Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1946 — Page 23
Inside Indianapolis By Bd Sola |
THE ‘ CITY NEEDS one more monument. It should be erected’ in the center of Pennsylvania st. Ohio st. and Massachusetts ave. intersection. ; The monument should symbolize the traffic situation during the rush periods—Ilate morning and early evening, I evén got an idea of how it should look while “helping” patrolman Edward Arszman ‘direct trafic at that coffin corner, For the left-turn makers on all corners—there are five—a huge crumpled fender could be placed on top of the monument, For the fortunate who get safely past this intersection a jumbo sized jangled nerve fiber could be entwined about the base. For poor pedestrians something to resemble hair-on-end scalps and broken high heels might remind the populace and the city fathers of a very complicated traffic mess. Lt. Dan Smith, traffic division, sums up the situation with: “Cut out all left turns and traffic won't be
snarled up every night.”
Keeps Insurance Paid Up PATROLMAN ARSZMAN, emphasizing the fact “I'm doing my
that his insurance is paid up, says:
KEEP IN LINE—Patrolman Edward Arszman keeps a wary eye on rush traffic and "close shave’ bumpers,
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SECOND SECTION
THURSDAY, DE CEMBER 19, 1946
Christmas Spirit Rules
best, but as you see—WOOPS, another close shave— I have my problems.”
And problems he has. The aoe light on Pennsylvania comes on. He blasts with his whistle and impatient homeward-bound motorists make jack rabbit starts, Two lanes of cars statt forward. Not for long
A woman turns left on Ohio. Southbound traffic oy Pennsylvania cuts her off." She's stranded. 8S are the cars behind her. There are four cars in th middie—honking. Lights change and the east-west Massachusetts ave, traffic zooms out. By the time the lady makes her turn about 10 motorists find themselves snarled at the intersection,
Ohio st, anc
Now a couple of trolleys are nudging the mix-up Patrolman Arszman gets to the key car and opens uy A passageway by blasts of his whistle and much arm waving,
Pedestrians are straggling across Pennsylvania Others are taking advantage of stalled cars to squeeze through across Ohio,
Here We Go Again
LIGHTS CHANGE again.’ North and south traffic leaps forward and to the left and right. A trackless The operator rushes out and attempts to re-engage the trolley while horns are blasting and motorists talk to them-
trolley pole comes off the wire and stops.
selves, { He gets his trolley moving and has to stop tor al wall of humanity meandering across his path, Some- | one next to me mutters: “What's the matter with | those idiots—do they want to get killed?” He sees] a chance to beat the lights and dashes across Pennsylvania. Patrolman Arszman blows his whistle and merely shakes his head. The best piece of footwork was demonstrated by a young man who had evidently completed his Christmas shopping and was hurrying home to get away from it all, This fellow
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"SILENT NIGHT"—With lighted candles, Kappa Alpha Theta members toured the Fairview campus singing carols last night. Above (left to right) are Peggy Aspinall, Ruth Gaddy, Barbara Shirley and Marni Dietrich of Indhanspolis and Mary Ann Weibers of Kokomo,
Bandits Get 1631 In Four Holdups
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MERRY CHRISTMAS—AIpha Chi Omegas Barbara Boyer (left) | of Indianapolis and Shirley Loy of Carmel pay an early Yule visit on | President and Mrs. M. O. Ross of Butler university to present a wrath, took off north with the Penasylvania | | The Sorority each year visits other campus organizations.
Inquiry Started In Bus Tragedy
traffic. A motorist began turning right on Massachu- | setts. It wus a legitimate turn on the part of the driver, .
As the driver began his turn the young man who was headed rorth jogged along side of the car. The faster the motorist went the faster the pedestrian ran. When it was all over the panting Chrismas shopper was on the east corner of Ohio.
4 Checks a Year
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HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 19.—L. B. Maver is generally considered the highest-paid gent in town, but today we give vou the runner-up. None other than Leo Gercey, tough-faced mug of
the late “Dead-End Kids.” He pulls down a cool $11,000 a week. We know this for a fact. Saw his salary check
(Minus two-grand withholding tax.) « And we guess that puts the un-glamorous Mr. Gorecey way ahead of the Lana Turners and the Carmen Mirandas But there's a catch to it. Mr. Mayer and the rest get their paychecks all through the year, Mr. Gorcey only - gets four. : “For four pitchers” fe explained. “I turn ‘em out at the rate of one in seven days. I mav get the highest salary in town, sure. But I only work 28 days a year.” .
