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“Just as soon as we get air in the brakes and I get-the sign from the front end,” answered Al Abell, inspector, who was as anxious as I was to get the New York Central manifest freight train out of the Brightwood yards to Bellefontaine, O. pn Abe Naa In the midst of his .third joke when Paul ( ). Woolf, engineer, pumped air. through the train. “It won't be long now so this’ Scotchman said to the Irishman . .
Picks Up Orders With Hoop
I JUST STARTED to tell one of my favorite stories when Mr. Abell waved his white hat to someone on the other end of the 52-car train. “There comes Jack and Fred,” said Mr. Abell, “Have a good trip.” Conductor Jack Frost climbed aboard his caboose and went to work on his wheel report. Flagman Fred Orr hit the steps while we rolled at a speedy two or three miles per. “What should I do? Can I help with anything?" I asked Mr. Frost. “There T was in cover-
‘While the two men busied themselves with the ‘paperwork I-kept hoping the train would pick up some speed. Later.in the day, Mr. Woolf proved all the stories about him were not exaggerated. Mr. Frost's caboose had all the comforts of home. There were two soft seats near the observation. windows and berths along the sides. It was easy to tell by.the dust where the two.men usually parked themselves. At stwood Mr. Frost dropped the consist papers and picked up his orders from a man with a4 hoop. Clever maneuver. . Once we hit the open road the wh business of railroading consisted of watching. watch the wheels of the train for smoke, you watch sectian crews for signs of trouble on the train and towers. 1 soon learned friendliness isn’t the only -reason railroad men wave so much, Their signals and hand waving may mean the safety of the. train. - I got a big kick out of getting the high ball sign from section crews. Every man working on thé road has to look a train over and give
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alls, white cap and an old timetable in my hip pocket. I was ready to be a railroader. “Right here and now I .better say Mr. Frost isn’t a very talkative man when he has a train on the move. He doesn't mix useless conversation with business. “Sit by the window and see the scenery,” the conductor told me. Mr. Orr shot a glance and a
the appropriate sign to the conductor or the flagman. High balls were what we were looking for. When a man holds his—hand over his nose that means trouble. A journal box is on fire and that just isn't good. : ’ Outside of Lawrence the train began to pick up speed. From then on it was bumpity-bump, bumpity-bump. I watched the countryside until my eyelids were in my lap. Mr. Orr suggested j 1'try stretching out on the berth. I did. When I woke up, Mr. Frost was still sitting by his window, watching'the road like a hawk. Mr, Orr stepped inside the caboose and slammed the door. He had taken a high ball from the conductor on a passing passenger train. It seems! ; I had been snoozing for over an hour, | . & .. You're not a railroader,” kidded Mr. Frost.! .. "Sleeping on the job, the idea.”
He Came Back Home in a Hurry i NOTHING UNUSUAL had happened while I cut loge. We stopped for water once in Ansonia, 0. The manifest train rolled at a neat 55 miles per hour. It isn't exactly like a Pullman but a Caboose is. surprisingly nice. riding. . Great - life. - Waving to people, making with an occasional | {| whistle at a crossing when a pretty girl smiles . and relaxing isn't the worst occupation in the, world. I imagine it could get boring. But remem-| ; ‘ber, T was making my first: trip. : ; A. few miles outside of Bellefontaine we al; changed into street clothes. When the train pulled | to a stop in the yards we were ready for the! engine to take us back to the yards. { I got a lucky break. A diesel was ready to) pull out for Indianapolis. Bull Woolf let me oft| alongside Charles Armstrong's locomotive, My| papers were checked and I climbed aboard.
CONFERENCE HOUR — Charles Boswell. chief
Quarrelling Parents, Lack of Spending . - Money, Supervision Lead to Crimes _~ « Road Foreman of Engineers C. E. Lucas, Mr.
