Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 May 1947 — Page 11
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time of the year when travel posters come into thelr own. They have a
wh a hold the average guy when “Now is the ame your Hawallan holiday" flashes before his ‘What comparison is there between Lake Patzeuaro, “halfway between Mexico City and GuadalaTar and White river? Who can resist Haleakala Sousa 0f the Sun), Havana (Paris of the Americas) Alaska, ‘Land - of the midnight sun and long,
a eli up to a feverish travel pitch, I tromped tte’ the travel bureau in the Union Trust Co. No ways about it, I was ready to go, go and keep
wo, soing. (I'm leaving myself wide open by saying that.)
“Mrs. Genung, how far can"l go if I was ready to leave right now?” I asked the busy director of the travel bureau.
Line Forms on Right
MRS CLARA LEWIS GENUNG glanced up fromher typewriter and sald: “Broad Ripple and back without previous arrangements.” “That isn't wery far,” was my deflated answer as my imaginary gondolier quit punting my flower~ ri le flat bottomed boat on the Xochimilco (Place of Flowers). “No that isn’t,” Mrs. Genung confirmed. “And furthermore, do you know there are long waiting lists for: almost all worthwhile trips?”
WHEN XOCHIMILCO BECKONS—It's, “You should have thought of this sooner.”
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Industrial Noah
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WASHINGTON, May 28. Edgar Kaiser is a worried-looking young fellow with a burgeoning bald-spot. The wonder is he has any hair at all. As general manager of his pappy’s auto factory at Willow Run, Mich., he has had his troubles getting four-door sedans rolling off the assembly line. Not since Noah built his ark has anybody done as much scrounging for raw materials as Edgar. Last week he finally made it. He turned out 2736 automobiles and the Kaiser-Frazer Corp. at long last was in the black. Our hero—and I'm certainly not trying to be sarcastic—was thinking about sitting a while in his rocking-chair when, blooie! the senate small business committee slapped a subpena on him. Was he selling steel in the black market? Was he buying it thege? Bt cetera and so forth.
Gives Senators an Earful
EDGAR DROPPED the rag with which he'd been polishing the snouts of sedans clicking off the dollies at a 500-daily rate. He hopped his private airplane to Washington and he gave those senators an earful about the automobile business. You can’t make motor cars without steel—and steel in the fall of 1945 was the one thing Edgar and his father, the fabulous Henry, couldn't get. All the mills said, sorry but they had to take care of their old customers. Edgar found an old, beaten-up steel mill at Portsmouth, O., and organized a $12 million corporation to buy it. So far so good, but you can’t make autos without iron castings, either. “So we found an old and idle blast furnace at Struthers, O., rebuilt it and brought it into production last fall,” Edgar said. This gave him steel sheets for auto bodies at the rate of 7900 tons a month, the same tonnage of steel
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Happy Troubadour
HOLLYWOOD, May 28.—At last I've talked to a happy actor. One who is at peace with the world, not screaming about being “typed,” or demanding better roles in bigger pictures. He's John Boles. I found him sunning himself besides the swimming pool at
‘ the Flamingo hotel in Las Vegas. But he wasn't a
guest. He was on the payroll at a four-figure salary. Pifteen years ago John Boles was the singing star of “The Desert Song” and “Rio Rita”—a Frank 8inatra with g mustache, blood and muscles of the bobby-soxers of the '30’s. John is still singing to them if, their husbands or boy friends can afford the supper rooms of such fancy hotels as the Flamingo, the Waldorf Astoria, ghd the plush palaces in Florida. John, a “little heavier but still handsome, is one of the highest paid stars of the country’s supper-rodm circuit.
Wonderful Life
_ “PM SORT of a wandering troubadour,” he said. #New York in the fall, Florida in the winter, and California in the summer to give my real estate an annual checkup. It's a wonderful life and I'm happy. “My two daughters are married. My wife goes with me. I sing a couple of songs at night and then sit beside a beautiful swimming pool all day, What's wrong with that?” It was rather .obvious that there is nothing wrong
We, the Women
MANY MOTHERS who step from an office into a home carry their perfectionist ideal into the job of housewife, says a Cleveland psychiatrist. Such women, he says, tend to treat their children as though they were little typewriters or cash registers. He may be right in blaming business experience for the ,perfectionist attitude of so many modern housewives, for the perfectionist housewife is not a Tare bird today. She's a common. and easily recognized type.