No Overtime
MONOGRAM signs all four checks. And they make sure Mr, Gorcey finishes up his four-a-year in 28 days on the nose. If he works overtime even a couple of hours they moan loud and long. Time-and-a-hailf at $11,000 a week runs into dough. “So we polish off the four pictures in the first few months of the year,” Mr. Gorcey said. “After that I just sit around and loaf for nine months.” But he can’t even loaf like an $11,000-a-week actor. “When you figger it all out,” he says, “I don't really make much more than some jerk drawin’ $500 every Saturday. I can't have any fancy estate on the top of a mountain. . No chauffeurs. No fiock of servants.” All he’s got right now is a little seven-room house --on level ground. He drives his Ford himself. And his wife does the housework. But he does have a swimming pool, by golly.
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School Recessed
‘ova After 10 Are Killed By Virginia MacPherson | NEWBERRY, S. C., Dec. 19 (U.| P.).—The Silverstreet. consolidated a school dismissed classes for its 250] “Dug it myself—with a shovel,” Mr. Gorcey grinned. i; ants today in a pre-Christmas ! “Back when I was makin’ a lousy $2500 a week.” recess darkened by tragedy in the “He's not exactly going broke, though. Because at , oy or 10 children killed in their | Monogram he's a co-producer with Jan Grippo on 1 hue by a speeding passenger the “Bowery Boys" epics. That's the grown-up ver- train. sion of the "Dead Bd Kus." Richard Sanders, 41, who had] “We've still got Huntz Hall and B« bby Jordan and driven the children to school daily) Gabriel Dell,” Mr. Gorecey said. “All from the official from their surrounding farm homes |
Liquor Store Here Is Robbed Twice
Bandits escaped with $1631 in | cash, $225 in checks and $70 worth {of liquor in four holdups here last (night, two of them at the same |store. In the first robbery about 6 p. m. {two bandits escaped with $918 and a case of whisky from Meyer Ladin, proprietor of a liquor store, 803. Massachusetts ave. The bandits, one about 28 years {old and the other one about 33,
gang. But we had to Scrape up a Tew Name, Seen in Newhetry and Saluda counties, rT bpd sd nd oh 85 en we're ail in our "20s now. ep in, mig iso ‘was Killed. And 11 other ehil-| SR Te a ad Dee ny dren were injured, many critically. | During the excitement, Mr din And as a producer, Mr. Gorcey gets three and Ar : i . . 3 3 . . La 1 official inquiry was started | hree-fourthis per cent, of the~grosy profits~ or any gut {said he forgot to step on a burglar
into the cause of the grade orossing! tragedy on a dirt road seven miles] north of here, almost within sight| of the school. Thus far, survivors | have been unable to give a coherent account of the accident. Under South Carolina law Mr | Sanders should have stopped on reaching the crossing, opened all the! tus doors and put his gear shift! in neutral before crossing the tracks.
{alarm button under the counter. | About five hours later a third bandit came into the same store ‘while Jacob Welss, 60, was on duty, |and escaped with $200 in cash. The cash in the store had been replen« |ished following the first holdup. Meanwhile, two other bandits | slugged and tied up with a toy | lasso rope Ernest Beachman, 28, of 948 Cameron st, proprietor of & hardware store at 1099 Hanna ave,
business the “Bowery boys” do at the box office. That just about doubles his $44,000 income, “I had to fight my way up to this salary,” he declared, “Three years ago I was makin’ $500 a week.” One day he sat down, decided he was getting along, and upped his price to one grand. “They kept telling me they .couldn’t pav it” Mr. Gorcey said. “So I said, all right, I wouldn't work.”
‘Ante’ Goes Up
IT TOOK a couple of weeks—and maybe a few
MERRY GENTLEMEN Fraternity members were catching the Yule spirit, too, last night, Warming up in front of the Sigma Chi house, this group later serenaded sororities on the Butler campus.
