Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 June 1947 — Page 19
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"OKAY, BUST IT OPEN." A sledge hammer and cold chisel bit into the
" eornerstone of the Protestant Deaconess Home, Ohio
" men were digging into the word “Home.”
st. and Senate ave. Theodore Munson, manager ‘of the Cleveland Wrecking Co., stepped back, as bits of stone flew, State Conservation big-wigs shielded their eyes and began to guess what was inside the cornerstone, The contents, whatever it was, would be turned over to the state. As Willlam Brant and Ralph Wade poured the sledge hammer and chisel to the unyielding stone, Karl Eurton, maintenance engineer of the state library, cautioned the men about hitting a dynamite cap, J
‘Watch Out for Bottles’
ANOTHER SPECTATOR called to the men to be careful of any bottles which might be reposing within, Robert D. Starrett, curator of the state museum, told John Nigh, director of the Conservation department that the cornerstone might be solid. By that time the figure 1808 had disappeared. The From the sound of the cornerstone, there was a good possibility of it being solid. Mr, Starrett might go back to the museum empty-handed. : Mr. Munson directed the workmen to try higher up. “Deaconess” began to disintegrate. Just as Mr. Nigh said, “The stone is hollow,” the chisel Mr, Wade was holding almost disappeared. More than 20 people moved in closer, side?” was written on every face. Thomas G. Mackenzie, state engineer, asked if anyone called the Governor. Several heads shook no. A little discussion followed and a volunteer courier took off to get the chief executive. Mr. Brant announced to the straining spectators that a copper. box was inside. Mr. Starret asked if anyone had a can opener. The man with the bottle on his mind wanted to know if any liquid could | be seen and “be careful with that siegge hammer.”
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CORNERSTONE YIELDS SECRET—Ralph Wade (left) and William Brant break into the cornerston® of the Protestant Deaconess Home with somewhat disappointing results.
The ¥en of a bottle seemed to click with the group. The big question was whether or not the} building fathers had foresight enough to bury some rare “medicinal” vintage in the cornerstone.
\ The copper box was soon in sight. It‘wouldn't be long before everyone knew for sure what was inside—straight corn liquor or Napoleonic ‘brandy, After 49 years in the copper box, someone ventured to say, the latter\should be quite good. Mr, Brant pulled the box free of the stone. Mr. Mackenzie was ready to take it off his hands and half of the crowd was ready to take it off the engineer's hands. The container wasn't sealed. ‘The top was lifted and the first thing that hit the light of day since July 3, 1808, was a newspaper, The Sunday Journal of the same date. Next came The Indianapolis News, dated Saturday, July 2, 1808. 8till no brandy, The Sunday Sentinel, July 3, 1808, was taken out.
The newspapers were yellow with age and felt}
as if they had been out in the rain. Mr. Starrett haulgd out a program printed in German. He asked if anyone present could read German. Someone said, “Ach, no.” program wouldn't do anyone much good. A brown envelope made the crowd surge for ward. “Money.” Mr, Starrett opened it up and read: “We, the undersigned unmarried ladies unite to form a soclety
‘by the name of Dorcas society for the purpose of |
aiding the Protestant Deaconess cause by our needle and other works and free gifts. One monthly meeting we will attend.” The curator read the first name on the list, Miss A. Brochhausen and put the papers back in uh envelope.
Not Impressed by Music
HOWARD PECKHAM, director of the Indiana His~ torical bureau, was handed a sheet of music, “The Three Graces March.” It didn't impress him very much. Mr, Mackenzie picked up a stack of orange-colored cards. Across the top were the words, “Each brick represents one cent. Please select the bricks you wish to donate.” : The donor was instructed to write his initials into as many squares as he wanted bricks at penny a brick. (Housebricks now sell for
about $32.50 per 1000).
