Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 May 1947 — Page 7
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THE Ee Tikes people better than toring except. ice cream—is going to have much to do with tens of thousands of them before nightfall of May 30. . Joe Quinn, Speedway safety director, is the busiest man at the 500-mile track and at “ N. Capitol ave, the Speedway office, The task of expediting the flow of fans in and out of the huge auto race plant on Memorial Day and routing the fans who attend qualifying trials is a fulltime assignment in itself. But. “Big Joe" (as they refer to him at the Speedway office) also is the right-hand-man of the millionaire Speedway owner, “Tony” Hulman. : , As such, Joe (Joseph Leo Quinn Jr. is taboo with him) is the man you see when you can't find Tony Hulman. And if you do catch up with the busy Anton Hulman Jr., you probably will be shuttled to Joe Quinn, anyway , . . or Tony likely will confer with Mr, Quinn on important matters before announcing a
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Not that Tony isn't a “right guy.” He's as common as the fellow who needs a nickel: for a cup of coffee, It's just that Tony Hulman has built around himself an organization of fellow townsmen (Terre Haute) who share responsibility in all matters involving the head of A. Hulman and Co.
His Elusive Title TRY TO FIND out from Jot Quinn exactly what
MR. SPEEDWAY JR.—Joe Quirin, Speedway _ safety director and right-hand man of owner Anton Hulman, is a busy man these days with the big event just two weeks away.
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WASHINGTON, May 17.J. F. Kurtz, the St. Louis i boilermaker, doesn’t. know it yet—unless there is a ! portentous ringing in his ears—but he'd better start i packing his suitcase now. A subpena is heading his way. The U. BS. senate wants to ask him some questions, And I'd better start at the beginning, in case he has forgotten his part in my amazing tale: On last March 8 the machinery of the StangardDickerson Corp., of Newark, N. J, was grinding out its final bunch of ice boxes because of no more steel i sheets. The management was frantic. It had $10,000,000 worth of orders. But not a steel mill in Amerf ica could deliver any more raw material. A Lookee!™ cried the purchasing agent, shoving a i New York newspaper under the nose of John V, Quarles, the manager. “This ad. Sheet steel. Carload : lots. Immediate delivery in New York!” Mr. Quarles got in touch with the advertiser, who represented somebody, who represented somebody else. : “And I finally found this fellow in a room at the i Waldorf-Astoria hotel,” he testified.
| Then the Railroad Balked fl “WHAT. FELLOW?” demanded Senator Edward l Martin of Pennsylvania, who was conducting an in- | vestigation into charges that steel bootlegging was | forcing many a legitimate manufacturer “into bankruptcey. “This man, Kurtz, the president of the 8t. Louis Boiler and Equipment Co.” Mr. Quarles replied. “Steel sheet was listed at $75 a ton at the mill, if you could get it at all, which you couldn't. So I went to | see this Mr. Kurtz at the Waldorf and he said he could let me have 50 tons at $240 a ton.” Mr. Quarles said the price was murderous, but he
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Jr, isn't 1?” “Well,” Joe says cautiously, “that's what they call me.” And rightfully so .-, . for if you interview Tony in Terre Haute, Joe will be there to help. If you in-| vite Tony to a public gathering, chances are Joe Quinn will be there, too, And when some civic group wants Tony to head a drive o* serve on the board, Joe Quinn. will do the job if Mr. Hulman's ‘crowded schedule won't allow him the tinie, You could classify doe Quinn as a public relations man, but that would be only by a stretch of the imagination, There doesn't seem to be any accepted formula to fit the Speedway owner's right-hand-man Exactly how Joe came into his place in the Hulman scheme of things is an elusive detail, simply because Joe, himself, pidbably can’t put his finger on it. Like the famous Topsy, Joe Quinn wasn't exactly born into the organization—he was “just washed ashore.” One fact is recounted by Joe. He became identi fied with Mr. Hulman about two years ago last Sep~ tember. Prior to that he was a sanitary engineer and received his degree at Purdue, For a time he was here at the state house as chief engineer for the state board of health. He was with the highway commis sion from about 1931 to 1938. Intensely interested in elimination-of stream pollution in Indiana, Joe once wrote a book, with charts, on the subject while he was technical secretary for the Indiana stream pollution control board. Although he has spent most of his life in Indiana, Joe is not a native Hoosier. Born in Newark, N. J. ! he went to Bedford, Ind., when 10 years old. He now | owns a home—and resides permanently—in Terre! Haute, For relaxation, Joe like to read. Newspaper editorial pages are his favorites. But he doesn’t get time.’
