Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 June 1947 — Page 11
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went, to the Launderette Store, 8b. to do'my washing. As I surveyed the friendly, chatting throng in the establishment I could see my laundry problems sprouting wings. As I watched two men. stufiffing their laundry into the Bendix washers, I was convinced my troubles were over. : The short wait 1 had while Mrs. Irene Postal, attendant, found me a washer, gaye me an opportunity to get acquainted with the place.
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. Mrs. Charles Feldman, 2320 Central ave. calmly
khitted a woolen scarf while she waited for her
washing. Several of the ladies were chatting among =
themselves as if they were at a picnic,
It wasn't long before Mrs. Postal said I could have
washer 22, “Do you know how to operate this machine,” she asked. I hated to admit it, but I really didn't know.
Folds Sheet Expertly “WHAT KIND of things do you intend to wash?” I opened my laundry bag. : “You can’t wash those wool socks with your handkerchiefs, T-shirts and dress shirts. And I don't know about that striped knit sport shirt,” she said. 0. K. I'll wear the socks a couple more weeks, _ An elderly gentleman, who was folding sheets expertly, looked at me curiously. Several of the ladies were smiling as I stuffed my laundry into the washer,
* 1 was getting a little hot under the collar.
Mrs. Postal turned the water on, put two Kinds
. of powder in the machine and said it would be auto-
matic from now until the wash was ready to take home. = Take home? Then what? | I asked Clarence K. Shook, 3514 Orchard st., what he did with his washing after he got it home. “My wife hangs it up to dry and then she irons it. Why?” I explained that I had no place jor a clothesline in my two-room apartment, no iron and no wife. “That's tough.” “What am I going to do about my shirts? I like stiff collars?” Mrs. Arr Smith, Cloverdale, Ind., pointed to a bottle of ready-mix starch. Good idea but how do you starch a shirt? Mrs. John Kleinheng, 2432 Park ave. offered me the use of her backyard to dry my clothes. She also told me how to starch collars. There was no use for me to take any notes on wash techniques. I made up my mind then and there,
NO WASHDAY BLUES HERE—Clarence K. Shook, with no homefront worries, ‘expertly loads an automatic washer.
this was going to be the first and last trip to the Launderette unless I had a little woman—my own little wife, waiting at home with an iron and a clothesline. The washday blues were creeping up on me. Mrs. Don Larson, 2414 College ave., tried to cheer me up by saying not to worry, her husband caught on to the washing technique quickly—only two trips. Mr. Shook seemed to be tending all the machines in the store. ‘ “How many washers are you using?” Mr. Shook said, “Only five today. Sometimes I have six. My 1l-month-old’ daughter, Jackie Sue uses a lot of clothes.”
Rinses Are Completed WASHER 22 STOPPED revolving. The rinses and] the three drying spins were completed. Mrs. . Postal shoved a ‘canvas basket under the round hatch on the machine and said, “You're all set now. You can take your washing out.” Mrs. Edna Campbell, another attendant, provided me with a paper bag for my dirty socks. I dumped the wet mess in my laundry bag. Mrs. Kleinhenz cautioned me not to leave the clothes in the bag too long or they'd mildew. With true community spirit, the ladies asked me to come back. They have "Loads of fun” at the launderette. } I swung my laundry over my shoulder. The wet bag slapped across by back. What now little man?
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Supply and Demand
-By Frederick C. Othman
. WASHINGTON, June 2.—Politicians around the globe have been trying vainly since the stone age to repeal the law of supply and demand. This law has teeth. Anybody who tinkers with it gets bitten. The foregoing 31 words hardly are enough to tell the economic history qf the world, but they'll have to do for introduction of the subject for today: Shoes for jaloppies. The indestructible law of 8. & D. has gone to work on them: Dealers with tears in their eyes are begging motorists 40 take off their hands mountains of tires so they can make room for still bigger mountains en route from Akron. What the law has done to prices is enough to give the cash customer his first post-war chuckle. And I am chuckling. If the proprietor of a leading tire store here had been a Frenchman, he doubtless would have kissed me. The poor guy was surrounded by tires stacked to the ceiling. He hadn't seen a buyer in a long time. All he could see was another pyramid of tires outside. °
Would | Take 10 Bucks?
HE SAID he would make me a spécial price on a set of four. I wanted two to replace the shreds of synthetic clinging to the ancient ea in front. He said then he'd have to go by the price, $19.80 each. But hé’d make me an allowance on the old ones. Say $4 for both, ] must not have answered Quickly eneugh. “ He kicked both my tires. Ho got down on his knees and stuck his fingers in the places where they'd blown out. He said they were better shoes than he
first had thought. Would I take $10 for the pair.