Seeks to Make Impression HER HOUSE is a dead give-away to her struggle for perfection, / Whether she goes in for antique or modern furniture, her house is furnished and decorated to impress
Annual U. S. Fire Losses Approach $I Billion
- NEW YORK, May 28 (U. P.).—writers at the annual board meet-
Annual fire losses in the ' United |ing. States will pass the billion-dollar| Since 1941, mark within three years if they |peace-time year, n
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“No. » “Well, there 1s.” After s prolonged iaailoR all ‘the ‘wind’, tn my sails was gone. I did find out that Mrs. Genung | was planning a flying trip to Rio (she’s been working on it for months), and her two assistants were ‘also on the books for faraway places. Jeanette Kane
intends to vacation in Havana and Carol Shrum in|
Peru. Miss S8hrum, however, plans to go next March. | The ladies gave me a stack of travel Uterature and sent me on my way. Carl H. Bals, manager of. the Merchants National bank travel bureau, was also very generous with the travel literature. “How about a nice trip. to one of our national parkas Mr. Bals asked. I told him that the long. trips appealed to me. Something with that “Saludos Amigos” Alavor, Or something with the European flavor. Taking booklets out of files Mr. Bals informed me that European travel was pretty tough. Relatives. of servicemen and businessmen have been getting through, but pleasure travel-rough. South of the border, trips way south,” could be arranged but it takes time; I pointed at a “Havana at your doorstep!” sign. “Sure Havana is at your doorstep but not A Here, take some more of these pamphlets and look them over, decide exactly where within reason you'd like to go and then come back. We might be able to work something out.” Thank you. TT a Ane vast: Oo, was jumping with activity. Before I had a chance to say a word to E. Hopkins, manager, a secretary informed him that “Chicago is calling.”
Norman McLellen, assistant, said he'd be glad to] help me with my problem. He didn’t know it, but|.
by that time, my travel problems weren't much.
Businessman Shoots the Works
MR. McLELLEN SAID the northwest was getting a big play, with train travel on equal terms with air. South America? Fine—but it will take— “Don’t say it Mr. McLellen, I know, time.” By the time he lpaded me up with some more travel literature Mr, Hopkins was through with Chicago. I almost burst out singing “The Same Old Story” after a few minutes with Mr. Hopkins, “See this file? This is what gives a man gray hair. I'm planning an air trip around the world starting from here for a local businessman.” The file indeed looked impressive, about four inches thick and plenty of colored paper sticking
I was sure I didn’t rate a four- -inch file. But, the eight-inch stack of booklets I carried under my arm did something to my morale. They should provide me with many hours of enjoyment while I'm rowing my boat around the naval armory this summer.
By Frederick C. Othman
slabs to be carved into axle housings and 14,000 tons of pig iron for engine blocks. And a good thing, too. It was better than money. Edgar said he had to buy pieces for his autos from 3400 different firms. Only trouble was that most of ‘em couldn't deliver because they had no steel. Edgar had plenty. He traded it for batteries, spark plugs and copper wire. Sometimes he'd furnish it to the fellow who melted it down into steering posts and clutch plates. You can bet your boots things the bookkeeping department, but Ws Edgar said, he was building sedans, Take the time last winter when most automobiles were delivered with the rear seats missing because of no springs for the cushions. Edgar found a spring maker, who was desperate for sneet metal to go into ice boxes he built in another factory. Edgat handed him the steel plate; he gave Edgar springs.
Didn't Need Black Market
AND THAT'S the way it still is. Edgar said he never had sold any steel in the black market, nor bought any either. He's heard rumors that some of his ingots eventually did change hands at triple prices and he’s given what information he could to the FBI. The trouble is he doesn't want to be in the steel business. His barter deals cost like sin and his hope is to be a customer of the old-line steel mills, like the other auto makers. There's no chance of this, he said, unless there's a depression, or the mills byild some annexes. The senators thanked him and Edgar put his eyeglasses firmly on his nose. Ahead of him was a fast ride back to Willow Run, trouble, and the 500 sedans that sprang into being during the 12 hours he was gone. Noah's problems in comparison were as nothing.
By Erskine Johnson
with it. John is happy. He said he really doesn't care whether he ever works in another movie.
Mason Wants Change
JAMES MASON now wants a change of pace from those roles in which he has to push the ladies around. The reason is most of his fan mail consists of questions like: “Tell me, Mr. Mason, do you really beat your wife?” : Jane Powell is starry-eyed over Tommy Batton, a young singer who was under contract to M-G-M before the war. He's now a U. 8. C. student, and Jane is wearing his fraternity pin on a gold. chain around her neck. Lucille ‘Ball and Desi Arnaz are thinking about adopting a baby. Esther Williams gets a wardrobe of sarongs for “On an Island With You.” Competition for Dorothy Lamour? Kimberly Ann Kyser, daughter of\ Ky and former model Georgia Carroll, will be on the billboards soon. She made her modeling debut—at the age of a year —for an anti-knock gasoline product. Linda Darnell’s “quiet vacation” was off to a quiet start in . Paris. There were 10,000 fans waiting at Orly Pleld when she arrived by plane. Taylor Holmes; the Ty Power of the silents, will make a comeback as Ezra Grindle with Ty in “Nightmare Alley.”
