Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 January 1947 — Page 15
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me en tote what they had in their pockets, ~~ It's incredible what a handbag “gough up once you turn it upside down and ke it, This
prompts me to ask all women: How long has it been
_since you took inventory of your purse? Try it and
< I'l guarantee that you'll get the ‘surprise of your life.
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Lady Witness
. she added.
This statement is based onthe Teactions of women who came within the scopé of my purse probe. Bécause the space -in this column is limited, 1 will itemize the pocket content of a man first. Ladies, I picked this typical white collar worker because he happeried to have the most junk in his pocket of any man in the survey. (Men, it's still a drop in the bucket ‘compared to a woman's purse.)
‘Here's the List .
~ THE LIST includes; 1’ pocket knife, 3 nickels, 2
* pennies in good shape, 1 bent penny, 1 Newfoundland
penny, 1 metal bus token, a lighter, pack of cigarets, key ring, bilifold, comb, handkerchief, 2 yellow bus tokens, 13 bus fare refund stubs, 4 pencils, 3 bus schedules, pocket notebook, an old postal note receipt, and a fountain pen. Of the 15 men I Interviewed none had more articles in thelr pockets, Several had a great deal less than that. Offhand I would say the above list isn't too bad. A couple of things might be left at home without unduly handicapping a man in his daily business. Women were more reluctant to divulge the contents of their purses to me. In three cases where women agreed to have their purses examined, they backed down after they looked into them. The reaction in these cases were, “Oh for heaven sakes.” “No, no, no, I"can't let you see my purse in this condition. Let me tidy it up a bit.” And, “Why I had no idea it was in such a mess,”
"x Mable Grace McKinney, secretary to Lt. Gov.
Richard T. James, has the purse of the week. Her purse is typical of a busy career woman. It can be sald she has a lot on her mind and a lot in her purse.
Here We -Go Again
HERE WE GO with Miss. McKinney's purse and her comments are in parentheses: 1 tube of tooth-
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—I checked with the female reporters, Some said her dress was fuschia colored. Others insisted it was shocking pink. Her blouse, they agreed, was chartreuse. The gleam in her eéye (I sought no opinions about that) was electric. For hours ‘she squirmed on & hard-bottomed chair while mere men offered the dullest possible testimony to the senate banking and currency committee ‘about rent control. The lady in the fancy get-up ignored ‘em. She clipped to her nose a pair of eyeglasses with black silk ribbon attached and she studied her notes, written on cards the exact color of her dress. Senator Charles W. Tobey of N. H. eventually called for her evidence. “I live on East Lovers lane,” she said in a voice that was a little loud, because she was a little nervous. “And T'fii just a little country gal from Texas an don't know whether I can think fast enough. . .."
“Your name, madam,” said Senator Tobey. “And your address.” : She said she was, Mrs. Frank Morris. “And East
Lovers lane is in Dallas in the great state of Texas,” “My house haf three bedrooms and two baths.” . Senator Tobey said perhaps she could fell him which was bigger, Dallas or Houston. He'd always wondered. She sald she was not sure; all she knew, Dallas was better. She said she came to Washington to demand the end of rent control.
‘What Can Landlord Do?’
TWO OF HER bedrooms she'd like to rent. for cash, but she lends one to her cousin and one to a friend for free, because she doesn't want to do busi-
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Good Box Office
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 31.—The skeletons in some Hollywood closets may be ashamed of the Pople in
° the house.
. War years.
Hollywood may be the place where the bride keeps the bouquet and throws away the groom. Hollywood may need, as Edward Arnold says, “A defense lawyer to say, ‘You have heard the scandal about this witness, now listen to the good.’ ” But ‘the front-page cavortings of movie stars have pever hurt them. They have only increased the stars’ box-office value. RKO studio ill release Laraine Day's latest picture, “The Locket,” ahead of schedule, to cash in on the front-page publicity given her two divorces from Ray Hendricks and her alleged “flaunting of the laws “of Callfornia™ by murrying Leo “Durocher, all within 24 hours, “1t ‘should. increase the picture's box-office take by $200,000," one RKO executive told us. There's even talk of going back to the film's original title, “What Nancy Wanted.” What she wanted was Leo Durocher.
It's Jusf Good Business
LARAINE’'S business advisers, aren't worried.
