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AFTER A WHOLE moming on downtown street corners I'm almost ashamed to call myself a pedestrian. That's the whole truth and nothing but the truth—ask Patrolman Jack Corydon at Meridian and Washington Sts. After a couple of hours watching péople jaywalk and dreamily, deflantly and carelessly cross the streets against lights, I'm ready to have my nervous system looked at. Patrolman Corydon said it would be a big job counting the number of times pedestrians violated safety rules. ‘ “Look at that woman trying to catch ‘the streetcar,” he pointed out, I saw an elderly woman hurry in between move ing automobiles to get to the safety zone. The offieer's whistle and the motorist's horn didn't even phase the jaywalker, “Most of the time people just don't think of the consequences,” Patrolman Corydon said,

Take Chance of Hospital I'D LIKE TO HAVE a nickel for every pedestrian I saw taking a chance on a Tide to General Hospital. The lights switched and a man was caught. in the center of the street. He looked as if he were going to do the proper thing—wait, Just as Patrolman Corydon was. saying that's what people should do, the man leaped like a jack

HEADS UP—The way we pedestrians cross the streets often makes a policeman’s hair stand on end.

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“I really should be’ able to be on all four corners at once, remarked the officer. “Even then I'd

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them out in the middle of the street. A courteous motorist--yes, pedestrians, a cour-7" teous motorist—stopped in the middle of Washing-| ton St. to let a woman, who sauntered out in the path of trafic, get to the curb. ° | On Washington’ and Illinois Sts, Patrolman] Schorling Nickel told me: “If motorists operated | vehicles like people walk against light signals, everyone would be climbing telephone poles around town." Patrolman Forrest Higgs, across the street, helped a shaky, old woman reach the safety zone. She | smiled pleasantly as he explained that she was! crossing against the red light, o

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A COUPLE OF RED LIGHTS later this same woman crossed in front of automobiles to the side-| walk. Patrolman Nickel and I mentioned it to Patrolman Higgs. | “Well, I tried, didn't I?” was his reply. | For every pedestrian who watches the lights it seems there are 15 who have their own idea of getting where they're going, They step away from the curb and scowl when .a car comes close to| them. 1 asked the traffic officers it they could arrest pedestrians for ryhning red lights. “We can pick them up for disobeying a police officer's signal,” Patrolman Nickel answered. I forget which one of the officers told me his heart | almost stops at some of the things he sees, but. I} know what he means. | A gray-haired woman started south across Wash- | ington St.. with the green light. She walked slow | with her head bowed. - The lights turned as she reached the center of the street. A coupe bore down on her. A shout of warning: snapped the woman out of her daze. She came over and thanked Patrolman Nickel. 1 picked up some good suggestions. You've probably heard some of them before, but here goes: Look both ways before crossing a street, Obey the lights, it will speed up your travel and the motorist’s. Don't walk around in a dream. When you're on the] sidewalk, keep to the right. Foot traffic flows better | that way. | We're coming Into a busy season. I, for one,| am going to try to live through it. Don’t push me| off the sidewalk until the green light is on.

Flight Happy

By Robert c. Roark

NEW YORK, Nov. 6—Nineteen airlines, curious about their customers, will start passing out questionnaires before long. The lines want to know how old you are; how much dough you make; whether you're flying for business, pleasure or emergency, and all about your personal travel habits. This, says the traffic vice president of the Air Transport Association of America, is to bring the airport and the passenger closer together, and it is not for me to impede the embrace. Airport, honeychile, snuggle’ up to papa,” because papa can't wait for his questionnaire. Le's talk about me, baby: I am 32 years old but young in heart, and while my hair is retreating, some say a high forehead gives you an intellectual look. I like dogs and books and moving pictures—and trains and ships. I have brown eyes, slightly bloodshot, and pink toothbrush, to match. How much ‘dough I make is none of your business. What are you, anyhow, a gold digger. Now, about travel habits. The night before I set out on & Journey through the clouds, I always refuse to go to bed. This is because all the airplanes I ride invariably are scheduled to take off at 7 a. m,, which means climbing out of the hay about 3 a. m.

Starts Arguments Early

IT IS ABOUT 4 A. M. when I arrive at the terminal, in order to allow me to spend a happy hour explaining I am too booked for flight 1918, no matter what the airport says, and here are the tickets; and furthermore I intend to speak to Mr. Rickenbacker or Mr. Trippe the very next ...

