Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 January 1947 — Page 17
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“NUTE"~to you and you and you, "Books, reviews, inspiring, tender, stimulating, dull, you-must-read. +++ Oh, Millions upon millions of words are written about what other writers have Written. (Bit of a tongue-
twister, fsn't’it?) Keep your dukes up, I'll'get arolnd “to what I have to say. But is one paragraph, one ’
sentence or one word written about the great Amer. ican classics which millions of readers read daily? No. Why? Are comic books ‘with more high adventure, intrigue and interest per square inch of pulp paper than any other type of reading matter not inthe realm of fiction worthy of reviewing? No? We'l, that settles it nicely and without But I still disagree and as of now will proceed to
review that thrilling, tense, suspenseful Publication
known ‘as “Captain Marvel Jr.” Because the book offers so much for 50 little, only one dime at almost any newsstand and drugstore, I wil have to confine the review to only one of four Captain Marvel Jr. adventures—“The Flying Men.” The others, “Acrobat’s Death Trap,” “Unlucky Buddha,” and “Magic Beanstalk,” make good reading but for the hair-on-end stuff you can't bkat “The Flying Men."
‘Story Unfolds
FOR THOSE with lofty highbrows it might be well ‘to mention that Captain Marvel Jr, in real life is a crippled newshoy, Freddy Freeman, But when Freddy sees evil being committed, hé has the power from Shazam, the old wizard, to turn into “the world's mightiest flying boy.” The story begins with Freddy selling “extras” which announce that “for the past few days, a large flock of what seem to be large eagles or vultures have been ‘hovering over the city! Why? NOBODY ENOWS. .. ." The story unfolds swiftly. It isn't a flock of eagles or vultures. It's a flock of winged men. One illustration shows a winged man on his way down—ZOOM. Clearer than any words, the next picture shows the flying demon with a boy under his arm and a distraught mother (distraught is my word) yelling “HELP! He pounced on my boy! EEEEEK |” Too bad for the evil one because “Freddy Freeman has witnessed the astounding tragedy!”
Marvel to the Rescue
WITH HIS STEELY-BLUE eyes Freddy gazes into the wild blue yonder and says “I'm afraid those ARE real wings! He's a genuine winged man! And he carried off that boy like an eagle carries off its prey! ¥d better say ... CAPTAIN MARVEL!” A flash of magic lighting hits Freddy Freeman. BOOM! And our hero heads for the sky.In a mat-
Workers’ Utopia
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—J. P. Gramling, assistant salesmanager of the U. O, Colson Co., says he has noticed that everybody mentioned in my items for the paper lately has been sore at somebody else. Why not, he asks, break the monotony with a story about some folks who aren't mad at any one. He means the 500 employees of the Colson Co, in Paris, Ill, who whistle while they work. This, he says, is unusual; it is news. Durned if I don't believe he's right. The happy ones in the Paris paradise manufacture fans and fly-swatters for advertising purposes in the summer and line of calendars with pretty pictures on same for year-round use. These include the usual babies, puppies, snow storms, bathing girls and what the trade calls risques. The risque for 1048, which you'll be seeing about a year from now, is a nearly naked cutie with a feather duster under her arms. She wears a four-inch ruffle to indicate that she's a house maid. That's the business. There are no labor problems in Paris, according to. Mr. Gramling, because of a few strictly enforced rules around the plant. No worker is allowed to, have a baby, for instance, unless he accepts a war bond from the company to help out with junior’s education.
