Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 June 1947 — Page 19
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Taman or vi wed Thous sands of school children will be “free” for the sumer, Teachers will get hearty “goodbyes” but unless
U. S. Acts to Keep
NEW YORK, June 5 (U. P).—|other was Mildred Gillars, and naturalization ported to be a native of ‘Portland, States.
youngsters have changed, rs will be forgotten
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corner, « . But what happens to teacher? Is it carefree days from. ate unl the hel Hows i» September Mv I found the answers to my’ questions yesterday, m. fabblrgasted at what I learned about teacher, with but few exceptions, summer will mean more teaching, further study or downright manual abor, And there wasn't & gripe from & educator, Take for ‘example George Mitten; principal of
School 91. Monday, bright and early, Mr. Mitten will become the full-time working director of his summer”
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| Some Head for Farms
WITH 12 TEACHERS, Mr. Mitten expects to bet- : painted houses. Yes, Mr. Mitten is going to be a house painter. There's also a back-to-the-farm movement among the educators. George Ostheimer, principal of School
8, expects to find plenty of work on his 40-acre farm
east of the city. Lewis, science teacher at School 8, is going of Indianapolis to see what he can do ho
are planning trips abroad, These trips are not entirely pleasure, because Miss principal of School 80, and Miss Mary E. Albrecht, second and third grade teacher at School 30, are going to England as exchange teachers for one year. Miss Montague is worried about the passage across. Authorities in Washington have a transport in mind
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Even though “School's Out” for the kids, many a teacher is going to Hi SHO bouks during she sumer months Soe degree, which will mean more
puses to study is Miss Jean Benham, 1-A teacher at School 48, “I have nine more hours of work for my master’s,” Miss Benham said, “and when the summer session begins at Butler, Ill be in the front row.”
‘Sugar Cured
WABHINGTON, June 5.—The clerk of the senate banking committee placed in front of Walter 8. Mack Jr., of New York, a glass of water. Plain water. No bubbles. No sweetening. No flavor. Just wet. This put the president of the Pepsi-Cola Co. in something of a spot. Senators Ralph E. Flanders of Vermont, Charles W. Tobey of New Hampshire, John W. Bricker of Ohio and Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin had called him in to seé what he thought of ending sugar rationing at once. They sipped their water as if they liked it. " The cautious Pepsi-Cola king eyed them. You could tell he was cautious because he wore a heavy gold watch chain across his well-tailored’ vest; on his left wrist was strapped another watch. looked at his own glass of plain, old, non-pasteurized tap water, His nose wrinkled hardly at all.
Sugar Running Out of Our Ears?
THE MAN who (on clear days) writes
Pepsi-Cola in the skies, serves same to His stockholders 8 their '
annual meetings and who never has been seen drinking anything else, lifted up his glass of pale fluid. Then he put it down, as far away 4s he decently could—and told the senators that if rationing didn’t stop instanter, sugar would be running out of our ears. Mr. Mack uses a mountain of sugar to-:sweeten
; his favorite beverage. He said the warehouses are
bulging. Every ship from Cuba is bringing more. There is so much sugar on hand, he said, that brokers are trying to sell him the stuff at less than OPA ceiling prices. Yet, the agriculture department wants to keep on rationing sweetening, he said.
