Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 January 1947 — Page 13

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ssted are requested hn Wilson, young at the Central “Y.” play stringed and uments are needed said.

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‘To go to an engraver and say that you ‘want s

. monogram on your watch, tea set, ring, ——aacR " elgaret case, of your sledgehammer. from the great fraternal “brotherhood of sledgehammer toters, is one

thing. Doing the engraving is another and Thomas - J. Owens, expert engraver, showed me why. i

He was preparing to engrave a monogram on a

silver compact. A woman brought a silver cigaret case and she wanted an identical monogram put on the compact. It was to be a set. I-had an idea the monbgram would be trans-

ferred by means of a carbon or some other transfer

method, Nothing like that, Mr. Owens would get the three-letter affair—by sketching it freehand on the compact.

He replaced four pins in the engraving bjpck that

.. would hold thé compact rigid during the engraving. The block is the size of a jymbo-sized indoor ball. The steel sphere is in two sections, the top section revolving on ball bearings. Rubbing his hand across his hair, Mr. Owens patted the compact several times thus transferring a small amount of natural hair oil. Then he took a talcum powder bag and dusted the top of the compact with a thin layer of powder.

First a Circle

. STUDYING THE figures in the cigaret case for & moment, Mr. Owans proceeded to get the “direction of the monogram.” With a compass he inscribed a circle on the compact. ‘The sharp wooden peg on the compass left a clear impression in the talc. Another glance at the original and Mr, Owens began his first sketch with rapid, bold strokes. The “direction” was rough but even an inexperienced eye could tell the basic proportions.were ‘accurate. The compact was given another light dusting with the tale. With a hard-rubber, pencil-shaped affair he "made a rapid detailed reproduction of the original script monogram. The compact was ready to be pointed. This is done by means of a sharp steel pointer with which Mr. Owens outlines the monogram. The talc sketch might be rubbed away accidently while the actual engraving was being done. The pointing 5 a life

insurance policy on the sketch.

He selected a cutting tool from the pile on the

.. work bench close to his elbow. Mr. Owens has more

than 200 cutting tools, most of which he designed and made himself. The 53-year-old engraver takes great pride in the sharpness of ‘his tools and attributes his success to that factor. “I've been in Indianapolis 20 years and I've never been yen up with my work,” he said. Just before

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MONOGRAM COMING UP—Thamas J. Owens mixes skill, patience and love for his work with a flick of his wrist in engraving jewelry.

he turned his attention to fhe compact he told how lie opened the doors to his offices in the Roosevelt building and had to sit on the floor to do his first engraving job.

Cuts Swift and Sure

WITH HIS LEFT hand on the engraving block and the compact and his right resting on top of} his left, Mr. Owens began cutting. His cuts were | quick, sure and smooth. Almost always he cut up| and away from his body. It was plainly visible that a great amount of wrist strength was being applied to the tool. The cuttings were flicked off as each | cut was completed, ’ His elbows never left the pads on the work’ bench. | There was no hesitating when he had to changéd cutting tools. He merely laid one down on. the pile and | picked up another. Here was a man who knew the | tools of. his trade.

In what seemed an incredibly-short time for suchjoff your “sack.”

Day’ $ Explovation Experience in Terror

By FRED SPARKS a Timgs Foreign Correspondent ABOARD U. 8. 8. MT. OLYM2US, off Little America, Jan. 20.

activity possible until the ice Sutsel North Wind can_ open. Bay" Whales inlet and pérmit land ng ” equipment on Little America—Iis an old business to the veterans of this pedition,

ex But to the tenderfoot--most of ug are tefderfeet—it is new and terrifying. It is out of this world. Here iis the log of ‘one day's trip to inspect possible camp sites: You can't sleep all night. Be[cause you know that, in the morn{ing, you're going to hike on the jie ice shelf that borders Antaretica, 750 miles from the_ south pole, | You're going to take your first steps 1as a polar explorer. Just a few {months ago, a polar explorer was as | close to you as a two-headed boa | constrictor, y’ » AT 6 A. M. THEY all the covers You grab coflee.

fine and close work, the monogram was completed and start to dress. This is the

except for the final shaping and touching up. The compact was wiped clean. A few strokes with a polishing cloth brought it to a high lustre. Placing the compact next to the cigaret case: Mr. Owens asked “well, what do you think? Is it the same? Are the monograms identical twins?” 1 was in no hurry to answer. I asked for the mag-

nifying eyepiece.” Every line was scrutinized and com- |

pared. Desperately I tried to find a deviation in some line—any dine. “They're identical, Mr. Owens,” The master smiled.

