Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 February 1947 — Page 17
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sour mental equilibrium, Questions to which the answers cannot be ‘had from the stars, tea leaves
__or your next door neighbor.
I find it very comforting to think that I'm normal because I too, had questions. Not any more, Not since I teamed up with Mr. Ouija, the mystifying, oracle, He's sensational and his seances are cheap, scientific and almost -always to the poinu, (If he hedges with an answer, a good practice is to twist his arm. In no time he'll come across the board with the latest dope) Before 1 give Ouija’'s answers to such pertinent
questions as who will win the 1947 Indiana high school basketball championship, will Mayor Tyndall
continue being chief of police, why I didn't receive even one Valentine today, and which nag in the fifth race at Hialedh, I'd better introduce you to Mr. Ouija, - The mystifying oracle is a tall fellow with a strong chin, piercing blue eyes, long, slender hands and a flair for shrouds instead of dark double breasted suits, If you happen to be a doubting Thomas, don't expect to see him, Only the believers get to shake hands with Mr. Ouija.
The Answer Is Yes
HIS SPIRIT lives in a suite of rooms in what Is called an Ouija board, named after Mr. Ouija. For contact with his spirit, two believers place their hands lightly on a heart-shaped little table. The table goes on top of the board. Then the distressed one asks the questions and Mr. Ouija guides the table to the answers, I stepped into the realin of Ouijaland with a fellow believer of the highest type. It takes two believers to get the answers. One believer might be tempted to cheat. My first question of paramount importance was: Who will win the 1947 Indiana high school basketball championship? Mr. Ouija did not hesitate on this stickler. I feit the table under my fingers practically gallop to the letters J-A-S-P-E-R. So, as far as I'm concerned, Jasper is the 1947 champion. Washington high school of East Chicago might just as well throw the basketball in the locker room and start practicing baseball, ‘The second question of great interest to me was: Will" swim suits for women be affected now that designers may now use more fabric? The response was rot immediate but after several minutes I had a combination of letters which spelled, “They'll bare up.” Since the 85th general assembly. has its eyes on
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More Lawyers Needed By Frederick C. Othman
"IF YOU'RE NORMAL like most of us in ‘Indian Mme abolis, youl probably often have questions which upset
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my coin purse, my next questiom,was timely, What i » ; A formula will the 85th general assembly yse to raise period When plane crashes. ; : taxes and still make it appear as if they were | headline daily papers. ; lowered? It’s ‘news when planes go down. The communique wasn't very clear but I made It's more satisfactory news when my own conclusions. It read: “A forge, hot air and|they stay up to set safety records. a crank.” For 10 years the C. & 8. has oper- . ' \ ated continuously without death or How It's Done
. injury to a single passenger. TO SATISFY my own curiosity I asked: Will vf
. ® : MORE THAN a million passenMayor Tyndall continue being chief of police? gers have travelled more than 374 There was a tug to the right. \
The pin in the |milljon 1 celluloid window of the table stopped directly over mishap. passenger miles without a
the “Yes” in the left hand corner of the board. Ouija, Ouija, tell me which horse in the fifth’ Phd Whe Years Sines 9%, when S. ace Hialeah day? at St. Louis, Mo., the' company has e first word was “Hot” ‘and then a pause. received the national safety counHappy day, I thought, and I tried to rush Mr, Ouija jg flight safety award. i along. He got stubborn, told me to quit shoving. 1¢ is not a matter of luck that and took his sweet time to inform me that it was (yo airliners fly day after day with“Dinner Hour in the fifth.” lout accident. There are 28 C. & S. Mr, Ouija was getting tired. I could feel it in| slots who have flown more than a his last message. I concentrated with all my mental | milion miles. Fifteen of them have power and asked him for one more answer. This' oo than 1,300,000 to their .credit wes Velenine's day and I hadn't received one token', 4 four have topped 2,500,000. Will I receive a Valentine in the afternoon mail, | Mr. Ouija? Every month théy take refresher He must be joking. He must be. Someone will courses in the Link trainer and send me a Valentine even if it's a comic. He surely study radio and navigational work. didn't mean anything when he told me, “You're best' Instrument and flight checks are bet is the Lonely Heart club.” |made every month and physical Mr. Quija, a furnace gets awful hot. | well-being is watched closely. Maintenance crews inspect planes after every flight and after = each 50 hours they are given a ~~ thorough overhaul,
THE PILOTS keep in training.
