Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 December 1946 — Page 23

Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola

That word, screamed in the night, can shrivel the scalp and ‘scatter utter confusion among otherwise calm and clear thinking persons. Recent hotel fires have claimed an enormous toll in lives and property loss throughout the nation. Even though the holocausts have occurréd in other cities, citizens here can’t help but ask themselves— what about our hotels, department stores, and apartment buildings? What is going on to prevent disaster here? The city fire prevention department is doing all it can with its staff of 12 meq, inspecting, recommending safety measures and instructing in fire control. After an extensive inspection tour with one of the inspector, one thing stands paramount in my mind. No matter what the fire department can do and is fdoing, the biggest factor in fire prevention goes right back to the genera] public. A carelessly discarded cigaret, a defective wire, a { can of highly inflammable cleaner near an open q flame and a prodigious amount of systematic fire prevention work goes up in smoke, In keeping with the day's news, hotel inspection was my objective. At first hand, with no punches pulled, Inspector Fay E. Rugh, 3741 Salem ave. of the fire prevention department, showed me what his job is. Upon entering a downtown hotel he pointed out | that “No hotel or department store building 1s any more fireproof than its content.”

We Start at the Top

INSPECTION CONSISTS of starting at the top and working down to the bottom. This is all footwork. It means an inspector pokes into places that are seldom visited because there is where the danger lies. : We went to the top floor.

SECOND SECTION THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1046

Painting, Tribute To Ernie Pyle, To Hang In Press Club Here

escue of A. F. Hier ramatized

Original Sessions Work Presented

By RICHARD BERRY A new tribute to the late Ernie’ Pyle hung in Indianapolis®today-= an addition to the other reminders of the Hoosier Vagabond that al«

RIES

LOOKING FOR TROUBLE—Inspector Fay E. Rugh of the fire prevention department, goes where others fear to tread.

wide open. Stand close and place the side of the foot and the shoulder against the door. Then open it a few inches to prevent any flame that might be in

Inspector Rugh checked tine hallway from coming into the room. ready grace many Indiana instie the elevator motor room. He sniffed the air—watched “A great many people lose their lives becsuse they tutions. the motors run, looked into corners and checked the

lose their heads in an emergency,” thing—people should call instant they discover fire. when we get there, as possible.” : I never realized there were so many crannies in a hotel of that size. The basement was checked with a fine tooth eomb Fire doors and the kitchen were scrutinized. Recom- | mendations were jotted down in a notebook. : Later Inspector Rugh will make out a report. He color artists, it was completed from will send a copy to the hotel manager and file one at 29 on-the-spot sketch and . based the station for reference. On the next inspection trip on a series of the Hoosier wrivers

Set ware

he said. “Another | - the fire. department the We don't care if it's out But we want to be there as soon

It is a painting of Ernie and a group of Ameri®an soldiers helping a wounded R. A. F, flier from his crashed plane somewhere in France, The British airman had been trapped there eight days. without food or water, Painted by James M. Sessions, one of America’s foremost water

two types of extinguishers, carbon dioxide and carbon tetrachloride. On the floor below an exit light was off. He made a notation. Pire hoses, extinguishers and exits were checked, He looked into a fuse box for unspecified fuses,

‘Don’t Lose Your Head’

ANOTHER FLOOR down, the exit light over the \ stairway was off. The whole circuit was either out of order or someone had failed to turn it on. A verbal order to the maintenance chief was given over the hotel phone. The answer was “It would be taken care

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of immediately.”

which will be in about eight days he will pay particu-

This latest picture of Ernie, pre-

lar attention to his safety recommendations. d ; and 6 Had Inspector Rugh found an open can of in- The biggest job he has in the downtown district Senn» he iat pals (Eress steel, not flammable liquid he would have personally seen to it these days is inspecting department stores. During | > y . | nd is of that the condition was corrected—on the double. the rush days before Christmas he goes through them ' .¢ Mmanuiacturing vy 18

