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THERE ARE a few things about Jack Frost, the great autumn artist, you should Whow. I don’t want to come right out and call him a fake, understand, but he sure has been flimflamming us. To begin with, Jack has always been pictured with a palette in his hand. He should have a bucket gf paint in his hand. Better still, the imp ought to be operating a spray-gun hooked to a tank car of chrome yellow and cadmium red. You don't autumnize a sycamore leaf, or any leaf, with a mere touch of a brush. Ping. To change the green to red, yellow and brown, a man has to firmly grasp a leaf with his left hand and really do some smearing with the other. Another thing, it takes from 10 to 15 seconds to color a leaf. Jack may be able to go faster, Not much, though. When you've completely changed a leaf in 10 seconds, guy, you're painting. 1 speak from experience.

How to Figure Total WHICH BRINGS to the forefront, how does

* ‘he transform whole countrysides into a blaze of

color? ‘Sometimes overnight. Speaking as the second man in the history of botany who has ever , counted the leaves on a tree, estimated conservatively, there ought to be in the neighborhood of a couple hundred vigintillion leaves in Indiana. (If you're interested in knowing how many leaves that would be, take a piece of paper, write 200 on it, and then add 63 zeroes.) Multiplying 200 vigintillion by 10 seconds, even a dummy soon learns there's more than one day's work for Jack Frost and company. Something fishy about it all, don't you agree? My brush-and-paint effort took place in Uni-

Autumnizing . . . A sycamore in University Park gets touched by Jack (Mr. Inside Indianapolis) Frost.

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the near future and see for yourself that Jack) Frost doesn't have a monopoly on the business.!

He may be faster, but he's not better. # . My equipment consisted ‘of oné palette, two | Van Gogh brushes, sizes 6 and 8, three tubes of ofl! ! « paints, one 6-foot ladder and a pair of white cover- vie * . alls, No pointed shoes or hat. Just a pointed

head. Oh, yes, and no idea how to use oil paints, ; . ’ . I painted a|few practice leaves to warm up on n g and it wasn't more than five minutes before I

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knew all about leaf-painting, Precocious, Willard Shirely, park employee, pushed his mower under my ladder and inquired what was going on. People were very interested in my technique.” After a careful explanation of what was|} transpiring, Mr. Shirely left wagging his head in admiration of my work. “You ought to tie the leaves on after you get them painted,” suggested the grass cutter, I'm sure he was fooling. Who ever heard of tying a leaf to a tree? That's silly. To paint a leaf without holding it is nigh im-|} possible. If the wind Is blowing, -it is impossible. 80, I had to quit being the “arteest” and get down to serious painting. Two hands and no measuring|t with the brush, : Mr, and Mrs. Robert W. Romer, Louisville, Ky., were overcome with curiosity and stopped by. They said that nothing like what I was doing ever happened in Louisville. Mr. Romer was so touched that he brought me his windshield cloth to wipe my hands on. Painting leaves is messy work.

He Follows Suggestion

ERNEST R. ROOSE, art director for Keeling & Co., deserted his Chamber of Commerce studio! to compliment me. “You should step back from your work every so often,” Mr, Roose suggested. Boy, am I lucky I was only on the third step when the suggestion was followed. Charles W. Jewett, former mayor of Indianapolis (1918-22), couldn't get over what he saw right before his eyes, “For a moment I thought I was imagining things,” he said. Arthur 8. Mellinger, University Park poet laureate, was inspired to begin work on a poem| about Jack Frost's assistant. Poetry yet. Who| knows, maybe my work will’ stand as long as Rembrandt's. It could, too, if there was some way| to tie the leaves on. It's a healthy sycamore, all): right. The next problem is how could an art institute show a tree? In three hours of intense painting, only three § = fair-sized branches were turned to brilliant autumn hues. And I looked as if I had fallen into a barrel of paint. ‘ ! No question about it, Jack has a method that has me stumped. One thing-for sure, he doesn't use a palette. He just coudin’t do what he does with a brush and palette. Something screwy some place.” : ' « > 4 Thirty more requests for “You, Too” poured in from employees of the telephone company. I'll bet “You, Too” will be more interesting than the telephone directory. Today's total—1837. Goal— 30,000.

