Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1947 — Page 13

* yard, ‘the kids still bother her.

“ALLEZ" The parallel bars quivered as Mrs. Alberta Morgan, Athenaeum Turners 1046 champion all-around Sele -lete, went-through-simple practice-routine

Worry

“i “Peels fine--80 far,” she called to her friends as

she swung her body pendulum fashion on the bars. Frances Ciresi, member of the Turners champlonship volleyball team, suggested Mrs, Morgan do & bent on turnover, There was no answer. up momentum, for the turnover. “Here goes nuthin',” Mrs, Morgan told the group. Up and backwards went her feet. A complete back flip followed with Mrs. Morgan hitting the mat standing up. “Am I stiff. Say When is this meet in Louisville?” she asked. “Juné 7 and 8,” answered Fred Martin, Normal college dean of men and apparatus instructor for. the Turners group. “And from the looks of things we've #ot a lot, of work to do between now and June.” “Have a heart, Freddie,” was the plea, The time for the 45-minute period of rhythmic work was near and girls of the class began to come out on'the floor dressed in their gym clothes.

| Prelim to Nationals

Mrs. Morgan slowly built More encouragement was given

MR, MARTIN EXPLAINED that the girls were starting work for the Louisville meet which would be a preliminary to the national Turners field contest in 1848. " “We just finished with the volleyball season | and it will be a couple of weeks before the girls feel

GOOD FOR WHAT AILS YOU—Mrs. Alberta Morgan begins an exercise at the Atheasym which will have far-reaching effects— ter,

Barnacles

WASHINGTON, March 25.—Rep. Frank J. Keefe of Wisconsin, paused in his efforts to explain why he believed almost half of the laborers in the labor department ought.to be fired. Wearily, he wiped his brow, Wearily, he cried: “Gentlemen, it is just one damnable job to get rid Of one of these $10,000-a-year barnacles when he gets attached to the bottom of the ship of state.” -And I guess it is, at that. The barnacles, meaning bureaucrats, refuse to believe that the Republican economizers in congress are. serious. Yet the bill of Mr. Keefe's apprdpriations sub-committee, cutting the labor department's payroll 44 per cent, is destined to pass the house of representatives before sunset tonight.

Chop Off Some Heads

OTHER SUB-COMMITTEES are hacking away at other departments, writing bills intended to empty vast stretches of swivel chairs in such maple piles as agriculture, interior, and commerce. Best guess is that the senate in general will go along with the house in chopping off at least some heads. The possibility of President Truman vetoing any of the bills is regarded as nil. When a President blackballs an appropriation bill because he believes it doesn't appropriate enough, he gets no money at all.: So he grits his teeth and sfgns. If ‘everything goes. as Keefe & Co. plan, the big exodus from Washington is about to’ begin. Some optimists foresee by July l1—beginning of the next fiscal - year—the appearance again of apartment-to-let ads in the local newspapers. The program of the Republicans is enough to give the capital's real estate agents, restaurant owners and storekeepers the shudders. They've all insisted that

Oscar Headaches

..Eck and. Frances. Cirest,

ville meet, sore parallel bar and gym horse work was

at note on the apparatus,” he said. “How does ‘the backward roll-off go again, Freddie?” Janice Eck wanted to know. ‘ “Wait until I change into my working clothes— and besides, Mrs. Martin is ready to start class,” Mr. Martin said. “You better get the parallel bars off the floor.” Miss Julia Niebergall struck up a lively piano tune and 20 girls lined up in single file. The girls working on the apparatus had to go double time to make the first rhythm step. “What you will see the girls doing is routine conditioning work. Every participant in field \meets must do this basic work satisfactorily before she is eligib! explained Mr. Martin, Without a break for the full 45 minutes that followed, Mrs. Martin "led the girls through suppling and conditioning exercises that made my suspenders curl. After two or three abdominal exercises Mrs. Martin would introduce a suppling exercise which was designed to relax the muscles and tend to add variety to the work. Incidently an artificial “abdominal support” is unheard of with members of the class and I can well understand why. : Each period closes with a traditional exercise Mr. Martin introduced in 1938. “I figured that exercise out to catch any muscle that happened to be overlooked—which I doubt could be—but I wanted to be sure,” Mr. Martin remarked, laughing. Tricky little maneuvers. The piano stopped playing’ and immediately a volleyball net was thrown up. The girls chose two teams and sta the play. Three games were played to the accompaniment of tremendous vocal fireworks.

