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The man with the shiny dome facetiously said, “You older gentlemen take a chair, I'll stand.” : Right now there are seven chairs in the part of the office reserved for the hoi polloi. Three have been renovated in bright red leatherette and varnished. Four show their age. Three are out for treatment. -

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gentleman smoking a cigar. The man J to go beyond the fence. He just settled back in one of the refurbished chairs. y .

Mrs. Oertling said ‘no. No one is expected to stay long enough to require a clothes horse. A bewildered Western Union boy walked in and handed Miss Bookedis some telégrams. She instructed him to go across to the auditor’s office. Postman Harold Schreickingost brought his third and last delivery of mail for the day. Mrs. Oertling opened the mail and stamped it to show the time of arrival Two more men shuffied into the office and were questioned by Mrs. Oertliig. She-then twisted one number on the telephone dial, spoke a few words and out came Mr. Campbell. He disposed of the two quickly and received profuse thanks. The office silgnce was broken only by the staccato taps of typewriters keys. Secretary Virginia /|l Crume and Miss Bookedis had their machines in high gear.

Fat Envelope fo the Stout Gentlemen

envelope and she handed it to the stout gentleman with the cigar, He asked if there was a charge. Not _there, at the secretary of state’s office. Several Statehouse minions passed through the swinging gate. No one stayed long, even those who addressed Mr. Campbell as Art. 1 counted dozens of people wandering aro the granite floors who stopped in front of the open door with “Governor” above it to stare a few moments. When that happened I tried to put on a businesslike appearance. As if I had business being there. You know, waiting to see the Gov-

Ha! I might just as well go over to the Terminal Station and sit and watch people. Mrs. Oertling tells me what I saw goes on every day. Beats me.

Open Forum

By Peter Lisagor

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y, Oct. 10—The big powers have no exclusive franchise on sounding off in open meeting here. The small nations can make United Nations halls crackle with their backyard beefs, too. The headlines avoid them, usually, and there may be a few urges to yawn among the delegates. But the issues involved are urgent and weighty ones to them,

Dismember Italian Empire TAKE ONE SEGMENT of the complex business of disposing of Italy's former African empire, for instance. Ethiopia wants a slice of Eritrea as an outlet to the sea. So Ibrahim Sultan, a dark, bulky gent encased in a turban who represents the Eritrean Union for Independence, takes a seat inside the long horseshoe table, facing the Ethiopian delegate, and in a few thousand well-chosen Arabic words says, “Uh uh, we want our independence.” He finishes with aplomb. Then Abte-Wold Aklilou, the Ethiopian delegate and member of the Political Committee hearing the Eritrean reguest, goes to work on that aplom like a county prosecutor. How come, he wants to know, those parties of Sultan’s bloc who favored Italian administration before .were now so united and opposed to “colonialism?” And in the change of heart, did Sultan and Co. check with the folks back home? Sultan replies that the decision to unite on independence was not influenced by ‘outside

sources,” and that the folks back home were consulted and they approved. Now Brother Aklilou oils up his guns, and the debate begins to bristle. HOW many people does Eritrea have and what percentage of them does Sultan represent?

population, Sultan ihforms him, but he represents | about 1,338,000 good . citizens. “That's more than the entire population of Eritrea,” the Ethiopian declares. “Since there's been no census in years, how do you know?” Sultan counters, in substance. “I'm supposed to be asking the questions?” says Prosecutor Aklilou. “Now on what do you base your 1,338,000 figure?” Each of the political parties keeps books, replies Sultan in a manner to suggest that Mr. Aklilou would do well to brush up on his ward politics.

