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the cab and explained to the engineer about a Switch that was going to be made in the coal cars.

ready, was thumping the coupling on a coal car with a sledge hammer. Standing, taking notes ar from getting grease on one’s clothes as difficult in the cab while the fireless, pressureer chug-chug was in motion. _. The foreman and engineer began to explain and also some of the features of the strange ' workhorse which, had a bell that sounded éxactly like a country school hand bell. _ The reason for the lope, it was explained, was + that the locomotive had no pointer or trailer wheels. All it had was four wheels and they were placed well up in front. Liable to Jump Track » THE “guessed” that if he opened up locomotive it would jump the track. Mr. Wilson didn’t guess at it, he knew it would jump the

.» We backed into two coal cars of stoker coal with a slight jar. Mr. Wratten, handling contro

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No fire .'. . This steam locomotive doesn't ‘burn_codl, oil, wood, peat . , . in fact, it doesn't burn anything. ‘

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pounds, hardly a snootful, it would chug times and roll downhill. Pretty powerful stuff,| | steam. 300 )

After we got rid of three cars of stoker in the plant, Mr. Wilson left us some action began to take place. From then on handled coal cars for the automatic unloader and conveyor next to the company’s private] (length of tracks, approximately half a mile long in the rear of the plant. ; ¥ You can bet your boots after a morning's run you get pretty tired of the scenery. No, tk fireless locomotive doesn't ever get out on the main road. % “t

Simple as Cup of Coffee

THE automatic dumper, tips cars practically upside down as easy as you would a cup of coffee. All that happens is a couple of steel arms come across each end of the car, Roy Walker, switchboard operator, pushes a button and over goes the car. The coal drops to a hopper where It passes pn to conveyor belts and after that the

process gets complicated.

Just as soon as the coal car comes back down to earth, Mr. Wratten pushes it over the hump and either gets another into position for dumping or goes after a reload. | During a working day, the dumper can send | 1700 tons of coal toward the boilers where! electric power and steam are made. The engineer had no idea how many men with shovels it woyld take to unload 1700 tons. . Taking on steam, it's done only twice a day, is as simple as pulling into a gas station and getting gas. A swivel connection fitted easily into the side of the tank and all Mr. Wratten had to do was turn a valve, In five minutes he had Shotgh team to take him through until quitting me. On another fast 200-yard run I mentioned that turning a valve beat shoveling coal. Mr. Wratten said it did have its advantages although I noticed him eyeing a huge cross-country locomotive. . guess you can't help having a dream once in awhile. Nevertheless, it's a nice, little ol’ locomotive,

It is no pleasant task for Lt. Erwin J. Rhoda (left) and Cpl. William Sayler when they have fo add another gruesome photo of death in traffic to the Lafayette Post bulletin board.

: Now being changed for a dual lane, U. S. 52 northwest of Lafayette has been one of the worst roads for accidents.

All Fouled Up

. By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Jan. 26—1I guess I will never be much of a catch for the Communists, even if they win the world, because my brain isn’t flexible enough. I expect they'll just have to shoot me a8 useless. Even in the simplér little things, ‘I get all fuzzed up and confused. Like with the cops. +» AD cing Bolo can tell you, right off the bat, when a cop is a cop and when a cop is a Cossack, riding down the worker's rights. To me a cop is just a cop--a big guy in the blue suit who carries a legal rod and the right to use it on the lawbreaker. Or the right to use it in behalf &f the free citizen, when somebody else infringes his copyright. But a comrade has no trouble with this cop thing. When a bull in blue is patrolling a city park, or Madison Square Garden, to see that the Commie in question is allowed to speak his views without interference, them he is a friend of

By this definition, an officer of the law is only an officer of the law so long as he packs his club for the skulls of the rude opposition. The second he unsheaths his billy to bust up a demonstration on the Communist side of the corral, he becomes a hairy Cossack.

Fret Me My Weakness

I SAW this happen in Georgia last summer, when Cousin Henry Wallace ‘was raising the price of eggs down South. Henry just loved the local gendarmes, as he calmly incited violence, especially when the cops delivered him from a couple of potential roughings. y Henry basked behind that motorcycle escort, from town to town, and to him the cops were trusted public servants. But one day Henry drove into a town where a segregation ordinance was in force, and there Were policemen on hand to see that the ordinance was maintained. . This violation of Henry's moral principles caused his mouthpiece to announce that Henry would speak to no police-terrorized group.

Henry and party chuffed off in a huff—although the police were the same. They had become Cossacks all of a sudden, by the stretching of a thin piece of rope, between the audience. To me they still looked like the same Georgia Johns —sweating up their blue shirts and loosing an amber arc of tobacco juice into the dust. Another thing that frets me about my future, apart from telling cop from Cossack, is my meekness. Many’'s the time I've been in courtrooms where the judge is called Yerronner and _he can put you in jail if you rear back and call him a bum to his face, & Many’s the time I've seen a jury say guilty and send some poor mope off to get his neck stretched or spend his life counting the cracks on the floor.

