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“MEN WORKING.” How many times have you seen toe. Words

~yeAr an opening in the “street and wondered if

anyone were working? Couldn't the men be playing poker as well as producing sweat dn the brow? Possible, you know, in this day and age. And that's the possibility that made me tarry on the corner of New York and Meridian Sts. All the props for a good poker game were there; nicesized manhole, red guard rail, air pump with hose leading into the opening, “Men Working” sign, plenty of red flags and a truck parked directly in front of the opening. - 1 opened the conversation with a direct question: “What you guys doing down there?” The two men below the street level looked at each other, exchanged muffled comments before the younger man started to say “Who the . . .” and stopped. The older man replied, “Working.” In a few hundred well-chosen words I explained why I was sticking my nose into a hole in the street, being careful not to bring up the subject of poker. Splicer of telephone wires Benton (Mo) Lynch and helper Don Elliott seemed to have a lot of work on their minds as well as on their hands. Indiana Bell Telephone could be proud of those two, “Ts there room for one more down there?” There wasn't, Mo told Don to check something or other.in the truck. That eviction notice solved the housing problem for me.

Looks Like Engine Room

GETTING INTO the hole in the street could be compared to boarding a submarine except that there wasn't any ladder. Once inside, the atmosphere and scenery could be compared to an engine room of a Navy ship except for the lack of deafening noise. The cramped quarters, myriads of pipes and heat were there.

"WORKING, BUDDY?"—And how, could be the answer when you're talking to a couple of wire splicers like {left to right) Benton (Mo)

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Getting to the crux of the business right away, res -. - A ;

T should say that I stumbled into one of the big- ‘SECOND SECTION . MON DAY, OCTOBER 18, 1048 —3 PAGE Ln

gest cable jobs in the country. In turn, one of the - cee teppei toenstn Esso. —— me 5 : were a part of the job that called for things such . as 63,884 feet of cable, splicing 7373 pairs of wires, "VV I ES transferring 8522 Cherry telephone umbers, switch-! i

biggest splicing jobs in the country. Mo and Don ing 2006 Belmont numbers and doing the hocus-!

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pocus with a .ew thousand Market numbers, (Now why couldn't they have been playing poker?)

. Mo showed me one of the lead cables which ts measure ‘just under three inches and have 3030, y wires inside’ Then he showed me a couple more AFT 4 4

that were stripped of their lead covering. He had a toial of 9090 wires staring him in the face, \ “What -vould happen if you got them =F 3 up?” I asked, not giving a thought to the effect it might have on a man responsible for making the ring go into one wire, chasing around half of Indianapolis on another, busting into a station *

man of the house 10 minutes after he hit the sack.

“Don’t ask things like that,” Mo said with a glint in his eye. “Don’t even think a thing like that,” Mo added with the same glint in his eye. “Don't even dream of getting trunk wires messed up.” Mo whispered, “T won't, never ever, ever never, Mo," IT won't, either, Mo pointed out several thousand wires and explained all he wa: doing was “changing the trunk lines from Cherry out of one cable (1515 pairs of wires) to another, Market (1515 pairs of wires), and in turn taking the ones I'm taking out of § Cherry, I'm putting into Irvington.”

Unadulterated Amazement

HF. TOOK a blueprint he had handy. after he saw. the look of pure, unadulterated amazement come over my face, and showed me in blue and white what he was doing. He proved what he was telling me, so to speak. “How long does it take a man to learn this splicing business?"

Mo said five years. (Later I checked with Don Yr. zi . vgs ’ — r to \ + and he said five years. Much later I checked with FEELS MUCH BETTER Thanks to the effor s of the Visiting

\ . | ‘eo 1 ar In. * Fred Prout, division. construction superintendent, Nurses, this young fellow now is on the ' end. The Visiting: Nurse and he said five years. No kidding, I thought it Association is a member agency of the Indianapolis Community Fund whose fund campaign opens next Monday. Registered nurses, such

TEA TIME TOTS—The Day Nursery is another of the Fund's 47 Red Feather Services. Here youngsters can spend part of their day if they must be separated from their parents for ti fs The

T must have spent: two hours on Don's tool- as those pictured, teach families how to care for their sick between goal for this year's drive, which will close Nov. is $1,504,772, hox watching Mo splice wires. There were red co - 3 : wires. green wires, white wires—well, 9090 wires. visits, ‘ At the Nursery the children learn to work and on) he

That was only ‘in ‘the cable that was being op-. erated-on. T was afraid to askqfor statistics on the other 50 pipes that criss-crossed through the dungeon. :fter climbing into the open, I asked Don {if he knew where the green wire, No. 92 on the tag board, went to. Don thought for a minute and answered, “Irvington.” Wonderful. Especially when I took a chance and made up the-green wire to stump him. You can tell I learned something. With a memory like splicers have, it would be sheer foolishness to start playing poker with them. Close call.