Two men died beneath the debris of the $1 million generating plant in the eastern part of Rushville. Three others who were in the ' building escaped. Workmen blamed an overheated piston for the diesel engine explosion which lifted the roof from the plant and shat. tered part of the brick walls. The blast was heard throughout Rushville and hundreds of persons gathered at the scene while firemen and others dug in the wreckage for bodies of the victims. The disaster blacked out an |1-county area served by the plant, but emergency connections with other sources restored power by last night. The city of Rushville, served by another plant, was not affected.

Fire Chief Claude Smith of Rushville, confined to his home by illness, turned in the alarm when an explosion wrecked the Southeastern Indiana Power Co. plant yesterday.

By Robert C. Ruark

ATLANTA, Sept. 16—Margaret Mitchell had tentatively planned a new book, a play, and several articles, her husband, John R. Marsh, told me today, in the modest apartment that is a vivid Jomuihges of the late author of “Gone With the ind.” However, Mr. Marsh said, she had not written one word prior to the traflic accident which caused her death Aug. 16. “She had planned to write more since 1936," Mr. Marsh said, “but this’ whirlwind that swept her up, ever since, never allowed any time for writing. A certain amount of tranquility is necessary for any creative work, and the flood of re‘sponsibilities to “Gone With the Wind" never les-

“sened for a day.- She was Roping tat somve day « the strain wpuld ease, but it never did.” ’

M#. Marsh said that his wife had contemplated another novel of the Civil War, but from a different approach. She had often discussed doing a play, which was to be based on her own experiences in the tremendous backwash of success that

- has never dwindled since “Gone” appeared in 1936.

It was to be a play about the chaos that can come to any normal couple, trying to live nprmal lives, in a home that has suddenly become.the property of the world. “It eould have been based on any one day in this house,” Mr. Marsh said. .

Target of Communists

PEGGY MITCHELL had, more immediately in mind. a series of articles, the first dealing with her experiences with communism. 8he had been a target for attack almost from the first day of publication of her vast book in 1936, until, as Mr. Marsh says, she had finally become a stock portion of the Communist line. ’ “What the New York Daily Wosker said followed right along with the London Daily Worker and the reaction of the Jugoslav press” Mr. Marsh said. “You remember that the premiere of the pic-

- | ture here was picketed, and that Howard Rushmore was fired from the Worker because his reviews weren't nasty enough. My wife was con-| sidering an article about communism when the accident happened.” Mr. Marsh's statement should kill the reports that Atlanta's fabulously successful daughter had another opus on the fire—or even that it had been completed. Mr. Marsh repeated: “She never put a word on paper.” Although the Marsh apartment's bookshelves are packed with some 30 foreign editions of Miss Mitchell's book, she never saw the last translation to come in. That was the Hebrew version for Palestine. It arrived, in four small volumes, the dy she was struck down.” pgp NE

. . 4 + - Maintained -Old Friendships IT WAS TO Miss Mitchell's credit, that never, during the years following publication of “Gone” | had she ever accepted an offer to cash in on the immense potency of her name. | Instead, she devoted her time to keeping up| with the vastly complicated aftermath of business, | of maintaining old personal friendships, of avoid-| ing as much outside intrusion as possible, and of fighting fiercely when operators attempted to) muscle in on her publication rights. She fought and won several suits, one of which ran 10 years. “She won a reputation for toughness,” her husband said. “The word got out that you couldn't push Mitchell around. She was an Irisher.” Peggy Mitchell's huge devotion to charitable doings and cqnstant, small, ‘unpublicized Kkind-| nesses have caused her to be mourned almost as a

” ~ . saint in Atlanta. One of her friends had said. sim- . ply: “Without her our lives will never be the PSCI Provides

same.” 1 mentioned this near-saintliness to Mr Current for Area

Marsh, who shook his head. “I would rather remembgr her in another way”, RUSHVILLE, Sept. 16 (UP)— he said. “It is in the thing Rhett said when A Team of investigators from the state ‘labor - department today

Melanie died. To me, she was a very great lady.” searched for the cause of an ex-

Spectators who flocked to the scene of the blast watch from behind a rope barricade as firemen and volunteer workers search the: debris for bodies of workmen. Ten state troopers assisted Rushville and Rush County authorities at the scene, while ambulances and doctors stood by.