Free Vacations
THE COMPANY frowns on head colds, It gives every employee a cold treatment each fall and pills thereafter. If he insists on getting sick anyhow, then he's got to accept from the boss a bouquet of flowers delivered to his bedside. : All hands must take two-week vacations. The company prefers that they have their rest at Twin Lake park, because here if maintains cottages furnished completely (dishes and calendars included)
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Ultimatum to Frankie
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 23.—Frank Sinatra apparently doesn’t want to fight after all. Some time after Frank lad threatened to punch us in our “stupid mouth,” one ef his pals, Bobby Burns, telephoned to say that Frankie boy was in a good mood and wanted to smoke a peace pipe. And would we have lunch with Frankie? Naturally, we never make lunch dates over the telephone from strangers. Maybe it was just a plot to get us in some dark corner and hit us over the head with a bobby-sock loaded with cement. When Frankie himself calls we'll consider the matter of lunching with him, or slugging it out. We're in great shape—we’ve been taking steam baths, staying up late nights and listening to Frankie's records— trying to weaken ourself. In fact, our theme song is “This Is the Week of the Weakling.” There will be no fireworks in the Gene TierneyOleg Cassini divorce. Just routine, on grounds of mental cruelty. Oleg will go on designing Gene's film clothes. Lana Turner is off to Mexico City again to visit Ty Power after completing “Green Dolphin Street.” Wayne Morris is up for a “Kid Galahad” series on the air,
Jane Lusts for Freedom : SINCE HER performance in “The Yearling,” Jane
"Wyman is yearning for better things and probably
STARK, GRIPPING ADYENTURE—Hair raising stuff can be found i in the easy-to-read literature.
ter of seconds caphiln Marvel Jr. is up with the culprit, Huge yellow letters spell WHAM! and we all know what that means. - The bad guy not being very literate grunts “Ugh.” The flying kidnaper’s friends gang up on Captain Marvel. Then an army pilot comes to the rescue. He in turn is rescued. The boy and the kidnaper are finally landed on a rooftop. - Captain Marvel asks the wing-dinger what it's all about. “Urga? Olio igzy kashnu vitna! Teelay?” answers the winged man, Captain Marvel promptly punches him in the nose. From then on they are buddies. The locale changes to the wilds of ‘the Amazon. A cruel king named Krullo, captures children for slaves, The cad. His number is up, though, with Captain Marvel on the job. Sticks and stones fail to break Captain Marvel's bones. He's tough, see. By a clever ruse Captdin Marvel gets himself thrown into the slave clink. But he's all tied and can’t speak the magic words. Justice, however, in the lovely form of Dveena cuts the ropes that bind the captain and: again it’ 's BOOM! Captain Marvel proceeds to make short work of the whole colony of kidnapers. For her trouble Dveena becomes queen by official proclamation. Captain Marvel doesn’t waste time, The next to the last picture of this thrilling epic, shows Captain Marvel pulling all the little children in a barge high above the clouds homeward. Peace comes to Dveenaland. The winged men'now pick mulberries instead of little children. Book reviewers—nuts to you.
By Frederick C. Othman
for their free use. With the cottages go 35 free boats for fishing purposes. The fellow who catches the biggest fish of the season must accept a prize.
Service De Luxe
MOST OF the 400 fortunate ones drive to work in their own automobiles. The company maintains a parking lot for them, with the name of each motorist on his private stall. His windshield is washed daily in summer; the ice is removed in winter. If one of his tires goes flat while he's at work, he must not protest if the company has it repaired gratis. Anybody who thinks up a good idea to improve the calendar business is forced to accept a free automobile. Any worker who tries to work all the time is nudged gently toward one of several recreation rooms. These are equipped with pianos, soda pop, candy, books, magazines and easy chairs. If an employee wants to build: a house, the company insists on advancing half the down payment. If he needs a new refrigerator, furnace, or front room sofa, the boss demands the right to lend him the full price without interest. Anyone getting married must accept a wedding gift. Nobody has to go to the company’s parties, but it insists on tossing them regularly, It also insists on paying half the workers’ insurance premiums and slipping them a share of the profits annually. They can’t help whistling; soft music of their selection is piped throughout the plant. You think I've dreamed this? : “Maybe we are crazy,” Mr. Gramling said, “but we think it pays. If a few more concerns would- try it, there might be a better understanding between management and labor.” That does it. Breaks the monotony. Tomorrow, back to the battling lawgivers.
