Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 June 1947 — Page 19
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Above the din of the power saws and the hammering, Mr. Conrad said the men were beginning to get the swing of things. “Most of the men here have had experience in scenery building but you know there has been little Stewart Walker left Indiana little refresher course when
Fred (Dutch) Eilstrod, who was on the assembly as on the muslin bench, at the Fox “I'm » carpenter at the English theater. Except
for one out of town carpenter all the men you see on the line work in local theaters,” Mr. Conrad said.
A man called “Arco” and the master carpenter hurried away. Mr. Bohme, the only fulltime scenic artist left in Indianapolis, picked up a scale model of the “New Moon” set to be. After a few minutes of intent. study he was back with his eight-inch brushes and pails of With one swipe of his brush he .
‘Mr. Hoffman Speaks
WASHINGTON, June 26.—Paul G. Hoffman didn’t mean to expound on the merits of the auto with the greenhouse top and the rear end that looks like the front. The hefty president of the Studebaker Corp. Ih
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plaid tie; cleared his throat and read instead to a joint eongressional committee a 23-page statement
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productiveness. This was fancy language. Mr. Hoffman meant (including congressmen) use their . heads, our form of capitalism ought to work out bet- . ter than éver before. The congressmen, being Amer- _ fcans themselves and hence motorists fiist and lawg Tiikers second, kept bringing Mim wack fo the suh"ject of automobiles. w Well, sir, you know how it is with an altomobile salesman. He hates to knock a ‘competitor. Senators Robert A. Taft of Ohio and Joseph C. O'Mahoney of Wyoming, both wondered whether the current price of automobiles is fair. This put Salesman Hoffman on something of a spot.
Some Charging High Prices
“THERE ARE automobile companies today,” he began, choosing his words carefully, “and I won't name names, which are charging pretty high prices for their product.” He said competition—a segment of dynamic productiveness—soon would take care of them; that the automobile industry was composed of rugged individualists who'd take their chances on pleasing the public with return of a buyer's market. Take Studebaker, he added. The motorists on the mahogany dais leaned forward. They were interested, all right. They'd heard the jokes about the tricky Studebaker with the show-
Bogart, Baby Sitter
HOLLYWOOD, June 26.—I had never thought of Humphrey Bogart as a baby sitter. But now I know that he is, even if he doesn’t know about it himself. A friend of mine and his wife stopped by after lunch the other day to see a movie. It was a matinee, and they hit it just about 2 o'clock in the afternoon. They had been in the theater about an hour when my friend felt a little tug at his left sleeve. He turned around to look into the questioning eyes of a cute
little hiond girl about 9 years old. “Please, mister,” she said, “could you tell me Wha time it 157” My friend looked at his watch just as Humpheey Bogart was making his first or second attempt to poison Barbara Stanwyck on the screen. “Why, honey,” he said, “it's’' a' few minutes after three.” “Oh, darn!” she said.
Friend Is Surprised
MY FRIEND was very much surprised at the exclamation from the cute little kid, so he turned back to her. “What do you mean, ‘Oh, darn? matter?” : The little girl looked up at him, pouted her pretty little lips and said, “Oh, my Mom and Daddy won'f be home until 6 o'clock, and I have to sit here for three more hours.” Now there is one for the books. The picture was “The Two Mrs. Carrolls,” in which Humphrey Bogart spends most.of his time trying to Barbara Stanwyck. A very nice bit of enter ent indeed for a child to sit through two or three times while her parents’ go out for an afternoon. Imagine a killer—like the roles Humphrey Bogart
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IN MORE THAN Tove MILLION "tapas, iu hus band and wife both; work, according to the most recent survey by the U. 8. bureau of the census. Now: that is a lot of families. #
Yet we still regard the problem of married women working as though it were some new-fangled notion,
rather than established way of life of almost 18 per cent of Si normal ‘families in the United States.
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THE MAN who says woman's place is in thé home
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NOTHING BETTER FOR TIGHT MUSCLES The "New Moon" of the Indianapolis Centennial hasn't risen yet but men such as Richard Green (left) and John Rabold are helping it along. probably applied more paint than the average
The house maid's knee detail (sizing painters) was scattered all over the floor. Keeping ahead of the carpenters kept them humping, Mr. Russell came back and told Mr. Conrad not to worry about the muslin. “We'll have some more right away.” I mentioned to Mr, Russell that a little girl was out in the middle of the floor where the scenery was being shoved around. “Jeannie.” “Who's Jeannie?” “My little daughter. I better get her over here before she winds up under a flat.”
