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RICHARD J. CLEMENTS, probationary fireman, reported for his first day of duty one hour

early. But what's an extra hour in a career that

might last 30 or 40 years? : The night before Dick had trouble getting to sleep. He woke up long before it was time to go to work. His dad, Ted Clements, a member of the Indianapolis Fire Department for 34 years, told Dick to get a good night's sleep. Easier said than

younger brother not to worry. Also easier said than ‘done by a 21-year-old lad who has always wanted -to be a fireman. It's not a small matter for a youth to step into line with men and begin writing his own story. It's not like listening to fire talk around the dinner table.

House Hums With Activity DICK was cleaning Chief Joseph Hancock's quarters at Station 13 when I arrived. The house at Kentucky Ave. and Maryland St. was humming with activity. Daily and routine chores were being done. Men in other parts of the station joked and laughed with that easy familiarity of men who live, eat; work, lay their lives on the line together. The new replacement had to start from the beginning. He hadn't done any of those things yet. I asked Dick if he new the names of any of the men. He admitted being introduced and he knew several faces but the names—well, the names didn’t stick. His main worry, still holding over from the

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night before, was what he would do, if hé had to go to a fire that night. Dick said he was a heavy sleeper. Why did he report an hour early? Dick wanted) to show he was prompt. No, he couldn't eat much, for breakfast. Yes, he was nervous. No, he hadn't, gone down the pole at the station. At fire school,

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That's when I put my two cents in. After more than four years of wandering all over the city, in my opinion, man for man, they are the finest. The morning wernt by. slowly. Acting Lieut. Loran Booth asked Dick. to join him in sliding down the pole. Dick watched intently, His slide was good. Then the men sat in front of the sta-! tion. Dick sat among them like a veteran. Ei He ate his noon meal cautiously and was kidded into taking seconds. On his mind was the bap-| tism of fire. The first run. He knew his position ‘on Engine 13. His buddies would be Joe Weaver, driver; Loran Booth, in charge; Herb Beason, and! Harry Blume on the back with Dick. | And then it came. Dick had very little time to think. Engine 13 roared away. Robert (Bull) Durham nudged me and we watched Dick struggle with the catches on his coat. He was on his way, a bit fouled up but hanging grimly on with one arm and struggling with the other. : | - Shortly the squad was back. Dick was all smiles. The wait was over. It was a handcar in a railroad yard at Oliver Ave. and Harding St. Nothing to it. The kid did all right, was the general opinion. Dick rubbed his burr hair and jumped

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~ Supper dishes were being washed when call No. 2 came from Illinois and St. Clair Sts. A threestory house was on fire. Plenty of flame and smoke. Dick came back, dirty, wet, happy, tired and-announced-he-was- going-to-quit-smoking cig«arets. Again the engine wasjcleaned and the lone chamois at No. 13 was passed around. The red wagon sparkled. Dick was a veteran. Early evening hours passed quietly. The men, watched the television set. Fire! As Dick dashed

" for the engine he shouted, “Not again.” Yes, again,/

boy. And the night was far from being over. A _When the men returned, bringing with them every odor from the city disposal plant, they were in for a good ribbing. Dry waste material at the disposal plant.somehow caught on fire:

1 “Men Rinse Off Stench

“their boots and fire coats. Loran Booth jokingly|

Special for the camera . . . Richard J. Clemenfs, brand new fireman, demonstrates how to slide down the brass pole.

Goodbye, Friends By Frederick C. Othman Arrives for Miss America Contest

~¥ou could tell by" the “way his buddies thumped

THE STENCH was awful. Men turned hoses on!

But, them days is gone forever” . . . (if not forever, for too long). Cause that ol’ brass bell is pealin' out ifs sad, come-hither song. So we're packin' off to face it, mister. That's the situation. An' the only way to figger is: just nine months 'til vacation!

