Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1947 — Page 13

VENIENT CHARGE, LAYAWAY

“SINCERELY YOURS, sealed and stamped, letier 5102 was ready

ment,

pM Signed, to mail to & soldier overseas. hit “My letter writing has slacked down consider ably,” Miss Riley said wistfully, clearing her “kitchen table” desk of writing materials. “I only have 17 boys and girls I write to in the service now.” , Seventeen? Isn't that enough? Teig “My no—at one time I wrote regularly to 162.” My type of letter writer might well ask, how does she do it? ~~ Simple. Miss Riley's type of letter writer not likes to receive letters—she also likes to ‘write them, as a child Miss Riley corresponded heavily. “I write to four of my Bible class friends even now: I was 7 when I attended that particular class and you can see that it was some time ago,” Miss Riley chuckled. When world war II began Miss Riley, immediately began waging war against homesickness ‘and. filling that yearning for some news from home, church and fellow employees, ; It might be said she. started from scratch. When the first boy from St. Mark’s United Lutheran church enlisted, she made it 4 point to remember him with & card at Christmas, A

List Grows and Grows

FELLOW WORKERS in the capsule-making department at Eli Lilly A Co, began leaving, Neighbore

Estella Riley.

5102 ON THE WAY—Miss Estella Riley has used the postal service with good results.

OPA Money

‘WASHINGTON, Feb, 19.—~This government has » big wad of my money—and yours—which it seems to keep In a gunny sack back of the garage. Every time it starts to count same, it gets a different answer, accour® of the high winds, maybe, or a busted gear in the official adding machine. It's enough to give a taxpayer the willles, And bed him down with a fiscal fever. Listen: The house of representatives claims the OPA is a bedlam of bureaucrats, wallowing in greenbacks. Instead of giving the rent, rice and sugar controllers the $6 million they asked for, the lawmakers voted to give ‘em nothing. And take $9 million away from ‘enw Even so, said Rep. John Taber of New York, the OPA men had $18 million left. “Which is enough for them to do their job better than before, if they'll develop a little honesty down there,” economy John, the chaimman of the appropriations committee, The OPA let out a shriek. Said it had only $16 million’ left in the “sock, which 1" was saving for closing-down purposes. Its bookkeepers- said they were trying to hang on to it all for moving out the furniture, paying the rent on its offices across the land, and giving its 13,000 workers their final wages.

High Paid Generals

TAKE $9 MILLION AWAY, as voted by the house, and the OPA would be a worse bankrupt than Ponzi, a federal agency which comldn’t pay its debts, much less do any of its work, its spokesmen insisted. Piddle-faddle, said the white-haired Mr, Taber. He said the Washington office of the OPA hac more He charged that it had hired nearly 1000 extra rent controllers in the last six months when it was supposed to be firing them, and that in general the

From the Prison Camps

“Another big help was Strauss’ “What's Cookin’ pamphlet,” Miss Riley added. She's proud of the three boxes and one suitcase full of letters she has received. “One of these days” Miss Riley is going to start pasting all her letters and cards in chronological order in three scrapbooks, She's bought the scrapbooks but hasn't gotten around to the pasting yet. _ Picking out a letter at random, her eyes lit up as she read a paragraph from one boy who wrote, “Just happened to think. Wouldnt a good plece of strawberry shortcake be good now with some cold milk? Or do you ever think of such things? Maybe I'm sleepy. Yours, Howard” ‘ “I just love to read some of the things the boys and girls have written me. What I like is the genuine Sncestly and appreciativeness they have shown,” she

MISS RILEY handed me a card with a bold “Kriegsgefangnenlager” on the face. Even in a German prison camp her friends did not forget 960 High st, Indianapolis, Ind. .U. 8, A. Reports on momentous occasions in history eventually turned up in her mailbox. She showed me a letter from a major who wrote on Sept. 3, 1945, “It's a great day to write! I have listened to the surrender proceedings with an avid interest.” The major was writing from Guam. A top shelf of a knick-knack table holds souvenirs from countries her friends traveled or fought through, Included in her war collection are several smajl vases, a Japanese dish, perfume from Paris, shells from Pacific islands and an armband from Nazi Germany. “As I said before”—and Miss Riley sighed deeply— “things aren't what they used to be. Not that I want the same circumstances, heavens no, but sometimes I only get two letters in one day.” I know plenty of people, myself included, who would be mighty happy to get a couple of letters a day—don't you? .

