Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 December 1946 — Page 15

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IN THE OLINK—in the cooler—in the jug. Those words raced around in my head as the

‘deputy sheriff pushed the steel door shut and turned the key. : vj

Right off the bat I must say=il’s a quiet place. A good place to think and the men in’ cellblock BR (Bum’s Row) were doing just that. Small groups sat in the center of the cell block. Others were lying on their backs in the four-man cells. One man was washing his socks. Most of the prisoners had the appearance of derelicts. They blended with the bars and the turnkey’s huge key ring. : I found out the WPA painted the Marion county jail. The pale yellow and green isn’t bad but whoever put the black chain border was stepping way out of line. Heaping insult on injury. Life seemed to be going along smoothly. Trusties prepared supper and deputies were ready to welcome the afternoon consignment of prisoners from the court. :

A Beautiful Shiner

IT WASN'T LONG before 13 men shuffled through the door. They were handcuffed to a long chain. “Stand up against the wall,” a deputy ordered. The inmates of Celliflock BR and WS (west side) pushed forward to the bars, curious to see who was coming in. i One man had a beautiful shiner and a cut on his forehead. He looked around, ill at ease. When the handcuffs were taken off he rubbed his wrists mechanically, almost officially, as though he had seen it done in the movies. To about five of the men it was old home week. They knew the deputies, knew the routine and stood around bored. One chap, about 17, was taking the scene in with curiosity that made his eyes sparkle. The deputies 4sgot busy with the checking in. Charges ranged from vagrancy, fugitive, disorderly conduct and—drunk. It wasn't “visitor's day” but a flashy blond was having her last few words with her man. He was “going up the river” tomorrow. : “Let's get them out for chow,” a deputy announced. Before the men came marching out of cellblocks with their arms folded another deputy armed with a shotgun took up guard post in a steel cabinet with gun ports. Too many men running around loose in the jail creates a hazard. By the time they march up to the third floor dining room a lot of things could happen. Nothing did. The only noise in the dining room was a tinkle of spoons against aluminum plates. Prisoners don't get an hour for dinner. When they're through they've had it. Back to the cellblock. After the newcomers were fed downstairs everything settled to a monotonous routine. Each man was searched, his personal belongings itemized and deposited in the property room. A receipt was given each prisoner. One man had 65 cents to call for when he gets out.

to

Perambulating

jaunty air. Another was sent upstairs. straight to west side cellblock.

ing mail.

WELCOME TO THE FOLD—but stone walls

do not a prison make.

A tattered old fellow who looked as if he had been in BR before, walked through the two doors with a

‘Two went They knew what

the score was.

Censor Ingoming Mail |

IT WAS ALL OVER. Then came the changing of the guard.

Everything was secure.|

the pots and pans. The night shift settled down to censoring incom-

radio programs on tonight. { “Suspense” came on at 7 p. m. and the “F. B. 1."| program on at 7:30 p. m. Detective stories are the | favorite at the county jail. If there aren't any “cops| and robbers” stories then it's swing music. At 9 p. m. a bell rang nine times. A deputy let fly with a couple of “All right you guys, quiet down,” and dimmed the lights. The men shuffled into their cells ‘four men to a cell) and the masterswitch is thrown. All cells are locked. The center of the cellhouse, more commonly known as the bull pen, was empty. ; I'm glad Sheriff Al Magenheimer instructed .the men to let me out when I got my story.

By Frederick C.. Othman

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—From the Chesapeake and’ Ohio railroad I have a cordial invitation to take a fast ride to Cincinnati in the world’s first perambulating movie theater. This cinema palace on wheels opens for business the night of January 6, with Sonny Tufts making love to Anne Blyth for nine reels, or most of West Virginia. Mr. Tufts is a sterling actor. Miss Blyth is beautiful, Cincinnati is one of my favorite cities’and I hate to discourage the C. & O. but I'm staying home, Thanks all the same, fellows, but I am an oldfashioned fellow. I like railroad trains as is. I look out the window and count telegraph poles. When its dark and there’s nothing to see except an occasional green light, I still look out. Soothing. When the whistle blows, awo0-0-0-000, I want to be alert and savor the music of it; the mutterings of Mr. Tufts, when Miss Blyth ignites the love-light in his eyes, might distract me. Fact is, I spent all my life until I was 12, trying to grow big enough to be a locomotive engineer. I was not interested then in movies en route; I am not now.