CHICAGO Lane Southern Joins® with other airlines flying regularly scheduled routes in a good safety
WASHINGTON, Feb, 14.—Senator William Langer of North Dakotd, got so mad finally that he couldn't even bang the table. He didn't have enough hands. He gripped an unlighted cigar in his right fist and a smouldering cigaret in his left. He took alternate puffs on both and eventually ruined the cigar (he banged it involuntarily) in his exasperation with wendell Berge, the government's official trust-buster. The plump little pink-faced Mr. Berge, solemnest assistant attorney general of them all, appeared before Chairman Langer and his civil service committee
to ask for more money to lire more lawyers to prose-.
cute more firms.under the Sherman Anti-Trust act. Oh, oh. The proceedings started neacefully enouglf, with Mr. Berge listing the number of anti-trust cases he’s filed the last few years. Mr. Langer wondered how mary of the guilty big- -wigi of business he'd put in jail. “None,” said Mr. Berge. eration, I guess™ He -added that people are peculiar, They don't regard anti-trust violators like they do sneak thieves or embezzlers. “Now wait a minute, Mr. Berze,” roared Mr. Lianger. exhaling smoke like an irritated dragon. “If a man steals a lodf of bread in Minneapolis you put him in jail. But if a group of men conspire to raise the price of bread, you just slp them on the wrist. The law says they should go to jail.”
Lose Out Socially
MR. BERGE SAID there was some, discretion allowed there. He said business men usually were prominent people, who lost out socially when indicted under the anti-trist laws. “Nobody likes to be indicted,” Mr. Langer shouted. “Why should the little fellow be sent to jail and not the big?”
“None in the las{ gen-
= er — = record. Deaths due to crashes have
Relations between the senators and the trust- dropped. from 2.7 per 100 million ‘buster, as we say in the government, deteriorated | Passenger miles in 1945 to 12 per from there on. Senator Dennis Chavez of New Mex» \ million ¥ mw 1918, =. ico said he didn't see why Mr. Berge wanted more! lawyers when the ones he has can't get convictions. Senator Langer said it was obvious Mr. Berge was Love Valentines
not living up to his oath to enfore the Sherman act.
“But it hasn't beén the policy of the department - 1 Com to seek jail sentences,” Mr. Berge finally cried. He utsell Co mentioned again the social stigma of an anti- trust MICS indictment,
What Common People Think
i . “IM WONDERING if there is’ any justification for Top Previous Sales having your department at all under the present; ST. LOUIS, Feb. 14 (U. P.).—Yol management,” interjected Senator Edward J. Thye can put on your easy slippers, light of North Dakota. {up your pipe and relax, man! Amer“And I want to tell you what the common people ica at last is psychologically sound. think of your department of justice,” said Senator | The man who came up with this Langer. “A farmer up in my state made a miserable ‘package of comfort today was one | little loan with one of your agencies. Then he | ' Milton K. Harripgton, president of. butchered a gouple of his calves because his children! ‘the Associated Greeting Card Diswere hungry. And what did you do? You sent him tributors of America. i to the penitentiary because he destroyed mortgaged He was, of course, referring ‘0. property. Yet you, yourself, said you never send yglentines—those lacy, little heartto jail these fellows who fleeced the people out of shaped bits of sentiment us guys 3
billions.” {send to our ever-lovings on Feb. Some more heated conversation about the advis-; i 14th, each.
ability of putting movie monopolists into cells caused | Mr. Harrington, who is f ull of Senator Thye to observe that anti-trust enforcement’ en timent Hington Td few valen- |
was the next thing to a farce. tines to sell in h wn shop hh “The law has been on the books 57 years come And he says he ab saw ol ike | Southern Pilot William Spangler gives: the
next July and they haven't enforced it yet,” exploded tne way people are buying the} ground crew a wave as he prepares for Senator Langer, puffing his cigaret and smashing his | things this year. He's been ped- { a takeoff. There are 28 C: & S. pilots who cigar simultaneously. Mr. Berge said he could d0|g)ing paper sentiment with “I love] have flown more than a million miles. better if he had more men. He wants $600,000 more " | {you™ inside the fold since 1931, and | Several have flown ‘many more.
