Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 May 1947 — Page 21

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“WHEN WE gohna make May Day. baskets Miss Canipbell?” | : — + MJust as soon as 1 finish telling this story,” Vera

‘Campbell, educational: director of the Fletcher Place Day Nursery, told the fidgety youngster, one of 12

gathered around her. \

into one of the playrooms ‘to hear a story, But they had. May baskets with> “pretty flowers” “on ‘their minds now, Variety. is. the spice of life at the nursery. ~Misé Campbell wound up her Yes “Supervisor Mrs. Doris Foster had the basket makings ready in another room. “With whoops and shouts the little tykes seated themselves at the two tables. ~ Each table had six chairs. Seven wanted to be atone table. With skill and tact, Mrs. Foster-sold Bobby on the idea that he'd be happier with the--other group, Besides, Bobby only had an edge of a

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+ A completed model of a May basket was placed in the center of each table, Small hands, unintentionally rough, played havoc with the models. “Who wants to make a pretty green basket?” Mrs. Campbell asked. Almost everyone wanted a pretty green basket. “Who wants to make a yellow May basket?” Same story with a slight twist. The youngster who got the green paper now wanted the yellow. : . Plenty of diplomacy and powers of suggestion went into getting everyone satisfied. Mrs. Foster and Miss Campbell instructed the ¢hildren how the baskets should be folded and cut.

- Small Crisis Develops

ONE LITTLE FELLOW, slightly on the precocious side, folded and cut his paper before Mrs. Foster could see what he-was doing. A small crisis developed when he was told he cut his paper wrong. “Ain't IT gonna have a basket?” he asked Wikly tears swelling in his eyes. “Why of course you're going to have a pasket. » “Same color and everything?” “Yes Johnny, same color and everything. But be more cayeful,” Mrs. Foster told him, “See Miss Campbell—see Miss Campbell—lookee mine,” curley-headed Caroline called for attention. “Oh thdt’s pretty,” Miss Campbell told Caroline. “Now paste it up.” Take twelve 4 and S-year-olds, give them paste sticks, paste and something to paste up and you have ~7A mess, not only on your hands but everywhere elie. Soon there was paste on curley locks, all over eager little hands, playsuits and even in‘ Janie's eye. She-rubbed her hand across her eye and forgot her hand was covered with paste. ° Janie let out a howl that made every head in the room turn, Mrs. Foster rushed Janie into the washroom. In a few minutes they returned with Janie looking sheepishly around ‘the room for comment.

STICKY MAY: DAY. BASKETS—Vera Comp. bell helps Fletcher Da nursery youngsters make flower baskets that will "stay together.”

Everyone was busy with her or his particular paste problem and didn’t bother with Janie, “Will you help me with my basket Miss Campbell,” a. small voice in distress (called. “Yes. » Miss Campbell no sooner got the word -out of her | mouth when a basket builder threw her materials in the center of the table. “Now Mary, you want to make your own basket, don’t you? Won't you be happy tomorrow when you give your mother a basket you made all by yourself?” Yes, Mary thought it would be nice. Handles on the baskets began to stick. Some had enough paste for all 12 in the room. Several youngsters had trouble pasting the decorative flowers on the side of the baskets. Little wonder. With paste on both sides of a flower, paste on both hands, paste all over the side of a basket, the adhesion was terrific.’

Everyone" Pitches In

THE BASKET WORK had to end soon or all would be’lost. Jimmy was wearing his basket on his head. Mary was yelling that Harry broke the handle off her basket, Johnny. was loading his basket with pastepots and scissors. Miss Campbell and Mrs. Foster rushed to help the slower children. + Everyone pitched in to clean up the room. Then they rushed to the washroom to clean the paste off their hands and faces. ; “Come into thes playroom when you're through children,” Miss Campbell said. Mrs. Foster supervised the youngsters who were washing. All the basket builders finally seated themselves around Miss Campbell who told them about the May flowers and that “tomorrow, we'll all go to the vacant lot in the next block and pick some for the baskets you made.” It was a tosssup as-td who was going to get the baskets, “mommy” or “daddy.” “Who wants to hear a story before we have lunch?” Everyone wanted to hear a story. Ah—kids.

