Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1947 — Page 11
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-giddyap.” . ‘Flossie shook her head, BO ovale of Bm
and gave James Riley, Polk Milk Co, driver a do-we-
a look. ee Riley, master of Wagon 151, flipped the relris sharply. Yes, Flossie, we hafta, Then, with. a mighty tug, Flossie took oft in hig: about two miles
| per.
the dairy when we rattled oyer the tracks and headed north cilppity«elop on the milk run.
the din of 550 clanking milk bottles, “This isn't bad at all should be out in zero weather,” answered Mr. Riley.
Miss Flossie The Wagon
lurched and I
" bumped up against a case of COLD milk,” This was
the first time I disliked cold milk, Clippity-clop, clippity-clop. “Doesn't Flossie ever go faster than this?” I drawled. The slow side motion of the wagon impaired my speech, Mr. Riley thought a few seconds, you. Flossie has two speeds—slow and slower.”
Makes Good Time
“HOW CAN you get your work done?” Well, shut mah mouf. Did you know that a driver of a horse and wagon can make better time in a residential district than a man with a truck? Mr, Riley wasn't counting the time it took to and from the route. “Now watch this next corner. Flossie will turn left. ‘I don't have to tell her where to go. She can do almost anything but talk to the custorhers, make change and read the route book,” said Mr, Riley. Flossie turned the corner én four slow wheels Then she came to ‘a rather busy Ifitersection. She looked both ways (so help me she did) and scooted daintily across. While we blodded to the 2100 block of N. New Jersey st, Mr, Riley checked the notations in his route book and loaded the carrier with milk bottles. Flossie's ears began working back and forth as if they were radar controlled, The instant Mr. Riley hopped off the wagon Plossie came to a stop. Her ears picked up the clink of bottles as the deliveries were made. Her master had worked three residences ahead. : Without any signal from Mr. Riley, Flossie moved
‘down the street and Was waiting for him when he
Indianapolis folk I've seen.
came to replenish his stock. I'd like to see-a truck do that. Working farther down the street, Flossie stopped directly behind a parked car. This should be good, 1 thought as I braced myself for a shock. The owner won't like yellow paint on his black fenders. Old gray Flossie is a better driver than a lot of She clip-clopped side-
ways. to the center of the street without moving the
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Father, Son Happy _ With Miniature Layout
By GEORGE WELDEN A SPEEDING puffing passenger train pulls.out of a tunnel, up a small incline,. through another "tunnel ‘and winds in and out of mountain terrain—all in the attic of Guy 8.'Rinebolt, 3225 N. Capitol (ave. | One of many miniature train |lovers In Indianapolis, Mr. Rinebolt |started buying equipment and lay-
Th lehly of Tor. the & ing track only four months ago. wagon, ere was plenty of room for, the turn before she inched forward. And she drives with! Today more than 300 feet of out an operator's license, track, 14 switches and 11 controls
: . ine the elevated platform in the Likes Her Job b
THE BEST TRICK of the day is when Flossie ‘attic of the Rinebolt household, at takes the wagon halfway down a side streét, waits & cost of more than $1000. until Mr. Riley makes his deliveries, then makes a "nn complete U-turn and heads back turning on the main MR. RINEBOLT admits its a route. All this because she's interested in keeping toss-up between he and his 12her job and proving that the days of the horse and year-old son, Roger, as to who can wagon are not gone yet. get to the centrally located control The Polk Milk Co. has 23 horses with different de- box first following the evening meal. grees of intelligence helping them to distribute their| They start on even terms, how- v ; products. Not all of the company’s 100 drivers, how- ever, as Mr. Rinebolt finishes his og OK ever, have helpers like Flossie. Most of them drive job as a used car lot manager at those new-fangled contraptions with “pnoomatic” 6 p. m. and Roger gets through tires.and things. carrying his Indianapolis Times Mr. Riley said that Flossie has one great fear on route at about the same time, After the road. She hates big trucks with flapping tar- eating, both retire to the attic hidepaulins. lout to toy with controls or add ad“Otlier than that she’s an intelligent well-behaved [ditional equipment. Roger has to lady. Only once did she kick up her heels: -That!get his studies out first, however. was a week ago when the streets were so slick. She's| 2 = = leery of ice and made it plan that she wasn't going] QUICKLY “dubbed” the G. & R. to hurry that day.” | Railroad—for Guy ‘and Roger—Mr.
