Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 February 1947 — Page 11

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AH—-MY TYPE oF FISHING. Within easy

snapper, mullet, bluefin, buffalo, carp, Spanish.

. | mackerel, lake trout, yellow pike and Columbia river -

salmon,

The diehard fisherman might throw ‘a fit when

I say if you want a fish go to a fish market. ‘It's 80 much simpler. No fuss,’ no bother and no impatience with the same result—fish, Understand—that's the way I like to fish, Now take a 100-pound halibut. Just figure out how much. trouble: you would have to go through to land one of those babies. And yet right before my eyes a 100-pounder came toward me with the help of Richard Romeril, employee of the Booth Fisheries Corp, 238 Massachusetts ave, The halibut was on his way to become halibut steak, a simple operation on the band saw. To be so close to a huge fish was exciting and the knowledge that my feet were dry and I didn't have a couple hundred dollars invested in rod and line increased that excitement, The fish that I really came to see was a mackerel plain, cold mackerel. William J, Brink, manager, took me to a barrel and said, “That's your mackerel.” I know what the. phrase “Colder than a mackerel” means now, Looking a cold mackerel in the eye is about as much fun as shaking hands with a limp dish towel after supper. A cold mackerel has no personality.

Plenty of Movement

A TRUE FISHERMAN might say at-this point, “What fun is there in looking at a fish in a barrel?” Movement—that's what a fisherman likes, But there's plenty of movement at the Booth Fisheries Corp. With 12 trucks -in operation and six men hauling in the fish into the huge refrigerators, and then hauling them right out to fill orders, the fish have plenty of movenitnt. They just don't lle around at the store, Something is always happening to fish. Take the yellow pike, for instance. Beautiful fish, the yellow pike. There were 100 poynds of yellow pike to be made into filet. That's a lot of filet. The yellow pike went through .an assembly line routine which was operated by Charlie Fredericks and Bernard (Butch) Wolsiffer, Mr. Fredericks would apply the electric scaler to the broadsides of a pike and presto chango—no scales. Flip and the pike would be in the hands of “Butch.” T doubt if a pike evey traveled that fast in his heyday.

Out Come the Bones “A QUICK DECAPITATION and with two cuts Butch would have one side of the pike loose from the bone, Over—another two deft cuts with the fish knife and a beautiful pike filet was tossed into a wire basket. The two men went through the batch of pike

y tench’ “and within easy walking distance wall-eyed pike, red

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A 100-POUND WHOPPER—Soon it will be a batch of halibut steaks with Richard Romeril assisting.

in three-quarters of an hour. Next in line were the bluefins (herring). The poor fish had bones and

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Feb. 5. — All the stargazers

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There is almost feverish activity in the university astronomy department, and work is being rushed in the campus Kirkwood observatory. With other leading national observatories under the direction of the American section of the Inter national Astronomical union, I. U. is conducting an extensive research

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customers don't like bones as a rule. So Butch and Charlie started in. The herring got the same descaling treatment from Charlie that the pike got but Butch's handling was different. With his fish knife he opened the belly of the, bluefin a little wider. Then he poked his forefinger | into the spine and went up and down. The bones came out slicker than a whistle, Back in the refrigerator I saw two boxes of carp. |

One box was dressed and the other was undressed. |

The undressed box of carp had their scales and | heads on. The dressed carp had their scales and heads off,

I asked Mr. Brink how come but he said that's |

the way it's done in the fish business. A fish is| dressed when he's quite exposed and undressed when | he's got his original suit of clothes. My fishing trip was just about over and I would ! say I had my share of luck. I landed a two-pound yellow pike. Fishing is.easy if you know how—I always say.

Mr. Clark’s

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.—You know about congress trying to save tax money by reducing the federal payroll. And how every federal big-wig tries to prove that his department is short-handed. So it was that the senate civil service committee glumly summoned Attorney General Tom C. Clark to tell about the 25,000 people working for him. The senators expected to hear some more double-talk.

