Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 May 1947 — Page 21

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COME when wy raining” Bill

“Why?

All five of the employees on the switchboard tooked

at me as if I had flown in on a magic carpet. Dispatcher Bi yce, who was working the master side of-the board) explained there was more action, when it rainkd. "That. - the time to see them “really” work, * “You seem to be dots all ight, now, Everyone is flipping switches, pulling and plugging in the trunk plugs, tossing white cards around-and issuing orders to cabbies,” I countered, Eddie Oren, dispatcher, who had 19 trunk ines to handle for the north and northeast stations sald:

“This is nothing. Heck, we're only handling about

225 to 245 calls an hour right now. When you hit 400. an hotir you know you're working. Isn't that right BUI?"

A Steady’ Stream of Calls

BILL WAS BUSY.. “Okay 190—which way you going? All right,” He pulled the: plug, flipped a

switch before he ama, “That's right," to Eddie's .

question. + Mrs, Hazel Pller and Mrs, Marie Fields, the two receivers working on the other side of the switchboard, kept a steady stream of cab calls flowing over the chute to the dispatchers, Bill Harold called into his mike, “I need a cab-at Plaza: hotel, Somebody downtown-—somebody downtown." He stepped on. 8 pedal which allowed someone to verify the call, Almost instantly he had it. “Okay.” A white card fluttered down the chute. Usually Eddie stacks the cards on one of the six piles representing north, south, east, west, central north and the downtown areas.. This one was marked “emergency.” Automatically it had preference over all calls. Bill Harold went to work to get. a rush trip to a hospital for an expectant mother. Just then Bob Goodner walked in to relieve Eddie who was going ous to supper. “You get many emergency calls?” I asked. “Oh, it's not unusual to get three baby calls a day ~—sometimes more,” Bob answered. “Well, I'm going to get some chow,” "Eddie sald taking off his dispatching mouthpiece. Bob took over, A driver checked in from his station and Bill Boyce told him he had nothing “right now.” “256-256, City hospital—out patient,” Bill Harold called. Cab 258 verified the call and was ordered to call In

. when he was through. .Check.

“Do you want to dispatch some cabs?” Bob asked me. I saw the little white cards: still fluttering. And the mechanics of taking a card, getting a station, writing the cab number in the top right corner, stamping it for the dispatching time, instructing the driver where to go seemed a bit complicated. What if T foul up this operation?” “Aw—you can’t foul anything up here, Go ahead, sive it & whirl”

I'll be right

4 1 dpc for Rad Ou, To pl 1 1 Br over his shoulder,

“on my own. Then an emergency call came in.

TELLING THEM WHERE : TO GO—Dispatchers (left to right) Eddie Oren, Bill Harold and William Boyce have 273 Red Cabs on the line.

Failed in My Finest Hour BOB HANDED me a single earphone and I clipped it over my right ear. “Is that your good edr?” he asked. “Why sure that's my good ear, Both of my ears are good.” “No, that isn't what I meant. Everyone has one ear which is just a little better than the other, Didn't you know that?” I admitted I hadn't given my ears much thought as long as they work all right, but I did remember that when I went to bed at night I could shut out more noise by lying on my left ear. “That's your best ear,” Bob said. “Okay—Ilet me at the calls,” I announced. “Answer that call. Someone is checking in, “Where shall'I plug this thing?” “The second plug where the orange “light is on,” was the answer. “843.7 “What do I do? The voice said 8432." “I bet that guy thinks I'm an idiot.” assured me that 842 thought no such thing. After 10 minutes of help from Bob-I was practically

“Can you handle it: fast—you have a couple of stations standing by.” “Sure—sure, let me have it.” Before Bob untangled me from the switchboard, Bill Harold had a radio equipped cab on its way to N. Hamilton ave. Minutes afterward, when I was leaving, cab drivers were calling in, ‘It seems I rang several stations in the process. 1 had failed in what could have been my finest hour.