“Plane Crashes State Fair Sidelights— | fe .. Big Night Traffic Tangle Burns, 13 Killed

Keeps Motorists Up Late Airliner ‘Rains’ Parts |

Hundreds of Cars Block Every Avenue Before Smashup Of Exit; Nothing to Do but Wait UTICA, N. Y., Sept. 5 (UP)—|

The atmosphere within the infield crackled and sparked last { Harman Nichols, that lucky United Presi correspondent as-|The sky seemed “to rain parts” Night with heated exclamations when hundreds of motorists found

We could never really tell you what a summer this has been . . . Things like Tom an' Dick ean’ Harry makin’ like Huck Finn . . . Days were bright and carefree . . . nothin' special was the rule, You'd a never thought a fella ever had to think of school.

warned Dick he was a jinx and if another call] came in, he was going to another house but quick.! Before the crew thought of retiring (it was 10:30 p.m.) Engine 13 was washed and polished] again. To me it seemed like a futile job. And only| ; one chamois in the whole station. The men said ‘ they're hard to get or expensive, something. Does About People— :

ia eT mn WSS Pot Berry's Singin Impresses Newsman

tion 13 gets it. Miss Indiana Is Interviewed as She |

The kid, Richard J. Clements, did all right.

him on the back. Today he became a man among men.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 4—The time has come to say a fond farewell to the U.S. House of Representatives; wafflebottoms included.

The gentlemen have left for a long vacation (they hope) and I've got to admit that I miss ‘em. Terribly. Now I've got to go to work.

Writing a piece for ‘the papers used to be easy. All I had to do was find a stool in the gallery and sit there. It was something like attending a bull fight. A big, dramatic climax along about the middle. of the afternoon was guaranteed. Then I'd merely describe it. Job done for the day.

Not a Real Adjournment

NOW THEY'RE GONE, but even in their leaving the representatives managed to do it the hard way. They haven't actually adjourned. In spirit and in the forms of Rep. Francis E. Walter (D. Pa.) and the chaplain, they're still on the job. They finished up their last piece of business when they approved the conference report on Mr. Truman's war controls bill. But they couldn't quit work legally, because those slow-poke Senators on the other side of the Capitol still were making speeches at each other.

So the Representatives agreed to remain in ghostly session. They elected ‘Rep. Walter as speaker pro tem to hold down the big chair while Speaker Sam Rayburn was in Texas rounding up votes. . Every three days Rep. Walter solemnly will bang his gavel, calling the House to order, but there won’t be anybody much there to hear him, except the chaplain, The latter then will say his . prayer and Rep. Walter will bounce his hammer on the desk again: House adjourned for another three days. om : This will continue until Sept. 11, when the

-on inside their heads. And he announced that he

the photo of the year.

Miller (R. Neb.) who couldn’t see why the Presi-

: ; et. y . 1they couldn't go home, gentlemen will be ready for business, which they signed to cover the Miss America contest, certainly knows how t0 trom a twin-engined DC-3 air-| expect will be adjournment. If not, they'll hold Pick them. One of the first beauties he interviewed on arrival at 8 In the hopeless traffic tangle resulting from the huge atten- ? 2 Siey hoe) FW Z liner- before it crashed and gance, hundreds of cars were blocked In corners and at dead-end some more of those spooky sessions | Atlantic City, N. J. today was Pat Berry of Indianapolis, the Miss i , a end I must report that they got out of town with- Indiana of 1950. rburned yesterday, killing 13 per- traffic lanes,’ There was nothing to do but wait until owners of the

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Wafflebottom Protection THE OTHER was the speech of Rep. Arthur L.