Doesn't Ask for Much

IT IS GOOD to be improving the railroads. I doubtless am a minority of one, but I can think of better ways, gentlemen, than cinema cars. And cheaper. You take Mr, Tufts; I'll have a paper cup that doesn't dribble on my vest. I'd like to find {ime tables in the time table rack. Little things like that. I don’t ask for much. . The whistles of the new Diesel engines sound like horns on fishing boats. I'd like to hear em tootle like they used to and see them send puffs of steam, sometimes, back to the chair car windows. It was fun to watch a whistle whistle. I understand that it costs nearly $100,000 te put a sound-proofed, air-conditioned movie theater on the

Aviation THE BUSINESS of flying a seaplane (pontooned ship) or a flying boat demands a working knowledge of two interesting specialties, airmanship and seamanship.

When you land an airplane and have finished

the “ground run,” taxi-ing to the line is a simple operation. Anybody can do it if they taxi slowly. However, when you land a flying boat on the water, the airmanship is ended and you immediately invoke the highly technical specialty known as seamanship. This kind of seamanship is of a peculiar variety, With the engine idling, the ship “weather vanes" into the wind. And, while heading into the wind, the idling propeller causes the ship to creep forward slowly. To turn a flying boat “out” of the wind, considerable throttle is required. The result is that your ship in turning “out” of the wind makes considerable forward headway, The catch in this kind of seamanship is that you have no backing power, but plenty of forward power. The stronger the wind, the stronger the tendency of the flying boat to head into it, and

Mission to Tibet

NEW DELHI, Dec. 27.~A U, 8. goodwill ‘mission bearing gifts for the Dalai Lama of the transHimalayan land of Tibet, may make an ardous journey early next year to establish diplomatic relations with the ancient nation. The journey would be in return for a Tibetan mission that brought gifts for the President of the United States last year during negotiations with the British government in New Delhi. : Neither roads nor railways connect India with Tibet. The American mission would have to struggle over narrow mountain caravan routes in the age-old manner across the windy snow-swept passes of the world’s highest mountains,

Delicate Issue . EVEN THE preliminary work to sending such a mission would raise delicate diplomatic issues. Tibet nominally is a province of China, although since the 1912 overthrow of fhe Manchu dynasty, Ohinese authority has been purely nominal. Britain has dealt directly with the Tibetan authorries, maintaining the fine distinction that Tibet is under Chinese “suzerainty” but not under Chinese “eaveraignty.” : 2 a ‘

rails. Whatever the price it doubtless is worth every penny. But 1 remember an entertainment on the Wabash in the dear, dead days that was less complicated. Along about 4 p. m, a waiter would walk through the Pullmans, inviting the passengers into-the dining car for tea. “Compliments of the Wabash,” he always said, smiling broadly. pot of coffee. That tea business was the Wabash's little joke. By each pot was a plate of cookies and a platter of bread and butter sandwiches. “Have some more,” the waiters urged. “Take all you want.”

No Soulless Corporation

THIS GENEROSITY proved to us travelers that the Wabash was no soulless corporation, but our good friend. The Santa Fe for a while achieved somewhat the same effect with free newspapers at every major stop. Another railroading deal I liked but found only on the Southern Pacific between "Los Angeles and San Francisco was an informative train clerk. He simply helped the customers look out the

window. He told us, rather, what we were looking at: | How high were the hills, how deep the rivers, what | Indian hunter died at this cross-roads, and now many | anchovies were packed a year in MonVerey. If he'd!

have tapped him with a brake bar. I could tell you more and moré about improving the railroads, C. & O., -but if youre bound to have movies on the limiteds for the sophisticates why aren't interested in scenery, I make one last request:

Keep on the line a train with a steam engine in|third term. He never has been de- |

front, a brakeman with a flag and a car in the

_ middle with a green plush seat for me. When I travel

to Cincinnati I want to enjoy the ride in my own outmoded fashion.

