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WE ALL KNOW (if we think about it and look

in thé World Almanac) that many of our impor.

tant discoveries and advancements were accidents. Am I right? .

Now, we also knw that not many of us know

exactly (with or without the Almanac) how many countless thousands of little discoveries have been made that never get reported. It's a shame, too. Lo Take the discovery I made last night. It's a good example of a non-scientific thing that ordinarily wouldn't cause a ripple among the dealers of laboratory wonders, It happened in my closet, which is probably one of the reasons it would be disqualified as a laboratory wonder. Frankly, I don’t care and you won't either when I tell, you how you can make a similar discovery in your own closet. Understand, the results will be differ-

ent in each case, and that, I do believe, is. one of the better features of this discovery.

More Than Meets the Eye

WELL, SIR, I was looking with horror at my clothes hanger full of neckties when the thought struck me full across the kisser.’ Reeling, I grasped the edge of tha bed while the idea assumed its rightful sensational proportions. “A lump came to my throat.

The mass of neckwear wasn't something to abhor while I continued wearing the new tie that was purchased a month ago. No indeed. There was more on that hanger. than met the eye. Lucky for me the song that was being played on the: radio was “Twelfth Street Rag” (Peewee Hunt) instead of “Among My Souvenirs.” Had the latter been playing, I'm sure the lump in my throat would have choked me, My hand ‘touched a little yellow-white-green number that was worn some 10 years ago when I tried to impress a gay young thing on a heavy date. Her name escapes me at the moment but her charm and loveliness and the fact that I smashed the right front fender on the family jalopy still is. vivid. Those were the days. And all that looking at an old necktie. Aren't memories wonderful? There in the quiet of my lonely quarters, several pertinent questions came up for consideration. What was that girl's name? How could I have worn a tie like that® Me; ‘ar sport with ‘exquisite: taste for neckwear. Why hadn't it been thrown away a long time ago? Why not now? With the last question answered most adequately, my attention turned again to the hanger, the fountainhead, so to speale, of a wonderful past. Eager fingers sought.out an old faithful (you could wear it with anything) that probably had 728 consecutive days of service. That's an estimate, you understand, merely used at this point to emphasize what a versatile and practical bit of yard goods that $1 foulard happened to be. Man, if that tie could only talk, It could tell stories I don't even know or remember, I tugged at the frayed edges, straightened as best I could the wrinkled bit of material that's always to be found in the center of a floral creation; and laid it to rest in the wastepaper basket.

There have been many pieces of neckwear in my.

life gince “old faithful's” retirement, but never one that came anywhere near in value, dependability or durability. Among the many Christmas presents, birthday presents, which were as good as the day they were

By Ed Sovola| ~

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SECOND SECTION “WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20,

Democrat Urges Lower Tariffs, us Aid for Schools and Housing

Because of the interest in Hoosler Congressional races, The Times invited the candidates for Congress from Indiana's 11th District to summarize the positions they take on Important Issues, Yesterday George 1. Denny, Republican, stated his position, Democrat Andrew Jacobs outlines his stand today,

By ANDREW JACOBS, Democratic Candidate for Congress 1 A candidate (particularly legislative) who declines frankly to disclose his views is contemptuous of public interest. What he should decline is financial contributions, I have answered every questionnaire and declined every contribution and will so continue. .

A Congressman should exercise his franchise on legislation for general welfare; £2 Be! : . 'lit he does not know it. Federal . (never for political interests. aiq is necessary to level up na- , He should disassociate him- [tional literacy. = Federal aid to, 4 higher education has not resulted Oo self from every connection which, Federal domination. Nor will 9 & SSI *. |could possibly make the slightest y in elementary schools. More . : claim upon his time, loyalty or|education will preserve and exAMONG MY SOUVENIRS' — There's many judgement. I am so pledged. [tend our freedom, security and a lump in the throat, a tug at the heart sttings and a tear or two of happiness hanging on a tie rack in your closet. Take a look when your wife

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’ (prosperity. : Last year’s Republican State; The veteran fought when he

Legislature resolved, “Henceforth|souid have built his home. We {to tax and take care of ourselves,” applauded when he entered gov-

isn't-lookin | because our direct Federal aid islernment - built barracks. Now oking. less than our Federal tax. Natur- some sneer “socialism” at gov-

Sour Harvest

MIAMI, Oct. 20—One of Miami's flossier girls’

boarding schools had. ruléd the town off limits to its tender voung damsels for the duration of thé

American Legion's convention here, There were rumors of new techniques in hellraising, including. a special acid spray alleged to melt the clothes from female passers-by without damaging the basic material. Miami was holding its breath.

