Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 June 1947 — Page 11

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kiddin’? We “No. 1 see il youF ‘canoes are turned bottom up but maybe some hardy fishermen are out this morning." I said crouching on the dock at the river's edge. Gus kept right on bailing the gréen boat. “Last year 1 balled enough water to fill the Ohio river and from the looks of things I'm going to do the ‘same this year," The clouds looked ®wful black, It was possible that they'd shed a little more water.

Climbs Into Next Boat

GUS QLIMBED {nt the next bost with his bail~ fo, can and sponge. “You're a little bit of an optimist aren't you, Cus?” I asked. “What happens if it rains some more?” “Pil bail again. You. have to bail the same amount of water out anyway,” Gus explained. He had some-

there, “The boating season is'a little late this year isn't it?” Gus laughed so hard he almost fell out of the boat, “Late? Ill say it's late. I have 12 boats on

| the hill that I haven't even put into the water.

There's no use until it gets warmer and it stops

J reining”

ALMOST AN ENDLESS JOB—M. B. (Gus) Wingert fights the June elements with a bailing can and a sponge at his boathouse.

Army DeLuxe

WASHINGTON, June 3.—Among the things the army needs to protect us from our enemies are clippers, dog, toenail. : It also wants some dogs. And kL a minute I'll § get lo pigeons, shoe polish and socks; that is, if I manage to straighten out the problems of the military's pups: “How long ate these dogs good for?” demanded - Rep. Albert J. Engel of Michigan, in charge of doling out the $16,000 the army wants for dogs in fiscal 1948. “About four years,” replied J. G. Winner, the rmy’s dog expert. . “Would they die, or what?” “They begin to lose their efficiency,”

asked Rep. Engel said Brig.

' Gen. H. Feldman, the deputy quartermaster general.

The general said his Mr. Winner needed 85 new Jes at $150 each to keep the dog corps at a per-

. manent strength of 300.

“How many dogs to a platoon?” enquired Rep. Engel. “Twenty-seven,’ said Mr. Winner. “They have 19 men, but they sary spare dogs to allow for sick

| dogs.”

“There are 19 men for 27 dogs?” cried the gen-

! $leman from Michigan.

“Yes,” said Mr. Winner.. The dog trainers, plus

i: the 1,069,000 other soldiers in next year's army (the + pongressmen discovered, ¢ subject), will keep their shoes well-polished.

after a hurried change of

. The Pigeons Are Waiting

REP. ENGEL wondered what the army wanted

' with 1,553,000 one-pound cans of soap. Gen. Feld- * man said it wasn't really soap, it. was saddle’ soap.

“That is almost a pound and a half per man,”

: Rep. Engel insisted.

The general said it looked that way; he called in Lt. Col. V. A. Ishoy, in charge of saddle soap, who said the army used to wear shoes made of leather

+ turned inside out. These needed no polishing. From now on soldiers will wear shoes with the shiny side

Indian Country

HOLLYWOOD, June 3.—Our favorite producer of western pictures, Harry Sherman, is on location near Gallup, N, M,, filming “They Passed This Way.” In this letter, which just came in on the morning stage, Harry gets us posted on how Wings are going in the try: “Dear Erskine: “Because we're now here in the Indian country,

I'm being very careful about arguing political opin-

fons with the local barbers. Many folks around

here have Indian blood in them, and maybe the local

barber would get mad at me and give me one of those

| special Indian haircuts—with a tgmahawk.

“After all, very few people look stunning in a Cherokee butch.

Redface Uncle Remus “I SAW a charming little incident last night. In the twilight, the little Indians came out and listened to the ancient stories told by the Wise One, the oldest man in the tribe who claims he can talk to our little furry friends of the plains. Kind of an Uncle

~ Remus in redface.

“Last night he was telling the children that he had seen & rabbit on, the desert and the rabbit spoke to him. “At this point the Indians all got up and left.

