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ABOARD THE U. 8. S. ROCHESTER, Sept. 26.— On the firme day aboard ship it's not surprising to find yourself confused. But on the second day when it gets worse you begin to worry, Last night when I checked the executive officer's “plan of the day,” I chose 0530 (5:30 a. m.) as the time when I'd hit the deck. Get a good start with reveille, I told myseif. Going to bed and getting some sleep are two entirely different propositions. My bed (aboard ship its sack) was comfortable. There were plenty of

blankets and I was tired. Ah, sleep. But noises I had never heard before in my life kept the sandman away until 3:45 a. m. He must have slugged me with a blackjack finally because I did black out. Chaplain J. T. McLaughlin called just in time to

.get in on breakfast. Reveille had been sounded two

hours previously.

Man Your Battle Stations AFTER BREAKFAST I began my own tour of introduction. The rest of the ship's complement was to have theirs at assigned battle stations during general quarters. With wobbly sea legs I made my way from one end of the ship to the other, On the forecastle you see where you're going. On the stern you see where you've been only it doesn't make much difference. There's nothing but water. General quarters was sounded exactly on the hour the plan’ of the day specified. First a bugle blew and then the bosun mate barked—“all hands man your battle stations.” What had been a reasonable quiet deck was not utter chaos. Men ran pell-mell into the hatches and down and up passageways. In a matter of minutes, except for a few bewildered reservists who were in the same boat with ‘me, the decks became orderly again. A short distance away, two men manned a 40-mm, rapid firé machine gun. Even I knew that wasn’t enough so I heaved to, S/lc Robert Zannetti of Pittsburgh told me to stand by. Also ready for action was S/lc Lawrence Mennenga of Waterloo, Jowa. Beaman Zannetti explained that the gunnery officer was getting the rest of the men of gun mount

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this is the first general quarters on the cruise. You| 3 = . ‘watch. The next one will be a lot different,” Seaman | — Zannetti said. Could I take some instruction right! or

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nenga remarked. “We know, don't we, Bob? Both| Bo = a ; : = of us are trying to make our rates® | Bn ee : y . “What's a little more complication? Shoot men.” | ! ; ] I was told to take the seat behind the guns. My feet | : ru

went on metal pedals and I grasped two black han- | dles. They resembled the hand grips.on a motorcycle, “That's the dead man’s grip,” Seaman Zannetti.explained, A fine way to start off on an indoctrination. There was no ammunition but we did have the power to operate the gun mount. The slightest movement on the handles, up or down, made the guns respond instantly. By turning the handles to the right, you made the entire mount whirl to the right and vice versa. Even though the men urged me to give the gun a real spin I hesitated. I wasn't taking chances of breaking anything. Not yet, It was a bit disappointing to learn that the firing and aiming was done in the aft defense station above. I guess radar is here to stay. I gave up my seat so the men colild give a demonstration of how it should really work. We spun back and forth until I felt as if I had just spent an evening at an amusement park.

Have You Met Oscar Yet? “I'LL. COME back sometime when you're firing the guns,” I said as I took off for steadier areas. On the| quarter deck I met Lt. Cmdr. M. J. Leed who asked if I had met Oscar yet, Cmdr. Leed seemed pleased I hadn't. Would I like to take the place of Oscar in the near future for a good story? I'm willing to help, I said, but may I ask what this Oscar does? I hated to say no but the idea of substituting for Oscar, a dummy sailor, didn’t appeal to me. You see, Oscar is thrown over the side for the man overboard drill I did agree, however, to help rescue Oscar when he went overboard. I'm hoping it can be arranged.

