Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1947 — Page 15
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DESTINATION: Grain Tn the Clevelafid Grain Co. yards. Purpose: Get samples of grain for the Indianapolis board of trade inspectors. Gene Wishmire, sampler, carried a 10-foot wooden ladder, heavy crowbar, a large wire ring of boxcar seals, a big hunk of canvas, and 20 sample cloth bags. I was right behind Gene stumbling” along with the idiot stick. That's what the men call it—it's not my idea,
The real name of this five-foot, WO-conipariaaenp
gadget is sampler. It looks like a brass band leader's baton, “We'll start here with this corn car,” Gene sald,
-leaning the ladder against the car.
With the crowbar he tore off the seal. The hair, on my head stood on end. Sealed boxcars, I was talight in my youth, were supposed to remain sealed, “Hey, Gene,” I called,” waving the idiot stick wildly, “is this O. K.?” “SBure--we can do this on the job. We keep a record -of the seals and after we get our sample we reseal them,” Gene assured ‘me. The boxcar door didn’t. yield immediately so Gene thumped it a couple of times with the crowbar. Then using the bar as a lever he gave a jerk and pulled the door open.
A high board fence affair was in the doorway
hich kept the c¢ from spilling dut. was placed against the boards. “Let me have the idiot stick,” Gene sald.
The ladder
Disappears Into Car
VERY DEFTLY Gene tossed the stick through the small opening on top of the car. A sample bag and the canvas cloth followed. Gene®scrambled up the ladder and disappeared into the car. By the time I climbed up and looked in, Gene was spilling the second sample of corn from the idiot stick on the canvas cloth. He has to take five samples ‘from each car. One in the center; on opposite sides of the doors and opposite corners.of the car: Sinking up to his knees in corn he started for the end of the car for his third sample, The idiot stick is designed to take samples of grain at various depths of the car so there's no chance of slipping anything into the car that isn't supposed to be there, . After all the samples are. taken the canvas is folded in such a way that the corn pours out easily into the sample bag. Quite a trick to pouring as I found out later. After the car was resealed Gene said. “As long as youre here, take the crowbar and open up the next three cars so we can get through faster.” Sure thing. The seal came off easily with the help of the bar. The door, however, wouldn't open. Try as hard as I could it wouldn't-budge. Thumping it like Gene did, didn't do any good. I was bushed. I had failed. Gene came over, knocked a latch up and swung the door open. “Try the next car.” Sure thing. A few minutes later Gene came again and took the bar. I was ready to beat myself over the head with it. He got the door open. The next car was full of oats. “How would you like to sample this one?” thing. Jumping over the boards into the oats I found myself up to my Knees in the stuff. And talk about
Sure
CORN OFF THE BOXCAR—Buyers are waiting and Inspector George Check rushes a sample through the mixer.
the bag I spilled the whole works. from scratch, | © While I was pouring oats out of my shoes, trousers, topcoat and digging it aut of my eyes he completed the sampling. I had a feeling that I had failed. Three other Board of Trade samplers converged on us with 19 bags of grain,
Gene took over
Hurries to Get Samples
BYRON CARTER, foreman, -told Gene to hurry the samples back to the office. - We did. At the offices, four government licensed inspectors were waiting to process the samples and send them out on the exchange floor for the buyers. Inspectors A. T. Morris and George Check immediately emptied the bags into mixers. Chris Wishmire, chief inspector, took the corn from the mixer
and placed it into small cans to bring up the tem- |
perature of. the grain before it was tested. Then ‘the corn was run through the moisture tester. Inspector Tom Dudley poured corn on a light table and counted’ it for damage. Samples were weighed. © All the information about the corn was noted on ‘a slip which was signed by the inspector and the sampler. In no time at all, the corn that had recently been in a boxcar, was in a tray on the exchange floor. “Gene,” Chief Inspector Wishmire said, “go on back and sample the 10-cars that just rolled in.” “You coming along?” Gene asked me. “Well—you see—I've got a hunk of oats in my
dust—gad. T got the samples all right after much e,” I answered. finagling around but when it came to pouring it into Gene understood. [m—— Customs Agents By Frederick C. Othman a = = ee io WASHINGTON, March 31.—I don't know why agents. I'd heard these French - luggage rumplers
congress is worrying about the treasury department firing nearly all the tough babies in the blue uniforms, whose greatest joy is rumpling the suitcases of travelers so they can't pe shut again. This would be a wonderful world without customs agents. I know. They have been making my life miserable on and off now for 20 years. Maybe I look like an international spy. When they see me coming ,I get the works. Pirst time I tangled with 'em was when I drove to Canada. This was during prohibition and I didn’t mind so much; it didn’t take me long to reassemble my automobile. Years later I went to Mexico, where the chica-chiea-boom-chic music got under my skin. I bought a dozen ‘Mexican phonograph records and so help me the man at the border said, unhuh. I said, why?