A tottering wall section of the wrecked plant h knocked down by a power crane, so workers can reach the debris inside with a power crane.

What's a Million? 8

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16—Seven million dollars is a small sum. It is a speck, a dot, an iota, a mote, a scrap,’ a jot, a mite, -a whit, a dab, a bit, and also peanuts. I mean-it is in Washington, where the big brass these many years has talked about billions and here lately has begun casually to mention trillions. So when we get a chance to save $7 million because another nation wants to put up. the cash for a change our ‘head men want to turn it down. They recoil at the idea. I swear it. They almost shudder,

This minor $7 million matter concerns the

. food and agriculture organization of the United

Nations, which is supposed to find the food for the 55,000 new people who arrive in the world daily, seven days a week, in time for breakfast. Temporarily, the FAO is homeless.

Plenty of Offers

THE ITALIAN government wants to provide a home rent free in a new building at Rome for the world agriculture experts, Denmark has offered a free site and a free building in Copenhagen and, if the international farm gentlemen need gtill more room, will finance a second bullding. Switzerland has offered a marble pile for their use in Geneva at no cost to anybody, while Austria is rushing a similar offer by air mail. You think —we're—interested in -.all this generosity? Not so you can’notice. We have a bill up providing an interest-free loan of $7 million to the FAO so it can build-a headquarters either here or in. New York. Bince we are the largest contributors to the United Natjons and all its subsidiaries, we'd do most of the paying for the new agriculture palace, Now the chieftains of the Agriculturé Depart. ment, the State Department &nd several of the farm organizations are urging that Congress pass the law in a hurry so the $7 million offer will be

Frederick C. Othman plosion in the ruins of a generat-

ing plant which blew up yester[day and killed two men.

official in time for the FAO's annual meeting here, The roof of the building, which Lo in- November Sen. Claude Pepper of Florida won- housed four generators of the ~ dered why the gentlemen wanted farm head-| gouthern Indiana Power Co. quarters here or in New York, rather than out|gerving an 11-county area, colwhere ‘the tall corn Bro tw talk off th |tapsed as did one of the walls. One of them said he’ ave to talk o e A record, but that the European members were hes- a lee itant about traveling far into the interior of the to the rural AID blacked out by United States. He Saws Say why, but we can pre-e explosion. Emergency orders sume they are fearful of Indians. ¢ EE ; Secretury of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan Put PSCI electriclly on the Souths had no good words for the free offers of Italy, SH or lle withi lew hours of Denmark, Switzerland and Austria. He thought Enelugville WII 4 few Ie se the FAO ought to establish {itself here and, if] e ag yes estored to ng. pat. possible, on a 32-acre tract his department once Service was I ‘hi y 3 used for an animal disease station at suburban ORs before nightfall. } Bethesda, Md. Only trouble is that the natives Killed in the explosion yone want to use it for a playground. two employees of the uitty, ohn Mr. Brannan said maybe he could trade that H- Wood and Filbert hos, acreage for some more which would suit the spe- both 33 and fom tushvi . cialiste as well on the other side of town. Then Three other ‘employees escape they could use the $7 million for building. WHR hele i it. recoil

minor injuries, but plant SuperBoys Ought Io Pay Interest intendent George Kreher, 34, and

THE STATE DEPARTMENT man echoed this Tony Barringer, 35, all of Rushidea in language diplomatic; he said that New y i16 were not injured. York was equally as appropriate as headquarters, g, vivors said there were two for the bucolic division of the United Nations 'blasts just before 11 a. m. (Indi- y ' N. E. Dodd, the gray-haired director-general ;,an01is Time), and they blamed 7 al of the FAO, said he'd refer this offer to the mem-| 0" or the engines which they Rescue workers use a crane to dig for bodies in the wreckage. DETSIP el it JSirives Jets 10. the ruple sata had not been functioning They are moving large chunks of cement that formed part of the of months. Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper owa 8 » the explosion. g wondered if the boys oughtn't to pay interest on|PTOPETlY Just before! 8 2p es plant roof. — ecg

