Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1948 — Page 11
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» £ 3 i. “It is rather preity, isn’t if>" R. Kirby Whyte, i Indiana National Bank advertising man, caught = Sis apirit of my remarks. low whisties and. bulg- { ing orbs. £ Assistant Cashier Harry H. Wintrode, who 18 i in charge of the “pretty room.” observed ys si- # lently. He didn't find anything too exciting about . the room where for the past eight years he. spent + alot of his working time. 2 ; paper as far as I'm’conit painstaking work to make it all come out even at the end of the day.”
~ Here's $60,000 . . . Just Like That : BUNDLES OF PAPERS. But what humiiles. 2 Tor stages, Mr. Wintrode picked up a tiny Stack which would go into a billfold without undue stress or strain and said, “Here's $60,000 in $1000. bills.” Just like that. “You want fo see an money?” asked Mr. Wintrode. You sor. Tatncd Io be Soowh pics ‘of money before anything else. I was moneyhungry from the time Mr. Whyte got the OK to take me down to the Indiana National's vault.
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It was a rather simple matter to get down « 4 to several guards along.the way and we proceeded © unmolested. A call to Mr. Wintrode opened the _ fon bars and we were in. Simple. § I told the keeper of the money bags that 1 + had enough for a while. “Let my blood § 8 down a couple hundred points before you give me
another charge.”
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~~ JUST IN CASE—Harry Wintrode, assistant Fashier at Indiana National, closes the 38-ton or on the "green room." To him, gresnbacks Are just so much paper.
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“There's 38 of battleship onze 3 ube of baitieth
“They're sorting dirty, filthy, damaged money.” | t do you do with the real filthy:
Yike! “ tuff you don’t want anymore?”
No samples. No nuthin’. Every day a couple
aundred thousand filthy lueres
packed and checked and then sent to the Federal National receives the same amount in crisp new lettuce. ers, I noticed, paid as much aty. money as they would new I didn’t see one greenback fall to the
Reserve in Chicago. Indiana The money so tention to the fi stuff. floor.
‘Make ¥t Clean Jack’
out of thevault Wale an saToO. man could really get a look at the
MseLin that
are’ counted,
“PM READY to see more money. Make it
clean jack.” might as well have it brand-new.
fingers .
As long as you're just looking you Mr. Wintrode opened a couple of drawers in; the vault and we looked. Lovely. up in paper, steel tape and big ol’ figures on each bundle. If the dough I touched had stuck to my|
writer hy more. Maybe a rock pile, but not a
typewriter.
Mr. Wintrode demonstrated ‘how perfectly balanced the vault doors were. He pushed 38° tons protection against the ever-present danger of floods:
‘With every swirling mass of high water which sweeps
with his little finger.
He also pointed out the |
solid leather floor in the vault. It's supposed to
be the hardest floor you can have,
is placed upright and pounded together.
steer in that floor. “Wouldn't it be fun to this money?” Mr, Wintrode's reaction?
“Bah!”
The leather A lot of |
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All bundled,
TO THE EAST— Upstream on the Ohio River from Aurora. the flat plains spread an inviting welcome for devastating floods
which almost yearly swirl flood wall ‘for the town is
AURORA, Ind, Aug. 1
» well, T wouldn't be punching & type- along the mud flats is the orphan of the Ohio.
into the town. The "if and
a debatable topic.
High Water Threat Forces Town ; To Lock Up, Seek Safer Ground
1—This valley town of 5500 Residents
& contend it is the only town of comparable size from Cin-
\cinnati to Evansville that has
{along the serpent-like course of the Ohio, the town packs
sit here and count all] up lock, stock and barrel and
moves to high ground. Store by store, business drowns
“Let me out so I can get the dollar signs out|out. Besides damage to property,
of my eyes.”
