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ORIGINALLY THIS piece about the return of automobile crank (the éxtinct metal kind) was to be fervent, moving. Things happened. It's not going to be so fervent, The first thing that happened on the way to See dealers along automobile row was ing for this time of the year. I think I saw the girl I'd like to marry. ' Enthusiasm for the return of
the automobile crank diminished slightly. Natural
reaction, don't you think? A few spirited handsprings relieved the pressure on the left side of my chest, however, and pursuit of the original idea continued. A man
- can't stop working because he ran smack into ‘a
dream. Don't get foolish, boy. We all ‘know, or should know, that. for years cars have been batting around without cranks. Along In the early "30s the disappearing act began. First manufacturers plugged up the holes and hid the cranks. Then they removed the holes altogether and hoped no one would ever bring
* the subject up again. Here we are.
How About Sentimental View?
TRUE, CRANKS would serve no useful purpose at this time. That point was conceded to Pat Lazarus, general manager of Fred Williams Jr, Inc, 850 N., Meridian St. But, how about looking at the problem from a sentimental point of view? Historical? Kids are growing up around us at an alarming rate who have no idea what a crank looks like, what it was used for or anything. They're pretty ignorant when it comes to automobile cranks. Sad situation. In my estimation the crank era was one of the most colorful periods in automotive history and I hate to see it forgotten along with the hand pump and the gas tank
Crank? . . . Al Buschmann shows there's really
no place for a crank, either from a sentimental point of view.
Russ Boast
NEW YORK, Sept. 28—The informal reaction to President Truman’s. proclamation about Russian possession of the atomic bomb, that I have encountered, has been largely calm, and somewhat heavily mixed with relief. I have talked to no generals or physicists— merely to the people who would have to catch it if the Russians threw it—and they seem remarkably ‘unhysterical about the whole thing. a matter of faet, there seems much less public hysteria about the A-bomb mow than just after the war, when it was the No. 1 cocktail topic, and the ladies were muttering nobly about raising no children in such a doom-sure world. The fact that the Russians have it rather relieves the tension of waiting for the worst. It is roughly comparable to a childish expectation of a whipping, which turns out to be not so bad, after all. A week-end has passed since Mr. Truman made his baleful announcement, and we still are not dead in our beds. The voices from on high have already begun to speak soothingly of the length of time it will take for the Soviets to stockpile enough of the big apples to mount an offensive with them. This estimation could be as wrong as the prediction that the Russians couldn't possibly find the combination before 1952, thereby setting us two years behind in our military program.
Will Either Country Use It? WE NOW WALK #gain into the popular theory, that since both sides have it neither will dare
practical or
“to use it, just as gas was not employed in the last
war. We didn't use gas because it was largely impractical, not for any sentimental reasons about its horrid effect on its victims, . It was tricky to control, its use made terrain inhospitable to advancing troops, and it was not devastating as a killer except under certain rare circumstances, such as touching off a gas-blast
“into a cave,
We encounter the hopeful thought that the futility of blasting cities on both sides would take some of the profit out of war; that it would be silly to polish off New York if our guys rubbed out Moscow in swift retaliation. We come to the ethical end; would the United States willingly
Dots .and Dashes