Hollywood Parade
HOLLYWOOD, June 5 (U. P.).—Hollywood is singing the blues over a slumping boxoffice. But Bonita Granville’s husband, Jack Wrather, is making nothing but money with a 16 mm. commercial short starring a post-war electric Kitchen. Tyrone Power costarring with a new fangled icebox or Errol Flynn
sharing screen credit with a post-war washing ma-
chine may be a possibility. Occupational hazard of winning an Oscar: Olivia de Havilland is having trouble with her eyes. “From reading so many scripts,” explains her agent: R-K-O just gave Laraine Day a fancy doghouse for her pup, Tycoon. I wonder if Lawrence Tierney got one, too? M-G-M is planning big things for Cameron Mitchell, as a result of his Lt. Moore portrayal with Van Johpson in “High Barbaree,” Young Cam is a Dallastown, Pa., boy who crashed the screen via the road company of the Lunt-Fontanne play, “Taming of the Shrew.” He's missed a lot of big roles at M-G-M by a hair during the last two years, but “Barbaree” definitely stamps him as the studio’s most promising star of tomorrow. Grins Cam: “Even Louis B. Mayer says hello to me now.” Q
‘The Wind’ Returns" “GONE WITH THE WIND” is blowing back again. It will be reissued late this summer. “Page From a Diary,” a play in which Greer Garson starred in Logdon in 1037, will have a revival on Broadway this fall. Producer Charles Bennett hopes to land an all-Hollywood cast. Kirk Douglas’ asking price per picture is up to $65,000. Not bad for a youngster who two years ago
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feacher Jean Benham is through teaching tomer.’ row but she isn't through studying. (The children are Fun Tidying Up WHEN ¥ VISITED 1-A yesterday at School 45, everyone was having fun tidying up their for “vacation.” On. o'be back in is rade ain Maybe I'm wrong. I don’t know. But nine months of lecturing to youngsters I think the farm or painting houses would be better than what some teachers are going to do this summer. Teach, = Mrs. Jean Goss, principal of School 82, will teach advanced reading courses at Butler university. Miss Hagel Hart, first grade teacher at School 60 plans to travel to the University school in Bloomington, Ind. and continue teaching youngsters through the summer months. Mrs. Grace Granger, city director of instruction, also is going to Bloomington to teach but she'll do her teaching in the graduate school of Indiana university. An ambitious traveler and educator is Mrs.'Kathryn. McCollum, sixth grade teacher at School 52. In the near future, Mrs. McCollum will join a group of teachers from Ball State Teachers’ college and motor to Mexico City for further study. “I plan to take my usual-threé weeks just before school starts in September,” Lunsford: E. Hall, principal of School 16, told me, “but next week I'm starting right in with Dr. Doncaster Humm of University] of California with the workshop in Personne] Evaluation Through Vocational Testing, That will keep me busy.” I wish I could take bac my teachers.
what I used to think of
By Frederick C. Othman
“Why?” he asked, giving his glass of water a sidelong glance. He said he believes ‘Secretary of AgriSuliure Clinton P, Anderson Is a fine man, honest and able. “But he is being misled by the figures presented by his underlings,” the Pepsi-Cola president added.
‘Il Guess I'm Cruel at Heart’ MR. ANDERSON had just been telling the committee that he might soon be able to end the rationing of sugar for household use. He implied he would continue to ration it to industrial users like Mr. Mack. Mr. Mack charged that agriculture underlings were fooling the head man with phony facts simply to hold onto their jobs. Then he left the room and’ I am sorry that he did. 1 ‘wish he'd stayed (I guess I am a cruel fellow at heart) for the testimony of Harold O. Smith Jr, Washington representative of 8000 confectioners and ~for the purpose of sugar hearings—a lot of other
~ ‘Mr. Smith took a swig of his water. His confectioners want sugar rationing fo continue at least until Oct. 31. So do the condensed milk canners and —Mr. Smith said—the bottlers of soda pop. ta Some. of thesé latter make Pepsi-Cola. They don’t care what President Mack thinks. As members of the Association of American Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages, they authorized Mr, Smith to say they'd go along with Secretary Anderson, So Mr. Smith took another drink. My own thirst was intolerable. I beat it and I hate to inform President Mack that the senatorial soda fountain had no Pepsi-Cola. I had to settle for orange Juice, unsweetened.