Job's ages. Nerve-Cutting Operation
“dead end” tactics—Mr. Goreey grinned, but they met It Was raining at the time. But Struck on Head his price. And the next year he hiked the ante to Visibility was good and he could Pp ti } WwW $2500. have Seen the train, Ma es a en S. a gain Mr. Beachman said the es asked “Then $5000. Then $10.000," he went on. “They The train, one of two which ame PW ball [wo look. at stoves and then ane screamed, all right. But they came across. My last passed each day, was one hour and Surgeons Act After Noting Effect of Drug nounced: “This is a stick up.” 40 minutes late, | “One of them struck me on the
raise was only one grand. But that's when I eased myself in on the percentage deal. “I told 'em to make wit dat grinned. “And it woiked.”
H. E. Moore, engineer of the scuthbound Southern Railway. irain, said he did not see the bus before his locomotive ploughed into it. t
| head, knocking me down and bound | my hands and legs with a toy lasse | rope they took off a counter,” he
On Persons Crippled by Arteriosclerosis
By ARTHUR J. SNIDER
Times Special Writer
green stuff,” he
That's how Mr. Goreey finagled his way to the : an said. upper brackets. And even if “dat green stuff” isn't Hart Dixon, the fireman, said he CHICAGO, Dec. 19. —A J51-yegr-old postman who quit his Job| The bandits took $438 out of Mr, rolling in all vear long. it makes him feel awful rich Saw it only a mepment before the because his legs failed him is back earrying the mail. Beachman'’s pockets, $40 out of the in January and February. crash. He thought Mr. Sanders had A portly amusement park operator who suffered a burning, throbbing ' cach drawer, $225 in checks and
not seen the train, which was making 50 miles an hour.
pain‘after walking but a block, now rambles along for three hours at fled.
a time with no ill effects. , .. | In the fourth holdup, an une
Aviation
A 49-vear-old labover, heartsick and crippled and out of a job,
ean now walk four blocks and work - smp—— imine
Betty Jean Murray, 14, one of the injured, said she did not remember
shaven bandit in working clothes escaped with $35 from Tashe Pope
IT ALWAYS has been interesting to me to note the end of one trend and the beginning of another in air-
craft design. so often those in the military services and in commercial aviation responsible tor aircraft design insist that the land plane or the flying boat has reached its peak and is a back number. I saw this happen several times while in the navy. When we began to get land planes possessed of real performance, the school of thought in pswer insisted upon the development of land planes, It insisted that the trend finally brought us to the point where we had only eight twin-engined flying boats in naval aviation. But, as usual, when the trend had swung too far, balanced thdught in the navy began the degelopment of the metal-hulled, multi-engined flying boats which played such an important part in the late war. The wartime development, however, of fast, long-range, giant air transports decreased the general interest in the flying boat as a trans-oceanic¢ transport,
Every
Flying Boats Favored
CERTAIN factors, though, are coming to light which may swing the trend away from the land plane back to the giant flying boat, One of these is that the super-land plane transport, by reason of its great weight, is demanding reinforcement of airport runways. This represents a tremendous expense, The giant land plane also necessitates fabulous expenditures for runways on new airports, Obviously, the flying boat offers no such problems on. transsoceanic work. It uses harbors, However, giant flying boats built on orthodox lines are nowhere near as fast as the giant land planes, neither are they possessed of the range, This discrepancy in performsance is partly accounted for by the fact that we have concentrated upon the development of the giant land
By Mai. Al Williams the bus stopping before starting an indoor job. : a to the surgeons after noting the chef, 58, of 2153 E. Riverside dr., across the tracks These and many others have been effects of drugs on patients crip-! proprietor of a poultry market at literally put back on their feet pied through diminished circulation | 1236 E. . 13th st. (through a new application of an j, the legs. pm
