Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1942 — Page 15

THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1942

The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

PALM SPRINGS, Cal, April 2—Today I have achieved a status in life which I am sure must bring delight to all my friends and a vile green envy to my enemies. I have really arrived. I am a guest at a dude ranch! I never supposed I'd make it. But perseverence, long hours, honesty and forthrightress have brought their just reward. Life for me has reached its goal. But before I depart for a future that can be only anti-climax, I must tell you a little of what life on a guest ranch is like. This ranch for instance (it's the Deep Well Ranch) is only a mile and a half out of Palm Springs. It is not a real working ranch; it is admittedly and honestly just a guest ranch. It's just as nice as staying in town, except you're out in the country. People ‘rough it” which is right up my alley. ing outdoors in a washpan, “Chic Sale,” riding horses because I I never liked it and don't see why high prices to do it again. I do passionately prefer the open country to the smothered city, but I like to take my city conveniences with me to the open spaces—so I approve of the Deep Well Guest Ranch.

But Be a Nice Guy

In one building here there is a huge Westerntype with rawhide chairs and a fireplace and saddle the wall

with every comfort up here, I spent 19 years washgoing 100 yards to a had to—and I should pay

lobby, s hanging on building is the dining room and ers live in a beautiful ranch house Fight in the middle of the works. And scattered around, here and there, on various sides of various grassy plots, are the rooms and lodges for the guests. Some 40 people can be accommodated. The ranch has 25 horses for them to ride, including three Tennessee “walking horses.” It also has a lovely swimming pool, innumerable lawns and low canvas chairs for lolling, a paddle-tennis court, bicycles, and lots of sun.

In another

kitchen. The own

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

THERE'S NO LAW against draft board members running for office, and several are reported planning

to get in the primary race. However the state se-

lective service board, we hear, is putting a damper on the idea—dropping hints that as a matter of policy they'd better stick to one or the other. As one board member puts it: “If I could get enough votes to get nominated or elected to some public office, then I haven't been doing my duty on the draft board.” Nobody ever could say that about the members of tough board No. 3. . . . Druggists report that the run on razor blades has spent its force. One proprietor reported he had sold a six months supply in the first two days after newspaper stories about a future reduction in the number of blades to be Shame on you boys; vou nasty old

Women's Hats?

DR. MYRON S. HARDING reports getting quite a kick the other day out of The Times’ pictures of some of the boys trying on the ladies’ new style hats. Dr. Harding got home that evening and sat down to read. In walked Mrs. Harding and asked: “How do vou like my new hat?” Holding up The Times’ pictures, Dr. Harding replied: “Well, if you'll look at these pictures, you'll see what I think.” . Clarence Hess, business manager of Methodist hospital, and Mrs. Hess are back from Miami Beach with a bit of tan and some tall tales of deep sea fishing. Returning with them were Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wolf. . The Art museum will open its Salvadore Dali

From India

ALLAHABAD, India, April 2. — Throughout my talk with Nehru, the independence leader, he was struggling between resentment against the British over past grievances and India’s best interests now One might think the answer would be easy for a patriot. But you have to remember that Nehru got out of jail only a few days before Pearl Harbor, after serving part of a sentence for alleged sediticus speech. Hence tangled human emotional struggles complicate this whole situation. In fact, resentment toward Britain causes some Indians almost to rebound into axis sympathy, even when common sense tells them Japan would be a far more brutal taskmaster. Indians, beaten by the police during independence demonstrations, have schooled themselves to non-resistance. Nehru says they often wanted to strike back, but knew it was more effective to continue rigid non-co-operation.

By Ernie Pyle

The fundamental principle is that the visitor is treated as a personal guest in the owndr’s home—except that, of course, he does have to pay. The theme is to do what you please, so long as you're a nice guy about it.

