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A LONG “AWWW? in the Emerson Avenue Baptist church meant another Spelling Bee contestant
had tripped up. Someone had to go down in the preliminary contest, Every youngster competing. was crossing his or her fingers and hoping for the best. But it didn't stop. them from registering disappointment when Joan or Billy or Barbara spelled their words wrong. Nelther did it stop them from letting go with “Anh’ 5" “when a word was spelled correctly. “David Taylor—will you spell the word sled,” Wayne Murphy, announcer, said. David stood up confidently and spelled sled without hesitation. The contestants tittered among themselves at such an easy word. “I hope I get one like that,” was clearly registered on the faces of the entire group. When June Hardin was-asked to spell the word { persuade (I hope that's right) the‘ atmosphere changed immediately. Some children spelled it mentally, searching the ceiling for the right combinations. Others sighed and were thankful June was the one standing up and spelling p-e-r-s-u-a-d-e,
SPELLING BEE JITTERS—Jane Goodwin (left) gets moral support from Richard Allen
(right) to the word proncuncer Wayne Murphy asked her to spell.
Inside Indianapolis
By Ed Sovolo-
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Janet Wells was, taken by surprise when she was called up and asked to spell hesitate,
One Letter Wrong
"JANET STARTED in fine style—h-e-s—and then she added an a which was wrong. The rules of the contest state that there is no.correcting once a letter is pronounced. 7T1'ough. “Violet Shew—will Murphy asked. “A-c—" and Violet knew. she was wrong. An elderly man shook his head sympathetically. Fellow .contestants caught the mistake and wailed for Violet who slumped good-naturedly in her seat. I know a spelling bee is ‘a spelling bee and someone has to miss, but my heart. went out to Violet. I know exactly how she felt. Many a time in grade school I took the long count. Year after year the words believe and receive knocked me out of the line next to the blackboard. Brown-eyed, cute<as-a-button Jane Goodwin stood upto take her chances with thé word—holiday. She gave her chewing gum a last bite, pronounced the word and started in. Correct. She sat¢down wringing her tiny hands nervously. Richard Allen who sat next to her, fiigeted gleefully in his. seat. Mr, Murphy glanced at his list and said, “Richard Allen—will you spell consult.” Richard suddenly had his own problem, He took care of consult if a clear, and .confident voice.
Words Get Tougher
THE PRELIMINARY spelling bee took a steady toll. Several boys and girls left when they were eliminated. That's the way I feel. If I can't play I don't want to watch. Janet Paxton and I met our Waterloo on the word besieged. But I was lucky—no one knew I put the e before the i. word out loud. As Mr. Murphy went through his list the words began to get tougher and tougher. Cynthia Hatfield slowly and deliberately spelled communicate. - When she was through she gave a quick look towards the judges’ table. Cynthia got a smile from Mrs. LeRoy Miller and Mrs. George Nickel. With a loud “Wheee” Cynthia sat down to a round of soft applause. When ‘Mr. Miller announced that he would go
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" through the list once more and all those who spelled |
their words correctly would be eligible for the second preliminary spelldown, the children’s restrained enthusiasm bubbled over.
One by one 17 youngsters took their chances |
with the words Mr. Murphy pronounced. Fifteen went home happy, two were disappointed with their showing. I wasn't too happy with mine.
Janet unfortunately had to spell the,
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SECOND, SECTION * :
"Bergwacht."
Skiers Have Rescued
Written for GARMISCH, Germany, March heights at breakneck speed; skill.
Men Of Bergwacht Are '
ON WATCH—Typical member of Bavaria's famed Mountain Watch is Carl Reger, 23, who was born and raised in the mountains and has been in the Bergwacht for eight years. breast pocket he wears the red and white badge imprinted with the edelweiss, flower of Bavaria, the red cross, and the inscription |
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Fabulous Volunteer Organization of Climbers,
1555 Since V-E Day
By DORA JANE HAMBLIN
American Red Cross Representative
NEA Service 26.—They sweep down from showy
they leap yawning crevices with uncanny In their veins, so they say, flows the blood of mountain goats; on
{their chests gleams edelweiss, the flower of Bavaria. These are the men of. the Bergwacht, world's greatest mountain-
this fabulous group, who jest among themselves about the renewed strength they receive from goat's
I'm just wondering if my old spelling primer is blood, have saved the lives of 116
still around the house somewhere.
