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Jalf since some food prices are sneaking down, But if my memory is correct, it seems to me that most babies. are inclined to make a little noise occasionally. And most often when you want them to be quiet at two in the morning or when you st down to the evening meal. I'll have to confess that when Mrs. Lowell Boia, 3022 N. California ave, .told Marlene Brown, “Mike won't give you any trouble—he’s a real good boy,” I had my fingers grossed. We'll see. Three-months-old Mike gurgled playfully when his mother tickled him. “He should go to sleep in a iittle bit," Mrs. Boggy told 14-year-old Marlene, “and if he wakes up give him that bottle of orange juice. You know ‘where the rest of the things are. We'll be back soon.” Mr, and Mrs. Boggy were going to a movie—a rare event since the blessed event. The young couple told Marlene that just -as soon as the feature picture was over they would be back. Mike kept moving about in the bassinette. Any minute, I thought, fireworks.. He fooled me. Marlene picked up a picture magazine, sat down in an easy chair near Mike and began thumbing the pages.

Quiet Conversation

I SAT IN the peace and quiet as long as I could. “Shush—the baby” kept running through my mind. If Mike's so good he won't mind a little toned-down conversation. “Do you like baby-sitting, Marlene?" “Oh yes, It's better than playing with dolls. A lot of my school friends at Broad Ripple baby-sit, too,” she answered in a confident tone. She had faith in Mike. . “Well, how do you get your jobs? You don’t belong to any baby-sitters union, do you?” “No. Several of us girls have regular people who call on us and if we can't sit a particular night we recommend one of our friends. It works both ways. We soon build up a clientele.” Still no peep out of Mike. I thought I better look and see what's going on in the bassinette. Awful quiet for a baby. Mike looked me in the eye and stretched his arm out. I put my finger in his hand. Babies have the softest hands. Ordinarily I dislike people who make funny faces at little children. But in this case I weakened. Mike blinked his eyes and quit smiling. Then I gave him my best funny face. That did it. He said something in a language I'll never understand completely, I sat down. No more funny faces for me.

Services, Inc.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—<Now we've got the government, if it is the government (and there's some doubt), trying to install a fleet of sight-seeing dirigibles here for the entertainment of tourists. One bureau holds free dances every night, gives rumba instructions, promotes bridge tournaments, and momentarily is organizing “explorers of Washington” for the benefit of the town’s youngsters. A multi-million dollar tourist camp de luxe, called “Visitors’ Village” on the blue-prints, seems to be out. There hive been some serious complaints about the government's coffee. “It takes three crews of men—one from the school board, one from the interior department, and one from the district recreation board—to cut the grass on one playground. Each crew cuts as far as an invisible line and no further. The thing is confusing.” It certainly is. > “The federal government in its wisdom seems to reach out into infinity,” commented a confused senator, Reymond E. Baldwin of Connecticut. “And its right hand knoweth not what its left hand doeth.” The senator and his fellow members of the civil service committee were trying to discover what doeth a mysterious, hydra-headed corporation known as Government Services, Inc. Amazement piled on amazement.

* Cheating Charge Starts Probe

four and’ lait mivutes on she other our,

CHARGES THAT the corporation was cheating on

the meat and potatoes it serves to the clerks in 50

federal building cafeterias, as well as cutting down on each slab of pie, brought on’ the inquiry, ' It developed that G. S., Inc, isn't exactly private, nor was it public, either. Some of its directors also are top men of the interior department. Their cor-

ep No. 2 dont think 14 be going ook on & limb I said baby-sitters lead a life of Riley. . Well, &t least they do with babies such as Michael . (Mike) Boggy. If all kids came with a disposition like Mike's I'd get a dozen. Maybe a» dosen and a

"AWAKE SWEET PRINCE"—Because Marlene Brown, baby-sitter, is right handy with the orange juice.

Time Drags On

Ha oLNG MY thumbs didn’t make the time go ter magazine hélped some. By this time Mike was awful quiet, I peeked again. He was asleep. ‘ Movies can be the longest thing when you're not seeing them.

