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A WOMAN'S place jn the home is getting easier and television is almost turning the corner in this neck of the woods, Those two gems of. thought were the result of poking around the Television and Electrical Living 'Shéw in the Manufacturers Building, State Fairgrounds. An old bachelor had a lot of other thoughts, yes, he did. One in particular had to do with all the refrigerators on display in the building. I'd have them stocked with cold, tall, amber bottles. Boy, there could be an awful lot of refreshment out there.

Housework Become Obsolete? SERIOUSLY though, it seems to me the word housework will become obsolete one of these days if we keep inventing machines. Why there will be so many buttons for milady to push they'll have to invent a‘ gadget to punch the buttons on the gadgets, : . In the General Electric display, there's’ a range with a panel that resembles the control board on a B-29. I asked one of the men if it took a college education to be able to cook on it. The man seemed to be Hurt and offered to explain the features, He rattled something about the stove being as simple as apple pie. I didn’t listen because a sink and dishwasher unit caught my eye, . “Does #t take a degree from this thing?” Anothér gentleman took over and said no, it didn’t take a degree from Purdue to operate. We looked carefully into the G.E disposal unit and the dishwasher,

Purdue to operate

Around the corner . evision in the Manufacturers Building.

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+ every set is tHe best yet, according to the informa-!

I looked at this thing, that thing, that inter: lock, this control switch and those wire holders.

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One thing sure, it looked a little more complicated to. me than a dishpan, dish cloth and a pile of dirty

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the show: The same angle at most of the shows. | The outfit installed six telephone booths and a fine lounge for the weary. For free you can sit in the chairs, For a nickel you can use a phone and, marvel at the progress communications has made | since the days of the drum and smoke signal. { A household item that surprised me was the sewing machine, -The last I remember of it, the, sewing machine had three drawers, always full of | bitsgof material, a cast iron pedal and. a large top] that wasn’t much good for anything. | Now, at the show, you couldn't tell a sewing (they call them units) unit from a fancy desk or piece of luggage. What worries me, will they sew as well as the oldtimers?

Then There Is Television

OF COURSE, the big thing is television. There| are television sets all over the place. Naturally,

tion at the fingertips of the demonstrator, | A couple of times when the image didn’t appear | clearly on the screen, it wasn't the fault of the set, it was the fault of a poor connection, hasty] wiring or a bunch of terminology that made sense in one way and didn't in another. . An image of a beautiful girl in color filled the! screen on a Videola console. The-gentleman in| charge explained it was something he dreamed up and put on the screen. | “Caught your eye, didn't it?" “Not that exactly,” I lied. “I was interested in the development of color sending.” He might have believed me, I don’t know. . You have to see the television sets for yourself to make up your mind which one you like and hope will be in your living-room along about next June § when WFBM figures to be televising. I know which § one’I like and T'm going to let the manufacturers try to guess which one. They can write and tell me in-25-words—or-less;—if-they-want-too: > t While watching Paul Roberts, “The Happy | Monster” of radio and production manager ofy television at the show for WFBM, working a style show, I mentioned to a fellow gawker that the work looked simple. After all. I said, the man on the camera works the focus and subject while the man on controls took care of the light intensity. “Yes,” he said, “and all Roberts has to do is tell the men show.” ’ I think one of the engineers heard us talking

because he turned his head slightly and fainted. Maybe there's more to it.

All in all, it's something to see.

What buttons to push to produce the, Terre Haute, last

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Knows His Stuff

WASHINGTON, Mar. 21-—-When a Hollywood higshot wants something his fat wallet can't buy, he generally tickles your vanity with super-colos-sal flattery. Like the biggie who started a letter to the Library of Congress thusly: “Gentlemen: “I am coming to the greatest research department in the world for help, etc.” The man, hegeinafter known since that is his name, in his request, “You, of course, know of India,” he said, eontinuing his modest vanity-tickling..

