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1d i HOW. MUCH DOES A MOON in June mean to two people with stardust in their eyes and wedding bells in their ears With people o know the “rocky” road to the license bureay best, namely jewelers, the moon in June doesn't mean everything, The diamond business is holding its own even though the man in the moon has been wearing a blackout shade. : One item, the double ring ceremony set which returned to popularity during the war, is still going strong, local jewelers. said.
“The only thing different this year” sald Joseph |
H. Golden, manager of Barney's Quality Jewelers, Washington st, and Kentucky ave, “is that a serv. iceman in a jewelry store is a novelty now, Last year it was a daily occurence.” With the weaker sex infringing more and more into this here man's world, I asked Mr. Golden if he had any knowledge of girls coming in and shopping for their own rings.
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Still Let the Man Buy
IT SURPRISED ME, but Mr. Golden said that 99 out of a 100 girls still let the man buy the ring. Well, that's as it should be. I'm sorry I even had such a thought, girls. : At the Rost Jeweldy Co, I was told that nine out of 10 men come in for an engagement ring by themselves. I'm hard to convince once I get wy mind set on something. Business this June? The salesman smiled broadly and excused himself as a determined-looking young man walked up to the diamond ring counter and gave the merchandise the once over. Okay, Doc William G. Fuller, manager of the Charles Mayer & Co. jewelry department, is of the opinion that for
BUSINESS AS USUAL—With or without the moon, wedding rings keep going on the third finger, left hand.
tn out, Low. yar. all th months of th yer wer good.’ “How about this June?” “Still good,” said Mr, Fuller. . “And do you know that most girls are putting markers on thelr men?” “Double rings, eh?” “You're right,” said Mr. Fuller, “and in one sixmonth period we sold 151 groom's rings to 147 bride's rings.” The figures were shocking to me but Mr. Fuller] showed it to me on black and white, ,
“Why, during the war we were selling three groom's rings to one bride's ring.” I came back quick-like. “The wives back ‘home were sending them overseas, werent they?” “Yes, but the men were asking for the rings." You just can't win,
On the way out I did a bit of sleuthing around the jewelry counters. Two women were looking at engagement rings. A casual look on the third finger of the left hand revealed that both women were wearing the works, wedding and engagement rings. On the Circle I pushed open the door to the establishment that says: “If you have the girl, we have the ring.” Charles Sipe of J. C. Sipe & Son stayed right in line with the other jewelers about June being a good month to get married in but so were all the others. “In fact,” Mr. Sjpe said, “one year, and I don't have the exact date or figures handy, more people| got married in October than in June. There's one thing weather can’t stop and that's a marrying mood.” 1 had to mention the catchy sign on the window. “My father, J. C. Sipe, first used that in the early 1900's,” he said.
Old Bachelor Got Hooked
IT SEEMS THAT an old bachelor in town finall got hooked. Mr, Sipe couldn't say during wi month. Anyway, the old boy came in to see J. C. and his first words were: “Well, Sipe, I have the girl, do you have the ring?” J. C. had the ring and the bachelor was no more. From that time on,” said Mr. Sipe, “we've used the slogan.” “How about the double-ring sets, are you selling very many?”
WHAT NEXT?—at 43, Frank McKinney has reached the big time in
“Good item. Every once in a while a brids-to-be banking, baseball and comes in with her man and asks him ‘Which one do broadcasting. you want?’ Sometimes a man will squirm a little * = but he'll pick out a wedding band.” A quick turn around the dime: store jewelry counters also proved interesting. “We sell a lot of wedding bands,” one salesgirl said. “For those short-térm marriages?’ I asked. “I don't know,” answered the girl, “but just yesterday a young fellow bought a set whicly he was going to give his girl to see what she'd do before he gave her the real McCoy set.” Now there's a man with a sense of. humor, Walk-
By ROBERT BLOEM BANKING, Baseball and Broadcasting.
businessthan, financier, sportsman and Democrat. “Banking is my business,” Mr. McKinney says.
. But one thing is certain. Whatever it turns out
His Plans for Pirates Stirred Sports World; Was Once Youngest Bank President in U. §.
Add those together and you have Indianapolis’ Frank McKinney,
hobby, and radio—well, I don't know yet what radio’s going to be.”
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_ FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1947
PIRATE BOSSES—A self-styled "nut" on baseball, Mr. McKinney has played his hobby to the hilt and president and part owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Shown here are Pirate Manager Billy Herman (left). co-owners. Bing Crosby, Tom Johnson of Pittsburgh (behind), Mr. McKinney and John Galbregth of Colmbus, C 0. The Hoosier "mogul owns part of the Indianapolis Indians, too. pi 5 ”
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“Baseball is my
to be it will be
a big operation, Take his “hobby,” for instance. Lots of people like to watch base- | ments dryly
ing the last mile with a smile on his lips, on
ball. Others, more athletically in. |Packground.