Goodby Europe

MADRID, Sept. 26—ThiE is a good place to wind up the trip with a dissertation on travel, because I am sitting out here at an airport waiting for Air Iberia to produce an airplane to take me to Lisbon. For all T know I will be a Franco subject before Air Iberia arrives with its iron bird. ¥ One thing you acquire quickly in European barnstorming today, is a sort of desperate resignation. It is of no use to blunt your wrath on disappointment, delay, or fouled-up arrangements. You adopt the Arab creed of Kismet, and bymebye, you get where you're headed. : For a country of destitute people, you never saw 80 many. people going so many places. Pan-American and T. W, A. and Air France and Alitalia and B. O. A. C. and Swissair and Air Atlas and a dozen other outfits fly everywhere from everywhere, and they are always filled to bulging capacity. A guy I know, traveling from Rome to Florence recently on an Italian line, said it was his first experience with straphanging in, an aircraft. I believe him. I have flown with Italian pilots, and I do not wish to repeat the performance. . I have waited four days for the same T. W. A. plane to show up in Paris, in order to get me to Rome. I became so well-known by the employees. at Orly field that not even the customs people shook me down on departure.

You Get There Eventually TO DATE I have been lugged off to jail by the Italians for a passport irregularity. I have been snatched off aircraft by colonial French officials in Africa, and made to wait a week to unsnarl a passport crisis which, as far as I could determine, existed only in the thick skull of M. Le Prefet. 1 have also. traveled by bus and train and barge and boat, by car and by magic carpet.’As I say, you learn resignation, but eventually you get there. It is just that you are never quite the same afterwards.

1 There is a tendency to twitch, pluck out the mustache by the roots, and flinch at sudden noises.

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TIED TO THE PAST—Alumni returning for the centennial. celebration will feel at - home when they walk up these steps. They are an exact replica of those at the old downtown school site. There are three tiers of seven steps each and they stand for the days of the week. Here Frank N."Williams, a 1906 graduate and currently the school's industrial teacher, walks with some of the younger fry. These first and secondgraders are (left to right) Sandra Kay Stephen, Indianapolis; Sharon Barrett, East * Gary, and Billy Vance, La Porte. A Sa %

NATURE STUDY. BY TOUCH—High school stu_._Belors L Shove Sf Sn thus uses Feo Tek fred dents at the Indiana School for the Blind learn to identify Wished off on a bride. Take & half-ton of soap. they| Plants by feel through the training of Miss Margaret said. Carry your own toilet necessities, Weight your-| Singer (center). The students are Betty Lou Coleman, Ft. "Wayne (left), and Suzette Hoffman, Elkhart. The"

self down with towels and canned food and cigarets and chewing gum and two dozen extra shirts . . . . ve " ' ‘ students will participate today in the school's celebration of its 100 years. i

otherwise, you starve, go dirty, unshaven and uncrisp in the collar, Fiddlesticks. We hit a couple of rough spots, in which a®ake of soap came in handy, but by and large a traveler can acquire anything in any spot in unoccupied Europe or Africa that he could snaffle off in America. I got-consistent two-day laundry service, for instance, except in England. You can buy Haig scotch for two .bucks a bottle in Tangier, and Chesterfields for less than they cost you in, New Orleans. Maybe they shut off the hot water in the middle of the day in some places, but who takes bgths in the middle of the day. An American would do well to have his clothes nade, of fine British woollens, in Rome or Spain, and I am wearing some silk shirts, tailor. made in Rome, for a price that would drive a haberdasher crazy in New York. I saw my first Kaiser. automobile in Tengier. The guy who carelessly crosses a street in Rome or Paris doesn’t get trampled by a mule, He gets mashed into the asphalt by a new Buick convertible.

Hotel Service Wonderful I WOULD SAY the hotel shortage, while mildly acute, is not half so tough as in the states. The linen is crisp, the service is wonderful, and the pushbuttons work as well as the lavatories. There is enly one thing you need to travel abroad today, and that is a thick sheaf of- little old green things with pictures of Abe Lincoln on them. If you have them, the world, both black-market and otherwise, will trample a fast path to your door. I do believe.I spy a plane in the distance. If my luck is in, I am done with Gen. Lee and people named Ali, and can shortly concentrate on the lovable whimssies of Bobo Newsom and Col. L. 8S. MacPhail,

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. | 2 : . By Frederick C. Othman | = BACKGROUND OF LEARNING—In the 100 years of the school’s history it has SKATING IN THE DARK—Training of the blind has ~ grown from a single rented building to several imposing structures covering 60 acres progressed steadily in the past century. Today's young. - —— y sters learn the same subjects and games as their sighted

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—The subject today is corn. No matter how corny the entertainment.on the screen, a plentiful supply of corn (hot, popped, salted and buttered) assures the popularity of any movie, This flat statement on the relationship between the art df the cinema and the appetite of the audience comes from unimpeachable sources and I only hope Mr. Gable, Miss Lamarr and Prof. Ameche read no more of this. They will not be flattered by the facts.

