Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 May 1947 — Page 21
only. 12 to
, yelhite. ) 38.
~
BE ———
“THAT'S GOING TQ BE a fine looking keycase,” 1 said to an intent leather worker in the Red Cross arts and skills shop at the Veterans Administration hospital, Cold Springs rd. “I hope 80,” said Ernest A, Daniels, “but I'm not making this for myself, I'm just getting it ready to assemble for a buddy in the ward who can't make it to’ the workshop." . "The former navy chief machinist's mate was handling the leather with what I thought was une usual skill so I mentioned that he was pretty good" at it. a : “This has been my hobby for a long time, I put fn almost 33 years in the navy -- 32 years, seven months and 22 days to be exact—and in my spare time I've made quite a few little items,” he sald. “You know,” he continued, “this is the best thing they could have done for us guys in the hospital, Making something occupies a guy's mind and, boy, that's good medicine.”
Red Cross Workers Help RED CROSS volunteer workers, under the direction of an occupational therapist, were scooting around thé converted Quonset hut, answering a question for someqne, helping another veteran who was
having trouble with his project or finding buttons Va
for a felt Scotty dog. “Do you like these?” Mrs. Dorothy Lynch asked
- Charles Brown, former storekeeper in the Sea Bees.
Mr. Brown looked at his felt Scotty makings, then at the buttons. “Maybe if they were a little bigger.” “How about these?” “Just right.” “Who's going to get the Scotty?” 1 asked Mr, Brown, “My four-month-old boy. I made a bolero jacket for my four-year-old daughter and now my wife wants something for the boy. Mrs, Lynch is this all I need now?" ' “You can start in on the Scotty,” Mrs. Lynch answered. In the textile section a man was intently brushing In flowers on a piece of material. ; 1 asked former Fireman 1/c John P, Adams what kind of flowers he was stenciling. " “rll be darned if I know—ask my wife.” Mrs. Adams, who visits her husband regularly in she arts and skills shop, thought they were roses. “I hope he finishes the tablecloth before this weekend,” Mrs, Adams added. “Don’t worry, I'll have it done,” Mr. Adams said. *I'm supposed to go home this week-end.” “Where's home?” “Indianapolis—430 Centennial Adams, Good deal. Mrs. Margaret Kornbloom suggested to former Sergeant ‘Delois Griswold, who was painting a peasock on a tie, a thin white outline on the wings would bring out the whole design better. “I'll take a dozen of those ties,” I said to Mr. Briswold. He laughed and said when he finished the brown tie he was through. He pointed to a blue tie on the drying rack. . “I'll paint you a flower on your coat lapel, though,” Mr. Griswold said. Can't quite see that kind of a fresh flower,
ave,” said - Mrs.
g i wid Fy i : wh v ie ' ya I id ; { di ) 1 ‘ S : : u % ¥ bat wav hg PORT ee i. "
or ‘ (4 4 0 I 3 g d Sovola By E vola a Ty Bn ee —————————_— a ia et é
|
RON no ' OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY WITH ZEST— . Delois Griswold puts the finishing touches on his hand painted tie at the arts and skills shop in the Veterans Administration hospital, Cold Springs rd. . Mrs, ‘Lillian Dinehart walked in the shop with her sample basket“on her arm. She loaded up quickly
for another trip to the wards with materials for men | who were unable to come to the shop.
