Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1947 — Page 13
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WHEN SOMEONE TALKS about a watchmaker, 1 get a mental picture in my mind. And this pieture isn't of a 21-year-old woman in a crisp, white blouse, skirt, saddle shoes and anklets. I" just can't associate one of those black eyepieces watchmakers wear with a young woman who would look well on a college campus. It doesn't seem right in this “man's” world. : That's why I had to go out and see Laversa Jean (Bobbie) Simerly personally at the Brightwood Jewelers, 2340 Station st. Sufe enough, there was the ohly registered woman watchmaker in Indianapolis busy repairing a tiny watch, On her right eye was a black’ magnifying eyepiece. My mental picture faded and from now on watchmakers will get a better break. = “I want to watch you work for awhile — if you don’t mind,” I said. “Grab a stool and watch. answered. She's congenial, too. Seated .on the watchmaker's stool, my Adam's apple rested on the edge of the work-bench, Too low for me. “Why 1is.this. thing so low?" Miss Simerly took her eyepiece off. “Oh, we just Hike to get our noses to the grindstone—don't we, Len?” Leonard Taylor, a fellow watchmaker sitting. at the other bench, said that was right. Good enough for me,
Bench Neat, Orderly
1 don't mind,” Bobbie
MY RECOLLECTION of watchmakers’ benches is
that they're always pretty well cluttered up. Not so
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THE TICK-TOCK LADY—Laversa Jean (Bob, i bie) Simerly, only registered woman watchmaker in the city, "digs" into a watch.
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Cutting Expenses
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light tap here, a slight twist with..the tweezers.
By Ed Sovola
with Miss Simerly’s. Her bench is neat, orderly and there's not a speck of dust or an odd or end that isn't supposed to be there. ; Then I saw a bobby pin. It was among tiny screwdrivers, pliers and tweezers. A-ha, I thought, a woman's influence, I hesitated to mention it. Maybe I was being too hasty. Maybe it was a tool. Might as well ask. “Is that bobby pin something you use in your work I finally asked. 1 got a good answer to my prying question. ~I use it in my hair.” “How did you happen to become’ a watchmaker?”
Didn't Like Sales Work | “MOSTLY BECAUSE I didn't like being a saleslady, I guess,” Miss 8imerly said. “After my graduation from Technical in 1945, I began selling. I didn't like it and when Mr. Miller (Gerald P., Miller, owner of Brightwood Jewelers) asked me to
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learn the watchmaking trade, I started in. I'm glad I did, too.” “What's that you're doing now?” “I'm replacing a shaft on a balance wheel,” she
said. Ladies’ watches sure come small. parts looked like bits of dust. see was a jewel. In my time several watches and clocks ticked
Some of the What I wanted to
their last after I worked them over but they were] -
never the kind with jewels. . With the help of the glass I looked at a ruby jewel. Funny little thing. Wouldn't do much good in a ring setting. The wholé 17 wouldn't make a decent showing.
Her : hand . movements were quick and sure. A al flip with the forefinger and the alae wheel was | spinning in the truing gadget. A few more adjust-, ments and the balance wheel was ready. | Miss Simerly took a glass cover off of the rest| of the "parts and began _ assembling the torn-down watch. It must be a good feeling to know what you're doing with a pile of watch parts. I In a few minutes the watch was ready. She, wiped it off with a cloth and slipped it into # paper] envelope, Next. A watch was marked “Cleaned| and adjusted.” “I wish 1 had a real -good job to show you. A] watch where we have to make a part.” So did'I. - | While she talked the parts of the watch began} hitting the frosted glass on her workbench. The! Jewels and the balance wheel went into a special] cleaning. fluid. The rest of the parts were put into! a small, fine-wire basket for the cleaning machine. “Now while this’ one is being cleaned, I'll take, another apart. That's the way it goes all day. Take | ‘em apart and put them back together again.” Pretty | simple, isn’t it?
so can I. Mine's been gaining time.
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By Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON, March 12.—The pen that chokes and sputters and colors our fingers black in Uncle Samuel's postoffices will be with us for some time to , come, meaning indefinitely. So will the inkwell with ' a smear of soot in the battom.
