Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1947 — Page 7
mw mp ago, Howard Sanders enlisted in battery “A 150th field artillery, whose boss was Mayor Robert H. Tyndall, and went to France with the nbow- division, - Last. week, the mayor appointed e ex-aitillerymbn Sanders as his third chief of police. There is ne question hak the general is still Howard Sanders’
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The was a colonel in the division when I went in,” said Chief Sanders. “My contact with him was pleasant. I managed to keep out of his way." _ In 30 years, the situation has altered. Chlef Sanders is prominently in the mayor's “way” now. He's the new broom which the mayor hopes will sweep the police department clean, after a turbulent fortnight of graft and payoff charges, Chief Sanders’ appointment follows the mayor's tendency to keep war buddies in key, posts. Fire Chief Harry Pulmer was with the general in the Spanish-American war, If anybody knows the ropes inside the police department, Howard Sanders ought to. For 20 Jean, he had his ups and downs in it; He recalls clearly the date he entered the police department; Dec. 15, 1920. He “ran” in the districts until 1022, when he became a police court bailiff under Police Judge Wilmeth. He continued as bailiff when the municipal court was created and Judge Clifton Cameron presided over the criminal division. In 1931, he was re-as-signed to the ddtective department as a sergeant. He was detective sergeant exactly five months and
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NEW BROOM-—His old artillery commander E gave Howard Sanders a new and tougher assignment,
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‘mayor, ex-detective Sanders was reinstated, this time
Standing Question
five days. Then Police Cher’ Jury Kinney diod abd Michael F.
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Undaunted, he took the meri examination for sergeant through the police promotion school. He e it. After 23 ‘years in the ranks, he resigned to-go on pension in 1043.
Breaks Come His Way
FOR SIX MONTHS he worked as a special officer for the New York Central railroad and wandered out to the West Coast. When Gen, Tyndall became
as bailiff in the municipal court of John Niblack. Then the breaks started to come his way.: In May, 1943, he was promoted to captain, assigned to head the police training school. Two months later, he was appointed to the deluxe post of special investigator for the legal department, then headed by one of his former artillery officers, Sidney Miller. Just a year ago, he was appointed Inspector of detectives by the mayor, It was the highest and the roughest post he ever had. He took it over from ex-police-chief Clifford Beeker and sweated.
“Three widely publicized unsolved murders were|
not the least of the burdens he bore in the detective department. Close-mouthed and taciturn, Inspector Sanders seemed to age in that job, insiders at the police station say. No one worked harder nor with more determination than he. Last week, ag he stepped into the hot seat which mild-mannered Jesse McMurtry swapped with him for: the detective post, a new deal was apparently shaping up in the department,
Man With a Mission
THE CITY'S gamblers were disorganized. What now? they asked. Théy heard that the new chief was in there with a mission. His orders were to dispose of a simmering
political slumgullion which the newspapers had brought to a boil with day after day of charges of
graft and corruption in the departmental handling “of the small-time rackets. Heavyset, Chief Sanders stands a little above medium height. He has a firm, ruddy face and the accusing eyes of a tough detective. His hair is nearly white. He passed his 50th birthday last July 20,°is hale and vigorous. No handshaker, he is reserved, watchful, grim taciturn. . His conversation is direct and earnest. He hates to waste time mumbling amenities. He seldom repeats himself and has a genius for remembering exactly names, dates and places. The chief lives with his wife Lillian, on the “east side at 16 Ridgeview dr. Their only son, James, is married and the. father of "six-months-old Linda Jane, the apple of the chief's eye. His granddaughter is one of the few people in town who can make Chief Sanders smile. He's enor- | mously proud of her. He has a small group of old friends. One of them is Audley Dunham, the locksmith. They grew up together in Fountain Square, battled the. textbooks together in. the old Lincoln school at Ringgold and Palmer. The chief -never finished high school. into the army instead. Affected also by his accessions*to the chief's office are the police reporters at headquarters. It makes things tougher for them. “What can you do with a police chief,” they complain, “who won't give you the time of the day?” (By
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Changes in Rent Rules Awaited
; Small Landlords May Benefit
WASHINGTON, Jan, 25 (U.P). — Some rents are on the way up. How many, and how far up, OPA was not prepared to say. The boosts will come under new,
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By Frederick C. Othman
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SE WASHINGTON, Jan. 25—Ih ye good old days i when I first came to Washington, prohibition had just been repealed and congress in its wisdom had i made two decisions: ONE: A fellow downing whisky by the dollop is less likely to fall on his face and knock out his front teeth if he does his drinking sitting down. He f doesn't have so far to fall. TWO: He must not watch the bartender mix his drinks because there is something hypnotic about the rhythm of a cocktail being shaken, causing him to drink more than he should orter. These edicts were a jolt to the keepers of the newly-opened saloons. They ripped out their brass rails in connection with regulation No. 1, because it was a crime to drink standing up. Anybody who didn't believe it got six months of sitting in ibe dis trict jail. Rule two meant in effect that the Baitender could look jovial until the moment he began mixing the drink. Then he had to become an invisible man. There were protests, but congress would not listen. The barkeeps solved this one finally by erecting behind each mahogany counter a cubicle about the size of a phone booth. The mixologist received the order and popped -into his stall. In a matter of 1 minutes the drink he stirred in secret slid through ] a wicket, where the waiter swooped it to the fascinated customer,
Cam~ the Statistics
IT WASN'T long before the W. C. T. U. announced i a statistical survey, proving that Washingtonians
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drank more hard likker than anybody else in America. 1 mention this simply to indicate that the! traffic through the mixing booths was heavy. | Sometimés a bartender would disappear into his| hole and not emerge all night. When finally he stumbled out, he was a weary wretch with gin, brandy and vodka splashed on him until he shied away from lighted cigarets because he was a fire hazard. These conditions led to carelessness, yes, | and greed. Some bartenders used the same olive in a succession of martinis. One cherry served for a number of manhattans. In some saloons the patron who ate these fruits and vegetables was regarded as an undesirable customer.