SECOND SECTION

Cost Them 630,000

NEW YORK, March 25.—~The That is the composite opinion

expanded too fast, and now must pause and reorganize. Last year the scheduled lines). carried far more passengers more

When the ‘volleyball games: were over a majority (miles, {n more planes” on more

of the. girls called it quits for the evening. But not Mrs. Morgan, Betty Fox, Vernetta O'Fallon, Janice

remem

Bit Rusty—No Mistakes 1

flights, than ever before. They handled more cargo, took in more" money; ordered more--oquip-~-ment, hired more employees, spent

AS A NIGHTCAP and a real start for the Louis-jmore, and wound up swimming in a

in order.

Backward roll offs, double cut-off straddles, all types of bar vaults were executed. Mr. Martin stood ready to break the fall of any girl who made a mistake.. A bit rusty but no mistakes. That wash't enough. To really get into the spirit of the work the group decided to wind up the evening with saddlehorse vaults, “First the dive roll,” called Mr, Martin. Betty Fox was first up, Jumping into the air like a ballet dancer she yelled, “Goodby cruel world,” and started running almost the full length of the gym. She dove over the horse landed on her hands, back of her neck and quickly came to a standing position. The others followed. In succession there were swan dives, wolf vaults, flank, sheep and rear vaults. . “Shall we call it quits for tonight?” Mr. Martin asked. “YES” was the answer. I don’t know why they were so eager to quit. They had been working out for “only” three hours.

By Frederick, C. Othman

the population of Washington, swollen more than 50 per cent by the war, would continue to grow. “Haw,” says Mr. Keefe. The time has come to listen to him with respect, because he seems to know what he’s talking about. I'm trying not to take sides, but he's in the driver's seat, and here's what he has to say about the office of Secretary of Labor Lewis Schwellenbach: “First, there's the secretary, then the undersecretary, then three assistant secretaries. and three assistants to the assistants and under them the division heads. It is the greatest little set-up you have ever séen: to pay off political debts with lush, $10,000-a-year jobs.”

Screams of Anguish

THE DEMOCRATS interrupted him with screams of anguish, but Mr. Keefe imperturbably mentioned each bureau of the labor department, charged most of them with wasting money, accused Conciliation Commissioner Edgar Warren of being a pinko who hired some of his aides by fraud, and finally got to Miss Frieda S. Miller. “From my state,” he said, “head of the women's bureau. I asked her what would happen if we cut the funds of the women’s bureau 10 per cent.’ She threw up her hands and cried (Mr. Keefe demonstrated with a falsetto shriek) that it couldn't function at all. I suggested that under the circumstances perhaps we shouldn't give her any money at all. “So the teletypes go to all the women's clubs and

the cry goes up that Mr. Keefe is murdering the|.

women's bureau. That's the way these people work.” Mr. Keefe said he didn't intend to amputate the bureau. He said he supposed it was doing a good job. 4 Mi " he sighed, “I don't know yet what it's 0 zg"

By Erskine Johnson

RE Erni

HOLLYWOOD, March 25.—Some day there will be an Academy award presentation without a lot of backstage headaches. But the day won't arrive until Hollywood learns how to co-operate. Even for such an important industry event as the Oscar ceremony temperaments must flare. Reported thé Daily Variety: Frank “Sinatra stood up the folks on the Academy show, and Andy Russell came in to fill the gap. Sihatra did a last- minute

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approached to do a singing: chore. Crosby declined, stating he had not been’ singing before large audi“ences in some time and did not. feel in trim, . “80 .a bit before show time, Sinatra advised the sommittee that he was following in ‘Crosby's footsteps The night before the show, Judy Garland bowed put of singing “On the Atchison, Topeka, and Sante Fe,” subsequently voted the best song of the year. Happily, Dinah Shore agreed to substitute for Judy.

