Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 March 1947 — Page 13

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ONCE OVER THE HUMP and It's’ easy rolling * This refers to boxcars and boxcars alone here. Nothing else. ERR And it'isn’t long, if you're fooling around the west hump of the New York Central railroad's classification tracks under Sherman dr,’ that you find out sometimes over the hump on a boxcar is more than easy sailing. Especially if something goes wrong with the handbrake, But barring the unforeseen and bad weather over the hump simply means that a man takes a boxcar down an eight-foot hill by means of gravity to one of

the 22 tracks where trains are made up.

When he completes the ride, -a gasoline lorrie (speeder) takes him back to the foot of the hump and repeats the process. On an average day, Willlam H. Huffman, conductor, estimates 1200 cars are taken down the hump. When business is real good, during a

* 24-hour period, 3000 cars can be thus classified.

Safety Important “YOU SHOULD come out when the snow is hipboot high if you really want to see something,” Mr. Huffman told me as he scrawled a huge 15 on the side of a car. That 15 meant the car. would be taken on the Peoria, Ill, track. Pulling the lever which released the boxcar from the long line of cars the switch engine pushed to the top of the hump, he waved Lloyd J. Reilly, hump rider, down the line. In a few seconds the car with ‘Mr. Reilly high on the back: and. his Wands on the

1 brake was rollingstoward track 15.

Another car with a chalked 2 followed. The Hamp rider was taking this one ‘to the. “city” track. . The third car, marked 6, went over the hump a few seconds later headed for the west-side-yard track. As the riders mounted their respective cars with a hickory pole, the first thing they did was check the brake, Safety is of prime importance. I got a taste of how far safety rules extend. .on a railroad. When all the cars of a section were gone I put one fqet on the track. “You're violating a safety rule,” Mr. Huffman informed me immediately, “and if you were an employee

you could be reported and that would mean a good °

lecture.” I also learned a good railroad man would never step on a track—he’'d step over jt. Many a man broke a leg or an arm by stepping on a shiny ral. Logan Stewart, yardmaster, not only confirmed Mr. Huffman’'s safety talk, but he said that there were mors than 5000 safety rules. Would I like to hear a couple thousand? The gasoline lorrie unloaded a group of’ “hump riders who were coming back for a repeat performance. The idea of going over the hump intrigued me. Putting the question squarely before Mr. Stewart did not bring & quick answer. After some deliberation, he thought it might be all right for me to ride the hump.

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SECOND SECTION

Village in Maine Is Idle Memory

By BERT BRANDT NEA Staff Writer

MOOSE ISLAND, Me. March

24.—Tucked away on the northern slopes of this island lies one of the

most attractive and best designed communities in the United States

—a deserted village. Its 130 buildings are of finest

New England colonial style. Their clean stand out in bright contrast against

white sides and red roofs

a sea blue background. This is on the same hillside where once stood nothing but spruce and

birch trees. This model village Once Is Enoug h lonce housed as many at 4000 peoWILLIAM F, BAIN, hump rider, was instructed to! ple. Now ‘the soundless streets see that I was in a seated position on top of a car echo galy to the soft tread of the

with ‘both hands on the wooden runway -before the car went down. We followed the instructions to the | letter. \ At first, the car seemed to barely move. By the time it was halfway down the wind began to whistle | in my ears. There ‘was a definite sway and a thump as the wheels hit each section of track. v8 unlike | a Pullman. We hit our classification track at a good clip. Turn-|* ing around I saw Mr. Bain applying the handbrake. Coal cars and bhoxcars flashed past on either side. The initial momentum was decreasing rapidly. By the time we were 50 feet from the other cars on the track I wondered if we would: reach them. We did with a light bump. The lorrie was waiting: Two hump riders were, already standing on the wooden ramp while another | was making his way to it by “stepping ove the rails.” “All aboard.” The lorrie took off with a roar and | a clatter. It rides" even harder than a boxcar. Mr. Stewart was waiting on top of the hump.| Railroad men, it can be said, are really safety-minded. | The men disappeared among the cars. Pretty soon,! hand on the brake, Mr. Bain was going over the | hump again. : “Come back sometime when it's foggy,” shouted. No thanks—I'll take the hump on a sunny day Besides, once is enough.

