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“Go ahead, you jerks, keep plodding in a rut and don’t take a minute to broaden yourselves. wind your watches and pay out good money to jewelers when the spring breaks.” (I said all this to myself after the two men were gone.) So I stood on W. Washington St. checking the sundial. . Every half hour the shadow on the dial was matched with my trusty wrist watch. If I wanted to be real technical, which I don't, I could quibble about a couple of minutes. But over-all, the sundial was all you could ask for. One criticism of the dial I would like to make and that's the use of Roman numerals. If I had built the thing on the theater, I would have plain old numbers, Outside of that, I had no ck. ; & By 10 a. m. my curiosity was at the breaking point. More knowledge of sundials. That's what I needed. Oh, yes, the dial was right according to my watch. A lady at the Central Library said she could find me a couple books on sundials in a jiffy. She did.

Poetry, Yet THE FIRST BOOK was “Ye Sundial Booke,” by T. Geoffrey W. Henslow, M. A. I flipped it open to a page which showed a pen drawing of a peculiar bit of masonry. Underneath was written: “Sundial at Iniscaltra, or Holy Isle, Lough Derg. - Love like a ring it hath no end, Nor yet the path I daily wend; Time and love do therefore show Eternity to all below.” Poetry, yet. The book was full of the stuff. In fact, that's all it was. Drawings and poetry about sundials. Obviously, “Ye Sundial Booke” wasn't what I wanted. In the introduction Mr. Henslow wrote, “In placing before the public this book on sundials and sundial verses I suppose that I must conform to the usual order of things and

CHECK YOUR WATCH—This' downtown sundial can go unnoticed. But, if you look at it, look and go about your business. Don't get wrapped up in the history of the thing. apologize for being on earth .,.” That's as far

as I got. Do you blame me?

The second book, entitled simply, “Sundials” by R. Newton Mayall and Margaret L. Mayall looked pretty good at first glance. “How to know, use and make them,” was the come on. . The first chapter dealt with “The Development of the Sundial.” Started out somewhat on the startling side. “It is not at all surprising that the present generation knows little about the sundial, which in our present complex existence has been the forgotten timekeeper.” Holy Smokes, Mr. and Mrs. Mayall, I just noticed the Indiana Theater sundial. No use hitting me in the head with a fish right off the bat. > Thumbing through the book I learned for in-

, stance, the Pilgrims used sundials extensively,

archeologists have found several dating back to 1500 B. C. and the largest sundial in the world was in Jaipur, India. It was built in 1724 by Jai Singh, Rajah of Jaipur. The book was loaded with pictures, diagrams, latitudes, dial plates, celestial poles, gnomons, tables, formulas and a number of references to geometry. "A good 20 people looked up from their books when I gasped ‘and placed the two books on the desk. “Would you care to take them out?” My "answer consisted of a quiet thank you and no. All the way back downtown I didn't look up. Sundials are all wet anyway. What happens when it's cloudy? I'm positive sundials won't sell,

Operation Hooey

NEW YORK, Apr. 1—Since, apparently, we are in for another steady diet of emphasis on the military, up to and including another war, I have an impassioned plea to make to the generals and alimirals. Gentlemen, pretty please, let us not be cute and kittenish in this fresh phase of hup-two-three-four. : Let us, pretty pretty. please, take the word “operation” out behind the garage and bury it deep. Let us have no more operations with fluffy appendages, such as the name of the generals wife or the state of his digestion. No more Opera-: tion Frostbite or Operation Fleabite or Operation Upsnarl or Operation Dyspepsia or Operation” Enigma or Operation Sally Lou. In the last mess, every time a gilded creature went to the gentlemen’s lounge, one of his eager satellites hung the operation on the trip. I beg of you, Mr, Forrestal, fire the sloganeers and the brilliant wits who spend their days dreaming up titles with meaningful initials. I can stand a certain amount of HQ and CO and OP and MP and PX and USAAF and even things like SHAEF, but the cutie-pie boys, the ones who invent words like UMPTIES and SPARS and WAVES and such are going to be a bit irritating to a generation which has had two upheavals in less than 10 years.

