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IN THE SUMMER of 1896, a 23-year-old Indianapolis restaurateur hired a horse and buggy for three
‘dollars and ‘drove to Martinsville for a rest, mineral
water and a hot bath. : Today this same man, Richard Stegemeler, is completing his annual visit to Martinsville where for the past 10 days he has rested, taken hot baths and mineral water, ¥, * Mr, Stegemeler plans to leave tomorrow for home because Monday 1s a special day in his life. One of the most active, and probably oldest restaurateurs in town, he will observe his 71st birthday. Seated on a comfortable sofa in the lobby of the Martinsville sanitarium, white-haired Mr. Stegemeier smiled broadly when he sald his birthday Monday wouldn't be a big affair, a “Just before I left for Martinsville,” he explained, “my two daughters and my son. Karl had a little birthday party for me.” To the question of how he was feeling, Mr. Stegemeler slapped his left knee lightly and said, “I feel fine. By tomorrow I think my knee will be fine too. I feel very contented here.” The man who has worked in a restaurant since the day he arrived from his native Germany as a boy of 15 in 1891, was in no hurry to get back to work—until his allotted time was up at the rest sanitarium. . '
. “With Karl at the restaurant I don't worry about
CONTENTMENT PLUS—Veteran restaurant owner, Richard Stegemeier, sits down to his dinner in a Martinsville sanitarium,
Dress Trouble
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WASHINGTON, March 29.—The woman in my life has taken a long look at the new fashions and decided
to wear last Easter's dress tomorrow week. Hear that, storekeepers? : : My advice to you is rip up the frocks you've got in stock and turn ’‘em into pen-wipers or sachet bags. Then get off a sizling cable to Paris, telling those dress-designing lads to try again on something not Quite so cock-eyed. As you gentlemen well know, the Easter clothes business country-wide is a grave disappointment this year. Many a shop, stuck with a stock of dresses nobody seems to want, is holding pre-Easter bargain sales. Others have cancelled some of their orders, Some have sought to return dresses to the wholesalers,
Cost $135, Worth $2.98
MOST MERCHANTS agree with President Tru-
man that costs must come down; the chairman of the
National Retail Dry Goods association says prices either drop, or disaster is the word. That's part of the story, all right; my bride says she was shown a dress priced at $135 which wasn’t worth $50, but she wouldn't have worn it if it had been $2.98. She didn’t want to Jook like a fugitive from a harem in the Casbah. + That’s the real trouble, gents. The ladies don’t like most of this spring's fashions. Neither do their husbands. I got my first inkling of the horrid truth the other night when we were invited to a flossy spot to dine and dance. Some of the females were wearing the last word in fashionable clothes and they weren't happy. The one for whom I felt sorriest had a black dress, with a slit in it reaching to her left knee. This slit was bound in bright blue ribbon, At the top of the
Sweater Trouble
HOLLYWOOD, March 29.—Jane Russell gave a Iady-like sneer #fthe direction of that Florida fellow who is suing her because he says she wore only “high-
"necked dresses” for a singing engagement at his night
club. Jane was wearing a bright green sweater with
8 big yellow stripe across the front, so naturally she,
commanded a great deal of attention. “That guy,” Jane said, “is just crazy or blind. I alternated be-
. tween a black job with sequins and a jersey dress,
What did he expect me to wear—just a .smile?”
* Jane also gave » lady-like snger at reports that it _.was all a publicity stunt to ballyheo her pew singing “career. She's a regular now on the Kay Kysef radio
show and sounds like a cross between Peggy Lee and Ella Fitzgerald. “But,” said Jane, “I'm not giving up
" the screen. Howard Hughes still thas my contract for
pictures and television, but I- have all my radio rights. No more pictures like “Young Widow,” though, she said. “I'm just not the type to play that queenly junk. I want to do characters like Ann Sheridan plays. Most people in Hollywood are trying to avoid type casting. I'm the only one trying to get typed in something besides a sweater.”