A Poor Way to Get Stiff
RICHARD GREEN and John Rabold straightened up from their sizing and groaned loudly. Both men jokingly agreed that applying sizing was a poor way to get stiff, Mr. Russell told Toner Overly and Bill Sommer another coat of sizing. Naturally, I wanted to know what “Blue Dutchmen” were, “They're the pieces of muslin that join two flats together. They cover up the seam. Now let's see. Oh, yes. I've got to figure out how much paint we're going to need for the stage.” And Mr. Russell was gone, In a few minutes he came charging back. “Got the paint all figured out?” “No, not yet. Something else came up.” Before Mr. Russell could get away again I asked him what was the next thing on the agenda after the “New Moon” set was out of the way. “Background for the symphony orchestra,” he answered. “Arco—ARCO.” ‘Aw, to heck with it.
By Frederick C. Othman
case expanses of plate glass. They'd read about the Oregon automobilist whose dog for years had jumped into the rear deck of his coupe whenever he started for a ride. You may remember the story in the newspapers. The Oregonian bought a new Studebaker, opened the hood to admire the works underneath, and was startled to have his pup jump in on top of the engine. The pup was startled, too. A smile played upon ‘the lips of Rep. Walter Huber (D. O.). “When the ‘war ended,” he said, “it was a fact that any automobile manufacturer could revamp his 1942 models a little and sell them as fast as he could make them. Most of them did. Now, Mr. Hoffman, can you. tell me why Studebaker chose to go all-out on an entirely new model?” ‘No automobile salesmen ever had a better chance than this Mr. Hoffman chortled. He said he'd be delighted.
Time to Make Gamble
HE EXPLAINED that putting in the machinery to make a radical new model is an extremely expensive gamble, because a motor car maker never knows whether the customers will like what he’s thought up. “So we decided the time to make the gamble was when the demand for automobiles was so strong the people. would buy, even if they didn't like our new styles,” Mr. Hoffman said. “It was strictly a busi-
As it turned out, we seemed to have hit the jackpot.” Competition, observed Rep. Wright Patman of Texas, certainly seems to be the life of trade. “Yes, sir,” agreed Mr. Hoffman, “it is an integral part of dynamic productiveness.” And as soon as I hear from Oregon about whether that pup has learned which end of a Hoffman automobile is front, I'll let you know.
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By Erskine Johnson
plays on the screen—being a baby sitter for your child, and you'll have another question mark to add to the other $64 quizzers already stacked up against crime pictures. Yes, I know you'll say the parents were crazy to leave their child there that long. I'll agree. But how many of you do the same thing—use a movie theater as a nursery and Humphrey Bogart and other screen toughs as baby sitters? But don’t blame Hollywood this time. If Humphrey Bogart is a baby sitter in your family, it's your fault.
The Windsor Story
SHORT TAKES: June Haver’s fans are wailing about her separation from Jimmy Zito. They've been congratulating her on marrying an old sweetheart instead of a Hollywood wolf. . . . Gladys George and her husband, Kenneth Bradley, night manager of a Los Angeles hotel, celebrate their first wedding anniversary soon. She's giving him a 10-acre ranch in Pomona. , . . Film rights to the Duke of Windsor’s life story are now available—for a price. The price is $500,000.
Annabella will be Reno bound ‘before summer is |
over to divorce Tyronne Power. Lana Turner is celebrating already. Army’s grid heroes, Blanchard and Davis, will be
co-starred in Hollywood's first football picture in
Despite all the wailing over a slumping box office, Hollywood will spend $150 million this summer on 180 feature movies. . . . Lo Durocher is happy. Larainé Day will play a Brooklyn manicurist in her next film, “Champagne for Everybody.” Xavier Cugat will conduct at the Hollywood Bowl Aug.’16. . . . Wallace Beery and his adopted daughter, Carol ‘Ann, wil] vacation in Europe next month.
By Ruth Millett
, her busy and Happy tend to ignore or reve mere nod to the millions of married women who are keeping two Jobs going at once. We will make a big fuss and todo over the ability of successful women to. combine a career with homemaking—as though there was something terribly unusual about it.