In an unoccupied room he illustrated what a per-

once a day. . He has plenty.of leg work 10 do-

mn action scene which lasted less

son should do in case of fire. Never fling the door believe me. han’ two hours. creme —-. Wrote Five Colum PRESS CLUB PAINTING —James M. Sessions’ painting of Ernie Pyle and American soldiers rescuing a worded, 2 . rt Ernie; was so 4ouched by the Ine R. A. F. flier. : dent he spent five days, from ] A M 2 3 ‘ug. 21 through Aug. 25, 1944, tell division, while Ernie stayed on with was in the vicinity of Alencon, some pasture , , , or a plowed field, you lected through the last few decades y an S as e » By Frederick C. Othman ng about it in his column in The the old outfit. {100 miles southwest of Paris, couldn't’ tell. It was presented by William T, q - : Imes. But we never lost touch with him | I didn't find Ernie . . . he was The plane, tipped over on its Owens, public relations director for 3 : It happened in the days when Each day we read his column in out front someplace with one of back, was spattered with blood. The the Kentucky manufacturing cone ) WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 —How Senator Tom Stew- out the building trades of Tenness No he front lines were what the war (he Stars and Stripes. And Ernie's the advance guards, his usual spot ground in the immediate vicinity cern, to Stephen C. Noland, presie art of Tennessee got onto the subject of birth control material. No market for ornamental iron work. correspondents called “fluid.” presence in any particular place though. he sometimes wrote of -the was trampled. Remembering Ernie's dent of the Press club.

is beyond me I thought he was talking about houses. Senator Tom was holding a formal hearing on charges that the government is controlling the housing industry into oblivion. The first witnesses came from Tennessee. They agreed that if directives from Washington were shingles, everybody'd have a roof. Ralph Harrison, who manufacturers doors in Nashville (or would if he had some wood). lugged in an arm full of documents to show what he meant. He

Serious shortages of plumbing facilitics. ‘One housewife in Nashville has five children. With dirty faces. She ‘smashed her wash basin (tiie ey dei:ce did not indicate how) and the master piumn 1s of Nashville still’ have not been able to wangie hei another,

Situation Isn't Funny

Ernie was with: the division I belonged to in those days—about the time when the big push out of Normandy was beginning te make good progress. Spearheads stretched along the roads Rennes-Paris and Caen-Paris, In the middle of these spearheads was the Falaise gap, from which the Germans tried to

always started tongues wagging--so you always knew just about where you could find him. One day 1 had occasion to be going to a place very near the division with which Ernie was making his headquarters. It was the day after I had read the first article on the wounded airman.

Mr. Sessions was commissioned by Tube Turns to do a series of oute standing action pictures of word

“voids” behind the lines of battle. column, I could envision the drama You found him in the voids only that had happened there a day or when he had “to get out some copy.” two before, I .had been tremendously im-| Places like that belonged to Ernie war II. Used in connection with pressed with the story about the Wherever you found him, you found | war loan drives and other patriotis British flier. So I asked someone 'drama—even if, most of the time, lactivities, the series now has served where 1 could find the plane. Plot- he had to point it out to you. lits original purpose. ting it on our map, I set out to find| The painting, 3x4 feet, in fill] Now Tube Turns is donating each it. Icolor, will hang in the local Press 'picture te some institution in the

THE SITUATION is not funny and that is inspread ‘em on the mahogany table. troduction enough, I Oa a 1 C an. a split the American forces. In two years the memory gets a It was a few yards off the road club alongside important headlines | city or sate for Xjuich it holds the “Mostly printed on both sides and in very small Nashville's leading electrical ONL AClOFS He said he Then I was transferred to another pit fuzzy, but I remember the scene in what might have been a cow from Indianapolis newspapers, col- greatest local interes

type,” he said, squinting at a CBA pricing schedule, “They ail have been mailed to me from Washineion since the end of the war. Four hundred and thirty sheets of orders and rules and regulations about’ my business.” “Do you memorize them?" asked Senator Tom “Memorize 'em”! exclaimed Mr. Harrison “Why, if they were pasted together, they'd make a sheet 400 feet long.” He spends his Sundays and holidays studying the rules on making doors, he said, and the rest of his time seeking in vain for the lumber. The plywood. which he used to use, now goes into prefabricated houses. Ordinary houses don't get doors, or at least not from him.

