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cautions. Of course, my inexperien eye to see that umbrella for what it really was— sabre; failed to see the house brick » from a purse; the charm bracelet that turned into brass knuckles, and steel hooks on red-lacquered fingers. I wonder how long it will be before the nightmares stop. .'We chatted gaily as the storm brewed and shock troops moved into position, It should be noted that there wasn’t another man besides myself in the moo, I was like a lamb being led to
slaughter.
“Where are the best bargains today?’ was
{ one of the questions I asked.
Silence. A few women giggled. Others stared straight ahead as if they hadn't heard. One evasive member of an elite corps, 7 feet tall in her hobnailed boots, said “Oh, there are bargains all over the store.” 4#How do you girls travel the fastest on the initial charge? Stairs? Escalator? Elevator?” Sly smiles broke out and I noticed several pop capsules in their mouths. It was almost time to go. I adjusted my helmet, gave a tug to my hip and kidney pads, tapped the knee pads gently for assurance, and thought of the golden days of my youth. This was it. ~~ i A bell sounded, a trumpet blared, and the doors began to revolve and the charge was on. No one seemed to know which hill we were to take first. I kept my head down, The revolving deor was a blur. At intervals there was a shriek and someone would disappear. Suddenly the pressure became very great and four of us shot through the door and landed on the floor.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1050
“Sale bn” . . . and full back ahead fo he bargains. Excuse it, ladies. My cleated shoes, fine on a muddy field, were
a nuisance on a terrazzo floor. Women rushed everywhere. My objective was the escalator to the, second floor, but it was impossible to make the
turn. I wound up in the basement. Blows began to rain on my head. There was something hot on sale, that much I was sure of. Maybe it was something I didn’t want. A supreme
effort was made when I felt a strong hand on|
one of my shoes. Shoes were on sale.
To Start Work Next Week
700,000 Pupils
Classroom, Teacher Shortage Faces Hoosier Children
The kids have stopped singing, “no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers’ sassy looks.” Next week Indiana's public schools will begin filling up with the largest enroliment in the state's “history, youngsters including a large crop of “war babies.” Armed with pencils, books and probably indignant looks, Hoosier
Even from a distance the blouse counter looked dangerous. Shoppers made up my mind for me. Before you could find a size 5-AAAAA on the counter, 1 was on third floor. In the distance you! could hear "Banzai, banzal.”
No Litter Cases—Only Packages
SMALL detachments passed me flushed with victory and holding precious packages. The “Butler War Song” was on many lips. There were no litter cases to be seen anywhere. Quite a few shoppers could have used litters to carry packages, however, A whistle sounded at the front of the store and an arm frantically waved to come forward. Wave upon wave rolled forward. With my cleats there was no stopping. So much ground was covere at when the charge ended. I was looking at the front entrance of the Penny building on the Circle. A Red Cross mobile unit drove up with coffee and donuts. Soft hands loosened my helmet and a sweet voice said, “Ayres is open until 5:25 p. m.” That's when I left the outfit. AWOL.
Sorry, Doc
By Robert C. Ruark
Walker has been preparing for
students, espécially in the elementary grades, will be faced | with “overcrowded schools and inladequately irained teachers,” Superintendent of Public Instruction Dean E. Walker said] {today that the lack of available {classroom space and properly trained teachers in the elementary grades are the two biggest
school system.
Special Permits Needed As vacation days come to an end for Hoosier students, Mr.
the fall semester. He disclosed that it probably! will be necessary to grant 1500! special teaching permits to persons not fully qualified in order to have enough teachers for state schools. Despite the addition of about 150 new classrooms over the state, Mr. Walker also anticipates a “critical” shortage of space in elementary schools. Many youngsters will be forced to return tc: the more than 340
NEW YORK, Aug. 30—Oh, doctor dear, I bleed
‘ for thee, but I do not bleed very profusely. Just
a slight trickle, and don’t bother with the tourniquet. It'll stop in a minute, We notice that the Senate is accenting a bill to draft some ‘of the 4000 short-order sawbones who beat the last unpleasantness by remaining in college at government expense to sop up materia medica while gray-headed brain surgeons were swabbing athletes’ foot in odd places, and obstetricians were ministering to Pacific rot.
