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atusicnt 2 Spring Rd. rw Cold Hope war brides and five young ladies from 14 different countries, guests of the hospital radio had nothing to do with the ham in the show. oo. T'll take the credit. program Richard Lewis, Times staffer, announced » me) that he was on his way to act as f ceremonies at the hospital, my ears

perkel oT go along” I asked. Dick didn’t care way or another. So 1 went along. Morton Pruden, recreation director, had everyready when we arrived. The young ladies were seated in a row on the stage, the engineer was waiting for the seconds to tick off so he could al “on the air” and the piano player had her pr pd poised over the keys. The auditorium was 1ly filled with veterans who could leave their rooms. Others, presumably had their earphones over their ears in their rooms.

But He Didn't See Me THOMAS SWEENEY, a patient and an anouncer in Ft. Wayne before the war, began the program by announcing the station and giving the highlights of what was to come during the next hour. He didn’t see me standing in the wings. Sixteen voices joined in singing “God Bless America.” You should have heard it. I recalled how different it was to some of the efforts I have

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"FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT—"Mr. Inside” chats with {left to right) Mrs. John Daily and Mrs. Richard Lund, two of the || war brides attending Veterans. Hospital radio show.

WAS A LITTLE ham mixed in the

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The other four girls, all students at Marian College, Helena Gonzales, Philippines, Jeanette Garcia, Puerto Rico, Martha Dousdebes, Ecuador and Martha Souza, Cuba, beamed broadley as Miss Ragayda sang. Ah, but'l was going! to have something on them. The ham was - ning to show itself.

| Knew the Language

I HEARD Mrs. John Daily, Poland, give her name. Why not get in on the act. After all, I happen to know the language. Dick caught on to my signals that I wanted to handle the interview. Too bad, I didn't know a song in Polish. That would have made the girls from Latin America sit up and take notice. | Mrs. Daily and I exchanged greetings in her| native tongue. I got a big kick out of acting as| interpreter. To the question of what impressed | her most when she arrived in this country, Mrs.| Daily. who had survived the siege of Warsaw, | said it was the little things she had almost for-| gotten existed. And those were items such as clean towels, linen, soap, hot and cold water, bathtubs and houses with roofs and walls. Quite a thought. Mrs. Richard Lund, Scotland, gave me the opportunity to ask something of interest to me. Mrs. Lund said she was sorry that she had never visited a distillery where they make scotch. She had seen a lot of the stuff over there, she added, if that would help any. ‘I invite Mrs. Daily and Mrs. Lund to Have a bit of refreshment and a cigaret in the canteen. Even ‘this ham gets a little hot under the collar! when he’s on the stage. ! By the time we ret@irned, Mr. Pruden was busy| cutting records for the war brides to send home| to their relatives. All the ladies spoke in English except Mrs. Russell Storm, Liege, Belgium. Mrs. Russell spoke in French and it sounded as fast as Bill Stern. > It was a pretty good afternoon. Listening to war brides discuss the war and this country gives a man a new slant on the thing called living. We're

pretty well off in this country.

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ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Mar. 19—There have been some peculiar aspects to the great surge of publicity that rolled around the Navajo Indian during the past six months—a sudden frantic breast-beating that pictured the Navajo as a waif of nature who was being starved and beaten down by Uncle Sam. It reached the point where you couldn't pick up a periodical without being hit in the face by a full page of ragged Redskins. This sudden discovery of the Navajo was beautiful stuff, especialy at a time when we were going to ladle out a hatful of billions to starving Europe. Here we had the displaced persons right in our own back yard. It was a nice touch, suitable for extracting bigger and better appropriations for the Indian Bureau—or maybe, in a sly sense, acting as a neat criticism of the European Recovery Plan. The Commies have always been pretty good at that sort of business. It is a fact, according to the experts I've met, that the Nrvajos were no colder, no poorer and no hungrier this.year than in years before. Indians tell me that this is true, and the average Indian is a passionate protagonist of anything that will legislate in favor of his people. There has been, actually, considerable intra-lodge snickering about the well-meant efforts of the Great White Father on behalf of his red children.

