Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1946 — Page 17

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Inside Indianapolis

By Ed Sovola

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“A” CAR_OF the Merchants Armored Car service was ready to roll, There was a lot of E PLURIBUS UNUM to move. Steel doors were slammed shut, two shotguns and a 30 caliber rifle were put into racks. Three men

_ adjusted three shiny, pearl handled 45's as they

settled down in thelr seats. Chauffeur’ James Kenneth McNeeley swung the four-wheeled bank into traffic. The $2.28 I had in my pockets felt mighty safe as I bounced around in the center of the truck. We pulled up to a bank. Guard Charles Rosen barger dashed out first. With his back to the wall and his six-shooter drawn he looked from left to right. Mr. McNeeley pulled a handle from the inside and opened a small trapdoor in the side of the truck. Messenger Gale Crabb took the sack of “mazuma” and quickly went into the bank. Me. Rosenbarge followed him in. . The chauffeur never leaves his car. The second he closes the trapdoor he must watch his buddies. In case of trouble his job is to blast away through the six “pértholes.”

Bullet-proof Window feels Safe

TO ME EVERY man with a low-brimmed hat was ready to pull out a “gat” and start plugging away. The bullet-proof windows and armor plating felt good to the touch. “There's Rosie,” Mr. McNeeley said. After “Rosie” put his back to the wall again and pulled his 45 out in full view—Mr, Crabb appeared carrying a couple bags of money. The guard didn’t leave his post until the money was in the truck. the car. Their compartment is separated from the front end by: a steel door, The chauffeur and the money are in a compartment all alone. Only one door can be opened at a time. An electrical device prevents any more to be opened. Round and round the downtown district we went, Deliver money—pick it up—deposit it in one of the many banks. Easy come easy go was the motto for the men of “A” car. Later in the morning all the cars had a rendezvous in front of a downtown bank. Operations manager Eugene Monroe was there to meet each one as it pulled in. Dressed in plain clothes and packing a 38, Mr. Monroe often acts as a secondary defense in big shipments. Everything moved swiftly and smoothly. There wasn't a hitch in the mass movement of cold hard cash. From a reporter's standpoint I felt a little sad. If anything did. happen I could have had a birdseye view. Not that I invited trouble. The company’s motto—"“Twenty-three years operation without

Then both men sat in the rear of -

THEY MEAN BUSINESS—Gale Crabb and James McNeeley see that a bag of money does where it's expected. .

a single customer loss” went on unblemished. Just as well for me. For anyone as a matter of fact. There’s a lot of artillery that can be cut loose by men who practice regularly on the firing range— just in case,

Sits Next to Sealed Cash

WHILE WEAVING in and out of traffic the telephone rang. Mr. McNeeley picked up the mobile unit and gave his number. It's- a private number, naturally, At 10:10 there was to be an extra pickup —a rush shipment to be delivered to Union station. Caught right in the middle of a schedule I askéd “Mack” if we could do it. He said we could. The messenger and the guard worked the next stop on the double. Wham-—bang and we were off. Traffic was getting heavy and precious seconds were ticking away’ ‘ I closed my eyes and braced myself against a couple of nice bags of sealed cash. The shipment was in the truck. Now the railroad station. “Let's roll, Mack,” Mr. Crabb called, We rolled. We made Union station with seconds to spare. The phone rang. It was Mr. Monroe. Did we make it? Mack, in a calm voice, said the shipment made the train o. k. “A” car returned to the regular routine for the day. The pickups and deliveries are changed. Tomorrow the pickups may be later or earlier, Temptation to the “get-rich-quick” element isn’t encouraged by regularity. * And the mobile telephone unit is there for instantaneous reporting of an emergency. doubt if Superman could be fast enough on the draw to get even a nickel,

