Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1948 — Page 17
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She Takes Commeicial View
i +1 PROPOSE to stand for this no longer mama says and I hereby proclaim that July 30 is our 8 pirthday and somebody better throw us a and bring us lots of pretty presents because ‘we got X-number of years of famine amidst plenty to make up for just like the Republicans and if Franklin Delano Roosevelt could rejigger Thanksgiving Day to fit his fancy then by golly { can rearrange my birthday and your birthday
“1 ask mama how she happened to hit on July #0th as a suitable occasion for our birth and she gays it is a pretty good date because the people ‘pave paid for the June bride presents and are apt fo be solvent enough to kick in with a little loot “for two neglected walfs who never had a proper pirthday party before.
Angry Senators
WASHINGTON, June 30—In what I am afraid {s a misguided attempt to bring harmony to the embattled politicos, the National Press Club now is serving on the special Lunch Missouri turnips stuffed with New. York beef. This tastes about the way you'd expect. It doesn’t look so good, either. I mention this sorry culinary experiment to indicate that Republicans and Democrats this year can’t get together on anything. Not even their food. So after eating Truman turnips baked with Dewey meat (and topping same off with a slug of baking soda in warm water for dessert), I ambled up to the U. 8. Senate to see how the lawmakers were getting along. Boy! Worse than the stuffed turnips. They were angry gentlemen in seersugker suits. Poor old Sen. Carl Hayden, the Arizona Democrat, nearly ’ got mashed in a kind of turnip fricassee for ever attempting to make peace. The performance w: as weird as it was interesting and I only hopg'I can keep it from sounding “dull: of The Republicans kept hinting that the first {hing they were going to do at this turnip péssion of Congress was let nature take itg course’
Fight Until Last Breath /
THEY MEANT that they'd bripg up in the yegular course of business the anti-poll tax bill. Rep. ‘George Bender of Ohio, who wrote it, announced in a formal sitemest that the Southerners hated it the way the devil hates holy water. Sen. Richard B. Russell ¢f Ga., said this was an understatement. He'd ght the bill to his last breath, not because it wopld abolish fhe poll tax, but decausé it invaded state’s rights. Sen. Olin ‘D, Johnston of Squth Carolina said if ‘the Republicans intended to try any such scheme, congress might as well adjourn now. He fntroduced a resolution calling for exactly that. It ‘was hers that the good, bald gentleman
Atomic Health Pile
UPTON, N. Y., July 30—~A sign hanging from a two-strand barbed-wire fence on a sand hill here reads:
“Tampering with this fence will mean immediate termination.” Tt doesn’t explain what sort of termination. But no one argues’ with the sign. They just don't tamper. Beyond that fence and a hundred or so paces up the sand hill, workmen who have gone through the most searching loyalty investigation are rushing to completion a building that resembles a high school gymnasium but it is not a gym. It is a building to house the nation’s first post-war atomic energy pile. In buildings nearby, also restricted, scientists of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, are processing uranium slugs and blocks of graphite which within a few months will be piled together to.cause a controlled chain reaction of forces of nature, . It was such a chain reaction released in tncontrolled fury that blasted Hiroshima off the Japanese map.
Seek New Tools for Science BUT THE Brookhaven scientists are not making atontic bombs. They are making a controlled pile of atomic energy from which they hope to extract hidden secrets of nature and new tools for medical science. The ‘pile is under direction of nine Eastern
Fan Mail Battle /
HOLLYWOOD, July 30—Gene Autry Rogers, the nation’s top cowboys, gallo battle today ‘over Hollywood's fan m Plonship, / Mr, Autry announced he had opened 12 million letters in 10 years. He said this de him the Post Office Department's largest siygle customer. Mr. Rogers, almost simultanegusly, revealed that he now. gets 93,000 letters/a month. No other star, he said, can make fhat statement. The figure, he added, doessnot include 1000 letters per month written to Trigger, his horse. The Autry camp took up the challenge imMediately, ; “My horse,” said Mr. Kutry, “doesn’t stoop » PThey’ ws 3 his pres t : re blicity,” his press agen bellowed, swiping our y. press age
Too Fr*-ndly to Feud
MAYBE Mr. Autfy only, gets 86,000 letters a month, he said, he hit a record 110,000 that Still stands. r, he said, every 30 seconds Be was talking, gomebody was sitting down to Write an Autry fan letter. Top that, Roy Rogers. We relayed this news to Mr. Rogers who y and started calculating. Three , determined that Rogers fans write letter every, 28 seconds. Mr. Rogers and Mr. Autry are too friendly
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If you are 26, I said, then I got to be 27, be-| cause everybody knows I am exactly one i older than you are, and nobody is going to mistake! your peerless knight for a fast 27. I said if I am| 27 now I had to graduate from college at th tender age of 14, which is open to question. !