Two-Way Girdle Vest

SOME OF the giggles came from the gifts of

clothes and food that poured into Gallup. There :

are squaws on the reservation today who are F, still trying to figure out what to carry in lacy brassieres, and one Brave turned up recently wearing a two-way stretch girdle, except he wasn't wearing it around his hips. He was wearing it like a vest. Many a frayed dinner jacket, evening dress, plug hat and spike-heeled shoe is being played with by the Navajo children today, after Mama and Papa decided you couldn't wear it, catch a rabbit with it, or feed a sheep on it. The Navajo is a displaced Asiatic. Like certain brands of Arab, he is a Nomad. He is hard to catch and harder to curry behind the ear. His religion is deeply tied with his daily personal life, and he finds more sermons in solitude and stones than most of his red relatives. His home, or hogahn, is as much a part of his religion as the Bible is to a Baptist's creed.

| By Robert C. Ruark Which is why the Indians still laugh about all| the fuss we made about the deplorable living con-| ditions. A hogahn, or open topped hut, is highly | functional and about as right for a Navajo as a/| tent is right for a desert bedouin. A hogahn Isn't a duplex Fifth Ave. apartment, but we have worse | hovels in Harlem and Brooklyn. | I like the story about old Chee Dodge, a Mexi- |}

can Indian who was raised by the ‘Navajos. Old |§

Chee got rich off sheep, and built himself a huge city mansion. He lived in it a while, finally mut-| tered that he couldn't keep it clean, and built himself a hogahn in the back yard. There he dwelled from then on.

From 7000 to 60,000

| THEY TALK about the Navajos dying Nite/ flies, and that’s odd, too, since 7000 of them came| back from Bosque Redondo in 1868, they .have increased 60 thousand. I think we had 40 million] people in the United States in that year. Saying] we have 140 million now, the Navajo has in-| creased eight fold while we have upped our num-| ber only about three or four fold. { Young ‘Will Rogers Jr., wrote a heart render! for Look Magazine, in which he bled over the lack of schooling facilities for the Navajo, and) mentioned that there were teaching facilities for only 6000 of 25,000 kids of school age. That's real fine figuring, because according to Mr. Rogers, 40| per cent of the entire Navajo nation would be of] school age and clamoring for learning. That! figure would leave ohly 35,000 Navajo babies! grownups and old folks. As for destitution, it is harder than ever be-| fore to buy a Navajo rug and it is an infallable| saying that the Navajo never sells a rug when he is prosperous. I am told the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad employed 2200 Navajos over the summer, and that the railroad retirement board has sent nearly a half million dollars in unemployment che¢ks to the Indians during three winter months. By their own {raditional standards, the Navajos are doing about as well as ever, or as well as they are likely fo do so long as they maintain their tribal identity. As for the wonderful tearjerking picture of the fat little baby, crying bitterly as he stood barefooted in the snow, I can tell you why /he was crying. The photographer took off his shoes first, and that snow was dog-| goned cold.

What a Lamp— WASHINGTON, Mar, 19—Now turns up a

Sheik of Araby with “Aladdin's lamp in his hip pocket. An oil lamp, that is. He rubs it whenever

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fe be feels the need of a new limousine or a suite

of bedroom furniture—and zowie. A special messenger has whatever he wants at bis front door almost before he can stow that lamp back in his satin-lined burnoose. I'm talking about Sheik Asad Al-Fagih, envoy extraordinary ind minister plenipotentiary from Saudi-Arabia, Where all the oil is. : Y You may have read something about the four ig American oil companies which formed a new Corporation—the Arabian-American-0il Co.—to thap oil out of the sheik’s homeland. So far ney Ve sunk about $50 million into this enterprise. OW they're building an 800-mile pipeline, and Sen. Kenneth Wherry of Nebraska wonders Whether that's strictly necessary. So he had James Terry Duce, the fatherly lookNg vice president of Arabian-American, on the hoot before his Small Business Committee. als when the news of Aladdin's lamp, 1948 odel, made me envious of the sheik.

