Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1947 — Page 11
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© OLOOK WATGHERS ‘usually don't last iong on
‘the job. ‘But there's & young man at the Wired '
i Music Co., 224 N. Meridian st, who won't last long | if he doesn't watch that clock from the time he
i comes to work until he turns the last turntable off in the evening.
Robert Blake, platter turner, 1s responsible for keeping -a good music supply in several doctors’ and dentists’ offices, restaurants, hotels and garages. Unlike other platter turners, Mr. Blake never utters a word along with his music, His business is melody, pure and simple, designed and programmed to pep up i the spirits, whether it be for a man waiting to have
| his tooth pulled or a mechanic struggling with a ' cantankerous piston, You see, the Wired Music Co,’
has staked its all on the old saying that “Music
i * hath charm.”
When I arrived in the platter room Bob was busy
£0 getting his 16-inch Vinyalite records in order with the if day's schedule, | doesn’t have to worry too much about repeating hime . 861. Besides that the World Music Co. sends in from
With 5000 selections in the files, Bob
i 50 to a 100 new selections a week, together with the
| week's schedule.
“What are you going to lead off with, Bob?” “Well, we start industry music first and that calls for a rousing march, the “National Emblem.” Then | a polka, march, and another potka. It's designed to get the men on the job off to a snappy start.” He turned up the speaker and sure enough the
! lively tempo of the march made ‘one's feet jiggle. *Oarouse] Polka” followed and if a person couldn't wet wound up with the march, the polka surely
tinuous music? gninute break is good physchologically. So be it.
fman is by his necktie.
§ would do it.
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| Office Music Different
MUSIC FOR OFFICES is different. For instance,
§ Bob started off with Carmen: Cavallero’s “Oh, What
a Beautiful Morning.” The second selection was “Just One of Those Things.” Experts who have studied the effects of music on the human constitution have figured out that 15 mine utes out of 30 are plenty for industry and offices. Don't ask me how they figured that out but Harold Meeker, one of the partners in the Wired Music Co. aid the experts were right, O. K. For restaurants, hotels, dentists’ and doctors’ offices e musie can go for 25 minutes out of 30 the experts say. So that's what Bob does. Why not conThe experts again say the five
Bob's busiest time comes when both turntables po tilping music via the telephone lines. The prom is so arranged that even the time on the on is computed from the total 25 minutes of
PLATTER MASTER —Robert Blake just keeps changing and changing.
music. Tt takes 10 seconds to swifch a record. A second more or less would throw the schedule off. With one eye on the clock, one hand on a record, the other on the turntable Bob is kept moving.
Prefatigue Program
LATER IN THE morning the program sheet calls for prefatigue music for industry. Prefatigue music calls for something like the “Blue Danube.” Still later ‘Bob moves into the major fatigue realm of music. The tunes liven up and keep getting brighter until lunch time. With the sandwiches—poof—out go the fast numbers and Bob sends out the “September Song” and “Stars in My Eyes.” The experts apparently have overlooked Bob, who must eat his sandwich while he monitors the discs. Office music continues in the soft, dreamy melodic way. Stricktly mood music. Industry is ready to go back to work. ‘The first number on the “back to work” program just happened to be “Fight On" by Frank Westerfield. Fight on to b o'clock. The afternoon putters itself away slowly. Industry is ready for some more prefatigue music... Major fatigue follows close on its heels. At this point selections on the schedule were “Havin’ Myself a Time” by Siboney.” By 4:45 p. m. Bob is dragging out selections like “Earbender Polka” by Jolly Jack Robel. When the music day ended, Bob estimated he had played 240 selections. You would think that he would have had his fill of records at the office. Not Bob. He admits that it's not unusual for him to play records at home. He just loves his music.