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as Anderson, said he felt a little silly

THEN he told his story. Anderson said that during the war he was in India, among 20 or so other countries. While in New Delhi, he visited the Peacock Room of the Ret Fort, just outside the city. There on the wall, he said, was an inscription. Could the Library of Congress please fish through its files and come up with a reproduction? Our man, said the thing he saw was in Hindu and he went on to tell the library what he thought was the translation—“If there is a paradise, here it is” —or something like that. = Anderson added some history--all ahout the Taj Mahal and Mogul Emperor S8hah:Fahan, the man who: built it and dedicated it to his wife with a promise he would never marry again. “My wife and I are very devoted.” the Hollywood man wrote. “We would like to see that inscription engraved for alf to see on our wedding rings. To show to our friends and to keep forever.” His letter came to the attention of Milt Plumb,

By Harman Nichols | 1 Who is head of the Library of Congress’ public| information office. Milt, an- old newspaperman himself, is not| easily stumped. He once did a little digging and| told a Florida school teacher how her class could reassemble the bones of a former mule they had| found in a swamp. Fact that he had to call on the Smithsonian Institution for a chart of mule bones is beside the point, Milt always says. | Anyhow, he called on his good friend, Horace I. Poleman, chief of the South Asian section of the! library, | Did Poleman know of such an inscription? Poleman certainly did. And he didn’t have to do any research to find it. He had it right on the tip of his tongue. . “Enclosed is the quotation you desire,” the letter which went back to Anderson. Something like this: . * * “Agar Fardaus Bar Ru-i-zamin ast “Hamin ast wa Hamin ast wa Hamin ast.” Translation: “If there is a earth it is this,

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paradise on the face of the! oh! It is this, oh! Tt is this.” |

Happens to Be in Persian

POLEMAN post-scripted that, if he could be %0 bold, he would like to suggest that the quotation, fine as it is and all, is not in the Hindu language. It's Persian, if you please. ! The L. of C. man is a pleasant little fellow who carries a library under his derby. He also Is very curious. He hasn't heard from the Andersons yet. But he is anxious to know whether the Hollywood | folks ever got all those strange words—plus the| translation engraved on their rings. | And if so—in letters big enough for their|

Times Change

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By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Mar. 21—T can remember, and it wasn’t many years ago, when a couple of superpatriots went to work on our celebrated Japanese cherry trees with axes.

They explained to aghast police, who collared ‘em after tree number two had hit the ground, that this was their contribution to the extermination of the nasty Nip and all his works. But wars end aml times do change and this year our cherry blossom festivities are figuring on turning the tidal basin. where the trees have been blooming th#te many springtimes, into a Tokyo suburb. If they get any co-operation from the trees, that is.

They. intend to string Japanese lanterns among the blossoms (if there are any blossoms), to have Japanese dancing girls cavort on the greensward, and to serve oriental tea to as many hundreds of thousands of occidental tourists as can be lured to town. If they could snare a couple of beefy Orientals to function as Japanese wrestlers, they'd put them under contract, too.

Mrs. Taft Started It All

THE only rub is those pesky trees. They've been a problem ever since Mrs. William Howard Taft took a sightseeing trip to Japan in 1907 and decided that what Washington needed most was some cherry blossoms. First they caused an international incident because they were full of bugs, germs, scale, rust, blot, blight and all the other horrid diseases-to which cherry trees are heir. We burned ‘em at the dock. The Japanese sent over a new load a couple of years later, which we planted. Since then there have been rumors, which no federal official wil] cofifirm, that these, too, were none too healthy. But the problem now is when are the blossoms going to turn the park into, and I quote, a fairyland of gossamer in pink and white? And thereby lure the free-spending tourists into town?

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Special watchers at the ing among the branches, measuring the size of the buds, watching the thermometers and the weather reports, and trying to let the nation know ahead of time when the show will begin. The experts._have not yet

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issued the official but the best guess seems to be that the or Yoshino cherries wii} begin to bloom in about one more week. barring blizzards. The pink double blooms of the Kwazan trees should get goIng about three weeks later. And TI must report that they are a sight to see, even though they never have given a cherry. - Mrs. Taft, at any evant, was go excited over the blossoms she saw in Japan, that she brought back 80 trees which she planted along the Potomac. | This gave an idea to a Jap patriot, one Mr. Jokichi | Takamino. He talked the city of Tokyo into mak-| ing the cify of Washington a gift of 2000 trees. ' There was to be a ceremony when they arrived, | with whoopla, a brass band. gold braid and a Speech by the ambassador. Only they never got here. The hard-hearted entomologists from the Agriculture Department, had poured kerosene on! ‘em and lit a match. ©

Didn’t Declare War Then

THE hullabaloo over ing down, but the Japs didn’t declare war then, at least. They spent two more years getting ready a shipment of bug-free trees. They selected the buds at Arakana, their best cherry tree nursery, and grafted them to wild root stock at the Jap imperial |

Another stop occupies himsef with his task of cutting teet this was a long time dv-| Gray. Students Alfred Krumreich (left) and Clarence Baysinger (center) talk it over.