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By Maj. Al Williams

the more power required to turn “out” of the wind and taxi crosswind or downwind. Of course, a nasty chop complicates the situation.

Thing of Joy to Watch

IT IS A THING of joy to watch a crack flying boat pilot beach his craft safely in a strong on-shore wind. You will see him work his way to one side or the other of the beaching point—holding fairly close to the shore, but a good distance on either side of the

ramp. He will then taxi across the wind, keeping|

a2 close as he dates 10 ihe shore until he is opposite, the holiday period and will bé simple enough—it isn't a good place

{finished by Jan. 6.

the ramp. As soon as he is directly opposite the ramp,

‘he quickly throttles his motor. The craft “weather

vanes’ into the wind, with the ship's tail pointing directly toward the ramp: The art of handling 4 seaplane or a flying boat on the water has been restricted to the very small group of pilots flying seaplanes. It is an art that will have to be developed all over again because, ultimately and inevitably, the most practicable type of airplane of the future must be an amphibian. .

By James W. Michaels

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America's first and only official relations with Tibet took place during the war when two OSS officers were sent into the mountain land to explore the possibility

of sending supplies from India to beseiged China

across the Himalayas,

Precarious Journey ! IT WAS hoped that this ‘flow of goods could supplement the dangerous and expensive “over the hump” air route. But the officers reported the long, precarious journey with supplies borne on the backs

of coolies in’the face of Tibetan hostility was not

practical. Besides the ancient land. routes, communication between India and Tibet is precariously maintained over a single telegraph wire from India to Lhasa, the Tibetan capital. The line which is operated by the British as tar as the border town of Gyantse and from there on by the Tibetans, frequently is down, owing to the difficult country it traverses and the frequency with which the lines are cut and the wire appropriated for personal use. -

Plans for the diplomatic contact with Tibet follows

a recent

2 mission fo the small Himalayan kingdom ol epal,

{incapable of properly heating a Trusties!

policed the main floor and the kitchen help put away {will have to be replaced,” said the {combustion engineer.

There was an occasional chuckle from a| reader. Writing paper was passed out. Letter writ- that Is § ing would be done in a hurry because there were good |

{ ment—coal

ftwo months and we never have had’ sufficient heat to.keep us warm.” 'marshal's office that fire losses

Well sir, on every table was a |

Plan Would Grant

| 2 Terms or 12 Years | Old Explorers

| —Senator Edwin C. Johnson (D.|

ling senators to two terms or 12 | years in office.

viewpoint of their own particular

| One of the “most dangerous symp- - toms of Potomac fever,” he said, is

Mr. Johnson said the advent of a United States of

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Fly-By-Night ‘Heating Engineers’ Are Swindling

Install Worthless, Unapproved Equipment Under Guise of Reputable Furnace Men By JACK THOMPSON

HEATING equipment “racketeers” have swindled In-

dianapolis citizens out of more than a half-million dollars

this year, Robert L. Wolf, city combustion engineer charged:

today. Posing as reputable furnace men, these ‘racketeers' are installing worthless heating units in homes throughout the city. They are violating law by installing unapproved equipment and by failing to obtain per-

mits from the smoke control office in city hall before putting in new equipment or repairing or altering old units. Mr. Wolf estimates that nearly