School Bus Crash | Kills 1, Hurts 5 |
old nerve-cutting operation reported to the medical profession by four Chicago area surgeons
The anesthetic, procaine, for example, enabled them to walk further by blocking off nerve impulses
plane and devoted only casual attention to the development of the flying boat. It is my suspicion that the pendulum is about to
Freed i in Fatal
: k rel f flving | They are Dr. Geza de Takats, St. carried by the sympathetic nervous start swinging back to the development of giant flying CHAPIN. S. C.. Dec. 19 (U. P.) — Luke's hospital, who headed the system and causing spasm in the . boat passenger transports, One factor which may h 1 BUS ad ot x vollided x study: * Dr. Edson 7. Fowler, St. jemaining Open aFteries { hasten. this new trend is the ultra-rapid development A SC oS 2h a Jack Toles HONORED —M iss Jean ne. Francis Yospital, Evansion. ard Dr i 3g 0p 5 S of jet propulsion engines. The British already have near sre 1ocaY, © \Ng ‘one. persoy P h is th w le r of a Dr. Thom Cc The sympathetic nervous system and injuring five others. augh is the new leader of a Paul Jordan an r. Thomas ©. is a farflung network of twig-like |
built a flying boat fighting plane equipped with two | jet engines installed in the hull, Thus installed, the | jet power plants decrease the over-all air resistance or CE drag. Again, the jet tail pipe, exhausting under water, Sam Rowe, a will greatly accelerate the take-off. This is a vital truck,
A vagrancy charge against Wile liam Edgar Schaettle, 33, of 735 Park ave. held on $10,000 bond since the fatal shooting of Mrs. Lucie Marie Wing, 28, of 219 Fulton st., Sunday,
The Columbia hospital emergency
Job's Daughters chapter, | Risley, now in the armed forces. staff 4déntified
the dead man as passenger in- the . un -
nerves funciioning independent of \ the nerves governing locomotion and sensation. It branches out to such organs as
Arteriosclerosis Victims The patients were wictims of a
Miss Jeanne Paugh, daughter of !o5hgition in which the leg arteries
factor in a take-off from rough water, Three of the injured were ‘broth- Mr. and. Mrs. J. R. Paugh, Beech jecame narrow and circulation all the stomach, kidneys, pancreas and were dismissed today by Judge John : ors, en. toute With thelr Sthosie Grove. will be installed as honcr but choked off. Any weight put on blood vessels | Niblack in municipal court 4. Ample Landing Space } mates lo the Piedmont Syaipinar . ' { Bethel 32. Orcer of Job's the leg brings violent distress. Under the strain of modern living | Before dismissing the charge, school. They were Linwood O'Neal queen of . : : Cause and effective treatment of these nerves are believed to place! judge Niblack asked Detective Case SEVERAL of these engines can be mounted in Eargle, 6; Travis L. Eargle, 8, and Daughters, at 8 p. m. Jan. 1. The the disease. known as arterioscle- & tension on the arteries, causing per Kleifgen “do you think he the hull, and so close to the center line of the hull Leland C. Eargle, 10, Irmo, 8. C. ceremony will be held in the Beech sis are highly debatable and not constriction, (Schaettle) shot the waman?*
that shutting off one or more of these power plants will not necessitate the adjustment of direction con-
The bus driver, J. E. Wessinger, and the truck driver, Earl Wessing- |
The operation consists in enter-
When Kleifgen answered in the ing through the patient's back and
negative he replied, “discharged.”
well understood. In some medical quarters amputation and death are
Grove city hall.
trol—which always reduces the speed, Then, the er, were also injured. They are| Other officers are Martha Bailey, held out a5 Use only prospects removing the ® nerve centers and Police found Mrs. Wing dying elimination of propellers does away with the great not related. senior princess; Fay Hein, junior pac. doctors contend that@the their endings. from a bullet in her head on the hazard of water heating in a rough sea, This always Between 15 and 20 children were princess; Marjorie Nickels, guide; disease is a process of aRing wy Improvement was immediate in floor of the office of the Op-Al Elecs
has been a major problem with the flying boat. on the bus.