| Private Bath

WASHINGTON; May 1.—Congress in its wisdom seems to have heard my plea for a house with a bath at each end of the bedroom. One of these will be mine now, without female hosiery dripping from the ghower curtain rod. . There'll be no face powder spilled accidentally on the floor, no hair-pins among the razor blades, no garters oh the doorknob, no lipstick mixed with the soap. If any wife of mine steals a squeeze of my private toothpaste, I'll beat her. She kindly . will stay out of my bathroom. ® Before this night’ has come the house of representatives will have passed the rent control bill, which does many things, including the removal of the private bath dor husbands from the official list of crimes. Rep. Jesse P. Wolcott of Michigan, chairman of the banking and currency committee which wrote the bill, was bitter about the léw now making the building of a second bath a federal offense. He said it was silly.

All He Needs Is Money

ALL OVER the land, he charged, bathroom crim{nals have heen evading the law. “The contractor would put in the framework for the second. bath,” he continued, “and later the owner would go down to Sears, Roebuck or Montgomery Ward and buy himself another bathtub. Then he'd hire another contractor to put it in.” Sincé husbands have been willing to risk criminal tion to escape pink lingerie strung on the towel rack, Wolcott & Co. ruled that a man can build as many bathrooms as he wants. All he needs is money.

Sa The committee has the figures to prove that

Bouses cost so much to build, nobody much is buildLady Producer

HOLLYWOOD, May 1.—Movietown's newest femipine producer, perky Ida Lupino, was sitting behind 8 10-foot walnut desk munching gum drops and reading a book. At last, we figured, we had discovered what movie producers do behind those closed doors when secretaries snaps “Sorry, in conference.” But we had Ida wrong. “I'm cramming,” she sald. It was obvious. was rimming gum drops-into her mouth. \ “Ne,” she said, “I am cramming for my citizenship examination next week, I havé to know the answers to a million questions and I can never remember anything when I get into a courtroom.” Like the time she divorced Louis Hayward, Ida said. : “I' rehearsed what I was going to say for two days with my lawyer, Then when I stood up before the judge, I couldn't remember a thing. I couldn't remember when I got married, or when we separated, or. why I wanted the divorce.”

A Little Confusing

IDA, IN association with Benedict Bogeaus, will produce and star in a 1926 Louis Bromfield. novel, “Early Autumn.” It's about a decadent New England .<family, and Ida will age to 40. Being a producer-star, Ida admitted, is confusing at times, she said. - j “My agent, who is also a produce”, is talking to Warner Brothers about a new contract for me as an actress, Bill Cagney came to me. the other day

She

— EE We, the Women A WIDOW whose grown and married children have walked right out of her life wants to know how a parent manages to keep the love and interest of

children “after they leave the parental roof to live

thelr own lives. ‘Here's the advice of one ‘mother who os Solved

. this problem:

Don't Let Worry Show IF YOU can’t help worrying over the problems of your grown, children, at least hide your wo "them, if, they're r really mature adults, they : sent your concern and pity. is Don't “offer am wii, xe, i yu Rook ou thing hey will

.- By Frederick C. Othman

ing them. Bathtubs, bricks, baseburners and boards .,are piling up at a tremendous rate. The lawmakers, figure that one of these days=soon the prices -of building materials will drop. Te get my man~ only bath. “And the building industry probably will make the same mistake lin the next eight or nine jonths that they made in the past,” Rep. Wolcott fold, “They'll overbuild.” : This will mean good news for the renters antic the final end of rent control, he added. His bill continues the rent laws: until the end of this year and, if President Truman insists, until next April. The opposition didn’t kick much about that.

Predict Dire Results

WHAT WORRIED the Democrats was a provision giving landlords the right to hike rents 15 per cent in return for two-year leases. The status quo boys predicted dire results. The white-hiared Rep. Frank Buchanan of Pennsylvania said there'd be identical houses on the same street renting at different figures. He said some landlords would take advantage and make a farce of rent control. Rep. Howard Buffett of Nebraska retorted. that there'd been too much monkey business with the rent control law. “This bill,” he cried, “is a political hot, potato. That's why it was kicked around 80 much before it goes to our committee.” - The federal housing experts were no help, either, he continued. “All we got from them, " he said, and ‘I think.” So the committee wrote the bill without help from anybody and (come to Shiny of it) I believe I'd better padlock my new bath.

