Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 August 1948 — Page 9

George and Jep White, brothers from Oklahoma City, are probably under umbrellas. Mrs. Arthur Farrell, an eye on her two yo and Johnny. If I were still there I'd be keeping an eye open for Marguerita Pepita Fernandez to appear. Marguerita, a young lady from Havana, Cuba, lived at the hotel next to the Somerset. We didn’t get very well acquainted but that didn’t stop me dreaming. Miami

from . It’s easy to dream in Beach. Easy here, too.

- <A" Suggestion from Grover G. Brown, county

People had been thinking of ideas for me to work on while I was away. Thank you, Mr. Brown. Someone signing herself as “Hoosier Old Maid,” wrote that she missed me while I was away. She had to spoil it all by saying she had al (Te Happy Monster) Roberts play “Miss Jou."

(———————————————————————————————— By Robert C. Ruark!

Set for Snorkel

NEW LONDON, Conn. Aug. 10—I am about to go for a ride in a fanciéd-up pigboat, the USS Tusk, which is a Guppy II and has snorkel. It can snorkel just as easy as a fish can float, and because it can snorkel it is special stuff. But it wouldn't be a Guppy II if it couldn't do something else pretty special, also. . Right now, all I know is that snorkel lets a submarine breathe fresh air for limitless days under water, also that-a Guppy II has high underwater speed, A Guppy I just has snorkel, as any fool can plainly. see. You can also see the Navy hasn’t changed much since you went away. It is just ax cute in terminology as ever. The Tusk is more or less typical of our future submarine construction. She is wearing something borrowed and something blue. This snorkel routine we took from the Germans, who swiped it from the Dutch. What makes her fast under water is our own baby, and just how fast she goes is a secret. Also she is streamlined down to bare essentials. All the shoot-guns are gone from the deck, becatise the Navy figures we don't need guns on submarines any more.

I Wds Touch-Shocked

THE TUSK'S SKIPPER is 34-year-old Comdr. Guy Gugliotta of New London, an Annapolis '38er who made 11 patrols against the Japs during the war. He is smallish, dark, and is regarded with something approaching reverence by his crew. I was touchsshocked when I met Comdr. Gugliotta. Y read a lot of submarine reports during the. war-—secret ones—and I always had an idea that

brains, sandals. While the war was running, there was so much secrecy about submarines, even in the service, that the submariners lived apart as demigods. You weren't even allowed to say “submarine.” Losses were known only to God and Ernie King. The fat score in enemy shipping was a secret, and every time a skipper won his third or fourth Navy ‘Cross, even the official words of praise were run through special censorship,

Turnip Promotion

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 10—The most expensive advertising campaign in the history of the vegetable business is about over. The government's $250,000 has been spent for promoting turnips and, as far as I can discover, many politicians are eating ’em, who didn’t use to. * I don’t want anybody to say isn't a fair Statement, or that my figures are wrong. For hours I interviéwed the experts, trying to discover how much jt cost the country for Mr. Truman to call Congress back on Turnip Day, two weeks

These gentlemen counted on their fingers 20-cents-a~-mile railroad fare for more than 500 law-givers, thousands for rehiring -elevator operators, pages and waiters, so much for electric light and power, and umpteen thousands of dollars for printing the Congressional Record at $750 per page. IL eal’ ge Thick With Denunciations THIS MAGAZINE has been unusually thick the last couple of weeks, with denunciations mostfy of Mr. Truman for calling Congress back. The lawmakers discovered upon their return to Washington that the cost of eating had risen sharply in their own restaurants. Some of ‘em wanted to adjourn as soon as President Truman finished his speech demanding the return of price controls, but cooler heads prevailed. The legislators would listen, at least, to the President's helpers. And Leo Allen, the of the House Rules Committee, made the wise crack of this special session: “The only thing we'll control the price of is turnips.” That was exaggeration., The Congress ignored price controls, Many a Republican spokesman reminded his fellows that Mr. Truman once had said such controls were the sign of a police state.

The Quiz Master 29? Test Your Skill ??? ES

When did the first Negro serve in the United States Senate? Hiram R. Revells was the first Negro to serve in the United States Senate. He took his seat as a Senator from Mississippi on Feb. 25, 1870, and served until March, 1871.

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ferent story. You can add three sunburned backs. I guess a man is entitled’ to one headache on his vacation. Besides, headache is forgotten but the night isn’t,

beach pad. And next door was Marguerita. But I mustn’t overlook the friendly, fine pegple that stayed at the Somerset. Without the Allens, Farrells, Whites, Alma Schram, Columbus, O. and others you knew by -sight, the vacation would have been a bust. Yes, sir, there are some wonGerful people in the world if you want to meet

All in all it was fun but it’s also good to be back. George White tried to talk mie into staying

night. The next'day, that was a dif-|" headaches to

another week. For a working man, two weeks|®

with pay means just that. Beach.