Old Rules ‘Still Apply WE HAVEN'T even any rules: for the “working wife. She is simply told that rules for the oldtime marriage partnership, in which the husband was the sole bread-winner, still apply to her.
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On National Market By EMMA RIVERS MILNER
Oh Editer THE BIBLE continues to uphold
its THE Ma as a best seller in Indianapolis stores ih peacetime. The national market presents a somewhat different picture. Re-~ ligious bookhouses report a sharp increase in the sale of Bibles, one as high as 2% per cent over average” of war years, On the other hand, one of ‘he ; largest general publishers in the United States says he estimates his Bible sales for 1947 are “off” 40 per cent of the peak years of 1944 and 1945, the last two years of the war, Of six major distributors of the Bible in Indianapolis, only one has experienced a recent slump in
inability to obtain as many Bibles as they need to fill orders, particu larly special editions.
” . ” A NUMBER commented on the fact €hat Scripture-selling holds up even though millions of pocket testaments no longer are given to the armed forces. The city’s present interest in buying the Bible thus seems to shatter at least part of this often-heard prophecy: “Men and women will give less time to reading the Bible, going to church and praying when the war is over.” A similar remark was made by the local dealer whose experience differs from the others questioned. “When everything is going all right, a lot of people never think about the Bible. ‘They depend on it more in time of distress,” he observed. “I would estimate that our sales have fallen off about onefourth of the wartime volume.”
LJ » » THE MEIGS Publishing Co. on the other hand, has observed that the sale of Bibles follows much the same trend as that of other commodities. “Last year, we had a sensational sale of the new revised New Testament,” a company official recalled. “This year, the revised edition isn’t going quite as fast as it did at first. Sales of other Bibes fell off in favor of the new one last year.’ The manager of L. 8S. Ayres & Co. was as reluctant as Meigs to give the impression that fewer persons are buying Bibles. “I think we get the impression that we are selling more Bibles in wartime,” he explained, “because of the difficulties of manufacture and
Death of New York Banker Is Probed
PORT CHESTER, N. Y., June 26 (U. P.).—An investigation was ordered today into the death of Vincent L. Banker, 46-year-old New York banker who died yesterday of a brain hemorrhage which the county medical said probably resulted from a fist fight at an exclusive Westchester club June 5. The fight, between Mr. Banker, a vice president of the trust department of the Chase Nationgl bank of New York, and Henry J. MacTavish, 45, another Chase vice president, occufred at a dinner of Chase National bank officers at the Shenorock Shore club in Rye, N. ¥. MacTavish told police he struck Banker in self defense when . the latter charged at him. “He had offended me through the evening, but I don’t know what the differences were. It was a regrettable accident,” MacTavish said. Police said the fight took place in the lounge room of the club, next to the bar.
Bust of Truman Planned in Senate
WASHINGTON, June 26 (U. P.). —The senate rules committee approved a resolution to spend $2600 for a bust of President Truman to be placed in the senate wing of the capitol. , Mr. Truman once served in “the senate. When he was vice president, he was presiding officer of the senate.
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HOUSEHOLD MUST—One of the first auichases Mr. and Mrs: Clafence E Teipen st. made before their marriage yesterday was a Bible. Here John Krieg, member of the fim Wn. F.
Krieg & Sons, shows them a collection of Bibles.
the shortage of paper prevalent then, During the war we had to take whatever we could get in the way of Bibles from any publisher at any prige. y 2 » » “THERE MAY be"a slight difference in the sale of Bibles now as compared to the war years. But there always is a steady sale of Bibles and religious books. Even in the tough 1920's, such books were published and sold.”
Admits Cutting Tongue of Boy, 7
FALCONER, N. Y. June 26 (U. P.)~—Mrs. Agnes Smith of nearby Ross Mills admitted today cutting the tongue of a T-year-old boarder with a knife in order to force him to “tell the truth,” policé said. The 47-year-old woman, who pleaded guilty to a third degree assault charge, confessed grasping the tongue of Richard Griffin with a pair of pliers and cutting a halfinch tear in the lining beneath his tongue. Mrs. Smith's son was accused: of the theft .of some pencils taken from the Ross Mills school yesterday. The Griffin boy said Mrs. Smith then forced him to admit the theft.
