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TO REALLY SEE THE city it takes a visitor, 1 didn’t realize that until the Emmert brothers chugged into Indianapolis in their “Flagship,” a 1914 Model T

This capital city was the 23d on their itinerary. John and Virgil Emmert have 25 more state capitals scheduled for the “Flagship” before they head for Salem, Neb., and home. It will be a great day, too, because they have been on the road since Jan. 25. 1 thought playing guide to a couple of boys who have 15,000 miles and 23 state capitals in their log book would be a tough proposition. It wasn't. In fact, when my guide duties came to an end I had

* a new appreciation of our city.

Before we climbed into the ancient gas buggy for a whirl ‘around fown, we visited the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ monument. Old stuff? Not when you're with a pair of sightseers like the Emmert brothers. John, the older brother, 27, answered quickly when I asked: “Where to now?” He wanted to see the President Harrison memorial home. The jaunt required some means of transportation. A suggestion that we let the “Flagship”. rest was overruled by the Emmerts. John chose to drive. Virgil stepped up to the crank. One flip and the motor roared to life. Incidentally, this car boasts original pistons, transmission and three original connecting rods.

Car Creates Mild Sensation

DRIVING THROUGH town caused a mild sensation. Motorists and pedestrians waved and asked for the age of the touring sedan. While we rolled along Meridian

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JUST KEEPS ROLLING ALONG—Nebraska's Emmert brothers, John (left) and Virgil, as they rolled into town in their 1914 Ford "Flagship." This was their 23d state capital stop with 25 more to qo.

No Lepidopterae

WASHINGTON, July 30.—No lepidopterae fluttered in the stomach of Henry Kaiser. The only butterflies on him were pink ones dancing among the rosebuds on his necktie. Calm was the word for Kaiser. Eleven photographers aimed their flashbulbs his way. Five movie cameras focused on his glistening dome. So many cables snaked across the red velvet carpet and so many spotlights glared in his eyes that

the senate caucus room resembled nothing quite so much as a Hollywood sound stage of his airplanebuilding. partner, Howard Hughes.

Nobedy Bothered NONE OF THIS bothered Mr. Kaiser. Neither did the senators. When they swatted an embarrassing question his way, he usually managed to swat it back.

. When they talked loud, he talked louder. And when

they got him to admit that he'd visited the White House in connection with the $18,000,000 biggest-plane- - . the Kaiser-Hughes Corp. built, he was as full of amazement as the senators. Seems that Donald Nelson, the war production chief, wanted Mr. Kaiser to see Adm. William Leahy, President Roosevelt's military adviser, about the contract for the plane that has been building for the last five years. “Because he was the President's adviser?” demanded Senator Homer Ferguson of Michigan, chairman of the war investigating committee. Durned if he knew, rumbled Mr. Kaiser in the deepest basso profundo since Chaliapin. He never did understand, he sdid.. though he did believe that the admiral . was a, military man because he was dressed up in a sailor suit. Mr, Kaiser said, ignoring interruptions, that he resented cracks of previous witnesses, including aviation pioneer Grover Loening, that he was a supersalesman Ske Diamond Jim Brady and Billy Sunday. He reminded the senators that he was, this minute, the fourth biggest manufacturer of automobiles

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By Ed Sovola Bowl, John explained about the car and: purpose of| the trip. : The Model T was originally sold to a F. J. Schrepel of Tate, Neb, by Kenneth 8. Wherry in October, 1914. Mr. Wherry now is a United States senator from Nebraska. The car was geiven for 20 years and then stored in the rear of Mr. Schrepel’s blacksmith shop for 12 more years. The Emmert family got wind of the Ford and went after it. “All we did was paint it up, put a new top on and tune the engine up, It rolled right from the start,” John said. . The old Ford performed so well, the Emmert boys

thing that had been in the back of their minds for a long time. The boys were impressed with the daytime scene of Butler Bowl. In the fieldhouse they got a glimpse of the scenery. for “Aida.” Walter Russell, technical designer. showed the boys a desert scene he had incorporated from an illustration on a package of nationally known cigarets. You try and figure out the brand. While on the north side I told them about John Gunther's “Inside U. 8. A” (Mr. Gunther, please note.)

Gunther ‘All Wet,’ They Declare “HE'S ALL WET when he calls Indianapolis the dirtiest city in the U. 8. A.” John said. “Apparently he has never been to Santa Fe, capital of New Mexico. And there are others just as bad.” Thank you, Mr. Emmert.