Menance of Microbes THE ' RETREADED olive and the everlasting cherry led inevitably to the glass that never got washed. My germs soon became your germs in a Washington saloon. It took congress five years to, admit its mistake and bring the city’s pallid bartenders, blinking, into the open. All this leads up to a decision congress soon must make on ruling No. 1. How drunk can you get standing up? And how drunk sitting down? Wouldn't you fall down quicker, and hence drink less, if you had your feet twined around a rail? Or would you be inclined to go to sleep, and forget. your whisky, if you were resting in a soft chair? Opinions differ. The three district commissioners are pondering a new law to make it legal to drink in the perpendicular. The congress will hold hearings on this important matter,
NEW YORK, Jan, 25.—Eddie Foy Jr. who never | had any truck with radio in all his 30-odd years of | acting, has discovered something of a personal godI send in this entertainment medium. He found out about it the hard way—a long siege in a hospital. The youngest of the “Seven Little Foys,” who [ use to follow ‘Eddie Sr. ‘around the vaudeville circuits with their songs, dances and funny sayings, ' is now the comedy star of the Thursday ib Kraft music hall’ program on: NBC. : “It's & bit strange, but I'm getting use to it,” I Eddie said. “I guess I was one of the few actors I who had never even made a guest appearance on radio until this came along the first of the year. ] A lot of my stuff is “sight comedy” and, frankly, I was a little scared of radio. As it is, I'm certainly | glad that studio audience is out there.
| He's Ruled Off Stage
FOR THE TIME being Eddie is ruled off the | stage by doctor's orders. That's why the radio, job | | is 50 welcome; it enables him to earn big money without physical exertion. In stage musicals, and in movies, too, Eddie is one of those active types who | is all over the place. The state of his innards after I a couple, of operations is such that he has to forego | such activity for some time to come.
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Radio a Life Saver
By Jack Gaver
Eddie says that he had one of the most incon-
McCullough told reporters.
liberalized “hardship” provisions announced yesterday by Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming, director of the, office of temporary controls,
Ready Next Week Gen, Fleming, making his an_nouncement after a conference with Presiden? Truman, jumped the gun on OPA rent officials,
Price Chief Max McCullough sald the new regulations were still in the
mill. He said they wouldn't be ready
until next week. “We are simply broadening somewhat the provisions under which landlords seek rent increases on account of financial hardship,” Mr.
Other OPA sources indicated that the small operator—with scattered or single apartments or houses— may be the man who gets the new break.
Fight for Horizontal Hike Herbert U. Nelson, executive vice president of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, believed the change “won’t make much difference.” Mr. Nelson satd his group would continue to fight for an across-the-
{board 15 per cent increase in rent
ceilings. . Gen. Fleming, who with President Truman has called for retention of firm rent controls, indicated that the new liberalized policy was no break in the line. But hereafter, he said, reasonable doubt will be resolved in favor of the landlord. “Hardship” increases are not new. OPA has always allowed rent boosts where landlords showed financial hardship. But landlords hdve complained that it was difficult to show hardship to. OPA’'s
siderate illnesses on record. After a long period on the West coast, where the movies failed to do right; by him, he came back to Broadway in October, 1945, in the revival of “The Red Mill.” He scored a sensational success as the chief comedian.
