Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 December 1949 — Page 17

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“JUST ONCE too often” is When better thrills and chills walkers will make them, Although it's béen several hours since I've watched hundreds of people risk life and limb to save a few steps, a cold hand ‘is still making with the heebie-jeebies. I hope I'don’t wake up screaming, “Look out for that car—hey—watch it.” In my estimation, and remember loafing on’ eurbs and corners is my favorite pastime, the jaywalkingest spot in the city is the stretch of street that separates G. C. Murphy Co. from the Wm. H. Block Co. The section of N. Illinois §t. that runs east and west which handles pedestrians from the south entrances of both establishments. = Sure, you've. crossed there many times.

Built in Grill

SOMETIMES I. think Americans are the most daring humans alive and how they stay that way would make a remarkable study for Mr, Gallup. I'm thinking af a particular young man right now, For all I know, he might -have given a repeat performance later in the afternoon and isn't with us anymore. He was clever and fast on his feet, though, and no telling how long it will be before he merges with stout grillwork. Well, this young fellow popped from Murphy's as if the place were on fire and he started it. He hesitated on the curb for a split second and leaped into the street. A motorist leaned quickly on the horn. The sprinter checked his pace, ran alongside the car for a few feet allowing it to pull away, and then shot in the middle of the streetcar tracks. First down and another line of traffic to go. Easy. Three

the theme today. are made, jay-

Corner? Bah . . . What's wrong with the middle of the street where there are cars? Don't you dare hit me.

Hangover Aloft

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feet between dutomobiles traveling 25 miles per hour is plenty of room for a good man. Whoosh. Is anything so important that a ‘man has to play touch football with moving iron capable of dealing sudden death? Of course, it requires approximately 140 steps to go from the south entrance of Murphy's to the th entrance of Block's. Straight across, betwen traffic, often four lines of it, it takes 25 steps tdicrqss the. street. Quite a saving. “ . Young men and women danging across the! street, hopping over bumpers and giving'the hip to fenders, are bad enough to watch. But, when you see an ola woman, arms full df packages, her tri-focals hanging on the tip of fier nose, putting her all on No. 13, you really clutch the telephone pole. ® | The poor old soul wandered across without blinking her eyes once, She had the utmost faith in" her fellow man. Maybe that's the way to go through life, I ‘don't know. A few toots didn’t bother her. Every driver saw her and avoided her, I'd bet dollars te old splints that this same old lady has warned her children and probably her children's children about crossing streets. At one timé there were 15 persons on the street. Scattered in various stages of crossing for half a block. We have marvelous drivers in the city, don’t let anyone kid you into believing differently. | During a half hour period, 83 persons crossed! in the middle of the block, During that same pe-| riod, not one automobile was seen on the sidewalk.| Three women and a little boy shuffled across and it got me to thinking. Can you imagine how| many times the little boy has been told not to cross| the street in the middle of the block? Plenty of| times. Then, what does mama do? She meets two other women, starts jabbering away, grabs Junior by the hand.and off they go. There are cars to the front of them, cars to the side-—now to the back and here they come from the other direction. Wheee, girls, we made it. Good luck, kid.

Special Thrills

FOR SOMETHING special in thrills, watch for the woman in high heels, carrying 10 or 12 packages, cross the cobblestones and slippery tracks. I'm convinced the one I saw—pretty legs, too— never gives accident statistics a thought. Since

Gas Lifelines In State Closely Guarded Against Fire, Leakage

Photo Story: by Victor Peterson

thing can’t possibly happen to her. Accidents hap-| pen to other people. Lady, please lift those heels and don’t step on the track. That's right, glare at the driver of the car, he has no business being! there. Make him come to a complete stop. The Christmas shopper with the dazed and beat look, to me, was the most frightening. After all the hours and hours or Shopping; planning, dream--ing. what a tragedy it would be to walk out on the street and get rammed. No one did all the time I was there. Miracle: "Gee whiz, we take chances. | Look out, lady. Don’t walk in between those| cars. Watch the car that's coming fast on the| outside, the driver can’t see you. Officer; officer; would you lead me home? Let's cross at corners, huh? 1

