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. FIRMAN 4 KNACHEL, : 0. 8 N. RB. skipper a ‘the brigade headquaiters at the naval | exactly e high pressure salesman. But, he could | oly’ sell you a kiddy car and accept’ your eight-cylinder 1047 auto as down payment, .
* ‘When Jou talk about the navy with Oapt. Knachel, -
he doesn't push It down your throat. But you're sold on everything ng Hav right down to the last mt hitch kriot on a ( bag. You know the “skipper” commanded the U, 8. 8 a the South Pacific in world war IL You | know he has been in the naval reserve for 27 years. | You know you're seated in his office looking river, but you can't ‘help feel the thrill - t places, salt spray over the bow of a trim eo camaraderie of shipmates. Hundreds of miles from the nearest salt water, Indianapolissborn Capt. Knachel brings the tide right under your chair before you're aware of what's going on “How? A possible explanation can be given in his own words: “I'm a Hoosier, and I eat, sleep and talk navy." And talk he does. Next Tuesday he is scheduled to speak before the Kiwanis club in Greensburg. Last week it was in Sullivan, week before that in South Bend and, before that at Great Lakes, Ft. Wave and Mansfield, O, There's a. purpose behind all this talk. There's a purpose behind his enthusiasm. Indianapolis is leading all midwestern cities in meeting its quota of 80 officers and 1400 enlisted men for the U. 8. N. R. Capt. Knachel wants his district to keep leading snd he's positive that by July 1st his present complement of 78 officers and 647 enlisted men will, be Joined by enough shipmates to hit the quota.
Man of Action
THE 50-YEAR-OLD skipper with Churchillian features and characteristics, is also a man of action. It isn't enough to .talk about his “ship.” He wants you to see it from top to bottom. He sets a fast pace through the huge gym, the bridge of a destroyer overlooking the basketball floor, classrooms, storage rooms where equipment for training is coming in every day. Everywhere in the armory there is the nautical touch from the light fixtures to the terrazzo floor, “What impresses me about our post-war plans is that we're not going to just talk theory here. We're * going to talk sure, but we're also going to have the stuff to work with,” Capt. Knachel said.
No ‘Broom Handle’ Drill
HE CAN BACK that statement up, too. In the storeroom huge cases stand waiting to be unpacked and equipment set up for electrical, radio, machine, carpenter, metal smith and welding shops. There won't be any broom handle drill at the
SALT ON THE WHITE RIVER—Capt. Firman F. Knachel plans-to have his "ship" go places.
armory, either. Men will have at their disposal arms ranging from pistols to a five-inch gun. “Every gun here is going to be set up so it will work. Of course,” the captain chuckled, “we don't expect to fire the five-incher but in case we do it will be ready.” Ladders and paintbrush-wielding men dot the armory. Everything has to be shipshape by George Washington's birthday. That's the day of the Military Ball, “We expect to make a lot of friends for the navy at the ball,” Capt. Knachel explained. Every man in the reserve can bring his.ladyfriend and another couple. The skipper is confident that by showing the navy he can sell the navy. After the Military Ball, the next highpoint in, his life will be the 14-day cruise to Panama on the U. 8. 8. Wisconsin, sometime early in March. That's going to be a lot of fun. Two officers and 61 enlisted men are making the trip.” Another paint he gets across is “Ah, but wait until
Pistol packin | Grandma Will (Hunt for Gold
{pistol on her hip.
“SECOND SEGTION
Seeks Fabulously ‘Rich’ Mine.
’ PHOENIX, Ariz, Feb. 15 (U. P). -—A pistol-packing grandmother, lclutching a tattered map of a lost gold mine, waited today for a chance to sneak away and find it. Mrs. Laura Branstetter Middaugh, 50, and her husband, William, 67, Joplin, Mo., were ready to pack into Superstition mountains in search of the fabulously rich “Lost Dutehman gold mine.” They don't want anybody following them, she said. °
curse on the mine and of the scores of searchers who vanished in the mountains and never were seen again, didn't faze her.
anything,” she sald, patting the “1 came to Ari-' zona to find the Lost Dutchman mine, and by golly I'm going to find it.” She carefully, guarded the dog- |
| from her great-great~uncle, Jacob Walz. He dug and lost a fortune from the mine in Arizona's roaring pioneer days. She said the map showed where the gold was located.
the warm weather comes.” He is planning on weekend cruises on the larger Indiana rivers and Lake Michigan for his men. The naval armory may be on the banks of the White river but the skipper has ambitious plans. “Just the other day we got a bus so we can| travel where we want, whether it's to the Ohio river or Lake Michigan, Next we're going to get the boats. I tol you, didn't I, that the equipment is rolling in? Yes sir, we're going places.” (By Ed Sovola.)