I didn’t argue with him. He was suffering enough. I rolled away with two super-duper, first-line tires
of a leading manufacturer for $14.80 each, plus tax. Production figures indicate that the law of S. & D. is just getting a good start. Passenger tires are leaving the factories now at the rate of 81 million a year, This is 60 per cent above pre-war normal. It is 15 Huillien above last year’s output, which broke all records. The law is reaching into the Sumatran jungles, where cartels of rubber producers have attempted to fix prices ever since the automobile was invented. The tire makers used to be In the clutches of the international rubber moguls, but the war fixed that with made-in-America synthetic rubber.
Stick to List Prices NEVER AGAIN will motorists be dependent entirely on the whims of rubber men in Amsterdam and London. Let them raise prices too high and the tire manufacturers make their own rubber. Let them lower their prices and the cost of synthetic goes down accordingly, Natural rubber in ribbed, smoked sheets (the kind that goes into tires) was delivered in New York last week for 19 cents a pound. A month before it: was 25 cents a pound. In 1941 it averaged more than 22 cents a pound. Chain stores and mail order houses already have trimmed tire prices 12 to 20 per cent. The four big makers at _this writing were sticking to their list prices. They said their costs were going up, not down. ‘The law of 8. & D. doesn’t take costs into consideration; ifpjs pitiless, and the retailers are proving it by making hash of factory price lists. The workings of the only law that can’t’be broken never have been demonstrated more perfectly. Should you need a tire, play coy, It’s fun for a change.
Paging Ginger
By Erskine Johnson
* HOLLYWOOD, June 2.—It happens, Ginger Rogers said, with amazing regularity. She meets Fred Astaire at a party or in a restaurant, and they talk of making another musical together, Mrs. Astaire says, “You're crazy if you don't.” “But nothing happens,” Ginger told me. “I get
"a. seript to read once a month from every stddio Ju town. But no one ever sends me a musical. I Ginger said, bristling a little. “I liked it. And my
haven't seen & musical script for eight years. I'd love to do one, especially with Fred. Maybe we should be embarrassed because no one suggests it.” Well, I'm suggesting it. I think another AstaireRogérs musical would make a fortune, especially in technicolor. Ginger and Fred made eight co-starring films together but none were in color.
Ginger Dreams a Dream GING HAS won a reputation as a dramatic factress—an r for “Kitty. Foyle” in 1940—and as a comedienne for her work in “The Major and the Fred has gone on dancing with “other partners. But none of them seemed to click as did the dance team of Fred and Ginger. She's making a movie now titled, “It Had to Be You,” at Columbia. It's a cute story about a rich girl who runs Qut on three marriages just as she's supposed to say, “I do,” because she senses there's something wrong. Finally. she dreams about a mysterious Indian (Cornel Wilde) who leads her to her dream man (also Cornel. Wilde). It turns out that she had been in love with him ever since they were kids when, dressed as an Indian, he kissed her at her 10th birthday party.
Ginger wanted to work’ some dances into the dream sequences. But the studio said no. I wonder if it would be s#fe to mention “The Magnificent Doll” to Ginger. Ginger playing Dolly Madison, Hollywood agreed, was like casting Lana Turner ds Sister Kenny. “I don't care what Hollywood thought about it,”
business manager just told me it's making money.”
Want Governor for Role SHORT TAKES: William Powell and Irene Dunne, who star in “Life With Father,” on the screen, have copies of “Life With Mother,” still in the first draft stage. They're the logical candidates for the film roles. Audrey Totter wants.to play the role of a lady detective in a fall radio show written for her by Fred Heider. Success of Groucho as a single in “Copacabana” has Chico Marx paging United Artists for a solo comedy for himself. The King Brothers are still after Governor Robert Blue of Iowa to play a role in “Gun Crazy.” Hollywood love-go-round: Mickey Rooney at the Chanteclair with Diana Garrett, who used to go with Dave Rose, who used to go with June Haver. John Beal is mulling an offer to star in a musical version of the Scottish poet's life, “The Life of Robert Burns,” on Broadway this fall. No actress in Hollywood has been working as hard or as steadily as Susan Hayward. The vedhead from Brooklyn is completing her fifth consecutive film without a vacation and goes right into her sixth, “Tap Roots.”
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We, the Women
ONE THING wrong with fhe housing situation in America—and®t isn’t a result of the housing shortage ~is that the people who should be in the big; spa-cious-old houses usually live in the modern, compact little dwellings, and vice versa. Look around your own town, for instance.. You will find that the big, old-fashioned homes with plenty of living space for growing families house a middle-aged or old couple whose children are grown up. ;
No Extra Room AND YOUNG couples with a child or two are making payments on, small houses without an extra room for another baby or even enough Space to offer their present occupants elbow room.
