Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1947 — Page 19

| ALL I HAVE to show for my latest experiment w an aching stomach Before I toss into a furnace all my dream books ‘on how to beat the “numbers game,” I'd like to point

and the loss of the lining in my stomach. ; "Being an average gadabout, I came in contact ~with the popular game of chance. . At first, this form of throwing money away didn't interest me, Just for fun I dabbled a few times—and lost. I became irked, Whenever 1 become irked I want to strike back. : : “Get yourself a couple of dream books dabbler told me ome day. “You can't lose with one of those books. They're figured out scientific-like.” He was right, ‘The books are “figured out,” but not for guys like me, . In the first place when I go to bed, I don’t dream. Even the power of suggestion won't help me to dream. One night I stared at a picture of an eagle for a full hour to help my subconscious come up with the lucky bird. I thought an eagle would be fine because the dream book says it means “business ability” and has the combinations of 587, 815 and 925 as lucky num What I should have done was dabbled with the eagle numbers anyway. But since I already purchased several books I wanted to be on the level I like to play fair and square,

| Was Double-Irked

NIGHT AFTER night no dreams. Plenty of sleep, though. I was double-irked, Can't strike back at the numbers game without dreaming. There are more ways than one to skin a cat and the numbers game. I bought some pickled pigs feet, a plle of sauerkraut, couple bottles of ice cold beer, and a lemon cream pie, That particular night, just as soon as I was drowsy enough, I ate the gourmet's dilemma. It must have been about 4 a. m. when I fell into what might be called sleep. At 10 and 15-minute intervals I would wake up with a distinct feeling that I had been run over by a tractor. Each time, swallowing hard, I refused to call it quits: ~~ With a notebook handy, I jotted down “each dream. Before I got hit in the face with daylight, I had two good dreams, five horrible nightmares and one super-duper that sent me rolling on the floor.

And I can't show, that very well.

out a few facts I learned through bitter experience

J a fellow

«my book I had: Goat-(good luck)—473, 191 and 453.

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SAUERKRAUT DREAM-FEST—Does nothing for:

beating the numbers racket,

Ox, Nightingale Sing Duet ALL IN ALL, the pigs feet, sauerkraut, beer and lemon pie produced unmistakably a goat, a threeheaded giant who was anxious to bash my head in, 15 bullfrogs (various colors and sizes), & skeleton playing a mandolin and an ox who had climbed a

palm tree to sing a duet with a nightingale. Transposing the dreams into “hit” numbers with

Giant- (overwhelming strength)—027, 595 and 238. The book didn't have anything to say about three heads but I assumed the numbers were extra lucky and merited a bit of plunging on my part. Frog(children will be professors)—122, 068 and 538. The book is not well written. Not one word about bullfrogs in technicolor. Skeleton- (misery and worry)— 702, 696 and 458. Didn't sound too good to me, The mandolin made up for the skeleton. Mandolin-(sud-den wealth)—095, 648 and 199. The ox and palm tree, respectively, (good health)—902, 752 and 145 and (notarious friend)—575, 683 and 170. No mention of the nightingale singing a duet with the ox. Even without the nightingale I was loaded with ‘numbers, I thought. : It's a short and sad story from now on. Various

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Like ‘everybody else you probably have three figures in your mind-— what you paid for it, what you could sell it for on the open inflationary

is a “fair” assessment value for taxing purposes, Ah, there's the rub, » » » NOW, you can do a lot of chiseling on that little project and think) you're getting by with it beautifully, but your neighbors may not let you. ! More than 200 field deputies of the nine townships in Marion county will start out tomorrow, knocking on every door in the county, regardless of how remote, with {property schedule forms in their hands. And the old hands at the business will tell you that your neighhors know about that new piano, refrigerator, a new living room suite and will not hesitate to tell the assessor about it—probably because | of jealousy.