“was ‘I hope’

By Erskine Johnson

and wondered if Producer Lupino would loan him Actress Lupino for a role in “The Time of Your Life.” Every agent in town is chasing her to hire their clients. She's just about ready to ask someone to proclaim a “Be Kind to Producers Week,” And if all- producers had such pretty legs, I'd proclaim it myself.

Hats On

A HOLLYWOOD hat designer, De Villar, jumped hat first into the controversy over whether lady lawyers must remove their hats in courtrooms, .,One Los Angeles judge. thinks they should, Feminine |e attorneys always wear hats oNpthe screen, De Villar pointed out, in the correct tradition of English courts, which made everybody wear wigs. “Besides,” sneered De Villar, “It is as vulgar for a woman to appear before a judge bareheaded as barefooted.” Mary Healy and Peter Lind Hayes will adopt a baby. Margaret Whiting may sign an R.K.O.; contract soon. Eddie Cantor wants the singer for his next movie. Gene Raymond is interested in a deal to direct and produce summer stock at Saratoga. The gagsters are insisting that Fred Astaire be starred in ‘The Arthur Murray Story.” W. C. Fields’ record album of “The Day I Drank a Glass of Water” and “Temperance Lecture” has gone into ité second printing. It has become a collectors’ item, »

By Ruth Millett

for your happiness in life. Make your own happiness.

Don’t put on a pathetic act hoping to make them

. feel sorry for yoii ‘and give you more attention. Don't criticize their friends or their way of living. They won't feel comfortable around you if you do.

Praise Their Efforts

7 SHOW YOUR admiration for what they have ac “complighed or are trying to accomplish; That puts

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SECOND. “SECTION

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Opposing Factions "Announce Slates By ROBERT BLOEM

municipal primary election Tuesday _ will be confronted with 32 candidates for the party’s six city council nominations. : At least a dozen of the candidates have been officially slated by opposing factions within the county -G. O. P. One slate, made up predominantly of county ward chairmen,

has been issued by the regular Marion county party orgaszation headed by county Chairman Henry Ostrom. The second slate is that of the Citizens’ Republican’ Committee, which is the official name of the party's city hall, Roy Hickman-for-

mayor so far have not issued slates to indicate their councilmanic choices and are not expected to do $0. » ” » ONE CANDIDATE on the ballot, Ben Dock in the fist district lineup, has officially Withdrawn from the race. Not counting Mr. Dock, five men. seek the council nomination in the first distriee. The regular organization’s sated choice in the district is Donald Jameson, President of the: Equitable Securities Co., a member of the Indianapolis zoning board and Republican 20th ward chairman. Opposing him and slated by the city. hall faction ef the ‘party is Robert K. Eby, local attorney, who

demnation of party organization “machine politics.” 8 ” ” RETIRED AMERICAN LEAGUE baseball umpire Harry C. Geisel "Attorney John M, Caylor and Jack Henry Westfield, manager df the New Intérnational Kustard Machine Co., are the other three candidates

{if the district.-

Only three candidates will appear on the ballot for the second district nomination. In that district the hall Republican “faction” has Rufus C. Kuykendall, a depre county presecutor and practicing local attorney. Harmon A. Campbell, head of the Campbell Coal Co., has been given the official nod by Mr. Qstrom’s party organization though he hipself is not an active member that organization, He is a former member; of the council. Between these two slated candidates is Jesse A. Hutsell, retired city fireman, who is running independently of mayoralty or organization affiliation.