SECOND SECTION

‘Aim Blow

At Controls On Building

Official Would Scrap New Home Ceilings

By NED BROOKS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

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building received a fresh blow today. A high-ranking Republican moved for the repeal by eongress of all but

Mich.), of the house banking and currency committee, said he would sponsor a bill retaining only the

The short-short stories in a Reader's Digest preference given veterans in Buying

or renting new homes and

Baby-sitting would be much better if Mike were Homebuilders, ending its annual

old enough to ride piggy back or play checkers. Do anything but sleep. - Then Mike woke up easy-like. He had a choice of orange juice, milk or water. Marlene decided maybe orange juice would be best. It was jake with Mike. Finally he stopped. Marlene burped him gently. Back in the bassinette Mike kept reaching for the air contentedly. The only excitement of the whole evening was when he sneezed and you know how much excitement a healthy sneeze is. Especially if someone else sneezes, The Boggys returned and the baby watch was over. “Everything all right?” Mrs. Boggy asked. “Fine,” Marlene and I answered together. The baby-sitter pocketed her fee and was ready to call it an evening. ? “Drive Marlene home, Lowell,” Mrs. Boggy told her husband. Yes sir, the Hie of a baby-sitter is the life of Riley.

By Frederick C. Othman

poration operates summer resorts in the Sthoky mountains, keeps a steamboat for pleasure-seekers on the Potomac, runs a barge line on Sunday afternoons for picknickers on the old Chesapeake & Ohio canal, supervises sandwich stands all over the capital, plays landlord at a trailer camp here, and won't give back to the district governme®t two of its best swimming a It is, obviously, quite a corporation. _ .

Up in the Air AND NOW it wants to take a little venture into ?” asked Senator Baldwin. Looked that way, all right. Robert R. Ayres, assistant manager of good old Government Services, identified a letter he'd written to the interior department asking it to lend him a local park for a dirigible landing field. He said this would be a good recreational facility (his words) for tourists. Somebody at interior told him to take up his local air line with the civil aviation administration. That's where the problem momentarily is moored. A string of witnesses, hardly worth identifying here, told about Government Services directors taking their families on an inspection trip to the corporation's mountain playground in Tennessee, about the nightly dances of the recreation board, about the super-tourist camp that never got built, and about the triple grass-cutting crews at the local playground. The senators, who previously had measured the size of the government's 15-cent segments of apple pie, were scheduled to sample the government coffee, which some critics claim tastes like the hypo in a photographer's dark-room. The lawmakers didn't get around to this doubtful pleasure, but intend to do so later. I'll be there. If the senators need some help, I might even take a sip. I know a good cup of coffee.

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Two-Gun Nelson

By - Erskine Johnson

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 27.—Nelson Eddy would like to be a saddle-sore Sinatra. The big blond fellow with the wavy eyelashes would like to take Gene Autry’s place in the saddle and behind the geetar at Republic, now that Gene has moved over to Columbia studio. “I may not know how to play a gee-tar,” Nelson said, “but I can ride a horse. And I've got the horse clothes for the part.” Not to mention the fact that Nelson kisses a horse, as well as Ilona Massey, in his latest movie, “End of the Rainbow.” “And,” sald Nelson, “the horse loved it. He's been following me around ever since. Ilona I haven't seen since the picture ended.” “Rainbow” was at one time titled “One Exciting Kiss,” but was changed, Nelson said, “because studio executives were afraid that movie customers wouldn't put their dough on the line just for one kiss.

Oomph With Garlic

“BUT,” said Nelson, “I kiss Ilona four times in the picture. I even kissed her once while she was on a garlic diet because of a cold. There's nothing like a screen kiss with a garlic aroma. Brother, that's a kiss with oomph.” This is the third time Nelson Eddy and Ilona Massey have been co-starred, although the fans are still clamoring for a reunion of Mr, Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald.

We, the Women

“We'd like to make another picture together, too,” Nelson said, “and there's still talk about it. But no one seems to want to show us.a completed script. We won't do another picture together unless the story is right. And so far they haven't shown us a story.” Mr. Eddywgets a big kick out of working with Ilona, though. She still has trouble with her English. Speaking of the four times Mr. Eddy kisses her in the picture, Ilona told a magazine writer: “I loved every four of them.” One day on the set, complaining that she was tired, Ilona collapsed in a chair and said: “Oh, I am sore tiresome.”