The Show Must Go On JOAN CRAWFORD was supposed to have handled the Oscar presentation for the best' acting performance of the year, She sent her delayed regrets. This

was expected, however, because after all these years in

th public's eye, Joan is still deathly afraid of live audiences. 8he was home ill last year when she won her own Oscar. - Yet it was a simple chore. Even Lionel Barrymore made the stage in his wheel chair. The way they sometimes act, you'd think the kids don’t have much respect for Operation Oscar, the

" industry’s -only big-time annual show,

We, the Women

she can put in an envelope and mail to the parents of the young kids in her neighborhood. . Though she has complained df the noise they ~make and told their parents to keep them out of her She is particularly upset. because two children helped themselves to some of her flowers.

Maybe She'll -Get It

WELL, I'LL WRITE the piece, but if it gets mailed

"to anybody in that reader's home town, it will prob- .

ably. be to her. There is son

i like her n almost every neigh9 Jay jo dle

Their lawns are ton besutifl to be trampled feet of children. Though they

The show must go on—but it doesn’t always go on in Hollywood at Oscar time. Jack Carson was milking a cow for a scene in “Two Guys From Texas.” A few takes were made unsuccessfully, Finally the cow’s owner said, “Look, you better make this gne good. It's the last take in the oy. "

Great and. Near-Great TH ECOULD ONLY Rappen tn Hollywood. ~~ There was a big party at.a millionaires ‘bors n Beverly Hills. A*Hollywoodsman was acting as m. ¢. of impromptu entertainment,

“And now,” he said, “I would lke fo present the world's greatest pianist.” Artur Rubinstein, far in the vackground, started to rise from his table. The spotlight turned instead on a man in a brown coat and gray. slacks. The m. C. beamed: “Ladies and gentlemen, I give you—Eddie Duchin.” Short Takes: Gregory Peck must be getting in the mood for his. co-starring role opposite Dorothy McGuire in “Gentleman's Agreement.” He has a photograph of Dorothy pasted on his dressing room mirror . David O. Selznick will re-issue Ingrid Bergman's first American hit, “Intermezzo.” Clark Gable purchased a home in New York with intentions of spending more time there . ,. Ray Milland of “Lost Week-end” fame would like to do the regeneration of a drunk in “Babylon Revisited.” Jack Paar looked at a photograph of Paulette Goddard in a brief evening gown and commented: “If that dress were a book, it would be banned in Boston.”

By Ruth ‘Millett

‘A WOMAN READER wants me to write a column .to tolerate a loud radio and the din of trafic, the

shrill voices of children at play set them wild.

So all that I can say to the woman who doesn’t want to be annoyed by neighborhood youngsters is You are lucky to have children living around: chance, and they’ll help make

this: you. Give them half a human being of yo

Try Cookies Instead

INSTEAD OF COMPLAINING to their parents the next time they come in your yard, offer them

cookies and get acquainted.

oan genuine liking of the kids in your neighbor=

‘| for 25-cent token rate.

sea of red me s

OF 20 I, only Eastern, United, National, Continental and probably Northwestern made good to fair profits. .One or two others may have avoided loss. TWA probably lost more than $8 million, the Capital Airlines around. $2,500,000, Chicago & Southern and Western substantial amounts, and American a little. ' The minute wartime controls went off, the industry bought planes, hired more help, begged for new lines, added schedules. ® Ad ” AS LATE as 1944 the lines had only 228 planes, mostly two-engined DC-3s. The most recent check showed 684 new craft on order, ranging up to 80-passenger Boeing Stratocruisers. Last fall's wave of air crashes probably cost the air lines abouf 636,000 passengers who would have traveled 300 . million miles at 4% cents—a total revenue loss certainly than customers were ready to fill them. They provided new services

