Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 October 1947 — Page 13

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ALL SIDEWALK SUPERINTENDENTS who front of the Bell Telephone Co. downtown better

get oyer there. You're not going to get in on the big stuff, I personally cased the job and talked to the real “super,” Walter Hammon. He says the only way the

rest of us can help on the job is by standing three blocks away, use a 100-foot periscope or get a helicopter. Most of the work will be done eight stories up and the rest of it will be hidden by the enclosed walk which is now rapidly being completed. Now isn't that a heck of a note for us sidewalk superintendents? . Can you imagine standing three blocks away trying to supervise a job? And who has & 100-foot periscope to poke into the sky for a peek at what's going on? Helicopters scare me so that possibility 1s out. You know, the company is really taking pains so no one gets conked on the head when they go in to pay their telephone bills. The main entrance on Meridian St. is getting a marquee the like of which I have never seen. Imagine 10x10 timbers, two layers, With three feet of sand on top, Mr, Hammon says that

DEFINITELY NOT TINKER TOY—Workers slide 10x10 timbers on the new Telephone Co. marquee, Figure in the foreground is Walter Hammon, superintendent,” not fo be confused with “sidewalk superintendent."

By Ed Sovola

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delicate bit of construction can stop anything "hat,

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w - $asn't thinking of the customers primarily as I watched Carl Severe and Harold y Hamm work the crank on the timber-hoisting der- ¥

rick. I was thinking about all the femmes who go in and out every day. Several mighty sharp gals! stepped out to lunch as I supervised.

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trance to the covered walk on Meridian St. Ralph Adley said he called twice for me to move. Oh, weil

what's a little paint. In order to do a good job a guy would have to be in about 20 places at once. Carpenters were slams! ming nails into the sides of the protective pedestrian lane. Three men were laying tar paper on the roof. Metal lath was being nailed to the floor. Mr. Ham mon says asphalt will go on the metal lath just as soon as the last mail is driven. Had to move for the painters. Those guys were handling the paint brushes as if they were putting out a fire, Moved just in time to run into two men| carrying a panel. Jumped back against the wall of the walk right under where sawdust was falling. A carpenter was sawing a 2x8.

There I was getting into trouble on a job which was planned with the essence of safety in mind. Curiosity was getting me close shaves,

Elevators for Workers

MR. HAMMON told me his boys will have their own elevator to ride up to the top of the telephone building. No one will have an excuse to go inside. The elevator will be constructed on the New York St. side. And when operations really get rolling there will be phones all over the place. The key men will be able to talk to workers anywhere, whether it's on/| the eighth floor or the street level. I forgot to ask Mr. Hammon if they'd be pay phones. I wondered about the present roof on the building. Mr. Hammon said it really wasn't a roof anymore. It seems when they erected the building they figured something “mew would be added.” The superintendent and I took’ a short inspection trip, Sure enough, the roof was all set for the new! five stories. Concrete column tops stuck out like | tank traps. All that had to be done was to knock | off the concrete and start riveting the I-beams. Well, | not that simple but you get the idea. ol The roof, which will be the floor, is covered with] od cork composition material and pebbles. Underneath " is solid concrete. No one working on the eighth floor

will be disturbed. Imagine all that planning and this superintendent wasn't even there. I guess the work will go all right even if I am three blocks away with the rest of the “bosses.” It'll be tough on the neck, though.

HAND OF THE HEALER—Visiting 1 nurse Miss Mildred Smith puts all the skill of her training in administering to the health needs of such persons as this injured youth. For the mother she brings comfort that expert care is to be obtained for her child. The Visiting Nurse Association is but one of the many agencies which will be aided by

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Rescue Fine, But—

NEW YORK, Oct, 20~The Coast Guard conducted ftself with its usual heroism, and the pilot of the Bermuda Sky Queen sat her down in the craggy seas with unusual skill. . The 69 passengers got off fine, when the rescue ship came alongside.