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No Violence, Please
By Frederick C. Othman
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 4—One way to tell a brave James B. Carey, secretaryeasurer of the C. I. O., wore big yellow spots on his cravat. I knew he was fearless. And a good thing, too. Bearding a lion was nothing fo compare. Mr. y marched into a room full of embattled landladies, sat himself down in front of the senate ] ting committee, and announced that owners of his nation’s flats were getting rich on OPA rents. He sald their income was up 30 to 40 per cent bove what it was before the war; charged an inin rents would hamper industrial production cause. divorces; accused the landlords (and adies) of trying to destroy rent control and, in passg got into a little lulu of an argument with 3 Bgtor Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin. End
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The landladies swarmed then on the bravest union thief of them all. They" him by the lapels, hook him until his rattled, and called him flames that do not ord ly appear in family newshapers. i When it looked like a large lady in red with gold bangles on her chest was on the verge of pinning ais shoulders to the floor with a half-nelson, Senor Charles W. Tobey of New Hampshire, the chairT cried out in alarm: “Mr. Carey, do you need some protection?”
Who's the Villain?’
THE LADIES’ victim gasped an answer, but it p drowned in shrieks that reverberated in the narble halls. The senator banged the table. He ged it again. “Now ladies,” he pleaded, “no violénce, please.” The landladies reluctantly let go of hero Carey nd he got out of there while the getting was good.
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Deep-Dyed Villain
The net result in my cranium was confusion. Somebody's trying to stuff a wad of old rent receipts down the public's throat. After a week of conscientious listening to the evidence I stil] can’t name the villain. Numerous spokesmen of the landladies, such as Herbert U, Nelson, executive vice president of the national association of real estate boards, insist that the OPA’s figures -are phoney and the housing shortage is nearly over.
Urges Increase
“IN ABOUT a year from now we're going to be looking for tenants” the elderly Mr. Nelson testified. He said that by next month, the shortages in building supplies would be history and new houses would be going up at record rates. He urged that in the meantime the landlords be given a 15 per cent rent increase, “Though many of them will not avail themselves of it,” he added. “They, too, are looking forward to the time when tenants are going to be scarce.” Came then labor leader Carey to deny every
last thing Mr. Nelson said and add a few charges |
of his own. - He recommended that rents be con-
Marks Publication Of Biography By VICTOR PETERSON IDEA-A-MINUTE Fisher. That's how the late Carl G. Fisher, balloon . enthusiast,
founder of the Speedway, Prest-O-Lite, . etcetera, et-
long-time friends. Their memories are enough to guarantee that a forthcoming biography by his first wife, should be filled with interesting sidelights on the man. The title is a key to the contents, “Fabulous Hoosier” by Jane Fisher... In fact, the book’s date of publication, Feb. 20, has been designated as Carl Fisher day by Mayor Tyndall and the mayors of Miami and Miami Beach, Fla. The book is being published by Robert M. McBride & Co. » # ” FLORIDA comes into the tale because of the many-sided nature of Mr. Fisher. He sparked the development of the Florida playgrounds into American meccas. Mr. Fisher was born in 1874. Just where is. a matter of conjecture. His friends say Greensburg, Converse, Rushville, Martinsville. Definitely, he was a Hoosier. He died in Florida July 15, 1939. T. E. (Pop) Myers, nationally known figure of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corp. and -currently. vice president, well recalls his former employer. “He was a dynamic fellow with an eye for showmanship and clothes. When he had an idea he pushed it with all his energy,” Mr. Myers said. ” - » WITH James A. Allison he founded the battery firm. of Prest-O-Lite. Batteries were for automobiles, and automobiles were few. So, to promote the horseless carriage, he dreamed up the Speedway. With him were Mr. Allison, who served as secretary-treasurer,
C. Newby as vice presidents. “Carl and Mr. Allison made a great but unusual team,” Mr. Myers said. “Carl would supply ideas by the minute while his partner acted as a balance wheel out the hair-brained ones.” Mr. Fisher retained the Speedway until 1927 when he sold it to Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, » " BUT aupmobiles are no good without roads, either.
trolled as is for at least the next year and a half. “The housing shortage™is worse today than ever. before,” he testified. “There is Simply no rental housing available in America today.” The situation is getting no better fast, he con-
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theory that the fewer the hospitals, the fewer people |
will get sick. That started it. Senator McCarthy said this didn't make sense to him. The landladies finished it and some day I hope to introduce Mr. Nelson to Mr. Carey.
learn which side is right.
