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‘a road; a mudhole; specif., a deep hole in a wagon

‘ehuckhole survey. It's enough to say—try 38th st. for inches on the outside of the outer rails thereof.”

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CHUOKHOLE HERE, chuckhole there, chuckhole ~gchuckhole, everywhere chuckhole—Indianapolis has

Yesterday's survey shows conclusively that we have dandy axle-busters in various parts of the city, Some™ bave grown up to be king-size, others are just getting a good start, and still others like the one on the cornet of Delaware and St. Clair sts. (31x15 inches),

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hard to grow up so they can catch a tire or an axle one of these fine days. ; ; In case you don't know what a chuckhole is here's a dictionary definition: “A hole; depression, or rut in

A. NEW AND. THRILLING TIMES SERIAL N DE

: Chapter 1 - SHE TOLD herself it was silly to be scared just because Mona was late. But she pressed her pose against the cold glass and stared out through the sycamore trees and the rain. The street car stopped at the corner. ; » Its windows made nice squares of yellow light, a

rut. U. 8." A good, substantial definition except that it leaves out a lot of local color which “really defines” what & chuckhole is. As an example, ask any motorist who has occasion , 8 to drive through the 800 block on N, Emerson ave. . GRAN 3 . Their definition of that 18x18-inch chuckhol® deviates’ 74 40) » NDDADDY CHUSKAOLE = Meaty th somewhat. from a dictionary's sedate explanation but jroublessime life on N Olney o oi Massa

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pretty well covers the subject. You can take your ‘ [ choice of what kind of a definition you prefer. chusetts ave. against them Sherry could} har Ftoss thoosah It's disconcerting to .drive into a chuckhole un- see the two people who got off oo g er a uses | rough .the trees. 3 expectedly. Driving northeast along Fall Creek blvd, Chuckhole Colony —a han and a woman. Shey oy Ju leg ell sort of like x" is quite pleasant. It's easy to let your eyes wander PROBABLY THE “granddaddy” of all city chuck-|felt a little flutter “of expectancy | 3 no

Just a wee bit. Just before you reach Meridian st.— holes is located on N. Olney st. and Massachusetts * " and held he ‘ N SH 1 bingo—crash—a 12x12 chuckhole four inches deep ave. This old-timer measures 24x60 inches. Its great-|o.iioq ¢ reath bee the a ee Ee knocks you to your senses and almost through the est depth is four. inches. The remains of a noble re- crossed at Pass ap |of a sudden you were in an ancientbs . | .

windshield: A hasty check of the chassis shows you pair attempt still can be seen. When the asphalt _ Sherry had been kneeling on the 8arden. Mona had reminded Sherry

can proceed-—today. 4 ia the repaired section gives way-—the chuckhole will davenport. She slid down with a about the ancientipart when she ; : -be another 60 inches long: : ad saw the plumbin : < g. . Measurements Corréct -Going south on Massachusetts ave, one comes fot Seapondent ap a en re But she had been sweet about the IT WOULD be different on E. Washington st. . On the 2100 block where in great profusion are chuck- 8 long ride almost to the end of the by

, eCArIONS. > 2aSet . to 3 that testing ground for shock-abeorber manufac tales—litte anes—aig anes medium-sized ones. any. Pr “Roor ap ¥ tose net cri car line every night, and Sherry- fo ni

turers, you would be on your toes. When you reach ‘Way, a chuckhole colony. pleasant room 'did not mind the walk to the groan area like the 500 block, you'd be set for anything. Farther south on Massachusetts, as one approaches Suppose “anything” had hap- | °er's. Should you be turning east on N. Davidson st, the downtown area and the 500 Block, a question 04 o Mona! |..In the end they took it.

you would swing way over to the left (providing no automatically creeps up. “Why doesn't the city do a | Sherry had written home for some one was on the left side) and avoid tangling with the something about this?” i ‘of her own things, When they 26x29-inch ditch. Ah—but the thoroughfare is a state highway. So BUT EVEN in her. small moment oo ne she had spent an exhausting;

lof anxiety the room comforted her. , t {She had cleaned it that morning— {their whole tiny house for that

At this point you're probably wondering about the what? So, the city has nothing to do with its main- glorious day moving all the

measurements I'm giving you. They're correct because tenance. Well, how about the middle portion where {furniture around and trying difI personally went out with a rule and measured the streetcars roll? ferent effects.

