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ALL THE WAY to the 11th floor and his room, 1 pleaded with him to quit pulling’ my Jeg. The pelthop cast suspicious glances at us Volkenant told me to keep my shirt on would show me electronic flame detectors, guided missiles, proximity fuses and “junior atomic

bs.” . bom in the overnight bag,” insisted fragile t

“Everything is. . the Minnesota scientist. The * » bag was set on the floor gingerly. I wouldn't be surprised if the bellhop left for the Ozarks immediately after that. “111 freshen up after I show you what I have for the lecture,” Mr, Volkenant said opening the

case. “Amuse

lessons on packing from him.

. With it a man

has a sixth sense, which enables him to see, taste, hear and feel things he had never been able to

detect before.”

SECOND SECTION

Being Born

many of its citizens. Much of this

It serves! Here is a digest of his oration: ton 'The Pulse of a Nation made an eléetric

Somewhere in these United States a baby is being born oe very minute. Be it black or white; be it of wealth or it fair of form or twisted in shape—it has already received the greatest gift of mankind. It has been born an American. It is impossible for this infant to realize his legacy. He has been born into a country that seethes with ambition. Born of a na-| tion comparable to a whose muscles ache for the wait- pattern of its dictates. ing task. Whose hands

giant,

are the/little band of exiles, of dreamers

Thé photo-electric cell? Simple. A piece of bal-

ing wire. Flame detectors trous fires? Simple. A piece

that can prevent disas-| of baling wire and an electronic tube, Oh, yes, and the “little guys.” 1 don't know why he uses “little guys” when he

means electrons. You can make a subject too

simple. you know.

Boiling * everything down including Mr. Vol-

hands of farmers and mechanics, of miners and of statesmen. Whose voice is a hundred and forty million strong. And through itd body arteries] pump life, strength and vitality. These are our heritage from the founders of our country, from

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"GILLIONS OF LITTLE GUYS"—Electronics?

So simple it makes Gordon Volkenant laugh. Xl you Hore Mr, Volkenant demonstrates electrons with ory that: / a sparkler. That simple, he says. w itis ale ' s the onl

Hardway Boys

NEW YORK, Apr. 13—Every time you see a piece in the papers about the new war-gadgets— about the guided missiles, the germs, the rockets, the radar; the new jet jobs—sit back and say a small prayer for the House censor. He can use any odd prayers:you throw at him. I know. I was a censor once; You've probably been wonderizg how this general and that admirail-can get up and sound off about all the new bric-a<brac we've invented to - kill people; how Glenn Martin can arise to chant the praises of ra ve clouds and pernicious bugs. It sounds top-secret, and it was top-secret, until some poor guy, or some Poot s, decided that it was okay to ladle it out to the public. : It's presence in the press is known as public relations, which means building character by letting the people in on the act. Before they can be let in on the act, from a standpoint of military security, ‘a flock of things first must be established. Such as: Does ‘Enemy X know we have it? ~ If so; how much harm can the knowledge do?" If we know Enemy X knows, then maybe we better talk about it and put some heat in it. If Enemy X doesn't know, then perhaps we'd better walk around the corner and surprise him with a fresh wrinkle. Or then again, maybe we better clam down. ' Shhhh. ; All this iffing and whereasing finally ‘winds up on the neck of some poor fellow who eventually takes the rap for whatever decision is made. He can be a general or an admiral or a civilian or even something as lowly as a naval lieutenant. You can tell him, at sight, by the crossed ulcers on his coat. He wears them both inside and outside. ‘ :

He Never Sleeps

NOBODY EVER LOVED a censor, whether he is acting ynside the organization—or, in time of war, in direct control of the press, a censor is a bum. He is the no-guy. He slaps the candy out of the baby's fingers, and he never sleeps. He never sleeps because, when he hits the hay, he wonders if some innocent -little thing he passed that day has just lost the current war or will lose the next one. It is a lousy way to make a living. For my sins, I got made into a censor during the ‘last 12 months of the ‘war. I censored the Navy and I censored the Army and the B-29’s and the British Fleet and the Marines. It is a thing I never want to do again.