One Man Volunteer OF THIS NUMBER, exactly one man had voltinteeredf for service at last reading and so we
got to gqueeze a swifty through Congress to © get el doctors to bind a wound without calling physicians who have already spent their
time in the last ratrace. One man out of 4000. I am reminded slightly of the tramp athletes who found a snug harbor at the military academies during WW twice, to bleed and die upon the football fields—and to take off as soon as the peace was signed to play pro football for bigger dough. There were considerably worse fates in the dear departed conflict than a government-subsi-dized technical education, which kept you out of the foxholes and off the destroyers and stuffed your skulls with expensive book-larnin’. It costs a sight to build a doctor, even in peace-time. To
beat a draft and knock off a Free medical educa-~
tion is quite a feat. Like the man said, once, there is no sueh thing as a free lunch. What you take out you got to put back. The man says put it back, now, and one guy out of 4000 volunteers, even though Lhe volunteers get an extra $100 a month. -Wiry-the bonus-T couldnt say; any more-than-T ean understand the area bonuses and the pen-alty-cargo bonuses the Merchant Marine got in.
‘the last one. A man is a man, when he goes lo
war, and is no more. worthy of special benefit
than any other man in his same military grade. I| rankle slightly, here, remembering that as a commissioned officer” in the Navy I made 40 per cent less dough than a Chinese messboy on a merchant ship on which I served. The doctors who got educated in time of actual war have a debt to repay comparable to no other classification I can think of offhand. The tragedy of war to others was to them a decisive boon— complete safety, the pleasures of the home front, and a gratis education that runs into thousands of dollars. They received a bonus for being civilian students while their contemporaries suffered from small to large degree, up to and including death, These men literally owe their profession, their immediate livelihood, to other men’s blood. They sweated over anatomy and carved up thé corpses of nameless stiffs when their established seniors were - living dangerously and-~tinpleasantly and, God knows, frugally on whit the services paid in the last war. Possibly the best bone-man In the country once fashioned me a new arm, on a mess table In the Solomons jungle, out of a few old nails and nuts and bolts, using a portable X-ray. He was a lieutenant-commander, at about $400 a month, when his Chicago practice would have brought him thrice that each week, He was, I recall, 3-A all! the time, and indispensable to boot, but he came along for the ride. The same applies to most of the grizzled medicos I met.
“20,000 in Program
TWENTY THOUSAND students got enrolled in|
the Army Specialized Training Program. Twelve it did the last time,” he said. “And
thousand went on active reserve duty. With. the| exception of our present 3999 zombies, the rest
flunked out for physical or intellectual reasons.
I am generally reticent about waving a flag “Overs wouldn't weep for if they all got drafted on pri-| vate’s pay. They had it awful easy when a lot of | other guys had it awful tough. They owe us sone interest on the loan.
That's Shimon
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 -If you should see a
handsome cop with a head set clamped over: his wavy hair, parked in a gedan beneath a telephone pole, that’s: ~ “Police Lt. Joseph W. Shimon, our local artist of the wire tap, listening at his ease to conver~sations which are none of his business. The lieutenant doesn’t seem to care whose phone he plugs “4n. That's the trouble. Some of our Senators, who have been disturbed by clickings on the line, are worried... They've. got..Li..S..on.the carpet before. “the Senate District Committee.
Denies He Did Wrong
THE CHARGES are that he snapped his earphones into all sorts of conversations that didn’t
concern him so much as they did the statesmen,
themselves. He insists at this writing that he only tapped telephone lines Jo catch burglars, dope peddlers and abortionists. -
The, lieutenant was firm of -the. opinion that
‘he'd done nothing wrong, no matter what the
Constitution says about a man’s right to privacy.
' His theory was that it was okay to listen in on
any conversation that pleased him, so long as he did not reveal what he heard.