“There must be 2000 of these cards,” said Mr.}
Starrett. “Is that all that’s in there?” someone asked. “That's all.” | The “Ach, no” individual popped up with “Das ist alles.” Had the Governor made his appearance just then he would have been trampled by disappointed spectators. In less time than-it takes to write this sentence, Mr. Mackenzie, Mr. Starrett, Mr. Munson and myself were left holding a copper box. “Well, I guess we better go back,” Mr. Starrett said. “I'll put this stuff on display temporarily and then it will go into the archives.” No one stayed behind to see if the Governor would make an appearance. A memo to cornerstone layers: Historical documents are fine, but they make mighty dull cornerstone busts,
40 B-29's
WASHINGTON, June 19.—It takes an exceedingly nedr-sighted fellow to mislay a B-29. When he overlooks 40 of these aerial behemoths parked in the sunshine on a field in Arizona he either wears smoked glasses, with blinders attached, or he works for the poor old war assets administration, Sen. Homer Ferguson of Mich. had a pink rose in his lapel when he opened his inquiry into the 5000 odd (odd is a good word) surplus bombers the WAA peddled to a road contractor from Jefferson City, Mo. The rose was wilted and so was the senator before he discovered how an airplane counter can look at a four-motored war plane and not see it. The mighty ships were parked wing to wing, as far as the eye could see on a level stretch of desert near Kingman, Ariz. The idea was to sell 'em for junk (deluxe junk, as we'll discover in a minute). So the WAA boys strolled down the ranks of airplanes, counting same.
Got Four Different Answers
FOUR TIMES they counted the planes and four times they sent a different answer to Washington, testified Col. John H. Carey, the WAA's head airplane salesman. He shuffled the ‘papers and decided the most likely number was 5483. So he sold that number of ships to Martin Wunderlich, the portly road builder from Missouri, for $2,780,000. Mr. Wunderlich was incensed. The papers he got indicated that he'd bought 5543 airplanes. He wanted ‘em. The boys ordered another count. They came up with 5483 bombers, 40 more than WAA thought it sold, or 60 less than Mr. Wunderlich thought he'd bought. And another thing, said Mr. Wanderlich, a sandy-haired individual with a turned up nose, a red
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By Frederick C. Othman
the ladies call snuff. About that gasoline. It’s his, “Huh?” asked Sen, Ferguson. Well sir, it turned out that the tanks of the planes contained lots of the best quality of aviation gasoline when he bought ’em, It added up to about 2 million gallons, which cost the army air forces around $600,000. The WAA didn't know about the gasoline; when it did learn this precious fluid was aboard tne junked planes, Frank Creedon, the deputy administrator (who later become housing administrator) ordered it sold. His underlings ignored him. And a good thing they did, too, said Mr. Wunderlich. When he bought those planes, he said he also bought the gas in the tarks.
So he started melting down the airplanes, stacking |
away the parts that could be used again, and getting ready to sell the stuff to any oustomers who might possibly want it.
Army His Best Customer
HIS BEST PATRON, it developed, was the army air force which bought from him (through intermediaries) parts fg#m the same planes it had sold him. The army claims this was a good deal; Sen. Ferguson will ask some more questions later, about that. “And did you sell any parts to" any foreign governments?” the senator asked. “Well, I think perhaps we did,” Mr. Wunderlich said. “We sold some motors to Brazil. Or maybe it was to the Argentine.” i “Don’t you know?” Sen. Ferguson insisted. “Not rightly, I don’t,” Mr. Wunderlich replied. It was at this juncture that the Fergusonian rosebud gave up the fight to live.
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By Erskine Johnson
Pat. Pending
—— —— RE HOLLYWOOD, June 19.—Don Ameche is still the inventor. Only now, In pace with the celluoid trend, he’s trying to invent ways to kill Claudette Colbert. One of ‘em almost works, .too. He gets her in a trance, with the help of a phony psychiatrist, and she almost walks off a balcony. But Bob Cummings saves her just in time and then the psychiatrist puts a hole through Ameche’s head with a revolver, Don Ameche’'s switch from those romantic roles to a heavy who tries to murder his wife will be hailed, no doubt, ‘as the year's most exciting escape from type casting.