Literary Mystery

PARIS, Dec. 18.—Discovery of a musty, unknown Alexandre Dumas manuscript, “The Red Sphinx,” pre: cipitated a three-continent literary mystery that only recently has been partially solved, it was revealed today. The handwritten manuscript first turned up in 1944 when Pierre Angel, a left bank book collector, acquired it with other curiosities from a former Russian princess living in Parijs. The noval was signed in three separate places by Mr. Dumas and a check with the Dumas heirs living in France today assured Mr. Angel .it could be the work of no one but Mr. Dumas himself,

Sold to U. S. Agent

MR. ANGEL.made certain that no French library contained a copy of the novel, which was a story of the intrigues of Cardinal Richelieu and Louis XIII. He then sold the book, magazine and movie rights outside France to an American agent in Paris. The American sent the manuscript to London for a preliminary examination. Astonishingly, someone in London thought the story was familiar. He remembered an almost unknown Dumas work, “The Count qf Moret or Richelieu and His Rivals.” A check at the British museum turned up the only known English copy of the book. One*first examination, “The Count of Moret” appeared to he the same novel as “The Red Sphinx.” The opening chapters were similar, though the wording was not identical. The two stories differed con-

Science

By Haynes Thompson

siderably in detail in subsequent chapters. “The Count of Moret” had been published in Philadelphia in 1868 but inquiries in the United States brought no information on either of the novels, Meanwhile, a Chilean correspondent in Paris thought he remembered reading “The Count of Moret” in Spanish. He cabled a friend in Buenos Aires for verification and learned that it had been published thére in 1936. The Spanish version carried a preface stating that the novel never had been published in France. i Perplexed at first, Mr. Angel ultimately solved the riddle through a study of Dumas’ last year. He said the author frequently gave manuscripts to women admirers in "lieu of more expensive gifts he could not afford.

Given Twice as Gift

MR. ANGEL found that the author was reported to have had a friendship with an American woman who returned to the United States about the time “The Count or Moret” was published. Mr. Dumas gave her a rough draft of “The Red Sphinx” without a title on it, Mr, Angel thinks. Then Mr. Dumas went to Russia where he finished the book and presented it to a Russian friend. So much for the American-published and Russianowned versions—but Mr. Angel can’t figure out how “The Count of Moret” ever showed up in Buenos Aires. Meanwhile, the author of “The Three Musketeers” and “The Count of Monte Cristo” and 89 other known works may be about to top the best-seller lists once again, although he died 76 years ago.

By David Dietz

A STRING OF great telescopes busily engaged in ferreting out the secrets of the distant portions of the universe form the chief monument of Ambrose Swasey and W. R. Warner, the centennial of whose births occur this year, Tomorrow will mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Swasey who first saw the light of day in Exeter, N. H. The 100th anniversary of Warner's birth occurred earlier in the year, He was born on May 16, 1946. * i The rise of these two farm boys to fame as engineers, industrialists, scientists and telescope builders, is one of the classics in the annal of American life. : They met as youths of 18 in Hartford, Conn. where they were both apprentices in a machine shop. Determined .to make their own fortunes in the growing “west,” they moved to Cleveland, O., in 1880 to found their own firm of Warner & Swasey. They began by making machine tools, chiefly lathes, but soon they accepted the challenge of the astronomical world to design bigger and better telescopes.

Famous in Industrial World

SWASEY USED to say jokingly that the firm made its money in machine tools and its fame in telescopes. But tat was only half the story for while the firm was best known to the general public for its telescopes, it was ‘equally famous in the industrial’ world for its turret lathes and other machine tools, Today, the Warner & Swasey Co. continues to be interested in telescopes although its chief business is: machine tools. The telescopes built by the company include the

FRANK SINATRA, who undoubtedly owes most of the tremendous publicity he has received to the swooning, screeching antics of bobbysoxer exhibitionists, has finally had to bar his uninhibited admirers from his studio audience. : The new rule for admission to Sinatra broadcasts is “no one under 21.” If somebody. is going to have to step on the unrestrained bobbysoxers, Sinatra is the logical one. He—or his press agents—has done more to encourage their antics than anyone else. :

All to Teen-agers’ Good

BUT NOW that he has led off let's hope other public performers have the eourage to follow suit, Most bobbysoxers are reasonably well-behaved adolescents, But the lunatic fringe has made itself 80 obnoxious that the very tetm ‘“bobbysoxer” is.

