Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 April 1947 — Page 7

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HES A FELLOW saturated with hustle who has played seven positions around the diamond since he started his spirited half uniform

That, fans, is. the "As the Tribe pllot he's going to use a brief, easy-to-remember philosophy he professional baseball: fans and the club to hustle all the time.” Maybe it was only natural that Jimmy should

‘become a baseball player. He was born and reared in

the heart of North Carolina, where the chief products are burley and baseball players, and his hometown of Jamesville was especially a hotbed. Sunday attendance at the ball park often surpassed the town's population of 350, Brown was just nine when he accepted a mitt and the other cumbersome equipment of a catcher and joined Jamesville’s third team. Jimmy explained that men of the town comprised the first team, the teen-agers the second and the tykes the third. This accounted for nearly every Sble-bodiad male in the community,

Switched to Shoristop

HE TOOK A TURN an high school pitching and then at North Carolina State college he switched to p. During the summer he and his roommate, John Lanning, played semi-pro ball in what is now the professional Coastal Plains league. Lanning later pitched for the Pittsburgh Pirates. The octopus-like Cardinal scouting system spied and grabbed Jimmy In 1933 and sent him to Greens-

HUSTLING HALF.PINT—Manager Jimmy . Brown of the Indianapolis Indians, who has been playing baseball since he was nine years old, thinks hustle comes first.

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Two long years ago, he announced, the air forces sent a column of bombers rumbling through the Minnesota skies. The roar of their motors reached the sensitive ears of a couple of hundred silver foxes on the fur ranch of an Andresen constituent. “They were terrified,” he said. These fluttery foxes bumped their heads into walls. They got into fights. They died of heart failure. Their fur flew. The loss ran to better than $1000. Rep. Andresen had to help his man get a settlement from the war department. You'd have thought the army had learned its lesson. But listen:

Turns Up lis Toes “ABOUT A MONTH ago my fox fellow heard that the army was going to send some more war planes across Minnesota in some kind of celebration deal,” the congressman continued. “He wrote the war department and’ said please, don’t fly these airplanes over his foxes. He got no answer.” You know what happened. The fox man didn’t even get to put his fingers in his ears before the army's planes were doing stunts above his foxes. Rep. Andresen knows ‘about this. He is in reeeipt of a bitter telegram and soon now he'll have fo tangle with those army lawyers again about a settlement for this batch of faint-hearted foxes.

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They're Lining Up

bate, , Oo’ 13 te Pieiuont lkqus Tor soasoning. - The next season he advanced to Rochester of the International league and was spotted at third base. In 1985 he was at second base for Rochester and the

his roving assignments, even volunteering to play,

beckoned in from ‘the Red Wing farm club in 1987 for a utility infield role with the Cardinals. He stayed with St. Louis until June, 1943. During that

entrance into the army on June 29. Brown calls 1942 his best season. That year he played in 145 games, participated in the all-star game at the Polo Grounds and batted an even .300 as leadoff man in the world series as the Cards won in five games: from the New York Yankees. Several incidents in his Cardinal career stand out in Brown's mind. There was, for example, his first time at bat in the major league. It was eight days after the opening of the 1937 season, and the Cards were locked in a ding-dong game with the Cubs.

Brown was ordered up to pinch hit for the Cardinal |

pitcher in the eighth inning and singled off Roy Parmalee, but St. Louis wound up on the fort’ end of a 14-13 score, He well recalls his first full game, too, in Boston. Brown had won a place in the lineup after Leo Durocher came down with an earache. The Cards won that game handily, 13-1, fastballing. On the same eastern swing Brown smashed a home run at the Polo Grounds against Al Smith, relief hurler for the Giants. That same day Brown collected two triples and two doubles in a double-header, “making the boys think they might have a hitter,” $s Jimmy tells it.

Sold to Pittsburgh

BROWNS ARMY CAREER was spent at Memphis,

Tenn., where he served as athletic instructor and paseball and basketball cdach in the air transport command. He earned his “ruptured duck” late in 1945, was sold to Pittsburgh soon after the turn of the year and spent’ the 1946 season with the Pirates. The new Buc management ticketed him for the Indianapolis spot soon after acquiring the club. Jimmy has the typical baseball player's hobby— hunting and fishing. He also tries his hand at wood carving, but there’s little time for that between the close of the baseball season and Jan. 3, when he reports as instructor at the Joe Stripp baseball school! in Orlando, Fla. He has been on the staff of the baseball school for seven years and he believes his job as professor betters him as a manager. Moreover, it puts him in condition quicker and gives him a chance to spot likely material for the Indians. Twp of his pupils this year are listed on the Tribe roster—Bill McKee and Pete Castiglione . - Brown eats almost anything—and plenty of it— but his weight stays around the 175 mark. He was about 30 pounds under that when he arrived with the Cardinals, He figures his 5-foot-9 frame hasn't been too much of a handicap—although an extra inch or two would’ have been appreciated on sizzling line drives over his head. Mrs. Brown and 20-month-old Junior are calling the Hotel Lincoln home until turns up in the way of house or apartment. And Jimmy is calling himself a playing manager until something turns up in the way of a second baseman. (By J. E. O’Brien.)