But the question last week was like that old Pearl

. Harbor gag. What was the Sky Queen doing out

there in that ocean, anyway? It is no longer news that nine scheduled aircraft, making the same run and facing the same headwinds, completed routine westward flights while the tired old duck, which should have been painlessly exterminated long ago, settled down into the drink from lack of fuel The Civil Aeronautics Board has since announced that the Sky Queen was carrying the passengers illegally, but it has not explained why this weary old widgeon was allowed to carry passengers at all. By reaching way out you could say that it was not a violation of the CAB’s recent ruling which prohibits foreign air operation as a common carrier for ships of this sort. You could call it a contract carrier, or an individual charter, which breaks down into the simple saying that if a guy is nuts enough, he could legally charter a seagull to fetch him from here to there, But any craft that sets out to lug 69 people over water can scarcely be construed as anything but a common carrier, because I doubt if you could ever get 69 people to pitch in enough nickels to make up a stated kitty for a charter flight.

Public at Mercy of Carriers

THE THING IS TODAY that people are at the mercy of wildcat organizations which make a pretty bold attempt to palm themselves off as regular, scheduled airlines. I've ridden in a couple myself. People get desperate when they want to leave someplace for someplace else, and they will ride anything from a broomstick to a thunderbolt under the mistaken idea that it is a legitimate air carrier. Which puts thé CiigAir Board and the Civil Air

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Note to Homeless By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—Ralph Daldo kwinn, the Fifth Avenue farmer (he's also a congressman), came up today with a new villain in the high-cost-of-housing crisis: Mr. Whiskers. sdf The gray-haired and bushy-browed Rep. Gwinn, who practices law on New York's Fifth Avenue, plows his aeres at rural Bronxville and is author of a book called “From Fifth Avenue To Farm,” found himself appointed chairman of a labor subcommiittee to look into costly monkey business in the house pbuilding trades. The evidence, on the face of it, was horrid: Union bricklayers laying 500 bricks a day instead of a normal 1000. Building codes forcing contractors to put ‘skyscraper foundations under five-room bungalows. Bath tub manufacturers making folks buy irom local plumbers at full list price, whether they ordered

ene tub or 100. Hundreds of items like that, all,

helpthg to bring the cost of a $5000 house to $10,000. The more Rep. Gwinn thought about this, the more certain hq became that the government, itself, was responsible for millions of homeless Americans. This theory is as new as it is startling and I think I'd better tell you how the Fifth Avenue farmer spread it on the record.. He sneaked up on Raymond M. Foley, the federal housing administrator,

Brings 25-Page Report THE PRECISE-TALKING FOLEY, who casually uses words like “reactivate” and “funnelize” when he's talking to congressmen, brought along a 25-page statement when Rep. Gwinn asked him to vestify. Foley never got to read it. He estimated, after considerable fumbling, tnat the federal government either finances or guarantees

, payment on the loans of about half the houses being

built today. When Foley said that, Gwinn pounced.

‘Forever Feud’

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 20—Exclusively Yours: That feud between Linda Darnell and Director Otto Preminger during filming of “Forever Amber” must have been a dilly. They're still not speaking, and Linda is telling friends shell never work for him again. Linda has Hollywood's support in the on-and-off stage battle. It's disheartening to hear all the praises for Al Jolson's new airshow with nary a mention of Larry Parks. Without Parks’ performance, 1 still say Jolson would be the world’s greatest EX-entertainer.

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By Robert C. Ruark

Authority high up a tree. There has been, for instance, the scandalous doings in the transportation|’ of Puerto Ricans to America by non-sanctioned craft, under the technicality that Puerto Rico is part of the United States and hence a trip therefrom is as innocent as a short hop from Brooklyn to the Bronx. They pranged one real good in Florida not so far back, and the investigation showed that the old bucket was crammed to the overhead with extra passengers, It showed up in the late investigations that the operators were gleefully willing to pay a 50-buck fine for overloading if they could cram on enough extra fares to swallow the surtax four or five times. It was a simple investment: You lose $50 and you make $300. Net profit...

