Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 March 1947 — Page 7

phalanx of ] tention” tos diana ‘high as the big 6 teams, d the Buivere notable top-drawer icago Washs jarfield, Laitral, Jasper ) very much

1s this after night is due rther to the n next Sate:

unheralded hat dropped e Season, ace ing of New 5-42, ail of the best in the game only ‘one sixjumped to a | and stayed

ncie Central, 8 during the dropped out, gged Muncie

ely got past fternoon, 28e . s for a half, ing of Guard lect and the . Salyer fin-

p its 24th sd back West 31.22, in a jund neither third period, ast - breaking 21st. triumph ver Kentland

mphs -champions in the Northen awrenceburg's ied their ‘sece

sr Union TWP, ile Lawrence= oores Hill at

ried “hold the rfleld and it | of the third 24-16 at ‘the | got just two J in /the third y final period. ovellette, the | inch center, the game, yus Win runnersup for ence title, and tral conference ced last night ns of the day, y Semersheim each bagging - NVinslow, 45-34, | earlier, 67-21, p a 44-30 viés y blasting Clife - us meets Shel

ng state cham= of 20 regular their title derrect foot with | Markleville at

a first-round al. The Tribe alf, but, paced uilt up a wide s took over.

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C. Swim ight

Athletic Club eam will meet -ademy in theo'clock tonight, mark the first. e two teams in y Indacs lost. a ulver, laitis “of Culver will bring a 23 he meet. The nt victory cver M. C, A. team, als split a twoe

BARONS

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Wr Cleveland - s Accepted at , Box Offices. Tax

83¢ Office ‘Only cet $0c

o cl in his office and put the question simultaneously. momen

_ “BUYING vores today?” mm several long-time Toliows workers of quiet, uch-respected Earl Buchanan impishly stuck. their He

a t and then, his eyes twinkled

; ' friendly fashion. . A lingeririg guffaw was all that

remained as his jokester-friends ducked. -They like to twit this National Malleable. & Steel Castings Co. treasurer, whose -dead-pan expression belies. a fine sense of humor. The tall businessman, a “Republican; denies he is a candidate for mayor in the primary election May 6. “I'm not an avowed candidate,” is the way he

* phrases hig denial, leaving the way open to accede

to'a draft by his friends. Some ‘consider the cautious, systematic -executive as a splendid “economy” candidate, one who could

be expected to get more government for the same

taxes, ‘or less.

‘Businessman's’ Council

MR. BUCHANAN himself believes the city's greatest need is “for a business administration to, give the people good service at an economical figure.” His backers, who the probable draftee says

‘CANDIDATE? — Friends of ‘Eo Buchanan : say they aren't going to take no for an answer.

: ide Indianapolis _

- promises regarding what he might do.

Have not fohmally proposed the eandidacy yet, in“clude many persons associated with a citizen's nonpartisan group. This organization for several elec‘tions has: Successfully sponsqred , school board: candidates. In 1037, Mr. Buchanan was elected to a fouryear term on the board with this support. Prior. to that, he served 20 months on a “businessmen’s” city council, drafted hurriedly by political leaders to clean up the Mayor John Duvall scandal in 1928. Seven of nine councilmen were asked fo resign. A “blue-ribbon” group of civic-minded persons were named as successors to straighten out the mess, Mr. Buchanan, whose rising fortunes have been no impetus to moving from his comfortable West ‘ side home at 1215 King ave., isn't certain what his answer will be, if 1ié is asked to be a candidate. This is despite growing demands that he again turn his capabilities to city government. “I've. been with this firm 30 years” ‘the ruddyfacell, bespectacled man said, looking fondly about his office. “1 like it here. - A person doesn't give up this sort of thing easily. It's my life.” But, it hasn't been his entire life; not for a number of years.” He has devoted himself unselfishly to activities ranging from the Hawthorne community

_ house to the Indiana League of Credit Unions. .