Gentlemen
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Americans since V-E day.
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” SOME 348 of them toiled for 464
[to save those lives.
By Frederick C. Othman |
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WASHINGTON, March 26.—It must be wonderful to be a gentleman of congress, slinging insults at his neighbors and seldom, if ever, getting a poke in the eye. That's introduction enough to the gentleman from Massachusetts, John W. McCormack, who announced he didn't like the attitude of the gentleman from Wisconsin, Frank B. Keefe.
The gentlemen were debating the labor department appropriation bill, : “The gentleman from Wisconsin,” said the gentleman from Massachusetts, “has the habit of charging anybody who disagrees with him of uttering in a loud manner the word, bunk, and other common phrases.” “Hear, hear,” said the gentleman from Wisconsin. “We can assume from listening to him,” continued the gentleman from Massachusetts, “that the only super-intelligent member of the houses the gentleman from Wisconsin.” The gentleman from Wisconsin took a bow, while the gentleman from Michigan, Clare E. Hoffman, strode forward.
Bunk Is Compliment
: “WHEN THE gentleman from Wisconsin characterizes anything I say as bunk, I regard that as a high compliment,” continued the gentleman from Massachusetts, ignoring the approaching gentleman from Michigan. The gentleman from Wisconsin applauded, but the gentleman from Michigan, said he had something to say to the gentleman from Massachusetts, to-wit: “If the gentleman likes to have his words characterized as bunk, that's all right with us.” Came then the gentlewoman from New Jersey, Mrs. Mary T. Norton, to denounce the bill. The gentleman from Wisconsin said the gentlewoman
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from New Jersey didn't know what she was talking | about.
“But I'm not going todry to convince the gentle|, Americans and the release of tain climber considers the Mountain |the Germans from the regimented life of ‘wartime has
lady from New Jersey.” added the gentleman from Wisconsin. “A lot of people have tried to convince Boss Hague up there in New Jersey and they haven’ t| been successful.”
‘A Charming Fellow
THE GENTLEWOMAN tried to retort, but the] . gentleman wouldn't let her. The gentleman from | New York, John J. Rooney, said he knew about the| gentleman from Wisconsin, because they both ess on the same appropriations sub-committee. ~ “The gentleman is really a charming fellow,” con- | tinued the gentleman from New York. “I spent nine weeks on his committee and it was a grand tea party. If you didn’t agree with him it didn’t matter, because he wouldn't listen to you. He wrote this bill, | himself. So we have seen him here yesterday oud today, strutting back and forth. He is a czar, a dictator on this bill.” Not so, cried the gentleman from Minnesota, H.| Carl Andersen. “And the gentleman from New York has violated | the rules of this house by saying what he did about | the gentleman from Wisconsin,” said the gentleman! from Minnesota. “And I am looking him in the eye, when I say this.” “I am looking at you, too,” retorted the gentle-! man from New York. At this stage of the fray the gentlemen at the] pool room which I frequent always peel off their] coats "and start swinging. . The gentlemen of con-| gress did no such thing. Didn't even muss each other's hair. Just kept sneering the live-long day, and snarling, and saying things which would have had me in the hospital nursing a broken nose if I'd] sajd 'em to you. Guess Ym just no gentleman. |
Mirror Club
By Erskine Johnson
HOLLYWOOD, March 26.—A few more slices of that sensational banana cake at the Somerset hotse, and I ‘can qualify for membership in Hollywood's exclusive Mirror club.’ Lo .