know how old I am and today is my birthday and| if i's mine it's yours and I must say you getting alarmingly fat and bald and battered for a man who is only 27 years old today. Happy birthday little man she says and what are you going to give me for a present? I make one last point that this July 30th! shenanigan is apt to cut into the 10th anniversary, take; which comes up next month, but she replied with bright feminine logic that we would survey the gate receipts, and if the anniversary | loot fell off we wonld rearrange our birthday to come on April 29 next year. ‘ | And, she said happily, if we have to do that I can be 25 and you can be 26. I declare, friends, as the day dawns .that woman actually believes she is only 26, and you know something else? I feel younger all the time. It's great to be 27 again, and I owe # all to mama, because if she says I am I certainly am.|
Ed Sovola, author of Inside Indianapolis, is on vacation. |
By Frederick C. Othman
from Phoenix, the one-timé two-gun sheriff of Maricopa County, 8. E. Hayden, gained the floor. He was going to try where the Press Club had failed. He thought hg could combine political turnips and meat. He said it was obvious the Southerners weren't so much interested in the poll tax as they were in their own’ constitutional rights. So instead of trying to pass a law that would end such taxes,” why not introduce a constitutional amendment which would allow the people, themselves, to do the same thing?
Sen. Hayden Knows Now"
/ ‘NOT SO GOOD, retored Sén. Robert A. Taft f Ohio. He insisted the Constitution gave Congress the right to regulate: elections and—hence,
poll taxes. Fy He entered
Sen. Russell said jt did not, either. into a long explanation. Sen. Taft said he couldn’t understand it. “It is the only obvious thing the Senator from Ohio cannot understand,” retorted Sem. Russell. This brought on what the the Congressional Record calls laughter, and also some gavel pounding by Chairman Vandenberg. , Sen. Claude Pepper regretted that he was the nnly Southern Senator in favor of outlawing poll
Sen. Raymond E. Baldwin of Connectitcut said if the constitutional amendment was such a hot idea, why hadn't the Democraty tried it years ago, when they were in charge? “We're . not reading - histofy here today,” snapped Sen. Pepper. “We're trying to make it.” The battle among the legisldtive cooks got hotter and hardly anybody heird Sen. Hayden say that he was just trying to be helpful.
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simply can’t be stuffed with Republican ' beef, without making a mess, that is. ¢
By Paul F. Ellis
- universities working with the U. 8. Atomic Energy Commission. It may be in operation by Jan. 1, One scientist said today that the work of assembling the uranium “is ahead of schedule.” The pile house is roughly 120 feet by 100 feet and as high as a six-story building. | An atomic pile is made up of blocks of graphite interspersed with lumps of uranium. !
Op ‘ed by Remote Control THE METAL is naturally radioactive and its atoms can be split. That releases enormous amounts of energy. Such splitting is done by neutrons released from other split atoms. It is necessary, however, to slow down the neutrons because if they travel
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SECOND SECTION
RETURN OF THE GOLDEN LIONS—Kenneth Perry and Al Harding, local members of the 106th Infantry
Indianapolis Times
FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1948
PAGE 17
Golden Lions Come ‘Home’ Again As 106th Division Sets Reunion
COMMANDING GEN-
Division Association, hang out the welcome mat for the organization's two-day convention which opens tomorrow ERAL — Maj. Gen. Alan
in the Claypool Hotel. The Camp-Atterbury-trained. outfit held its first reunion here last year.
too rapidly they go through the nucleus of the
atom without splitting it. So the graphite blocks are inserted to slow, down the neutrons. i As a result of this controlled chain reaction the pile become¢s a “hot oven” in which other elements are pla to make them radio-active—for instance iodine or.cobalt now being used to treat
The ‘pile is operated by remote control. The men rating it may never see inside once it is
e scientist exhibited a chunk of uranium
0; aboyt the size of a small ink bottle. It was brown. ish ‘and weighed just over four pounds.
By Patricia Clary
to feud over two seconds, but we're not so sure! about their studios. Republic and Columbia rep-| resentatives were ready to meet every mail train with adding machines.
that Mr. Autry gets more letters than anybody. He has a private post office in Hollywood, across
missive arrived, Postmaster General Robert Han-| negan delivered it himself.
Half of Letters From Overseas A STORM of 563,431 letters hit Mr. Autry
| » » when Columbia announced he would get his first| THE GOLDEN L
screen kiss in “The Big Sombrero.” were against it, the kiss went out. Mr. Rogers said he got “at least” that many letters over whether he should team up with Dale Evans after he married her. As of his last picture, “Nighttime in Nevada,” he hasn't. Both Mr. Rogers and Mr. Autry get about half their letters from overseas. Fifty-eight per cent of Mr. Autry’s come frein women. Both say they answer all the letters. Mr. Autry says he spends $50,000 a year doing it. Mr. Rogers hires somebody to rake up the old envelopes and send them to stamp collectors in veterans’ hospitals. The two chief cowboys agree on one thing. Each gets as much mail as any three other stars.
Since 497,976
??? Test Your Skill ???