Then I hand over the bags to the man. who hands it to the man who operates the special piledriver for crushing luggage. We are ready ‘to embark in the bus now, and it is only 5:30 a, m. This is always a pleasant ride, out through the ghostly streets and the rolling countryside full of scenic gas stations and rugged junk yards. We arrive at the airport with only an hour to kill before take-off , , . that is, if the plane comes in,

EE — It is 7 a. m, finally, but my plane hasn't arrived from ‘Montreal or Boston or whatever. Planes come in and planes go out, but my plane is the top craft in the landing circle. | Finally : the old buzzard. lands, and it is now only 7:45. I am feeling great, by now—eyes a bright crimson, beard beginning to prickle, shirt crumpled and a deep mauve taste getting deeper and mauver all the time. We are ready for the take-off at 8:30, but behold! | After we are loaded aboard and sit there, sweating | at the palms for 15 minutes, there is a great hustle-bustle and a young man sticks his head in| the door and says “git 'em out.” Out we file, to discover that somebody has forgotten the box lunch, | or there is no ceiling over Philadelphia, or they. have | neglected io strap on the wheels, or the stewardess | has mislaid her vanity. ’

Gets Choice Seat

IT ONLY TAKES AN HOUR to rectify the over- | sights, so at 9:30 we are airborne, and I settle down to sleep. I am always in the seat by the fat lady with the baby. Just as I begin to snore, the baby wakes up. First he cries and then he crawls over my face and then he gets sick and then he cries some more. When we arrive, the stewardess says the fleld is jammed, so we will circle for a while. We circle for | an hour and finally get down. Of course, the bags don't come up, because unfortunately they were on the other section of the flight, which by. some queer. coincidence has been forced down by weather in Mississippi or somewhere, It will only be a matter of four or five hours. Or! days. Or years.

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SPECIALIST FIGHTERS — Though of time studying deadly weapons ot war, they are also trained to handle increasing amounts of technical equipment. Here members of the Marine Reserve in Indianapolis study a radio transmitter. They are (left to io) Pvt. George Rummel, Pvt. John Brydon, Lt. D. R. . C. Berg, S. Sgt..J. M. Muzzy and T, Sgt. Jack

Photos by Henry Glesing, Times Sta® Photographer,

FLINTLOCKS TO MACHINEGUNS — One hundred and seventy-two years ago next Monday U. S. Marines shouldered their flintlock muskets and marched o inthe service of their country. Today, as the corps prepares to celebrate its anniversary, modern leathernecks familiarize themselves with their weapons in order to stand ready in defense of their country, Grouped around the 30-caliber machinegun above are (left to right) Marine Reservists Pvt. Robert Wurster, Lindley Mitchell, - in Cpl. Robert Everett, Lt. Earl Steckel, Sgt. Robert Bailey and Pvt, William C. Elliott,

every Marine spends plenty

FIRE DRILL — Marines who serve as guards at the Naval Ordnance plant hers go through a drill in the use of fire fighting Mquipment. Marine service takes members of the corps to the four corners of the world on all types of duty. Taking part in the drill are (left to right) Cpl. Nicholas G. Shekro, Cpl. V. J. Davis, Pfc. Richard Pape, T. W. McQuinn, plant fire chief, C. R. Adams and Pfc. Réx

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Briefly, those are my travel habits, airport, money. I don’t travel for business or emergency reasons. just do it to forture myself. Now tell me all about you. |

By Frederick C. Othman

Plain Spoken

§ STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal,

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7—Ralph R. Graichen is a precise little man with a pink dome, a white mustache, and the distinction of putting a cuss word into the official federal archives. He said he couldn’t help himself. He was so surprised when Howard Hughes snagged a $22 million contract to build photo planes over the protests of himself and the other air force engineers at Wright Field that he scrawled a note in “pencil upon the document confirming the deal. “What does it say?” asked Sen. Homer Ferguson of Michigan, chairman of the subcommittee resuming the inquiry into Mr. Hughes’ fiscal relationships with his Uncle Sam. “It says,” said Mr. Graichen, “ ‘I'll be damned.'” * “And who wrote it?” asked the Senator. “Why, it's in my handwriting,” Mr. Graichen replied. “I wrote it.” “And your remarks became a part of the official file of the War Department?” Sen. Ferguson continued. : “That's right,” Mr. Graichen snapped, inhaling a lungful of cigaret smoke.