By Frederick C. Othman

Rep. Reid F. Murray, Ogdensburg, Wis, who was conducting a full-fledged inquiry into the fur business, was sympathetic. Life is one blow after another to the farmers who grow fur coats. There are 7000 Americans raising mostly silver foxes and mink, including a specially handsome kind called “breath of spring.” They're doing their best to keep the ladies warm, but they claim the government is about to freeze ’em out of business.

Imported Duty Free

JOSEPH H. FRANCIS, Salt Lake City, secretary of the Associated Fur Farmers, said he couldn't understand the state department and the tariff commission allowing other nations to dump their furs in America. Just the other day, he said, a tariff court decided that European platinum fox is a different beast from American silver fox and hence can be imported duty free. “There are so many platinum fox skins in New York now that they can’t find storage space for them,” Mr. Francis added. One of the troubles of the fur growers, he sald, is that the government can’t make up its mind about the difference, if any, between wool and fur. The duties on these commodities vary greatly. There you are, government. Hand down a decision. Army, you quit scaring the little foxes.

By Erskine Johnson

HOLLYWOOD, April 19.—Now that Frank Sinatra has opened the season on movie columnists, I'm wearing a red Mountie’s coat left over from an old De Mille picture and a pair of bright yellow bobby-sox. I'm a charter member of Frankie’s “You're-going-to-get-a-bust-in-the-nose” club, and I don’t want to be overlooked. But I hope it isn't true, as comedian Roger Price telephoned me today, that a couple of New York gamblers had been arrested for trying to “fix” Frankie

boy’s fights. Save me the next waltz, Frankie. I'd love to hold you in my arms. I can hardly wait until you start playing the role of the kindly Father Paul in “The Miracle of the Bells.” At last I will be able to report that someone has escaped type casting in Hollywood.

Bette Davis Has Date

BETTE DAVIS has made a date with a Santa Ana, Cal., hospital for the first week in May. That's when the baby is due. After years of playing Aunt Milly in the Andy Hardy films, Sara Haden gratefully accepted a role in “The Bishop's Wife” as a secretary. Name of the secretary: Milly. Night club business in Hollywood is so bad that bouncers are out in the street throwing: people into the bistros, but there always seems to be a new one.

We, the Women

“WOMAN LAWYER Forced to Doff Hat for Judge,” says the headline oyer a news story bearing a Los Angeles date line. ‘And here's the story. A veteran woman attorney approached the bench of Superior Judge Allen W. Ashburn and asked: “May I address the court out of turn?” “You may not, until you remove your hat said, the judge.

Spoke Qut of Turn PURELY from a standpoint of etiquette Bi Jocks a3. dough it was the judge who spoke out

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Now it's Lee Wiley’s Saturday Night club. opening April 26. Orson Welles is going places in Palm Springs with Norma Hall, ex-wife of millionaire Townsend Netcher. M-G-M sneaked the new Clark Gable movie, “The Hucksters.” It’s a hit. Even Leo the Lion is smiling. 1f the picture hadn't been good, Gable would have torn him to pieces.

‘No More Tears

PERKY little June Allyson is playing another college girl in Hollywood's third re-make of the famous musical hit, “Good News.” “But this time” June sighed with apparent relief, “I don't have to cry. It seems like that’s all I've been doing on the screen lately.”

James Dunn returns to Hollywood May 1 for|

another movie. He’s been on the stage in the east in Eugene ‘O'Neill's “The Moon for the Misbegotten.” Sam Goldwyn is paging Jean Hersholt for a role with Danny Kaye in “That's Life.” Myrna Loy gets her first technicolor picture in “The Red Pony.” I wonder how those famous Loy freckles will look in colors? Garry Moore assures me that his parting with Jimmy Durante (from their air show) is entirely amicable, He said: “I'd always had my own, show before I teamed up with the Schnoz and when we did become partners we both agreed that sooner or later I'd take a fling at it alone again. I guess now is as good a time as any to make a shot at it.”

By Ruth Millett

should observe the same ‘rules and formalities in courtrooms.” But look, Judge. Men remove their hats as a . gesture of respect and deference. They bare their heads when they enter churches, homes, elevators, when they greet. acquaintances, when the Hag passes by.

Women- Are Different .

