Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1947 — Page 13

d Shoes!

This, undisputed fact in the face of a nation-wide telephone strike cost me my eyelashes, eyebrows and

one blanket. I might add that I'm glad I don't wear 8 beard, As any normal péfson will do when faced with a

crisis, such as the telephone walkout, I began think-

ing of ways which might carry us through, if need be. My first thought was communication by drums or hollow logs. The natives of Africa do it; why can't we? But, not having a drum or a hollow log in my possession, I gave that up. Besides, drum-beating on

a large scale from every hill and hotel roof might

! prove rather complicated.

I believe drum-beating should not be encouraged no matter what happens to our telephone system, Thinking back, I remembered how our scoutmaster taught us to send smoke signals, That was the solution—there was no doubt about it. Smoke by day and flame by night with a slightly larger fee for

| night sending.

Vaguely I remembered that three big puffs meant “Danger,” a succession of small puffs meant “Rally, come here,” and a long column of smoke meant “Halt.” Then putting the Morse code to use, the

. possibilities for keeping an uninterrupted flow of vital ‘ Information were unlimited—I thought.

fire.

To be fully prepared for any eventuality, I decided to brush up on my smoke signals. A Boy Scout is always PREPARED.

Trouble With Fire

THE FIRST THANG I had trouble with was the Campfires and signal fires just don't want to burn like they did in the old days. The wood we get

: today must be of inferior quality.

The ‘“one-match-to-a-fire” rule of a good scout was violated approximately eight times. The matches

we get today are also of an inferior quality,

At last ‘the fire was burning flercely. This was the time for green grass or wet hay. As luck would have it there was very little green grass or wet hay around the bank of the White river where I was conducting my communication experiments,

GOING — Smoke signals to the rescue of the telephone tieup? and there is.

‘WAA Red Tape

5 NOE SIGNAL a means of communication will never replace the telephone. .

.moist gunny sack and a piece of rubber running

‘blanket for a couple of seconds.

GOING—W h ere there's smoke there should .be fire—

> Since no great emergency was at hand and I didn’t plan to send signals more than 20 miles the smoke that I finally did manage to produce with a

board I thought would be sufficient. With a quick flip I covered the fire with my My. first attempt was disappointing. There was no puff of smoke like there should have been, Instead, the smoke (what little there was) boiled along the ground,

Flames Hard to Cover

1 COVERED THE flame again. By this time the!

flame was hard to cover, Jerking the blanket up again, I got nothing more than a bdd blanket burn. Something inside of me said:- “Douse the .fire with water, you idiot.” I don't like that sort offtalk but it was a good idea. : ’ Grabbing a leaky, discarded half-pint ice cream container I ran to the river. The container was full when I started my return trip but by the time I reached the fire, half of the water was gone, # The water sizzled on the fire for an instant before a nice cloud of smoke and steam began to rise in the air. TI covered the fire again with my blanket. This time, I thought I'd let it stay until I had plenty of smoke to signal “danger” with three big puffs of smoke, The blanket moved slowly up and down. Ahh— plenty of smoke building up—and then it happened. A large brown spot appeared in the center of the blanket, When I jerked it up the large brown spot turned into plain, everyday flame instead of smoke and—-WHOOOSH, I was waving a torch. Snapping the blanket did nothing but make it burn better. On one downward thrust an end brushed across my face. A bit of smoke curled up from my eyebrows and eyelashes. In a matter of seconds all I had was a corner of a blanket. The fire burned brightly. I could have

produced more smoke with a cigaret. : { I don't know what kind of blankets the Indians used but they sure didn't use my brand. All T have to offer now since I'm thoroughly convinced smoke signals won't work is—keep your shirt on and blanket on your bed and hope for the best.