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By Ruth Millett
But the old folks stick to their big, outgrown houses from sentiment, dread of change, and sometimes from pride. They would find living far easier and simpler if they swapped the big house for » small one. :
Doesn’t Make Sense AND THE young folks fall for the neat little houses with thé modern touches, completely sold.on the idea that a small place is just right for a young couple. That's the general pattern, even if it doesn’t make
sense. And it is probably one of the reasons why young couples today are having only one or two
children. Where would they put any more?
Senators Plan
SECOND SECTION
Wide Probe Of
| Air Crashes
Maryland, New York
Fatalities Reach 94
By CHARLES T, LUCEY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, June 2.~—Me-
morial day mass death plane crashes left civil air officials burrowing into wreckages and rule books today, generated demands for changed government handling of air safety and brought” assurance of congressional investigations. Senator Wallace White (R. Me.), senate majority leader, said he was sure that a special air safety committee he had named recently, headed by Senator Owen Brewster (R. Me.) would take a broad new cut at the whole subject of crashes. Senator Pat McCarran (D. Nev.) said much of the trouble lay in the fact that the. former independent air safety board, empowered to investigate plane accidents, had beén gobbled up in one of President Roosevelt's reorganizations. Investigating is handled now by the eivil aeronautics board. Mr, McCarran sald he would push legislation to this end to re-establish the ‘old independent board. Civil aeronautics board officials said they could do the job just as well as the old board. ‘Nothing Final Yet Preliminary - testimony of the Maryland crash in which 53 died emphasized disintegration of the tail assembly as a possible cause, but CAB officials said there was nothing final about this. In the La Guardia field crash involving 41 deaths, first CAB reports leaned to a ground-wind shift on the take-off as the chief cause.
president of the Air Line Pilots as-
safety margin—after seeing’ his plane would not lift—to check its speed and avoid the crash. He
feet long, whereas the pilots’ union contends that take-off strips should be 10,000 feet long. -—————Ajrport Funds Cut Most officials agreed a longer runway might have averted the crash. But they said that weather, wind and weight of plane load considered, the 3600 feet was considered altogether safe. One said he had seen a DC-4, the type of plane involved, take off in 1500 feet. They said, too, that- 10,000 feet runways are fine — but they are costly. Theodore P. Wright, head of the civil aeronautics administra-
has just cut the 1948 airport fund from $65 million to $32.5 million. Mr. Wright also called “deplorable” the delay in getting New York's new Idlewild airport=with longer runways—into service. Mr. Behncke said the old air safety board should be re-created and the entire catalog of federal air safety regulations overhauled. Also, he opposes having investigations made as’ at present by the same agency which writes the aid safety rules, the civil aeronautics board. Call Probes Thorough CAB officials countered by saying that today while it writes the rules, it is the civil aeronautics administration that enforces them, and pointed out that the CAB had not hesitate to criticize enforcement in the past. They insisted CAB accident investigations were independent and thorough, and contended creation of a new air safety board merely wouid add to confusion. Some officials spoke of the inevitability of air accidents as increasing millions of passenger-miles are flown. In light of air traffic volume, they said, the airlines still have a remarkable safety record— and continued public travel Shows high confidence.
ARREST BERLIN PROSECUTOR BERLIN, June 2 (U. P.). — Dr. Wilhelm Kuehnnast, chief city prosecutor, has been suspended and placed under house arrest for al-
But from David L. Behncke,
sociation, came an assertion that if the runways were as long as they should be, the pilot in the New York accident would have had a sufficient
said the runway was about 3600
The Heart of
America—
Racing on Up and Up at Knoxville, Tenn.; ‘Purse’ Is Choice Stall in Market Place
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for 20 years. She sells flowers till frost. weeks, and comes back just before
Hucksters Off Before Dawn in Jalopies And Trucks to Rush Produce Into Town
tion, ; pointed out . that the house
jalopies. : Every morning before daylight,
themselves ’ frozen - out: entirely. The hucksters pay 50 cents'a day for their parking space, and may hold it until 10 p. m. Then everybody must clear out and they can’t return until 3 a. m. : * x = ai THE KNOXVILLE curb market is one of the largest and most colorful in the country. It is in the heart
of the downtown business district on land given to the city for that
ers who have permanent stalls, and the farms park around the building. Some specialize in meats and dressed poultry, some in vegetable some in flowers, both wild and tame, and some sell a little of everything produced on a farm. It’s a sort of carnival atmosphere, with the odors of-beef and fish mingling with those of onions and wild violets and honeysuckle. » » » CRIPPLES, sitting on the hard pavement or in wheelchairs, play guitars and. banjos and hold out their hats. Old men on the corners
Carnival—By Dick Turner
the year ‘round. It's done by farm men and women in trucks and
State Beverage Board Lists Suspension of Permits
Suspension of the permits of 10 ‘A 15-day suspension was imposed Industrial Association, Inc. 926 N. on William Minix; Toto, for per-|Capitol ave., forsale while under Another [suspension and Sunday sale, and to 15-day suspension went to Julius A.|James W. Graham, Kokomo, for : and Mabel E. Trageser, Evansville, minors loitering. for credit sale of alcoholic bev-
retailers and three bartenders, for a total of 230 days, has been ordered by the state alcoholic beverage conthission, For sale to minors and permitting minors to loiter, 30-day suspensions were ordered for the permits of Dale Thomas, Hillsdale; Bernard Lurie, Michigan City; Devon Chapin, Fremont, and Urban and Loretta C.|Terre Haute, for
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mitting minors to loiter.