chuckholes. There may be some discrepancies due - The 1945 House Bill 236 says: “Provided, thaf/ ter and % Was hics Ae va She had hung, pictures and wired fo the fact that I didn’t bother with fractions. I whenever any such street is occupied by the track or 8g ' lamps and hemmed curtains.

used whole numbers and no fractions thereof. Be- tracks of any street railway, interurban gailway orjioLels. firelight and shaded lamps! 8.8 : & sides, what's a quarter or half inch in a 29-inch steam railroad said commission shall not be required you couldn't see the rug Was worn THAT NIGHT after a hastily got

chuckhole? “" to maintain, construct or improve the portion of said the . together dinner before the fire, Washboard surfaces need only a mention in a street between said track or tracks and for eighteen Dov that things didn't match. She rfona had reluctantly admitted looked around with a soothing sense lof pride (that while the house was not ex-

the washboard effect. This unique road construction This makes “Granddaddy Chuckhole” on N. Olney This’ was. her houss! Her very | 2% her sleek, sophisticated type, : ; |it was cozy.

i= obtained by digging up a huge swath of asphalt st. and Massachusetts ave. the property of the state. {first home of her o care fori and then replacing it with a pat similar to that _used Chuckholes like the one on. N. Emerson ave.—the as she chose. owe Sherry had called it “Hidden by golfers in replacing divots on a public course. city can claim for its very own. oh. House”, from a book she had read Also a good factor in washboard is to pour a gob But from the looks of things, all chuckholes are, wouLD SHE ever forget that day once, and the two had settled down of road material in a dip, flatten it before the next orphans. Do you have any orphans in front of YOUT {uo weeks ago when she had tound | poral Pune, ear comes and then trust to luck. J homestead—city or state? [the little cottage among the trees ip a 2 Ahn wn marae / ; orn=- | ¥ith a For Rens sign on it? Not AD ing. She did not eat any breaksne— apartment but a real entire house, because it took thought to [vi 2 Joni deo and a back doOT on iain her pantherish litheness. | » So Sherry slept late, rushed or

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WASHINGTON, March 14.—As an appropriate re- with one of those trick fountain pens that write on out of breath when she knockad on! # 2 =n minder to mail your income tax payment tonight, I the bottoms of swimming pools. He said, in several the manager's door. | AS LONG as she had her tiny al want to tell you about Rep. Harold Knutson taking thousand more words than we have time for here, The woman had said, “Oh, two loWance from home it was pleasanthis ease like a benign billiken in a swivel chair. that business is so good no tax reduction can make girls,” in a tone that made Sherry ly Soe to put off the looking for AK : g | , “ job day. Sometimes she had felt : . ] ET — If the gentleman from St. Cloud, Minn., has any- it any better. {feel that they shouldn't be. “Do # JOD cay. 5 thing to a about it—and as chairman’ of the ways Faet is, Mr. Snyder continued, the country’ll be vou have much company?” a little shiftless and guilty about HOME AT LAST — Mona slipped off her wet coat. Her eyes sparkled and

and means committee he has plenty—you'll never . better aff if congress will use the money for paring | 08 2 ft bus tonight she sat and watched her cheeks were flushed. "George. Brothers brought me home," she said. "I'll tell again send the collector of internal revenue a check down the $260 billion public debt. This caused Mr.| SHERRY HAD said, “Oh, no,” but the fire and was glad she had ou all about it while we eat.” ) , = Knutson to snort, but he soon was puffing smoke had not added that that was be. Waited. Y : .