Merely a Matter of Money WELL, it never occurred to me that the defendants could get up and .threaten the judge that they were going to use him as witness and challenge his right to be up there with a mallet in his fist. And T never saw any mouthpiece try to upset the whole structure of American jurisprudence by squawking that all the jurors had more dough in the bank than their client, who was on trial for shooting up the neighborhood with a singleaction .44, ; If these things be legally possible, then we have electrocuted many a murderer unfairly, and sent many an embezzler away unjustly. Because all these things happen now at the Commie trials in New York. They try to get the court cleared of the cops, and then they try to disarm the cops, and then they try to disqualify the judge, and they claim that the jury system was thought up by Wall Street. . ~ Which is why I say I have no future in the party. I am even scared stiff of the bailiffs, and never, never-would I have the courage to call the judge a prejudiced tramp. court.

: i os 2" "un Ay 2380 Lafayette Post Dreads ‘Quiet Days, ™™* Aware That ‘Murder’ Stays on Job aa

1 for 3 By VICTOR PETERSON {better LAFAYETTE POST, Indiana State Police, Jan. 26--This post “murder on the highways.” is one of the most fortunate in the Indiana State Police set-up. The test concentration of aphically it is Jocated almost at the very heart of Ita) aceiden surrounded Lafayette district which spreads dver Fountain, Warren, Benton, White, /and West Lafayette, but here the Tippecdnoe, Montgomery, Boone, Clinton, Cass and Carroll Counties. number of fatalities are comparaBecause of the central location it is possible to reach accident tively few. areas comparatively quickly even — = me eee The US 52 by-pass is one of when the trooper patrol strength] Death rode the highways of [our most closely watched areas,” is down almost to zero. | the Lafayette State Police Post | Lt. Erwin J. Rhoda sald. “Hows Except on overlap shifts, there 20d the troopers were powerless |ever, there are factors which enseldom are more than six or, '0 Stop it. The report was of [ter into the accident rate here, seven mento handle any emer-| ® drunken driver. There wore | - “Several times each day we get ven_men lo handle any emer: se troopers available fo halt la very concentrated traffic from gERLY. | the potential “murder on the [industries ringing the city. This ‘When the force shrinks to one piopway” This article analyzes pours on to .52 while several or: two troopers, as it has at gue problems of the Lafayette |prominent crossfoads also are times, the men are held close 10 post In a series aimed at curh- {feeding a flow of cars. headquarters, $

As each police post is added to this state map, graveyard Not to his face, in| of traffic dead, the skulls marking hazardous areas. continue to

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|-ing death of Hoosiers in tiafie. | “The picture is complicated by | « "vw - . oo : trafic coming in from the south . lis came to the post about on the four-lane divided highway EVEN 80, this happened and More ca . {death rode the highways. Thank- the semi and the driver, | Drivers have been gunning along. |

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26—I had figured this would be a piece about President Truman dousing arnica on his bruised right wing after such a week of hand-shaking as no man ever endured before, But no. ‘ Our iron-handed President was suffering no pain. He was, in fact, getting into his long-tailed eoat so he could shake another 1000 hands at his reception for the diplomats. There's no hokey-pokey about his handshakes, either, Or Mrs. Truman's or daughter Margaret's, Some of our Presidents in the past, in the Interest of savi their right arms for future use, used the cold fish, or limp piece of liver hand-shaking technique. = The late President Roosevelt and Mrs. R., developed a system whereby. they grabbed each passing hand before it got a good hold, and yanked it along. This sped up the receiving line and also

saved the Roosevelt hands from being crushed.

The Trumans are different. Last week with three and four different inauguration functions every night, they gave an estimated 15,000 hands a strong, old-fashioned shake. With each shake went a smile as if Mr. Truman, wife and daughter, actually were delighted. I can’t help but believe that they were,

Nothing Like a Dishrag I WENT to one of these hand-shaking jousts, as staged by Secretary of Treasury John Snyder at the Wardman-Park Hotel. Mr. Truman- asd his family stood with their money man at the door of the ballroom and shook 1500 hands. For an hour and 45 minutes they stood there, shaking and smiling, while the line of guests inched through the hotel lobby and into an adJacent sunroom. I was near the end, having been

\tully, death did not strike. Finally one of the troopers re- Suddenly they oa ys hon Ho Both troopers on’ duty were Ported in. Immediately. die Wasi, "ous (00 ate” Lt. Rhoda

on emergency runs when the call dispatched to the general route gc. 4 came to the post. A citizen re- of the trucker. The distance was! U. 8, 52 northwest of Lafayette

| . Ends in Squabble caught in a magnificent traffic jam brought on by| For Erie J. Noon

As Winner Loses the handshakings, and I must report that Mr. Bell Co. Engineer too great. He never caught him.lis the most accident-marred road