3 ” 2 ” * IN THE THIRD DISTRICT Republican council race, Clarence

Suggs, 23d ward chairman, squares off against Glenn W. Radel, a business executive, in the battle of the slates. Mr. Suggs, who outside of politics is a railroad station fireman, is the candidate supported by the regular county organization. Mr. Radel, who entered the race as an independent, has received the

Break Predicted In Phone Strike

N. Y. Workers Refuse $4 Raise Offer

WASHINGTON, May 1 (U. PJ). —Union officials confidently pre-

dicated a company wage offer today in master negotiations here that

will lead to settlemgnt of the 25-day-old nation-wide telephone strike.

pected late this afternoon. Both here and in New York | union officials said the break was expected at that time in the key talks between the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., and dong distance operators. Henry Mayer, a union attorney, said he believed the company would give in to union demands for a $6 weekly -wage increase. Mr. Mayer, an attorney for five independent unions and 10 affiliated with _the National Federation of Telephone Workers, said that when the “company sees that their abortive attempt to end the sttike in

«|New York with a $4 increase has

failed, they will capitulate.” New York telephorie workers refused to return to work today in the nation's largest city although their leaders agreed yesterday to a $4 weekly increase for four independent unions. Mr. Mayer, who was. attorney for the unions, yesterday charged it was a “sell-out.” Mr. Mayer - sald the company

the department of labor. All signs pointed to a showdown in negotiations. "

Evansville Waits

Straet ‘Repair, 0. K.

“MVANSVILLE, Ind, May 1 (U. P).. —Oity officials awaited a reply to-

traffic.

VOTERS in the Republican |

Mayor faction. Other candidates for *

has been outspoken in his con- °°

The break in the strike was ex- |

would make its announcement at

day on their request for about $80 in federal government funds to air streets damaged by wartime

Chief Engineer R. W. Melsinger sald any funds allowed would be| used as payment for streets repaired iheir-own Test and [lash year by W. L. Magaw, Rich Ri

real "THURSDAY, MAY 5 147

Meat the ES for Council—

.0.P. Er For Six City Council I

John. M. Caylor Robert K. Eby First District - Pirst District

Attorney

g : Attorney

Andrew J. Banks Victor L.. Ellison Third District Third Distriet Blacksmith

Painter

Fourth District Office Worker

Fourth District Attorney

James 'C. Smock 0. F. Suhr Fifth District Fifth District ‘Maintenance Man Asst. Labor Comm.

nod from the opposing city hall organization. Other candidatés for the third district spot on the G. O. P. ticket are Andrew J. Banks, a blacksmith; Frank R. Beckwith, an attorney; Victor L. Ellison, a painter; and William Gruner, Socal accountant. 8 Rs SIX MORE catiicaan seek to represent the fourth district on the Republican ticket next fall,

Slated choice of the regular county organization is Charles P. Ehlers, 10th ward chairman for the party and secretary-manager of the Indiana Bakers’ association.

Against Mr. Ehlers, the Citizens’ Republican | committee has pitted Lewis A. Madison, former organization man who was “purged” as ninth ward chairman in a recent shakeup of county organization personnel. He lost his patronage job in the state motor vehicle license division at the same time.

The ballot also includes the

Two Men Injured In Falls Here

Two men who were injured in falls yesterday are in fair conditions in hospitals today. Michael J. Brady, 56, of 2247 Linden st., employee of Indianapolis Railways, Inc, barns at 1100 W. Washington st. is in fair condition unconscious at the bottom of a grease pit at the barns last night. Charles Cobb, 23-year-old Ft. |Harrison soldier, who fell down an| elevator shaft at the Allied building (at 14 W. Ohio st. yesterday, was {moved from City to Ft. Harrison | Station hespital after preliminary treatment. His condition is fair..

Lewis A. Madison A. Frederick Zainey Clarence E. Flick

is a former member of the oy

in Methodist hospital. He was found |

Harry C. Geisel First District Umpire (retired)

Donald Jameson First District. Business Executive

William M. Gruner Third District Accountant

Glenn Radel Third. District Business Executive

Fifth District Fifth District

Joseph E. Bright Sixth District Salesman

Edmond J. Rocker Sixth District Brakeman

names of Frank L.- Collins, William M. Cravens, a member of the plant patrol force at the General Motors’ Allison division here; Henry Goebel, a shop inspector, and Attorney A. Frederick Zainey. » 2 » NINE CANDIDATES have made bids for the Republican council nomination in the fift ict. O. PF. ‘Suhr, assistant state labor commissioner and a former officer in the Carpenters’ and Joiners union, was selected by the city hall party faction as its choice for the district seat. The regular party organization nod went to Harold C. Shulke, 15th ward chairman and state superintendent“of buildings and grounds. John E. King, a former councilman and how a special representative for the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. and Kenneth E. Hoy, head of a. pharmaceutical firm, also. are on the ballot" for rine district.” Other candidates in the districts. are Clarence E. Flick, a finance

Stout Field Road .To Be Reopened

West Siders today had won a twoyear fight to have a half-mile [stretch of W. Minnesota st. along- | side Stout Field reopened. The federal government took control of the street in 1942 and closed | because of danger to motorists | from landing aircraft. Jurisdiction {'was recently returned to the county along: with a $1869 settlement for disuse. | Marion County Attorney. Scott

Ging said the road will be opened by next week.