Jennifer's ‘Duel’ Dance Cut
PARTS OF JENNIFER JONES’ dance in “Duel in the Sun” were a censorship casualty. Celeste Holm gets the role of Tyrone Power's castoft girl friend in “Nightmare Alley.” On the set: Tyrone Power eludes an army of black-hearted villains in a shipboard battle for “Captain From Castille.” Ty, sword in hand, leaps from
We, the Women
ONE REASON WHY high school kids so often have the upper hand in dealing with their parents is that the kids are organized, the parents aren't.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones know that daughter Mary, aged 16, shouldn't stay out until 1 or 2 in the morning simply because “the other kids don’t have to be in by 13.” $ -
‘Several Nights a Week’
THEY KNOW Jim, age 17, shouldn't be, roaring around af night in the family car, loaded with kids. But Jim insists that the other boys in his flass “get to have the family car several nights a 2 ens "They know sororities and fraternities have no place
in high schools, but their children say if they don't belong they be left out of everything. And so it goes.
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_ In school. In a few meetings a year they could get
from home I'm ready for dinner. I'm contented.” Looking off into space towards the sunlit patio, Mr. Stegemeler looked the picture of | He also looked like the man he was, a figh didn’t yell “Uncle” when life dealt some losing cards.
come to this country in 1883. He operated the restaurant part of Henry Smith's bar and restaurant,” Mr. Stegemeler said. Giving his dark eyebrows a swipe he added, “And. Henry put me to work the day we arrived.” lili The brothers worked hard for a year. In 1802 a year later, they opened the Stegemeier’s Restaurant at 17-19 N. Illinois st. and worked harder. By 1900 things were going so well, Richard Stegemeier returned to Germany and brought back his sweetheart Minnie and married her.
Business . steadily increased and by 1910 the brothers took over Billy Tron's bar until the building was torn down several years later. The business was moved to 18-20 W, Ohio st. where it prospered until prohibition came.
Brothers Tried New Venture HENRY AND RICHARD became interested in the building of the Apollo theater and a restaurant in the basement and left the operation of the W. Ohio st. restaurant to two employees. By 1924 the restaurant closed and the original Billy Tron bar was covered up.
Events moved swiftly. In 1928, Mrs. Richard Stegemeler died suddenly leaving her husband with three sons and two daughters. In 1929 as Mr. Stegemefjer put it: “We all hit rock bottom.” The depression set in hard. But there was more misfortune on the way. Henry Stegemeier died in 1931.
“Yes,” Mr. Stegemeier continued softly, “by 1933 my life's work was gone but the only thing that was left to be done was to start back again, I did on a shoestring. My youngest son Henry was going to Butler university and my daughter Marie was still in high school when I opened the doors of my new restaurant on 114 N. Pennsylvania ave. From then on it was hard work again—but it was worth it.” Mr. Stegemeier opened his restaurant and bar with the same 35-foot bar that was in Billy Tron’s place when he and his brother took over in 1910.
The guests in the lobby began disappearing through a double door which was a signal that “soup was on.” “Ah—this is what I've been ‘waiting for since breakfast,” Mr. Stegemeler said with a smile. (By Ed Sovola.)
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By Frederick C. Othman¥
slit was a bow a foot and a half long and six inches wide, ‘made of blue velvet. It had cast-iron stuffing in it to keep it from drooping. 80 she danced and every step she took, bang, her knee hit that bow, which was so heavy she seemed to favor her left leg. She didn’t exactly limp, but she almost did and I don’t think she'll ever buy a dress like that again. My guess is that shell cut it into strips to tie up her tomato vines. — - Another beauty for whom I have a high ‘regard wore a dress so new you almost could smell the salt air from its trans-Atlantic voyage. For a skirt it had a series of overlapping petals attached to her waist like aprons. When she stood still, the bottom of her skirt looked scalloped; when she moved, she couldn't keep her knees covered.
Fringed Lamp-Shades
PRETTY KNEES, TOO, but she felt uncomfortable. Those Parisians don’t seem to understand about ladies and their knees. When ladies wearing bathing suits, they have no objection to displaying these joints. When they put on stockings and a dress, their knees are unmentionable and must be kept hidden. This does not make sense, but that’s the way the girls are and I am surprised the dress makers didn’t know it. A third dress, which clinches my argument, made another lady's skirt look like a series of fringed lampshades, telescoped one on another, Above her waist she wore a bodice, from which some genius with the shears had cut a large, kidney-shaped chunk. Her waist was bare in the back and on both sides. Every time a man danced with her and put his sweaty paws on her raw middle she cringed. So did he. See what I mean, store keepers? No new dress in Mrs. O.’s closet this Easter. She doesn’t want to be embarrassed.