{| | Thay ‘said they were tired of listening to animal

stories. |. “‘Better scram, chum,’ one little child said to me. ‘Next hell be telling about dogs talking to. horses.’

We, the Women

THE HOUSEWIFE once again feels her Importance ‘as the nation’s number one consumer,’ The door-to-door salesman is back at his bellringing, using all of his persuasive powers to get inside and demonstrate his wares. i

Service on Tap THE STORES are urging her to use their prompt _delivery service. She has foted home her packages for so long she still finds herself picking them up absent-mindedly instead of murmuring, “Just charge and send them Half jorice and “two for the price of one” sales are calling her out on early morning shopping trips.

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over it. The river is'up about 18 iriches, And while you're ab it take a look at the steps I fixed. They're " being washed away slow but sure.” " “What are you doing there Pappy?” asked Louie|Messang, perennial boat fancier at the Wingert boathouse, a8 he walked to the edge of the floating dock. co Gus splashed some water about Louie's feet and yelled, “What ‘do. you think I'm doing—pouring water into the hoats?” Louie laid his two fishing poles on the dock and told Gus not to. set riled up--he was ‘scaring the fish away. It was just coincidence that Gus splashed water all over the place and found it necessary to use a pair of oars. The Wingert boathouse was beginning to show signs eof life. Young Dale Wingert showed up with his father’s breakfast. The bailing suddenly speeded up. “Look at the old man go,” called George Bertrand, 1011 W, 34th st., who appeared on the dock.

“Hi George, You're darned right the old man is going,” answered Gus. “I'm hungry and it's way past time for »

Everyone congregated in the office while “Pappy” ‘polished off his breakfast, four eggs, six pieces of toast and a half.of grapefruit. . “Not near enough,” Gus remarked, “but I guess it will have to hold me.” It wasn't long before White river was pockmarked with raindrops. - Water dripped monotonously off the roof. Soon it was pouring in sheets. It was a nice « day for sleeping.

Things Look Hopeless TOOK some kidding about the boats he bailed o short time before. “I'm trying to tell you guys that I'll have that much less to bail when it stops again,” Gus said defensively.

“When's it going to stop?” Louie wanted to know.

“Tend to your fishing,” Gus told Louie, “I'm going to do a little ditch-digging on the bank as long as it’s raining cats and dogs.” George, who floated his new motorboat last Saturday, was giving up hope about using his craft. Louie rebaited his fish hooks and said, “I'm glad this is my day off.” Everything but the rain slowed up to a shuffle. June. was busting out at the seams. and it was trickling down my neck. I wonder if a man-to-man talk with the weatherman would help?

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By Frederick C. Othman

out and presumably will spend a good deal of time burnishing same. Rep. Errett P. Scrivener of Kansas, said he still believed a pound and a half of shoe polish per man per year was considerable, but let us not linger on so minor a ‘matter. The pigeons are waiting, The signal corps wants $19,000 worth of these birds, just in case. Brig. Gen. W. O. Reeder said he’d queried 500 signal officers to see what they thought of pigeons. Mostly they preferred the radio telephone. They said the heck with pigeons. “But there was a strong minority who found pigeons very useful” the genera] added. Bo he has ordered up some more pigeons to replace those sold as surplus property. The general reported a ready market for spare pigeons everywhere, except in the mysterious east.

Our Complicated Army-de-Luxe “I MAY SAY that in India we had quite a job to get rid of them,” he added. “The pigeon fanciers would not kill them and eat them.” The lawmakers by now were discovering - how complicated it 'wés fo run an army-de-luxe; they spent days and weeks going over billions of dollars worth of items, ranging from panties for the 5000 WACs still in service, to the big shoe lace dilemma Turned out that the army sold $341,000 worth of shoe strings as surplus; now it is trying to buy $133,000 worth of shoe strings. It wants to spend $4.43 each for’ 700,000 five-gallon gasoline cans. It sold more than a million new ones as surplus a while back for 40 cents a piece. Abgut the only good news the congressmen heard concerned the goo the army's chemists developed for the dunking of wool socks. Brig. Gen. W. H. Middleswart, chief of the military planning division, said this kept the socks from shrinking and saved the government $1,500,000 a month during thé war, His experts also ‘are doing good work developing canned angel food cake and I'd tell you about it if I had the space. Maybe it's a good thing I haven't.