” # » THAT'S NOT the only check against your Valuation judgment. The field deputies themselves grade

sums were entrusted with my dreamland menagerie. The giant didn’t pay off. The singing ox didn't pay off. - As a last resort I tried the eagle combination. Nothing—nothing but a stomach ache.

homes by zones—zones of the well-to-do and the not-so-well-to-do and on down the line. The deputies are going to hand

Now, will you pardon me while I go in search of you a four-page property schedule

a roaring, hot furnace,

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Saris and

Pajama

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—There is a portable, silver-plated dingus in this town with an engine in the bottom of .it that squirts champagne like the fountains of Versallles spout water. Guests at the fancier brawls hold their longstemmed glasses under the cascades and get their own bubbly-water, cafeteria style. This is an efficient and spectacular arrangement. : So the other night the hydraulics engineers primed their fountain with half orange and half pineapple juice and up came a reception for his excellency, Asaf Ali, India's first ambassador to the United States. This was something to see. The food was good, too. Seven hundred senators, ambassadors, generals, and assorted brass hats with their wives in new spring millinery jammed the grand ballroom of the Mayflower hotel to meet Asaf Ali. The scene looked as though Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer might have staged it. There were Sikhns in turbans (with theig whiskers bound in hair nets), Indian ladies wearing saris and diplomats like Asaf Ali in achkhans and chudichar pajamas. The food was on a taole a quarter of a block long. It included shrimp, fried oysters, sandwiches, hot lobster patties, deviled eggs, salads, caviar, cake, cookies, small pancakes wound on toothpicks, ice cream with strawberries and a few dozen other items I didn't personally sample.

Stutter- Over Names

EVERYBODY DID well by the food, except the society editors, who stuttered over such names on the

som

NSTAIRS N CENTER, ter for less!

Abkhar Khan, Diraj Lal and Bhola Singh. These names and a hundred like them seem to go in a western ear and out the other. So with no disrespect

guest list as Fazul Ahmed, Hassan Ali, Karam Chand, ~

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intended for the ambassador and his friends, I'll skip the rest. Let the society editors suffer, say I. What I did do was grab me a friendly Indian, help him “get his fair share of the eats and find out about this sari and pajama business. It is not without interest: An Indian beauty in a sari is about as pretty a thing as these old eyes ever have seen; furthermore she never has to worry about her sari going out of style. It is built exactly like her grandmother's.

Seven Yards of Silk

SHE STARTS with a petticoat. Then she takes seven yards of material, usually of Benares silk, and wraps it around herself, leaving about a yard hanging free at the shouider, which she can use for a hat in case it's snowing. This, it seems to me, is a good idea and undoubtedly saves money for her husband. The ambassador's pajamas were white wool and skin-tight. Why they are called pajamas is somnething of a mystery. Nobody sleeps in “em. Over his pajamas” his‘excellency wore his achkhan. This is a high-collared, knee-length coat of figured black silk. He also wore horn-rimmed eyeglasses and a pleased expression. ° He stood there for an hour and a half shaking hands; then he had a cup of the juice from the fountain. Eventually 1 noticed a crush of westerners in the far end of the room. Hepg was a bar for those whose stomachs are upset ‘by fruit juice. The bartender had a pitcher of martinis and one of manhattans. He was half concealed behind a series of

posts. This was for the benefit of those Indians Who went to the senate today after ad- | ble

don’t approve of alcohol. Anyhow it was a good party even though one of

sized pajamas, went to sleep in the middle of it.