BUT the rule works in reverse for women, Women |

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SECOND SECTION

Te SATURDAY, wel , oir or O Hoosiers Attend: Of Indianapolis Home Sho

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Gardening—

S. L. Myers, 5044 W. 14th st.

what do we do?”

larly all summer and control roses’ most common afflictions before they do much damage. Several pests ordinarily attack our roses during the summer. Two bad fungus diseases are mildew and blackspot. Mildew appears as a gray film over the leaves. The old-fashioned pink Dorothy Perkins rambler can always show you a good case of mildew. » ” 2 BLACKSPOT first spots the leaves. Then they turn yellow. soon they drop off, depriving the

plant of these necessary food making

Insect pests include plant lice or aphids that suck the plant’s juices and those that chew up the leaves. But any one of a number of good preparations sold under different trade names will keep, down all these troubles. Regular application is far more important than which preparation you use, if it includes some kind of treatment for all three types of pests. That means putting it on every seven days—don’t stretch it more than 10 days at most. It's a good plan to have one day in.the week for “rose day” then you're not likely to forget them. ” 8 8 MOST EXPERT advice says spray or dust before a rain since chemical” properly applied are shot upward onto the under side of the leaves. Disease develops more quickly in damp weather. Blackspot, for example, completes its life cycle in just six hours. in ‘dampness. So theory says that if the spray fis already on the plant disease won't develop s0 readily. But again, regularity of attention is more important than whether you do it before, after, or between rains,

ROSE BUSHES—Beverly Myers, 5044 W. 14th st., with roses thet oe carefully planted and pruned—what will keep them ealthy

Modular | House Draws Crowd

B At Fairground

12,000 Expected At 0 xpodisd Tomorrow

__ TODAY — Construction League Day in honor of the Construction League of Indianapolis. TOMORROW-—AIl Indiana Day by proclamation of Governor Gates. MONDAY ~— Richmond, Ind, Day, in honor of Dan C. Hess, oresident of the Indianapalis Home Show and former - tendent of the Richmond cal system for 16 years.

More than 6000 Hoosiers visited the state fairgrounds last night to view the Indianapolis Home Show's main attraction, believed to be the first completely modular house in the United States. Home show officials said more than 10,000 are expected today. Tomorrow’s attendance, they said, may hit 12,000. | The show was opened officially “last night by Maj. Gen. William E. Kepner, commanding general of the air force technical training division at Scott Field, III. The key to the model house was presented to Gen. Kepner by Miss Marydien Pierre, daughter of Ed-

Use Triple-Threat Dust Or Spray to Save Roses

Keep Them Healthy by Applying It All During the Summer Months

By MARGUERITE SMITH “WHAT CAN WE DO to keep our roses healthy all summer?” asks

“We set our first roses a couple of weeks ago, planted and pruned them carefully according to the directions that came with them. Now

You can start now to use a triple-threat dust or spray, use it regu-

If you have many roses and little time dust is easier to use than spray. Many sprays have to be mixed fresh each time and you'll put it off. But if you can spare the

ward D, Pierre of the Indiana Society of Architects. Judson Hannigan of the national housing expediter’s office was to arrive here at 10 a. m. today .to speak at a luncheon for. National Housing Expediter Frank R. Cree~ don. Mr, Creedon was unable to attend. In his speech Maj. Gén. Kepner, a Hoosier, spoke on the importance of homes in a Strong nation. “Since the home gUATANIOs the state, the state must guarantee and insure the home,” he said. “The state can make no better investment

state.” He spoke about men in his command during the war and their in-

again. “Three hundred thousand of them never will,” he said, “and millions are still hunting thelr dream

homes.” a

time sprays are more effective than dusts since they spread better. " NS » »

MASSEY DUST is an old dependable remedy. Buy it under a trade name or mix your own. Shake up in a large paper bag nine parts of dusting sulphur, 1 part of arsenate of lead, 1 part of powdered tobacco. The sulphur controls fungus disease, arsenate of lead, is a stomach poison for leaf eating insects, and .tobacco dust will discourage aphids. A rotenone-sulfur combination is also fairly effective against all three. For other preparations talk to your seedsman and read the labels on the package. But begin now and keep up regular applications if you want fine roses with healthy foliage all summer. » » ” “WHEN raspberry leaves -are as big as squirrel ears, it's time to spray the bushes for anthracnose,” gays Doyle Zaring, 1306 E. 82d st. You'll know when your berries have the disease, he explained, because the leaves may come out, then dry up. Sometim whole cane dries up or maybe the. berries set then when you get ready to pick they're shrivelled up. You may get by for a while without spraying, but if you expect to berries very long this particular ‘spray is important. He uses lime-sulphur, warns that it must not be too concentrated or it will burn the leaves. ‘Follow directions

on the can.