U.S. ing
High School Junior Makes Visit fo Ft. Knox, - Calls Universal Training Program Good
Dave Lewis is 16. Next year Like a lot of his fellows and their kind of military training, if “any,
consideration. Here is the first of By DAVID
high school.
take it. I believe most fellows will go for the course. It isn’t any kid glove treatment. You have to work hard. But many of the fellows I talked with told me it_gave them a swell chance to toughen up, learn new skills and become better all-around citizens. » » »
EVEN IF we never have to fight another war, this training will be a good thing, they told me. Most of the trainees are about the age of my fellow students back ar Pelham, N. Y., high school, but there’s a difference. For one thing, the UMT's seem to have grown up quite a bit from ordinary high school kids in their knowledge of right and wrong. If any Moms and Dads have been afrajg military training would spoil their boy, they should visit the UMT camp. Lots of boys now attend church regularly who never did before and say they're glad they do. Dirty language is out. Officers and non-coms get results without cussing and any trainee who swears in the presence of an officer gets demerits. » ” » BOYS WHO violate the UMT “code of conduct” by cussing, staying out after bed check, neglect of their weapons and other minor offenses, are tried by special courts of their own members. The UMT’s are not subject to the articles of war like the regular services. The chaplain runs citizenship classes, half an hour every week.
The army flew Dave to Ft. Knox, Ky, to get a teen-age view of the universal military training experiment which Congress has under.
PT, KNOX, Ky, June 5 (NEA).-—Nothing better could happen to a boy than to become a UMT for six months after he graduates from
That's my conclusion after a first-hand look at the universal military training experimental unit here. After a -three-day visit during which I ate, slept, marched and attended classes with the UMT's, Tl}
camp morals to how to be better|
he'll be a senior in high school.
parents, he’s been wondering what the future has in store for him.
his two-part report. D. LEWIS
citizens. He must .get his stuff across. The guys say they like it and there has been only one venereal disease case since the experiment started nearly six months ago.
their education. Courses range from writing radio continuity to repairing automobiles. Civilian instructors help the boys with high schoel and college correspondence courses. 3 ” » » BY THE END of June, 40 boys will have received high school diplomas, I mention these things at the start because they differ from the old-style army training —at least from the popular idea of it. But don’t get the idea the UMT's are handled with kid gloves, : just because they have curtains in the mess hall, and don’t take bayonet drill. I sloshed around in the mud with them and saw 30 engineers throw a 45-foot Bailey bridge across a river in six hours, mostly in the rain. 2 Officers from the regular army told me the UMT program was turning out well-disciplined, physically and mentally fit men, who know more. weapons better than their “tough” wartime counterparts.
Ed » » THE BOYS resent public misconception of their program. One husky, 19-year-old Pfc. challenged “any newspaperman who is tough enough” to.come out and serve six months as a UMT and “see what he’d write about it then.”
He covers everything from out-of-
Pest Riddance Sure—
ANY FLY that i iar far the anti-fly chemical, is doomed to When a fly steps on even an up a bit of it in his food, the first
But in 30 or 40 minutes something does begin to happen. The fly seems a little less cocky and certain of himself. He moves hesitantly, staggeringly; his flights become shorter and seem a bit out of control.
By Erskine Johnson
was living in a Hollywood auto court. Joan Crawford will do a record album of scenes from her three Warner films, “Mildred Pierce,” “Humoresque” and “Possessed.” Brian Donlevy is up for a big long term contract at 20th Century Fox. Johnnie Johnston and his fiancee, Kathryn Grayson, just bought a Hollywood bowling alley. It will be managed by his mother, Census note: The boys in Kay Kyser's orchestra have fathered 19 children since June of 1946. It's pretty definite that Bill Powell, Van Heflin and Gene Kelly will play “The Three Musketeers” in the M-G-M_ revival. i
Concerto Pays Off
DICK HAYMES’ new publishing company has struck a gold mine in Victor Young's ballad, “Stella by Starlight.” It was the concerto theme in “The Uninvited” three years ago. The Johnston office quietly has advised all studios to lay off pictures starring alcoholics. Joel McCrea will make his stage debut this summer in a strawhat version of “There’s Always Juliet.” Wife Frances Dee will be Juliet. It will be a big celluloid year for Johh Steinbeck. an odd story behind “The Red Pony.” Mr. Steinbeck just inherited “The Wayward Bus” from Liberty Films. Another Steinbeck story, “The Pearl of Lopaz,” filmed in Mexico, will be released in the fall: There's
Presently he falls, unable to fly at all, and crawls around erratically, as if very drunk indeed. LJ » ” : IT WAS this phase of the fly's troubles that induced some young entomologist to apply .a new meaning to the initials DDT; he said they. meant “Double Delirium Tremens,” The fly certainly does look as if he “had ’em bad.” After a while he cannot ever crawl, just lies on his back and kicks his legs feebly. Then he stops kicking. ‘Mark up one “good” fly. Not only do flies die after contact with DDT tly applied but they oontiue to Pick up deadly doses for four or five months after the spraying is done. That's one reason DDT is so effective and popular.
