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“ONE ST, Louis mechanic lig up.” As William E. Miller, hangar chief of the Civil Aeronautics Administration at Weir Cook airport “said that, half a dozen mechanics lodked up from thetr work, 100-hour inspection of a C-47. Standing directly under the nose of the ship, my chest filled with pride and cleaner fumes at ‘the words and the opportunity to associate with the men who know the business end of a screwdriver. It takes a pretty gol man to fix an airplane, you know. Roscoe D. Judd was apinying a he of cowling
parts with a solution he said wouldn't burn.
Neither would the fumes explode, he said, even though they smell a lot like gasoline fumes, Orville Moore put his head into an engine as 1
started up a ladder and made off he didn’t hear
my greetings. “Show him what you're doing, "called Mr. . Miller. “It's OK.”
A C-47 has quite a power plant, quite. Mr. Moore ‘casually pointed out the two magnetoes he was checking. He could have pointed to two firstaid kits and said the same thing for all this mechanic knew. A nod of understanding and my friend continued. It was easy to nod.
Needed ‘Bucket of Prop Wash’
MR. JUDD yelled in our direction that he needed a bucket of “prop wash” for some oil lines
he was cleaning. My buddy stopped poki aro ye the engine and asked me if I cared to Relp t by getting a bucket of prop wash. Do yo k this kid fell for the gag? Do you think ts e to pull faglers on me? Not 80 easy. Rheinhold A. Cunard, superintendent of the
CAA mechanics. . . left fo right, Roscoe D. Judd, Ervin. B, Tucker, Sam Edlin and Kenneth Lee fly.all ovéra C47. °
Sour But Sweet
NEW YORK, Dec. 8—It was seven years ago and the Washington Redskins were playing the Philadelphia Eagles when the word passed to the press box. I often wonder who won that ball game, because when I finally got to bed, three or four days later, I had ceased to be a sports writer. I was covering the early part of a war. The change-over was made on the advice of a man named Rocky Riley, my sports editor, who snarled in his usual thorny accents that only children fiddled around with sports when there was. a war on, and he, personally, was going downtown to shop for a job in the Army. Mr. Riley was a very decisive fellow, and 1 wish I had him around now to steer me straight—-to
boot me in the fanny when I get lazy, which’ is too .
often: I would like to have him around to reduce poli tics and global confusion-and whither mankind into his own rigid categories of thieves and nonthieves, black and white, true and false. Riley always had the answer, Mr. G. (for Galbert) Rockford Riley was a short, handsome gent with over-all gray hair and a wide upper lip he camouflaged with a bristly mustache. He came out of Kentucky, and 1 think his daddy might have been a gambler. x Rocks was a high-roller himself, and he Knew
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“dice from both ends of the stick. He was a bitter’
horse player—bitter in that he know he couldn't beat them, and so resigned himself to the annual upkeep of horse parks, with no hope of getting even.
intolerant but Wonderful
ROCKY was an Jntolerant, intemperate, won-
derful-man. He had a voice like a foghorm with
the. croup. When “he was exasperated, which was often; he would smite his desk with the flat of his hand. iéh “he would scream like a tortured horse. ky was the greatest free-style” scream-
-~er-I-ever- heard.-He screamed -at me--for-four-
years. He would scream loudest when newspaper people and newspapers took themselves over-seriously, such as applauding a news beat or referring to personal triumphs in what he felt was routine néws: coverage. - He said while you were beating
__ yourself on the back, somebody else was out steal-
ing the fresh stuff. ~ JU
Pumpkin Spies
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8—Pumpkins have been around since before the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. That was a’'long time ago. And in all those years, until ex-spy Whittaker Chambers came along, nobody cquld think what to do with a pumpkin except ‘eat it. ‘ This wasn't so good because a pumpkin tastes like nothing so much—as nothing. When mixed with sugar, eggs, milk, cinnamon and ginger and baked into a pie, most people still can get along without pumpkins. So it is that we owe a debt of gratitude to the pudgy Mr. C., who raises pumpkins on his Maryland farm and uses them exclusively as a hiding place for state secrets. This, in my opinion, is the best use to which pumpkins ever have been put. 1 predict it will establish a trend. Chambers, his pumpkins, the microfilm he inserted therein, diplomats yet to be identified, and ace investigators (who get down on ‘their hands and knees in the cornfield investigating pumpkins) now are the source of some fantastic whoopla in the West and echoing caucus room of the House of Reps. The Un-American Activities Committee, as I understand it, is trying to discover who at the State Department glipped Chambers the secrets printed in miniature on. movie film, which he was supposed to send along to Moscow.