Still Kissless

WASHINGTON, Apr. 13—I am the proud proprietor of a patent breath sweetener, as produced by that West Coast scientist and friend to humanity, Bing Crosby. It arrived in the nick, because 1

had onion on my lunchtime hamburger. So I took a couple of deep drags (as per direc: tions) and absorbed ‘into my lungs a load of what Prof. Bing calls neutragen. The flavor was fine. Something like cough drops. I sat there, sweet of breath, waiting for some of the beautiful young ladies in the city room of o the Washington Daily News to test Dr. Crosby's breatholator. Their interest in science was nil; not & one of em tried to kiss me. This disappointment got me to thinking that it had been many a month since I'd visited the U. 8. Patent Office: to see what the Hollywood professor’s fellow inventors were doing. I took a final whiff from my new breath controller (it is a small tin box with a hole in it and nice-smelling stuff inside) and beat it over to the tharble halls of the Inventorg, “A good thing, too. i : No-Splash Dog Washer I RAN IMMEDIATELY into Patent Number 2,438,979 of Frank Lea Short, a New Yorker who has solved the problem of washing his dog. He used to get a bath, himself, every time he bathed his pup. Sometimes this beast, half-bathed, would escape to the living room and what that did to the carpet only Mrs. 8 can report‘e2dequately. So our inventor built a wooden frame which fits inside the bathtub. It has-two leather straps Which fit around the pooch to be cleaned and buckle securely to the sidebars. That's all there is to it; simple, like all great inventions.

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The Quiz Master

To what family does the Monkey-Puzzle tree belong? ; 2 It is a large evergreen tree of thé pine family native to Chlte. This tree sometimes grows 100 feet high and is said to have derived its name because ‘monkeys could find no way to climb its Interlacing branches. ¢ + @ In what country were glass mirrors first produced? : hE x

kenant, I would say he’s about as fast as an electron which goes 20,000 miles per second. I'm going to stick around and see if electronics will cook my steak in 10 seconds, kill all the germs in my apartment, sound an alarm when a lighted

cigaret falls to the floor and guide me y when the atmosphere is “fi

home from ogRy”’ outside.

part, That's asking a bunch of “little guys” to do quite a lot. Mr. Volkenant said they can do it.

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discrimination

the men who made our Constitu-

AND WHEN a hand of that giant grows leperous with racial and religious tolerance, that Constitution purifies, and the hand is cleansed.

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‘“They can do anything.” ‘ " :

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By Robert C. Ruark

They talk about radar today as

if it were a

Ford automobile, but'I can recall a time when naval officers, hearing about the workings of that mysterious collider-with-distant-objects, weren't even allowed to take notes on the lectures. I

' Should the other hand become lethargic with despair over world affairs, the memory of the chaos in which other men conceived the Constitution inspires and goads it on. . To confirm our faith in our ability to stem the dissension and doubt which loom on our horizons, we have only to recall those chaotic days which fanned the spark of patriotic fervor into the steady flame of Constitutional

had not: A constitution conceived by them, accepted by us, feared and respected by all peoples.

Constitution.

strength. And again we feel confident that the problems of today are but the problems of yesteryear—and are problems no mare. ® ” r SINCE ITS conception in 1787, men have fought to preserve its rights for “we the people,” fought and died to defeat the tyrants who would have destroyed it. Its voice is heard abroad, speaking of hope to the apprentice in his workshop, of freedom to the slave in his , and of

Victory is ours by virtue of our a The giant's hands are. now secure with new found §"

spent a good part of 1945 clipping the radar masts

off pictures of ships, for the simple reason that

nobody was quite sure whether the Jap stuff was

as ours.

I will recall the Kamikazes—

service before they took off, and they weren't sup-

posed to come home.

They were supposed to

line their sights on anything from an LST to a battleship, shove the stick forward and blow it out of the water with themselves.

British Claimed 'Em First

WE KNEW ABOUT the Kamikaze's, and we hung onto that secret for months. We knocked

security. i Though time's kindly curtain dims the fears and turbulencies

th * ] : through which it emerged, ree Jap suicide pilots, They had their- funeral disc problems but

8 akin gained

turned.

not only of problems today, the nation was diveded between joy at having its independence and drifting away from the haven of peace toward which it

) about it, on the premise that

“mever got home to report, his headquarters

it out of copy and we leaned backward to throttle

if the suicide

. » THE ONLY WAY to avert this

who would oppose it.

If those cowardly kings would know how dearly we cherish the privileges and the responsibilities it gives us, then let ‘them ask the British Crown of 1776, or Kaiser Wilhelm, or Hitler and Mussolini and Hirohito, and they would tell them that man ever once endowed with freedom, will fight to

had|®afeguard it for his posterity.