” » = BUT MANY people want immediate results, especially when they are after flies clustering on the porch ceiling or invading the living rooms. They want to see them fall as soon as they are hit. For this reason, aerosol bombs
Most of the boys are continuing)
new ways of fitting the country’s youth to bear arms. What has been learned at Ft. Knox will be applied all over the country if congress passes a compulsory military training act as urged by Secretary of War Patterson. The first six-month program ends in the middle of June and another has been authorized. I flew out from Washington in a C-47 and arrived shortly before lunch. I found a place at. a table of Sergenni lnstuston, We were ed roast lamb, mashed potatoes
In UMT, the army is trying out
by Science Service Yess than fyspeck-sized bit of DDT, death in Indianapolis’ war on flies. invisibly tiny speck of DDT; or laps
thing that happens is nothing at all DDT is not a lightning killer. The fly sails around quite unconcerned, or creeps along on the ceiling or windowpane.
usually contain pyrethrum as well as DDT. Pyrethrum, the active principle in old-fashioned Dalmatian insect powder, is extracted from the flower-heads of a daisy-like member of the chrysanthemum tribe. It was the only insecticide in most sprays in the pre-DDT days. It does score a quick knock-down, but on many flies it fails to score a - complete, knockout. Eventually they. revive and go back into oi ness. Md » » THAT IS why pyrethrum and DDT are teamed up for immediateresults sprays: one knocks em down and the other keeps ‘em down. Nobody knows yet why DDT is so extremely deadly to insects and less so to warm-blooded animals. The one thing that is definitely known ‘is that DDT is a nerve poison; it induces a paralysis that in turn stops other life functions. But the exact lethal mechanism, the chemical reaction between DDT and the nerve substance that ends in death, has not yet been discovered, despite intensive research on the subject. » » ” ONE SECTOR of that frontier, incidentally, was explored by a
Carnival—By Dick Turner
an odd story behind “The Red Peony.” Mr. Steinbeck sold it to a magazine in 1933 for exactly $80. Later, when the magazine went broke, he wanted to buy
back the yarn. The magazine sold it to him—for $500.
We, the Women
By Ruth Millett:
A YOUNG MARRIED couple who«grew up on farms head for the city and its advantages. set up housekeeping in a small apartment. . Then along comes Junior. And they work and worry trying to give Junior a few of the advantages they had as country children.
Unnecessary Trouble WHEN HE is a baby just getting him out on the sidewalk in his buggy is a complicated routine. When he starts walking he has to be taken daily to the
nearest park and watched every minute while he
runs and plays. Comes the time when the couple decides Junior must have the experience of playing with. other
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children. That involves the expense of nursery school and the job of taking and bringing him home each day.