as big as the one you'd better mail now. | He sat there yy ik gently. His head was as bald again through that imperturable smile. jgause fey did not know anybody | Tv not Botight any 108%)" AND NOW that she had decided topped i. the snirance 4 thetcliops’on. Sill you: Samenior . a3 22 DIOWD a8 {he 28 of » Kfiod yslang Fel, His P li i | | d Ut we nave eal “ , How he ® Was Burning pieces of this morning that she was going to! court. : have been to a pg. eves twinkled behind his steel-rimmed spectacles. No Politics Involve The mgrager had said; “That's hoes Soe had broken up outside TE ym to wis Plistening with Tain and] Mave ob flame} 8. am de®, The frustrated shouts of the Democrats on his com- WHEN finally the secretary had finished with his » 3s # very unePeliedly. gg Pond i door. Juey Inde nice : tout If the Tittle thi al the twin windshield wipers were! She said, “Well, put them on mittee could not erase the smile that surrounded his statement, Mr. Kuptson peppered him with questions 20S #& e en ve three and a ie r & neat pile of manu- jus Sig o e little things t working systematically. now, honey. I had & cocktail and that he and seven assistant experts had their troubles “°%- scripts. came er—what was the use of | By the light of a street lamp|I'm starved!” cigar. answering Sherry loved the boys at the end. | Sherry watched them burn with keeping material that she wouldn't gherry could see Mona get out. She| Her eves sparkled and her Democrats Howled “It has been suggested,” Mr. Knutson said finally, ! Sue had tole Mona about it hat pleasant SMustaction, They were have a soul see anyway? | thanked the man at the wheel wits |cheeks were flushed, She went nto NEITHER could the protests of Secretary of Treas- “that the administration would take more kindly to BENG ih ATRin ohe-100 2 kilene [gy Norihy Ta her. I was funny Another streetcar rumbled up gracious coolness and started to-|the bedroom. it ury John W. Snyder. a tax reduction next year.” © had studied a el Ona; Sal Jou oN 3 Sougu} Was good Wie. Stree. ana Shevy, aw » me [ore the house. “will .you ~rush Abe she : E # | m : 4 { window. at wo she do if) wanted to know. “Ge tb i Before the Somuities Was M ® Ragtson's use Mr Only M inflationary presuires are off, replied. glaiiorously kept fingernail and Besides, the trunk the stories had Mona wasn’t on it? Her panic sur- | it ay TAR 40 the. door aud het brought me home. I'll tell you all bil No.1 59 en He Tas i oy. for order “And we hold an election . .,'. " continued. Mr. said, “Oh, a bungalow court.” lived in could be used to better ad- prised her. Mona must be on ® = = about it while we eat.” per cent. Mr..Knutson hardly had tapr vet Enben . £4EC Sherry had said, ‘but it isn’t like vantage when the house was s0 this one! But before the streetcar, SHE SAID, “I've been worried to . ; and suggesied that Mr. SHVder Wve Bit S07. HHIte Re, iif" imsigled Me. Snyder wai a allt. You'd hardly notice’chary of close’ space. |came in sight a Cadillac roadster! death, darling! I couldn't put the (Te Be Continued)

the Democrats began to howl. : b They demanded plenty of time for their witnesses “No, there are no politics involved in this,” Mr.

to talk against any tax reduction. Mr. Knutson said Knutson said, removing his cigar to make his sarcasm Shamrock Is Erins' 0

there was no tyme for this. He said their constituents heavier. “No politics, none at all.”

ked Mr. Snyder whether he thought it was | : wh Dr. Cuthbert Chief of Chinese Reds i eR sn i 0 pnt i esos wo SY, Patrick's Day Emblem (Opens Office i1iy ag Hermit-Like in Cave

3 » : ’ . i ttin Michigan. “The chairman isn’t going to read ‘em. He does now, 29 times as ich ates = he Wai ge wi Dr. Marvin Cuthbert, former ma-

, i i ic?” der said y : knows he isn’t. Why try to kid the American public? $10,000. Mr. Sny ’ s & $y : ior 11 the. army medical Corps, hat : : Mr. Knutson let that one pass. He puffed his to pay. | Pig, Potato, Snakes, Clay Pipe Originated Typical Yenan Leader Is Past Middle cigar and he smiled. Other Democrats shouted about “So you still want to keep the $100,000 man as al opened an office for the practice of steamrollers. Mr, Knutson blew a beautiful ring of whipping boy,” Mr. Knutson said. Mr. Snyder said he In Lands Far From the Emerald Isle ophthalmology in the Hume Man- : Age and Son of a Landlord smoke. He said maybe the secretary of treasury had did not, either. He dropped his fancy fountain pen. | sur building. ; ' ] ‘ And so on, for hours. And for the last time, get that By Science Service A graduate of By WILLIAM H. NEWTON

better get on with his statement.