By Erskine Johnson

“But this old Indian is really a character. He was a great chief in his day. His name is Fighting Bird. His son is named Swift Eagle. His grandson is named Two-Motored Bomber. “I'm going to the christening of the great-grandson tomorrow night. They're calling him Jet Job.“I'm using Some Indians as extras ih my picture, and yesterday I was talking to some of them. I asked what they ordinarily did for a living and one of them said: “‘My friend here niakes money Marching, and Joe there does Maying, and I picked up a little spare change doing Februarying.’ “1 said, ‘What kind of work is that—Februarying?’ “ ‘We pose for the artist who paints the Sante Fe railway calendars, and I'm always February.’

Warpath or Krupa? “I HAD quite a scare last night. In the quiet of the desert night, I heard the distant and chilling beat of war tom-toms. {I figured one of the desert tribes was about to go on the warpath again. “‘Can you hear that distant sinister drumming? What does it mean?’ I asked my Indian guide. “ ‘Ugh, he said. ‘Means Gene Krupa is playing a dance in Gallup tonight.’ “I started to ask him if they were playing‘ ‘Teepee Time Gal,’ but I didn't want to put any further strain on our friendly relations with the red man. “Harry Sherman.”

By Ruth Millett.

Articles she used to stand in line to buy are being advertised at “remarkable savings.” Those “one to a customer” signs have finally disappeared from the stores.

Old Line Returns CLERKS ARE giving her their best smiles, willingly dragging out anything she wants to see, and even looking chagrined instead of smug if she asks for something that is not in stock. The “take it or leave it” attitude is no more. It ha sbeen.replaced by the good, old-fashioned “We want you to be happy with it” line. Mrs. America is eating it up. Shopping is fun again.

Reveals Russ Have Obtained Top U. S. Patents

in the American. magazine, also impound all patents pertaining even

‘NEW YORK, June 3 (U. PH.— Rep. J. Parnell Thomas revealed today that Russia has obtained almost nage’ system has every industrial, chémigal and mill {1289 SYNGIR Das tary patent from the U. 8. patent - sino. 1043, Rep. Thomas is chairman of the house committee on activities.

charged:

He urged that all patents dealing

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Russia “through their ‘Tegal espio- [the world is completely stabilized. »

and chemical secrets we took from patent office is permitted to sell for Germany “as part reparations.” Pointing out that Russia has re- [patents filed for protection. fused to give the United States a single patent since 1927, Mr. Thomas | Russian procedure lies in the fact} sald: that Russia has used dummies and 20 iner dne, tao oogeci chain yw he sald.

remotely to the atomic bomb until

obtained from our| Mr. Thomas admitted that Ryissia of the industrial obtained U. 8. patents legally. "The

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benadryl (sorry, but those: are the

Happier

Chief of the new chemicals are 2339 RP, and benadryl. Any day now, there may be some others. Chemists and drug manufacturers are still busy creating new anti ~ hay fever and anti - allergy weapons. Pyribenzamine, antergan and simplest names for them) were tried to some extent last summer. They had previously been tested on relatively small groups of patients with hay fever and other allergies. 5

THESE TESTS showed the new drugs to be pretty effective. From 83 "per cent to 95 per cent of the patients were said. to have had their symptoms relieved. Doctors and patients were enthusiastic. Then came the ragweed season. ‘Ragweed can cause more trouble than practically any other sybstance that causes hay fever “or other allergies. The new drugs did not .give relief to the extent observed in the studies on small groups of per-

