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own laws This was called the "International Settlement and was set up in 1854 by the Americans, British and French because some of the more picturesque natives had got into the habit of using live targets for their knife-throwing, , The French got mad at one of the rules a few years later and formed a state of their own, called the French Concession, for short.

Chinese Get the Idea

NATURALLY, the Chinese didn’t like that state of affairs, but it was their old enemies, the Japanese, who finally put a stop to it when they occupied Shanghai during World War II. The Chinese got the idea and when the Chinese troops returned to the city in 1945, they took over the International Settlement themselves and never gave it back. Today there are maybe six million people’ in Shanghai—most of them men. There are around . 2400 Americans and 4000 British and Heaven knows how many White Russian girls. All are hiding behind a high wooden fence built arcéund the city recently to try to discourage the Communists from trying to take the town. There are two main drags in Shanghai the Bund and Nanking Road.

Ed Sovola, author of Inside

| « City Has No Use for Yanks

Indianapolis, is on vacation

By Andrew Tully

The Indianapolis Times

SHANGHAI is one of China’s few real mill towns — it’s full of cotton mills, cigaret factories, rice-hulling plants and paper mills. It also was the

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birthplace of the ricksha — the little two-wheeled carriage in which coolies drag Americans around.

The ricksha was invented in 1871 by an Ameri-

riding. Like a lot of good things, the ricksha developed into a monopolistic racket. By 1934, there was a big ricksha-graft scandal and it was found that the ricksha boys were clearing only about three bucks a month after paying nearly half their daily earnings to the company which owned the ricksha. In addition, the boys had to pay all their own traffic fines and for any damage done to the ricksha. Everybody agreed that was awful, but nobody ever got around to doing much about it and today a ricksha puller has to be extremely romantic to get married because he can’t hope to support a family on his take-home pay. The United States used to have a pretty good name in Shanghai, but after the war the Commies spread a lot of nasty propaganda and the natives started getting snappish. Even after some American farmers sent the city 800 cows; they wouldn't stop yelling things like, “American fellows are really no good.”

The Lip's Lip

By Robert C. Ruark 3

NEW YORK, May 4—From all the view-halloo and waving of arms last week, I thought for a moment that a new war had begun, with alien atoms dumped onto New York City. Closer inspection showed this to be untrue. The tumult came, it appeared, from an incident in which Mr. Leo Durocher was charged with shoving a 22-year old unemployed Puerto Rican named Fred Boysen. The zoot-suited Mr. Boysen was unhurt. Mr. Durocher was immediately suspended from his position as cultural adviser to the New York Giants. : Moscow and China skidded off the front pages, in order to allow space for full coverage of Mr, Durocher and Mr. Boysen. Durocher vs. Boysen appeared on the slate of -the United Nations. Mr.. Truman’s civil rights came into play—in a democracy, is the right to boo a baseball team one of the four freedoms? Even the sanctity of matrimony and motherhood crept into the script. This must demonstrate to the Martians and other interested spectators that when the last two men alive meet on a shattered, smoking globe, they will immediately start chucking a baseball at each other. Mr. Durocher achieved more prominence than if he had personally slain Stalin in Macy’s window.

Not Even Close to a Moral

-J AM NOT even close to making a moral, here. I am just a little baffled about why Messrs. Durocher and Boysen rate all the attention. This is probably either fascistic or communistic talk, but I am still puzzled over the importance we place on some brassslung’s penchant for bawling obscenities at ball players, under the delusion that it enhances the esthetics of the sport. If it had happened in a theater the ushers would give you the heave in five seconds. The legitimacy of an abused athlete's after-

game tetaliation toward a heckler is argued as a second Pearl Harbor, when it actually amounts to double-zeros Bloodier battles daily are fought on the hour in the. lovenests of the land, not to mention barrooms. I never saw a ballplayer who could punch his way out of a cone of cotton candy—or a windy razzberry artist whose carcass, contused or mot, was worth worrying about. Baseball has always made a big thing about the right of the cash customer to holler and cuss and hurl personal insult at umpires and players.