Last of Two Articles Armstrong and William T. Nagel gave me a ¢ : ~~ hand. Those diesels are high, T'll tell you. BY JACK THOMPSON j In railroad lingo -the trip back can best be .,. described. It's green light overhead. That means é ” COUPLE OF HIGH BALLS — Conductor ’ | school is a better place to live than home. . . ’ oure rolling with no stops for water, coal or |” Jack Frost (dark clothes) boards his rolling office hii, 8 ith pe glen here to stay. I Never before have housing conditions been so acute. while railroader-for-a-day "Mr. Inside” observes.
don’t know about the cabooses, several families are
probation officer for Marion County Juvenile
TO SOME OF the youngsters in the never-ending line that files oe! . | past Judge Joseph O. Hoffmann’s bench in Juvenile Court the reform | While attempts are. being made :
Today jammed into a house hardly adequate for a
Juvenile Offenders Often Find | ions Better Than Homes
{more time in trying to make their person = with family life pleasant. worries. Now juvenile authorities, pre-| Jimmy's police record opened sented with the problem of de- in 1941 when he was caught beg{termining Hardld's future, are ging on the streets, an act which holding him in Juvenile Center ig parents apparently. sane-
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tioned. | g amily life. . : La ho Telly age. pos) In 1945 he was sent to White's |rental supervision and are allowed Institute near Marion, Ind, by to-do-as-they please many times {the Juvenile -Coutt for stealing
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{+ Many-old dwellings where “Peos ple are forced to live are infested __ NEW_YORK, May 11—We dash merrily off to the construction of a 70-group Air Force
TTR a \with rats, mice and bugs... Toilet| before 2% By Robert C Ruark =» cooking facilities are<inade- track. . and, eventually, a big, drafted ground force. So this seems a safe place to assume that there will
quate. There is no yard in which , oo» i » {children can play. ‘THE STORY of be heaps of money spent. - Such as about 3% billion bucks for the flyboys alone.
|" Inevitably family relations be- Who represented herseif as a col ‘There will be lots of contracts let—and lots
of equipment bought. And to all intents we are economically back at war. Or at least pre-war.
I am wondering if we will drift into this one with the same old out-moded investigative system that allowed some officers to profit, procurementwise, with the knowledge of the air force, from -1840 on? . ~ Is there to be a repetition of the old cover-up, “for the good of the service?” Or will the. military finally divorce its fangless watchdogs from chain of command and spring its inspectors completely out of the Army? The additional congressional report on the - investigation of the defense program says, in summary: “Under this system (of placing investigative personnel within the chain of command) there is bound to be a tendency to cover up or whitewash particularly in -those cases reflecting on: or involving command officers and others of high rank.
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favorable public reaction” patrots were creating. ——— ; 4 And the children, left to their Benny Meyers, wer ordered 16, make veparis on OWD devices, begin to get into reared in extreme poverty. their holdings in various aircraft companies. Gen. trouble. Meyers lied in his report. Bang went the reports into the catacombs, and the matter wasn't men- | tioned to the air inspector.
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| investigation would have ‘nailed School at Plainfield to his Tap Rect her condition. Benny and his buddies, as far back as 42. }
{ily which lived with two other Jones, the report says, was told by another gen- (of three and half rooms. eral that Cousin Benny had his hand in the jam pot.
