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When Todana do 45 Hoosiers 0. Son, the vaca- . Tt ‘would be nice if we could depend on'the sun 10 furnish us heat this winter. But this isn’t Bermuda, this is the Hoosier capital. “Are these the super heat tubes we're cutting off, Sol?" Sol Williams, foreman: of the repair gang at the
Kentucky Ave. plant of the Indianapolis Power &
Light Co., sized up the new member of the gang. My Bermuda sun tan faded five shades before the boss answered, “Yeh.” I was in. Brother, I was really in. Right in the' midst of thousands of feet of super heat tubing and miles & steam pipes. Our gang was almost to the top of No. 10 boiler which is almost as high as a seven-story building.
Shins Still Sore MY SHINS STILL HURT from crawliing inte the sompartment. You get in through an inspection hole that would make a midget stop and figure how to squirm through. : The idea was to replace 41 old type super heat tubes with a new type carboh-moloy tube. Working space was at a premium. There was Just room enough for one man to walk along the SWaetay eight
THAT'S NOT A SUN HELMET—Repair foreman Sol Williams (right) shows "Mr, Inside" one of the things that have to be done to get heat around tls this winter.
War News Lid Off
NEW YORK, Oct. 9.—Your attention is respect fully directed to the fact that it is now permitted to speak gaily, nostalgically, reprovingly, disrespectfully; informatively and otherwise about the war for
“‘the suppression of war, hereinafter identifiable as
world war twice. Or, to clean it up a touch, the late rat race is news again, with most of the chains stricken off. We have quit the period of being fed to here with it, and have entered the time of profitable reminiscence. For the better part of two years reference to it was held to be in poor taste. Except, of course, when the recent alumni got together, without wives,
to swap stories and drink a little nourishing, vita- A Smashing Hit
piin-enriched blend. This trend was encouraged by book publishers and magazine editors. They were stuck with the deep freeze full of stories,with titles like: “I would have filled Patton’s gas tanks except you-know-who was moving his five grand pianos.”
Weathered Parlous Period WE PASSED through a parlous period. The nearest allowable approach to military discussion were topics such as “is burlesque a sometime thing?” and deep, scientific tomes, slanted at the ex-dogface, like: “How to readapt yourself to a wife you hated before Pearl Harbor.” This was known as the snuggle-up-to-the-returned-hero-and-help-h i m-g q t-squared-away period. Then we had the psychiatric period. This was the time when we predicted everything on the simple question: “Is Wilbur nuts because of his trying days at Camp Davis?” It proved eventually that Wilbur might be a Jjttle less nuts than the people he left behind. But, happy, happy day, we ain’t bitter over the
Capitol Antiques
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.—There’s one good thing about the dirt on me today. It's antique. The cobwebs in my hair and the grime under my fingernails must be 150 years old. Deep under the U. 8. Capitol is a maze of corridors, ae, crannies and store-rooms, reflecting the gloom of granite hewn when the nation was young and containing the law-making appurtenances of generations ago. Here I've been rummaging with William T. Reed, the deputy.sergeant at arms and storekeeper of the Senate, looking for bargains. Such as 8 gigantic swivel chair, which may or may not have been carved especially for Teddy Roosevelt when he was Vice President; a superb plate glass mirror 15 feet tall, which was removed recently from
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the ladies’ room, and the senatorial butter cutter,
mpdel, HL. 1895. MIE rt co Ga ypwrteis ars put to use in the Capitol, seven vacuum cleaners circa 1910, a few busted clocks in rosewood gases, an assortmént of rugs upon which many a senatorial heel had turned, and a glass fire-screen with & mahogany rim. Permanently Depressed
AND THEN, around the corner, lined against the white-washed wall, I found what I sought: A row of couches, with senatorial bulges pressed permanently into their black leather upholstering and headrests built in for the soothing of senatorial noggins. I'm going to buy one of these, for deep-thought purposes, if it takes every last cent I've got. Eight dollars should do the trick, Mr. Reed figured, unless other heavy thinkers are among the bidders. Mr. Reed didn't know how old my couch was. He's a young man. He asked one of his assistants, 8. K. Martin, who said: “It was here before I was
born and I'm more than T0 years old.”