WAA Follies

‘By Frederick C.-Othman

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WASHINGTON, May 2—1f I weren't a taxpayer, I'd feel sorry tor the poor old war assets administration. It hardly finishes one red-faced explanation of storekeeping in never-never land, before more complaints bring on more investigations. Its embarrassments range from the senate’s inquiry into the warehouse full of WAC girdles that have lost their snap to the house's amazement over the consignment of scrap iron that blew up in a Philadelphia Junkman’s face. Somebody 1Ad. pasied Sia wong label on 8 Lox of dynamite. The WAA spent $60 a ton shipping bolts and nuts to the fellow who'd paid $30 for tham. It tried to sell some surplus pajamas bought for the female infantry, but it couldn’t find:the pants. All it had were the coats. It ‘was delighted over the brisk demand for life rafts until the _narcotics agents stopped the sale. Fach raft was equipped with a case of narcotics the WAA didn’t know about.

Everyone to Blame

SOME OF THESE bobbles were the WAA's fault, some were the army's and the navy's. Many were caused by the sheer enormity of the job. This wasn't made any easier when the ality palmed off a few cases of brown soap and rusty ramrods left over from the Civil war and a warehouse full of horsedrawn hearses from the Spanish-American war. So constant has been the criticism of the WAA that many of its officials have quit, only to be replaced by other men, who couldn't take it either. One medium-grade brass hat in headquarters here testified that he walked out when the documents began to pile up on the floor of his office, like waves of paper in a statistical sea.

Double Features

T mention all this by way of introduction to the fact that the committee of Rep. Ross Rizley of Oklahoma is off on a new tangent. Seems that the army and the navy had stored in Utah $174 million worth of stuff, ranging from 20ton tanks and busted landing barges to percale pillow cases and ‘sterling silver finger bowls for seafaring men, The WAA was supposed to sell the whole works. It had 1500 people in Salt Lake City and Denver, but if. seemed to have ignored them. Instead it paid the Georgé A. Fuller Co., a firm of construction en-

Bob re-|.

Organization Offers ~ Only One Slate " * By ROBERT BLOEM THIRTY-NINE candidates, including the only two women on either party ballot, - will seek the Democratic party's six city council nominations

in next Tuesday's primary election, Unlike the Republican voters who are confronted with two “party” slates of candidates, Deniocrats have Leen offered only-one. Thai slate was prepared by the Demo: cratic - county committee ander Chairman Walter Boetcher and in three Of .the six districts supports more than one candidate. None cf the Democratic candidates for mayor has offered a slaie of his choices for the council nomination and there is no sharply defined split between party factions as in the G. O. P . " ” IN THE first district Democratic council race, the organization. slate

! |offers two candidates, while three

more names appear on the ballot without official party support. The two receiving the party nod are Porter Seidensticker, a Democratic employee in the Center township assessor's office, and Mrs. Sarah L. Beasley, prominent in League of Women Voters Circles. Flonoi Adams, a plant maintenance man; W.' Gordon Davis, attorney, and" Patrick J. Delaney, manager of a dry cleaning establishment, . complete the district ticket. 8ix Democrats are competing for the second district council homination with the organization support behind attorney Joseph C, Wallace, co-chairman of the seventh ward. » » o OTHER. NAMES on the second district ballot are David J. Deets, an advertising salesman; William J. Dougherty, a salesman; William King Jr, realtor; Opal L. Tandy, a newspaper reporter; and William J. Brown. The third district race is the narrrowest on the party ticket with only

attorney, and Jesse Toliver face or-

Flonol Adams First Distriet Maintenance Man

In Primes p Rac:

Opal Tandy Second Distriet Second District Reporter Attorney

Joseph’ A. Wicker Bernard C. Commiy Chititien J. Embardt Ronald ¥. Faucett William C. Russow Charles BE. Taylor David n Badger. Fourth District Attorney

. John E. Egan Sixth District Plumber

ganization choice Guy O. Ross, who | pox.

is a retired passenger train. con-

gineers; $300,000 plus expenses of $2,500,000 to open a kind of temporary department store. Nobody charged the Fuller Co. with falling down; | Rep. * ‘Mitchell Jenkins of ‘Pennsylvania framed the question like this: “Why did we have to go out and hire somebody |

else to do this job, which was supposed to have been THE ORGANIZATION’ Ss

done by the 1500 people we were paying to do it?”