Cut a Plug in His Best : INSTEAD he cut a plug in his best pumpkin, a yellow six-pounder back of his* barn, scooped out the seeds, and replaced them with war records of what the experts call sensational nature. . Before Congressman Karl E. Mundt of 8. D., and Counsel Robert Stripling get through, we doubtless will learn how Chambers conceived the brilliant idea of using a pumpkin hide the to hear
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2 the engine. Reference again was made to St. is mechanic. Mr. Laakman refused to refihquish his Hammer. He said you have to hit
thé Yale grid #
cution,. and. he: said florid adjectives were for the + It wrong, he threw it- back at-you until you had
~gre- chopped into them. This is why Halloween
Te coramented that “you can't "fool'a St. Louis mechanic all the time.” You can bet your tool box you can't, Mac. The motor had all kinds of gadgets and things, Ideal for tearing into and (peeing what makes it tick. Mr. Moore wasn't too anxious to hand over a hammer and cold chisel, however. There was always something coming up that he said miglit be interesting. Might be if a guy Knew what some of the parts were. From the cockpit, Kenneth Lee said he was ready to feather the props. For all you people
“who are unfamiliar with flying. sirgeaft and
rockets, feathering a means the thin edge of the propeller is turned directly into the wind. You see, in flight, should a motor conk out, a C-47 will fly. with one engine. But you can’t have the other .engine dragging its prop. Very bad for air speed. Very bad.
The reason he feathered a prop in the hangar|
when no one was going anywhere, was that a 100-hour inspection means the mechanics check
about everything on_-the plane but the Pllet's !
footprints. . On the hangar floor, Ervin B. Tucker was pusy with a bum lock on one of the plane's doors. He didn't need any help, was his comment and ‘hastily introduced me to Gene Genaro, veteran CAA vilot. : Mr. Genaro expressed the opinion that the cream of the crop ‘of “airplane mechanics were housed under the roof in Indianapolis. - know, was my answer, “I've been working ia, the. boys trying to fix this thing up so it will
ar pilot immediately disappeared into the plane where Mr. Miller and Mr. Cunard were talking while I continued the C-47 hiking trip.
From the vicinity of the right motor a fine
swinging a hammer. O. B. Moore had his hands on a motor part doing something. A rubber seal on an oil line coming from the, crankcase was leaking, said Mr Lagakman., I
on the line. In order to get at the line it was necessary to remove an exhaust affair on top of
exhaust pipes just right—not too hard, not too easy, oat right.
“SAY, ST what is this St. Louis mechanic business?” otk stopped for a moment and the hangar was silent. Of all the anics in the place, H. C. McLindon finally ered. “That's a mechanic whose only tools a claw hammer and a pair “of pliers,” He said.“ Almost everyone present thought it was a joke. Almost. “How long is it go to take you St. Louis mechanics to~fix thie thing up?’ I asked. He laughs best Who laughs last. Mr. Miller said from three to four days as we walked to the soft drink machine. “I'll take two,” said I, turning in coveralls, r, cold chisel and silver pliers. “And there I was, 30,000 feet on my back. .
By Robert C. Ruark|
Rocky hated the anonymous informant—the “source-close-to” stuff, and threateried to disem-| bowel me if I ever fetched one in to him. He for:
bade me, on pain of -.immediate assassination, to
listen to off-the-record stories. “Anything you can’t print, don’t hear,” he said. He forbade what he called thumb-sucking—the printing of lofty I-am thoughts without facts. He would not allow writing off your own street, which meant no comment on happenings/ outside your ken. He scorned predictions.
racket filled the hangar. Royal Laakman was| ,
could see what ne sald was true. There was oil]
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7TH Indianapolis
SECOND SECTION
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Death scene . . .
