Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 May 1947 — Page 13

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‘WAS IT A BIRD? No. Was it ‘super-colossal bumble-bee? NOR =

When your curiosity lifes you to tie buss around

the oben, 40 Jn, south of the baseball damon st Riverside park, watch your step. : "The Hoosier Capitol Liners: have a monopoly on 4ik Self du Shah have i Niiereg uth odes Planck starters and lead wires. Ee Toh an ais NAY ocgupies the center aréa. To the left is the Norman Baftiett hangar and tothe Tight is Phi) Stone and

company. -1t doesn’t take much to distinguish the spectators from the Hoosier Cepitol Liners. The model plane club members were on their hands and knees hunched _ over cranky motors and tool boxes.

THE SPECTATORS, like viking just stood around gawking and getting in the way. “Hi, Mitch,” I called, trying to get on the inside with James Mitchell, ie president of the Hoosier Capitol Liners. ‘Hi—-WATCH THOSE LINES.” Ooops. “How ya doin'?” “I think Ill be ready to fly ‘soon, There goes He had a bit of ignition trouble,” Mitch said. Mr. Bartlett's low wing Harris Blue Devil was eutting wide circles. Heads were going round and

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Ralph Hicks, Mitch's buddy of the model airways, was hard at work on his all-metal Silver Streak. The Harris Blue Devil sputtered after its run, Mr. Bartlett, with 52 feet of fine wire between him and his plane, was trying to land it into the wind. The Blue Devil unexpectedly touched the ras with the wind. From all three camps came, “Good landing, Norm.” Nice goin’, Norm.” ' =» “Hey, Mitch, all I’m doing is cutting grass,” Phil Stone called from cur right. The dandelions and the grass were fouling up his landing gear. they'd cut this grass here. We crack and lose more lines than you can at,” Mitch said. was in the process of getting the crowd back. "Mitch was almost ready to take his speed plane up. “All gassed up, Mitch?” he asked. “Come out in the center with me,” Mitch sald, “and get an idea how we control these planes.” A model plane in Mr. Bartlett's camp took a nosedive. Parts of the plane were scattered all over the immediate area. . “Well, there goes three month's work,” Mitch told me as we waited for Mr. Hicks to start the speeder on the electric starter. Thumbs up-—the speeder was ready to go and buzzing like a swarm of giant hornets. The lead wires went over my head. From then on I watched the plane lying on the grass.

Blue Job Is Smashed

PLEASE BE GOOD BABY—James Mitchell gives his model one last check before he sends it up. Mr. Hicks, who was timing the speeder, called, “Better than 95, Mitch.” 1 was getting dizzy watching the plane going round and round.

“LET'S TAKE the twin engine up, Mitch,” Mr. Hicks said. It was his baby. Someone smashell a blue job in Phil Stone's camp. It doesn’t take long to crack them-up. e air was full of angry sounding buzzing. Mitch claimed it was nothing. Half of the club went to) Champaign, Ill, for a meet. “Come out sometime when we're all here.” Will do when I get some ball bearings under my head. The twin e took off in fine style. Mitch arched his and held on to the lines with both hands. The huge model was pulling heavy. “Too rich, The gas is too rich, It doesn’t sound right,” Mitch called above the whine. Suddenly one motor conked out.” The plane flew on one motor. Mitch maneuvered the plane low so Ralph could throw an oil rag into the lone engine. Flying on one engine was ‘bad. Mr. Hicks missed on two passes. it down lower. Too low, for the wobbling plane. CRASH-and parts flew up from the grass. Mr. Hicks announced the damage. A broken battery box and a bent landing gear. Lucky. Only a half hour's work. A bright red monoplane bit into the grass. More than a half hour's work on that one. But still the model airplane fliers sent them up. That's half of the fun—they say.

Hair Raising

WASHINGTON, May 26.—I am not exactly recommending that bald-headed men should chew pennies and thereby grow manes like Paderwski’s, but then again, who knows? I mention this for the benefit of congress, Which is more bald than not, and which is taking up today the appropriation for the department of agriculture. This ubiquitous organization improves all kinds of crops, including hair on rabbits. a hat sprout same on a billiard-ball noggin, it does not give up. It makes toupees from chicken feathers. Federal wigs for those who want to be red-heads are made of feathers plucked from Rhode Island Red hens. You think I'm kidding?