Carnival—By Dick Turner

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“You may as well go back to your Sunday golf, Hfio— leant have you oh ge How in your sleep during the sermon’ 4

| take over.my practice,”

Police Break Up

Hotel Poker Game Police said last night they were unwelcome guests at a poker game in the Huron hotel, 458 E. Washington st.

arrested Frank Chapman, 43, of that address. He was charged with keeping a gaming house and gaming. Five other men and one woman were charged with visiting and Five decks of cards and $1.75 in cash were confiscated by police raiders.

Bell Starts Work On New Cable Line

Construction on a large Indiana Bell Telephone Co. project, placing conduit under Massachusetts ave. between North and Rural sts. was under way today. ‘Telephone cables to the northeast section of the city which will be placed in the conduit, will fur nish additional facilities needed to provide telephone service to many families in that area who are now waiting, telephone officials said.

—the returns insure survival of the :

tense longing to see their homes.

They broke into Room 231 and |.

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You'd better Te yout | This is the spring, and

You won't be much desirous To set your plants and iris

be a-pouring Into the stands, and roaring

then,, When the Indians hear - the umpire yell, “Play ball” :

You'll need some good excuses soon, You'd best rehearse their uses soon, So leaving work won't seem a silly stall; You must be quite expressive soon, You should be most impressive soon, The good old “ump” is gonna yell, “Play ball!”

The fans wi. then

YOU'D better get your spading ds done, i

You'd better get your mawing done LE You'd better get your sowing done ly For very soon they're gonna ve, a “Ploy balls”:

Your heart will tune to quite another call: =

If the office boy proposes, sir, Or maybe just supposes, sir, His grandma isn’t really well at all,

You must not show surprise, dear sir, To hear of her demise, dear sir, About the time ‘the e umpire yells, “Play ball”

If all of us supporters, friends, Had jobs as sport reporters, friends, Like Eddie Ash, who writes what umpires squall, - Why, we'd be sittin’ pretty, friends, Nor “have to leave the city,” friends, To see what happens when they yell, “Play ball!”

Strikes and balls, hits and runs, Win or lose, the ‘sons-of-guns, We're for them’ to the last day in the fall; Outs and shouts, fighting teams . . . Life ain't what she really seems, When the Indians hear the umpire yell, “Play ball”

then then,

and how the farmers were doing.

“But give them a few days of with their machinery will give them a chance to get even in no time,” the station owner said. Better Weather Due It looks as if the farmers are going to get a break this week. At least until the middle of the week, there will only be about a half inch to three-quarters of an inch of rain, according to Weatherman R. M. Williamson. The precipitation will include showers today and the remander of is to fall Tuesday. The extended forecast says it will be a little cooler tomorrow, little change Monday, slowly rising trend Tuesday and Wednesday. It has not been as cold as you think so far in April. On an aver-

age, the temperature for the first 17 days has been one degree above

Hoosier Farmers, Delayed By Rain, May Get Break Forecast Indicates Warm Days This Week -

May Give Planters Chance to Catch Up

By THE WEATHER EDITOR 1 happened to pass through Freedom, Ind., this week and I stopped off to talk to the local gasoline station proprietor about the weather

The farmers are grumbling all right about the wet weather delays ing their planting because they're anxious to get out into the flelds.

warm weather and that combined

The Heart of America— ;

Tennessee Country Doctor, Nearly Blind, Delivering ‘Third Crop’ of Babies at 81

Hated to Raise Prices; Now Charges $2.50 Per Visit, Furnishes Medicine

By ELDON ROARK ; Scripps-Howard Staff Writer SOMERVILLE, Tenn., April 19.—~In a sparsely settled community eight miles from here lives an old-fashioned country doctor who is now delivering his “third crop” of babies. Some of his first babies are

grandfathers and grandmothers.

Dr. J. E. Parks, tall, lean and grizzled, with a thick shock of white

hair, bushy eyebrows and a big mustache, is 81.

his "right eye in an accident and vision in his left ‘eye was never normal. He can’t drive a car nor ride a horse any more, but he will get up in the middle of the night and go if they come for him. “I'm Just practicing in self-de-fense,” he says. “I can’t quit as long as my neighbors need me.” LJ » » HE WAS born only three miles from the big two-story, sagging old frame house in which he lives, and which he built for his bride 50 years ago. When he returned from college in 1888, he launched his career among home folks, and he hg been so busy ever since he passed up

to Washington fo attend a conven~ tion and another time he went as far west as the Texas border. But that is all he has traveled. “Never had anyone who could he ex~ plained. .

oh PARK pried at lett ord as an obstetrician. ‘Although

he has delivered : one in

He lost the sight in

lost only one mother. In that case he was called in at the last minute. A number of babies have been named for him. “I never encouraged that,” he says. “But I did like for mothers to ‘name their girl babies for my mother and my wife.

mother.”

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