{found strewn almost a mile along railroad tracks after the wreck.
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Home.
occurred at Klingensmith cross-| _—— ing, 62d St. and Guion Rd. services,
Mrs, Beatty, 45, was driving
Its
train smashed into her: car. miles an hour.”
Her husband. Joseph Beatty, an
time of the accident., The train is one of New Yorkido,”
Rites Set Friday for New Augusta Woman Killed at Rail Crossing |
Services for Mrs. Lucille Beafty of Guion Rd, New Augusta, one-half mile down the track and| killed yesterday when a train struck her car at an unguarded |Par crossing near her home, will be at 2 p. m. Friday in Wald Funeral fourths of a. mile from the cross-| Burial will be in Washingtlon Park Cemetery. * A New York Central passenger train struck her car broadside | while racing 75 miles an hour toward Indianapodis.
This wreckage was the automobile of Mrs. Lucille Beatty, —
The accident] s engineer, " Ralph| adjoining the tracks heard the Wikoff, R. R. 5, Box 533, said he]
west on 62d St. alone when the/Was traveling at a “scheduled 75 reached her.
electrician, was at work at the|the tracks, in front of him.
“she just lopes
“WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1948
Scrap .. A Life Toot; Where Death Alone Stood Watch
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| The train was due in Indian-|
[railroad officials said.
ing. The vehicle was demolished. Heard Crash { time, Three men working in a field
lcrash but did not see the accident,
and identification found in ber purse.
Unguarded-crossing . . .
Engineer Wikoff stopped apolis at 1:35 p. m. and it was on train a’ mile from the crossing (ound strewn along the right-of time when the accident happened, ‘and waited there a half-hour un-|; itil he was released by a deputy Mrs. Beatty's body was carried sheriff investigating the accident.
ing. - Mrs.
Mrs. Beatty resided in a smallstill carried by the train éngine ts of “the car were “three-|farm home approximately one-iwhen it arrived in the station ‘half mile north of 62d St. on/here a half-hour after the accl|Guion Road, It was believed she|dent.
|was returning to her home at the
Body in Gulley
Wreckage was found on both 'Mrs. Beatty was dead when they sides of the right-of-way,
Mrs, Beatty was killed when she drove in front of & train at this unguarded crossing at 62d St. and Guion Rd.
the |
The, surviving, in addition to her engine of the car was found on | The workmen were Floyd and the west side of the tracks with He sald the car appeared ‘on|Kaye Bass of 515 E. 44th St. and {two wheels and a bumper about Richard Walden, Zionsville. Mrs. |a quarter mile south-of the cross“There was nothing I could Beatty was identified by enveMr. Wikoff said, Central's fast passenger and mail'drove out in front of .us.”
Beatty's body was cards| found in’ a gulley a ‘half-mile|ton; south of the treacherous crossing. land re Ene
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Other parts of the vehicle were
way for three-quarters of a mile, Parts of glass and metal were
Mrs. Beatty was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and Bethel Methodist Church. She was born in Boxley, Ind.
husband, are a stepson, Joseph L. Beatty, Indianapolis; a brother, Frank Stessley, Whitestown, and four. sisters, Mrs. Lula Lewis, Eaton. . Lena Corns, Fowler- : Pearl Ridge, Arcadia, Ogle, Sheridan.
By ROBERT BLOEM
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New Secretary of State Is Confident Headaches of Office Will Work Out
SECRETARY of State Charles Fleming is a good union man— {late of the Oil Workers, still later of the CIO. But when he took office a week ago, he left all that behind. hasn't seen anything that looked like a union pay scale since he took office, which puts him in an awkward spot as an employer. Right now, Lis various departments could use about 139 new
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lemployees. When the new secreta of state looks at his payroll that’s only the Beginning.
this place look like something
“Facts, damn it!" he used to howl. "Gimme information. Nobody cares how noble you are, or, what you' did last week, or how hard your work. Gimme facts!”
