Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 October 1950 — Page 21

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SUNDAY, OCT. 8, 1950

Inside Indianapolis

HYPOTHETICALLY, southwest Indianapolis was blown sky-high the other day. All that with only one artillery sergeant and two 1918 German 150-mm. hawitzers, But don’t blame M/Sgt. O. E. Fletcher who is a3 peaceful a guy as you ever want to meet in the offices of the Organized Reserve Corps in the Federal building. I put him up to it and don't mind saying, Sarge is the best uniformed ear-banger I've met in a long time. Those two ancient relics of three wars ago, have intrigued me since I arrived in the city in June of 1946 and pitched a tent just north of the plaza. Heck, I inspected those guns before unpacking the matched cardboard boxes 1 was using for luggage. : The inspection didn't reveal much except that the working parts were welded. Four years slipped by before all conditions were right for a breeze session with someone who knew what the score was. Sarge Fletcher, -an artilleryman from ’'way back, began to spout about wall ratio, elastic strength pressure, permissible pressure - which meant nothing to me. It took a bit of maneuvering but he finally got on the road I was traveling. Never mind the technical stuff, Sarge, tell me if we could knock the rear of the Spink Arms Hotel off? Just the way the guns are pointing, if we let go, could we, or the enemy, pulverize the dome of the Statehouse? What would be hit?

Spink-Arms Is Safe

THE SERGEANT scratched his head, took out his pencil and some: paper and began to figure. Then he looked the howitzer over carefully, He sighted. He laughed. He would look at me and shake nis head. Then he began to talk. Residents in the rear rooms of the Spink Arms (top rooms), have no fear. Any shells coming out of the howitzers in the Plaza, will pass over the corner. “We could hit anything from 2000 yards to 10,000 yards as these guns stand now,” said Sgt. Fletcher. “One shell each and we'd have howitzers all over the place.” "He meant there would be howitzers if it were possible to procure the proper ammunition and get the rusted field piece in shape to fire. Mars Hill would make excellent shooting, the sergeant thought, The range was fine for the weapon. With the proper observing and charge, he thought he could land one on Perry St. The Morris St. plant of The Indianapolis Power & Light Co., approximately two miles away as the shell flies and the Sarge estimates, could be hit. The plant was in the line of fire. ‘If the shells were weak, if the gun blew up right after firing, we might be able to land one smack into the stacks of the power company’s Kentucky Ave. plant. (Gentlemen, who is responsible for locating those plants? Tsk, tsk, setting in the line of fire like clay pigeons.) “I could hit within five yards of any point in Mars Hill if these weapons were in shape. The way they are, I'm liable to hit anything,” said Sgt. Fletcher. “Even the new American Legion headquarters.” “The guns fire backwards?” “They're not supposed to but the condition they're in I wouldn't be a bit surprised if they fired sideways,” answered the sergeant,

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Sate Sted Work Service in Six Centers Conference. Slated [1 mdi ©

60th Meeting "To Be Nov. 1-4 * The Indiana State Conference on Social Work Inc. will hold its 60th annual meeting Nov. 1 to 4 in Claypool Hotel. i” ’ ~The 16th annual series of Laura Greely: study courses will be held as part of the conference. { Theme of this year's session

will be “Midcentury — A Chal-| lenge.” |

James A. Watson is president; of the state conference. Miss is program co-|

|Grove High - School {team. He was kicked in the

|stomach, | The 14-year-old son of Mr. and

Mrs. James Morrison was taken

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ordinator. ; Members of the conference pro-|

Plaza howitzers . . . M/Sgt. O. E. Fletcher doesn't want to hit a wine cellar with the World War | relics.

In a little while Sgt. Fletcher turned the conversation to some heavy artillery work he did ona ball-bearing plant in Germany during the last war.