By Robert C. Ruark ro
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no sales can be rung up on cash
| registers while the town floun-
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f = AT SHA. Aug. 11—I had always known that : dilbmarines were a bit cramiped for elbow room— 1 that they had no swimming pools and softball grounds inside—but I was unprepared for the USS Tusk’s economy of space. As far as I can make out, submarines first were created for a ~ ¥#es of men no more than foyr feet high. - . I have bumped my head at least once, I believe, on every knob, beit, doorway, pipe, valve, handle and kindred iron outcropping on this seagoing cigar, and the old shins are raw clean up to the knee from tripping over the high sills of the water-tight doors. Being 4d bit broad in the beam, I also get stuck in the circular hatches over the ladders. Yet the Tusk's crew is inordinately large, physically, “comparing roughly to the first team of a professional football squad. They fit themsélves together like cigarets into a box, sleeping a foot apart. eating like a precision dance team, working in each other's pockets. The" captain's bridge, on this streamlined model, is about the size of the pilot's bridge in an airplane, and four people fill it.
No Radar in Ice Box
"1 SUPPOSE the modern babies cost upwards of $10 million, and most of it is intricate machinery. There are miles of pipes and conduits in Tusk's 308 foot innards; acres of buttons, knobs, handles, switches, dials, levers. She'll carry 24 torpedoes, and she's got radar in everything but the icebox. You have always heard of the extremely high morale of the submarime crews, and it is not entirely due to the 50 per eent extra base pay and tlie extra food allowance. Sardined together, with no space for recreation or seclusion these guys get along for a simple reason: Everybody owns a vital piece of the ship. - Everybody's got a primary job, a secondary job, a tertiary joh, and all those jobs are twined around the common chore of getting this 2000 tons of iron back to port. The men are carefully screeried for intelligence and temperament, and a misfit is speedily plucked from the ba'rrel.
Nary a Ruffle
is’ the’ head personnel man, the authority in his
One sour apple can jeopardize the ship's safety or! conceivably destroy her. They have a qualification test on our submarines. It means simply that every hand aboard, from messboy to torpedoman, must demonstrate his proficiency in standing every type of watch. He must do this within nine months, or be transferred out of the service. A steward, for instance, might not be able to stand an engineer’s trick perfectly, but he can make a valiant stab at it if the situation demands. The chiéf of the boat—in this ‘case, Chief Torpédoman Ernest Costa—of Palmer, Mass.—must be born a genius and improve himself daily. He
field, the chief trouble shooter and the supposed peer of all the men in all the surrounding kills. He is given near complete authority, and is treated as an officer.
There Is No ‘Chicken’ on Sub
THE GAP between officer and man is almost non-existent. There is a spontaneous respect, based on mutual proficiency and pride, which seldom needs to be enforced by rank. They eat the same food, prepared by the same galley, and their duties interlock in importance. The act of diving or surfacing a submarine is such an intricate correlation of effort that it gives a weird effect of a scientist's hell, with the machines operating the men. If a perfect democratic state can be said to exist; it y-exists on a sub. There afe Negroes, Italians, Jews, Catholics, Protestants living and working at close quarters on the Tusk
{lose track of what floods caused
Home owners seek refuge friends, and the Red Cross in to Jed smergency aid. »
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MORE AND MORE often this idismal scene is being repeated. {Property owners are beginning to
what marks on what buildings. Most everyone, however, has a little slip of papér on which are
Mayor Booher said. ent conditions there is no inducement for anyone to modernize or
neither natural nor man-made
under present assessment rates: ‘Some, though, are quick to say a wall immediately would raise the property value in all areas and do so greatly in those portions afflicted with virtually every ood. ;
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The latest word to reach Lance Booher, mayor, is that another party of federal men soon will conduct a new survey. Most
will be filed in a forgotten folder. The : thinking on flood protec.
tion is mixed.
“We need it and must have it," “Under pres-
written the heights of flood expand. waters from the time such rec-| “This is a JErosperots little ords were made in the area, Sonn, bu but would want to set. With each flood there is in-ltle was not & de
creased interest in the plight of Aurorans. The interest shbsides in roportion to the receeding flood water. . Most of the people have come to take this hot and cold interest much like they do the coming and going of floods and death and
te ontrol of the river, however, is a federal government project. Several years ago a survey was made to determine if a flood wall was practicable. The project died. The advisability of constructing a wall is based on its cost compared with the value of the property it is to protect. » r - CITIZENS here admit that the construction cost would be greater than the value of the property
orp plece of land for homes or
industry available in the city
that was out of reach of the 1037 an flood.”