Has Freedom to Keep Silent AFTER THIS EXCHANGE persisted, Sultan pointedly inquired of his antagonist how it was that “the Almighty had created Ethiopia without an outlet to the sea.” The committee chairman, Canada’s Lester B. Pearson, advised Sultan at this point that he was free not to answer questions he considered out of order, but would he please refrain from asking questions of the committee members. A short time later, Sultan and his turbaned colleagues were excused. Akilou glowered, and the

Colorful Career

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10—There is a beautiful lady from Beckley, W. Va. Miss Patty Painter, whose heartless bosses have forced her to wear the same striped dress daily for the last three years. They’ve made her bleach her hair white. Now they're ogling down her pretty throat for a look at her tonsils; wouldn't she like to have ’em removed in Technicolor? Tenderly each morning they inquire about her abdomen. Any pains? If so, it would give them great pleasure to slice a hole in her side and remove her appendix for all to see. If I were Miss Painter I think I'd quit, no matter what the salary, while still in one piece.

No Boredom for Patty I RAN into her during the present hubbub here about color television, a subjéct with which I may have bored you before. The problems of Miss P., who is performing daily before the Federal Communications Commission as the world’s only tinted television actress, I don’t think you'll find dull. She doesn’t, either. Most _of the time she’s poised, ready to flee, screaming. In 1946 she left the hills of West Virginia in favor of New York and a career as a model and, perhaps, as a movie star. Nobody had more handsome taffy-colored hair than hers, nor brighter brown eyes. Just what the Columbia Broadcasting Co. needed. It was experimenting with colored television, and blue-eyed blonds wouldn't do. They didn’t seem to have any eyes at all. Miss Painter's peepers, on the other hand, appeared in the screen in all their sable glory. So she went to work for CBS. Dr. Peter Goldmark, who invented the firm's color system, handed her a striped dress and since then he's spent $3.5 million taking her picture in it. The same dress. Never a change. “The first year they told me to be carefuk

The Quiz Master

committee adjourned for lumch. dreds of airfields along the|Attu and Shemya, and Nikol-ore boats in 1942. Should we be- ind 3 ad ; dr Siberian coast. By scouting|5evsk, at the mouth of the Amur|come involved in a war with Rus- N ial cho h : . “leads” through the ice from the (River. German submarine ex-|sia, they will no doubt have all avy aerial photographers mapping the Far Northern frontier

By Frederick C. Othman

with it,” she said. “The second they said to sit down in it gently. Now they don’t let me sit down at all. They're afraid their old dress will fall apart.” : Miss P. thought that as color vision’s premier actress the people she’d meet might prove more! valuable than the wages. No Hollywood produc-! er's ever seen ber, in person or on the screen.|

Nobody gets a look;at Miss Painter except a| crew of engineers, government officials, and an| occasional bystander like me. Her audiences] seldom notice her; they're more interested in the stripes on her dress. A while bck, though, they changed a widget inside the machinery and her hair took on an orange-colored cast. You think they changed the sprockets? Haw. They made Miss Painter soak| her head in peroxide and ammonia water. Her| hair's about the color of her great-grandmother’s. No color at all.

Operation Appendix Next?

SO" A' WHILE BACK the proprietors made a | deal with a pharmaceutical outfit to televise op-| erations in color for the benefit of student sur-| geons. This is about to begin. Dr. Goldmark would| prefer that all the operations be pertormed on Miss Painter.- After all, she knows the television| technique. Her blood, furthermore, probably is a brighter shade of red than anybody else's. “Every morning he asks me how I feel,” she said. “He wonders how I'd like to undergo a small operation. Of course, he’d rather have a| big operation, like removing a foot, but he'd! settle for an appendix. And I always tell him. that I never felt better. He always seems so dis- | appointed, it's frightening.” { That's one way to earn a living. I only hope | the pay is commensurate with the risks. {

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rl 27? Test Your Skill ???

What native language is the mostly widely used in India? Hindustani, which is understood by about 70 per cent of India’s population of 342,000,000.

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When were automobiles first equipped with electric self-starters? The first electric self-starter was a relaycontrolled ignition system which eliminated the old-time magneto and dry-cell battery ignitions, both unreliable for starting. The first car equipped with this self-starter was shown at an auto show at Atlanta, Ga., in November, 1908.

® & © Who was the shortest lived of our presidents?