By Robert C. Ruark

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$s passes natural gas from Texas fo New

Through this maze of tanks, valves and twisting pi York at 13.5 mph. Knifing from the southwest, pipes of the Big and Little Inch gas lines slice across Indiana. Some of the volatile substance leaves the lines along the way to service southern Hoosier-

Everett Goodman Jr. and Henry Cox down stack erected when the 20 and 24. During cleaning, the stack acts as a safety va _in_the area. Any accidental fire. would spout. air through the vent.

(right) nch land: This--scene shows a portion-of -the- Texas. In Lick in the shadows of the famous resort area.

Corporation compressor_station near French

HONOLULU, Hawai, Dec. 21==The big; doubledecker Boeing took off smooth and nice fromthe field at San Francisco. EE

Boies sa Phevatewardess smiled and ihe (steward. s8id. the machine e. ’ . he oh ARHToN;

come on down to the bar in a few minutes and Shrew aight Sibationat.ame and. my. berth was made and ready whenever I wanted it. The drunken sailor said he sure could use a slug of anything short of sheepdip, because man, he had the worst shakes he ever had in all his born days and in his time he had acquired some pretty fine shakes. The drunken sailor was red-headed, and he was wearing a leather jacket and a pair of dungarees rolled halfway up his legs. I asked him where he was headed and he said Eniwetok, in the Marshalls, “I am a carpenter,” he said. “Before I was a carpenter I was in the merchant marine, Now I am going to Eniwetok to work for Atomic Energy Comipission. How do you like that? drunk deck-hand and now J am working with the atomic bomb.” I hit the sack pretty early and died for a few hours, but I woke up still thinking about the drunken sailor and the Atomic Energy Commission. If you are shopping around for a short commentary on the state of the world, I guess this is as good as any you'll find.

Hangs on to Hongover

IT IS A LONG haul from Jack London. Here you have a young man with too much to drink aboard going forth into the adventurous South Lon He is not stowed away in a tea clippert but is riding a Pan American -stratocruiser which has twq decks in it and carries a cocktail lounge

In its belly.

This young adventurer, smoothed down by a night's sleep in a berth bigger than a pullman accommodation, will take his hangover to a cocktail bar in Honolulu for further nourishment; will climb on another huge Boeing, and will arrive at the mangy little atoll of Eniwetok sozzled and in the approved beach-combing fashion. There, while the waves pound on the reefs and the gulls yelp in the damp salt air, he will contribute his carpenter’s knack to a project which very well may decide whether humans are to eontinue to-dwell on this globe.

.Eniwetqk to labor bn the most colossal scientific

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The drunken. sailor was not impressed by the] ~~ fact that he was hurtling through the air at 300} Tiled ah hour-in-a-multi-milieon-dollar marvel 5 or that some several billions AA CORRE Th RR RP

achievement of the age. I “I wish to hell they'd open that bar,” he ayy 2 “I got a thirst like a camel. I wonder if they got | pretty good movies on Eniwetok?” IB Occasionally I come down with the hard] marvels at the tininess of the world, and its] oversimplification as a result of the airplane. It seemed to me miraculous that a man of] limited education and small skill would be winging thousands of miles on de luxe transportation to work with a miraculous scientific project on a far Pacific island. The island was unknown to all but a few before the Japs decided to knock Pearl Harbor loose from insularity

Meets Old Friends THIS FEELING of dumbness was not dispelled | when the big plane swooped down on the airfield

in Honolulu. I was expecting no welcoming the committee, but sthnding on the strip was a group

