Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1947 — Page 15

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Y 8, 1947 : ig John L.'s Eyebi a onn S e rows. he fastest area Inc the _ ee o. v the sectioh WASHINGTON, Yay 8.~John L. Lewis i his | alicia, ; {fingernails clipped and polished regularly (81), but g from petio "his eyebrows never. s is the prio- Furthermore, according to the proprietors of his = two favorite barbershops, he likes his fingernails a buffed to a nice sheen. But no liquid polish. M———————— Usually he tips the manicurist from two bits to

slightly more (with some casual talk when spoken to) for a $1 haircut and $1 shampoo. Both barbers laugh off reports that the eyebrows of the United Mine Workers boss are thinning out. They agree the famous brows may be a little grayer, but no less bushy. But long ago they learned to skip the eyebrows with both words and scissors. Alphonso +Peluso, manager of the Investment Building barber shop, said he learned to by-pass the brows at least five years ago, when Mr. Lewis waved

table | aside his first trimming suggestion. 0 ‘As Stubborn as His Eyebrows’ Plus “HE'S AS STUBBORN as his eyebrows,” Mr. PelyBat s0, a smooth-browed man, said. “And his beard is jist — as tough as he is.” EY Both Mr. Peluso and Carmine Oddone, manager AD} of the Carlton hotel barbershop, said Mr, Lewis was 0 ‘an easy and good-tipping customer, who dropped in 95 J without an appointment, about every 10 days, waited his turn without complaint and talked little. Their employees told the same story. Nance ons —e— les, Bie ; 151 = k Caesar " Opeax: S

lights were searing the small, black eyes of James Caesar Petrillo you'd have thought he was undergoing the third degree. : And so he was. The house labor sub-committee used everything on him but a rubber hose. It wouldn't even let him cuss, “Ill be da——" began “the exasperated Little Caesar of the union ‘musicians. “Ah, ah, Mr. Pefrillo,” cautioned Rep. Carroll D. Kearns (R. Pa), the chairman, “Remember, you're on the air.” The sweating tuss of the horn-‘ootlers blinked through his eye-glasses at the maze of microphones in front of him and promised io watch his language. His threats to end the manufacture ot phonograph records on New Year's day (unless he decides to go into the recording business, himself) and to stop all radio network broadcasting of music a month later you have seen on another page of this paper. How he made these threats, I think, is an interesting story, too. The portly little specialist in sounding the sour note sat down in the beam of the three . spotlights, planted his two-tone shoes on the carpet vaud tesMfied that hie was boss of every professional musician in the United States and Cahada: When he says “frog.” they jump. So do the recording companies, the radio networks, the movies, the frequency modulation broadcasters and the television people.

Juke Boxes Under Caskets

THE SAWED-OFF Caesar said the curse of the professional musician is the-phonograph record. Juke ——hoxes-are- bad~ensugh--in saloons -and--in-hotels. Lo. provide the music for weddings, he said. “But now they bury people to juke boxes,” he cried. “Oh, now, Mr. Petrillo,” protested Rep. Kearns, who used to be an orchestra leader and who still holds a union card. “Yes, sir,” insisted Little Caesar, smashing ‘his

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a half dollar (with little conversation) and the barber +

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They said he sometimes, in ply to WA Question. commented on news of the day, including labor issues. “I'm not going ta tell you what he said, but he didn’t expect that court case to turn out the way it did," Mr. Peluso said. Mr. Peluso referred to the| famous federal court decision that Mr, Lewis coms | mitted contempt of court by his failure to order his miners back to work last winter.

‘As a Customer—Very Nice Person’ MR. ODDONE commented on Lewis’ humor, He recalled an incident when he went to a Washington hospital where Mr, Lewis was recovering from &n appendectomy last year. “A nurse, who was pulling on his socks, told him he had cold feet,” Mr. Oddone said. “He told her he had ‘a national reputation for cold feet'” Mrs. Cecile Vierregger, manicurist in Mr. Peluso's shop, said Mr, Lewis had the hands of “a man who has worked hard in his life.” Later she handed this reporter her comments, pencilled in longhand. »Asks for his nails very short and NO polish,” the frequently under-scored note read, “NOTHING flashy about him. Is very nice to the people who work on him. “Does not talk much—impresses you as a man x who doesn't waste words unless he has SOMETHING to say. Has strong capable hands. Looks as if he were equally as capable of working with his men as for their interests. * “As a customer he is A very nice person.

I wigh I had more like him.”