Fabulous DeMille
By Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—I couldn't help it. I tried to pay attention to.a dignified and somberiydressed citizen denouncing the closed shop before the U. 8. senate, but I kept thinking of his blue-eyed octopus with the fire engine red complexion and the brass joints. He mentioned the iniquities of unionism, but there must be something wrong with my brain. I remember better how he jelled Claudette Colbert in a 40-foot bath tub of hot cottage cheese. Once I went yachting with him and a kindly host he was, too, after I took off my shoes so 1 wouldn't scratch the teakwood decks. He was the only man 1 ever worried about the presence of a chair when he sat down. He just sat. His special chair-bearer saw to it that a chair was there to receive him. Cecille B. DeMille, I guess, is the most spectacular of all the Hollywoodians living today and certainly one of the greatest of the movie makers. I have admired bim these many years and, when I lived in Hollywood, been amazed by him. ' When he appeared before the senate labor committee to testify about proposed labor legislation, I was on hand to write a dispatch. He was gracious and he was suaye, his baldspot was colored caramel by the California sunshine, and he made a persuasive. witness. Only something was wrong. Something missing. Took me a while to spot it.
Just Plain Pair of Pants
NO PUTTEES., The mighty DeMille, who directs 10,000 people and 1000. elephants in the morning and spends the afternoon planting a redwood forest on the roof of a sound stage, was wearing plain’ blue pants with coat to match. This was something I'd never seen before. Friends, I'm sorry. If you want to know what he said about labor unions, you'll find his words on another page of this paper. I'm going to tell you about
his octopus and, if there's room, about that cottage cheese overcoat of Miss Colbert. The -script sald Ray Milland had to wrestle an octopus. “Well don’t just stand there,” DeMille told Lis retinue. “Get an octopus.” He got one and it was a beaut. the Paramount prop department spent $75,000 building a special octopus of sponge rubber with brass pistons for innards, 700 miles of electric wiring for a nervous | system, and big blue eyes. Hidden cables connected this magnificent beast | an organ console. Mille play upon the keyboard, causing his octopus to roll its eyes and wrap 14 hands and 20 red feet around his actor at the bottom of a waterless sea.
Star in the Milky Way
THE JELLING of Miss Colbert I did not actually get to see; it, was before my time, but she told me about it. - She was (as I remember) the queen of Sheba heing glorified in the original marble bathtub of DeMille. “A milk bath,” she reported. “Genuine milk. Seven hundred gallons of it straight from the refrigerators. They poured it into the pool and I climbed in, but 1 couldn't act on account of my teeth chattering.” DeMille ordered up the studio fire engine, kept the fire burning for such emergencies, and turned the steamline into the milk. “It bubbled and gurgled and soon got warm,” Miss | Colbert continued. “I was splashing around in it, but | the more I splashed the harder this became to do and Mr. DeMille got angry because I soon was moving in slow motion. I yelled for help. I was stuck in 700 gallons of schmierkase. Then Mr. DeMille apologized.” Yes sir, I honestly believe he is a great man. 1 hope there'll always be a chair waiting when he decides to sit. And better listeners than me when he testifies on labor legislatinn.