She said she was threatened when she complained of the condition to the installing firm. This is one of 800 cases now being investigated. : Another report came to Mr, Wolf's office from a North side {resident whose oil burner went out {of commission on Christmas eve. ; {Only heat the family has now is 400 oil burners, which are fire fon on improvised fireplace in hazards, have been installed here |... logs are being burned. in the past year. The units also are 2 sm THE RESIDENT said he had paid $335 a short time ago for in|stallation of what was represented as a popular brand burner. He {said the firm from which he made At approximately $300 per unit the purchase wanted $90 to repair 120,000 the public has been | the burner. on oil burners alone, he “It turned out to be a tomato

home, he said. “All of these burners eventually

“gyped” pointed out. 2. 8 » SOME 3000 faulty installations of other types of heating equipand gas furnaces— have cost the public about $400,000. The “racketeers’ are smooth operators, Mr. Wolf warned. They usually promise rapid in-

[never be repaired to conform with {standards required by law,” said Charles Frost, assistant combustion engineer, who made the investigation. Mr. Wolf said he and Mr. Frost have received threats and even attempts at “bribery” from some of stallations. And to those who have (the unauthorized heating equipbeen trying to get new heating ment concerns. equipment in the face of present "..8 8 shortages this is quite an induce- IT IS NOT unusual for a person ment. to have a unit installed and learn In many instances while instal- to his consternation after the lation work is proceeding, one of equipment fails to function properly the furnace men will ask the cus- that the installer has disappeared tomer to sign a paper which states into thin air, the combustion engithat the work is satisfactory, re-|neer asserted. lieving the installing company of Mr. Wolt said a study by his all obligations, Mr. Wolf said. department has shown that illea. 88 gally installed oil burners as a EVERY TIME the weather turns rule do not “operate more than a cold we turn cold, said one victim month without a breakdown and of the racket. “Our burner has con- that the typical installation has sumed $80 worth of oil in the past used a year's supply of oil already. “Reports from the state fire

Asks Limitation | Mitions of Uncharted Milgs— On Senate Seat Not Good Place to Pick Up Easy Dollar—

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (U. P.).|

Colo.) today urged the adoption of a constitutional amendment limit-

He said it would be a step toward many miles—four million square keeping congress in tune with thé before seen by human eyes. people.

their constituents and lose the Five ships—led by this flagship— will make fast to the ice near Lit-

tle America. The

regions, he added. Mr. Johnson has announced that

{he will not be a candidate for a others will sail around the | feated in a race for public office. fringes of the

their airborne

~presidentialities.” This Mr. John- fingers into the son diagnosed as a prevalent dis- interior. ease sefting in during a senator's here have

d

Mr.

second or third term of office. “When a senator begins to think he may be presidential timber he

been a flock of

Sparks becomes just dead wood to the peo- most of them have just nibbled at

ple back home,” he added. Although = a ranking Democrat,’

the edges of Antarctica. This region is as large as the

America and Republican congress would benefit| Europe put together.

the nation in at least one respect.

pay much attention to the surrounding countryside.

REMODLING AT BUTLER Butler university's Campus Club, | No Slaves in Antarctica student recreation center, and the! The« reason that Antarctica recafeteria, are being remodeled dur- mains pretty much of a mystery is

'to pick up an easy dollar.

SILLY NOTIONS By Palimbe

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Indianapolis

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1946

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So Vast Antarctica Remains a Mystery ere Greedy Lo, Seeking Or Slaves—Byrd Party Scientific Fact-Finders By FRED SPARKS Times Specifl Writer !

ABOARD U. 8. 8. MT. OLYMPUS, Dec. 27—The Antarctic continent is just about the only place in this world where you can still find

Some time during the first week in January, 12 ships of this exMr. Johnson said that, all too pedition will make another attempt to look over this continent. Par- { often, senators succumb to “Po- ticular attention will be paid to the se

pulled down the blinds and unreeled a movie, we'd | tomac fever.” They drift away from unexplored regions.

continent, poking |

expeditions down | there before. But,

Several expeditions pushed to or| He said that with “quarts of new flew over the Soith pole itself, but | blood, the new congress will be they were too eager to get there, ! (more in harmony with the grass'and then they were too cold, to 'roots than its predecessor.”