What term is applied to the earth which corre-| sponds to the word atmosphere? : | “The solid earth is called the lithosphere and the water the ASdretphere,
4 y What poem saved a famous old ship from destruction? ! “Old Ironsides,” by Oliver Wendell Holmes. The ship was the frigate Constitution. ’
THEY HELPED A LOT—Mrs. Earl W. Yarling and Mrs. Edward D. Cromley (left to right), president and vice president, respectively, of the Gold Star Mothers, | did a good deal of the planning for memorial services | for the soldiers of the 106th.
600 Veterans Are Expecte To Attend 2-Day Convention
“To Make History Is Our Aim.”
By JACK THOMPSON That was their motto.
On a bleak winter morning a bunch of guys, whom Indianapolis
still remembers, did jus® that.
A lot of them didn’t live to realize what their accomplishments
meant to democracy.
But some did. They will be back in the Hoosier capital this
eek-end.
It was 5:30 a. m. on Dec. 16, td {1944. The ground was cold and Wounded; 7001 were missing.
| Even the Post Office, said Columbia, knows| 2} 2rOm Coifortable 10 sitep om.
men were killed: 1246 were
Despite the division's terrific punishment, the War Department
Muffied movements of troops Save it credit for the fall of Hit-
long way from Camp Atterbury west where they spent the months E
from the main office, and when the 12 millionth | ty distant iilery are Jere al dawn blackness surrounding the : fant Divisi 106th, 1nfay or ee a theithe first 48 hours of the battle, Ardennes.
ler on his last bid for Europe by upsetting the Rundstedt timeble, it! Though alone and unaided in {it refused to give ground and
’ {open the way to the important
INBPANAPOLIS CHAPTER—Membe rs 6f the Indianapolis Chapter Division Association ‘who helped with arrangements for the convention af (front | : left to right) Richard Moores, Lou Milanese, Kenneth Perry and Harvey Yenzel; row) Robert Marsh, Charles Hackler, William Borders and Stanley Pritchard.
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JONS were a rail center of St. Vith, Belgium,
and the rest of the vital points to
By their gallant stand the
from April to October, 1944, in!|Golden Lions lived up-to the mot-
offensive.
preparation for overseas movement. Dawn still had not come when without warning four German divisions attacked. Von Rundstedt had launched his counter The brunt of it was concentrated in the sector occupled by tne 106th.
to they adopted in training: “To Make History Is Our Aim.”
» s. ’ IT IS NOW. July 30, 1948. Memories of the misery and suffering of World War II are rapidly diminishing. There is talk about a third world war, As dawn breaks on the Golden
In the hellish days that fol-|sortably bedded down in Indianlowed relatives, friends, wives apolis hotels and homes.
and sweethearts of the Lions in Indianapolis and elsewhere looked anxiously for bits of news of the Battle of the Bulge. It wasn’t until Jan. 18, 1945, that the statistics of one of the most bitter fights of the European war got into the, papers back home. .
however,
There will be no battle thunder to interrupt their slumber as they peacefully await the opening of the: 106th Division Association national convention in the Claypool Hotel at 9 a. m.
” = . NOTHING but ‘good times are
WHEN the news broke, Indi- day conclave. They had fun at
been
activities
figh duced by more than half of its will be a pretty 19-year-old Michentire. strength. A total of 416 igan girl, Miss Mildred Woodson,
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Lions tomorrow they will be com-%
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SHALL WE SAY?—Henry Schricker, Democratigandidate 16F governor, discusses nvention speech outline with. Al Harding, co-chairman.of the arrangements committee for the Golden Lions’ meeting.
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THE FINAL TOUCH—With the
Perry (left), Phil Irwin, interior decorator for Columbia Decorators, decks out the Claypool Hotel lobby for the Golden Lion get-together. . The. veterans of the Battle of the Bulge will have plenty of time to reminisce under the red, white and blue bunting.
{who has been chosen convention be a squadron of nine planes
queen.
{Inkster with her parents and boy over the War Memorial Plaza. {in store for the 600 veterans who friend. She lost her brother. in One of the planes will drop roses |are expected to attend the two- the Battle of the Bulge. | A serious note will be sounded Legion headquarters. anapolis and the rest of the coun- their first reunion here last year when the veterans attending the! try learned that the 106th had and are anticipating a more suc- convention take time out to pay| FORMER staff decimated. In six days of cessful event this year.
{tribute to their dead. buddies at{uled to be at the meeting are: ting in icy mud it was re-| Reigning over the
/memorial services both Saturday Maj. Gen. Alan W. Jones, comand Sunday morning. Partict
sion artillery commander, and Brig. Gen, Herbert T. Perrin, assistant division commander. Featured speakers will include Henry Schricker, Democratic can.|didate for governor; A. V. Burch, state auditor; Col. James A. Ronin, new officer of Stout Field; Cedric Fost commentator. David 8.
will preside.
She is driving here from from Stout Field which will fly
on the cenitaph behind American
» » officers sched-
ing manding - general of the 106th; pating in the rites will Brig. Gen. Leo T. McMahon, divi-
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