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| 2 . out having their heads examined. as urged by Said. the discerning Mr. Nichois: a = sons and injuring 10, an eye wit- oars in front decided It waa bed | sanding around abt upplying Rep. Robert F. Rich (R. Pa.). I shall miss him| “Pat Berry was as confident as ——— Ta ness sald today. one: {much applause particularly, because he’s not coming back next|the next one. She Nay bern ¢ In. The flaming wreck wiped out’ , 1d ing havi | . year. For 10 long terms this excitable gentleman dianapolis, a hop and a jump from ocd mong a Baltimore family of five—three here an © Saving AVINE| Fair life is farm. life for athas been exhorting his fellows to quit spending/th® Indianapolis ar t ta. | 10.90, With a greased pig. [tendants in the livestoek buildcash they didn’t have. His battle cry was: Where SPeedway, but i . |young children and their parents.| Today in the. Swine Building ai, o.' At dawn éach day the never are you going to get the money? When the other Would rather Jay Hoff Sr. whose son sur- sow of more than 500 paynds was) ding cleaning problem begins. gentlemen heard it, at least twice each day, they|Sing than ge ye. | d p astia [AY vived . the wreck, said the left getting Wp ZiCuse Jou. &| An interesting feature is that the Inughes, ith u jing the et lh engine of the airplane “tore wh hag Rey prized NS th a straw from the stock pens isn’t ep. Ric . - . : " ’ is © ; iat it ow, 3 Fave 20 Bugged A att Day ridden with her, Pfc. E. H. Thompson apart” as the transport rose on popular brand of highly perfumed destroyed it is carted away to o 8OINE |, ut she sure can Missi in Acti a wobbly takeoff that ended: in hair oll. (the farms for fertilizer. would not seek re-election, because what's the SIDE 1ssing In ction flames minutes later in a farm "x be army " - - : use? If the gentlemen couldn't get the idea in 10 Fat and the An Indianapolis Army private pasture 11; miles away | A Midway barker was lauding arnival barkers get hoarse. ears he doubted if th : Re . Wea = others were {has been reported missing in Ko-| 8 - |the beauty of the girls in the cast| - Indiana State Fair emergency I need not . t 7 ever would. |scheduled for a : b A Could See Trouble “jof his show, hospital reported today that three wild fo Nou be 3 e near fist fights or the , .v day. First jrean combat and nine other Hoo-| oon as I saw the plane “Gosh a pretty little Hoosier or four of the Midway “talkers” : yed legislative battles, which were grist, = met for a Pat Berr (slers have been killed, wounded = 0 1 (014 tell it was in 8Irl of about 18 cracked, “if that's have been treated for the chronic or my mill this year. But I would like to note for| - a y or reported missing by the De- ! Hollywood beauty, I'll take mine illness of their occupation--laryn-3 {panorama pic " d. “I t y ¥ p y the record my two favorite episodes of .this sesion: ture scheduled to take all morn- fense Department. trouble,” Mr. Hoff said. BOL. Shelbyville.” | gitis. One marked the appearance of Chicago's lead-|;\o" Then they were to don eve-| The Indianapolis soldier is Pfc.in my car and headed for the “ . ing slot-machine mogul, a dignified and portly ning gowns and line up for the Eugene H. Thompson, son of Wil-'spot where I thought it might citizen, to protest the new law against one-arm parade on the famous Boardwalk !lam and Viola Thompson, 431 W.|,.. op » bandits. His right arm was in a sling, but 70|__in the hot sun for three hours, 42d St. Other casualties are: H hed the crash scene photographer was within two blocks to make| pat is the daughter of Mr. and | KILLED IN ACTION tor Uh plane hit. Fie/Day crowds a mother pushed a! % Fa Mrs. Claude E. Berry, 3843 N. New| First Lt. Raymond J. Cyborskl, (tound his .son, Jay Jr. 19, an ancient and thoroughly \ : Jersey St. brother of Joseph Cyborski, Whit- : v WN [beaten up perambulator. Eating ly Army recruit at Ft. Dix, N. J, cotton candy and having a won-| . we t Lt. Arli » badly burned and walking around |, 0) {ime were FOUR children, | ’ 's mother goes. First Lt. Arlie D. Mullet, hus-/ 35564 Mr, Hoff put his son in| : | Margaret O'Brien's Moiner 89% band of Mrs. Oma Bess Mullet, ine automobile and drove to a|2 '0 8. They didn’t look too com-| dent wanted to spend $139 million protecting from [10 court today in Holllywood to pyansville. (hospital. On the way, he struck fortable, but they were riding. Delays Dinner possible atom bombs the government's corps of divorce Bandleader Don Sylvio WOUNDED |another auto but didn’t stop. He| ’ a 4 i bl | y wafflebottoms. A fine phrase. Means gents with because, she said, he talked her pr. Freddie C. Campbell, son reported the accident to state] A THY Sma a Fire which badly damaged a designs on. their anatomies from too much con-!into a wedding against her will..of Paul Campbel, R.R. 3 Ro- police later. ; jeans. hat. sat oY bush oq jtempataty shaped delayed, but did tact with cane-upholstered chairs. |" That wedding, in February, chester. . Start Investigation the Fatrarounds and watched 1o/naL stop. a chic en dinner in the Have a nice rest, fellows. And come back as i Twi ofS Civil Aeronautics Board inves-| gr St. Lawrence Catholic parish yesI mi 1949, was greeted with tears o Sgt. Marion E. Himeline, son of tat d. Robins Airlines Crowds go by. He was smoking terday, 46th St. and Shadeland soon as you can. I miss you, every one. |protest by the child actress. After Arthur J. Himeline, R. R. 1, Ches- "'8at0rs an ovinson AINES , cigar almost as long as his arm.|A ve.