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Exams

WASHINGTON, March 24 —The house appropriations committee says the coast guard is getting too big for its sea-going britches. Says what is the treasuty department trying to do, establish a miniature navy of its own? This jaundiced comment does not bother. .the coast guard; it is in the midst of a high-pressure advertising campaign to get more customers for its academy at New London, Conn., where you don't have to know your congressman to get an appointment. You've just got to be smart. This is where I come in. The coast guard said it wished I'd take its entrance examination and prove it to the young men of America how easy it is to get started in the admiral business. I was delighted to co-operate, a coast guard officer rushed me over s& simple examination, and the first question I spied was this:

Simple, Says Coast Guard

“WHEN A AND B PLAY tennis, A wins three times out of five. When C and D play, C wins two times out of three. When A and C play, A wins one time out of two, and when A and D play, A wins three times out of four.. In the semi-finals of a tournament, A plays B and C plays D. The winners play in the finals. What is the probability A will win the tournament?” The coast guard says that's simple, if you know advanced algebra, analytic geometry and calculus. Here's another question: “The wheels of a car are two and a half feet in diameter; if the wheels do not slip and make six turns per second, how far does the car go per second?” Quickly. I guess I'll never make a coastguardsman because I obviously can’t count. I:did think, though, that I knew something about English literature. After looking over the three-hour English examination I'm not so sure,

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That Voice Again

HOLLYWOOD, March 24.-—A pretty, dainty and diminutive young lady named Janet Eberhardt from . Manitowoc, Wis; is the only girl who ever succeeded. in Hollywood because of B. O. Once a week, Janet, trailing cords of glory, steps up to a Hollywood radio microphone, opens her loveyaks sud veliows Beessahy’ Any ier iemiitiar rog= horn wail. Janet get $150 for just those two letters, spoken through a Sonovox. The pay may seem high, butNJanet is one of only four Sonevox “articulators” in the world, Just anvone can't be an “arti®ulator.” it seems.. It takes a special type of voice.. Janet has it—a flat, prairie accent. x i Se ‘But she’s not just the B. O. girl. «z, 50, On the radio, also with the aid of a Sodieos, she has been a train, a carrousel, and an automobile horn.

Locomotives fo Pianos

IN THE MOVI ., Jatt was the voice of the locomotive in Walt. SYS “Dumbo” and is the voice of a doorbell and. plano in Joan Crawford's next, “Possessed.” ar But it is In dn Goldwyn's “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ ;¢8ak Janet goes to town. “Mitty,” stays anny Kaye, is the first movie in history tof hot a theme song, but a theme sound. 1t'8 .“taspodketa-pocketa-pocketa” and it is heard in the degafn sequences of the James Thurber

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By Frederick C. Othman | |

Future guarders of the coast must know whether the dirty British coaster in Masefield's poem, “Car-| goes,” carried ammuntion, sandalwood, or ivory, apes) and peacocks. And did Arnold, Shelley, Byron, Cole-| ridge, or Keats write “A thing of beauty is a joy forever?” Some of these questions I bet Secretary of Treas-| ury Jahn Snyder, the commander-in-chief of the coast guard, himself, can’t answer. In the novel, “Green| Mansions,” were Rima’'s clothes made of flax, damask, cobwebs, grasses, or stardust? Hey, Mr. Secretary? | And was the work of the painter, Turner, defended by Rosetti, Pater, Swinburne, Morris, or Ruskin? Was Caliban a sprite, king of the fairies, servant to Oberon, a monster -or a satyr? Was Griselda noted for her bad disposition, sense of humor, will-| fulness, patience or intolerance?

