Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1947 — Page 13
18, 1947
”. 5 on - gn : Inside Indianapolis is tnd: at THERE'S AN EASY WAY of going more than ments. 2% 800 miles per hour in a P-80 Shooting Star airplane “.and I took it. That's for me. Call me fraidy-cat, a reactionary, a horse and TI buggy type of a fellow, I don't care.” But when you i Sy talk of 500 miiles per hour speeds, I'll go along for
N6. 8 in Plant 2 of Allison in Speedway City. Just as good. Robert P. Atkinson, assistant chief turbine engineer, sat at the controls of the experimental J-33 engine which powers the P-80. A thick, steel wall with an observation window was between us and the jet engine which was going to be put through the mill, no holds barred. Going along for the “ride” were three test engineers. William J. Stark was going to check the fuel flow, Steve Minton the temperature readings
engine log. More people can go along on my type of a Shooting Star joy-ride. “All set?” Mr. Atkinson asked me. “Let er rip.” He turned on the starter: Immediately little lights on the instrument panel in front of us began to blink. A faint hum could be heard. “In 30 seconds the starter will be spinning the engine at 1000 revolutions per minute,” the “pilot” explained. “The 14 combustion engines will catch hold pretty soon and then the starter will disengage. That's when ‘we'll pour the coals on.” “Are we off the ground yet?” I asked trying to get a little realism into the operation. Mr. Atkinson caught on and got into the spirit of the thing.
Sounds Like Vacuum Cleaner
“No—we're just idling. But before we take off, I want you to understand how. simple flying has become with the jet engine. No: controllable pitch propellors to worry about, no magneto check to
take, . you forget about any carburetor mixture—in
THERE SHE GOES—Robert P. Atkinson, assistant chief turbine engineer, opens up a "P-80 Shooting Star.”
the ride with my imagination like I did at test stand ,
up there?” I asked.
and Flfege Austad was going to keep a running :
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fact you just wait until the blowtorch is lit up and then zoom away. Ready?”
HE PULLED the throttle back. It sounded as if someone had turned.on a giant vacuum cleaner. Gauges began jumping and the test engineers began recording readings. “We're climbing now at the rate of 300 miles per hour,” the pilot informed me. Other than the tremendous roar—it didn't feel bad. Any elevator in town has more kick to it. “What's that green stuff creeping along that tube “That's vhe ‘inclined monometer. It measures the air flow.” Good—good. According to Mr. Atkinson the engine at this point was turning at 11,500 r. p. m. and we were at the maximum rate of climb. “We'll level off at 30,000 feet and put the ship into full military power. Wheh we do that—in one hour, if we sustain that speed, we'll be using enough fuel to heat an average flve-room house for a full year.” (Taxpayers please note where some of our money is going.) : “I sure would like to see the fire the engine throws out, Mr. Atkinson.”
Fire Is Disappointing ANOTHER ADVANTAGE of flying like we were. Mr. Minton merely opened the door of the test room, took me to an observation window and I saw what the J-33 was kicking up. And it was disappointingly little. The thermocouple ring was red hot. That's the gadget which is hooked on to take the temperature, readings. A red glow was-coming out of the rear of the engine. Didn't look like too much.”
Mr. Minton informed me that it was 1200 degrees:
Fahrenheit where the red glow was. He also said at takeoff the flame was more spectacular. Unfor= tunately, I was in the cockpit at takeoff. “Right where you see the -glow,” Mr. Minton pointed out, “the wind is coming out at the rate of 1100 miles per hour.” There's nothing reasonable about the jet engine. Everything has to be out of proportion to a sane existence. . Back in the cockpit things were normal. Gauges were bouncing and the engineers were recording every bounce. “How we doin?” “Just fine,” Mr. Atkinson answered. “How long you going to keep this thing roaring?” About 50 hours. That's long enough to go prace tically around the world.” “What are you trying to prove and after you prove it, then what?” Mr. Atkinson jiggled the throttle before he answered. “What we're trying to prove is a secret experimental project. But after we prove it, this engine goes back to the shop and will be taken apart piece by piece and checked minutely. Then it will be retested.” “Can I get off here?” “There’s the door.” See—you can't do that in a real P-80 and get away with it.