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26-inch refractor of the U. S. naval observatory, the 36-inch refractor at the Lick observatory, the 40-inch refractor at Yerks, still the largest refractor in the world; the 60-inch reflector at the Argentine national observatory, the 60-inch reflector at Ohio Wesleyan, the 72-inch reflector at the Dominion astrophysical observatory in Canada, the 84-inch reflector -at the MacDonald observatory in Texas, and the 36-inch schmidt-type telescope at the Warner & Swasey observatory at Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, the largest Sohmidt-type telescope in the

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Beginning of Friendship

WARNER DIED in 1929, having left Cleveland about a decade earlier to return to his ancestral New England, but Swasey continued to make Cleveland his home. He died on June 13, 1937, at the age of 90. The first article to appear in The Cleveland Press under my signature was an interview with Ambrofe Swasey published on Feb. 24, 1921, (I had been a member of The Press editorial staff since 1915 but this was the first time the editor accorded me the dignity and honor of a signature.)

That article marked the beginning of a friendship

that lasted until Mr, Swasey's death. He was a member of the American Philosophical

society, America’s oldest scientific society which had

been founded by Benjamin Franklin. Other Cleveland members—all dead now— were Charles F. Brush, inventor of the arc light; Dr. Dayton C. Miller, pioneer student of sound waves, and Dr. George D, Crile, famous surgeon. Each year for many years I made the journey to Philadelphia with this group to at-! tend the society's annual meeting.

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SECOND SECTION

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1946

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Novel for the Whole Family

By JEANNETTE COVERT NOLAN

AJOR CAMERON shifted in the straight - backed chair, thus easing the crick between his shoulder blades. He scraped spurred boots

on the porch floor, craned his neck and squinted at the sky, which began to assume the blander blue of evening. The time? Rather difficultly he extracted a big, round gold watch from a pocket beneath the bulge of his gray tunic. Five-thirty. He sighéd, an exhalation of wear iness and dissatisfaction which puffed out and briefly disturbed the contour of his full, drooping mustache. The afternoon had been long; . and though he had sat so conspicuously (even perilously) near ‘the edge of the top step, the Major doubted that many people had noticed him -or, noticing, had comprehended the significance of {either his costume or the silken banner suspended above his head. ® =» y

NEXT YEAR, he told himself, he would go down to the busiest section of his blasted Yankee town, where everybody would see him. The very idea evoked a moment of that pleasant dreaminess which was the Major's substitute for thought. He shut his eyes and a scene swam up behind the lids; his commanding figure (stoutish, maybe, but military) centering a crowd, halting traffic. He heard imaginary voices (twanging, strident and yet admiring) all inquiring about the splendid gentleman in the Confederate uniform: “Who is he? What's he saying?”

traffic.

The Major rose at once, adjusting his wide-brimmed campaign hat,

pulling down his belt over i thrilling cry of his own resonant * 8 =

| paunch, voice, as it rang upon awed silence:| AS THE CART went by, he had a0 Willel Camilo Vir gira: struck a most impressive attitude, ve o e use, which |’ will never be forgotten. And this|Fiéht hand lifted in a gesture which is April ninth, the anniversary of was half-salute to the Stars and Appomattox. - The spirit of the Old Bars, half-greeting to a neighbor. | South is not dead and cannot die—"| But Judge Logan merely nodded.