As for the postoffice’s clanking green trucks hiss- ' ing steam, dribbling spare parts and dating back to ! maybe 1916, I urge that you have a care. If one heads + your way, leap quickly. Do not depend on the govern- . ment’'s brake linings. Ifsany. All this adds up to the fact that we've got to take the bitter with the sweet. Economy in government is a wonderful thing, but .when you start economizing f you must start with’ something, such as postal pen points. These have got to last longer. The treasury and postoffice appropriations for i 1048, first of the cut-expenses bills to-enter the con- * gressional hopper, snicks a little here and lops a little ' there and manages—according to, the Republicans— to save the taxpayers a whopping $897,000,000. The Democrats say this figure is a phony, but we can let them argue that out between ‘em. Our problem con- ! cerns sputtering pens and lethal vehicles.
Less Money for Pens
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES voted to give the postmaster general $387,000 less than he had the year before for pens, ink and writing paper. This will cause him to make “better and longer use of ! existing equipment,” the appropriations committee wrote. I might add that the committee did its writing; ! with a typewriter, not with a pen at the N. Capitol st. ! postoffice. ‘ The head postmaster asked congress for $41,000,000 to buy some new trucks and patch the old ones. The ; committee said didn’t he know there's an automobile *- shortage? And that prices are enough to give motorists
dizzy spells? It told him to go easy on buying new machines and make the antiques do a while longer. It also withheld $5 million the postoffice had hoped | 0 use for new trucks.
r. Snyder Gets a Jolt
he'd better start firing people now, because they |
wouldn't even listen if he came back later asking for |
money to pay their wages. That brings up a weird one. The treasury’s division
lon, any | does so only on man’s tolerance.
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Counterattack Launched
To Kill Disease Carriers
D. D.T. Used in New Tactics Developed To Rid Country of Insect Pests
By
turn. Man is counter-attacking.
No longer do we hear gloomy, defeatist declarations that all Is lost, or as good as lost, that the insects are going to wipe out mankind, and {that the next great period in earth history will be the age of insects. If a woman can take a watch apart and fix 1¢.__| Entomologist are sounding the bugles for the counter-attack.
We can lick any bug that ever,
{straddled on six legs, they tell the | ‘harming more valuable kinds of in(world. We can wipe out any spe-| sects and other lesser wildlife forms.
cies that we want to. From now|
little pest that
” 8 ” THIS IS not mere cockiness; plain confidence, born ‘knowledge that we possess | weapons against our
| veloped for their use.
Challenge to battle was laid down | | swatter as'common a household im- | Mr.. Sayde OF TREASURY John Snyder also recently by Dr. Clay Lyie, retiring | plement as the can-opener will |inating flies,’ some of which have with the spray emulsion or suspen- | insects—and cats lick their fur” got a jolt from the appropriations experts. They said | president ‘of the American Associa-| readily support a community effort been in use for many years. Most sian. to render fly-swatters obsolete and |effective, of course, is total birth-| g 2's He pointed out how man has been screen doors unnecessary. Tequire able to inflict total defeat on sev-| Most of them will do their indi- them from reaching their favorite ‘bombs, that put a microscopically planting and greater’ efforts insects by vidual shares in the drive.
tion of Economic Entomologists.
eral particularly evil
survives)
DR. FRANK THONE Science Service Staff Writer
WAR BETWEEN man and the hordes of insects is taking a new
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(rats, are direct hangers-on of man. {They breed and feed close to his it is dwellings and barns, and are selof dom found at any distance from new | them. So if man will make fly-life msect foes! impossible on his |and that new tactics have been de- | flies are as good as abolished.
of disbursement asked for $500,000 to pay overtime to using intensive methods in limited |
the clerks who had to work nights writing the checks to pay other government clerks. The treasury people
time. The lawmakers took care of that one. They! crossed off the $500,000 and they said: “It would probably not require more than one]
department around to setting its house in order to insure that such delay does not happen again.”