By Frederick C. Othman

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they got the juke box." He has about decided, he said, to allow the manu- | facture of no more phonograph records. The congress-| men mentioned complaints from radio stations, most- | ly about his union insisting on them hiring musicians they don’t need. “By G-" replied Mr, Petrillo, checking himself with another glance at the microphones, “you feliows | | brought up this subject. The radio don't like our

contracts. It makes complaints. So we're contem- visited Mr. Mack's modest farm plating to allow no station to hire musicians and | home to support him and his famfeed. any other station.” ily. “You mean to eliminate all chain broancasting of . I music?” demanded Rep: Kearns. BUT ABOUT the dream that “ie caused it all: ‘Let 'Em Be Satisfied’ ) “I had this vision in 1923,” said Mr, Mack, a quiet little man. “I

“YES,” SNAPPED Caesar. now. So let 'em be satisfied: . He protested about the spotlights for the news reels making him ‘more cockeyed (his word) than normal. His inquisitors were not sympathetic. The lamps stayed on while the boss” musician thought a moment about the radio broadcasters. “Yes, we'll satisfy ‘em,” he added. “If they want music, let ‘em hire musiciané to play jt and no more “IP ieyt Whi tor hear 3 Pes canini down in Chattanooga, say, let ‘em hire "MT. Toscanini to go down there and play.” And, furthermore, said Mr. Petrillo, glaring toward the congressmen he could not see through the lights, let no frequency modulation station think it is going to broadcast regular Musicap programs. “This frequency what-you-call-it is a different he said. “And _it has got to ‘hire special

“They're unsatisfied

musicians.” He won't “allow Hollywood to sell musical films to television, he said, nor will he let the radio folks pipe in music from Europe. Day long the congressmen kept battering at him; one of them called him a monopoly in restraint of trade. “What's that?” Caesar asked.

Filmville Imitators

HOLLYWOQD, July 8.—One of the great mysteries of“Hollywood is that the whole town runs in cycles. In everything from movies to diets to automcbilés to ‘places to live to eating. Anywhere else you. call it keeping up with the Joneses. “When one” wii finds a certain type of actor or

for the same type. M-G-M made a star out-of Van Johnson. He was an overgrown kid with a freckled face and gals wanted to mother him. So everyone started looking for Van Johnson types. It was the thing to do. Then Warner Bros. discovered Lauren Bacall. She talked way down there. That started ‘the “talk-down-in-your-toes derby.” Deep-voiced gals from near and far were sought out, tested and offered to the public. About the only one besides Bogart's Baby to register at the box office was Lizabeth Scott. She went Bacall one better and talked through the soles of her feet.

Pictures Come in Cyles THE STUDIOS follow each other in the movies {hey miake. “Lost ~Week=End"” started -a cycle of drunk pictures. Warner Bros, will fim “The Story “of Eddie Cantor” following sticcess ‘of “The Jolson “Story.” . It's been a tong time ‘sirice the Rin Tin Tin pe-. tures, but Lassie started a new dog cycle. And after Lassie had proved herself at the box office a couple of timws, others followed suit.i “Bob, Son of Battle,” is one of the followers. “The Outlaw" was followed by “Duel in the Sun.” “Spellbound” was the leader for a band of pictures based on psychiatry.

‘Retrece acceptable atwthe. bok “office, they.all look aol.

‘ of importance has to have a station wagon.

By Erskine Johinsén: |

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ollywood stars follow |

‘In their daily lives the Hi the same pattern. Someone wanted to get away from | it all a few years back, so he bought a stretch of beach | and built a house at Malibu. The rest followed, and Malibu became a colony, not a hideout. San Fernando, Valley was once a quiet little col-|

lection ‘of ranches. A picture personality. bought one} those. little ranthes. and. huilt a Lome. Today San Fernando Valley: is packed so tightly the chickens out there have to lay narrow eggs. Beverly Hills, Brentwood and Bel Air have each in turn become “the” place to live. Movie locations give another example. Mexico might just as well have been a forgotten Atlantis

August Mack yearned so hard for a stroke of fortune that would take him away from working for a wage that he had a vision. It came to him in a dream one night.

he puzzled over it, seeking the key he knew was there to a life of ease. Through the depression of the early 30's the 68-year-old ex-stone artisan clung stubbornly to his dream. *

stone industry, and like many another proud man, Mr. Mack had to “go on relief.” His dream became {his only ppe | in He

= | Bible, the inspiration came to him. WASHINGTON, July B8.—The way the movie chubby hands on the table. “Right under the gre

j1039 enough curious visitors have

was a stone mason and the work was pretty hard. T had a large tamily. And I wondered if this was all that life was—hard work and then to be cast out when you get old.

easier.

looked like I was only 16 when I had rin away from home in Wis-| consin, ‘My father had wanted me to be a farmer but I wanted to be an artist. I felt ashamed.

the river and tried again. A ‘arge

*Isnake came before me. you across,’ it said; but I wouldn't

| stone artisan. were good

SECOND" SECTION

Serpent Brought Independence To Hoosier Dreamer Of Dreams

Lawrence Display Only One of Kind

By EARL HOFF es Staff W

BEDFORD, Ind., “Tuly 8.—

For years after he had his dream |

Those were black days for the

THEN one day, "while reading the

It took him four years’ painstaki ing labor to fashion his dream into one of the mechanical marvels of southern Indiana—a 21-foot artificial snake that wriggles, opens|

and shuts its mouth, moves its | tongue, hisses and shakes its rattles,

Since the serpent was finished in

“I called on God to make my life

“In a vision I came to a large

river. “The wayes were pitching highl Fand lowe It Wag very gruesome. All| x at once there were two cherubs standing there. said ‘you cannot cross. You have disobeyed the law at times.’