At one time, during the last war, young war-|

riors with stars in their eyes were actually pro-

claiming, through the medium of the huckster,|&s

pring Is Season To Make Sus ou Learn About Water Safety

(Photos by Henry E. Glesing, Jr., Times Staff Photographer)

The season when some’ atte your life is here. Red Cross sho ency. Red Cross Instructors Don Woodworth and Miss Betsey demonstrate the proper way of f gutting into the canoe.

that they were fighting the war for their right as

to boo the Dodgers. This seemed to be oversimplification of military aim.

Pretty Handy With His Mouth I WOULD not like to see ballplavers assaulting cash customers with bats. as a’ ‘swady ‘practice, but if more ballplayers waited outside the gate for more screamers, baseball would be a pleasanter game to watch. The man who buys a punch in the mouth for overstressing the mouth’s natural function is only purchasing poetic justice as a fair return on his investment, Mr. Durocher has always been known as a

- pretty competent mouthman, and hence should

be less sensitive to abuse than some of the shyer practitioners of his art. But in a democracy—now they've got me doing it—there must be some by-law which says that informal combat between two blowhards_is not only legal but salubrious. I hope Mr. Durocher does not suffer from his

latest” “incident” but I hope even more heartily|

that it does not drag out into a congressional investigation. We must remember that Dr. Durocher, after all, did not take a machine gun and assassinate the President in the dark of the moon.

Stake in Steaks

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, May 4—The cowmen from the rugged West are clanking through marble corridors these days, sharpening up their spurs be(fore sinking same in the anatomy of Agriculture “Secretary Charles F. Brannan. Poor Charlie. He thought he had a good idea. All he wanted to do was lower the price of beefsteaks at the butcher’s—and slip the cattlemen the difference in the form of a subsidy from the U. 8. Treasury. And Yippee! The he-men with the sunburned faces from the cow country galloped into to town to ride herd on the bureaucrats; to a man they said they wanted no handouts from Uncle Samuel. Their language, except when on the witness stand, was sulphurous. There was A. A. Smith, the 73-year-old cattle raiser from Sterling, Colo., representing the American National Livestock Association. He said cowmen are taxpayers, too, and- they’d rather the government lowered taxes instead of raised ‘em. His members, he added, would take care of themselves, as usual. “You mean you want no government support for livestock prices?’ demanded the amazed Rep. Stephen Pace. of Georgia, thé Agriculture sub-

committee chairman. “You want to be left out of the secretar rogram? “That’s righ%” snapped Mr. Smith.

A World of Inspectors

P. O.. WILSON, secretary of the National Livestock Producers’ Association of Chicago, agreed. Then he quoted Thomas Jefferson, who said: ‘df we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.” The cowmen nodded their grizzled heads. And Bryant Edwards, a gray-haired six-footer from

Ft. Worth, president of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers’ Association, said he had no‘idea how Mr. Brannan’s scheme would work. Apparently Mr. Brannan didn’t, either, he added. But if the government kept track of every cow from range to packer’s rack, he said it would need more inspectors than there are men in the Army, Navy and Air Force. “No business can operate on guesses, hopes and dreamy expectations,” he continued. “The ranchmen do not want this handout. They do not need it to make them produce.” Here he made the lawgivers blink with a statement seldom heard in Washington, where most visitors have the gimmes. “We expect,” he said, “to do our full part towards supporting our government. We do not expect the government to support us.” Rep. Eugene Worley of Texas said he hated to shoot off all six barrels at Secretary Brannan. What would the cattlemen think, he asked, if hog raisers got a government subsidy and they didn’t?