The committee said the fiscal experts would have jt ap extinct species, as dead as the ing places are sufficiently similar to isolation of their operating bases | to work harder from now on and added that Secre-| qoqo, at least so far as this country | those of the housefly to expose it to can never be 100 per cent com-. |satisfaction of both meat-raisers less be ‘met in any effort to_rid the same doom when the D. D. T.} ‘plete, direct attack on the spray strikes.
tary Snyder's coast guard would have to quit think- | ing of itself as a miniature navy. The lawgivers said | that this year President Truman has one captain, two
The worst news I've saved for the last. The bureau of internal revenue has got to quit coddling taxpayers | and figuring out their’ ilcome tax returns for ‘em. | Let ‘em sweat: this out themselves, the committee said. If they know theyre saving money by it, they won't mind, says congress. It'll be sorry when it has to) figure out the. Othman tax return after same has been | prepared by Othman,
Bowl No. 5 Cut
By Erskine Johnson |
' HOLLYWOOD, March 12.—Ronald Reagan con- | fessed it in a wéak moment. When he first arrived at Warner Brothers, he still * eonsidered himself something of an athlete. And to carry out the illusion he wore one of those crew hair- + cuts. ! Mr. Reagan went to the make-up department to be }. fade up for his first screen test. Perc Westmore : looked at his hair, turned to an assistant, and said: “I'd say that head of hair ‘was probably clipped . around a size No. 5 bowl" For almost two yer M Mr. Reagan's nickname was + “Bowl Mas, 5.” Mr. Reagan, pronounce his name is ‘Ray-gan” not “Ree-gan. mL + only. about one person out of 10 gets it right. ‘ “I was a baseball announcer in Chicago for five ; years,” he said. “Every day for five years I signed § of with ‘This is Butch RAY-gan.’ And every day : for five years the engineer on the show would meet , me in the hall and say: ‘See you tomorrow REE-
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The Laughton Plague
CHARLES LAUGHTON has his own way of creating characters which have made him famous. .He likes to have his own way. His first day of work with Alfred Hitchcock on “The Paradine Case” was
by fe way, says the correct way 10 But
typical, despite Hitcli's confession that Laughton is one of his favorite actors. Wailed Mr. Hitchcock at 6 o'clock:
“There are three plagues in every director's life: Children, trained animals, and Charles Laughton.” June Allyson and Dick Powell are shopping for a
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larger home for the day when they'll be three... And| they hope it will be soon. . . . Janis Carter will get! star, status at Columbia as a result of her -perform-
ance opposite Glenn Ford in “Framed.” t
Alice Faye and Phil Harris are trying to talk Fox __
into letting them do a musical together. Jerry Colonna wants to give up slapstick omen i for the sympathetic type. Diana Lynn, dining at. the Beverly Tropics, wils| paged for a long distance ‘phone call from Tony Martin in Chicago. Bob Mitchum turned down $50,000 to do a picture with June Haver. He likes June but he did't Nike the script.
Bury the Kid Stuff . THE JAY RICHARD KENNEDY Management, Corp. of New York handled $20 million in “invest®|
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areas.
the common housefly. = » on
THIS IS not to be Just a swat- warm weather, delay in the issuance of checks to bring the offending | the-fly drive, aiming only at abate- wanders -up to the house for a iaste | {fective means of discouraging flies.
the total of human blood. 3-4 9
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{elimination of the housefly, making
is concerned.
Several considerations .- Indicate
He déclared that the time is" ripe” housefly will automatically kill off |8reatly diminished numbers of flies, (quick knock-down effect. said this was because the other government depart- | now for a nation-wide campaign its stable-mate, the hornfly. ments frequently didn't turn in their payrolls on | against that most familiar of pests, | | insect is smaller but more, vicious | eration.
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the choice of the housefly—rather | lieutenants, four sergeants and 73 cops to guard him 'than some other insect even more
at the White House. If this isn't enough, they added, | dangerous to man—Ilike the mos-
| beetle. These insects breed in the open,
{and attacks on them might serious-
ly upset the balance of nature by cule of D. D. T. with the nerye- around doors and windows. is an- converge in anvattack on the fly is enemies.
