Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 June 1947 — Page 13

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American scene, And if you don't believe it, take a thie Tous through the Monon railroad yards, 1103 st.

If looking around doesn't convince you the steam ?

locomotive will soon be led out to pasture just as the American buffalo was, ask some of the oldtimers you see in the roundhouse, coal dock-and machine shops. i

Three words will crop up in a chinfest: Diesel,”

Speed and economy, + “I guess that's progress though,” sald Howard A. ‘Strang, mechanic, who has been tinkering with steam locomotives for the ldst 45 years, “Progress, and we have to go along with it.” * Mr. Strang compared himself to a farmer who Jhas been working with a team of horses and a plow all of his life. Then overnight, power equipment makes its appearance.

Hunted for Every Part

“THE FARMER Is lost for a while. That's just what happened here when the diesels came in. When I read my first maintenance sheets I had to hunt for every part to be looked after,” explained Mr. Strang. Walter L. Harrison, electrician and a member of the steam locomotive fraternity for 42 years, said, “Look at the roundhouse. Why, I remember the time (when every one of the 12 pits were busy and there were four and five engines waiting to get in.” We walked around the quiet roundhouse. The service pits were empty. The blacksmith’s shop was deserted and the forge was cold. Sledge hammers were propped against closed tool boxes. » Mr. Harrison pointed out a “white contraption.” “That's the diesel ramp where we service those engines,” he said. Mr, Strang explained that 90 per cent of the work on a diesel engine was done above the wheels while 70 per cent of steam locomotive work was done under the wheels and in the pits. “We work on the second. floor these days except when our last two steam locomotives come in for repairs. And they probably won't be here very long,” said Mr. Strang. In the roundhouse office, sitting opposite one another, is the “old and the new.” Charles Slipher is the diesel foreman. Car] A. Frediking is the steam locomotive foreman. Mr. Slipher, a former navy man, started’in the railroading game in 1937. He was sent here from Lafayette when the Monon line began to reconvert to diesel power. : Mr. Frediking began his railroading career in 1899. He remembers the “good old“ days” of railroading and jokingly let go with a few well chosen words. They hit their mark and the boss of the “new era” smiled broadly. Mr. Slipher reminded the steam boss that he had served his apprenticeship with steam engines and that his father and grandfather were railroaders. “Okay, okay,” Mr. Frediking said and took a dusty picture off the roundhouse office wall. “Here's a picture of Tailroaders who were really railroaders,” Mr. Frediking said and pointed out Mr.

WAVES

WASHINGTON, June 30.—Joy-riding blonds, dirty ducks and both kinds of permanent waves (I mean

with and without feet) are being investigated by our’

government. So's bubble-gum, Hollywood, and the price of potatoes. The boys are scouring the drag-nets with their fine-tooth combs. They're even investigating each other. Gets complicated, too, when one federal Hawkshaw shadows another governmental gumshoe on the trail of somebody else. Take those blonds, who may or may not be imaginary. Seems the investigators of the war assets administration must fly around the country in government airplanes investigating skullduggeries. Some of them have been charged with taking along their favorite cuties to help pass the long. dull hours aloft. The investigators of Rep. Ross Rigley, Oklahoma, chairman of the surplus property subcommittee, are surveying the situation. The dirty ducks are different. These careless birds swim in any old water up north, then fly down to the Jersey sea shore and waddle across the sand, polluting same. This sickens the clams, which can’t fight back. Congress is investigating. Another committee is pondering the case of the frightened mink, plural. The army’s daredevil pilots have been buzzing the fur farms of Minnesota, scaring the inmates. This causes them to fight, ruining their pelts. It has got to stop.

Clean Bill of Health

BUBBLE-GUM, I am happy to report, has been given what we probers call a clean bill of health. The food and drug administration had its stenographers spend a week chewing same in the interests of science. Nothing happened to them, except tired jaws. The house agriculture committee is in the midst of frying an assortment of potato experts for letting

~ Strang, Mr. Harrison and himself.

THEY WATCH A PASSING ERA—Four railroading oldtimers (left to right) Walter Harrison, Otis Hedderich, Clifford Gray and Joe Gwinn pose with mascot ' Bo," who isn't worry. ing about "things fo come."

“Everyone looks a little different,” I said. Mr, Prediking laughed. “We should. This picture was taken in 1920. Everything has changed. And a year from now this roundhouse will prébably be gone.” At the coal dock there were three more oldtimers who hated to see the steam locomotive go. “I guess the best way to explain it is that steam is In our blood,” said Clifford Gray, pipefitter, who has seen a lot of railroadifig during his 42 years of service. “But the country is progressing. Diesels are replacing steam locomotives and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if something.else would replace. diesel in the future,” Mr. Gray said. Coal dock engineer, Otis Hedderich, thought jet propulsion was the stuff that would replace diesel power, Mr. Hedderich has been railroading 26 years.