‘We'll Take Our Chances’

“WE JUST don’t want any part of it,” Mr. Edwards replied. “We want to see our nation strong—and the strong man supports himself. Sure, we'll take our chances.” “But in case they should have such a program over your dead body,” began. Rep. Reid J. Murray of Wisconsin, what , “I'm not trying to tell you how. to run it,” interrupted Mr. Edwards. “Just leave us out of it.” Mr, Brannan didn’t hear any of this. But his assistants did. And if a law is passed enabling him to give federal money to the cowmen, they'll throw it back at him, They swear it. And you ought to hear a cowman swear. Enough to broil a steak, or the sars of the Agriculture Secretary.

The Quiz Master

??? Test Your Skill 2???

At what age do the black spots appear on a Dalmatian dog? The Dalmatian, or coach dog, as this breed is popularly known, arrives in the world pure white and the many black spots with which it is covered do not make their appearance until the pup is many weeks old. 7 * o o Why do astronomers say the moon turns on its axis, when it always keeps the same face toward the earth? It is because the moon turns on its axis, in the same period (about 27); days) as that in which it revolves around the earth, that it does keep the same face toward us. ¢ oo 9 How much money is spent in waiters’ tips a day? The American public lays over $1,000,000 a ‘day em restaurant tables as waiters’ tips, the Deparément of Oommerce discloses.

¢ ° © How did Gen. U. 8. Grant describe the Mexican War?

In his the Mexican War was “one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker natm® !

as eo oo Who owns Lower California? Lower Oalifornia, or Baja California as it is called In Spanish, belongs to the Repu of Mexico,

nal memoirs, Gen. Grant said that

Has any trace ever been found of the missing liner Waratah? The disappearance of the Waratah off the coast of South Africa, presumably on July 28, 1909, is still a mystery. Although traveling within sight of land, no one saw any distress signal and the vessels that searched for weeks failed to find any trace of the missing Waratah. ® %

Who was the first chief justice of the United States? John Jay of New York was appointed by

George Washington to be the first chief justice of the Supreme Court. 4 &

What American President is said never to have cast a vote? Zachary Taylor himself acknowledged that he had never voted in his life, and had no political training whatever. A soldier for 40 years, he was never near his home town on election day. ® © 2% How much grass does a cow eat in a day? One hundred to 160 pounds of grass are put away per day by the average ow, * * ‘Which is the outermost ® inet of the Solar System?

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indefinitely if you can't swim.

Hang on to the upset’ canoe as Mr. Woodworth and ‘Miss Maxwell are doing. The cance won't sink. It will hold you up

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ntion to water safety may save ws what to do in a canoe emer-

If nobody comes to help you, you can edge your way around to one side of the canoe and sprawl across the bottom. Then pull the canoe over on you to right it.

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he - Eh This proves that, once you get the canoe rights, you can sit in it while it is

water without sinking it. It's wet

this way, but better than nothing. Cool, too.

Gets 10-25 Years For Robbing Aunt

Companion of Youth

Given Similar Term Arb Greenlee, 22, of 537 8. Cole 8t., and his accomplice, Joseph M. Collier, 20, of 739 N. Delaware St., today began a 10-t0-25 year termyin the Indiana Reformatory for the robbery of Greenlee's aunt. The men were charged with the brutal slugging and robbery of Mrs, Lora Weaks, 52, of 507 B.

Cole 8t., in her darkened bedroom last Dec. 7. They were convicted yesterday or the robbery charge and sentenced immediately by Special Judge Edwin Haerle in Criminal Court, ‘Division 2.

Confessions = admitting the crime were admitted as evidence during the two-day trial, but the men contended the statemients were given after they had been beaten by sheriff’s deputies.

Admits Beating

In his statement, Collier admitted beating Mrs. Weaks on the head with a revolver as a third man, yet to be tried, blinded her with the rays of a powerful flashlight.

Greenlee’s confession placed him as a lookout at the rear of Mrs. Weaks’ home at the time she was robbed of $270. The third person, yet to be tried in the case, is Jerald Pennington, 17, of 5237 W. Melrose 8t., whose case has been transferred from Juvenile Court to Criminal Court. The date for his trial has not been set.