Grin and Bear It
“SLEEP, MY LOVE” is the picture—and the role is the one Don has been waiting for. It will be the first of a series of “different parts,” he says, because he wants to avoid the namby-pamby sork of thing of the past. Douglas Sirk, responsible for Linda Darnell’s switch from a lah-de-dah ingenue to a trollop in “Summer Storm,” is the director. He's a stickler for just the right emotions and Don grins, “You know me—One ‘Take Ameche.. This guy is making me do 16, 17 and 18 takes—and I love it.” Ameche, his wife and six children just sold their big house in San Fernando valley—it had 11% bathrooms yet—and moved into Arline Judge's home in Bel Air. This is smaller—four bedrooms. and two servants’ rooms—because the Ameches like their children near them. After 'their four boys had passed the baby age, Don says he and Mrs. A. agreed that
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the house “seemed empty. , . . So we adopted two girls. ”
Torch Ready for Ingrid?
SHORT TAKES: Ilona Massey and Jay Kurtz finally set their wedding date for mid-August. Then Republic cast her in “Monterey,” with the cameras starting to roll Aug. 15. Result: Another postponement of their marriage. Sight of the week: A fellow in a full suit of armor walking around the Hal Roach movie lot. Following him is*a guy carrying an oil can, Early maneuvers, no doubt, for the Ingrid Bergman movie, ¥Joan of Lorraine.” Paul Henreid gets Anne Baxter as his leading lady in “The Heaven We Chase.” . . . Myrna Loy is now starring for Director Lewis Milestone in “The Red Pony.” Thg last time Myrna worked for Milestone was years ago in “The Cave Man.” It was her first picture and she played a Swedish maid. Orson Welles, as expected, is re-writing Shakespeare for his film version of “Macbeth,” The Man From Mars has condensed the original script and cut the scenes down to 20, Most notable Welles “irnprovements” are having Lady Macbeth and Lady Macduff do several scenes together (in the play they never meet) and adding a new character, “the Friar.” Just as We predicted, “The Locket” cleaned up at the box office as the result of those Laraine DayLeo Durocher headlines. The film has grossed nearly two million dollars. . Movie production is going up. THere are 60 films “in production at the moment. There were only 44 last January.
By Ruth Millett
“THE HOUSEWIFE, not the man across the street, is the restaurant owner's real competitor,” John W. Ebersole, president of the National Restaurant association, recently told his colleagues. But she’s not always a willing competitor, Mr. Ebersole, . Restaurant prices may be high, food often inferior, and the best.eating’ places jammed with customers—but Mama still likes to eat out.
Father Is Cause IT'S PAPA who has made Mama the Jestauranty
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what a restaurant meal costs, even though he has probably, ni Se wp wink x od.
He's the ong who unfavorably compares the restaurant’s cooking with what he gets at home. Mama is too pleased to be eating a meal she hasn't planned, marketed for and cooked and too busy gloating over the fact that tonight there’ll be no dishwashing to notice that the gravy isn't up to her standard.
Selling the Idea & AND IT'S PAPA who minds the crowds. Moma is weed to crowds. She even gets a kic't out of them. ure, the housewife is the restaurant’s real compo But not because she wants to be, but, rather, because it's such hard work to sell her husband on
the idea of taking her out to eat. Mama would settle dinner at for dinner out almost any in he week: Just Ask Ber and oon bow 4s abe n get her
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City Dwellers
Take animals, for instance. slip up behind one.
That's the advice of the greater New. York Safety Council. The council also warns that bulls, next to automobiles, kills more country folks than anybody. Keep a fence between you and the bull, no matter how ‘gently be blinks at you. The council also censures those who - pick up baby animals while mama is near. It scolds persons who mount horses in a barn, or
‘handle sick animals—the disease
may be transmitted to humans. A horse bite is not serious, one expert claims, then adds that several victims have lost fingers and one man recently lost. an ear. The horse—if you plan to ride— kicks “high and straight back.” But a mule -or a cow can kick high, straight back, or sidewise,
Ruebush, who was - shot by his favorite pig. Mr. Ruebush trusted the pig. He left his .22 rifle leaning against a barn. Wham, The pig pulled the trigger. So you see, almost anything can happen in the country.
