Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 April 1950 — Page 46
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FELLOW Flying saucer watchers, the big meeting of PFSWDRA will be next Saturday at 2 p, m. We'll get together on White River Pkwy., across from the Naval Armory and a few hundred yards north of Port Optimist. : I caution every person who has sent me an application to join the People’s Flying Saucer Watching, Ducking and Reporting Afsociation to get the time and location of the meeting firmly in mind. ‘The location should be excellent for observing flying saucers. We'll be high, there's plenty of open space and an embankment which we can use for protection should a Martian invader swoop too low.
It's Not Too Late APPLICATIONS have been pouring in all week. Your temporary commander ‘has been swamped for more applications. That's why we're printing another blank. It's not too late to join. Fill the thing in (keep the funny stuff down to a minimum) and send it to me at The Times, 214 W, Maryland St.
Application for Membership DUCKING AND REPORTING ABSOCIATION (Open to all alert Americans)
Name sesretetatietan ares arr reas ABC.vvvin Address «..ovieivesiogsess Phone Number ..,.. Interested in being an officer? Yes.... No....."
Check type of eyes: Perfect..... Eagle type..... Good enough Ever see a flying saucer before? Do you believe in flying saucers?
Yes.... NOo.... Yes..., No....
Checking over the application blanks, I was happy to see not all were interested in being officers, We have to have privates and corporals in the outfit, you know, Just to make PFSWDRA look like a democratic organization, if nothing else. Who would do the work if everyone was an officer? In the type-of-eyes category we have a predominate number of checks in the “perfect” class, a fine representation in the “eagle type” class and several marked “good enough.” Three applicants were. honest enough .to write in “bloodshot” although that wasn’t necessary.
"Flying saucer eyes."
Preview of War
NEW YORK, Apr. 15—The Navy does so well at sea and under the sea and in the air that it sometimes seems a shame they have to let the admirals loose on strange terrain, such as business lunches, to undo all the good work the sailors are capable of when they stick to their business. We cite the recent outburst of Rear Adm. Charles B, Momsen, assistant chief of naval operations for undersea warfare. Adm. Momsen is a brilliant submariner, whose accomplishments include the invention of the Momsen lung, that gadget which allows stricken submariners to escape from submerged pig-boats without busting
their gills in the effort.
Says Navy Forestalls Invasion
NOW! WE HAVE the valiant warrior talking to the combined businessmen’s clubs in Springfield, Mass., and he is saying for the headlines that America will never become a battleground for foreign troops so long as we keep a Navy. He says that invasion and occupation of this country by a major power cannot be accomplished by such “half-measures” as planes§nd submarines. “By fully exploiting the use of sea-power it will always be possible for this country to insure that a war will not be fought on our own soil and will be carried to the terrain of the probable enemy,” he said. If the admiral means a war with stones and sticks and spears and even guns, I imagine he is right. Otherwise he sounds like a small boy reiterating the boast that his old man can whip the other kid's old man. In the ultimate horror of a future war directed at us it is very probable that no formal invasion will be necessary, I do not recollect we needed much of a beachhead on Hiroshima, after they splashed the big apple on it. I doubt very much If anybody would want to occupy a plot which had Just been subjected to its big brother, the H-bomb. If they threw the full book of bacteriological warfare at us, over a period of time, the conquer-
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WASHINGTON, Apr. 15—S8en. J. William Fulbright (D. Ark.) thinks-the Reconstruction Finance Corp, is too free and easy with the peo ple’s hard-eammed millions. Particularly is he unhappy about the way our money ‘has been lent “The "Tustron enamel steel house outfit, the Waltham Watch Co. and a firm called the Texmass Petroleum Co. So he’s investigating, the RFC's top dogs are squirming, and at the moment I don’t know what to think. Let's look first, as did the Senator's banking subcommittee, at Texmass. About five years ago a promoter talked some rich and presumably proper Bostonians into putting up more than $8 million for a flier in the wildcat oil business. The next year a couple of giant insurance companies lent the firm another $8 million. And by last year the Bostonians had put up a third $8 million.