The Wine Evaporated “WE FIRED all day without stopping. Precision, pinpoint work.” A smile of satisfaction appeared on his face. Moments later the smile disappeared and he was telling of the bombardment of the® monastery in Cassini, Italy. When the historic order came to destroy the religious site after it was established the enemy was using it as a fort, Sgt. Fletcher 8aid the earth

seemed to wobble on its axis when the heavy

stuff let go. The monastery had 4-foot thick stone walls. The cellars were deep underground but the sustained artillery and air action made the Germans holler “Uncle Sam.” Sgt. Fletcher added a side note. He said many of the boys were happy to discover that the wine cellars were not damaged much when the troops entered. “But you'd be surprised how wine will evaporate when you allow the air to get in the bottles and casks,” whispered the sergeant as if he were telling me a great secret. “No I wouldn't be surprised. Say, do you know of any wine cellars in the line of our two trusty howitzers?” . Sgt. Fletcher wasn't interested. He witnessed wine evaporate in great quantities once, that was enough. . “Come on, I have to go to work. a headache.”

To “Friend in Beech Grove: You should have signed your name to such a sunshine-laden letter. I'm glad to hear the column is a daily bright spot in your life. But how does a housewife with four

I'm getting

small children find tyme to read? Where do you]

live, what is the name? I'd like to come out and sit a spell. Telephone me at RI. 5551. Thanks, Ed.

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NEW YORK, Oct, T—It probably is not possible to refuse fresh American citizenship to the celebrated Mr. Garry Davis, the orchestra leader's boy who sought to reform the world by renouncing his American birth-right in Paris a few years back. He appointed himself, as I recall, world citizen No. 1. Gaal “5 : Mr. Davis has wed, since, an American citizen, dwells among us currently, and in due course of time (normally three years from the date of his residence as an American’s spouse) is entitled to naturalization. This happens to war brides of all nations, and possibly should not be denied to Mr. Davis, a sort of international peace bride, himself. Except that the fellow insults his homeland three times, on his own action. First, he” purposefully turned in the - solidest passport in a

troublous world for a fuzz-headed jehad (Arabic,

best word I know for angled rabble-rousing under quasi-noble aim). Then he says, in his letter to U. 8S. Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, that he only renounced his citizenship as a publicity stunt.

Citizenship Not a Gimmick “MY renunciation of citizenship in Paris In May, 1948, was an action intended to dramatize the cause of world peace, world citizenship and the one-world principle. My loyalty to my homeland has at no time been in question.” Then he says, in requesting immediate restoration of rights as a citizen: “This I feel will give my belief in world citizenship the solid foundation necessary to its eventual realization.” This you might say is the double-barrelled publeity stunt, but with the temerity to involve what millions feel to be the most priceless possession of modern mankind as the cheap gimmick. It appears to me this American boy is being just a little cavalier in his treatment of an idealistic commodity for which a great many people have died or risked their lives in order to obtain. No mat-

ter what your estimate of American citizenship, it .

is not a public relations gimmick for a featherHeaded young man with delusions of messiah.

Mr, Davis writes, in his request for reinstate-| 8 1] ment that “because, along with the inalienable evel detours on the following human right which will accrue to me as an Amer-| “No: ican citizen, I wish to assume with a minimum of county road and city streets, (slide repair. | delay my full share of responsibility in safe-| Ind. 9] J.)

guarding these rights.”

3. . ‘Mr. Davis’ latest effort in the safeguarding of Rosas li=Nérth of Eivood: 15 miles over| (EMUEF TABE TINE) eevee essansssssensassessssessnssasssssseses these inalienable rights wiis a second exodus to| YU. $i qi0—From JADJOIA east; 43 miles | Haiti, where he protested American intervention 4 |

in Korea. Apart from being straight party line

although I am sure Mr. Davis is not capable of Burk Mich. Detour being a Communist, it reflects a boyish lack of | tion), > appreciation of what may have been the. health- dalla; detour 26 miles over Roads 39. 38,

jest peace-breeding activity of our recent time.