Sour on Sports Personages
MR. RILEY was sour-on sports personages, chiefly because he was, an excellent news editor, and had been demoted tg the sports job because of some intra-mural warfare with Ernie Pyle, who had becoming managing ed. It pained him to see sports people take themselves seriously. He would have had apoplexy .over a recent front-page story in the Herald Tribune, concerning the election of Levi Jackson to the captaincy of squad. The story said: “The first hint that Jackson. ‘might win ‘the honor, which was printed exclusively in the Herald Tribune last week, was disclosed when . . . a source close to the Yale Athletic Association said that Levi ‘had a great chance.” Rocks had the doubtful privilege of raisihg me from rawest cubhood, and nearly lost both voice] and brain in the process. He lived for results, to ‘such a point that he pried a 2 ally 16 hours out of | me, I never now a ‘man-more- "contemptuous: EE sham, more eager for ‘truth, more impatient with excuses, more generous with my ‘time. He despised fancy words, and windy circumido-
exclusive use of Henry Mencken. And-if-you.did
it right, I miss Brother Riley, who has retired to riches in the real estate business, and 1 wish I had him back. In the last seven years I have broken nearly all his rules, and it suddenly occurs to me that I need his piercing scream to keep me honest.
By Frederick C. Othman
a great deal in the next few days about pumpkins. These are vegetables, which are closely related to the squash and distantly to the gourd. Some gourds are seven feet long; others are good for drinking cups. This gets a little involved, but the cucumber is a relation also of the pumpkin. I} can get along without cucumbers, too. The biggest pumpkin ever grown in America weighed 93 pounds, It won a prize at the Indiana State Fair in 1923 and, had Chambers been around then, could have held a lot of secrets. As it was, it was turned into pies. These.tasted about as you'd expect. Flt
Some Pumpkins Are Punk. IN EUROPE pumpkins grow bigger thas they do here, In Yugoslavia, where the Russians also seem to have had their troubles lately, 240-pound pumpkins are not unusual. Pumpkin gourmands, however, monsters are a little too stringy; they prefer the smaller ones such as raised for not eating by Chambers. He should have harvested his pumpkins in October by all the rules of husbandry, but can be excused because he is an editor of Time Magazine. Editors are too busy to take in their pumpkins in season. Chambers left his pumpkins out during several heavy frosts. The pumpkin in which he sealed the evidence was a soggy mess when reopened, because pumpkins deteriorate rapidly when holes
lanterns built of pumpkins make even worse pies usual. You usually can tell a pie made of a lantern by its flavor of candle Wax. I could tell you more about pumpkins, but I've got to stake me out a seat in the €aucus room. As close as possible to Chain and his pump-
kin of the year, 4 /
out _of Tobacco Road,” he says. “Boy, —what\-a- good - _organizer could Ao with\these salaries if it were anywhere but state government.” ,
has. Some of them,
and letters over the week-end,” he—gets alittle sick, andihe said yesterday. The “secretary” ‘who took all that dictation not ohly is the “ y pn victim of some pretty outlandish THE, WAGES we tan. pay in working conditions such as night work and Sunday hours, but she doesn’t get paid at all. She's Mrs: Fleming, and probably is still typing away at all those letters, There are a number of per-*® sons who come to see Mr. Flem-+ing--about -other-things than $350. It isn’t that ne. doesn’t haveis month jobs that he doesn’t plenty of people waniing jobs. He nave Some of them want to be
“Time And Aspirins — All Fleming Asks
- Public Service self part of that headache by let. ; it mittee
of - State” Charles
Promises Good
ting the Democratic State Come worry out the selections of heads for 157 vehicle license branches. ~_ But already some of the patronage recipients are discovering that many of the branches. are pretty sour political plums. It fakes capital 3a get into the Bb bus
1949 will be thang but’ Smee in The recipients will not, Mr. Flem-~ ing is sure, leave him unaware ot any such Tevolting (fe velonmps » — #22 i Bh ANOTHER respect, he's | a kid in school trying to prize for “improvement.” “It the office were Ht
he says, 100K private detectives.