‘ ; : most cases and patients ‘walked out ' vies &» ' waster. Mar . ella’ ¢ 0 more be prevented than tric & Mfg. Co. 809 N. Senate ave While the take-off may require the use of all the It was the second school bus accl- Wands LanChses, A Tuga ni NS or ra of the hospitals. A Selection of cases at 4:40 a . Sunday : - i stat 24 hours. Yes- ''am x r a y y - . hap he Hh” jet engines, cruising speed can be maintained by cut- dent in the state in 24 & y assistant guardian. The idea for the operation came is made only after extensive diag Mr. Schaettle, who was with “her, ting out some of the engines and relying on a single terday 10 school children were liaise e— nostic tests
killed at Newberry,
Dr. Ratti Resigns As Butler Dean
Resignation of Dr. Gino A. Ratti as dean of the Butler university * college of liberal arts and sciences effective Sept. 1, 1947, was an-
jet power plant, As seven-eighths of the world. is covered with water, there always are safe water areas to be found in the bays and inlets of every coast line, When a land plane lands on the water, it is finished. When a flying boat lands on the water it may have difficulty (in 4 rough sea), but after all it is a boat even if it has wings, and it usually manages to stay on the surface, There always has been a place for the flying boat | in the airpower of commerce and war. And, with the aid of the jet engines, its future is brighter than ever
SILLY NOTIONS
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nounced today. Dr. Ratti, who is completing his 12th year as dean of tne liberal arts { college, asked to be relieved of his duties in order to give Iu!l time to
By Ruth Millett
A PROSPECTIVE bridegroom in Kansas wrote a letter to the assistant attorney general of his state, saying that he wanted to know “all about the mar-
riage law . , . and all about the divorce laws.” The assistant attorney general shied away from the request, opining that “cadtion has its limits.” Well, present-day «livorce statistics are enough to make a man e3utious. : And the statistics-takers aren't encouraging the about-to-be-married to believe that their marriages will last, Instead, they all seem agreed that the divorce rate is going to Keep right on climbing.
Not an Easy Way Out
80 CAN YOU really blame a cautious young man contemplating marriage for wanting divorce as well as marriage information? As a matter of fact, there would probably be fewer divorce muddles if" young&people knew more about divorce before they married.
- {teaching and the administration of the department of romance Only to those who don't know much about it does! languages at Butler. divorce seem an easy “out. i Dr. Ratti first became a member That it usually isn't easy, divorce stories in every of the Butler faculty in 1920 when _ day's newspapeis testify. he was made a full professor and All too often, the divorce is an ugly business in assumed the headship of the ‘lanitself, with the husband and wife each blackening 8uage department. He became actthe other's reputation. If there are children in-|ing dean of the college of liberal
volved, the fight for tMeir custody often is far from arts and sciences in 1935 and was pretty. made dean in 1937.
| gineer said. He estimated $90,000 | would be needed.
Good to Face Facts British Remain Hungry
AND MANY A young man has learned to his sor- LONDON, Dec. 19 (U. P) row that whether or not two can live as cheaply “as Britain, having passed from the one together—it takes a mighty good income to be wettest summer in 40 years into an able to support a wife separately, | early, bitterly cold - winter was
The surgery was carried out at of his desk duging a heated arguBy Palumbo St. Luke's hospital, the University ' ment afd before he could get the hospitals and Hines hospital, ay Copyright, 1046, by Tae Indianapolis mes Work Is Stopped . . ’ Hol Land Civil | Regddration of the Whitewater Memorial canal between Metamora land Brookville has been temporarily War Threatened MacKenzie said today. . Mr. MacKenzie said the work of P.).—William' B. Ziff, New York | halted because the department had | publisher, delivered a message from | expended the $25000 appropriated day. . | preliminary restoration job. He said that further Zionist-| The 1947 legislature will be asked of Palestine would cause immediate | speed the program, the state ‘en~ “civil war.’ respondents covering the world | Zionist congress that he spoke for | and other resistance groups in Pal- | . estine." Hs | state that any attempt to enforce | | partition or further collaborate with war,” he said. Mr, Ziff said he had been asked | |
told police she grabbed a gun out of Illinois research and educational gun, shot herself. and The Chicuge Daily News On Whitewater Canal stopped, State Engineer Thomas G, BASEL. Switzerland, Dec. 19 (U.| restoring the historic aqueduct was Palestine underground leaders to-| by the 1945 state legislature for the British collaboration or partition | to make further appropriations to | Mr. Ziff told a conference of cor-| the Stern gang. Irgun Zvai Leumi | “These people have asked me to!| the British will be a signal for civil fo convey the inderground’s warn- | Hi
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In these times, a little caution before marriage caught in one of the worst. food ing after Dr. {812 seems an admirable thing. shontages of its history today. president of the World Zionist or- || {! {i A So somebody ought to give the prospective Kansas! In some aspects it exceeded the ganization and advocate of British (H »
bridegroom the information he wants, | pinch of the worst war years. His attitude may not be romantic—but it is’ cer- The higgest . and ‘worst of tainly realistic. shortages was bread.
co-operation, had stated that “ter. | ror” in Palestine must be stamped | out,
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