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: By Ed Sovola
ABOARD THE U. S. S. ROCHESTER, Oct. 6.— Right now I'm thinking of two placés—Bermuda and Someplace where there's solid ground.
OY man weather opened his bag of tricks as soon as
the shores of Bermuda dipped behind the horizon. He's a persistent cuss, too. A #4-knot wind is whipping the sea and rain squalls are flitting like basket~ balls during state tournament time. The ship is rolling something awful. Oldtimers keep telling me not to think about the sea, the rain and the rolling of the ship. That's the best way to beat the weather they say... To forget about the elements I went down to the engine room to see what was driving us through the sea and towards home. The temperature in the engine room was a mere 100 degrees. It was impossible to carry on a normal conversation because of the noise. A landlubber didn't get much peace of mind either when he was told the engine room was about 12 feet below the turbulent water line. The officer of the watch, Lt. Otis Engelman who says his home is wherever he hangs his hat, laughed when I peeled of my jacket and heavy shirt. He said he didn't notice the heat. The number of gauges, pipes, thermometers, wheels and levers in the engine room was staggering. ‘I must have been a pretty sight as I stood with my mouth open trying very hard to understand what the officer was talking about.
Increase Speed to 16 Knots
WE WERE steaming at 10 knots. Lt. Engelman grabbed my arm and motioned for me to step up to the main gauge board. Orders had just been received from the officer of the deck on the open bridge to increase the ship's speed to 16 knots. A man in dungarees gave a brass wheel one turn and Lt. Engelman said that was it. We would soon be making 16 knots. In simple language the officer explained that the brass wheel was the throttle and to increase speed you turned it. The man in dungarees was the throttleman and his job was to maintain speed as
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ordered from the bridge. Nothing complicated about that was there? No sir. :
.. Equally. as simple was Seaman 1-¢ John Thomas’, job, He's known as a ‘messenger on the watch and! takes all the readings. Every hour he takes 150
Good enough. I asked to see the boiler room where the fires burned. CPO Preston Cahoom of Norfolk, Va., said I'd be disappointed if I expected to see any tremendous flames.
40,000 Gallons a Day
ON THE WAY I mef F-2C Henry Brown of Som-| merville, Mass. Henry makes f{resh-- water from; salt -water by distillation. The evaporators can! tur out 40,000 gallons a day. Fresh water is mighty important to a ship at sea. Without fresh water we couldn't move on salt water. Worse than that we'd all be pretty thirsty. The fire room was a good 20 degrees cooler than the engine room. It is a simple matter of insulation and the fact that the engines generate their own heat. Remarkable how clean the fire room was. There wasn't even a shovel in sight. In order to see the fire you had to look through a small, square peephole. The ofl fuel is preheated and then under! great pressure sprayed into the boiler where it burns! with a white, almost smokeless flame. The most! wonderful thing about the engine and boiler rooms! was that everything seemed to be working smoothly. How? To really understand how, the chief said it would take a month -of study. 1 asked if what I was seeing was exactly what! happened on the way to Bermuda. Exactly. Then we'll get back to Philadelhia all right, huh? A huge! hand slapped me on the shoulder. That must have! been the chief's way of saying we'll make it. I hope he's right because the waves seem to be getting | highgr. There's some talk that were stalking a hurricane. |
Day Off
Pe By Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—Let us ponder today a New Orleans lady with pretty knees, a couple of hundred sensitive butchers, a Cleveland automobile with a bay window for a front end, and a Wisconsin theater where the crunch-crunch-crunch of peanut shells never competes with Hedy Lamarr.
I mean I've been receiving a wad of mail from al over lately, designed to keep me from getting the big-head. Ladies across the land, led by the Louisiana lovely with the knees, are sore because I admitted in print that Mrs. O, looked fine in.a new long dress, “Sin, you cur,” began my admirer in the South. She said either my bride was knock-kneed, or I was cock-eyed, and how much had I been bribed by the fashion trust? She said nice legs like her own were not meant to be hidden and why didn't I go die? Oh well . .
A piece about popcorn machines making bigger - profits in movie theaters than the sale of seats themselves brought a protest from Traverse City, Mich., where Gus Bartram manages the Michigan theater. In front of me is a photograph of a large sign, which indicates that Bartram expects his patrons to eat their dinners at home. The photograph was taken by the Traverse City Record-Eagle so I know it’s not a mirage. The sign says: “Popcorn and peanuts in shell not permitted in this theater. A number of other theater owners (names not available for blacklisting purposes) wondered if I knew where they could buy some corn to pop? Good popping corn this season seems to be as scarce as smash hit movies.
Kidding or Boasting?