Putting Steel in a Man—

The ranch is essentially for rest. But when the rest cure has begun to take effect, then there is entertainment if anybody wants it. Such as, for instance, the breakfast rides. Everybody who wishes gets up early (8 o’clock!), climbs on a horse, and rides 45 minutes out into the desert. Real Western stuff. At the end of the trail they have breakfast out in the open. (It has been delightfully brought out ahead of time by some thoughtful stranger in a chuck-wagon.) And then, after gorging and sniffing the desert air, they all ride back again. Puts steel in a man. But mostly, the men just sit all day long, and the women lie around the swimming pool. In late afternoon, cakes and sherry are served as “tea.” The ranch has no bar, so it escapes the too-rich-to-work type of cut-up vacationer. At night the ranch wagon takes those who want to go in town to a movie. The others sit around talking or playing dominos or cards. The guests go to bed fairly early and get up late. Hardly anything is stirring before 8 o'clock.

“Ernie the Cow”

Melba Bennett has always wanted a real Western ranch, with actual cattle on it. So, in her folders and correspondence, she dotes on their prize piece of heef known as “Ernie the Cow.” I started for my shootin’-hip when she said that, but it turns out that “Ernie the Cow” was a part of the business long before Melba ever heard of me. When guests arrive, the first thing they want to see is “Ernie the Cow.” Unfortunately there isn't any “Ernie the Cow.” Melba just made it up. Ther" isn’t any cow at all. The best Melba has been ah Py

to achieve so far is six calves. If I weren't such a vital cog in the internatic. situation, I could be “Ernie the Cow” and just chew straw all day.

show of pure surrealistic art Sunday and Director Wilbur Peat has promised to be in the gallery to settle all disputes such as whether this or that picture is hanging right or wrong side up.

They Want Jobs

MISS ETHEL STAPLES, secretary of the state beauty board, doesn’t know what to do about a letter she has received from a couple of Sacramento (Cal) hair stylists. The girls would like to find jobs in Indiana. The only trouble happens to be that they are Japanese—at least, American born Japanese. In a beautifully penned letter, they explain that under government orders they must evacuate Sacramento, and would like to know if there is a shop here “willing to take two experienced hair stylists of Japanese parentage with American ideals.” They add they are pressed for time.

Overtime for C. I. O. Chief

POWERS HAPGOOD, head man of the C. 1. O. in these parts, was sleepy-eyed when he showed up at his office the other morning. Nope, he said, he hadn’t been up late. It was just that he'd had to get out of bed at midnight and nursemaid a few hundred baby chicks when the brooder stove went on the blink. . . . The Bernard Harmons have a cat, Biddy, that tags along just like a dog whenever they take daughter Judy Ann out for a stroll or a kiddie car ride. The newest misspelling of Fabien | Sevitzky’s nanie appears in a clipping from the] Neoga (Ill) News which says of the Indianapolis Symphony orchestra that “the leader is Fadian Feditzky.” . . . Probably the classiest number in the phone book is that of the Circle Social club, 215 N. Illinois. The number is listed as Ri. 0000. Several exchanges have three naughts but we don't find any other four naught listing.

By Raymond Clapper

Yevelop industry. Yet those verv industries would have been most useful in the war effort now.” Nehru cited several instances. showing how industrial projects were blocked by vested interests— for example, automobile and plane factories. Out of such a background, Nehru comes into the present opportunity suffering from complexes like a child who has been mistreated. The result is that one finds an apparently irrational quality in the Indian leader's position. Anyway, there is suspicion of Britain's present effort, although this is somewhat dissipated by Sir Stafford Cripps’ handling of the readjustment question,

Are British Behind Cripps?

