Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1947 — Page 13

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8 Saka Rls Se a a a a el

: i ——_ : Kiss Me Again HOLLYWOOD, March 17.—T just kissed the delec-

table Virginia Mayo. Once with my eyes open and once with ‘em closed.

‘LISTEN TO THE MUSIC of the Indianapolis symphony orchestra either in the front row, back row left, or way up in the balcony. You'll be much

‘happier with the product.

Music lovers, don't ever sit, with the brass section to your left, second violins to your immediate right and all the percussion instruments (heavy artillery) behind your eardrums and expect to be happy. You won't. On top of it all, looking Fabien Sevitzky in the eye while the entire orchestra is in the midst of a fortissimo, is like looking into the barrels of two Colt, 45's. Armed with nothing noisier than a pencil and some note paper, I sat down to rehearsal for Sunday's concert. Every member of the orchestra was playing solo, which is a lot of solo, until Charlie Sclilegel, ‘stage manager, stepped on stage and clapped his hands. There was immediate silence. You could have heard a violin string snap. The maestro made his appearance. “Weber—Freischutz Overture,” his arms. Wroom, Wroom, wroom-—wroom, wroom, wroom--we were off. Sounded pretty good. Noble Howard's second violin parts were entering my right ear in fine style. Mr. Sevitzky seemed pleased. All was well until Fred Schaub cut loose with his French horn in my right ear. The second violins, in fact, all the violins, were last. When the

he said, raising

-trumpets and the trombones joined in I had a dis-

tinct feeling my seat was being blown forward. Then with a downward thrust, Mr, Sevitzky quieted the orchestra and frome the ofher side of the stage the cellos and the bass fiddles could be heard carrying on. The violins took the major role. Mr, Howard’ was taking small swipes on his. violin which didn’t - sound like anything but scratching. But everything must have been all right-—you-could read it in the maestro’s face.

Pained Expression

JUST AS EASY to note was a muffed part. A pained expression, a couple wags of his busy eyebrows, a clap of his hands and silence. Mr. Sevitzky looked into the center of the orchestra and sald: -“Late—late—late.” That's all. Up went his arms and we started to roll again. . “Haydn—'La Chasse’ Symphony.” The brass section and the percussion men left the stage. I'll have to admit, this number wasn't bad on stage. But I'l] still take a seat in the auditorium. i ~ The fu forchesir started “Poems on Arabic and Hebrew ' by McDonald. It wasn't A before I had a premonition that the end of the world was coming. Every member of the orchestra was getting worked up. The maestro had a blazing fire in his eyes. Louder—louder— louder and then the storm broke: m—a—————

Ball-Point Pens

WASHINGTON, March 17. — The honeymoon is over between Othman and that post-war wonder, the ball-point fountain pen. I have bought three pen nibs for a nickel and a bottle of black ink for a dime (a hopeful insurance

agent contributed a blotter) and I have thrown my atomic age writing instruments into the lake. 1f a mermaid finds 'em there, she's welcome. Probably just what she needs for writing underwater love notes. When the first of the ball pens hit the shops about a vear ago, I rushed down with my $12.50. My new pen was a cylinder of shining aluminum— a thing of beauty—guaranteed to write at least two years on calico, on ceilings upside down, on the floors of swimming pools. It was a wonder pen. Only thing it wouldn't do was write on plain dry. writing paper. I nursed this great invention. I held it under hot water. 1 pleaded with it- And it squirted me finally with ink the consistency of warm glue,

Wrote Half the Time

THE MAN wouldn't give me back my money. He gave me a new, improved model, which was much better. Jt wrote fully half the time, and only left every other word blank. On long words, like onomatopoetic, of course, it stalled in the middle. long, weary, ink-stained months passed by. 1 tossed my super pen in the drawer with the burnedout light fuses, the used bottle caps, and the rent

. receipts. One hundred and two rival makes of ball

pens now were on the market. The manufacturer of mine kept putting out new models at reduced prices, the latest at $1.25. I wasn’t having any. Soon I was reading about a new kind of pall

1 definitely liked it both ways. It was much more fun than just looking at lovely Virginia in “The Best

“Years of Our Lives.”