No photographic flashbulbs can be used within

Intricate repairs must. be: made immediately when compressor station. The safety-conscious company

something breaks down so the flow of gas is not im-

d of Don Beach-Comber, Eddie Reich and| 2iready has experienced several bad fires and explosions paired. Mechanic Winston W. Ryan delicately adjusts plies a thick coa aluminum paint fo Mol Par. 9 R Beach “omber ® Reich an in Indiana. Here Elden D. Jackman takes hourly read- the ignition of a pumping ro to bring he iy ph the Bia Inch. the war, the 1400-mile Mr. Beach-Comber is a former lieutenant| ings of gas pressures, line temperatures and the num- performance. Other Indiana stations are loca at pipe line vital: oil and refined ;

Sojogel a fhe Ale Poress. He is a Tentaurant ont. ber of engines running for reporting to three dispatchwho chang uisiana name o aumont-| ina stati Gant to Beach-Comber for professional purposes. | 3. * ons and headquarters at Shreveport, Le I knew him from Italy and the war, and later from New York and Hollywood.

Oakland City, Seymour and Batesville. Through these stations 480 million cubic feet of gas passes a day.

ucts to East Coast shipping ports. Texas Eastern it over for gas transmission two years ago.

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" Eddie Reich is a former sports writer and Call It I reason Es v publicist I knew in Washington before the War. SE rE EEE EEE EE Aree eo 08ers By George Howe Te : Mel, Taff is ‘one of my oldest buddies from the =~ oo : . . Bo ; He 3 ; Ce t_.versity of North Carolina, more years back Synopsis: The Seventh Ar Te tine to - Pe Bre 1t ————— a — rT ——————— than I care to recall. Fle is working for the public , a ynopsis: The Se 3 rmy. wa ting o Jump the ne, It was the twelfth of February, The A-26 Is too small for him to combat assighihealth people here. ert, a a a greed and power Tegpous. A four days before the Tiger and three,” Operations objected. ment ‘with Mountain Regiment en I got to the hotel the first man I ran into - ar oo a - : Paluka wi . ow . : 3 es wis an AD rl flier who was my best horse- Communist known as “The Tiger."], Perhaps all he wants is more Pauly ere 10 drop. They vere) THE COLONEL stroked his Fred could not tell Happy that

danger, like the Tiger's partner “Paluka.” Or perhaps he is an all documented and equipped.

idealist like Karl Maurer. Now go on with the story— CHAPTER FOUR

racing buddy back in Melbourne, at the end of {chin, the war. The first phone call was from a doctor I knew ; } } in Viareggio, Italy, when I was lowering a boom BROPHY BROUGHT Karl, now called ‘Happy,” into Pete's on Gen. John Courthouse Lee. office the next afternoon at closing time, so as to make the visit Maybe I'm naive, but to me—a country kid seem casual, then tactfully disappeared; leaving the corporal standfrom the south—it's all pretty fabulous. What I ing awkwardly among the half-dozen who had heard the rumor mean, 1 do believe the airplane is here to stay. there might be a new German Joe. He looked around the room

” Co | “Pick your Joe and get his ~ ONCE AN operation _had been cover fixed up in time to drop laid on, the Joes who were to|/with the others the night of the drop grew strained and nervous sixteenth. Bo long as M Soeniy 1 {take up too much room up till the moment itself. The|,, with the Alr Force tu carry tension spread to the others too, (hres. Find a.pinpoint. I suggest

Genius Parade

—ereeireee ———— 8hyly, like a schoolboy. —e . “Sit down, Corporal,” Pete said., “Zu Befehl,” which means “At By Frederick C. Othman: :

You needn’t be bashful with us. your orders.” friends.”

without their knowing why. [this side of the Ammersee, then The Tiger was no exception, He route your men to Kempten and

Ulm and Mannheim.” had stopped boasting. He did not, He laid his centimeter scale on open his mouth except to shovel