His mother said- he was two. ’

By Erskine Johnson

| Premier Junket

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yi HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 28. —We're back home again in Hollywood after our junket trip to Salt Lake City and ptemiere of “Ramrod,” Enterprise's western starring Veronica Lake and Joel McCrea. " Crossing the desert, the sole surviving celebrant of the three days and nights was Sonny Tufts, who didn't go to bed for three days and three nights, Sonny likes to celebrate. “But 2 sleep sometimes, too,” Sonny said. “Why, after a party at Jack Oakie’s house I went to bed and slept all day and all night and all the next day and all the next night. I woke up feeling fine. But I was a little confused. I couldn't remember what month it was!” We can report that the junket of 150 stars and members of the press was A big success. The whole town turned out for a big parade, the premiere, receptions and dinners. The stars were mobbed everywhere they went. by screaming fans and autograph collectors. It was.a three-day holiday. Naturally, Joel McCrea took the biggest applause. “But,” said Joel, “they make you feel like Clark Gable except you know they'd do the same thing for Joe E. Brown,”

Bunny Hug Autograph HIGHLIGHT OF the trip: Richard Ney, loaded . down with eight bags and a pair of skis, left the train at Salt Lake and hopped another for New York, but | only after introducing the bunny-hug autograph. : Here's the system: Mr. Ney puts his arms around the young lady offering her autograph book. He asks 5. her to put her head on his shoulder. Then he signs his name with the book resting against her back.

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We, the Women

IN SUMMING up her married life the wife of a famous and important American recently described it as a “partnership’—in which she assumed that her job was to keep their home a serene and happy refuge for him, and to ‘keep from him all the prob~ lems concerned with the running of a house. Theére is nothing unusual in her story. It is the picture marriage that the wives of successful men almost always paint. And yet the popular modern idea, of a marriage partnetship is one in which the wife expects the husband to come home from his work to share her duties and problems. .

A Selfish Attitude” | WOMEN have come to think that the man who 7 doesn't want to listen to how hard the little woman has worked all day, help her figure out what to .do

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about this annoyance or that, and lend a hand with

Several hundred ladies enjoyed it, judging by their squeals of delight. Perhaps this was the reason for Richard's break-up with Greer Garson. He probably put his arm around her one night and absént-mind-erly wrote, “Cordially yours, Richard Ney,” on her back.

~ Billy Has Competition

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS: A camera fiend asking comedian Billy De Wolf to pose for a photograph on the grounds of the famous Mormon Temple. Billy turned on his best Don Ameche smile. And the camera flend said, “Please move. a little to the right, Mr. De Wolfe. I wanna get the temple in the background.” Everyone's reaction to a small western town somewhere in Utah as the train whistled by at 60 miles an hour: “How did Republic's western street get way out here?” The party's thrill to the 2000Alta Ski Lift. “It's a wonderful place to avoid Sinatra

records!”

Harry Rosenthal, who plays the piano back at the

Players Restaurant in Hollywood, being stopped on |

a street in Salt Lake by two natives. “Are you Wallace Beery?” asked one. “Yes,” said Mr, Rosenthal. The native turned to his friend and said, “See, what did I tell you. Give me the $10.” And the man gave him the $10. Preston Foster impersonating Larry Parks impersonating Al Jolson in the club car. The state of Utah making Joel McCrea honorary governor for two days. But in the midst of a hot

n which you can list every piece!

of ‘household goods you own. But you don't have to .itemize jevery piece. You can put down (valuations by rooms, anywhere

market and the valuation (much lower) for the tax assessment list. During the next two months every householder in Marion county and in the 91 other counties of Indiana inust face the question of what

“There will be no attempt to push up valuations beyond ‘sa fair assessment,” he said. “We don't want to impose any hardships on anyone, You can depend upon the valuations being about the same. Of course, the total assessments will be vastly increased this year because there are more householders and more property.” . Assessor Combs will have 120 field deputies on the streets, starting tomorrow and they will have about two months to do the job. » ~ » \ THE DEPUTIES would Nke for you to sit down when he calls at the door and make out the schedule but they will not insist on it. Getting the schedule on the first

call, of course, would save another trip but if you want some time to fill it out, the deputy will come"

back for it. i The other eight township assessors will have about 80 field deputies in all. The largest t= side of Center is Washington which will have about 40. - » ” ABOUT THOSE automobiles. Thousands of car owners in the past have “forgotten” to. put them on their property assessment lists. That temporary lapse of memory will do you no good. In fact it

{from $50 to $1000 for the living room, etc.