Has Surprise for His Girl
HASCAL SCOTT, former infantryman in the 28th | division, was busy on the jewelry bench making a sur-| prise bracelet for his girl friend. | “Boy, she's going to be surprised when I come over with this foreigr coin bracelet,” Mr, Scott said. : Joseph Lagrotta, 126 8. Noble st, former army | private, asked Mrs. Kornbloom if the stencil was in the right place on the rayon crepe scarf he was mak- | ing for his mother. i Mrs. Kornbloom gave him the go ahead sign—he| was doing all right. | To me, every man in the shop, was doing more than all right. Time, their ally in the fight for health, was also their enemy because often there| was too much of it. But here, where they were making that bracelet for a sweetheart, a scarf for mother, a tablecloth for] a wife, a keycase for ‘a buddy upstairs, they were winning the battle. of time. Mr. Daniels really summed the project up when he said: “This is the best thing.” ~ But the men need help. ‘The Red Cross is trying to give it to them by having plenty of volunteer workers trained in the arts and skills. { New classes of instruction in the crafts begin at the chapter house, 1126 N. Meridian st., June 2. Why | not call LI-1441 and get the details about how you can help win the Battle of Time?
What's Up, Doc?
WASHINGTON, May 23.—You can’t blame the doctor for being amazed at what he found in the lush suite of E. A. Kerschbaumer at the Hampshire House facing New York's Central park. Gunmen, lawyers, South American brokers, mysterious Detroitérs, multi-millionaires and customers from Chicago congregated there. They made frantic efforts to buy $37,000,000 worth of sheet steel from Mr, Kerschbaumer. ? He was a suave young Pittsburgher with a wellelipped mustache, a cane and two artificial legs, who was as franticdlly trying to buy the steel in the first
place from the Firth-Sterling mills of Pittsburgh.
Night after night, he told the senate small business eommittee, his strangely assorted guests sat on his soft chairs. They argued, made deals among themselves, and waited for the steel to be delivered from the mill. Mr. Kerschbaumer at long last was able to chuckle ‘about his part in what the steel industry calls the
daisy chain of brokers trading in steel that does not
exist. A Man Washing Out His Shorts
“ONE NIGHT,” he told me during a lull in the senatorial proceedings, “a couple of the fellows got sick. We called in a doctor, who fixed ‘em up. And here were all these men all over the apartment, making long distance calls, battling among themselves, signing contracts and arguing wjth their lawyers. The doc looked 'em over and then he said: “What is this? In the front room are men making million dollar deals. In the next room are men making hundred thousand dollar deals. And in the bathroom is a man washing out his shorts.” The gentleman doing-his laundry was L. C. Durbam, Chicago steel broker and husky e:r-marine. $e had no extra underwear with him. Having told the senators about his weird-negotia-
By Frederick C. Othman |
tions for steel with an assortment of odd characters in Chicago, Washington, Pittsburgh, and Detroit, he added: : “Finally it was all set. They told me to catch the next plane for New York to .sign the papers. I planned to be in New York onk day. ‘I didn't even | bring along a spare shirt. Six weeks later I still was | there, waiting for steel that never was delivered.”
And They Had Real Guns, Too AND A GOOD THING he stuck around, too, Mr. Kerschbaumer testified. Seemed like everybody wanted steel. And rumors kept flying around that it
border between U. S. and Russian occupied zones of Korea
i| Koreans are fleeing southw.4 |ward into the U. 8. zone every day.
{and relieves them of all money
| banks.
SECOND . SECTION:
Army Processes Refugees at Border
By RICHARD C. FERGUSON NEA Staff Writer
SEQOUL,. Korea, May 23.— Despite agreement to keep the
closed, more than a thousand
This flood of refugees is expected to ‘be an important question on the agenda of the joint American-Soviet
commission for Korea, which has reconvened for the first time in a year, : One strong motive behind the migration from the north appears to be food shortages in that zone. Refugees camplain that only those holding Communist party cards are given a rice ration or are permitted to vote, Others, less concerned with politics, are trying to rejoin members of , their families living in the south.
» ” Ld THE ARMY processes them all, innoculates them against several diseases, sprays them with DDT
above 1000 yen per person, Refugees are given a receipt for their surplus cash and the extra money is deposited in their names in blocked accounts at Korean
At the present time the refugees are moved into southern provinces and are not allowed to settle in Seoul because of the overcrowded condition and the food problem in the capital. The job of guarding the 38th parallel belongs to the U. 8. Tth division, which moved in‘ here at the end of hostilities after combat duty at Kwajalein, Lyte and Okinawa. And -the most. isolated. de-
Koreans For U.