But it looks as if the gay old boys are begin-

ning to lose their zing. They've been. around, in force, for a couple of days, and have seemingly raised less cain than last week's clutter. .of letter carriers—who raised none at all. Y There have been a few drunks, -a few public crap games, some sporadic bell-ringing and noisemaking, and a few half-hearted passes at strolling fillies, but the combined activity has been less raucous than say a covey of undertakers out on the tiles. What happened to the Legionnaires is poetic. The body as a whole has begun to reap a sour harvest from past notoriety. Its convention chairman, Vincent A, Carroll, was pretty doleful yesterday over the prospects of a homeless Legion.

Something Less Than Eager

NEW YORK, Boston, Atlantic City—all were something less than eager to expose their citizens to another onslaught of fat old parties equipped with buzzing walking sticks and alcoholic energy. Then last night Philadelphia, which seems to love conventions, belatedly invited the Legion to meet there in 1949. That lifted the pall somewhat but not before quite a scare had been thrown into Legion officials at the prospects of having to beg for a convention site—or else start behaving nicer.

we ) i . ‘ally; 80 per cent of Federal ex- ernment low rental housing. The Werg examples of the. fy-by-night chokers, By Penditures are on public defense, veteran spent five of his best ¥ : vO : ) : $ . Indiapa. take years in war's. oblivion. Many that I mean the tie you buy on the spur of the Past and present \ ) y i p ; care of herself in the atomic age? still live a dreary existence in quences for days once and then sulter the conse. Are they really serious? Or are basements, alley garages, barns ! I counted six such first-and-last nighters. The they selling normaicy pie in mejand tr guid nnd pri st- -las 8. PY and reasnable rentals a the : colors and patterns are too horrible to describe ® We can escape the enormity of government should help them. by progressive reduct in these days of the bold look for men. That's. ic defense Ca eu only by estab-| The Taft-Hartley Act has tran-|International officer, refuses to] how bad they are. . [lishment of a UN authorized 10/2 oe art an. ome ig somiivean ..Bujardioss ot, Now iia _— i cre sr RR Br Ea (a religion. One and one-half of clean. the membership is or how “A Bartendeér's Necktie, Too ~~ =usdizienfoice its decisions, fits 28° pages-deals with the emer-|fiagrintly: the employer. violates ! “Hiv sha ymin } International commerée mustigency strike ; (example, coal).|the law, the local can’t prosecute GREAT SPASMS of laughter shook me when ne facilitated by progressive Te- Yet that is ‘what agitated the him. See how. handy a ComI spied a black botany wool number. It happened duction of tariff barriers. The general public to demand legisla- munist is fo an unfair, employer? to be a bartender's necktie at one time. It ceased reciprocal trade program (like tion, ~ President Truman's cour- And besides it sounds so patriotic. to be that just a few days before Christmas of ERE and the Asonsle he Cry |age in facing that issue incensed) But you ask: Why don't the last year. The bartender parted with his black] oo mins moth Congress onty be. Cp L: Lewis to castigate him. |rank and file throw out the Com-| S. Year. p publican 80th Congress only be-| ose praising Taft-Hartley as munist leaders? That's a fair beauty after being coaxed for three hours with cause even the Republican press near-religion assert that they question, Communism is dictaChristmas cheer. 1 remember when we parted, apprehensively rushed to the accept collective bargaining free- torship though all Iabor dictatorwe swore to wear black neckties for all occasions py drration of. a) plata Co AYE ho objection to theis hips are got Communist. The — A ’ | Our immigration o 8 | onging to -a union. /answer is the rank an e can’ since ‘we decided black was the prettiest color In|... 00. "jaws should not be de-|But many of them are insincere. throw out an entrenched dictator] the whole wide world. Purple ran a closessecond. I signed to appease bigotry as did| The anti-Communism provision without legal aid. yh may be wrong about purple, it may have been the 80th Congress.- A man who|of the law prevents a union from| I proposed legislation to the green. {claims any right he denies po? Jroseeniing an employer's unfair|{79th and 80th Congress prescribother lacks full comprehension of labor practice unless all interna-|ing election of ,union officers and i Anyhow, on you iow T had aboul thse hours what Americanism means. [tional and local officers pont ot quick remedies for frauduy 5 He pre y ; ne x A sre ay tie. Neglect to furnish any child|they aren't Communists. It does lent elections. The original TaftOrg ten 5 orn. every Sy Jui "gay the his birthright of knowledge ad-not prohibit a Communist from Hartley bill contained a provision wi Yue folection read like a hook With Ne versely affects the president of holding a union office. {requiring election ‘of union ofchapters mixed up. the Chamber of Commerce, even! Suppose a union, including an ficers. But it was removed before Take a look at your tie rack, soon. You have, — re - pe, Bs - a surprise waiting for you. There's more there yr ‘than meets the gravy. Rediscover the you tha a S emocrats used to be, I say, on your tie rack. : ¢ ax urime uur | By Robert C. Ruark ~~ ~~ | | Fairchild Attacks Most of the old-timers I've seen this year have Local Administration