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28—This dispatch concerns that newest wonder, television in technicolor, and I warn you: If you read it, your head's going to ache. Like mine. The experts in rainbow vision chose a beautiful sunny morning to meet inside the cavernous Commerce Department building where the only illumination came from incandescents far overhead. In this yellowish gloom the gentlemen who hope to bring the whole, colorful world into our living rooms, looked gray to me. Sounded that way, too. They argued at length about monochrome and trichromatic systems; about dot interlace and line interlace and about dot-by-dot sequential color transmifffoiigeith multiplex modulation on six megacycles pls pulse amplitude on mumbo jumbo. The Federal Communication Commissiogery, including Miss Frieda Hennock (an attractive blond), sat there looking wise. I do not Know whether the commissioners are good actors, or whether they actually understood what the engineers were talking about. They'll listen, and look intelligent daily for the next six weeks or so and then will decide what sort of color is suitable for the rest of us to look at via TV,
9 Color Systems Studied
THAT, IN- ITSELF, is important. Six months ago the question was whether tinted television was practical. Since then the scientists have labored mightily and the question now is which of nine separate color systems is the best, : The inventors are here en masse, with ‘mysterious machinery under canvas. All over town they're renting hotel lounges to give demonstrations. The Columbia Broadcasting System opens its show Oct, 6; the Radio Corporation of America
which was capable of being measured stick for real accuracy. Mr. Lazarus, a veteran business, said doubted
Fasi=~"=FBl| Conducts Refresher School E In Firearms For State Troopers
living in and also tell wonderful stories of the past. Doesn't the thought of the happy days, the A Study in Firearms: by Lloyd B. Walton, Times Staff Photographer : di e— on San . ;
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exciting mornings when the only thing that stood] between you and locomotion was a crank, bring, a lump in your throat?” i “No,” said the unimpressed Mr. Lazarus. “All I can feel is the lump on the back of my hand where 1 was cracked once. Nice idea you have, but you talk to Mr. Ford. ‘Don't mention my name, either” | Virgil Goodale, service manager of Johnson! Chevrolet, 1035 N. Meridian St, recountea several wonderful stories about the days of the crank, but couldn't tell me when Chevrolet discontinued! it. His memory went pretty far back, tbo, which “made it even more surprising. Finally he discov-| ered the year was somewhere between 1935 and| 1940. Would General Motors be interested memorial sort of crank? He wasn’t sure. would be for me to find out. He didn’t care. Leave his name out of any correspondence, please. Al Buschmann, salesman, Monarch Buick, 1040! N. Meridian St., almost fell over backwards when! I hit him with the crank angle. I could see he would be tough to sell. Service Manager Walter Ford's suggestion, if we were to bring back anything, was to Include a beer bottle opener. Combination, can and bottle. Never was standard equipment, but offers great possibilities. '
Million Believed Just Enough
WHILE MR. BUSCHMANN fiddled with a new! grill, examining how long a crank would have to be today, Mr. Ford and I were making a million dollars with a car beer opener, A million would be just enough mioney to start a campaign for winning the hand of the girl that hit me with a sack of stardust earlier. Anyway, Buick wasn’t interested. George Platzer, service manager for C. ‘Wi. Wallerich Co,, was quite patient and sympathetic. ts He remembered the crank vividly, but as far as, . : Chrysler Motors were concerned, nope. Go ahead State Police Trooper Albert Hepler (left), a recent graduate of the state police school at Indiana and try. Don’t forget, Chrysler had a self-starter University and now stationed at Dunes Park post, attends the first of six three-day sessions in firearms from the very beginning. In 1933 they quit| refresher school held for all state policemen at Camp Atterbury by a group of Federal Bureau of delivering cranks. I see. Investigation experts. Special Agent Henry A. Fitzgibbon of the Harlan, Ky. FBI office shows ' At Downtown Ford, 720 N, Meridian St., Ja T fo loading of | : rooper Hepler the proper procedure for safe loading of a revolver.
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Det. Sgt. E. E. Schroeder, handwriting expert from the India apolis post, tries his hand at prone firing with the 38-caliber revolver. His shooting is checked by Ist Sgt. J. Russell Prior, Indian. apolis, training officer and supervisor of the FBI school. Other weapons used in training are rifle, submachine gun and shotgun.