Neither is Laraine. A couple of years back°she wasn't doing so well
in Hollywood or at the box-office: .Producers and-
fans regarded her as a “cold personality.” Now even
she’s looking at the sudden notoriety with a business
eye. + : After her return to Hollywood as Mrs. Leo Durocher, she lifted a saucy eyebrow, smiled and asked. us: “Do you think people. still will say I'm cold?” In a conference with Laraine and Leo, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge George T. Dockweiler, who blew his judicial top after hér Mexican divorce and remarriage, admitted receiving “scores” of telephone calls from irate people who scolded him for “picking on nice Laraine Day.” During Errol: Flynn's trials on girl charges, we
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HOUSEWORK isn't really so hard, and most ‘omen love it, really. Who says so? . Why, a man, of course—Britain’s -artime controller of temporary housing, Sir Thomas Sennett. And how does he know? Well, he must have aelped his lady around the house a bit during the He backs up his stand with the assertion
that ‘many men during the past few years “found washing up not nearly so formidable a task as we were told.” As if any man ever got an inkling as to what
nousework is like by drying the dinner dishes occa~
sionally. Ves, or even’ by mopping the kitchen floor now and then!
A Monotonous Routine NO MAN ought to open his ‘mouth about the job
of housework unless he can say that for at least six months he has, all on his own, taken over.the routine -
and the responsibility of running a house 1% a family.
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We, the Women :
MILADY'S PURSE—The p—" wonder of the world as to content,
paste, billfold, checkbook, 12 toothpicks, three metal snaps (“I don't know what they're for”), 1 botfle of Nail Dri, 1 bottle of mail polish, 1 tube of lipstick, ‘pack of cigarets, 9 books of matches, 2 kitchen matches, rouge, minglasses, key ring, 4 buttons, compact, community fund donation stub (“Now why do you suppose I still have that?”), 2 bus schedules, purchase notes, bills, and receipts (“I don’t know what they are but they're here”), 4 safety pins, 2 straight pins, 1 bus fare refund ticket, 5 paper clips, 1 tooth from a comb (“For goodness sakes, I forgot to bring my comb today”), 1 small branch from a rosebush: complete with six thorns, 10 bobby pins, 10 Kleenex, 1 penny, 22 pieces of paper with notes and “a receipt for something”, 1 hockey schedule, 1 courtesy. ticket, 6 chewing gum wrappers, 4 sticks of gum, and 1 address for an apartment to rent (‘Incidentally, I didn't get the apartment”). * All of the above articles were in a small black fabric pouch handbag, believe it or not. Miss McKinney sorted the contents into two piles on her desk. Pointing to one pile she said, “There's not a thing there I need, not a thing,” and swept it all in the wastepaper basket. : Space prohibits including the full contents of purses which had- such things as grip-tooth combs for upswept hairdo’s and Tumique gadgets for down hairdo’s. I have just enough space to ak “What do you do with all that stuff in your purses, ladies?”
By Frederick C. Othman
ness with the OPA. The OPA, even what's left of it, in her opinion, is the next thing to criminal, “And what can. the landlord do about it?” she cried. “He can always vote Republican,” observed Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wis, “Texas did it once, brother, and Texas can do .it again,” Mrs. Morriss retorted.
House With a Fence SHE SAID if rent controls were removed thered | be plenty of places for veterans to live in Dallas. She said the Texas veterans were behind her. “These boys want a house with a fence around it,” she said. “A place for Molly and the baby.” Mrs. Morriss got her notes mixed with the ribbon ! on her spectacles. The gallant Senater Tobey Sought to cover her confusion. ~“Oh-tel me pretty maiden,” he-asked, quoting from the Floradora song, “are there any more like you? + She jumped to her feet, strewing her notes in still further disorder, and curtseyed. oF < “I thank you sir,” she said, Ko there are no more. I am an only child.” She blushed. !| From thereon she denounced the OPA extemporaneously. A magnificent job of denouncing it was, too. “Now, I'll answer any question,” she said, “but I hope there'll be no more like the senator's last one about pretty maidens.” There seemed to be no further questions. Mrs. Morriss pouted her lips. “Remember the Alamo,” urged Senator Tobey. “You're right,” agreed Mrs. Morriss. There were more witnesses, but they wore pants and spouted statistics. No comparison with the lady from East Lovers lane.