Three Chemicals Comprise New Weapons, Developed in War, to Relieve ‘Sniffles’ By JANE STAFFORD, Science Service Medical Writer Most of the nation’s 3 million hay-feverites, whether they know it or not, will be playing the role of scientific guinea pigs this summer. Many of them are going to have a happier, less sneezy summer than ever before. The reason: Chemists have developed a number of weapons for fighting the annual crop of sneezes,

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sniffles and general misery. pyribenzamine, antergan also called

nals of Allergy, official journal of the American college of allergists. Hay-fever patients with mild symptoms got good results but these patients are often relieved by sedatives, hot drinks or rest. t J » » a “SOME PATIENTS with a moderate amount of hay fever have done well but the results are not consistent,” the editorial continues. “Severe cases of hay fever benefit very little from the antihistaminic drugs. “Often there is a tendency to the dosage until levels twice those recommended are reached. These large amounts of benadryl and pyribenzamine af€ apt to cause side reactions. Four out of every five subjects had unpleasant results leading up to a discontinuance of the drugs.” » » » s THE UNPLEASANT ‘side "reactions were nausea, vomiting, headaches, disorientation and drowsiness. As a result, there is considerable

sons, states the editor of the An-

made on- the sonic barrier.

ordered and 15 of them have been completed. The test flights concern the plane's ability to-climb and land, and the action of all control surfaces,

No decision has been‘ made yet who will fly the XS-1 in the first attempt to go faster than the speed of sound—roughly, 732 miles an hour. It may be Chalmers (Slick) Goodlin, Bell test pilot who has been putting the ship through its preliminary tests. Or it may be an army air force pilot selected by the AAF. Or a pilot chosen by the nationgl advisory committee on

Supersonic Rocket Plane

Completes Most of Tests

Pilot Not Yef Chosen for Attempt to Exceed 732 Miles Per Hour—Speed of Sound

WASHINGTON, June 3 (U. P.).—The army air forces said today the X8-1-—a revolutionary new rocket-propelled plane designed to fly faster than the speed ‘of sound—has completed three- fourths of its test flights. These tests must be. completed before the plane's first attack is

The Bell Aircraft Corp. is conducting the tests. Twenty were

confusion as to the merits of the

Army air force sources indicated

sonic barrier tests with one of its own pilots. These tests will boost the XS-1

sound. “In previous attempts to fly faster than the speed of sound, the test plane has torn ifself to pieces in air shock waves created by its own wings. The XS-1 has been designed to overcome this. AAF officials said they, have abandoned earlier plans to fly the plane at 1700 miles per hour at 80,000 feet. They said the XS-1 range is at the sonic barrier (732

aeronautics.

Work for Peace, ‘lke’

Tells West Pointers

WEST POINT, N. Y,, June 3 (U. P.).~Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, army chief of staff, warned today that the United States can achieve national security only when all other nations feel equally safe. “The true soldier of America,” he told the graduating class at the U. 8. Military Academy, “is a leader for world co-operation, knowing that to serve best the security of his country, he must work for the cause of peace.”

WORD-A-DAY

By BACH

{Portland Resident

miles) and just past it.

Dies After Crash

Mrs. Goldie Freeman, 59, of Portland, Ind. died late yesterday In a Portland hospital of injuries she suffered in a traffic accident Sunday while riding with an Indianapolis couple, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Lorton, 3505 N. Gale st. Mr. Lorton, owner. of the Lorton Industrial Laundry firm here, and his wife, Mrs. Nellie Lorton are in Portland hospital recovering from serious injuries. The car in which they W were riding collided with one driven by

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Quentine Imel, 18, of Portland. He was not injured. Rose shaner, 30, of 1851 8. Applegate st., was seriously hurt yesterday when the car she was driving struck a girder in the Belt railroad subway in the 1900, block S. Meri dian st. Services for Mrs. Freeman will be at 3 p. m. tomorrow in Bairds funeral home with ‘burial in Greenpark, Portland.

of Portland and George, Raymon and Robert Freeman, all of Indian=~

Portland, ,

Hawaii Forces Cut

HONOLULU, June 3 (U, P).—A newspaper survey conducted by the

“| Honolulu Advertiser reported today ithat army, navy and marine forces fon the island toa) 37,000. This is|‘

half of Hawaii's armed

icals,

the AAP probably will take over the |

closer and closer to the speed of|.

