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polis Speedway for another couple of days it least. * Jumping the starting bomb, I wandered on the track right in front of the pagoda. There was peace

and quiet in the air. A batch of starlings were kick- . Ing up a fuss under the grandstand roof, but that

was all, I strained my nostrils to get a whiff of exhaust smoke, I got clean, fresh air instead. I strained my ‘ears for the roar of powerful, straining motors. All I got was the gentle scratching of pushbrooms. Her‘bert, EMngton and Hubert Sexton were collaborating with the cleanup project on the starting line. | * “Hey—is this all that's going on out here?” I enlled. * Hubert, the spokesman, answered with: re enough activity out here for us, What do you want?" “Oh, you know, Race cars zooming around and ‘stuft.” » The men shook their heads. No race cars today. Just as I turned and headed toward some workmen who were painting the stands a bright: green,

_ Hubert called out that there was a pretty fast “job”

working out on either the northwest or northeast turn. That was for me. I turned my size 11 speeders around and started ‘at a fast ¢ “spotted a couple of heads sticking aboye the concrete retaining wall. f Pulling up to the side I saw Delbert Burdine, Harvey Vert and Este] O'Banion fooling around with mechanism that looked like a pump. ~ The men informed me that they were in. the

. Process of installing-three puraps whieh would keep

FAST ‘JOB’ ROUNDING NORTHEAST TURN—Charlie Marqua drives the only thing that worked out af the Speedway yesterday.

Alaskan Railroad

tQward the northwest turn. I. crossed. .

the tunnels frees of two and three ‘feet depths of water.

Fast Job Working Out Re

“SAY, HUBERT over there told me there was a fast ‘job’ working out on the north turns. Is that right?” I asked, The men looked at one aliother and finally Delbert} remembered “something” about it. I thanked the|. men and gunned my motors again. : About halfway down the track with the wind whistling in my ears I heard a car roaring behind me. Could this be the fast job coming down the stretch? It wasn't, Jack Fortner, superintendent, brought his car to a stop and wanted to know, “What in the world are! you doing out here?” “Hi,” I blurted out. “I'm going to the nortieast # turn to see a guy tuning up some new, fast car.”

“Somebody driving this morning? I didn't know

about it.” “That's what I heard from the guys working on the track,” 1 answered, opening the car coor. : “Get in—get in and let's take a look,” Mr. Fortner said, as if he had to say anything. We rounded the around toward the northeast. “Could that be your fast job there?” Mr. Fortner asked, pointing to Charlie Marqua on the 1909 model reconverted stedamroller with the Jeep engine, “Naw.”

The Worm Turns

WE WENT all around the track. I saw the new hospital, workmen getting the new parking lot in shape, the new road that cuts by T. E. (Pop) Meyers’ place on the southeast turn, the revamped scoreboards and the new,press box but no new, fast “job” working out. “Oh, I know what you're looking for,” Mr. Fortner said, giving his car the gun as we sped by the pump workers in front of the pagoda again.

northwest turn and barrelled|

SECOND SECTION.

We stopped alongside of Chariie’s speed wagon. I caught on. The worm turned for the early bird. “Hop on and take a spin around the track with Charlie,” the smiling superintendent said. What did: I have to lose?” Charlie didn’t waste any time. He had a lot cf apron around the track to flatten. i “I'll pace you guys around the track,” Mr. Fortner said, “and when you get tired you can hop off.” I flagged him on. ! What a ride. We clattered around the track at a fast five miles per hour. In no time I was counting pebbles and blades of grass. The noise was terrific. And little wonder, the Jeep motor. was right under my legs. To my left on the wall was the imprint of the crash last year where Mauri Rose and Paul Russo piled up. I don’t know whether it was the steamroller or the marks of the crash, but I shivered. I hopped off the “fast job” and jumped into Mr. Fortner's car. “Enough?” “You took the words right out of my mouth. I'll see you. in a couple of weeks,” =»

Attorney Lists Police Methods as His ‘Pet Peeve No. 2’; Pledges Quick Cleanup

"WEDNESDAY, 2 APRIL 23, 1947

Meet the Candidates for Mayor— Mei, a Dawson Campaign Pho 0 Re One-Man War On Car Fare

First of

a Series

? By Frederick C. Othman

. WASHINGTON, April 23.—The government is getRing ready to whoop up vacations in Alaska, where

3t operates the worst railroad in the world. Bar none.