Steps On Prominent Toes

SEN. GRAICHEN is a veteran aeronautical engineer. He works for the Air Force on plans for new airplanes and apparently he cares not who's shoeshine he ruins. He spent most of the day stepping on assorted prominent toes, Like Brig. Gen. Elliot Roosevelt's. Gen, Roosevelt, you may remember, urged upon the government the purchase of 101 of the new model photo planes designed by Mr. Hughes. ' Mr. Graichen said he didd’t believe Gen. R. was fitted by background, experience, or education t0 be recommending the buying of military planes. “Are you a pilot?” asked Tom Slack, Mr. Hughes’ attorney.

(The Air Force says that Gen. Roosevelt won a ter- chance to survive than man in an atomic war, This was pointed out here by Dr. Douglas M. Whitaker, dean of

the .Stanford School of Biological Sciences who last summer was al Mr

pilot rating during the war and personally piloted planes on several missions over enemy territory.)

Mr. Graichen said that young Roosevelt was the member of a scientific expedition to Bikini Atoll, Dr. Whitaker stated that bacteria and lower forms of plant. and

only man in the Air Force to use pressure in favor of any particular plane manufacturer, animal life tolerate vastly greater| “Oh, now,” protested Sen. Carl A “Hatch of New quantities of radiation than man Mexico. - “The use of ‘pressure’ is not a very good and other higher vertebrates, word and I think Sen. Ferguson put it in your, mouth.” {from the earth, w No such thing, snapped Mr. Graichen, “Pressure” likely,” he continued, “these lower was his own word. Nobody else had done what Gen, forms may still Roosevelt did and he considered that pressure. “persist on earth.” Sen. Hatch subsided, Sen, Ferguson smiled as| Radiation damage to cellular tisbrightly as his scrambled egg cravat, and Mr. Grai- Sue, Whether it be that of plan chen solemnly continued his recital of the things he Or animals, is closely tied to the didn't like about the Hughes deal. Take wooden air- process of growth, Dr. Whitaker | planes, such as Mr. Hughes proposed, [stated. . . “The bodies of plants and aniLumber Flying Machine mals, including man, are composed MR. GRAICHEN-listed.a number of such splintery of microscopic units called cells. | planes by number, name, and manufacturer. .8ome Growth takes place when these cells | lost their wings in midair. ‘Some caught fire and increase their number by division. burned all the way to the ground. Others disinte-| “When cells are in the act of] grated and Mr. Graichen wouldn't give a wooden dividing, they are much more easily) nickel for a lumber flying machine.’ damaged by an adverse inflience,| Fact was, he said, that the Air Corps brought including penetrating radiation, wi down from Canada 13 wooden Mosquito bombers for tests. The engineers didn't like ‘em. “And when time came to send them back to Can Former Caddie Or One Up ada,” he continued, “our ferry pilots wouldn't take On. the Town’ Mayor 'em up. Too dangerous, Civilian pilots had to fly| GLEN COVE, N. Y., Nov. 6 (UP) Li good thing, Be Indicsled, was the fact that] TY BiY Years 2go Lake Ax: Jes» n a the Hughes photo plane was changed from wood to|°® candante caddied for Arthur Altkenaluminum, Mr. Hughes cracked one up a while back head. Tuesday, Mr. Mercandante, and nearly killed himself, but the one] remaining, & 32-year-old war veteran, defeated Mr. Graichen said, is a first class flying machine, Mr. Aitkenhead, incumbent ReOnly it wasn't delivered until long after the war was/ publican mayor up for re-election,

“Ng, I'm not,” said Mr. Graichen. “Neither is over. And that's what Mr, Graichen was scribbling! “I carried Mr. Aitkenhead's clubs Colonel, I mean, General Roosevelt.” cuss words about in the first place. 20 years ago, but the way I carried _ ———— m— “ him Tuesday was the best of all”

Brian Turns Sour

HOLLYWOOD, Nov, 6—Exclusively Yours: Brian

Donlevy has turned sour on movie-making in Hollywood (he has good cause) and is anxious to get out of town to do a Broadway play. .

Humphrey Bogart will kid the Washington Red probe in & forthcoming magazine article titled, “I See Red. ”

Publicity Stunt Backfires

TONY MARTIN, who gets around, haf gotten around to Joan Barton. They were a twosome at the Dells. Warner starlet Dorothy Maloney is burning over

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Carol Bjorkman is the first to screen test for 8am 9 Pct. Raise Granted Wood's “Purgatory Street.” Lucille Ball and Jane Russell ‘Will soon beak OGREENSBORO, N. C. Nov. 6 Hollywood's unwritten law on feminine stars indors- (UP)—The South's first threatened ing giggle water, fornia wine.