James A. Garfield was the shortest lived of all American presidents. He died at 49. Toa * oo : Where is the Black-tailed Deer found? This is the smallest member of the deer family. It is remarkable for having the most limited range of all deer of America, being found im British Columbia and on the Pacific Coast only.

What is the meaning of the word “noshow?” This is an airline term designating a person who makes a reservation for a flight and fails to turn up by the time the plane leaves.

®* & o Do insects migrate? Some insects such as the migratory locusts or grasshoppers do migrate. Monarch butterflies mi-

grate like birds. They are strong fliers and are able to go many miles at a time. ¢ ¢ & What is the origin of the word “truck garden?” The term “truck” gardems or “truck” crops comes from the French werd “troquer,” which means to barter. A CS b

Where is the oldest of Cleopatra’s Needles? Cleopatra's Needles are only two of many obelisks which the ancient Egyptians produced. The oldest of all of those which stand today is at Heliopolis, a small city near Cairo. This one is 67 Jout high and its weight has been estimated at ns. .

The Arctic . .

Russia Now Has Great

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fight in the Far North, the odds will be on Russia at the start.

and Wrangel Island—in Soviet Siberia opposite Alaska—to Spitsbergen and Franz Josef Land, where the Baltic joins the Artic off the coasts of Norway.

country better. He had dealt with|

fought in it. He has a railroad|Siberian coast. Their mission toparallel to the Arctic Circle. Six|day is nonmilitary. But conversion

of his country’s republics lie with- plished overnight.

{in it. He has well-established supMR. CAMPBELL handed Miss Amidei the fat 1y and

which we cannot duplicate. Most Alaska. They could, conceivably, important, the Russian could fight |p, from his own soil, | rounds the Pole from Asia to, Cited States. Scandinavia. American Alaska controls only a small arc.

sia’s Arctic bases is hard to come hauled to the Chukotski Peninby. But there is reason to believesula, 40 miles across the Bering that Tiksi—400 miles from Nome Straits from Alaska. Soviet jets, and 500 miles from Resolute Bay/Pased on Wrangel Island off the —1s its hub, with Vladivostok and |Chukotski Peninsula, have buzzed Petropovolosk its western anchors and Spitsbergen its anchor to the|™eather flights to the North Pole. east. | * = =

includes Spitsbergen, Franz Josef|anchor of Land, the Kara and Laptev coasts, |railw Tiksi, the New Siberian Islands the Chukotski Peninsula, Wrangel Island, Petropovolosk, the Kamchatka peninsula, the Nikolskoe naval base in the Komandorski Islands, the Nikolaevsk naval,

base at the mouth of the Amur|1Slands. It is a major naval andSakhalin, Whers be ans Hi river, Vladivostok and Sakhalin|air base: Russia has always re-|installations. .

—Russia's prize for a few day’s There are no official statistics on the Eritrean participation in the Japanese war.

of the Lena River. Today, Ameri-

The Russians have built hune miles from American air bases at

air, they can maintain a regular perts selected the two sites for|the information they need.” shipping run from Archangel.|the Russians in 1940. Tiksi-bound Russian ships,

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¥ Soviets Know Country Better, Have Bases Around North Pole

Across the top of the world, Russia and the United States face each other. If war came, the Arctic might be the first battleground. To learn about the military situation there the Scripps-Howard Newspapers sent Jim Lucas to the Far North to see the problems first-hand. This is the second of his reports.

By JIM G. LUCAS, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer - WASHINGTON, Oct. 10—If Russia and the United States eve:

Russian bases extend around the North Pole from Petropovolosk

| The Russian knows his north|¢OTted by.planes from the Kara and Laptev coasts, now safely follow leads far out in the Arctic ts problems all his life. He has|Ocean. Russian airfields dot the

to war bases could be accom-

From Tiksi and its supporting communication lines bases, Russian planas could reach bomb the Soo locks. Certainly, ey might destroy some major which sur-|cities in Canada and the northern

Lake Baikal also serves as a {Supply center for other Siberian (bases. From it, sdpplies brought Accurate intelligence on Rus-jup over the Trans-Siberian are

American B-29's on routine

Fast to west, that Polar line] VLADIVOSTOK — Siberian the Trans;Siberian ay and Russia’s principal Pacific port—is a supply point for Russian bases on the Kamchatka Peninsula, along the sea of Okthotsk and in the Komandorski

J * , % Nia " ay Sheth Lid 8 ky 2 TR Gl's serving in the Far North are required to wear 40 pounds of clothin an unidentified serviceman tries on his boots. Specialists are working toward will give the same protection.