next year than he had this, mostly for lawyer hire. },. year topped them all for total Sends Wife Card is Bill Ske M 73, | Wed 'Old Mai d, '
I wouldn't bet five cents (even if gambling weren't “It's because America is mentally $200 Teachers Raise
ANOTHER SAFE LANDING — A plane of the Chicago & Southern Air Lines, Inc., drops Sowly’ to a runway at the Weir Cook Municipal Sitges. C. &S. has Sperated 10 years without death or injury to a single passenger.
| Sentimental Cards
- SAFETY AND COURTESY—Chicago & Southern officials are convinced the two are’ synonyms of the airline. Stewardess Marjorie Buckmaster, Ft." Wayne, assists Mrs. Katherine Thompson, Detroit passenger, with her coat.
"WE'RE OFF. £ AGAIN — Chicago &
S against the law) on his chances. jes;
4 —— 01 rest,” , he said, looking out the window. “When people don't have, WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (U. P.). E di 1899 L ~ 1 2 lot to worry about they get senti- —Rep. Gerald W. Landis (R. Ind.) n ing 4 ove pu ONE: Watch goldfish
Jolson’ s Comeback
HOLLYWOOD, Feb.
a benefit performance. Today he is America’s new with
singing’
his services. . That's the sequel to “The Jolson Story.” It’s an unparalleled show-business phenomenon. The world's greatest ex-entertainer—Al
Parks.
the man looks like today. Grins Al Jolson: bobby-soxers think I have a ‘kissy’ voice, t00.” Oblivion wasn't built for Al Jolson. lionaire. movie, “Swanee River,” aire.
He wanted to hear applause, But no one wanted him.
Radio, ‘Hollywood, Broadway said he was washed
up.
Has Itchy Feet.
THE WAR came and Jolson went overseas. He was During a USO tour he met a girl working as a laboratory technician in “a ne +; ‘base at Little Rock,’ Ark. Her name was Erle
singing again. He was happy.
14.—Yesterday he was a hasbeen who couldn't get a job or even an offer to do
sensation records outselling Bing Crosby's and Frank Sinatra's, eight sponsors after him for a fall radio show. Broadway and Hollywood again clamoring for
Jolson, balding, ‘grey’ about the temples and somewhere between 62 and 46 years old (he keeps telling me he's 58), makes a comeback in the young form of Larry car. Only a thrilling voice actually makes a comeback. But that voice takes a man out of oblivion. Ana 80 per cent of the people don't even know what
“It's good to know that the
He's a milBut after 1940, when he made his last he was an unhappy millionRetirement wasn't built for Al Jolson, He wanted to sing again. He wanted to “see their faces.”
ONE: Walsh golafish evisig
Retired Toolmaker Feathering Love Nest; utes before retiring. = They'll bors you so thoroughly: you'll . probably
‘ y . . Sweetheart’ Arrives in U. S. From Sweden TO enti you Hit ue By GLENN STACKHOUSE bed. Fon United Press Staff Correspondent TWO: Run several miles p Feb, 14.—They had a lovers’ spat in 1899 and it night. If that's tos much fo
He met another girl and was married. She just go around the block at asl ‘| trot.