The meek-looking Mr. Snyder twiddled nervously Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

YENAN, March 14—If you look closely at a Chinese Communist leader you will see a man past middle age who wears glasses, is beginning to develop something of a paunch and is the son of a wealthy Chinese landlord. . ; en Since the five or six men who control the Chinese Communist party have involved one-fifth of the population of the world in a civil war, and since that war may spread be- . yond China’s borders, it seems in front in the propaganda battle worthwhile to he is better known to millions of have a look at

check in the mail. The Knutson bill isn't law yet. WASHINGTON, March 14. —Popular emblem of St. Patrick's Day—| Indiana univer[the pig, the potato, the stubby clay pipe, the snake-that-isn't-there— gity school of come from many lands far from the Emerald Isle. But the shamrock ' medicine he ’ —————————— TT - mis Erin's own. : : | served his intern- | The plump, pink porker, with maybe a green ribbon tied on. his curly ship at Methodist

| tail; is inseparable not only from Irish whimsy and jingles, but from the hospital and in

Y Ol Ing ( Sensors By Erskine Johnson Jor SeTious mater of present-day | {1938 began post ' rish prosperity. | . . graduate study at —; “The cow, the plow and the sow Students to Give the University of HOLLYWOOD, March 14.—There’s ‘no argument lars. The censors willing, it will be released next are the slogan of the Irish agrarian, Vau deville Sh ow Pennsylvania. He

took i i October. {movement—and a very good idea,] served a year in | : shout it—ine kids over {he movies -@uring the Bing Crosby wants to do “Harvey.” Paramount too. | Broad Ripple high school students, the graduate hos- Dr, Cuthbert | them. members who Sutrank him. ; War, * may buy it for him. Warner Brothers passed up the | Came From China will present their annual vaudeville pital of the university and spent No. 1 Commit x Gen 2, speaks English “And when they did,” Director Henry Koster said, film rights because there were too many strings at-| But the domestic pig did not origi- show. “Ripples of 1947," the nights two years residency. in ophthamol-| 2 $t 10 this Dept 3 ba phraise- | } «the bankers took over Hollywood's creative: minds. tached on release conditions. " nate in Ireland—far*from it. As far of March 27 and 28. ogy at the New York eye and ear}! | : ish: Wade voice The bankers reacted to original and novel ideas with In real life, J. Carrol Naish is the Wart ered.1as China, in" fact. Southeast Asia! The program will include four infirmary. . |chairman. of the He was into an old and : Latin type the ladies seem to go for, even if he is 85 seems to. have been the land where major acts and a number of inter- | ‘Upon completion of his training pines Commu- Petous bo a . ; pros=

only blank. States, saying: =. - oh . he ~Irish as County Cork. But his genius for portraying nm sdern-type swine.came from. |mission ‘acts. All were written by he was appointed to the faculty of | ic. arly, ME ‘ ‘We want to make money. y 9 Some Ane every kind of bum, grafter, gambler, hawker, faker, whether pigs of this kind - were members of the student body. Those Cornell university college of medi- ye. jo almost different. when just a movie of Yan jo pson sa'ing Spy. and crook has kept, him out of the army of-the carried, to ' Irelahd ‘in very early whose acts were accepted for the cine.and did research forthe ‘WAI, n approachable. breakfast will make a mitlion dollars. heroine and right in. the arms of the law. “times - (which they could have program are. Cynthia Baker and department. He entered the AIMY |p. rarely sees __ igian. traders) % Carol - Hyjliday, seniors; William jn "1944 “and ‘served ‘ab. Vaughan |, foreign _visit- Mr. Newion et Py .

and became a’ leader and agitator among student groups.” . Worked Under Chiang

tures so we can discuss mature ideas.”

; ~~ : : there were pigs in Ireland when, > : i <| underground ' in Shanghai he orHenry Koster, by way of introduction, directed She “May Slug 'Em Patrick firs saw the land. | oi | ick eo and then. he hecomes| ganized the Workers into s miltant Deanns Durbin’s’ early films and some recent Mar- HOLLYWOOD reconnaissance: John Wajine's | That was when he was kidnapped, Carniva —By Dic Turner displeased with some of the lesser|group of 600,000 and was able to - garet O'Brien pictures.. nickname for his wife, the former Esperanza Baur, Is as a youth of 16, and held as a : party leaders and refuses to speak take control of the city and just Boilin’ Mad Koster : Chata. It means pugnose in Spanish. ; |slave-herdsman for a time, before| |: to them. ] about deliver it to Gen. Chiang “on . oun If one more guy tells Audrey Totter he enjoyed ne escaped and resumed the studies Two Russian doctors look after a silver platter.” SE : “THEY ‘were cute kid stuff,” he sald, “and I didn’t being kissed by her as the result of having seen her hat eventually made him a priest his health. y After the split between Gen. have the censors in my hair. caress of the camera lens in. ‘Lady in the Lake) and a missionary. : Led Long March Chiang’s Kuomintang and the left« Now he has censors in his hair, and he's boiling she'll no doubt slug him. It's now just a tired joke No C tion With Saint 3 eat | 181s, Gen. Chou went underground mad. to her. ; wh ge i 3a th Mr. Mao is a tall, dark, heavy-set| ot, * ye was appointed a meme potato and the pipe, in the Chinese with a serene, intelligent per of the Communist International