MY PLEA for a square automobile with running boards and a crank, in case the battery dies, seemed to meet with general approval. I now have a back-
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log of orders for Othman old-fashioned eights, the car whose slogan is this: Ask the man whose father owned one. I also received communications from two manufacturers of motor cars. Henry Kaiser's helper in| Willow Run, Mich, wired that he'd just finished building the 100,000th ultra-streamlined automobile and how many Othman old-fashioneds had I produced? He was kidding, I think, or maybe he was a press agent, The other automobile man wrote from Cleveland that my ideas on automotive design were correct (or at least coincided with his) and that he was about to put on the market a car which will be easier to see out of than a glass bottomed boat.
Butchers Are Aggrieved
MY CORRESPONDENCE with a medium-sized percentage of the nation’s butchers indicates that high prices and wrangles with their housewifely customers have got them down. Their nerves are on edge and my advice to them is to see a good psychiatrist. - : : : They didn’t mind so much my writing a piece about a Shamokin, Pa, grocer who sold steaks for|, 39 eente oo gonnd What made them unhappy was) the fact that I called him an honest butcher. This, agreed his fellow butchers to a man, showed ‘that I thought they were crooks. Take it easy, fellows; I think so much of butchers that I'd like to be one, myself. And while we're on the subject of meat, T must pass along a recipe for the beefless heefsteak, as relayed to me by a lady in Fremont, O. She found it in a 1906 cook book: “Take one slice of white bread and one of brown, cut thin and butter lightly; spread
this with mashed baked beans thinly strewn with}:
finely chopped mustard pickles, salted water cress,
or the petals of nasturtium flowers, and bake.” v
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By John Belford
COLUMBUS, O., Oct. 6.—Acrobatic love scenes no longer worry Susannah M. Warfield, a slight bespectacled woman who has been censoring Ohio's movies for a little more than 25 years. It’s the murder pictures that bother her now. The warm enduring embraces of the GilbertGarbo era have been eliminated by the Hollywood code, Miss Warfleld said, bu¥ “in their place has come a flood of murder pictures with some of the most uncanny ways of killing people.” “Why, if I ever went berserk, I imagine I could kill people in so many different flendish ways that the police would never catch up with me,” said the 52-year-old supervisor of the state’s division of film censorship.
Fears Effect on Youngsters IT’S NOT the too-long kiss or “warm scenes” that cause Miss Warfield to haul out her scissors. She is more concerned with what effect “all this killing in the movies” will have on people, and especially youngsters. . If a murder plot.is too uncanny or suggestive, Ohio audiences may never see the film, even though the villian gets caught in the end by the hero. “We also make sure that the real names of drugs used in murder plots do not reach the ears,” she said. “Most of the time false names are given to the drugs.
In Hollywood
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 6.—~Short Takes: Dick Haymes is dickering to purchase an interest in the St. Louis Browns. Ida Lupino’s best beau, Collier Young, hopes shell return to Warner Bros.—at least for “Act of Violence,” which he wrote with her in mind.
Paid $1750 Weekly
HAROLD RUSSELL, despite Sam Goldwyn’s objections, is collecting $1750 a week on an eastern vaudeville tour, Sam claims it's breaking the dig'4’ nity built around him but Russell said “nuts to dig- * nity.” Charlotte Greenwood’s Los Angeles stage appearance in “I Remember Mama” is the paar’s best out-
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As for the change over the years in movie morals, Miss Warfield, who struggles through an average of | 35000 feet of film daily, said the public “puetty| largely” decides what should be censored.
Worried About Drinking Scenes !
FOR EXAMPLE, scenes in which women snaoked were deleted until the general public finally accepted | the smoking female, she said. Scenes that showed drinking were cut during the prohibition era.
The same rule, Miss Warfield added, appMes to the changes in womens’ styles as to how much dress she should wear on the screen. Today's handkerchief bathing suits would have caused women ‘of not too many years ago to take their popcorn and go home.
The Ohio movie censor chief is worried about the
drinking in movies. |
“Casual drinking appéars too oftén in mmany pie-|
tures and is made to appear that it is the usual thing | to do,” she said.
The post-war boom in foreign films #& keeping Miss Warfield on the jump. Although English scripts are provided with the films, interpreters are brought in for protection against double fmeanings. “The interpreters slow us up a little,” she smiled. | “They become too interested in the pictore and we have to wake them up once in a while.” {
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of-type casting. After 40 years, Charlofte traded ter)
familiar “So Long” Letty” shenanigans for straight| dramatics. i
Model for a Day J
GENE TIERNEY worked as a model for a day in|
New York as a favor to her ex-hvsband, fashion designer Oleg: Cassini. “But,” says Gene, “please don't revive those reconciliation rumors.” Switch: ¢ Dan Duryea's 7-year-okd son, Richard came home from school, started #o cry. wrong?” asked Don.