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 9.—After 18 3 years in Hollywood, I thought I was shock-proof. But, when a Hollywood press agent says he has been hired by . the Girdle Makers of America to do battle with the Covad Makers of America—"let the bulges bulge where :aey may”’—I realize there are certain things I still ao nov know about Hollywood. Howard G. Mayer was the press agent who said he had a new client—the Girdle Makers of America. “It is terrible what they are doing to the girdle makers,” Howie practically eried into his bank book. “They ?—who are ‘they’?” “The corset makers, of course,” said Howie, as if I should know. “They're trying to make the women of America wear corsets and it will ruin the girdle makers. Bales, not to mention girdles, are falling off already.”
‘Why | Hate Corsets’
80 HOWIE had a campaign, “Down With Cor sets,” and he was running sround Hollywood getting » quotes from movie stars on why they hated corsets.
"TT had arrived just In time to see the first tube
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cut off. The foreman told Willie Hammill to get up in the bird's nest where he'd. eut-the top of the tube with an arc torch.
Sinton oe ‘Cameraman in Holl ywood
ought to be glad it wasn't 2300 degrees. That's the temperature when the boiler is running. I said I was real happy with the present 102 degrees. George Calvert, repairman and welder, called from below that he was ready if we were, The lines were secu low. The lines might have been secure but I didn't feel secure as I looked between the pipes and saw the bottom of the boiler “way down there.” Jimmy Jackson, another member of the gang, passed me the torch. As I shuttled it to Willie in the bird's nest I tapped a couple of pipes. For my blundering I received a faceful of fire ash dust. I also received a few words from Francis Wining below me, This was no place for a white-collar man.
Visions of Fire
THE ARC IN Willie's hand sputtered and belched a long yellow flame. In between the maze of piping 1 looked to me like someone had turned the boilers on. I had visions of being turned into.a little pile of fire ash.‘ After all, the furnace will burn 20 tons of pulverized coal an hour, And at 2200 degrees you
can’t expect to come out sunnyside up or over light.| I
The arc eut through the top of the tube. I was
more careful passing the torch down to Francis
Winipg. A steady chorus of yells went along with the work. No one wanted to be conked by a falling section of super-heat tubing. Boller foreman Roland Bailey wormed his way through the inspection hole. I was surprised to see the foreman wore a half inch of dust like the rest of us.
Sure to Be Healthy
THE SUPER HEAT . was at an angle and ; suddenly it snapped straight as the bottom was cut) &
off. This very pure fire ash enveloped everyone in| the place. We were sure going *to be healthy (cough- | cough). | “Let ‘er down,” called Sol. The hoist chain moved slowly downward and the tube disappeared, With each tube, work began to be a little easier. Space is what we needed. After what seemed like hours and five tubes gone, Sol thought we needed a drink of water and some air. In my haste I rubbed off two days of Bermuda sun- | tan on the sides of the escape hole. I went, down so fast I was just in time to see the last tube we had cut off settle in the boiler pit. From that point, looking up to the bird's nest among the super heat tubes, the boiler looked like a fluted cathedral. But to me the services were qver. I'm sure the other members ¥ the congregation will havd the boiler ready for wintry blasts.
By Robert C. Ruark
war no more, and I guess, too, we ain't sneering at it as a human experiencé. We are in for an era of what Sergeant Quirt said to Captain Flagg, and what this general said to that'n. I caught a mew play the other night, which will probably run longer than the next war, called “Commind Decision.” It was a play about how rough it’ is on the brigadier generals, who have got to send them youngsters out to die, and are all the time getting frustrated by major generals, Seems to me that R. OC. Sherriff did it better 20 years ago, with “Journey's End.” Except he was dealing in captains,
BUT THIS ONE got 19 curtain calls and rave reviews the next day. Even though on the first night the top Maj. Gen. was saying his lines as if he were trying them on for size, I figure the accolade was due to mostly the acting of a red-headed sergeant who was doing a highly competent job of saying things you would expect. of a red-haired sergeant. The bookstalls are crowded with what this photographer saw in the war and what Patton said to Montgomery and what Ike had for breakfast and what FDR said to everybody, and you're a chump —all 20 million of you—if you don’t get in on the act. I am waiting for the first WAVE to write a book called “I was an officer's mess.” Let us have
SECOND SECTION
SNAPPER SNAPPED—Lloyd B. Walton, Times staff photographer, took a busman's holiday in touring Hollywood studios. Not content with 50 weeks of shutter clicking, a openéd his camera for shots of
movie stars. The result was a series on him in the film capital shot by Bob Wallace, an Indianapolis buddy who also made the trip. Normally a hearty eater, here he exists on a salad plate as he lunches with RKO star Agnes Moorehead at the studio commissary.