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THE MILKMAN COMETH—AnNd James Riley is glad he works with Flossie.
got it. As we made the rounds, I do believe it Was | nti] the elevated platform reaches the first time I feit at ease with a lady driver. Darn, ynore than 80 feet. It now extends 1 wish I had brought a cube of sugar along. nearly 40 feet.
| Mrs. Rinebolt, and a daughter
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Senate Modistes
train “addicts.” - Nine - months - old structure. {Guy Oliver gets a “kick” from " .n
By Frederick C. Othman | watching other members of the
WASHINGTON Feb. 18 (U. P.).—The fearless U. S. senate is trying its artistic hand again as modiste, designing coats for ladies. I don't think the ladies are going to like it. The senators didn't intend, you understand, to become couturiers, but they got themselves into such a jam a while back with the stubborn sex that they now have legislated some new styles. My guess is that their own wives will go to. work on 'em tonight. What happened was that when the boys slapped a 20 per cent excise tax on fur-trimmed coats costing up to $100, they collided slap-dash. with that best known of all feminine traits—the urge for bargains. The ladies found that a $100 coat with a piece of skunk on the collar cost ‘em $120, but that they could get the same coat trimfhed with threads of gold, peatock feathers, or symtietic diamonds for $20 less. They stopped buying coats with fur trimmings. The «manufacturers quit making ‘em, fur piled up in the warehouses, and many a farmer who raised foxes for ladies’ collars found himself on the verge of bankruptcy. Came then Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Appleton, Wis, to remedy this sorry situation with an amendment to the excise tax bill. His intentions were of the best. But the fact remains that he is a bachelor, ignorant of domestic crises involving ladies’ coats.
Complicated Formula HIS FORMULA was a complicated one which I shall not try to explain; its effect was to exempt from the tax fur-trimmed coats costing up to $142. Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper of Iowa, a married .man, was aghast. What, he cried, about fur coats that cost less than $142? Was the senate going to keep on taxing them 20 per cent? You can't buy a fur coat for less than $142, retorted Senator McCarthy, unless it's made of rabbit, or mouton.
Hollywood ‘Hoodoo
“Some- senators think that a mouton is a fur bear- | | the 370-section track.
ing animal,” he added. “Well, what kind of an animal is it?” demanded Cab Driver Routs
Senator Hickenlooper, Wool to Fur Escapes Injury When Bullet Goes Wild
“IT IS A sheep,” replied Senator McCarthy. oi comes off its back is wool and we pay a subsidy on' wool production. But when it is treated and dyed and | called mouton, the treasury department says it is fur.” Senator Hickenlooper said this ‘was not fair. Sen-| ator McCarthy said he knew it wasn't, but what can you do with the treasury department? o The SHijlemsh h En Louisa, Jom RB. Don A taxi driver escaped injury last 8i en su a fin cloth .coat costing $2000 would not be taxed at all, night when a would-be bandit fired but that a mink at the same price would be $400 extra. | Point, blank at him and then wriggled free and fled after a tussle in! a cab. It was the second encounter the driver, Clifford W, Douglas, 58, of 71 N. Warman ave., said he had had with the armed man. The attempted stickup occurred shortly after Mr. Douglas picked
Reserve Officers
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candidates for officers of the serve Officers association.