S.
9
© /
AW
keep border closed; more than a ward each day. ONLY ACCESS to the peninsula is by air or through 20 miles of Russian territory that separates it from the rest of the American occupation zone. This group of one officer and 56 enlisted men guard 20 miles of | the parallel border and the peninsula. All supplies and mail are
to the outpost.
Capt. George Gould, Holden,
tachment of the 7th is a section of
Differ on Site 0f New Armory
Park Officials Urge
Fairgrounds Location
Park board officials said today they believed the state Jairgrounds would be a better site than city
reserve armory.
had been delivered. “So one afternoon this Jim Boyle rushed in with a
couple of his gunmen and said sell 'em some steel, OF |terday for the new armory.
else,” he said. “Real guns?” inquired” Senator Edward Martin of | Pennsylvania, With bullets in ‘em, Mr. Kerschbaumer replied. He identified Boyle as a New Jersey mobster; the cannons of the later's companions so distracted him that he couldn't remember their faces. “I nearly got sick, myself,” he testified. “I was a cripple and I couldn't handle em. But Mr. Durham happened to be in the apartment and he used to be a sergeant in the marines, He took their guns away from ’em.” So much for monkey business in the Hampshire House. Nobody ever did get any steel. Mr. Kerschbaumer said he was filing suit against the FirthSterling Co. for not living up to its contract. Mr. Durham said he spent three months and $7060 for plane tickets, hotel rooms and spare underwear, following the steely will-o-the-wisp. Senator Martin said it sounded confusing to him. What made it more confusing was that some of the witnesses—guests at the Hampshire House—had disappeared. Without their shorts, let us hope.
SP ——————————————————————————— ee —————————
No Script Needed
res
HOLLYWOOD, May 33.—For the first time in film history a movie is being filmed in Hollywood without the aid of a screen writer. There is no script for the film version of William Saroyan's Pulitzer prize winning play, “The Time of Your Life.” . The film is being shot word for word, scene for scene, from the play. The words and situations that eouldn’t be used because of censorship were rewritten by Mr. Saroyan himself. The Cagney brothers, Jimmy and Bill, - are the fellows having the time of théir lives with his novel approach to a motion picture. Bill isthe producer, Jimmy is the star. : There was no other alternative. “You can't rewrite Saroyan.” Not to’ mention the fact that there's no story to rewrite, let alone film. “The Time of Your Life” is just a lot of Saroyan characters—and I do mean characters—wandering in and out of a cheap San Franeisco waterfront bar. '
Bar Is Authentic “ THF. BACKGROUND is the same, Just the one set, Nick's Pacific st. saloon, restaurant and entertainment palace, as there is in the Saroyan play, and # brief scene in a hotel room. Even the bar is Saroyan. Bill Cagney bought it in San Prancisco after Mr, Saroyan told him: “please get an authentic old San Francisco bar. There's no bar like a San Francisco bar.” “The Time of Your Life” opened on Broadway in
As Bill explains:
By Erskine Johnson
1939. Eddie Dowling produced, played the key role, and co-directed with “Mr, Saroyan, in conjunction with the Theater guild. There was an impressive cast with three unknowns who later became famous in Hollywood, Gene Kelly, Celeste Holm and William Bendix.
Col. C. A. Randall, head of the {reserve here, advanced plans yesHe
|said it was necessary to take care
of the expanding needs of the reserve, which is attempting to raise its membership from 200 to 1000. The marine officer advised the park board the Harding st. site, which is clpse to the naval armory, {was the first choice of the Ninth Naval District headquarters, Great Lakes, Ill.