By Frederick C. Othman

high-paid generals than privates to 1q “the work. management was crooked. . He used the word “dishonest.” He assailed OPA accounting and accountants, mentioned the testimony of its head men before his committee and told of a letter the agency-had sent to the Democrats in a last-minute effort to forestall the slash,

Doesn't Believe a Word

“NOW THEY COME here with statements indicating they are spending money at just twice the rate. they told us they did a week ago,” he roared. “I do not believe a word of their statements before our committee, or a word in the letter they sent up here.” . Xx With that, Mr. Taber sat down. Democratic leaders made a vain effort to salvage something for perhaps the most controversial of all President Roosevelt’s wartime agencies. When sugar goes up in price 40 or 50 cents a pound, Rep. John W, McCormack of Massachusetts, said the people would blame the congressional economizers. “And when rents get out of hand, they also will blame the Republican party,” he shouted. The Republicans shouted back. Pretty soon Mr. McCormack and Charles A. Halleck, the G. O. P. leader from Indiana, were howling, red-faced. The speaker's gavel beat a heavy tattoo and through the racket came such words as “alibi,” drivel,” and “ridiculous.” The great majority of congressmen agreed then by their vote on the urgent deficiency appropriation bill that Taber's adding machine worked better than the OPA’s. The bill now goes to the senate, where nobody much loves the OPA, either. What happens to rent control I wouldn't know; what happens to our money in the gunny sack seems fo be the subject of a pecuniary controversy. I am an unhappy taxpayer today.

Photograp

Trick

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 19.—We suspect Orson Welles figured it out as a topper for all his thespian cfiorts, but were betting Rita Hayworth looks 208 times prettier. You'll see 104 Orson Welleses and 104 Rita Hayworths in a trick shot in “The Lady From Shanghal.” Background is an amusement park house of mirrors, ' » Before trotting off to Europe with Bob Taylor, ‘Barbara Stanwyck told Paramount to find her a circus picture. Few people know it, but Barbara studied trapeze in her early teens at the New York Circus school. News item: “Warner Bros. may film the life story of Al Capone,” Inasmuch as Warner Bros. is the studio “combining good pictures with good citizenship,” this looks like the year’s most difficult assign-

Twosome of the week: Jarils Paige helping Keenan Wynn forget. They were in a dark corner at Billy Berg's.

Bathing Suit Not Censor-Proof VIRGINIA MAYO will wear an all-lace bathing sult for a scene in “Out of the Blue.” Don Loper designed it—brown lace on flesh~colored ‘jersey. There's a warning tag attached: “Please don't go into the water in this bathing suit. It's not censor-proof.” The Andrews Sisters are learning a dance routine ‘for their singing spot with Bing Crosby in “Road to Rio.” In the movies, you just can't stand still and sing. Well, maybe Bing can, . Dinah Shore and hubby George Montgomery would like to appear on the screen together in a film version

We, the Women

SO, YOU'RE right smack in the middle of the winter doldrums. The lift the holidays gave you: has worn off. Vacation time is too far away for planning. Life seems to be just days made up of getting meals ow the table, washing dishes, endless household ctleaning, etc. And youre bored with the whole business. Are you willing to invest a few dollars to get some zest back into your job? ' All right, then, here's how to spend it.