Let 'Em Get Sore Feet

THE ONLY WITTY sets of initials I am able to recall from the late confusion was BAMS; meaning lady leathernecks, and the kindred titles of SNAFU, etc. They didn’t count, really, because they weren't official. They were invented by offbrowned GI's who were profanely nauseated by alphabet soup. Put the sloganeers in the infantry, and let them see just how cute they can be with sore feet. I mean, especially, the lads who think up things like “Slap a Jap by not shooting crap” and who would apply “New Look” ‘to everything from radioactive clouds to kitchen police. If I were Gen.

‘Omar Bradley, I would also make it a court-

martial offense for military personnel to radio

By Robert C. Ruark

coy phrases like “Sighted sub sank same” back to the home office. This would apply, in spades, to the public relations hacks who apple-shine by thinking up bright sayings to put in their generals’ mouths. , : It is a bit unfortunate that this fresh crisis happened to blossom so close to the last one. It contrives a much too convenient yardstick for cynicism. The memories of the Bennett Meyerses and Serge Rubensteins still waft a small aroma in the evening air, and the nostalgia of Parisian Rendezvous has not yet succeeded in obliterating the poignant reminder of trench foot, sadistic

sergeant and the hostile atmospheric aberrations

which surround the soldier.

No Frustrated Hucksters

WHAT I AM SAYING is that I wish to be spurred to the second supreme sacrifice by no frustrated hucksters. Hand me no prattie about how I'm fighting for the right. to boo the Dodgers and eat blueberry pie and dunk sardines in ice cream sodas and keep the Pullman Co. happy by doubling up in upper berths. And the first man who rehatches the phrase “There's a war on” will not have to visit a battlefield front to die. Let us knock off calling a bunch of bewhiskered, smelly, confused, angry, uncomfortable young men “the boys.” Let us employ the word “hero” sparingly. Let us lie word “morale,” and stuff it

"down the gullet of the first Congressman, lady

war correspondent or USO worker to use it. Let us take the Red Cross off in a quiet corner for a good heart-to-heart chat, and place a ban on raggedy-seated vaudevillians and seedy Hollywoodians who are trying to re-establish themselves on the non-critical basis of an international catastrophe. I speak only for me, as an alumnus of the second one to end them all, when I say that if we must do it again, let's do it without the ersatz cheer and the phony heroics; the cheap sentimentality and the maudlin hysteria of the last effort. Let's just go where we have to go, kill a lot of strange people quick, and come back home.

High and Dry

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Apr. 1—Out in New Mexico on the top of a mesa and surrounded by plenty of nothing is perhaps the most expensive town to operate in the world. Just the janitors for next year will cost $500,000, though nobody seems to know exactly who they are, or what they do, or why. “Incredible,” breathed Rep. Frank B. Keefe of Wisconsin. He was putting it mildly. The matter before the Committee was the $8,289,000 the Atomic Energy Commission wants to keep clean the streets of Los Alamos, the mystery village of the A-bomb business, and to hire its school teachers, run its busses, pipe in the water, and pay its 875 cops. These blue coats have built a fence around Los Alamos and nobody gets into town unless he has a special pass; so it is that the 8500 residents live in a 20th century Shangri La more isolated than a medieval monastery on a mountain top. “But your budget would scare any municipality that I know of,” cried Rep. Keefe of the Appropriatic- ~dmittee. death.” : “Uh,” began Carroll L. Tyler, manager of Atomic Operations in New Mexico. “It frightens me a little bit at times, too.” Mr. Tyler then tried to tell the lawmakers the tale of the most expensive city since the Incas Paved some of their streets in gold.

Uncle Same Owns It All

THE GOVERNMENT owns the whole works; very house, fire plug, grocery, water pipe, and tlectric lamp, It farms out the operation of the town to the Zia Corp. which sweeps the streets, 8 the grass, drills the cops, hires the school Ma’ams and worries with those janitors. ‘You have budgeted janitorial services at 2 000, which happens to be the same figure as Jr Schools,” interrupted Rep. Francis Case of South Dakota.

Yes, said Mr. Tyler, and durned if he knew

The Quiz Master

What I the Monitorial System?

Rt uses advanced students, called monitors, h younger students. The idea was never

Popular in England in the 19th century.