I said.

Union Suit. Response By Fredrick C. : han

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-The female, or obstinate Sex, is covering my nakedness. A good thing, too; because I am blushing all over. 1 told the ladies, when I penned my. plea last week for old-fashioned short-legged cotton union suits, kindly to turn their heads and so avoid embarrassment. They did nothing of the kind; they have sent me male lingerie, advice, offers, information, “and intimate confessions of their own underwear difficulties. For $1 per pair a lady in Texas will tailor me union suits with .rose buds on 'em. If I want my underdrawers plain I'll have to send her the material. She makes union, suits for her men folks from flowered flour sacks” Another lady in San Francisco has offered to make me ynion suits free. A third in Pittsburgh, Pa., reports that ihe trouble is simple: One old-time union suit maker is turning out sport shirts, another is mak ing petticoats with lace around: the. edges, and a is producing girdles. Not very good girdles, either. “And talking about girdles,” she continues. Whooie. The ladies aren't embarrassed. That's certain, but I feel like the fellow who got into the black lace chemise department by mistake. I am an underwear expert.

She Musi Be Psychic

DOZENS OF ladies from all over have sent me ads from stores trying to sell long-legged, itchy union suits at bargain prices. These I cannot use. And that brnigs us to Miss Helen Mary Wagner, whom 1 love dearly and hope some day to meet. - Miss Wagner was helping her father take in-

- ventory in his general store at Triadelphia, W. Va.,

seven miles from Wheeling. She was thinking about me when she reached the underwear department. Eureka.

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Greer Gets A Wish

She dispatched me two fine white broadcloth |

union suits in my exact size.(she ‘must be psychic) and marked her package urgent. As 1 type these lines of tribute to a lady whose kindness surpasseth understanding, I am wearing one of her union suits. Soft, roomy, comfortable. The first unpatched union suit I have worn in four years.

A Woman's World IN SYRACUSE, N. Y., my plea for the underwear makers to go back to making underwear happened to be printed smack-dab against an advertisement by an ex-union suit maker. He urged the ladies to buy a garment known as a two-way stretch.

To the several gentlemen who sent me word of

this sorry’ circumstance, I must ‘report that I agree;

it is hy Woman's world. -Blytheville, Ark. shop ‘miy kind of union suits in stock. di i A lady in Lake Charles, La. says sha is in the same boat with Mrs. O,, tired unto death patching the patches on her husband’s union suits. The Lewis Knitting Co., Janesville, Wis., has offered to knit me some union’ suits, I appreciate the offer, but the knitted kind bite me. (My fault, of course. I have a peculiag shape.) : G. W. Stengel, Pittsbirrgh, Pa., reports that ne has invented a shirt with long ‘tails that work something like a diaper. It does away with union suits altogether. Mrs. Cecil N, Hall, Three Rivers, Wis. says, yes, but what about her slips? She is"74, she likes cotton ones, and can find none. At least none that a lady would wear. “ To all my ‘underwear correspondents, my ‘sincere thanks. To the union suit makers who deserted their own sex, my contempt.

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By Erksine Johnson

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 20.—An agent cornered Leo McCarey, trying to sell him a character actor for “Adam and Eve.” “But I don't need a character actor,” said Leo. “I'm only using a leading man and a leading woman— no other humans.” “That's all right, Leo,” replied the agent. till you see my actor—he AIN'T human.” Greer Garson finally gets her wish for a comedy, "Speak to Me of Love.” In one .scene she'll wear

“Wait

“tights and sing from a trapeze. That we want to see,

News item: “Errol Flynn to be starred in “The Forty-Niners,’ a story of the California gold rush.” Errol chasing gold will be a novelty,