By Erskine Johnson
deck to rail like the late Doug Fairbanks. “Errol Flynn and Doug Jr.” we can’t resist observing, “will be green with envy.” “They can have it any time,” puffs Power. “This is hard work.” ; Betty Grable will play a tough desperado who poses as a school teacher and marries a sheriff in “The Blonde’ From Bashful Bend.” Preston Sturges will direct—so you can be assured it will be played for laughs. : “The script of director Roy del Ruth's next picture is on its way to Madeleine Carroll, who is anxious to return to the screen. a :
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Niven _.Busch.has anpther novel coming up-to 16k — E low in the celluloid footsteps of his “Duel in the
Sun” and “Pursued.” »
Corn Flake Snow Oulmoded
FOOLING THE PUBLIC department: The movie, “Christmas Eve,” introduces synthetic snow made out of plastic, replacing uncooked corn flakes used for so long in Hollywood snow scenes. A cloud machine, at 20th Century-Fox, looks like an upsidedown doughnut machine. Press a lever and a puff of smoke comes out. It quickly balloons to cloudsize, and hovers at around 1000 feet. These clouds even take direction. ’ , John Payne will have a complete X-ray going over soon in an effort to avoid an operation for a broken cartilage in his left leg. Talking about a certain swanky Hollywood eaterie, Dick Haymes observed: “The place is so fancy they serve pigs feet with shoe trees in them.”
By Ruth Millett
The kids are smart enough to be organized about their demands. The parents try to fight their battles alone,
Parents Should Unite
WHAT EVERY high school needs is a “parents’ association,” made up“of the parents of all the kids
together and decide what hour their kids should get home, how to outlaw drinking at school parties, and what to do about letting them have automobiles for their dates. ; parents stood together, they could enforce know: are right, instead of
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SECOND SECTION
Jury Warmed Not to Talk About Case
Prosecution Seeks 2-14-Year Sentence
By VICTOR PETERSON Times Staff Writer MADISON, Ind, March 20. There will be plenty of talk in Jefferson county over the week-end. The “mercury and old lace” trial of Mrs. Lottie (Tot) Lockman, charged’ with attempted murder by poison, was adjourned yesterday to 9 a. m. Monday. Members of the 12-man jury have been admonished by Judge Harry E. Nichuls, Jefferson county circuit court, to say nothing of the case on fear of being held in contempt and subject to imprisonment.
in the audiende ready and willing to gossip. Yesterday people jammed the 90-year-old court room to see the chief witnesses in the poison case. They were not disappointed. For three hours, Mrs. Mayme McConnell, alleged poison” victim of “Tot,” the “good samaritan,” tes-
to Madison in an ambulance from her Dupont home and carired into court. . Attended by Physician During state and defense examination, she constantly was attended by her physician, Dr. E. C. Cox, and a nurse. An invalid for years, she suffers a crippled left foot, a chronic heart condition and a severe kidney allment. She was haggard and nervous as she spoke. Monday the prosecution will continue to call witnesses in an effort to get a conviction which carries a 2 to 14-year prison sentence. The state is trying fo prove that the 63-year-old McConnell housekeeper is the only person who could have given bichloride of mercury to the alleged victim. The defense is attempting to
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Tot's Trial Adjour Zevimere: But Gossip Will Keep It
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prove that relatives and other employees of Forrest McConnell, wealthy sales manager ‘for a Chicago dairy firm, had equal opportunity. Late yesterday seven nurses and Mrs. Rinda Rains, Kings: Daughter hospital superintendent, Madison, testified to Mrs, McConnell’s hospital record. From Oct. 18, 1943 to Feb. 11, 1047, the invalid was hospitalized
STAR WITNESS—Mrs. Mayme McConnell testifies before Judge Harry in the poison trial of Mrs. Lottie Lockman at Madison, Ind.
five times. In Aug., 1946, body fluids of Mrs. McConnell were taken for examination. They contained mercury. . . The two-sided character of the defendant was revealed again in statements of Mrs. Anna Clashman,; Lancaster. An old friend of the McConnell family, she helped attend Mrs. Minnie McConnell, mother of Forrest,
year accused ‘Tot’ of her murdér but later dropped the charge on insufficient evidence. Mrs. Clashman said ‘Tot’ spoke obscenely of the two McConnell women and would not answer a call immediately when summoned: She. admitted that “Tot” was a hard and efficient worker, but seemed to want to conceal the death of Mrs. Minie McConnell from the alleged poison victim. *
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“1 think she wanted to spare Mayme the worry and sorrow over her. mother-in-law’s death,” Mis, Clashman said. } Meanwhile, as the case unfolds, “Tot” maintains an almost stoic face. - Only once have tedrs come to her eyes. , Yet she is concerned.