» ” » THESE will be turned into a staff of appraisal experts at the township assessors’ offices. They will go over the valuations and if a householder in a well-to-do home |has listed his furniture as low as 1850 a room, it is very likely that the field deputy will be sent back to get a new appraisal. No field deputy is permitted to insist on going into your home and have a look for himself. It will be up to your own conscience.

» ” » ROY COMBS, newly elected Center, township assessor, whose office has the--biggest assessment job in the county by far, says the valuations will be graded about the same as they always have.

Liquor Reform Sent to Senate

GOP Switches Votes For House Victory

By RICHARD BERRY The governor's liquor reform bill

{may cost you more taxes if you {forget to list the car. Every year, the state motor ve{hicle bureau- supplies t6 the township assessors a duplicate of every automobile registration in the state. These are checked against the personal property schedules. If your schedules does not include your car, the assessors arbitrarily puts it on the books without even consulting you about the valuation. tJ ” » HE WILL merely list the valuation in accordance with the “Red Book” schedule of prices for your make and model. The Red Book prices are those recommended by the state tax board for assessment purposes. These prices are those you are supposed to get if you

Down Sicilian

Stream Towers to 52

w two new holes in historic Mt.

essor’s It Really Doesn't Do Much Good to Chisel; | That Might Even Cost You More

By NOBLE REED ns WHAT DO YOU think your household furnishings are worth?

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Center Township

state tax boar

ket for cash, not’ what you might get on a trade-in for a new car. A tip for ex-service men: A new

offered your car on the open mar-|law exempts war veterans from pay- got back on the poll tax lists.

Red Hof Lava Still Pours

Mountain

Feet af Crest;

Thirteen'Homes Are Wiped Out

; By ALDO FORTE "United Press Staff Correspondent

PASSO PISCIARO, Sicily, Feb. 28.— Subterranean pressure that

Etna continued to pour additional

ministration forces rallied to pass teéd-hot lava down the slopes of the mountain today,

the guests, in an embroidered achkhan and under- |the measure in the house yesterday ‘night and the new openings added more weight to the stream

' |Thirteen peasant homes were wiped out at Cisterna.

by a vote of 69 to 17. Many Republicans switched their votes at the last minute after Governor Gates reminded a house ma- | jority caucus that the measure was part of the G, O. P, platform.---The huddle was called during yesterday’s noon recess after a recount of lawmakers supporting the measure showed: only about 40 votes in favor of the bill,

In view of. the votes apparently swung by the governor, top G..O. P. legislators now felt the bill could |pass the senate if the governor “plugs” it actively. The beer lobby and county chairmen now have turned their attention to the ‘senate where their supporters are fewer in proportion than they were in the lower house. These forces began their fight against the bill when they realized two amendments to the measure would affect them somewhat ad- | versely. . | Effect of these amendments was: | ONE: To prohibit any form of | monopoly in the liquor business by

sell their products to anyone who {wished to buy, This amendment was made by Rep. William A. Hostettler, | (R. Bloomfield).

TWO: To keep county and dis- | trict party chairmen out of the [liquor business altogether. Rep. Jess C. Andrew (R, West Point) added (this. clause. | At the caucys, Governor Gates stated flatly that he had no objection to the amendments, which at (the time were reported to be killing

political campaign Joel diplomatically refused to|the ‘bill, He said it was his bill

admit whether he was Democrat or Republican.

By Ruth Millet

the housework, is a selfish sort who doesn't appre-

ciate his wife.