Differ on Steel
clined, like to play it. Mr. Me-| Kinney goes all the way. He likes
own it and run it. nn style—as a colonel.
By Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON, June 20.—The famous steel master said business was about to ease off. The equally famous economist looked him in the eye and said It wasn't Wilfred Sykes, the well-barbered presidént of the mighty Inland Steel Co. of East Chicago, Ind., told the senate small business committee that the current demand for steel is a post-war flurry soon to end.
Thinks Steel Need Will Grow
DR. LOUIS H. BEAN, the shaggy-haired economist of the agriculture department, said the need for steel would be greater than ever. Mr. Sykes said+He “doubted” if the nation cofild use more than 76,000,000 tons of steel a year for the next 25 years. Dr. Bean said that by’ year after next the mills had jolly well better be producing at least 100 million tons annually to fill the demand. If they don't, he said, they'll be responsible for the resultant depression. The Messrs. Sykes and Bean are able men, honest, and highly respected. They even respect each other; at least they shook hands cordially. But what sent me into the markot-place for a ouija beard was their admission that they based their diametrically opposed predictions on the same set of business statistics. Mr. Sykes stared at a set of figures and saw slump. Dr. Bean gazed at the same page and saw boom.
I guess I'll ctick to my ouija board. Even so, I think, the statements of the embattled experts are interesting.
HE'S A BASEBALL “NUT.” The! = = description is his own, and while |. THE JOB WAS he admits he never was any grea shakes at playing the game, ne, {made an early name for himself in b semi-pro circles as a hobbyist | manager.
The pink-faced Mr. Sykes, in a pale gray suit the exact shade of his hair, plunked down his cowhide brief case and told Chairman Edward Martin of Pennsylvania that the average demand for steel until 1975 will be no more than 76,000,000 tons a | vear, or a good deal less than the industry now! preduces.
Sees Demand Falling Off
negotiated war industry, inel ar loan to Gene
pal owner of the National League Pittsburgh Pirates, vice president 1s good 8 spot
ALREADY, HE ADDED, can be seen the signs [nd halt DWhet of ‘the Indianapolis business ability as ndians, and a. 10 Pay (undertaken,
of demand faliing off. One of his subsidiaries has | a Andoded filled all its orders for five-gallon pails and is look- 1 the Louk Solan. 13 es rates ing for customers. A refrigerator company. using |jeague “farm” teams, Inland steel sheets is putting its finished boxes in| 71t’s like that with banking, too. storage because it can't find anybody to buy 'em at present prices. And another thing, said Mr. Sykes, mentioning something which every motorist knows: Manufacturers continue to mash steel thinner and thinner. Take auto fenders, he said. Much thinner than they used to be. So it Is that steel goes further and (though he didn't say so) dents easier than before. The tousle-haired Dr. Bean appeared in a heavy winter suit. Being a federal economist of longstanding, he brought along a sesies of charts on an easel. One of these, the standard snakesentwined graph, indicated that farm ‘income varies into the presidency of the Fidelity directly with steel production. Trust Co. And so does all other business, Dr. Bean added. . = =n Everybody must depend on steel for full employ-| HE WAS THE YOUNGEST bank ment: this metal, he said, is an ever-accurate symbol | president in the United States. of American prosperity, Although passing years - probably have robbed him of that particular 11, the president's ' distinction, at 43, he still is the | | companied their
chief here, Mr, McKinney got owners of the clu messenger with the old Meyer-Kiser state bank. Shortly afterward, he went to Peoples State bank as a bookkeeper and messenger, and 15 years later was assistant cashier, But he'd come further than the title indie cated and in 1934, at the tender
(for bankers) age of 31, he jumped
business operation
associates brought
a renovated ball s leagues.
the most kick out
Not for Welles
HOLLYWOOD, June 20.—Behind the screen: During the filming of “Monsieur .Verdoux,” Charlie Chaplin thought for a time he would hire Orson Welles to help him on the screen play. The film was Orson’s idea. Chaplin even fixed up an office for Welles, but finally changed his mind about the whole thing, and Orson never checked into the studio. The point of all this is that during the time Orson’s office was on the Chaplin lot, a studio wag wrote in chalk beneath Orson's name: “Genius, j. g." Our ‘plea for another Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musical may bear fruit. Ginger is reading a musical * geript submitted by producer Lester Cowan. A new Rita Hayworth film at Columbia will have her playing a dancer who almost causes a revolution between two mythical South American republics. Adele Mara will be starred in a Republic movie _ titled, “Exposed.” As Hollywood's favorite pin-up girl, Adele has been exposed ever since she landed in pictures.