Calls It a Good ‘Deal

answer that one. Last summer, when he signed the contract, .he was a WAA official. re is federal housing expediter. He insisted it was a good deal. He said in fact that he believed the Fuller Co. would try harder oy do the job than his own employees. “Yes,” snorted Rep. Jenkins. “Because they got ‘an extra fee to do the job your own men had been | aired to do.” “And you signed the contract just a eotple of months after congress authorized you to hire 35,000 extra people to conduct these sales generally,” observed Committee Counsel Hugh A, Wise Jr. Mr. Creedon sighed. So did I. And you will, too, before we're done with this one.

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By Erskine Johnson

HOLLYWOOD, May 2—Really, Hollywood, I've had enough.” My back is out of joint. My eyes hurt, and my sense of values has gone to pot. Two-feature-

length movies, a newsrel, a carton, a travelog, and a two-minute trailer are driving me’ crazy. I gob We plots mixéd up. I always get into the theater in the middle of the second picture, By the time I get around there again, I have the leading man in the first picture married to the horse in the second picture, Or my favorite actor is the hero in one picture, and after the newsreel he comes back wearing a mustache'and is the villain, People don't go to movie theaters anymore to be entertained. They go to be tortured. They emerge with their spines all out of shape and with technicolor headaches. Let's revive single features. Or else replace theater seats with hospital beds.

Poor Selling Point

AFTER all these years, Errol Flynn is wooing the press. He hostéd a lunchéon for the scribes on the second day of work on his new film, “Silver River,” There's plenty of pressure in New York to leave those fight-fixing scenes in “Body and Soul’ on the cutting-room floor. The state department has quietly asked Hollywood

. ‘to lay off gangster movies, The reason: Because they

You feel such a call is absolutely necessa

were interfering with Uncle Sam’s efforts to sell the U. 8. to a world looking for peace and security. Faye Emerson Roosevelt is wearing a lapel pin bearing the words, ‘Please Do Not Handle. ” The pin or Faye? Harry James will be back from his band tour

“lines:

At the moment |

’ jopponent, Daniel Moriarity,

of ward Srsanisations over the city. |

lone | choice for support is Joseph A. Wicker, attorney and a precinct

ever, is divided seven ways. Other candidates in the district

ductor and chairman of the first | the ward. | where two active party organ ization Although the organization has members have been given the backslated only one candidate in the {ng of the party organization. The { Democratic fourth district race, an, favored pair are Christian J. Em-| . J has hart, an attorney and 13th ward been “double-slated” by a number chairman, and William C, Erbecker, 2 = = secretary to the Democratic county

fifth

| committee,

” » OTHERS MAKING the race in committeeman in the party. Mr, the fifth district are Edward Boren, “3 ..|Moriarity is a railroad employee. an insurance man; Bernard C. Con- | balmer; Elijah L. Johnson, an atFRANK CREEDON, one of 28 witnesses, tried 1 yo district ballot as a whole, how- nelly; interviewer for ‘Indianapolis Power and Light Co.; Ronald F. 1, McKee; a trucker Bryan Selzer, | Faucett, an accounting clerk; book and Vernan Anderson. are Paul C. Barnes, east side res-|pinder William C. Russow, and| The United Labor Political Com-

Filth District

Sixth Distriet

Plant Protect. Officer

|a retired city fireman, and, Lestle F. sented on either party's ballot with

Another seven-way race looms in district

councilmanic

taurant operator; Michael J. Don- [Charles E. Taylor, a contractor.

ahue, a timekeeper; Daniel Howe, a

"two Ships Scheduled To Reach N. Y. Today

: NEW YORK, May 2 (U. P.)— | Ship movements scheduled today- tai | New York harbor:

{ Arriving: Mauretania from Liverpool, Good Hope Castle from Antwerp. Departing: Marine ¥klasher for {Le Havre, Marine Falcon for Le | Havre, Marine Shark for Palermo, Alcoa Cavalier for Carribean, Yar- | mouth for Nassau, Marquess De llas for Havana, Santa Paula f Carribean, J. M. Huddleston

June 10, just two weeks before Betty Grable keeps her | (troops) for Bremerhaven, General

date with the stork. Producer-director Mike Curtiz is prepping “Winter | Kill” for H. Bogart and L. Bacall.’ Aside to movie producers: With the California cen-| tennial coming up, how about a fiini" version of] ‘Samuel Brannan and the Golden Fleece,” novel of] the gold rush days by Reva Scott, the fan Francisco newspaperwomen?

