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with this stuff.” gx "By “stuff,” Wilbur D. Peat, museum director of

; John Herron Art museum, meant the 176 oil and

water color paintings which have been accepted for the 40th annual exhibition by Indiana artists’ The paintings were leaning every which way against the walls of three rooms. By Saturday they have to be on the walls for the preview exhibition. Before he started arranging the paintings in the north gallery, Mr. Peat took a tour of the three rooms so he could get an idea of what he was going to work with, } : With all due respect to the submitting artists, some of the stuff I saw left me cold. If I had anything to say about the hanging I know what I would have done with several—but fast. But a competent jury had the power of selection, Not even Mr. Peat had anything to say about the pictures. Onge they're selected, all Mr, Peat does is hang them in the best way possible. “This one here will make a strong center piece,” Mr. Peat said. He leaned the large, vivid still life in the center of the long wall of the north gallery. When he moved one picture, he had to move another to fill in. Mr. Peat's problem is to get balance into the picture hanging scheme. Then the subject matter should be pretty well grouped. } “To me these pictures are just blotches of “color when I'm arranging. I pay no attention to the artist nor do I in any way judge a picture. My job is to display the exhibit in the best way I know how,” Mr. Peat said. That's a good way to look at it. Some of the paintings are quite heavy I found out and when you carry two from say the north gallery to the Indiana room you know you've hauled something.

Feel Like Burning It

THE PICTURES for one wall were selected. Each one was on the floor ready to have screweyes put in. Frank Hohman and David Page began punching holes in the frames and attaching the screweyes. Mr. Peat was carrying pictures back and forth. The side wall soon was ready. . Holding a small painting in his hand, Mr. Peat said, “Inevitably you have one left over and it won't fit anywhere. After moving it from wall to wall, from one room to another you feel like burning it. Maybe we'll find a spot for this one yet.” The director was searching for something. lowed him around the rooms. “Ah—this one with that strange, detached look should go all right with the mournful series,” he decided. To me it had more than that strange, detached look. ° Pictures were too light, the frames too big, or the subject matter too abstract for the wall we were working on. Ew did this painting get in here?” Mr. Peat asked. Jt forth through the galleries several times. gested tossing it in the furnace. Nobody probably miss it. “Maybe a lot of people wouldn't, but the artist

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would. No, we have to do something with it. But Saturday and you'll see it someplace here.” let's just set it aside for the time being.” That I want to see. EE ——

28 Engines

WASHINGTON, April 30.—A little fellow named Clarence A. Barrett fell down the steps at his house a few months ago and broke his neck. Silently and in obvious pain he sat with his head in a steel and leather brace, while Senator Homer Ferguson of Michigan delved into another one of those incredible, multi-million dollar mixups involving the war assets administration. Everybody, including Mr. Barrett, was bored while a succession of big-wigk tried vainly to explain why they couldn't make up their minds about selling $74 million worth of surplus tools at the governmentowned Curtiss-Wright engine factory near Cincinnati. Mr. Barrett was the government's leading machine tool expert, but his bosses seldom consulted him.

Seven B-29s

THE HEARING was within five minutes of its end when Miles Culehan, counsel of the senator's subcommittee, said: : “By the way, Mr. Barrett, are you familiar with the rumor that this plant only built 28 engines?” Mr. Barrett shifted uncomfortably in his harness. It wasn't any rumor, he said. It was fact. In 18 months of operation, night and day, with thousands of employees, this biggest aircraft engine plant in the world turned out exactly 28 engines. Enough for seven B-29's. The hollow-eyed Mr, Barrett corrected him. He wanted to Be accurate. What he meant was that the factory produced.28 engines that actually would run. It made others, but they were no good for airplanes. Ouch! Nobody was bored now. Senator Ferguson asked Mr. Barrett what the plant cost. “I don't know,” he said. “All I do know is that

© “WELL, I GUESS we better start doing something

WHERE TO HANG THIS ONE?—There's plenty of footwork connected with hanging an exhibit of 176 paintings. Wilbur D. Peat of Herron Art museum searches for a spot on the wall.

No Guesswork

IT WAS fortunate for us that none of the artists were present. They probably wouldnt have appreciated the “detached” feelirig that goes with arranging an exhibit. : “Shall we start measuring the pictures on this wall Mr. Peat?” asked Mr. Page. f “Yes, go ahead I'm through over there.” All pictures will be hung 66 inches above the floor or at eye level. And all pictures will be spaced evenly apart. No guesswork about the final installation. “Well, let's see now—oh, here's a good one for this spot. But what am I going to put in the corner?” “How about that one we've been carrying around all morning?” Mr, Peat thought for awhile and decided that he'd better wait. “Bring that light one over and let's see how it looks.” “THIS THING?" “yes.” The director thought for awhile and then carried the picture back to its original position—in the middle of the room against the bench. “Do you think you'll get this stuff up by Saturday?” “Oh yes. THis isn’t bad. I'm not worried. This is the 17th one of these exhibits I've hung. Don't let it throw you.” “Will you even find a place for the painting that’s been giving us trouble?” I asked.

