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“THANKS JIM.” . “Okay—be back here tomorrow. I want to take another look at that ankle.” A grateful Butler university” “athlete nodded his head as he left the training room. Jim Morris, trainer, wheeled around to another man -and ‘asked, “WHO TOLD YOU TO GET OFF THAT TABLE?" “Well, I—." “Come on— c¢'mon—let's go. I don't have all’ day,” The first impression one gets in the training room is that Jim Morris runs his domain as if he were Capt. Bligh of “Mutiny on the Bounty” fame. But the impression doesn't last<long. In the language of the college Joe—Jim is a “good boy.” With the track man back on the table and under an infra-red lamp, Jim turned his attention to a football player with a bad ankle. After a thorough inspection the verdict was “Soak it for 10 minutes in hot water and 10 in cold—then we'll put it under the lights.” ‘80 footballer Dick Gruber was out of the way for awhile. That, however, didn't end the long line of men who, as Jim put it, “stagger in here.” Dick Schulyer, pole vaulter, sat patiently on a chair along the wall, “Come here Speedy,” taping table. “You know what this guy went and did?” Jim asked me as “Speedy” took his place on the ‘“groaning” table. “Instead of landing on his feet. after his vault, he lands on the side of the box, consequently he’s in here.” Before the pole vaulter could say a word in his own defense, Jim motioned him not to say a word. “Let's get that leg out here where I can see it.” The leg was almost thrown out of joint.

Tendons Checked

EXPERIENCED HANDS felt the tendons ahd twisted the ankle slowly to the left, right, up and

Jim said motioning to the

down. On two occasions there was a slight grimace of pain. Dick got his instructions while his ankle was being taped.

“ “Work on your pace and sprint a little but no vaults. Come back tomorrow.” “Hey, Manifold, aren't you about well done,” Jim asked another trackman whose leg was under the diathermy machine, “Yeah.” “Well then get out on that track,” Jim told Howard Manifold. “Okay.” “Hold your horses now and let me tape that leg.” Before Howard was allowed to leave the training room his leg was taped as if it were the most important limb in the world and the way Jim worked on it, it was. “Thanks, Jim.” “Beat it.” . Two football players came in to have their ankles taped. “Preventive taping” Jim called it. Nothing wrong with the ankles but he's not taking any chances.

21,000 Yards of Tape

“HOW MUCH tape do you use here Jim?” I asked. Just as quick as if he were telling an athlete where to get a clean towel, Jim came back with,

Pipe Dreams

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NO RED TAPE HERE—Butler university traine er Jim Morris, believes in fast, efficient service— "gometimes" even witha smile.

“Eleven cases—24 tubes to a case, eight rolls to a tube, 10 yards to a role which makes it about 21,000 yards a year—that's from September to June.” Can't beat that kind of an answer from a man who has a steady stream of men coming to him with their special kind of grief starting at 1:30 in the afternoon and continuing as late as 9:30 ‘in the evening. The three training tables, two infra-red lights and the diathermy machines were kept busy. And that's not counting the yards and yards of tape, rubbing alcohol, analgesic salve, and mineral oil for strained muscles which Jim used in between his therapeutic machine maintenance. I sat in what looked like a barber's chair. When I asked what it was used for the room suddenly shook with loud yells and laughter. “That's Jim's barber chair. He cuts hair on the side.” “Don’t let them give you any stuff,” Jim called above the din. “That's where we do our eye, ear and throat work. Of course, I do cut some guy's hair occasionally but that's free.” The boys let go with a long, low howl which immediately brought down the “wrath” of Jim Morris. “All right—let's get outside and start work and cut out this foolishness, ¢’'mon move.” Jim glared at the boys but broke down with a big smile as they filed out and called “Thanks, Jim.” “Watch that knee, Urban,” Jim cautioned a hurdler. Urban Simonta just nodded his head with an understanding “Okay, Jim.” “What have you got, Pete?” “Blister, Jim, and I think it's infected.” “Get over here,” Jim directed as he got up steam again.