Film Epic, Ritz Style

AFTER A Miami #Ta., night-club enghgement. the Ritz brothers will produce their own movie, “Where's Myrtle?” They'll play tree surgeons assigned to move & tree from New York tg California, Myrtle is the tree. Joan Fontine's deséription of her role in “Ivy”— “I'm a clinging vine who turns out to be poison ivy.” Joan's mama, Lillleh Fontaine, ‘plays her best friend in the film, Proving that a girl's best friend is her mother. If there's a revival of the 3-year-old film “The Deerslayer” at your , neighborhood theatér, watch closely -for Larry (“The Jolson Story”) Parks in red face instead of black face. He plays. the small role of Yvonne de Carlos Indian lover, | RP

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THE LOS ANGELES pantie- and bra-maker who came out with the positive statement that American men “probably have the worst posture in thegmworld” and should, therefore, take to wearing girdles, had three strikes against her at the start. STRIKE ONE: Men don't worry about tieir appearanee enough to take any drastic measures for improvemers. Women are doubtful enough of theif

natural charms to suffer in the name of. beauty-— but not men.

He Just Doesn’t.Care

A MAN®can lose all his hair’ with less fuss than, 8 woman makes over a few gray “hairs she can dye any day she takes the notion, ~ * STRIKE TWO: Men haven't women's simple faith

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Ronald Howard, 27-year-old son of the late Lesile Howard, hopes to star in some of his.dad’s old film hits when he arrives in Hollywood from England in March. j ; Rohnie won't have a housing problem. The Howard’s Hollywood home has been leased to Eleanor Parker, and she’s moving to a new $90,000 mansion after she completes work in “Woman in White.” * A second-hand auto dealer in Hollywood has discovered there's glamour to cars formerly owned by! film stars. He's conducting Sunday morning auctions of “stars’ cars”--and getting $500 to $1000 more per car, on the strength of his “Amn-Sheridan-sat-behind-this-wheel” ballyhoo. :

Here's a New Wolf Call

ENTERPRISE will ballyhoo Hazel Brooks (playing opposite John Garfield in “Body and Soul”) as the “Mrph!" Mrph! girl,” It’s a sound used by Douglas aircraft engineers when they see what they call a really sexy girl. They say it's their supersonic wolf howl for a supersonic Job—she goes through you faster than sound. Agent Henry Willson took film newcomer Rory Calhoun to meet Director Michael Curtis. Said Wilson: “Mike, meet Rory Calhoun, the next Clark Gable.” “Maybe so,” replied Mike, “but in the meantime he ought-to get a haircut.”

By Ruth Millet

in beauty miracles. A fat woman will squeeze herself into a’ too-tight girdle, and go forth convinced she has achieved the streamlined figure nothing but

drastic dieting could produce. childish faith, ' STRIKE THREE: A professor has already convinced fat men that they make‘ the best husbands, and advised women that if they want to marry a man who, is . home-loving, .good-natured and easy to live with they had better ‘plek. a butter-ball,

| There's, os Nor a Charice hob on

THERE'S, not the slightest chance that men bier vas of the two-way stretch, aker wants to increase her market, ‘to scare more women into girdles. Meti ‘don't scare so easily. :

Men haven't that

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l.-U. Official to Meet Prospective Teachers

Dr. L. O. “Andrews, assistant to the

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Students planning to. complete dean of the Indiana university|teachers’ licenses, graduate students school of education, will be at the|in education, * and high school University’s Extension center here|seniors who .are interested in g © tomorrow to confer with students|into teaching may contact Dr. ‘Ans |oPPortunity for students to get an fein. to enter: the teaching pro- drews from 10 a. m. throughout the interpretation’ of the: New requireession, -

Since the secondary tenching certificite -equirements have been recently changed this: will .be an

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tell you it's 15 feet thick, and you