~ » ” HERE THE Major dreamed the

the Major opened his eyes.

nut mare between the shafts, Judge | have been rated as a cheap poliLogan at the reins. tician,

Hawaiians Overwhelmingly In Favor of Statehood

Mainland Campaign Planned for Promotion; Legislature to Press Move in February By BRADFORD MOBLEY Times Special Writer HONOLULU, T. H., Dec. 18—The Hawaiian islands are settling back to something like the old days. Honolulu now entertains a few thousand soldiers and sailors on | Saturday night as against a hundred thousand during war days. As the army and navy advance their bases the territory plans to revive its famous tourist trade. | Soon the “pink palace,” or Royal Hawaiian hotel, will be the princi-

in the islands don't talk the statehood issue publicly, but apparently {pal -attraction rather than the they are not going to oppose it. “pineapple pentagon,” Wwartime|gome of them privately say the terarmy headquarters, where a few ritory should be pushed up the ladtroops are now rattling around. der, These islands are avid for statehood and are planning a mainland | campaign to promote their aspira- | tions. | Everybody is agreed on this issue. The big sugar companies and the sugar workers, organized by Harry Bridges’ International Longshoremen and Warehousemen’'s union, had 'a crippling strike recently, but both are officially for statehood. Committee Approved Governor I. M. Stainback, who is a presidential appointee, indicates that statehood should come within five years. But he hds approved a

Hawaiians Vote Yes Statehood advocétes contend that our position with the United Nations organization is untenable while we deny statehood to Hawaii. The U. S. argues that all peoples should be permitted to decide their form of government. In a statehood plebiscite Hawaiians voted overwhelmingly yes. President Truman has come out flatly in favor of elevating Hawaii's half million population. It's up to the new congress to make its decision.

THE MAJOR'S DREAM—The Major saw himself the center of a crowd, halting He heard imaginary voices all inquiring about the splendid gentleman in the Confederate uniform: "Who is he? What's he saying?" Here the Major dreamed the thrilling ¢ry of his own resonant voice, as it rang upon awed silence: "| am William Cameron of Virginia, veteran of the Lost Cause. . . ."

Abruptly aware of actual sound,| Tugging at his mustache, the Major reflected that Logan might A high-wheeled red-painted cart{be an important county official in rattled on the bricks, a sleek chest- Indiana, but in Virginia he would

Gather Ye Rosebuds— Chapter 1

Indiana Small-Town Life In 1910— A New Serial By A Hoosier

hereafter he would believe it. 5 ” =» MAJOR CAMERON sat down in | porch. his chair again, just as his wife came around the house from the back yard. She was a tall woman, thickwaisted and substantially built; Bev | hair was auburn, streaked with gray, with curly stray locks escaping from the bun at the nape of her neck. She wore an apron over the billowing skirts of her crisp, tight-

| season.

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said th

your coat?” “Na, Miss Amy.

on the supper table then. had been digging in the sticky soil

Worker's Arm Crushed in Fall

The left arm of George Hope, 54, of 416 W. Washington st., was amputated below the elbow at Methodist hospital last night after it had been badly mangled in an {elevator at the Acme-Evans Co, 902 W. Washington ave, Mr. Hope, a tinware mechanic, said he lost his balance on a small,

one-man elevator at the plant and | th, city's present expansionist fell two stories. His left arm was | Jor

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ears.

Heretofore the Major had dis- |of her garden; In one hand she credited the rumor that Logan's carried a trowel and in the other saw Rose at the corner. Slender as father had marched with Sherman |a yellow jonquil, the first of the

She climbed the steps to the

Smiling, she held out the jonquil. “A posy for you. Shall I pin it on|ges no word for it. Yes, Rose at

You don’t pin flowers on a uniform, you know.” “Don’t you? I'll put it in a vase Have | fitting brown gingham dress. She [you had a rewarding afternoon,

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The Major grunted. “How warm fit is! I must get out the hammock and some more chairs, rockers. I think I'll plant moonvines and morning glories at this side of the porch. They grow like lightning; by summer they'll make a nice screen for the girls, entertaining their young men callers.”