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By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, April 16.—Secretary of Treasury John Snyder was none too hospitable, He had a big can of opium and a long black pipe to smoke it in, but did he give me a whiff? Not Mr. Snyder, He kept his dream dope in a locked case. It was a souvenir from a big-time raid by his narcotics commissioner and nobody was hitting the pipe in the inflér sanctum of Moneybags Snyder. This, as I think you soon will agree, was a pity. The conversation between Mr. Snyder and the experts at his press conference involved recessions, depressions, fiscal powers, debt retirement and other matters as esoteric.” Had the head money-maker given me & small puff on his pipe, I might have understood the situation better. As it is I've got to report the good news in my own bumbling way. Prices of things in general seem to be on the way A ball point fountain pen can be bought for 49 cents. A radio factory has nicked $20 off some , models. A furniture store here has lopped one-fifth "off the price of everything in stock. Stuff like that, Mr. Snyder. has noticed a good deal of evidence. Next week, maybe, he can be more specific about prices on the way down. He wouldn't say any more about that and I don't know whether he's got some inside info, or just hopes.

Good Business

HE BEGAN to talk about debt retirement and its effect on the cost of living and this was where I looked longingly through the plate glass at his opium pipe. Mr. Snyder ignored this. It is his fault if I've got the idea wrong. Every ‘Saturday night he reaches into the till for

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Lr WooD: “April 16.—Vivien Leigh has fully recovered from her serious illness following a vacation fn southern. Italy. Husband Lawrence Olivier just received that Oscar he won in March.” “What do you "do with this?” he asked. An American friend in London told him, “Just what they do with ’em in Hollywood. If makés a wonderful doorstep.” \ Our comment the other day about Maureen Q'Hara always wearing the identical smile in her still phatographs brought a quick response from the lady. Writes Maureen:

“There are smiles that make you happy, There are smiles that make your blue But the smile of 'mdignation, Eh Is the smile, sir, I have for you.”

Blame the n newspaper editors, says Maureen. “They are given a wide variety of smiles, If they consistently choose the ‘immobile’ one, what can I do? Next time we meet, I shall have my best southern- honey-from=-Alabama look. I'm sure itl be a Mobile smile, suh.”

Tune O. K., Not Words .

NBC FINALLY OKAYED use of the tune, “Hugglh’ and Chalkin’"” but nixes- the lyrics. In other words, it's for hummin’,’ not talkin’. Hugh Herbert's wife is about to tell a lawyer why she thinks he isn't that funny at home. Arthur Lake's 65-foot cutter, Twilight,” will com=pete with Humphrey Bogart and George Brent's boats in the Los Angeles to Honolulu race in July. Don Law observes that Ray Milland must ‘be tapering off. In “California,” he has only two drinks.

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$200 million of the long green we taxpayers have been giving him and uses it to buy back $200 million worth of government bonds. This seems to be something like burning the mortgage on the church. Good business. It means that the government doesn’t have to pay interest on $200 million. It also means, because of some financial abacadabra I don't rightly understand, that every week $200 million in bank credit goes out of circulation. -Down the drain. Up the pipe, Vanishes.

Sounds Reasonable

THERE IS that much less money to spend on automobiles and shirts and other things spewing out of the factories at an ever increasing rate. The less money and the more things the lower the cost of same, Mr. Snyder said. This sounded reasonable to me. His inquisitors from the financial press, the amazing gentlemen, who can‘ look at a treasury statement and make sense of it, said well and good, but what about the price of things to eat? . They said they didn't see how President Truman could ask business to lower prices so long as he paid subsidies to farmers to keep up the price of potatoes. They said this seemed paradoxical. Mr. Snyder said, did it? He said, what subsidies? He clammed up and added that if the financial writers wanted to know about food prices they ought to talk to the secretary of agriculture. .... I'm not blaming Mr. Snyder. Congress passed the hold-up-farm-prices law. The late President Roosevelt signed it. President Truman is enforcing it, and Mr. Snyder is the bookkeeper. He writes the checks

.and it’s not his job to comment.