Mexican Records Ruined HE LOOKED me up and down and said how did he know my records didn't have secret messages on ‘em? He said he'd have to play ‘em, He did so. He used a rusty nai] for a needle and my records never sounded like music again: Another time on the way home from Mexico I brought a water pitcher of soft, taxco silver. It was a beauty. It had cost me a pretty penny. The customs agent said I'd been stung and then he walked across the room to the scales, banging my pitcher on the metal-topped counter as he went. “Yep,” he said, weighing my pitcher, “it's not worth the money.” It wasn't, either, not with the dents he'd put in it. Last year, arriving at Orly airport about noon outside Paris, I discovered the joy of no customs
| SECOND SECTION
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Patent
Searchers Needed to Work on Backlog
By DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA Stall Writer 2 WASHINGTON, March 31. ~—Peace has diverted the concentrated efforts of U. S. inventors from swords to suitcases with wheels. And the switch from wrinkles for war to contraptions for comfort has been carried out with such enthusiasm since V-J .day that the U. S. patent office has been thrown two years behind in its work, If it is true that Russia is raiding American patents, as some congressmen claim, the Russian people are in for a new revolution. This one should end with them all making borsht in new fangled pressure cookers and sleeping out frigid Moscow nights under
thermatically controlled blankets,
electric |
# » ” GADGETS AND inventions dealing with “music, acoustics, glass, buttons, furniture, clasps, sound recordings, toys, games, umbrellas and canes, kitchen and table articles, toilet goods, education, cutlery, and flexible panels and partitions” are included in the patent office’s three top groups of applications, Although the patent: office is {granting an average of 400 patents] a week to inventors, there is still a backlog of about 132,500 applications awaiting action. Details of. patents—and this applies to most applications made since the war—aren't revealed until the he patent is formally registered.
Extolling Wonders
United Press Sta
like a spring windstorm.
were tougher even than our own and I worried about! 'em. I shouldn't have. They were out to lunch. Their office was closed. | I never did see 'em. My suitcase could have been filled with emeralds, opium, or atomic secrets engraved or the heads of pins for all they cared. I went on to Italy. Again, no customs agents. As a well-disciplined American, I made a determined effort to find them. The Italians in the station were amused.
Emptied His Pockets FEELING BETTER about the absence in Europe of these two-legged barriers to international good-! will, I made my carefree way to Belgium. There I was jolted into the feeling of being at home again. A Belgian in blue said how much money did I have? I said about $3.85. That was true and I tried to explain that I had a money order waiting in Brus-
sels. He presumed, as so many customs agents had presumed before, that I was a bald-faced, lying globes; riding Bostocks, bareback | millionaire. riding champions in equestrian | He searched me. He emptied my pockets and he thrills: Rhodin's trained brown | patted me for suspicious ‘bulges (the bulges all were bears: Orlando's . educated polar
He was a disappointed man when he found I came home and in New York was a customs agent waiting. “So youre the Othman who's been writing mean pieces about us,” he said. I said, yes and my suitcase was full of uranium, excePt that the crannies were stuffed with stolen oil paintings. “Nuts,” he said. He wouldn't even look. So he got fired last week, along with most of his helpers, because the treasury said congress didn’t appropriate enough money. If congress hires him back, it will be against my best advice.
me). $3.85.