The way he explained if, no telephone is safe. Once he shinnied up a pole in an alley behind Connecticut Ave., ran a pair of wires down to his car, put on his phones ‘and listemed to numerous conversations from an apartment blocks away. The only trouble here was, he said, that folks in the alley’d get suspicious after awhile of what he was doing and then he'd have to go away. A better way is to set up a trap in a hotel room, where a fellow can remove his shoes, and snoop in comfort. Sen. Claude Pepper (D. Fla.) and Co., were
By Frederick Cc. Othman
interested in Lt. 8.'s methods. Easiest thing in the| (UP) — Searchers combed the jms in the new structure have the
world, he said.
Sometimes he unscrews two little nuts inside today for some trace of a giant pasement and first floor level.
a phone box and strings his wires to that. Some-{
times he uses clips with sharp points that cut the 23- ear-oid beauty from Ecuador. th
insulation itself. Only trouble is that the sub-| -seriber-sometimes-hears strange noises on the tine
—and "complains to the phone company. In cases
like this, the lieutenant has an induction coil. “What's that?” demanded Sen. Matthew M.|
Neely (D, W.Va.).
“Lit. Shimon, who lounged in full regalia cid: ing a gold badge on his chest, said this was a| system whereby he tapped wires without actually doing so. “You can pu an induction coil on the outside of a wal}, and if the wall isn’t too thick; or doesn’t | contain much metal, and you're close enough to the phone, you can pick up conversations,” he
sald. No clicks, no wire cutters, no expert knowl-|
edge needed.
Another tool in his box, he continued, is :
ticker.
somebody lifts up the receiver. Then it takes down | the clicks made by the dial so that he can tell! the number being called. —
Notes or Recordings
SOMETIMES the lieutenant orders his assistants to take notes on tapped conversations. Sometimes he attaches a recording machine and takes down the talk, verbatim. And tomorrow, if you're still with me, we'll get down to cases involving Howard Hughes, the airplane mogul, and a mystery man (who lisped), charged with railing Sen. Owen Brewster (R. Me.).
‘The lieutenant shadowed both of them with his
trusty wire-tap kit.
The Quiz Master
_??? Test Your Skill 2???
What is the major league Tecord ‘for most
' homers in one game?
The modern record is four, held by Lou Gehrig, New York Yankees, 1982; Charles Kiein, Philadelphia Phillies, 1936; and Pat Seerey, Chicago White Sox, 1948. i ia
Who suggested: the motto “In God We Trust”
for American coins?
It is credited to a Rev. M R. Watkinson who.
suggested a similar wording to Salmon P. Chase, ° ' secretary of the treasury in 1361. *
ood How do the wings of a bat differ from a bird's? They are made of a thin fold of skin and not "of feathers like those of a a bird, ar
What is considered to be the best type of Oriental rug? a As a class, Persian rugs, all made on hand looms, are probably the finest. TE Li Sn Were radishes first grown in America? No. The radish is of unknown origin but came to America from the Old World. Tts widest use is in the Orient. * >
How many possessions does the United States
Be Eight—Alaska. Hawaii,
Guam,
other-folks “heads Hut thie i¢ “one -groip” “Hunt: Attacker
This seems to be a device. which, when nro, h the attached to a tapped phone line, buzzes when! vb he Xo. hong J
« The boys
Wake and Midway, name ig a, Puerto Rico; Panama Canal Zone, Viegintiares Tout 1s still
one-room schoolhouses scattered {throughout the state. These picturesque red brick schools where grandma and grandpa went to school have been declared “not adequate for a modern school program.” J 12,000 More Students The 12,000 additional students who will crowd into schools this year are mostly youngsters born during World War II days, when the state’s birthrate climbed to a record high. Mr. Walker explained that the
“seriously hampered” by the space and teacher shortage. “We need good teachers and enough classroom space to give these youngsters a good start,” he said. “That's essential. Otherwise, we will fail to conduct a modern educational program.” Teachers Encouraged The state has been encouraging high school seniors and college students to enter the teaching profession but hasn't met with great success, However, Mr.: Walker said he personally felt the “shortages will work themselves out in a few years.” “I don't believe the war will hit the teaching profession as hard as
I believe we, will soon have though
about 700,000) ©
problems confronting the state's|
state’s educational program was)
Summer Fun’ s Over—
Record Enrollment To Jam Schools
TAGES.