SECOND. SECTION’

Hoosier Product Has Same Possibilities

By RICHARD LEWIS

INDIANA coal operators, harried by mine safety shutdowns, are nevertheless watching with interest the new experiment of the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. which hopes to make gas and gasoline out of coal. Enormous deposits of western Pennsylvania coal are to be converted into high-grade gas and liquid hydrocarbons via a $120 million industrial operation in the foothills of the Pittsburgh coal district. What can be done with Pennsylvania coal, can also be done with Hoosier soft coal, the operators

agree. ~ o ” Pittsburgh plan means a technical revolution in fuel. Pittsburgh Consolidation—the world’s biggest coal producer—and Standard Oil of New Jersey have pooled resources to set the new industry in motion. Pittsburgh Consolidation announced two weeks ago it would start construction of a $300,000 pilot plant to test the operation. This will be followed by a vast liquefaction and gasefication process to be built amid vast coal reserves 25 miles south of Pittsburgh. Tentative plans are to start construction by 1849. When operating, the process will consume 6 million tons of coal a year, or about 20,000 tons a day.

THE

» » » THIS will yield gas, gasoline, Diesel oil, feul oil and industrial

GONE—No smoke, no blanket, no telephone—there's just no nuthin’,

By Frederick C. Othman

a WASHINGTON, April 9.—The poor old war assets

' administration is about to lose one of its salesmen.

He has stood the generals and their attitude toward brains as long as he can: The paper work drove him batty. The complaints from the customers who .bought stuff they never got kept him awake at night. Once every week and sometimes oftener one section or another of his office was reorganized. The general in immediate charge of him told him to quit asking questions, because he wasn't being paid to think. Gordon E. Burke, the regional director of the WAA in Omaha, thought about not thinking, and his thinking on this thought led him to a decision. He quit, effective the end of this month. He thought a little more, since he no longer was under orders not to think, and decided that it was his patriotic duty to let the country know about a few things that made him squirm. : So it was that the tall, gray-haired Mr. Burke appeared .before a congressional committee to tell about his troubles peddling millions of dollars werth of war goods in the Middlewest. He said so many formal orders arrived from Wash-

. Ington, rescinding, amending and adding to previous

[tl CAPABLE, strong-minded woman married “to a man who isn't as capable of running their family as’ sheiix sefuses ip wse jeminine gle wad irickery. io x get

orders that he couldn't keep track of them.

A Small Hell : ria?

“THEN THERE were the teletype messages that came in every day,” Mr. Burke continued, removing his horn-rimmed glasses and rubbing his eyes at the memory. “A great mass of these wires poured into my office, “I never knew how to separate the sheep from the goats. Sometimes there'd be a two-page telegram givng the biography of some official in Washington.

Bustle Drama

And of course all the press releases that were issued in Washington came in to me by wire. I'd have to take these to the newspapers in Omaha and I would watch them go into the wastebaskets, I can tell you it was a small hell.” Then, said Mr. Burke, the generals didn't trust their Lelegmima. They kept calling upon him personally,

Flood of Visitors

“WE HAD a perfect flood of visitors from Washington,” he said. “Once we had 23 different men in sur little office in Omaha, telling us what we were] doing wrong. They'd go away and another batch| would come out to tell us something else that we] weren't doing right.” He received so many officials that some mornings, when he should have been looking over the new sales regulations, he spent as much as three hours shaking their hands. One of the head men wired to be met at the airport.. Mr. Burke met him, drove him into town, and put him on another plane 45 minutes later. “What did he want to talk about?” asked Rep. Ross Rizley of Oklahoma. “He told us to get on the ball and go out and sell the stuff,” Mr. Burke replied. The congressmen then called .Gen. Isaac Spalding, retired, who was Mr. Burke's boss in the Kansas City zone office. He said he always knew what was! going on without any advice from his underlings. “I don't need the regional directors’ brains,” he testified. “I make the plans. Let them carry out my instructions.” Mr. Burke smiled. Three weeks from today no WAA general had better mention brains to him on penalty of a poke in the nose.

By Erskine Johnson

HOLLYWOOD, April 9.—~“There’s drama in a bustle.” - That's what George Hoynigen- ~-Huene said. Then the internationally known Hungarian photographer proved it to a photography class of 200 wideeved G. 1.’s- with the aid’ of 'a couple of soft lights, 8 couple of pins, and Hazel Brooks. Miss Brooks. was wearing the bustle. The G. L's, studying photography under Uncle Sam's post-war plan, seemed much more interested in’ Miss Brooks than in George Hoy-nigen-Huene. The boys had voted Hazel “The Girl We Would Most Like to Have in a Darkroom,” and in

honor ©f the event she agreed to model at one of .

their classes. It was good publicity, Enterprise studio said, for her role of “The Body" in John Garfield's new movie, “Body and Soul.” .