The Raise That Wasn't
THE SHOW was a big hit and an order went through for Eddie to get a substantial raise at the end of July, 1946. “It would have to happen to me,” he said. became ill July 24. I never did see that raise.” Mr. Foy wasn’t up and around again until last October and then he needed a lot of time to get back his strength and weight. pounds, but is now almost back to his normal 158.
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“I did have a small bit of luck, though,” he said. |
“The week before I became sick one of those in-
surance salesmen got after me to buy an accident- |
sickness policy. I didn’t want it and my wife’ told me not to waste the money. It helped pay a little] of the hospital freight, which eventually amounted | to five figures.”
But right now Eddie is quite happy with his radio!
Job, although he never ceases to marvel at its quirks.
By (Claire Cox
‘CHICAGO, Jan. 25.—A chemist revealed here that k rabbits, rats and guinea pigs are being used In F cosmetics laboratories to help make women more . beautiful. Harry Hilfer, chief chemist of a large Chicago i cosmetics firm, said scientists had found that if a | rabbit can wear lipstick, rouge or powder without | endangering his epidermis, it's more than likely that { ' the average woman can paint her face without fear | | “of breaking out in a rash,
| An Engineering Job IN A SPEECH before the Chicago section of the | American Chemical society, Mr. Hilféer said he re- | garded’ the task of keeping American womanhood | lovely as an “engineering job,” as well as a matter of chemistry and style. “We have to build the products from start to . finish, with ihe appearance of the product on store
Guinea Pig Rabbits
shelves, as well as on women’s faces, as our chief concern,” he said: Mr. Hilfer explained later where the rabbits, rats and guinea pigs fit into the construction of a woman'’s , face.
Paint Their Tummies
HE SAID one way of using the animals involved shaving their stomachs and applying various types of makeup to the bare skin, If the rabbit's skin is still as fresh as a new-born bunny’s” after 10 days or more of wearing paint, the cosmetic probably is a safe bet for Mrs. America’s face, he said. In another test, a serum is prepared with liquid taken from rabbit cells mixed with lipstick, rouge or powder. This is filtered and Injected into the rabbit.
probably can wear the cosmetics tested without fear of harm to their skin.
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Social Council Delegates Named
With admittance of the Indian- | | apolis Medical society to membership in the Coun= cil of Social Agencies, plans are under way to staff the council's health section. Dr. Harold M. Trusler and Dr.
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Dr. Trusler . gates in the coun- | cil. Both men have been active in | the society and are co-chajrmen of | its governing board. Murray A. Auer= bach, chairman of . the. coun- § cil's health sec- & tion, said plans are being made to employ a professional secre= | tary for the section, ; The Council of Social Agencies is a member-agency of the Community Fund.
Dr. Moser
Diplomat Takes Job
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (U. P.).
Motion Picture a President Eric J
<a Cocker Spaniel.
CRASH — This is the wreckage of a semi-tractor
pole in 1000 bleck of Central
‘ave. early this morning. The impact threw ‘engine clear.
bits, but never a dog.
Almost “40 years later,
hankering fof a dog. About that time Carolyn, the last of the Pogues, got a similar yearning. She wanted
We compromised {7 e on a hird dog, a§ setter, that we} bought from} Clarence Himelick. I thought she would like a setter. I knew I would like it. You all know how parents engineer these compromises!
Ft. Harrison: Clubs
Mr. Pogue
The Indianapolis Infantile Paralysis fund will get a boost from Ft. Harrison tonight when the three social clubs of the post will stage March of Dimes dances to raise money for the campaign. Russell D, Kennedy and Clyde Pierce are co-chairmen of the dance to be held at the Civilian club from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. First Sgt. Winfield Scott is in charge of the March of Dimes hop at the Non-Commissioned Officers club with dancing from 9 to 12 p.m. Lt. William Roof Jr. will. be in
Rollin H. Moser
pointdd to repre! sent the medical | society as dele-|
—Frank McCarthy, former assistant secretary of state, has been apIf nothing happens, he said, it means that women | pointed manager in France, for the iation," M. P. A. nston said today.
charge of a dinner-dance in the | officers club from 9 p.m. tol 1. &:m|
when I got to hunting with] Jerry Oren, Pat Monahan, Joe win we call the dog?”
Jack and Clarence Himélick of |know. Upland, I began to have a deep|I said.
HURT—Stunned, Mrs. Bessie Small, 24, of 506 E Washington ot. ‘Tecoives’ first aid for a'cut hand and a broken leg. She was riding with her husband, Harry. Small, 29, when the truck hit the pole. He was arrested on charges of vagrancy ¢ and ¢ runkenness.