Never have they been so badly fooled. He even -

had ‘the Republicans congratulating him. “I have been in the justice department now for 10 years, kind of working my way up,” Mr, Clark said, unbuttoning his vest and scrunching down in his chair in a vain search for comfort. “And the thing that impresses me in the government is the fact that a fellow always likes to have as many people working under him as he can.” If I'd had a pin at this juncture to drop it, the noise would have sounded like a firecracker. The senators were stunned. They'd never heard anything like this before from any cabinet member. “In fact,” Mr, Clark drawled, “When the government sets a fellow’s salary, they always ask him how many people he's got working under him. It isn't like in business. In the government it seems like the more people you have working for you, the more money you make.

Cause of_Crisis “SO NOBODY ever wants to get rid of any of his staff. If he's an energetic fellow he's likely to get his working force increased and increased again. And that makes some other byreau chief down the hall unhappy and he wants more workers, too. “So it is a natural thing, this trying to hold onto your helpers: in the government. It pays. Why, I

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guess I've done it myself. And it is one of the causes of this crisis.”

Senator William Langer of N. D., asked if he had |-

any suggestions on how the government could quit putting a premium on such payroll padding. Mr. Clark said yes, he certainly did. For a starter congress might issue a statement of policy, saying that the number of stenographers a federal brass-hat bosses | has nothing whatever to do with his wages.

Trying to Cut Down

AS OF NOW, Mr. Clark said, he's trying to get rid |

of as many spare clerks as he can, but he's having his troubles keeping down expenses. Some of this is congress’ fault. For one thing the lawmakers turned the 40-hour week (into law for federal workers. So what happened? The prisoners in the 27 federal penitentiaries got Saturdays and Sundays off from their work in the mills. This made ‘em restless for 48 hours every week | and they had to be guarded especially carefully over week-ends. Only the guards were on a 40-hour week; too, and this meant hiring more guards. One things seems to lead to another, Mr. Clark said. Take the atomic bomb. Congress said the FBI had to investigate everybody who worked on that. So his hawkshaws are in the midst of making 100,000 investigations on bomb-makers and contractors: Means | more G-men.

had too many lawyers. For awhile, he said, the OPA alone had 3000 of same poring over the legal books. Wouldn't it be better if all federal lawyers worked for the justice department? “Gentlemen,” said Mr. Clark, policy. Then I try to enforce it”

“you establish tne Touche.

Divorce Laws

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 5.—Laraine Day gets a divorce in Los Angeles, then gets a Mexican divorce and marries Leo Durocher to the tune of a Los Angeles judge's ruling that she is flouting the laws of the state of California” and cannot live with Durocher as his wifé for a year, until her California divorce becomes final. Van Johnson and Evie Wynn go to Mexico, where she gets a divorce and marries Van, then they come back to California and everything is all right. There is no charge of ‘their trying to evade-any laws. There is no judge to make any charges. But the cases are so similar that we're wondering if California shouldn't rewrite its divorce laws. Greer Garson is having career as well as marital troubles, The split with Richard Ney is definite. Greer's latest picture, “A Woman of His Own,” will be either shelved (it's that bad) or re-made. The reason for the Neys' marital discord is pretty obvious. When they were married Ney was unknown. Now he's getting the big roles. It always happens that way in Hollywood.

Slapsie Calls Off Feud

GREGORY PECK, black-hearted and black-haired n “Duel in the Sun,” turns up with gray hair for his role of the London lawyer in “The Paradine Case.” Which prompted a feminine set-visitor to comment: “I guess he worried a lot over ‘Duel.’ ” Could be. Slapsy Maxie Rosenbloom and Max Baer called off their feud, and are heckling the customers at Kitty Davis’ Airliner in Miami. . . . Stan Laurel and Oliver

_ Hardy are en route to London for three months of

By Erskine Johnson

vaudeville. . . . Mrs. Gus Edwards is writing a book, “I Like to Remember,” dealing with the life and times of the family songwriter-producer.

A Dip in the Mud

ANN REVERE, who won an Oscar for her sympa- | thetic-mother role .in' “National Velvet,” will do aj switch as the hard-hearted mother-in-law in “Scudda Ho, Scudda Hay.” . . . Jack Haley has turned down seven movie offers since walking out on an RKO contract because he feels a comedian shouldn't play | leading-man roles. He's concentrating on radio. Claudette Colbert is back in the mud, for a pie| wallow scene, in “The Egg and I.” The last time she dunked her lovely torso in black | and slimy goo was in Paramount's “No Time for Love.” She was then playing a news photographes, remember, gone underground to photograph Fred, MacMurray, a sandhog, in a tunnel beneath a river bed. Paramount's press agents made quite 4 to- do to| the effect that for “No Time for Love” the studio] had gone to great pains and expense to bring from | a Death Valley talc mine some 15 tons of very special | mud mix—practically, they said, .the equivalent of a Helena Rubenstein beauty pack. The therapeutic qualities of the mud were largely superfluous, it seemed to us. ‘Claudette didn't put her face in it, but just sat in it. This time the mud is just some’ dirt the studio] prop men dragged in whence they found it. Claudette says it really doesn't make any difference. Mud | is mud, and she hates it, but she'll do almost anything for a laugh.