About Bald-Headed Rabbits THE WONDROUS facts have been extracted from official testimony of the department’s big-wigs (could such as Dr. H. W. Marston, the research co-ordinator of the agricultural research administration. At Ithaca, N. Y., he has some rabbits, which have cirrhosis of the liver, because he fed ‘sm nothing but milk. So the doctor was talking along about milk not being so good as the sole article of diet for babies, or humans either, when he suddenly changed the subject to bald-headed rabbits. He gave them no copper to eat and their hair

first turned gray. Then it fell out. Their skin became dry. “These ‘conditions could be prevented,” he said. “Once the hair is gone it may not come back again, but the skin eondition and the graying condition were cured by feeding copper. Lack of copper in the diet Sured 7 on these ts and the feeding of

eopper remedied them.” The hairless ones on the appropriations commit-

Double Trouble

HOLLYWOOD, May 26. —I hate double-feature . I leave the theater cross-eyed and And & lot of readers seem to agree

‘with me. But a couple of Hollywood big shots say I'm nuts. They say the public wants double features. The fellows after me with a bolo knife are Sol Wurtzel, the king of the B pictures for some 30 years, and his executive assistant, Howard Sheehan. For many years Shéehan was executive vice president of the Fox West Coast Theaters.

Actions Louder Than Words HERE IS Mr. Sheehan's argument: “The public wants double features. But despite this fact, if you ask any five of your friends, about four of them will tell you they don't like to sit through a two-eature picture: show. “But what actually happens— and this I can document—is, if there are three theaters located side by side, one with two pictures and the other two with one feature, each of & choice selection, the doublebill house will stand them out before either of the

other two houses get even a fair attendance.”

Mr, Sheelan goes on, “It's true that during the loose spending war years many amusement seekers with money .in their pockets were satisfied to pay a high admission price for one feature. They still had enough money left to spend elsewhere to round out a full evening. But that is not true today.

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We, the Women

A PSYCHOLOGY profesSor estimates that only one girl in 10 goes to college for the intellectual life. The other nine are more interested in getting a husband.

Can’t Discredit Girls WELL, YOU can't discredit the girls for that." Getting a husband. is just as seriou$ a business to a girl as’ getting. an education that will quip him to earn a living is to a young man. And. if by going away to college a girl manages® to meet and eventually marry a young man who has a bright future ahead of him, she has landed herself a lifetime job. Even though. she ‘may not have had all her mind

Noblesville Summer Camp Set for Boys 8 to 14

A summer! camp will be operated of two weeks each, beginning June Avenue Boys’ club for those who 23, July 7 and July 21.

‘near Noblesville by the Boys Club

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‘tunity of an expanded home “The camp, 10 We localed 3% miles {horse

_ northwest. of the Hamilton Sounty waties asst, will ‘be open for thres, :

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association for:the benefit of bOYS| .¢.ng ‘Harry G. Gorman will direct |: Edith Robertson will have charge, from 8 to 14, while those who can-|4ativities, assisted by Mrs, Gorman, [assisted by Jerome Thinnes and not §0 to camp Wil Rave tiie appa Harry C. Cherry and Everett B,

playground A program including soft ball, |23, continuing until Aug. 16. y ey ball and dra- * Both activities' are supported in

| TH By Frederick C. Othman

tee, you may be sure, were giving him strict attention. The doctor said his next experiments with copper would involve cows. He did not suggest copper as a sprinkling for congressional cornflakes; his Pe is not yet conclusive and, after all, he is interested in improving the breed of animals, only. When 4&ll hope is gone and the man with the | shiny dome refuses longer to rub in tonics, suck! pennies, or wear an electric hat in his boudoir, he | turns to a toupee. Here again is the agriculture de- | partment, being helpful. : Rep. Walt Horan of Washington; whose hair is his own, was particularly interested in "the chicken | feather research at the department's laboratory at Albany, Cal. “You are creating out there a new foundation for, the entire wig industry of the United States,” he said,’ “a $5 million ‘or $6 million industry.”