Busses Are Stars
HOLLYWOOD, March 31. — Three 25-year-old double-deck Tubberneck ° busses of ‘New York's glamorized Fifth ‘Avenue coach line pulled: to a groaning. and wheezing stop at Hollywoed and Vine the other day. y They had chugged 3850 miles from, New . ark i "31 days, at ‘the dreary” Fpéed” or 19 miles an hour, ~WENYHoOIR en Toute the “movie, “It” “Hippéned on Fifth Avenue,” The three busses had a total capacity of 240 passengers but becausé of insurance policies only six men made the trip—three drivers, who got $25 and a press agent. Eight thousand people got free rides, however, for a block or two in 214 cities along the way.
$17,000 Budget
A FELLOW in Phoenix, Ariz, got a ride because he said, “I proposed to my wife on a Fifth Avenue bus,” But when they tried to photograph him he blushed: “No, thanks. I'm here getting a divorce.” Budget for the trip was $17,000, with the bill for gasoline and oil amounting to $1200. There were several breakdowns. One bus got & new engine, but there were no flat tires, Until their discovery by Hollywood for their publicity value, the three busses, already “retired” by the Fifth Avenue Coach Line, were destined for the scrap heap. ’
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~ By Erskine Johnson
Now a new career awaits them in Hollywood. They will be rented to film studios at $150 a day, with a dozen or more movies needing them for New York background purposes every: year, i
‘Contidepce. Charm, PO ‘DARRYL, ZANUCK® is hoping to break the jinx that beauty contest winners seldom succeed in Holly- | wood. He'll soon. introduce green-eyed,.round-faced | Jean Peters as Tyrone. Power's leading lady in - “Captain From Castile” A year ago Jean, from Canton, O., was working for a teacher's degree at: Ohio State university, Then she was crowned campus queen and won a trip to Hollywood and a screen test. Mr. Zanuck saw the test, gave her a contract, some quick dramatic lessons, and then shoved her mw Power's arms, “I was a little frightened, never having acted before,” Jean told mé, “but I knew, the director knew what he was doing.” Jean obviously has the confidence it takes. She also has the charm to be the current girl friend of millionaire Howard-#tghes. Just once I'd like to meet a screen mugg who was one. They all turn out to be Jekyll and Hydes. Like George Tobias, George is one of Hollywood's fofemost gourmets. He has the greatest private collection of classical music records in America. He is one of the top authorities on 16th and 17th century music. But on the screen he specializes in truck driver and gangster roles,
We, the Women
By Ruth Millett
I CAN HARDLY wait for Mother's day to roll around this year, That's the only day left, it seems,
out of the 365 days of the year that is absolutely a ..f
closed season on motherhood.
On the other 364 days everybody feels free to take
a pot shot at Mama.
1, for one, am getting good and’ tired of running
for, cover every time somebody decides. that mama is responsible for practically everything that is wrong with the world. w ‘
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Mother Is Ridiculed Yr Fe ONE DAY they tell her she has failed iil at her job of “being a woman” betause of the shamg- _adyway?, That's ‘what I want to know. And the “eulogles had betes ps. 800d his year, ‘Mama's 80
_ ful divorce rate.