By Erskine Johnson

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Wallace Beery should be blushing. In his’ new movie, “Alias a Gentleman;” he pours himself into a tuxedo for the first. time in 15 years, delves into classical music, and drinks tea with an upturned pinky. A red face for Luise Rainer, Traveling to Holly-

ios by plane, she noticed one of the passengers

looked air sick and “very frightened.” She engaged him in conversation, told him about the many air trips she'd taken, and how safe air travel was. The fellow seemed very appreciative. When they arrived in Los Angeles, he thanked her graciously and handed her his card. He was Jack Fry, former head of TWA.

Makeup Gets Complicated

A BABY WORKING with Bill Powell in a scene for “Song of the Thin Man” needed make-up repairs. Director Eddie Buzzell called to make-up man Eddie Pollo, “Powder puff needed.” Pollo yelled back, “For which end?” Teresa Wright claims one of the humblest beginnings in show business. She says, “When Martha Scott was starring in the stage play, ‘Our Town,’ I understudied Dorothy McGuire, who was understudying Martha.” Vic Mature finally has to get a short haircut for a prison scene in “Kiss of Death.” It's about time, School authorities of Dallas, Tex. have removed from a local grammar school thie desle at which Linda Darnell once studied. Dallas kids raised such a ruckus over ttie honor of sitting there. Alan Mowbray has written a book “More Fun Than the Movies.”

» By Ruth Millett

THE FAST changing fashion picture had women worried for a little while. That was when the fashion duthorities were’ prophesying that women weresgoing to have to throw , out everything in their closets and start anew in order to stay in the fashion”picture. .But women have risen to_the occasion,

‘Making Them Over RIGHT NOW they are perfectly contented SNe ng out ways to make clothes in the closet’ conform

hemlines, ripping out heavy shoulder padding, figuring out fom to lines—and having a wonderful time POL. owe

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Going through their closets ‘with a speculative eye as to how much can be salvaged is as much fun for women as going to an auction and visualizing something usable out of a piece of junk. , Cothes are fun again, because once again fashion is a challenge. The frozen styles of the war years were practical but a dull business.

Fashion Is Fun Y.

NOW A WOMAN can look at last year's suit in one’ hand and a fashion picture in the other and

figure out some way to make the two look alike. ‘she. ted

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SECOND SECTION

Reform Heat Hits Notorious Muncie Dives

District Under Wraps Prior to Primary

By RICHARD LEWIS Times Staff Writer MUNCIE, Ind, April 16.—Prostitution in Muncie, America’s “Middletown,” is under wraps until primaries are over: Muncie reformers have made it politically “hot.” That means, that eight houses

[now are operating out of 24 which

had been doing business until recently. These eight are active clandestinely on week-ends when farmers come to town. *The highest count of the number of known prostitutes in Muncie is 162. The lowest count is 51.. One reason for the’ divergence is that the prostitutes keep drifting in and out of town, making the rounds of Muncie, New Castle and Anderson. Business Is Steady But Muncie. is the headquarters for these women because here business is “steady.” “Mostly they leave us alone here,” an operator sdid. “For a while we got to keep low. They’s a bunch of reformers howlin’ they heads off. But things'll get better "after the election.” . Until last month, prostitution was as open as any other business in town, But reform “heat” has sent it underground and one is told that most of the “girls” are “out-of-town.”. The eight operating houses charge more now because of the “risk.” Whatever the risk of the operators, the risk of the citizen is very real. High Disease Rate Muncie has one of the highest venereal disease rates in Indiana. The traditional, wide-open character of this racket is illustrated by the fact that prostitution domiflates an entire section of the town. This section is popularly known as “Red Light.” Not the red light district, but just “Red Light.” It is referred to as casually as any other section of town, like McCulloch park or the Ball State college campus. A stranger asking directions will be told:

of Red Light.” - Unless the stranger is aware of the local situation, he is apt to confuse the term with a traffic signal, in which case he can get very lost. Houses Listed as Vacant The weather-beaten, unpainted houses of Red Light are listed as “vacant” in the city directory. After dark, they become suddenly alive. Until the heat went on, passersby were summoned by sharp rappings on the windows. One house reputedly rang a bell. Not long ago, a new minister making his first rounds in Muncie was passing through Red Light to make calls on ill members of his church, oblivious to the character of the neighborhood. He was puzzled by being summoned repeatedly from doorways by women in kimonas and slacks. It was when the window rapping started that he ceased tipping his hat and hurried away. Mecca for Youths Muncie has always been a mecca for restless youths from Indianapolis. Cars with Indianapolis license plates still park in Red Light. In the last month, the houses are closed to all but initiates. Economically, ‘prostitution in Muncie pays off ‘a number of people well, but the prostitutes don't do well at it and they're complaining. One string of houses is said to gross $100,000 a year. About onethird of this is paid for protection. Another third goes to the operator. That leaves about $33,000 to be distributed among 40 prostitutes who comprise the “payroll.” The system. is. reportedly so well balanced that books are kept on it for federal income tax purposes. The operators can slide past city hall, but they don’t fool with freasury agents, . Just about every third person you meet prowling Muncie’s underworld is (1) some kind of an enforcement agent checking up; (2) a University of Chicago graduate .student gathering material for his doctor’s thesis;

Des Moines or Indianapolis looking for a trend and (4) an eager young man who explains he is writing a book. Like the Smithsonian institute,

bilites.

TOMORROW: Th The Affair at the Wysor-Grand. :

Kennelly on Job

CHICAGO, April 16 (U. P.).— Martin H. Kennelly, 59-year-old businessman, took over as mayor of Chicago today to begin what he called a “new era” in city administration. Mr. Kennelly was ‘elected on the Democratic ticket April 1 on a pledge that he owed allegiance to no group other than the citizens of Chigago. , He reiterated these statements in

after accepting the gavel from exMayor Edward J: Kelly. The new mayor promised that city employees would either do the jobs for which

{they are paid—or he would get .

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The Heart of America—

‘Miss Susie,’ Matriareh of Louisiana Town, Presides Over Family of 26

Decide to Marry and

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1947

Homes Built for All as Young Kents

Settle Down

One of a Series.

FLUKER, La., April 16.—This is Louisiana family.

under the trees those are the homes of Miss Susie's children and grandchildren. : When a Kent gets married, the lumber trucks come rumbling over from the sawmill on the other side of the highway — or from one of their three other mills—and a new house goes up. Fifty acres have been set aside for family home sites, and there are plenty more if needed. They All Come Back Miss Susie has seven children, 15 grandchildren, and four greatgrandchildren, and she holds them together. Not by domination but by making home and their own enterprises offer them happiness and success. They go away to college, study whateventhey want, and come back to Fluker. If one of the grandchildren now growing up decides he wants to be an ichthyologist, that'll be okay with Miss Susie, What's more, she probably will have a good opening for an ichthyologist. In addition to their lumbering interests, the Kents run a plantation, raise fine beef cattle, operate a big general store that would be a credit to a city, and ‘reach out into banking and other lines. Dogs, Horses Hobbies They also breed and train gaited horses for the show ring and breed bird dogs, but. those activities are just hobbies. If their interests were operated as a corporation, Miss Susie would be chairman of the board, and her old+ est son, Tom, would be president. The others would be vice presidents in charge of divisions."

- By ELDON ROARK Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

Miss Susie's town.

And when you say “Miss Susie” dowfl this way, everybody knows you are referring to Mrs. Richard Kent, the matriarch of a remarkable

The big three-story house on the little rise at the end of the treelined drive—that’s Miss Susie's. And those neat, smaller homes scattered