Signed by Kilroy

| Stewart for Bremerhaven,

PRICES Ul UP IN } IN BERLIN BERLIN, May 2 (U. P).—Sudden

The sixth district Democratic race [attitudes of most of the principal

Heart of Amefica-

Ste. Genevieve, Mo., Is Quiet Old Place To Get Away From Strain of Modern Life

Sarah'L. Beasley ~~ W. Gordon Davis First District . _ Housewife

Joseph C. Wallace Millen E. Craig Third District Attorney

Utility Interviewer

Joseph F. Frantz

First District Attorney

First District Businessman

Guy 0. Ress Third Distriet Retired Conducter

Fifth District Attorney

Fifth District Accounting Clerk

* Frank KE. Johns Sixth Distriet Embalmer

three contestants. ‘Milton Craig, an radio repairman; Michael Qualters, is the widest open of any. repre-

George 8S. Lupear -Sixth Distriet Engineer

11 contenders for the nomination. In this heavily populated ballot spot the Democratic party organization has split support three ways. The slate approves David H. Bad+ ger, west side grocer; Percy L. | Harden, an attorney, and George S. Lupear, an engineer.

CHALLENGING these three are Miss Mary Catherine Connor, a bookkeeper; John E. Egan, plumber;

Joseph F. Frantz, a plant protection officer; Frank E. Johns, an em-

torney; another engineer. Herschel

mittee, representing the combined

Michael J. Donahue Fourth Distriet

Paul C. Barnes - Fourth District Restanrateur

Fifth District Bookbi nder

Fifth Distriet y Contractor

Herschel J ‘McKee

Bryan Selzer Sixth Distriet Sixth Distriet © Engineer Trucker

labor organizations in the city, has set. up the only non-political slate to ‘be announced so far for Democratic council candidates. The labor slate supports Mr. Adams in the

‘first district, Mr. Deets in.the secfond, Mr. Toliver in the third, “Mr.

Barnes in the fourth, Mr. Emhardt in the fifth and Miss Connor in the sixth.

The following ean andidaior ‘men=-

tioned in the above ‘story on Demo» cratic candidates for city council and for city clerk, did not’ ‘Submit pictures to The Times: ~~ N Council candidate Brown n the: second district, Toliver in the third,

Fox and Qualters in the fourth, Ci

Boren and Erbecker in the fifth, Anderson, Harden and Johnson in the. sixth, : Also clerk candidates ‘Ressler and Rosemeyer,

Boyce,

You Could Wear an 18th Century Costume And People Probably Wouldn't Notice It

By ELDON ROARK Soripps-Howard Staff Writer

STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo, May 2.—Boy, fetch me my silk stockings]; {my knee britches, my powdered wig and my three-cornered hat.

Think |

I'll go for a stroll in ye olde towne of Ste. Genevieve. If I did appear on the street in such a rig, I.don’t believe I would

be a sensation here.

People probably would just nod pleasantly and |

wonder where I had been keeping myself.

If you'd like to get away from the

{increases of mare than 100 per cent strains of modern life and enjoy established around 1733 three miles

{in food prices at the American 'a quiet vacation in the 18th cen- below the present site.

After a

(commissary caused an angry stir tury, this is the place to come. Ste.i flood in 1785, the town was moved

ameng housewives of the American | Genevieve was the first permanent {o this’ higher ground.

colony today.