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21—I have paid my final visit of 1949 to that cabinet of wonders, the U. 8S. Patent Office, and all I can say is that 1950 ought to be an amazing year. . Inventors all over the place, dozens of them literally, are rushing in with their versions of the automatic transmission, which apparently is destined to turn the gear: shift lever in a sedan into a curious antique, like a buggy whip, Some of these mechanisms seem to operate with planetary gears, somewhat like these of the old njpdel T Ford; others have no gears at all, but depend either on magnetism or on fluid (maple sirup, possibly) under pressure, Numerous inventions haye to do with atomic energy. They've all been turned over to the government, and I regret to report that I couldn't understand 'em, anyhow. The parade of geniuses still is trying to perfect what seems to be that most difficult of garments, the brassiere. This involves engineering of a high order, and a deep knowledge of stresses and strains, and I don’t guess we'd better go into that, either.” What interests me as a true boon to humanity, is—hold

_ tight to your chair—slow-melting ice.

It Never Dribbles

THIS CONCENTRATED cold, which stands up longer in-highballs and never, never dribbles on the kitchen linoleum, consists of ordinary water as usual, plus 1 to 5 per cent by weight of gelatinized starch. When frozen it is inclined to stay that wdy longer than old-fashioned ice. Or so say the inventors thereof, Peter 8, Gilchrist Jr, and Warley L. Parrott of Charlotte, N. C. For those in need of long-lasting ice I hasten to add that their patent is number 2,490,047. Another invention of interest to fishermen is

want you to feel you are among pgappy stood at the door, ready the everlasting minnow. He dies eventually, of The corporal sat down, not to to be guided out. Pete punched course, but of old age. Clifford K. Brown of make himself comfortable but to the desk bell for the guardhouse. Duluth, Minn., is responsible. cd obey an order. A sergeant of the guard.came in. He places his minnow inside a transparent “Now don't tell me why you “Take this prisoner to the cell plastic bottle, with a small hole in front and an- want to work for us, Corporal, if on the third floor " other behind, so it'll get water and wriggle hap-| you don't choose to, I have no| “yes sir.” ‘ pily. At the rear of the bottle is a hook. Along right to ask”-—and indeed this| Ag the door closed on the khaki comes a fish. Te sees the minnow, but not the was the first time Pete had ever and the blue-gray, Pete smiled. bottle. He gulps, gets caught, and the minnow | even wondered— "but you can tell “There you are at last, Colonel (suffering from nothing except a severe fright) is me if you feel like it.” . The Christiike Joe you spoke ready to help catch another fish. Corporal Maurer shut his eyes about the other day. The pure- . : jand frowned. “I want to work for hearted traitor.” : Stubs His Last Toe freedom, sir,” he said. - Corporal Maurer walked up the THOMAS J. MUDON of Chicago has stubbed “You know, I suppose,” Pete three flights of worn granite steps his last toe getting to his bed in the dark. He suggested, ‘that you would be a ahead of the American sergeant. turns off the switch on the wall, but the light traitor to your own country?” doesn’t go out until he’s safely hetweéen the sheets.! “Excuse me, Herr Kapitan,” he ’ A suction cup inside the switch, patent number broke out, “I do not agree. My THE SERGEANT closed the 2,488,024, does the trick." Joh father would not agree. I should steel door and opened the wicket Daniel Tobias de Villiers Brand of Johannes- be more loyal to Germany than burg, South Africa, has produced the accordion- Doctor Goebbels has been. jand leaned on the little shelf. pleated automobile trailer; it stretches to fit the, “Perhaps not,” Pete said drily, load. Anne Elliot of Bronxville, N, Y,, has in-|“but the Gestapo would certainly vented the automatic finger dryer. Just stick agree, and they are the ones that vour hand in the hole (it won't hurt). A blastimight count.” i of hot air dries the digits and, of course, perturbs| the towel manufacturers.