. - of the privileges of American citizenship under

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was the formation of a{that Constitution, those -evil ovary Bi ‘governing body,| monarchs ask, “What premium is guided by regulations conceived tes

couldn't tell much about how effective he was. If Jap HQ didn’t know, we figured we wouldn't say,

either,

+ There were more frustrated reporters in the Pacific, with great, unborn Kamikaze stories,

than there were cases of athletes foot. ‘The hardway boys—the suiciders—finally got so thick in the air they looked like ‘migra

ducks.

The Navy decided to acknowledge them,

figuring there couldn't be any harm done now, when half ‘the carrier's crews were wearing ‘the gold teeth of departed Japanese heroes on their

watch fobs.

But the British leaped onto the Kamikazes as a personal triumph, and at least one censor I know developed a case of permanent migraine. It seems the British carriers had steel decks, and the Limeys went the whole hog to brag about how they were sweeping suiciders off their flight

decks.

We had tender wooden decks, and a

plunging Nip went right on through, clean down into the hangar. All the British publicity had Either the Japs quit trying for their carriers and went exclusively for succulent U. B,, or started aiming at the more or less unprotected bridge decks. That meant a lot of dead admirals and captains, This is the kind of thing that makes the strait-

one potential:

jacket a permanent uniform. for the censor.

still cringe every time I pick up a paper, wondering whose head will roll if that squib about the man-eating ladybugs happens to backfire.

fought.

with faith in God and. country, and reinforced by a document of. firon-bound rules of personal free: dom. far which Ameri

America had won the right to set in motion the government of its dreams. This we did, and out of the fog of disbelief and cruelty, of tyranny and oppression, the Constitution was born. Forever must it be the deciding factor when questions of racial intolerance, of greed, of perverted ambition to efface the clear-cut

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it you offer? What titles do you bestow your immigrants that induce them from our imperious shores to your young nation?” Premium? We offer a haven for = the oppressed, granting equality and opportunity, Nberty and justice’ to all who seek it and deserve to have it. Titles? No titles—except that one which they will utter with uplifted head and proud voice: “Now I am-an American.” Where they incarcerate the song of liberty under authoritarian schemes, the Constitution

Girl Pupils ‘Steal Show' | In Times Spelling Contest

Winners Listed in Second Preliminaries at Garfield Park Center; Tabernacle Presbyterian

By ART WRIGHT

By Frederick C. Othman

the month’s most observant inventor. Everything’s

got headlights now; vacuum cleaners, refrigera-

tors, sewing machines, and lipsticks. There's a trend to headlights. Mr. Saffady has built ’em (Patent Number 2,439,060) into an electric iron.

His wife can iron his shirts in the dark. As an old-sweet-breathing sentimentalist, 1 liked also the somewhat similar invention of Miss Michelle Marchand of Flushing, N. Y. She has

built headlights into romance.

So help me. Her contribution to the joy of life (Patent Number 2,439,178) consists of a self-contained, electrically-illuminated, miniature bridal couple

for putting on top of wedding cakes.

And a Squirting Cane

THE BATTERIES which supply the power nestle inside the white fresco, which rests easily on top of the icing. Should the regular lights go out at a critical moment, the bride with a Marchand-

equipped cake still can slice it.

And that brings us finally (I've been holding the best for the last) to the superb walking stick (Patent Number 2,438,014) of Bernard V. Lukow-

itz of Milwaukee.

So you're strolling down the boulevard, swinging a Lukowitz walking. cane. You come to a horse trough. You put the end of your cane in it. You press a rubber bulb in the handle. The came sucks

up a pint of cold water. Then you swing away.

And every time you come to an enemy, or a reporter who writes skoofing pieces about inventors, | Bee ‘you can point your cane, press the concealed bulb,

and aquirt him.

Thank you, Prof Crosby. If it hadn't been for my new breath purifier (which I can’t evaluate on account of still being kissless), I never would have Thomas F. Saffady, of Detroit, turned up as thought about the patent office.

Where and what is the Portal of

The Peace Memorial is un arch built of cement on the Washington-British Columbia border near It was erected in 1922 to com- | memorate the one hundredth anniversary of peace: between

Blaine, Wash.

the U. 8S. and Canada. ® & o

27? Test Your Skill ???

Peace?