By Ruth Millett
Mrs. Jones first and serve the family’s needs second. Her children are another tip. If one room or the basement is the only part of the house where they are allowed to play, then mother is a perfectionist. A husband, too, will show unmistakable signs of having married a perfectionist. He wouldn't dare lay his hat on a living-room table or put his feet on the davenport.
She'll Look Older
AS FOR THE perfectionist herself, she'll probably look older than her more easy-going contemporaries, in spite of systematic care of her face and figure. All the little things that have upset her in the struggle toward perfection will have etched unhappy lines in her face. It isn't easy to be a perfectionist.
He said the differbnce between the losses of the two years was nearly as much as the entire loss in the San Francisco fire in 1908. “If the monthly average increase
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STARTING THEM YOUNG—Pupils and teachers in Herron Arf museum's Saturday classes for youngsters are (left to right): Gloria Blackwell, 3738 Guilferd ave.: junior assistant instructor; Nancy Mentendiek, 1461°N. Alabama st. William Kennedy, [senior assistant instructor Tommy Blackwell, 3738 Guilford ave.: class instructor, and David Burton, 633-E. 67th st. This is the
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COM TING—Abso right) Pollard ond Howard Staley, twin sons of J. Howard Staley, 3742
Watson rd.; an interested onlooker, Milton Rowland, 432 N. Kealing ave., and another student artist, Martha Hughes, 1710 Naomi st.
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By CHARLES T. LUCEY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
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WASHINGTON, May 28.—America’s best military aitmen look out over the Arctic top of this jittery word when they talk of a possible new war—and they say that today we just haven't got our guard up
Such a war would be an attempt at swift aerial devastation and could come only from hostile regions with vast populations and huge
of the “V” is about 3500 miles long. That's within B-29 bomber range —and some other nations are known to have bombers that can fly that far, too. : ” » » MOBILITY and long-range gtriking power, the airmen say, are America’s obvious defensive answer. Yet today Gen. George C. Kenny’s strategic air command has only about half or one-third the B-29’s the airmen say it should have. In August, 1045, we could have put 1000 B-29’s, each with a 10-ton bomb load, over a target on a single attack. But recently they couldn't get 150 into the air over New York and Washington.
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B-29's in cellophane, but it would take months to get them ready. The strategic air command doesn’t have the mechanics to do the job. » » » IF THE planes were ready to roll, there would be no trained crews for them. And it takes six months to a year to train for positions on one of the big bombers. Airmen are sure any new war would come. with a mighty air thrust aimed at our industries. And they warn that it's the force we have ready on D-day, not six months later, that will count most heavily. For a long time after a couple of ‘bicycle repairmen named Wright flew at Kitty Hawk, N. C., in 1903, our ‘old friends. the Atlantic and the Pacific seemed to stand us in good stead. But no ‘more.
» » td THE RANGE, speed and striking power of the airplane grows steadily. When we came out of the war the B-29 was aw considerable weapon. But the B-50 version of it is 75 per cent new, can carry more
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Airmen say. the B-36 will have to have: faster engines that were given to her originally, and that
FASHION PLATE Ann Bowman, 6 "Girl with Rod Hat” for the admiration Peay y Blackwell, 3738. Guilford ave.; Bets lvd., and Mary Sue Barney, 24 W.
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” » 2 YET TODAY top army air forces men say our have the- capacity to handle combat groups of the strategic air command as they should, We are just beginning construction of a new air base in northern Maine. The military airmen say. we must have’ still another great base in the middle-north of the U. S.=in Minnesota or the Dakotas. Alaska, in the. view of airmen, is so little defended as to be a source of weakness rather than strength. Up. there we should have an adequate air warning service, fighterplane defense bases, civilian emergency services that go along with air trouble and, of course, longrange bomber fyses,
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. WHAT'S MORE, homes are being offered. for sale. to the miners, or
to anybody else. Yes, Jenkins 1§ in the midst of a great change. No longer will it
be a town in which every foot of
| ground, every building, every enter- Ww one outfit. :
Great Changes Being Made in Pe Of Coal Town's Social, Economic
Natives Inexperienced in Civic Enterprise
After Coal Company's 37-Year Domination
By ELDON ROARK, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer JENKINS, Ky, May 28—Don't look now but revolutionary charg are being made in the pattern of social and economic life here in this town of 9000 in the heart of the soft coal industry. On main street, for instance, a three-story building is going up. The ground floor will house a theater and stores, the second story will be for business offices, and the third for apartments. And the Consoli-