» ” »r MAJOR CAMERON did not ev bother to grunt. ? His daughters’ young men callers were a bore to him, except at such times as they sang serenades and kept him awake, when they became a positive nuisance, In the whole lot there wasn't a young man he considered cligible as his son-in-law; he cared nothing at all whether they were screened or unscreened. . Perhaps the girls—Rose and Bide ney, and little Hannah as she got older--would never find suitable husbands in Blakesville, which was at best a second-rate town, sprawl ing in crude complacence on the north shore of the slow, muddy Ohio. 2 a‘ dw .

WELL, when the book was pube lished, the Major's book, the girls could leave. Then the Major would « send them, or take them, on a sort of husband - scouting expedition, South, of course. He would take them east, too, and to Europe, voyaging on one of those luxury liners. , . ; Without effort, the Major drifted off into a dream of the book's pube lication, of success, riches, release from Blakesville, fame, London, Paris, Lucerne, the shimmering waters of Lake Como—Utopia. . . , The closing of the front. door behind Miss Amy roused him. She had gone into the house; and perhaps he should be going in also. - w ” HE GOT UP and unhooked the flag from its moorings, letting its brilliant length slide into his oute stretched arms. Folding the flag, he glinced and

a reed, trim in her shepherd's plaid wool frock and jaunty straw sailor, Rose was hurrying, almost rune ning, her little patent-leather French heels clicking a staccato rhythm. The Major stood and watched Rose. She was beautiful. There

20 was beautiful as Sophie Kite tredge had been, down in Virginia, in 1861, And that, in the Major's estie mate, was the epitome of beauty.

(Te Be Continued)

Fairbanks, Alaska, Booms

Spending

Aside From Government Jobs Doubtful Future Depends on Seasonal Industries

By FRANK ANGELO Times Special Writer

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 18—Things should’ be very fine in this “golden heart” of fantasy-shrouded, rugged Alaska for at least three

In other words, though the “solid citizens” don’t like to talk: about

thinking has a strong relationship to

| the $500,000 government payroll, and the 50 liquor dispensaries which

caught between a moving platform | and the floor, Nearby employees were unable to | stop the elevator in time to avoid en p emeyer crushing Mr. Hope's arm, they said. " The victim also was badly bruised eww To Inspect Fort

Store Presents Daily

Christmas Concerts Joseph Clauser, local musician, will be featured in a series of Christmas concerts to be held every afternoon until Dec. 25 in the Colonial Furniture Co., 47 8. Meridian st. He will play seasonal organ music on the main floor from noon to 1:30 p. m, and from 3 to 4 p. m. daily. Music will be transmitted to the third floor gift shop and the store's Toytown.

army, will arrive

the 2d army.

there is no connection between Gen

the post in July. the visit as “routine.”

committee to begin work now. Re-elected Republican delegate to

SILLY NOTIONS

By Palumbo

February to press for statehood, while Mr. Farrington carries the|

‘Reception Planned

Post officials said they believed

Wedemeyer's visit and announced war department plans to abandon They described

The army commander will be guest at a luncheon at the Colum-

Gen. Wedemeyer will be escorted

| are expected to hold out that long, The federal government plans to spend many tens of millions build« ing up the Alaskan defense plant, not only around this city, but in vae rious other sections of the territory, At present Ladd field, the army air force installation, occupying 446 acres on the outskirts of this town,

Lt. Gen: Albert C. Wedemeyer, houses 6500 soldiers and 700 civilian commander of American forces in| China during world war II and commanding general of the 2d here tomorrow for his first inspection of Ft. Harrison since he assumed command of

construction workers, Statehood Vote Skimpy But aside from government jobs (31 governmental agencies have of fices in Fairbanks alone) Alaska's future seems to lie in an expanding fishing and. canning industry, a ree |vival in gold mining, a large poe tential in lumber and wood pulp and tourists. And by and large these are seasonal. Most of Alaska’s approximately 90,000 residents (about 35,000 are Eskimos and Indians) are still ime bued with the “get-rich-and-gete out” spirit that brought the first

the U. 8. congress, J. R. Farrington, rs Shy Sameseon, Quter Fesia great influx of population in the is a “statehood now” advocate. The w foo . 4 Indiana military 50d rush days. That was emphaterritorial legislature meets in, yudal n y sized to a degree by the skimpy