Huntless Hunting Season Ends; Now Man and Dog Will Hike
You Can Hang Up Coat and Gun, Yet Silky-Eared Spaniel Deserves Action
By BARTON REES POGUE Times Roving-Rhyming Reporter
AS A BOY I never owned a dog. I do not recall that 1 ever wished for such an animal as a pet. I had the old white horse that Harold Hufford, Bob Spangler, Harry Hendricks, ‘Sexton Cochran, Donald Wiggins and I used to prod through the streets of Greenfield. I had cals, a pet pigeon and rab-
ne “When we went to get the pup the
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question she kept asking was, “What I didn’t “Give us time to think,”
» » ” THEN the puppy came bouncing toward us. She plopped her big | paws into Uhrdln’s lap, as the child stooped to meet her, “Her ears are soft and black like satin,” the girl said. “Good name for. “her, don’t you think?” “What? Satin?” “Yes.” So she was christened, and entered in the records of our hearts as Satin, first daughter of Clarence Himelick’s “Mitzie,” and Pat Monahan’s “Joe,” After 1911, when I started study-
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' Actor, Eurasian Girl To Wed in New Mexico
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 25 (U. P).— Dean Jagger, a movie actor, and Gloria Ling, his pretty Eurasian bride-to-be, disclosed’ today that they had been refused a California marriage license. They said they would be married late today in Albuquerque, N. M. Mr. Jagger, 40, said they were denied a California license because of his 25-year-old bride's Chinese ancestry. English Car Prices Up LONDON, Jan. 25 (U. P.).—Manufacturers of two popular British automobiles announced _price increases up to $132 today. The Austin eight ‘horsepower car will sell at $1457 including tax. The Rover 10 will cost $2940.
SILLY NOTIONS
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not the Man with a Hoe, but, the Man With a Desk. In the maze of language, literature, mathematics and science I lost the calm of Hinchman's woods, and the {meandering carelessness of Brandywine. I never hunted. I never fished in . the Riley country. I never climbed trees to find the nests of birds. I never tore flowers apart to gaze upon their inner structure. I was content to lie down in green pastures, to be led beside the still waters. ” » » PERHAPS a dog would take me back to the woods and fields again. I might find restoration of soul at a table prepared for me in the presence of my enemies , . . that desk and that Smith-Premier typewriter had become my foes.
If I hed a dog to lead me out Across the fields that lie about, Where bluebirds nest on marigold shores, And rivers are water-bug dancing floors, It might be thew I would regain My love for sun and wind and rain, 1 might find good in a winter fog,
New West Side Exchange OK'd
The Indiana Bell Telephone Co. has received approval from the civilian ' production administration for the construction of a new dial central office building on Fuller dr.
about five miles west of the Circle. The $125,000 office, when completed, will replace the present Belmont office and will provide dial service for that area.. Construction will be started in the next few weeks. Considerable time will be required to obtain the necessary dial equipment and it is not expected that dial service will be established before the middle of 1948. The building will be of concrete block faced with Indiana limestone on the front and with brick on the other three sides. It will be 81 feet wide and 65 feet deep and is designed so that additional stories may be added when needed. «The present Belmont office serves about 12,000 telephones. The installation of the new equipment will make it possible to convert all manually operated telephones on the west side of Indianapolis to dial service.
U. S. Gives Up Fight For Furlough Fares WASHINGTON, Jan, 25 (U. P)). —The war department today gave up its fight to win an extension of furlough fares for servicemen traveling east of the Mississippi river,
It told all commanders to remind men that they must pay full elvilian fares aftet Jan. 30 on most eastern railroads and busses. The interstate
{commerce commission ordered the
increase some: time ago. Both the army and the navy had protested the order.
Find Missing Fliers
SHANGHAI, Jan. » MU. P)~
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If I had a dog— If I had a dog! If 1 had a dog whose soft. brown eyes Reflect the glory of western skies, And I took the time to sit with him = By fires within the night's lack rim It st be then 1 would find the clue On Row to be and think and 0 To rise from life's involve Sd 0d a dog— If I had a dog! » " HAVE T followed Gt don to cone tentment? I have not. I still have a desk. The typewriter has changed to a Woodstock, but it is still a millstone about my neek, and to these foes of ‘the out-of-doors has been added the indolent spirit of middleage. I'd rather ‘set Than get My aches scratched and wet Oh, I go once in a while, but the trip to Orange county to tramp
On the pegs your grandfather drove,” |! You can hang.your coat and huntin’ cap - In the chimney-place ale cove; You can sit and dream of the flush. of: birds, You can roll in another log, You can hang up your bo and your brier-torn , pants, ’ But yo you can’t hang up your 0g Poor oi fellow, in his kennel
bed Whines for the weedy land, He whines for the hunt, he whines for you And vthe scent of your powder-stained hand; He can’t stand ' point for. months to come, . He can’t range weodpateh and bog, Oh, you hang up your, oun, ; and you ‘hang up your
oat, But you can't hang wy. dog!
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