, The, next ay 3 she's told she is a failure. because
|who spends the winters thinking
| “greatest show on earth,” the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Mr. Kelley spends his winters at Delaware.
| circus. “Delaware, O.” he said. “Hard by the Olentangy “Where the Delaware tribe “Sat around flickering campfires.” “But let's talk about the circus. {For the first time anywhere, I repeat, anywhere, new spectacles, en- | dearing, enticing, enthralling.” Even a press agent must breathe,
so Mr. Kelley paused to catch his { breath, Slightly Descriptive
“For the first time in America,” he continued, “the Cathalas, unparalleled precisionists on the rolling
bears, the emolument of courage and patience of Arctic .brutes; Guerre’s sea lions demonstrating | abeiedary prowess unlimited; the] Alazanas in temerarious exploits! on the high wire, the Medinis in new daredeviltry on unsupported ladders.” He took another breath. “Reverhos, the equilibristic marvel on the slack wire, who walks the wire high in the big top, juggles with his feet and hands, and figures | his income tax simultaneously. “The Cimses in a transcendingly spectacular thrill presentation on motorcycles high in the tent where daredeviltry beggars description and | where life hangs by .a slender thread.” Raquel Nelson's “educated feet | in the lexicography of equilibristi¢
1 feats, " almost got lost in Mr. Kel-
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reached a flood crést with:
{with chemistry
which glows with the color of the
'If Spring Be Near —
Can Circus Be Far Behind?" ‘Bev’ Kelly, Press Agent, Has Already Started
By LEO TURNER NEW YORK, March 31.—F. Beverly Kelley blew into town today
“If spring comes, can the circus be far behind?” asked Mr. Kelley,
although some people wonder why, |
Office
ONE: Our mythical inventor, Dr, Oscar Mixmister, tired of inventing weapons of war, starts cooking up something he hopes will be a grea) boon to: the comfort of man .
IN THE scientific field a majority of applications for patents now deal and electronics. Most of these are for some peacetime application of a military discovery or devite, The Official Gazette of the patent office, published every week, reveals the latest list of patents which have been granted to inventors. The current issue tells of a “plant patent” granted for an apple tree; to a California man. According to the patent this tree produces apples “the size of a Norfield, with transparent skin
pink flesh beneath.” td » ~ ANOTHER PATENT just granted is for a tooth brush with the tooth paste in the handle. It automatically squeezes into the brush while you use it. There is a suitcase with wheels,
of Ringling Brothers
fi Correspondent
up new adjectives to describe the
“Three thrill-packed steel arenas where mere mortals face fang and [claw encircled by jungle-bred brutes ‘and arctic polar savagery.” The circus opens its 1947 season jon April 9 at Madison Square Gar- | den. It will pull out of winter{quarters at Sarasota, Fla. Tuesday. | “Wish I could see it,” said Mr, | Kelley, “but I've got to hit the road jane spread the word.”
Gun Not Loaded, ‘Bottle Was
An empty gun is a poor weapon ! {against an angry man with a bottle’ in his hand, one would-be stickup man learned today. About 8 a. m. a man entered the |Brown Liquore store at 327 Indiana
ave. ordered a bottle’ of liquor and,
[then confronted clerk Myer Welss, {59, with a long; blue steel revolver. | “Weiss replied by taking a swing at the man's head with the bottle of liquor, The bandit ducked and fled before police could answer the burglar alarm ‘call. Weiss told police he could see that {the bullet chambers of the revolver | were empty—a plain case of “crim. inal negligence.” : .
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Stores to ‘Close’
‘Carnival —By Dick T
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she’ Is no longer important in the economic scheme. labor-saving devices and two children
‘In ‘short, instead of eight have almost cut her out of a job.
straightening out the world When she got to vote.
Ego Needs Bolsterin oh OLD. Bol fi a
~maga And something new that's wrong with mama.
the ammunition being fired in my direction. How many
heeds dole
“Phere are even those who ridicule her fof not
ghe is Taking a, beating, these | Aaysy Anyone; who wants to be quoted, to sell a ne ‘article, or’'get a book printed just has to ge a mother, T am. getting tired of dodging all
mare. days are there till Mother's day
"Let's. put it this + way, madam—you don't see us returning your check avery month, do PY
‘tvoted to debt reduction.
far house and senate nave not been
Help Fight Communism,
|western hemisphere in an address
TWO: After days of boiling, mixing ,and stirring, our Dr. Mixmister feels he's getting close to success. What's cooking, doc? That's a secret until you look below . ,.