The husband who does all those things may be |

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with or without them. The anticipated scrap over thé | bill's pasage failed to develop,

| Henley Swings Bill Majority floor leader George Henley’ (R. Bloomington) opened his | taument for the bill with the re{mark: . ew anyone who wishes to leave ease go quietly?” Mr. Henley also probably had a

a comfort around the house. But the woman who hand -in swinging votes when he

wants her man to get ahead should take a tip from asked the .clerk to read the part of the wives of successful men and look on the mean-ithe G, O. P, platform concerning |

ing of marriage “partnership” in a different light.

A Refuge’ for Husbands

that come up in connection with that job.

Then home is a refuge to her husband. It's a place where he can rest and relax and then go back present cast his vote for the bill's passage. Three members were absent Fisher, guiding spirit behind due to illness. They were Mrs, Nelle [struction of the Indianapolis motor, Downey, William Fortune and Ken- [speedway and first coast-to-coast, neth Blackwell, joint Mation and highways and |

to his job ‘each day ready to meet its challenges.

It is really a question of whether a woman wants| her husband to succeed in his life's work-—or whether she wants him to be a sort of mother's helper. She

really shouldn't expect both. ~~ .

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- liquor. : | “That (platform),” said Mr. Hen-

: [1ey, “constitutes the contract of the signed today by Mayor Tyndall, It A MAN ‘and woman are just as much partners if majority party with the people of will mark the appear ..Lhe wonuzn assumes as her job all responsibility for Indiana.” He told the majority “if “Fabulous Hoosier,” running the house and taking care of the problems you vote for the bill you will have Fisher, who will be in the cit ) * |autograph copies in downtown bookEvery Marion county legislator stores.

The book concerns the life of Mr. con- | (troops) for Bremerhaven, Marine

{no apologies to make.”

Johnson county representativ

* The lava stream towered to a

Residents of this tiny village on the side of the mountain streamed into the church of the Madonna del Rosario to pray to their patron saints for protection,

The mass of glowing rock has reached a length of 10 miles now and new pressure continued to force it on. . Although the flery stream is about two miles from the village, inhabitants said it was only a miracle that they had been spared before. It is possible the stream could shift again and engulf the village. The stream crushed and covered

height of 52 feet at its crest last

the Cisterna reservoir yesterday. It reduced 35,000 cubic feet of water to steam. The two new crater mouths opened at an altitude of 6500 feet, spilling new lava into the main river. Speed of the stream has decreased to about 20 feet an hour. But the pressure behind is piling up a slowing moving front that has created a tower of smoking rock. Refugees at the village of Cis|terna have escdped from the village carrying precious wheat and wine. Some carried doors and windows from their homes,

New Blasts Shake Holy Land, 2 Die

JERUSALEM, Feb. 28 (U., P.).— series of powerful explosions

| foot ascent of the requiring brewers and distillers 10 50keqd the harbor area of Haifa

today a -few hours after a refugee

|ship carrying 1350 uncertified im- |

{migrants was grounded off the {nearby Palestine coast. Two Jews were killed and one British 6th airborne trooper and one Transjordan frontier force man were wounded seriously when explosives wrecked the safe ropms of Barclay's bank in the heart of the Haifa port area, The blasts were apparently timed to explode with the arrival of the refugee ship, the Haim Arlosorov, formerly the Ulua, in Haifa harbor. The ship was intercepted by a British destroyer directed by a royal air force plane, It was grounded

south of Haifa. The case of the refugees was

taken to the Palestine supreme court,

Carl Fisher Day To Be Tuesday

| Tuesday 1s Carl G. Fisher day. A proclamation of the event was

ance of a book,

Beach, Fla.