2 may well dismiss Mr. Davis as a crack-|& miles over Roads ' imc pot, but unfortunately he proved to be the kind truck 3% miles south o ’ ’ of hot-eyed zealot who was most disturbing to the non -lo U 831 south from North Ver. H ere s Char 1ce fo w mn 1950 Ford orderly resettlement of Europe. His cult acquired ynicn Js immediately east of the Indinna. |

great following both there and here. At best appraisal he has been a lousy advertisement for his country, and a lovely hunk of propaganda meat for the Russians. Thisy could be partialty our fault; we gave him an awful lot of space when he fired his country, as one would report an infant’'s abandonment of an ice cream cone.

Meddling in Men's Business

I DON'T even kow why I bother with him much, except that Mr. Davis is a beautiful composite of a type I least admire. He is, first, the addlepated idealist, bereft of practicality, meddling in men’s business while clad in emotional rompers. He is, secondly, the kind of long-haircut sneerer at his land who deserts it while exploiting it, and then rushes back to mama's apron when the stuff hits the fan. In this respect he is kin to the esoteric creatures who dwelt abroad on American capital during the ‘20's and '30’s, knocking their nation in high-flown phrases, and deserting their villas and attics for the first plane back when Hitler started to move. Turns out I am not much annoyed at Garry Davis, Just feel sorry that we can breed such a small gnat to inflame the internationgl eye,

Proud Berlin

BERLIN, Oct. 7--Now there is a three-ton hoptoad, a two-way automatic electric plow, and a motorcar that carries its own garage like a turtle. I mean I doubt if I will ever write a piece about the Patent Office in Washington again. These Berliners in the midst of their misery are producing things mere well-fed inventors, American, never dream about. Not even in nightmares. In the center of the ruination and rubble and drabness that is Berlin, the locals established a trade fair to show what they can make amidst. tribulation. ° Only Bright Spot

HERE ARE ULTRA-MODERN exhibit build-

. Ings, flags, flowers, fountains, lawns, and shiny

new luxuries no Berliner today probably can hope to own in his lifetime. The fair is the only bright apot in a uniformly gray city and the citizens are flocking to it by the thousands merely to gape at

the brilliant colors they haven't seen in a decade."

So I was strolling down the main promenade when I heard a clanking and booming interspersed with small explosions. I. hastened forward and there before my very eyes was a small; plump man who had this mighty iron toad by its aluminum tail. Inside the big cube of black iron was a diesel engine building up air pressure. ; When the man touched a button at the end of {ts tail, the tons of iron in the body leaped three feet in the air and came down, squash, on earth, He is my kind of fellow. He identified himself as Fred Hoffman, the inventor of the first selfpowered earth tamper ever built. He pushed the button some more and down the main drive he guided his toad, tamping earth as he went. Berliners and myself gazed fascinated,

* and Herr Hoffman was so proud taking bows that

he came within a hair of mashing off his own left

The Quiz Master

By Frederick C. Othman

foot with the only machine of its kind in the world. “Around the corner I found Hans Horstmfnn with his two-way electric plow. He couldn't speak English, but he let me plow up a section of the fairgrounds, and I must report his invention worked fine. . You plug in the two-way plow like an electric! iron and as you plow your first furrow you let the! cable fall down to earth. When you are ready to return on the next furrow, you do not turn around; You merely switch the plow into reverse and .back it goes picking up the cable on a trolley and reeling it onto a drum. When Herr Horstmann gets enough steel, he plans to retail his plow for $600 F. O. B. Berlin.

He took my name and by the time he gets into lyn’'s biggest bookie.

production I hope to have saved enough money | for an electric plow inQMcLean, Va.