Civilians Depend on CAB

THE SIMPLE CIVILIAN, who hasn't got time or facility to sniff into the pedigree of every Willing airplane which flies across his bow, is pretty much at the mercy of the wildcatters unless the CAB cracks down and knocks the freebooters loose from the public domain. At the moment there is such a variance in the qualifications demanded by the CAB and CAA from scheduled and non-scheduled airplanes, and such a laxness in the enforcement, that a guy buys potential suicide with his ticket if he shops outside the formal lines. I do not think that you blast the free-enterpris-ing, ex-GI, individual charter services and freight lines by insisting that they be forced to adhere to the simple safety regulations that are squeezed out of the regular airlines, And the CAB itself can stand some scrutiny if, as| my information runs, James Landis had submitted his resignation, Harley Branch and Clarence Young|

are out, and Josh Lee is casting around for waivers aiding women in finding a better life.

in case Oklahoma politics beckon. That leaves only] "'Y'' Oswald Ryan of the old guard, and I think the people! would like to know why everybody's leaving.

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“So the end result is that we have the government | maintaining these evils in the building trades by financing them,” he said. “The government itself is increasing the inflationary process.” “I can't agree,” began Foley. “I..... »

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out of business,” Rep. Gwinn insisted. “And we haven't the wit to recognize that the government is now our house builder and is paying for these evils.” “Oh no,” Foley tried again.

Taxpayers Foot the Bill

“AND MAYBE we are going: to find that the federal government, itself, is the worst restrictive! from 200 families a year. element of all in the housing shortage,” the congress- | . go. man continued. “The government pays the price of all the other restrictive practices. It pays the bills and hands them on to the taxpayers.” “Yes,” said Foley, “but ..... " “Let me finish, my dear sir,” Rep. Gwinn said.! . Pi “We Americans have more money today than ever [SH fram their yShlidren oy oat before in history. We don't need government credit), gy oan fare a Hving ‘te hold. the to build houses. But we get it and that makes the | pme together, government responsible for whether a building loan| The nursery aims its program to is well spent.” {further the ideals of family life and “The banker is responsible,” cried Foley. [the development of the child physi“Then why should he lean on the government yf |cally, mentally, socially and emohe doesn't get freedom from responsibility?” Rep. tionally. Gwinn asked. “Why, my dear sir, you don't seem | By like token, the Boys Club Asto feel that the government has anything to do with sociation deals in molding future

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(would be left to makeshift care without the nursery. The mothers and fathers must of necessity be

these costs.” citizens. From the Fund the agency This dialog continued for two houfs. Foley got receives about $29,000. paler as it went.along; his inquisitor more enthusias- ® wn 8

tic. If Rep. Gwinn is right, the sooner we get rid of| THIS YEAR there are 1251 memthe housing administration, the quicker we'll get bers who have used the two clubs houses. If Foley is correct, the congressman is talking some 108,000 times. The association, through his fedora. I wouldn't know, myself. The implements what youth wants with homeless, I guess, will have to judge. what he should have. The organi- . zation sponsors a variety of activites designed to assist. boys from |mental, physical, social and vocaBy Erskine Johnson|una viewpoint: | Equally as important is the con-| {tinued function of the Young] Bergman's “Joan” set, playing a soldier with a high’ Women’s Christian Association. Por steel helmet. Inside the helmet he had cached a'the ehtiresorganization a total of radio. “And that’s on the level some $71,000 is set aside in the Doris Day, whose real name is Kapplehoff om, Community Fund, had her monicker changed by a band leader when! Gone are the days when the “Y” he heard her sing “Day by Day.” was a building which never felt the : . step of a male foot. In tune with Cavanaugh Trio Clicks the times, the “Y" today fosters the THE SENSATIONAL Page Cavanaugh Trio were association of young men and womtold by a famous band leader that their style of en of Christian ideals. warbling wouldn't click, Just for the record, the, The way to a better life is sought Trio's 1947 earnings will top said band leader's by through counseling, social and more than $80,000. | physical activities and mental stim-Vera-Ellen is about to debut in a fantastic new ulatign. "The group’ program is as wardrobe in hopes of getting a glamour girl rep. comprehensive as are the facets of | ‘Well, maybe. life itself.

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Annuel Drive Opens Here Nov. 3;

Nurseries and Boys’ Club Aided tive, bone

J - By VICTOR. PETERSON The 28th annual campaign of the Community Fund will get under

| Once again the people of Indianapolis and Marion County will be jase to do their part that others might benefit. It is not a matter of charity. Many of those who give benefit di- ice do not provide enough money to “It looks to me like private industry is pretty well rectly. Others receive indirect dividends merely by living in a community carry on the crusade of health. {where life is bettered by the spirit ~————— - - The Community Fund | organization's Typical of the agencies receiving Some come in the form of illness with about $50,000,

laid is the Day Nursery Association @nd accidents.