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The boys had one great desire when they came to Indianapolis.” The time came to see what could be done. A telephone call to Jack Fortner, superintend- | ent of the Speedway opened the track for superchugger “Flagship.” ’ As official timer, it's my duty to report that no track record was established, but we did knock off the two and a half miles in 3 minutes and 45 seconds, Old Grandpappy Ford really stepped out. “This was the best thing that happened to us on the trip,” Virgil said as he clicked his camera in the pit area. . The Emmerts were eager to start for their next state capital, Lansing, Mich.

toward the Circle. The Emmerts had been on broadcasts before but they had never seen a one-man radio show. Rhythm at Random with Records and Roberts at WFBM was in full swing. Mr. Roberts, fresh from his vacation, was cluttering up the ether in great style. “Sure looks like a lot of fun,” John said after watching disc antics for awhile. After Mr. Roberts gave them some inside dope on the hotel situation in Lansing, the traveling twosome were ready to crank ‘er up and go. I had the distinction of cranking. It doesn’t take

much. . There’s plenty of stuff left in “Grandpaw.”|

I bet they'll make it. They promised to let me know when they do. ) :

By Frederick C. Othman

in the world, that he ran the world’s biggest cement plant, that he was making almost as much aluminum now as the whole country produced before the war, that he'd built the only integrated steel plant in the West, and that he doubted if Billy Sunday could have equaled his record.

His dream of an airplane three hundred feét in i

wing spread, with eight engines delivering as much power as eight locomotives, he said, was no more impossible than any of the other impossible things he'd done. And as for his alleged inexperience he said he'd like to mention the Brewster Aeronautical Corp. “This was a run-down, mismanaged . . .” “Hey,” interrupted Senator Owen Brewster of Maine; “I want the record to show that I have no connection , , ." “But we took it over and ...” roared Mr. Kaiser. “Not the same Brewster . . .” wailed the senator. “And when we were. through,” continued Mr. Kaiser, out-shouting his inquisitor, “it was % firstclass company.” . :

Not Really Super, Just Impossible “YES, BUT NOT for 10 generations back have the Brewsters of Maine been in .-, .” insisted Senator Brewster. “Oh, it’s nothing to be ashamed of now, Senator,” said Mr. Kaiser, waving his hand. “We did another of those impossible jobs on Brewster, and it wasn't super-salesmanship, either.” Mr. Kaiser said he entertained no governmental big-wigs. Usually when he ate lunch with ‘em, they paid. Yes, he said, this was surprising. Even Mr. Loening, the little man who'd testified he had his own girl friends in Hollywood, bought Mr. Kaiser a lunch. “And I read his testimony about these ladies,” Mr. Kaiser added. “And I have an idea they may have had something to do with the situation in which he found himself.” . And so on, for a solid day, Mr, Kaiser's day, I'd say, if anybody asked me t® act as referee.

Film Extras 3

While Erskine Johnson is en vacation, outstand ing Hollywood personalities are pinch-hitting for him. Howard Philbrick is manager of Hollywood Central Casting Bureau.

HOLLYWOOD, July 30.—Every state in the Union, every civilized country, every walk of life, every age, type and social stratum is represented in Hollywood's

5000 registered extra players. Before registration ‘by Central Casting, every physical characteristic of each applicant is made a matter of record, every talent noted, the minutest distinguishing details tabulated. If a studio calls for a collegiate-typé man, with a neck measurément of 15, a 35-inch arm, black eyes, red balr, who speaks Danish and can tap dance, it's just another order to us. The operation is simple, «. Registered extras telephone every 30 minutes, up to 4 p. m., and then every 15 minutes. The answer, “no work,” indicates that Central has no orders from studios to be filled. The answer, “Call later,” is the hopeful indication that there are studio orders.

Talks Directly With Extra

WHEN CASTING is actively in progress in the late afternoon, the switchboard operators, whose mouth-pieces are really small microphones, repeat the names of the extras who call. The casting didegtors hear these names through small loud speakers on their desks. If he hears the name of an extra who meets the requirements of an order, the casting director presses a button, cutting out the switchboard, and talks directly to the extra. These calls come in through 70 trunk lines, on a

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five-position switchboard. There is only one other of its kind—at the Pentagon building in Washington. At the peak of activity in the late afternoon, the Central board handles about 3000 calls an hour, There is one thing that even the most thorough casting organization finds difficult to take. " That is the disappointment and heart-break inherent in the entire extra situation, After all, while 200,000 extras were placed in jobs| in the past year, only 327 men and 95 women reached | the $2000 figure in earnings. The ranks of extras) include many ambitious young people who see in! extra work a stepping stone to better things—even | stardom.

Casting Is Impersonal

OUR SERVICE is itterly impersonal. We re-| ceive order from studios and fill them with exactly the types wanted. Where requirements are less exactting, the work is fairly distributed among those who qualify, * The 5000 extras on our rolls represent only a fraction of the thousands who apply for registration. To fill our lists with people for whom we know there will be no work would simply be holding out false hopes and, in general, adding to the sum of disappointment and discouragement. = One of the things that appear to make extra work 80 attractive is the wage scale: Atmosphere, $0.45 a day; regular extra work, $15.56; dress and special business, $22.23; dancing, $22.23.