“Sure,” the director said confidently. “Come back

By Frederick C. Othman

it had $74 million worth of machine tools in it.” “And it operated a year and a half and only turned out 28 engines?” the senator insisted. “Yes,” Mr. Barrett replied. “I was with the war production board then and I spent a lot of time out there trying to find out what was wrong.” That ended fhe hearing. But you can bet your last sparkplug there’ll be others. The amazed Senator Ferguson said he thought the war investigating committee better look into Cincinnati's mechanical] mountain that produced a mouse. So be it. A little investigation, like an acorn, suddenly had grown into a big one. It also made unimportant the original question of why the acres of precision machinery within the factory still hadn't been put to use. Last month 175 purchasing agents spent a night outside the factory gates so they'd be gure to get some of the scarce machines. :

More to Come

THEY'D- HARDLY entered the vast shops before Brig. ‘Gen. James A. Mollison, vice administrator of

Attorney Here for 19 Bid for Public Office;

clean it up.”

never before been a candidate been aligned actively with any group of politicians. “I don’t knbw anything about politics or politicians but I do know how to get things done,” he says. Mr. Wemmer, who was elected president of the Indianapolis Bar association last January, was first mentioned as a possible candidate for mayor two months ago. » ” nn HE WAS originally urged to make the race by a group of young Republican war veterans and later he became one of the major candidates when Earl Buchanan; West side industrialist, withdrew from the contest and threw his support to Mr. Wemmer. A few days later the Republican organization, headed by County Chairman Henry E. Ostrom, lined up behind the Wemmer forces with a couple of banquets at which the chairman's ward leaders formally indorsed the attorney as their candidate. Thus, Mr. Wemmer became one of the central figures in a bitter battle between the G. O. P. regulars ‘and the anti-organization Republicans around city hall. » » » IN AN ATTEMPT to clarify his political position, Mr. Wemmer announced that he was not “an organization candidate,” adding, however, that he “welcomes support from the organization.” He says when he returned last year from army duty in the Pacific theater he found a lot of things had happened here while he was away that “just didn’t add up to make Indianapolis a decent city in which to live.” After a few conferences, he explained that he decided to run for mayor. “If I am the man decent citizens want to clean up Indianapolis, I'll tackle the job,” he said.

5 2 ” IN HIS campaign, Mr. Wemmer repeatedly has warned “gamblers, racketeers and hoodlums” that his administration would run them out of the city. “Our city. is in a terrible mess,” he said. “We are paying millions

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By NOBLE REED THE MAIN REASON William -H. Wemmer is running

for the. Republican mayoralty nomination, he says, is that [the city is in a “terrible mess and I feel it is my duty to help

At attorney here for the last 19 years, Mr. Wemmer has

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of dollars for services we are not getting. It's time for action.” Almost overnight he became a militant campaigner, delivering some flery speeches about the necessity of immediate action to improve city government from law enforcement to garbage collection. » » ” BORN in Lima, O., July 20, 1903, he attended public schools there and was captain of his high school football team. During the summer months there he worked in a factory. He is the son of the late William J. Wemmer, cigar manufacturer in Lima, who lived in Indianapolis during the summer for several seasons before he died in 1932. The father was head of the DeiselWemmer Cigar Manufacturing Co. Mr. Wemmer was graduated from Princeton university in 1925 and later attended Harvard university/ being graduated from there. in 1928 with a degree in law. He came to Indianapolis immediately to make his future home. He married Miss Marie Eisenlohr, a life-long resident here, in 1930. They have three daughters and live at 5260 N. Meridian st. 5 ” » MR. WEMMER volunteered for army duty at the start of world war II and entered the service here as a first lieutenant. He was assigned to the Pacific theater, receiving promotions regularly to captain, major, lieutenant colonel and was discharged a full colonel. During a Japanese raid on the remote island of “Funafuti, Col. Wemmer was wounded whef he went out to save the life of a member of his outfit. Fifteen men around him at the time were killed by the Jap bomb that wounded him. He was decorated with the Purple Heart.