By Stud

Times

Mechanical engineering seniors at Rose Polytechnic Institute,

week took a day-long tour through Link-Belt Co.,

| largest chain plant in the world. Student Charles W. Birt stopped during the tour to watch operator Juanita Stamm make final in-

60 chains.

Operator Glenn Stufflebem pauses in his work. to explain how this horizontal punch produces parts for a silent chain. Students (left to right) Mike Shaefer and Gene Boward and Instructor Ed Eckerman listen intently.

occurs when the group approaches this gear hobber. Operator Lewis Chambers f on roller chain sprockets, watched by student George

Decision Withheld Safecrackers Get In Scalping Case $350 Haul in Raid Ex-Coach, Dies

horticulture station. They spr ! | Judgment was withheld today | | ’ h itn i y prayed 'em thoroughly in the case. of an 1K-year-old On F orists S op g Juice and sent 'em along. We accepted Q h Bend Central High School 1 . . CP . 21 ent? 3 ' ¥ : fre a hy. And ever since they've been almost as a ireed with CF ecalping” A $350 SAFE-CRACKING in a Ine a tourist lure as a President| ati ’ arg ’ , sale florist’s shoy Only difference rt fo tial inauguration basketball tournament tickets for downtown wholesale flori: 10D

a President is Inaugurated

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20 each. Robert D. Shupe Pro Tem Louis Wei

The Quiz Master

How did the sport of roller skating originate? The sport was started early in the 18th Century by an unknown Hollander. One summer, unwilling to wait until the canals froze, he nailed crude wooden spools to strips of wood attached to his shoes and off he bumped along the roads of Holland. In the next century the sport-spread slowly through England, France and Germany. > %

Approximately how many bus and trolley rides does a person take in a year? The average person in the United States takes 305 rides each year on trolleys and buses, : ® oo 9 What is the distance from coast to coast across the United States at the narrowest point? It is 2085 miles between Coronado, Cal, and Brunswick, Ga. @ 4 "b How long will tobacco keep fresh in a sealed tobacco tin? If there is the proper amount of moisture in the sealed tin the tobacco will keep fresh almost indefinitely. Experiments have shown that tobacco kept sealed for five years was in perfect smoking condition when the tin was opened.

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i . g ono N ‘ani {five ticket from South Bend We jorist s store ar ate Capi ?2?27? T . 29 students fo¥* $45 and that he ing from hix front office as he “se est Your Skill .. ? planned to sell them for $20 each. opened this morning . He was selling the. first ticket , x om when arrested Saturday at the’ HE FOUND the-safe in a rear What is the number of known copies of the fieldhouse room, battered open, with $50 in

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sburg Address in Lincoln's handwriting? Lincoln’s hand. The Bliss copy is considéred the turning it over to

best as it alone bears the title, date and full signa- sion fund. He toc ture of Abraham Lincoln.

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Is there a limit to -the number of states into! which Texas may subdivide? { kp y Texas may subdivide its area into any number , Sen” not exceeding four additional states of convenlent' &.. , tickets size - having sufficient population, which shall be _ — entitled to admission to the Union.

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terrestrial globe made in 1911 and a celestial

globe made the following year were handmade, by| Causing a $100,000 fire at St.

dames Wilson of Bradford, Vermont, who later George's Catholic established the first globe factory in this country. questioned today This pair of globes are examples of the first en- ©f church fires t graving on a globular surface done in America. | City. The suspect & ¢ @ bott, said the St.

Is Alaska larger than Texas? | was praying when It is. Alaska contains 584,800 square miles a candle, became while Texas contains 267,339 square miles. (fled.