Red Is More Than a Color
THAT RED investigation of Hollywood will find something sinister, no doubt, in a whole series of new films: “The Red House,” “The Red Pony,” “Wake of the Red Witch,” “Your Red Wagon,” “The Red -Mill” and “Roses Are Red.” Universal;International is wavering on the edge with “Ride a ‘Pink Horse.” Catherine McLeod postponed her wedding again. The father of fiance Bill Gerds died suddenly of a heart ailment, and Bill was called back to Milwaukee, Cornel] Wilde and his wife, Pat Knight, are just about set to do “Amphitron 38” at the Laguna Beach little theater late in August. Any resemblance between Robert Louis Steven-
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a youngest active president in training in Florida : Indianapolis. | fitted in miniature By Erskine Johnson Mr. McKinney's most recent
break into the public prints has name players. been through his association in the Universal Broadcasting Co. which a has purchased radio station WISH here. He's presidént of that company, too. And that’s only a small part of his radio venture, He also is a partner in new radio station projects in Evansville (WMJF), Terre Haute (WTHI) and Ft. Wayne (WKJG). Universal got a little impromptu help recently when a Democratic | party official appealed to Deniocrats in Washington to help the company | get a license “so Democrats would | a have a voice in Indiana.” Hoosier
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son's “The Black Arrow,” starring Louis Hayward, and the Columbia film version will be strictly by accident. -Yep,.they re-wrote him. Frantic cable to the 20th Century-Fox studio from Linda Darnell in Paris. Those things she uses to keep her black hair blond are unavailable in the scarce continental markets. The studio airmailed her peroxide, ammonia, and other blond-making liquids. There's no doubt that Shirley Temple has grown up. In “The. Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer,” Cary Grant is hailed into court on charges of contributing to her delinquency. It's all in fun, of course, in what I hear is the best comedy RKO has had in years.
Marriage Makes Big Difference
HARRY SHERMAN has produced “kissless” west- | big fuss, * erns for 30 years. Now Joel McCrea kisses Frances a J » Dee 13 times in “They Passed This Way.” Explains] THE FACT IS, two of the princiSherman: “This is different. They're married.” pal officers in Universal are promiTom Drake and June Hutton of the Pied Pipers nent Republicans here, and his have become a steady twosome. partner in the Terre Haute venture | That's life dept.: A few years ago when Charlie is Anton Hulman, Jr., -one of the Barnett was starring with his band at the New York state's leading G. O. P. partisans. Paramount theater the extra added attracfion, tanta-| But though his business ventures mount to a supporting role, was Danny Kaye. Now are non-partisan, don’t get the Barnett plays an added attraction in the new Danny idea Mr. McKinney doesn't know Kaye film, “That's Life.” his way around in politics. He took New trend in private detectives for Franchot Tone One active fiyer in 1936, was elected in “The Double Take.” He doesn't use a gun, doesn’t|COUnty treasurer and served two talk around a drooping cigavét, doesn’t take a drink on every other page of the/script, doesn’t slap anyorie around, and doesn't ridicule the way the police operate. The latter had almost become a national issue with the police groups from all over the country writing hot letters of criticism. to the movie makers.
Mr. McKinney's
home.
“I haven't been so active as a
rs: away
By BACH
uled highway cons
We, the Women
“I'VE GOT AN IDEA for a wonderful vacation,” says a travel-wise friend. “With road maps and travel sections torn out of newspapers I'm going. to plan a Cross- -country trip, Vaking in all the sights along the way. “The plan will call for stop- -0ffs to see old friends 1 keep In Seich with only with Christmas cards.