Plans Concert Tour NOW THAT the film is completed, Nelson is planning another concert tour, his first in a long time. “I just went down and had a fitting for a new dress suit. That's good news to my agent. He knows

I'm such a skinflint that I wouldn't order a new dress | |

suit unless I was planning a singing tour.” Ingrid Bergman-wants to do “Turnip’s Blood” for | Sam Wood after the film version of “Joan of Arc.” Olivia de Havilland just received a fantastic offer | to star on her own weekly transcribed radio show. In anticipation of her winning an Oscar, no doubt. | Brian Aherne's elder brother, Pat, just arrived from England, is now a Hollywood actor. He's one of Amber's lovers. Marquee sign: “Van Johnson in ‘Basy torWed'— ‘South of the Border’.”

By Ruth Millet

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TO PROVE dramatically that many motorists are willing to risk their lives to save a few minutes’ driving time, the Philadelphia safety council recently sponsored a novel race. Two 1939 automobiles of the same make were started off on a-10-mile course through city traffic. One driver was instructed to show no courtesy to anyone, to drive as fast as the law allowed, and take all the chances he wanted to, keeping within traffic regulations.

Travel at Safe Speed

THE-OTHER DRIVER was told to travel at a safe speed, showing all the prescribed courtesies of the ‘road to other drivers and to pedestrians. The driver who took the chances and showed no

courtesy in traffic ended up with bumped fenders and

barely missed having several accidents. He

Let's try to remember that demonstration of the futility of trying to make time in our automobiles— at the expense of safety to ourselves and others, and at the cost of courtesy toward other drivers and pedestrians. ’

Little Time Saved

WE WON'T save much time by trying to pass every car in sight, swerving in and out of traffic to do it. .We won't get where we are going much faster by scaring the life out of pedestrians by whizzing up behind them and then jamming on the brakes. We won't save more than a fraction of a minute—

if any—by honking at horn at the driver who doesn’t

jump his car ahead the second the traffic light changes, 4 S Giving an old person or a woman leading a small child by the hand plenty of time to get across the . street. when caught by a red 4 gn; won't Sake but a Mew Sacontls of our precio Sita,

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convention late today. ciation was expected to endorse the Wolcott program. The bill proposed by Rep. Wolcott would wipe out nearly all of the program put into effect a year ago by Former Housing Expediter Wilson W. Wyatt. The new measure, already assured of strong “Repupiiean backing, would: ONE: Eliminate all rent ceilings on newly built homes. TWO: Remove the $10,000 sales ceiling. on homes for which veterans’ priorities were granted. This system was discontinued in December, but outstanding priorities still have been subject to the $10,000 price limit. ,

THREE: Lift all restrictions on commercial 4nd industrial censtrution, now limited to $50 million a week.

FOUR: Eliminate the 1500-square-foot limit on new homes, thus permitting the building of “luxury” dwellings, | FIVE: Discontinue regulations under which raw materials are channeled to building-products manufacturers.

SIX: Abolish the office of housing expediter, now headed by Frank R. Creedon. Rep. Wolcott said the period of veterans’ preferences for renting or buying new hofnes would be “substantially reduced” in his bill. If other veterans’ organization join the American Legion in favoring elimination of the preference rule, it may be done, he said, Veterans now have first choice for 60 days on units offered for sale and 30 days on those built for rent. The financing aids which Rep. Wolcott proposes to retain allow lenders to insure mortgages on lowcost homes up to 90 per cent of their value at 4 per cent interest. Disagreeing with a senate bill which proposes a 10 per cent across-the-board increase in rents on existing properties, Rep. Wolcott proposed a nine-month extension of rent control beyond June 30 with no increase. This would continue present ceilings until March 31, 1948.

Predicts Price Fall Rep. Wolcott sala removal of housing restrictions niight result in a temporary increase in the price on completed homes. But he predicted prices would fall under the stimulus of increased production of materials. “We'll give the industry a free hand for three or four months and if it' doesn't produce we'll restore controls with a vengeance,” he promised. His bill also would abolish what transferring its rent. control, rationing and price control functions to other agencies. He predicted house action on the proposed bill by April 15.