Laws on the Way
By Frederick C. Othman
Sm WASHINGTON, March 18.—I hate to sound like a crabbed boss, but I've got some boys in my lawmaking shop (I'm paying ’em $15,000 a year each), who don't seem to be getting any place much. I'm thinking about putting ‘em on piece work rates. They've been on the job now since Jan. 3 and to date they have introduced 3455 bills, 906 in the senate and 2549 in the house. That sounds good on the face of it, but they have turned only. 17 of these bills into law. “ Sixgeen” Of these few laws, one making tax-free all gifts to the United Nations, dont amount to much. The seventeenth continues excise’ taxes indefinitely on fur coats, pool tables, lamp bulbs and such. It is the only law of importance adopted by both houses of the 80th congress and signed by President Truman. Sometimes I think my lawmakers da too much arm-waving. They get into the doggondest arguments (on full pay) These fellows all have secretaries and stenographers (some have press agents). Each senator has an executive assistant at up to $10,000 a year, but they don’t seem to be making any more speed than they ever did.
Speedup System
1 HAVE some strawbosses on the job, of course, including Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio. They are doing their dead-levelest to bring production up to profitable levels. Senator Taft has inaugurated a speed-up system for the workers under him and is making them labor every day and at least one night a week. Without overtime pay. This may help. The senator says I am like most absentee em-
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ployers. I expect too much. This may be true. He says his boys are working hard now, making some exceedingly complicated pilot models in the way of laws involving labor, taxes, tariffs and budgets.
Taft Not Discouraged
THESE LAWS all are being built by hand in committee and this is a slow and painful] job. Senator Taft claims that when these laws are finished and given a coat of quick-drying lacquer, I'll be amazed at the way they click off the production line, He is not discouraged and that is good, because it is hard to find an experienced foreman these days to take over a law-making foundry. As of now the senate is working on a portal-to-portal pay law. The house has passed it. The house hasn't smoothed off the rough edges on the tax cut law yet and no telling when the senate will get around to it. The house has passed a bill naming Hoover dam,
Invention Revolution Will Reduce Wiring
By RON Watch for these:
Ordinary phone calls put thro Hearing aids a fraction of their present size. All of these are coming along with even more important developments made possible with “printed wire,” sub-miniature tubes and midget batteries. ‘Thanks to these new achievements, you will be able to broadcast from your own tiny radio station combining the “calling card radio” and the “lipstick broadcasting station.” Dr. Cledo Brunetti, an electrical engineer at the national bureau of standards in Washington, has broadcast with the midget station and heard programs on the cardsize receiver. » » » THE personal broadcasting and receiving station will fit easily in
Broadcasting — Receiving Units Fit In Coat Pocket
A radio on a plate the size of a calling card. A broadcasting station with most of its components small enough to fit into an empty lipstick container. Cheap, easily-changed plug-in assemblies for bigger home radios.
izes Electronics, Costs 30-60%
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Science Service Writer
ugh more than 100 times faster.
can be reduced to one one-hundred-and-thirtieth of the present time with a small “memory” circuit which may be fitted in the ordinary handset. The tiny circuit would transmit information to the central office one-tenth of a second after you lift the phone. . » » .
THESE revolutionary developments in radio and electronics, some of which may be on the market in a few months, are being developed from a world war II achievement. Thousands of complete radio broadcasting and receiving stations were shot from guns and operated successfully to bring down enemy
stations of the proximity fuze used
A complete radio broadcasting station is held in the oft hand of Dr. Cledo Bure
netti (left) of the national bureau of standards while a four-tube radio receiver is in
his right.
The "microphone" and "speaker" were taken from an ordinary telephone
handset, but a lip microphone and smaller speaker can be used with the tiny radio”
units,
three other broadcasting sets.