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ern outlet of the sea of Japan. It . lies across a narrow strait from

garded it as her Asiatic com-| In the opposite direction— tomand post and has centered her|ward Europe—the Russians have submarine activities there. While|air bases on Franz Josef Land the Hitler-Stalin Pact was in|from which they could fly on a diforce in 1939-40, German U-boat |rect line to. .the United States experts were sent to Vladivostok.|across Greenland and northern Today, German technicians—| Quebec. Russian “interest” may builders of sub pens in France gven, Sxiena NS her HL The and Norway which we were never day Herald Ing fall Sd yp able to destroy—are in Siberia.

dispatch from Bell Island, beAt Petropovolosk—second only tween Newfoundland and Labrato Vladivostok — the

Russians dor:

2 =» = | TIKSI, a few years ago, was a small Eskimo village at the mouth

can intelligence officers believe it is a modern city and a major military base. Its birth is so recent— and so secret—that few maps list it. It is believed to-have 50,000 to 100,000 people.

As Tiksi is the hub of Russia's “ Polar front, so Lake Baikal—near have dredged Avancha Harbor, During tii visit tere Jor a

built airfields and naval yards,|cargo of ore this summer, crewte Mongolian borass, is its opis. constructed barracks. They have men of one of the Russian ships Trans-Siberian railroad its life-|Pull roads across the Kamchat- Were seen takipg Bictures of the line. Supplies for Tikes! and its|K8 Peninsula to the Sea of Ok-|P¢EE | PEE JAA FIrONE ne surrounding bases are brought to . Along the Okhotsk coast, B10res in eh ; re eS Lake Baikal over the Trans-|th€y have set up a military re-| © th SN Dmay Siberian, thence trucked over the|Séarch center. BO -on Et aa De frozen Lena to Delta. The Lena | Supporting Petropovolosk and oi here that the Re is an ice highway 10 months of|viadivostok are the Russianio. "gone by the Germans just oy the year. Naval bases dt Nikolskoe, Ko-

fore the last war, with the result Tiksi has other supply routes./mandorski Islands, only 180na¢ German subs were able to

come in here and torpedo four

are caught in the air near Big Delta, in Alaska. Nowhere in the Next: Our Toehold in the Arc- world is there more spectacular scenery—or greater’danger to our

Nikolaevsk controls the north-'tic. ,

es- airmen until we learn more about the area.

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Here is another story about a Red Feather agency that might help you compile’ a winning statement for the Community Fund | Contest. The Times is publishing this series of stories to help its | readers earn more than $5000 worth of prizes in the contest sponsored by the General Motors dealers of Marion County.

By IRVING LEIBOWITZ The Country Club of Indianapolis’ South Side is an old

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Producer Stromberg's Wife Gets Divorce

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10 (UP)—The two-year marriage CTielty. tied war BsUaH £ e tes er husbanil of New. York Producer Hunt|,. oo3"the lock in their New! Stromberg Jr., and his wife wasiygri apartment to keep her out’ on hip Tots today. oe “iwhen she returned from visiting was learned here r-ther sick mother here. : _ : a] cult Judge George W. Tedder| The couple re married. at! Folks gather at the Communal Center Association to play euchre and drink coffee granted Mrs. Marilyn Eiwell|Raleigh, N. C., in 1047 after N Players left to right are George Beard, Mrs. Mary Weaver and her husband, Frank; Mrs. Esta H. Stromberg a divorce on grounds whirlwind cotirtship. and George Vander, fpr ie:

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