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‘By Erskine Johnson
received many letters from women who said they were mothers, coming to Errol’s defense. A movie star apparently can do no wrong in the eyes of - worshiping fans. People who cannot be called fans sit back and, ‘we feel pretty sure, thoroughly enjoy the front-page antics of the film great, on the theory, no doubt, that given half a chance they wouldn't mind. a little fling themselves. The Van Johnson-Evie Wynn-Keenan Wynn triangle was hot front-page reading for weeks. Neither Van nor Keenan has suffered any setbacks at the box-office. Lana Turner has been bouncing onto. the front pages ever since she slid off a soda-fountain stool into stardom. She's one of Hollywood's top stars. Rita “Hayworth’s * battles with her “ex-husband, Eddie Judson, and her separations from Orson Welles didn’t stop people from seeing her movies. The headlines Jackie Cooper received while attending a naval academy near Chicago resulted only in the revival of several of his old movies, which once again made money.
Whispering Doesn't Hurt WHISPERING campaigns about Hollywood's” biggest stars have swept the nation—but the stars are still shining. Lawrence Tierney, the screen's Dillinger, keeps a scrapbook, no doubt, after a series of fistic encounters. But _he goes right on appearing in pictures. George Raft's last film set new box-office records. Clara Bow led the flaming youth era in the movies, kept herself on the front pages—and retired to a Nevada ranch with a fortune. * Mary Astor survived reading of a spicy diary in Dr. Franklyn Thorpe’s divorce suit. There just doesn’t seem to be any bad publicity as far as Hollywood and its stars are concerned. Every Hollywood ‘ contract "carries. a morality clause. But not one has ever been used top break a contract.
bling a little.
German ,camp, long hospitalized, due home tomorrow. Town prepares welcome for one of
its heroes.” That was what the paper had said. The last streamers of August
sunlight lay ‘across the porch. Pungerit smoke from Papa’s aftersupper pipe floated from the porch swing where he lay reading the
want-ad section.
“Mike Cargill, once reported missing, prisoner in a
TOMORROW HED be home! Cassie's heart skipped a beat. Papa rapped his pipe on the porch
He pronounced it “dee-pot.”
get off,” she said. “They're goin’ to have quite a
Mama rocked placidly at -the
{other end of the porch, making a J creak ryhthmically.'day’s work and lose my time and From indoors came: the sound of |a half Saturday?” Cassie said. She
loose board
Sid and Leni’s quarreling as they coped with the supper dishes. “Leni!” Mama's voice rose petulantly. “Let Sid dry if he ,wants to, this time. He washed last night!” » » ” “1% ruins my hands, Mama. It simply ruins my hands.” Her voice was tearful. “And I just got.fresh polish on!. He's doin’ it a purpose! And anyway, it wouldn't hurt him to do the dishes alone!” ~Mama ‘ got up, sighing heavily, and lumbered inside. Cassie began to think about Mike Cargill again. The day he'd left. She could still see him, coming along the platform, his small, compact figure swinging along, his dark hair almost blue in the sun- | light. His eyes had that queer electric blue that never fades, and witha sort of hardness in them. Yet Mike wasn’t hard. “Hello baby!” he'd said, his deep voice lifting a trifle, as if he hadn’t known she'd come down to see him off. “Well, I guess this is it.” q s . ” SHE'D BEEN a little let-down at the way he'd said it. Other couples were clinging together, kissing. And Mike just stood there grinning at her like a small boy off on some daring trip. He'd smoked a cigaret and had nothing to say. But when the train came grinding to a stop he grinned at her again and kissed her, 8 hard, exciting “kiss that she could still feel, she remembered it so well. His letters had been few and far. +between and very short those three years he'd been gone. Well, there hadn't been anything definite between them, anyhow. But Cassie was in love with Mike Cargill. She'd hag dates with other - fellows but they hadn't meant a thing. There'd been Mike in her heart, filling it completely, all the time.