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'1$950,000 annually,

j coldest place in the world. You've {been briefed many times on how easy it is to freeze an arm or a leg. First, you put on regular underwear, tops dnd shorts. Over them you put on long, woolen underiwear. You've tried long underwear before on your bare body—it itches something frightful. Then you put on two pairs of woolen socks. You pull them over the top of the underwear, which fits snugly around the ankles. Now Icomes the high, waterproof ' shoes. | First you slip in two fet shoe‘linings. You'll be walking on glareial. jce—ice that is colder than any other ice. : == | You slip into regular army khaki trousers that ride ap almost to your chest—held up by suspenders as too many belts stop circulation. * » ¥ i HERE'S THE turtle-neck sweater. And a windbreaker lined with paper. It crackles when you walk, and you feel like you're wearing a copy of a magazine. Paper is insulation against wind—or so they say. Now. the overcoat, also alpacalined.” You wonder—what is an, alpaca?’ Is he big or small? ; The dark glasses are. easy. But they're almost black, and you stumble into a chair, looking for gloves. Snow-blindness, they've told you, is something to avoid. They say that it feels like someone -sticking razor blades in your eyeballs. Wow— even the thought hurts} | One pair of woolen gloves, over that -one pair of leather gloves.

i ¥ f J NOW, THE FINAL touch: A face mask. It has slits for eyes and mouth. You have trouble tyidg the straps on behind your. head; and have to lower the" parka and start again. 3 ‘Well, you seem to be ready. Let's get going before you start to sweat. On the way to the deck—you can't resist it—you go in the bathroom to look at yourSelf in the mirror. Is that me? Your head looks like one of those Egyptian mummies, wrapped for eternity. Now you're on the deck. The trail is ready. The leader says “let's go,” and you do down the wooden ladder onto the ice.' They!

hope. You take your place fifth in line. Single file across the ice, so if someoné ‘falls in "he'll ‘be alone. Nice thought. Two of the men are pulling a sledge: ‘It has 100 pounds of gear, Emergency rations, fuel, markers.

Exploring the polar ice—the only,’

south” pole.

EVERY 25 YARDS you help push]. a split ‘bamboo pole info the ice and tie a foot-square navy. blue

flag on it.

Now -you, take your turn on the

sledge. chest.

the: Russian river.

A strip goes. 8 d your You recall a of Volga boatmen pulling their through It there was also a song about - You've walked a mile mow. No

one talks. With the parka clutching your ears and the mask trapping your mouth, it would be like singing while chewihg soda crackers.

It's hard walkin-.

down, everything looks so white you can't tell when there's a depression or a bump. So you stumble often— but, don’t twist an ankle!

Jeeps, if the gang back home snaps, That'll .be better ‘in the

could see me now! things like that.

YOU'RE SICK af looking down

at the ice.

fellow in front. and has his parka down, You siare so long you can count the hairs on his head. You wonder how he got the scar on his neck. There's the ice barrier, wall of ice. You start to.climb up. You look hack at the Bay of Whales, The icebreaker North Wind is pulling out. Say, what does that mean? Some place to be left!

You concentrate on the He's a: veteran,

When you look

You think of

A solid

OFF LITILE AMERICA — The control : Soup. of Ade Richard E. Byrd's antarclie exped by huge ice floes in the Bay of Whales. The expedition is sending foot parties onto the Ross. Ice Shelf fo

camp sites. Map shows where one group of the expedition will work over Ellsworth Lande eriothar 4 in: ithe the south magnetic pole a and the Hird at Life America.

You fumble . inside layers .of clothes for a cigaret. Bust two getting one out. But you forget about the face mask. Can't seem to get it through the small mouth opening. Oh, well—you crush the-.cig-aret; drop it. The icy wind starts to blow in under the parka and chill your throat. So you walk with one hand clutching the parka tight. s » ® SAY, HOW about the camera? You had it hanging over your shoulder on a strap. You slip open the case. There's ice forming all

around. But the lens is free. You try to brush off the ice—no luck.

. But you manage to take some

family album than a trip to the Grand Canyon,

Now you start to sweat. It runs down your legs like ants. You open your clothes while walking. Look—a seal. He looks at you, just as curious as you are. He's gray, and has funny splotches like a kid with a bad complexion, He wiggles around, following you. He can travel on any part of himself. His back, his side or his belly. Almost like a good swimmer in a lake. But he’s not polite, He drools through his mustache.

you thought for a second you were

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BYRD'S ICE-CUTTER — OF Aor the Antarctic are the U.S. S. Burton Island: reported tough enough fo cut through 15 feet of ice, and the helicopter pictured above.