brothers and sisters occupied onejdren. But Gen. Jones testified “he took no actionland a half rooms in the strucin the matter because the officer was unfriendly | ture. - to Gen. Meyers and the information involved a Shortly after his
return to/uries,” Mr. Boswell said. future fraudulent scheme.” [these crowded
conditions the ‘Re-establish Flagging Faith’ omitted a couple’ of ‘mines teat, hs do Wt been Domiurded ame Lnomots,.> Setters to ave hen he was 3pprehenddd and the township trustees. rant. ut the air inspector tallied them Cera i ade said; udge Hoffmann COHILDR . i The Department of Justice's war Trauds chief
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The committee says that the snooping system toms sir? wasn't only inadequate, but that the Air Force 1 » SU deliberately suppressed evidence—withholding it P y. from the congressional committee. | y IN | This same letter was the subject of a con- Wow Do TIOPPMARN dvised ference between Gen. Spaatz, Gen. Jones and| 'o a have to be returned to n Ira Eaker. But the letter was buried all the same. Plainfield. } The congressional committee had to -strong- “I don’t mind. sir.” the Young: in 4 ailing. station. burglary, rm-it into evidence. And when they -spaded it > . ED es y : - there was a notation saying that Gen. Jones ster answered. “At the schoo exec., Col. John Price, was reluctant to show it even to Army higher-ups—Ilet alone Congress— since no action had been taken on it. [the baseball team and I love to I have had some personal experience with ay baseball.” , the bone-burying that follows when they send’ He is back at the Boys’ School. out. a blind bird dog to investigate abuses of - J rsonnel. l whe. ANS. SLOT¥.. P80 T Test ~guantied “tor suggest that’ about" thet HOSWELL B00 told. the. story. had, smartest piece of public relations our services, “It is a sad tary on-aimoney. Era he section snp. mad. ben Sprung oom Sco WHI Tale lo" provid grant Harold agreed
opportunities for a boy to play ® = =» {rom .the forces.-and delegated to a. competent pPPOTNIES TOF oy y Pr ON=FEB: 18 of “thiv-yeur civil body.’ ' yet at the same time, gives him two youngsters broke into a Hoo-It-wouid re-establish a lot of flagging faith o))") wore as a rerorm school. ster. Pete station and took $270. in military justice among the parents of potential’ “No. ome questions the advisa- It was the only burglary Harold soldiers. ac TR bility of having adequate facili- had ever committed. . And it might even make the taxpayers feel|, =." =~ ectional institution.| - Mr. Boswell said it could have a touch more cheerful. ‘ | But society would profit if decent been avoided if his parents had {housing, recreational opportuni- forgotten their petty arguments {ties and wholesome food were with each other and spent a little
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was the prompt re- their own families.” the war and up to the present time . there has developed a widespread belief . . , that high-ranking officers are not subject to the same investigative procedures as are men of lower rank. ’ “These impressions, justified or unjustified, can _be removed by having independent, trained investigative units nducting impartial investigations in the armed services, regardless of rank or position ., . .” i
play and plenty to eat.
“Unfavorable Public Reaction
"THIS REPORT makes clear to me what wasn’t comple clear before—that the Air Force was, notified of dabbles , . . and was repeatedly notiwe fiod thereafter that many “were ‘getting “filegaltly« rich, ) Not only was nothing done about it; but the reports were entombed in dead-files without acfon. No. attempt. wap. ever. fuade to tnvestignte sinners, . = ) . Indeed, according to Col. William Nuckols, of Air Force public relations, there was so much talk about stock speculation by procurement officers- in 1943 that ‘the ‘PRO office had to take - camouflaging action—in order to muffie the un-
(released from the Boys’ School. Chief Probation Officer Charles!