. | been docilely window-shopping while firmly, Charges that the Democratic

mooged ta. their wives. You don't see. many young: city administration has not taken L.

sters around the streets; most of the fellows with the fore-and-aft caps are Chateau Thierry vintage, with Belleau Wood more conversationally conspicuous than Guam or Remagen..

advantage of its opportunity to

curb increasing crime here were made by Frank H. Fairchild,

.|questioned on sex offense charges

i It is possible that the thweat of future home. Republican candidate for prose-| lessness has held the boys in line; it is also pes- cutor, in a speech at a 13th ward sible that ‘they were on their good behavior pend- meeting last night. ing the departure of President Truman. | ;

4_."The Democratc administration | Antics Are No longer Cute | has complained that it could not!" ‘ . s a cope effectively with crime be-| THERE is still time to kick up the heels and cause the Tax Adjustment Board turn over the town, but my guess is that the old |4iq not provide for additional bed-busters and girl-ticklers aré gradually run- policemen,” Mr. Fairchild said. ning out of steam. “Let me point out that there They aren't as strong in the back or as frisky were 62 police vacancies existing in the feet as they used to was. And their antics When the administration Took| are no longer regarded as cute in the communi- °ffice and the Tax Adjustmeén ties they visit. Board allowed 25 more, making R7 v res ’ - With every other.home listing a couplé of vet- hale the Tpolice jos Row hel erans. from the second big war, a fat, boozy old cit administration has not filled goat. with a noise-maker and a battery-charged Th vacancies since it took walking-cane isn't the novelty he used to be. And office.” © he buys very little immunity from normal re- ’ straints these days. The same cut-up who used to be able to ter-| Mr. Fairchild pledged to =uprorize the streets and drop water pitchers out of |POrt passage of new laws to deal hotel windows this year is subject to g punch in | With sex . criminals who molest the snoot or a night in the clink, despite his dis- | Women and children tinguishing cap and a faintly clinging aroma of | “We need a law which will per-long-past heroism. mit a prosecuting attorney to Over-age warriors have become too numerous have a defendant examined menfor special consideration. The head-mistress of ally when arrested for his first Miss Whatever's schoo! for girls needn't have offense.” he said. ’ ! | Bodrd hurries to prepare a new air pollution ordinance. worried about the safety of her charges. Up to! “Why should we have to wait come —— this writing, the visiting fire-eaters have been until that defendant has comlittle woolly lambs. mitted murder before punishing Tabernacle Programs (him or treating him for mental The Tabernacle at 443 Blake

New Laws Urged {

FALL HAZE—This is Indianapolis as it looked at 8 a. m. today. Smoke combined with atmospheric conditions drew a dirty slanket over the downtown area. Meanwhile, the Air Pollution

| Biblical pictures Friday and Baturday nights at 8 p. m. The Rev.