Sorry Story

K. FRANK CLINE, the Nashville furnace man, had the same sorry story. He has plenty of furnaces. but

knew a fellow who wanted to build a-house with a front porch, a den, two bedrooms and no cellar. “The government told him he'd have to dig cellar,” Mr. Hansberger testified. “So he chanced his plans and sent them in again for approval. The government said he couldn't ‘have a front porch. He te moved that from the blue prints and re-submitted his blueprints, “The government said there was only one thing wrong with his house. He didn't have enough bedrooms. So he changed his den into a bedroom, which he didni need, and the government let him build So now he has three bedrooms, no den. a cellar he doesn’t want, and no front porch, which he does “Why, why (the witness was getting a little excited)’ a man’s house is his castle, He wants it the way he wants it. The government has no more right to tell him he’s got to have three bedrooms, than to

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Admits Threat, Denies Stayin

BELLEFONTE, Pa. Dec.

P.).—John Galloway, 23, a Pein

State student accused of the slay- | ing of his wife in their trailer.home,

admitted under cross-examination | vesterday that he once said “that I was going to shoot all my girl friends.” Galloway of Harrisburg, Pa, claims that the shooting of his wife,

Santa’s Home Town—

Shildren of S

. . -y Fact St. Nick Isn't Home All Year

They Think He Stays

At Christmas; Weather Here Too Warm

SANTA CLAUS, Ind. Dec. 12 (U. P.).—The children of this Hoosier village of Santa Claus believe in Santa, just like children do everywhere,

Hold Christmas Early for Child Dying of Leukemia

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{the postmaster and mother of Linda VALLY CITY, N. D,, Dec. 12 (6, |Lou, said the youngsters in the vil-|P.).—There's not. much room for 8 |lage “accept the fact they live in| Christmas tree in a three-room | typical Hoosier village, although it's Santa Claus as just that” Shel, .. where nine kids and their been known as Santa Claus for thinks their enthusiasm for Christ-| nearly 100 years. Now, two com- mas may be even greater than in mercial firms retail toys bearing the other villages. { magic words “From Santa Claus,| “It isn't any problem to answer

anta Claus, Ind., Unmoved

Mrs. William Martin, daughter of |

Away, Except

parents live. But John Lee and his wife made room for a tree in their house yess

say he must have one child. Or four. Why Katherine, 20, last Oct. 26, Was| They think he stays away from Ind.” and the toy displays and spe- the question about why Santa isn't terday — and two weeks before can he get the pipe to connect ‘em? No sir. Four “You mean,” interrupted Senator Tom, “that you cused by the accidenial explosion pis “home town" except at Christ- cial free attractions for kiddies who here the year around,” she said. | christmas, too. hundred houses, which may or may not have doors, think house control 1s like birth control?” : of a defective gun mas time because. the Indiana come from miles around have made "It's simply too warm for him here, One of their noisy brood—4-years do have furnaces, but no pipe. “Yes sir” replied Mr. Hansberger. “Exactly.” Galloway admiited that he once weather is toe warm. the village a fairyland. {50 he spends most of his time at old Sharon—is dying of leukemia, His next door neighbor is going cold because of no “You're not far wrong at that.” observed the told a girl that he had bought bul- Mothers of the Santa Claus Paradise of Toys the north pole.” Their doctor told them that. she sheet metal to patch his furnace.

And so on through-

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gentleman from Tennessee.