Mascot Comes Bouncing In

JOE GWINN, pipefitter's helper, joined the coal dock roundtable and said, “diesels in the long run won't hold up like the old steam engine. They're good, don’t get me wrong, diesels are good, but they won't take it like the steam engine. I've seen steam locomotives in operation after 30 years of service.” Mr. Slipher, ardent believer in diesel power, took the floor and told about his diesel switch engine which runs 24 hours a day, every day of the month except when it stops for a monthly inspection. “That's diesel power,” he added. Just then “Bo,” the roundhouse mascot, came bouncing into the coal dock. Diesels and steam locomotives were forgotten for the moment. + Everyone had something to say to the faithful mongrel who came two years ago and just stayed. , “Bo leads the best life,” Mr. Gray said. “He's not worried about things to come, are you, Bo?” Bo pricked up his ears. No, he wasn't worried. Can anything replace a friendly dog?

By Frederick C. Othman

spuds rot by the thousands of tons. Another committee is oiling up for a search into the whys of west coast oil shipments to Rusgla. The senate’s investigating the Albanian oil deals, a subject so complicated few humans can understand all its ramifications. Poor Hollywood. The house un-American committee has ordered a number of its stars, writers and producers back here to see if they are Communists. The justice department still is inquiring into whether Hollywood i§ a trust to be busted, while the house district committee is Investigating charges that “feelthy” movies have been shown to innocent Washingtonians. s Other investigations involve sugar, the cost of meat, the threat of a depressibn, taxes (including the possibility of same on pockets in pants), the starlings on Pennsylvania ave, flood control and harbor projects all over, the Tucker auto factory at Chicago, and the chances of installing a movie machine in the senate caucus room without also removing the crytsal chandeliers.

Need 11,000 WAVES

\ THE HON. Katherine 8t.. George, Republican gentlewoman from Tuxedo Park, N. Y. has investigated congress, with pleasing results. “It is the fashion ta picture congress in the person of a rather sto®t old hayseed unshaven and gray, with the expression on his face of an old sheep-dog being led to the slaughter,” the Hon. Mrs. St. G., said. Her inquiry proved this to be a canard; her fellow lawmakers are keen-eyed, alert young men. And that brings us to the WAVES. The pavy said it needs 11,000 permanent WAVES, the kind that wear blue skirts and walk. Congress is investigating the other variety of permanent waves! It thinks maybe some of the advertisers of the all-time curl have gone too far,

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Fame Is So Fleeting

HOLLYWOOD, June 30.—Behind the screen: Fame is sop fleeting department—A Hollywood trade paper reporter, obviouslx a youngster, called the Selznick publicity department and asked if there were

any new castings for the movie, “Portrait of Jenny.” “Yes,” sald the p. a, “Ethel Barrymore.” “Oh,” said the reporter, “and how do you spell that name? . .. And that reminds me of the time Ethel visited the set of “The Paradine Case.” “Hi, Ethel,” said an electrician. Ethel raised a bushy eyebrow .and said, “Why be so formal. Why don’t you just say, Hi, kid'?” Ed (Archie) Gardner has made no bones of the fact that he didng like the first film version of “Duffy's Tavern.” Talking to Boris Karloff, the screen’s horror expert, Gardner said: “I made a horror picture once, too—but not intentionally.” Jolly Nellie Lane is a carnival fat lady playing a role in the movie “Nightmare Alley.” And just like everyone else in Hollywood, Jolly Nellie is worried | about her weight. She weighs 450 pounds. But she’s telling Hollywood scribes: “Please say I weigh 600 pounds. I lost 150 pounds recently and I'm afraid my friends would worry about me wasting away to nothing.”

Song Hits by Phone

SEVERAL YEARS ago Frank Loesser wrote a song and thought it would be ideal for Kay Kyser's orchestra. Loesser was in California and Kay was playing a theater in Detroit. Frank decided he’d be dramatic and called Kay on the telephone and sang it to him. Three days later Kyser recorded “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition” and it became the nation's No. 1 war song. Prank wrote another tune.

By Erskine Johnson

Again he thought of Kyser. This time Kay was in New York, Loesser phoned again and sang the song. Two weeks later “Jingle, Jangle, Jingle,” was on wax | and another Loesser-Kyser combo became a big hit. Last week Loesser completed another tune. But this time Kay was in Beverly Hills, where Loesser also lives. However, not to break his luck, Frank called Kay and sang the song to him over the phone. Now “What Are” You Doing New Year's Eve” is a new Kyser hit with Harry Babbitt singing the lyrics.