Rhode Island Red Curls

DR. HOWARD beamed. He also signaled to a helper in the back of the room, who lugged forward a dummy of a lady with the most beautiful red curls this side of Rita Hayworth. ! “I have brought along here a mannikin that we call Rhoda, because the hair was made from the

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feathers of a Rhode Island Red chicken,” the doctor Bush's escape from the lynch bert |

said. “You will notice that the characteristic color of | the chicken’s feathers has been carried through into the hair that has been used on the mannikin.” He turned Rhoda around. The gentlemen examined her closely. Dr. Howard said a black chicken | would make black curls, and so on. If a movie actor

I have no doubt he ‘could ‘Pluck a parrot. The moral is obvious: If the legislators are too tight with the purse strings, they'll scalp themselves, |

Mitch brought :

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5000 U. §. Soldiers From Blue Devil Division

Also to Serve After

‘Ratification Day’

' By JULIUS HUMI, N. E. A. Staff Correspondent TRIESTE, May 26.—The allied military government

still rules in Trieste today, a free state awaiting-its freedom.

Hardly any one place caused as much argument and

CHIEF — Ex-command-er of the Blue Devil division, Maj. Gen. Bryant E. Moore of Ellsworth, Me., heads TRUST (Trieste U. S.

Troops).

Lynch Victim’ Guarded in Prison

Gives Up After Escaping From Mob

RALEIGH, N. C, May 26 (U. P.).

—Godwin Bush, 24-year-old Negro

{who outran # shooting mob that|

! abducted him from jail, was lodged! lin the strongly guarded central ‘state prison today for safekeeping.

discontent when the Big Four began shaping Europe’s peace. But now, more than three months after the treaties were Signed, there has been little change in the way of life for

this Adriatic seaport and the chunk of Italian countryside that goes with it as a free territory. Ratification day, and the selec~ tion :of a governor by the United Nations Security Council, will be

the big steps in the change-over. . » » THE WAITING period may give

the conflict of nationalist sentiments between the Yugoslavs and the Italians a chance to die down.

The town of Trieste itself is almost =

100 per cent Italian, and the countryside almost 100 per cent Slovene; the intense feelings of the two still flare up in bloodshed and Jbroken heads. One step towards realization of the Big Four project was the formation this month of TRUST— Trieste U. S. Troops—under command of Maj. Gen. Bryant E. Moore. Its 5000 regular U. 8. soldiers, selected from the now-de-pleted 88th Blue Devil division, will be at the disposal of the new governor. » = » . BRADFORD, the British counterpart to TRUST, has not yet been officially formed, nor have arrangements been made for the admission of Yugoslav and Italian troops. Headquarters for Gen. Moore's troops is the Castle of Miramare, built by the German Emporor Maximillian, It was selected, said one official, not for its comfort but to |have an impressive place _ from which to fly the American flag. The Stars and Stripes fly also on {the Morgan line, part of which lies inside territory which will go to Yugoslavia on ratification day. In between, in the villages which are {part of the free state-to-be, the

{country people fly the flag of Tito

‘and h_. 2 changed the names pf their streets from Italian into Slovene. | » » » THE -ALLIED forces which still rule are training local authorities to carry on by themselves. | They have created the Venezia

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Trains To Rule In oy

name from the Italian province out of which the free state was carved by the Big Four council. Trained by professional British and American officers serving n the Allied armies, the V. G. police are the best trained, most compact and probably the smartest local force in Central Europe, according to Allied military men. The goal is 6000 men ready to serve the governor of the Free State - when he is elected. Of the 5300 trained ta date, 30 per cent are Slovene and the rest of Italian origin.

= » » IN THE V. G. school on the outskirts of Trieste, commanded by a British major, recruits for the police force train Sor ree to five months, Composed mainly of foot patrolmen, the force has small mobile and mounted sections. - A small unit. of policewomen recently was added. Because the biggest troubles- in post-war Trieste are clashes of patriotism, the V. G. police avoid contact with the civilian population during training. The discipline and impartiality which ‘has beer® drilled into them already has paid off. Even the AMG expected wide-spread violence and riots between pro-Yugoslavs and pro-Italians on May 1. The V. G. got its first big assignment

on that day, and showed they could

The young sawmill worker's story | Guilia police force, which takes its keep the peace.

| of his break for. freedom outside the!

of the FBI and state authorities. It was learned unofficially that Bush had tentatively identified two’ of the men who had seized him before dawn Friday in reprisal for an ‘alleged attack on a white woman Gow.’ Gregg Cherry, “elated over |

mob announced that its members’ “will still be fully prosecuted as soon. as their identity can be determined.”