It was, in fact, “The Best 30 Seconds of My “Life.” But because I liked kissing Virginia either with: eyes open or shut (or unconscious, for that matter), virginia and half A dozen press agents are very un= happy. We started out to prove something but ali we proved was that the occupational hazards of movie columnists are becoming much more pleasant and that Virginia is very kissable. "Hut Virginia. said she wold TheEy 6 Fo HH ye “Girls who kiss with their eyes closed aren't play= ing fair with the guy on tite receiving end.” To elucidate, Virginia continued: “practically every love scene closeup ir the movies shows the heroine with her eyelids snapped tight. This may impress the yokels as the very pinnacle of passion, but I think it's utright evasion of what a bona fide embrace by a r of lovers should produce. “It's an obvious inference “that all’ the time the girl is in the boy's arms, she's imagining he’s some other guy. On the screen it's the easiest way out of a difficult chore—portraying genuine passion.”

Voltage? Ah, Yes!

“HOW CAN you get any voltage out of a kiss with the eyelids pulled down like window blinds?” Virginia asked. (There was so much voltage ‘to Virginia's shuteyed kiss that I'm still lighting up my desk lamp, five hours later, by just holding the base.) Virginia promised, as three press agents beamed approval, that she would kiss Turhan Bey with her

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AMIDST A FORTISSIMO—Two Indianapolis symphony orchestra-French horn artists follow the maestros baton.

I was just stuffing index fingers. into my ears wheh the cymbals, kettle drums, bass drum and the brass section seemed to go but of control.

Louder and Louder

IT WAS IN this confused state that the maestro caught me with his eyes. I'll bet any amount of money that’ if I hadn't dropped ‘my pencil I could have raised it to my -lips=like-a- flute-and joined in. Just consider yourself Jucky when you watch Mr. Sevitzky from the back—in that balcony seat. | The bedlam ceased and we got back to earth. My eyes were focused on the piccolo player's left shoe. I was determined hot to have the maestro catch me staring at him with glassy’ eyes. “Respighi-——Pines of Rome.” The orchestra hit the jackpot with “Pines -of Rome.” This is one of my favorites—out in front, On stage, the muted violins make you want to ery but if you know “Pines of Rome” and you're sitting

in front of the percussion gang, you'll start bracing which you leave spare money at puciness in this country alone.

yourself.

Still concentrating on the piccolo player's left som \ pany in which you have a pol- | the bureau of labor statistics, estifoot, I weathered the part where everyone seems-$0 joy, the credit union to which you | mate that in. 1945 there were 27,036

have gone stark, raving mad. When you think it can't-get any loudér—couldn't! possibly get louder—it does. A nightingale began singing towards the end. worked my fingernails loose from the chair and! thought how nice it would be tomorrow when I'd be out in the auditorium somewhere. Next time, I'll take it 20 rows back and feel lucky.

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By Frederick C. Othman

bearing pen with homogenized action and a goldplated cap, which wrote and wrote and wrote, smoothly, like a pear] rolling down a velvet dress (with LAna Turner inside). After months, or maybe years of this effortless writing, the literature said | all T had to do was pay 50 cents for a tube of ink.! This screwed in with a minimum of fuss. wear white kid gloves while doing ‘the job. Price: $18, including tax. I bought one. It was superb. It was magnificent. | { It was the easiest writing pen I ever owned. *For eight weeks it transferred my thoughts to paper with a minimum of fuss. It did not give up until I was about to sign my name to a check for $54 for three gold fillings. The dentist lent me an’ old-fashioned pen to finish the job,

Investment of $31

and nothing happened. The man said maybe the factory had forgotten the ink. He gave me another.

It seemed to have some ink in it some of the time,

because again I had a pen that wrote half the time. My investment now in wonder, pens was $31. Eventually, the manufacturer produced ‘a new model with insides of transparent plastic, so the

leo ~operatives,

'moved, The boy was in a hospital

By Parachute

I BOUGHT a 50-cent filler for my fancy pen)

SECOND SECTION

19 Million ‘Members - In Consumer Groups

By 8. BURTON HEATH NEA Staft Writer NEW YORK, March 15. — Ti carriers, ope: average of two plane each, had been paying mote tha: 30 cents a gallon for $8l-octan gasoline. Mechanical work on thei craft had been costing $3 an how and everything else in proportiol Recently 64 of them got togetht and formed a corporation to ¢ their buying. Now they get gasolin for less than 15 cents, mechanic: work for $2.25 an hour, and oth: supplies at wholesale cost. That is an excellent illustratio. of how the co-operative movemen which is under attack in som quarters, works. To some the term gests the farmers’

“co-op” sug buying co

o-ops’ Billion Dollar Have Aroused Uneas

operatives through which they ge

grain, seed, fertilizer, tools and supplies. To others it means marketing of which the CaliGrowers and their brand are best known. » » ~

mutual savings

gasoline

fornia Fruit “Sunkist” THE

bank in!

interest, the mutual life insurance |

belong, all are co-operatives. | But the movement has much! wider scope than that, and is)

1 spreading every year into new fields. | restaurants,

A farmer living near Elk City, | Okla., had his son's appendix re-

eight days. The father paid $215 in all. Then he joined the co-op-erative Elk City Community hospital. > He had to buy one $50 share, and for a family of four he pays $25 a year dues. When his daughter needed an appendectomy he took her there. She spent 10 days in hospital, and the total bill was $42. » » » THE co-operative movement really began in “1844, when 28 jobless

co. OP MOVEMENT SPREADING — Two forms of the widesprasd Scoveralive are shown in aktion in these J

pictures.