MORE SEALS—a world of seals.

The site has been reached. The

Suddenly you go slightly nuts— you go white blind or something. You're lost.in a sea of whiteness. The sky has closed in—it’s white as snow, no clouds. There just isn't any horizon—any anything. Where are the others—can’t be far away, but, which way? “ Then - another. member. of the party pops into view. Just like that—pops into view. Like when you were a kid and you put your hands together to make shadows on a white wall. You could make a duck. That's how suddenly: this fellow came out of the white--and deck. lost. But you don't say anybhing about it. 4 » » » NOW YOU are very cold. You have nothing to do but watch. So the perspiration is beginning to chill you. Maybe it will freeze? You

Bug, itll sound

back the bay of ice. experts start figuring on where You'take off your face things will go. Mess hall there.|smoke a cigaret. It's Weather station there. Lh a

back. The last few trail markers are pulled down. You climb on the “How was it?" someone asks. “A snap,” you say, “a 8 Snaps

You start to count—one seal, two|E. Byrd's books. seals, ‘three seals—never mind. on oul Jv another You'll just tell the fellows you saW| grap 5 shovel off the some seals. ; start digging. Try Now you've topped the barrier.|Keep moving. That The leader halts the trail party.| Welk finally, the

young at 80?

plans to do about surveying the problem of the aged. What about the influence of food? Is overweight a factor? Is fast living? Worry? What: is the face tor in heredity that seems to give ripe old age to descendants of long-

How about the theory of hormone maladjustments? About the theory | of gradual accumulation of poisons’ in the blood? Because many cities are looking to Chicago for leadership in the infant science of old age, doctors here have been quietly discussing a plan for a “research institute for the study of chronic illness ‘and geri atrics.” Proposed by Dr. A. C. Ivy, vice president of the University of 1Illinois, ‘the institute would be the first of its kind in the world. It would be built in the West Side medical center, provide beds for 200 patients,” an out-patient service for 15,000 persons a year, and suitable facilities for research, Floors would be devoted to special diseases. The initial cost would be $2,250,000” for land, buildings and equipmentg Operation would require’

“While the expenditure seems large, it must be realized that more | than one half. this cost would be offset by payments already made

: Sand Oilers,” Dr. Ivy sald.

by other public agencies for hos-| pitalization of ‘old-age Dehsioners

Proposed Medical Institute Will Study 'Why' of Old Age

Research Project to Seek Answer & To ‘Senile at 50 or Young at 80’ By ARTHUR J. SNIDER

Times Science Writer CHICAGO, Jan, 20.—Why are some people senile at 50 and others

That is one of the questions posed by Dr. Malcolm MacEachern, president of the Chicago Medical society, in discussing what the society Heel 46 days for his heel to heal.

\ limped to the bench to face charges

He'll Be Footloose In Just 45 Days =

DETROIT, Jan. 20 (U, P).— “What's the matter with your foot?” asked = Recorder's Judge Paul E. Krause as Robert M. Heel

of drunkenness. “Got. a blister on my heel,” Heel replied. “That's what the trouble was when the officers _ ought 1 was staggering.” Krause was impressed He gave

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By PAUL R. LEACH Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Jan, duced in congress which, on American life,

uire every citizen over 16 to carry at all a re hi with his photo attached. Sénator George D. Aiken (Rep. Vi), " would set up a national food-card program. Poor families would be sold coupons for as low as & fourth of their face value in retail store buying power. Measure Requested Representative Springer said he introduced his measure “on the request of law enforcement agencies,” but would not identify them. A similar measure was put into the hoppers of the 78th and 79th con- J gresses but never got out of the

judiciary committee. Heads of the federal bureau of

they were not sponsoring the meas-| ure. However, if they were called before the house committee to testi- |. fy, it was said here, they would n= fy dorse it. Senator Aiken's bill 18 a: of plans discussed during the h of the epressii, Jt heves i nationally, fuller distribu

Plan Proposed to Insure Adequate Diet : And Full Distribution of Farm Surpluses

~Another registration bill has been intro= : % enacted, would have al-Tasiiing effects

The first one was Indiana Representative Raymond s, Springer’s ‘The

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