JUDGE PAYS HER FINE

SCRANTON, Pa. (U, P.).—Mrs. Viola Carey pleaded guilty to unlawful acceptance of $178 in relief checks while her husband was gainfully employed. When a public assistance officer testified that Mrs. Carey's husband “drank up” his earnings, Judge Will Leach fined her $1. The judge then pald the fine.

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Highway Head

County commissioners have appointed Samuel R. Hollingsworth, of New Augusta, as new superintendent of the county highway department.

Just Seventeen Years Separate

who resigned last week to become assistant superintendent of Julietta hospital.

the post of assistant highway su-

(right) gives her granddaughter, Mrs. Delmas Thompson, 18 (left), some pointers on . department " care of month-old William Andrew Thompson, her great-grandson. Mrs. William Questing negotiations for. return H. Baker, 35 (center), has some tips, too, but, she’s waiting until great-grandma gets

HolingsworthNew Great- Grandmother, 52, Still Keeps Up With Kids

- Each of Four Generations of Family

MRS. HOWARD A. ROBB, a great-grandmother at 52, Budget hl He succeeds Robert R. Fisher, still has to tell her daughters and granddaughters to “pipe| Proposals for a 20 per ck dot down a minute” while she’s on the telephone. in personal Now she has a great grandson te contend with, although gangersd a The commissioners promoted he hasn't yet reached the piping stage. He was born Jan. [in the public debt. Marvin Schock, 5006 E. 17th st, t0|17. making Mrs. Robb the youngest great-grandmother in

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perintendent. Mr. Hollingsworth | Indianapolis, or just about. has been assistant highway super-| Mrs, ‘Robb was born in |T2%

intendent for the last four years. He previously was highway district superintendent. Before joining the county road staff, Mr. Hollingsworth ‘was traveling foreman for the state highway commission seven

Dayton, O., in 1895, but has lived in Indianapolis since the age of seven.

Delaware st. with her husband and a daughter, Rosemarie Hudson. The four generations of the famlly are ust about 17 years apart.

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years. i Mrs. Robb was married a few days SOLD CIGARETS, FINED before her 16th birthday and her . YOKOHAMA, Feb. 27 (U. P.).— [first child was born a few days beA provost court today imposed &|fore she became 17. $500 fine on Capt. Christian Tor- s » =» gerson, of the U. 8. tanker Pocket] AT THE AGE of 33, she became Canyon, and First Assistant Engi-

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By SEXSON E. HUMPHREYS Times Telegraph Editor There are 54 nations in the United Nations, and there are 49 states in the United States. Indiana therefore represents a very small fraction of the United Nations—about 1/2592d. Yet onefifth of the top officials of the United Nations secretariat are from Indiana. The secretariat is the civil service of the United Nations, composed of some 5000 civilian employees who do the routine work of the world

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* Cordier First Named One of the Hoosiers holds the job which Mr. Lie filled first—that of his special assistant. This is Andrew Cordier; who is on leave of absence from his post as professor of history at Manchester college, Ndrth Manchester, Ind. Dr. Cordier has been invaluable

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to Mr. Lie in handling the routine arrangements connected 'with the temporary United Nations headquarters in the former Sperry gyroscope plant at Lake Success, N. Y., and with the recent assembly meeting in the former world’s fair building at Flushing Meadows, N. ¥Y. Dr. Cordier has turned his attention from the teaching of history to the making of history. The second Hoosler was the last of Mr. Lies assistants to be chosen —Byron Price, native of Topeka, Ind., and Wabash college graduate. Most authorities believe his is the most difficult task of ‘all. Mr. Price heads the department of administrative and fiscal affairs. Actually he will be“the treasurer of the United Nations—receiving the assessments of the various nations as paid in and expending the $16 million budget of the secretariat. He also will be the office manager, responsible for the smooth operation of the secretariat. He will do most of the United Nations’ hiring and firing of clerical help and will largely determine the pay classifications of the various employees. Mr, Price demonstrated his abilities for this executive position when he served as general manager of the Associated Press and then, during

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