When I heard that the Theater Equipment and Supply Manufacturers association was assembled here in annual convention, with history's biggest display of movie machinery on tab, I rushed to headquarters. I'm only sorry I wasn't hungry. The place was all over chromium-plated popcorn machines, designed to make thirsty the lovers of the silver sheet; sodapop machines intended to slake this thirst, and automatic change makers to simplify both transactions,

Blizzards of Pink, White Corn

A MR. JACOBSON of the Krispy Kist Korn Ko., of Chicago, Ill, was there with his french fried korn. The T. and C. Co. had a machine which filled a sack with popcorn when a dime was inserted in the slot, plus a number of 100-pound sacks (for immediate delivery) of unpopped corn. And this is my final warning. Mr. Gable, Miss Lamarr and Prof. Ameche; read on at your own peril: Among the numerous other corn* corporations, with booths spotted among the projector, carpet, and seating displays, was the Pronto Popcorn Co., Boston, Mass. It had blizzards of pink and white pobcorn (kept at an even temperature of 186 degrees Fahrenheit) swirling behind glass. ‘- “No, sir,” said Muni Ladge, an executive of Pronto,

“we do not use pink popcorn in our commercial | operations. Only white.”

friends. Roller skating are (left to right) Bettye Holder, Evansville; Mary McCall, Lafayette, and Richard Wright,

of land. Enjoying the spacious grounds beside the reflection pool which fronts the main OT Olv sdY mien a 1H aL building are (left to right) Donald Irvin, Muncie; Joanne Sommerville, Indianapolis,

complimentary way—enthustastic popcorn popper.| and Lowell Conley, Richmond. More than 400 persons have graduated over the years. Kokomo. Give him a sack of popcorn and he doesn't much yn a : a = = main event which will ‘get under, THIS WORLD in Hoosierland Hoosiers were sent to schools ne care what's ‘on the screen, or how noisy is the popcorn 250 Alumni Are Expected io Attend way at 6 p. m. with a banquet in'yaq opened to the blind through the Kentucky and Ohio.

sack. the auditorium, a uN : Popcorn fundamentally is & land commodity and Banquet in Auditorium Tonight Miss Genevieve Wiley, an alumna ¢10Tt6 Of ® loosl philanthropist, yo GECURE the intisl students, he takes little stock in reports of the silent popcorn By VICTOR PETERSON now living in California, will sing James M. Ray. advertisements were circulated in bag. Only improvement in this direction which he “Seeing is bell " 1g 1d Another former student, Forest] In the spring of 1844, Mr. Ray| approves is the sack with holes punched in it. This ng RVing” 18 35 94 JV. \ Goodenough, will play one of his|attgnded the general assembly of/a% Papers and eivelar ‘lettary prevents the audience from blowing up its bags and | The thought of not being able to see sends cold chills of fear down o compositions on ‘the vi Helthe Presb tert hurch in Louis. were sent to all suitable blind pere {the spines of those with two good eyes. piano, Heithe Presoyleran suure ; making them.go, bang. leurrently -is an arranger for the ville. While there, he visited the|sons known to the board of trustees, “Not noiseless,” said Mr, Ladge, “Just less noise. | »But it is an idea of merit when you consider that a life of dark disbelief. York, {was so impressed he urged the cre- rented building on the southeast there is nothing a theater can sell, including tickets,| For the past 100 years it has been the task of the Indiana School . Miss Phyllis Wilcox, well-known ation of a similar institution for corner of Illinois and Maryland sts, which returns so much profit as good, crisp popcorn.” (for the Blind to bring light through| ——— er ma -— local vocalist who sang during the Indiana. with an enrollment of nine pupils. 3 darkriess for those whose world is not all those who enroll continue city’s centennial music festival, also To aid In securing the state. Later an eight-acre tract of land 500-Seat Theater, $75,000 eternally black. on to a diploma. However, over the will be heard. school, Kentucky ied number of bounded by. North, Pennsylvania, HIS, HE SAID, is the crispest of all. It also pre- | Today the school, with its some years 457 have finished their senior Those who are returning for the pupils on tour to give an exhibition St. Clair and Meridian sts, was sumably is the noisest, but I didn’t have the heart to 100 students, will mark. its centen- year, celebration really are cominglof their work. purchased for the school. This was go into that. He was gazing the other way, anyhow, nial with an all-day celebration. | y. 4-8 “home.” It was here that the ‘The state legislature took posi- the site of the school until 1930, in the direction of a scale model,’ prefabricated, 500-| While the school is prepared to, IT 18 EXPECTED that about 250 world of darkness was explored tive action, While the first bulld- when it was moved to its present seat theater, $75,000 f. 0. b., New York City, immediate graduate students from high school, alumni will gather today for the through teaching. ings were being obtained, blind location at 7725 College ave. delivery. Ready for ifstallation of a popcorn machine, | ~~ -