When . the going gets tough, or when they get discouraged, they go up to the big house for a quiet chat with Miss Susie, & firm believer in the eternal goodness of God. They go back to tackle their problems with cheerfulness and confidence. Only one child has left the home place. That's Evelyn. At the University of Wisconsin she met and fell in love with Lester .Hale. He is now Dr. Hale of the University of Florida, where they live. Friends say Miss Susie has never become quite reconciled to Evelyn's leaving home. They won't be surprised to hear any day that she has set aside 500 acres at’Fluker for a campus and has broken ground for the construction of ‘a college just to bring Les and Evelyn. to Fluker to live. Prayer Each Tuesday Every Tuesday night the family gathers at the big house for a prayer service, and on Sunday they'go to near-by Arcola Union Presbyterian church. The building is over 100 years old, and still has. the balcony where slaves used to sit. Richard Jr. is superintendent of the Sunday School. Miss Susie sings in the choir, leads in prayer, teaches a class of adults. Her children and some of the in-laws are in it and they are not spared by Miss Susie. “Last Sunday aftermoon when I looked out the window,” Miss Susie may say, “I think I saw a truck being loaded down at the mill. I hope

I am mistaken, because that would

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not be keeping the Sabbath, would it?” And all of them will glance -at Doug, the head sawmill man. Miss Susie wears stylish clothes, sassy little hats, and uses rouge in moderation. And ‘she stays young because she keeps busy and believes it is wrong to worry.

Anderson: ‘GOP Hasn't Done Much’

+ See retary ‘Raps Actions of Congress

The Republican controlled congress has accomplished little in its first 100 days to compare with the like period in the first Roosevelt administration, Secretary of Agri-

calture Clinton P. Anderson told a Jefferson Day dinner here last night. Addressing Hoosier’ Democratic leaders in the Murat Temple, he asserted that “at noon April 13 they had had full control and legislativd responsibility for 100 days and now the people are heginning to admits that they ‘have had enough’. Pointing out that in past years Chicago elections have reflected national trends, he said that on the basis of the recent vote there President Truman next year might well get 60 per cent of the popular vote and carry two-thirds of the states.

Criticizes Tax Move

Criticizing the G. O. P. move to slash taxes, he charged “they would jeopardize ‘debt reduction by lowering taxes at a time when we are better able to pay taxes for debt reduction than ever before in our history.” wo Frank McHale, Indiana Democratic national committeeman, asserted Democrats would “sweep Indiana in 1948, - Democratic state chairman, asserted the Republican party in Indiaha “js tried and convicted in the court of public opinion for breaking every pre-election promise.” Jasper (Jap) Jones, Indianapolis hotel man, was -general chairman for the $25-a-plate affair.

Pleas Greenlee, |:

Violence Flares

In Gas Strike

Windows Smashed By Shotgun Blasts Violence flared in the threes weeks-old strike against the Citi=

zens Gas & Coke utility last night. Shotgun blasts smashed windows

in three homes and a cement block -

crashed through the window of a fourth. Police said dences of non- - About midnight, Mrs. Cecilia Sunkie, 2034 N. Bosart ave. reported the front window of her home was blasted out by a shotgun. She heard a car drive away after the 2 Shot. she said.

Her husband, Edwin, is a nonstriking worker at the! pect: st. plant of the utility.

Mrs. Dorothy Barlow, 3415 Pros pect st., told police a shotgun charge smashed six panes of one window and another window in her home shortly after midnight. Her hus band, Wilbur, a non-striking worker at\ the utility, had been threatened previously, she said. Window Is Smashed Another shotgun blast smashed a window at 1123 Vandeman st.

worker.

40-Pound ound Catfish Taken From Wabash COVINGTON ia" aortl 16

report catfish and shovel | rather slow but suckers falo are plentiful.

By LEO TURNER, United NEW YORK, April 16. — The

scoring on a gin rummy hatid. The fire broke out shortly before midnight in a wastebasket in the apartment of Baron Egmont Van Zuylen of The Netherlands diplo-

hose. “I saw the duke. aiding boys with the hotel hose pitched in” said Raymond

England, helped put out a fire on the 34th floor of the then turned in early today and had a good night's sleep. The duke was calm, a baroness guest thought it was all an international conspiracy to

Duke of Windsor Plays

Fireman for a

Aids Bellboys in Extinguishing Blaze In Waldorf-Astoria as Baroness Frefs

Night.

Duke of Windsor, former Waldorf

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