The one to the left

» ” o “I COULD see myself and it

“But 1 was determined to zross ‘I will carry

trust the serpent because inthe

. Bible it is pictured as being deceiv- - | ing.

“When the snake went away 1} {tried to cross again. The land across the river seemed like a paradise. “Then the cherub on the right said: ‘The river is 16 feet deep and leach foot means one year. You must wait 16 years before you can cross that. » ~

MR. MACK often adm his

| prophetic dream; “out he couldn't! puzzle it out. His wages-ds-a skilled} and the}

his wife,

{family of August, and

{seven children lived well enough.

But then came the depression of

| the early 30's that wiped out the

until John Ford, the director, went down there to|stone industry and threw many

make a picture. on location in

Parade to Sunset Strip

HOLLYWOOD'S night clubs and cafes once were centered close to Hollywood and Vine. Then one of them opened on the Sunset strip a few miles westward. Now all the plush bistros are located on the Sunset strip. Clark. Gable went on a new tritk diet. Half -the town is now on Gable’s diet. “The Clark Gable diet” f§~"éven printed on the menus in” (he Paramount] studio -¢afe. Somebody bought a station wogan. Now everybody |

Mexico.

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Somebody bought cne of those gold cigaret lighters. Now everybody of importance has to have a gold cigaret lighter. Yuma once was the smart spot for Hollywood's divorces. Somebody went to Las Vegas. Now everybody goes to Las Vegas,

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Now there are eight companies/men as proud as this dreamer on

Lawrence county relief. Mr. Mack said one day he opened his Bible and read: “And God said unto Moses, make thee a brazen serpent and all that Jook upon it shall live.” At once he saw what his dream meant. In spare time he set to work to fashion the serpent. Over 326 d - carved wooden Tibs,” he stretched cloth-and. fastened on this more than 4000 metal scales. The {reptile is painted realistically to represent a tianrng back rattler, . M ON JULY L 1939, Mr, ished his masterpiece. “And do you know,” fawe, day after I had the vision.”

Mack fin-

he said with

Before prices got inflated, August

charged 10 cents for visitors to see

wpe rt 5 * Saucer Liar By Harmon W. Nichols y busy ackages EE a —— a of room CHICAGO, July 8.—Farmer Harve Spidel who lives the pole. Ie hig near Knob Creek, Ark. in Izard county, was riding looking fish I ever saw. has the corti rows the other day when all of a sudden— “It was shaped like one of them saucers we have corated je Cull JOws . y . been reading about. Perfectly round with a shell}

“I looked up and here came a flock of saucers, right at me. The mules rared up and cut across the field, knocking me off the plow.

there were them saucers. Made out of plastic, looked like. They were all stacked up, like saucers. I took ‘em in to the little woman. We were a little shy on tableware anyhow.”

It Must Be True, The Liar Said .

IT MUST be true because the story came straight from O. C. Hulett, head man of the Burlington, Wis., Liars club. He rang up the United Press today to say that everybody's trying to get into the whirling disc act. He said he had a letter from a guy named Ranson of near Mystic, Ia. O..C. said the guy wrote: “My kid and I were fishing in the creek on our ‘lice when the boy got a big bite. I could see it was meth real big and the two of us grated

\GE IT”

We, the Women

———————— HOW AND where husband and wife spend their vacation is a’ y good indication of which one is boss in the family. : If they spend their whole vacation visiting HER relatives—it's a cinch she ‘dreamed w the trip and pushed it through. 3 If they decide to rough l~which 1 means guing olf to the wilds where he can fish and hunt—and "Also cook meals, wash dishes and fight mosquitoes — ts a prefty safe guess it was his. idea. .

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“Well, sir, after I come to I looked around. Ane

We scooped the meat out and fed it to!

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like a-turtle. the hogs. Mom made a. sunbonnet out of the shell,

How to Solve Housing Problem HULLETT said another letter came from a ma named Oglethorp of Red House, Neb. The flying discs have solved his housing problem.