The couple at left watching a doctor examine their baby are members of a- Washington D.C.g

roup which owns its own health service. The woman knitting stockings at right is one of 300 Philadelp ians who banded together to form a self-sustaining, co-operative industry.

{it did more than a billion-dollar

The latest figures available, from

consumer co-ops, with more than 19 million members. There are co-ops that run stores, | recreational facilities, hospitals. There are co-ops that mine and sell coal, refine and sell gasoline, make and sell many products. There are co-op banks, insurance companies, credit institutions, public utilities. There are co-ops that market cotton, wool, tobacco, honey, prunes, 8 wine, mushrooms, nuts, vegetables, beef, poultry, dairy products, grain. There are housing co-ops and radio CO-0pS. a. 4 8

SOME are small, but others

blanket their field: cranberries,

Almost ail 90 per cent

weavers in Rochdale, England,

I could pooled one pound each of savings ucts,

Fortune magazine estimates,

of alll lemons, a third of all dairy prod-|every individually owned business

These operations explain why the co-operative movement has come under heavy fire by business interest that feel they are being deprived of customers and revenue. Most criticisms seem to boil down to these:

ONE: The co-op movement is tending toward socialism. To this co-operatives. point “to the very small proportion of most business that they do, and contend that any group has a right to get together and do things for itself. ” s

TWO: The co-op ® sovemeiit is given unfair assistance through tax

exemptions. The fact is that co-

operatives are subject to every tax

imposed on any corporation or busi-

ness, in similar fields, except the

corporate. . income tax. Their exemption ‘from this is shared by

{and every . partnership.

owned business. If “dividends” are in fact price cuts on goods purchased, they are not taxed. Neither are trade discounts gvien by private sellers, or the “dividends” given by some department stores which are actually percentage re-

chases. ” » » : BUT “dividends” that are really additional payments for goods sold are subject to income tax. So are genuine dividends on the capital stock of co-operatives. The profit made by co-operatives on sales to non-members is subject to tax, just like the profit made by stores on sales to customers. The meat of genuine “controversy is “savings” or “profit” which, instead of being distributed to buyers

in the business. The National Tax

land started the first successful co- are handled by co-ops, though you| . The “dividends” that they pay | Equality association believes these {and your friends. buy .them from are taxed, or -not, according to Ee Should be taxed. The courts say

|op store. Ith has Spread now unl last year |

{privately-owned stores.

same rules

as for a privately-

they should not.

Howitzer Dropped Last Year's Spelling Bee Winners

Artillery Piece Weighs Over Ton

By Science Service WRIGHT FIELD, O., March 17. | —Latest aftborne’ weapon of the

June Soots, School 10, Is First Entrant

By ART WRIGHT Last year’s winners have joined the newcomers in the list of “early birds” who are entering The Times

customers could see the ink. I spent another 50 cents army is the 75 millimeter howitzer, Spelling Bee.

and my pen wrote as ‘beautifully as it ever did. For

weighing 2240 pounds. It has been

First of the 1946 winners to send

four days it performed like a thoroughbred. Then 'g,ccessfully lowered to the ground in the official entry form is Tom

it ran dry. I spent another 50 cents and this time | my pen lasted almost a week. The writing instrument of the 21st century now is into me $32 worth and it isn't a case of ve cost, but the upkeep. I am a little discouraged.

using a series of two ribbon para- { chutes, The ribbon parachutes, introduced

Cowan, an 8A student at School 58. Tom won the. district spell-down held at the Emerson Avenue Bap.tist church and survived the first

I'by the Germans during the war, semi-finals contest. He lost out in

wish 1 could: write golden words so I could afford have been developed for heavy duty, the second semi-finals.

to use my tomorrow's pen today.