Senator McCarthy demonstrated again his ignorance of things feminine; he said this had nothing to do with the question because it is impossible for any coat without fur to cost that much. That's what he thinks, So the modistes of the senate batted the mink aroynd a while longer. Skunks entered the discussion. Couturier Robert A. Taft of Ohio observed that as of today there are no fur-trfmmed coats on the market because of congress’ previous attempt at fashion designing. If muskrats soon don't appear around ladies’ | his destination, necks again, Senator Allen J. Ellender indicated there| Suddenly the passenger stuck a wouldn't be any room left in Louisiana for people. gun in Mr. Douglas’ back and deThe muskrat surplus is something awful. manded his money, The senators eventually adopted Bachelor Mc-| Looking around, the driver Carthy’s law. They did this without a record vote. recogized the passenger as the same; This sudden passion for anonymity cannot save them bandit who held him up Saturday. from the wrath of their wives. Here's.why: \Infuriated, Mr. Douglas lunged back Ladies of the senate, I give you my word; the] lover the seat at the passenger with vote was unanimous. Not one of your spouses said,! {both fists flying. “no” to bachelor McCarthy's .solution to the coat, At the same time, the bandit] collar crisis. opened fire at close range but | mjssed, The bullet glanced off] metal around the front of the cab| and was buried in the front seat cushion, In the tussle, the bandit got free and fled down an alley.
members.
liott Peabody, Davidson, Capt.
Capt.
who gave a south side address "| tary- treasurer will be elected.
Romanian Peasants ‘Reported Eating Grass
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stricken area.
By Erskine Johnson the hotel® cash’drawer.
« HOLLYWOOD, Feb, 18—You've never heard about the shrunken human head buried in a Beverly ‘Hills backyard? Or why it was buried there at mianight one moonlight night? - Well, it is Alfred Hitchcock's story, or rather, H® buried it. Some people only smile rather amusedly when he tells the story because-of his reputation in Hollywood as the master of suspense and mystery. But he says it's really true. “I'll swear to it” Hitchcock now owns his own home. But he once ‘lived in a rented house in Beverly Hills. He's a happy, successful man, But for a few weeks he was probably ‘the most unhappy man alive. ‘ “One evening,” he begins the story, “an’ old, old friend from England dropped in to call. He had been on an extensive, leisurely tour of South America. He had a gift for me. When he gave it to me he said, ‘Picked this up for you in Guayaquil. I think you fancy this sort of thing. It was a shrunken human head, one of those you read. about; Then he left. “Within 10 minutes the trouble started. In 10 ininutes the hot water heater blew up.”
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AND DURING the next three weeks the roof began to leak. A pet dog had its leg broken. Hitch caught a cold which went" into influenza. Three out ‘of four tires on his_car blew out. His daughter cut her hand, Mrs. Hitchcock sprained her ankle. The cook left. A water main burst and the paint began 10 flake off the living room walls, A man who doesn't have to be hit over the head
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_- AND NOW along comes § less professor who advises girls to pick a conservative mate for marital ‘happiness. Wonder if the professor has ever heard the “just between us girls” comments of middle-aged wives, married for years to conservative husbands? Of course, they're still married—which is a point in support of the professor's theory. But how they complain about their conservative
. mates!
“I wanted to build a really modern-looking house,” says one, “but George says they look too much like garages to suit him.”
No Cruise for John
I LIKE this room, too—but you ought to have heard Bill rave when he came home and saw what the decorator had done with it. He raved even more JFhen the bills came in.” SN WISH We, Send Nake 8 rule of 0, io. some
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Four Other Holdups
Four other holdups, in which bandits escaped with $138, were reported here yesterday and last night. Another taxi driver, Jack Asher, 36, of 921 N. Alabama st. reported that a passenger held him up and took $10 and a wrist watch worth $65 on the south side last night. A third bandit escaped being shot jonly because an old pistol in the ' Shook into a rear closet. room clerk's desk at the Williams | hotel, 253 W. Washington st., failed
to take a hint, Hitchcock says he waited until the first moonlight night and, promptly at midnight, aided by a bewildered gardener, he buried the head three feet deep. He hasn't had any trouble since. But the head ig still in the garden of that house.
The Cue to Cry
“I MENTIONED it to the landlord when I moved,” he said, “but the guy just smiled knowingly and said: ‘Mr. Hitchcock, I've seen your movies. You Probably tell that to all your landlords’.” News Item: “Director .Delmer Daves uses a phonograph to help Lauren Bacall get in the mood for a tearful scene in “Dark Passage.” It reminded us of the time the late John Barrymore burst into tears on cue and we asked him later how he did it. Explained John:
off,” Mr. Kemper said.
ness places yesterday afternoon.
at 4101 E. Washington st.