IT WON'T HELP, MISTER—W all, who admits to looking more like a Dead Ender than a juvenile love lead, warned Kiva Hoffman, RKO make-up man, that he couldn't convert him into a Robert Taylor, Tom Powers, dressed for his part in "Stations West," which was being filmed at the time, awaits the transformation in Walton's physiognomy —that's facial features.
movies, now, about the rigors of the Red Cross and the fact that England is surrounded by water. Let us have, also, the stories and movies and plays about how .the war was really won, by the admirals and generals and privates and casual visitors who, like Kilroy, were there, Say, did I ever tell you what I said to Ernie King at a cocktail party? This will kill you, and I hope a publisher is listening. . . ———————
By Frederick C. Othman
There must have been 50° chairs, mostly swivel and all solid mahogany, which the Senators don’t want any more. The big one, with the uncertain Roosevelt pedigree, I tried out for size. It was a Jewel of the furniture-maker’s art, carved all over in eagles, spears and flags; upholstered in leather de luxe, and soft as a foam rubber mattress. The seat was three feet wide and the back six feet tall
$500 Chair for Teddy? “IT MUST have cost $500 to build special,” Mr. Martin said. “Maybe more.” “We ought to get a pretty penny for it, if we only knew for sure who used to use it. Ome story goes
that it was built to order for Theodore Roosevelt when he was President of the Senate; the other has
it thet Boies Penrose ordered it for use’ when he was].
coairman of the Appropriations Committee.”
The mirror from the ladies’ room was a beauty with a gold frame, but what anybody'd want today with a 15-foot looking glass Mr. Martin did not know. Neither did he know where it had been prior to the last two generations of feminine visit at whose primping it assisted. The Senators’ oll soda fountain ats what I said, soda fountain, with the chocolate syrup pump pretty well worn out) was up for sale. So was a mahogany file case, loaded with stationery of the late Sen, Carter Glass of Virginia. There also were a few desks hardly worth carting away. Mr. Reed said there would have been more desks on sale, except that his experts had hit upon a scheme to slice off the uppers of the old roll-top numbers and turn ‘em into modern desks for the Senators now on the job. Modern, that is, inh an oldSeanigged, | solid-mahogany way.
Buch little gems as;
Judy. Canova sa, “When I get squeesed I don't want it with al corset.” Phil says: “They don't wear them in Dixie
and that's what I like about the South.” Don Ameche says: “Imagine a lush sweater girl
with a steel corset set around the middle. I'll take
mine the old way, thank you.” Pages Hazel Brooks
Ul. S. Could Bypass Grain Markets
land
Prepared to Deal
Directly With Farmers
By JAMES M. HASWELL Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.—Agriculture Secretary Anderson has a county-by-county organization ready for his hand if he decides to bypass the grain markets and buy grain - for Europe directly from farmers. Agriculture adjustment committees to handle farm eonservation programs exist in every farming county. They are composed of seadilg farmers who usually work closely with the county agents. Have Helped Before These committees have been called on three times in the past to buy directly from tarmers, with fair success,
Their chases were made in . days of’ San ceilings, however, and not all experts are sure a similar program would succeed under way | ket conditions today. The government's regular system | of buying corn and wheat is to buy |
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Kansas City, Minneapolis and Port-| land, Using open market agents the| government has purchased more] than a billion bushels of wheat and | corn since the war ended. | Have nothing on the Hoosier variety. of going ditgetly to ‘the farmers now would
ores zens Jury Frees Woman enough grain to meet export plans, |
WORD-A-DAY
By BACH
" THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1947
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WHAT A COMIC—Anythin western star Gene Autry on the cot
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gag. Walton clowns with atest horse opera, Needless
to say (so we'll say it) are (left to gas photog Walton, an unidentified
horse, and cowboy Autry. The on think the whole oHair is a scream is the sa By way of explanation—as ny reader ca North when the horse heads South for th
THIS IS THE TAKE—Screen tested,
y participant who doesn't seem to
d-eyed saddle single-seater. n see, Wally will i facing e great round-up,
Wally ays he ton's waiting
with bated breath for a 10-year contract or any contract to come through. Just before the cameras ground and the photographed photog emoted, he got last minute instructions from Sidney Lanfield, director of "Stations West." There's more than a rumor that there wasn't any film-n the camera. -
in the open markets at Chicago, THAT'S ALL FOLKS—After a tour of the RKO studios Wally heads out the main gate and back to 50 more weeks banging shots for The Times. A bachelor, he surveyed each feminine beauty critically as he made the rounds with Harry Scott, publicity man. He's back in local circulation now still surveying and is convinced Hollywood honeys
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Officer Acquitted
cove = = f Murder Charge
Backers of the plan argue that taking the government out of the| pBRLLEVILLE, Ill, Oct. 9 (U, P.. commercial markets would make| _Mrs, Helen Hamilton, 33, East traders more cautious, since their| |8t. Louis, Ill, was acquitted in 10 field of prospective sales would be | minutes by a Circuit Court Jury narrower, last night of a charge of having Opponents of the plan argue that murdered her husband. buying export wheat at the farms would hike open market prices, jury of eight men and four women since it would lessen the amount of | that husband, John, 35, a union grain offered to private buyers st Chicago and Kansas City.
had threatened to kill her.