Truman's grip was as firm and strong as an in- WEST HARTFORD, Conn. Dies in Minnesota | utomobite was offered free to a Ported that a semi-trailer loaded jr, vette headquarters radioed|in the district. The 12 miles ad-

surance salesman’s. Nothing dishraggish about {Jan. 26 (UP) —A brand new $1600! Mrs. Truman's shake, either, or Margaret's. With DOW CAM ‘WAS 'WeaVIR OVer Hartford man last night—but he| ng {the adjoining post in hope the jacent to the post are the worst, Services for Erle J. Noon, 6168 & ithe road, the driver believed 10!griver would be picked up in the but construction of & dunt leer:

So when all the shaking was finished, the Tru- A mans rushed a block away to the Shoreham Hotel Siappten Date, Indiana Bell Tels. sould biske * Joseph Elansiy|D® drunk. ihe lin one Co. ment and build-| | Y . : : lo Mngther yoepuos Wo more uf the same, pc lin be conducted at Was drawn as 5000 persons with, Anxiously the radio operator Luck rode with the troopersit is a very narrow roller-coaster ‘ Ss. Snyder's guests, urse, 2 m. tomor-/Taffle chances jammed in and|called his iwo troopers, Neitherthat night. Had the truck been with a bad berm. Travel is made Invited to the second party; and again they shook ot > in Omaha, about a garage. Mr. Elansky was answered, they were away from|in an accident, it would have been more difficult by heavy truck traf e Truman ; maba,

| Investiga-|charged to the Lafayette Post. fic, Hands Turned Black and Blue

Neb. Burial wili{glven five minutes “in which to[thelr wai Bandung 4 Ph ; Litiayel : . am h |tions. ' He radioed repeatedly. Another pin wo ve been follow there. (claim the car. a. oe TPs Y. Ano har [PID Wow. ay | OTHER points where accidents AND WHY it's not black and blue I'll never a concentrated are on State Rd,

; died OnE HUNDRED C2 as 0 Cold arn namie uncer CARNIVAL By Dick Turner

from Covington to Danville know. I say this from painful experience. A Rochester, Minn. man pushed and elbowed through {with narrow pavement, hills and while back the syndicate for which I labor held a He was 40. Alupo crowd He kicked. He clawed. - ‘ a {eurves; U. 8. 24 from Logansport reception for newspaper editors and publishers at native of Den-|" “pyraiy he wedged up to the to Peru complicated with bad: a convention in New York. ver, Colo, Mr. poiattorm—just in time to. hear turns such as Dead Man's Curve;

_ The management lined up all ‘the comic strip artists, columnists and other hired hands in the outer hall and the only way the guests could get in to the party was to shake the paws of the help. Denver. He I was happy about meeting all those famous served as a tech- Lilly Putians to Hear people and flattered, too, and for the first 15 or 20 nical observer of communication - : minutes everything was fine. Then my hand began| facilities used by the : Army Business Bureau Head to feel numb. ground forces in World War II. Toner M. Overly, manager of After the first 500 handshakes, it had no feel- Began Career in 1921 the Indianapolis Better Business ing. My mouth was dry and my neck was stiff. ~ Mr. Noon began his telephone Bureau, will address the Lilly PuStill the hands came, in a never-ending procession. career with the Mountain States tian Club tomorrow evening In I shook 1200 hands that night. Telephone Co. In 1921. He trans-|{the Athenaeum. The following morning my hand was blue. | ferred to the American Telephone! The Lilly Putian Club is made My elbow hurt. My shoulder was painful and for|& Telegraph Co., New York, injup of 275 employees of EN Lilly| three days thereafter my efficiency was cut in! 1941, and came to Indianapolisiand Co. Frederick J. Ratcliffe In| half because I had only one typewriter finger in- in April of last year. {the newly elected president; G. XL stead of my usual two, He is survived by his wife, Varnes, vice president; J. E. OberEventually, I recovered, of course, and that's Dallas L., and a daughter, Miss|lies, secretary, and E. G. Mauck, | what amazes ne about the Trumans. They must Betty Noon, both of Indianapolis. treasurer. E. B. Bibbins is chair-|

be made of stouter stuff. They don’t take time ci by ay of the meeting. out to convalesce. : ted Canners | | William Renshaw, 173 west. Warren Democrat Club

Noon was gradu-ithe auto being awarded to someated from the ,.. ose.

University ofl my Flansky sald he'll sue.

State Rd. 25 with narrow, blind Wildeat bridge, and hilly and curved U. §. 41 north of Attica. Troopers know that accidents are coming. They dread them. They dread those quiet days where nothing happens. They know the day of reckoning Is coming when the toll will be in human lives, They dread that day-—just like Nov. 27, 1943, when a factory bua crashed with a steel transport in narrow Wildcat bridge. The car. nage was horrible. Four died at [the scene, 14 were hospitalized, some for more than a year,

| TOMORROW: Seymour Post,

Mr. Noon

| Indiana State Police. ?

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