» ” o ASIDE from practicing law, Mr. Wemmer is enthusiastic about outdoor life. An expert horseman, he spends much time riding -and tramping the woods out at the Wemmer farm in Boone county,

West Siders Ask End to Jet Noise

Plan to Send Protest to Tyndall

Allison plant officials said today

the WAA, sent a wire canceling the sale. Senator | Ferguson kept asking, why? Gen. Mollison fingered | his red, white and blue tie and he talked at lengtH,| but he did not satisfy the senator. Later on we'll learn about the 28 most expensive airplane engines ever built. They cost us taxpayers several million dollars each. The little man with the broken néck probably will be one of the chief witnesses, let us hope he soon is feeling better. The engine plant is at Lockland, O., near Cin- | cinnati. Unofficial estimates place the total cost | of the plant at $140 million.

By Erskine Johnson

Barber Champ

HOLLYWOOD, April 30.—No. 1 barber in the Paramount studio barber shop is Victor Honig, “the world’s champion barber.” : White-haired Victor, cousin of Paul Lukas, just won the title at the 1947 International Beauty Shop Owners’ convention at the Grand Central Palace in New York City. Victor snipped through a haircut in 19 of his alIotted 25 minutes to cop the title from 1100 contestants from all over the U, 8. The judging was based on percentages: 30 per cent on the approach, 30 per cent on technique, and 40 per cent on the finished result. Victor said he reluctantly used clippers and a razor, “It would have been more of a contest,” he said, “if only a comb and scissors had been allowed. Anybddy can cut hair with clippers.” What makes a world champion barber? Victor summed it up in two sentences: “I shape the hair to suit the head. I don't make a lot of conversation.”

Starts at Top

ANOTHER ONE of Victor's tricks is to start his haircdts at the top of the head. “Then,” he said, “you don’t have to correct the mistakes you made on the neck.” A barber since he was 13, Victor, now 46, probably was paid more for cutting Orson Welles’ hair than any barber has ever been paid in all of history. A studio

paid Victor $25 per hair cut. Orson tipped Vic $5 for a grand total of $30 for one seven-minute haircut. Most of Victor's customers are movie stars. Said Victor: “Bing Crosby has more hair than people think, nut it just doesn’t photograph. And Cecil B. DeMille always goes to sleep when I'm cutting his hair and I have to wake him up whén I'm finished. Lots of big stars, Victor admitted, wear hairpieces | of various sizes, and he has little to do except minor | trimming. He'll never forget the day when Preston | Foster, Albert Dekker and, Billy Daniels, dance di-| rector, shop. * a Somebody started a discussion about who had the most realistic hairpiece. Dekker finally ended the argument saying: “My hairpiece is so realistic it's even got dandruff.’

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who all wear hairpieces, were sitting in his dent, said it is sometimes impossible A {to carry on a conversation outside {her house.

they are doing everything in their | power to eliminate a disturbing roar caused by jet engine tests. At least one city resident complained the vibration tickled his feet when he tried to sleep. Demands that the noise, described as something like a flight of heavy bombers going over at low altitude, be stopped were made by West siders at a meeting last night of the Enterprise Civie league.

League Counselor Dr. Walter E. Hemphill declared at the meeting that living conditions on the west side are becoming unbearable because of the jet tests. Noise Rattles Blinds Complaints of the noise have been received not only from the

west side but from such sections|

as Riverside, Beech Grove and University Heights. Gene Leak 800 S. Sheffield ave. complained that the noise not only vibrated his venetian blinds and rattled his windows but tickled his feet when he tried to sleep. Mrs. R. D. Fritz, league vice presi-

She lives at 2206 W. Morris st. Protest to Tyndall The league decided to send letters of protest to Mayor Tyndall,

YOU NEVER heard of an anti-up-draft skirt?| Allison officials, the Indianapolis |

Neither had the movie censors, but they insisted on it. | Virginia Mayo raised the problem, or rather her skirt! did. While standing in a fast descending open-air elevator for a scene in “Out of the Blue,” her skirt billowed skyward in startling and interesting fashion. But the movies, the censors sald, cannot be that interesting, The wardrobe department solved the problem with a hobble-type skirt weighted with lead pellets in the hem.

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anapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs. Allison officials admitted the noise | is a serious thing. They said they| have been aware of it for several

months and are conducting a study to see what can be done.

But the situation can’t be reme-

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G. O.P. CANDIDATE — An attorney here for 19 years, William H. Wertmer is’ making his first try for public office as a candidate for the Republican mayoralty

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Article in Newspaper on Annual Grant

Fund Realized Dream

By ELDON ROARK Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

SIKESTON, Mo., April 30.—Newspapers print all kinds of news. | germinates a | good idea. Back in 1938 J. S. Kevil read a piece about a town in a It gave him an idea that is today building a $675,000 hospital for Sikeston and the surrounding territory—at only a small

Sometimes it's bad but occasionally distant state.

cost to local residents. -

The news item that attracted Mr. Kevil said that Commonwealth fund of New York had made its anunal grant. It explained that each year the fund, along with its many other philanthropies, assisted some town in building a hospital. Now it happened that the Kiwanis club had Just appointed Mr. Kevil chairman of a committee to see what could be done about filling Sikeston’s need for a hospital. So he wrote to the Commonwealth fund. EJ » »

IN APPLYING for a grant Sikeston had to compete with towns all over the United States. “We didn’t get it that first time,” says Mr. Kevil, “but we did land in the final 10.