|inental. When they are stewing yestérday told the G. O. P.-con-and fretting about a war or some- trolled house whose leaders are thing, they just dont feel like pledged to economy that he has in-| . . mailing greeting cards.” [troduced a bill to spend $185 million | “But,” says one of his friends, “She's the The love stuff, by the way,
: is a to help “underpaid” teachers. greatest thine that happened to Al outside of ‘The pest seller this year over the comic Mr. Landis said that under his Jolson Story." |valentines. bill,
By Erskine Johnson
every elementary and high | The war ended and Al's. G. I. audience walked! He sent his wife, Doris, a lovely School teacher in the country would OAKLAND, Cal, oy on him. He was uptiappy Mein: He has a big little card, with just dripped with receive an additional $200 for’ the broke » pig gn Rm Oy use in Beverly Hills, another at Palm Springs, Cal. the spirit of th ,, y + school vear 1947-48. He said fed- eventually went bac weden ecome an “old maid.” He's part owner of the Lord Tarleton hotel at Miami hr Fine dor ! Re ul aid is neeessary to arrest the It took a long time for their love story to have a happy ending, but| THREE: Eat a head of lettuce to Beach, But he never was a guy to stay put in one though, “well, er, you see I read trend of- teachers abandoning their In a few days Charlie Soderstrom, 73, of Oakland and Karolina Nord- quiet your nerves. Don't ey Slat place very iong. hundreds of them every day.” | profession because of low pay. |blad, 74, of Stockholm are finally going to be married. as a substitute. It's too noisy. er He has itchy feet. They itched plenty between One of the best of the season, Mr. ss ————————— Karolina, who arrived in New FOUR: Drink a quart of
1940 and the start of filming of “luc Julson dw.,.’ Harrington allowed, was the follow- . . : York on the Gripsholm Tuesday, is popped the question. She answered Or, If you don't like your malt Hé made three to four trips a year between Holly ing. 8 Killed in Air Crash jon her way across the nation. Char- yes and said that's what she meant ‘mixed with alcohol, try muncing
wood, Florida and New York, usually driving his own| “It has everything,” he said: | DENVER, Feb. 14 (U. P). — A jile is in a fine dither trying to get all along. {malted milk tablets: No special reason. Just-a chance to be on the “Who's. the nicest valentine that | two-motored cargo plane crashed | Ihis love nest feathered before the | So Karolina will arrive here to-| FIVE: Sip a cup of hot go, to see old faces, to see old haunts. Just a guy| anyone could be? while attempting to land at Munici- {bride arrives. morrow afternocn, and they will be, with & lump of butter in it." chasing something, he didn't know exactly what. “Who's the one—the only one that !pal airport early today. One person | The tiny white cottage on Made- married as soon as the law allows. that doesn't work, add black peppers’
But his friends knew what it was—an audience. means the world to me? | was killed and another Seriously in- | jiine st. is all upset. New furniture; “A fellow needs a woman to make! SIX: Put an extra pillow dep : “Who's the darling of my heart I'm | jured. The man killed was identified | (with price tags still hanging) is a home. And how that girl can your feet or stomach. always thinking of? |as Joseph Hearn, Burbank, Cal, [piled in the living room. The cur- make the Smorgasbord,” he sighed.| “There are a lot of other wiys “Why sweetheart it is you, of course, | chief pilot for the western division [tains are down to be washed and | etter mtn jo get to sleep,” Mr. Fanning said, cause you're the one I love.” of Slick Airways, Inc., operators of [the place has a nice, clean smell of HODGE SEES MARTHUR t“Almost anything that will aks Natch. : the plane. tresn paint. SEOUL, Korea, Feb. 14 (U. P). your ming off your troubles ea —Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge, Ameri- put it on some pleasan Had Disagreement can acommander in Korea, flew to ought to do the trick.” Vy ii Charlie sat down for a moment in Tokyo today for a conference with| A few people find counting the midst of the confusion and ran Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Gen. makes sleep come easier, he 'a gnarled hand through his Spares Hodge will return to the United! “Some people sing themselves to [white hair. “Gosh,” he said, “I'M states within a few days for con- sleep,” said Mr. Fanning, “but. they. | running around in circles. I dont (ferences in. Washington. ‘. |are regarded as eccentric” lknow how I'm going to get this
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tool maker when they met in New |
Back in Big Time | THEN HARRY COHN took a gamble on movie columnist Sidney Skolsky's idea that the life story of Al Jolson, with Al singing all his own hits, would | be boxoffice. Every studio in town had turned it| down, usually for the same reason: ‘Nobody cares about Jolson anymore.’ (SILLY NOTIONS “Al sings today as oni as he ever did,” Sidney " told Cohn, “and we'll get a young guy to play him.” Larry Parks was their boy. The magic combina- , tion of Al's voice and Larry's inspirational performance clicked.. The picture is cracking boxoffice records everywhere. Al Jolson is back in the big time.