There are only four members right now-—-Walter Slezak, at 230 pounds; Andy. Deyifie, at 230, Sydney Greenstreet, -275, and Oliver Hdrdy, 269. Walter, who may soon l6se his membership, told me about -the club over a eouple of slices of rye .Jfead. Walter is ‘on a diet. has. lost six and a “halt pags eand has 40 _more-to-go-before; he says . “T look like a thin Van Johnson.” Vah has a good chance to become a member of the Mifror club any day now if he gains much more weight. The idea of the Mirror club, Walter explained, is this: A Hollywoodsman immediately becomes a { member when he can see his feet only by standing { in front of a mirror. “You are a member,” Walter i said, “when your bay window interferes with seeing i your feet.” ‘
Former Matinee Idol
THEY SAY everyone JOves ¢ a fat man— wit “nobody seems to love Walter. That's why he's .reducing to become an exémember of the Mirror club. All he= | plays on the screen, it seems, are villains. He's the menace in ‘Sinbad the Sailor” and another in “The Pirate.” “1 sighed Waiter, between bites of rye bread, “want to play romantic heavies. I am avery romantic character at heart.” He was a matinee idol on the stagé, but Hollywood typed him as’ a villain. “I'd like to be," he said, “a cross between Sydney
Greenstreet and Clifton Webb. Sort of a pixie Clark Gable.” i Frank Morgan may do a vaudeville stint after | going off the air next month. His price is $10, 000 | a week. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. gre a big | hit at the London Palladium. It may speed up thei | Feturn to the screen.
Double Trouble Tm
SOMEONE _ thought “it Would . be nice. at - the : Academy Award presentation to have "the ‘best song | nominations sung by the stars who sang them. on the screen. The idea was quickly dropped ‘when someone else suddenly remembered that Jeanne Crain | had .a voice double for “All Through thé Day” in | “Centennial Summer.” Jeanne's singing double was | Louanne Hogan, Donald O'Connor is playing his first film role in| four years with Deanna Durbin in of Mary.” Donald was discharged from the army | a year ago, and the changeover of Universal to!
Universal International left him without ‘a role until |
now. Donald still chuckles over the time he was asked to write and stage a vaudeville show for a cast] of 35 at an Atlantic City army camp. He labored | over the book and music for weeks. Came the first cail for talent and three yawning privates showed up. |
Overnight, most of the camp's population had been | transfered. | “1 need a cast of 35. All I've got is three men,” | wailed Don to his commanding officer. “What should 1 do?” " { Replied the C. O, “Improvise.” Donald “improvised” by playing 15 roles himsel.
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By Ruth Millett
A NEW. MEXICO' justice ot the peace about ‘to. say “I now pronounce you man and wife” over a young couple was interrupted by the bridegroom. He wanted the word “provided” added to the ceremony.
“Provided what?” asked the startled justice of the peace. -“Provided’ if works,” sald the bridegroom matter-of-factly: af “ Plenty of young people today go in for aprovided” marriages. The only reason this one was news was _ because the groom put the reservation into words.
i Out of 4 Ends in Divorce
THAT resetvation i§ pretty shocking. ‘We like the
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| a lot of couples have substituted “provided” for the | beautiful, dignified “till death” promise. J
Provided Marriages Crack Up
AND NO marriage that starts with a “provided” clause has the slightest chance of lasting through the years. Marriage just isn't’ that perfect, that ideal a partnership. In #ny. marriage there are bound to be times when either the husband or wife or both are dis- | Allusioned about their union, There are sure. to be ‘times when the maxriage doesn't seem to be Working) 4 nt That is when the uproyided” mattiage Cracks: up. | But the “till death” or disilfusionment,
‘end up with a4 Tispriage | that ‘but at least is intact.
“For the Love] |
Others put in a total of 168 hours
{to bring back bodies of 11 Americans | killed while climbing, hunting, or {skiing in the Bavarian Alps.