No. 1 Party Host

EXPLAINING WHAT he had been doing for three. who falls in the water trough, the guy who says, “He

years since he last mc.'d an Academy award cere--mony, Jack Benny said at this year’s affair: “I've got a full-time job now printing invitations for Atwater Kent parties.” Mr. Kent, who made millions in radio, has become Hollywood's No. 1 party host. “I just like people,” Mr. Kent yawned as 300 people, a sixpiece orchestra, a couple hundred balloons, and §0 waiters swarmed over nine rooms of his 40-room estate perched atop a hill in Bel-Air. Mr. Kent, a nice little man with grey hair, was wearing a’ dark blue suit,

We, the Women

- MY MAIL reveals that I stirred up quite a debate when I recently said men don’t want honesty. from women, and the quickest way. for a woman to lose a

-man is to be completely honest with him at all times.

I'm sticking to my original stand, Men dislike a Straightforward, no-nonsense attitude in, women.

- Refuses Trickery

« “is duhbed a “battle ax.”

to accept her ideas. Instead she makes Do other doen ppipus. ter?

SSRI ieee LLL

~ woman who is perfectly ~ men—and it

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a red polka dot tie, and a bored expression on his face. ‘The party was'a .reception . honoring Donald Douglas, his new DC-8, and American and United Airline executives. Movie stars and eastern. newspaper reporters were on the invitation list. But the party, we learned later, was a “B” affair. The “A” party’ at the Kent home is for more Enportant occasions.

Revamp Hopalong

BILL BOYD, the cowboy hero who plunks villains instead of guitars, is doing right well, thank you, in taking corn out of his western seriés, Hopalong Cassiday. When Bill ‘and Lewis Rachmel took the production reins on Hoppy, they decided to end all those western perennials. The villains dashing madly in and out of scenes, the poison water hole, the comic

went that-a-way,” the girl in the gingham dress, and all the rest. “Westerns to satisfy a child's intelligence, westerns for both the child and the grownups,” Bill and Lewis aged. They've stuck to it, too. And now their pictures are playing big-time Lheaters where they never played before. “When I first heard the name—Hopalong Cassid#y,” he chuckles, “I thought it was some kind of a disease.” Bill. won't even wear western clothes except when he's on the set. “They're just not comfortable,” he says frankly.

By Ruth Millett

They say sarcastically, family.”

Battle Axes, Naggers . THE WOMAN who ‘forges ahead to get out of’ life, without a thought as to whether or not she is behaving: in a:manner that men would call feminine,

“She wears the pants in that

The ‘woman who keeps asking a man to do some- .. #hing, instead of figuring out a way to make him think it was his, ided all along, Is a nagger in man’s language.

alcohol, all of which have been

“WEDNESDAY. APRIL Sa

Gasoline-From-Coal | nterest Indiana

How Coal Will Be Made

Into Gas, Gasoline, Oil and Alcohol

MAJOR OPERATING STEPS of new process are fourfold. .

(1) Run-of-mine coal is crushed and conveyed to a tank for drying

and blending.

(2) Coal steam, and oxygen are heated to 2000

degrees in a generator, thus forming carbon monoxide and hydro-

gen, plus some carbon dioxide.

(3) Carbon monoxide and hydro- | °

gen are combined under pressure and temperature to form liquid

and gaseous hydrocarbons.

(4) Liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons

are separated, the carbon dioxide removed from gaseous hydrocarbons and high heat value gas produced. - Liquid hydrocarbons are separated in a fractionating tower, producing gasoline, alcohol,

Diesel oil and fuel oil.

limited quantities. be used.

said he has been studying the Pitts-

Hike Teachers’ Pay $500 a Year Here

Other Personnel Given Raises

The school board has authorized a flat $500 salary increase for all Indianapolis school teachers beginning with the fall term. In addition, the teacher will get their annual increase of from $75 to $100 paid for an additional year of teaching ‘experience, and instructors with master's degrees will receive another $150 to $200 a year. The board also granted pay increases to other personnel in the city school and library systems including librarians, clerks and employees of buildings and grounds.