‘A modest’ man, he. disclaims being a “joiner.” Nevertheless, he has found time to be president of the Personnel Association of Indianapolis (until four years ago he also was his firm's persofinel director) ; past master, Centre Masonic lodge; trustee and sec-

retary-treasurer, West Michigan Street Methodist |

-church; director and chairman of the home service advisory . committee, Indianapolis Red Cross chapter, and a member of the Indianapolis chamber of commerce, Scottish Rite, and Daylight Chapter, Order . of Eastern Star (he joined so. he could attend with "his wife). “Poing what came paturally,” is the way he figures he became associated with so many varied interests. By this. he means his insatiable thirst for meeting ‘people and exchanging ideas. : “A fellow is likely to have bread-and-butier worries that keep him awake at night, if he hasn't some outside interests. to relieve his mind of the daily grind,” he says.

He Never Gambled

But, his friends say this hasn't made him narrowminded on the subject. What they do is their “business aird he is known! 10 keep his nose out of other -people’s affairs. He! also is noted for his. unfailing “loyalties; church, family (wife and two married. daughters). He is chary about discussing his political status, shows astuteness in avoiding wild, Meanwhile, he has a lot of fun with, his cronies, They have fun, too. One example®“is kidding Mr. Buchanan about his “term in prison.”

For five years, until 1917, -he was assistant to -the

chief clerk at the’state institution. (By Kenneth Hufford)

Hoosier Profile |”

encompassing

SECOND ‘SECTION ©

Snatched From Arctic Wastes—

14 Airmen After Crash i in Alaska

announced. airmen, the 14 army men were res- — cued from a barren, ice and snowchoked flatland between. Anchorage and Dillingham, Alaska. Each .of| the three civilians flew his own tiny plane. All of the rescued fliers brought to safety last night. res were taken to a hospital. The nature of their injuries was not ais closed, .

Account for 14 The Alaska air command orig-| inally, said there’were 15 aboard. {But 1t accounted for only 14 in its | rescue report and made no mention | A of a 15th man’ . The B-29" crashed yesterday near | Naknek, Alaska, ‘white-seeking an(other B-29 which has been missing | {since aboard.

View of

tions.

3 Tiny Planes Save

Daring Pilots Land on Icy Flatland - To Pick Up Crew That Bailed Out of B-29.

FT. RICHARDSON, Alaska, March 1 (U, P.).—Fourteen crewmen of a B-29 which crashed while searching for a missing Superfortress were rescued today. They were snatched from the snowy wastelands near Bristol “bay by: three darhig civilian pilots, the Alaska air command

Camera Closeup—

~ Television Used T To Show Operation

_ Students Get Clear

Surgery

In the second dramatic Arctic rescue within a week of stranded B-20)

BALTIMORE, March 1 (U, P)— | new method of surgical educa- | ‘tion was introduced today to the medical profession—televised operai ’

Monday with 13 crewmen| More than-300 physicians and

STRANGE DIET—The boafotoak bess grown by |students at Johns Hopkins hos- | Bremer, 2023 Southeastern ave. thrives on coffee grounds

| A pilot for Peterson airways serv. | pital have watched operations by| tubs and rain water. A BOWLER: and fisherman, he reveals his in~ ice.at Anchorage on a routine flight! | means of television screens, pri- | genuous nature by. admitting he has never gambled. from Billingham to Anchorage | marily ‘intended for entertainment

spotted the B-29 yesterday just as/in the home. the crew began bailing out. : |

Teaching of operating technique |

He watched them cléar the ship, (has suffered because of the lack

one by one. Then,

tremendous explosion. Like Atom Bomb L {-—*It looked like an atomic bomb,” “reported- the pilot, as "Tousch” Anchorage and told of the crash. Three. civilians-=Dennis Fennell, |

the crashed Superfortress.

Charts, Charts

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, March 1.—Nothing's been chan-

“nelized on the policy level here in a long tyme Nor

has anything been said lately about optimum production, co-extensive maladjustments, and the qualitative and quantitative phases of a dynamic “democracy. > This is good. It's almost wonderful. First thing you know, you'll be able to read a government document and get some idea what; it's talking about. The intense voung men of the New Deal, smoking

~ demodeled ' slums of Georgetown, and speaking a variety of pig latin all their own, “are no more, They're funneling no statistics: today, producing

no. meaningful minimae, framing broadly no related “ and unrelated factors.