. » “9 re azn , " * viction Notice HAVANA, Oct. 18—-8ince 1 was a fuzz-cheeked vouth the last time we switched a political party in the United States, T figured maybe some research on the inauguration of new regimes might come in handy. There is, T am told. a minute chance that Mr. Truman may not be re-elected

next month. In this selfless spirit of journalistic —hard-serabbling:<1-have, heen observing the festivities as the new Presidente of Cuba was crowned “or~ whatever-.it is-they do to presidentes. It has been quite an experience, and 1 hope that the Trumans. in case they are forced to vacate the White House, will profit hy it. For instance, ‘1 hope the old householders will nat exhibit the lamentable reluctance to leave that was shown hy the former President Ramon Grau San Martin and his sister-in-law, Paulina. When Mr. and Mrs. Dewey show up with the moving

..xans and the gilt edged chromo: of. Uncle Hosea.

the least the Trimans "¢4n" do is suerumb da fate and the choice of the people. ‘v

Didn't Want to Move.

THIS GRACEFUL condescension to the inevitable was not practiced by Paulina Alsina Viuda De Grau. She liked it, right there in the palace, and expressed a desire to remain. The fact that the brother-in-law, Dr. Grau, no longer held a legal right to the premises seemed to make no difference. , They stayed on right up to the deadline of the official inauguration ceremony, and gossips said strong logic had to be used to effect the exodus. Paulina .Alsina is a strong-minded lady. She has heen Mr. Grau's official first lady, unofficial adviser. and is known as the strong woman of fhe late regime. She did not write a Spanish “My Day.” but was known to evince a keen inter est in the financial state of the nation, especially

So great was her interest, that Sen. Eddy Chibas is going to ask for an audit of her personal fortune. Her brother-in-law, the esteemed Dr. Grau, has already submitted to such an audit, which amounts to a declaration of clear conscience.

, feet of air, there were boos as Paulina left the Bristol University, will be the

By Robert C. Ruark §

Since the Educafional Department's coffers are filled. with the products of a special excise tax on each bag of sugar produced, it has been a veritable treasure trove. A recent minister of education, Jose Aleman, is supposed to be Paulina’s political buddy, and Senor Aleman is not poor. He is not poor unless poor men indulge in yachts and Miami real estate. But I stray from Paulina's tenacious hold on the palace. The lady in whose honof the town’s newest three-decker fountain was named “Paulina's Washbasin” had been so happy Ti the patace- A 4 HE she was observed to weep as she left it, spang — wc he Sat of no rrr tn ahy Tor Prens ADULT SERVICE ~Flanner House ‘provides Teedsd training for dente” Carlos Prio Socarras, the new boy. And men and women in many fields. Designed principally for vocational - the night before Prio took over, she threw a big: |nstruction, such courses as gardening, farming; weaving, canning party for the visiting missions to the ‘inaugural. : i | that’ . ! sewing and health study are included. The. service is known as the

The presidente-elect was not present. A | ¥ Adult Education and Vocation Program.

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well Fool over. the world, Patt vg their support comes through generous contributions to the Community Fund. In Marion County, ‘the Scouts maintain five camps at which youths reap the benefits of health, recreation and instruction,

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Being Elected Isn't Everything

- YOU” SEE, the housing shortage in Havana is ’ acute and right.up-to the last-minute there were | a dS 0 p d p

mutterings which may have prevented the official

installation of the new predidente—a man who sds was the compromise candidate between Dr. Grau's Ml IS (ua nephew and the aforementioned former minister of ° | book-larning, Senor Aleman. Even during the hurricane there was a move afoot to unseat Prio—| and him elected these three months. There is more to being presidente in Cuba than the mere CRAWFORDSVILLE, Oct. 18—| fact of election. Some-.of them only lasted a day. The Wabash College debate squad This one was a rumor-filled fiesta. There were wi|| meet the combined British some who said that Paulina removed from the ynjversity squad here Nov. 18, palace a shell-shaped bathtub, of which she was rhe topic will be’ “Resolved: Ne fond. but this seems to be untrue. The That Modern Science Enjoys athtub was removed, all right, but the consensus i. Renefits Under Planned ix that another presidente’s wife removed it. Ec Lo a cconomy Gossip-crazy Cuba said that even the copper kitch- } enware and the hinges had been removed from the _Teginald Galer, Birmingham palace, Although all these rumors proved to have University, and Anthony J. Cox

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palace. British speakers. Their group is None of it makes much difference, though. touring the country, The education fund is still fat, sugar still sells Heads Society | and the new presidente’s brother is secretary of Mi. Galer was a leutenant the treasury. commander when he was discharged from the Royal Navy in