Beware of your government's railroad, tourists. Ignore those pretty travel posters, showing trains crossing high trestles over mountain gorges. The trestles are rotten and the engineer has got his heart In his mouth. He never knows when he takes out a locomotive whether he'll come back alive. It took me three days of steady readiflg, but my dope is straight. I dug it from the heart of a 10-pound report on the interior department by the house appropriations committee. The interior runs the railroad, when it runs at all, which js seldom. The trains are constantly toppling into ditches along

* ‘the right-of-way.

Col. J. P. Johnson, the general manager, told the harrowing story of the $73 million railway which has so many warped cars bumping their flat wheels on its split rails that in the spring, when the roadbed is soft, oné train a day dives into the gully.

‘Shook Like Baby Buggy’

SOME. DAYS three trains jump the track, but that's a little unusual. The colonel passed around a photograph of one 70-foot trestle, ‘which is falling apart from dry rot. Rep. Ben J. Jensen of Iowa recognized it with a shudder; he rode across that trestle once. “And it shook like a baby buggy,” he said. The colonel said sometimes when a locomotive pounded over one stretch of the line on a glacier, the track sank 16 inches. The passenger cars are warped, because their frames are wood. The latest derailment killed a brakeman. Two days before that

Rainy Rio

HOLLYWOOD, April 23.—I've finally discovered what they do on a rainy night in Rio. Gorgeous Goldwyn girl Martha Montgomery gave the answer and then ducked. She said, “They put up umbrellas. Martha is one of the six Goldwyn girls, all equally (88 gorgeous, who just returned from a nine-week good wilt tour of South America. The good will was for Samuel Goldwyn, her boss, about to release a new movie, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.” . It seems like all Goldwyn girls do these days is travel. They went to New York: They made a tour of the U. 8. They went to England. Now: they're Just back from South America, for a total of 50,000 miles of “goodwilling.” Martha élviously did rather well in the good will department for herself, too. She. confided, “I got at least two marriage proposals in every country. And I've been to a lot of countries.” “But,” she added, “‘no’ means the same in any language.” Martha is from Clarksville, Miss. South Americans favor blonds. So Martha did all right.

Take Papa's Advice

THE GIRLS met a lot of South American million‘aires who weren't interested in Sam Goldwyn but who were interested in the Goldwyn girls. One cele‘brated arriva] of their plane in Lima. Peru, by shooting off a revolver. The local gendarmes disarmed him and marched him off to jail to sober up.

11 cars went down the mountainside. In three miles of track this spring six rails broke oh one day.

Prize Understatement

REPAIRMEN DON'T get much work done in the winter. They have to fix the cars outside when it's 60 degrees below zero, because there aren't enough shops. It's not much of a railroad for sure, the colonel added. He then made what I consider the understatement of 1947. “When you have a feeling (he said, choosing his words) wondering. whether or not the crew of a train is coming back alive, it is no pleasure to operate an industry of that kind.” I can understand that. What the congressmen couldn't understand was why the worst railroad charged the highest rates. Freight costs on the tumble-down express are double what they are in the States. Anybody silly enough to risk his life on the HairBreadth Harry limited pays six cents a mile, compared to three here at home. He rides in a passen-

. ger car left over from the Panama Canal and if he

gets where he’s going with all his arms and legs, he's a lucky fellow. Col. Johnson said one of the costly things was hospital beds. The more wrecks, the more beds. The more derailments, the more claims for ruined merchandise. The more maimed railroaders, the more resignations. It is ‘a downright terrible railroad, he added. The colonel used to work for the Santa Fe. He said if the Santa Fe owned such a murderous stretch of track, it would abandon same instantly. the government can’t-do that, he agvocated spending another $26 million on the Alaska, White Horse and Oblivion. That may help. I'll let you prospective tourists know when the odds are better for completing a government train ride alive.