Living His Role WHILE IN New York recently Brian Donlevy dined with a friend named Arch Lawrence, who will soon be seen as Gen. Grant in a new Broadway show. Lawrence is so intent on the role that he’s actually behaving as if he were Grant, even after rehearsals. During dinner with Donlevy, he spoke like Grant and tried to act like the general would have acted. - After .dinner, they entered a cab and the driver said, “Where to?” Donlevy spoke up: “Grant's tomb.” For years it's been a joke around Hollywood that Charles Foy always keeps Joe Frisco eating, no mat-

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SECOND SECTION

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Scrapbooks Rich in Riley, Tarkington Lore

First of a Series

By EDWIN C. HEINKE Times City Editor

BLACK physician's satchel rests in a corner of Room 1135 on the 11th floor of the State Life Insurance Co. building, 15 E. Washington st.

The black bag is empty. The lock doesn’t work. Tattered and worn, the leather 1s cracked open at the seams. It is a symbol of one of the last links between. present-day Indianapolis and Indiana's golden age of literature at the turn of the century. Nn Its owner says he will never use the little black bag again. Its llustrious days of traveling into homes of the great literary figures ot Hoosierdom are over. » td n THE GHOSTS sigh as they hover over: horsehair sofas in the Lockerbie st. home of James Whitcomb Riley, and at Greenfield where, he was born and in Crown Hill where he is buried. And they sigh among the shadows cast by the shuttered, rustic house at Brook, Ind. where George Ade—with just the trace of a smile on his lips—closed his eyes and went to join his pal, the immortal Jim. And at 4270 N, Meridian st. where Booth Tarkington cl | his tired, almost blinded eyes Sand slipped away to join the reniflezvous. And Meredith Nicholsen<“Things are _ getting a little shady,” gently, said frail, still humorous Mr. Niéhélson as we talked in his room at his N. New Jersey st. home. There in silent retrospect” “he” recalls the happy years of long ago with Jim and Tark and Ade. . » - » ONLY A FEW of those whose lives were interwoven with these literary greats remain. Foremost among these living links of the past is a dignified, oldfashioned family doctor. He is the one who perhaps knew them best. He slept in guest rooms as they lay sick nearby, available at the slightest call of distress. He was high in their family councils, So these are the memoirs of the man who “doctored” Indiana's literary men. His name is Dr. Carleton Buel McCulloch. . To The Times, Dr. McCulloch graciously, turned over his vol uminous collection of letters, papers, anecdotes and other material on Indiana's golden age of literature. » » » IT WAS JUNE of 1897 when Dr. McCulloch came to Indianapolis, his black satchel. He hung out his shingle with

Dr. O. 8S. Runnels, who had taken care of Dr. McCulloch's famous

father, the Rev. Oscar C. McCul-

loch, pastor of the Plymouth Congregational church: Dr, McCulloch's

mother was Agnes Buel McCulloch. Here he stayed for several years, then opened up his own office on the northeast corner of Pennsylvania and Vermont sts. He came to Indianapolis from

| Chicago, where he served as in-

terne in Cook” County hospital. Born in Sheboygan, Wis, on June 30, 1871, he attended Rose Polytechnic at Terre Haute before

graduating from medicine in Chi-

cago in 1895. gy n t J " THUS BEGAN a career in which his life would be intertwined with those of Riley, Ade, Tarkington and Nicholson and scores of others of the “cultured age.” His bag is tossed beneath the table where it has reposed since 1924 when he ended his general practice of medicine. He was medical director for State Life for years. Now he is vice president. Today he is celebrating his 76th birthday. His office in the, State Life building and his rooms at the SpinkArms. are rich in early Hoosier lore. Scrapbooks are crammed with hundreds of letters, his correspondence yith these men of yesteryear. In 1920, Hugh Walpole after a visit to the United States, called him “the most interesting man in

ter how much Prisco loses betting on the horses. Other night Frisco, who just opened at the Black-| stone hotel in Chicago, telephoned Foy and stuttered | (as he always does): “This is Joe Fr-f--fr-fr-Prisco.| I just got fif-fif-fifteen hundred dollars for 'my first week. Do you ne-ne-ne-ne-need any mon-mon- -mon- | mon-ey?’ Dennis Day probably will not return to the Jack| Benny radio show in the fall. He has his chojce of | an all-musical program with Mark Warnow's orches- | tro or a comedy show similar to “A Day in the Life of Dennis Day.” -~

We, the Women

By Ruth Millett

SAID ONE WOMAN shopper to another woman shopper in a recent newspaper cartoon: “I'm so proud of myself. I shopped all day and didn't buy a lot of things I didn't need.” The American housewife can appreciate the truth as well as the humor of that.