By Ruth Millett

and make new friends with him-—make them as a couple. This really isn’t much of a tragedy as the

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In Mayor Luther Fry's filling his honor, a weather-beaten man in blue jeans and cowboy boots. He told us he had been called out of bed at 3 a. m. to try a visitor. The man had come into town early in the night and had proceeded to walk up and down the main drag, brandishing a bottle of whisky and making himself a nuisance. ' The night policemen finally had taken him into custody. “He's traveling with two other fellows,” the officer told the mayor over the phone, “and they're anxious to be on their way. From Oklahoma Oity ahd going to Texas. Would you mind coming down and trying them right now?” ” ” ” “SURE,” His Honor replied. right down.” But, despite the fact that he had been called out of bed at that hour, he didn’t stick the fellow the limit. Oklahoma is a constitutionally dry state, so he fined the man $10, plus $2.50 in costs, for the possession of liquor, and dropped the drunkenness charge. He could have soaked him a total of $40. I asked the mayor what he did with confiscated liquor. “If I feel like getting drunk, I drink it,” he said with a smile. “If not, we pour it out. away or sell it, you know.” n » »

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Service Is Weatherford's Aim; Mayor Is 'Swell Guy’

Police Won't Arrest You Unless You Provoke

By ELDON ROARK, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer friendly little town in the rolling country of western Oklahoma. They

won't arrest yeu unless you provoke them nearly to death, and even then they'll be nice to you. They'll try you immediately—at any hour

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THE SUBJECT changed to farming. Mayor Fry said the farmers had made good crops, had finished harvesting their wheat, and were in fine shape. Conditions were good What was Weatherford famous world’s hardest

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MAYOR FRY came out here with his parents in a covered wagon in 1000. He was then 7 years old. They were from Illinois. He likes this open country and has done well, but he doesn’t particularly like the job of mayor. He never asked anybody to vote for him, and he frequently wishes his opponent had won. “They run to you with complaints about everything,” he said. “The other day a woman phoned me because her neighbors ..were dumping their wash water so it ran down into her yard. I told her I thought that would be good for her grass and flowers, She said no it wasn't and she didn't like it. ‘Well,’ I said, ‘maybe if you'd come | down and swear out some kind of warrant we could do something.’ She said she didn't want to make her neighbors mad, and I said I don't want to make ‘em mad, either. So we didn't get anywhere.”

Real Estate Outing Set Tomorrow

The Indianapolis Real Estate board promises an abundance of fried chicken, corn-on-the-cob and various kinds of recreation for the seventh annual stag outing at 1 p. m. tomorrow at the Moose Country home. Baseball, horseshoes, fishing, cards, t

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. SKY FARMING—Skimming low ‘over a Hancock county tomato field, a Crop Dusters, Inc., plane spreads a cloud of tri-basic copper dust to kill crop damaging late blight. This method of disease control, used successfully in the southwest, is a comparatively new method in Hoosierland. Plane can dust about 150 acres in two hours. Fields need -average of three dustings a season. Dusting plane currently is working over central Indiana,

season he plans to fly freight

By KEYES BEECH Times Foreign Correspondent TOKYO, Japan, July 30.—~A ma-

jor gripe of the average Japanese today is the high cost of “keeping clean. Not only is soap itself both scarce and costly, but the price of a wash in a public bath is 40 times what it was in pre-war years. Time was when a- fellow could soap and soak himself for 5 sen. Today the price is 2 yen. As a result many Japanese are going dirty or bathing only on Saturday nights. Soap 1s almost unattainable although there is supposed to be a soap ration. A bar can be had on the black market—for from 60 to 80 yen ($1.20 to $1.60). Then It is as likely as not to have the lathering quality of sandstone or, worse yet, melt away in the water, In Tokyo there seems to be a situation where Jap-

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GOING UP—Duster zooms to avoid trees. "Skip bombing in a B-25 was ducksoup compared to dusting small plots bordered by trees and high tension wires," says Pilot Arnold, former army pilot who has flown for eight years. At snd of

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about a fourth of their pre-war niimber. Even so, bathhouse owners complain, “How's business?” I asked Yoshio Matsudo, one bathhouse boss. “Keiki ga warul,” he replied glumly in the Japanese equivalent of “it stinks.” About 70 per cent of Tokyo's population, Yoshio revealed, use public bathhouess. They, however, have decreased from 2800 in 1940 to 770 today. Yet, Yoshio moaned, “operating costs have gone up. My fuel bill runs to 18,000 yen ($360) monthly, or 60 per cent of my operating costs. “The government ought to do something,” he ranted. Gales bats

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