Gobbledegook, the special language of the bureaucrats against which Maury Maverick ranted for years, is fading from the capital Nobody's echeloned anything (the way those babies turned phoney nouns into verbs was a crime) in the last two months. Everybody's happy about this development, with the “possible exception of “Rudolph Block, a man with a hobby.

Rudy Struggled Manfully

AS A BROADCASTING nabob from the Pacific northwest, Rudy had struggled manfully - through

“a lawver he sometimes could translate it into English. The language of .government eventually became so muddy that its practitioners frequently couldn't

charts. That's where Rudy's hobby comes in. He collects government ‘charts like some people collect shaving mugs. To date he has isolated and

classified 197 distinct varieties of federal charts, some printed .in six colors, one so de luxe it used “up all thé funds of the senatorial committee which produced |

it. The committee now is out of business.

“My research indicates that the most popular by far is the dangling rectangle chart, a good example

of which hangs on President Truman's office wall,” Rudy said. the swinging pendulum chart.”

“He keeps. under lock first editions of the. service pipes, wearing tweeds, tossing-cocktail parties fiithe ribbon chart, the poker chip chart, the plaster-of-! ter” week. the-ceiling chart, the wriggling snake chart, the liver

spot chart,-and the apple pie chart.

Big and Small Slices

“THIS LATTER is a favorite of the treasury de“It always shows who -gets the!

parment,” he said. biggest and the smallest slices of the taxpayers’ pie.” Most prolific originator of charts was the OPA,

which produced the jagged: lightning chart, the in-| verted firé-escape chart, the city skyline “chart, and the red and blue boa constrictors in-close-embrace | chart. The war department was no slouch as a chart |

maker, either.

“Its specialty was the big man and the little man chart,” Rudy said, “though it frequently put out the the. gobbledegook; with the help of a thesaurus and little-men-in-a-row.chart, with the last man always

chopped squarely’ in two.”

My favorite collector said please leave him to his With the passage of those who spoke in understand. it, themselves. So they started -preparing gobbledegook, the ehart makers also have folded thelr

memories.

colored crayons and stolen silently away. A great pity, |

Rudy said. He hasn't had a good laugh at a new

chart since the first of the year.

“The runner-up is.a variation which I call

could see the crew members on the of the operating SNOW, They nursed their tiny craft to | safe landings, took aboard the 14 army men, and flew them to safety.

Cold Week Gone ‘And Another | Is on the Way | hospital.

operations:

‘screens ee. | StUGECNLS,

were

By The Weather Editor

tail. Temperatures were far {normal and there is no indication | clearly. {of warmer weather for the coming | | week.

|been a total temperature deficiency of America. of 100 degrees with the average! reading being approximately 8 degrees below normal.

weather on‘.the Canadian border In Western {north of the Montana and Dakota { lines, according to R. M. William- | |son, in charge of the weather bureau. Until that has dissipated there will be no warm air moving southward, he said. Out- in the Indiana farmlands |

rope today.

| been ‘exposed to the low tempera- | {tures and are generally brown and! appear Higless |

ern base section, successor to wartime supreme head.suburban

FRUIT BUDS are swollen in the |

extreme south and there. is some |quarters,

Errand Boy

HOLLYWOOD, March I. —Preston ‘Sturges runs an eatery for movie stars: Maureen Q'Hara runs a linen shop “for movie stars; Gail Patrick: runs a ‘swanky toy_shop” for ‘movie. stars. But Barry Sulli.van tops ‘em all—he runs errands for movie stars. He's bought six. bicycles - for. Land Turner, six white shirts for Hurd Hatfield and 10 pounds of bubble gum for Perry Como.

Financed Friends : MR. SULLEVAN is an up-and-coming star. He's “got ‘a wife, two kids ‘and’ a car: she owns a mink coat- and they live in the snootiest So why the<arrands? : “well,” began Mr. Sullivan, “about four manths ago I.ran- inte three pals who had the idea of forming a personal shopping service in Beverly Hills for

the movie people.” He thought it was such a good gimmick that he

shelled out the cash to ack the venture and joined But a talent scout spotted him in a minstrel show at * his. buddies in running. errands. They named the Temple university in Philadelphia and he wound up

business Time Savers, Ltd.