Buy a New Cook Book ‘

BUY YOURSELF a new cook book. Cooking isn’t

_ dull, unless you get in a rut, preparing meats and

vegetables in the same old way, combining the same foods for the same old menus, so that if your family ‘gets & whiff of roast pork they can automatically name the rest of the dinner menu. And while you're buying the cook book, look around for ‘a good, practical book on interior orating. Maybe you can't do much right now in | way of

08 5

By Erskine Johnson

) wv of the mystery thriller, “The Little Man Who Wasn't There.” It's dificult-to-belleve-department: Janet Blair, a forther band singer, plays a band singer in “The Fabulous Dorseys.” Ann Dvorak, 8 Chester Hale legster, plays a dancer in “The Long Night.”

Joe Louis Visits Sef

AN EASTERN syndicate is after Barton MacLane

to buy his 30,000-acre Modesto, Cal., ranch for con-! version into a swank vacation resort. Odd background for a Hollywood dance director: Kenny Williams, teaching Betty Grable her routines for “Mother Wore Tights,” once was a steel worker and a baseball player. Heavyweight champ Joe Louis visited the set of “Body and Soul” to give John Garfield a few boxing pointers, then learned that Jack Roper, whom he knocked out some years ago in a title fight, was chief juicer of the electrical crew. Louis looked high and low for his erstwhile challenger to pay his respects, but Roper couldn't be found. After Louis left, Roper suddenly appeared, explaining sheepishly: “I was still ducking the guy, if you must know.” I think everyone agrees with the 1946 Academ nominations, And that includes Hollywood, where the cry this year was to keep studio politics out of the balloting. The voters did. Based on the nomination votes, it looks like “The Best Years of Our Lives” as the best picture, Frederic March the best actor for the same film, and Olivia de Havilland the best actress for “To Each His Own.”

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By Ruth Millet

redecorating, but you can do some studying and planning for the days when you can. And you're almost sure to find a few ideas you can manage without spending any money at all—just by making better use of what you have.

Plan Garden Now

THEN SEND away for a seed catalog and start planning what you will do with your yard this year. There's no reason why you can’t make something beautiful out of your yard, but it will take some planning. And now is the time for that. : Then sit down and figure out how you can have some time each day—if it is only one hour—that is completely your own. And see that you get it every day, so that you'll. know when you are the busiest: “At 8 o'clock I'll get to that new novel.”

SECOND SECTION

ICE-O-RAMA REHEARSAL — A trio of characters from the Story Book number

NESDAY, FEBRUARY 19,

of The Times lce<O-Rama "caught" by the camera as the "cow jumps over the moon" during yesterday's dress rehearsal.

headliner of previous years, she skates.

MISTRESS OF BATON — Ann Bond, lce-O-Rama

will twirl two batons while

lce-O-Rama.

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night at the Coliseum.

COWBOYS 'N COWGIRLS — Fun On a Dude Ranch is one of the gala production numbers some 400 amateur skaters will present in.the ‘two-hour Times

TINY STAR— Little Cynthia Hanson, II year one of the stars of the lce-O-Rama, set Jour

Ss oid, for tomorrow

Psychiatric Treatment Helps. Epileptic Children

With Emotional Ten

Seizures Noticed, Less Medicine Used

By Science Servige 19.—Epileptic children have fewer need less medicine when they get psychiatric treatment for their | emotional problems. And they can be helped so that they” wil) not

CINCINNATI, Feb.

ba behavior problems nor peculiar,

I. Wiener at the meeting here of |

the American Orthopsychiatric association. \ Almost half—24 of 57 children— improved and continued to show improvement when retested after a ear, Fifteen are still under jreatment. Eighteen remained unimproved. Some Are Aggressive Very few children were mentally defective or had any organic defect of the brain structure. Most of them had the same neurotic, behavior and personality disorders seen in any child guidance clinic. Some were aggressive, but as a whole the group was less destruc tive than most child guidance clinic patients. Play materials in the treatment room almost never had to be replaced. With other groups of children suffering behavior disorders, it was necessary to refurnish the treatment room two or three times in a similar length of time. In some cases the epilepsy made worse the difficulties these children had in growing up, the same kind of difficulties many children without epilepsy have. In other cases, the teasing, humiliation and fear that they suffered because they were subject to fits caused the nervous or mental illness,