Iron Mongery

‘WASHINGTON, Oct. 20—The S. S. Rena is loading today at Hamburg, Germany, with 9000 tons of rusty old iron mongery, including a few chopped-uip cannon, some smashed tanks, and a consignment of badly bent hairpins probably used by tie late A. Hitler's late girl friend. What this has to do with your new washing machine makes, I think, an interesting, but somewhat cockeyed story: This country needs more than anything else millions of tons of crap iron, if it is to have the steel to go into the automobiles and the other widgets now on the long-time waiting lists. Shot. up. Germany seems to have more scrap than anybody.. Every time one of our bombs dropped In Naziland, It added to the ‘stock: miu ‘

18 Million Tons in Germany INOW, THREE ‘years ater Wars eH, there's -

something like 18 million tons of smashed steel in piles all over Germahy. Why it hasn't ‘been brought over here sooner is what the committee of Rep. W. Kingsland Macy of New York is trying to find out. Some of our government big-wigs want ‘to get going on a new committee to look into this. Others hope to establish a new corporation to get the job done. ‘And that bring8 us to the good ship Rena, soon to sail for Baltimore with almost the first load of Germany's scrap iron. Denis’ W. Cronin, president of the Mohawk Iron & Steel Corp., of New York, had his troubles getting the job done, mostly because’ he couldp't find a stout-enough pair of scissors to cut our government's red tape. Mr. Cronin was a tall and serious-minded witness who almost moaned when he told about the agonizing - slowness, of our. federal. hotshots in trying to make up their minds. bir Nine months ago, he said, he started’ buying scrap iron in Germany, signing documents in sextuplet at every turn, Then he had to barnstorm

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wwe | illness? This type of defendant! IT. R. Murff, pastor, has returned should be confined in a state in- St. will present the Golden Echo, trom holding a series of services

| Quartet of Evansville, Ind., in : stitution for treatment and kept ’ . {in Battle Creek, Mich., and. will By Frederick C. Othman er. by court order until he is special numbers at meetings to-| preach Sunday morning and ! ’ | cured.” night through Saturday and night.

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| through Belgium and ‘France, buying up oxygen cutting apparatus to snip his iron down to size. Getting the machinery into Germany was another of his headaches with officialdom, which perhaps we'd better skip here.

.:|children, police said. ; R the man invited her inside to

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ANDREW JACOBS "International commerce must be facilitated

ion of tariff barriers."

passage. The law was simply not designed to aid the worker in any respect, .. kL. have fought dictatorship in unions professionally, with and without fees, even using my own funds when the needy were so oppressed. On the subject of taxes the only big question is whether we are paying more of them than is necessary. High taxes are .inflationary the same as in every other compensated activity. In regard to Communism, of course, I am against it the same as everybody else. The Republi. cans certainly don’t have a copyright on patriotism. In connection with the issue of socialized medicine, I am in favor of public hospitals, public health services but not public employ-

Father of. Girl, 5, Makes Complaint

“wait for the other children.”

committed indecent acts. She be‘lcame frightened.

- There, 1 ’ ’ fa fa aime toa on” ws mp wai To Post Office

and her father called police. : Vagrancy Charge. The man is being held on a

vagrancy charge for investigation, .

reported yesterday. James Dunz, 39, 552-Drover St. told police he observed a man trying to entice children into his car in the 4000 block E. Washington Bt. yesterday. After wit. nessing several attempts, Mr, Dunz said, he strode up to the car and tried to grab the molest-

jer, but the man sped away. He

reported the car's license plate was partially obscured. A maid in an apartment building in the 2400 block of N. Meridfan St. said she discovered a teen-age youth in the basement yesterday. When she ordered him to leave, he exposed himself, then fled, she told police. Peeping Tom A peeping Tom in ‘the 2300 block of Broadway, fled after persons in the house saw him at a window. Police said he had been seen around the neighborhood and had followed women home. A 14-year-old boy reported a man tried to get him into his car at 14th and Belle Vieu Sts. at 1p. m. A woman also reported that a man followed her as she left,work at 1400 Madison Ave. and tried

Next he hired a German contractor to do the cutting down job, but the latter's laborers weren't getting enough to eat, They were too weak to handle the ironware; Mr. Cronin had to fatten them up. This meant giving them an extra meal every day. Getting permission for that from the agencies involved still makes him shudder, The workers had no shoes, no leather gloves, no wool clothes. Mr, Cronin scrounged these from | the Army's surplus supplies; then he had to buy tractors; erares,.and. trucks to. -haul.-the. scraps, More requisitions, arguments and name-signing. | He got his old iron to Hamburg, which happens to be in the British zone. The Britons said they were sorry but the port was too busy for him, 16" MBHOPITize 4 dock with ‘his scrap business: Gets ing them to change their minds took some more] fantastic doings, but after nine months of work-| ing, worrying and arguing with everybody in Ger-| many, Mr. Cronin was ready to go. .