{the wall map. “That's about 400 food into it, and just as soon as'kilometers in five days; not too the chairs were pushed back he

fast for a simple objective.” went to stand by himself, frown-| It took most of the evening to ing out the big picture-window find a good pinpoint on the 1:20that faced eastward toward Ger- (000 captured German staff maps. many. : |The best place that showed up Only Paluka did not seem to was an open field deep in Bahave a care. varia, way beyond the Rhine. The That very evening Pete came Plane could drop off the Tiger down from the cage with a tap)

and Paulka at their pinpoints, Beat secret request from G-2. It asked |ODY a little east of the river, and Waa Jos "nad to. Jump ot : | where the command posts of 9th exactly

carry the third Joe on to his, " A the right instant. Word had Flak and 25th Infantry Divisions The team picked Happy for ig ; were, Probably somewhere south-

the third Joe, partly because he/Tound the Jochouss how Red had east of Mannheim, G-2 thought. weighed only 130, and partly| FUNEAS. iy po the s {a : El ts of 9th Flak had been DECAUS medical cover was the not jump ignal. Jlements o { d quickest. found supporting rear-guard ac- he te vay chosen so he| tion west of the fine. but Zoth could zigzag from the pinpoint Patan ny 0 kd ive PW back northwestward toward the | brou . , i “Dont worry, buddy. Nobody opgervation requésted, wrote G-2, [river dr os hain ever stays in this cell very long. as to location, strength, “and the east bank to 1 udwigshafen| * Corporal Maurer stayed on ice| armor in area Ammersee-Mann-| a ’ | jonly four days. Security had a heim with report on or before! Pred went up-to break toa Ls

Happy 400 for five days. It was dangerous to fly in moon because the ground watchs ers could see the chutes better, It was dangerous in dark moon too, because the pilot could not see the pinpoint. The sixteenth would be quarter moon, which

~ ~ gled in house, just as the show let out, Red had not come back. (To Be Continued)

CopyFIght 1948, 1049, by Cleorse L. Hows oT nd t-Hall Syndicate, vl -

—$15,000- Hoosier

German WHO'S Who which toldiag February | \ ‘ to Happy on the morning of the » {about the doctor and even named] po | t f “AND YOU would be willing his two sons. Switzerland con-| The Joe who went in to find fourteenth. Jewe Burglar Here

From the laboratory in Marinette, Wis, of) | I {fou ” William A. Penn comes the headrest for weary to jump into Germany in your firmed by code that the doctor| thle Ino nd is own. hole Tce Shapes hus come. Riki) A Jather W ho 0s Taos motorists. Fits on the back of the seat and holds oWn uniform to find out what in-| was as anti-Nazi as a German hough the line to get bam by with EPpy crinkly smile. “I'm glad|in Washi + 5154 the head, as in a barber's chair, Should be a formation we might ask of you? [could be and still survive. So his the deadline. The Army was mov-I)t has. You Amis have trusted leaviag his 10: dy SHY foday comfort. {the colonel badgered him. {son was in. ing fast now. Nobody knew where me.” ‘ companion boar was and . > /indup, no-bat-| “Yes, sir. Th / | Fred spirited him out of the _ | . ters a Br emma of Poriiand. to say ot 1% What T Me loqi "the night his clearance came the ine would be bY the twenty It as easy to equip, Happy. ought by tate police patrols and. 3 , . : , say. _ - 1 , y 8 , / \ wy Ore. It winds like a watch; a spring inside whirls| «Anq you know you would be pn ol A Eh, to recon! The colonel hoped it would not uniform from the bag in the Washington police ale both a small generator, and the bulb stays Ift until it's|ghot or hanged if you were pi 1°) PTSORRES BROCE Or ot be the river itself, for the Ger- attic and put his own long over-Indfanapolis and state "to be time to wind again. How long, deponknt sayeth cayugnt?” ’ would surely blow thelcoat on him with the red and on the lookout for the car, which

{remember the way from the cage Mans . not. “And you would give away to|down to the by M-raly bridges if ‘they had to retreat|white brassard. v ” they said might contain loot taken