Policewomen Check ‘Shooting Eye’
The spirit of Annie Oakley lives on in these three Indianapolis policewomen (left to right) Mrs. Alberta Batic, Miss Betty Meagher and Mrs. Irma Lesley. They were among: the feminine side of the police force at target practice on the city range today.
Local Girl Named Doctor, Dentist Draft Held
No Threat to Civilian Health
125 Medical Officers Take Physicals; ‘Foreseeable’ Call Not Feared by Authorities
By GALVY GORDON
By Youth Group
Miss Nancy Johns * New Co-President Miss Nancy Johns of Indianapolis has been elected as a 1951 copresident of the Central Regional
Planning Conference of the United Christian
tors and dentists to the Armed Forces wi communities.
Road Work
Indiana will be able to furnish “foreseeable” numbers of docthout endangering -elvillan,
Local military and civilian authorities were in agreement on the subject today as 125 medical Army Reserve officers underwent final-type physical examination a the Central Induction Station
OK $3 Million For Bridge,
Fund to. Cover Four Spans and
9 Highway Projects The State Highway Department today approved a $3 million outlay for the construction of four bridges and nine highway ad ects. Bids on one other road project and three bridges were rejected because the bids were above the state engineers’ estimate. Those projects will be readvertised. Low bidders on the bridge proj ects were: ; On bridge across west fork of White River on the Southport Road. Smith and Johnson of Ins dianapolis; $479,945.70. | On bridge across Paw Paw Creek five miles west of Logansport. John R. Gates of Ft. Wayne, $71,981.80. On bridge across Thompson's Ditch one mile south of Terre Haute. G. M. Allen of Vincennes, $58,203.55. : : On bridge across Tri-State Highway on Columbia Ave. in Hammond. Arcole Midwest Corp, of Evanston, Ill, $277,663.07.
Road Low Bidders Low bidders on highway proj.
ects, Madison st. in Muncie, three tenths of a mile. William D,
Vogel Co. of Indianapolis, $94. 701.89. Four miles from Ind. 10 to Wheatfield. Berns Construction Co. of Indianapolis, $129,704.89. One mile road stretch west of east fork of White River at Ca-
of Indianapolis, $225,067.02. Blufton Road In Ft. Wayne half a mile, John Dehner of Ft, Wayne, $48,111.65,
here.
Youth Move- Al of these medical men will ment. be galled up, probably in early Miss Johns, geptember, if they pass their phys- ¢ with 20 other|jcals” Col. Harry A. Welsch, for active duty inclade: persons: from chief, Indiana Military District, the city, attend- gaiq ed the conference just con-
communities” in the future.
September Calls Cut
Winta cluded at Gen-| Other mobilization —develop- FRA it ok hers
will advise the Army on “critical
- {about three ly Local medical officers alerted and halt miles, Berns
pirat bt. me Mpa, ue XN ¥ nn nia apt. Wil al "A Ri
\ in tuck State School.
From Hamilton Ave. in Arcadia to Hamilton-Tipton County line
Construction Co. of Indian 1 $153,759.91. Spits, Five miles in LaPorte County, J. C, O'Connor & Sons of Ft, Wayne, $583,117.02. Two miles ok MuscataL. P. Cavett
eva, Wis. Repre-| ments in Indiana today were: ; Hic man. sentatives from ONE: As a result of high ac- ing ha = ; seven states in|ceptance rate of registrants ex- ® the central re-amined in August, numbers of Miss Johns cion of thelmen called up for physical examUnited States were present. Mrs. jn September will be gr Ralph Johns, mother of Miss scaled down drastically. Johns, was a faculty member, Miss Mary Jo Reed, a member Action Pein will meet at 3 of the Irvington Presbyterian Church, was elected secretary] discuss Sopchgte Plansing' for Turner ‘housing o 8’ families and recs Tia and Biss De a ite of Bethel reation in the Camp Atterbury aac Carrol i the conference executive council, [3rea. Jr S10 N, Miss Geraldine Simmons of In-| THREE: Accelerated call-up of ST dianapolis is a retiring co-presi-|inactive and volunteer enlisted de “Col.