By Erskine Johnson |.

from high altitudes for the army |

ground forces and air forces by

engineers of the air materiel command here. Record-breaking drop of the how-

[itzer from an AAF C-82 transport

eves wide open in her current starring role in EagleLion's “Out of the Blue.” We wondered, naturally, if her boy friend, Michael O'Shea. kisses her with his eyes open. “Oh, yes,” Virginia said brightly. ‘Well, I. guess most any guy would kiss: Virginia with his eyes wide open. It's mighty interesting scenery dizzy around the curves. Ten ‘of Holly wood’ s glamour queens are still gnashing their teeth "over fashion designer Ray Driscoll's list of the 10 worst-dressed feminine stars. But. today we'll make 10 ladies happy with Ray's list of the’ 10 best dressed. Here they are: ‘Constance Bennett, Loretta Young, Rita Hayworth, Laraine Day, Claudette Colbert, Joan! Bacall, Myre Hy and Joan Craw- |

i Waders

—if you don't get

7 Ap Breath of Paris’

DRISCOLL SAID that Constance Bennett made | the list because she reminded him of “a breath of) Paris,” that Laraine Day's youthful clothes are “legally smart,” and that Claudette Colbert's sense of humor always comes out in her wardrobe.

-There’s no question about the most-popular man He's Oscar, the Acaderay|

in ‘Hollywood these days. Award statuette, And every year at this time 534 press agents-insist their clients gave Oscar his name, Here's the true story, as told to me by Cedric Gibbons, M-G-M art dirgctor. Gibbons- made the original sketch of Oscar, which later was modeled by Sculptor George Stanley. Back in 1931, Margaret “Herrick, the “Academy's first. secretary, arrived for her first day at work. She was introduced to the statuette. She laughed and said: “Isn't he cute? Oscar.” The name stuck.

He reminds. we of my ‘Uncle

We, the Women

Husetts school girl: “The mother told police she had pleaded with the

reform séhool that released her son less than a month *

before the murder, not to turn him loose. ' She knew her boy, who had‘a record of two previous sex offenses. She knew his danger to society,

Nearly All Have Records

BUT THE boy was turned: loose. When are we going to stop. being soft about sex criminals—just because

tl \ey are S20 jDegom 8s Jedlishe Aas tis. Toy’ 5 RS r ,

i ‘brutal murder, .

he is convicted of the crime with which he is charged.

By Ruth Millett

In nearly every sex murder that shocks and sickens us and makes us fear for the safety of our own children: we: find that the criminal has a record of past offenses. When are we going to get tough enough 6 protect innocent women and children by putting sex criminals away for life, no matter how_young they are. when they commit their first offense?

Make Murder Possible BY BEING soft and sentimental and giving sex. criminals “another chance,” we make possible another

“Institutions shouldn't release Bobi like this,” says

plane was made with a small 14foot parachute to pull the cargo out of the rear doors of the plane, This small extraction ‘chute is trailed behind the plane, and pulls the howitzer out of the plane when released by .a mechanism in the fuselage.

Pulled From. Plane

As the artillery piece is pulled from the plane, a huge 80-foot parachute is opened to lower the cargo to .the ground. The howitzer. is be- | lieved to be the heaviest equipment

damage.

bc MgeGermans thought their, wats “rtime. experiments-with “the ribbon ‘chutes’ showed that the top alti-| tude from which they could be used was 150,000 feet, but instruments | {have been safely lowered from 360,000 feet from a captured V-2 rocket | (fired recently at White Sands, N. Mex, In earlier army experiments, tests |

'000 feet with an army WAC Corporal rocket. a The howitzer is placed on a] wooden skid in the plane and can| be loaded in 15 minutes, Next test planned here is to use a heavier | 105+millimeter howitzer and a jeep. In these experiments, engineers hope to be able to lower the jeep and howitzer within a three-second interval and have the Two airborne

| objects land within 100 wards of

| each other,

30 Cathedral Seniors

Listed. on Honor Roll

Thirty seniors of Cathedral high school were listed on the school honor roll last semester. They are: Joseph Lauber, Robert Suding, Robert Wagner, Joseph Zore, James Catton, . Joseph Naughton, Paul Stricker, John Cunningham, James Harless, - Willlam Lawless, James | Casey, Timothy Delanty and Arthur Smuck. John Collins, James CPUS, Daniel Myers, Anthony Neff, John

Herbertz, John Pearson, -Thomas Tobin, George, Zimmer, George Dau-

a mother whose son may go to the electric chair if

ita Jatt can’ say. fa why, can't iets?

fel, John Greskamp, Robert Kiernan, Paul O'Connell, Francis Rathz,

were made from a height of 130,-

‘McCann, Donald Beckerich, Victor|,

The first entrant this year is June Soots, 646 E. 11th st. She is an 8A pupil. at School 10.