Gives Saudi-Arabia $20 Million

A AS IT TRUE, demanded the gentleman from aaa. that Duce handed certain checks to hry to, parties interested in Arabian oil? Duce He he'd heard something about a certain check. Say Jded that his firm owed the government of audi-Arabia about $20 million in oil royalties and ow ! sometimes he advanced money to the Saudiabian minister here. Var automobiles, furniture, and things like is De said. “It is all charged to the account of government.” , . for pis Wherry handed Mr. Duce a yellow check Mr 33 payable to the sheik and signed by - Duce. The latter couldn’t quite remember why

Corner built?

porte Church of the Transfiguration—more Jopularly known as the Little Church Around © Corner—was built in 1848. * @

How much ground did an acre originally cover?

tha) ditionally the acre was the ares of ground a do. Plowman with one ox could turn over in

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Be was New York's Little Church Around

By Frederick C. Othman

he paid it. Nor could he recall how many checks he had written for the sheik. | “Isn't that an unusual proceeding?” Sen. Wherry insisted. “Not to the Saudi-Arabians,” Mr. Duce said. “Everything was charged to royalties. The auto-| mobiles, the furniture, everything. There was| nothing improper about it.” : { Sen. Glen Taylor of Idaho wondered if the Arabian-American Oil Co. ever passed any gifts| to the sheik for which he didn’t ask. { Only at Christmas, Mr. Duce replied. “Isn't that sweet,” commented Sen. Taylor.

Sheiks Are Touchy Folks

POOR MR. DUCE. He already had his troubles keeping those Arabians in Araby happy so they wouldn't get sore and maybe cancel his lease, Now he’s “got to produce, under orders from Sen. Whetry, a list of every limousine, easy chair, and so on that he's slipped to his excellency, the sheik. | He omly hopes he can wrangle that one without

hurtihg anybody's feelings. Sheiks, as anybody old]

enough to remember Rudy Valentino knows, are! touchy folks. < | That isn’t all. Seventy-nine miles of Mr. Duce’s |

pipeline is supposed to go across a corner of Syria. Year 2096 it will come ax early as'nual Marion County 4-H Club| And jthose Syrians are acting coy. They haven’t| about 4 p. m on Mar. 19.

said 'ves, and they haven't said no.

1f they let him down, Mr. Duce testified that began even earlier than it will winners in-the district contest in he hiad an alternate route through Palestine. But this year. with almost everybody there shooting at each commenced at about 9 p. m. on gymnasium Mar. 25. othelr, asked Sen. Wherry, is it any place to be Mar. 19. {

laying a string of pipe? Mr. Duce said it didn’t look like it was. “So what happens then?” asked Sen. Wherry. “We lose $50 million, Mr. Duce replied.

nd that's why the Senator figures, all other a quarter of a day later eachpoints in the county contest as th being equal, that it might be better to keep year. But every fourth year is his team scored 2785 points out of that, pipe at home and use it for pumping our own usually a leap year, and this a possible 3000. oil. All I know is-that it must be fun to be a sheik shifts it back into line again.

with a lamp to rub.”

??? Test Your Skill ???

Why do sailors call out, “Ahoy,” when calling |

o another ship? . Although this ferm is traditional mow, ‘Ahoy” was originally the batile cry of the 'ikings. ’ 4 j * 4 4

| How is the length of a solar day measured? A day is measured from the time the sun s meridian of longitude dntil it crosses t same

SECOND SECTION FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1948

(Uoyd B. Walton, Times Staff Photographer.)

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hart, Donna Van Arendonk, Mike Wagoner, Allen Smith, Joy Wilson, Marmi Kingsbury and Don Armstrong.

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“THE LIGHT FANTASTIC" —That's what Joy Wilson (left), who portrays Cornelia Otis Skinner, and Marmi Kingsbury, cast asufmily * Kimbrough, appear fo be tripping for the edification of Mike Wagoner (center), cast as Mon. De La Croix in the play.