Truman to Speak At Amvets Servic

{Tomb of. The Unknown Soldier

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (UP) --President Truman planned to interrupt his work on his coming messages to Congress today to address a memorial service in Arlington National Cemetery.

of World War I. The President

yesterday

Mr. Truman was scheduled to speak at the dedication of a set of chimes which were donated to the nation by Amvets — the American Veterans of .. World

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three-week rest at Key West, Fla., and immediately buckled down to work. Eleanor Roosevelt as his. luncheon guest at Blair HouSe,

Ship. Movements

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, [us the location of your own 852nd| The jeep pulled up in front of|that far; and then the Joe would a nl swim, and air recce had’ FOR HIS family's sake they

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To Blind Uphol P |Battalion?” {the Golden Well. The other Joes have bio) iin, 354 sip Joos hat 0 lis tauy heY downiow 0 in olsterer “Yes, sir.” {were waiting in the.day room to reported .nhe -/did have to give him a new nam . ; | The Bouth A Club ‘h “Knowing that it would be|start their supper. Fred called| NO Joe had ever had to swim and hence a new Soldbuch. They . nted a $1250 workshop to a| tthe Rhine i Steinberg for his cov- 3 ¢ resented a $1250 workshop to a/bombed?” |Vati- and. introduced the recruit] : {chose Kafl, Steinberg ov- Schricker Names Eight ; returned from a. Edgey upholsterer. The corporal did -not answer, |to him." | “It's definitely a tourist mis-|er name with an address on Ce- ; ind. Edgewaod uphiterer To Traffic Safety 1h

“Vati, this is Happy. Let's have|sion,” the colonel observed. “I|cilienstrasse in Magdeburg. - Air] a schnapps together.” |couldn’t ‘trust the Tiger for that| Force photos showed the street They drank -a toast to whatikind of information. Whoever had been bombed so the Gestapo “Well, Corporal, write they could not utter. Fred left/goes in will have to travel solo, could not check. ? |and light, and fast. He'll have to| Documents and his two forgers

labor but he nodded, with his eyes on| the ground. At 4 nod from the colonel, Pete

Club members donated He had and cost of materials for the onestory frame shop. The upholstérer,| Hal Petrie, formerly operated a PY up. in Hite th Soule neh oy ol in the State Life down your father’s name and ad- them together from then n fews. Hand ‘ dress for us here. We will think went back to. the Schloss. i get back on his_own and bring copied the entries and signatures | The'club will sponsor a Christ- for a while. Meanwhile, I am In one week the good food filled his report verbally. There isn’t/from -Happy's own Soldbuch. mas party for Southport children afraid we cannot sepd you back [Happy out. He looked taller and{time to lay on another flight be- Then they fomced an entry for

Gov. Schricker today an~ nounced “eight appointments to the advisory board of the Indie ana Traffic Safety Commission, They were J. L. Lingo, Lafas yette; Mrs. Evelyn Jaqua, Wins chester; Russell Perkey, South

War II—in memory of service-| New York Arrivals—America. Southamp- + 7.30 nm tomorrow at the|to the dispensary or out into the huskier; his sieves, anyway, fore the sixteenth, yet 1 don’tlHQ Company of Third Flak{Bend, and five resi men who perished in the last war. Cristopas: Bante Ro artagenn ve | University ‘Heights © 8chool on barracks with the other prisoners.|seerhed shorter and too tight for|want to scrub the Tiger ‘and Training Regiment in the bar-dents; Mrs, Edith Hams i “he chimes have Deen INSLAIEA | yerter. Tor mar or n= Hanna Ave. Santa Claus will You will have a room of your own his muscles, His mustache was|/Paluka. The only thing I see isiracks at Munieh, and a separate Fleming, Ray E. Smith, in the ampitheater opposite The form aa A ristonal for a week, till we decide.” |almost a real mustache. /

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to send a third Joe with them.” transfer, to be hidden till needed, C. Park, and Edward

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