8 cuff that covers baby's hand to stop thumb sucking; a bottle hold-’ er device for baby carriages; an ice cube tray which is guaranteed to take the profanity out of getting ice from the refrigerator. Did you ever notice how the back of women's stockings get splashed when they walk on wet sidewalks? Well, a tiny mud guard gadget which fastens around the heel of the shoe has been patehted to stop this, » - » LAW REQUIRES the Patent Office to sell copies of registered patents to anyone who wants to’ buy them. The current price is 25 cents. Rep. J. Parnell Thomas of New Jersey, chairman of the house unAmerican activities committee, charges that because of this law Russia has been “tapping - the inventive: genius of America's indus-
Income Tax Cut Prospects Fade
Senate Couldn't Beat Truman Veto
By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, March 31.—Personal income tax reduction for this
year looks like a dead duck unless President Truman has changed his mind. He is publicly committed against a tax cut and it is not likely that congress could beat a veto. The house tax reduction bill passed last week by a bare twothirds majority. All but three hpuse Republicans recorded voted for it in an impressive show of party discipline. But 40 Democrats also supported the bill. A veto probably would chip away some ®of ‘that Democratic support. There is no such Republican party discipline in the senate as in the house. Senate Republican leaders already are disputing not only.the method of * tax reduction but { whether it shall be considered ow or be set aside to cool. Upholdnig Veto Likely &
A veto would be more likely t0 prevail in the senate than in the house. & veto kills legislation if
a two-thirds majority. / This is a setup for Mr. Tr if he. wants. to challenge thé | either “on grounds that tax . are unwarranted or that the “cake. is ‘cut ‘too thin in the lowest brackets I ‘he does not veto the tax bill, someone around the White House will have to eat some wor from Mr, ‘Truman's January bud, message, as follows: “There is no justification now for tax ‘reduction. As previously indi-
cated, I¢ recommendy Times State Service Are tion The pageant. ction. At the present time, in gen 3 ANDERSON, Ind, March 3 my, Judgment, High taxes contribygé- The high school Anderson ‘stores will close for two 10 the welfaze and: securit fohed choir, dit § y- of {thie | FOB [aus nexs Friday, trom noon until cuntry”. 5 | 4. rected by Mrs. gm m., to permit ‘employes to LAjtend] (oi Ww Debt Reduction Charmion Kaiser, om: To Pim —— MF Truman said he wanted any ng. TIF? Donald. Gustin will be’ sponsored by local churches. il accom-
available ‘surplus moneye to ‘be deCongress also is arguing with itself about that, House Repuvlicans voted that Mr, Truman's $37,500,000,000 spending budget for next year be cut by $6 billion. The senate voted fo limit the cut to $4,500,000,000. So
able to agree on a compromise | figure, ; The unexpected. bulge in government income over expenditures could be cited by the White House as reason for backing away from last January's veto threat.
Griffith Asks Mexico
MEXICO CITY, March 31 (U. P.).—Paul H. Griffith, “national commander ‘of the American Legion, called upon Mexico for help in fighting communism “in the
last night. Mr. Griffith spoke at a meets i of the Alan Seeger Legion post He warned that “Communism — has split the world inte two groupings, one that is free and the other that is enslaved.” ;
‘He declared that the objective
unity of free nations to make them
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gressi “We. must: stamp out mites of communism - midst,” he said. “We
<her hosse fails to override it by{
the Communist party is the same {! everywhere: “To undermine by| ‘| stealth and’ sap the strength and
THREE, AND EUREKA. It's a registers ecstacy as he samples flavored glue for sealing envelopes
Post-war enthusiasm of the doc has. thrown the patent .office two
ing up copies of all registered patents. So far, nothing has been done to change this law, however, The patent office explains that one of the reasons for the two-year backlog, in addition to the in. creased number of applications, is because so many of its expert “searchers” left during the war and never returned.
