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. NEW YORK, July 9—Three scientists said today that the hysteria stirred up over “flying saucers” could well mean that psy casualties In an atomic or rocket war would far outnumber _ deaths from atomic bomb One of these experts, Dr. Edward Strecker, director of the Philadelphia hospital for mental and nervous diseases, described many of the reports on
"the “saucers” as'a mental condition known as
“pathological receptiveness.” Dr. Strecker said that at the beginning of “the saucer episode, some persons “may have seen something, such as the glint of an airplane in fast flight." This probably led to'a misinterpretation of an illusion, he said, recalling that illusions are common. He said that the emotional state of many persons had been overactive since the first atomic bomb exploded. He said that he had examined patients who still believe they had been made impotent, or sterile, as a result of the bomb that wrecked Hiroshima.
Spots in Front of Eyes . ANOTHER expert on human behavior, who requested that his name not be used, said there are “certain types of group hysteria that is latent in all of us” He said it was common for some people to have spots “in front of their eyes.” He said the hysteria over the saucers might be an example, on a small scale, of what would happen
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Amateur Notes
WASHINGTON, July §. — There is an amateur piano player, name of Truman, Harry 8, and what's the musicians’ union to do about him? James Caesar Petrillo, the boss music-maker, sighed, but not musically. His troubles stretched from the presidential piano to congress to the silent bands of Chicago's high schools. His eyes misted as he described for the house labor committee his love for music, children, and his fellow nian. His burgeoning wings were making bulges beneath his linen jacket when he interrupted himself. “Don't get me wrong,” he said. “I am not an angel.” “Ihave not been inclined in that direction,” replied Rep. Graham A. Barden of North Carolina. “Huh?” asked the non-angelic one. “I said I did not believe you were an angel,” said the congressman.
How About Harry Truman? AND NOW that we have our characters straight, let us look into the problems presented by the psesidential pianist, the musical mayor of Mexico City and the tootless tootlers of Chicago. : Mr. Petrillo said by all that’s holy (his language was stronger) that the U, 8, army band could make no phonograph records unless the symphonic soldiers were members of his American Federation -of--Musi-cians. Rep. Richard M. Nixon of California, said yes, but the new labor law made “it illegal for a worker to strike against the government. “If they can’t strike, I can't use 'em,” the downpeat Caesar said. “And while we're talking about the government, what'll we do about President Truman? He plays the piano.” * Rep. Carroll D. Kearns of Pennsylvania, said he
* supposed that if Mr. Truman wanted to play a tune
on. the radio, the federal government would have to kick back a fee to Mr. Petrillo’s union for a stand-
That was too near the truth to sound funny to Rep. Nixon. Only a few weeks ago, he said, the mayor of Mexico City visited Pittsburgh. His honor made
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sooming over the countryside, “The psychological casualties among civilians would be tremendous,” he said. “You have a hard time getting anyone to do any work.”
Know Disastrous Results
THE JAPANESE, he recalled, did not react hysterically to the atomic bomb. But at that time, they didn't know what hit them. Americans, by now, know the disastrous results of atomic bombs, This same psychiatrist also said it may not be necesary to drop atomic bombs on large cities. The suburban areas might do just as well with the psychological results, making a nation unable tol. defend itself. He flatly said that most of the persons reported 3 seeing the saucers were “thinking in ‘their primitive|. state.” The third scientist, an internationally famous astronomer and who also helped on the atomic bomb, said: “The hysteria we see today over these reports would be mild compared to what would happen if bombs or other destructive’ weapons really started falling here.” x He and the other scientists said it was time for the nation to “calm down.”
By Frederick C. Othman
with a boogie-woogid rhumba on the radio and the management had to pay Petrillo & Co. for a union | js pianist to stand by. A fine, international good-will|§ gesture, Rep. Willis said. “Yes,” sald Mr. Petrillo. man in Mexican money?” The lawmakers called at this juncture a reluctant witness, one George Jennings, director of radio for gH the Chicago public school system. He said he'd pre-|} fer to say nothing, because he was sure he could work out something with Mr, Petrillo, The con-|: gressmen insisted. 3 So: Mr. Jenhings said the schoo] board had'built its- own frequency modulation broadcasting system |$ to carry educational programs into its own school rooms, but that he dared not allow the students to
“And did they pay our}
“You mean Mr, Petrillo doesn’t allow it?” de~ manded Rep. Barden. ) “Not unless we pay stand-by fees to union musiclans,” Mr. Jennings replied. He said, in fact, that no Chicago high school band is allowed to march in|# a parade or appear at any public function because of || the union, Rep. Barden rubbed his white-thatched head in amazement.