Cuckoo Busi UCKO Siness WASHINGTON, Oct. 18--Paul F. Hoffman, the Furopean Recovery boss, called in the .press tn talk about German reparations. It was heavy going, 1 can tell you, until he got around to the big cuckoo clock controversy, That simplified everything. At least for me, it did. It turns out that the Allied big-wigs of all nationalities are in the midst of arguments, and arguments within arguments, 'bout how many German factories to dismantle, when to: ¢b it, and. what to do with the machinery when it is done. Some agree with Henry (the Morgue) Morgenthau that Germany oughtn't to be left any factofies at ‘all. Others say leave..a -few. chimneys smoking., Still others insist that Germany needs an industrial Ne, if life is to be normal all over Europe, . The Russian situation doesn’t help. Neither does assorted selfishnesses on the part of as-

sorted nations. So there was Mr. Hoffman trying “to talk ‘gbout all this language diplomatic, when

he remarked in passing:

“éBne of The BIE GUERTIONE GVEr HEKE CONCeFHN

A _cuckoo clock factory. It is about to be dis- -

mantled and there's i big fuss about it: Me I'm in favor of letting 'em make cuckoo clocks.”

And Durned If He Knew

I WONDERED what kind of mentality wanted to make the Germans get out of the cuckoo clock business and Mr. Hoffman said, durned if he knew, Later in the day on the other side of the city 1 got in touch with an official who'd just returned from Germany and asked him if he knew anything about the cuckoo clock crisis. Did he! He could talk about nothing else. - He happens to be a Republican and his ideas on Germany are exactly opposite to those of Morgenthau and Co. and maybe we'd better keep this in mind. In any event, here's his verslon of the cuckoo clock situation, For hundreds of years the Germans have heen making cuckoo clocks, chime clocks, and fancy wrist watches in tiny shopa centered in villages of the Black Forest. One of their current poate

~elderly..apparatus. that Clanks.... wore were. third, Twenty-one quartets mond A. Dart of the University covered. and for a considerable Now the British clock industry wants him to were entered. ee 4 ra pa of the Witwatersrand... obanness. time..after. that, it was. thought ., * Shell oa willy sf Muncie's Temple-Aires took top ad .a goo me he rg. South Africa. He presents that they were apes with some expected 40.8 Lon AAA I EF ii b marked to wortied members of his findings in detail for the first an unnamed baseball club a . War, his plant easily could be converted to the Honors in the junior division, NS FRET ; hie 9 3 g | Setall sor the pret human characters, rather than on WPHAMES DASCCOC Cohen Waking OL adtonution saps for Somibs. His physician, Dr. Willlam|,merican Journal of Physical a ghiy = primitive “part, | hed them: in ANSUSL-...-imoi

me = 1946. He is chairman of the

Debate Conservati Society By Frederick C. Othman a university, mon ti

Mr. Cox, chairman of the Law Faculty Society -at Bristol, war specialties is an alarm lock that plays jazz Served with the Royal Marines tunes. from 1942 to 1946.

ist of fun Wanash Stadente REACTIVATION PLANNED- —This was a familiar scene at the Union Station during the war. Now the, uso” The French already have taken some of their !I#t of five Wabash students pre- hat.b Id + Red Feather S machinery; the British seem to want to cut PATINg for the match. The five Nas;been ad ed to the Red Feather Services and a canteen will be opened at the station. The activity was « down the output another 50 per cent. At least AT® Gene Potts, Muncier Porter fraught about by the ‘reopening oft Camp Atterbury and Ft. Harrison. the British watch and clock industry does. Draper. Gan, Bil Zipp. IRAN, ne ar olumbus n The villages of Schwamberg and Schwerin- Wally McGill, Frankfort.