Transit Firm's

Depreciation charges figured in the 1946 operating expenses of Indianapolis Railways, Inc., were challenged ‘by public service ‘commission attorneys today when the trolley rate hearing was resumed in circuit court. Testimony of Charles O. Pinkerton, transit firm treasurer, disclosed that $200,041 was charged as depreciation in 1946. Frank Coughlin, P. 8. C. attorney, said he will show in later expert testimony that the depreciation should have been amortized over a period of 15 years and that later evidence would show the depreciation was figured on assets totaling $8 million instead of property listed at $4 million by the P. 8. C. engineers. : Fees Cited On cross-examination Mr. Pinkerton also testified that 1946 operating expenses included $119,544 paid out for attorneys’ fees and witnesses in connection with the hearings to get fares increased. Mr. Pinkerton also testified that the transit firm spent $22,000 “extra on advertising last year “to acquaint the people with the company’s petition for higher fares.” The testimony showed that a total of $141,544 was spent by the company in connection with its campaign to get higher fares approved. Mr. Pinkerton testified on direct examination that the transit firm operated at a loss of $116,818 last month on the basis of the old four

Extra Revenue. in. Escrow The. ny has operating since last Lp on 2 “three |] tokens for 25 cents but“ the extra revenue represented by the increase is being held in escrow pending outcome of the court case. Mr. Pinkerton pointed out .that if the firm had been permitted to keep the money from the increased rate the company would have had ‘a profit of only $8711 last month. Mr. Pinkerton previously testified in circuit court when the hearing started a month ago that the transit firm's deficit for 1946 was $473,820 under old rate and that if the company were permitted to keep the increased fare money only. a small net profit would be shown. Expenses Increased | \ He said the operating expenses of the company increased $98,972 last month over the same month a year ago. He sald that during January and February of this year the firm's expenses were $201,000 more than during the same period a year ago. : When the hearing started a month ago railways officials said the company’s financial position now was worse than when the firm applied for new higher rates a year

80. ! They testified that during. the first 16, days of March there were 430,000 fewer passengers on trolley lines than in the same 16 days of March a“year ago. : Ruling Pending an Appeal The hearing, before Special Judge Floyd Burns, is on the transit firm's injunction suit to prevent the public service commission from interferring “with the firm's increased rates of three tokens for 25-cents.

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bring some beauty into

Companies Premature Expansion, Air Crashes, By BURTON HEATH NEA Staft. Writer

come to an end. This country’s domestic air lines are facing their day of reckoning. They must come down to earth—or else.

industry. They have no doubt that air travel has a.glorious future. But even ‘the most progressive concede that the air lines misread the signs,

hazards to contend with.

Depreciation Challenged

determine if the injunction is to

Aviation’ s Financial. Overcast—

‘Turn Doubters

Passengers honeymoon is over. The boom has

of several top-notch leaders in the

before there was business. to support them.

facilities are being improved, buy,

cities. There are too many days when flying is Washed ~ out by weather, 3 It is safer to fly now than _ ever before.” If you flew last year, you had only one chance out of 125,000 of being killed. » » ” MANY were frightened out of flying. But loss of these passengers was ll compared with the loss from? groundings by weather—and from a public impression that air service was not trustworthy “when you've got to get there.” The airlines are spending $650 each to equip most new planes with instrument landing system equipment. Soon they must replace that above $12 million for the last four months of 1946. ‘This and the railroads’ aggressive campaign—“If you must get there, go by rail”—have been blamed by some for the financial situation which, in the words of President Ralph Damon of American, “smells.” EJ » » THE trouble was—and is—that the lines provided new seats faster with a better set costing $2500 per plane. With these installations Mr. Damon believes that inside of five years air travel can be made as dependable as travel on a well-run eastern railroad, that has weather

He is not sure that flight ever will

Figures on

na of Danville granted the company a temporary injunction. The hearing now before Judge Bums is to

be made permanent. The temporary injunction ruling is now pending on an appeal taken to the Indiana supreme court by the P. 8. C.