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WASHINGTON, May 11—Coming soon, because of a certain irresponsibility of our Uncle Samuel, is the radio set that shuts itself off when You snarl, “Oh, shad up.” And also the stove that
ferent when dropped. 80 he turned his ears to a new use. He now manufactures (and has sold several thousand of them) garage doors that open themselves when
putting new stuff in it and making it sound dif- | |
provided for these youngsters % they get on the Wrong ONE SUCH YOUNGSTER,\w
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. come strained... Parents cannot. lector for the Red Cross inorder, Hist thegy Seiteny| proper care-to-their children. 10-get a little money —for-cokes; and candy is typical ‘of a child
Her entire family; according to ] . . g A is ‘mentally re-| LAST MAY 15 a youngster, tarded. Her mother is extremely ppol ; 0 { jo |who had been guilty of severalinervous. The girl and the other, The congressional. report says that even a Offenses, returned from the Boys'|Children in the family seem to re-|
» Since the death of her hus-| Our air 1n or general, Maj. Gen. Junius families in a house with a total band, the girl's mother has been! spector ge j {receiving .a $39 monthly grant to] The ‘boy's mother and his 11 care for herself and the five chil-
| “It is easy to understand, there- of publications at Manual High | {fore, why the girl has no lux- School for 12 years, has beeh|
assistance charge of the second annual In-| [from the welfare department or/ilana High School
help, JU _ journalism staff) -- “Don't you know that the hellig driven Into criminal activ- fr iso a he Th yas COmmission of burglaries is alities to satisfy desires such as DeWSs ; course. . was EP bulging wiih otal that shricked I Tevestigation violation of your parole condi- candy, cokes and movies, if those | 1 ging wi N » {funds are not forthcoming from: Was graduated from Butler Uni-
| “My mother and father were al- and received her master's degree the Log Jail and the high school ways quarreling and I never had a happy minute at home,” an6thér youth told probation officers | explaining wl uh he ran away Westfield and Carmel before It home d became involved coming to Manual High School|™ " | 4 Gling. station. burglary. | (here. In addition to teaching, she oOUNCil are being. considered..4p will ‘The youngster, who is 16. and Das been jo oy olor, Jor the I had a place to sleep, a place to, whom we shall give the name Indianapolis Star for the las | Town Marshal Charles Pogue : be lof Harold, quit school and rented five years. ¢ has “Out there I was a member of a room. He managed to pay his P own way by working until he met | the teachers’ section, of the In-| {another youth who had just been: digna High Bchool Press Associa-
y tion and a member of the com. 2 Nalda xual THe older Boy stggested that he| mittee on revision of the course of | LIN ig ‘bad. gnd Harold commit some yr study in-journalism-for- Indiana ga ? 1
glares to pick up some easy high schools. -.. . Acting on his immature!
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istumble. into a- careemyof crime. .|And. trespassing. He. escaped a _ |few months later. . After dodging Police for a few ( weeks, he was apprehended and {wham we shall call Jimmy, wal sant to the Boys' School. In {of a large family. His father April, 1947, he was released. Six jwas in ill health and his mother {weeks later he- stole a car with was a vacillating and overbearing the Ald _of another youngster...
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Court, makes suggestions at a weekly meeting. of the court staff. During these sessions: office problems are. ironed out and new methods for handling delinquents undergo a thoreugh- study.
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| - AGAIN POLICE caught him and brought him into Juvenile Court. While in the court wait. ing room, Jimmy ducked under |the arms of a policeman, ran down five flights of stairs and (once more evaded the law,
| He was recently recaptured by | {police as they moved In on a {Juvenile theft ring of six boys and three girls who were pla. |guing Mars Hill residents. . F-EXhgusted a8 to ways to hefp Jimmy, juvenilé authorities waived him to Criminal Court. [““We hated to take this drastic step,” sald Mr. Boswell. “But {we had to protect society, which Han major consideration in han. +dHing any juvenile case.” 4
Manual Teacher [Era Passes.
Named Professor
In—Journalism : NASHVILLE, May | Times State Service
n {days of Nashville are def BLOOMINGTON, May 11 fathers”
{Miss Gretchen A, Kemp, director problems
ly in the county seat. A checking traffic at the intersect:
to determine what type of | signs are needed to regulate Journalism {traffic flow. {Inatitute, July 12 to 24. | Local citizens are said to ‘be | Miss Kemp, who is the eighth 8ullty of double-parking, parking full-time IU journalism stafr|On the wrong side of the street,
- ism department. 8he will bé in|
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} f Born in. Kempton, Miss Kemp | cal citizens to make use of “off versity with a bachelor's degree Street” parking in the areas near
Was Copy Editor { vehicles off main streets. | She taught in high schools in| Plans for enacting “an anti-| noise” ordinance by the town
{prevent noise from open muffiers, (cutouts and other car devices.