STATUS
( sta’ tus NOUN ~ | coigne yesterday was acquitted by 5 STATE OR CONDITION OF | seven-man A PERSON OR AFFAIRS [on charges he mistreated fellow]
Secretary Anderson's advisers are not united in support of the proposal to bypass the markets. Definite plans aren't yet worked
GEORGE RAFT is trying to get Hazel Brooks out, and no definite decision has
for his leading lady in “Morocco.” . .
Ci ht, 194 will be 8 bachelor for three months, while Hleanor| snd The Ohibago Duly Wows, Moe.
, Glenn Ford been made to put them into effect.
Times
Powell does night club turns in Boston and Wash-| AUXILIARY TO ELECT
Maj. Harold C. Megrew auxiliary,
es with Mickey Rooney and United Spanish-American War Vetgoing places with David Rose. erans, will hold an annual election
ington, D. ©. . Diana Garrett, a blond model who has been going plac Mel Torme, is now Few people owns a piece of Broadway hit, “Finian's Rain-|St. bow.” . . . Amn luncheon duo at Beverly Tropics.
know, it, but actor Charles Korvin|at 8 p. m. Monday at 437 Prospect
Mrs. Phyllis Pritchard, presi-
the a OE oh miaert wed dunt. Will Rave Ghatue of the mast Lowant peonies, Madonna lilies and the ing. poppies.
8he sald that last Aug. 5 he came, home drunk, tossed a pistol to her and sald: | “If you don't kill me, I'll kill you." |
door and the pistol went off, As her husband lay dying, she said, he confessed that the argument and shooting were his fault,
A TRANSPLANTING MONTH
much of the United States, is a
good time to lft, divide and trans-| Oriental
Bhe sald he started through o|
WASHINGTON -- August, in
On Cruelty Charge
SAN DIEGO, Cal, Oct. 9 (U. P.). ~Naval Lt. (JG) Richard PF. Gas-
general court-marti
| American prisoners of war in a | Japanese prison camp. M E SPENDS The 28-year-old Navy officer from MORE TIME IN |1orraine, O, was accused in the THERE THAN | court's specifications of turning an f DO / | army corporal over. to the Japanese
| prisoners and showing favoritism in dividing food stores. Capt. William H. Daubney, | USMC, 'defense counsel, brought B& numerous witnesses before the | court to testify that Lt, Gasciogne suffered as much mistreatment by the Japanese as any of the other prisoners of war. .
IPETROLEUMS DIFFER WASHINGTON. Crude pe{troleums from mo two fields in the 'world are exactly alike.
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Anderson Outlines New Farm Policy
Urges Creation of New
Assistant Secretary WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (U. P.).— Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P, ‘Afilerson “has asked Congress to authorize a new Assistant Secretary of Agrieylture to co-ordinate right down to the grass roots the work of federal, state and county agricultural agencies. The request was included in an outline of legislative recommendations Mr. Anderson submitted for improving administration of existing national farm programs. Cites Objectives Appearing before another Jol session of the House Agriculture subcommittee and a Senate Agriculture subcommittee studying longragne national farm policy, Mr. Anderson summed up the objectives of
his recommendations in these words: The principles of good admin-
istration Anclude the fixing of responsibility on definite position all down the line.” The secretary suggested: ONE: » Establishment of farmerelected county committee to handle all farming activities within each county. Central Housing Urged TWO: Housing of all agriculture agencies in each county at one location. THREE: Establishment of state committees to work as liaison between the state and Department of | Agriculture. FOUR: Consolidation of all soll
loonservaiion activities under one
|agency. FIVE: Provision for at least one more assistant secretary.
Our Solution: Bathe Oftener
for stealing salt, beating his fellow (9188
water softening devige would vent formation of tattle~tale gray line. He every home eventually would be equipped with the new gadget. Mr, Guenther said the not only would save ves & lot of trouble but
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