EVERYWHERE IN INDIA there is gcod-will toward Cripps. Nehru says they are close personal friends. Probably much depends on whether Indians are convinced that the British government is fully behind Cripps. For instance, Nehru commented bitterly that even to this moment Amery, minister for Indian affairs in London, is talking in the same

JUKE

Machines Tell Personality of

Neighborhood

(Second of Two Articles)

By ELLIOTT ARNOLD Times Staff Writer NEW YORK, April 2. — The easiest way to find out what kind of people live in any part of New York is to drift into the nearest pub and look at the juke box inside. There will always be a juke box inside. In one place you'll find the list of recordings contain almost nothing but Polish mazurkas, polkas and waltzes. Variations of O Solo Mio will greet you from the box in another place and in still another you'll find all the tunes that were ever born in Ireland, real or pretended. And one juke box operator announces with quiet and understandable pride that when you drop a nickel in the slot in a certain hotel in Boston out comes a specially recorded version of the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Juke boxes—or automatic phonographs, as everyone in the industry wishes people would call them — are today authentically American, one of those curious industrial - amusement obbligatos that are so typical and indigenous. It is truly American that the production and dispensing of so abstract and intangible a thing as music should become a quantitative, nation-wide industry. The ubiquitousness of the jukes and their unfailing attraction for everyone has produced some very strange results. Protests from parents have caused the jukes to be removed from ice cream parlors near schools because young jitterbugs spend their afternoons in these establishments instead of going home to study. Leaders of small three-or-four-piece left - handed orchestras in obscure wine and beer halls have stipulated in their contracts that the jukes must be disconnected for specified periods before and after the live musicians work out so that the contrast between the canned music and their own apologies for orchestras would not be too marked. In Salt Lake City recently Mayor Ab Jenkins, the famous racing driver, banned the jukes from taverns in his bailiwick on grounds they “attracted a class of rowdy and disorderly persons.” The beer was all right—it was the juke that did the damage.

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Impeded Traffic

T'HE JUKES were ordered removed as violators of the antinoise regulations from 21 concessions on the Rockaway Beach Boardwalk recently after the rugcutters gathered in such numbers as to impede traffic. The most popular ot all juke boxes in New York are in an amusement arcade on Broadway in the theatrical district. Sole patrons are orchestra leaders who stand for hours and listen to the recordings of their rivals.

BOX, “FA ONY

a EI RSE

The jukes have provided selectees at the various encampments throughout the country with one of the few legitimate and inexpensive forms of amusement possible. Young men who hopped up and down and made stranga faces up to a few months ago in corner stores now repeat themselves in uniform. In many drinking establish ments in the west old prospectors come in from the fields, get the Jukes going, and dance arm in arm with each other. In one such place recently a man from the plains drew his revolver and fired into a box when the 10th repetition of a song got on his nerves.

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Explaining the Color

THE MATTER of the unlimited color displayed on these boxes long has puzzled spectators. There are several different types of machines available from five different manufacturers, but they all have one thing in common—they all look like postcard sunsets. Nat Cohn of the Modern Vending Co. which has distributed more jukes, perhaps, then any other agent in the city, when queried on this point, answered simply: “Saloonkeepers lite them like that. They take good care of them that way.” He sighed. “They're so beautiful even drunks love them.” Mr. Cohn hurried out of his office into his showroom. There were about a dozen of the boxes standing there. He went up to one of them and started to kick it. “You see,” he said. “It's unbreakable. Nothing can happen to it. Even if a drunk should get unmusical he can't do anything to it Use of unbreakable plastics for the manufacture of the machines

became a necessity when embittered patrons got into the habit of tossing empty whisky glasses at them, There will be a new crisis in the industry soon, however, because the dread specter of priorities now lies over the industry and plastics are out. The customer response, then, to the canned tunes has not been entirely one of approval, and some customers have gone so far as to suggest to tavern keepers that it might be a novel and thoughtful plan to include one blank space on the machine so that for the investment of a& nickel a customer might insure at least three minutes of utter, beautiful silence. Juke-hox distributors frown upon this suggestion with fine unanimity. ” 3 o

Always Being Improved

AS WITH ALL imaginative industrial giants, manufacturerers of the jukes are never satisfied with the status quo and are constantly seeking to improve their machines, turn out new models, so to speak, and thus capitalize on the great American desire for the newest and the best, as automobile manufacturers have found out to their satisfaction.