THE tiny radio and broadcasting
“printed wire.” Instead of copper wires, such as used on your radio, flat lines of silver ink, a solution of fine silver or silver oxide, were stencilled on a small ceramic plate. Another stencil operation used a carbon solution to “print” on the resistors. Tiny tubes were soldered onto the flat circuit and small batteries supplied the power for the tiny radio. » s » THE “calling card receiver” has circuits~ painted on a plastic card two by five inches. It has four tiny tubes. Radio tubes have been developed which are one inch long and only one-eighth of an inch in diameter. Power for the portable, card-type receiver comes from small batteries, thus far the largest part of the
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a man’s coat pocket or in a corner of a woman's handbag. A new hearing aid, using subminiature tubes and flat, printed circuits, is one inch high and two and one-half inches long, complete except for the batteries and ear attachment. The time it takes to ring your
planes. Small enough to fit into a few cubic inches, the tiny radio stations 'haa to be rugged enough to be shot from guns or dropped thousands of feet in bombs. They increased the effectiveness Allies in several crucial struggles of anti-aircraft batteries of the
number when you dial your phone
Hoover dam (honest Harold Ickes still thinks it ought to be Boulder dam), but the senate hasn't even tackled it. In various stages of completion the two, assembly plants have laws about synthetic rubbers " road through a navy camp in San Diego, Cal, inspection of locomotives, the future (if any) of the| Indian bureau, air mail rates, copper tariffs and a few hundred other things. Most. of the 3455 bills the boys introduced in their | first fine flurry of enthusiasm, however, are headed for the trash can. Or so my supervisors assure me. This is just as well.” As a fair-minded employer I
or so before I take ‘em off their annual wage and men of the big powers first began planning a worl
pay 'em strictly by the piece for merchandise produced.
Oscar Winner
By Erskine Johnson
HOLLYWOOD, March 18.—Olivia de Havilland won the Academy Award statuette for the best actress of the year for her performance in “To Each His Own,” but her mother has some adverse criticism of her portrayal of the aging Miss Norris. Olivia blushingly told me the story just after they handed her an Oscar: She took her mother to the picture. Sap BIE tr on Boy EERE aM iv ; “Didn't you see yourself as Miss Norris; Mother?"
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Lillian Fontaine said crisply, “I should say not. How utterly ridiculous. Olivia, you know I didn't have a line in my facé at 46.” “And,” said Olivia, “she didn’t have a line in* her face at 46. But I didn't think she'd call me on it.”
Doubted Role
BUT AT LEAST mama believed Olivia had played Miss Norris. Her maid, Lou, didn't think she had played twins in “The Dark Mirror.” Lou came home after seeing the picture and told Olivia she had argued with a friend about which twin her mistress had played. Lou bet that Olivia played the one with “the black dress.” “I had to explain,” Olivia laughed, “about using
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Olivia patterned her mannerisms after her mother’s. -
a split screen before I could convince Lou that I played both roles. Up to then she had quite a lot of respect for Hollywood's ability to find doubles.”
Started at Top
MOST HOLLYWOOD stads have a story of strug-
gling for recognition. But even in the beginning
Olivia was right up there at the top in “A Mid-| fresh from. the Hollywood.
Sumer Night's. Dream,” pow! Stage versfon. coo oo ; It took her five. years, Olivia said, to gain the philosophy needed to say, “That critic was right. I'll watch that in my acting next time.” But after five years Olivia didn't need the philos- | ophy. Hollywood discovered she was an actress, not just a glamor or personality girl. Modestly, Olivia gives credit to good . directors for Hollywood's good acting performances. 3 “Some,” she said, “just throw in people, story and camera like hash. Others, like Directors George Cukor, Mitch Leisen and Victor Fleming, really help.” She remembers as Melanie in “Gone With the Wind,” she had to ask Scarlett, “How are you today?” Mr. Fleming said, “You asked it politely, Olivia. Melanie wasn't asking for politeness sake, but because she was concerned, sincere.” “Suddenly,” sald Olivia, “I understood Melaple.”)
We, the Women
By Ruth Millett
i A YOUNG New York artist, in a recent tirade against the “modern girl,” said that men wanted honesty in a woman “first and foremost.” That may be what they THINK they want. But a completely honest women would never get a man to the altar, much less hold on to him afterward. Women are such practical, calculating ‘creatures that if they were completely honest with men about their motives and reactions it- would scare the men to death. A girl takes a long look in her mirror one day and decides it is time for her to get a husband. From the moment that decision is made, every man she meets is potential husband material.