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Mr. Walz, known to the Indians as “Snowbeard,” died in 1892 in Phoenix. [location of his treasure trove. Since {then countless gold-seekers have {combed the treacherous mountains 0 miles east of here. Many of them [have disappeared without a trace. She said she was ready for any opportunists who might try to take it away from her. “I'm a pretty good shot,” she said. “I've been practicing up in shooting galleries along the way. Any-
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‘McGrail Named To Legion Post
Edward McGrail, world war I and II veteran of Parkersburg, W. Va. as today named national conyention director ‘of the American Legion succeeding Joe Lumpkin, ' Memphis; Tenn. who has resigned. Mr. McGrail is being transferred to the new post from the staff of the national public relations division of ‘the Legion. He served as national publicity Mi. McGrail director from 1937 to 1942. He re-entered active duty in 1942 as a captain in the army air forces. . Prior to joining the national headquarters staff in Indianapolis in 1937, he was department adjutant of the West Virginia American Legion.
Ordered to Support
War Bride in France
CHICAGO, Feb. 15 (U. P). — A Chicago judge has ordered a U. 8. jarmy major to pay $100 a month |temporary support money to the French war bride he left behind. Judge George M. Fisher in superfor court ordered the payments
made to Mrs. Noelle Jammet Galla- |," " yojjeved would dovetail
gher, of Auxerre, France, until her {tangled marital troubles with Maj.
Back Up, John
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By Erskine Johnson
ened out. | TURKS RATIFY TREATY ANKARA, Feb. 15 (U. P.)—The
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 15.—Just when George Sanders has made his peace with the ladies by declaring he will tell them what they like to hear, another war starts. John Garfield writes an article, “Women I'd Like to Strangle.” Naturally, we rushed to the ladies’ defense while 842 press agents rushed us statements from their feminine elients, blasting Mr. Garfield clear to the southern tip of Tasmania. But Lynn Bari's rebuttal made sense: “Mr. Garfield,” she said, “refers to the gushing Boe of woman you meet in Hollywood. Has he ever heard one of those toupeed, overdressed, broken-down glamour boys who builds himself up at a party when he thinks there's an agent or a big producer around? You haven't heard gushing until Joirve listened to ‘this type. “He talks about women who display theiz men like they do imitation jewelry. Has he ever seen a fivefoot gent walk into Cjro’s with a blond Amazon on hi arm? That's what I call displaying your escort.” Naturally, Lynn had some men she'd like to strangle. It's All ‘Him’ “THE PERENNIAL college boy, glways playing pranks, doling out a hot-foot here and a heart attack there and, when you catch him with the cookie jar, running home to mama: “The type that tells you what perfume he is aljergic to and what gown suits his personality, and who orders your dinner according to his diet. “The table-hopper. He takes you to dinner, and every time someone he knows enters, he hops up
like burned toast—and off he goes « on his built-in pogo
stick.”
But, naturally, Lynn said:
“Now don’t make me sound like a heel, Mr. John-
son. I like men.”
No Kissing Reason THIS IS NO gag: It really happened. The divorced husband of a Hollywood glamour doll, about to take himself a new bride, took the “ex” out to dinner, then home to her apartment. There he hung around and hung around, angling for a goodnight | kiss. Finally the ex-wife said: “Look, I've kissed lot of men for a lot of reasons, but never for old times’ sake.” A famous Hollywood landmark, the old Hollywood | hotel, will be razed to make way for a modern hotel! structure. ' The Hollywood hotel was the place to which Jesse Lasky came from New York one day in 1913 and said, “Take me to my film company.” A bellhop' led him several blocks down a pepper-tree-lined, dusty road to an old barn, barn, a young fellow was shooting a picture called “The Squaw Man,” starring Dustin Farnum. * The pepper-trée-lined, dusty road was Hollywood | blvd. The young director was Cecil B. DeMille. And the land on which the barn stood is now Paramount | studio. Deanna Durbin will play a feminine record-jockey in her new movie, “For the Love-of Mary.” Ida Lupino has written a book of short stories, “A Matter of Minutes.” . Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman have taken their 6-year-old daughter out of private school in favor of public classrooms.
We, the Women
“WHAT makes a girl lovable?” asks a questionnaire in front of me. The poll is, of course, a publicity stunt—this one staged in the interests of a group ' of ready-to-wear manufacturers,
Abandoning the set questions of the poll—here is a list of qualities and attributes I'm sure will help to make a girl lovable. ONE: looks nature handed her.