“What 1 wanted fo say,” Mr. Ladge said, “is that| A gfe Mrs Manners { . —

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Mr. Ladge added that cooking odors from the pop-| . corn machinery once were his biggest problem. The! Wonders If She Shouldn't Quit Her Job,

smell of popcorn is elegant, but the smell of popcorn | Sta Home " : M being popped is scorchy. Separating these aromas y a d Cook His eals your fault and is seeking outside was a tough job, but the engineers licked it. So it ts Dear Mrs. Manners: - excitement in form of a job anid today thal the Son bi the Sinema smells delicious.’ OF MY WIFE and I have been marrjed 16 years and until) very harmless fie is. : 50 3 T, ge. 1 am not the one to argue. A recently she never worked away from home. Last A change to a day job probably | hours, perhaps matehing your I would be doing wrong if I did? I'm . y ome. would right the situation. With | schedule? only 23 years old and it hurts meta

If the job makes her happy it |few pleasures of life as well as have might be well to let it cost you. [INE the hardships. Several young You can’t measure happiness by a \|men have asked me to, go places few dollars. She may tire of it |with them and be back home at 8 soon. Have you suggested that reasonable time, but I feel out of she compromise and work fewer place. I want to go but.do you think

come live with you and cook your breakfast, did you? She probably feels lack of romance which is |

Blond vs. Brunet

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 26.—I just previewed Marilyn Maxwell with her new brunet hair. It looks mighty good, even if it is a wig. Wl i Marilyn is mighty gratefiil to her convertible top, and to Director Mervyn LeRoy, One day Mr. LeRoy said: “Td Uke to see how you'd do in a dramatic role. But no one will believe it with that blond hair. Put on a brunet wig and we'll shoot a scene from ‘Golden Boy'." Borrows Lana’s Wig MARILYN borrowed one of Lana Turner's old wigs and made the test. It was great. a Her own studio wasn't interested, but RKO and

cles ‘work it was out-of-town, so my wife got herself a job, To| continue with her job and still | ried about how hiring help would MRS. B. J. ; By Erskine Johnson mv surorise and di t h ny d oo J find time for you. She deserves | look. You y ATS po Min | Your activities will be discussed y TP v ‘3 18gus B18 11 SEC Yoramng . some credit for getting s& Job | about delivery boys and salesmen | If You go out but you need some With the children in school and me away it was under-| when you needed her money, and | whom your wife contacted when | diversion. Aren't you seasoned %o Director Ed Marin were. So Marilyn got M-G-M to Standable how she felt, but! eee | he¥ Working isn’t harming ehil- | she was home alone, were you? | §0s8ip by now, after a diverce®

) : (working and stay home, or do you| dren id You couldn’t stay in the limelight Year up her contract and went tg RED, pete Uiey after me spending four think 1 should sid my trap Rod) ny of gossip if you chose—you will be

h h ‘Oldest Race Track gave her a wig of her own and the lead opposite ths away I thought when and just drift along? | replaced—so go about your busie