The suspended bartenders are | Edgar Brook, Hillsdale, 30 days, for} Seven-day suspensions were given |sale*to minors and minors loitering; Alex Polozynski, Wheatfield, and G.| William Patton, Toto, 15 days, for|
Fred Beikler and John L. Parish,{the same reasons, and to Peter e to intoxicated |Rutka, Wheatfield, seven days, for . |persons; to the Indianapolis|sale to intoxicated persons,
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“In his final semester he got
all A's—Junior, say something in algebra for Mrs..Parsonsl”. ~~ .
except Sunday, farmers and their
prematurely white hair was selling flowers. Large yellow tulips were 50 cents: a dozen, wild violets 25 cents| a bunch, narcissus 15 cents a bunch. His name, was W. F, Matthews. “I got here too late to get a parking place,” Mr. Matthews said, “so my neighbor let me put my stuff in his truck. A lot of these flowers are his. I'm selling for both of us right now.” . : 2 x» MR. MATTHEWS said he had been coming to curb market since
at the end of a hard day. Old Jude knew the road.” Parking was free then, but farmers paid 50 cents a day to have their horses and mules stabled and fed. Attendants would unhitch them, ride them off to the stables, and bring them back. ; Mrs. H. J. Reagan, a tall, smiling woman who wears big galoshes, an apron and a shawl around her head, is another experienced hu A She has been coming to the market
Christmas with holly wreaths.
By ELDON ROARK, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer Cn The KNOXVILLE, Tenn, June 2—You never hear of Knoxville in the} pep ggerin lay, Mrs. Will diana B racing news, but a lot of spirited racing goes on here—six days a week |; an, a plump woman vith a neat rate
the market. : BT “We just have early land,” she
wives. in trucks and jalopies come raftling into town from all directions, Qlenh ket 1 “ head. of theif competitors. Those Everybody spems. (9, be it 3 gO pe: O0, She sumed who arrive first get the best park- umor. ; Just’ a few trucks down the line ,
fesses that her real love is dressed turkeys and horseradish. The in the fall. >
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Times Carriers Vie for Fun Fest In Cincinnati
purpose years ago. A narrow brick|ne wag 12. He used to come in 8 part of building a block long is occupied hack pulled by a mule named Jude.| Carriers of The Times were com- said by meat, fish and vegetable retail-| «why 1 could sleep going home |peting today for a trip July 13 to ¥
Congress Notes State Trend
Scripps-Howard Newspaper * ngressmen are impressed by a pro-
By WASHINGTON, June 2—Co nounced trend in state legislatures
which only union members can be hired. ; They regard these state enactments as better evidence than opinion polls. that a large body of sentiment opposes this restriction on
the right to seek employment. One result is that a ban.on the closed. shop is sure to be in the federal labor bill now nearing completion in house-senate conferences. Another is that the new federal law will not supersede or encroach or state enactments against the closed shop, even though questions
of interstate commerce are involved. ns
Senate Left It Out Neither the house por senate conferees want to invalidate state laws which prohibit any or all forms 2 oypihulsory union membership. e m question between them is whether. that fact should be stated
specifically in the federal legisla- :
tion, mr — The house bill contains such a statement. Senate leaders have) After M 4 th Lu Died
taken the view that it was probably unnecessary, but they may yield to the house on this point. The
shop (in which § must join the union after 30 to'60 days) if a majority of the employees vote for
it ‘and the employer agrees. The|
house bill is more severe.. It forbids strikes to obtain a union shop.
ieged malfeasance in office, the|shout, “Shopping bags! Shopping : 5 . gq dope American military government dis-|bags!” Customers go up and down To Outlaw Closed Shop N. Y. closed today. He was charged with |the .lines, pricing produce, chatting . NR railroading a political enemy to|with the farmers, haggling. There Ban fo Be Included in Federal Law . Dead nine months in jail. is much kidding and laughing. . NEW Will Not Encroach on Other Enactments neray
s to outlaw the “closed shop,” under
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the union if most of his fellow employees want it. The senate reinforces this theory by providing that a man can be expelled from a
against closed shops is’ linked
union only for non-payment of dues. |=— The intent not to undo state laws ‘Wi
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senate bill prohibits. thejof closed shop but permits the union