Hugh Kemper, night clerk, said
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ABSORBING HOBBY—Guy Rinebolt ond his | 12-year-old son, Roger, spend four Mors nightly toying with
Talk about horse sense, Flossie is the lady Who's Rinebolt plans to continue building and adding equipment to their $1000 miniature train project.
Already simulated houses, a wafreight storage depot,|c passenger depot, automatic signals,
' la coal-loader, a crane, a log-loading Darlene Ann, 8, are also minature device and warehouses dot the
MR. RINEBOLT has four locoa {family handle the controls, sending | motives, a full passenger set and - the tiny trains criss-crossing over three freight cars which are capable iof moving forward, or backward
and can be uncoupled from the] control box. Three of the engines have whistles.and two puff smoke. All of the passenger cars and installations have tiny lights.
vehicle, while crossing gates descend; Mr. : Rinebolt said. uty a to halt Sulamobile traffic. hobby for anyone.” a ® = Whenever there is a dis MR. RINEBOLT says when op-|{ment in the Rineholt househ Blialions ave ung Jan. ad erations are completed he will keep pew pass sop wo : -color background adds a . : us 5 realistic touch to the setting, As|the Passenger train ‘moving, mean- ing’ factor. “He knows the trains approach a highway in-|While switching three freight lines| wants» said Mr. ‘Rinebolt. tersection, the whistle pipes, a tiny|hauling miniature coal and logs. “For that matter,” he ha ; flagman “pops” out of a small] “Young Roger is just as adept
all know what we want. 8 building to wave at the passing'at handling the controls as I am,”'a family affair.” $
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Major Vernon E. Clark will serve as chairman of the nominating, {committee to name three Slates of |
The officers will be elected at a chapter meeting Feb. 28 at 8 p. m. in the World War" Memorial bldg. Major Clark was named by Lt. Col. Browning Gent, the present presfdent of" the association of “800
The nominating conunittee also includes Major S. Wilcox, Major ElGeorge M. J. P. Ragsdale, Capt, C. M. Spillman and Capt. R. N. Speiers. A president, senior | vice president, vice presidents for up a passenger at the bus station! iground, air and navy and a secre-
| MANCHESTER, Feb. 18 (U. P.).— ‘door, | The Manchester Guardian reported today that peasants inthe; drought-ravaged Moldavia section of Romainia were eating gras$ and “and even chewing clay |
| President Truman has’ ordered | | American food ships diverted to the
|the bandit robbed him of an un-)| determined amount of money from | lem of arousing Richard and get
“As he walked out the door, I got out the pistol and pulled the trigger but the weapon wouldn't go
A man believed to be the same bandit robbed two East side busi-
His first stop was at the Gift Shop operated by Mrs. Ruth Shook He | escaped with $58 after forcing Mrs.
About 20 minutes later the man walked into the Hudson Furnishto go off when the trigger was ings Co. 5511 E. Washington st., pulled. |and robbed Mrs, H. K. Hudson of $70, forcing her into a rear closet.
“I just thought about the money I've paid my exwives.” It's the year .of the filmbiographies. Scheduled for production this year are life stories of Horatio! Algey, Tchaikovsky, Sarah’ Bernhardt, Babe Ruth, Sol Hurok, Lily Langtry, Houdini, Beethoven, Billy Rose, Marilyn Miller, Will Rogers, Valentino and O. Henry. It "may “be “old; “but it's “wortli Yepeating. Mary Pickford once invited Constance Collier to the opening of a play. Constance said she didn't like the! stars and declined. But Mary insisted so that Constance finaily but reluctantly agreed to go. Just as| the curtain started to rise slowly, with only the shoes | of the actors showing on stage, Constance leaned over and whispered into Mary's ear: “Deadly, isn't it?”
Carnival —By Dick Turner
By Ruth Millet
bens +s
nice resort this year, but John never wants to do anything different. Every summer it's the same old thing. We go up to that cottage of ours and never meet anyone, We've been spending our vacations there for 15 years, just. because. John won't ever try anything pew.”