Bloomington Teachers To Get Pay Boost

Times State Service BLOOMINGTON, May 4 — Bloomington teachers next term will receive salary increases, beginning’ at $125, Supt. H. M. Binford announced today. Maximum salaries will be paid to teachers with two degrees and experience, Approximately $18,000 is expected to be added to the school budget to cover the increases.

Bloomington to Get

Stocking War With U. S. Shatters Usual Swiss Calm

Hosiery Industry Worries as American

Nylons Outsell Native Product 10 to 1

By GEORGE WELLER, Times Foreign Correspondent GENEVA, Switzerland, May 4—Pacific Switzerland's calm is being shattered by a war nobody can fix up: The struggle of stockjnigs. The new war in the wardrobe is terrible because it's between two nations that normally are good friends—8witzerland and thé U, 8. The issue is: Whose legs are prettiest, American girls or Swiss?

From this temporary bureau's window overlooking the espla-|

nade of Lake Geneva, with plenty of legs of both republics in evidence, it seems like a tie. Neutrality looks like the answer. But the war has gone too far for neutrality. The Swiss woman is supposed to be against the import of American nylons The Swiss stocking Industry is taking a sorry beating from the American nylon spinners, A timid poll of the shops along the waterfront shows that about 10 pairs of American: stockings are being sold‘to one Swiss.

Breadwinners in Danger “Can’t you understand that this flood of superfluous stockings deluging us, sending millions of our good francs rolling outside, is not good for our country?” the Swiss hosiery kings challenge.

workmen of the stocking industry is in danger. Will you allow these fine people to be walking the streets for work tomorrow?" The Swiss woman looks at her American-clad legs, sheathed in stockings of finer mesh than Switzerland's best. Hot weather is almost at hand. If she can’t be patriotic, she'll be neutral. She won't wear either American or Swiss stockings. She won't’ wear ay stockings at all. Coprrishh J C LR 3 Pit nfanasolis Times PHOENIX HAS 20 PARKS Phoenix, Ariz, maintains 20 public parks embracing 18948 acres. In the park system are 10 playgrounds, 14 tennis courts, an The 8wiss woman shrugs her|18-hole golf course, four swimshoulders. ming pools and several miles of “The bread-winning of 3000 lagoon for boating.

CARNIVAL By Dick Turner

Its Picture Taken

Times State Service |

BLOOMINGTON, May 4 | Aerial photographs of the entire city of Bloomington will’ be made,

Pluto, which is 30 or 40 times as far from the to assist the City Planning Com-|

sun as the earth. os * oo What is a child’s average vocabulary?

mission ments, The Aerial Survey Corp, of

in outlining improve-|

The average 12-year-old child is familiar with Lansing, Mich., has been author-|

the meaning of 7200 words and, the average jms to-make the pictu

year-old with 9000 words,

will cost the city $2000,

whieh,

County Seeks Cut On Parking Meters

“Bloomington Asked For Share of Revenue

Times Htate Service

BLOOMINGTON, May 4 — The city of Bloomington was notified today by the Monroe County Board of Commissioners to pay rent or move. County Auditor Thelma Axsom was directed by the county board to send a registered letter to Mayor Thomas L. Lemon, demanding 50 per cent of the proceeds of parking meters located on county property surrounding the courthouse, The order gives the city 10 days in which to comply or remove the meters from the county-owned sidewalk, Clyde Holmes, chairman of the board of County Commiarioners, charged that Mayor Lemon, in a radio address and through’ the press, had “misstated the situation” and had virtually dared the county to evict the meters from city property. City Rejects Proposal . A previous proposal from the county that the city share the meter money was disapproved, the city administration citing a| law limiting use of the meter income to certain uses, including | maintenance of the meters. County Attorney Robert G. Mil-| ler expressed the opinion that, rent of the space occupied by the meters, pald to the county, could

be considered “upkeep.”