By Erskine Johnson
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will free-lance after her Warner contract expires next year. There's a highly dramatic role awaiting her in the Lee Horton-Paul Bernard story “No Light in Her Eyes,” if she finds the right producer. Ingrid Bergman is so happy with “Joan of Lorraine” (who wouldn't be, at $5000 a week?) that she may extend the Broadway run into June or July before her vacation to Sweden. It’s a break for Enterprise, due to release “Arch of Triumph” around Easter. It means that Ingrid oy 't be appearing in another movie until the fall of '48.
Handwriting in the Sky
NOW IT’S SOMETHING worse than the handwriting on the wall in Hollywood. It’s sky-writing. Trying to film scenes representing 17th century England with the name of a 20th century soft drink floating through the air is driving one studio crazy. Linda Darnell is buying a house near Taos, N. M,, where she and Pev Marley—if the reconciliation goes through as’ expected—will spend their second honeymoon: Burl Ives, the ballad singer, faces a serious operation in a few weeks. . , . Mitzi Green, the former child star, is awaiting her second visit from the stork. She's the wife of actor Joseph Pevney. They've got everything including the chandelier on Carmen Miranda in “Copacabana.” Yep, she’s wearing a bejeweled chandelier as a hat.
—— — We, the Women A COLLEGE president w American women that they are losing their hi on men. He says he fears the opinion is increasing among men ‘that “women are very expensive—they want a lot for what they give.” Well, maybe, but that isn’t the picture you get while walking down Fifth Avenue or Park Avenue in New York. Count the mink coats per block. Where did they come from? Certainly not out of the money working girls save by skipping lunch, Look at the middle-aged woman coming out of
swanky beauty salons and climbing into chauffeurdriven, long, sleek automobiles. They toil not, neither
| do they spin—so they must have some kind of hold
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Someday Baby, Someday | CAREFULLY at the beautiful clothes dn in the windows of the more exclusive shops
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By Ruth Millet
—then ask the price. Yet they are. bought and worn and quickly discarded. It's a safe bet that some man foots the bill. Look at the diamond. solitaires in the jewelry stores, There still seems to be a constant demand
, for those evidences of a man’s willingness to take on
for life the support of a girl.
Consider the Clothes
SEE ‘THAT young couple window-shopping, the girl admiring all those beautiful, tempting clothes so far beyond her grasp? " It's a pretty good guess her young man is assuring her: “Someday, baby, r 11 be able to buy you clothes like that.” Sure, women are expensive. But it doesn’t look as if the men are going on a buyer’s strike any time soon. And that despite the college president's wirning that “woman's bargaining pier 1s less ‘than
“it used to be.”
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heaved more wood inter the firebox. but the train moved not at all.
woman smeared lard on the rails at a hill near Morristown, of the old Knightstown-Shelbyville line. She was expressing indignation after an engine had killed her pig. A modern housewife, handicapped by lack of shortening, no doubt would have been amazed at the use of lard to stop a train, but the pioneer Shelby county woman was Just making certain the railroad would, in the future, have proper respect for bacon and beef on the hoof.
. Animals Stop Trains In those days there were no fences along the right-of-way, and livestock continually wandered onto the tracks. The trains were stopped frequently while the crew threw firewood ‘at the animals to drive
them to safety. It was just 101 years ago this week—on Jan. 19, 1846—that the first step was taken toward organization of the Knightstown-Shelby« ville railroad, the fourth such route built in Indiana.
Capital of the company was $200,000, and shares sold for $50 each. Paul H. Wolf of Morristown possesses one of the original certificates of stock issued by the corporation. He is a great grandson of Henry Hill of Carthage, who was president of the railroad.