The newest wrinkle, thus, is the remote-control box For the convenience of customers these boxes containing lists of the available music, are placed along the bar, at tables, everywhere. They work without direct connection to the juke box itself on the same principle as remote-control radio-tun-ing devices. Staggering outlets throughout drinking establishments and hotel lobbies is another refinement. It is a virtual impossibility these days to go into most places without having someone’s idea of

music hitting you in the ear. A great problem recently beset the industry, and was solved with typical ingenuity. Manufacturers decided that the old-type machines, with the sound coming from a speaker close to the floor, did not reproduce the music accurately enough. “We figured out,” Mr. Cohn said, “that the ladies’ skirts and the men’s pants sort of distorted the music. Now, with the new boxes, the sound comes out at ear level, as it ought to.” The operator of a box has to watch it constantly, change the records sometimes twice a week. A meter in the machine indicates how often each individual record was played in the interim and the dead numbers soon are removed. Incidentally, charts made by compiling all these meters are published in amusement, trade journals. The nonpopular records are soon removed. On the other hand, the popular ones get so worn that they have to be changed frequently. Demands of the juke boxes, it was ascertained, required the development of a new type of needle which could be used again and again, un ” 2

Slugs Are Rejected

PARENTHETICALLY, at this point, it is to be reported that the machines are able to ferret out slugs put there by patrons with chicanery in their souls. There is a magnetic field through which the coins have to pass and slugs not containing the exact proportions of metal found in United States nickels, dimes and quarters, are rejected into a special cup built into the machine for that purpose. The greatest hit of all time in

For the jitterbugs the juke is better than anything — better than the real orchestra, better than the movies. They'll miss them when the jukes go.

the jukes was the Andrews sise ters’ version of “By Mier Bist du Schoen,” which went for 100,000 records in the metropolitan area alone. The “Beer Barrel Polka” hit 25,000 boxes around the city, and Tommy Tucker's version of “I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire,” and Sammy Kaye's “Daddy” have done .75,000 each and are still going strong. One of the candidates for top honors is the first part of Tschai~ kowsky’s Concerto in the Freddie. Martin’s recording, which has sold 45,000 already and the end is not vet in sight. The bearded Russian never realized how much he one day would be in the groove. “Deep in the Heart of Texas” is another strong contender. “Rose O'Day” is no slouch, either. Extremely popular in some establishments are the double~ meaning records that occasionally are put out. Collecting old juke boxes has won some limited favor as a mod=ern hobby, although the expense involved necessarily shrinks the field. However, distributors have found ready markets in playrooms and bars of wealthy persons for the disposal of outmoded machines, which may be purchased at prices ranging from $25 to $100. The juke box industry is constantly exploring new fields. Boxes are being put into such places as drugstores so that a patron might have some music while sipping his coke. General stores in country villages find the boxes a greater attraction than the former cracker barrel. “It’s a natural,” said Mr. Cohn. “You want music? You put in your nickel and you have the music you want when you want it.” Who could ask for more?

MAIL FLOWING Nazi Vassals Face Hunger;

T0 AUSTRALIA

MacArthur Aid Tells How To Write Yanks Serv-

ing Down Under. |

GEN. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR'S | HEADQUARTERS, Australia, April 2 (U. P).—Maj. D. H. Stephens, Pittsburgh, United States army post-

and German-dominated {monitored by the federal communi- Norway, cations commission; were said to also feeling the pinch, [have revealed drastic cuts in ra- added.