ddle. Miss Pedersen

instructor (aft), topple into the water, Don't , it's safe. These photos were taken in the Butler [i because White River was still foo chilly,

Now's the time to use your head — and you hands and feet. Watch,

B Legion Parade

Set for Friday

Jet Airplanes To Buzz City

Bixteen Air Force jet planes and nine bombers will form an air cover over the hourlong American Legion parade here Friday afternoon, preceding core nerstone-laying ceremonies of the Legion's new national headquars ters building. ' Marching in the parade will be numerous bands, drum and bugle corps and ROTC units from Ine dianapolis high schools, Nationa} Guard motorized detachments and Indiana Legionnaires, The parade will start at 1 p. m,

from Pennsylvania and North

Bts., swing south to Market St. east to Monument Circle and pro= ceed north in Meridian St. Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, the principal speaker at the ceremonies, will head the re viewing stand committee. With him will be Gov. Schricker, Mayor Feeney, National Commander Perry Brown and State Come mander Joseph Lutes of the Legion and Judge Clarence B. Mc« Nabb of Ft. Wayne, president ot the board of trustees of the Ine diana World War Memorial com= mission, Set Dinner Tonight The cornestone-laying ceremonies will climax the annual spring meeting of the national executive committee. Leglon executives will be guests of National Commander Brown at a dinner tonight in the Indianapolis Athletic Club. The jet-powered K-80 fighters, the largest assemblage to fly In formation over Indianapolis, will come from Belfridge Field, Mich, From the -famous 56th Fighter Group, they will cruise over the parade route at 400 miles an hour,

Man Hit by Train

Sues Railroad

A $25,000 damage suit against the New York Central Raliroad has been filed In Buperior Court, Room 4 The action is being brought by Gene Hendrickson, 22, of 4231 Boulevard Pl, who charges per= manent disability as a result of being thrown from his car after it was struck by a New York Central train at the E, 34th St, crossing last Oct. 25. A passenger in Mr, Hendrickson's car, Ralph Lineberry, 16, of {3103 N. Emerson Ave., was killed. Charging the railroad with neglect, Mr. Hendrickson's comsI plaint says he was “drced to use the E. 34th Bt, grade crossing, because the underpass at E. 324 (Bt, was flooded, making it im. {passable to motor traffic,

‘Must Study to Know God, Lecturer Says

“Please do not think of Chris

[tian Science as merely a method Mayon Lemon, in a radio] of producing a desired physical broadcast, charged the Republi-| comfort or supply,” Will D, Davis can County Commissioners with of Chicago urged his audience in “vlayin ities.” Chairman |® Christian Science lecture last payng Jo night in the Fifth Church, °

Clyde Holmes of the Some elec.! “Until we begin to study this sioners retorted that the off-elec Selence far the sheer joy of

|| Yon Year status voids the politics more - about God and . CARL a inseparably from Him, we never fully demonstrate the free« N. Y. Landlords Seek |aom Goa has in store for us,” Mr,

1 s Davis continued, Rent Hikes for Million |P® Vs Continued, eis soaking a

NEW YORK, May 4 (UP)-—|way out of some situation that is Federal rental authorities justi- irksome or unsatisfactory,” he mated today that 1 million New sald. Yorkers may have their rent ‘ ’ raised under the new federal Bank Sock’ Given

tormula. $218 Sock by Burglar

Landlords swarmed the rental pre Jennie Copeland, 6180

heel that would |

"No, no—not him! He looks like just the kind of a refuse to put up his hands!”

|The, office ran out of blanks.

office yesterday to grab 5570 ap-| Compton 8t., vows she will never |plication blanks for higher rents. | ‘bank any more money in a sock, She discovered $218 missing Officials asked for 15,000 more from her “bank-sock” at the Cross (blanks to be rushed here by Town Toggery store, 2063 N. Illi (alr express to meet anticipated nois St, after the night watchs ‘|demands, man reported the front doof open.

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