Need Site for Drill An alternate location at the state fairgrounds would not be as good | because the marines want to continue to use the naval armory for drill practice, said Col, Randall. Paul V, Brown, city parks director, said an investigation ‘is being made of the Riverside area, part of which is occupied by his department, to determine the legality of a lease. The park board ig expected to make a decision in about two weeks, Mr, Brown said, but the prevailing opinion is that the marines would fare better at the fair grounds, he said. . The proposed armory’ would con-
masonary front. Col. Randall said it was hoped .that contracts could be let for construction before June 30.
ALUMNI TO HONOR GRADS
Mr. Kelly played Harry, the natural-born hoofer who wanted to make people laugh but couldn't. Celeste was Mary L., the unhappy woman of quality and beauty. Mr. Bendix played the role of the cop.
In the Cagney film version, Paul Draper is the|A dance will follow the reception.
The New Augusta alumni association will hold a reception for the staffed. graduating class at 8 p. m, tomorrow at Pike township school gymnasium.
{to guard their assigned section of
GALLIPOLIS, O.,, May
ginia hills inthe bdckground. The apple trees are pretty, but unusual appearance. They have {been pruned at the top instead of {on the lowest branches, And there lis a good reason for that. The apples in this orchard, you see, are harvested, for the most part, by epileptics, » » . IT IS dangerous for epileptics to climb. If seizures should hit them while on ladders they would fall. So the trees are kept rather squatty and as much fruit as possible is produced on limbs that can be reached by persons standing on the ground. : ~The 120-acre orchard belongs to Gallipolis State institute, a state hospital . exclusively for epileptics, the first of its kind in America. . Adjoining the orchard on. the slope and in the fertile valley are the institute's 235 acres of farmland, 80 acres of gardens, and 72 acres of pasture. On a beautifully landscaped and tree-shaded plateau to the west is
|
more than 2000 patients are haused and treated. }
sist of three Quonset buildings with ye nn
THE PATIENTS are about equally divided between male and female and their ages run from 6 to 80. The Institute is operating at capacity, according to Dr. George R. Roberts, tall, bespectacied, dignified superintendent, and it is under-
“We are allowed eight doctors, but we have only four,” he said. “We.can’t seem to get doctors.”
dancer, Gale Paige is. Mary L. and Mr. Bendix has graduated to the.role of Nick.
Carnival—By Dick Turner
One Censorship Problem ; THE OTHER important characters in the movie are Wayne Morris as Tom, “a great big man of about 30 who appears to be much younger because of the childlike expression of his face—handsome, dumb, innocent, troubled, and a little bewilderdd by everything.” : Jeanne Cagney is Kitty Duval, the young woman with memories. James Barton fs Kit Carson, the old Indian fighter. ; Jimmy Cagney is Joe—“‘always calm, always quiet, always thinking, always eager, always bored, always superior.” The only censorship problem was to change the character of Kitty, In the play she was a woman of the street. In the movie shel be an out-of-work actress.
——————————————— ee —
We, the’ Women
LOOK OUT, you big, husky American he-men, or the “experts” are going to make sissies out of you. Just have a look at what they're saying about you. Dr James F. Bender of the national institute of human relations: “Many husbands-to-be, just can't stand the gaff any longer. The good Lord doesn't make them as durable as women. Poor husbands just can’t stand the strain of keeping up with the Joneses.” : + ‘Too Much Card Playing ~ DR. ROBERT S. BERGHOFF, heart specialist: “Too much card-playing, especially for cash stakes, is 2 ‘major contributing factor te coronary You you have won.
home a poker game elated and excited be
“By Ruth Millett
Fo ee e—— a —— || er LI | SR oe ——. 7
“In reality you have lost, for when you go to bed |
you are restless, your sleep is broken. Next day you are exhausted. Excitement of that poker game threw a heavy load on your heart.” ’
Help Men Live Longer
DR. GEORGE LAWTON, psychologist and author
of “Aging Successfully,” has this to say: “The woman who glares at a man who doesn’t give her his seat
* in the subway is all wet. As a matter of fact, she
should give her seat to him.
give up bus, train, and subway do everything they can
You el youse
w
ao
A nat) =
AIT TURN—Refugees from the north await processing by U. S. army in the border village of Tosong. Despite agreement to
convoyed through Russian territory!