” " . EACH APPLICATION requires a “search” through all’ other. related
Miners Wrote
Of Centralia Blast’s CENTRALIA, Il, March 31 (U.
last Tuesday's explosion, The last of the notes — timed at 6:30 a. m. Wednesday — sald: “It is seeping in on re
he rulviosiate hbaoxiS
after the 3:30 p. m. blast, Messages Personal = Written on scraps of paper which had served as sandwich wrappers and ‘on sheets torn from a pocket’ note ‘book, the brief niessages:weré mostly ‘instructions To clearing up personal affairs, 4d tions of love, and a Plea from one’ ‘miner
Sauthport Pupils In Sunrise Rite.
Two Southport ‘senior will have parts in the Perry Township Easter Sunrise service to be held at 30 a. m. Rd in“ Roosevelt 4 stadium. _ Donald Gustin will play the role of a soldier in the tomb scene and Maryellen Gregn-will be in
Maryellen Gréon i
hy by Irma Swickard.Trumpeters will be John Bearry, Jack Byrum, Robert Emmett, Robert Jaus, Frank Ketcham, William Sawyer; while James McCallie, Roscoe Miller, Robert Jaus, and Jack! Byrum will make up: a brass| quartet.
where some of the ecstacy will wear off when Dr. Mixmaster diss covers there are about 132,500 patent applications ahead of him,
trial and military brains” by buy- patents to make sure it doesn't ne fringe on one already granted. I¥ takes an experienced expert to do a good job of this.
As Fatal Gas Drew Near
- Messages Given fo Families of 15
15 of the Centralia coal mine’s 111 victims waited more than half a day to be rescued from the 540-foot gas-blasted pit. Then the scribbled : farewell notes to their wives and families. The notes were found In the pockets of the men, who lay down te die in an underground room approximately a mile from the center of
which spread through’ ne turinel they
wr Anal 25 oa
{wil be principal speaker.
y success, says Dr. Mixmisfer, he his great discovery—chocolate . Next stop is the patent office,
(and countless other inventors)~ years behind in its work.
In 1945, a total of 31,083 patents
Death Notes
111 Victims P.).—Without hysterics or heroles,
that his wife make sure their chile dren attended church regularly.
and’ yihen, almost 15 hours later,
Polos Given to Wives : A large note, lying on the floor, told rescuers there were “notes in our pocket.” “Give to our wives.” The notes were turned over to the families when they appeared to identify the bodies as they lay in the temporary morgue, awaiting burial today, tomorrow, or someling early this week. dah
other through the streets.
Young Republicans To Hear Jenner, Gates
Young Republicans of 17. Mids’ west states will assemble. in Terte- . Haute for the annual meeting of ihe. Council of Young Republish AX wad rw CrCny More than 400 were expected to. attend. Highlights of tne two-day parley will be a luncheon address by U. 8,
Senator William E. Jenner and & banquet at which Governor Gates
Round-World
19 hours and 14 minutes.
A-26 attack bomber with another pilot, Capt. William ‘Odom of New York... .’ The 54-yéar-old executive-sportss man said he hoped to be able to “eutaMr, ghee time in half,” and
lutely take a commn
wide
fhe a td i philosophy of destruction.’
'‘Ball' Pen Maker Seeks
Hopes to Cut Howard Hughes’ Time = In Half Over Longer Route :
CHICAGO, March 31 (U. P.).—Milton Reynolds, who business fame and fortune with the ball-point fountain pen, day he would take off next Saturday on a round-the-world He said he would try to break Howard Hughes’ record of.
Mr. Reynolds will share time at the contiola of his converted
Flight Recor