RADIO STATION

Reich Fails in Promises 18 CALLED W731

WASHINGTON, April 2 (U. P). cording to the OFF, that Germany | prom- | will reduce bread, fats and meat ra-| ised abundant food by its German tions beginning in April. In Italy, farmers may keep less ‘the office of facts and figures said of their wheat than before, and | bread rations have been cut almost |

—Hitler-conquered Europe, masters, will go hungry this

today.

year,

Recent broadcasts from Germany one-quarter.

nations, |

Evidence is at hand that France,

Holland and Croatia are

the OFF

‘New Freuencyh Modulation Plant to Be Located at

445 N. Pennsylvania.

The new frequency-modulation radio station in Indianapolis will be called W731, Rudolph M. Crandall,

Teachers Learn About Parking

POINT PLEASANT, W. Va. April 2 (U, P.). — The audience applauded when State Police Sergeant Paul Thomas urged a meeting of Mason county school teachers to practice strict observance of safety regulations. Then a hush fell over the room as Sergt. Thomas pointed out of the window and called attention to where the teachers had parked their automobiles. Thirtyfive of the cars were parked on a side of the highway plainly

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> : if | tions and seizure of farmers’ crops, | office chief for the Southwest Pacif- In fact, the OFF said, Germany|

ic, announced today that mail was| oq the other countries are being flowing to and from Gen. Douglas | called on for further sacrifices. MacArthur's men and gave iii Barly in March, the OFF said, former president of ‘he Citizens rules for writing them. 'after promises of adequate food Na'ional Bank and the Citizens Use the greatest care to address supplies, Reich Food Minister Beck- Trust and Savings bank, and secremail properly, with rank, company, ler announced a “readjustment” of tary of the Conservative Life Insurregiment or other unit of designa- | food rationing. {ance Co. of America, died yesterday tion and, if possible, the number| The Vichy radio has reported, ac-lat his home.

of the army postoffice of the ad‘HOLD EVERYTHING

president of the company that will operate it, announced today. Permission to build the station was granted yesterday by the Federal Communications commission to Associated Broadcasters, Inc. It will be located at 445 N. Pennsylvania st. W731 will use static-free transmission, Mr. Crandall said. Stations of that type have been started recently in Chicago and New York and have won enthusiastic response from listeners, he said. Mr. Crandall lives at 5935 Ralston drive. Other officers of Associated Broadcasters are: Ben L. Tamney, 875 Middle drive, Woodruff place, vice president; Myron J. McKee, 4510 Park ave, treasurer, and|® marine or a soldier? Thompson Kurrie, 5631 N. Delaware| 2- The Japs st., secretary and general counsel |recently capMartin R. Willlams, 1413 N. Colo-| tured the Andarado ave., will be chief engineer and | Man Islands off

technical adviser. Mrs. Doris Cof-|India. Are these islands noted

UPSTATE BANKER DIES

SOUTH BEND, Ind. April 2 (U. P)—Guy H. McMichael Sr. 59,

old vein. Once Indians are convinced that the British are sincerely ready for a new deal, probably they will be ready to go at it in a more whole-hearted spirit.

The American mission, coming here to help develop India’s war effort, fails to awake the enthusiasm from Nehru that I expected. Again he saw in it the danger of some new attempt to exploit India. I go into these matters because, to the extent that India is to run its own affairs, Nehru will be in the driver's seat as the most influential figure in the congress party. Although he was educated in England and is widely traveled, with contacts all over the world, absorption in India’s cause has narrowed his ability to see the whole picture in the present crisis. This apparently causes him to brood over the past, instead of making a fresh start to face the present challenge.

Yet Nehru and his group must supply leadership if Indians are given contro! of their own affairs. “We had plans for developing industry in India.” he seid. “Several years ago the province set up an Indian-wide planning committee of which I was made chairman.”

marked “no parking” and 15 cars were headed in the wrong direction.

HAIF. PULLING GETS DECREE CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 2 (U. P.) —Mrs. Gladys E. Miller of Cambridge displayed a box full of hair in probate court and testified that her husband, Roy, yanked it from her head on New Year's eve. She was granted a divorce decree nisi.