FIB Reveals Escape

| Negro’s disappearance. posse had vainly searched: dense woods for a trace of his body.

Bush had huddled deep in'the

woods until the posse gave up the

| Jackson, N. C,, jail was in the hanes The Heart of America~—

Platform, O., Named for Scene of Weekly Jamborees on Creek Bank 75 Years Ago

““White-Haired Postmaster Relates Town

History; to Retire Soon, Make More Money

By ELDON ROARK, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer PLATFORM, O., May 26.—Don't let the name of this village mislead you. It has nofhing to do with politics. | It gets its name from the fact that about 75 years ago there was a First word of Bush's safety came big dance platform here on the bank of Indian Guian creek. It was wanted green hair for technicolor monster purposes from the FBI in Washington end- | where the gay element of the surrounding country met at least once a ing the strange mystery of the | week to drink beer and corn liquor and to swing the girls to the music

A large of fiddles, banjoes and dulcimers.|

People would ask their friends, “Going to the platform tonight?” So when a post office was granted | the community and it had to have

By Erskine Johnson 'search.. Then he made his way to a name, it became Platform.

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“ONE GOOD reason for. double features is the fact that people have been educated to get something extra for their money. “The theater-going public has accepted and demanded the ‘extra’ to which they have become accustomed. So you have the double-feature program. “Also, don’t overlook the fact that the label A, plus the expenditure of $2,000,000, doesn't necessarily spell great film entertainment. You, yourself, have perhaps visited a theater that advertised two A's on one program and came away unhappy. You might have attended an A and B program and come away with the feeling that you,saw'a good B picture but the A wasn't so hot.” % Argued Mr. Wurtzel: “Ninety-nine per cent of all exhibitors agree with Mr. Sheehan. You can fill a! house ‘quicker with two pictures, good, bad or indifferent, than you can with one good picture. This premise, of course, does not include such films as “The Best Years of Our Lives,’ and ‘The Yearling,’ but rather the alleged average A feature.” Okay, boys. But I still hate double features. Mr. Wurtzel says not to include such films as “The Best Years” or “The Yearling,” but “rather the alleged average A feature.” : Maybe that's the solution. Let Hollywood stop making alleged average A's and make some good pictures. Then we won't have to have double-feature s and millions of Americans can get the kinks out of thejr backs.

By Ruth Millett

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on her studies, her college years are bound to have | added considerably to her education. So long as marriage is regarded as the finest career a woman can have, the most successful co-| eds are the girls who grab off the best husbands. | The remarkable thing about the professor's figures isn't that nine out of 10 co-eds are more interested in getting husbands than in getting educated.

She’s Not "Smart Enough * - |

THE REMARKABLE thing is that the one girl! in 10 isn't smart.enough ‘to figure out that in: four,

years on a college campus a girl ought to be able to acquire both a B.'A. and husband.

are unable to leave town this sumare expected to|mer.

Arthur Krueger, The’

will be opén June

| field artillery of Gen. Simpson's 9th

{the home of friends. This was only

three miles from the spot where he broke away from the mob with bullets whistling behind him in the dark. Bush sent word to District Solicitor Ernest R. Tyler that he would give up if his safety could be insured. Three FBI agents in Tyler's home at the time went along. They

eaten for 48 hours. Mr. Tyler said that the charge of assault with intent to rape would be held against Bush, and that Bush would remain in ! prison here until his oak si 1

Reserves to Tiosr

Col. R. O. Smith

Indiana national guard and amy. reserve > Officers will hear a lecture a on the European campaign by Col. R. O.. Smith, 2d Army, at 8 p. m. Wednesday jn the wer memorial. Col. Smith will be the seventh and final speaker in the lecture vseries sponsored by 2d Army #ieadquarters, During world war II, the colonel served in the ETO as operations officer of the

Col. Smith

Army.