” » ” FOR proper protection, Aurora needs a mile-long flood wall along the Ohio. The cost of its construction alone probably would not be prohibitive. Hogan Creek, however, cuts the town in half as it flows to the giant Ohio. The creek itself is a menace which becomes even more destructive when floods race along the huge waterway. To be secure, Aurora also needs a half-mile flood wall on either side of Hogan Creek. This would skyrocket construction costs. Wilfred Ullrich, prominent druggist, said: “I don’t see how we can unity
School Board OKs
welded by rugged necessity and shared hardship into a model of efficiency and tolerance. There is no “chicken” on the average wb] and sparse occasion for the enforcement of formal “discipline.” The discipline is ingrained in the importance of the men to each other. The ¢ivilian luxury of political, racial and ideological strife at the expense of performance is nonexistent for a very simple reason: If one man fouls up, nobody gets home.
By Frederick C. Othman
A Teacher Shifts
Promotes Two fo Principalships Two teachers were promoted to! grade school principals and two, others were shifted by the City; School Board last night. Mrs. Kathryn 8. Ervin, English teacher at School 26 several years, was appointed principal of School 55 and Mrs. Addarena Bridgewater, assistant principal
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11—Now we've got a man with a problem, name of Thomas, J. Parnell. He dare not get sore at alleged Communist spies. Or even at their long-winded lawyers. He's got to sit there and smile and for J. Parnell this isn’t easy. You may remember how Chairman Thomas of ~ the House un-American Activities Committee used to get so angry at some of the things he heard under sworn testimony that his face would turn red and then purple. He’d: bang his gavel and siout and the mystery was why he didn’t explode. - Last spring aboard a ship bound for Panama he collapsed and nearly died at sea. Now, after months in the hospital, he's back on the job, minus 20 pounds around the middle. He never looked fitter, nor felt better. = After a torrid session in which a couple of mystery witnesses refused to admit anything but their names, the chairman said he was on the spot. ' ¥ The doc has prescribed for him a regimen of peace and calm. Let him lose his temper just once in the good old way and it's back to the hospital for Rep. Thomas. |
Exercised Strong Will Power
HIS PHYSICIAN will be delighted to learn that the terrible-tempered gentleman from New Jersey exercised super-human will-power.’ Neither Alexander Koral nor Victor Perlo, alteged operatives of the Soviet secret police, managed to ruffle Chairman Thomas’ poise with their fefrain: » “On advice of counsel I stand on my rights under the fifth amendment to the Constitution and refuse to answer the guestion on. the Esounds that it- might tend to incriminate or degrade me . They both looked at the plump Miss Elizabeth T. Bentley, the reformed spy who is their accuser, and wouldn't say whether they did, or didn't know Her. To question after question, they replied, “1
Rep. Thomas regarded them peiguly: he didn't even blow up when Koral's lawyer managed to
get on the wrong flying machine in New York
and landed in Boston instead of Washington. |
He showed up later with apologies and a desire!
at School 80, was named princi-| ‘pal of School 8. | No Action Taken i
{ferred from School 57 to School! 62 and Miss Wallace Montague
to do considerable talking. “Please,” pleaded Rep. Rom School 80 to School 57. |
Thomas, “please be quiet.”
And that brings us to the Messrs. Koral, an engineer for the New York City school board, and!
The board took no action in connection with the appoint{ment of a successor to E. H.|
Perio, an economist for Henry Wallace's new Pro-| Kemper McComb, who retired as
gressive Party. : The evidence indicated that the small grayhaired Koral had so many doctor's bills he took! a job with the Commies as a courier.
Ev Committee investigators said he met the spies
in a New York seafood restaurant, placed their stolen documents in a candy box, and delivered) same to a Soviet agent known only as Frank.