® WARQUIZ

1. When you see this insignia on the cap of an American service man does it indicate he is a sailor,

“Suffering From Complexes”

“WE HAD 29 sub-committees to study every question regarding modern development.” he related. “This included surveys for improving agriculture, for control of floods and soil erosion, irrigation, finance, social services, cottage industries; heavy industries, such as ship-building, manufacture of machinery, automobiles and such “But we met with obstruction by the vested interests, and when I was put in jall the work stopped. Certain interests did not want Indians to

My Day

WASHINGTON, Wednesday. —This has heen a busy day. Mr. Koussevitsky, who conducted the con-

dressee’s area. Be sure to put a return address on the letter or package. Mail returned undelivered may be only improperly addressed; it does not indicate that anything has happened to the addressee. Remember the Censors Remember that mail is censored both ways. It is best to write on one side of the paper only, because the censor clips out censorable parts. Numerous short letters are better than a few long ones, because censors naturally give the quickest ac

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Miss Ruth F. Woodsmall also came in to talk over her trip. She is leaving today on an extended tour

cert for the benefit of Russian relief last night, and Mrs. Edward Watson came to lunch. I was delighted to hear that he hopes to continue the music school in Stockbridge, Mass, this summer and already has 400 applications. I was afraid that the tire shortage and similar problems might keep people from attending the concerts, but perhaps trains and busses can be used. Certainly, music-loving people will make every effort to be there, for there \ \'% Is no more delightful spot in 3 A & which to enjoy music.

Two groups of young people, who are visiting Washington, were received during the afternoon. I only hope that these young people get a sense of the way in which everyone is working in Washington, for it will give them a realization of the need for their own participation in the war effort where thev live. At tea time, Dr. and Mrs. Edward Endicott Peabody came in, and it was a joy to see them both.

to Mexico and South America to represent the Y. W. C. A. She spent much time before in Europe and |

the Far East and is familiar with the work done by | the Y. W. C. A. the world over. The effort to make Y. W. C. A. work more valuable to our neighbors to the south of us and to bring closer understanding between the Protestant organizations and all existing organizations now working in these countries, should be of great value in developing understanding, especially among women. Miss Woodsmall is traveling by air and it was interesting ot reflect how much a year has changed our point of view. We used to think that air travel, especially over the ocean, was somewhat hazardous. Today it is looked upon as being far safer than any passenger steamer. Last night, Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt, who is staying | with us, Mrs. Cameron Clark, Walter Thayer Jr. and David Bruce, came to dine with me, and then we went to the concert given for Russian relief. I am returning to New York City this morning, for I am going to be busy sere for several days, sorting and packing.

tion to the short ones. Post cards are strictly forbidden. Parcel post packages, also cen- | sorable both ways, are permitted under 100 pounds and not exceeding in size 74 inches along the greatest dimension.

Big Organization Needed

A mammoth APO (army postoffice) organization is being formed to maintain mail connections for the many thousands of United States troops scattered throughout a continent comparable in size to the United States, Maj. Stephens said. He is organizing means of finding every soldier in Australia. | United States troops now are us-| ing American stamps, but free franking, as authorized by congress, is being arranged. Most mail is handled through the San Francisco postmdSter,

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fey, who lives on a farm 25 miles south of Indign tive assistant and office manager.

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HOUSING UMIT NAMED KINGSFORD HEIGHTS

LA PORTE, Ind. April 2 (U. P.).

—The community to be built near La Porte for housing some 10,000 Kingsbury ordnance plant workers and their families will be formally named Kingsford Heights, government officials have announced. } Construction of 3150 pre- =| cated housing units for the town, popularly known as “Victory City,” has been delayed until government acquires clear titles to all land in the 300-acte wien smashed

for the site,

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for their spices, convicts, pineapples or dancers? 3. Do you know how

American officers have held the

grade of General? : Answers

1. The insignia is that of the United States Marines and indi« cates they have served all over the

world.

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as a penal colony by India.

boom z ‘The holders of the rank

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