Creditors Got Tough
THEY WERE getting some oil, all right, from leases scattered all over the South and West, but some of the credifors, including the steel firm which sold ‘em the pipe "for their wells, were getting tough. So the Texmass Co. applied to the RFC for a loan of $11.1 million, « : “Does this name mean,” inquired Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D. Ill.) “that Texas provides the oil and Massachusetts the money?” . “Oh, no, sir,” replied the man from the Securities and Exchange Commission. “It means the oil came from Texas and the brains from Massachusetts.” The RFC paid a geologist $4000 to report on {he Texmass leases and he said he didn't think the loan was a good deal. Neither did the RFC's examiner in Dallas. Neither did the boss examiner here. ' Neither did the loan review cominittee, They all. the government stood a fine chance of not getting its money back. This advice the board of directors didn’t think was so hot, Chairman Harley Hise didn't vote
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~ PEOPLE'S FLYING SAUCER WATCHING,
+ + « Next Saturday is the first meeting right) Mrs. Carolle Conner, Elsie Pickard and Maxine Hughes are focusing already. |
Jake. a. lost. sheep.of. the. hest.navy.in.the world.
"guided missile from afar, timed to shed its deadly
Ey wi Use of Films in _ [Wild Duck Forces Teaching Studied |:
Language Instructors ing the hae pod Meet Here Apr. 28
land “under emergency conditions.” Déan, Napoleon, Ind.; Don Clark, 441 N. Drexel] Use of records, recording de- State police report that First ‘Ave: Jack Sale, 1926 Maynard Dr. and Larry vices and films in of Edwin Spicer, 8. Park Rd., Greenwood. languages will be desonsiiated Larry Edwin Spicer also sent this Jaen ith a thie 353 ania] } neeting of ’ fly: * n, e! Mis Z}iication. Its alien. appropriately " 8 meachers Association Apr, 28 “What is this thing called a flying saucer. and 29. Is it just a dream from Jules Verne or Several hundred teachers from Chaucer? {16 states will attend the meeting! Maybe it's from Russia or maybe from Mars, |in the Hotel Lincoln.
The following ‘applicants reported they have| seen flying saucers and we'll be interested to hear from them next Saturday: Joe Robley, 350 N.| Main St., Frankfort; David O'Neill, 1017 8. Senate Ave.; Elsie Pickard, Maxine Hughes and Carolle Conner, all of the Better Business Bureau; Joe
brought the plane in safely after the broken windshield blocked the vision of pilot Frederic Stripe, also of Milwaukee. : Stripe was treated for
Hospital. No one else was injured.
Or maybe it's a secret weapon of ours. | The convention will provide, issi x Could it just be our imagination ; |section meetings for teachers or Bureau of iM ssing Since we have seen it all over the nation? |French, Italian, German, the|g Planned By UN
So think fellow Americans of this danger about, Slavonic languages, Spanish and And let's help our Uncle Sam figure it out.” Portuguse. That's a mighty fine poem to inspire all faith-|
Times Special Service
-good—officer—and-—- ~leader—When—we—have tonventfon arrangements. A: the election of officers we ought to remember his ing her are Miss Edith M. Allen ing persons. ' fine work. iand Charles C. Martin, Technical (High School, and Eugene T, Un-/an agency needed to declare ‘ofderwood, Indiana Central College. ficially dead” millions of persons Supervise Exhibits who disappeared during World
Miss Allen will have charge of exhibits, assisted by Miss Margaret C. Coombs, Broad Ripple High School, and Wiliam H Bock, Washington High School.
Air Force Research?
ANOTHER GOOD example of a good American . is Mrs. May A. Arbuckle, Elizabethtown, Ind. She writes: “In your ‘Flying Saucer Group’, you no doubt expect active pepple largely from-the-eity-I am almost a shut-in‘ but can look out the window, +1 « “I definitely believe it is research by our Air Force only they are not ready to make it public. I could be wrong. “The people really need information along Ruth Lewman, Shortridge High rations. ; . School; Dr. Clyde E. Aldrich, other lines than this, especially if there were a Butler University; Mme. Marie Surprise Pom attack. Perhaps no one knows any Rose Henry, Tudor Hall; Miss That's what PFSWDRA will attempt to estab- Maury Zab Thani Howe lish. Mrs. Arbuckle. Your help will be appreciated. '*'8 = I00% y
War II . | Relatives of many of the miss-
Sycamore Net Champs To Be Feted Apr. 19
Times State Service
Officer R. I. Pease, Milwaukee,
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minor cuts and bruises at Hurley, - 1
y LAKE: SUCCESS, N. Y,, Apr. : Mrs. Gertrude Weathers, Short- 15 Thirty-one countries at the! full PFSWDRAs onward, ever onward. We need ridge High School French depart-| United Nati have agreed to| more members like Larry. He should. make a ment, heads the committeé on establish an international b au| = Tor processing the cases of miss-|
The bureau is recommended as!