“John “Garfield Called in the funniest request,”

Mr. Sullivan told us. “He wanted two dozen old theater programs with which to paper his den.” Time Savers found ‘em, too. «oy We wanted to know if Miss Turner. used those bicycles to keep her sweater girl shape in shape. “I guess she. doesn't need the exercise,” Barry sald, “She gave the machines to the M. G. M. messenger boys for Christmas.” . Yuletide ‘wis a busy time for sullivan’ & Co. Vincent Price wanted a lot of gaggy gifts for his friends.

a RELI a

We. the ‘Women

“DESPITE THE fact that dog is man’s best friend; man is becoming dog's worst enemy by . failing to

make him a good citizen,” so says Clarence N. Olsen, _

president of the: National Dog Week, Inc, an ofganization formed 20 years ago to stimulate the civic vir tues of dogs. “People discipline their children, but they pet

their dogs. Misbehiving dogs must be handled as: . firmly as small children who get into mischief, 5 says

this well-known dog fancier.

No: Crank Speaking,

OWNERS, please take notice. That's no crank aking—but a man who loves dogs. . No.matter ‘how much you think of Fido, your i ‘friends really don’t love him’ enough fo not mind

part: of town.

‘haying his paws put runs in & pair. of new nylons.

By Aline Mosby

Hurd Hatfield asked for to give his stand-in. “We had another toligh shirt problem, . Sullivan said. “The” “playwright,” John ‘Van Drutel wanted four dress /shirts in 48 hours.

Van Druten got the shirts on time.” Mr. Sullivan never could figure out why Mr. Com wanted J0 pounds’ of bubble gum. to his squealing bobby-soxer fans. w Between running . errands for starsa Mr. liydn is a star himself in “The Gangster.” Whic

His Ambition: Retirement “DON'T GET me wrong,” "he grinned. “I love act ing; but I'd like to make enough dough so L wouldn’ have to wear this greasepaiiit at all.” Mr. Sullivan's the lad who started to be a lawye

on the stage. *

“chest in radio soap operas.

“There was a doctor in ‘Portia Faces Life’ he

was trying”to drivé Portia batty five years ago.” Mr, Sullivan, drove me batty.” After pleading with

the protucer,

years ago,

T emsianoe

By Ruth Millet

hajrs all over a dark. suit, because Fido calls ‘every

chaff in_your living room ‘his own.

chairs or davenports, Person Cai't Protest al on their small and frightened children. trisky whims of a spoiled pet.

don't like dogs,

8 io

(he near-impossible ‘shirts | too,” Mr. A shirtmaker almost died of fright when I qrdered them but Mr. Probably to toss! Sul- |

puts him more than halfway where he wants to be. |

Between plays, he moaned, shouted and beat his

“I was the doc—and the show a

Barry was bumped off in the script so he could leave radio acting gracefully. Then a Paramount scout spotted him on the stage and Sullivan moved to movietown four

, iE AIAN TING cud BH W

.. They don’t love anybody else's dog enough to have him pounce with. muddy feet upon their own

NO ONE likes t0 sé¢-8 dog tear up a lawn or jump

The average person can’t protest at any of these ve He knows that if he does he will be immediately classified by Pido's | owner as one of those ‘impossible, people ‘Who. Hust | .

But now the pieudent of National Dos Week has I- LIKE | your voice, “and think you ought

indication of winter killing, but it is not believed to be serious.

the

PARIS, March 1 the first time since /D-day, nearly three years ago; the U. S. army was | absent from liberated western Eu- |

folded.

room.

