Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1949 — Page 11

~ SUNDAY, MAY, 15, 1049 _ THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES | PAGE 11

ilot Fi i tavia Confusing To Hoosier Farm Boy | FORD Pilot Finds Population, Culture Of Batavia Confusing To Hoosier Farm Boy ) : i eop ak le More First "Lieutenant George C. [round hard pillow that you prop;the canals the Indonesians could ankle-length sarongs worn by the| I had to laugh at a bunch of = City of a Million P : or : Proves (Bob) Bales is the grandson of your arms and legs over in order|not at. I had no es ia | women offer a fool-proof blind|little naked boys jumping into Complex for Ernie P yle’s Cousin Bee Js Lunt May of to keep cool while sleeping. 1 tert People Soula, do 30 08% cor their bathing parlors. Theithe canal from the over-hanging| PRETTY By LT. BOB BALES . ’ flying with the 18th Fighter (kinda self-conscious with the] All along the big ditch are skirt of hand-painted tapestry 3a} foundation of a building. I guess DIFFICULT for a farmer to desuribe a city of a Headquarters, O 1a r k /darned thing; so I finally propped steps that go down into the about 10 feet around the waist.|

million people. I guess I remember every city I have been in. Wing His work muddy canal. It is on these stone! - Even the times my Dad and John Lauer took me to the store at| tenes nia Ho a, "Pa: [TY feet up on it, and stretched! oo Vo 0h Shives do their [1a of this loose waistline ls over- gave one of them a coin from

: him ped in such a manner as to Quaker, Ind. Of course Quaker wasn't much of a city in those days.| cific outposts. Some of them [Out fOr an afternoon rest. I justiyonaay washing every day of i. |Australia, and after a hurried] SSE [111111] EEREERERCES My trip to Batavia was hardly like those to Quaker. I popped| are so te Bob says he does [Stayed there grinning at the cell-itny week. They wade out in JE hem A rues (nels Inspection of it he gave me a oa thee clouds two miles above Batavia and there far below me| not believe them after he lands (In€ wondering why we Americans ihe water up to their waists and 8058 Well HOCICR BE 0 no iger. Sp Was the airport, : : on them. This is the second didnt drum up some sensible *ou'istruggle around with a mess on ths with only their heads peer-/ I showed them the knife} § 0 RR : We had left the Philippine Is-{0f the natives’ clothes plus the| jn 5 series of articles Lt. Bales |tin€ like this siesta. I never could dirty clothes. The washing is Paths ¥ thelr pee Se PX : order to Sweltering afternoon heat tend is writing for The Times, de- (figure out when you were sup-/finally pounded, wrung out and ng above the opening of the Pinkie bought for me in Pete | 00 F oh i Li k i , i Batavia, |to make this place like a juke-box tailing the experiences of a {Posed to get up, but the streets carried home. iskirt. Of course, the sarong gets Scott's store; and of course they t. Chain-Lin Fenc Can't even spell the name of the merry-go-round. Hoosier on peacetime service in Were jammed when I finally went = = (all wet, too; but everyone else wanted to see all the blades] 1% 'h Chain Liok Fabric: 10 sec airport, but it is very modern as| By the middle of the afternoon, a part of the world which is |shopping. : THE FACT that all the busi- has a wet sarong, so that hardly When I left, I gave the kids owe] £0. There were big Con-|T couldn't find anyone to talk just about as far away as any- | Everybody who has even been ness men along the street dump bothers anyone. All of this varied guilders in Dutch money; and from all over the | one can be from home on this [to Batavia talks about the canals. lactivity along the waterways they were all smiles and jabbers. to. Finally, I found out it isn't] 20 CT There 1s no chance of being ino|'h. SArDAge and waste into the| "1, COE, he talk Of the Prey hard to fool kids any cf the airport pa, polite to be walking around dur- troduced to this canal system in(Canal doesn’t seem to bother FUE J'® LASS LAS hs ’ painted on top of the hangar in ing the heat of the day. Everyones Dytch bed! It would be more any subtle sort of way for the By O Tne waning Sunt | EE Re) big 20-f00t letters but I stil could ya ces a nap. Taosont I would ng|COMICrtable to just sleep on the canals even start as far out asih The CHR’ SHOTs the com at Meme A a good sport about it anyway; so/100r. With your bed and mosqut- iit yLB%S, | TEL, CONE, RAN of these activities ‘go on at Deve a = SOI oS hurried back to the hotel just/to net, you get a tired pillow and|tne city is a wide canal. Instead/the same time—just like the

before the rain started. la “Dutch housewife.” I was con-|of a parkway or a dividing curb,/Cayuga Fair. aS om Dies yihout learulng I have slept in every type ofifused, too, until I saw one of the|there is a big walled-up ditch of The women and children take thing in town: but Ho Rn oy oy bed from an Indiana cultivator to/things. Every bed has one. muddy water and I mean muddy. /their baths daily; but as for the middle of the re Dn thea pure wool sack in some castle » = = . + « The biggest canal must be/men I don't think they care name that sounded|in wales, There is nothing like] THE “HOUSEWIFE” is a long!70 feet across. I guess without/about their dally schedule. Th

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walk around and look anyway. # 2 » OF COURSE it was the rainy season. Daily showers were as regular as clockwork. The thunder barked at me until. the big black thunderheads toppled over| the sweltering and poured water all over everything. Batavia looks like it is tired of being rained on, Kinda enjoyed it myself. Guess it rains about as much here as any place in the world. Nine inches .in. 24 hours@isW't-<vveu a record. Batavia is a sprawling mass of red tiled roofs with creeping yellow canals draining her sea-level bosom. Someone asked me how big the place was. I ‘told him I + had heard someone ell someone that it ran over a million."Maybe there were two million people here. I don’t think anyone has the slightest idea. Why I guess it is about like Dana, for ever since I was a little boy the population of Dana has been just 853, and everyone knows that there are thousands of people there. os = - OTHER THAN the Dutch, the foreigners and a few traveling farmers, the city is solid Indonesian. These people are quaint, small people with subtle features, dark skin, dark eyes and glistening black hair. I saw one guy with 8 blue eye. He spent two hours trying to sell me a hand-dyed sarong and finally won. I decided the thing was beautiful after I got home with it. The brilliant greens of the tropical vegetation and the vivid colors |,

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