Congress. All he Xnew was that his men wou WOman, 64, Rescued Veteran Officer Suffers Stroke Burglar Gets 83 Motorcycle Officer From Gas-Filled Home | Veteran policeman Harry Irick the police pension fund the last Bottles of Whisky

accept the most attractive offer. H t . Ili . That's where it stands now. I'm just a tax-| y Daren yee and 31 wil: ammount 10 moth A. 0Yer-old woman was res YA feported in air condition in 16 years and treamrer of (he An earty- morning_burgiary OF in Collision ’ - * ’ I ’ 4 ' ’, ing much, But . somehow I'd be delighted if the Fo by a neighbor after she was Suffering a cerebral hemorrhage lapsed Saturday and was taken today . netted 83 bottles of ) t's not advisable to make a world’s farm chieftains saved that insignificant overcome while preparing break- last week. [to General Hospital. He was re- Whisky valued at $150 from the U-turn when a motorcycle policesum by setting up shop in Rome, Copenhagen, Patrolman Irick, secretary of turned home the next day and Mahogany Bar, 901 Dorman-St./Man Is passing you. Ask James tlie {taken to St. Vincent's Wednes-| Mrs. James Flinn, an owner, V- Hurst of Terre Haute, tem-

Geneva or Vienna. Handsome cities every one. ast es ; [Davidson St., was found uncon- Chapin Calls Testimony day. [told police 45 half pints, 25 pints porarily at 316 Massachusetts

A fireman comes through the door of the wrecked plant, just before arrival of workmen with a power shovel.

The Quiz Master

How do flamingoes go about getting dinner? They muck about in shallow water, thrusting their ladle-shaped beaks upside down into the mud to strain out the small mollusks and crustaclans that make-up their diet. : ’ op PS Who is the present Army Chief of Staff? Gen. J. Lawton Collins. Called “Lightning Joe,” he led the VII Corps breakthrough at St. Lo.

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And free of Indians, Mrs. Clora May Jackson, 207 8.| by a nas: . | ne of the veterans of the ‘ Jn A aint Without Foundation’ department, Patrolman Irick has a win why Yul Ave. ??? Test Your Skill ??? who was investigating the smeil. WASHINGTON, Sept, 16 (UP) been a policeman 42 years. slashing a screen door ned DY Patrolman George W. Burford, * * lof gas. Mrs. Jackson was treated —Selden Chapin, former U. 8. ‘ rear of the building. {270 N. Ritter Ave, was released by the police emergency § ip 4 J sisiet to aaanest, ioday 3 Children Vanish pe (after treatment in General Hos. The victim told police she had branded as “completely withou ‘LITTLE GIANTS THRIVE pital veste gone Into the bedroom and had foundation” testimony of former On Way to Sghool ROCHESTER, N. H., Sept. 16. v ye eriay for bruises he re. forgotten to light the burner after; Hungarian Foreign Minister Lasz-| AYER, Mass, 8epti 46 (UP)— (UP) — Twin boys weighing a HY on his cycle. colfided. turning on the gas, lo Rajk that he aided: American Three children—two/fHfothers and total of 16 pounds, six ounces "1th Hurst's car, as the latter - {espionage in Hungary.

Where do muscles get their energy? Muscles, says biochemist Albert Szent-Gyorgyl, are chemical engines that get their energy from a compound called adenosine triphosphate,

oi : ; unm : [were reported thrivin ./was attempting a U-turn east.of Ww 3 8 a |U. 8. FIRE LOSSES GAIN Mr. Chapin promptly .calied 'a/® Mster—vanished on’ their way ic} [ECITSL RAVINE aL 8 hoe) a Massachusetts That nation was the first to map its entire NEW YORK, Sept. 16 (UP)—| news conference here and said he to. school yesterday, police dis- and Mrs. Francis Howard within|A i : ‘ area; } aie . The fire-loss in the United States had no .conversations with Rajk closed today. ve. yesterday,

[two minutes of each other, the| - ] Missing were Michael Pilger, babies weighed eight pounds, eS] a Tia oe rpnent in turn. . & ;

France started the task In 1789, and the Job during August was $50,150,000 ~ “except strictly or officiaffil busi-| : : yo |11, Patricia, 9, and Frederick, 7. ounces, respectively, |tlegal left

took more than 45 years. i |a 1.1 per cent increase over July, ness.” ¢