Glares Through Thick Glasses
KORAL GLARED at Chairman Thomas!
through his unusually thick eyeglass lenses, which sparkled in the lights from 11 movie cameras, and as if by rote, answered vary question, “on the advice of counsel, I refuse . Perlo, a long-time federal employes in assorted war cfes, was named as the head of a Communist cell in 3 ashington, digging out top secrets from the federal files In addition to refusing to say yes, or no, to; any question, he wanted to read a statement. It! contained the sentence: “I vigorously deny the. charges which have been leveled against me.” When Rep. Thomas and Co. pointed out to him that this sentence might lead to a perjury charge, It I Dersisted In Tefusing to elaborate on i, he; scratched it out of his statement. Perlo said he was. 368 years old; he looked much! older. He twitched Shen he talked, but all he sald, was “I refuse . Rep. Thomas, in any event, had a good workout with his temper. Never lost it once. If he does as well in the days to come, he should last indefinitely as our number one spy hunter, 7 (Copyright, 4048. by United Peature Syndicate, Ine.)
{ principal of Manual Training {High School, { Mrs. Anne Morgan, physical jeducation consultant, was ad-
anced to assistant director of the physical education depart-| ment and Steve A. Geisler was named to succeed Mrs. Morgan: Accept Resignation The board accepted the resignation of Alonzo D, Edison, music teacher at Technical High { School, who will become director of a private music school in New Orleans, La. The resignation of Bayne D. Freeman, reclassification director at Technical High School, also was accepted by the board. Mr. Freeman has taken a position joi the State Farm Insurance
Gary City Workers Out on Wage Strike
{ GARY, Ind. Aug. 11 (UP)— | Mayor Gene Swartz warned Gary citizens against a possible health i menace today as street, sewer! (and garbage department work(ers stayed struck for higher pay.| | One hundred fifty workers, members of the General Drivers |
Union (AFL), left their jobs an |
terday when the City Council announced that its 1949 budget gave them only a 9-cent pay hike.
people here feel that the results
when'' "of a small
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IT'S DRY TODAY—This is Second &, i in Autora. North, on this business artery the river will inch during flood time. One afte another stores close and nextidoor neighbors hope the crest has pas: d dollar sales lost Hheoush, Fong € cannot be estimated
the cost of an
provide protection but doesn't want the river hidden from view. “There's something about the Ohio that gets In Rg About he
Accompanies Air Section Commander
On Gunnery Observation Mission
By JACK THOMPSON, Times Staff Writer CAMP ATTERBURY, Aug. 11-—A liaison plahe bounced across
the air strip, picking up speed as
it went. Near the edge of the field
it rose into the air, the 85-horsepower engine popped and sputtered
as if in protest.
“You're a pretty big guy to be riding in one of these little con-
traptions, In the front seat I shifted
shouted Maj. Robert Christy from the back seat.
around uncomfortably in an effort (Section, and I were on our way to
to find a place for my long legs.|the range to conduct artillery fire “Guess I am,” I agreed, admitting {from the air,
that some drug store scales i {Columbus registered 212 pounds the other night,
Maj. Christy, 4832 E. 10th st.
n| The flight path of our plane
{took us over the center of Atter{bury where 5000 men and officers
Mrs. Mildred B, Orr was trans-| Omander of the 38th Division Alr| are attending the fiirst post-war
CARNIVAL—By DICK TURNER
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‘TO THE WEST -— Downstream the picture is much the same. Aurora lies unprotected, easy prey for the rampaging river, Only a portion of the town lies high enough on surrounding hills to be safe from onslaughts sure to come.
many empty chapels scatthea about the reservation. Wonders About Landing I craned about to where I could see the air field we had just left. It was an unpretentious plot of weed-covered ground just south of the building area and aroused the question in my mind whether
we could get back into it upon|.om
completion of our gunnery mission.
I couldn't make out the identity of any of the tiny BEurth SANUS Shout on De
its makeshift operations i, at I knew that ay had to be some of the following members-of the air section: Aircraft Mechanics—T-3 Ralph W. Neal, 417 8. 8t.; T-3 Merle Denney, R. R: 15, Box
870; T-8gt. Eugene Corbin, 7-3
{Jaskson, al Juil-time men living a Liaison
Thomas C. Lovan and T-3 Ora E.| Harrison. Pllots—1st Lt. Walter
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