The great influx of sports-lov-
made the
at great personal danger,!
safety organization. Bergwacht means “Mountain Watch.” Members of
BECAUSE MOST “deaths are due to falls into almost inaccessible places, it is not uncommon for 27 to 30 Bergwacht men to spend three to five days on a recovery mission. An all-volunteer group organized in 1920 and sponsored by the Bavarian Red Cross, the Bergwacht is made up of the mountain country’s best men, : They may be asked to join or they may apply and wait to be accepted, but in either case any sturdy, experienced Bavarian skier and moun-
Watch a top honor. ” rd »
months since: V-E Day the bus-
iest on record for the Mountain | Watch.
Since then, its men have rescued 1555 persons, and have recovered the | bodies of 57 casualties.
A BERGWACHT man gets no pay. He must attend special school twice la year: He goes out day or night,
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1047
AID FOR INJURED—High in Bavaria's rugged Alpine mountains, a three-man
Mountain Watch team comes to the aid of a ski victim.
First aid already has
been administered, and the injured man is being lifted onto a toboggan for the trip
down the mountain. troops during the war.
If he is a barber and. call for help| comes while he’s shaving his best customer, he puts down his razor and answers the call like an American volunteer fireman. Testimony to his skill is that in the 26 years of some of the most dangerous work in the world, no member of the organization ever has been killed on duty. ” » ” THOUGH THE chief factor in a
man’s selection for the Bergwacht| iis his mountain experience, in-| tensive training in first aid is vital to his success.
|into blinding sun or raging storms, (to fipd and save anyone who needs ‘help.
Reaching an injured victim is only the first part of the job, for | often a life hangs on the skill of
men trained in emergency first aid practices. Since war’s end, all Bergwacht men have received training in American Red Cross first aid techniques. - A small group of Bergwacht men has been hired by the U. S. army for full-time work at army resort areas. > These men serve as instructors and safety supervisors around the trails and ski slopes, aided on weekends by other, volunteer, Bergwacht men » » »
BEFORE THE war most men of the mountain watch were in their twenties or thirties; now the ages range from 16 to 65.
Many of these ski patrolmen served in the German mountain The U. S. Army has carefully screened them to make sura they had no Nazi connections other than military service they could not avoid.
Once a man puts on the edelweiss pin of the Mountain Watch he is qualified to wear it as long as he can do his job. ¥ Although there are 2576 of these sturdy climbers, organized roughly into units in 64 towns and villages in the Bavarian Alps. When the phone rings for help, they go out as teams, two men on a routine patrol, four oh a search, eight or more on a difficult recovery. In summér, when there is no snow in the lower reaches of the mountain to facilitate movement, eight
ito ten men constitute a rescue or {recovery team. ; Mountain folks say the Berge
wacht men can go anywhere &
mountain goat can.
‘Missing Link Sought in Africa |
American Expedition Plans Hunt in July By PAUL F. ELIS
United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, March 26.—Ameri{can paleontologists are getting |ready to go on a big-time ex- { pedition to South Africa in a search for the “missing link” in the]
l evolution of man.
Sponsored by several universities {and industrial firms, it is expected to concentrate in the area of Sterkfontein and Kromdraai where scme pre-historic fossil material already has been found. There is a. question whether this Sterkfontein fossil is old enough or has the right characteristics to have originally been part of a creature closely related both to ape and man. Plan Search in July Wendell Phillips, of Concorn, Cal; one of the leaders of the expeditien;Feeently returned from
Africa where he made plans for the|
new search scheduled in July. The bones and other material, found in 1938, show evidence that an ‘ape man” village may have | been in existence with some experts placing the time-at about 250, 000 B. C. that would be far too reicent, for - the period when ‘missing: link” existed. wa ‘Definite - proof already’ has, been established - that-man lived at least 500,000 years ago. : .
