Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 May 1947 — Page 13

3 MUOH LONGER ‘will we have to walt be-. GW MUCH LONGER It's almost dark now.” Walter Wilkins, amateur astronomer and editor

tin, told me to be patient, Arcturus would be out soon. "The shades of night were falling just a little too glow for me. C'mon Arcturus, let's‘ get out in the open. ‘Mr. Wilkins had his four-inch refractor telescope ready, pointing into the eastern sky. Our observatory was the cinder road running alongside of the Wilkins' home at 6134 Dewey ave. “1 think I've got Arcturus spotted now,” Mr, Wilkins said. jiggling his homemade five-foot star gazer.. “Arky-—-let's get over here.”

Looks Like an Orange ARCTURUS MUST have heard Mr, Wilkins befause almost instantly the telescope was turned over “to me. Ah~-the heavens at my fingertips, 1 shoved my right eye against the eyeplece. What { saw was a disappointment.

“Arcturus looks like an orange. Nothing fancy at all,” I said. “You're right. Arcturus is an orange-colored star. What did you expect, Roman -candles? Would it inerest you to know that the light that's coming through the telescope now has been on the way for 43 years,” said Mr. Wilkins. “Pretty far away, eh?” “you ain't kidding. Say, we better catch Saturn pefore he gets away.” We were out for all the big names tonight. ’ Saturn was located and it was my turn to peek. The planet was much brighter than the star and looked like a white ball with two rings around it: The white rings touched the sphere on top and bottom. As I peered into the telescope a strange thing happened. Saturn slipped out of sight ‘moving towards the earth. I immediately announced the phenomenon #0 Mr. Wilkins. “The earth is turning you knoW,” he said.

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up, The mirror which reflected the light Just made It appear as if it were going down, Actually, we were ooking at the planet upside down, “That's & heck of a way to Jook at a planet.” % make- any difference?” asked Mr. Wilkins.

on the planet parade?”

the wes Jupiter was ready for me.

rings were not there. + *How come Jupiter looks bigger than Saturn?” { “Because Jupiter is bigger and closer.” .. Naturally I wanted to know how much closer. Mr. Wilkins hesitated for a moment and then said, , about 400 million miles closer.” I whistled. “Why the planiets are our neighbors when you stop and think that the nearest star is four and a half

Wets Speak

WASHINGTON, May 14.—¥Fair is fair. The drys had their say here yesterday about liquor advertising turning ws into a nation of drunks. Today the rosy-cheeked wets made their reply. The ladies of the W. C. T. U. in the senate caucus room winced when Arthur P. Gildea, healthy-looking rower worker from Boson, glanced their way and

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swered a rhetorical question: “What would happen to the women if cosmetic ads were suppressed? I am referring to the glorified ads relating how beautiful women can be made. When women fall for such stuff, even after looking in the mirror, they invoke in themselves an air. of self-confidence that they have that, er, something which will, um (he was searching for words), seduce mankind of today.”

The Ladies Gasp. GOODNESS! Some of the ladies gasped out loud. Mr. Gildea and his fellow wets ignored ‘em. James E. Brady, Cincinnati brewery worker leader, said he'd sat through all the hearings, when the ladies uced whisky bottles and four-color liquor ads. Well, sir, he said he had some exhibits, too. “These photographs,” he said, presenting them fo Senator Clyde Reed of Kansas, chairman of the interstate commerce committee. “Look at "em. Pictures of blind pigs in a dry state. In Kanses.” Mr. Breds, a serious citisen with a tiny mus-

Problem Child

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HOLLYWOOD, May 4. — Hollywood's bad boy, Sawrence Tierney, is in again. T blame his studio for bis continued troubles with the law. The studio tried $0 appease him with a raise to $1100 a week, a starring sole as 3 good guy. They thought that might straighten him out, It didn’, Movie stars are like kids. The only way you can really slap down a headstrong TE tele (he comers away from Win and sland him in a corner for a while without a spotlight. That hurts where is does some good, and has the same effect as a. hair brush.

Ava, Orson Together AVA GARDNER and Orson Welles turned up at the Del Mar Turf and Surf hotel on the same day. Coincidence? Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer sail for England Aug. 6. LilH and Hazel Brooks, the “Body and Soul” of John Garfield's new flicker, aren't speaking since completion of the picture. There was a big battle over Hazel getting most of the publicity. Janie Powell and Lon McCallister are a twosome. © Richard Haydn, who played Vanessa Brown's father in “The Late George Apley,” is playing her fiance now in “The Foxes of Harrow.” Burl Ives will bring his guitar back to Fox for the tole of a ranch foreman in “Green Grass of Wyoming.’ Errol Flynn lost a St. Christopher medal on location with “Silver River.” The studio hired a fellow with a land mine detector and found it. It reminded me of the time Shirley Temple was at the peak of her . fame as a kid star. There was a steam shovel digging a big hole opposite the Fox studio; Someone

Bl We, the Women

WITH THE housing stiortage forcing 80 many young couples to live with their parents, it is a pity the family relations. experts have gone on record to say a mother and daughter-in-law can’t be expected to get along together if they share a house. : That idea, which has been harped on repeatedly the past few years, gives the two women who have to liver under one roof a defeatist attitude from ‘ ~ the start.