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why, either. He inherited that $500,000 figure for janitors from the Army when it was running Los

Alamos and he's been trying ever since to dis-| cover what they're supposed to do. The books|

are kind of sketchy, the figure is a phony (Mr. Tyler called it a “gadget”), and he hopes soon to be able to inform Congress that he has those janitors under control.

Two Cases of Drunkenness

THE 675 COPS are something else. They're busy keeping people out of Los Alamos; the 8500 already there are such high class folks that the police seldom have to arrest any of ’em. Two cases of drunkenness are the most serious crimes so far reported in Los Alamos. “Drunkenness?”’ asked Rep. Charles R. Robertson of North Dakota ‘Do you sell liquor in this town?” i The professors on the city council wanted to establish a liquor store, Mr. Tyler said, but he talked ’em out of it on the theory that there was such 3 building shortage they needed more groceries, movies, and drug stores first. When those are built (under a $27 million building program I hadn’t even intended mentioning), then the scientists can buy their schnapps in Los Alamos. As it is now they've got te drive into Santa Fe, 25 miles away, when they want a jug of strong drink. A bootlegger somehow got into Los Alamos last year, but the 675 cops made short work of him.

“Well, I'm still amazed at your costs,” in-!

sisted Rep. Keefe. { David E. Lilienthal, the chairman of the Atomic Commission, chimed in here. He said Los Alamos was built at the est place to get to that the Army could find ynywhere in America. Makes everything cost like yin. Even grass. The government intends\ to spend next year $750,000 on new streets, gras sprinkler system to keep ’ like to get my paws on one of those police passes and see Los Alamos for . I might even run into some of those expensive janitors at work.

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Society Backs Effort To Aid Homeless Pets A DRIVE for $20,000 to build animal hospital and shelter

The drive for the shelter-clinic was set in motion after the Indianapolis Board of Park Com-

plot of land on which to con-: struct the shelter. The drive, which will be conducted principally through mail appeals and a {special gifts committee, will ex‘tend through April i = - = { IN ANNOUNCING its project {to raise enough money to build an up-to-date shelter-clinic and maintain it for one year, the SPCA issued the following statement: - “There is a real need for animal care facilities other than those now available in Indianapolis and Marion County. A properly staffed and housed ISPCA organization would correct, to a great extent, the deplorable condition now existing in this commynity. ese conditions are caused by the inability of large numbers of people to pay for adequate care of sick or injured animals with the result that many are abandoned by their owners. “This creates a tremendous {homeless animal problem — not jonly a humanitarian problem, {but also a civic problem. Stray {animals are a danger, a health imenace. They also are unsightly on our streets. : : { ® = = “OUR GOAL is an open door with unending service where all animals which need our care may be brought in the full confidence that kind, humane treatment will be given; to have within the same four walls: “A hospital for all sick and homeless animals. ’ “A clinic with up-to-date facilities for veterinarian service free to those who cannot pay and with a set scale of fees (aligned on a nonprofit basis) for all others. “A shelter, a temporary place of refuge for animals which await placement. “To have at our disposal an ambulance to pick up and administer aid to injured animals—and to ‘bring home’ the homeless ones.

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ect’s sketch of the proposed animal hospital and shelter to $20,000 drive being launched today by the Indiana Society for the Prevention

of Cruelty to Animals. Members of the society hope to solve the homeless animal problem when construction is the institution was contributed by the Indianapolis Board

completed. The ground for

quate staff, which will be doing work for which it has been specifically trained, and which will have the facilities to do its work well.”

” » » MONEY RAISED in the drive will be added to $8000 already contributed by the group's 5100 members, since the group was or-

{ganized in 1945.

Tentative plans for the shelter include an examining room, operating room, an isolation ward for stray animals awaiting care or placement, kennels, a lost-and-found and identification department, and a special cat ward and a stall for larger animals. Contributions will go to build the clinic and to purchase major items such as an ambulance and operating room equipment. Other furnishings for the hospital will be supplied by a special gifts plan, through which animal lovers may contribute or purchase equipment in memory of pets.

x = # # THE ISPCA was organized in #1945 in the interest of animal and civic welfare. In three years, the membership has grown to 5100 with three other branches now being organized in the state.