He Has an Idea | _. I'NEVER did get the name of the m y produced the automobile with its own a Whe he certainly had an idea. His exhibit consisted of one of A. Hitler's shiny volkswagons. This was al small black sedan with the engine in the rear. | Hooked on behind was a green trailer. This was the invention. When the fellow reaches his destination, he snaps off the wheels of the trailer, opens one end of it—presto, he's nt Pp got a fine weatherproof The other exhibits mostly were machi ditch diggers, optical instruments, and items his wig I couldn't begin to understand. But the hit of the fair was a small prefabricated house from Min-| neapolis, U. 8. A., with garage attached. In the driveway was a green Chevrolet sedan. The crowds were so great and so awed that guards had to push them along. It made an American like me feel sad. ?

??? Test Your skill ??2?

“The New Colossus,” a sonnet by Emma Lazarus, is engraved on the pedestal of which symbolic statue? : “The Statue of Liberty. ; = » : * & 9» Who maintains Bedloe's Island? Bedloe’s Island, which houses the Statue of Liberty, was used by the United States Army until 1087, when the post was abandoned. Since then it

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How comprehensive is the Egyptian collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York? It is the largest and most extensive in the Western “Hemisphere, ) ®. ¢ ¢ Is there a town in the United States hamed “Truth or Consequences”? ; Yes, in New Mexico, It was formerly named

{gram committee include Mrs. {Carrie H. Davis, Mrs. Juretta Bamber Holzbag, Mrs. Dorothy Wilson, Mrs. Jane Morgan Johnison, Mrs. Nathalie E. Wheeler, | {Mrs. Katherine O. Bentley, Ralph {Werner, George H. Eckerly, Miss| {Harriet C. Bury, Mrs. Ruth Cary, Mrs. Frank Fairchild, Mrs. Margaret Smirnoff, Mrs. Chloe W. Barr, Miss Dorothy Klinger, John | C. Mueller, George N, Wright and William D. Hennessy Jr. Affiliated organizations which | will meet here during the session include the American Association lof Medical Social Workers, Indiana Children’s Home Association, American Association of Group Workers, Indiana Mental |Hygiene Society, Indiana Psychological Association, Inc. Planned Parenthood Committee, Church Conference of Social Work, Association of Church Social Workers, Indiana Association of County Welfare Directors, In-|

This Red Feather service carries out its wide range of family and youth programs in six strategically located centers in Indianapolis. Basic services are the Penny Ice Fund, League of Mercy (including visits to institutions and hospitals), transient lodging and food, distribution of Christmas baskets and clothing, emergency assistance to families in need, and counselling service.

Contest Rules |

1. Print or write your last line to the jingle plainly, using sufffcient words to complete the last line. The last word in the last line should rhyme with done and one, Use the entry blank herewith, | or use plain paper if you prefer. 2. Identify the picture shown. It is one of the Community Chest’s 49 Red Feather agencies, Write your identification of the

{diana County Welfare Board | picture by number, Example: —Picture No. 17 is ....ccvvnnnnn cee | | Members’ Association, Indiana 3. Be sure you sign your name and address, | Society . for Cripple Children, 4. Mail to Community Chest, Post Office Box No. 331, India- |

State Probation and Parole Asso{ciation, Alumni Association, Indiana University Division of Social Service, American Association of Social Workers and In‘diana Federation of Social Work Clubs.

napolis, Ind. 5. The contest starts Wednesday, Sept. 27, 1950 and all entries must be past marked not later than midnight Oct. 10, 1950, 6. Entries will be judged for correct picture identification and uniqueness, suitability and aptness; Decision of the judges will be final. Fancy entries will not count extra. Duplicate prizes in case of ties. No entries will be returned. All entries, contents and ideas become the pmoperty of the Indianapolis Community Chest. Entries will be judged by the Reuben H, Donnelley Corp., Chicago, IIL { 7. Any person living or working in Marion County, Ind., may | compete except employees of the Indianapolis Community Chest, Community Chest agencies, Indianapolis Ford Dealers, and mem- | bers of their families, 8. You may enter as many times as you wish by completing | | the jingle and by identifying the Red Feather agency picture. | | The State Highway Commission | Each entry must be on a separate sheet of paper. | yesterday announced patching and 9. The contest is sponsored by the Indianapolis Ford Dealers |

|resurfacing on U. 8. 6 in Elkhart| over and above their normal contribution to the Community Chest. | {County is completed and also re-| 10. It is not a requirement of this contest that you contribute | 7 to the Community Chest. Nor is it necessary to send any box tops,