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Sikeston, Mo., Finally Got a Hospital Started and It's Halfway Completed

which is about half completed, will be named the Missouri Delta Community hospital. It will be a non-

under terms of the grant it must take care of charity cases up to 25

(many apply, regardless of creed or color. » 2

We kept renewing our application, t0 the country people as well as the and in 1942 we got the award— $250,000. The fund recommended,

however, that we. postpone con struction till after the war.

“Last year when we got ready to start, we found that construction costs had just about doubled. So the fund raised its grant to $425,000,

and also offered to furnish th architect, plans and the supervis ing engineer. to a gift of about $30,000 more. » » »

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= SINCE THE hospital will belong town people, both are contributing. | E. P, Coleman Jr., is president of the association; Lee Bowman is vice president; Mr. Kevil is secretary, and C. C. Scott is treasurer.

Tall, slim, gray-haired Mr. Kevil, as manager of the vast C. F. McMullin estate, is one of the biggest e farmers in the state. They grow nearly everything, but their specialty is certified hybrid seed corn. They are the largest producers of that product in Missouri. ~ ” » | THE AGRICULTURE of the north ‘land the south meet here in this flrich delta. This is the top of the [cotton country, and the bottom of the wheat belt, except in the more

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arid sections of the U. 8. farther west, Corn, hay, melons, and soy beans do well, and it also is good

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THE NEATLY dressed woman was obviously marketing for a good-sized family. The quantity of each item purchased gave evidence of that. She bought packaged bacon “scraps” for half the price of sliced’ bacon, ordered a couple of pounds of oleo instead of butter, asked the price of pork chops but turned them down when she heard the price,

Not a. Pretty Sight

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woman thinking how nice pork chops would be for Sunday dinner and then turn away without them.

Self-Imposed Rationing

. OF COURSE, you can: quiet your concern by thinking: “Well, her children aren't starving. Compared with those in other lands, they're rich indeed.” But still it isn't pleasant to watch a woman

engaged in the self-imposed task of food rationing when the stores are bulging with food. + It is an entirely different picture of the post-war world than the ~~ we dreamed of and wera led to. expect.. 7 ? i - , . hs ur i CEA ala gd

completely redesigned. This will cost thousands of dollars and take months to complete.

mately 95 per cent of the jet engines in the United States and is one of the most important manufacturers of jet engines world.

CENTRALIA MINERS RETURN

~Coal miners employed at the Centralia Coal Co. No. 5 mine, where 111 men were trapped and killed March 25, have voted unanimously

died overnight, the officials said. It is probable, they explained, that jet engine test stands will have to. be

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livestock country. The raising of soy beans has become important agriculture here in the past few years, and is taking acreage away from other products. Big mandéfacturers of margarine, shortening and similar products are expanding their plants and ac{tivities in this section, There seems {to be no end to the uses to which |80y beans may be put.

and paints as well as to the manufteturers of foods and livestock feeds, » ” » FOLKS AROUND here say that if you have any kind of problem involving nutrition, agriculture, construction, clothes, livestock or taxes, rdon't give up hope. Soy beans be the answer. ,

Lions Fund Makes Gift To I. U. Medical Center

The Lions Cancer Control fund of Indiana has allocated $2600 to Indiana university medical center) for the purchase of X-ray equipment to be used in com- | bating cancer, i }

Dr. John D. Campbell of the medequipment will increase the centers }

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profit institution, serving the area, WASHINGTON, April 30 (U. within a radius of 25 miles. And president

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‘back in the driver's seat” and If insisting on “proper prices” for the things he buys. cel Mr. McCargo took part ins roundtable discussion at the U, & Chamber of Commerce N. “No longer is the small ' going to be able to sell he can get,” Mr. McCargo said. longer are customers clamoring fop anything he can order. Today cuss tomers are back in the driver's seat and are demanding the righ kind of merchandise in good sel: lection at the proper prices.” Warns of Federal Spending Earlier, Fred R. Fairchild, . fessor of economics at Yale uni versity, warned against the “flue sion” that government spending has “magic power” to raise living standards. i Harry A. Bullis, president of Gens eral Mills, told the conference tha “an excessively high tax rate pres ° vents investments in new ’ nesses, acts as a ourb on induss trial expansion, and thus prevents increases in the national income® The delegates yesterday went on record with resolutions abolition of control over ment buying, relaxation of requirements, and price cuts and when business costs permit.”

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