The boats, battered ‘and beaen, used to slide back into Pearl after a tough patrol, and the pallid, haggard crew would get off for the duration of an overhaul. They holed up at the Royal Hawaiian, and for three weeks between patrols the sky wasn’t high enough for their limit. The boys with the beards and the dolphins had the master key to Honolulu. It developed they earned it, ‘because the final tote showed that our 250-0dd submarines had racked up more epemy shipping than the combined air and sea forces. Reading those reports, even after three years of Navy, was as thrilling :as watching a Hitchcock movie, Slade Cutter, the All-American tackle, took his boat into a Jap harbor and| watched a horse race through a periscope. Another guy went into a harbor, failed to find a worthy target, and popped a fish into the dock. He killed a busload of Jap sailors coming back from liberty. I remember the sheepish Yeport of one skipper. He’ said he was sure he had sunk a ‘couple of transports, but he didn't see 'em go down. However, he sald he knew he sank ’'em, because he did have documentary proof that he sank the two destroyéts which had come out to pick up the survivors of the undocumented ships.

They Lacked Targets

WE LOST 20 per cent of our submarines 52 ships and about 3750 men. We only had 15,000 men in the entire sub force, but they sank so much Jap shipping that they ran out of targets. For the last six months or so, they cruised around

on the surface, knocking off sampans . barges pleking up s lots of our Bhotdows,

yE. . Our subs, in those days, were about as good as anybody's. They had a lot of tricky stuff on them which was secret then and isn't any on But they weren't a patch on these new boats, I shudder ‘to think what the Germans would have done to our convoys with the same subs. I had a kid's awe of the undersea boats, then, and now it appears I finally get to ride one. It's a ride I wouldn't have taken, unhandcuffed, four years ago. ? :

By Frederick C. Othman

What I'm driving at is the fact that the special

Hasta la vista, Miami

he will teach, write letters, receive callers.

Despite Heavy Schedule, He Accepts

Commission to Write History Volume By DON SIEBERT

DID YOU EVER wonder what a college professor

does

in his “spare” time?

Dr. Roy Robbins, head of Butler University's history department, typifies the busy American professor. In addition to his daily teaching chores he must handle adminis. trative duties and attend faculty meetings to round out a

heavy schedule.

reer, when

their hard

with

from

session resulted in the tossing of numerous: insults back and forth between the White House and the Capitol. Hardly anything that "President Truman asked was done. Now the time has come to tell the lawgivers goodby again and I must say that they and the President, between them, have done the lowly turnip a good turn. Never in America’s history has so much turnip seed been sold and planjed. By digging time this winter, America is going to have so many hundreds of thousands of tons of turnips that no telling how low the price will fall.

Produces National Mania CONGRESS may have to instruct the Agriculture Department to dry ’em into turnip powder, like it's doing now with potatoes. (Incidentally, have you eaten any dehydrated potatoes lately? Not bad, Or at least not gray, like they used to be.) / The great advertising campaign, unfortunately; has produced a national mania for turnips. Every restaurant is serving ‘em, eVery housewife is looking over her ‘recipes for turnips fricaseed. The man who doesn't get turnips tonight for dinner can t himself lucky and also unique. This situation has resulted in a sharp rise in the price of turnips. Some grocers are palming off rutabagas (a close relation) and they also are costing more than they did two weeks ago. The turnip specialists in the Department of Agriculture assure me, however, that this is a passing} phenomenon and that as soon as the recordbreaking turnip crop is harvested, prices will coast. ; ¥ Farewell, Congressmen. And may you one and all prosper in your respective turnip patches. !

What is meant by the Great Law in history? The Magna Charta, the charter of English liberty, is often called the Great Law. 8

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Where is the key ‘of the Bastile? : . This key was presented by Lafayette to Washington. It still hangs in the main hall of Washirigton’s miansion at Mt. Vernon, as a prized relic. * +e

Is aluminum found free in nature? Aluminum is not found free in nature. It is present in clay, mica and feldspar. - : * <* ¢ Who discovered the South Pole? 5 2 Roald Amundsen discovered the South Pole

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Harper & Brothers to write a volume on the early American

frontier. period. cgi A awarded only those h f

who are recognized authorities in

Dr. will run about 80,000 words,

1776 until 1830. It will be ore of about 40 volumes which are to be written by outst torians throughout Every phase and fcan history will be dealt with

origins down to the present.

MEN LIKE Bernard DeVoto, Foster R. Dulles and Mason Wade have been asked to con® tribute to the extensive project. Harry Commanger of Columbia University, was named editor of the series. the writing chores alone will take four years.

choice in selecting the Butler historian. Dr, Robbins, whose kindiy manner and phys

is well-acquainted with the sage of the American frontier.

jcan Story” in 1928 at the University of Washington in Seattle,

ceed Paul Hayworth as head of |

many articles on the period for historical publications. He established his reputation as an historian when he published his first

a study of the public domain

advancing frontier” to show how a rough society

“Those days,” he explained with a smile,

stitutions and culture.”

riod of our history traces the evoution of our democracy from its simple beginnings up to the complex government we have today,” eclared

DR. ROBBINS has been award-

posed volume. However,-he was quick to point out that he would v have to spend two or three more! second vice aap mangar; years on his own time to com , :

the work.

he smiled.

learly phase of American

Dr. Robbins accepted STS he was recently chosen WY i AT

field, and calls for years of work. x 1 Robbing’ manuscript, which deals the American frontier from

the democracy’s Eurdpean ; made.

on his administrative teaching abilities.