Petrillo Is Recalled “CHICAGO STILL is part of the United States?” ik he asked. Mr. Jennings said he was cértain it was. “And it doesn’t take a passport to get in there?” insisted the gentlemen from North Carolina, Mr. Jennings said he did not believe so. The committee recalled Mr. Petrillo. Did he know anything about the silenced bands of Chicago? Well, sir, said Mr. Petrillo, he lived in Chicago, all right. He was a park commissioner. -But-he was: president of the national union and the high school bands were a local problem. The matter never had
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“What?” cried Rep. Barden. “I give you my word,” Caesar said, placing together the tips of his fingers, as in prayer.
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By Erskine Johnson
HOLLYWOOD, July 9.—~The Magnificent Jerk a the Beautiful Hunk eof Man, who once pitched a tent opposite the Fox studio and lived in it for three days as a protest to his non-employment by film studios, wants to be known now. as, just plain Victor Mature, actor, ‘ “It was great publicity when I ‘needed it” Mr. Mature said. “I did jerk fhings on. purpose to attract attention. It worked. Now I want to forget it, - “You can go on acting in pictures as long as you've’ got money in the bank and don’t have to beg for parts. And I've got it, brother, the second nickel I ever earned. I'm probably the tightest actor in America.” Vic's studio wanted to put him back in more “ Jerky musicals” when he got out of the coast guard. “I was a song and dance man but I couldn't sing (Ben Gage dubbed his voice) and I couldn’t dance. So I turned 'em down and just sat and waited to see what would happen.” Sométhing did happen.
Look for Consumptive Gunman
DIRECTOR JOHN FORD was looking for an actor to play the consumptive gunman, Doc Halliday, in “My Darling Clementine.” No one seemed to Puls ‘Mr. Ford and finally an assistant said: “You'll probably wind up making a Somspkive out of Vic Mature.” “It's an idea,” said Mr. Ford. “Let's test him.” So théy ‘tested Vic for the .part and he got it.
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—— I ——— Then he played a titled Englishman in “Moss Rose” and ‘now he’s a convict in “Kiss of Death.” “These roles,” says Vic, “got me out of the jerk department, and I'm going to stay out of it from now on.” Giving-your-all-for-your- art dept.: William Tracy| had his head shaved just to test for the role of an! 18-year-old boy who is eleciroguted:- in the film “Rebel
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Ann Dvorak fo Wed Soon.
ANN DVORAK and the boy friend, dancer Igor Dega, were telling friends that they'll wed as soon! as her .divorce is final. i A lot of Hollywoodites are payirig repeat visits! to the Coronet theater for Jane Wyatt's performance in" “Skin of Our Teeth.” Frankie Carle, the orchestra leader who writes music on the side (“Sunrise Serenade”), has a new and surprising collaborator—George Bernard Shaw. Only Mr. Shaw doesn’t know it yet. “And when he finds out,” says Mr. Carle, “I don’t know what's going to happen.” Always looking for something new, Frankie found a short poem Mr, Shaw wrote in 1941 about .going to Ireland and not finding any} music in the glens nor purple in the bogs, and ending with, “My Irish daddy said it, but the .dear old humbug lied.”"" So Frankie set the words to music and will introduce the song to the bandstands and airways if Mr. Shaw gives permission. Agents in London are working on it now.
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Plenty of Corn
CHICAGO, July 9.—~The rage right now is to collect flying saucers. But Frank Whipple is old fashjoned. He collects corn—on the cob. And with corn at around $2.15 a bushel that would sound like pretty profitable €ollecting. Except the corn Mr. Whipple has is not for sale. His hobby started in 1935. A bunch of steel workers used to hang out in Mr. Whipple's combination barber shop, post office, and cigar store. One day they got to arguing gver whether metallurgists or agriculturists did the most experimenting. Mr. Whipple, a son of the soil said that naturally the farmer led in that department and he would prove it—with corn.