BN Work Out ok

; ~ the Indiana Astronomical society's monthly bulles

light years away. You knew, of course, that light trav-

know I could multiply 168,000 by 60, then that figure by 60, then by 24 and finally by 365.- That would be 1 knew that much, But I wanted to know post haste one light year. Then multiply by four and a half. why the planet didn’t go up in the sky instead of Too many digits confuse me, I don’t care too much down, Mr. Wilkins explained that it really was going anyway.

Not Startled Like Galileo

saw the Castor and Pollux twins, whoever they are. Mr. Wilkins also showed me the first four celestial stop and think about it, T guess it doesn’t. objects Mr. Galileo discovered with his telescope quite next awhile ago. They were clustered around Jupiter and : sald Jupiter was in position. He swung they go by the names of Io, Europa, Guanymede and ‘telescope to the south and west. After a few.min- Eqllisto. I was unimpressed even though I'm sure Mr. Galileo was. They looked like ordinary twinklers to Jupiter looked larger than Saturn even though the me:

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SECOND SECTION.

“Head Hurts,” Man Finds Bullet Lodged

By VICTOR A MAN AMELED into

‘I hospital. He said his head hort a little and thought he’d like to

“have a doc take a look.”

TWINKLE, TWINKLE LITTLE PLANET — Walter ‘Wilkins gets a bead on Super from his backyard observatory.

els 168,000 miles a second.” I knew about light but in the hopes Mr. Wilkins would figure out how far away the nearest star was in miles, I asked if he could give me the figure. He didn't know offhand but he said if I wanted to

STARS WERE popping out all over the place, I

“My neck and eye are getting sore, Mr. Wilkins. Is there anything REAL spectacular going on up there?” I asked. Never ask an astronomer if anything spectacular is going on in the heavens—never. : Even at that, T got an invitation to come back to the backyard observatory when the price of brass goés down from the astronomical figures and Mr. Wilkins can build himsel a new telescope,

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By Frederick C. Othman

f tache and the pink glow that seemed to endow all the brewery workers, said he pitied the youthful boy who had testified that America has become a nation of drunks. “He said we were a nation of drunken fools,” Mr. Brady said. “All I can say is my oldest boy is 17. He had his first sip of beer at the age of seven.”

Railroaders Speak

TODAY HIS son is president of his class in school and he doesn't touch beer. It is a pity, Mr. Brady added, that the dry ladies can’t rear their own ¢hildren without pleading for congress to help. So much for brewers. Now for the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, which also is against the bill of Senator Arthur

Capper of Kansas. The C. & O. is not exactly af,

wet railroad. It would like to be neutral. His railroad would lose money if it couldn't carry magazines with liquor advertisements, testified Attorney Edward M. Hughens of Richmond, Va. - The C. and O. wouldn't even mind that. But what if an illegal advertisement got aboard a train by mistake? Would the management, including the engineer, go to the clink? That was what worried . Counsellor Hudgens. ’ Another lawyer, Isaac W. Digges, representing the magazine publishers, asked what was liquor, anyhow? Cough syrup? Hair tonic? The bill, he said, made no distinctions, but banned ads ‘for anything with alcohol in it. Including vanilla extract and sore throat gargle. And that seems to take care of the anti-ilquor ad bid. I doubt if we’ hear any more about it this year.

By Erskine Johnson

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said, “What's going on?” “Shirley Temple,” said someone else gravely, “just lost her ball.” Lana Turner is pitching for a girls’ softball team when Spencer Tracy meets her in “Cass Timberlane.” Henry Fonda, a priest, clashes over religion with Pedro Armendariz, a non-Catholic, in “The Fugitive. y Fonda is the Protestant, Pedro the devout Catholic off the screen. - - Rita Hayworth’s independent movie, when she returns from Europe, will net her 30500 a week and 50 per cent of the profit. Skywriters have been putting Greg Peck and “The Macomber Affair” in- the Hollywood skies for local theaters, much to the dismay of Paramount's “Whispering Smith” company shooting outdoors on the backlot. They had to wait for Peck to drift away before ‘Alan Ladd could play his scenes.