By Erskine Johnson

Another wealthy playboy disguised himself as a waiter and served them a seven-course dinner in Chile, revealing his identity along with the dessert. But the girls promised Papa Goldwyn not to accept any dates. They didn't either, Martha said, except once. “We sneaked away from ‘the trip manager and went to a costume ball. But nothing exciting happened.”

Variety of Roles

JOHN SUTTON just completed a role in “Captain From Castile” and has gone to work for Eagle Lion

+ in “Captain Casanova.”

“Captain From Castile” was. filmed in Mexico, and John played the heavy. “Captain Casanova” will be filmed in Mexico, and John will play the heavy. In “Castile” John attacks the hero, .Ty Power, and leaves him dead. In “Casanova” he attacks the hero, Arturo de Cordova, and leaves him dead. In both pictures John does a lot of dueling and finally is killed himself. In both pictures he wears a beard. That's, what I.like about Hollywood. If an actor doesn’t like his role in one picture, he can play the same role in another picture. Sudden thought: Joah Bennett's three daughters are all half sisters. She has been married three times, had a daughter with each husband. The 210-pound swordfish’ Ty Power helped Lana

Turner catch off the Mexican coast is now stuffed].

and hanging over the mantle in her home. It's only a matter of time, we hear, before she hooks Ty.

We, the Women

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By Ruth Millett

THE COUNTRY’S lawn and flower lovers are

down on me. They're so upset about a recent article

I wrote that their letters are pouring in. In that column I advised a woman reader, irked “ . because the small fry in her neighborhbod insisted

‘on walking on her grass and a 3-year-old had picked some of her flowers, to cultivate her neighborhood ehijerep, for a*while instead of flowers.

Arguments Have Merit

go THE LETTERS are “mostly from intelligent-sound-ing women, And I admit they have something on their

side When they protest that modern mothers aren't insistent

enough on keeping children home.

0% When, wey alk ut «ing se” ecaie 8 av

was trampled. or of “crying when I found the bud of a California poppy six feet from the plant and had to wait another year for another bud,” I wonder if the arden clubs of America haven't. oversold women on Hie importance of a perfect lawn and Ranling flower s. They're not really that important, are they? Important enough so that the neighborhood children

_ are regarded as a constant threat?

Flowers or Children?

A NEIGHBORHOOD of well-Kept lawns and lovely flowers is a pretty sight. But so are children at play. And a lawn no child can put a isn’t as much of an asset to America as a less beautiful

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May 6.

will show the attorney looking The picture. was taken last August, when the avowed foe of higher streetcar fares was conducting ‘a personal fight against Indianapolis Railways, Inc. He repeatedly refused to pay the eight-and-one-third cent fare; instead, he boarded streecars and proffered the

older, six-and-ohe-quarter metal token. Then he would await the fireworks, when streetcar officials

wold attempt to eject the spunky 190-pounder,

China Takes Step For Democracy

NANKING, April 23 «(U. P.).— Chang Chun took office as’ premier of China today with the task of making his nation a constitytional

democracy. . i His cabinet was hailed as the {“beginning of the end” of one-party rule in China, It was, however, dominated by Chiang Kai-shek’'s Kuomintang. party, which holds 15 of the 17 portfolios. The state council, sworn in im-| ‘mediately after Premier _Chang| {Chun took office, had 17 Kuomjntang members, compared to a total of 12 for the Young China party, | Democratic Socialists and non-par-meme | tisans. Eleven .council seats are held open for Communists and Democratic League members but no

government.

his political ones.

past. week.

By KENNETH HUFFORD THE GRINNING VISAGE of a determined candidate for mayor will peer from behind bars at the voting public

It will be that of 44-year-old James M. Dawson, whose numerous placards on utility poles primary election day

out the window of a streetcar.