{ing, now presumed to be dead, {have been unable to clear up| *|financial matters or to remarry,| |The new bureau, if approved by, Assisting Mr. Martin on the|the General Assembly, will in-| registration committee are: Miss vestigate and make death Gecla)
Crispus - Attucks High School; TERRE HAUTE, Apr. 15— i, drink atrot Juke morming. noon and nighi, Mss Mary Lou Hickey, Brook. Members of the Indiana State check again the meeting place and time and keep ville, and Miss Virginia Kruse, College basketball team and
Bloomington, : The association's activities extend into Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, West
your chin up. By next Saturday afternoon, weather permitting, we'll know something. That's) for sure,
City last month,
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By Robert C. Ruark
\ ‘ | ors could stand offshore in a canoe and accept a surrender by semaphore. . The German navy was great, and its subma-| rines superior, in two wars, both of which were/ lost. The German navy became nonfunctional! from attrition at sea--and because of foulups at home. - A navy is great so long as it has bases and yards and replacements of men and materiel. It ain’t worth a buck when the supplies stop coming and the replacements dwindle. Such “half-measures” as, enemy planes and submarines, bearing the right sort of projectiles with the right sort .of stuff in their noses, can if they raise enough ruckus on the home side. A dandruff on Detroit, can throw a hook into the best planned battle array at sea. A navy's role in modern war, to a large extent, is mostly offensive. It batters the islands, and sinks enemy shipping. and flies its planes on strikes, and provides cover for landing troops,
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THE AIR FORCE will not win the next war. The bug-boys in the labs won't win it. The rocket-|
kids and the guided-missile geniuses won't win it. Neither will the artillery or the tanks or the infantry or the Marines. According to their CO-0p~ eration, all will win it, or all will hang separately, There is a chance nobody on either side will win it. I believe we all grow weary .of the repeated cheap boasting of the discordant services, aimed primarily at buying a favorable vote with the public first and a fat congressional appropriation as the by-product. If they would slap a muzzle on them all, for a year or so, there is the off-chance we could weld a machine that might substantiate the boasts of its component parts.
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because a cousin of his was married to one of the Texmass promoters. Another director was sick. A third voted. against the loan. but the two others voted in favor of it and Texmass now is scheduled. to get the money in the next couple of weeks. So Sen, Fulbright called up Lindsay C. Warren, the bushy-haired comptroller general, who sald the loan looked illegal to him. He said if Texmass got those millions in the next few days’ and if the RFC couldn't put up some new facts
he'd report to Congress that the deal was a hocuspocus.
Comptroller's Hands Tied
“BUT COULD Congress get the money back?” inquired Sen. Fulbright.
The comptroller looked mournful. He doubted it. The trouble is, said he, that too danged many government bureaus have wheedled Congress into turning them into corporations, just so they can get out from under his fiscal thumb. For a while there were 102 of thege federal corporations, which could spend their money almost any way they pleased. Now there are 72. —
Hise, the portly chairman of the RFC in a checked suit the color of maple sugar, and his legal lights heard the comptroller's testimony. They retorted that the loan was, too, legal; that they intended to give Texmass the $11.1 million ~as soon as the papers were signed, and that it was none of the comptroller's business how they lent money. o What happens 'next I'd hate to predict. We taxpayers may find ourselves turned into oil wildcatters. And then again we may not. But if I were a Boston proprietor of the Texmass Co. I don’t believe I'd spend any of that government money until I actually got my hands on it. Next time around, in a week or so, we'lf*have a look at the government in the auto business and also at the unhappy manufacturer of houses built of steel, like bathtubs, t
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