Miss Johns is a member of the tion physicals Friday and Satur-|
Irvington Presbyterian Church|98Yand recently was elected moderator of the youth synod of her|
Active for . Day | OK, Don’ t Oley
schools. 2
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™ Of Latin Beauty
Ecuadoran Student Stripped, ' Beaten
ARLINGTON, Va. Aug. 30
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woods of this Washington suburb, {who beat, stripped and raped-a.
1 The girl, who arrived in this 'countiry--only -three-months—a +to-study English, was said to {in satisfactory gondition in fd [ington Hospi Police said her] unfamiliarity with “the language, ‘théir search. " Police said the attaek.' took | place yesterday afternoon as she strolled through a wooded area; in the Fairlington section. Badly Beaten They said the girl was beaten’ 'badly, thrown to the ground and, {raped repeatedly. . Her clothes were ripped to shreds. Escaping from her attacker, they said she ran half-nude her sts. i8he finally came upon three Joung boys and enlisted their
rushed to nearby homes, shouting for aid. Miss Isa-/ \belle Greene took her in. Neighbors said the girl is an
The girl lives with an aunt in
~ Building Not Ready
Officers on today's list were on | jdshomination in Indiana. TOKYO, ‘Aug. 30 (UP)--
{temporary active duty status for ‘the examination and this evening | . They told Sgt. Wesley E. cowillepevert- 40... inactive status... Olsen .4o-. i ET | When called they will serve a attacked. ; least 21 months following a period | Sgt. Olsen, a signal comThe Conservation Building un-| of 21 days in-which to straighten pany man from Oakland, (der construction at. the State/out personal affairs . Cal, was providing radio | Pairgrounds will not be com: | Col. Norman C. Finney, communications at a 19th
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ladjutant, said less than 10 per infantry command post pleted in time for the opening day| .n¢ of the doctors’ names sub-| Which was under considertomorrow. imitted earlier this week for re-| = Able fire.
A maze of electric wiring con-iview by officials of the state! duits and hundreds of pipes Medical Society, Dental and! which will serve the firsh aquar-|Veterinarian Associations and! Btate Health Department) “scratched” as essential to [civilian welfare. Meanwhile, the old building in|. .A subcommittee of the asonia: @ southwest section of the tion, headed by Dr. C. J. Clark, | | East-West main drive again will, wartime commander of the all-| be PeIVe. ‘Indiana 32d General Hospital,”
Schricker Observes “671 th Birthday— ‘Control Temper," Governor's Advice To Future Gubernatorial Candidates
Takes Numerous
Gripes in Stride
By IRVING LEIBOWITZ There is a political legend in Indiana that all the governor has ito do to be popular is judge bathing beauty contests, attend county fairs and keep his mouth shut. Gov. Schricker says he does all of hese things and “a little
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He was told to* get out. Instead, he and his men knocked out-a Red machine gun, Later, an Army citation said today, he drove a jeepload of dynamite through dangerous territory to blow up.a Red tank.--He-got-the Silver Star,
slowed down construction of. the were
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Urges Citizens
Study Government
Kind of a man can be a success ful governor. The governor hesi-|
suid: to say.’ ” But ~ examining‘ the governor, here is what other people.fin
h-|Co. of Lockland, O.,
As eyer,
fe sip Sollae Kipaind Drainage Co. of Ft,
E ‘Wayne. Meltz-Spears-Dehner Co, ;
A Goer Off Road
jon a curve and vaulted over a
dent of the conference and a for- Army reservists will bring 400 son mer president of the Indianapolis| Hoosiers .in this category to the aH obi ed 526 VE a United Christian Youth Council.|induction station for pre-induc- 50% Margaret Daughterty, 25, of 130
D. Coch-
npr sine
tated before answering and then| “I.guess it’s not up to me| Yersity,
The governor, is‘a first lass,
accomplished pianist who is shy, | quiet and a favorite “baby sitter. %
Fairlington. |
rhe little man in the big white hat observed his 67th birthday at this office today by dishing out {some free advice to future gubernatorial candidates. “Control your temper,” - he advised
Refused Govgrnorship
‘I Still Believe,’ Commie Since 1897 Declares
NEWHALL, Cal, Aug. 30 (UP) —An aged man, who said he joined the Communist Party in 1807, was the first registrant una fh new Los Angeles County] io ance Fequi signup of Communists. ing ?, The man registered at the sherif’s substation here. Sgt. C. B. Richards ‘said the man told him he joined the party abroad and kept his membership after com-ing-to the U. 8. "I haven't paid dues since June, 11945,” said the re whose the
feve the same
Indiana's only two-time chief
|executive, Gov. Bchricker re\vealed he once refused a gov'ernorship. When the Army asked him to accept the governorship of Bavaria, he declined. | “I was afraid all my relatives over there would move in on me,” he said. Many Hoosiers, who look with awe on the big shots of business,
task. Suggestions Offered
hopes Mr. and Mra. Indiana will some day better understand their state government, has heard a Jot of gripes and complaints in| his second term of fie has, at some time or other, ‘these suggestions:
and with great respect for the!