“What's “Aw,” walled Richard, “all the
fellas at school were braggin’ about the great jobs| the handicapped know they cannot
their fathers have, and when they asked me you do, I had to tell them you're anly an actor.”
Did You Regist is Is Last Day
if you are
* [1Philosophy Profs - To Meet Oct. 25 . manne cur cer seo Eriol] ON Dare fessors, ‘members of the Indiana not properly registered Philosophical Association, will meet to vote in the Nov. 4 municipal at Butler University, Oct. 25.
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VETERAN DISABILITY 100 PER CENT—Charles E.
Figley, 110 Kentucky Ave.,
MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1947
is typical of handicapped
persons who can handle jobs for which they have been
turned, down in years past.
This week is National Em-
ploy Whe Physically Handicapped week, the aim of which is to canvince employers that the worker is not filling half
a job. Among top employers of the handicapped is the
Reilly Tar & Chemical Corp.
conveyor as part of his work
Here Mr. Figley handles a mixing chemicals. Twenty-
five Jap machine gun slugs entitles him to 100 per cent
government disability.
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CONTENTED AND GRATEFUL EMPLOYEE—Another disabled veteran who has
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“i=r== Physically Handicapped Capable iscover
HE SAW HELL IN THE PACIFIC—=John Houseman, 1031 N. Centennial St.,
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knows what it is like to apply for a job while disabled. He's happy now with a permanent position at the tar company, but he hadn't fared as well with some other concerns when they learned he was handicapped. In the army from 1939 to August of this year, he was a prisoner of the Japs for 42 months. Captured when Corregidor fell, he was subjected to brutal slave labor which broke down his health until he fell
victim to malaria, yellow jaundice, pneumonia and beriberi. When finally rescued, he
was broken in health and had lost weight from 160 pounds to 78. Originally granted 100 per cent disability, it now has been lowered to 80, a figure which he hopes in time will be completely eliminted. He is learning to become a checker of incoming car-
found work at the Reilly firm is Victor G. Long, 655 Division St. An infantryman who served in the European theater, he is receiving a 50 per cent disability compensation from the government. Here he opens pump valves on his job mixing chemicals.
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THE DAY when the physically handicapped repeatedly were turned
down as job-holders rapidly is disappearing. Starts 100th Year Currently the country is marking the second official National Em-|
ploy the Physically Handicapped week, By congressional action and
presidential proclamation, the week through Saturday. For years various organizations have been plugging for jobs for disabled persons. Only last year was official recognition taken of the movement which was spurred with the return of many veterans suffering from service-incurred handicaps.
” » ” CONCENTRATED. campaigns by such groups as the Disabled American Veterans, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion, state employment agencies and their vocational rehabilitation divisions rapidly are convincing employers that the disabled can be excellent employees. Statistics compiled by the DAV,|
heads, states that the handicapped are more efficient workers, increase | |production, have fewer accidents)
o o ” REASONS for the record are that
reflected in records of the Indiana
opened yesterday and will continue
walk out on a job and readily find another, an intense desire to make good and the exercise of a cautious attitude to prevent further personal injury. That employers are recognizing the ability of the disabled locally is
state employment service.
Medical Socie
the centennial James Leroy Wilson, head of the |pediatrics department at the University of Michigan.
The first session of the Indian-
apolis Medical Society to be held tomorrow at the Indiana University Medical Center here will start the 100th year of the society's existence.
Speaker at this first session of year will be Dr.
Current officers of the society are
Prom Jan. 1, last year, to their, 5 wyijjam Wright, president; opening of handicapped week, only Dr. Frederic W. Taylor, vice-presi-402 disabled persons had been | qont : Dr. Paul J, Fouts, secretary-
placed. 5." ¥ FOLLOWING a vigorous campaign, figures skyrocketed the last three months of the year until the total employed was 900. : The trend still is up. To date the | ISES has a record of 900 handi- | capped placements. This is more!