Whole Trip Planned pots
“I'M GOING TO GET the whole trip planned— : right down to every night's stop-over. I'll éven get my vacation wardrobe in shape. . ; “I'hen when I've planned and shopped and worked the whole thing out I'm going to stay. Home and - have a real vacation, ~~ : “That way 11 get ‘the “fun of planning and” oohfiding my plans to friends when the talk, as it ins fall, doey Chis Jessont of he your, tums bo ‘aos
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will be necessary
c———————— A — to get an early start, hoping to get in a lot of mileage before the lazy bones who don't gef started until 10, o'clock are out cluttering up the highways. ; “1 won't have to struggle every morning to get all ‘my belongings into suitcases that seem to shrink in/| WHERE DID YOU GET capacity every day of travel. ; THE IDEA THAT “I won't have to eat disappointing meals in |GRADUATION EXERCISES } crowded restaurants or go from hotel to hotel trying HAD TO DO WITH THE to find a place to sleep. - PHYSICAL,
A Swell Vacation ar
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— By Ruth Millett on | |
INCORRECT; MISTAKEN; FALSE; WRONG-
this year,
would be finished
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“ WON'T HAVE to try to convince old friends they haven't changed a bit or answer the impossible pulsing. hk ide pd demand: ‘Now tell me. all about yourself’ I won't perintendent Charles T. Miser said. have to rack my brains to be hdipful when the tnt et ‘Whatever became. of so-and-so?" outline begins. ADDRESSES EXCHANGE CLUB | Hassil E. Schenck, Indiana Farm
‘“¥és ‘Tl have a swell vacation, "I'l plan a long|| :
Democrat since “the war,” he com-
Which brings up another point. to {He did a war job, too, and’ was | graduated from the army in typical
t vance payment loan branch of the Smy s finance division, In the job and passed on
Sve at guaranteed
Today he is president and prinel-) But the youthful {banker's job on the Pirates still is
into the banking game at 16 as & \jong.range pennant plan for the team itself, he’s making a sound
» » » AND COLORFUL is the word for every action. Mr. McKinney and his
Hank Greenberg to the team, as well as Hoosier-born manager Billy Herman. They've given Pittsburgh the most modern plant in the big! Probably the McKinneys who got
though, were Frank Jr. and Robert,
they hobnobbed with the club's big-
completed, normal nance programs are up to six weeks behind usual -schédules, and heavy additional expenditures for repairs on Hoosier highways this summer, state -highway department officials said today. HARACTERIZ The weather is responsible, the c c ED BY ERROR; highway engineering and maintenance superintendents agreed. | Over $16 million of construction (work 1s ‘scheduled for completion $1,450,000 is done. Normally, at least, $3400,000
but only
his political
» WITH the ad-
loans to uding a billion ral Motors Corp. dark-haired
barometer of anything he has
‘now is.
as one of the most talked-about men in baseball today —off'the playing field, that is. From { the ‘colorful step of including popuSon of a fire department battalion | (ar Bing Crosby among the four
b to building a
of the club.
home-run King
tadium rated as
of the Pirates,
sons. They acdad to spring and there, outPirate uniforms,
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Mr. and Mrs. McKinney also have daughter, Claire, who is 13.
” » » BESIDES HELPING to rear his, own family, Mr, McKinney takes a civic interest in youth. He's chairman of .the committee developing plans for a Catholic Youth Organization sports center on 16th st. across from Victory field. Also on the civic and social side, | he’s a member of the Kiwanis, the | Knights of Columbus, the American ' Dr. Rudolph Munoz, Argentine dele{Legion and a director of the Indi- | napolis Athletic Club,
expansive tend-
i : course, kicked up a | |encies in the worlds of sports and Republicans, of . P finance—he's had attractive offers | traffic ticket for driving ‘on the | about him to the state motor ve-
of top executive spots in eastern | shoulder of a highway instead of hicle commissioner. banks-~have given rise to rumors | the pavement.
he's on his way east, A dozen folks | have gone so far as to try to buy his suggested to the officer that “You munity. Fhey said Dr. Munoz threw | day in the Hotel
To that the Indianapolis- shorn | banker has this Feply: .
“I'm in the banking business— An | Indianapolis—to stay.”
Weather Delays Repair
Less than 10 per cent of sched-
truction has been road mainte-
by June 15.
Flooded highways will cost an additional $100,000 to clear when the water recedes; and the maintenance department is far behind on its normal program of grade re-|
Bureau president, was to address Exchange will speak |
trip PLANNING a“trip is one of the most ex citing things in the world. But TAKING a trip i members of Indianap ~ hard “Ea 1 Jast won't both with that d
Charges Denied By UN Delegate
DAD'S FOOTSTEPS—Two young McKinneys, Frank Jr., 9. and Robert; 11, ars well on their way to becoming the same kind of baseball enthusiasts as their dad. In miniature Pirate uniforms they took the field with the Pittsburgh club during spring training and huddled for the camera with Manager Billy Herman. NEW YORK, June 20 (U. P.).—|I should run over you.” State Pharmacists The patrolman was “very bad gate to the United Nations, denied | mannered and used bad language,” Due Here Monday | today that he threatened to spit in| the United Nations delegate added. the face of a New Jersey policeman. Dr. Munoz issued his denial after Approximately 800 Hoosier phare
The officer gave Dr. Munoz a police at Katawan, N. J., complained macists and their wives are expecte
ed to attend the 67th annual cone vention of the Indiana Pharmae ceutical asSociation to open Mone
They asked the state for a definiDr. Munoz also denied that he|tion of the limits of diplomatic im-|
The three-day meeting will fens
the ground and the ticket out of his car window, ture a discussion of latest discove
| should be lying on
Carnival— By Dick Turner
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