City Plans Minor ‘Smog’ Changes

Would End Present

Railroad Exemption’

The smoke pall over Indianapolis is.as bad today as it ever was. City Combustion Engineer Robert Wolf admitted this as the Indianapolis air pollution board met last night to consider proposed “minor” changes in the anti-smoke ordinance. : One of the revisions is expected to create a controversy between the railroads and the city. It "would end present exemptions permitted in starting heavy trains and moving them on grades. Mr. Wolf agreed there was no noticeable difference in the dirtfilled air blanketing the city. He did not deny that it is impossible to walk through downtown streets without being covered with a layer of soot. x

Violations ‘Drop Our de artment ‘has. just been faying the groundwork n'a’ pFogram’ which -everrttatly ~will ‘rid Indianapolis of its smoke,” he. explained. “To make any other claims would be absolutely ridiculous. It will be at least five years before we can make visible improvement.” He pointed out that violations of anti-smoke regulations by railroads has dropped better than 90 per cent since his department began its work last August. “And look at what the Power & Light Co. is doing,” he said. “They've inaugurated an elaborate $300,000 program to eliminate both flying ashes and smoke.” Mr, Wolf said his department estimates there are about 100,000 residential” units in the city. Fifty per cent of these, he charged, vio~ late the anti-smoke ordinance. And too, he said, an appalling number of violations can be traced to the many commercial and industrial establishments here.

Kills His Prized Dog,

Then Commits Suicide DETROIT, March 25 (U. P.).—~ George E. Flanders Sr., 47-year-old real estate broker and son of an early auto production pioneer, shot his prized Cairn dog. He then turned the gun. on himself, suburban Grosse Pointe park police reported today. Mr. Flanders, son of Walter E. Flanders, an associate of Henry Ford in the auto industry's earliest days, was dead on admittance to a

pet dog were found lying in the

Pointe park home. : Relatives attributed the shooting

. The company has been Sharing since last A

lin soipomaeny over a vertayy ult] ment.

> They still are using airports that | were inadequate in 1941. Terminal| §

hospital. His body and that of his. basement of the broker's Grosse

TUESDAY, ‘MARCH 25, 1947

PUI nS

Airlines Must Lure Train

Into

still are disgraceful in many «JS CH

NEED CUSTOMERS —Eight Stratocruiser, the cabin of which i of the airlines is to find paying these models.

be as reliable, time-wise, as travel on a well-run western road where weather is less of a problem. A EJ " THE Air Transport association believes that in five years U, 8. airlines may capture two-thirds of the railroads’ Pullman business’ and onethird of their intercity coach business. - To get and handle that business the domestic lines have ordéred more than $350 million worth of new planes. Except for Constellations, all are

of types never yet flown in scheduled service.