By Palurbo |
He'll have his ewn radio program in the fall. . ' { the century. 8 There's talk of a Broadway show. And there's talk: York before the turn 0 Y S Hi } . bby » om | from Al himself of filming a sequel to “The Jol- She was a “fine looking,” bux i oung | cien IS S oO y Swedish girl who cooked for a Pr
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Gaibraith, They were married March 24, 1945, at son Siovy. Quartsite, Ariz.. She was his fourth wife. She was It's the same old Al (You ain't heard nothing vet) | vate family. ve massed, By Science Service | was really hard to get. Priges only 18. Jolson, who was Broadway's biggest star 25 years ago. “We were going to is EDEN, N. Y., Peb. 14.—Rare ele- the ones he bought ranged ‘from > then, but we "We were both pret "ments that are merely ‘names in|75 cents to $30 an ounce—but hs = ment, he said. “We we |a chemistry textbook to most sci. [didn’t buy whole ounces of § ty young you know.” expensive ones. He states nelor Life | entists are the things that William | oo "on pis purchases Ww th Ww Sv Ruth Mill Lived Bache or R. Rennagel, 16, a senior at Central [«galary of $2 8 Weoai™ c, e omen by ut let He never Saw! her again. Ajit high school here, collects instead | Some of - a a oy aes : (he was married he heard she had “oo ryineral § ns, pressed {important —————— — |gone back to Sweden to care for 80), hie or birds’ eggs that capture (fields. Uranium, NEWS ITEM: - “The army decreed today that other jobs, maybe we'd better be content to stick with, ailing brother. ied i cbt ago| he interest of most ‘teen agers. In body knows cooking is to become a career job, the job of housewife, instead of yearning for more His first wife died four y : la report submitted in connection {the fact that jand Charlie retired from his tool- with the sixth ual Science we
: “Henceforth, by direction of General of the Army
Dwight D, Eisenhower,-chief of staff:
“ONE: Army personnel trained in food service
will be secure against transfer to other jobs. “TWO: They will enjoy higher grades and wi get more pay.” j Okay, Cfeneral. is good enough for us housewives.
‘Career Cook’.
. FROM NOW on, when asked our job status, “Just a housewife.” Let’
give our Job of cooking; etc, career” status, and Answer ., If the army. is all set to show a new ‘regard and
proudly, “Career, Cook." And if the army
portant they shou
What's good enough for the army our pay. |
we'll quit saying apologetically
thinks its cooks are so. imbe Secure Against transfer ‘to mighty BpOERIY, 100, 2! Ai en moe
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| making to ‘live a bachelor life with patent Search he lists _ of them, his son, Albert, 40. (of “which he has made various comWhat he didn't know was that \pounds in. order. to become better his sister ’in Denver. Colo., had been. lacquainted with their appeazance | keeping up correspondence with and properties. - *. 'Karolina for the past 47 years. She! In his list are lithium, sation; wrote and told the old sweetleart| rubidium, beryllium, indium, thal- ! that Charlie was alone. | Lum, yttrium, lanthanum, Sertm, ) | “I got a letter from Karolina | titanium, zirconium, seven months ago.” = He grinned dium, uranium, selenium a
How About Rank?
NOW ABOUT that * “They will enjoy ; higher grades II and will get more pay.’ | Well, we housewives can't do much about, boosting |
But we can enjoy higher rank if we insist on it. After all, why should a woman who has decided on | “Career, Housewife" feel in any way inferior to the
woman who has decided on a career in the business ; 'happily. “1 found that old feeling|lyrium. In addition, i sion? | s . world, in the arts, or in a profession? hap Da an od a respect for its cooks, let's take advantage of the new . Karolina wrote and said en, Semen that are not attitude. Career’ Cooks, that's what, we are. And longed to come back to the food tari He adds, however, : rib lold U. 8. -, Charlie wrote nck wnaiSies of the
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