Flunked English Test, Too

COAST GUARD, I don't even know who was; Griselda. I flunk the English test, too. To become a coast cadet a young fellow not only; must be much smarter than Othman, but better-| looking, and healthier. He can't be too young or; too old, too tall or too short. And if he's fat around the middle, he hasn't a chance. { The academy has produced finally a handsome | brochure about the advantages of studying in New’ London. “Discipline is rigidly military in character,” the! book says. “This helps make your instruction more | thorough and more effective. From an educational point of view the academy has tHe advantage over the average college, It has complete. control over your time 24 hours a day, 11 months a year.” It was a pleasure, coast guard. I'm always glad to help, only I think I'll keep on being a civilian, in charge of my own time, which I'll spend ignoring poetry.

By Erskine Johnson

Janet and her Sonovox provide the sound in the

{reconstruct Mr. Cooper's thoughts.

Fundy. Fundy’s tides fill and empty

security patrol”, | This ‘is Quoddy village, the mil- - 'lion-dollar town on the much disputed Passamaquoddy Bay project that was to have harnessed power of the Sites, 5 STANDING ree on one of the silent streets I can see 120 beautiful and modern homes. _ All empty. Two fine buildings. Empty. A dormitory Empty. A large hospital. Empty. There's a power plant, six warehouses, an administration building, {private airport and a huge drill hall 600 by 100 feet. All stand idle waiting for June 1, when the war assets administration | put Quoddy on the auction block. This quiet afternoon, the news{paper headlines and editorials that thundered the pros and cons of this

40-family apartment

for 250 people.

‘| Roosevelt-sponsored project 10 short

years ago are hard to remember. "n #” »

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MONDAY, MARCH 2 1947

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WONDERFUL opportunity fo

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Maine: Entire village available with modern homes, to house Central heating; large building for manufac-

over 400 families. !

|'wharves available for formation write to.Mr. Arthur U

| turing, one story 600 x 100, ‘2 large ocean freighters.’

r large manufacturing plant in

mile distance: from ‘airport; For further innobskey, Calais, Maine.

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NEATLY KEPT — The Cody village ghost town is neatly kept but silent. The map obive oe the extent of the vast project that was never completed. The classified ad (inset) was run in eastern newspapers by. nearby Maine townsfolk who see the i “ads as a ® golden opporHunily for a new Indusiey.

| be the moon milking cows, vacuuming rugs, lighting street lights and running fertilizer plants.

It was as fantastie as anything

dreamed by Jules Verne or H. G.

Wells.

BETWEEN 1920 and 1935, Dexter

TWENTY-SIX years ago a noted Cooper dreamed and labored over

|engineer, Dexter P. Cooper, whose | brother, Hugh, built the mighty Dnieper Dam for the Russians, stood lon the same spot. He watched. the ebb and flow of the astonishing] tides in the Bay of Fundy. He planned how this vast energy could! be converted to the use of man. With each apparent turn of the moon about the earth, Mr. Cooper {saw an estimated hundred thousand | million tons of water surge.in and lout of the estuaries along the coast- |

line between Yarmouth and East- | They reached . no couclusions.

port. He dreamed of the day when | ‘ithe production of cheap electrical

| power, » .

. LOOK AT a map of Maine anf New Brunswick, and it's easy ‘to

There are two large bays, Passamaquoddy and Cobscook, connecfed with each other and the Bay of

both. The maximum rise is 30 feet, the minimum 17, and the average is over 18 feet. Confronted with’ this tremendous

Fal

|this project in both the U.S. and

Canada because it woudl require installation in both countries with a total cost of almcst $100 million. He organized corporations . in leach. country and spent more than 1$300,000 of his own and private | capital in making surveys, drawing plans and engaging in promotional

‘activities. .

Internationa] commissions were | appointed to study the effect of the | dams on the big fishing industry. The fishermen of Maine were willing to

{these tides would be harnessed . for back him, but not New Brunswick.