Survivors are four sons, Myromn|.

apolis and a brother Everett: May,

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introduced as anti-histamine chem-

The theory behind this is that the primary cause of allergic reactions, such as hay fever, hives and s0 on, is the release of histamine, a chemical normally present in body tissues.

pyribenzamine and benadryl give relief because of their anti-hista-mine actions or because of some

rother action, such as_their seda-

tive effects. » » » “ONE RAY of hope” is offered by the editor of the Annals of Allergy. This is to combine the new drugs with the old-established desensitization or immunization method of treating hay fever. By this method, patients are given tiny, gradually increasing doses of an extract of the pollen that causes their hay fever. The idea is to get their bodies used to the offending substance before the season starts. Most patients with mild and moderately severe hay fever are helped by this. The ones with more severs hay fever often. are not. They are so sensitive to the ragweed pollen that

increased, they: ge. devery: Teactions lu to them.

iad England Beckons, Penguins Hitchhike |

From Antarctic

i ——————————, LONDON, June 3 (U. P.).~Crewmen of the Whaler Balaena, just returned from the. Antarctic, vouched today for this story of the “persistent: penguins.” Seven penguins, they said, turned up on the back of a whale being hauled up the stern. ramp. When the whale finally reached the deck, the penguins jumped off and began following. members of the crew about the ship.

2 8 8 KIND-HEARTED sailors, feeling that the penguins were out of their element, dropped them back overboard. When the next whale was hoisted to the reck, there were the seven penguins again. Once more they jumped to the deck. This time the crew let them stay, and brought them back to a 200. PAY VE DEPENDENTS The veterans administration said today that nearly 879,000 dependents of 557,000 deceased veterans of all wars are receiving compensation

Some of the confusion comes { from the fact that the drugs were

when the desensitizing doses arejangther

WASHINGTON, June 3 (U. P.)—

civilians. of the trouble, magnified about electron microscopes NOT ENOUGH can be given to finish the desensitizing’ job. ‘ Benadryl and pyribenzamine; however, control these reactions. So they might be used to help make the desensitizing procedure a success even for patients with severe hay fever. It will take another hay fever season or two, the Annals of Allergy editor states, before the new 8 are finally evaluated. Bo hay feverites this summer can expect to ‘be guinea pigs for this

HAY FEVER RELIEF—Two of the new hail hope to hay fever sufferers by injection with desensitizati (bottom right}, used by the war department and: Black blob (fop right) is a ragweed pollen

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the army. to allow them to marry

The letter said that during a tour of .duty in Japan, “many of us have become quite fond of the girls over here.” They pointed to examples of G. 1. marriages with German, Prench and British girls. “We are supposed to impress the Japanese with the truth that all men are created equal, etc.” the letter said. “Why don’t we practice what we preach?” The Pacific Stars and Stripes answered that marriage between an American and a Japanese was nob approved because an alien marrying an American does not auto-~ matically become an American eitizen. : “Present immigration laws restrict Japanese nationals from coming to the United States,” the newspaper

and pension checks at the ratg of $2 million monthly,

said. “There is no guarantee that Americans discharged’ in Japan: will

Carnival—By Dick Turner. :

year ago, and far below pre-war strength. .

Ban on Marriages Cafled ui d In Letter to Pacific Stars and Sper

TOKYO, June 3 (U. P.).—Thirteen and Stipes

differences.” In a letter to the army newspaper, Pacifis” Stripes, the soldiers asked why the “democratic” U. 8. army had marriages between them and Japanese girls. The men asked that e names be withheld from publication,

Japanese girls “in spite of