Collector of Antiques ONE OF HIS hobbies is collecting antiques, American pressed glass and hand painted gamebird sets of china. His favorite sport is fly fishing and bird hunting. ‘He “likes” anto racing, but hasn't had the urge to climb into‘the racing creations such as whine around the Speedway—not since he burned up that desire when he fooled with Ford speedsters while a youngster. He likes good food, but diets on race day because he's too busy for food. His race day menu last year consisted of a cake someone had given to Mr. Hulman. Joe ate all of it before Tony got around to. asking for a piece. : : When he goes on vacation, it's on Tony's vacation. They went to Florida for a fishing and yachting trip after last year’s race. A master of details—always insisting on checking everything himself, even to Inspecting the guard positions at the track—there was one “detail” Joe forgot the other day when asked: “How long have you been married?” “It's been ... about .. .” he stumbled, “. .. have to ask my wife.” (By Art Wright.)
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By Frederick C. Othman
through the snow in Hoboken before he spotted the. right freight car at a pier. Each sheet was wrapped |
® ‘e : for export. in paper wearing the trade-mark of we PUIfflled: More Rain Due
Thundershowers Slated Most of Next Week; Farmers Catch Up With Night Plowing
Inland Steel Corp. . Mr. Quarles paid the St. Louls boilermaker $12,000 | for the steel that was worth $3750. Then he told the | railroad to send it over to Newark. The failroad said, nothing doing. “There was $1000 in freight and demurrage bills,” Mr. Quarles said. Louis, but I got him on the phone and he said he'd pay half.”
Everybody Had ‘It for Sale THE SENATORS ordered a subpena for the boilermaker to appear here with his story of the steel that, almost quadrupled in price While en route to New York | from Newark. Nothing unusual about it, said Mr. Quarles. bootleggers contihuously offered us $75 sheets at $240. “Yes,” agreed his boss, Augustus C. Studer Jr., re- | ceiver for the ice box company, “We never knew who'd | offer us a load of steel, or at what price. One of these | brokers turned out to be a dentist in the Bronx.” The senators would have subpenaed him, too, but | ny
the showers occur. Mr. Studer couldn't remember the name of the tooth | The farmers used the precious| actress Cornelia Otis Skinner. Miss | dry weather to great advantage last
eek. Assistant County AgriculVil Agent Pat Murphy counted | |tractors plowing at midnight al Foie Wonk Mu Bhionig Hd The Heart of America— | Bethel and Acton. Planting isn’t too far behind and | |given a few warm days next week | | the farmers will be pretty near even | | again.
yanker with the steel business sideline. Everybody | seemed to have steel for sale, Mr, Studer added, » €3CEPLI the mills which made it. Boilermaker Kurtz, in any event, will apear in the senate caucus room next Wednesday morning at 10,| or else. - He will tell how he came to be peddlin from the Waldorf metal that was made for shipment to Europe. This should make an interesting story. It may even help explain the high cost of refrigerators. Be seeing you, Mr. K.