Miss Kemp is past. president of, bre n Slrestad ta, wary offenders
% » White “at Butler she was a {member of the Butler Collegian| Staff and a varsity debater. She = LY mmm iT Omega. “Guests arriving for the “CenTheta Sigma Phi, Phi Kappa Phi, tennial Spring Dance” at the ButTau Kappa Alpha and OES. .{ler-University “Phi Delta Theta
el Re h—— chapter house next Saturday at Nashville, Ind., Gets {9 p. m. wit recetve 4 royal wel- + 3% come. A New Sub-Division It Will all be part of the Jn- | NASHVILLE. Ind. May 11: Nashville has a “suburb.” {Von of the. fraternity's 100th [A new subdivision, known as [the Coffey subdivision, located a half-mile east of the present town
ar, Guests will be ushered from [their cars by a doorman in a "limits, on Road 46, has been suf- 1801d-braided ind os. Enrough. th” Aan has been OF TURBINE from the iret 0 the door. ° { Tete. bilities of the Nash- pant to Why Gr all this glitter, { ce w ville water system is said to have prompteds the development of WIRE with Wally Nehrling as|
As Nashville Tackles Traffic Problems
Study ‘Drugstore-Courthouse Corner’ for Stop Signs as Drivers Violate Regulations -
“Times State * ~The leisure-blessed horse-and-buggy are scratching their heads over how to solve auto tratrio ‘Tepresentative of the State Highway Commission has been 4 fon"of Main and Van Buren streets, fappointed assistant professor in| better known here as “the ei] "I ae “There is no real remedy for a the’ Indiana University journal./Store amd Courthouse corner,
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The town council appealed to
" , {bullding, as well as Town Square from the University of Wisconsin. | est of Road 135 in order to keep feldhouse, President’ M. O. ‘Ross
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begins cooking with gas when you Whistle at it. Or so expects E. F, Pierson, the Kansas City soa pop vending machinery magnate. He's also the president of the National Automatic Merchandising Association, meeting here at the moment. And that's how I happened to run into him. His engineers developed shortly before the war . 2 Widget that bounced each nickel dropped into the soda pop slot. If it tinkled properly you got Your bottle of pop. But if it went thud, it was a Phony nicke! and the machinery threw it back you, Thousands of dollars Mr. Pierson and his three brothers spent developing the apparatus that listended to counterfeit nickels. “It was a wonderful electronic machine, if 1 do say so,” reported the. gray-mustached Mr. Pierson. “But after a few months it went comPleteiy hawwire. Began throwing away perfectly
good nickels, It turned- out that the mint had -
Changed the metal formula for nickels, altered the ping of the falling coin.” How sore Mr. Pierson was at the government T leave to your imagination,
Whistle—Garage Doors Open BUT ALONG came the war and he forgot about’ Bogus nickels. He soon was using electric ears to spot defective shells, . ‘ "As these moved along the production lire, they'd bump into an anvil. If they went “bong,” . the machinery let ‘em ride by If they went th-r-r-Tump, the apparatus tossed ‘em aside before they ‘killed the wrong people, : Ly When the war ended; Mr. Pierson decided to listen to no more nickels. His Is a world-wide * ‘business; and governments, he too n ¢ irresponsible with their
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whistled at. Nobody can hear the whistle, except the door. It has a microphone which picks up the homecoming motorist's “whistle, This pulls a relay. which snaps a switch, which starts the motor that opens the door. Price: $235, installed. | “And a very handy thing it is, too,” said Mr. Pierson, “though 1 have been kidded about manufacturing a gadget for inebriated people. { This is only the beginning. He figures his ears in a box have unlimited industrial uses. f
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| AND WHEN he gets same in one small pack- | age for household use, gosh! the millineum. Snap your fingers at lights after you get In| bed and obediently they turn themselves off. Whistle down the stairs in the morning at the cook stove--and ft percolates the coffee. Sneeze) at the refrigerator when you want it to defrost itself. [|] Announce. in a firm voice that you feel too hot and the fan turns itself on. . Hook the Pierson ears to the front door and) throw away the key. These ears, incidentally, can | be adjusted so that they are sensitive only to a series of musical notes, That makes a combination that nobody could pick “unless you choose some simple tune like maybe Yankee Doodle. Mr. Pierson doesn't like to talk about the effect of his ears on the radio. After all, he's a gad radio receiver equipped with his machinery can't
help but go dead when you snarl at it. And it
won't turn itself back on until you speak ‘kindly "Maybe if | put on my slippers and got settled down with my an easy chair, you could remember. what it was
Ro 1 2 'k Mucky day: 1 tlatm; when the mint changed # specifications of the’ nickel.
