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: "OKAY, BUST IT OPEN.” A sledge hammer and cold chisel bit into the cornerstone of the Protestant Deaconess Home, Ohio st. and Senate ave. Theodore Munson, manager ‘ of the Cleveland Wrecking Co., stepped back, as bits of stone flew, State Oonservation 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 William 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.

‘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 men, were digging into the word “Home.” 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 thag. 20 people moved in closer. side?” was” written on every face. Thomas G. Mackenzie, state engineer, asked if anypfie called the Governor. Several heads shook no. A little discussion followed and a volunteer

“What's ine

‘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 sledge hammer.”

CORNERSTONE YIELDS SECRET—Ralph Wade (left) and William Brant break ifto the cornerston® of the Protestant Deaconess Home with somewhat disappointing results,

“of the same date.

TT The Jfiea Of a DOUG sheried. 16 click With the group. The big question was whether or not thé building fathers had foresight enough to bury some rare “medicinal” vintage in the comerstons. \ ‘The copper box was soon in sight. 1t’ wouldn't be long before everyone knew for sure what was inside—straight corn liquor or Napoleonic ‘brandy. After 40 years in the copper box, someone ventured to say, the Iatter\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 hdnds. The container wasn't sealed. The top was lifted and the first thing that hit the light of day since July 3, 1898, was a newspaper, The Sunday Journal

News, dated Saturday, July 2, 1808. Still 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 fore ward. “Money.” Mr. Starrett opened it up and read: “We, the undersigned unmarried ladies unite to form a society

‘by the name of Dorcas society for the purpdse off aiding the Protestant Deaconess cause by our needle }

and other works and free gifts. One monthly meet~ ing we will attend.” The curator read the first name on the list, Miss A. Brochhausen and put the papers back in We envelope.

Not [Impressed by Music HOWARD PECKHAM, director of the Indiana Historical 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

‘Mislaid’

By Frederick C. Othman

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 fleld 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. Wunderlich, a sandy-haired individual with a turned up nose, a red

face, and a peculiarly vivid brown suit of the shade 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 the 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 tanks.

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#n 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 govern=ments?” 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.” “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.

Pat. Pending

By Erskine Johnson

TA 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 yole 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 sort 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 M¥s. A. agreed that

—— the house 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 “irhprovements” 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 neally two million dollars. . . . Movie production is going up. There are 60 fms in production at the moment, There were only 44 last January. ’

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We, the Women

“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 restaurant's _, chief competitor, He's the one who pays the check and 80 notices

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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 Ss PAPA who minds the crowds. Sams is used to crowds. She even gets a kic't out of them, ure, the housewife is the restaurant's real comCh But not because she wants to be, but, rather, because it's such hard work to sell her husband on

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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 school five.

THE OLD LOCOMOTIVE—FR ... AN, .. KL... IN. David isn't going to get rusty over the summer if he can help it. Next your he hopes to urge all the Franklin high school teams on to victo began yell leading when he mimicked his sister who was ca from the eighth grade to help out thethigh school. .

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“NOW ALL TOGETHER—David hits another pose ‘he 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 ployer, trackman and preacher.”

BROTHER-SISTER TEAM—David and his high s sister Joann work out a yell together on a neighbor's it up for Franklin until the team lost in. the Shelbyville adopted him right up through the finals... the “S" sweater and cap he used leading the ¢

. He says: "When | baseball

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

tioned room around the painting. There will. be a glass partition

Da Vinci painted “The Last Supper” over a period of more than 12 years shortly before 1500 on a wall

of the monastery refectory. For the the

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Warned: Life

In Country 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. id 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, ¥. W. C. A. Proceeds will go toward establishment of a hostel on a farm near Bridgeport.

Jobs Daughters 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. fr Pp. m Saturday. Other officers to be installed are: Donna Lee White, senior princess; Betty Ozmont, junior princess; Mary Lou Jamison, guide; Roberta Johnston, marshal; Miss

Miss Small

Betty Smock, guardian, and Hugh Johnston, guardian, Retiring queen is Geraldine Anderson.

Carnival—By- Dick Turner

Unsafe, Unfit

cellar and they're yours for the

tration, admitted after considerable 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

smoke masks. But he hastened to get on record as saying there are a lot of other things you can use a gas: mask for. ‘ For instance, if you have one clamped on your puss at the proper angle, the little woman can't tell

Mr. Brown wouldn't be quoted as saying so, be

Wanta Buy 1000 Ci

Uncle Sam Has 2 Million for Sale;

They'll Kill Limburger Odor in feebox

By HARMON W. NICHOLS, United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, June 19—~Uncle Sam has 2 million gs make hw bidding :

That is, if you can use: 1000 or more. Your ‘uncle. 1s 100 Busy: ! taxes, labor and foreign business to peddle gas masks one at a & i

Bruce J. Brown, Chicago regional director of the war assets ad tind

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