By Erskine Johnson
HOLLYWOOD, May 17.—Lana Turner was throwing curves as the star pitcher of a girls’ baseball | team. But the curves she hurled were incidental to | her own curves. Lana was wearing a shirt with rolled-up sleeves, a baseball player's cap and a pair of blue dungarees. But the dungarees, we can report, weren't just § ordinary dungarees. No siree, a glamor girl in
Hollywood doesn’t wear just pain old dungarees-—
I Even dungarees have to be sexy in Hollywood. Lana tried on the dungarees. ! “Too baggy,” said the studio and Lada. So the I stlidio fashion designer retailored them to take up | the slack around the curves. Spencer Tracy is such an interested spectator at the girls’ baseball game, for a scene in “Cass Tims
l perlane,” that he asks Lana to marry him and she’
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Bought Her Own Home KATHRYN GRAYSON is burning, but good, over | printed reports/ that singer Johnny Johnston just E bought her r s-home as a premarriage wedding pres- | ent. Kathryn paid $36,000 for the place with her own hard-earned cash. The censors are leaving a great deal of Esther
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THE COLLEGE boy in the new flashy convertible drove slowly around the campus ingiting envious glances. But there wasn't envy on the face of the young father, a G. I bill .of rights student who turned to his wife and said, “That kid came to college about 10 years too late.”
i No Playground Now ; THE 1947 campus is not a playground any more. | It's a place of trailer camps and quonset huts, of | baby carriages and washings flapping in the breeze. | The talk isn’t how to get an‘extra 10 ot 10 out of the old
Williams in “This Time for Keeps” on the cutting- | room floor, For keeps, they say. There's a round table in the executive ‘dining | room at M-G-M. Wilkie Mahoney explains it this way: “It's roynd so nobody is at the head ot the | table until Louis Mayer starts talking.” '
No Romance for Rosy VAN JOHNSON’S will- be released as “Night Raiders.”
discovered that 90 per cent of the people interviewed thought the title meant that the picture was about a girl named Rosy Ridge having a romance. Two days after playing dance music for a Bureau | of Internal Revenue shindig, orchestra leader Hugh
in unpaid income taxes. Veloz and Yolanda won the . American Traffic Society award for their slogan: “Don’t change lanes | in the_middle of the traffic stream.” Tallulah Bandhead turned down Orson Welles'| offer to be his Lady Macbeth, She didn't want to play the role, as Orson is insisting, with a Scotch | burr. Forty-one Hollywood .films will be made in color in 1947, 10 more than last year. But if Hollywood spent as much money on colorful plots as on color, pictures would be a’lot better,
By Ruth Millett
man, but how to stretch the last government check until the next one. Even students who aren't married and who might have- played their way through college a few years ago have to take their study seriously in order to keep pace with the serious-minded majority.
Valves Have Changed TIME WAS when a boy could make an enviable place on a college campus just by driving a long, sleek car and parking it front of ‘the right fraternity house. ts But today among the baby buggies, jeeps, trailers, | and quonset huts the long, low convertible looks out | of Dblace. .
NEW YORK, May 17 (U, P.).— Judge James D. ¢ tached policeman, was convicted of accepted the verdict silently and a plea of guilty
gled Mrs, Katherine Miller,
‘Warren, Pa. Abello,
| | Politeman Found Guilty of Woman's Death, Keeps Silent
Wallace’ said he for several weeks, declined to talk. |
‘Mariano Abello, 36, handsome, mus- | Would pass sentence June 6. Abello’s The second degree manslaughter | attorney said he would appeal It was learned that the state'l5 years. second degree murder early today. offered several months ago to accept |
{sentence would have been T!3 to!
Abello mei and killed Mrs, Miller, to second degree (a divorced’ nurse, in the early
“still refused to tell why he stran- manslaughter if Abello would make | morning while his partner was get4, of a full confession of what happened |ting a cup of coffee. It was ngyer in his squad car last July 4. y who shot. himself in the negs said he saw Abello take her The verdict earried a sentence of mouth when fellow officers came to !body from a squad car and dump from 20 years to life Imphsonmen, arrest hig and hovered near death it in a vacant on
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All these doings have a pattern,
There's no glow or gilded glamour |
But to you there’s something different
And when ‘they give your youngster The sweetest thoughts go chasin’ You forget the things that riled you,
For you feel so very diffrent ~ When your child walks down the aisle.