Questioned by reporters yesterday, she asked a single question: “Oh, what are people saying about me?”
Boy Eternal
By Barton Rees Pogue
He's a human while
Or head of the
BEHOLD the whining school-boy, With his shining morning jowls That were polished by his mother To the theme song of his howls; Creeping like snail he splashes Through every puddle and pool, And all that 4
leads him onward Is the tin can he kicks to school.
WITH HIS school-books strapped on hindmost, Unwillingly he goes, And all the rebellion hé harbors He expresses with his toes. “Readin’ and. writin’,” he mutters,
As he lands a vicious kick, * And the can sails high as he splutters, “And that darned old
“KICKING hig shoe toes to tatters ~~ ~~ On an old tomater tin ~~ That the famous Earliana Or the Ponderosa came tn . . .
'rithmetic!”
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he’s at it,
Let no one call him fool, * A lot of us might be better, Kicking a can to school!
KICKING a can to grade school, Kicking a can to High, ‘ Would he kick a can to college? Could he possibly pass one by? He'll be kicking a can with abandon On the day he matriculates, And slyly taking a wallop Behind the pearly gates.
MAKE HIM a member of Congress,
U.S.A,
A real boy recalls the tinware He has mangled in his day; Give him a desk in a law firm, Let him boss a wild wheat pool, And he'll wish to God for the mornings He kicked a can to school!
Cafe Burglar Escapes With $120
A burglar who entered a restau- man attempted to entice her into his rant at 1518 N. Pennsylvania st.
car near Technical high school yes-
in cash.
knife standing a rear door,
the other kids get to do so«
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early today took an estimated $120
Ralph Davis, 39, a cook, told police he awoke in his rear room to see|st., and Mrs. R. E. Glover, a burglar armed with a butcher|fleld, Ill, told police
terday as she was returning from school to her home in the 1800 block lot Spann ave. : Mrs, O. L. Dick, 1141 B. Market Spring-
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Gardening—
New Eanglander Gefs Indiana Advice
By MARGUERITE SMITH
“I AM FROM New England and need lilacs in my dooryard,” writes Mrs. W. A. Wood, 2502 N. Alabama st. “Ours come along very slowly and sometimes fall by the wayside. Is there ‘anything in the world you or your contributors have to say about lilacs in town? Indianapolis has one of everything—please find the lilac expert.” . So here's your chance to help a ‘New Englander in our midst— if you have lilac ideas. I talked this question over with Mrs. Arthur Focke, 5262 Kenwood ave. She .claims. she is expert only in what not to do for lilacs. Hers, it seems, displayed typical lilac slowness when she brought some old-fashioned dooryard type (syringa vulgaris) from her home in Ohio. They spent nine years getting acclimated. _ “But now,” she says, “since ‘I haven’t pruned them properly; when I want a bouquet I have to assemble a ladder and rake to get them down from. the telephone wires. > » . »
“LILACS should have full “sun
shade four pear tr garage. Of course, the old-fash-foned lilac will take all sorts of punishment, otherwise they'd never have endured.” Slowness in blooming, Mrs, Focke
|says, comes from the lilac’s need
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to establish a good root system to feed its heavy top growth. The newer French hybrids are much. more likely to flower in a year or two
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Since lilac rogts develop slowly, hybrids are often grafted on privet root stocks to-hurry them along. Theoretically if they are properly planted with the. graft below the soil surface the hybrid will grow its own lilac roots. But these roots
below normal, But that is better than 15 to
the temperatures were 22, 17 and 28, respectively. These readings were 15, 19 and 12 degrees below normal, respectively. | I asked Mr. Williamson if this wasn’t a. record and he pointed out
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Relax Now, But That Snow Missed by Just 10 Miles
By THE WEATHER EDITOR Another week of sub-normal temperatures faces us. If it is any consolation, it will not be as cold as early this week. For the next three or four days the thermometer will read three to five degrees
18 below normal like we had early
this week, points out Weather Forecaster R. M. Williamson. On last Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday :
“The red birds are singing with robins are abundant.
EXPERT—W. R. Johns, 217 S. 4th st., Beech Grove, demonstrates the proper way to make a dahlia cutting. -
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