Boy, 8, Critically Hurt by Trolley
An 8-year-old boy is in critical condition in City. hospital today after being struck by. a trolley at 18th st. and Dexter ave. last night. The boy, Harry Steele, 1610-Rem-~ brandt st. suffered a fractured skull, John W. Hudson, 56, 1354 Oliver ave., was operator of the trolley. Donald D. Edwards, 2-year-old son of Willard Edwards, 1839 Dexter ave, was treated in City hospital last night after being overcome by gas fumes. Mr. Edwards said he noticed thé gas stove leaking and called repairmen. Before they could arrive the child was overcome, he said,
Mrs. Schubert Back
‘In Hoosier 'Politics’
Times Washington Bureau
weeks
So she is en route home to Indianapolis today to take up where ‘she | left off with the Indiana brand: “1 want to keep a finger in the pie,” she explained. “This capitol building is just too far away from the state house where things are really going on.”
staff of Senator Willlam E. Jenner (R..Ind.), She is returning to be a journal clerk in the Indiana state senate, she said. After that job is finished, she will be secretary to Thomas Bath Indiana secretary of state. : Mrs. Schubert will live with her husband and two children in the family home, 5222 E. 18th st., In-
- By Ruth Millet
By that time he will have faced the problem of house-cleaning, discovered the monotonous’ regularity with which mealtime rolls around, met up with the, tasks of shopping and marketing, found out just how much work is involved in a simple little dinner for six, learned to work with a small child or two clutterbie up a house faster than it can be put in order, , ete, etc.
‘so s Office Work Easy
A MAN makes up his mind that housework is an! easy job just because he didn't get worn out drying
the dishes for one meal or got through a day of tak-|
ing care ‘of the children. He forgets his wife had left the house in apple-pie order, cooked enough food to ‘ast ‘all day and promised to b& home in time to get dinner on the table and put the kids to bed. That is comparable to a woman's going into her husband's office, taking a few telephone calls, straightening Ww his desk and then saying: “Your job's a snap.” -And if you've any more comments, Sir Thomas b Bennett, how about sticking to a subjeet you know -something aboutwigmporary. housing, for instance?
| dianapolis.
— Graves Elected. Real Estate Head
A. HA M. Graves today actively assumed the office of president of the Indianapolis Real Estate board. He was elected yesterday at the
+ |organization’s 35th annual dinner
dance, Other officers are Willis Adams, vice president; Guy F. Boyd Jr. secretary, treasurer.
A- BOMB SCHEDULED R. C."Kryter, of Esterline- Angus Co., will speak on “Atomic Power ‘and the ‘Atomic- Bomb” at a meeting of the Lilly forum.at 8 p. m. ursday in the main cafeteria of lding 31, Eli Lilly & Co. The program. will include selections by | we, ny male phorus. ; 4
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WASHINGTON, Jan, 31, — Four| in ‘Washington ‘ convinced 31 (U. P.).—Bert Teale, a farmer within my own Mrs. Mary Schubert, that they “don’t| who bumped his head against a committee staff.” know anything about politics” here.| concrete block while attending an | The other comauction sale died yesterday in Cul- mittees named by Mr. La Follette He were the senate committee on edu‘cation and labor, Pepper subcom-
Mrs. Schubert came here on the!
and Frank H. Cox, |
doin’s Tor that Cargill fella. Thought you might ask off and go.” : “And get docked for a whole
jumped up and started inside, flinging the paper into Mama’s rocker.
” » » SHE HADN'T meant to sbund rude to Papa, and: she hadn't meant to let it slip out about not wanting to lose pay. It wasn't exactly Papa’s fault that his rheumatism kept him from working tegularly at anything, that most of the financial burden of the family fell on her shoulders. She went out to the Stehen, smoothing at the wrinkles in the front of her yellow. linen dress. She
Mama's hands. “That good - for - nothing little Leni!” she said. “Mama, how many times do I have to tell you it’s not good give in to her like that!” go on, Cassie, I'd as soon wash ’em as not, and you'll spoil your dress,” Mama whined helplessly. little. “Anyway, Leni’s got a date, with the Cavendish boy again.” » “The CAVENDISH. boy!” Cassie echoed. She reached for the apron
she appropriated Sid's dish-towel and shooed him out of the kitchen. “Leni certainly is going up in the world! But she’s too young to have 80 many dates, Mama. You know that. And especially with older fellows.” “I tried to o tell her,” Mama © sniffed: “But you “know how * she is when she gets her head set on something.” ~ Leni came out of the tiny bedroom off the kitchen. She leaned against the door casing for an instant, her blue eyes half shadowed with incredible dark lashes, her small, full figure looking voluptuous in the tight black skirt and the blue sweater that matched her eyes. » » 2 HER BRIGHT hair was caught to the top of her head and held with
Col. McNinch Gets Army Library Post
Col. Joseph H. McNinch, M. C,, a native of Indianapolis has been designated commandant of the army medical library succeeding Col. Leon L. Gardner, the war department said today. Col, McNinch, served on the staff of Maj. Gen. Paul Hawley, chief surgeon of the European theater - of operations,
Col. McNinch
assumed the position of chief of the historical division, SGO, where he is compiling the history of the medical department of world war II, His sister, Mrs. Paul Randell lives in
Cagmel.