Air Conditioning ' © For 'Last Supper". MILAN, June 19 (U. P.).—Leonardo Da Vinci's mural “The Last Supper” in the former monastery of Santa Maria Delle Grazie will be
air conditioned to prevent further deterioration. A committee of art specialists has ordered erection of an air condi tioned room around the painting. There “will be a glass partition
Da Vinci painted “The Last Supyears shortly before 1500 on a wall
of the monastery refectory. For the
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THAT SHOULD GET ‘EM—David Harrison, 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William: Harrison, Franklin, jumps on the bench before his mother's dressing table to practice facial expressions for his cheering. He will start school this fall, but all last basketball season he led yells for the Franklin high schogl five.
THE OLD LOCOMOTIVE—FR ... AN... KL... IN. David isn't going to get rusty over the summer if he can help it. Next year he hopes to urge all the Franklin high school teams on to victory. - He began yell leading when he mimicked his sister who was called up from the eighth grade to help out theshigh school. .
Warned: Life
In Comty Can Be Hectic
Vacationists Planning Visits to Rural Areas Should Be Careful Around Strange Animals
By ROBERT RICHARDS, United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK,“June 19—City dwellers off to the country for. a quiet vacation: Pay attention. Life can be hectic. They dislike being shocked, so never |i
If you can't meet a horse face to face, at least whistle or sing to let him know that you're approaching.
PLAN POTLUCK SUPPER Members of Indiana council of American Youth Hostels, Inc. will attend a potluck supper at 6 o'clock tonight in the Kraft room, ¥Y. W. C. A. Proceeds will go toward establishment of a hostel on a farm near Bridgeport.
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Select Queen
' Miss Joan Small, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Small, 849 E. Morris st., will be installed as honor queen by Jobs Daughters # Bethel 4, at 119 E. Ohio st, I p. m. Saturday. Other officers to be installed are: Donna Lee White, senior Betty Ozmont, junior princess; Mary Lou Jamison, guide; Roberta Johnston, marshal; Miss
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Betty Smock, guardian, and Hugh Johnston, guardian. Retiring queen is Geraldine Anderson.
Carnival—By- Dick Turner
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NOW ALL TOGETHER—David hits another pose as If he has his way about it, however, he will b the field and floor when he is in high school. big | want to be a football Player asketball players} trackman and preacher.
BROTHER-SISTER TEAM—David and his high school chee sister Joann work out a yell together on a neighbor's lawn. whooped it up for Franklin until the team lost in. the Shelbyville adopted him right up through the finals. sweater and cap he used leading the Golden Bears. 1
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joker in the nose bags which cost the government $5 million. ; They're no darn good as gas masks, But if you are interested, the masks will be placed on, sale June 23 through WAA catalog CG-27-1222 and sealed bids will be accepted up to July 7. Good Breath Killer
Mr, Brown said that the masks have been declared “unsafe and
unfit” for use as gas masks or
smoke masks, But he hastened to get on record as saying there lot of other things you can 8 gas mask for. For instance, if you have one clamped on your puss at the proper angle, the little woman can't tell
the way home, Mr, Brown wouldn't be quoted as saying so, be they also would be handy at. tub-thumping political rallies. Or for protection while playing such rough games as pitch the bean bag. The WAA official said be serious about this thing. The canister, containing certain chemicals, he sald; can be removed and used in refrigerators as deodorizers, killing the smell of the lm-
Uncle Sam Has 2 Million for Sale; = They'll Kill Limburger Odor in Icebox
By HARMON W. NICHOLS, United Press Staff box
CHICAGO, June 19.—Uncle Sam has 2 million gas masks fn hie cellar and they're yours for the bidding,
That is, if you can use 1000 or more. taxes, labor and foreign business to peddle gas masks one at a time. Bruce J. Brown, Chicago regional director of the war assets admins tration, admitted after considerable hemming an hawing that thert 1s a
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