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THEN COOPER converted his

: iplan into. one for American e alone. _ But this fim¥ his eapihad run out. Bo in May of

1935 he: took his pe to his summertime: next-door neighbor - on nearby Campobello Isalnd, Franklin D. Rooseevlt. The. President was so enthused

with. its. possibilities that he made

a Presidential allocation of $10 million from the 1935 relief appropriations. This was later cut to $7 million. :

spectacle of the moon's pull at work, the imaginative Mr. Cooper evolved a wonderful plan. He would impound the waters that ‘rush into Passamaquoddy at high itide, let them flow out through turbines in dams and fill Cobscook Bay. ‘When the upper Quoddy basin had dropped to its lowest level, the still lower Cobscook would | in turn be drained, again turning turbines. ~ » ” THUS THERE would be two falls of water and no interruption in the supply of energy when the tide was changing. There was something of romance

Quoddy was a spanking new town in the spring of 1936. #® » ” BY THEN the U. 8: army corps

Philip Fleming, now federal hous-| ing administrator, had completed the village part of the vast pas- | samaquoddy bay project. It had spent $3 million on land, | buildings, roads #&nd utilities. If had spent three and a quartér million more for, engineering, surveys, design and investigation.. The initial appropriatign was almost gone. On April 20, 1936, President

in the whole plan. Think of the moon pulling up the water to fill} vast reservoirs. Think of that water turning great generators and the electricity speeding to thousands of homes, factories and farms: Why, it would!

film for an airplane, train wheels, a paddlewheel on a |

riverboat, an anaesthetizer, the wind, and. horses’

hooves. “Ta-pocketa-pocketa- -pocketa” is a mouthful. But Janet took it in stride. Her first job, on the radio In Chicago, was to, make | a telegraph key say “Jinket Quick Fudge Mix.” After that, she said, almost anything was easy.

The $10,000 Beard

THE BEARD 1S celebrating its 20th birthday.

Lights Elevated as H

'MOFFETT FIELD, Cal, March

Lighted ‘Stairway Guides Pilots In Fog Landings

"New Approach System Uses Colored

Roosevelt felt he should have au-| thorization ~~ from congress for] Quoddy ~ before he spent more money. . » » o

THAT MAY, Quoddy, along With] the Florida canal, became relief

igh as 55 Feet

24" (U, P.) ~The navy has installed

{man could stand.”

. KEEPER — Quoddy's beoour John, W. Roche, stands beside

one: of the 130 prim, New fagland colonial buildings that make up the deserted village.

jappropriations storm. center. Con-

gressmen said Mr. Roosevelt had started the Quoddy project with-|

of engineers, directed by Lf. Col. out the consent of congress and] | which

{against the advice of administration experts. Newspapers criticized Mr. Roose- | velt for spending the taxpayers’ money-on it without the consent of congress. In June the senate, 39" to 28, turned down a $36-million | appropriation to complete work, It was a terrible blow to Cooper. " ” ”

“THIS PROJECT,” says Frank P; Fifer, an engineer who worked with him, “was Dexter Cooper's

| life dream. He had his heart and

soul in it, He lived it and dreamed it and when it was abondoned it was' more than this high-strung}-

Red Cross Fund

Two Days Remain " To Reach, Goal Here

“

Everyone knows The Beard. It's on Monty Wool- 3 lighting system here designed to provide a “stairway from-the stars"! Two-days remain for volunteer lays chin, the off-spring of a disgruntled Yale pro-|to guide airplanes through the last few seconds of a landing. Cmdr. J. S. Marsh, in charge of construction and installation here, campaign goal of $323,000 “for Ine! year from this date—perhaps S00N-= [said present ground-controlled approach systems left it up to the pilot | [to bring the plane in with no aids except his naked eye. Safety | in