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Train Crash Kills Nine A head-on collision between, wo interurban electric trains) near Milwaukee on Saturday killed nine persons and injured!” 45. tr The Safety Council had predicted | that 435 persons would die in| Mi traffic during the 78-hour period i. from 6 p. m. Friday to midnight last night. Police reported, however,

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Sylvio said he would fight the “go, “'piparg F. Shearer, hus-|¢, de sheared -the tops of some booms out for Johnny or Gert-| Chicken was frying on a stove . Ot Attack Awaited as Tipoff not 4 Than Expected to school today will cheer their Attica. “Anyone could sense that the Men lead them in to parents. Wayne and Lawrence Townshjp should vide to-the. ! cin ibis iad | ———Di ts sald Soviet reaction Proyice-an.up dicted, reports showed today. | The psychologist chided teach- had been in Korea only three said, “It. seemed. to rain. parts,funny to the young lady whoaway.. .. trick” to counter Russian claims - There has been some thinking below the prediction of the Na-! thinking, she said... . MISSING : ° %| Pvt Richard Horth, 20, Clay-| tertainment features on the Fai-/the afternoon. {were drowned. 26 died in airplane — to “protect” the North Koreans turning to religion. - ing resistance. The broadcast|shortly * after .takeoff at Utica, | 4 to the United Nations said. a - today at the that they were “resuming” their on United Nation naval forces off Chartrand plans] down a U. S. Navy flying boat does not interfere in the internal that! pang to Princeton University, careful statement that the inci- ence of a Russian bomber in the yy. Dearborn said he was “glad” chairman of the : : \ id the to keep the United Nations forces] The State Department said J 2p HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 5 (UP)— help finance 32 have 1 s . : ro R od protect” the North Koreans from | Military authorities unquestion in: pi 7 mitted suicide Saturday night by needed.