‘Head Injuries Fatal CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind.
ver hospital of a skull fracture. was 76.
railing and cleared his throat, “You . goin’ to the depot tomorrow, Cass?”
Cassie shook her head. “I couldn't
tried to take ‘the dishrag out of”
Her blue eyes watered a
that hung in back of the door. Then
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CHAPTER I It WAS J JUST like Mike not to let her know he was comirig. Not that there was any definite reason why he should. Cassie Fletcher folded the evening paper carefully and put it on the worn step beside her. Her hands were trem-
three or
around dishes.
in front of the house.
That would be the Cavendish boy. A tiny icicle. of warning traced its {music came faintly to Cassie; as
Ex-Senator La Follette Writes o
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“I was forced to take measures” he writes, “in an |
effort to
Jan! ‘out the influence
Story Muminates Sponsorship Of Win-the-Peace Conference
By LYLE
United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—Former Senator Robert M. La Follette has a piece in Collier's magazine today which may help illuminate a mys~ tery which has had the eapital guessing since last April. The mystery was why a number bf Democratic senators and congressmeén were playing footsie with an organization which has been widely called a Communist front. Mr. La Follette relates in Collier’siq that at least five congressional committees harbored Communist sym- mittee on wartime health and edu
pathizers on their staffs. One of cation, Kilgore subcommittee on ‘war them was the ,,
senate civil liber- # ties committee of which Mr. La Fol~
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“Oh all |B: she said. She turned and: hegddn stackifipl) thE “8
Leni pranced out, slamming the front screen behind her, and there sink, she limped out to the front was the sudden hoot of a car horn (porch again. The rocker began to
«CASSIE GIVES A WARNING - — "She' s too young to’ ha Mama. You know that," Cassie warned. "And especially with older f J to tell her, Mama sniffed. "But you know how she is when she gets. set on
“Blue daisies of the way up Cassie's “spine. “What did} same shade of blue as the sweater. She looked defiantly at Cassie; her|usually-ran around with the crowd full lower dp stuck out in a pout. Cassie laughed suddenly. right, Leni,”
Lon Cavendish see in Leni? He
up on the hill. The Martin girl, ryn Mawr and Country club, mink costs and real pears, was his usual le.
WHEN ‘MAMA finistied at the
creak, Papa turned on the small porch radio and the sound of the
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mobilization and the Murray special committee on small business, There was speculation, in view of Mr. La Follette’s article, whether committee aids associated with Senator Claude Pepper (D. Fla.) and Senator Harley M. Kilgore (D, W. Va.) might have won them to causes which brought them surprisingly into the news in the past year. Senator Pepper's public statements have -made him a congressional idol of thé Communist press scarcely less praised than Rep. Vito Marcantonio (A. L., N. Y.), the fellow traveler who represents a Harlem constituency. Mr. Kilgore's
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*-~ AND irs S0 CONVENIENT, JOHN HASN'T MISSED HIS BUS A SINGLE MORNING .
“118 Democratic members of the house
service to the Communist cause— whether he knew it or not—was in sponsoring last spring's Win-the-Peace conference here.
Communists on List
lor (D. Ida.), Rep. Marcantonio and were sponsors of the conference These included~ a notable list of}
fellow travelers, But Mr. Kilgore and his congressional colleagues did not think up the Win-the-Peace conference on their own, Somebody | sold it to them. The actual peddlers of the idea In Washington were men whose background is such as to make it difficult to brush off the charge that the conference was a Communist front! project, They were: Jo Davidson, chairman of the
Mr. Davidson's committee, itself, was created by -the American Com-
Mr. Kilgore, Senator Glen H. Tay-
along with 100 or so other persons. Agate hey avowed Communists and known signed
Independent Citizens Committee for{ » the Arts, Sciences and Professions. |.
munists for their own political pur=|
% the New York ‘state pany coflvention.
poses, according to a 1045 report.
the ‘defunct