Baccalaureate Servite Set for June 1 at |. U.

Times State Service BLOOMINGTON, Ind. May 26.— | Indiana university's 1947 graduating class will’ hold baccalaureate services at 3 .p. m, June 1 in the: auditorium. Dr. Arthur Cushman McGiffert, president of Chicago. Theological seminary, will be the principal speaker. Commencement exercises will be held June 15. Dr. Herman B Wells, university president, ‘will deliver the only talk. President Wells’ annual reception for members of the graduating class and their families will be held immediately after the baccalaureate

by the Todianapult Community

services, The reception wil be in

found Bush unharmed. He had not

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| THE POSTMASTER is J.T. Wall, a white-haired veteran who gets a kick out of telling you the government will pay him more to quit work than it will pay nim to

keep on. For 40 years Mr. Wall has been a general merchant here, and for 30 of those years he has run the postoffice in a corner of his store. He is eligible for retirement now. And since. this is a fourth-class office, the amount of his pension will be based on the largest volume of business (the sale of stamps) | over any given five-year period. During the war the business of this little office boomed, but now it is in a nose-dive. So if Mr. Wall retires, he will get a pension of

$49.50 a month. ‘If he doesn’t, he |will make much less than that. ‘Ss = = THAT HAS ‘caused him to do some heavy thinking, and he has about reached. the conclusion that while he is retiring he might as well’ do a real job of it—retire as stqrekeeper, notary public and everything else, except as deacon

in the Baptist church. Mr. Wall will need something to work at when he and Mrs. Wall aren't away fishing or traveling. Their seven children are all grown, scattered and doing well. “They say they don't want us to leave our money to them,” Mr. Wall says. “They say. they want us.to turn loose and spend it ourgelvés and have some fun. So we're going to sell the store but keep our home here. We'll travel for a year, visiting the children and relatives from Florida to California, and then we'll probably buy =a home - - in

Carnival—By Dick Turner

the general lounge of the union

“Our soda business has’ fallen of omiling fi Bet : Bi LY satihel fling back about 19 pounds?’

HARBOR IS KEY—Hub of the Free State of Trieste is the Adriatic harbor whi the city overlooks. Life of the new territory will depend ‘on this harbor, but toc there is almost no private shipping except for small fishing boats. «: Wardipt and carriers dre alrfiost constant visitors.

stand for inspection at a remnants of the famed Blue

INSPECTION AT runs of the TRUST forces

border outpost. Devil division. Shorfage of of

officers has given command of many oupgsts to noR-com-

missioned officers.

Florida. . We'll live there in the winter- and ‘here in oe summer.

“I'M 62 AND I feel as good as I did when I was 25, but the doctor

says I have low blood pressure and

am a little run down. Well, I've kept up a pretty good’ pace these past few years—what with all that rationing ! business. in running a store, serving as secretary of the draft board, and being a notary public. “People come to me with all kinds of legal problems and troubles. They get ‘me out of bed at night. So I guess I'd better let up now and enjoy a little life before it's too late. The trouble with most businessmen; you know, is that they put off their living too long.”

Flood Control Parley Set Here

here June 18-20 in a. midwest flood: control conference. to pool ‘flooggontrol knowledge. The states to be represented at the meeting in Hotel Severin are Indiana, Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Federal agencies taking part will

of agriculture and department of interior. Gén. R. A. Wheeler, chief of U, 8. corps of engineers, will speak at a dinner meeting June 19. Among the others who will take part are Charles Senour, chief engineer of the Mississippi river commission: J. C. Dykes, assistant chief of" U. 8: soil conservation; Frank Bane, executive director of the council governments, and Congress-~ man Earl Wilson, chairman of the congressional: sub-committee on flood control.

Democrats Spent Less in Primary

those of She" Repibitcatts

Officials of 15 states’ will meet

be the army engineers department po

mary ‘campaign were or below

[Romney Blames

‘Faithless’ Pals

Ex-House Banker | Appeals Conviction

WASHINGTON, -May 2 (U. PJ). —Kenneth. Romney, former house sergeant-at-arms, - faced with a