San Francisco-Chicago '|Speed Record Set
CHICAGO, June 26 (U. P.).—A United. Airlines DC-6 passenger plane set a new San Francisco unofficial commercial airline speed record last night. It flew the route in five hours, 55% minutes. This was seven and a half-minutes less than the old record, an airline official said. The plane was piloted by Oapt. E B. Gray and co-piloted by Richard Kinman, both of San Francisco.
PRINCESS WEDDING DELAYED TOKYO, June 26 (U. P.)~Emperor Hirohito’s niece, the Princess Asako, has postponed her marriage to Prince Narichika Shimazu because she can not find a house to live in, Kyodo news service said today.
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Block’s book department feels handicapped because it still cannot get the Bibles it wants, especially the white ones, “Bible selling is & basic business,” the department head seid. “It hasn't been touched over a period of years, hasn't fallen below a basic norm.”
. Krieg & Sons Catholic Supply house offered this slant on the business which differs from that presented by Ayres and Block's: “More young people are establish.
Truman Pledges Backing to UN
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., June 28
sured the United Nations today— on its second anniversary—that the United States will back the United Nations charter to the utmost despite “temporary setbacks and delays.” Joining chiefs of state of Britain, France and China in a worldwide United Nations charter day broadcast, Mr. Truman said the American people would not be discouraged by slow progress in the United Nations. The President urged the world not to be surprised or disillusioned that major issues between the great powers still are unsolved after two
He said the United States realized that the attainment of peace is not Bey and represents “a continuing
Stalin Not Present Soviet Premier Josef Stalin did not participate in the transcribed charter day broadcast. But in the name of Russia Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko expressed hope that the United Nations “will find itself sufficiently strong to overcome defects . . .” and grow into a real guarantee of peace. Secretary-general Trygve Lie, of Norway who has headed the United Nations since its early days, called on all peoples to “raise your spirits and believe in the ability of the United Nations.” British Prime Minister Clement Attlee said the United Nations had laid “a good foundation” for its job in the first two years. ‘Premier Paul Ramadier of France, terming the day a “national holiday of the world,” said the United Nations charter had taught the world that all peoples can be a single people, oki
Detroit Teamster Boss Acquitted
DETROIT, June 26 (U, P.).—Recorder’s Judge Joseph A. Gillis today found A. F. of L. teamsters boss James Hoffa not guilty of extortion conspiracy ‘in connection with the union’s drive last year to organize independent grocers in Detroit. Hoffa was freed of the specific charge of threatening to run grocer Martin Bonkovich out of business unless he joined the unjpn. The teamsters official also faces action on a general extortion conspiracy indictment returned by the Wayne county grand jury after an investigation of the union's organizing attempt. ' Judge Gillis, sitting as judge and
leged threat against Mr. Bonkovich constituted no crime-in itself.
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ing homes now than during the war and each couple wants a Bible among its first things. Therefore we are selling more Roman Catholic editions of the Bible than we did.” |
» EJ # STEWART'S INC, sees no differ- | ence between their peacetime’ and’ : wartime sale of Bibles except that the military testaments no longer are in demand, In addition to the six mentioned,
In Doyle Fig Fight Probe
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By JACK CUDDY, United Press Staff ing coroner, continued his have the investigation squelched.
The commission completed its private investigation yesterday a few hours after 22-year-old Doyle died in St. Vincent's hospital. He suffered brain injuries when he was stopped in the 8th round Tuesday night by Ray (Sugar) Robinson, world welterweight champion, Second -Mortem
As funeral arrangements awaited the arrival of the dead challenger’s brother, Eddie, from their home in Los Angeles, Coroner Gerber held a second post-mortem over Doyle's body. It was a more detailed autopsy than the preliminary one completed last night. ! The smallish, gray-haired, -bespectacled coroner questioned more men today who had been associated with the bout. Last night he subjected Robinson and three of his entourage to a searing quiz at coroner’s headquarters in the county morgue. The trio who followed Robinson to the carpet were Manager George
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heatedly: “1 shall make a thorough investigation of Doyle's tragic death in spite of the unholy pressure that has been brought to bear up on me in an attempt to divert this investi gation from its purpose. “1 wish to inform those unknown} . persons that no pressure whatso=} ever will interfere with this investi~ | gation.” While questioning Robinson and his three followers, Mr. Gerber tried to hammer out of them the admis-
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