FINALLY, in desperation, street-

injunction against Mr. Dawson. This prohibited hm from continuing to hand six-and-one-quarter-cent tokens to operators. But it didn't stop the attorney's efforts to keep the streetcar fare at four - tokens - for - a ~quarter. He broadened his activities, ceased trying to conduct a one-man fight. Mr. Dawson says more than 60,000 persons signed petitions opposing the increased rate. The Christian

car attorneys obtained a temporary]

~ STRAPHANGERS' FRIEND—The man grinning out from behind the bars of a trolley window is Attorney James Dawson, who rose to local fame by scrapping with er he received any support from streetcar company over raise in fares. Now he's candidate for mayor.

groups, even stood in the rain on the Circle one day last winter to get signatures on the petitions. What kind of a mayor would Mr. Dawson make? Let's take a look at his views, » ” ” HIS PET PEEVE, aside from the

streetcar company, is the police department. He led a fight won

during the war years against indiscriminate arrest of women suspected as venereal disease carriers. “Get tid of 50 to 75 coppers, that’s what I would do first,” the mayoralty candidate declares firmly. “But I wouldn't touch those that have tried to be decent, honest policemen. “I would have a thorough understanding, then, that any" policeman who took ‘money in the future would be through immediately.” He believes that many policemen have been “goats for the higherups”; police should have the public's respect, instead of its /‘general condemnation.” Disrespect of police breeds juvenile delinquency, too, Mr. Dawson says. But, the cleanup shouldn’t stop with the police - department; it should extend into all city de-

minister's son talked before civic

The Heart of America—

And Once in Awhile

Premier Chang Chun faces eco-|was hen guide. nomic problems even greater than|on the dock with a peautiful string Reports from |of crappie. Shanghai showed that the prices|away in disgust. of most: daily necessities Lave risen Montell, the expert fisherman, who 20 to 50 per cent, there within’ the

h q ht a thi didn’t k | gy caught a thing, how all day long without fidgeting. &

[en one of those bad days.

'amental, level of the lake a bit] | high. ” » ” : AND THEN in came attractive Mrs. Jack Montell of St. Louis,

sitting proudly erect in her boat,

one believes they will join the ‘new picturesque* in green slacks and a

wine-colored sweatgr.. At the tiller They stepped out

Men looked—and slunk And poor Mr.

had been out in his own boat and

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partments, he added.

Their Faces Get Red

When a Woman Brings-in a Nice Catch

By ELDON ROARK Scripps-Howard Staff’ Writer REELFOOT LAKE, Tenh., April 23.—The faces of the men here {at the Robert Morris fishing camp are slightly red. That is die in some | measure to open boats and spring sunshine, but there was something else. A woman—a city woman—made the best catch of the day! When the men came in off the lake this afternoon, a few had one or two bass or crappie, but most of them were empty-handed. It had You know—too much wind, fish temper. | whether to be proud or embar-

rassed. But Mrs. Montell is smart. She didn’t lord it over the men. “I just had dumb luck,” she said with becoming modesty. “I don’t know anything about fishing—really I don't. Besides, most. of the men were fishing for bass. They're harder to catch than crappie.” Mr. Montell is a wholesale jeweler. ‘Mrs. Montell says that at home and at the office he usually is nervous and high-strung. But ‘when he goes fishing he can sit on a hard board seat and hold a rod

» n » SO IT'S GOOD for these tired businessmen to get away to placed]

over the country, but most of them are from the mid-south-and midwest. Many of them bring their wives with them. Only a few of the women like to fish, but they are good actresses. They feign enthusiasm and go through the motions.

.{8ome, however, soon get weary of

pretense and sit around camp reading or just sitting. There's one bored woman here from Chicago who thinks she’s stuck for six weeks. Fishing is rather expepsive business. A cabin here at the Morris camp costs $5 a day if it is furnished with two double beds, $7 if it has three be Meals in the restaurant are or 60 cents for breakfast, $1 for the regular lunch or regular dinner, both of which are whopping big meals. A rowboat is $1 a day, and a small motorboat is $5, Most fishermen take the motorboat,

» o ‘ GUIDES ARE $6.50 a day, but most fishermen also tip them generously — frequently $10. Guides have no regular hours. They'll take you out as early as you want to go and stay as long as you want to stay—or until you catch your limit. If you are a livebait fisherman,

law enforcement.

like this, They come here from al}

FIRST AIM—A candidate

Dawson says his first aim is to "clean up” police department,

for Republican nomination. | Mr.