", Tesagi :and a rusty razor blade. Ea he raised The Beard, Monty was a Yale dramd’ professor. Now he's famous, even having left The Beard's imperishable mark in the cement of | Grauman's CH Thedter.. Paramount once gered Monty a lucrative part on the condition that -h& shaye.: Monty struggled briefly with his conscience. Then he made his decision, He would part with his beard! i Paramount weuld pay | him ($2000 for his sacrifice, ‘plus $500 a week . until | he had grown a new tne: This meant close to) $10,000 as a bonus for a beard. Another actor got the job. Lord Beaver, as Monty: Tesemetimes affectionately |

called, is back in Hollywood «for a role with Cary|

Grant in “The Bishop's Wife” b.¥

We, the Women

IF vou dr to go through the middle years without haVingZ¥he teum “middle-aged” frequently

Welst get thick, your neck hunch forward, your wadg-avse its springy lightness. ! Don't make th@lnistake of thinking you can make drab, unimaginative glothes seem young and bright

simply by wearing a silly hat, 8 ai

Don’t Talk Your Age ri DON'T TALK. TOO much about your hon

Pans Walk about your age, Le

§. ou, here's a list of 10 “don'ts

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; By Ruth Millett

Don't become a “club. woman. " Don’t stop studying your mirror treiuently to try to figure out ways of making the most of what the years have given you-—or, what they have left you.

Watch Your. Gossip

DON'T §} AWAY ‘from active sports. Don't we aliciously. Limit your gossiping to the kind that is amusing and harmless. . Don't read just to pass time. Read to learn and understand.

Don't limit your social life to any particular |

problems, your children, your pet peeves, your h win “crowd,” and don't “play bridge’ with the girls” ‘more . : : : | are grooved a their bases an; will

~ than once 'y month,

those last few seconds has some-|”

times depended on the pilot's ability | lto see through the thickest fog, Mr. Marsh said. The new system of lights points, lout - the proper angle of approach

and will show the pilot exactlyse -

where he should be at every second {of the landing process.

| : Extend Beyond Runway

The lights extend 2400 feet Neyond| the end of the runway, he explained. The first lights the pilot sees are bright red and are elevated to a height of 55 feet, he said. . This is high enough to pass above any obstacles such as power lines, Mr. Marsh said. The red lights continue in constantly. decreasing heights to the end of the runway. This point is marked by a line of

green lights at right angles to the approach path, he said. The runway itself is outlined by lights placed at intervals along both sides on poles 96 inches high. The runway border lights »are white except for those {along the final 1500 feet, which are amber, Marsh said.

Poles Break. Easily The poles which support the lights

break readily if a plane flies or taxis into one of them,

He said the power of the beams |

can be regulated

to. fit weather | conditions. ’

Predict $20 Million ‘Home Repairs Spending

Marion county home owners will spend’ neatly. $20. million for repair and, modefipization work in 1947, according’ ‘fo: an “estimate of the Tile Council of America. The ouncil estimated that from 35:tb 50 per cent of all non-farm homes will be improved or repaired this year. Basing its estimate on increasing supplies of building material, the council said most of the improvement would be in painting. Roofing, heating systems and bathroom sepairs would account for. most of the remainder.

Governor to Speak

'P.).—Governor Gates will speak two jhe Allen county bar association here’ on April 15. The governol will speak on ‘some recent legislation enacted by the general as3 seb

workers to meet ‘the Red Cross

n/disnapolis and Marion county. A (total of $220,404, Tepreseniting 68 per cent of the goal, had heen | collgofed to date. An additional | $101,596 must. be raised to meet the | goal by the final report meeting at 6:30 p. m. Wednesday in Ipalco hall. | Hugh K. Duffield, general chair-| Iman, urged all workers to visit every prospect in their lists be{ween now and the report meeting. “We are confident,” Mr. Duffield declared, “that if everyone is seen and given an opportunity to con=tribute, we will meet our goal. We are asking all of our workers to devote their full time to soliéiting their territories. Failure on the part of anyone to make a complete |report Wednesday might well be the (cause of our failing to meet our goal.” /

City to , See Maneuvers Of B-29 Flight

| Indianapolis residents will witness {the maneuvers of 40 army

B-29s 1 April 5. The planes will pass over bonibing of Detroit, Mich. ; The flight is the largest aerial |

‘training, maneuyer:of heavy bombeus the United States|that " lob is a part. of the 15th air force's §

ever staged in observance a Ay Week, sat

VILLAGE ENTRANCE The gateway to the ghost

town is the little building entrance to Quoddy. The '

above that stands at the ‘for sale" sign is tattered,

the town is inside the fence.