Many a Script Never a Show

union demands for wage increases in the cotton mills ‘was called off early today when an agreement

+ COMIC JACK PARR has been under contract to was: reached giving 3200 workers

RKO for 18 months now without looking into a here a nine per cent raise.

movie camera's eye. Says Jack: “They serid me A spokesman. for the Textile

scripts. I read 'em and say theyre great and that's Workers Union (CIO) announced |

the-last I hear from the studio)” “there will be no strike” at the Danny: Thomas turned down a small fortune to Big Cone mills where negotiations

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They've signed up to plug a Cali- textile- strike as a result of new

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'Carnival—By Dick Turner

Chemist Predicts | Sure, It's Unusual Job— Washed City Air

CHICAGO, Nov, 8 (UP)—Chemist Gustav Egloff predicted today that “ " {the time is not far off when city Noy. ¢-2"Buge” Will have a et-] air, along with father’s shirt, willl be washed every Monday. Egloff, research director of the Universal Oil Products Co,, that the tattle-tale gray alr many cities was. reducing man's efficlency and damaging his health, | "He said scientists are working! now on liquid chemicals which-can be sprayed from airplanes on dingy embryos city air, sending bacteria, coal dust, ashes and grains of dirt down to

FINLAND BLAST KILLS 13

HELSINKI, Nov, 8 (UP)-—An x- | “If the dosage is small, recovery plosion in a cellulose plant at Manhattan and his partner, Leon- mutts on a weekly basis , It's 38

will be complete, but death results Raumo in western Finland killed 13 Ard Becker, 7. the Bronx, formed for a half-day workout, six days a |workers last night.

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1947 MINUTE MAN — Thomas M. Smith (left), | 1.302 E. 10th St., indicates his desire to enter the corps to S. Sqt. James E. Fleck of Goshen at the Marines" Indianapolis recruiting headquarters, Federal building. | Marines have taken part in every war of this country since they were created by the Continental. Congress | 1775. Years of fighting tradition have developed | among Marines as esprit de corps that is unsurpassed. A ge ;

But Dogs Should Be Happy

Veteran Organizes Canine Walkers, Inc., to

Give Penned-Up Pooches Daily Airing

By ROBERT RICHARDS, United Press Staff Correspondent . NEW YORK, Nov. 6—Harry Naroff, 40, admitted today it was am {odd job, sure it was odd, but he had his reasons for doing it. : “I got out of the Army and I had malaria, see,” he said. “I mean in my muscles. 80 I started walking in Central Park to get my mind real Pacific malaria. It raised the hair on my head and tied knots off the stuff and then I see these dogs. All kinds of dogs. They looked pretty unhappy. nnei————— “Now and then I stopped people Canine Walkers, Inc. and asked, ‘What's wrong with your| “We walk dogs, any shape, any dog? He looks glum to me.’ size, any hour of day or night,” Mr, | “And the man or woman would Neroff said. “It's a good eftough say, ‘Well, I'm in a hurry and he business. I figure I'm helping the never likes to hurry. He wants to dogs, their owners, and, naturally, [take his time' &nd sniff all the just, We're all feeling better mites. ' And so it was that Mr. Naroff of |

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LONDON, Nov. 6 (UP)—Harold C. Urey, vice chairman of the émergency committee of American Atomic Scientists, said last night that men “who ought to know what [they are talking about” had pre_Adicted atomic bombs so powerful (that 20 would destroy every living | ] thing on the American continent, | “a Mr. Urey spoke at a reception at {the House of Commons. He sald, there could never be a defense |against this “saturation weapon”—a bomb 1000 times more powerful EA] than any used so far. “tl “Nothing short of ridding the La | world of war can save humanity,” {he said,

“German shepherds. Did you ever see them run? They start at a lope and never quit. And I got to keep up because if I don’t they'll get thas sour look again and where’ll I be?” Mr. Naroff said no dog has yes attempted to bite him,

~ WORD-A-DAY

By BACH

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Insurance Co. to Honor IS MISLEAD THROUGH T

William M. London

William M. London, district rep-| resentative of the John Hancock, Life Insurance Co. will be honored, at a dinner given by company members tonight in observance of his retirement. Starting with the company on Aug. 4, 1924, Mr, London has de-| voted his full time to the insurance {business as an agent in this city. He will be 65 Saturday.

Dies in Cycle Crash RICHMOND, Nov. 68 (UP) —=i Twenty-pne-year-old Earl Sheffer of Boston (Wayne County), Ind. was killed last night when his motorcycle crashed into a stresd rede Hhockade,