Babied By Parents In some. cases the children were babied by parents who themselves

were afraid the children were In great danger of being run over or otherwise’ getting hurt because they had epilepsy. Epileptic. children’ seem to be afraid to show aggressiveness the way non-epileptic children do by grabbing, , fighting and throwing things. They are afraid of retaliation. At the clinic they found they could be aggressivé without being punished. With tension thus released, they had fewer fits, or seizures, and needed less medicine. ‘The outlook for epileptic children always. will be better, the New York scientists Believe from their experi-

‘Most housewives get the winter doldrums. But you can get some zest back info your job, if you really set your mind to it. ~~ -

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ences, when the children are given

A treatment program achieving these results at the Baird Foundation clinic, New: York, was reported by Dr. Leopold Deutsch and Louise

sion Released, Fewer

fits and

| Meetings Set

Community Institute

The fourth session of the- Community Institute sponsored by the Volunteer Service Committee of the! Council of Social Agents will be! held at 8 o'clock tonight and at 10:30 ‘a. m. Friday in the Central library. Mrs. John Mason Moore, chairman of the family and welfare section of the council will preside. Speakers will include Miss Alice Harding, Maurice Hunt, Leo X. Smith, and Miss Doris Campbell.

Faces Extradition

On Murder Charge

Rebert Hodges, alias Herman Poole, today faced extradition to Norfolk, Va., on a 14-year-old murder charge. Fingerprints taken when he was arrested several weeks ago for a minor charge brought his arrest last night at a restaurant where he has been working as a waiter. 4 Deputy sheriffs booked him at county jail on vagrancy charges under $10,000 bond.

The fingerprints, sent to the FBI|

office in Washington for a routine check, matched those of a man wanted in Norfolk for murder in 1933. Norfolk authorities, notified by FBI, asked for Hodges’ arrest.

2 Alaskans Burned

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 19 (U. P.).—Two old-time Alaskans, known everywhere in the territory, were dead today of a fire in the Palace hotel. Fatally burned were Joe Higgins, bartender at the Cheechako bar, and Walter Loomis,

‘Furloughs in Paradise’—

Isle of Capri Rest Center

Out of Business Flowery Italian Island Which Housed

For Gl's

War Weary Soldiers

By JOHN Times Foreign

ISLE OF CAPRI, Italy, Feb. 19—The U. S. army has ended its “fur

loughs in paradise.” But probably no spot on earth

than ths lonely, flowery Italian isle, famed in song and story. And probe ably none of about 150,000 G. I.'s who spent a war or occupation duties waited is likely to forget

Capri was the home of a dreamlike army rest center. It was first operated by the air forces dnd then, after the war, by “house- g keeping” units of fs the occupation forces. For

weary

the warG. I. and

a cook in the famed Panhandle restaurant.

Carnival —By

Dick Turner

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WAC, 18 swank

hotels, 10 comfortable pensions and more than 40 villas — once owned by such ; people as the late Mr. Thale Count Galeazzo Ciano, son-in-law of Mussolini—were requisitioned. For the boy and gal who managed to fall in love and marry, despite such duties as fighting a war, there was a good possibility of a honeymoon in Capri—if they were in the area. For a long time Ciano’s sevenbedroom villa was ' set~ aside as “Honeymoon House,” It was constantly filled with seven blissful couples. It previously had been used to house WAC's, Some of them came back later as honeymooners. Other villas also were used for honeymooning couples. The army took up virtually all the extra space there was on this tiny island, which is" only some 10 or 12 miles in circumference and has about 9000 inhabitants, Caprians were used to that, however.

Tourists See Wonders

The: German Luftwaffe, which, apparently, also knew a good thing when it saw one, used Capri as & rest center before they found it advisable to depart for other parts. And before the war there were

the crowds of swanky tourists

“For your information, Lieutenant, etir missing cashier was a man

about six feet tall and $30,000 short!” 3

Returned to Owners

A. THALE Correspondent

conjures up more romantic visions

ek’s heres

Capri. For three years