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Nashvifié's “suburbs.” master of ceremonies and. Tiny The - addition, comprising 30 acres, is owned by the Willian L.| Coffey heirs, who acquired the! property from the county in 1927.
James to Address Butler Alumni Club
Richard T. James, vice presi-
nishing the music. | Chuck Josey is dance chairman and Jack Fultz is in charge] of promotion. Grant Appel is ichapter president,
Butler Summer Session |
{dent and treasurer of Butler Uni.| 10 Hold Night Classes versity, will speak at the year's| Evening classes will be intro-! final meeting of the Butler Alum-|duced to the curriculum of Butler | ni Club of Indianapolis at 6:15 University’s regular summer sesp.m. tomorrow in the university sion June 14 to Aug. 5 as cafeteria. novation in the school's program. A report will be given on the|/Dr, George F, Leonard, director recent Butler night at the Clvic|of Butler's summer sessions,. anTheater and election of officers/ nounced the addition. ! for the ensuing year will be held. «Summer evening classes will be Seward Baker, president of the|offered Monday through Thurs- | | group, will preside. day - evenings with each class
[1 eds. | meeting ‘two’ event k. Local Man Gets Leading “oredit may be
Three hours’ credit. may be ob-
Werner Haas, 3302 N. New Jersey St, will play .a leading role in “the Northwestern University Radio Playshop production, “Don 71 Cody," at 8:30 p.m, Sunday. over WIND, Chicago. © Mr. Haas attended Shortridge High School and was active in dramatics there. He- also was
counting, economics and secretarial science. Nine summer evening classes will be offered. —————————————————.
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Butler Exercises
Dinner to Open . Commencement Butler University's 93d annual commencement exercises will be held at 10 a. m. June 7 in the
has announced. Opening the week-end events, which will close the school year, ~be.. the. School of I's annual dinner at 6:30 p, m, June 4 in the university cafeteria. Members of the graduating class will hold their traditional Senior Bait at 9 p. m. the same day. . oX To Approve Candidates shaun ion Rr At 1.30 p.m. June. 5 the wns... Arn wi A
yo Scarlet . will attend & tea in the home gr ‘ \ TARA MES... TROE. Gre WW Orcs umes berg, 420 Buckingham Dr. At 4 p. m. the graduating class will“ hold tts annual senior claxs day exercises in Jordan Hall and . Grays open Graydon: Memorial in. Jordan Hall: . The Butler Alumni Association will hold its annual dinner, busi. ness meeting and election of officers at 5:30 p. m. June 5 in the university cafeteria. \ Baccalaureate services will be held at 4 p. m. June 6 in the fieldhouse and the Women's Face ulty Club will hold ts annual re. ception for seniors, their parents and friends, and alumni at 5:18 p.m. in the Jordan Hall recreation room. At 5:30 p. m. the graduating class of 1017 will hold its annual reunion in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leland Carter, Edgewood.
remap ————————— FRATERNAL UNIT TO MEET Marion County Council of Fraternal and Social Societies will meet at 8 p, m. Thursday in the Antlers Hotel. Officers of the Raia council have been in-
degrees while at 3 p. Quill," senfor women's
don Merrill Club will hoid house in the brary
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