By Erskine Johnson
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 4—Just like all the glamour olls, William Powell goes to Westmore's beauty salon ce a month .to get his hair dyed. “It's gray—gray almost all over,” yen blushing about it. A good many other Hollywood actors get dye jobs, po, but refuse to admit it and disguise themselves ‘as ashwomen and elderly matrons as they sneak in the ack door of Westmore's shoppe. Naturally, Powell dyes because of his job as a hovie star, “You can't take comedy falls with gray hair,” he B11€0 - tee He's back taking falls in “Song of the Thin Man,” hich will be the last of the Nick and Nora. Charles ries. M-G-M released Myrna Loy from a contract Db free-lance when she agreed to appear in one more in Man picture, This is it, with Eddie Buzzell diting. But Powell isn’t the only one in the cast who dyes. There's Asta—only it really isn't Asta. Nor is it just he Asta, which shows you how confusing Hollywood n be at times. The original Asta has been dead three years, and e Asta you saw in the last Thin Man picture, and hich you will see again in this one, is Zip, son of sta.
he told us, not
our Dogs Take Role
ONLY ZIP isn't the only Asta. (Now don't get exted. We haven't gone crazy—yet.) You'll see four Astas in the film—but not, naturally at the same time. Dog-trainer Henry East has bur wire-haired terriers playing the one role of Asta. Each one specializes in a different .trick, making
e, the Women
TWENTY MILLION American women, nearly half the country’s adult feminine population, listen egularly to soap operas. And the more misery that an be crowded into each day's installment, the hapler the listening audience. So say the-master minds f radio, Their findings really shouldn't surprise us. -So erica enjoys the heartaches, the misery, the strations of soap-opera heroines and their families. Vell, why not?
ikes Rough Going THAT JUST means that women have extended to e unreal world of radio their deep interest in the “and troubles of others, ‘Ms. Smith avidly follows the lives of the Joneses, e Browns, the Greens, and the rest of her neighbors
d fellow towsispeople. their happiness that really. inter-
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Asta look like a very clever dog indeed, and immedi- | ately stamping the film as a “four-dog picture.” As you may remember, the original Asta had brown and black markings. One of Henry's Astas is pure white, so Henry gives the dog a makeup dye job every morning, to match the others. Henry yearns for the good old days of the original Asta. “He did everything. When Re was. alive I didn't | have to bring a whole kennel to the studio every | morning.” When many an organization, in or out of Holly= | wood, wants a “speech, it calls on Edward Arnold. And this strikes Eddie as rather funny, “I'm a family man. I have a wife, a son and two daughters. If you know the play ‘Dear Ruth,’ that's my family. Civic organizations may invite me to. talk. But at home I never get in more than a sentence | at a time. If I want to talk, I have to go to a public hall.”
Everyone. Plays Charlie ’
KING CHARLES II, whose activities with the ladies bore watching, is getting a big Hollywood play these days. George Sanders plays him in “Forever Amber” and Doug Fairbanks Jr. in “The Exile.” Jimmy Stewart is telling pals that he'd turn down | almost any role “if given a chance to star in “The Showing Up of Blanco Posnet,” rootin’, tootin’ west- | ern play by George Bernard Shaw. Shaw wrote it | after his first visit to California, picking up western | atmosphere from a train window. - Okay, Edgar Wallace, the British ‘novelist, wrote | his standout gangster play, “On the Spot,” after spending a three-day visit in’ Chicago.