Parr Buildup Coming

COMIC JACK PARR will get a star buildup at

RKO after he takes over the Jack Benny summer

show, Cabot and Dresden, the Biltmore Bowl dance team, will be in “Babes in Toyland.” Bob Welch, who will produce the Bob Hope film, “paleface,” is the same gent who wrote and produced those top Command Performance shows during the war. Clem McCarthy tells this little known Will Rogers story. Rogers went to Washington to see a senate committee. The boys had taken the week-end off and were in Baltimore for the Preakness. Will went down there and was introduced to the crowd by Clem. Said Will: “I guess I'm the only man in America who ever had to go to a race track to confer with a senate committee.”

By Ruth Millett

That, of course, is 50 much nonsense. Two families under one roof isn’t an ideal situation. life isn’t lived under ideal circumstances.

Situation. Not to Blame

IF A MOTHER and daughter-in-law are both . reasonably intelligent and have fairly good dispositions, there is no reason why they should make each other miserable and unhappy just because circum-

stances force them to live together.

If they quarrel and develop a silent hatred for

each other, ohe or both are to blame.

But most of

Sanders Promises More Police Cars

Rookie Force Will

Step Up Protection

Police Chief Howard Sanders today promised addition of new police patrol ‘cars and expansion of the police force to combat growing crime in the city. The patrol cars have been “on order” for some time, he said, and a class of 48 rookies will be graduated May 30. In the past two days nine stores have been burglarized or robbed. Three shops in the Broad Ripple business district were looted in one night. Protection Inadequate Law enforcement qfficials and Broad Ripple businessmen have attributed the sharp increase in crimes to inadequate policing of large areas in the city. Only one squad car patrols the entire Broad Ripple area. Police admit there should be more, not only in that area, but in other districts in town. Police Chief Howard Sanders said his department has a number of new patrol cars on order, however deliveries are slow. Cars Desperately Neéded “No one knows better than we do how desperately new cars are needed,” Chief Sanders said. HAs fast as-we. get thenr we will assign. them to the areas where they can be best utilized.” - The police chief did not disclose the exact places the new cars will be put into operation. He said Broad Ripple would be among the first areas to be given additional policing. Answers Co-operation He said part of the rookie class will be used to man new prowl cars. Jo cope with increasing crime in Broad Ripple, Jack White, president of the community’s businessmen’s association, proposed a twopoint program for increased lighting and more adequate policing. - Chief Sanders gave his assurances the police department will co-operate fully with the community in its fight against crime.

Month-Oid Karpex Strike Is Ended

The month-old strike at the Karpex Mfg. Co. has been settled, permitting 125 employees to resume work. A new one-year contract was announced yesterday between the firm and Local 209, United Rubber Workers of America, C. 1. O. George P. Ryan, attorney for the company, said the settlement provides for a basic wage increase of 7% cents an hour and a liberalized vacation porgram. ‘The firm is located at 1436 E. 19th st. Another attempt will be made today to reach a settlement between the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. and two unions covering operators and accounting workers. The Indiana Telephone Workers union, representing 1500 maintenance and construction workers, and the company already have reached an agreement.

1-Girl Graduation . ISLE AU HAUT, Me, May 14 (U. P.).—Patricia Turner literally is ina class all by herself. Only graduate of the Isle Au Haut grammar school this year, she will have to handle.all thé speaking and singing parts at graduation exeércises June 5.

| Carnival—By Dick Turner

WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, Err Fare

Boconing Ward A Mixes Excitement

Complains; Doctor in His Skull

PETERSON the receiving ward of City

“His head should -have hurt,” said Dr. William Kelly,

receiving ward director. “He had a bullet hole all the way through his skull.. The bullet hadn't touched his brain and it wasn't long before he could walk out of the hospital again.” “The most unusual’ snd interesting cases aren't brought in by ambulance. Most of them walk in. But there is a lot more to a receiving ward than emergencies,” he said. » » ~ CITY HOSPITAL is well equipped to meet any disaster that might strike, and materials constantly are kept ready. The unusual arouses some excite-, » ment in the ward, but it is the rou-

tine which takes up most of the time for the four internes, six

#nurses and Dr. Kelly.

. Every person who enters the hospital must be screened in the receiving ward. About 1000 a month are treated but not admitted, while another 900 are hospitalized. “A receiving ward is the best place in the world to train doctors. In a few months they get the equivalent of a year’s general practice,” Dr. Kelly said.

» » ” “HERE you see everything from a cut finger to a cut throat, from a pimple to rare diseases. Often “you have to work with the greatest of speed to save a life. Tt keeps & doe: tor on his toes.” Within the receiving ward are seven rooms. Each is set up to handle certain types of cases, although the rooms can be used inte: - ably. Materials for treatment “al ways are kept in full stock and in the same place so a doctor never need search for vital equipment. All critical cases are taken to one room, poison patients to another. Other rooms are for women about to bear a child; eye, ear and throat ailments; contagious diseases; overnight patients and those who can not be moved, and two roomis for treatment of unconscious persons.