Science

MORE DETAILED STUDY of the past history of every victim of cancer is urged by Dr. Peyton Rous, internationally famous scientist of “the Rockefeller

By David Dietz

energy of the cell expresses itself in the unrestrained ! growth that we call a tumor or, if malignant, a cancer. Dr. Rous points out that it has been found that | the rate of growth of transplanted tumors in animals

lets to kill all his girl friends, but he said the threat was made in jest. The state tried to prove that Galloway dated other women while engaged to his wifa, |

Vitamin Drug

Fights Tick Fever

CHICAGO, Dec. 12 (U. P.).—A

youngsters said today that €he little tots aren't bothered by the fact that the town's name coincides with the name of the yule saint. And theyre no less enthusiastic in December because they see toys and Christmas decorations and a 40-ton concrete statue of Santa the year-round, even in the summer when the temperature goes up to 100 degrees.

There's a wishing well in Santa Claus park. The children go there each December to tell Santa what a paradise of toys, ride on a minia- they want for Chiistmas. Linda ture railroad on a half-mile “trip 104 said she knew the wishing well around the world,” walk through 8 made wishes come true. “fairyland trail” one-third of a “I wished for my daddy to come mile long lined with lifelike dio- home and he did,” she said. Linramas from Mother Goose rhymes. da's father, army Sgt. William Mar- draped with tinsel and spreading They eat Christmas delicacies at| (Un, was in Japan last Christmas its branches over a buggy which an elaborate soda fountain equipped | But he came home this year in time Sharon had asked Santa Claus to

may live two months, or maybe only two days. The Lees decided that where there was room for children, there was room for an early Christmas. They moved things around a little bit, and crowded together a little mors and put up the tree. It was all

Visiting youngsters and the vil-|

lage children, too, wander through

Institute and one of the great pioneers in the experi- can be sl drug belonging to the vitamin B Going to See Santa twin ny counters, tables ‘wig % spend Whe Nolidays With bis faini- bring for last year's doll. The mental -siidy of carter fir imal n slowed up by the injection of some of these ., oy group has been found high-| The kiddies said so, too, in & dif- Chairs. ht neighbors bought the buggy. . « carcinogenic chemicals. | ly effective in treating Rocky moun- ferent wav. Meanwhile, Postmaster Phillips Thousands Visit Village The doctor watched her smilin He believes that the day will come, when there wil y : ’

be specialists in every cancer hospital whose chief duty “will be to learn precisely how each patient's tumor came about. The more closely one looks into the origin of tumors, he says, the more clearly does one perceive that often they are the outcome of many influences and circumstances working together or consecutively

This is, however, a very complicated situation. What is happening. in other words, is that substances capable of producing cancer are*in turn slowing down the rate of cancers already in existence The phenomenon, however, does lend a certain amount of credence to Haddow's theory,

New Gases May Help

tain spotted fever, a tick-borne disease which sometimes is fatal, four doctors reported today, Writing in the Journal of the American ‘Medical association, Drs Lewis B. Flinn, John W. Howard, Charles W. Todd and Elvyn G. Scott said nine of 10 patients “re-

“I'm going to see Santa soon,’ said 4-year-old Linda -Lou Martin, granddaughter of Santa Claus Postmaster Oscar Phillips. “Mama says every year he visits the postoffice, and that's just across the street from our house.” Ann Jane Poellein,

who doesn’t

struggles with overloaded sacks of greeting cards and packages from all over the country. The senders want the mail to bear the famous ®Ach Sunday, Senta Claus postmark. on week-days. The children view“It's going to be another big ing the paradise of toys and fairyyear,” Mr. Phillips said. “It may land scenes for the first time are be a record.” The record is nearly wide-eyed.

face and said the tree was a thing for her spirits. But, he said; she'll need another transfusion toe day. Her father, who quit his job to be near his daughter, will be the donor,