MR. DAWSON was asked wheth-|utation is some indication of this.

sources that would benefit from lax |

“My largest contributor gave me $50; that should be some indication,” he said. About the traffic problem, he outlined his theory of government: “Get competent department heads; let them alone as long as they do their jo He would appoint someone who knows the science of traffic management to decide what the city needs. However, the Pendleton native and Butler university graduate is inclined to believe that oneway streets would help, as well as thoroughfares around the city. The candidate for Republican nomination would figure out the matter of annexation on a cost' basis before jumping in any <direction. It isn't always economical to annex an outlying section, de-| pends partly on how conipact the population is, as well as other factors, he says. » » » A MERIT system for city employees wouldn't necessarily bring better government to Indianapolis, in the candidate's opinion. The police department has a merit system, he pointed out. Honesty is the fundamental principle of any merit system. An applicant's rep-

Tired Businessmen Find Reelfoot Lake | Expensive, but Great Fishing Place

formed during the violent earth movements of 1811-12 that got the nearby Mississippi river so befuddled it started running upstream and pouring into new basins. This lake is about 20 miles long, and about two miles wide. » » »

WHEN THE land sank, many trees sank with it. They are still standing. There are forests in the middle of the lake. You can sit in a tree and fish or shoot ducks. In other areas the shaking of the

trees toppled over. They are on the bottom of the lake, and make ideal hideouts for fish. Experienced guides, like big, tall, bronzed John Sharp, know where those hidden logs and stumps are. You fish where they tell you to fish, and don't argue—if you want to have any luck. . John says it’s all right to talk while fishing. But don't let your boat bump into the logs or stumps you want to fish around, and don’t drop a paddle in the boat. Anythings that causes a vibration in the water makes the fish streak it for other parts.

Factory Worker Admits

Killing His Landlady

DETROIT, April 23 (U. P).—A factory machinist walked into a police station in suburban River Rouge last night and announced that he had killed his 48-year-old landlady. However, John Haggkvist, 41, refused to divulge details of the knife slaying 'of Mrs. Rose Maude Mason, River Rouge beauty parlor operator and divorcee,

|you will pay four cents each for

the small crappie minnows, and even cents for the Jue bass min‘They are

earth was more violent, and the

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“Deplorable” is his description of local streets and alleys. He would (take care of chuckholes first, then

{draft a paln for large-scale recons

struction in line with growing needs. Smoke is another problem he would leave to the ‘More for the taxpayer's datar would be his prime interest. « “We are paying more for ‘some | maton than a private citizeri’ has to pay, although the city buys in large quantities,” Mr. Dawsom said. He believes the controller shouiq be an acoutant. >

EATING establishments uiskiare “filthy” demand an active héalth | board, with close inspection of ‘con‘ditions “that are a long way from being what they should be.” _ = “More stuff falls on. the * than is put in the truck,” | quipped of our garbage pis ed |system. Modern equipment should {be purchased, so we won't have-the nauseating experience of walking or riding behind a garbage wagon. He would insist, however, on the: use of proper receptacles by house-.

holders. : hac The former basket | baseball athlete lives it 1320 N. Delaware st. He is a former presie dent of the South Grove golf club,

vice president of the Indianapelis Public Links association. ia

Farmhand Dies After Beating

Times State Service 1 GREENWOOD, April 23. —heriff Howard Maxwell of Johnson

county said today there is a suspect in the slaying of Howard Hen|son, 63, who died early this mornling as a result of a beating early Monday. The sheriff declined to say when he would make an arrest. He indicated that a grand jury investigation would be called. Mr. Henson was employed by E.

learly Monday. He was found on- the barniok by his employer. Death was causéd by a compound skull fracture. He was also stabbed. The sheriff's office and Indiana state police thought the motive for the assault was robbery, since the farm worker habitually carried large sums of money. \

Woman to Face Court

In Jewel Theft Case

Mrs. Mary Margaret Cracium, 22-year-old mother of three children, will be arraigned in municipal court 4 this afternoon on a stolen goods charge. At that time, Cincinnati, O., de~ tectives will ask custody of the Hazelwood, O. defendant, who has waived extradition. She was arrested here Monday after a downtown jeweler notified police - Mrs. Cracium a! pted, to sell $8000 worth of jewels to him for $2500. Her ex-convict husband, | Ralph, 25, is being sought. ~~ « The jewelry was stolen April 11