Spring Begins This Year At 10:57 A.M. Tomorrow

Celestial Phenomenon Occurs in 1948 At Earliest Time in 20th Century

} By Science Service WASHINGTON, Mar. 19—Spring officially begins when the sun crosses the celestial equator on its northward journey on Saturday, Mar. 20, at 10:57 a. m. (Indianapolis Time). This is the earliest to date during the twentieth century that spring-has come to the northern hemisphere. ’ Every leap year singe 1904 spring has been arriving earlier and earlier. In 1936, for instance, ———— ——— spring began Mar. 20 at 1224 Wj . p. m.; in 1940 it arrived at 12:24 inn 4-H Teams p. m.; and in 1944 spring was]

ushered in at 11:49 a. m., accord-|

ing to calculations made at the : Nautical Almanac office of the. i i ar U. 8. Naval Observatory here. . Earlier Each Leap Year i . & In 1952 the vernal equinox will Pike Twp. Crew will

{come even earlier, and continue] Meet Other Victors

to do so every leap year for the rést of the century and on into| The Pike Township High School the following century. In the judging team, winner of the anpoultry and egg judging contest, Before 1900 spring frequently will compete with other county

In 1896 it actually the West Newton High School

| Members of the winning team | Because the yeat does not con-icoached by Estel Callahan are {tain an exact whole number of Robert Gilbert, Lora Burden Jr. days, but approximately 3654, Robert Campbell and Edgar Cot{the sun crosses the equator about |tingham. Gilbert scored 934

word if A J x TEE, zamaseais ‘Hearts Young And Gay’ Will Sing ==stnmiEtAnd Play On Howe Stage Tonight

"OUR HEARTS WERE YOUNG AND GAY" —This best-selling novel by Emily Kimbrqugh and Cornelia Otis Skinner will be brought to life by the Footlight Revellers, dramatic club of Howe High School, at 8 p.m. today at the school. On stage in this scene are (left to right) Dick Sharkey, Claire Mason, Beverly Clendennin, Ann Schutt, Carol Eves, Jennie Konold, Charlotte Walton, Joe Messing, Ross Gooch, Richard Wise-

TRAVEL TIME—Farewells come before the girls head off for adventure. Barely visible between the trunks and luggage are (left to right) Miss Kingsbury, Don Armstrong, Claire Mason and Dick Sharkey, | The scene is another bright skit in the light comedy.

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THE NEW LOOK—When women aren't talking about fashions, they're just talking, as in this scene from "Our Hearts Were Young and Gay." Left to right are Miss

Wilson, Charlotte Walton and Marmi Kingsbury. Year Actually Short no ams fio Bey Davia, Bank. : The year is actually 11 minutes Secatis Contrar alee ral Warren Girls to Hear Feeney to Speak

and Decatur Central also com14 seconds, less than 365% days, peted in the county contest with Young People’s Minister | At Luncheon Here 1 Mayor Al Feeney will speak

which means that each leap year iy, j1atter school finishing second ; It shifts back to a slightly earlier) Judges of the county contest) copies minuter at ths Contre] viously. Tutt Horace i assintary [Christian Church, will address about “Our City” before a lunchThe tropical year being sUghtly | unis agent, and Walter Mow- amen Central High leon meeting of the Apartment

longer than the 365% days adopt- ’ Li by the Julian calendar, which {Cr vocational agriculture. teach-|pe «Our Purpose for Living: {Owners' . Association, noon, Mar.

Julius Caesar established in 45° 2% warren Central, She is associated with religious 24, in the Bamboo Room of the B. C., in time made spring arrive. education in the Indianapolis Washington Hotel, several days too early. By 1582 Monon Elects Board public schools. Po Paul Coen, association presithe vernal equinox fell on Mar. At a meeting this week of the, Music for the progtam will be|dent, says that other city officials 11 instead of on Mar. stockholders of the Monon Rail-|provided by Joan Tossel and the|will be honored guests. 21. So that year Pope Gregory|road all members of the board freshmen girls’ sextette. Shirley] Members and guests will make XIII set the calendar right by of directors were re-elected, J. W. Davis, president of the Sunbeam reservations for the meeting with omitting 10 days. . Barriger, president, said today. Society, will preside. . William .P. Snethen at MA-8989.

Masaryk’s Successor

Named by Czech Reds

PRAGUE, Mar. 19 Vladimir Clementis, Secretary of .

(UP)—

State for Foreign "Affairs, has been appointed Czechoslovakian

Foreign Minister. to succeed Jan Masaryk, it was announced officlally today.

Mr. Clementis, 45, 1s a member of the Slovak Communist party. He has been acting minister since

Mr. Masaryk

died in a plunge

from the third floor window of the foreign office

Mar. 10.