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Gardening—
Dosage of Potash Is First Requirement
By MARGUERITE SMITH IT'S NO TRICK at all to raise good potatoes, says Albert Lang, 3902 E. 62d st, even if your soil is, {like his, heavy clay and perhaps | potash deficient. He simply figures that since “root crops of all sorts like potash and much of our soil lacks it he gives them potash, “I wouldn't think of planting beets, carrots, parsnips, or potatoes without high potash fertilizer,” he says. “Then I get around’ this heavy soil by growing my potatoes in com-~
Here's the trick. It's specially adapted to small gardens where you want big yield from little- space.
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tion line, Mr. Lang says, “I dig a trench 5. or 6 inches deep, space the seed in the middle with a strip of heavy potash fertilizer on either side.” which Je. thinks even better for} potatoes. a barely cover the potatoes, with
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HENER compost. a —— “You could use half rotted leaves or straw if you have no compost. The idea is to-give the potatoes a’ loose bed so those roots can swell. «He raises a dozen hills in his 28 by 60 garden plot. He plants them as early as he can work the ground —last year in March, (You can while you're waiting for spring to make up “its mind green sprout your seed potatoes by scattering them out in a light 2) not sunny spot. They'll grow good | green sprouts instead of the skinny
tato bin this time of year.) % ” ” " HERE'S another early idea: Mr. Lang raises his own tomate, eggplant, cabbage and other | plants indoors in sphagnum moss. It's foolproof, he says. No need to treat’ your seeds with chemical to prevem, damping off if you use it. ‘ He mses two pound cheese ‘boxes, almost filled with topsoil, then an inch or so of the moss on top. “It has to be sieved,” he points out, “otherwise it's too coarse. I pack it down, too. As soon as the seedlings begin to grow I fix up a chemical
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“I use potassium nitrate (salt~ peter) and superphosphate, a teaspoon of each in a half-gallon of "water, The two chemicals supply three’ needed elements to tHe plants,” ” » ” HE'S ALSO divised an automatic watering system for his early started plants. A short fiber wick: with
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the seed box. Spread out under |sofl it supplies water as “like grandma's cqpl
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Gardener Here Gives Tip on How to Grow Good Potatoes Even in Heavy Clay Soil
To get sturdy piants from house
Draw New Panel
Trial Is Recessed With 11 in Box
MADISON, Ind, March 26.—The trial of *Mrs. Lottie (Tot) Lockman on attempted poison murder charges was in recess today for lack of prospective jurymen. Judge Harry Nichols adjourned court until tomorrow to permit jury commissioners to draw an additional panel of 30. The original panel of 75 venire men was exhausted without a jury being seated. Most of the prospeetive jurors admitted they had formed opinions on the case, Eleven were tentatively seated, with both state and defense retain
these.
about the case resulted in it being discussed in every corner of this small community. Factions who believed Mrs. Lockman tried to poison her employer's invalid wife, Mrs. Mayme McConnell, allied themselves against other factions who protested the “good samaritan of the hills” was a victim
_NEAT-TRICK—Litile Lucy Lang, 3902 E. 62d st. displays a |°F Circumstantial evidence. . .: plant watering device. A wick in bottom of pot draws water from | :
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Faces of Europe Reveal Terrible Story to Actress
|. Barbara Stanwyck has arrived in London with her husband, | Robert Taylor, for the opening there of her picture, “The Other Love”
Because this is Miss Stanwyck's first visit te
to England, The Indian«
| apolis Times felt that her reactions to that war-torn country—as s young, perceptive American—would be of wide reades interest,
By BARBARA STANWYCK LONDON, March 26.—The British love to tell you how wejul things
dre. But they don’t like you to say
That was almost the first thing I moticed, Robert Taylor, and I came to London after a sojourn on id Continent, First, it was two cloth merchants we met on the London train, Then the people in the hotel, and the people in the shops.
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started the conversation, it revolved around shortages of food, coal, clothes, and so forth. It started out and said, “It's pretty bad over here | they would say, : “Yes,” and thé conversation. would die. Somes thing would happen td" their faces and you knew you had better not go
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