3-t0-2 majority in the recent vote for statehood.

ball in congress. Topside army and navy officers

Hopes Thief Puts Loot to Good Use

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Tourists Show Interest In fact, shorn of governmental bounty, Alaska presents little evi at a reception and dinner at 6 p. m. > lat the officers’ club and will be an | dence of the much-vaunted fron. lovernight guest of Gen. and Mrs. tier spirit. Of course, the tourist

{by Brig. Gen. Clifford Bluemel, Ft. | Harrison commander, on his in-

| spection tour, He will be honored |

The Rev. Alfred L. Emmert of- { Brazil, Ind. said today he didn’t mind the robpery if the thief would put the loot to good use.

Bluemel.

mander of the China theater.

| trade may yet grow into a big ine

| Gen. Wedemeyer succeeded theq i. late Gen. Joseph Stilwell as com-

Despite lack of accommodations {and transportation, it-currently ap«

The Rev,

By Ruth Millett

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anything but complimentary to the average run of teen-agers, So if radio stars ‘will insist on common courtesy | from their teen-age followers (or throw them out of | the audience), and if movie stars will stop encourag-| ing kids to make nuisances of themselves by auto-graph-hunting, it will be all to the teen-agers’, own| good. -

Should Be Effective

IT HAS BEEN no favor to them to encourage the pushing, shoving, howling bad pfanners of a few. And so long as their idols gncourage their acting! like idiots, there is nothing tlieir 4eachers can do to change their ideas. r But being stepped on by their current idols ought to have.some effeet—if anything can, 1 At least it can keep the silly-soxers from being the public nuisance they have become. + =~ + «© " 3 3

trations, (school lessons.

Pleas Greenlee Hurt Slightly in Collision

Pleas Greenlee, state’ Democratic chairman, was slightly injured last, night when the automobile he was

driving collided with a car driven by

| Frederick Stevens, 26, of Flatrock, |

Ind., ori Road 29 near Shelbyville. Mr. Greenlee's badly cut: and bruised.

VETS’ MEET TOMORROW

The Veterans Civil. Rights coms mittee will. meet at 8 p. m. tomor-

row in“the Flanner house.

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Emmert’s automobile was looted on a downtown street |- —_._____________|here yesterday. The thief took four new testaments, 600 doctrinal illusand a book of Sunday

left knee was

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| At the end of the war, he imme- | oor certain that hundreds of tour~ diately sent OSS teams into isolated | igre wii} insist on coming here to

|areas to release allied prisoners of seq for themselves. The flood of |war. Among those liberated by his|i; iries received by various Alas | teams were Gen. Bluemel and Gen. kan offices prove that. Jonathan Wainwright. But on the basis of past avers ages, it seems safe to say that few

{ a ———————————————— 89 in Legion College (wil) fall for Alaska-brand existence, '\AJS . | Copyright, 1946, by The Indianspoiis Times Will Graduate Tonight | “snd The Clicago Daily News, ine.

Commencement exercises for 89 ‘Voi ce of the Tu rile’ young Legionnaires from 39 states|

| booked ish’ | attending the American Legion col- Re at Engl # lege here will be held in the World Return engagement of “The Voice

of the Turtle,” seen here last seaWap Memoril suditortum at 8 P|. "was announced today by Vine m. today.

cent Burke, English theater manM. O. Ross, president of Butler

ager. university, will deliver the com-| The three-character drama in its mencement address. :

realistic three-room apartment The students studied the history

setting will be presented Jan. 16, 17 | and organizational set-up of the and 18, with a matinee performance Isgion. .- = °°

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, Saturday, Jan. 18, Mr. Burkeseid,