3 Men Held on
LOS ANGELES, March 12 (U. PJ). a and landed in the apartment, just disappeared” when the astro- | Navigator George Hart met his! occupied by -the superintendent of | dome of the airliner came loose death.
The red-haired victim of the city’s fourth “passion crime”. since
| | Police said a fire in a mattress stars. This was a passenger's ac- | and will continue until the dens e two months old slaying Of, the pedroom of the three- room| count of the freak accident. Standing ” Stool. line. April 7. “Black Dahlia” Elizabeth Short Was: ua rtment had filled the rooms with| The mishap occurred Monday] “Hart was standing on a stool| More than 84000 voters Were,
identified today as Mae "Lorena gence gmake,
| Preston, 46. only in a dressing’ gown, was. found | | Bellflower home.
A few hours earlier, another | middle-aged woman, Evelyn Wiz)
ments during 1946. Company is owned by the same| ters, was found deac near the rail
Mr. Kennedy who announced plans for a movie based | on the life of F.D.R.
Jackie Cooper and Jackie Coogan play a couple |
road yards. She had been stripped [and beaten. George Wickliffe, 28-year- old |
of G. I's attending college in “Kilroy Was Here.” railroad section hand from Joplin, |
“It's a break,” Mr. Cooper told me.. “Mr. Coogan | and I have been trying to bury our adolescense. There's no one older in the world than a G. I. in| college,” Letter from Barbara Stanwyck from London finds her expressing Jerself 1 in her inimitable manner. “We went to Westininster Abbey. One of the vestrymen took us all through, and it was most in-
teresting. Of course, I almost froze: to death, but 1| .
saw where all ‘the kings and queens were buried. If]
|Mo;, who found the body, is being | held on suspicion of her murder, Frank (Hardrock) Funk, 52, al
|the war of extermination on flies.|in the barn and other outhouses noyance and blood previously col-| iple jobs like the wholesale massacre (Of adl insect orders, the diptera, where flies robst—walls, then Mr. Truman can egplain why he needs more. |quito, or a major crop pest like the | |which includes flies and mosqui- beams, cotton boll weevil or the potato] | toes, seem to be most sensitive to kill flies not only | this sensational insecticide. but for months afterward.
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Ath ‘Passion CRE 5 ore fo eh | Navigator 'Disappeared,’ Victim |dentifie | Edward P. Flynn, 41, executive edi- |
(tor of The New York Post, leaped |
to his death early today from his! George H. Hart, navigator of the [ton smoke-filled eighth-floor
Suspicion of Murders tan apartment.
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{ the building.
for help and jumped before firemen | at Her strangled, beaten body, clad | grrived.
z yesterday on the “banks of the San his reaching the firs” escape. "police | Gabriel river, a few miles from her | said.
| contractor, and his son, Myron, 23,
were booked on suspicion of the | |Preston murder when the elder | | Punk came to.the dead woman's home. Identified by Fingerprints He said he and his son left "Miss |
I hadn't left when I did they would have buried the! Preston, also known as Mrs. Lund, |
only commoner ever, interred (here—from freezing.”
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We, the Women
By Ruth Millett
NEW YORK heart specialists — physicians,
not
_This is a new field of “how to hold on to your | ve
lovelorn advisers—recently pointed out'to women that husband” that women are going to have to take] they are overlooking the most important way -to hold seriously. It may not appeal to them as much as|
on to a husband's heart. That is by helping a past«40 husband take. care of his heart so that he can live toa ripe old. age. This is probably the soundest advice. on how to hold on to a husband that women will ever get.
Outliving Husbands
‘WOMEN TODAY are aiving {heir husbands.
This may mean years of lonely widowhood ahead for when she reaches her middle years. Her children no the wife who doesn}, “help safeguard her husband's longer demand constant care, and her housework is
. health, “» The heart. Recialisis have some tips on how the
: risk can help him prolong his life. : 1 They recommend letting him lie down for a’ half
im, especially a meal time, stats Sevieding hum : hysical labor,
4 woman whose husband is no longer a good insurance that period in life be his greatest, especially if he is
1 hours rest before dinner, avoiding Arguments with
keeping youthful figures, fighting wrinkles, or dress- | ing smartly.