By Ruth Millet
‘ests her, or their triumphs, or their periods of smooth sailing. She is most interested when the going gets rough. She neglects personal affairs to consider the situation when, say, the Joneses start having trouble with their teen-age daughter, who, Mrs, Smith predicts with®a sad shake of the head but an inner feeling of pleasure, “is going to cause her parents plenty of heartaches.” And the Browns become doubly interesting as a family when Mr, Brown loses his job, or Mrs, Brown
GoodNews Travels Slowly
WOMEN take their time about passing along good. news. But when they hear a piece of bad news, they can't get to the telephone fast enough. So women’s interest in sad soap-operas -shouldn’t
This phrase has real meaning to
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‘a couple of young men from West
Both Studying To Be Doctors
By KENNETH HUFFORD America—the land of opportunity.
I will crouch behind a sheet | of armor plate I will have brought along and maybe |
Africa, both students at Indiana Central college. Two keen-minded British subjects are Moses Musa Mahoi and |Luseni Alfred Brewah, both from | Sierra Leone. Moses is 20, but some members of his family consider he is- 22,
‘using Mohammedan computation.
Luseni is 21. Both are studying to become physicians. Later, they
‘will enroll in a medical school in
this country. Absorbed in Basketball Anxious as they are to take ad[vantage of all that the new world provides, their exuberant spirit is
‘momentarily absorbed by tradition-
al Hoosier interest in basketball. The University Heights college gymnasium almost every afternoon is visited by the two wiry youths. Their eyes are glued on an everpresent group of local lads who snake along the floor with intricate dribbling technique. Moses has been here since last April, when he came to the U, 8. to attend Otterbein: college, Westerville, O. He found the college crowded. Officials of the Evangeli-cal-United Brethren church, under whose auspices Otterbein and Indiana Central college operate, sent Moses to the Indianapolis school. : Here Since October
Luseni has been here since last {Octobek, taking .a few non-credit courses while awaiting the wecond | semester. Some persons may feel that time spent in the Indiana Central college gymnasium could be utilized in a study of our language. If by language English is meant,
|then a surprise is in store for those ‘who meet Moses and Luseni.
Both speak perfect English in a
|clipped British manner.
They watch for indications of
| American phrases in those they | meet, however,
Their reaction to American food brought a shrill laugh from
1 Moses.
“I shan't ever be able to eat your macaroni and cheese, or your spaghetti,” he shook his head. Luseni, slightly self-conscious due possibly to his shorter residence
‘here, warmed to the topic.
“I didn’t know what ice cream was; but I'm learning, fast to like it,” he licked his lips. “But, don't give me any ‘salad; it tastes like green leaves. to me. And, I don't believe I'll ever get so I can eat
surprise anybody. © It’s just another expression of their ages-old enjoyment of other people's troubles,
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thése sandwiches you call hot dogs.” Natives of the tropical:country, om ii : ni ~ sp
“Carl was the ‘daddy’ of the)
+boiled like kale,
cetera, is described by: his
SUBJECT OF BOOK —
book, "Fabulous Hoosier." taken at a later date.
and Frank H. Wheeler and Arthur
Carl G. Fisher, '
'Daddy" of the Shamngy. is the fopic of Volos | in a forthioming
Here he poses®in an old Premier race car. The car is a 1909 model. The picture was
Frank Holmes, Speedway announcing Hie whidentified W. S. Gilbreath, founder of the Hoosier Motor club; Chester S. Ricker, official timer; unidentified; Carl G. Fisher, Speedway founder; Louis Chevrolet, for whom the General Motors car is named, and Barney Oldfield, famous racer. Seated is Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Co.