(than one-third the total of all per-!
sons placed by the service. |
Besides veteran organizations and | the state employment service, other
~ WORD-A-DAY
By BACH
GRAND RARIDS, Mich, Oct. 6 (U. P.).—A once-wealthy real es-
election, today is your last chance! Prof. Henry Veatch, of Indiana tate broker, reduced in recent years
to get your name on the lists. |
University, president, will preside(to selling newspapers for a Hving, | at the all-day meeting in the recre- | confessed to police yesterday that
The deadline for registrations oration room and cafeteria of Arthur he shot and killed a neighbor “on |
transfers of residence is midnight Jordan Memorial Hall. Dr. Gordon H. Clark, host to the organization, said that a junior|7l, admitted killing Leonard Wolt-| group of student philosophy majors/man, 45-yean-old painter who lived
tonight. You are properly registered if you |
a dare.” i Detectives sald George Hughes,
cast ballots in either the May Of from Indiana colleges would alsolin an adjoining apartment, in the|
November elections last year and meet during the day.
have not moved out of your old| precinct. If you failed to go to the polls On Her
you'll be turned down at the voting! booths Nov. 4. The registration offices in the,
* Woman, 75, Robbed
{presence of Mr. Woltman’s wife Saturday night, | Hughes was arrested on an open charge. Mrs. Elizabeth Woltman, |
) : Way to Church 36, was held as a material witness. § last year or moved out of your pre- | Mrs. Elizabeth Harris, 75, of 34 N. Police said Hughes and Woltman
L_cinct you have to re-register ori... Ave was robbed of her
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purse yestetday by a young thief | Hughes. told police Woltman said, while she was on her way to church. “I dare you to shoot.” It was then, The purse was later found in a he said, ‘that he shot three times,
"basement of the courthouse will be, nearby alley, minus 70 cents, a ring hitting Mr. Woltman twice in the abdomen.
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co-operating agencies include the Veterans Administration, Veterans Placement Service and supporting local civic groups. Chairman of the program is Samuel Springer, ISES
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Patrick Takes Post ‘With Grain Co-op
Lee Patrick, for 10 years with the
|and Marketing Administration, U.
|S. Department of Agriculture, has | become “administrative assistant of the Indiana Grain Co-Operative. Mr. Patrick succeeds Frank T. Arn, who retired because of {ll health.
Ship Movements By UNITED PRESS Scheduled ship movements foday:
Arriving at « New York-Marine Tiger from Plymouth; Radnik from Algiers;
for Trinided; Per- ; Banta Clars
treasurer, | Trusler and Rollin H. Moser, cochairmen of the council.
Indiana office of the Production!
and Drs. Harold, W,
loads of wood ties and poles.
ONE LEG NO HANDICAP—Daniel McCarty, 1160 -
N. Pershing Ave., has been with Reilly's for 2 years. Now 67, his right leg was amputated three years age. He has
found his place cutting weeds on the giant lot.
Police Safety Car Isn't So Safe The Police Department's brand new accident prevention car was being hammered back into shape today after an accident last night. The car, operated by Patrolman Earl H. Moon, 25, crashed into a line of stopped cars northbound in the 1500 block of 8. Meridian 8. It hit the rear of a car operated by Glenn Lichlyter, 35, of 408 Ketcham St. and sent it crashing into the rear of a car operated by Adam Huber, 56, of 866 Buchanan Bt. Mrs. Rhodia Huber, riding with Mr. Huber, complained of an injured neck, and Miss Irene Larrison, 22, and Miss Naomi Coffman, 22, both of 409 Ketcham, passengers in Mr. Lichlyter's car, reported in-
Air Policy Group Due in City Today
President Truman's Air Policy Commission will arrive in Indianapolie today for an inspection of Civil Aeronautic Authority's experimental station and the aircraft engine production lines of Allison Division of General Motors. The commission is preparing a report on national air policy to be submitted to the President on Jan. 1, 1948. Its survey includes a visit Ito air facilities and factories throughout the nation. President Truman has asked the commission to report on the current and future needs of American aviation and make recommendations from the standpoint of national se-
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Arriving st San Franclsco—Presidens Hayes from Pearl Harbor,
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curity. Commisison members left Wash ington yesterday. Before arriving here they will make an inspection of Wright Field, Dayton, this morning. From Indianapolis they will go to Wichita, Kas.
Pedestrian Beaten And Robbed by Pair
Irvin Breath, 38, of the Rex Hotel was in fair condition today at General Hospital following a beating by two robbers Saturday night. : Mary Ruff, manager of the hotel, called police early yesterday when |she found Mr. Breath in a. weak- | ened condition. Police took him to | the hospital.
followed from the Liberty Tavern late Saturday by two men. They steered him into an alley, beat him | with their fists and robbed him of | $12, Mr. Breath added.
2 Die Near Lafayette \Whgn Planes Collide
| Two pilots were killed yesterday |when their light’ planes crashed |head-on during a game of air tag a Imile south of Lafayette, State {lice sald today. 4
| Audubon County, Towa, the game of tag was not identified.
Mr. Breath told police he was