He estimates that # # ”

Commanger made a shrewd

appearresemble Ronald Colman,

boy.”

Dr. Robbins, who

began teaching the “Amer-,

switched to Western Rein Cleveland, O. In 1938 he to Butler University to: suc-|

istory department. r » »

ADDITION, he has written

“Our Landed Heritage"

its early beginnings. Robbins plans to begin his book with the “continually History Society,

Historical

the

eveloped into a and differént civilization.” early ~ and colorful

and Local History,

the foundations of our inwant to show how that penic and installation Mrs, Floyd Bass Sr.

Gastineau,

half-time scholarship to aid

in his research on the pro- Officers

are:

“It

WHEN. HIS academic day is over, the professor lays aside the cares of an executive to enjoy his family. He has a 16-year-old son who is a Broad Ripple High School student. Another son, just turned an inquisitive 6 years old, he describes accurately as “all

| schoo schedule he must maintain Yet, despite his busy ca- in addition to his writing. > *

. HAVE greater to think and write,” the graying professor asserted, “but we schoolmen must work at odd times bétween teaching dnd administrative duties.” To point up the mass of work which lies ahead of him, Dr. Robbins explained that he had rewritten his first book three times. In addition, he had the task of indexing the finished product. However, Dr. Robbins believes it will be “intensely interesting” to pore over the ancient governmental records and travel literature of the day. He will also inAmer-| vestigate the writings of county, local and amateur historians who recorded bits of history as it was

A punctual man, Dr. Robbins leaves his comfortable home at 5230 Cornelius Ave. in plenty of time to arrive promptly for his, first class. Then begins his usual busy day with continual demands

as well ap

has been

prominent in local church affairs, is chairman of the scout committee of Boy Scout troop 81 and is a member of 8t. Paul's Episcopal Church. He comes from Richmond where his father served as mayor duing World War I. Dr. Robbins received his bachelor’s degree in the “twenties” at Earlham and then studied at the University of Wisconsin under Frederic L. Paxson, authority on the frontier, for his doctorate, Indicative of his interest in lo-

THE BUSY PROFESSOR—Dr. Roy Robbins, chosen by to ‘write an early American history text, arrives on campus early to take up his duties as head of Butler University's history department. Besides his administrative duties, gq his

Harper and Brothers

THE GOOD EARTH — The he finds time to putter about in k standably proud of the fruits of his labor, believes everyone should "own

rofessor reveals another of his \ arden at 5230 Cornelius Ave.

pe othe

Stabs Wife to Death; Children Sleep Nearby

CHICAGO, Aug. 10 (UP)—A|his wife, Mary, 23, during an

husband stabbed his wife to death with a butcher butcher knife early today as police to meet him at his wife's their ‘three small children slept apartment. He ‘wae at the door peacefully in an adjoining room. {when they arrived.

estranged | argument. | By telephone, Pruszewski told!

Edward Pruszewski, 25, walked Inside, police found Mrs. calmly to the home of his parenta Pruszewski’s body. The children to call police after murdering were still asleep. : CARNIVAL=By DICK TURNER

cal history as well as the - al scene are his memberships in such organizations as the Indiana Society of Pioneers, the Indiana

American

Association and the American Association of State

Legion Post 96 Sets Picnic, Installation

Big Eagle Post 96, American Legion, will hold its annual pic-

of officers

Thursday at the home of Mr, and

of the 11th ‘district, and Paul past commander of the 11th district, will be ts, Robert y commander; Nelson Roetter, first vice commander; John Barber,

vens

1 Jack Marion

complete |g ephenson, ‘finance officer; Robtert. Blue, sergeant-at-arms; DonOnce he has collected his ma- ald Jackson, chaplain, and Gene terials, the doctor doesn't believe Coffey, service officer. he has much to worry about. bn will just take lots of work, then,” PLAN LUNCHEON THURSDAY

Z Fidelity Review, Woman's Bene-~ What does worry him is where|fit Association, will have a covto find maps and pictures of this ered dish luncheon Thursday noon history.|at the home of Mrs. Louise WilOnly rare hand-drawn maps andilard, 2435 Broadway. illustrations are available, for the| = eee period antedates the invention of | SHIPLEY FAMILY TO MEET The 44th annual reunion of the | Most of the actual writing will| Shipley family will be held Sun-| be done either at home or in the day at the Joshua Shipley home ' Indiana State Library. His great- near Maxwell. Lawrence M. Shipest bandicap will be the busy ley is president,

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SOPR 1948 BY NEA SERVIEE WE. T. M. ARC, U. §. PAT. OFF.

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ngerprints?’ Didn't th fat :

the May 8 in Rochester, | Minn., be > his duties there following a vacan, ;

taken active part in Parent-Tesch~ er and other community

instrumen of the

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