off Bat Galim, a Jewish suburb

developer of Miami

Revue to Be Given At Annual Ball

Miss Libby Maurer will have a {featured role in the International Revue, to be given at the 32d an|nual J. EA. Purim Ball at 9 p. m, {Sunday in the |Kirshbaum CenIter. Also appearing are Ed Berman, Denny Escol, Charlotte Levy, Terry Abravaya, Joan Davis, Rose Weinberg, Morris Alboher, Elaine?® Olshan, and Rico, a Mexican guitar player. Others include Hershell Cohen, Charlotte Schwartz, Barbara Escol, Sarah Karabell, Gloria Berger, Eva Stéinberger, Viva 'Gallin, Elaine Tarshes, Shirley Entin, Gerda Kornfeld, Sylvia Camhi, Marilyn Prince, and Donna Meyer. Mrs. Joseph Celender is in charge of production. Staging and direction (are under the supervision of Sol Blumenthal; Jack Broderick is creating dance routines and Mrs. Phil Levan is musical director. Shoolem Ettinger is general

Miss Maurer

-chairman.

Two Ships Scheduled To Arrive at New York

NEW YORK, Feb. 28 (U. P.).— Ship movements scheduled today in

by Mrs. Jane New York harbor: y to Arriving — George Washington

from Bermuda, Santa Clara from Caribbean. " | Departing — Lehigh Vietroy

Tiger for San Juan, Santa Isabel for Valparaiso, Marine Shark for

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TAX EXPERTS—Giving instructions to the field deputies on assessment of personal property were (left to right) Roy T. Combs, assessor; Jack Crossman, representative of the Jesse Robinson, appraisal engineer of the state tax board and Wilbur Dye, attorney for the state tax board,

START BIG JOB TOMORROW—One hundred twenty fie ter township assessor's office attend a one-day school for the annual assessment persomal property for 1948 taxes. They were given final instructions on app rk by representatives of state tax board in Superior Court 2 yesterday and gin their house:to-house canvass tomorrow. : an

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ment of their $3 annual poll tat the first year they are out of the armed services. After that they

G. 0. P. Ponders 2 Appointments

Hickman Quiet On Mayor's Race

Two prospective political appoint ments moved into the spotlight of Republican party maneuvers today. The first, which is regarded temararily as a “mystery” both from the standpoint of the vacancy itself and the possible candidates, is that of the city controller's office, Political associates of Roy E. Hickman have been discussing his rumored plans to resign as city controller within the next 10 days and announce his candidacy for the Republican nomination for mayor,

Mr. Hickman has declined to com- |C

ment on his possible resignation. But he has not denied that he is considering the move. Possible Candidates For more than a week, Republican leaders have been discussing possible candidates for the controller post, the No. 1 spot in Mayor Tyndall’s cabinet. But no one has heard any candidates mentioned for it and, of course, Mayor Tyndall won't discuss it. The second major appointment coming up in the next two weeks is that of a judge for a second criminal court for Marion county. This post was created by a bill passed by the legislature and is now awaiting Governor Gates’ signature. The governor will make the appointment. The top ranking candidate mentioned for this appointment is Saul 1. Rabb, former chief deputy prosecutor for six years under Sherwood Blue. : Republican leaders aligned with the regular organization of County Chairman Henry E., Ostrom and forces of James L. Bradford, former county chairman, already have lined up in support of Mr. Rabb. Also some of the anti~-machine Republicans said they would not

No Organized Support The only others mentioned for the appointment are Floyd Mannof, who was defeated & year ago for the superior court 3 nomination, and ex-Prosecutor Blue. However, up to now there has been no organized support for Mr. Mannon or Mr. Blue. -

Mrs. Icy P. Eggers

Rites Tomorrow Services for Mrs. Icy Pearl Eg-

versity of Chicago Divinity will write the script. He will be guided by the nationally known w playwright, Dr. Fred Eastman.

Pinal touches will be put on the

Gordon a oe for Nassau, Drotting/ for q shen Wg bs ter, Doth

gers, 526 Birch st, who died Wednesday in City hospital, will be at 10 a. m. tomorrow in -Shirle: Brothers West Side chapel. Burial will be at Roachdale. Mrs. Eggers, who was 51, was born in Roachdale and had lived in Indianapolis for eight years. Survivors = are her : Charles P. Eggers, Indianapolis; her Mrs, Martha Gordon,

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