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WITH A calculating eye she picks the man she’ wants and then sets out to make him fall in love with her. If she were honest with the man at this point, about her intentions and her reasons for wants ing to get married, he would run a mile. oh 8. piecing fo fs slvr
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wedding anniversary and beyond. Women don't give men honesty, because they are intuitively wise enought to know that isn’t what men want from women. And they know that if they don't give men what they want, the men will find other women who will.
A Good Actress
MEN WANT a woman to let them hold on to.an idealized picture of her. They want women who can make themselves look better than they are. They want a woman to be a “woman,” not an individual— but a woman who reacts in the ways a woman is . supposed to react. What the artist really meant is that men want a + girl to give the impression of being completely honest. They want her to be a good enough actress to make her play acting seem ‘real. ut they aren't yet ready for honesty in women, not in 1947. Any woman who doubts this might just Sty being eoitpletely honest with n ina for # wesk-- ¥ she can afford to lose ‘him,
Broad Political Issues
during the war.
. Delay World Police Force
Russia's Stubborness in Closed-Door
Sessions Also Has By CHARLE
Aggravated Planning
S T. LUCEY
Scripps-Howard Staff Writer : WASHINGTON, March 18.—It is nearly two years since the United solo. suppose I'll have to give my lawmakers another month Nations charter was drafted at San Francisco and a year since military
| but. there still is no cop on the troubled international beat.
». There may be no such cop for another year or two, even taking |Ellen Louise Makin,
the optimistic view. An immediate result is to thrust
upon the United States now an|
attempt at solution of the GreekTurkish crisis, which might be
in part by the
its basic organization work had not been bogged down so long. The delay] grows in’ part from the fact
Mr. Lucey representatives of the Big Five to agree when broader political ques[tions have not been settled by the security council. It has been aggravated, too, by | | stubbornness of Russian spokesmen
(in the closed-door sessions on mili-
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tary planning just as in the more]
open discussions of United Nations political problems. Far From Agreement
The military representatives today still are far from agreement on the principles of a central force to | keep peace. They still are immersed in discussions of these first principles, - Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, (R. Mich.), chief architect of Re- | publican foreign policy, said in com- | menting on President Truman's |mesage to congress on the GreekTurkish situation that this country should “immediately insist” in the security council that plans for the world police force be consummated. What are the basic principles of a world police force on which the big powers have been unable to agree? They stem directly from the United Nations charter, and concern such robvious questions as the way in which such a world military force would be used for peace, its composition, disposition and like matters. Russ Dislike Plan How large is the force to be? How many troops and what equipment would be supplied by the United States and others of the Big Five, and then by the rest of the nations? How would command in a given area be decided?
There has been talk that the
handled at least|
United Nations if |
that Tt 15” aie for —the military
United Nations force should number about two million men, with the Big Five to supply about half of those among them and the other million men to come from the {smaller nations. But the Russians, according to reports, back away from the idea that the United Nations should have any standing international military | force at all in advance of any crisis {which might arise. They say that military commitments should not {be assigned by the security council (until need actually arose.
strong-exeeption.Fhey contend that it is obviously necessary to have forces co-ordinated in advance to make the United Nations truly effective in a crisis. Council Can Fix Strength Article 42 of the United Nations charter says the United Nations “may take such action by air, sea or land forces as may be necessary to maintain or restore international peace and security,” and that action may include “demonstrations, blockade or other operdtions.” The “strength and degree of readiness” is to be determined by the security council, but members shall hold “immediately available”
combined international enforcement action,” Some have thought that the U. S.
heavily in supplying air forces, and some other countries in supplying larger masses of troops.