$47,500 will be alloted to the organ- is the Visiting Nurse Association. {ization which operates two nurs- Daily 34 nurses try to spread their than 4000 dockworkers struck today) |eries serving about 300 -children talents over the city, the ills of man,

Community Fund donations.

DRAMA OF LIFE—The subtle undertones of life play their tunesiin many ways upon the inner person. The Young Women's Christian Association is dedicated to Among the many activities performed by the are those that will guide a person to a sound social balance. Dramatics is one | method of so doing. Rehearsing with Miss Jean Elkins, instructor (right), are Mrs. | Gaillard Worstel (left) and Miss Elsie Am Barry.

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LONDON DOC KMEN ST RIKE LONDON, Oct. 20 (UP) — More commemoration of Navy Day.

LITTLE THINGS COUNT—It doesn't take a great deal to make most children happy, A paper box or lump of clay can amuse a youngster, but guidance in the formative years is what counts. Many mothers must of necessity be separated from their children due to the urgency of making a living. The Day Nursery Association of Indianapolis helps fill the mothers shoes.

AT THE SIDE OF THE BOY—These very words symbolize the aim of the Boys' Club Association. Emphasizing the creed is Mrs. Edith Roberts, spectal activities director at the English Avenue Club, as she works with George Faulkner, who is making Christmas tree decorations out of discarded pieces of tin,

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Times Foreign Service

ISBANE, Australia, Oct. 20— Australian girls are dropping their American fiance by the hundreds. According to ©. William Cowles, U.S. vice consul in Brisbane, 500 Queensland girls have either re-

(fused to join their boy friends’ in the United States, or have ignored Admiral W. H. P, Blandy, USN, consular advice to arrange their

“Open House” to Honor Navy Day The Naval Ordnance Plant, 21st | 8t. and Arlington Ave. will be open for public inspection Oct. 27 in

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dealing with i, sympathy with 580 waterfront | will visit the local plant on that passages. coal storage plant employees, who day. Among the cases these nurses walked out a week ago. IN MOST CASES these children — ——— co -— — a

Cooling ardor, fear of high U.S. The plant will be open from 10 living costs, and the finding of new

Carnival—By Dick Turner

{until 4 p. m. | Australian boy friends are reported 8 48 to be behind many changes of heart. Peter Allen, Technician Fifth Australian girls have until Nov. 13,

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Grade, serving with the 30th Engi- | pen the last fiancee boat leaves

neer Base Survey Company, Philip- t pines-Ryukus Command in Manila, or the U.S, to change their minds about reunions. will spend a 60-day leave at his After that, they'll have to take

home, 1935 Carrollton Ave. here. Upon completion of his leave he their chances as ordinary quota immigrants, Mr, Cowles said.

will return to the Philippines, Copyright, 1047, The Indianapolis Timed ou and The Chicreo Daily News, Inc,

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WORD-A-DAY

Class, 462 W. 25th St, been serving in the Philippines, is returning to the United States for release from service. | » » ” Staff Sgt. James Burke Johnson, : 2121 8. East St, on duty with 903d L | Automatic Weapons Battalion, in| ly; /: ” the Canal Zone, recently graduated | . - [from the Panama Canal Depts. (lak'a-da’ zi-kal) aou | Noncommissioned Officer's Lead-' LAZILY INDIFFERENT; | ership School at Ft. Clayton, C. Z. LISTLESS | 8 88 | . | Master Sgt. Raymond: Minnix, 1202 N. Parker Ave., assigned to the 450th Medical General Dispensary in Vienna, is attending an Army Clerical and Administrative school now - being operated in Vienna, by U. 8. forces in Austria, {§

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Urges u.s. Divorce Laws |. WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (UP) Sen. Arthur Capper (R. Kas) agrees with Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson that the nation’s | divorce laws “are in terrible state of ? confusion.” He said he would urge

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