Personality of ‘Its Own
80 THAT night he wrote to the governtrs of the 48 states, asking. for samples. Pretty soon he was the owner of 48 ears of corn.- Each ear, each kernel for _that mmtter, had a personality of its own. To Barber Whipple that proved a point and the hangers-on in the shop agreed he had won the argument. :
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By Harman W. Nichols
“Well, it went on from there and today the collector has more than 1000 ears of corn; not a single duplication.
Preserved in Scrap Book HE’S GOT pod corn f old Mexico, field corn, sweet corn, red corn, yellow and white corn, milo maize, broom corn. An ear that grew up in Ilinois in 1865. Corn from Costa Rica, Venezuela, Bermuda, and Canada. A dozen or so ears from Iowa, where the corn grows tall i: Mr. Whipple has got a record of the whole business preserved in an elaborate scrap book. Even a memo from the late President Roosevelt, who wrote he'd be glad to send the barber a sample of kernels from the Hyde park estate. The President did. There is only one item missing in the Whipple collection. He understands Columbus brought along!
a' sack of corn from Spain when he discovered America,
Mr. Whipple would like an ear of that,
| We, the e Women
“HOW TO MAKE Your House a Home” is the title of a new book for young homemakers giving sound advice on how to buy and arrange furniture, choose .. color schemes, sew slip-covers, mix paint, etc. The book ought to come in handy to any young wife, but she shouldn't be misled by the title. Too
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Also, if it"is to be a real home to her husband it ought to ‘be a place where he can do as he pleases. Plenty of husbands get bossed around like little boys in the homes they are supporting. . . . “1 wish you wouldn’t put your feet on the davenport, Joe.”
Hoosier Writers us ui a's heme who tres ve cs HORE Car] Carmer
Husband Must Be Free to Entertain |: Times Sate Bervice BLOOMINGTON, Ind, July 9. Only in the past 25 years have Americans become conscious of their own folklore. . 80 said Carl Carmer, author of the best sellers, “Stars Pell on Ala-
WARTIME COLONEL — commanded the 150th field artillery regiment in the
famed 42d (Rainbow) division. both the American and French governments.
Democrat, as the second w wartime -mayor.
Tyndall, Soldier-Mayor, Leader In War and City Government
HONORED - BY GRATEFUL FRANCE — Gen, Tyndall,-then a colondl: is shown: shove, with Gen. Henri
of Mayor Tyndall shews- Gere: French war hero; “wher the city's leader was decorated with the French Legion of Honor, with the
rank of commander, at the Rainbow Division convention in-1923, In photo (left to right) are: The then Governor Warren T. McCray; a war department aide to Gen. Gouraud; Gen. |Gouraud and Gen, Tyndall.
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Mr. Sullivan
CT (versity writers conference here last night. } Speaking on “Folk Fancy-—-a Mountain Spring,” Mr. Carmer described the days before rapid communication when our forefathers invented stories for family entertainment. He eharacterized Ameri~ can folklore as “lusty, gusty, deadpan, scardonic and prone to exag-
geration. x Thé second of this Judk's lectus
VICTORY CELEBRATION — Retired from any
from the war department, Gen, Tyndall refused to entered the mayoralty campaign in his home town. In the above photograph party
workers congratulate him after
is on the left.
Sullivan Paper Marks Milestone
SULLIVAN, Ind, July 9 (U. P)) ~~ With today's issue, the Sullivan Weekly Democrat celebrated 50 years of publication undery, the ownership of Paul Poynter, %ilso|” bliss on “the Sullivan Baily 1 TO hii - Re ras Brigm, "aes the paper in 1854, giving
Is victory,
service with a
"well-done" inactive. He immediately
DINNER" ‘GUEST ~The mayor. was a. familiar
figure at civic and patriotic gatherings.
the paper only two owners in #3 years of publication. Mr. Poynter also bought the Sullivan Weekly Times in 1904, and the following year started publishing/ The Times as a daily, He is also publisher of the &8t. Petersburg (Fla) Times. Eleanor Poynter -Jamison, the publisher's daughter, is business, manager of both the Weekly Democrat and the Daily Times here. Honier H. Murray edits both. #
PR A A RARER EATS 14 VOLCANIC ISLANDS
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Sell Two Large Farms In Noblesville Disfrict
Times State Service ! NOBLESVILLE, July 9.—~The sale of two large Tarms in ‘Hamilton county has been announced.
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