They're Lucky, ‘At That “ERNIE CAME home with a new suit last night, and it was so much like the last one, and the one before that, nobody will ever know he HAS a new suit.” ° And the-general comment at the end of one of these complaints is: “Men’ are so conservative.” If these women know how lucky they are to have conservative husbands, no one .would ever know it. Not from 'their superior, exasperated comments on
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their husbands’ conservatism, and their frustrated efforts to make them Revept.: she new, untried, the different. 5 4
Heads up now! I've known them deep sleepers to leap io yh into the oe
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Couritry’s Sudden Interest in Richa Whereabouts Makes Dusty’ s Pocl
Open the door, Richard. Open the door and let me in. Open the door, Richard. Richard! Why don't you open that door? Copyright, 1947, Duchess Music Corp. By JANES THRASHER
NEW, YORK, Feb. 18—For 23 years, boy and man, Dusty Fletcher has been calling Richard. He has paged him in carnivals, medicine shows, minstrel shows. He has
summoned him in burlesque and
vaudeville. He has pleaded with wave at me. And I got him in’ night clubs and musical laugh using his name. At comedy, thought they were bec
To date Richard hasn't .even ‘answered, much less opened the He's been harder to find |than Chloe. But Dusty hasn't iminded. His search has been vain. [But profitable. The search has also been strictly {private until recently. People sat around and listened; whether | Richard came to the door or not | was strictly Dusty’s problem and \nobody else's. But no more. Profitable Search
Practically over night, the prob-
sedate ways.
{ting him to open up became the N concern of a sizable portion of the AAA hp Americas’ people, THE DOOR—-Dusty Fletcher Dusty’s plaintive appeal - echoed Opens the door Richard won't. from coast to coast. And Dusty's qrung» _ “and he wanted glad of the help. For the country's), ihe pape Duaty the bartender |d0¢S: from day to day sudden interest in Richard's where=|ihr aw him out in the alley. We abouts has made Dusty’s search |j.st stood around and pitied him. even more profitable, But prefty soon he got: up, Since “Open the Door, Richard” “And the first thing he said name. hit the air and ‘the juke boxes, was. ‘I'm going back in there.’ Dusty’s stock has taken an amaz-|Then. he started talking to. himing spurt. self and telling what he was going The same act that Dusty has been ts do, I stood there and listened. doing since 1923 is now one of the Switch to Comedy most sought-after commodities on| «A few weeks lafer we decided |! the entertainment market. Man-ito switch from straight plays to agers are bidding against one|musical comedy. I insisted on putanother to book it. ting in the bit about this fellow Dusty’s’ comment on this minor {standing out in the alley and talktphenomenon is simple. “It's helped (ing to himself. That's how the eet] (my salary,” he says. Pressed, helstarted. i ) {admits that his price has risen 100 ’ trem
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that after he plays some gtight club engagements in New York, Chicago, Washington, Detroit and Toledo, Dusty will begin a two-months’| series of one-night stands that will pay him $2000 a week. Richard's popularity threatened for a time to involve a lot of legal action. But after a conference among the various men who claim to be Richard’s legitimate parent, a compromise was reached. Dusty is billed as Richard's “originator,” and he with other claimants: the royalties from record and sheet mus sic sales. Dusty can't explain Richard's sudden popularity, but he can give
School authorities were attempting fo ile combination 5th and 6th grade classroom at, Schoél 86 disruption By a group of older boys hag harassed Pe he W. 40th sb. has been the’ scene o The school at 200 [ turbances for sevetal weeks, acoiding to parents and Although denying officially mii pees existence of a serious problem here, be ln far school authorities. have sent an ace with the trouble . shooter, Miss Marie Bag situation. li, to restore order and classroom ) interest among the older pupils, the you his early history. And since| The situation, was brought to light py 3 : by the parents, after disciplinary |childn most of the people now shouting “good conduct” cards. were insti-|the fa for Richard don’t know what all tuted at the school yesterday to holley
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the ‘shouting's about, it seems only fair to set it down here. halt, the , Stock Player Richard was born, but not christened, in a Charleston; 8. C, speakeasy. ‘In those days Dusty was a straight dramatic player with the stock company called the Luke A. Scott Players. The gin mill's proprietor gave an| Both after-theater party for the cast,
parental su The trouble, ‘it is
the previous customers but one. | This one. “fellow * was ears of