Gov, Schricker , =. Ws advics to a chief executive is "control your temper.”
That the state highways be| For future gubérnatorial aw
{ That the state provide more | schools, hospitals, - , parks time lower faxes. Ss That the state should develop career workers, but ‘give the!
new officials every two years.
e
people the opportunity. 10 elect/the governor
ar the occasion of his birthday, ot replied: . 8chricker Fanaa ‘What
politician with a large indeperfti-
ent following He is looked upon =
as the boss of the Democratic Party in Indiana. The Democrats! have used his white hat as “the symbol of clean government.” | The governor is expected tol have an intimate knowledge of] the state, of the highway situation in Warsaw, of the conditions| inside Logansport Mental Hos-/ pital. He must have a temper that is even. The governor said keeping his temper in check was'one| of the most important things.| But he said it was almost on to important to. know when to generate a little “heat.”
captains of Industry, act as smooth and free of snow and ref-|pirants, Gov. Schricker warned, ! being the governor of Ia~|use, but also be- kept clear of|“public life is like living in a diana were a reasonably simple detours caused by repair work. {fish bowl.”
The governor, anxicus to leave
and|the rigorous sun-up to sun-down| The governor, who has high game preserves, but at the sate iroutine demanded bythe office,
still finds time for humorous) tiffs with his office staff. When a visitor k ly asked whethe 8s really 70 and not 67 as he claimed, the gov-
“The gis say 1 leak Uke 357
$28,867.62. Three miles in New Haven,
ne. 32 ors mn FL
of Ft. Wayne, $548,254.00.
Four persons were injured today when a car went off a road
20-foot embankment.
Koehne 8t.; Clinton Ginn, 33, of 2334 Roosevelt Ave.; and Dorothy Miller, 36, of 3122 Forest Manor Ave, Sheriff's deputies sald the car, driven by Mr. Evans, went out of «control. .on- the -eupve on Fgh Creek Blvd, one-half mile east of Shadeland Ave. All were taken to General Hose pital, 3 William Fishel, 39, and Adolph Gran, 65, both of R.R. 1, were injured yesterday when their cars collided at Troy Ave. and Brill Rd. Both were in fair condition today in St. Francis Hospital
Four:-year-old Cynthia Fish, 5932 Rosslyn Ave, was in fair condition in Methodist Hospital today with injuries received when struck ‘by ‘a car last night, Police reported the child was running across Rosslyn Ave. near her home when she was hit by & car driven by James H. Jordan, 29, of 5739 N. Keystone Ave.
Volunteers to Man Fair =
Red Cross Stations
|. One hundred volunteer workers {will operate the Red Cross hospi{tal and three first aid units at the {Indiana State Fair, opening tomorrow. The staff will include six {doctors ffom General Hospital {and 18 nurses from Indiana UniMethodist, General and Veterans Hospitals. Also serving will be Red Cross {first aid instructors, canteen workers, motor service workers, |Gray Ladies and staff aids.
Here It Joes The BIG Labor Day Used Car SALE
If your old car isn't proving satisfactory, now is a good time to trade 4t in for a later model in tip-top condition. “Many dealers throughout. the city are sponsoring this big sale and are offering the buyers some high quality cars at very attractive prices. Down payments are still small and ferms are still tp te 2 years.
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