Tabernacle’s two winners, who will represent that district, were: Diane McMahon, 12, Cynthia Maddux, both of St. Joan of Arc. One contest will be held tonight. It will be staged at the Fairview Presbyterian Church at 7:30 p. m. for survivors of the first preliminary held last week. No contests will be held tomorrow night. On Thursday night, preliminary events will be .eoncluded with contests at Christian Community Center and Coleman Park Community Center for last week’s survivors.

city’s 18 districts will compete Apr. 22 in the semi-finals against the 18 representatives of the 1ine

system. Those surviving the frst semi-final will return to the Central Library Auditorium Apr. 23 for the second preliminary.’ The 20 contestants left after that

Champion. The Champion will go to Washington, D. C., next month with all expenses paid by The Times to compete in the National Spelling

Contestants In tonight's second

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$2 for your ideas we print. Write Jerry i ingell ¢/0 The -ADONS

Wi Two winners of each:of the

townships in the county school|2f

night’s round will compete on Apr. Pe 30 for the title of Indianapolis|3he

Girls “stole the show” last night in second preliminary contests|of the house, is believed to have of The Times Spelling Bee at Garfield Park Community Center and [started the flames while playing the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church. At Garfield the two winners, who will compete in the semifinals Apr. 22 at the Central Library Auditorium, were: Grace Maze, 10, of School 72, and Carole Tietz, 12, of Sacred Heart.

preliminary and those Thursday night will be: TONIGHT Fairview Presbyterian Ch we Moran, 12; Tolan a Morven Sun Th, sty Howes, 1 od cr y 3 ard, . Baker, 13; Batbara Brezette. Tr > e ancls, 13; Mary Susan Clark, 13; of St. Thomas Aquin

ool 80; - n , 0: Kip Hine, 12 Orchard School; Susan Ha ; June Carr, 13, of Behool 43. racy: 11; June THURSDAY Christian Community Center — Jud 13; Barbara cana Diekhofim. 15

Drury, 13; Charles

Yohier, 3 nne Goodman, Fahle, 13; Anthony Brand, 13, all of Moly Name of Beech Grove; Dale Mueller, 14; 1 Jones, 14; Thomas Bacher : thouser, 12; Mar en 111 : Dorothy Cull 15, all of Our ® ads Sri TEE Res Ratinar, Hem eth oa atcher, 11, oll of Coleman Center Maney Zore, 9; Janet Barsett, 14; Rita Helen Halloran ry y Babotin: 1; Carl

Park Community 13; Me Loul: : Mary Louise Sabotin, n Welsh, 12; Donald Cent

Tes » all of a ity; vein an, 13; of Bt. Anthony's; Loretta Holt, 14: an, 13; Lor

Smotherm: ens y 13; Lestha Ferguson, 13, all of School 53, ————————————

Pope Receives Taylor In Second Audience

day . received President

ond private audience since Mr

Taylor returned to Rome.

vate audience.” Mr. Taylor was received first by the Pope Apr. 5, shortly after he arrived in Rome from Wash- : ington.

| mime imot ni dain CZECHS PUT OFF VOTE PRAGUE, Apr. 13 (UP)—The government has decided to postpone the Czechoslovak parlia-

n —————— bi 2. POWER ENGINEERS TO MEET

:|Power Engineers, Chapter 4, will Don-imeet at 7:45 p. m. Thursday in

VATICAN CITY, Apr. 13 (UP) | K —His Holiness Pope Pius XII to-

personal envoy to the Vatican, in the secThe audience lasted 40 minutes and was described by Vati-|| can sources as a ‘customary pri-

won his school and district

trymen. inalienable . rights of men,

They are strong in greed. We are strong in faith. # . »

THE TASK before us is no easy ‘one.’ It will call for sacrifice. Not always will it be the popular course to follow. ' But it will be right. Let us adopt this course European Recovery Program or

in the spirit ‘of Lincoln's ‘words: “With /malice toward none”. determined at the same . time to make right thé master of might. Much as they wish ‘it, ouf blessed nation will never degen: erate to their system of government hy some, for ‘some, It will forever remain a government by all, for all, How calmly we accept the Four Freedoms. Freedom of Religion — that right to worship a divine being as we choose, So that in a

Boy, 6, Escapes

In Home Blaze

Fire destroyed the interior of a. small home ‘at 3202 Layman Ave. last night. The 68-year-old son of Mrs. Mattie Parker, 40, who lived with her three chilliren in the rear

with matches. ~ Mrs. Parker said she went to the grocery, leaving her son Franklin, 6, in the house. When she returned the house was in flames. The child escaped without injury. Owner of the house, Louis Leon, who ‘lived in the front part of the building, was not at home:

The National Association of

of action-—call . it|iD Marshall Plan or what we will—{our might, we coax the go

American Best On Earth, Says Prize Orator

Broad Ripple High Senior Credits Greatest Heritage to Living Under Constitution - THE UNITED STATES today holds many meanings for

is jumbled. Perspective has been lost. But that is not the case of a 17-year-old Broad Ripple High School senior. He is Ross Copeland, son of Mr. and Mrs, William Copeland, 6180 Compton St. " Recently he won his high school and district meet of the American Legion National High School Oratorical Contest: The Constitution was the subject. He admits no deep-seated motive brought about his firm belief in his nation. / “Why I feel as I do, I don’t know. I do know that I believe deeply everything in my speech,” he said. Mr. Copeland was eliminated from further national competition when he placed second in the zone meet. This was his second year as a contest entrant. He plans to enter Indiana University next fall and take work leading to enrollment in the medical school.

FIRM BELIEF —Ross Copeland, Broad Ripple High School senior, worked hard for accuracy in his creation on the Constitution for the American Legion National High School Oratorical Contest. He defined the Constitution in terms of today and

meets.

warning to the cowardly kings of our land excites and encour: gathering of mixed religions we ages it in the hearts of our coun- might see the capped head of the

Jewish elder bent close to the

Where they would efface the|rosary-twined hands of the Cath-

We olic that touch the Protestant's would protect them for eternity.) Bible. 80 that each of us in our

own words in our own way may bow our heads and pray. Freedom of Speech—No gestapo controls our radio, our press. No divinely endowed . ruler . censors our literature. We speak freely as ‘Americans—so freely we forget the hushed voices elsewhere the world. :

Iden grain from the soil. Cattle feed upon the plains. Furnaces blast a song of steel to come. We are free . from want, free as only Americans can be. : Freedom from Fear — That small child sleeps now in a sheltered home with no fear of deathraining skies, for war is over and peace is won-—freedom from: fear at last. ; : Some say that our horizons have been reached. This is a philosophy of despair. Our nation is only on the threshold of greatness.

‘Buck Rogers Fantasy

ical Society.

Robert D. Beckmann, of Allison “The aircraft, traveling at

that of sound, will probably have a sharp, pointed nose, and its

wings will be extremely thin,” Mr. Beckmann said. : Wings Are Problem >

“The problem is to make the

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Plane of Future Described By Allison Spokesman

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the picture as the artist's |. mood. develops—he probably remembers he has to wpick up his laundry!"

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MAY 1 QUOTE from the Speech of ‘Sen. I. M. Ives of New pes

“It means sacrifice and the courage of conviction. It means that we must have a nation more tinited than ever. It orn that

equal opportunity equal privilege must be made available to all. our citizens, less of

rededication principles and high . s by which we have achieved greatness in the past.” a “We are the protected children

of the Constitution i mouth these words idly.

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’ to Go Through Space

At 1500 MPH; to Have Built-in Refrigerator *

A “Buck Rogers fantasy” that may soon become a reality was described today before the Indiana Section of

the American Chemse : BE

It will be a stub-tailed, 1500-mile-an-hour plane with a built-in refrigeration unit to keep the pilot from burn

alive in flight,

Division, OMO. oid the group at

» 1500-mile-an-hour level, rocket-type jet engines for still higher speeds or a combination of these with turbo-jet or prop-jet engines. : “To protect his head from injury during maneuvers at high speed, the pilot will wear a special helmet with a thick layer of an ener gy-absorbing plastic

foam. i Cockpit Pressurized

“In addition, the cockpit must be pressurized and airconditioned for high altitude flying, and it must have a refrigeration unit to keep the flyer from coming to a slow boil.

“The heat,” Mr. Beckmann exe plained, “results from friction on the plane's surface and the speed a Which air is scooped into ram ucts.

“Special escape devices have been designed in case the pilot

A [ni to bail out because extremely

high altitudes would prevent his getting out of the ‘cockpit, and even if he could his would explode from the quick ch of pressure and the terrific speed.

Research Most Vital “Guided missiles and aircraft carrying atomic bombs at supersonic speeds will undoubtedly spearhead any future attack upon the United States,” Mr. Beck-

{mann said, and he concluded:

“There is nothing more vital to our national security than relentless pursuance of aercaautical research to keep America first in the air.” i

Woman Shot. in leg In Family ‘Quarrel Mrs. Edna Car ter, 22, of ‘ Carrollton Ave., was shot.