$1 Million From State

Increases ‘to teachers will call for an addition to the budget of an {estimated $1,300,000. More than $1 million of this amount wil! be received from the state's increased appropriations for school support. The remainder must be raised by an increase in the school tax rate. School officials made no estimate of the required increase in the local property tax levy hut it was indi{cated it would be about 9 or 10 | cents. Increases for library staff will cost an estimated $70,850, for the custodial staff $93,250, and for the clerical staff $35,000. Virgil Stinebaugh, superintendent of schools, announced the following teacher appointments for the next year: Carolyn Rasmus, Geraldine R. Shaw, Louise Smith, Jo Ann Cun=ningham, Joan G. Durbin, Betty A. Evard, Doris M. Fleck, Herberta S. Fry, June A, Goodrich, Carol J. Roberts, Marylou Steffy, Margaret A. York, Gloria: G. Virt, Mary J. Warren and Mildred 'L. Bless. They have not yet been assigned to a School; . v,

ROTC Honor Snedonti To Get Merit Medals

Seven honor R. O. T. C. students in Indianapolis high schools will re« ceive merit medals from the Disabled American Veterans organization in presentations to be made in May. Sponsored by the Dr. W., C.

Gardening—

Squeezing Dirt Is a Good Test

By MARGUERITE SMITH THREE POINTERS for this late spring — don't be stampeded into spading wet ground. Better have a later garden. If you work wet. soil you may have cement on your hands all summer instead of .a garden. : "Classic test—squeeze a handful of earth. 'If dry enough to werk it crumbles easily afterward. Grab your first opportunity to plant cool season crops. One*hard shower after a single good planting day may delay you another week. With April planting all to be done in limited time, use tnat time wisely. Plant a few onion sets for. early

eating. Then ° concentrate on getting cool weather crops like peas, spinach, radishes and lettuce

planted. "Peas delayed - into hot weather may be a failure. Spinach and lettuce bolt to seed in heat. Cabbage and other. plants. that may be pushing for attention can wait better than these. Don't be in ‘a hurry to uncover roses and perennials.

» » . BEGINNERS, use fertilizers carefully. Rotted manure is best of all Don't use it fresh. Because it isn't

a complete fertilizer superphosphate goes well with it. Chemical fertilizer is safer when used with humus (compost, peat moss, etc.), Otherwise you'd better have a water supply close to the garden for dry periods. But sprinkling is never as effective as water held in the coil by humus. . : A complete chemical fertilizer suppHés the three elements most ‘often lacking in soil. They are nitrogen, phosporus, and potassium.

“lashes supply some potash. ‘A pound of complete’ chemical is|-

» » ” INDIANA coal has the same po-

vania product, he said, but these

Indiana's biggest strip mine oper- {probably will not be realized here ator, Robert .P. Koenig, president by any Indiana mine because of the of Ayrshire Collieries, Indianapolis,|vast amount of financing required.|cut into the coal market on the

. the coal industry, though,” he said. The Consolidation project

tion of the big and little inch pipelines for the transmission of natural gas to the east coast. ‘ . ® = THIS WAS opposed by the coal industry on the grounds it would

“It's looking into the future of eastern seaboard. The Pittsburgh

Don't Hurry to Spade Up Wet Ground Or You May Have ‘Cement’ on Your Hands

NEED PARTIAL SHADE—Lettuce needs partial shade in hot

dry weather. Construct a lath frame, as shown above, er cover

with cheesecloth "parasol." eties.