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AN OIL BURNER BROKE DOWN-—So Mrs. Mary E. Sprouse, 909 E. Buchanan st.. and her family huddle around a coal stove in a back room in their house to keep * warm while awaiting new equipment, throughout the state have in-:Mr. Wolf requested that those who jour office and for installation of creased considerably since the war plan to have new equipment in- equipment whieh does nat moet because of faulty heating units is stalled make sure the smoke con- |the requirements of the board of indicative that the racket is wide- trol department has been informed | fire underwriters,” said Mr. Woll. spread,” he asserted. {of the plans. | The combustion engineer pointed i 2 = = “We are and shall continue pros- out that proper equipment would | STATING that his department is ecuting ‘fly-by-night’ outfits for not | “do much to relieve the city of “going to wipe out these swindlers.” obtaining permits or approval fron its smog and smoke problems.”

New Gadgets Aid Cotton Picking

"Mechanical Picker Used in South

van Gold itself. There they expected to hang up a flag with the word “Madrid” knitted on it and claim the seas around for the greater glory of the NEW HOLLAND, Pa., Dec. 27 (U. | Spanish empire. P.).—King Cotton, producer of the It was not until 1819—when Wil. Dation’s largest money crop will be liam Smith, an Englishman, made able within the next decade to rea wide sweep while rounding Cape Capture markets lost to synthetic Horn in a sailing ship and sighted fibers at home. the Antarctic continent—that the It Will also be able to meet the existence of the land mass was Cheaper competition from foreign establishbd. growthsy= through complete farm There followed an increasing mechanization. - number of imaginative sailors, who Irl1 A. Daffin, president of New You see, explorers generally have reported having landed on the ice. Holland Machine Co. farm equip=been a pretty greedy lol. They've They have “seen” everything from Ment manufacturers, made that crossed strange oceans, usually fur-wrapped ladies to polar bears, Prediction today. He also ane seeking gold or slaves, | A little more than 100 years ago nounced the production during 1946 Columbus was looking for an easy’ British and Americansyoutfitted the of “the first commercial cotton unoe 10 ie, Tietis of India—he first intelligent expeditions to sur- touched by human hands.” was badly in debt. vey the frozen continent, | Y Ponce De Leon was out to find The official explorers, like the Jowes Production Costs the fountain of youth—he had a seal-hunting sailors, issued con-| The mechanical picker, plus the set of double chins flicting reports. But al] agreed on flame cultivator and flame chopper, By such comparative standards, one thing—the durn place was! Das bridged the gap to sharply lower our polar explorers are a different worthless. production costs. This means “that breed of cat—and curiosity has When that news got around, the fully mechanized cotton production killed many. They've stuck their scientists replaced the gold diggers. iS DO longer a promise of the future, necks out many times with little Military Value Now {but an actual achievement in the chance of getting anything back : : South,” Mr. Daffin declared. but frost bite. he, i Mei With Js Blobal Citing the achievement of Price : aspec sinister aerial implicaYou Can't Take It With You tions for. the future, made world C ianare. inventor of the Bale There are many fine things in Military planners polar-conscious. | Montgomery, Ala., Mr. Daffin said the Antarctic for a chap who wants Alf POWer gave a new meaning to ¢na¢ Mr, McLemore, “using mea chauffeur and a pent-house. But the old phase—“the shortest dis- chanical methods throughout, pro= nobody has yet found a way to get tance between two points Is a 4.04 commercial cotton at a cost the valuables back home, straight line.” of 8 cents a pound. This compared | There are huge coal, fron ore| This goes for a plane or other win. a, estimated average cost in {copper and gold deposfs. Most Missile, as well as for the ruler! pi. . es of 25 cents a pound.” [rest beneath tons of glacial ice— |On your map. : On a map, you will see that, by, 83-Acre Crop | Before this expedition sailed, sey-' alr, Australia is best reached from| pgandiing his 83-acre crop with a eral geniuses suggested defrosting Africa over Antarctica. ; single operator, Mr. McLemore's all Antarctica by dropping a brace of The same goes for a trip from mechanized cotton required only atomic bombs. South America to Australia. '8 hours and 53 minutes per acre. But scientists hastened to point! Other key world tours—military | mys compared with the government that, even if “Buck Rogers” OF commercial—can be speeded UD actimate that 235 man-hours are res could melt the polar ice; he would PY the passing over the icy wastes.' quired for one acre under convene set loose a flood that would raise’ S50 nOW, in the uneasy holiday (ional methods. the world sea level 150 feet. season of 1946, Antarctica assumes! wpe ease of operation was such This means that the top floors & Military, as well as scientMc, Im- | tya1 Mr McLemore feels 200 acres of Chicago and New York sky. Portance—as a way station and|,e .oiton can be handled by a single scrapers could still be occupied, but Plane base. operator. This .he intends to test This modern, streamlined expedi- {| oct vear,’ Mr. Daffin announced. tion is the result. Today 4000 men, | The New Holland Co. early in