Send in Entry Blanks

All grammar school pupils under 16 years of ‘age are eligible to take part. There are no fees or charges of any kind. All that is required is! for’ the pupil to send the official entry form which appears in The Times . . , then report to the cen-

ter designated in the schedule of

spell-downs. which appeared in last Friday's Times. This schedule will be published again this week .

Have Already Entered 1947 Contest

or selelrs is held for reinvestment|'

Times Sp

Name... hs iviarsirnees Address... .....covevsiess School Enrolled.......i..

Teacher's Name ....ce000

Eligibility—An entrant must eighth grade at the time he

16 years before June I.

Indianapolis Times,

Mail or bring this form NOW to:

elling Bee

(Entry Form)

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v. PHONE NO... .cvsvvrvenss

THREE: Co-ops are aided by government banks. The 13 Banks for Co-operatives lend at 4 per cent, ap to 60 per cent of value, for the purchase of facilities. They lend a$

funds on the cost of the year's pur- and

friends question how important. the exemptions are.

Little ‘White House" To Be Given State

By PAUL F. ELLIS United Press Science Writer NEW YORK, March 17 (U. PJ,

sateen Grade...oooes

PPE EN RNROGIRI sce RRND

not have passed beyond the competes in any preliminary,

semi-final or final match and must not reach the age of

Spelling Bee Director,

time President died there

12, 1945.

. «nights next week. The winners in $0 be sure to read your Indianapolis the first preliminary will return to ners-up will be presented with ad-

214 W. Maryland st., Indianapolis 9, Indiana.

Warm Springs Foundation which was founded by President Roosevelt,

Catherine, St. Roch and Sacred] Heart Catholic schools.

E. 30th st.—Schools 1, 51, and St. Frances de Sales Catholic school. Winners Meet April 7 Contests for other schools will be held at other centers on successive

The winner at Washington will {receive $500 cash prize plus $75 for Northeast Community center, 3300 spending money on a trip to New 69, 73, York City.

Other Prizes

The winners of the Indianapolis | districts and in the townships will receive the coveted Times Spelling Bee medals, The champion and run-

Times every day for all the im- those centers the week of April 7, ditional prizes.

portant spelling bee news. The. preliminary . contests

|start next Monday night at 7:30 semi-finals April 18.

o'clock at these centers and for the|

Lucille--Ball, ever lowered from a plane without schools designated:

Emerson Avenue Baptist church, 1. E. New York and Emerson ave, ~ Schoors 3,” IT REE TE

—Schools 20, 31, 34,35, 72 and St.

to determine the two district win-|

"At the grand finals on May 9 at

Grammar school pupils can aid will ners to take part in the city-county their chances by studying the | Spelling Bee Primer words which appear each day on The Times

recalled that Georgia already had created the Pranklin D. Roosevelt Warm Springs Memorial commis sion, and. that the transfer of the property awaits only the completion of details. 700 Patients Mr. O'Connor made the announces ment in his annual report for the foundation: He said that during 30, 1946, the hospital's facilities In the 12-month period reported on, 700 patients received a total of 46,811 hospital days’ care. The avers age number of patients per day was

the fiscal year, Oct. 1, 1945, to Sept; were increased to 168, a gain of 86.

a downtown location the Indianapo3s champion will be crowned. ,The champion will go to Washington,

= Drie bir Ry RP) expenses T Gatfield Park community center paid by The Times-to compete in

the national spelling bee.

Carnival a By Dick Turner

epnard Riley an Te Zo; i:

“Strikes rrarTere: odathion oy behind i end short : ages—and you re ol steamed up over how igh is two. fimes

comic page. The city park and recreation department is co-operating with The

special * activities for - the department, heads the committee on arrangements for the spell-downs and officials.

2th Anniversary To Be Observed

he. 20th anniversary of the ee of the American College | lof Life Underwriters will be. ob-| served at- a luncheon meeting tomorrow in Hotel Lincoln. Two hundred officials and leaders in professional, business, financial and insur{ance organizations in Indianapolis |

and ‘Indiana will attend. . The Indianapolis chapter of the American Soulety of Chartered Life underwriters, the alumni vrganization of the American College of Life Underwriters, Philadelphia, Pa., will

{

The guest

128, including an average of 30 serve | infantile

This Year in Construction ~ Hoosier construction souteactor were employing 32,800 workers in mid-January, compared to 27,100 at the same time a year ago. Li These figures were released tos day by the U. 8. bureau of labor statistics. .

In every month since December, 1944, construction employment bas

been higher than for the corres sponding mon

year, the Tecords show, = records show.

Plan Conference.