The figures on the fertilizer bag, its analysis, are always given in that order. 4-10-6 means simply 4 parts of nitrogen, 10 parts of phosphoric acid, and 6 parts of potash in each 100 parts of fertilizer. ” 2 ¥ NITROGEN stimulates le a { growth and rich green color. A high nitrogen fertilizer is useful for grass, and leafy vegetables as cabbage, lettuce, spinach, also for foliage plants like caladiums. Phosphorus makes strong stems, many flowers. Most general garden fertilizers are high in‘ phosphoric acid. It is indicated for flowers, and vegetables grown for flowers as broccoli and cauliflower, or for seeds, as peas, beans, corn. Potash makes good roots. So it is useful for carrots, radishes, potatoes, parsnips . and beets. Wood

enough for 25 sq. feet or 25-feet or row. Weigh out your first pound” ‘in

a convenient measure, keep that

Carnival—By Dick Turner

ret

Worthington Chapter 3, D. A. V,, the Presentation schedule is as fol- | lows: Crispus Attucks, 1:50 p. m. May | 8; Manual, 8:30 a. m. May 9; Washington, 1:50 p. m. May 12; Broad Ripple, 2 p. m. May 13; Shortridge, 1:50 p. m. May 16, and Technical, 1:50 p: m, May 20.

Young Democrats To Meet Here April 15

Young Democratic: organization members will convene here April 15, Pleas E. Greenlee, Indiana Democratic state chairman, announced today. The meeting precedes the Jefferson day dinner at night at which Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. bAnderson will make the principal address. ° County organizational details and other business will be discussed by

4the Young Democrats, Mr. Greenlee L

said, - 7

Tokyo Raiders to Meet WASHINGTON, Apiil 8 (U.P.).— The army airmen survived the first bombing of Tokyo will cele-

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Below are pictured three main vari-

NEED WATER—Leaf plants need plenty of water: For proper root growth, a good soaking is, worth. several sprinklings. In shallowly moistened earth, left, roots are forced sideways, seeking food from water. When water soaks deeply, as at right, roots can develop downward for strength and stability.

+N e in the fertilizer bag the the season to save time. ‘ » 8 pty” SCATTER chemical fertilizer before spading, mix with soil.” Or scatter. half the amount, ute the other half. in seed trenches, dug extra deep. Mix it well with soil in bottom of trench, cover with unfertilized © soil before sowing seed. (Always keep dry chemicals away from newly planted seed and from roots of newly set plants.) Or use chemical fertilizer in solution as a “starter solution.” Stir one-half pound of garden fertilizer into four gallons of water. Stir two or three times. After 10 minutes pour off solution, use a cupful to a plant or two cups to a foot of

meas rest

seeds or plants if you wish, . » . LETTUCE needs moisture, nitrogen, sweet loose soil. Try filling a deep seed. trench with compost if your garden soil is poor. Sow seed on compost. To stimulate growth after the plants are up, water with

quart of water. Or use dry nitrate of soda, one ounce to 25 feet of row. » » .

HEAD LETTUCE is really easy

wast processed from coal in the past in| burgh Consolidation project with,announced shortly after the acquisi{interest. Processes developed by Standard | Oil and by the former German | government during the war are to|tentialities as the western Pennsyl-|

Opera. concerts to celebrate the 100th #nniversary of the Indianapolis chisrter was a step closer to realization today. ok ae Mayor Tyndall's Centennigl Cit-. ©

row. Use additional water on the |Zenship.

vides for a week of i five or six weeks of orchestral con+ certs in the Butler Bowl gh The scheduled operetta, to be produced by the Indianapolis theater, Charles Hetloy directing. a Sigmund Romberg's “New which will run’ July. 18 to 25, Mr Romberg himseif is

formance: In addition, some 10 or 15 popular concerts will be presented by an orchestra of approximately 55 The summer season is to be ushered in. BY & Pageant depicting the growth of Tndianapsiie' 18s the past 100 years.

Legion Pays Honor To Henry Ford

The American Legion today maid homage to Henry Ford, “a great friend,” in a statement by Paul H. Grifith, national % "The Legion awarded Mr. . the American Legion Distinguished Service Medal in 1944 for his continued interest and co-operation in connection Mth the organization's program. Mr. Griffith . ald in his statement: “Mr. Ford's great interest in the welfare of American war - veterans and ‘ particularly the rehabilitation of disabled veterans never flagged. He was also a strong