“I have been worrying about building a shack for |

my hired men,” Mr, H. said Mr, O. wrote. “Lumber is still high and still a little hard to get. “The other morning I and the men went out to milk the cows and found the barnyard knee deep in flat circular plates. Must have been them saucer things the radio talks about. These were big ones, too, about, three feet high. “Well, in no time at all, we had built us a bunk house, stacking one saucer on top of the other. The|

discs were perforated on the underside, so the men have an aircooled house now. “Better'n the one me and the old lady live in.” That's what the man said.

by | Ruth Millett

i met, you can be quite sure the little woman in that

family made the decision,

And, of course, if he spends his two weeks vacation been around the world with it. And on a hunting trip with his pals, magnanimously let~ 1 haven't a penny to show for it.|business manager, sald Dr.John W. lican state chairman, and W. E.|pleted the job of sending refund

ting her take the kids to her mother's for a visit while he is away, he's really running things,

Let's Not Talk Much

BUT IF she comes back talking about old school iene of hes SHY Iosked UB, the they ate in,

‘the trip. our

So : "vacations, after all

tearooms Prk **| The has passed aud sent} ? senate aud sent ha lution providing

his reptile. The price now is 20 cents plus four cents tax. A large hand-painted sign beckons visitors in from Highway 37 | just six miles north of Bedford.

After half an hour, we larided the queerest The monster is in a cage in Mr.

Mack's small wooden = workshop.

| Scattered about the room are evi-|

dence that while his vision made

him independent he hasn't quit]

working.

{ On the wall are pictures he has|

{dyawn. On exhibit are soapstone

n carvings he has created of the late

{John Dillinger, Hoosier desperado, | Charles and Anne Lindbergh, Will Rogers, Shirley Temple, and Henry Ford. And there is a framed patent | certificate lors the serpent. . NOT LONG AGO he carved a huge Santa Claus and 14 Mother | Goose characters for a park in the famous town of Santa Claus, Ind, | He thinks that work may have| been too strenuous for him because! {he's been hospitalized in St. Vin-| |cent’s hospital in Indianapolis for,

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, [four weeks. But He hopes to be out

soon fo come back to supervise the display of his serpent. Once or twice he has exhibited his!

= | creation away from home, put he’s

turned down one offer from Holly-| wood to take it across the soungry {to the film capital. Mr. Mack remembers the comment of ohe of his visitors, “I've had my own circus and have

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You've got something wonderful here, Let the people come to t."

Mr. Mack thinks the man was hospital,

right.

VOTE WORLD HEALTH AID WASHINGTON, June 8 (U.P)

“That was just 16 years to the |

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Expect Passage WASHINGTON, July 8 (U. PP) Both Republican and Democratie ' senators predicted today the senate would join the house in approving a bill to permit G. I. veterans to cash terminal leave pay bonds afte er Sept. 1. Republican Whip Kenneth 8, Wherry said he belived the G.O/™ jeadership would put the on the senate agenda next and that passage would follow promptly. Senators Raymond E Baldwin (R. Conn.) and Edwin C. Johnson (D. Colo.) were confident that the {senate would approve it. ~ Both are members. of the.senath services committee to whichthe legislation was referred. A sub committee headed by Senator Balde win scheduled a hearing for toe morrow. The house passed the measure yesterday 386 to 0. In . addition. to permitting vete erans to cash bonds after Sept. 1, the bill would extend to that date the deadline for applying for tere minal leave pay. Under the house-approved bill, veterans: could either hold the bonds, which bear two and one-half per cent interest, or take the cash with interest accrued since pase sage of the original law last Jeans

Bandits, Thieves Net $300 Here

Two holdup men, s burglar and a pickpocket wetted $300 in the city last night. William Corbett, 18, of 2335 Cense tral ave, said two men poked a gun in his back as he was walking near St. Clair and Delaware sts. and took his wallet containing $50. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Battista, +2419 Central ave, were awakened early today by a burglar who had | entered. their home through a pane try window. They caught a glimpse of him as he fled through the same

INVITATION—This is the sign on State Road 37 north of Bedford which invites curious visitors to the Mack farm in Lawrence county. '

ARTISTIC OUTLET—Mrs Anna ‘Marie Young, one of Mr. Mack's davahers admires a soapstone carving of John Dillinger, Indiana desperado, carved by her father.

Butler Graduates Take School Jobs

Thirty-five Butler university | graduates have been appointed to teaching positions for the 1047-48

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school year, it was announced | today, y | window, carrying $200 he had taken ®Graduates receiving appoint- | FON Mr. Battista’s clothing.

ments and the school in Which | Allison. C. Stewart, 310 N. Arling. they will teach are: ton ave, said he was walking Thomas Besll, Starr Commonwesiih, Al | through the Union station when he bion, Michigan; Miss Dorotha Beck. Plym- | was pushed by a man. Later he

outh; Victor Cegoy, M Jo Ellen Everson, Miss) Teresa O'Hars 14% ise Betly “Jane | discovered his wallet containing $50 was missing.

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