Carnival—By Dick Turner

Kenpeth: E. Hoy

Jack H. Westfield Harmon A. Oomph First Distriet Businessman

Second District

Frank L. Collins

Fourth District Fourth District

Plant Patrolman Bakers’ Assn, Exec.

John E. King Poehler Fifth District Fifth District Finance Ceo. Exec. Pharmaceutical Exec. Utility Represent’ve Plumber

F. C.

Louis E. Smith : Sixth Distriet

Ha E. Bason Sales Manager ai

Radio Entertainer company executivé® Paul Anderson, auto mechanic; F. C. Poehler, a plumber; Fred Riffey, South side furniture broker, and James C. Smock, a Isitentnce man.

ONLY ONE UNSLATED candidate appears among the three seeking the sixth district nomination, He is Bdmoriy 3} Rbéker, a ratiroad brakeman. : Louis E. Smith, sales manager for ‘a local luggage firm, is the

slated chojce of the city hall faction |¢

for the sixth, while the regular organization support is behind Joseph E. Bright, salesman and 24th ward chairman. Only non-political slate to be announced so far in the council picturé¢ was that of the United Labor Political committee, representing major labor organizations in the city and including the C. I. OQ, the A. F. or L. and the railroad brotherhoods, : The labor committee's shate

‘woman's physician,

tiames Mr. Gelsel in the first dis-

Tanks Replace

Richmond Cannon

RICHMOND, Ind. May 1 (U. P.). —Years ago Richmond sought a way to get rid of two ancient cannons decorating its courthouse lawn. Came a world war II scrap drive and the government took care of

.| the situation. It promised,’ however,

to grace the courthouse with a “suitable” replacement. Today, the city owned two new fixtures—obsolete 14-ton tanks.

No Mercury Found In Tot's Patient

MADISON, Ind. May 1 (U. P.).— A heart condition and cirrhosis of the liver was blamed today_for the death of Mrs. Mayme McConnell, Dupont, key witness in the mercury poisoning trial of Mrs. Lottie Lock man. Dr. E. C. Cook, the §1-year-old filed a death] certificate yesterday in which he said his patient had suffered the

He was not able to determine if there was any mercury in Mrs. McConnell’s body. Mrs.. Lockman, the 63-year-old former housekeeper and nurse in the McConnell home, was acquitted

{a month ago of attempting to poison |

Mrs. McConnell.

{Low Clouds Hamper

Canadian Airliner Hunt

Coal Co, Executive

heart condition for Several years.

VANCOUVER," B: C, May 1 (Ud

Jesse A. Second |

William M, Cravens Charles JP. Enters r ¥ io he a A

Fourth Distriet

Eoyke aves employes 3

trict, Mr. Hutaell in the

and Mr. Bright in the sixth.

REPUBLICANS ein iis De for the city clerk nomination. Frank J. Noll Jr., incumbent

clerk, has the support of the reguldr

_employed as. a clerk in a downtown business firm, and R. 2 A

Havens, a Bormory employee.

The following_cand candidates did submit pictures to The Times { inclusion in the city counel}s clerk stories: Ben Dock, who has with from the race but whose name appear on the ballot; Beckwith and Clarence cil candidates in

council race; Candidate, Gail

through the Ewing 424 8. caused an damage to J ry and manufacturing firms housed in the : a machinery it caved in and flames more than four hogts, . ~~ turers of melds’ vied by eries, occupy the second floor of the half-block-long building. A stone wall Vaser Msthine Oo. prevented fire | gaining entrance to the. part of the bullding. © Another fire, which the Hugh J. Baker Carty st., early to the wareého and amount of determined.