Greece Relief Needs Stressed by Bishop
“No matter what the United States government decides to do to bolster the tottering economy *of Greece, the need for immediate aid for the sick and starving people, especially ‘the children, is more imperative than ever.” This was the announcement made by the Rt. Rev. R. A. Kirchhoffer, bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Indianapolis and chairman of the Indianapolis chapter of Greek War Relief. The campaign to raise
police force— |
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“national air force contingents for|%
and Britain would come in most | §
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repairs on a small radio, you will be able to buy a new one.
caster is even smaller than his
For less than you pay today for
2 = = DR. BRUNETTI'S lipstick broad-
receiver. Instead of printed wire on a flat surface, the one-tube broadcasting unit has the circuits painted on the surface of the tube. He uses hearing aid batteries and a standard portable microphone. A lip microphone may be most convenient for personal broadcasting. When an airplane crashes into a mountain in the future, a survivor’ may call for help and guide rescue parties with broadcasts from a station in his pocket. » » - AID for auto wreck victims may be summoned .by pocket nr doctors will have personal poc ' radios to summon them and op you get a flat tire on the way home from work, you can tell your wife to delay dinner.
THE pocket radios will be embedded in clear plastic for protection. The plastic-enclosed radio can be tuned several ways. There probably will be no dial. A flat strip of metal which can be slid through a grooved slot or even a pin-like piece of metal may be used.
‘Manual High Band 'To Give Spring Concert
An annual spring concert by Manual high school band, will be presented at 8 p. m. Friday in the school auditorium.
‘Even more important than tiny radios and personal braodcasting may be the revolution in radio and electronics manufacturing, ‘Printing ‘wire circuits reduces the cost of wiring 30 to 60 per cent, explains Dr, Burnetti: And wiring, he adds, is a big chunk of what you
"Lipstick radio station," held between two fi ingers (right), is shown beside:
MANY portant electronic ig
velopments during and since the
some important electronic develope ments, ss = # POCKET tulips can svesbaiulie in a unit for the pocket of the fu= ture, besatie cirvuli an he pH on cloth. Reporting that the ures standards has been flooded t
station in your pocket, you may be able to turn off a bad radio gram and gir your own thanks to tiny é make shells explode when would do the most damage to enemy
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pay for a modern radio.
By ROBERT VERMILLION United Press Staff Correspondent
Antone Holevas, elected student director, will be presented a baton autographed by band seniors. Frederick Sears will present a clarinet
Geraldine Richeson, accompanied |by Waneta Staten, will play a | marimba solo during intermission. school 80 fourth grader, will be guest soloist.
Hoosier Artists Exhibit ‘Paintings Homer Davisson of F't. Wayne and Frederick Polley of Indianapolis are the artists represented in the current Indiana group exhibit at Herron Art museum. Sponsored by the Art association of Indianapolis and the Indiana Artists’ club, the exhibit is scheduled to run through March 27, \cludes,. nine oil paintings = Davisson and 19 ‘etchings, li oh and drypoints by Mr. Polley.
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AMOUDARA, Greece, March 18 (Delayed) — The general didn’t show up. T he interpreter quit and |joined the guerrillas. And today a flea-bitten, leg-weary and annoyed United Nations subcommittee decided to give it up as a bad job. . The decision came after waiting six days in this guerrilla outpost village for Gen. Markos Zafiades, Greek guerrilla leader, to come and testify about Greece's civil war. Apparently Gen. Zafaides was either too busy fighting or too scared to keep the appointment. The decision to end the futile Zafiades inquiry was not unanimous. The Russian, Polish, Yugoslav, Albanian and Bulgarian members announced they would stay on and |see Markos “even’ if we have to {ho him ourselves.” * But the rest- of the committee called It a day “when the official Greek Interpreter, Nunzia Fara-
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UN Probers Give Up Plan To See Greek Guerrilla’
in, walked. ir sad seid Coote He added that Be wes otf t0.Jdin the guerrillas. The subcommittee’s troubles gan when it started off March 1 in 24 jeeps, taxis and members moved into this world
side hamlet of
ades was on his way but had a little fight on his hands south of Kozani-Grevena which he had to clean up first. The American representative, Li. Col. Allen C. Miller, said he thought
it ‘would be beneath the ‘committee Eignity to" watt more” Eikx @ hours: — > Finally, it was agreed to wait une til this morning at 7:45 a. m. Zafiades Still: han’s appeied 3a the committee packed up 8
Professor of English To Speak at Butler
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Carter, Miss Mary Alice Kessler, Miss Birbara Fark, George Coffin, Miss Winifred Ham and Miss Ruthanne Gossom,