LJ » " .. THERE ALSO is a combination

room, so stocked that the receiving ward can operate two days running. On ambulance runs in prime emergencies, a patient isn't kept waiting when he arrives at the hospital. Over the two-way radio, the the case arrives, all necessary equipment is in place and ready for use. Considered prime emergencies are shock, burns, severe surgery, compound fractures, foreign bodies in

pregnancy. "on

pital has ready at all times, under

‘The Heart of America—

JASPER, Ind, May 14—This is

laboratory for diagnosis and supply

doctor sends in a code signal. When

furniture and play basketball, Residents say this is the most basket-ball-minded town in the nation’s most basketball-minded state. Long before we drove into Jasper we saw evidence of interest. In nearly every farmyard there is a pole with a hoop attached to the top. And last night we saw our first lighted outdoor basketball courts.

DOG BITE—Five- -year-old Jack Wood, 301 N. Lansing sf

the treatment for his i injury

hospital is screened here.

fit into the ambulances. In each chest are all the medicines, band-

FOR MAJOR disasters the hos-|ages and surgical instruments need-|in with a stiletto stuck in his heart.

ed to handle any injury.

Jasper, Ind., Center of Basketballdom— Everybody's Crazy and Proud of It

Every Farmyard Has a Hoop, Town's Courts .

Run Day and Night, Summer and Winter

By ELDON ROARK Spripps-Howard Staff Writer

the place where they make office

There were three of them. Youngsters were playing on .one, middle-sized boys on another, and big boys on the third. And there were plenty of young spectators around the courts, waiting for their turn. This morning we went to see Othmar Eckerle, merchant and

situation that is at fault,

| |games—won 177, lost 25. They are

president of the Jasper park board, to ask about those public courts. “This town is basketball crazy!” he said proudly. “Our high school always has a top team, and we crowd into the gym for the games and go wild.” The kids of the town play all year so the public courts are kept open day and night all spring and summer. The season may end at other places in March, but in Jasper it goes right on. The courts give the little fellows an opportunity to develop into good material for the high school, and they also give older boys a chance to play even if they can't make the school teams. The high school gymnasium is a brick building almost as large as the school itself. (Erected 1938-39. Federal emergency administration of public works). The balconies can seat 3600, and for the important games they erect bleachers along the sidelines. The polished floor glistens and the backboards are glass. Spectators seated behind them can see the play. The latest-type scoreboard and clock can be seen from any part of the gym. Few colleges have such plants. - Cabby O'Neill, who captained the University of Alabama five to a championship in 1929, has been coach at Jasper High for eight years. His teams have played 202

members of the Southern Indiana Conference, composed, with one ex-

Jasper. But only once has Jasper finished lower than second, and that year they were third,

EMERGENCY—Dr. Wi

ception, of schools much larger than}

in the receiving ward at City

id Miss Flynn is the nurse. This is one of the many routine jobs for ‘every person entering the,

position . among

liam Kelly, City hospital receivi 9 ward head, finishes stitching the arm of a person injured in a motorcycle accident. Assisting is Miss Esther Schmalfeldt.

nose and throat and advanced|lock and key, four mobile units that | But still it is the unusual that

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the past seven, and most of the time they remain in it week after week. That is a remarkable record in view of the fact that it was made in competition with the big city high schools. Jasper High has only 400} _" students and half are girls. Coach O'Neill's teams haven't been composed of especially tall boys, either, “We had only one six-footer on

We overcome height with speed and trickiness.” Jasper High doesn’t have a football team. It-isn’t large enough to carry the basketball standard over into football, and it wouldn't be satisfled with anything else.

Burglars Enter 3 Business Firms

Burglars operating in the near northeast side last night entered three business establishments. A restaurant at 251 E. 11th st. was broken into and coins taken from a cigaret dispenser and a pin ball machine. Frances Thomas, proprietor, was unable to estimate the amount of loss. Walter Potter, custodian of an} apartment building adjoining & Standard grocery, 407 Massachu-~ setts ave, heard a noise in the grocery when he fired the apartment furnace this morning. He said he saw a man on the floor, The suspect was later arrested while. walking in the 300 block; Massachiisetts ave. . .. ‘Boards were torn off the rear of Bill's Cafe, 12290 Central ave, and the place was entered. Helen An bler, 234 Arch st. discovered the io break-in this morning, but could} J find nothing missing,

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ighborin, , as well as the nation as a whole

Fountain rain Pen, Pennies

our team this year,” he said. “We Angeles: ons 20 pradehiiaren ane play a fire-wagon type of basketball. | © great-grandchildren. »