you would have to commute by boat instead of by subway. | wit d tack] | . i {with ponderous tackle, are nearing|,q . Weather Fooled 'Em {the ice pack that girdles the mys- 3 4¢ miroduced the fame. cultive

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venture or scientific research.

| ents. The equipment employs spurts lof flame that will kill weeds inthe

tor covered by the McLemore pats

cotton row but do not seriously ine

| back the diamonds.

In the 16th century, there was al ’ general belief in Europe that mil- Men $ Apparel Club

lions of perfectly eligible slaves TO Show Merchandise lived in the Antarctica. It was be- * ¥ Neco or Jarcie ar ae! Men's Apparel Club of Indiana Poisons Friend's Beer, : ith | Will hold. a merchandise display of | ' . HOUSES OF oid sud and silver, wth spring and summer men's and boys’ | Then Drinks It, Dies Such rumors sent many wear Jan, 9-13 in the Hotel Severin.| LOS ANGELES, Dec. 27 (U, P). straight for the South Pole, Such| Puring the five-day meeting, |—The body of William A. Schuster, expeditions carried chains for the|Rumerous officials in the clothing 30, who took a fatal drink of poison slaves, wretking equipment for the field will speak. There will be a|after offering some to two friends gold houses, and baskets to bri g| banquet and floorshow, the details |at a Christmas eve party, will be to be announced later. sent tonight to Akron, O.,, his for< - mer home, for burial. Sheriff's deputies said Schuster walked into a Waltut park cafe and dumped some white powder in the beer of Kirby Jenkins, 37, and Edith Chandler, 25. He dated them to drink thelr I beer. pn Miss Chandler took a sip, spit tt out and fell to the floor. Mr. Jens = kins also tasted his drink. Schuster then drained Mr. Jenkins’ g and fell to the floor. He upon arrival at Maywood’ Treated at the Chandler and Mr.

jure the tougher and more fibrous cotton stalk.

ships |

They thought that, after a few . brisk breezes to be encountered Named to Council

south of Cape Horn, it weuld get Dolores Hilton, a junior and Paul nice and tropical, : Hunt, & senior, will represent WashWhen the rigging started to ington school on the Indianapolis freeze and the waves pounded over), .. cool secouncl. They were

the bridge—for these are the rough-! ; est waters in the world—tne pros. | DomiRated by elasuuates and elected pective looters turned back. They :

said the “whole thing was a big pan

mistake, hy j The social club of St. Patrick's Land Sighted in 1819 Catholic church will give a card Another thing that the old-| party Monday at 1:30 p, m. in the timers were convinced of-—particu-{Food Craft shop. 8. Tillie Hill larly the Spaniards—was that youjand Mrs, Thomas O'Neill are cocould sail right to the South pole!chairmen of the party,

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