Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 November 1942 — Page 5

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administration’s domestic policies, who was previously defeated in his state’s Democratic primary,

Norris Is Ousted

The Republican senatorial pickups came from Nebraska, which ousted Independent Senator George W. Norris, New. Jersey, where Senator William H. Smathers (D.) had told - the voters he was proud to be President Roosevelt's war-time “rubber - stamp,” and Delaware, Iowa, Michigan, Oklahoma, South Dakota, West Virginia and Wyoming. Only one senatorial contest was still in doubt. That was the race in Montana between Democratic Senator James E. Murray, a strong New Deal supporter, and Republican J. Wellington Rankin. Murray held a slight lead. -If final returns send Murray back to his seat, the political lineup of the new senate which will meet Jan. 3, 1943, will be: Democrats, 57; Republicans, 38; Progressive, 1. This compares with a present lineup of 65 Democrats, 29, Republicans, Progressive and 1 Independent, While control of the populous states of New York, California and Michigan gives the Republicans a wider base from which to operate in preparation for the 1944 national political campaign, the minority party’s influence on national affairs —particularly the conduct of the ‘war—will be enhanced chiefly through its substantial increases in senate and house.

Defied F. D. R. Appeal

Even with its present heavy Democratic majority, the senate, in connection with pending legislation to draft 18 and 19-year-old youths, insisted on an amendment requiring a year's training for the teen age group before they could be assigned to combat duty abroad.

BEAR MEAT IS CHEAP AT MONTANA SALE

HELENA, Mont. (U. P.).—Housewives who fret over the rising price of meat should have attended an auction held by the Montana state fish and game commission recently. Two bears, a yearling and 2-year-old, all dressed and ready to be cut

Director Fabien Sevitzky rehearses the Indianapolis symphony fourth symphony of Brahms for the opening.of the symphony season Saturday night at Murat theater.

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ARMY IN NEED OF SHOE THAT BREATHES

AKRON, O. (U. P.).—There was something afoot when Sir Hubert Wilkins, “ noted explorer, came to

Akron recently. He was on a search for shoes that “breathe.” On a special assignment for the government, Sir Hubert paid a visit to the B. F. Goodrich Co. here, in hopes that_that firm could meet specifications for a new type shoe to be worn by Uncle Sam’s fighting men in extremely cold climates. The veteran explorer isn’t on a shoe-hunting expedition because the Army can’t find a shoe that is warm enough or tough enough to withstand cold climates, but because the army needs a shoe that can “breathe.” Sir Hubert explained that term by saying that moisture collected in a soldier's shoe when on a long march. In icy climates, he pointed out, that is all right—as long as the doughboy keeps marching. But, if he is wounded and forced to lay on the icy ground, his feet freeze in short order. . If the shoes literally “breathed,” the moisture would fail to collect, hence helping to prevent many a soldier from having painfully frozen

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was a star in every phase of popular entertainment. He saw vaudeville reach its zenith and perish, and was one of its brightest marquee lights.

He gave musical comedy a starspangled zest it has lacked since he left it. He scored a triumph of legitimate acting in a Pulitzer play written by the darling of the intelligentsia—Eugene O'Neill's “Ah, Wilderness.”

Kidded Roosevelt

In “I'd Rather Be Right” he kidded President Roosevelt and won guffaws from the White House. He scored a hit on the radio and acted in the movies, but he and Hollywood were divorced by mutual consent on grounds of incompatibility. He was more at home on Broadway.

He saw Broadway disappear into the side streets. Any authorized - biography of Cohan will record that he was born, in the words of one of his songs, “On the Fourth of July.” Old-tiime vaudevillians who trouped with his parents, Jeremiah and Helen Coustigan Cohan, before Georgie was born, have heen known to argue over a reminiscent beer that it wasn’t so, but even they dispute the time and place. If the records err, the mistake is understandable, for one-night stands have a disturbing effect on the space-time concepts of show business. The official Who’s Who version is the apt one, that he was born July 4, 1878, in Providence, R. I. Before he joined -his sister Josie in “The Four Cohans” at the age of 10 he sawed a fiddle in orchestra pits. For all the melodies he composed in later years his formal musical knowledge never extended beyond a firm- grasp on four chords in Fsharp. But he knew what people would whistle.