Mass., commander of Co. F, says his {Russian enlisted men meet the company, mostly teen-age GIs just | convoy at a Russian outpost and {out of high school, are trying to do [escort the trucks through their Co. F., 32nd Infantry, stationed on |the work of a regiment or even a|territory. The Russians ride in a {the lonely Ongjin peninsula which combat division. They are supposed |three-quarter-ton W.. 8 [Juts out into the Yellow sea.
dancer! For ‘threa ‘months we give; you top
haven't been
.
FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1047
Escape Soviet Zone'’s Safety
4
thousand Koreans stream south-
| the parallel, he says, assist Korean police on request, and help the natives establish a domocratic government. High spot of their week, however, is the convoy trip through the Russian zone. » » . A JOVIAL Russian senior lieutenant, wearing two ribbons for “victory over Japan,” and several
army
weapons carrier.
The Heart of America—
Apples Grow on Low Limbs at Institute Where Science and Kindliness Team Up
Pastoral Peace and Beauty Is Ohio Setting They work on the farms, ith the of)
For Hospital Where 2000-Epileptics Get Care
By ELDON ROARK Scripps-Howard Staff Writer 23. «Just northeast of here the great “Rock
property at 29th and Harding sts. of Ages” pushes out of the wooded bluff and looks down on a scene of for a proposed $300,000 marine corps pastoral peace and beauty—down on the apple orchard that stretches along the slope under the bluff with the Ohio river and the West Vir-
an orchard expert might notice their
» » . ONE PERSON in every 200 has | epilepsy in some degree, according [to Dr. Roberts. Many epileptics | are brilliant people who do highly | skilled work and lead almost normal lives. Others are people‘ of average mentality and ability and they too lead useful lives. And then there are the most unfortunate cases—people who have so many seizures they cannot fit into society and cannot be cared for at home, “Most of our paients are in that 'class,” Dr. Roberts said.
i » » ” {| WORK is an important part of the therapy, and the patients are en{couraged to undertake daily tasks.
Green Light Due For New Church
i Legal questions involved in the dinner last night in the Indianthe hospital—33 buildings in which | 5. ohosed construction of a New| gpolis Athletic, club. Those honored included 188 perst.—a subject of controversy for sev-| sons with a quarter century or more
eral months—are expected to be of employment and 88 retired men company | Dalism education in the university's
| Catholic church and school on 57th
| settled early next week. court 5 indicated today he would {rule in favor of part of the project, with some exceptions provided by the city zoning code.
ing to superior court. The zoning ordinance
tion therewith.” The living quarters angle is the crux of the lawsuit, since the project involves construction of living quarters in connection with the school. Judge Hamill indicated he would rule in favor of the church and school but against the living quarters,
Passenger Turns Bandit, Robs Cabbie
A passenger in a United. Cab turned holdup man early this morn~ ing and took $11 from the driver and a ‘wallet from a second passenger: . man staged the holdup as the eab reached 15th st. and Cornell ave. He escaped there. Police failed to learn the name of the other passenger. : i
LIBRARY GROUP ELECTS Newly elected officers of the Indiana chapter of the Special Libraries association are John H, Moriarty, president; Judith Sollendirector - at - large; , Mrs.
BUILDERS PLAN DINNER Ny Members of Indianapolis Home| Builders association will attend dinner at 6:30 p. m. Tuesday Fox-Hunt Recreation, Ine.