Since November, from 5000 to 10,000 persons have visited the village

Many others come

‘ ’ . iat * over a long period of years JUST BEFORE world war II, Dr. Rous says, a sponded dramatically” to treatment go to school yet, said: 3 million pieces of outgoing mail| But it isn't any less exciting for Mexican Volcano “Even the smallest details in the previous history German surgeon, hearing of this work, tried the with the drug, known as para- “Santa is going to be at ‘the during the weeks just before the tots of Santa Claus who see it of cancer patients may prove vital for other human drastic experiment of painting human cancers of the aminobenzoic acid. church and we're going to see him, Christmas. In addition, the pdst all day after day. If anything, the

beings, as giving hints as to where the chain of determining factors which leads to the disease can be broken,” he recently told the New York Acadeiny of Medicine. “Too much pains cannot be spent in eliciting case histories.”

Some ‘Special Influence

DOCTORS HAVE been aware for nearly 75 years that cancers often arise at sites of chronic disturbances. Yet, as Dr. Rous points out, mere chronic inflammation is not enough of itself to cause the genesis of a cancer, “There is some special influence which precipitates the neoplastic change,” Dr. Rous says. A number of workers, particularly Haddow in

: Great Britain, have concluded that the wild growth

characteristic of cancer is likely to start in cells which are faring badly. wR According to their theory, chemical carinogens act by depressing the normal activities of the cell,

skin with a powerful carcinogenic hydrocarbon. He reported that the tumors disappeared. But, as Dr. Rous points out, we do not know what the eventual fate of these patients were and, due to the war, we probably never shall It was a drastic and dangerous experiment because the substances used were quite capable of producing new cancers themselves, Haddow, however, has made a more intelligent approach to this problem by seeking to synthesize hydrocarbons which would slow up the growth of tumors but which were not carcinogenic in themselves. His work with animals has been so encouraging that he has been led to try some of these substances on human cases where the cancer was inoperable and so far advanced as to present a hopeless picture Observations made in this country during world war II seem to indicate that certain new types of poison gases developed during the war and known a$ “nitrogen mustards”’ may possess the ability of re-

Defeats Arsenic

One of the 10 patients died, they said, but he was a man 67 years old and was found to have had a heart and kidney disease,

War Gas Antidote

SAN RAFAEL, Cal, Dec. 12 (U. ~-Edwin Kennel, *54, who swallowed “enough arsenic to kill a score of persons,” was alive and recovering today thanks to a wartime antidote for poison gas. Physicians at San Rafael's cottage hospital reported they successfully treated the victim with Bal (British anti-lewisite), a world war

I want a wagon, buggy and a doll.” Linda Lou, Ann Jane and a few other children live in this tiny town of » persons, It used to be a

table, chairs, a

SILLY NOTIONS

Belching Anew

MEXICO CITY, Dec. 12 (U. P.).The volcano Popocatepel, vitrually dormant in the last five years, is becoming more active, the national observatory at Tonanzintla reported today. Luis Enrique Erro, director of the “iobservatory, said within the past three weeks the volcano, at times, nas belched forth as many as 50 great clouds of smoke per hour, The director said often the smoke has risen more than 5000 feet above the rim of the 19,000 foot volcano's - crater, As yet there have been no emis sions of lava, the director concluded,

office gets thousands of letters ad- parents say, it instills an even deepdressed in childish scrawl to “Santa er beli»f in Santa, Claus, Santa Claus, Ind.” with Occasionally, however, one of the wistful pleas that Santa remember Santa Claus Kiddies lets cold reasthem. joning overrule his imagination [Sevensyear-old Howard Ray Pael-

lein asked his mother: By Palumbo. “bo you have to

“Do you have to pay Santa for the presents he brings?” Mrs. Poellein said she did.