Not Too Serious TWO: Complete femininity—in her manner, her
. dress, her walk, her attitudes and ambitions. ~ . THREE: A happy-hearted, not too serious aci, Sepianee of men’s attentions, :
The ability to make the most of whatever
By Ruth Millet
FOUR: . The ability to talk instead of chatter. FIVE: A live-and-let-live attitude toward ofher people—especially toward other girls. SIX: Enough wisdom to keep her from ever acting possessive toward a man.
Easy to Get Along With
' SEVEN: A good opinion of ‘herself, resulting in a deep-rooted, unshakable self-respect. EIGHT: Enough sex appeal to get a man in-
terested in the first place and the good taste to direct
it toward only one man at a time.
“| fessionals often fail with it.
Turkish national assembly has ratified the friendship pact between Turkey and Transjordan, signed |last month'dyring the visit of King
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READY FOR TIMES ICE-O- RAMA — These animal rend, will be worn by sola.costuniae skater cared map handed down to her! lce-O-Rama at the Fairgrounds Coliseum Thursday night. The papier-mache heads were constructed by Tech hi school ‘students under the direction of Chelsea Stewart. Some of the students who produced the heads, left right, are Roberta Moon, Sandra Hunter, Pat Bradway, Betty-Jo Oliver, Jo Ellen Tweddell and Deris' Morrow.
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Byrd Plane Flies
LITTLE SHOES
Near South Pole
Map Makers Find New Mountain Range |
LITTLE AMERICA, Feb. 14 (De-! layed)—(U. P.). — Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd flew within 170] miles of the South Pole today while | leading exploratory flights by four navy skiplanes which resulted in discovery of a major mountain range. Adm. Byrd said his plane could] have left its map-making and gone| across the pole, but did not because of more important exploratory business.” He is the only man ever to have flown over both North and South poles. 1 The converted Douglas transports penetrated far into the Antarctic unknown; seeking to fill in another pie-shaped blank in the map.
Sparkling sub-zero weather, ending a long period of blizzards and overcast, gave the explorers excellent visibility. Second Plane Out Adm. Byrd's orange and silver plane took off the snow runway of Little America IV into’ the Antarctic - midnight sunlight and covered a 1400 miile course. "It was piloted by Maj. Robert R. Weir, Philadelphia. A second plane piloted by Lt. George H. Anderson of Holly Springs, Miss, took off 30 minutes later. It caught a whistling tail wind and flew southeast at 190 miles per hour beyond the Horlick mountains, last mapped outpost in that direction. The plane penetrated 600 miles southeast of Little America. Two other planes left later. Beyond the Horlick mountains Lt. Anderson’s flight discovered a ridge- |» shaped range of reddish colored mountains rising 15,000 feet. Geologists sald the color indicated vol-| canie origin. Adm. Byrd sald his flight also sighted a vast mountain range
with Lt. Anderson's discovery when the aerial photographs were pieced together.
FRANCE-CZECH PACT NEAR PARIS, Feb. 15 (U. P.).—France and Czechoslovakia ,will negotiate soon for the renewal of their prewar alliance and friendship pact, a government announcement said to-
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Gardening—
day.
By Barton Rees Pogue
ARE there little eoats and caps and hoods Around your house these days? Are there tiny dresses, gowns and shirts For which a father pays? Then in that myst’'ry of soft things That little babies use, You'll notice first, and most of all, Those little soft-sole shoes.
OU often see them on a chair, Atop a pile of clothes, Like little boats a-riding waves A pleasant sea-wind blows, And yet not boats out on the deep, For in the toes there wink At you some quite big holes, would maké Them fill with sea, and sink.
OU pick them up and muse a while, You turn them up and down, Those little boots once creamy white, "With soles so worn and brown; Much nearer do they come to you Than things the baby wears, They solemnize your every thought, And call you to*your prayers.
HY do they lure a human so? What power do, they possess To make a parent stand and dream? The wise can only guess! But somehow of the things you have That little babies use, You lovesand cherish most of all Those little soft-sole shoes!
Indianapolis Woman Cultivates Calla-Lily Begonia,
Plant Seldom Raised in Midwest Climate
Rare House Plant Derives Name From Its Pure White Center Leaves
By MARGUERITE SMITH “I HAVE A PLANT I don’t believe you'll find commonly in In|diana,” says Mrs.. Richard . Lucas, 12254 N. Delaware st. “It's a calla-
Béhind the | ly begonia.