Practical, Not Romantic ‘BUT IT’S A far more sensible way for a woman to make sure that she will have companignship in her old age. The pressure of life normally lets up for a woman
lightened. But a man's Yori and responsibilities may at
at the peak of his success, or if he is fighting to ‘hold his own against younger meh,
ny is the time for a. wo to 8
tart thinking her Bishan th-—not ! tmanicai, i
lat, 12:30 a. m. vesterday, only a few | hours. before her body was found. Police, believing that the same sex fiend may have been responsible for the Winters and Preston mu}ders, pointed out that both women were raped and both apparently ere dumped from cars, dead. : Miss Preston, lehem Steel employee, was identified from fingerprints on file with the FBI. Miss. Winters, 43, once ' a member of the movie colony, had a police record- for drunkenness. Since her 1941 divoree from Sidney Justin, chief of the Paramount studio legal department, Miss Win~ ters had frequented the dingy bare of Skid Row. Police said she had
no home -and left her belongings
in saloons. Police were studying a possible
connéction with the vicious mur-|-ders of ‘Elizabeth’ Short and Mrs.
Jeanne French, both of whom fre-
quented bars. Ther deaths. started | ~ the wave of sex crimes. La
already |
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likely to result in abatirig other. sect pests as well. al Roaches, for example, are almost as much’ camp-followers of man as are flies.’ Their habits are very different, however, and different attacks must be used against them. They are more resistant to D. D. T,,. . but sufficient concentrations of the residual-type spray, put where they EL . scuttle, will in the end banish them. i Bedbugs are not nearly sn gen- y erally distributed as flies or roaches. But _ crowded, living conditions caused’ by the housing shortage ave undoubtedly. encouraging thelr spread. : Forturiately, they ‘are exceeds sensitive to -D, D. Pu spraying of mattresses, oe
and walls and ceilings of sleeping riinbeiedan Stns pelt HOW TO ROUT BUGS—Concentrated DDT spray intended rooms and’ they: gfe done for. | to rout roaches from a cupboard (left) is tested by a U. S. depart- i oa ment of agriculture worker. Major attack just now is centered on a THEKE 18 god reason, eithét.
why anybody should put up with: dog and cat fleas. There are several effective preparations that will get rid of them—and if Towser or Tab by goes out and gets a fresh set, the treatment is easily repeated. . .. One cautionary note here: flefi-
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ON THE other hand, flies, like
major foe, the common housefly (center), shown magnified to a scale proportionate to his misdeeds. Screen door is turned from a mere passive barrier into an aggressive death-trap by painting it (right) with. a persistent DDT preparation. Bedbugs ‘aren't supposed to get into polite society; they can be routed from crowded hotels, dormitories and barracks with the kind of artillery shown banishing preparations containing
(bottom). |D. D. T. are fine for dogs, but are jendings in one foot, {t is certain to other effective way to lay death- inadvisable for cats. D..D. T."In A people who have made the fly- die. traps for flies. Screens over win- sufficient quantity is poisonous for There are other means of exterm- (dows and doors should be painted warm-blooded animals as well as fo.
own premises,
More widespread campaigns, {against pests that are ‘native or aerosol long- established, longer to en|nursery—the farm manure-pile. ‘list public and support. Elimination of horses from city (fine poison mist inte the air, usual- Somes sacrifices will weal be aeetraffic is the principal cause of the(ly contain a liftle pyrethrum for essary. a
| control, achieved by preventing! THE WIDELY-SOLD
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= By the time the flies have begun, DR. LYLE deviated. possible {to recover from the pyrethrum pa- for cotton boll weevil to ‘be wiped Close covering of garbage, or its] 'ralysis, the slower D. D. T. is al-!out in five years, if a n of 'chemical treatment to prevent’ fly ready getting in-its deadly work on non-cotton “zones could’ bev their nervous systems. lished across the Cotton Belt. This pleasant picture of triumph However, no single state will come over the housefly hosts is no mere forward and adopt the necessary : | legislation. ; i Similar difficulties would dotibt-
This!in urban areas during the past gen-|
| because” it bites and draws blood.