Announce New Highway Detours

Resurfacing Work Also Being Done

| Pulaski counties, The Commission also an-| Forty-nine red feathers in ona

United to get the job done Your Community Chest Is the way that is best

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maximum helght clearance 11 ft.) | rom Columbia City north tol {U. 8. 33; 10 miles over Roads 100 & 33, | {resurfacin |

and 6 and Ohio ! : hridse onstruction). | ar T nd. 23-—C f ! V ~ i ot Bouts Beast (Pome Sianile north east! Picture No. 17 08 toovrirniisnseiraiiaiientitiiiiiisiossaninsens | T% miles over county ’ pavement and U, 8, 112, (road construc-/ __ Name

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This is the Indianapolis Community Fund limerick and jdenti{Ohio dine: detour, 15 miles over U._ 8. fication contest sponsored by local Ford dealers. lovin, 3 Fal M4 Noblesville: 10 miles Entrants must fill out the last line of the limerick published ON ad. 3 Pram New Camis to in the paper in connection with the contest and also link the ac43 miles over Roads 3 and 40. (bridge and companying photograph with the Red Feather agency it represents,

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m New Castle to 'Richmond vainent Sousruction 4 miles east o Th ‘of th t i = [Haterstown,. er 10-U. 5. 40; 30 e purpose of the contest, which will last through Oct. 10, is miles over Roads 46, 59, and 40, (re- tO promote a better understand- | — ett eters | sur . i x , . ' y y BR Rn el Dr pi ny | Blossom; e r Roads an » nity Chest. apt. J. C. Woefel, USN, De- | (surface treating). ) n y { wad y Ss—From Road 148 to Lawrence. The contest is open to all per- partment of Naval Science and Or EiAT Toads th ‘sons living or working in Marion Tactics, at Purdue University, will to’ Road 10 in! County, except employees of the speak at the Rotary Club at noon

Ind. 49—From . 140 t Jasper County: 22 miles over Roads 14. 53 an 0, construction). "Chest, Chest agencies, Ford deal- Tuesday in the Claypool Hotel. { . 8. 52—Closed just west of White : f 114 { - . River bridee on 16th St. in Aodianspelis, ers and members of their families. 4 etour over Ros n Delle Vie a trucks over White River Entries should be alles £2 ” chigan an 5 Ave, 341, - U, 8. 5—From Monimorenci to Kent- Community Chest, ox n land: 40 miles over Roads 53 and 24. dianapolis. The Reuben H. Don(patching and resurfacing). ] rind. *_ West of Madison: 7 miles—over nelley Corp., Chicago, will judge oads an , (roa struction) » Ind. 3 “losed east Yor Madison near the contest. Brooksburg: detour 30 miles over Roads A 1950 Ford four-door sedan 62. 250 and 129, (road construction:. X ’ I. $i-Closed at junction u 5 41; will. be the. winner's prize. The detour s over county grave , nd, 89 Closed wouth of Me Vernon: de- vehicle will be on display a Mon tour miles over county road. (one bridse tio damaged by high: water and another. ument Circle for the dura no wrecked_by truck). the contest. ind. 71—Bridge construction north of Dana; detour 17 miles over Roads 36 and

63 . Ind, 116—From Geneva east: I miles over Road 27 and county gravel, (bridge

nt Prof. Jerome Hall, member of ALE Rt 18 Jr th Cur the Indiana | University 1a w 8 niles Cover Roads 335 and 64, iroad School, will speak to the IndianOR a From Paris, III. to West Terre apolis Bar ~ Association. next

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