at him a little incredulously when they ask for a job at around $350 a month and he counters with an
- » . MR. FLEMING doesn’t know
Two ‘men, two headaches . Fleming (left) and his equally new chief dep rrest Westhagholt,
how to help them become privateinow,” he says,
“I'm just trying
Now Secratal
|oiety chairman of student affairs; Jep Cadou, bureau manager, In- 0 Grady of Terre Haute, by “483 She had been born in-her-father's: ternational News Service, .and votes out of a total of 131,000. [Political faith, but she shortly beSamuel W. Downing, of | Meanwhile, the Hoosier Republi-/came one of the most active of| Butler's history and political scl-|cans were losing all their Rouse Nepublican women. © |seats heré, except /those held by| {Reps. Halleck, Harvey and Wil-
. [probation officer, Juvenile Court.
offer of $150, take it or leave it. It doesn’t surprise him. when they leave it, but that doesn't!check solve his employment problem, =» office. “WHEN HE isn’t’ ying about |
detectives. He will know a little to learn to be a good one. It takes later, when he can take time toa little time, I find.” into the rather _|diversified functions of his new the will soon learn first hand is
-He- frankly doesn't know a loticount official. Next Monday Mr. employment and salaries, he ha of other things about the office Fleming, who is a Democrat, willithe
plenty of other things to worry jyet, but he’s learning.
about.
“I'm not aiming at becoming a “1 ‘dictated more than a a thou-|great secretary of state right
“that of making the electoral vote a while.
certify - Indiana's votes for GOP presidential nomi-|called 1 nee Thomas E. Dewey.
to make sure he gets them, widely! Another of the- diverse dutiesway. That, he hopes, will be hisisays last business with Mr, Dewey for multiple headaches in.silence. A
In his es Job,
13 - electoral Re he is
MF) Fleming
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nh, se branch patronage.” Actually, he's trying to save him-
nig : time and a bottle of aspirin
“The general public: will get the good service to which they are entitled.”
Butler Forum Club Books Discussion
A Town Hall “discussion, on “Russian = Anrerivan Relations,”
Butler Forum Club at. Butler Uni] roman from Indiana.
versity, will be held at 7:45 p.m.
dan Hall. -
turity director; John—
McCaw; D.-Harden— United Christian Miskionary So-
Democratic
Prof.
ence department. Subject Announced
be discussed at the second forum |on themselves. at 2 ». m. Tuesday in room 131. Prof. ‘Wallape P. Rusterholz, also
litical science department, will! |gresswoman's be moderator. ' ee Speacers will-include Judge Joseph Hoffmann, Marion County Juvenile Court; Mrs, Jane Nor-| tham, a member of the board of’ directors, Indiana State Girls’ Re-| form School; the Rev. Edwin, Stricker Central Avenue Methodist Church; Miss Anna Stout,
claim thesejhead of the department of social] .
service, Crispus Attucks. High School, and Charles Boswell, chief
Times Aviation Editor Places 2d in Contest
Max Cook, aviation editor of| 7 The Indianapolis Times and other Scripps-Howard Newspapers, won second award in TWA’s annual aviation writing and picture contest, it was announced here .today. First prize was won by Robert ‘Sibley, aviation editor of the Bos ton Traveler, and third place went to Mildred Mae Diefenderfer, of the Washington Byreau of the Wall Street Jourpal,
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Having - been slected in a dis-jat Covington by then President itrict that already had sent one Hoover. As the local Ford dealer, Friday in reom 131, Arthur Jor: {woman to Congress, and on the Mr. Harden allowed the Republi- ; {GOP ticket, in a Democratic year can party men to meet up over D. A. Dale Beeler, faculty mem- makes Mrs. Harden-as proud of | ber in the department of “history ther record: as she is of her two and-political science, will act as!grandchildren moderator. Speakers will include| They are Judy, 6, and Timmy,|tion of 1932, a Democrat was soon a town in the entire district of} Everett Gardner, employment se-|214, thee children of Dr. Murray appointed Mr. Harden's successor.
