars Hill, EE New York st, 21st and Arlington and Post Way. Traffic experts are concerned, howéver, by the fact that nothing has been done to require mail trucks to observe city traffic laws, Traffic Moves Faster _ Mayor Tyndall said he has ine

money for her defense.

‘Tot’ Disappoints Crowd,

formed post office officials that engineers feel that many snarls during rush hours could be eliminated if mail trucks could be made to ob serve rules with which other motorists must comply. 80 far no action has been taken, asserted the mayor. . After an inspection of the mile square during the rush hours yesterday evening, Inspector Audry Jacobs, head of the police traffe division, said: “Trafic was heavy but moved 100 per cent better than ever before, “Improvement on Illinois st. was most noticeable. We found very little congestion there. “All of the marked streete were clear of parked vehicles, which indicates that the public is going along with the new plan,” Signs Posted The inspector said his department had issued approximately 100 cour= tesy stickers all day yesterday. ° Real stickers will be given violators of the new parking regulations beginning Monday, he added, Signs banning parking have been posted on 16 downtown streets. Restrictéd hours are from 6 to 9 a. m, and 3 to 6 p. m. on most of the streets, No parking at anytime is being enforced on several major thoroughfares, “We do not have the materials or 4the funds to mark any more streets before the first of the year,” said | Inspector Jacobs.

Bandits Get $186 In Street Holdups

| Bandits took $186 from four vice tims on Indianapolis streets last night. Wesley Jones, 38, of 1021 N. Bef« mont ave. filling station employee, said while he was walking home from work last night an armed ban=dit held him up and took company | money bags containing $100 and $13 {of his own money, . | Virgil Head, 49, of 819 Paca st, {sald he got into an unregistered, free lance taxi with two other pas|sengers. and that when he arrived

of $56. W. C. Vicory, 33, of 3917 Prospect st, Indianapolis Water Co, employee, said while walking to work last night an armed bandit robbed > him of $18. - * John D. Law, 20, of ‘435 N. Grant Up oat Auction st, said two strangers offered him a, drink if he would step into a halle if the mercury present caused the Way at 38 N. Pennsylvania st. last deaths, |night. He said after he had gone Those whose bodies were exhumed into the hallway six men beat him {were patients of Mrs. Lockman at Up and took $2 out of his pockets. [the time of their deaths. | Later police arrested Doyle Mitch ell, 22, of 106 E. Market st. and John are, Lockman, Whose jast ward owambers, M17 E New York si wealthy Dupont hardware dealer, | Who were identified, detectives said,

has steadfastly maintained her in. bY Mr. Law as two of the six men nocence. who robbed him,

Mrs. Lockman was indicted by {the Jefferson county grand jury on Former Kankakee

{the attempted murder charge and Principal Drowned | her case is scheduled to come ; {trial early in January, KANKAKEE, Ill, Dec. 3 «U. P.),

-—Mrs. Minnie Butler, a widow, was

" Sa . iF : found drowned yesterday in the ‘Draft Decision Waited |,ainiub of her home. | WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (U, PO Police said she apparently sufe | The war department has announced | fered a heart attack. It was be

{that enlistments are running far lieved she had been dead since lass behind its needs, but that no de-!Friday. Mrs. Butler, who was 685, cision has been reached on whether | was a retired Kankakee high school to resume the draft, { principal.

Murals Worrying Diplomats In State Department Move

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (U. P.).— have also budgeted a few artistig |The state department soon will deletions,” the Journal suggested. | , | “At least a modus vivendi (work« lemve iis huge, Singernread covered |; ng plan) should be worked out to home next door to the White House | vo possible for the dove of and move to a shiny, modern struc- | peace to perch somewhere among ture originally built for the war the voracious and widely spread department. | eagles.” What has the diplomats worried, The move was decreéd last spring is: Will the-.atmosphere of thelty give persidential assistants and new U, 8. foreign office be con-| the budget bureau more office space ducive to peacemaking? close to the White House. President The new building features as a Truman-okayed the plan after condominant theme a huge mural gressional opposition slapped down painting chock-full of soldiers, his efforts to enlarge the While artillery and instruments of war| House. and destruction. Moving is scheduled to begin . The Foreign Service Journal, un- (sometime around the first of the official publication of U. 8. diplo- year. It will be done piecemeal, mats, pictures in shocked horror a | within six months. visiting Soviet diplomat suddenly| Not all the state department will confronted by “the encirclement as | be shifted” But those moving will done in a capitalistic society , . ,!include the so-called “core” of the with square-jawed soldiers, ponder-| department — Secretary of State ous artillery, gas masks, machine James PF. Byrnes has various under guns ...” | and assistant secretaries, political “Perhaps the gentlemen who ad- and geographical officers, and the | voocate the change of residence . , , public relations division, N- :

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