Cc 1..0, Stevlworkers

Re-Elect Germano CHICAGO, Dec. 12 (U, P.).—Joseph Germano of Chicago, has been re-elected Chicago-Calumet district director of the C. I. OQ, siselworkers

: TG, é i { union by a decisive majority in an and when the normal’ activities are depressed, the tarding the growth of cancers. IT gas antidote which attracts -to unoficial’ abuintion, the. Chica River | in Far West Set itself the poison which otherwise WY 80 Rises Half Foot Hourl — - — .—.. A A Al wr would penetrate body cells and headquarters announced. y ots SU Sea ould compiein sebirs ro AR IE, cue : - ocals in the area gave Mr. Ger-, wa- ¢ We the Women By Ruth Millett O.E.S. Meeting Set mano 36,201 votes My 5700 for John | valley were warned today to evack es y A business meeting will follow the M. Mayerick, president of local 1014 | Yate families and livestock to high vay = ” _ 2 Christmas dinner of Naomi aux- at the Gary, Ind. works of the 8round. pers (plus EX-SERVICEMEN are invading the beauty-shop fact that most.women prefer having men handle {liary, O. E. S., at noon tomorrow Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. Of-| The Snoqualmie river, swollen by 1th tax) business. really important matters for them. {in the home of the auxiliary presi- ficial figures will not be announced continued rains, swept over flood Getting their training under the G. I. bill of rights, When women go to a doctor or dentist, most of dent, Mrs. Margaret Addison, 1042 until tellers release them at Pitts- Stage, inundated highways and

they are enrolling the country, Styling hair and giving permanent waves may seem an odd career for men just out of uniform. But there are apparently good reasons tor their choosing that means of livelihood, The returns are good for the time spent in training.

in beauty schools all over

them prefer to go to a man. When thev want a lawyer to handle their aflairs, the majority also place their faith in men's ability.

More Faith in Judgment THE SAME THING 1s true when it comes to Plex» ing” out a banker.

Women can’t explain this tendency \oeically, $0

Churchman ave.

Brazil Plane Explodes SAO PAULO, Brazil, Dec. 12 (U P.) —Eight persons were killed and three seriously injured yesterday when an Arco Iris airlines piane crashed and exploded while taking

acres of farinland, and continued to rise at six inches an hour. More than 48 hours of heavy rains , over the western cascades turned the Snoqualmie, Skagit and’ | Green rivers inte raging torrents.

burgh Dec. 20. Mr, Germano has been district director since December, 1040.

Hoosier Gets Credit .

For Radio Innovation hi A A Hoosier is credited with in- C inese Pare rmy

ots / . The men id hey gure Norio i find Joney they sug: Wal Somehow I just have more faith in a qu from the local airdrome. 'troducing the first electrically tran-| NANKING, China, Dec. 12 Ww PA ¢ or permapents and hair-dos whether times are good man’s ju ; a : ] | Na Ohne, Doe. 12 £ ey 1 ‘ or a S50 if women have come to prefer men beauticians, LITTLE ROCK BISHOP NAMED rine Singig commereial i | Chinese Nationalist Ty is sho that fact can mean only one thing-—that women WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 (U, P,). SO ogre homppindle i 0 bat lus # Prefer Male Operators regard the care and cultivation of their beauty as =-His Holiness Pope Pius XII has ! ” wig 8 Allan a eae] time oh of 0 divisions, W (p vs ox] AND THE FACT that women, the cofintry over, one of their more important concerns. | appointed the Most Rev. Albert L. A

seem to prefer male beauty-operators to female ones gives men an edge in the trade. The last reason is understandable in view of the

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Getting ‘a pin curl in just ko is apparently now in

a class. with having a will ‘drawn up or a physical |

allment diagnosed.

Fletcher to be bishop of Little Rock, Ark., nounced here today.

the apostolic delegation an- |

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"IGOR IS GETTING HEAVY ON HIS FEET, ISN'T He

in Indianapolis, He was extended Hwang Chieh, acting .¢ the honor in a recent issue of | of the central training oh ig

Fue mageaine, today.