, JACK Ellis, service manager, filled me full of conversation, but little hope. Mr, Ford, of all people, should be interested. Wish I had a nickel for 4 ? every time I cranked my 1926 T. Are we going A to forget those days”? Are we? * * Mary Lou Williams, Morristown, Ind. up 40 future buyers of “Yeti, Too” in the Blue Bird | Restaurant. The next time through Morristown | I'm stopping at the Blue Bird. May even stop in| with the girl that rocked my foundation of | ‘bachelorhood. Total for today, 2188. Goal, 30,000. |
signed
By Robert C. Ruark
bomb Rome, London or Paris if the Russians took them over? None of these approaches indicates a great deal of desire to bury the head under the pillows and kick and scream that the world is finished, with total destruction around the corner. ' | Maybe -we are becoming too skeptical of threat; maybe our fear reflexes have been blunted by a too-constant hammering from Washington. Maybe # we will all be dead as doornalls in the near future, but the people I've met don't seem to be overly apprehensive about it. : It is possible that we have had the atom on our hands for sufficient length of time to ¥ob it of its menace, like a tiger grown fat and slothful in 5 . ; “ Wek . we Jf Surseives with the des. ther ae mutSey, State troopers ine up fo observe as Agent Fitzgibbon instructs Technician H. E. tiger is just as fat and just as lazy as ours. This Chamber, Seymour post, in the proper technique of firing from behind a barrier.
feeling might place us all neck-deep in a slagpile, All state policemen are required to attend one of the six sessions, the first of which some day, but the feeling exists. | began Monday. |
Impatient With Bickering ONE THING President Truman's announce. ment has inspired is an impatience with the petty, bickerings of the armed forces—forces, which, in the four years of peace, seem farther away from! unification than ever. { The shoddy political squabbles in Washington, | the naked animosities between the services, inspire little more than disgust today, if some sort of program must be solidified to meet whatever menace the Russian A-bomb holds for us. ' I suppose it would be presumptious for an ordinary citizen to call on his leaders to behave them. selves, now; to quit politicking aimlessly over deep-freezes and anonymous letters and get back on the ball; to choose the best of plan and equipment and knock off grinding axes to suit the cause di of selfish interest. I suppose that would be too much to demand of our -elected peers and their abpointed experts, but the wish to demand it is ere. - We on the street cannot know if the Russians wish to use their bomb, or how long #t will take them to prepare it in. sufficient quantities for use, We have little faith in the United Nations’ ability, to control it. But we would like its menace either to be amply met or prayerfully ignored.
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rooper Dan Smith, Indianapolis post, learns the correct prone position for firing a rifle from Special Agent Don Lash (left) of the Indianapolis FBI office. Other troopers watching include Toft to right} Harold Crabiree, Seymour post; M. J. Timme, Indianapolis post, and Art Keller, Dunes Park post.
By Frederick C. Othman
unveils its so-called electronic system on the 10th.! The other tinkerers with the human eye have set no dates. ot All the schemes seem to work on that the hand is quicker than the eye. You look at a flash of color and you still see it an instant after it's gone. So the experts shoot dots and dashes of color at you in fractions of a second and your eye makes you think you're locking at movie. The big argument seems to be whether the system as adopted by the FCC will junk the 2 million television sets now on the job, or allow them to continue picking up black and white images from the color broadcasts.
An Expensive and Tedious Job
CONVERTING present sets to pick up any of
the principle
Arnold A. Goodwin (right), foreman in charge of the pistol a colored, assembly line for the Colt Manufacturing Co., has his work bench set up at the pistol range to repair any defective revolvers and keep them in shape. Waiting for a gun checkup is Trooper Walter W. Schofield, Zionsville, who assists Sgt. Prior in funning the school.