Operation Clearly Shown Ten receivers were phaced in the | Gathered around the! doctors

Europe

the massive Of adequate observation - Iacilitiss. | to job; {Superfort dove toward the snow- Either observers are too far

'covered ground. It crashed with athe operating table or too Mo Istudents are able to be near the

(table for close-range observation. The experiment in using televiidentified only | Sion was regarded as an answer: Tousch landed ato those problems. Gives Running Account Two felevision cameras were used. i Bill’ Smith- and Myron Moran, all One was. mounted in the light { ~ veterans of Arctic flying—took off | fixture over the operating table. sist starting a few seeds indoors? Your equipment can be as simple as a * |in their small ‘planes and found The other, equipped with a tele-|box of sand, chemical fertilizer, and water. They | photo lens, was set in the gallery: Griffith, 4025 E. 65th st. uses. Last year from early March sown seeds she had 50 dwarf dahlias A microphone was hung above! plooming in her perennial beds by June. je operating table. Dr. Alfred Blalock, surgeon who |pmore expensive,” she points out.| | developed the operation to correct ighe r——“hlye baby” ailments, gave a run- [upgby pansies”- in variety, resemning account during one of the pling tiny old-fashioned johnny- |

{

'Gardening—

: Sturdy Seedlings Produced ! In Cool, Sunny Window

Weak Chemical Solu

On Alternate Lays Keeps ‘Baby Pansies’

By MARGUERITE SMITH on t WHETHER MARCH comes in mutton fashion or not, wii. can re-

Elmar tiger

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, “but we do pe lf it is an ess : sential move toward the achieves ‘ment of all-weather air io tation.”

tion of Water, Fertilizer,

That's what Margaret

“Dahlia tubers I ‘bought|in the A. T. A. report.

flowered much later, were much,

also started quantities of |

| Jump-ups, to edge a bed of roses

and |

One physician:said the operation .IT WAS another "dead of win- was televised clearly and with deHe said never before had he below | been able to watch an operation s0

The experiment was Pirsig by ithe hospital and the R.C. A. Victor For the past 12 days there has | division of the Radio €orporation

No decision has been made whether to install the cameras permanently.

THERE ts 2 “lot” of sub-zero ATY Closes Last Post

(U. P.).—For

The last soda has been dished

there was little of interest to note. Yt at the only remaining Ameri- “I'VE NEVER My vermiculite,” | ‘Winter grains and clovers have Can-style fountain in France. The gn. continued, “though it also con-|

{final sale has been made in the i.,i< damping off and produces ex- | Paris post exchange. ping p

At midnight last niglit the west“the closing-out

Gennevilliers the Stars and Stripes |were lowered and the French flag

All told, it is believed that warm |raisedover the last American army

weather will -find the general con- | installation in

France;

dition of winter crops fairly good. land the United. Kingdom.

Belgium

The First Robin

land pewsmias.

"HERE'S sow she does it: | “I use coarse builder's sand and use extra drainage at the bottom |

fuse the flats to keep sand from!

sifting through. I cover the flats | {with newspaper, after planting and keep the papers wet until seeds) germinate. 2 “When the plants begin to grow IT water them with a very weak chemical solution, made by stirring one tablespoon of chemical fertilizer into two gallons of water. I sprinkle the seedlings every other day, using the solution and water on alternate days. “ “After the flats have been sprinkled with the solution it's important to sprinkle thoroughly with

By Barton Rées Pogue

SEE YOU, bird, up in the tree That Hoosiers call an él-um;

hl | Why, go ahead and tell ‘em! . | They sniff the air and caper,

t And cold waves in the paper!’ THEY

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what's the sense La borrow The balm of ouf br And pay back tivo tomorrow?

To buy their Mackintoshes, Tomorrow, bird, "twill snow a foot, And you will need galoshes!

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WHY can’t you wait a.riper day To be spring’ 8 deputation? | More honesty in public things Would grace your reputation!

IT'S BEEN reported that you canie One day in January . . ..

Til after February!

To sing in Heaven's choir , . .. ever will unless you stop * This. being such a rf J

LR fr i

If you think spring has come for folks,

AT YOUR first chirp they shed their coats,

They ery, “To heek with weathermen,

SAY you ea har-

binger, spring’ § official erier, | But 1 will keep

coat—at

“hand,

Rot neg-

lect the fire!