Clearing Way Major Task The canal as a transportation facility was at its peak in the 1840's. A railroad required a great amount of labor and money to build, so there was much opposition to this form of transportation. Stockholders saw the need for a route through the fertile KnightstownShelbyville area, however, and after
Laymen to Hear
Dr. O. F. Nolde
The Indianapolis Chi Federation will present Dr. O. erick Nolde of Philadelphia in an address gt a laymen’s luncheon Weanestay noon in the Y. M. we C. A. f The guest speak- | er is dean of the Lutheran Theological Seminary Graduate school : and director. of : the international affairs committee of the ' Federa Council o ; Churches. He will speak on the Dr. Nolde “Christian Testimony to the World of Nations” at 10:30 a. m. Wednesday at the annual meeting of the Indiana Pastors’ conference in the Third Christian church. “Dr. Nolde will inform the laymen at the luncheon concerning what
further the cause of peace in the world,” predicted Dr. Howard J. Baumgartel, federation executive secretary. Ray Holcomb is chairman of the committee sponsoring the luncheon.
Army Lifts Soory Of New Jet Bomber
SAN DIEGO, jJan. 23 (U. P.).— The army has. officially lifted the wraps from its newest bomber, the XB-46, which was built under heavy secrecy at the San Diego plant of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. While few performance figures
| were reieased on the all-jet pro-
pelled craft, the army did reveal that it is 105 feet long and has a wingspan of 113 feet. It is powered by four General Electric turbojet engines slung under the wing. The XB-46 now is undergoing ground tests before being flown, the army said.
they and the churches must do to
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Passengers Helped Push Train When It Stalled; Farmers Tried Pulling Flatcars With Horses
By LOLA F. TAGUE ~Jimes State Correspondent
‘MORRISTOWN, Ind, Jan. g23-—~The little locomotive huffed and " |puffed. Sparks poured from the smokestack as the exasperated engineer
Steam spurted and hissed, while drive wheels turned and turned— It happened in Indiafa—nearly 100 years ago—when a Hoosier farm
many legal difficulties work on the roadbed was started. The country was heavily wooded at that time, so clearing the right-of-way was a major task. Many laborers were needed, and sub scribers had the privilege of working out their purchase. Most of the work was done by man-power, with shovels, picks and wheelbarrows. Where a few low hills had te be. cut through and fills isde, ‘one-horse dump carts were
ee eiruchion was completed about 1850. The pioneer flat-bar line was 25 miles in length, running from Knightstown, .through Carthage, southwest across Blue river, through Morristown to Shelbyville. Stations were located in each of these towns and in the now non-existent town of Hanover. The Morristown station was located on what is now U. 8. highway 52. The old station building now is used as an office by the Morristown Elevator Co. 10 MPH Average Speed The locomotive on the old “K & 8” was about the size of a steam traction engine, and ‘had very large drive wheels. The train consisted of one boxcar and two passenger cars, one of which was used for baggage. Ten miles an hour was the average
attained. - : The engine was fired with wood, which was cut by horse-power in a treadmill, and was supplied at stations along the line. The first locomotive went from Shelbyville to Carthage on timbers, without bars, part of the. way, to take iron for the track. The rumble - of the cfude locomotive,
France Rejects U. S. Request
German Prisoners
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (U. P). —France in effect has rejected a United States request that she return 620,000 German prisoners of
war to their homes without delay, it was revealed today. The French made a counterproposal that a third party—probably a non-governmental agency — be
|asked to study the problem and
prepare a long-range plan of repatriation. The French government's position was that manpower shortages make it mandatory—even 20 months after V-E day—{far France to retain the German prisoners and use them on French farms and factories. The United States is concerned because the Germans actually are American prisoners of war. They were captured by U. S. forces and turned over to the French for custody in the closing days of the war. French unwillingness to return these prisoners make it dificult for the United States to press its case with Russia on the following prisoner issues: ONE: The 800,000 Japanese prisoners that the Soviets are still using at forced labor in Siberia. The United States and China have repatriated several millions and considers their job completed. : TWO: The undisclosed number of German prisoners that the Russians still hold. The Russians have never given an official accounting of these.
FORMER ACTRESS DIES HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 23 (U. P.).— Lulu Sutton Belmont, stage actress of the early 1900's, died at her home Tuesday, friends disclosed
today.