Indianapolis. [took over after the landslide elec~
‘Grandma Harden defeated her|{ Harden, a long-time Covington opponent,
" Back to 1931 That part of the story goes son, Terre Haute Republican, re- was Mrs, a member of the history and po- {back to 1931 when the new Con- [signed from Congress to accept Terre Haute, who was defeated husband,
Participants in Church Bazaar
n a Democrat and being. anid =
“Indiana district. having been as- paign,’
his garage. So when President Roosevelt
His wife, daughter of Timothy
J a ¢ k| Democratic leader, was furious. {Putman (Hved
Never Missed Meeting
Frost a federal judgeship here, Mrs. by Mr.
GOP Congresswoman Proud of Victory
- By DAN KIDNEY, Times Stafl Writer “WASHINGTON, ‘Dec. 8—Bor mother. proved -no-hgndicap for sprightly. Mrs, Cecil” Harden. | new Republican Representative-elect from the Six She left for her home in Covington today, ,18igned a ground-floor office in the old House office building. Coming! To: “the Capitol was-no-neveityfor-her, for she. long has been the the first of two sponsored by the Republican national committees;
aden was promptly nominated
the] “My opponent already had Pay x {three months start in the cam- yi
she sald.
“But I soon flooded: the. dis- tol trict with campaign cards, my cult . picture” on = bilfihoards “and ~gave+: tot {Harden, was appointed postmaster out such souvenirs as match- Be books. There also were thimbiles for the ladies at some of my speclal meetings.
Out Every Day
“IT used our station wagon and was out every day. There wasn't seeking work actively enough. In
110 counties than I didn’t visit. Iifor an applicant or pay off. Toniy lost Vigo, Vermiilion—andMy opponent in Vigo County -
Counties,
Johnson.
| {Terre resigned a janitor job, waited the - Haute) and he won there bY 8351. six. weeks penalty period required {But I carried his home precinct. "lin cases of voluntary resignation, | Mrs.” Harden said she ran up . Having held county and district|against some opposition based on “Indiana ‘Juvenile Delinquency|Son. But in a way the Democrats organization posts, she was made the fact that the district had and Reform School Problem” will| brought the Sixth District defeat a membur of the national com- Sent to. Congress a New Deal mittee and never missed a meet-j Democrat who was |ing. When Rep. Noble J. John-|woman elected from Indiana. She Virginia Jenckes of
the first
State Ordered 8
The Appellate Court vesterdav Indiana’s Employment SeDivision in effect it must yb ToF thie utemployed-: pay their unemployment compen sation. Payment. of the compensation, the ruling said, may Hot be with- - held on grounds of the arbitrary view that the applicant is not
the final ‘analysis, it is up to the ‘division to obtain suitable work
in the case of James B. Nelson, 70, Evansville, Mr. Nelson had
land - applied for unemployment compensation, y Although he was registered with the state employment service, the Employment Security Division denied payment of benefits on grounds he was not “actively in the labor market.” Mr, Nelson said he had followed the want ads and made at least one job
These women will take part in the Garden City Christian Church Bataet at | Left to tight are Mrs. Ed Meek, Mrs. Fred Holderman, Mrs. Guy Belches, Mrs. Frank ‘Campbell, Mrs. Art Vehlinge! Mrs, Fred Wehmeier and Mrs. Buford Lee)
wo p. m. Saturday;
inquiry during the six weeks waiting period. The Appellate Court ruling, written by Judge Donald Bowman, held that was enough. A concurring separate opinion written by Judge Wilbur Royce went still cidiiny ager by that even if ‘he had 8 Nelson had fulfilled led egal i ments to draw sempioyment compensation by registering with the employment service and hold- - | ing himself available for work.
11 More Arrests
Traffic Sa
Police today reported arrests as the violations con