The - city zoning board recently approved a permit for the project and remonstrators appealed the rul-|
permits construction of churches and schools in the area but prohibits “mainténance of living quarters in eonnec-
; 74 3 ..FOR DUTY—Capt. T. L. C
be
ow
henault, Los Angeles, briefs Pvt,
Raymond E. Carter, Houston, Mo., for outpost duty. marker is written in English, Russian and Korean.
With the aid of a war department interpreter, the Russian officer and the convoy commander exchange comments on the weather and other insignificant topics, cneck the number of trucks in the convoy, set the speed and then start. No photographs are permitted and cameras of all GIs, are surrendered t6 the convoy command er before the trip starts. » » » EXCEPT FOR pictures of Stalin, Russian war heroes, and Kim II
chard, dairy, laundry,~dining rooms and kitchens, and help maintain the buildings and grounds. A busy patient isn’t so likely to have a seizure as an idle one.
orphanages. » ” »
closed wards, Patients in the open wards come and go about the grounds as they please. They eat in central dining rooms, play baseball, softball and other games, attend picture shows, work at their jobs. Usually they are paired. off, and stick pretty close to each other. If one has a seizure, his partner takes care of him. y As far as I Ould see in a tour of the buildings, it is a splendidly run institution where kindness is well mixed with science. And it
kitchens and all. seen a cleaner hospital.
Lilly Co. Honors Older Employees
| Eli Lilly & Co. retired employees C. | and those with long service received [Baker Oo,
The children who are normal or near normal mentally go to school, authorities in advertising and pubplay games, do chores and live lic relations, to advise the school
pretty much as children live in on its journalism program.
THERE are 26 open wards and 23
is spotless—wards, dining rooms, Never have I
Sung, commander of the North Korean army, all prominently dis~ played, the Russian :sone looks much like the U. 8. area. In Haeju, ~ a city of 85,000 and the largest the convoy passes through, there are several dozen families of Russian soldiers who are housed in a former Japanese officers’ barracks. Until the commission decides what it will do dbout the border, this weekly convoy trip remains one of the few contacts between the two occupying armies,
Advisory Council
Butler University Plans For Better Direction -
Butler university has formed a. | journalism advisory council, composed of editors, publishers and
journalism department, said, “It is the hope of the department that the council members will provide the guidance and direction which will enable the university to offer the best journalism training in the classroom.” Flues Members of the council, named after a meeting last night in the Columbia club, include: Times Editor a Member Walter Leckrone, editor, The Indianapolis Times; Stephen Noland, editor, the Indianapolis News; James A. Stuart, editor, the Indian apolis Star; James Montgomery, editor, the New Albany Tribune; Henry Manz, business manager, The Times; Joseph R. Thomas, assistant public relations director, Swift & Co., Chicago; Edmund C. Gorell, publisher, the Pulaski County Dem~
"locrat: Edwin V. O'Neel, publisher,
: Howard Caldwell-
|special mention at a recognition |Sidener, president, Sidener & Van
| | |
land women. Eli Lilly,
Judge Ralph Hamill of superior| president, awarded medals and preE. S. Retter, vice president in charge of market-
sided as toastmaster, ing, spoke.
tired since last year’s banquet were given bronze medals. They are: Arlie Minton, R. W. Showalter; Mrs. Hazel Bush Rohrman, Otto 8chulz, Mrs. Eva B. Jones Overton, Mrs. Alberta Thomas, Gilbert ‘Tremaine, Mrs. Omie Humphries, Mrs. Edith Lyons, Edmond G. Dehoney,
Elfrieda T. Gillock,
MONDAY FRIENDS DAY
the Irvington Masonie temple.
By BACH _
Twelve employees who have re-
Mrs. Margaret E. Berry and Mrs.
Irvington O. E. 8S, will observe Friends’ day at 2 p. m. Monday in
'WORD-A-DAY
State Press association. The twelve members will meet twice yearly to weigh needs of jours
area and to consider means for, improvement of its educational program. i
Highway Workers Finish Aid Study
_ Members of the class: ead A. W. Grayson, superintendent,