reer eee es goolding “her ‘daughter, Mrs. Syl- terton. . . y - , - i , eo " i Sissi Te habia « . BBE Jedd con ” - " ; cans RlANDINE thelr. second annual... = TE Replv i N Di [RIV d Pl dina a Ta Ref oo Rc Ao decided several months uses PVE. "Harold "E. "Oliver, son of | pient Abie agent. ° ") seheguist Lost children are forever -a chicken dinner, the parishioners uss ep Y on owhne ane Bp - i Id IC [that the pigtailed “tar was ren Mrs. Mazie M. Oliver, R.R. ‘fought to try for an emergency | Problem at the Fair. Every $0 had set up a tent on the parish Seen Key to Korea Policy piv sia ne Mosk landing. Bu the plane Jost alt. Oren the pubic address sytem grounds. ‘ ) divorce because, Margaret not- ; : HR pal 2 {band of. Mrs.. Charlene Shearer! - 1 d to earth. rude Whosit to “meet your moth- in 4 side room of the chapel when Sovief R - U.S. R ' Toll Nl | T want to be mar- ,,4 4on of Mrs. Thomas Bennett, oak Jrees. And ng ly jer “at the Administration Bulld-|grease caught fire and spread to ovief Reaction fo U. J. epor Bh } Pied 10 Ui 'adlys. Tipton. . Two of the injured passengers IN8" The mothers are almoatithe building. The interior was More Than 100 Les ” Pfc. Ora Dewey Doyle (Marine), were in critical condition and not always frantic. with worry. The scorched badly. - | P 1 C dent $ Millions of kids starting back son of Mr. and Mrs. Ora L. Doyle, expected to Hve. {kids look sheepish-as state police-| “Three Units Called By DONALD J. GONZALES, United Press Staff Corresponden ' WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (UP)—Moscow’s reply to State Depart-| . By United Press new champion, a Purdue Univer-| Pfc. Deel was wounded Aug. plane was going to crash,” Mr. | Pranietn . =» o and Indianapolis firemen were: mber, apparently Russian, attacked .United] The Labor Day holiday claimed Sity psychologist. |19, according to word received by Hoff said. ranksters were throwing pop-called. ment report that a bofnbe it or di y ti arters today as a|360 lives in tram wn 1 st! Edith A. Weisskopf says teach- his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Motor Tears Apart | corn from the rear of the grand-| They kept the flames from No tinoft to Soviet policy . Korea. SImgUe quariers today 00 short of what had ow; mo lers make the pupils work too HY Deel, 2040 Olive St. “The motor’ started to stand today. She fun looked spreading to" the new St. Lawrh Sofa Y Nn Pré hard. .An_Army machine gunner. he apart right after the takeoff." he —enough, but -it wasn’tlence pa a hundred feet: Sma Indication. of whether. the emia prea tata risk 3. WAL Wh py wa “the “first ‘Hoflday since €rs for stressing “only” the’ fm Tweeks: — piece by piece. I-saw the cowling| Caught a”sackful in her hair. It} After the fire, which lasted one speculated that th e/halt the bombardment of “de- world War II in. which the portance of good study habits and| Pfc, Walter T. Deel, son of Wil- {hurl into the sky, followed by an| Was gooey carmel corn. |about two hours, parishioners reKremlin may try to brush the in-|fenseless” North Koreans. | actual ber of lties fen Lhe necessity of industry. This liam H. Deel, 2040 Olive St. In-/object I took to be the cylinder-| “ » x \sumed their chicken fry and concident aside as an “imperialistic Russ Tone Changes jactual number of casualties fell 5ppreach may defeat creative dianapolis. |head.” | -Chief boosters of all the en-|tinued to serve guests throughout “ . > 't. scold’ vhen he ; Brav 4 : 'G d th ntertainers| Fr. Cyril Conen, pastor of the the “‘ag- in the State Department that tional Safety Council. |" S0.don’t scold junior w Plc. Harold R. Bravard, ‘son of ville, N."Y., one of the survivors Grounds are e ente y p Ta ne United States Is the "28 Russia might _reoccupy North] Week-end accidents of all types| daydreams of football during his- Hord R. Bravard, Dublin. in good enough shape to talk, con-| themselves. At every performance parish, said he was unable to esReoccupation Hinted Korea at the turning