We, the Women

By Ruth Millet

A YOUNG man in Wisconsin, charged with the theft of an automobile, confessed to the judge that he stoie the car in the hope of receiving a prison sentence. It seems he was trying to get away from a girl so eager to marry him she had offered to pay all expenses. That's rather an extreme example of. the lengths to which a young man will go in a panicky effort to get away from a girl with marriage in. her eye. But the young man’s fright and {light are typical. ' Often the answer to the question, “I wonder why Jane doesn't gét married and settle down?” is simply that Jane gets that marriage-minded look in her eye

. early in the game, which is enough to scare any

young man to death,

Too Much Mothering

-SUCH GIRLS quickly become possessive, or start miothering a man,

one ‘They have a habit’ of trying to pin a man down

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by taking his lightly spoken compliments too se- |

riously. And they think they're being subtle when they drag him around to spend an evening with a happily married couple, act silly over babies, etc. They are so afraid a man won't think of marriage himself that they are forever bringing it into the conversation.

|serve as a basis for a discussion

Senator Langer said he thought the ari

8 THE RESEARCH is expected to |discover minor planets and to study [those found in recent years, Dr. {Paul Herget, University of Cincinnati observatory director, heads the project. Giant felescopes, like fingers, are [probing the’ skies to pry secrets {from the heavens. | At the Kirkwood observatory plans are under way to convert ithe’ 12-inch telescope for direct (photography. Additional measuring ‘apparatus will be acquired to meas{ure the photographs. ” n el ALREADY available are a photo{meter to measure the brightness of stars on photographic film and a {measuring machine for spectra. A recording microphotometer for analyzing spectra is under construction. I. U. also is using, in the re'search program, the. Goethe Link {observatory on road 67 near Brooklyn, Ind, and the McDonald observatory at the University of Texas. McDonald has the second largest telescope of present times and Link has a 36-inch reflector used for direct photography of star clusters. ® ” DIRECTION of Indiana's efforts are lead by Dr. Prank K. Edmondson, astronomy department head. L A specialist in stellar statistics, the has been working since 1941 fon the measurement of radial ve|locities of faint stars which will

{of their motion. Three years ago he discovered a new celestial spéed demon, a star {which rockets through space at (ore than 500,000 miles per hour, . ” s { DR. EDMONDSON is assisted by Dr. Lawrence H. Aller, Dr. James |Cuffey, Mrs. Beryl H. Potter, re« {search assistant, and graduate ase |sistants Robert Donselman, Dills« (boro; Carolyn Mooshy, Indianap;olis; Winifred Sawtell, Bloomington, and J. Lynn Smith, Floyd | Knobs. Dr. Aller currently is studying the gaseous nebulae by spectroscopic means. He is co-author of a non-technical book on astrophysics, “Atoms, Stars and Nebulae.” 5 " » DR. CUFFEY is an authority on star clusters and now is engaged {in measuring the brightness and {color of stars in star clusters. Other observatories co-operating in the program are Yerkes, University of Chicago; Lick, University of California; - Warner and |Swasey, Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland; Dearborn, | Northwestern university, and Navy, Washington. D.C.

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY, 1

CENTER OF RESEARCH—Kirkwood observatory on n the Indiana university’ campus is ond J nationwide basis to study minor planets and di iscover new ones. ?

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their operations annually. In the decade. before the last war, they caught an average of 40 per cent of all whales taken from the

Norway claims two Sutlying lands, Bouvet, at 3 degrees, ues east longitude, and 54

LEADING STARGAZER—Dr. Frank K. Edmendson, IU. Ay deparnont head, loads a photographic plate into the reflector with which more than 1000 astronomical photographs have been made.