Inner Glow of Pride

FOR. THE inner glow of pride she gets “from passing up purchases that aren't essentials, from turning thumbs down on an article because the price is way put of line, is helping to make the American woman a far more careful shopper today than in wartime. When things ‘were scarce she operated on the “I'd-better:buy-it-while-f-can” theory. Then she was proud of the litle supplies of this dnd that which

she was saving for a day of worse shortages—most of which never came. In those days Mama was proud of what she bought. If it was scarce enough, never mind what it cost.

Proud of Purchases

NOW SHE COMES home from shopping proud of all the things she was able to resist. She is pleased with herself for having furned down a T-bone steak with “Not at that price.” This to the same butcher, find you, who once could hand her a wrapped-up piece of unidentified meat and be sure she wouldn't haggle.

That's what consumer resistance means to the

America.” TOMORROW: Indianapolis when Dr. McCulloch came to town.

MONDAY, TONE 30, 1947 The Man Who ‘Doctored’ Indiana's Literary Great—No. 1

arleton B. McCulloch,

THE LITTLE BLACK

literary great in the early 1900's. When he first started to practice, the "litera

BAG—With this black physician's satchel, Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch treated ! Rr" doctor traveled ©

MEMORIES OF YESTERDAY — Dr. McCulloch pauses in reverence before the tomb of one of his earliest patients—James Whitcomb Riley.

AUTOGRAPHED PICTURES—Dr. McCulloch not only doctored” the literary

great, He also was their literary companion. Tarkington and Figaro (left), George Ade [center] and Mere

‘Legion Post 34 To Install Wolpert

Walter J. Wolpert, personnel director of the Indiana state board

of health, will be installed as commander of the Robert E. Kennington American Legion Post 34 % °° Wednesday night at the Plantation. Ralph B. Gregg, national judge advocate of the American Legion, will be installing officer. Other Post officers are Dorn T. Lines,

first vice com- omy : mander; John D. Mr. Wolpert

Brosnan, second vice: commander; John Turpin, adjutant; Robert E. Gavin, finance; William E, Fagan, service; David D. Sippy, chaplain; Miss Mary M. Berry, historian; R.

CIO to o Attack Section Dealing With Press = As Initial Assault on Taft-Hartley Law

Publications that operate on #a subscription basis, or that get voluntary contributions, would not be af-

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By, FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staff: Writer

, chairman of the senate labor com- [ mittee, said in senate debate this

WASHINGTON, June 30.— First| restriction could be applied to labor-

C. I. O. attack on the Taft-Hartley lad will be directed against its aleged restrictions on a “free press”

and “free speech” for labor unions. Philip Murray, C. I. O, president, said today there were many features

of the new law his organization in-

tended to take into the courts and

eventually to the supreme court.

The alleged ban on a “free press” results from- an interpretation of the law’s restrictions on political | activity, which apply to corporations | cooks, bakers, meat cutters, clinical]

{as well as to unions. Taft Gives View The ‘act makes illegal any “contribution or expenditure” in connection with primary or general elec-

average woman—coming home from a shopping trip P. Goldrick, sergeant-at-arms, and /tions for national offices. canism,

feeling. 90a about the things s the didn’t buy.

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Michael Dugan, Ameri

Senator Robert A. Taft (R. 0),

union publications engaging in political*campaigns — but only if they were supported by dues collected from union members.

VA Schedules Exams For Wide List of Jobs

Examinations for permanent positions with the veterans administration were announced today by the U. 8. civil service compmission. Positions * will include laborers,

laboratorian and assistants, photographers, pharmacists and positions for instructor, instructor supervisor, assistant - chief and chief in the physical rehabilitation department. Application may be obtained from C. P. Bernhart, 528 Federal big. ,

BUDDIES 'WAY BACK WHEN — This picture of Mr. Riley and another famed writer, Lew Wallace, is ‘one in Dr. McCulloch's collection.

In his collection of pictures are Booth

dith Nicholson.

Wife Mistaken For Burglar Slain

KANKAKEE, 111, June 30 w PY —Mrs. Helen Bjick, 25, was shot and

‘killed in her home yesterday by her husband, Gegrge, 45, a Kankakee -

policeman. He sald he had mistaken her for a burglar. Mr. Bjick, nearly’ hysterical after

ithe shooting, told police his wife

left their bedroom during the night to go to their children, Jerrold, 2, and Cherilyn, 4, in. an adjoining room. He sald he was awakened by & sudden storm early today and heard someone dt a window in the living room. He said he saw § figure silhouetted in the doorway which led to the children’s room, He fired once. The bullet penetrated his wife's head just before the right eye, kille ing her instantly.

PAINT SPRAYING TRICK WASHINGTON. — In applying paint with a spray gun the air pres. sure used must be watched; exe cessive pressure will cause the paing to fog.

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} [1 A fected, he said. He added that op- | ; erations of the C. I. O. Political Action committee, as presently financed by voluntary gifts, were not