George Raft in the picture “Race Street.” 3 Little Words— | Mrs, Manners, please tell me in { . ’ ess. Be ed ur science. |T returned to the city to work that| I had thought of hiring a girl what town In Ameriea is the first 4 Fen 8 1UIEY by. your frome

Ma Become Brunet {she would see where it would be to to do some of the work, but that- . o GOING to see how the picture turns out,” she our advantage for her to be home. wouldn't look right. Besides, when They Meant: Much and. gidest joni Lo READER about going ws tong as you don’t sdid. “If brunet hair does anything for me, I'll become But she keeps saying “no.” we figured the girl's wages plus my, LUDLOW, Mass., Sept. 26 (U. P.). * | neglect your children or mar your a brunet, That's the natural calor of my hair, any-| Here is the disgusting part ‘in wife's income tax that ides was —Mrs., Constance Silva, 78, knew The first race course on the | reputation. way.” {the ordeal. I work from 4 p. m.i.no good as it would cost us money. only three words of English. North American continent was S vare Dances Warner Bros. have been congratulating them- until daylight and then go heme, or| 1 oi tully aware of the fact that| Through a mixup, there was no laid out near what is now Hemp- 3 selves for a week. Bogart and Bacall like the script of Would you call it home? Anyway I'y. cowork is not very interesting One to meet Mrs. Silva yester-| stead, L 1, according to Dah | Please give me the address of the “Key Largo.” . . . They learn quick in Hollywood. [80 and crawl into bed and try 0,4 that it is hard, but the fact 98Y When she arrived at LaGuardia Parker, racing authority, in his pyookside Community building men= Brian Donlevy’s 4%-year-old Judy was asked tose. 2 remains that doing housework is field, New York, en route here to book entitled “The ABC 9} Buses tioned in The Times Sept. 16, and model a dress at a fashion show. Judy's first ques-| The phone rings; the utility men, =r 10 main reasons for giris|Visit her son, James. Rausing... The shutse yas & rim [how often are square dances held tion was: Do I get the dress? » |door salesmen, etc, come and Keep oon; married, Tell me what you| She summoned a taxicab. ard Nicolls, first English governor er MOORESVILLE RESIDENT.

} | winter I lost my job and was idle 17 days. When 1 went to| you working days your wife could | I don't think you are too wor. |Stay home like a six-year-old.

Returns Wife to Germany Because of Nazi-Like Son

LONDON, Sept. 26 (U. P.) .—John|cost $410. John figured it was worth |ther | Chapman was with British troops in/it, ‘but that was before he got to brother were back at the airport, The children are in high school.

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me from sleeping. Then I get up i “Central,” she said. land cook me something to eat and ih 0K: } pelteve that there are many| ,., "iver took her-to Grand| °f New York. | Brookside Community building | : : ore men who would appreciate | |am away to my job before she and, 4.00 Central station where she went to §lo's | oneso | is located at Broekside , and Gunther's 8-year-old the children arrive home. “ . [the ticket window. ; | e n me | The parkway is bounded om the INDIANAPOLIS HUSBAND, ~“Springfield,”- she said. | My husband and I are now di-| east by Sherman dr, and the Why don’t you quit grumbling | The ticket seller issued a ticket vorced. Anojher woman separated north entrance fo the community Germany. Gunther was happy. and have a few dollars. and ‘pouting and tell your wife |for Springfield, Mass. Arriving in'us. I have a jeady joh and. three center is at Olney st. ° “I don't want to go back,” she Iam a lonely natured person and that you really miss her? - You Springfield, she stopped another children to take care of. I have to! The square dances are |work or I wouldn't, but my children, the center on the second - sists.” C . |it be my wife than. anyone; in the her cooking but I doubt it. IX “Ludlow,” she said. That ex- are taken care of as well as I pos-| day night of each ih, begin. Mr. Chapman kissed her goodby, world and that is the main teason| alse doubt if she married you |hausted her vocabulary : sibly could take care of them. 1 ning at 8 o'clock, with f

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