Mr. Cooper died in 1937, a weary, heart-broken man. But Quoddy wasn't through yet. In~the summer of 1937 the national youth administration brought in a group of. 228 uhder-privileged youths between ages of 18 #nd 25 from: the North ‘Atlantic states. It established a “work experience school.” It was the administration's first atetmpt at concentrated apprentice training for. unemployed young men, They occupied the project until the fall of 1943. Ye 8. THEN THE navy moved in with! the Seabees and used the camp as a construction’ training’, center. The | Seabees built ‘warehouses and a drill hall 600 by 100 feet. They Temodeled and renovated the houses,

rounded by magnificent scenery. {Some of the finest hunting and fishing in the world are at the doorstep for recreation, and the climate is moderate and invigor-

ating.

a a's A RAILROAD spur is already in. Wharves and docks have heen built, There is a landing base for seaplanes. A real estate man at Bastport said he thought it would go for something like $300,000. What people .in this section of Maine desperately fear is a piecemeal sale. If this occurs, the last hope of an industrial rebirth for eastern Maine will be gone. This section is short on busiigss life today. Farming, fishing, hay and blueberries and the Christmas

[last only five years. Quoddy went back to the army | engineers when the" ‘niavy moved | out in May, 1946. Since the war department had no further use for { Quoddy it has taken steps to de-

lithe war assets administration is

ready to make a sale on June l.

* mu : BOOSTERS IN nearby Eastport and Calais assert.that in the houseshort United Sates this would be a golden opportunity for a large industryto come in and convert.the cars

warehouses and drill hall to its use. The model village, needs only

had originally been built. to!

[clare the whole thing surplus, Ana IO es of this model vilage will

tree harvest have declined in recent years. To have a vigorous new industry ltake over Quoddy would revitalize

the section. ” o n

IF THIS happens, the beautiful homes that line the well-laid-out

once again have lights in their’ windows, The smell of frying bacon: will drift into the clear, crisp morning air. ’ The measured tread of the lonely watchman will be replaced by the sound of busy feet and speeding

This ghost town that hitched ts wagon to the moon may still find

ffyniture and tenants. It is sur-

[New 530-Ton

By Fach F. ELLIS United Press Science Writer

| / NEW YORK, March 24—Man, a | er—may know whether life exists ‘beyond the earth. He may also know whether space {has a boundary or whether it goes on and on,

I He may also know new informa-

[tion of fundamental physics. He may. be discussing newlyto und. solar systems with their own

Because a year from this date, probably sooner, the world’s largest telescope will be in operation at Mt. Palomar, Cal.

of the Rockefeller Foundatioh, mak= ing the annual report of the foundation disclosed that this 200-inch, 530-ton telescope finally will be assembled late this summer, and be in operation by the end of the } year. soe Opens New Sphere This new scientific tool has been

“This new telescope will project

before—to a distance of more than

{ FT. WAYNE, Ind, March 24 (U. the city en route to a simulated 8 thousand million light Joars

away,” he said,

planets. lcal physicists have refrained {rum

Raymond B. Fosdick, president ||

man’s sight into the univérse twos 4! times farther than iv has exer gone

“It wil se 0 wtp N

it can tie on to a star.

Telescope Sphere

Xs? Ls a pr.

iy Reveal

r. Fosdick believes the new ope might answer: he ‘stellar systems extend on

in tely, or is a boundary finally ‘téached beyond which there are fe and fewer nebulae? Planet Study. What true interpretation of the fmm velocity with which all the stel ems appear to be

property of light? '&* The more conservative ‘astronon-

‘constructed at the cost &f,.$6,250,000.| Af