It torments cows endlessly in and occasionally | 'eggs from hatching, is another ef-
HOWEVER, since destruction or daydream. It has been demonstrafed to the |
| Its choice of breeding and roostfly armies |and dairymen that they could—at ‘ourselves of any major crop, or(reasonable costi—keep their animals’ chard or timber pest.
But if we start on relatively stm-
"will still be necessary. : DDT sprayed on every place! lin comfort, free of the tolls in an- |
D. D. T. is the prime weapon for | ceilings, lected by flies. / of flies, in which people can easily pipes, cow stanchions—will| This would result in dividends be induced to co-operate, we shall while it is fresh both in cash and in improved san- | doubtless educate ourselves up-to litary conditions in the milkhouse. the point where we can tackle more "a a complex and difficult wars of exGETTING PEOPLE generally to termination Sean ‘our insect
Spraying ‘porches (especially their | and outside ‘wall areas
n n o IF A fly picks up even one mole- | ceilings)
Vote Registration : Offices “Opened -
Start at 8 a. m,, Close at 10 p. m. A’ campaign to register voters for
{the éity primary ‘election May 6 while he was getting, a fix on the| “Here's what happened. istarted this week in branch offices
NEW YORK, March 12 (U. P.).—|
Passenger on Plane Relates
BOSTON, March 12 (U. P).— aN the accident to the BosGlobe by telephone from
| | Gander.
Manhat- Constellation, |
| Transworld Airlines
“We. were cruising at 19.000 feet “Star of Hollywood,”
is .body plunged through a sky- | “shot up and ion the cabin pressurized when
“purged” from the lists during uary because of their failure to cast > ballots in the 1946 elections. ‘Only . 20,000: of Shese were: feinstated: by’ cards.
returning HY ! “REIforts will” —- : the remainder before the: April 1 deadline. To register, a person, in addition - | to- being 21 years old and a U. 8.
Mr. Flynn screamed ‘night while the plane was cruising |with his sextant in his hands and 19.000 feet altitude about 540|p;. peaq jn the plastic blister on
of Gander, New=-| fuse} Smoke in the bedroom prevented foundland. : ithe top of the fuselage. Arthur "D. “Hota, Sg seth: The pilot: ~the- purser and: “the Bn 1 Boston lawyer, gave the following ferewaidess were standing around | ; = "him. Suddenly there was a terrific
noise in the’ blister and a terrible rush of air. A dense vapor formed in
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{the cockpit. Fw citizen, must have lived in Indiana a. Bart shot up and just dis- for six months. Other, requirements urements “The pilot yelled: ‘Where's the arg days ip Te Bs i the navigator?’ But he was gone. precinct where the voter intends to “The ship veered sharply and
cast his ballot. Branch registration offices will be oper ftom 3 a. 10:10 Pup ay the following places:
ToDAY
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every loose paper and article was sucked up through the hole where | Mr. Hart had disappeared. The ‘stewardess (Marjory Page, Wash-| {ington, D. C.) fell toward the hole las the ship veered. The purser [tackled her and then rushed to shut the outer cockpit door to stop the! escape of air. Cockpit Door Smashed | “The liner cockpit door was} smashed and the purser grabbed lit and forced a part of it into the | hole where the plastic blister had | ge been, ‘He was a hero. He Is
Cargyle Smith, Kansas City, school 7. 146 Batesgifl “When the violent rush of air|School 13 Tai 8 West. 8
‘smashed one door and forced the Station other open, we passengers could see|4, 1300 E. Hanna Mr. Smith and the stewardess on the floor for a moment. Miss Page was hurt about the face, but both she and the -purser—despite the] fact thet they were pale and gasp- GF ling for breath, ished. tthe Pasig) . .senger section.”
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SEE U0 St 1.00.0. PAT. OFF. "I m Senator Smelt, Younis lady! If you d be interested i in a job as : my secretary, | could offer you the: ame ling oof work with more moneyd’