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settlement

in Missouri,

Some. of

It was the homes were dismantled, maved |

MARLENE DIETRICH, now in Paris making a Carnival—8y Dick Turner

movie, went to Verdun the other day to entertain some troops in the same theater in which she danced for American G.I.'s during the war, theater, she saw a shapely pair of legs drawn on the wall with the words: “Marlene Was Here.” It was signed, “Kilroy.” Figures with a wallop from the Hollywood head“Hollywood Spends $500,000 on Educational Films for Schools in Last Three Years.” “Hollywood Spends $12 million on Two Films, ‘Duel in the Sun’ and ‘Forever Amber.” There's a deal cooking to film the life story of Jean Harlow. But who could they get to play the part? There will never be another Harlow. Peggy Cummins’ mother goes into Santa Monies hospital May 8 for a major operation. June Haver ‘will become a traveling orchestra wife this sumer while husband Jimmy Zito alternates between engagements in Texas and Chicago. Edward Arnold's daughter, June; has set her wedding date to Eugene Ebright for June 27.

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We, the Women

THAT SICK FRIEND in the hospital is on your mind because you haven't yet paid that duty call to express . your concern and interest. But why not write him a note, €all him on the

* telephone, or send him a book stead? Walt until

he is home againsto “do your duty.” That would be doing him a real favor. :

i: Calls Visitors ‘Hazards’

THE HEAD of. a large midwestern hospital recent

ly called’ hospital visitors “hazards” because they

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By Ruth Millett

pecially those Who ore. ill enough to be hospitalized? Your “duty call” doesn't do the patient any good in most cases, and it may do him a lot of harm.

Other Remembrances

personal visit. when there .are so many other ways of letting a sick person know he is remembered. We have been quick to drop many social customs that have proved incompatible with the modern world.: And it looks as shough the “duty call” eould well /go into discard also. ‘Why y tke a sick ma out of ‘to let the community go him?

Entering the|

i commit any We

still = standing—theé ‘old Bolduc

House, for instance. Ancient Business Buildings

Other showplaces are homes built after the new site was selected— predating the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. Some have wide ‘porches, and some are flush with the sidewalks and have no porches at all On the .public square there also are ancient business buildings. The Httle two-story Sexauer tavern was the first brick house built west of the Mississippi. It was erected in 1785, and the first American court in the state was held there: Ste. Genevieve was settled by French-Canadians. Later Germans came, They got along fine and intermarried.

" Jesse James Raid Relic

dreamy old Rozier home. The name Rozier is one of the oldest and most~ honored in Ste. Genevieve, and so is the name of Audubon, Open Store . Ferdinand Rozier and his friend, John J. Audubon, came to America from France. together, In TLouisville in 1810 they purchased a keel boat and a stock of goods and liquors, and set out down the Ohio as traders. when they reached the Mississippi they turned northward, and at Ste, Genevieve they decided to open a store. It didn't turn out to be a satisfactory partnership.

strictly a business man, But Audu-| ne ma are. and reassembled, and a few’ are p.. wag always slipping away into! jor veterans groups

the woods to study and to paint pic-| o

tures of birds. Rozier got fed up, and bought out Audubon’s interest in 1811. Each went on to success in a different direction.. The ‘Rozier department store is the largest store in this town of 4000 population, Audubon never slept in the hotel named for him, It was built after his death. Prints of his bird paintings adorn the walls,

Rozier was |

Sitth Btnet

DEMOCRATS WILL have wight antidatenlo shoe fiom fur clerk nomination in the ing primary election. = Richard G. Stewart, county liquor board member, has been voted party organization by Democratic ma i

Ned: Boyes. iy) Fae

Veterans’ To Push

WASHINGTON, May ry «1

ing the groundwork for a vigorous grass roots” campaign for ‘

ican Legion joined the Veterans Poreign Wars in expressing dissatis faction with the oss. 0 of

WORD-A-DAY

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In the center of the square is a group of public buildings — the courthouse, jail, city hall, library and museum. In the museum are many documents relating to the history of, wn and region, and many of the weapons, tools and artd-

of the most prized possessions is a

James and his band when they) raided Ste. Genevieve in 1873. ° | Stores and shops are on three sides of the square. From the fourth

tacts used by the early settlers. One|

small bank safe cracked by Jessell

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