Keep That Slicker— me aemerne. se sent vs man, wine vo mi: Preclictions of Wet Spring
“Steel | [8 4 ave » | Monticello, Muncie and Anderson. Indianapolis got only .26 of an | bY only one degree. inch. Temperatures for the next three | jor four days will average above| p) Services were held today for ormal, fluctuating only slightly as 'Miss Bessie Mae Skinner, 68, whom
Worked .In Arctie Weather Bureau forecasters at-| tribute the warm, | nearly record-breaking weather last {week to the arrival of George F. Brewster, Washington. {in charge of the local office at the | Federal building until July or August when Paul Miller, | Washington, officially takes over. Brewster goes down weather bureau records as the man who established the “The Romance of Roy Ridge”, northernmost weather stations in The reason | | North America. He spent the winter of 1943 and 1944 north of the for the change is amusing. The studio took a poll, | Gives nd Te wit, the Teieans. “You have never seen more primi. | tive people,” he said. “But once in a while they svould come around to our shacks and Ll watch us send up balloons. Hudson received a note from Uncle Sam—for $207 |™7 "White man crazy! they ‘would 1a comment as they looked on,” said Mr. Brewster. ‘Anyhow, last week's temperatures
Carnival—By Dick Turner
IA Different Commencement
By Barton Rees Pogue
"To Get Funds | By Bond Issue |
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hes have been to graduations, -
You have watched them by the score, |
You have seen diplomas handed
To a thousand souls or more;
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Sort of follow one set style,
But commencement is quite diff’'rent
When your child walks down the aisle.
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To the unrelated crowd,
All these gathered friends and neighbors
Have no reason to be proud; See the speaker stew and “bile,”
When your child walks down the aisle.
You were never moved before this, |
In a sentimental vein, .
Your old ticker kept on pumpin’
Without effort, without strain, : |
But tonight your eyes are leakin’,
And your nose. is like a spile,
For it makes a heap of diff’ rence
When your child walks down the aisle.
A diploma, sealed and signed, Through your tough old hard-boiled mind;
And forgive them, without guile,
primary election next spring.
: {the whole county election on maThey have come to hear the music, | chines. : The county now has 248 voting] .
| machines equipped for primary vot-
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Board Figures
670 Necessary To Do Work
It will cost about $535,000 to buy enough voting machines to equip all Marion county precincts for the
This was the tentative figure set by county commissioners today in preliminary discussions on plans to float a bond issue for the project. The commissioners estimated that 670 machines, equipped with spe- | cial devices for primary election balloting, will be necessary to conduct
|ing. . These took-care of 224 precincts in the recent municipal pri{mary. Two machines are necessary | for some of the heavier precincts, Some Will Use Three Election officials and commission lers contend that 670 would be necessary for all 380 county precincts
be necessary to replace those that
The commissioners will meet with
sary and the amount of the bond issue, The cost of the machines, commissioners estimated, would be returned in savings on the central counting project which costs about $40,000 every. primary for personnel.
Chemical Causing
By THE WEATHER EDITOR
Those predictions of a wet spring are bearing up well, much to the| “Mr. Kurtz had gone back to St. dismay of the farmers. | The rainfall will be heavy the greater part of next week with between {one and two inches in store for us, according to the Weather Bureau. | Most of it will be in the form of thundershowers. Indiana got a good soaking Thursday / night and the early hours of yesterday with Bedford leading the
| with 2.72 inches of rain. Rainall exceeded an inch at Scottsburg, | thermometer touched 87 on Thurs-
Columbus, Logansport, | 98Y, it missed the all-time high for
| were far above normal. When the
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| MISS BESSIE SKINNER DIES ROCHESTER, Ind, May 17 (U. | relatives said was a cousin of
Skinner “died Thursday in Woodlawn hospital.