WARM

and nice the day you. came,

THAT WARMTH was usta wan man's coin.

viel day from spiig, aa

The groundhog knows that spring won't Some,

- I White

plain water so no chemical remains on stems or leaves.” { “You don’t. have to worry about| using so much water as all the excess drains YHtougH, » NN

cellent root systems. But I've been} told it does not support the young plants after they get larger. Sand does. “I have used this method for outdoor seed flats, too, but now I have a greenhouse with - enough heat so I can start my seeds ‘in early March.” Without a greenhouse you will need a cool sunny place (unheated bedroom or cool basement window, or enclosed porch plus a half day’s sun) to produce sturdy seedlings. Don't forget. you have a perfect greenhouse in that space between inside and storm windows. I'm indebted to -Mrs..Willilam Willcox,

2234 N. Delaware st., for that idea. | Another idea from Miss Grifith— {for really early salad, plant a bit of radish and lettuce seed text the south side of the house. ‘Ground | there is always dry earlier than your | garden. “Some years«J've planted the seed in February,” she said. » » . ELMER BREMER, 2023 Southeastern ave., likes flowers. He's refused a fancy price for his beefsteak begonia, now blooming. It's so large it fills a 48-inch window

plates.” . The flowers resemble pink violets, the eaves are beautifully red beneath, their waxy tops especially

Bandits Get $60 “In 3 Holdups Here

— Mark Miller, 32; of R. R:-8,-Box

and has leaves “as big as sandwich ||

Distance ' measuring Semen would give pilots a constant on their positions: Airport lers would receive automatic res a in their jurisdiction.

General's Son Re-Enlists Here

William K. Nastor a, whose 183 i

Burglars Take Food From Restaurant

Three, holdups and a burglary last night netted criminals more than $80 and a quantity of meat, butter, eggs and: cigarets. George Brown, 68, of 653 E. 46th [vember 1938, has st., night manager of a parking lot ] at Ohio st. and Capitol ave, told police two men entered his office announcing “this is a holdup.” One man struck him in the face while the other grabbed $61 from his billfold and cash register.

196, a trackless trolley operator, reported that someone pulled the {trolley off the wire at 13th and

West sts. Two men entered, pulled Fe bs a gun and escaped with the mopey | He served two years in the ‘Euros changer. pean theater and has now been ase

Harrison. Gen. SEE gust, 1942, [OW Yours after Bip 260

tirement. Lack. oF Ship Holds ve Luciano Deportation

HAVANA, March 1. (U. Poe Charles (Lucky) Luciano may =

Youth Captured signed to the U. Police captured a 20-year-old youth who admitted the holdup of a cab driver at 26th st. and North- | weétern ave. Officers said they saw | three men run from the cab and gave chase. » cove After firing one sick, they captured Melvin Bond, 20; of 1451 Massachusetts’ ave. Police said he admitted taking $10 at knife-point | from the driver, Ray Allen, 27. of 501 Sutherland ave. The other two, & escaped. In a burglary of a restaurant at i which to deport him, or 1166 W. 20th st. thieves took 18 to send him by air. Ha pounds of roast beef, 10 pounds of, The government's plan to butter, 24 pounds of bacon, seven Patch Luciano to Italy March 4 by dozen eggs, 16 cartons of cigarets, | ship fell through when it was dise $10, six Boxes of soap and other ar- covered that the ship in ticles. The restaurant is owned by | Was not returning to

Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Farmer. The board of health eer —————— orous condemnation. of RED CROSS GOAL $9080 | States’ cancellation of

Times State Service | narcotics shipments BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 1. Luciano remains on —Monroe county's goal in the Red supreme court choked off Cross chapter's annual drive for tempt ‘to win Luciano’s freedom funds has been set at $9080. Cuba. AN

Carnival —By Dick Turner

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lovely in the moonlight. And this charming plant thrives on a diet of coffee grounds and) cigar stubs, says Mr. Bremer. Part of his success is due, he thinks, to using soft water, never rap water,

Clark Backs Truman For President “in '48

(U. P.).—Presidént Traman had Attornéy General Tom. Clark's indorsement today for the 1948 Democratic presidential nomina - tion. Mr. Clark told a ' Jefferson Mubilee dinner group last night that under Mr. . Truman the “United States is’ “marching confidently toward a future of*Sbeurity in the world and abundance at home” and that should be sent back to the use for another term.

Woman Sentenced a DES MOI Towa, March 1 (vu. P.) ~~Mrs.

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