Speedway to Build Own Sewage Plant

“Ignore Indianapolis Plan Commission

Speedway City will begin work on its own sewage disposal plant within two months, despite the Indianapolis- plan commission's rejection of annexation requests. ~ The small community wanted to annex a T4-acre tract which it owns as a site for the proposed plant. Under a 1945 law it must have the approval of the Marion county and the Indianapolis plan commissions. Yesterday the Indianapolis commission refused to authorize annexation. Earlier the county commission approved the step. Faced with an order by the state stream pollution control board to stop: emptying sewage in Eagle creek by Dec. 1, 1948, Speedway City officials asserted “we. will build our plant regardless.” Decision Not Binding Thomas J. Blackwell Jr., Speedway City attorney, said: “We wanted annexation merely to give our town complete control of the property for protection purposes. The decision of the plan commission. has no bearing on our plans for construction of the plant.” He charged an attempt to make Speedway City connect with the Indianapolis sewage system was a move to force eventual annexation of the small community by Indianapolis. “We will never become a part of Indianapolis,” asserted Mr. Blackwell. “Our town is dependent on no one. It has individuality. It Hak va low" fax rave Wily Shduld its citizens have to pay. the exorbitant Indianapolis rates?” Mr. Blackwell took “exception to figures on the cost of connecting the Speedway City system with the Indianapolis system. Checks Engineers Thomas R. Jacobi, city engineer for Indianapolis, had estimated the cost would be apprpximately $23,000 annually, He said|a new Speedway City sewage plant ‘would cost about $30,000 a year until retirement of the debt. “I've checked with other engineers. , These figures -are merely conjecture. Mr. Jacobi pulled them out of thin air,” said Mr. Blackwell. Mr. Blackwell “also criticized a declaration by Mayor Tyndall that “Speedway City would be wise to connect with the Indianapolis system, and thereby contribute toward the forward-looking development of the Indianapolis metropolitan area.”

Wants to Sell Eye,

Writes Congressman WASHINGTON, March 25 (U. P.).—Rep. Melvin Price (D. Ill) said today he was trying to help a constituent peddle an eye for $1000, The constituent, Louis Pernell, 48, of East St. Louis, Ill, wrote Mr. Price that he had "heard that ‘human eyes could be grafted from one person to another and that he was. willing to part with one of ‘his to get a little place out In, the country.

could find none that was inter ted, es

‘Pernell was RS he the newspapers

Mr. Price said that “he. checked | various government agenciés but|

Enthusi

y passengers just fi I the new is shown above. But the problem customers fo change places ‘with

IF they can fill those planes, they can attain at least the lesser goals they have set—and can make money. But to fill them, they must entice passengers away from railroads and buses, and make air enthusiasts out of millions who still are doubtful. That is why some lines held back on the 10 per cent fare boost that the CAB now has granted. The basic air fare was 4.5 cents. The raise makes it about 5 cents. This contrasts with 22 cents in in coaches and 3.3 cents in Pullmans on the railroads; unless the railroads get the 10 per cent increase they have asked.

Insurance Men

Meet Tomorrow

Indianapolis Accident and Health Insurance association will sponsor its first statewide sales congress on accident, health and hospital insurance tomorrow in the Indianapolis Athletic club. More than 200 insurance men from all over the state will attend the meeting from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The sales congress will be dirécted by Max I” Blackburn, . president of the Tdi. Max Blackburn anapolis Accident and Health club, and 'C. Norman ' Green, general chairman. Speakers will be Alden Palmer, vice president of the insurance research and review service here, and William Gruver, district agent for Business Men's Assurance Co, Lebanon.

Crash Injures Two Trainmen

Cattle Car Roms Yard. Engine

Two trainmen were injured and 25 head of cattle were scalded to death in a wreck at the Moorefield railroad switching yards near Belmont ave. about 4 a. m. today. Robert Ross, 21, of R. R.'4, box 618. fireman, 0 engine the ey Tuli a a was hurt about the legs. Engineer | Carl Odgen, 30, of 1441 Everett st., suffered injuries to his hips and back. Both are in St, Vineenty hospital. i

a cattle car being pushed by an Illinois Central locomotive. The crash broke open the boiler of the yard engine and the 25 head of cattle were virtually cooked alive in a burst of steam.

Switch Left Open

Railroad officials said the accident was caused by negligence on the. .part of someone who left a switch open. Four persons were injured in trafic accidents here last night. Miss Betty Lou Smith, 20, of 1506 Bradbury st, and Phillip J. Sanders, 21, of 5302 Burgess ave. were injured last night when the car in which they were riding collided with a truck at Sherman dr, and English ave. Miss Smith suffered a broken left leg and several of her teeth were knocked out. Sanders, who was less seriously hurt, was arrested on a charge of reckless driving and drunken driving.’

Struck By Car

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Religion School

Host to Society

The Butler school of religion will

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