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to learn which. students violated (the pledge promising to use or

When were the first globes made in this ¢oun- Grilled in Church Fire try? ..

confiscated cash and $300 in bonds missing

Police also are investigating a

the police pen-|break-in At Pee Wee's Liquor yk serial num- Store, 968 N. Holmes Ave. dis covered this morning. Seven school officials cases of -liquor and seven bottles

of whisky were reported missing

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The long arm of the Indiana {law reached halfway across the Pacific today for Jack Briggs, a Flpra automobile dealer. Mr. Briggs was arrested In Honolulu, Hawaii, yesterday on «information from Indiana State oa ue Police that he was wanted on bad , William Pall- check charges. George Church Police sald Mr. Briggs was acHe said he cused of offering bad checks in he tipped over payment for used automobiles, frightened i Sa the cars and disap-

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‘Oomph’ Contest Again Tonight at Linton. ann 01 James 1 Television Show

Goodman, former football coach of Linton High School, died Saturday in Freeman-Greene County Hospital after a four months’ {ll-

James Goodman,

SECOND of a series of beauty “Miss. Oomph of television will be the focus of attention tonight in the Manufa«

contests to select

hese, ile waa 53, food turers Building in the Indiana A graduate of Indlana Univer- State Fairgrounds at the first an Sity, Mr. Linton was a member nual “Television. and Electrical of Delta Upsilon fraternity, the Living Show.” Elks Lodge and the American: mp show. to be held daily from Legion He was’ a veteran of P. mz to 10 p. m. through Sat World War II urday, was officially .opened to Survivors include his wife, {pe public: this week end by the Nola; a stepson, Richard V. Electric League of Indianapolis Thompson; a stepdaughter, Har- 3ponsor. riet- Sue Thompson, and a half- * x x

|sister, Mrs. Ethel Larson, Chica- JUDGES ELMER TAFLINGER gO Funeral arrangements are and Randolph Coats, artists, and Noble Bretzman, illustrative pho-

incomplete, . , - ———— tographer, - chose Miss Louise (Neidhamer, 119, of 1540 N. Rural

|8t., winner, and Miss Jean Ann

» » Missing Man . . |Kennedy, 16, of 3760 Cold Spring Hunted mn Chicago Rd, runner-up when the show

propened Saturday. “A grand winner and runner-up will be chosen from each night's winners at the closing Saturday exposition.

Chicago police today were aske to ald in the search for an Indianapolis man who disappeared en route to ‘the Mayo Clinic In Rochester, Minn, : Relatives feared that Conrad Hall, 55, of 18 EK, 40th 8t., may have become (ll. He was sched- ; t uled to change trains in Chicago OTTAWA, Mar. 21 (UP) A Mar. 14, to go .to Mayo's for NeW cold record for this time 0 treatment. Inspector Jack O'Neal Year was. set yesterday when the of "the Indianapolis police force mercury dropped to 10 degrees today requested Chic police to below zero. The previous record

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This Jorge punch press forms idler roll heads. Operator Orville Blazer makes intricate manipulations with both hands, closely watched by students (left to right) David Hiller, Jack Snyder, Bill Schumann and William Nichols.

Student Emil Quattroni pauses to observe Operator Alberta Bailey and the acetylene annealing pins she is examining. The students had lunch in the plant cafeteria.

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g off a flexible coupling wheel draws the attention of (left to right) William Tingley, Rose Poly. instructor, Richard F. Bergmann, vice president and chief engineer of Link-Belt, Operator Kenneth Swengel, and students Francis X. McDonald -and Milton W. Hambrock. The young engineers made visual study of various opera-

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Smash $1,950,000 Narcotics Ring

NEW YORK, Mar. 21 (UP)—A motherly appearing woman detective who posed as a rooming

house cleaning worker was credted with smashing a na-tion-wide narcotics ring and recovering $1.950,000 in illicit

cocaine,

today

Jose Gonzales, 28, and two brothers, Ralph and John Lopez,

were arrested vesterday in a W,

85th St. rooming house on nare cotice charges from evidence gathered by Policewoman Mabel

Leonard. Police said the men had 115 ounces of the drug in their possession. They .were described as distributors who had narcotics outlets in .Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Milwaukee and other large cities,

Kirchgessner Rites in Rockport

Times State Service ROCKPORT, Mar, 21—8ervices for Joseph Kirchgessner, local businessman for 50° years,” who died Friday, will be held at. 9 a. m. tomorrow in St. Bernard Catholic Church. Burial will be in the church cemetery. He was 70, Mr. Kirchgessner died in an ambulance en route to an Evansville hospital after being stricken

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