SILLY NOTIONS
By Palumbo
tooting the whistle every few rods, brought inhabitants of the countryside to see what was causing the commotion. The fearsome clamor excited one man, residing near the railroad, so much that he herded his family into their cabin and locked the door. Then he took his gun and hurried to see what monster was approach-
speed, but 15 miles an hour could be | ing
Passengers Push Train the first excursion’ trip the
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has the best looking members,
publicans take the prize for looks, it comes to the ladies. “I've never southern woman,” declared Senator Olin D, Johnston «D. 8. C.). “The Democrats are still here.’ And just about all of them come from the South. Draw vour own conclusions.” Senator J. William Fulbright (D. Ark), who issued the challenge for a debate or a beauty contest, said he couldn't bring himself to agree with Taft. He was confident that a contest with neutral judges would give the Democrats an easy victory.
Taft Is ‘Tolerant’
Mr. Taft advanced his claim of Republican beauty at a staté of Maine dinner for Republican genators Tuesday night. He said that while he had always been tolerant with his Democratic friends, he couldn’t escape the conviction that his Republican col~ leagues “are so much better looking than the Democrats.” Looking at the senators’ wives, Mr. Taft added, “I am certain the Republican ladies of the senate couldn't be matched, either, by the Democratic ladies.” Mr. Fulbright’s that the Republicans were “carrying their partisanship a little too far.” But he decided at last that a showdown battle of looks or words was the thing, and said the Republicans could “bring ir the wives, too.” Mr. Johnston said that as far as he was concerned “no men are very great beauties.” But he said Taft had gone too far in claiming superiority for G. O. P. belles over the beauties of the South.
2 Seriously Hurt
In Auto Accidents Two persons were seriously injured in traffic accidents here last night. Ten-year-old. Robert MacLaughs lin, 148 8. Hamilton ave., was in City hospital today with a broken right leg received yesterday when he was struck by a car driven by Ralph M. Small, 29, of Hoopeston, Ill, near the boy’s home. Miss Rose Brown, 19, of R. R. 2, Box 465, was badly injured last night when the car in which she was riding skidded into a car owned by Doris Brown, 3710 Kenwood ave, in the 600 block’ W. 38th st. Garland Denton, 16, of R. R. 16, Box 542, was driving the car. He was not hurt. |
7th Marines Come Home SAN DIEGO, Jan. 23 (U., P)~
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Democrats Challenge GOP {To "Debate or Beauty Test"
Offer Cones After Taft Says Republican Senators Take Prize for Best Looks -
By LEE NICHOLS United Press Staff
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—Senate Democrats today challenged Republicans to a “debate or a beauty contest” fo determine which party
The Democrats, aroused by Senator Robert A, Taft's claim that Reso—particularly
said it wasn't’ when seen anybody better looking than a
‘Volunteer Nurse Named ‘Good Neighbor’
IRENE, 8. D, Jan. 23 (U. P).— Mrs. Lars Andersen left today on her “first real honeymoon trip” to be climaxed Friday when she willy be honored as “America’s good neighbor for 1946.” The country’s radio editors chose Mrs. Andersen for the honor because she nursed hundreds of per-
had no physician. She will receive a $1000 war bond at Cincinnati FPriday from the “Breakfast in Hollywood” program in. connection with a March of Dimes broadcast.
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Additional entrants also may report to this week's rehearsals as follows: Grade School and High School Boys—Saturday, 8 a. m. at the Coliseum. «Adults and Specialty Numbers— Sunday, 5 p. m., at the Coliseym.
No Entry Fees There are no entry fees for tak-
No Entry Fee Charged for Taking Part; Entrants Will Be Told Date of Rehearsals
. By ART WRIGHT a There Wl 12 time. sh ava 0 sian pace 0 he Cu Fairgrounds Coliseum. ge
Although more than 300 Persons registered last Sunday at the first tryouts skaters of all groups may add their names ta the list by telephoning to: Ice-O-Rama, Indianapolis Times, RIley 5881, or Mrs. Norinan Rosier, city park and sestestion depasiment, WA-Ha1g | AT