may be sent to the Indiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty

“To have a competent and ade-

City Seeks Cause Of Greasy Mist

Takes Paint Off Cars

In Hospital Area City officials today were investigating the source of a mysterious fiim of greasy mist that settled over buildings and cars in the vicinity of Methodist Hospital yesterday. The mist apparently contained some chemical elements since several motorists reported . it

took the paint off their cars in spots. City Combustion Engineer Robert L. Wolf, who recently investigated the causes of fumes that - turned several hundred South Side homes a deep purple, {said the mist around 16th St. {and Senate Ave. “probably is an-| |other example of someone using| {

the atmosphere as a sewer.” Smears Windshield

The first to notice the mysterious mist was Mrs. Kenneth Peek, 5200 Chelsea Rd., who was visiting at the hospital. She said when she got into her car there was a heavy mist on the windshield and that when she attempted to clear the glass it wouldn't wipe off. | She said she washed her car| when she got home and that the {paint cAme off in several places. Several other motorists who had their cars parked near Methodist Hospital reported the same thing.

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Makes Eyes Burn

Mrs. Virginia McLin, wife of Wilbur C. McLin, hospital superintendent, said while walking out-

Rule Out Passes

to Is, Inc, Room 604, 108 E. ‘Washington St., or by calling MA-B776.

Not All Those Packages Are April Fool Jokes

IF YOU see a pacage on |street today and pass it up {cause the calendar reads Apr, 1, you may be playing an April Fool joke on yourself. Today is the day that the Harry W. Krause Co., 24 N. Pennsylvania St., rewards the unsussouls who are always the butt of April Fool pranks, by placing 50 packages on downtown and residence sidewalks and in public buildings. = - ” THE KNOW-IT-ALLS who see the packages might pass them up as fool's day pranks. But the packages actually contain merchandise from the men’s hats and furnishings store as a gift and a card reading “We Never Fool You.” The packages were distributed this morning over the city.

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To State Fair

The Indiana State Fair Board issued disappointing word to a large number of persons today there will be no free tickets to the fair this year. Louis J. Demberger, fair president, said even wives and families | of board members will have to! pay to get in. Board members took a count of the number of free admissions granted last year and declared “the free ticket probiem is reaching alarming proportions.” The board justified its move by pointing out that neighboring states have taken similar action.

plaining that it made her eyes burn. The Langsdale plant of the Citizens Gas and Coke Utility,

lieved the source of the fumes | which colored homes recently, is ! at 2200 Northwestern Ave. about [ tal, N Company officials said they (would assign a chemist to ex- | amine the mist. | Also the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. has a plant at 1800 Northwestern Ave. §

‘Williams College Head To Address Alumni

Dr. James P. Baxter, president of Williams College, is visiting Indianapolis today as part of a

school endowment fund. He will speak to alumni of the college at a dinner meeting in the Indianapolis Athletic Club at 6:30 p. m. today.

Be ay ns Fills Erbecker Post

pointed Milton Craig as the new city prosecutor to fill the vacancy

caused by the resignation of, William C. Erbecker. Mr. Craig had been serving as assistant city prosecutor.

side the hospital she felt some-| think in the air like “sleet,” ex-|

whose South Side plant was be-!

{10 blacks from Methodist Hospi-

nation-wide tour on behalf of the!

Mayor Al Feeney today ap-|

Carnival—By Dick

Contributions or special gifts |

SEEK ANIMAL SHELTER—Everybody got in the act as volunteer workers in the

| drive began mailing out appeals. Here Mrs, Dale Snyder 3 Mire. H. H. Riner finds "Scooter a good substitute for

as an envelope "licker" an paper weight on stacks of

Local Anti-UMT Group ‘Snubbed’

Scheduled Senate Hearing Canceled

The Indiana Committee for the Prevention of Compulsory Military Training today denounced the Senate's conduct of its hearings on universal military training.

envelopes. Standing are Mrs. A. V. Maedjs and Mrs. Harry D, Case, also volunteer workers. te

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he committed the “perfect murder” seven years ago

Tex., police said his “victim” was very much alive.

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Harold Gudmanson told Chicago authorities that he killed his. sweetheart, Patricia Soule, 17, at Houston, when she refused to

Houston police, however, said they had found Miss Soule “definitely alive.”

The action came when the com-

at the hearing after having been promised a 20-minute period. |

The committee, which has its headquarters in the Board of Trade Building, said Sen. Chan

' iGurney, chairman of the Senate!