Getting a Ship Was Easy Matter

ALL HE needed was a boat. Here he sighed in relief. This" was easy. There were plenty of ships, whose skippers were delighted to haul his scrap to the U., 8, and here pick up cargoes of! coal destined for Germany. S80 the Rena is loading now. Mr. Cronin has, other ships about to take on more cargoes. Other

scrap dealers are working as hard and with luck they hope to bring over about 2 million tons in the next 12.months,

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT—The Indianapolis public schools are serving as a

Unless the government in its wisdom, that is." laboratory for Butler University students who plan to make teaching their profession.

‘decides to set up. a new corporation to buy Ger-|

many's old steel. That would be the end for Mr.| Working under the supervision of regular Indianapolis teachers, they gain practical Cronin. It would mean a new batch of officials to

; Ta i ther . Morris: of - i first grade argue with and He. simply doesnt think he coi] S*Perience. Here Miss Catherine L Mo ris of Huntington conducts a first g \

| when {it left his coal yard and ‘that

to get her into his car.

Coal Firm President Faces Weight Charge Robert Beilach, president of Bluff Road Coal Co., was to appear in Municipal Court 4 today to answer charges of violating

the City weights and measures ordinance,

‘the Weights and’

Mr. Beilach after inspectors of . | partment said they found a two-

ton load of coal was short by 885 pounds. ke

the load was of proper, weight

it could only “have been

off part of the load before .he reached the customer...

Mayor Feeney to Talk

Mayor Al Feeney will be guest

meeting -of the Irvington Aggressive Democratic Club to be held at 6:45 p. m, in Buckley's Restaurant in Cumberland, Bernard Korley and Louis J. Wahl are in charge of reservations, em rs s———

take it. \ class at School 86. = : . ber ui ’ i . \ : i

will talk before the EduJokton

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big Telescope

|here hope it will unravel such

[tant patches of light known as

In Molesting Case ..

‘A 35-year-old man was being

and ran home

J Several other molestings were

lightened by the driver throwing|,

speaker tomorrow at the October|

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Lifts Hope to Unveil World

Palomar Giant Seen

As Puzzle Unraveler By ARTHUR J. SNIDER Times Special Writer PASADENA, Cal, Oct. 20-~ What will the big giant of Palo~ mar tell when it begins pushing back the veil that shrouds the incredible vastness of the uni verse?

Operating astronomers at the California Institute of Technology

puzzles as: ONE-—Whether the universe is actually blowing up. TWO-—Whether the universe is curved, as ‘Einstein believes, and if not, how far out the boundary may be. THREE — Whether there are man-made canals on Mars. FOUR—-What chemical elements are abundant in the universe and thereby piece out the baffling history of evolution. Concession to Curiosity 2 Biggest of the scientific controversies is the explosion theory, Many scientists contend that dis-

nebulae, are speeding away from . earth at the rate of 20000 miles a second. tI : They conjecture that the entire universe consists of fragments of a titanic explosion billions of

inhabited the planet Mars. Equals Million Eyes If actual photographs could Je

‘been es

‘Dear Santa’ Notes Start Annual Trek

“DEAR SANTA" Letters

Besides local letters, the postmaster has received one bearing a Dearborn, Mich, postmark, More and more missives to 8t. Nick are expected by the office as Christmas draws nearer. » ” . TO KEEP as many as |from going into the “dead branch, Mr. Rees has requested the Indianapolis Community Fund to supply names of organizations or ‘individuals willing to accept letters addressed to “Santa.” Postal regulations permit delivery of letters so addressed to charitable institutions or individuals for philanthropic purposes.

Vice President Named At Stokely-Van Camp

L. J. Noonan has been appointed ice president. of the Stokely-Van Camp, Inc, H. J. Krimendahl, president, announced today. Mr. Noonan has been with the company since 1930. He served first as division m r on the | West Coast, then sales pro/motion manager, sales man ; |of Van Camp's. Since Feb. 1 this year, he has been general sales {manager” for both Stokely and |Van Camp divisions, a post he |still holds as vice president, 1

lywe Automobile Thefts Reported to Police

Two automobile thefts were re- | ported to police today. A 1948 mode

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Hoosier Cadillac Co. 2340 N. Meridian St.

UME” BTEC ¢ontended totay cc.

Three Attorneys Added To Local Law--Firm--*-- :

attorneys

“Dr. Hatry Skornia of Bioom-|The welfare