He's working with Myles Connolly on the film John Garfield says he's the “and” between “Body | : version of William Saroyan’s pulitzer prize-winning and Soul” Hazel Brooks is the body, Lilli Palmer lighter heraldry of St. Patrick's day, play, “The Time of Your .Life” The two leading the soul. One’ scene in this movie, by the way, re. have no direct connection with the characters are a drunk (Jimmy Cagney) anda girl - quired a closeup of ex-prizefighter Frank Moran. | Saint, though plenty with his island.

face. He has charming manners,|in 1928, visited Moscow in 1930 as

ks a little English and likes|thie Chinese Red army delegate. His SE : wife, Teng Yingchiso is a leader

| American movies, which he now

of the streets (not yet cast). & Cameraman James Wong Howe insisted the pugilist] Potdtoes and tobacco came there, | I o of the Communist women. : “And” Mr. Koster groaned, “we have to cut every have lip rouge applied by the make-up man. Mr. of course, from America. | etuses to see since the Commun Chu Loved Sporn third line because of censorship and children.” Moran almost tore the joint apart until Director| Oddly enough, though, the name | party line in China took an anti-| . 3 “Irish potato,” as used in the American twist. No. 2 on the Communists’ own

“Forever Amber,” started last October, is finally Robert Rossen promised, “It's okay, Frank. We'll

tn the outting rooms at the cost of five million dol- give you a stunt check.” They did, too. United States, has some claim to

correctness. For the first potatoes . (grown in this country were from I—————— — {seed tubers brought from Bermuda to Virginia—and Ireland was the

We, the Women é. By Ruth Millett Fob Soafes of the Bermuda

. : The snakes that aren't in Ireldnd ee ———— a ——————— couldn’t have come from anywhere

MOST persons Who fail. in. their first attempt at to one wife, he probably isn't going to put himself in else, so they do not call for par-

He is 54, and his second wife is list is Gen. Chu Teh, commander an attractive Chinese woman of in chief of the Communist armies about 30. His son by his first wife \and commanding general of tl .|is studying in Moscow. 18th army group. Gen. Chu is In 1927, Mr. Mao was expelled a stock little man who loves. from the party because of policy He smokes and drinks disagreements, but he later rejoined. | is i In 1934 he led the famed long to dislike Americans, {march (6000 miles) of the Com-| Next in importance is munists from Kiangsi which ended chi; 49, » member of {at Yenan in October, 1945, ! i

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a position where he pays alimony to” two. ticular consideration. “I | ! my hig arrisge stand 3 good hate of Jeiig hulpics wie Besides, though society generously allows men and| St. Patrick didn't drive the snakes| i He doesn't waste much time or|Mr. Liu is the son second time they wed tian those who marry once, oo ..o. one marriage mistake, it still hasn't come to off Irish soil, because they weren't|-|' effort on the anti-American pro- and he ded 1 says Mrs. Francesca Meucci, clinic director for the ,..ent three or four marriages per person for ordinary any there when he arrived, and. Sram. ot says that She success i ter. : : LT : hadn't been’ for several thousand | 3 ie Chinese Commun nds Chicago maternal welfare cen folks. | solely on the a pr

That is why, explains Mrs. Meuccl, second mar- years. There may have been snakes of

‘Hlages rarely end in divorce ' Conclusion Isn't Sound ! there before the Pleistocene ice age,! | . ! with Rich ey effect their Tang~ 3 But let's not be. 40 dick 40 accept. that theooy HEIRESSES, movie stars, and other celebrities can |but that long cold spell chilled the Ry Pr et's not be too. quic p OTV. get by with that kind of living. {island so thoroughly that none sur- Becomes Well-Known 7

‘It could be that other factors besides happiness hold’

the twice-married together, a So far as the public is

We're too ready today to take a pile of statistics vived — just as there aren't any and work backward from them to the most obvious snakes in Iceland today. = = ° * |. But the shamrock was on, Irish

ortin i i . explanation for any set of figures. ~~. n, lrist

gi OPR. 1947 BY NEA BERVICE. INC.

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