point in the killed 68 persons. Besides those tory class. Pfc. Eugene’ R. Voyles, son of firmed~reports by other eyewit- of the State Fair Follies and timate the damage today. All Others believed Moscow might War- . {killed on highways, 80 persons] David .A. Voyles, Box 43, Battle nesses that one of the plane's. othér shows, there are always furnishings of the chapel were, = gdmit that it has taken up arms An indidation that Moscow gay Ow 0d 20 dit] 8 tirplune Another Hollywood actress is Ground. © [motors failed on the takeoff. [groups of rival entertainers'damaged by smoke. : on - ol iBT . on COMe W- seen in recent broad- mishaps. . ) pt ir TE soviet casts to the Soviet people, which| Thirteen persons were killed send Be aun troops of the northern half of Sonigined the first ¥imission that ana 10 injured when a Robinson pei a Suit the battle-torn peninsula. the Communist campaign is meet- nC.3 airliner crashed and burned, for the ministry, The. State Department—report iq 1; "g" forces were fighting N. v will . bridesmaid . i “with the despair of the-doomed.” iS 4 Rissian maried i Page which The Russians withdrew at the _ wedding ot 2 pbarentsy ary on down by “nd of 1948 but could explain A rel United Nations fighters after "it CCD FtIo . result = of ample. i TAL . th opened fire in a “hostile” attack Eup roy “Inyaston” e Actress Lois Korea Boider Policy Sesh to break her con : Shortly "after the Korean War on 1 He i = ’ Fo was regarded iu dip Tomatie began and in response to a U. 8. Townsend tract with Para Snoidente ob. 8.-Soviet relations request to call off the North Ko- - mount to marry Incidents in U. 8-Boviel reir ot reans. the Kremlin replied that it | Divinity Student Clarence Harsince Red airforce planes shot ' | vey. She'll accompany her hus- : earlier this affairs of other states. Diplomats i otorists appeared to re! -artin aver the Baltic Sed earlier ‘asked themselves whether the cautious In Pheare ties: De where he is a teaching fellow. 38th Parallel Emphasized - DW incident heralds & bolder experts reported that traffic was . . | Some, diplomatic officials saw Policy. : : less heavy than expected. | Perry E. O'Neal, Indianapolis significance in the department's They noted that the very pres-| gatety Council President Ned attorney, has been named state dent occurred near the 38th fighting zone is an indication that|tnat the Council's prediction was/1950 United Parallel-—old Korean border. Russia now is participating ac- : Negro College They speculated that. Russia tively in what the Kremlin has 3 eh Semmes Fund campaign. may have reoccupied all territory Sicily regarded as a “civil”|Sorvices to Be Today The drive, open- : in a move War: LC . AN V7 i in Indiana north of that boundary ¢ For ‘Man of 1000 Voices’ se pt. 14, will from making an eventual sweep body of one trew member, whose { - across the 38th Parallel to the papers indicated he. was a Rus-| Funeral services will be held to- Negro private Manchurian border. - sian lieutenant, had been recov- day for radio's “Man of 1000 colleges and uni~ "Such a step, they said, might ered. There was no mention of Voices,” Frank Leo Graham. versities. © have been taken by Russia tothe plane. Mr. -Graham, 35-year-old star . A minimum of , ; : pr {of the Jeff Regan program, com-/$1 million is vo ; ay / — what it calls-the “barbaric” at- ably would like to recover it to Purpose | . hg” wa em ab Fair. tacks of the Allied “invaders.” check it over piece by piece and automobile exhaust/of the fund is to Perry Nea) if you can't catch ‘om, Yau can fact at ‘em at she Stale Fa T d propaganda all over the to discover, if possible, whether|fumes. Police blamed an unhappy rake educational standards of Anglers and non-anglers are finding the Conservation department Jporid. appealed for support toit was carrying bombs © /love affair, : ; America's-14 million égrots. | ‘exhibit of fish a fascinating attraction. 3: § .

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