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And the village also boasts the highest birth ¥ate of .all the trailer college camps in America. Providing hospitalization for maternity cases is a serious problem, ‘according to E. Ross Bartley, director of the university’s news bureau. In addition to the couples living in the main trailer village, there are scores of others living in smaller camp, in temporary apartments and dormitories, making a ‘total of 778 married couples on the campus. :
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Breast Cancer ‘May Be Isolated
By Science Service
chemical in mother’s milk that causes breast cancer in mice has been isolated, it appears from an announcement at the meeting here of the American Association for Cancer Research. The announcement was cautiously worded, but the studies are said to “provide substantial hope that the virus has been isolated.” The work was done by Drs. Sam{uel Graff, biochemist; C. D. Haagensen, surgeon. Dan H. Moore, physicist, and Henry T. Randall,
Rockefeller Institute virus searcher and Nobel prize winner,
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ho) last year. “We accidentally dropped some Spargur said, “and when _the vines came up we- decided to let them row.” The well-fertilized soil - of the long, but narrow, besidé-the-house flower bed produced four fat musk-~ melons as well as gladiolus end snapdragons. “We let the vines run among the flowers. They shaded the Soi] and kept it cool and moist,” Spargur continued. “This pr we'll plant more melons in that bed and they won't be accidental!” ’ # " » THEN HERE'S how Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Peeples, 4336 South East st. adapted the principle of the straw-
Mr. Peeples made four large holes in a nail keg such as many garden~
village are doing quite well for
Only a small percentage of the maternity cases can bé taken care of here. Most of them are sent to the university's medical center at Indianapolis where they pay low rate. G. ILs>who are lying on the $90 a month they get from the government can’t afford to send their wives to regular hospiials at regular rates. The university operates a nursery school for the youngsters. As soon as they are large enough to be taken thére, their mothers are free
work. The stenogravhic: staff of {IL U. is composed largely of the | wives of ex-G. Ls. | The trailerites also are learning a 10t abou® democracy and cooperative enterprises. They have their own government. One councilman is elected to represent each 20 trailers, and the councilmen then eléét a mayor or chairman.
Have Own Commissary . They also operate their own eom. | missary, and save a lot by buying in wholesale quantities. Rent on a trailer is $25 a month, | with all utilities furnished. The occupants use central bathrooms, of course, and there also are laundry rooms equipped with washing machines. In addition to the main trailer village, there is a smaller one for students who own their own “trailers—176 of them. They pay $12.50 a month for their parking space and utilities, Married. students with larger families who can afford to pay for more room live in the temporary | housing units. They pay $42.50 for furnished apartments consifting of
living room, two bedrooms, dinette! kitchén and bath, with all utilities
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I. U. Veterans in Trailer Camp Village Lead All Other Groups in Scholarship
Trailerites Govern Themselves, Save on Food
At Commissary; Also Boast Top Birth Rate By ELDON ROARK, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer BLOOMINGTON, Ind, May 17.—The 350 married ex-G. I's in
Some time ago there was a flare- | up here. Three members of the law faculty signed a petition asking that the names of communistic candidates be printed on the ballots in Indiana. That got a rise out of the American Legion and the trustees of the university. The trustees started an investigation. Members of the faculty were called in and questioned. The three who had ‘signed the petition said they were neither Communists nor fellow travelers. They had merely looked at the matter from the legal
constitutional rights. ,
" What's a Communist? Then student leaders were called in. They didn’t know anything about communistic groups. Finally one pretty co-ed broke up the probe. They asked’ if she knew of any. activities. —— “I-er<well, I'm afraid I don't know just what a Communist is,” ‘she said. “What is a Communist?” The trustees looked at one another, harrumped and ah-rered a bit—and dismissed the young lady. They might not know what a Communist was—not exactly—but they were satisfied there were none at I. U. The investigation ended with a laugh.
WORD-A-DAY
By BACH
BETTER SCRAM
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Small Space in Back Yard Enough to Grow Melons
Produced ‘Accidental’ Crop, Last Year .By MARGUERITE SMITH.
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