He Must Be Watched
THEY FEEL ‘sorry for Junior, who must play with educational toys, in lieu of trees to climb, a creek to wade in, a puppy to play with. Vacation time is another problem. Will the budget stand summer camp fees so Junior can enjoy the world of trees and streams? The farm couplé go to a lot of unnecessary trouble trying to bring another world to their youngster, a orld he has. never known and will probably never
Immigration Me. service inspectors have intensified
‘Axis Sallys' Out
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~ | Miss Gillars was jailed for a time
Miss Zucca broadcast propaganda after the fall of Berlin, then rescreening of ship passengers from from Rome in the English language. |leased,
She is still an American
Europe to prevent two different|8he was particularly active in at-|citizen; Her passport was taken
¥Axta SAV from sipping bu back into tempts to shatter morale of Ameri-
from her when she was arrested.
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brilliant yo Marina Praj gy who was: talent search, conducted .by this newspaper’s Science Service in 1942. She did her work as part of a project conducted at Harvard unis versity ‘under the general direction of Dr. J, H. Welsh, for the office of scientific. research and development.
OF ARMS AND THE BOY—The camera contires the deep ¢o ‘ager at work on a new job—military yraining;
peas, bread and butter, milk and ice cream. 3 » ” . THE FOOD was well cooked and plentiful. By dinner time I had developed an appetite to test army chow and discovered you can order seconds in the UMT. “UMT is a great idea,” the ser= geants told me. Other comments were: “The boys séem to like it” and “I hope congress “passes the UMT law.” From then on I had no direct
prize-winner in the first science
contact with officers or instructors:
DDT Not Lightning Fly Killer, Pyrethrum Brings ‘Em Down. ...4
fd DR. FRANK THONE
It is really too he md} : of death by DDT. The whole subject is still very new, and most, scientists have been busy farther down the line, on DDT'’s immediate applications ‘rather than' ultimate reasons for its action.
(Next: Different Kinds of Flies.)
W. J. Yule Honored For Church Work
William J. Yule today holds tokens of appreciation for 30 years of service as clerk of the session of the Westminster Presbyterian church. Mr. Yule joined Westminster 53 years ago and immediately took an active part in the church work. In 1917 he accepted the office of clerk. of the session which he has held continuously.
Last night his fellow dnirehuien recognized his long years of faithful effort at a dinner. ‘They bestowed a present on him and gave Mrs. Yule a boquet. Mr. Yule was chairman of the building committee for the new church in. 1916. He worked continuously to reduce the debt until
years later. He reprseented the presbytery as & commissioner at the general assembly, last year in Atlantic City and is a member of the presbyterial foreign missions committee.
C. A. McKamey, elder of the Prentice Presbyterian church for a quarter century, paid tmpute to Mr. Yule-in an address last night.
Tigers Eating Zoo Out of Funds
SAN FRANCISCO, Jue 5 (U. P.). —Like to own a pair of young, hungry tigers? The zoo has a couple to spare. They're eating the city budget to death. Zoo Director Harry Baldwin said
He also has three yearling grizaly bears to trade for two small African
M. P.'s Fire Pistols To Quiet Jap Throng
OSAKA, Japan, June 5 (U. P)
it was completely liquidated 20
The zoo tigers and bears eat $18,000 worth of horse meat a year. \
Airsickness 'Real > Professor Finds
By Science Service ’ ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., June 5.— If you get airsick, it is because the air’is rough, not because you are frightened about flying or expecting to be sick. : Psychological factors may play some part, but not as much as has been claimed for them. This debunking of psychological factors in air or motion sickness came from a professor of psychology, Dr. G. R. Wendt, of the University of Rochester, at the Aero Medical association meeting here. “The view that air sickness is ‘all psychological’ is a defeatist position,” Dr. Wendt charged. He said that a strong effort should be made to disseminate the evidence that the kind of motion and the state of the body are more important than the state of mind in causing air sickness.
Mother Truman's = Condition Unchanged
GRANDVIEW, Mo. June 5 (U. P.).—The valiant spirit of Mrs. {Martha E. Truman buoyed her tired |body today. Doctors reported that her condition was unchanged, Dr. J. W. Graham, Kansas City, said the President's 04-year-old mother was restless yesterday afternoon but appeared more: comfortable last night,
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