A Skinny Youngster ‘He was a skinny youngster who

{didn’t weigh 100 pounds until he

was 27. He was also irascible when confronted by managers who did not appreciate his budding genius. If the four Cohans got less than top billing Georgie fumed and raged, threatening that “some day” he would buy the theater and throw the manager into the street. Yet his essential kindliness was so much a part of the Broadway legend that the love which actors hold for him survived even the bitterness of the 1919 strike of Actors Equity association, when he denounced and fought the strikers. The actors wrote a special clause exempting him from the necessity of compromising his principles b, joining Equity. : He had many fights. “Critics who sneered at his- early flag-waving came to cheer it and be’ cheered

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by it. Its culmination was “Over There,” which, like many another Cohan song, was “just dashed off” on the inspiration of a moment. A gold medal, authorized by a special act of congress, was presented to him by President Roosevelt in 1940 in recognition of what that song had done. to lift a mation’s morale.

Honored by Hollywood

‘Hollywood, with which he had ‘fought the only draw of his career, eventually honored him with a film biography in technicolor, something even Emile Zola didn’t rate. James Cagney played the lead in “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” . Cohan’s first wife was Ethel Levey, star of vaudeville and musical comedy in New York and London. After dissolution of the marriage, by which he had a daughter, Georgiana, -he married . Agnes Nolan, daughter of a Boston mailman, in June, 1907. They had three children, Helen, Mary and George M. Jr.

A list of his successes as actor, song writer, producer, manager, playwright would be- interminable. Two plays, “The Tavern” “Seven Keys to Baldpate,” at both of which the critics groaned, still are played in stock and amateur productions. There dre scores of other comedies and musicals which knew his sure touch. His partnership with Sam Harris resulted in “Little Johnny Jones,” “Get-Rich-Quick-Wallingford,” “It Pays to Advertise” and many other still-remembered hits which George M. wrote or re-wrote. But the memory of such productions, and songs like “Mary,” will fade like old playbills. The recollec-

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and the way a cane was twirled will not survive another generation. What will remain will be song which kept time with the ied heartbeat of a nation at war,

CONTACT LENSES ARE USED BY FLIERS

NEW YORK (U. P.)—When the American flying services begin to feel the pinch of a personnel shortage, men who wear glasses may yet be permitted to make aerial passes at Nazis and Japanese, L. Lester Beacher, pioneering optometrist, suggested today. Instead of shell-rimmed spectacles, he explained, they will wear

almost invisible contact lenses, made of safe plastic. His nephew, a gunner in the royal Canadian air force, wears them." Canadian flier friends, back on furlough, told Beacher they had seen German luftwaffe prisoners wearing contact lenses. At present, however, both the army and navy air forces of the

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try to help him get men and help train men in order to avert a serious disruption. The prospects are not bright.” 2 Another crisis is in the county clerk’s office which handles legal documents for the entire judicial structure. y Ettinger has had difficulty keeping a staff of 75 deputies intact and many of these deputies today indicated they will leave for new jobs in a few days. .

Must “Work Together” :

This would leave the office in a crippled, condition on Jan. 1 unless Mr, Ettinger and A. Jack Tilson, newly elected clerk, can work together in training new personnel. James L Bradford, Republican county auditor, said “patronage next year will be a doubtful blessing” and added that it will be “a headache.” . County Attorney Victor Jose Jr. said the new ' Republican county council may. have to be called into an emergency session to appropriate money for increased salaries in order to fill the vital jobs. “The first of the year will see a bedlam at city hall and the court

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‘PUBLIC IS CONFUSED BY CHANGED TIMES’

HOLLYWOOD, Cal. (U. P.).—Dr. Karl M. Bowman, psychiatrist, says the public is confused. One of the reasons, he said, is that if 20 years ago a man walked down the street with a $5 gold piece in one hand and a bottle of whisky in' the other, the whisky could , have brought him a jail senterice. Now, if he walks down the street with the same articles in his hands,

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