Lincoln highway,” said Prank L. Moore, 3655 Carrollton ave. Mr. Moore was associated in a bicycle business and later an automobile agency with the “fabulous” Hoosier. “It was his idea to have a high-
ABSORBING GAME—Hoosier basketball Was almost taken the place of food in the lives of Moses Musa Mahoi, with ball, and Luseni Alfred Brewah, students at Indiana Central college from
West Africa.
where fathers of the two boys are tribal chiefs, eat a. popular dish of rice and beef. It is similar to Spanish rice. Potato leaves, also are eaten widely. A seacoast country about the size of Indiana with slightly less population, Sierra Leone is abundant with salmon and cod fish. A type of corn is grown and cooked like ‘oatmeal, they pointed out. A wheat bread like ours-is—eaten between gulps of bamboo wine. A sap from the palm tree also Is made into a wine.
Water Is Available
shrouds wound about them,
Water is available in the larger cities, ‘like Freetown, the capital.
It is available, too, from moun- |
tain streams and rivers in the interior of the hilly, vine-tangled country. But, villages near the source of the water supply are filled with ig norant tribesmen who unwittingly contaminate” the water, causing much loss of life from typhoid. Moses and Luseni, both aware" “of these conditions and the rampant malaria, plan to return to their native land and help to limit these diseasés. It's the way they. intend to repay their fathers, They have a keen sense oI their elitasuship responsibilities. Moses turned to his telibw cont. tryman and grinned whe he was asked about the native girls,
| Leader,
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way~ fro the Atlantic to the Pacific. His zeal inflamed others until it became. a reality,” Mr. Moore said. This was enough to give rise to hotties brainstorm which followed,
the ofie t’ develop Miami kn Mami Beach as resort centers. 2 =» *
BUSINESS would be much better in Florida if a good road led into it, Mr. Fisher believed. The
Church Sponsors . * Spaghetti Dinner A spaghett! recipe used in the houses of Italian nobility as far back as the 13th century has been obtained by women of the Little Flower Catholic church for their spaghetti supper tomorrow night,
Women of the Holy Rosary Cath-
olic church who are native Italians will prepare and help serve the
spaghetti. .The supper will be held
{in the parish hall of the Little
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gold earrings, attractive necklaces and "scarves on their. heads,” both boys nodded. But the Freetown girls, it seems, are like the girls in our big cities. Jive hasn't exactly absorbed them in the same way it has our girls and boys; but, youth’ with all its overspilling energy’ and playfulness is just as evident. But, although the boys may long occasionally for their native country, they steadfastly deny it and promise to stay here without a return trip until their studies are ended. They are grateful for the help missionaries in Sierra Leone have
with |
given to them. The Rev. Charles | who .was graduated from’ Indiana Central college several decades ago, persuaded Luseni to come here.
‘Everyone Is Swell = Everyone here has been “swell”
to them, the young men beamed. As they walked toward the gymna-, sium, other students were waved | to them with greetings of "Hh Moses,” and “Hi, Lucy.” Moses bounced. a basketball sev-| eral times and then swished a perfect shot through the net.
“This game certainly is different, ;
much different than our rugby and white “But, it's 0. k. Yes sl
goo xt
gleamed. {
Flower church from 6 to 8 p. m. Proceeds will go toward a new
{home for teaching nuns. They now
are occupying quarters in the second story of the Little Flower school which are needed for classrooms. . Entertainment in charge of Mrs. Albert Gough will ‘follow supper.
Barrage Balloon
Blacks Out Town
FREDERICK, Wis., Feb. 4 (U.P).
—The town of Frederick (popula-|
tion 700) was plunged into darkness for 30 minutés last night when a cable suspended from a barrage balloon-short-circuited a power line. Police Chief Reuben Shesland said the balloon drifted over the town in a southeasterly direction. He could not determine its type or construction.
fest was the Dixie highway, Mr. Moore said.
Mr. Pisher was & wealthy man
with all his interests. . However, after his sensational success here and in Florida, he invested in the development of Montauk Point, Lang
Tia. was to be another Miami miracle. But the depression Wp With Bim, and he was forced * sacrifice his Tlorida propery te, cover his losses.
Hoover in Frankfurt
FRANKFURT, Feb. 4 (U, P).~=
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