“It gets its name from the little |center leaves that come out pure white and swirled like a calla-lily. My garden books say it's common in New England farmhouses but hard {to raise south of Connecticut—maybe because of the climate.” Since the begonia family is as far flung and diversified as the Smiths I decided I'd better find out about this wonder-child. Sure enough, one garden expert says Another, that it is rarely seen in commercial green houses or in houseplant collections much south of New England. , x =» THOUGH Mrs. Lucas protested that her plant is still a little too small for a formal debut, I decided you'd better look upon it now—not that I would discourage Mrs. Lucas, of course. But I have cast the evil eye upon too many innocent young plantlings, whose owners,’ helpfully | grooming them for appearance in the public prints, gave them such excellent care they slowly but surely wasted away! . Even the history of this begonia’s immediate ' predecessor is tragic.
NINE: Warmth of personality, with nothing about Mrs. Wm. Willcox, a neighbor at
her to suggest the bored dead-pan type. along w with and fun to have around.
2234 N.. Delaware st., received the
TEN: A sense of humor to make her easy to get parent plant 8 as a gift from. Boston, : last summ
er.
“I've never seen such a lovely! plant as that was,” says Mrs. Lucas. Past tense, you note. It didn't approve of our Hoosier climate, “In addition to the white calla like
the leaf stem is, often a blush pink.” To, add to its klory the plant ‘will blossom, too.
a.9 8 ¥ MRS. LUCAS has raised many types of begonias over a period of some 20 years. In summer she masses her whole collection in outdoor bed that she has built up with rotted leaves and chicken manure. She edges this raised bed, which is outlined with a collection of rocks, with the frothy green of baby’s tears (helxine). ‘And do you know how to’ keep, this charming little «plant (helxine) grdwing- pretty and green indoors. all winter? Mrs. J. 8 Cochran, | 1735 W. Morris st., keeps hers standing always in a little water and when it begins to.look yellow, simply pulls off the top growth. “It will. grow out again prettier than ever,” she says.
o IF you WERE too busy to protect your gladiolus bulbs last fall from thrips, better give them a thought now. Leo Matthews, 2730 Lockburn st, says most of the gladiolus specialists are getting
balls, to me!) and are using DDT, -
little thrips that do so much damage later .on_blasting glad leaves,
leaves that. gradually take on more | ; green as they get older, the base of |
ard Lucas, 2254 N, Delaware st., is rarely foung England.
away from napthalene flakes (moth and flowers. i al _ Put a tablespoon or so of the dust Give * dust (3 per cent) to finish off those in a paper bag, shake a few bulbs thrips. with it to get them well dusted, he
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Gentle Spring—
First (We Hope) Dandelion Blooms
Air's Full of Signs That Winter's Ending :
By the Weather Editor YOU DON'T have fo be told that everybody's thqughts have turnedto spring. That recent 10-day intere lude of sub-zero weather, blizzards, thunder and lightning has been for= gotten. . ¥ Zs : People are thinking about raking. their yards, spring : fishing and golf. Well, everything pots that 4 wr. Indiana university sent out. &
“am 8 dandelion mom WEY T ake 0 day, Feb, 13, 1947, while I was de= livering my papers. I belitve this is the first this spring as I haven read of any other being found it seems so odd that it 55 won sfier the severe er of last week. here! T thought you mi
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At Monticello, Leslie Cox, county "REMC lineman, saw a twos foot! mocccasin snake. It | wriggling ‘along a country somewhat slowly, but with a termined air, reports Mr. Cox.
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HE ALSO , hehtimed that the thaws of the past’ few days have caused the’ clover tb “heave.” The thaws cause the clover roots to rise {rom ‘the greund when there is no snow covering, says Mr. Wallace. It all means that the condition
said Mr, Wallace. And on the subject of the vires arid the bees, Mr. Wallace said a ¢ivil aerondutics authority man - week
ings and the like, He wanted fo use the data'fn wind ‘tunnel experiments