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Lid Blown Of Honolulu Graft

Ex-Policeman Tells Of Wartime Take

By KEYES BEECH Times Special Writer

HONOLULU, T. H.,, Feb. 5. — A

iconscience-stricken $320 - a - month | policeman — who carried

former $125,000 around in his pocket—has blown the lid off Honolulu’s long‘smoldering graft probe. Prosecutor Joseph V. Esposito said yesterday that William K. | Clark, former vice squad sergeant, {had signed a confessior. He gave la complete picture of wartime graft running into millions of dollars for protection of gambling houses and vice dens, Mr. Esposito said. Clark told Mr. Esposito that he has $125000 in a safety deposit box ‘at a local bank. This repre{sents his “take” from gambling and vice czars, who milked servicemen and war workers of many miillions.

Carried Money

But during the war, Clark carried his graft money on his person, or

In his cap. Military government regulations forbade the use of safety~deposit boxes for money deposits.

He was afraid to leave it at home, for fear it would be stolen {or the house might burn down. Clark is one of three policemen who were fired last week as "he graft probe moved toward a climax. Thirteen others were suspended at the same time.

And the first thing they know, the young man stops calling quite so often. He's simply scared— and trying not to get into a situation he can't get out of,

It's Just Pathetic

, THERE'S nothing much more pathetic than watching a girl who really wants to marry a man

lose him just because she isn’t smart enough to keep,

that fact carefully hidden from the young man until he has become so dependent on her companionship, admiration, and understanding he starts thinking marriage himself, without any obvious promplng. !

Although promised immunity by the local authorities, Clark still has a matter of $177,000 in back income taxes to settle. The internal revenue department, has slapped a lien on the contents of the deposit box. Mr. Esposito sald that Clark was moved to confess for religifus reasons and suggested that others might get religion before the investigation is over—or wish they had,

minutes south Iatitude. Support Expedition Norway also claims a pie-shaped wedge of land onthe main land mass lying between the

Mates Between 20 and 30 Best Suited For Happy Marriage, Says Professor a eae cn

Both the pursuer and pursued| ought to look into each other's family background, he added, to see what kind, of offspring each is likely to be capable of producing. 'Such adroit investigation also would indicate the home pattern the potential mate has been used to. Finally, Prof. Lamson said, a sixmonth acquaintanceship should be

. Expert Advises Eligible Men, Women To Ask Each Other a Lot of Questions

BOSTON, Feb. 5 (U. P).—For marital happiness, pick a mate who's between 20 and 30 and a political conservative, a marriage counselor advised today. While scouting the materimonial marts, aid Professor Herbert D. Lamson, eligible men and women would do well to watch for the fol-~ lowing characteristics: ONE: Political, moral and re- there's really no reason why the|a minimum. ligious éonservatism. woman should be ydunger, since| “Although,” he added, “women TWO: Serene and complacent she'll probably outlive the man,{often can .size up men more

disposition, anyhow.” quickly.” THREE: Willingness to take for foreign affairs. orders. ; The ship is of 220 tons and was Mr. Lamson, who teaches a mar- | SILLY NOTIONS By Palumbo bought nh the United States for riage course and sociology at Boston $105,000. The government originally (university, believes the youth of the planned to use it for fishing off the

'nation should be trained to recognize neurotic symptoms so that persons displaying them can be elimi- | nated early in the quest for life | partnership. Beware of Joiners Anyone who constantly fluctuates from depression to happiness, who | can't stand taking orders, who doesn’t adjust well to others or who | has been sheltered and babied unduly by doting parents may yery| likely be neurotic, he said. Beware, too, of joiners, Professor Lamson said. Persons constantly ac- | quiring new memberships in organi‘zations probably are motivated by a | psychological insecurity which is associated with unhappiness. Should Ask Questions : “Once a man and woman start! drifting toward courtship,” he said, “they'd better start asking each other a lot of questions. They ought to find out whether their ideas are compatible on such basic issues as religion, for instance, before they become too involved.” A person is ready for marriage as soon as He or she is socially and emotionally mature, Prof. Lamson said, and somewhere in the-20's is a good time to listen to the wedding! bells toll. “Currently, the rough ideal is for the woman to be in her early to middle 20's and the man- in his I middle to late i he sald. “But

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