Armed Services Committee, had allotted the Indiana group a period this afternoon.

Canceled Hearing

Then, according to the group, Sen. Gurney sent a telegram of cancelation due to “the urgent press of Senate businéss.”

tee, Dr. Ralph L. Holland, general secretary of Indiana Council of Churches; Dr. Howard J. Baumgartel, executive secretary of Indianapolis Church Federation, and Mrs. Robert Shank, president of Indiana ParentTeachers = Association, were in Washington to speak at the hearing when the telegram was received.

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mittee was denied time to speak

Three members of the commit-|°® a technical charge of murder

Miss Soule told Houston officlals that she had known Gudmanson some years ago. But, she sajd, that he either fabricated the story about killing her or else he was mistaken and had killed someone else.

Gudmanson expressed astonishment when he heard Miss Soule was alive.

“She can’t be,” he exclaimed. “I killed her. I know it.”

He said he buried her in dense shrubbery on Fairbanks Road in the outskirts of Houston. Detectives James McMahon of the Chicago police said he would be held

{until it could be learned why {Gudmanson made the apparently false confession.

Chicago police spent more than 15 hours listening to Gudmanson's “confession” after he telephoned from a flophouse in Chicago's Skid-Row and said he wanted to tell them about the “murder.”

“I still can’t believe it isn't true,” a detective said. “If it isn’t, he's the fanciest liar I ever ran up against, The guy ought to be writing fiction.” Gudmanson said after he killed ithe girl that he drove home and ‘returned with a shovel, a knitting ‘needle and a pair of forceps. He jused the needle and forceps to {remove the bullets from the girl's {body and then buried her in a prairie near the murder site. He placed the bullets on a railroad track and watched a train {smash them flat, he said. He disassembled the gun and scattered ithe parts over the countryside. i Then he returned the car to its

owner and went home,

Fox Entertainer Reports $510 Loss

Jewelry worth $510 was stolen day.

Two rings she said.

Taken to Cleaners

{613 Arch 8t., early this

found the Maryland St. door! Jot mpt had n made to open the company

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from her room at the Plaza Hotel, Miss Muriel Crowe, Fox The- | ater entertainer, told police to-|

Miss Crowe said she found the: jewelry missing when she returned to her room last night. worth $450 were taken, |

The Star Cleaners, 56 8. Illinois 8t., was ransacked and an unde- d termined amount of money taken from the cash register last night. | [EE An employee, Lewis Lavaroplus,

Cub Scout Pack 96 .

Pays Visit to Times

A tour of The Times plant yes terday was one of the major events of the activities program of the month for Cub Scouts of Pack 96. Those making the tour were: Gary Ahlbrand, Billy Dampier, Neil Johnson, Karl Bapke, all of Den 2, attended by Den Mother Mrs. Dampier. Richard Allison, Robert Fort. Skippy Angrick, Johnny May, Ronald Speedy, Rone ald Mattox, Burtis Taylor, Jimmy Taylor, Roy Norris, all of Den 3, attend by Mrs. Dale Allisop, Den Mother, and Donald Lively, Den Chief. Bob Lively, Tommy Nichols, Bob Wayman, Jimmy Harris, David Williamson, Gary William~

;son, all of Den 5, attended by Den:

Mother Mildred Whalen and, Den Chief Dudley Miller. Campbell, David Fisher, Gordon: Graham, Gary Goodright, Bobby Graff, Harvey Guro, Ronald Kel« ler, Gary Rhoades, Jow Nolte, Ronald Thomas, Barteld Vrede« veld, all from Den 6, attended by Gary Fesler, Scout, Den Chief {Jerry Hughes and Den Mother Mrs. John Fesler.

{BLITZ KIDS SPONSOR DANCE

I" The Blitz Kids, young men’s |athletic- organization, - will spon-~ {sor a semi-formal spring dance {from 8 p. m. to midnight tomor{row at the Community Center, {17 W. Morris 8t. Proceeds will {pe used to purchase football (equipment,

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Victim Very Much Alive

‘Killer’ Astonished When He Learns Girl Isn't Dead; Police Don't Know What to Believe

CHICAGO, Apr. 1 (UP)-—A 28-year-old man claimed today that , but Houston

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