and S ’ enator Recovers T I d of Pre-H inion Tava other mumrint amide, from mo. ALY MeGH, Franictort, © races Found of Pre-Human Pitcher to Give Up chanical cuckoos and allied mechanisms; their e Wabash team wi efenc : the negative side of te apate [TOM Memory Loss In Check Case entire populations are faced with going on relief ISLIP. N. Y. Oc (UP m 0 a i e rica if they lose any more machinery. Or so said my , . Ron Robert F a a X HARTVILLE, Mo, Oct, 18 ‘AM: tii : LUN. X. ene UP) Morton Cooper, former investigator. Minor Chords Win 71-year-old author of the wagner By Science Servis , le it ope star, was “Feeling is so hitter” he xaid. “that the Labor Relations Act, was resting PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 18 ~Africa once had a pre-human race me Plu ne today’ 10 French have 0 go around thee towns caring QUAIHEE COMFESE 11 mi boy's summer home today 3 PETES or near-pEymies who lived In caves knew the ure of XIECed Io srrender, indy 1 ommy uns. . ; . , s als as clubs in hunting and ! f : : 5 , LOGANSPORT, Oct. 18 (UP) A neiparaTily Jowing me mem fighting. Their average weight was probably under one hundred '8 Wanted on a charge of passing Woes of an Unhappy Man The > Mitre Horde) oe. Torre. sunt {HEL Het Offa Te=state-police. pounds. Yet they had brains as big as modern gorillas weighing DR CIRCAR © i Baker sald he aute yesterday won first place “four or five times: that figure. hy 3 HE WENT on to tell about an interview he'd in the annual barbershop quartet * ra This description of a ‘'new,” Same general group fo which the had pieked--up Cooper. last mgt. ed had with one Victor Luschka, head of Junghans, contest of the Indiana-Kentucky The Senator was missed by his though long-extinct race of hu- name Australopithecus was given at his" Norwood home and th : the biggest wateh factory in Germany. Herr district. Samily late Saturday and a poiice (or near-human) beings some twenty-five years ago. The Cooper admitted cashing 30 ih Luschka is an unhappy man. His factory is a The Fire. Siders of Louisville, ig Vay haga wi p. mn. sums up three years’ work by long word translates into Eng- worthless chocks in Bt uis: urn ip five hours later Ini, holarly = pick-and-shovel © mien lish as “Southern Ape,” because

; f when mess, because. the French. have. taken away all Ky. placed second and the Var- one:f hisdavorierestamtanis. in Cooper was released St. ‘under the: direction: of. Prof. Ray-:when the first fossils were dis.

cepted h his most modern machines. They left only the sity Four of Purdue University New York's German Yorkville oh at a hig shit

Herr Luschka throws up his hands. And says, Guard fo Organize Carhardt, examined him after he. , y . nthropology,. published here, every find of Australopithecus > w t 1b d t the most valuable pitcher in wo what? If Germany isn’t allowed to make any was returned home and repor ed| Crucial find in establishing the that has been made since "has|Nationa: League fn 1942, when that-—-then who in his right senses would make . Indiana State Adjutant Howard ing temporary amnesia. men was a broken piece of skull, : th the di dbtonators in his clock factory? Maxwell said today two new in- representing a considerable sec- join Ihe apes and closer 10 hu FY Snpanies: would. : New Englanders Ac of his statements, is ori Herr Lushka's side. The 82" n Hartford City to com- : |eranium. battle is a hot one, insofar as it concerns clocks.! ply with an expansion order Dies in New York In the same cave were many fragment appears to quite dis- Southern Labor And, 1 juran bug suckoe Sass ale 3 Bureau in Washington. Royal Cortissoz, art critic for the solidified debris, together with types hitherto known, Prof, Dart the first time, New H perfect examp «the reparations scheme In| Maxwell said two other units New York Herald-Tribune;’ died some bones that were algo considers it to represent a dis- apple growers are Farm Tabor 1m One government, or another, ‘would tear down Indiana before the .end of the here yesterday. He was 79. use of fire. Baboon skulls, always ingly given it a new name: Aus- harvesting their crop. ‘every factory in Germany before it. was through./yeay, He Fald a tank battalion. One of the country's most dis- broken as hy a heavy blow, he tralopithecus Prometheus. The Albert Page of the state’ believe that if this happens Germany will be left Indiana with headquarters “at:hegan his work with the New dwellers were meat-eaters and the hero of ancient Greek myth- ers would, ukual, get “fi Inclined to agree with them. ——aireraft-—outfit would be located prenticeship in architecture. He animals are battered, as if used usé of fire, and {= a reference tn are being ma If the Germans don't get tn keep their cuckoo in the northern part of the had heen on leave of absence for clubs the traces of fire found in the labor supply |

The big right hander was vol: Two New Companies i im in “fi h ft bombs—and the Allies are making certain of him in “fine shape after suffer- identity of this race of little near- tended to push him farther away was with the St. Louis Gard fantry companies would be or- «Tri HH ti f the back portion of the Mr. Hoffman, it would seem from the context Herald-Tribune Critic on of the Pp Because the newly found skull received from the National Guard] NEW YORK, Oct. 18 (UP) <-|bits of charcoal embedded in the tinct from the Australopithecus CONCORD, N. H. OP practice. also would be organized inf a heart ailment at his home charred—strong evidence of the tinct species, and he has accord-|gouthern migrant farm labor in Other influential folks, such as Hoffman and Co, would he formed in southern tinguished art critics, Cortissoz takes as evidence that the cave- second or specific name is that of ploynient service said local in the international bread line indefinitely. I'm Seymour, . and - that an anti- York Tribune in 1891 after an ap- hunters, Ends of long bones of ology who fitst taught men the chance." but ha clocks, it'll probably cost us plenty. | state. itrom the paper since 1944, The new find belongs in theicave, + /hands.