Trooper A. B. Peterson, Indianapolis, chooses the target on the silhouet while Special Agent
John S. Bush, St. Louis; points out the vulnerable places in the man-like forget. Aiding the FBI in. renin Troopers J. Dwight Nash, Michigan City; Russell - Lindsey, Kendallville, k and Robert Deeter, Lafayette, first and second sessions. Heading the group of firearms experts is Harvey S. Foster, special agent in charge of the Indianapolis FBI office. 3
Tractor Vandals Judge Takes "Witnesses' Watchman, 10, in net al Ls Toll Story to JAD ©ose Under Advisement =~ pug jig May
More than 150 persons crowded tioned the definition “boulevard” tions are broadcasting in color and. some in gray, into Municipal Court 4 today as as applying to the park. the fellow with a converted receiver is going to. Two youths accused of driving ,pial of two Jehovah's Witnesses Under cross-examination Mr. Three young men who Knot ked be 10 3 mess, with. tractors instead of city Kleine, who sald he was a minis- 4 ‘70-year-old. merchants police-| ter “ordained by Almighty God." man down and took his bilifold,
The viewi bli t trained: technlcl BOlf charged ~ with violating a “The viewing public are not trained: technicians ed on for almost rooms clubs on the Riverside golf links ordinance dragg Keeping for pool selling. and are not skilled in tuning television sets,” said admitted the meeting was held the mistake of overlooking! after the park board refused a made George Queen, 29, of 6117 E.
Md , de to three hours. one of the engineers. “We suspect all manufac- Were explaining the escapa t one of the lengthiest turers are working on the problem of simplifying Juvenile Aid authorities today. twas 0 8 permit for such a session. It was his gun, with the result that ON® 10th St. was arrested in the Owl also brought out that the meeting man was held today on a pre- Cigar Store, 835 Ft. Wayne Ave,
t trols o ) id -‘lcases in recent records of the Set controls, ficials at the links sa con-, rt, where misdemeanors and “At least at the present time, by adjusting one) tou was held without permit, instead robbery charge. {Police said they seized 30 baseball of seeking a mandate against of-| mp0 officer, Harry Beymon, | books.
iderable damage was done to|traffic cases normally are settled control at a time, a picture can be obtained. But sigerable a8 ! 4 | oo ficlals who refused the permit. |;305 Dawson St. told police that | Next door, in 833 Ft. Wayne
{ y few minutes. “ on the basis of alternative noncompatible stand-| fairways and . greens when the in a ‘ “HORT and ards, unless the set owner can figure out which Jauthe Ven JYHINE ON En, Ro Guil-| Judge Alex Clark said he would 4}, res young men walked past him Ave, Sie Sidats Said Pel oud sets of standards is being transmitted and set Up! atice garage ford Ave, were charged with take the case under advisement ,: pearl and Osage Sts. Tast| 40 boo) nd arrentel io the converter accordingly there is a good chance, Patrolmen Julian Fryback and|violating a 1925 ordinance against until mid-October, to verify 1aw|,on¢ then turned back and se. © her Spots Taxon ee What I meant by headache ramsy “Lot's Michael Viles went to Riverside|arguing of discussing religion on|cited in the case. sligged him with an object| Three other spots were raidéd De ree Sr Color]at o'clock Jazt might when they|pullic Moulevards osed Suntay 459-Pound Man Hes. . ("PP in a white cloth, rants. There were no’arrests, Potelevision is wonderful, if you can make it work,/"®ceived a call that the garage gy WLS yes rena. Floored By Blow lice said they confiscated 14 books Try to understand it and you're sunk. doors were open. They found the Aug. 21, co ing a 58 Pounds of Fat Cut Of " MADISON, Wis., Sept. 28 (UP)
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Police Arrest Tw In Gaming Raid
Raiding squads carrying search warrants struck adjoining spots on Ft. Wayne Ave. this morning, confiscating baseball books and arresting two men on charges of
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805 W. 30th Les itn nd ok ing ‘Broa ‘nk |i. Perm yack dnl tu kn nS {broken on a gasoline pump. Officer tness : | books in 214 Blake St., The I Sains out their car = —A 459-pound nan Bad 53 ponds his bilifold containing $2 and ran. 0 Fit ghia plus 23 part ?7? Test Y Skill ???|ughts and waited. After avout! Sgt. Ceefl London, arresting of-[of fat cut away in "ohne Int. Beymon reached. for hs gun books fn 1212 TF. 19th St. esr Tour m mble of a trac- ficer, was the only state witness. tion and was “doing fine” today, MF. Beym n v * 2 ; (five minutes the rumble of a trac- . doctors reported (and came up shooting. One man
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