Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 July 1947 — Page 13

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“HURRY UP AND WAIT” is a military saying every army man knows well. And yesterday in the war memorial building former army men had a chance to use it again. So did their wives. Many & former Golden Lion of the 106th infantry division hurried to register for the three-day reunion. They hurried and then waited in a line which one man described as “worse jhan a chow line.” This same man hurriedly retracted his statement because this particular line was different. The “little woman” was on the sidelines, something that wasn't being done two and three years ago. There was plenty of buddy-buddy talk going on in the registration lines. There also was plenty of the same thing among the wives and sweethearts who came. to the city for the reunion. Small groups of three and four ladies of the 106th dotted the cool corridors of the war memorial building. They chatted with backyard enthusiasm. Mrs. Robert Holbrook Jr, Ocean Park, N. J, was verbally checking the route she and her husband took with a native of the city who knows about such things. Miss Frances Jackson, 626 N. Tacoma ave, who works for the Hoosier Motor club, approved wholeheartedly with the Pennsylvania Turnpike route.

Waiting More Than Hour

BESIDES THAT, Miss Jackson has more than a passing interest in the state of New Jersey. Her boy ' friend, Hampton Dailey Jr., is from Bloomfield, N. J. Both ladies had been waiting for more than and hour. While Miss Jackson was telling how she was going to renew some of her friend's memories of Indianapolis, Mr. Dailey walked up and said that he'd "be in the line another hour “anyhow.” “Ill wait,” answered Miss Jackson: The answer obviously was what Mr. Dalley wanted because he went right back as if he intended to hurry up the line without waiting any longer than necessary. The third member of the waiting party, Mrs. Jobe Weyman, Corinth, Miss., told of how she and her husband hurried to register only.to discover that they had forgotten about daylight ‘saving time. Even though Mr, Weyman was one of the first in line he still had an hour wait before the workers arrived. Mr. Weyman soon joined the group. He had been trying to find some of his buddies with little success. “This 1s our second honeymoon,” said Mr. Weyman, with a strong southern accent, “and there are a lot of places I want to take my wife while we're in town. But there are a lot of places I don’t want to take her. You see, I've spent seven months in Indianapolis as a single man with my base of operatioris at Camp Atterbury.” The group was In the nridst of a good laugh when Mr. Holbrook walked up and announced he was through.

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Underwear

WASHINGTON, July 15.—There used to be a little guy with a pink face and a high-pitched voice, name of Jerome M. Ney, who suffered as deputy adminis trator of the OPA. He was in charge of explaining to congressmen why they had holes in their underwear.

Whenever the lawmakers yowled about shortages of shirts and union suits and baby shoes, Chester Bowles sent Mr. Ney (rhymes with rye) up to the Hill to face the statesmen in their ragged haberdashery. Time after time I watched him squirm, while senators denounced him to his face as a bureaucrat who was turning them into involuntary nudists. Nobody else, unless it was Mr. Bowles himself, flushed under so many congressional insults,

Turning of the Worm.

LET SOME DOTS . . .. indicate the passage of the years, the piling up of white shirts on every counter in America, and (just a figure of speech, Mr. N.) the turning of the worm: The same Jerome M. Ney, looking a little plumper than in the old days, appeared before congress to tell what was wrong with business.. This time he did the

economic committee listened respectfully. This time he was talking as an Arkansas department store magnate (he owns the Boston store in Pt. Smith) and also as chairman of the American Retail Federation, representing 500,000 jewelers, druggists, grocers, and’ drygoods merchants’ The: membership's not happy.

If this nation is to remain prosperous, Mr. Ney said, we have got to continue to produce twice as much merchandise (and use it up. too) as we did in 1939. Already he sees signs that we're not doing it. The figures showing department store sales making new records every week aren't exactly phoneybaloney, he said, but they don’t reflect more stuff be-

‘Bloop Bleep’

HOLLYWOOD, July 15.—“Bloop Bleep.” All I hear is that song and I just can’t think. “Bloop Bleep—Bloop Bleep.” It's -driving “me crazy. It's probably driving you nuts, too—that ode -to a leaky water faucet written by Framk Loesser, “Bloop Bleep—the faucet keeps adrippin’ and I just can’t sleep.” And just when we got rid of Richard and his blankety-blank door, too “Bloop Bleep” is like “Richard.” Everyone is hearing it and humming it and cursing it in Hollywood. It will ‘probably hit your town next. It's on five different records, including one by Danny Kaye, but the record out-selling all others has Mr, Loésser singing it himself, “I guess,” says Prank, “I've got a voice that sounds like a leaky faucet.”

A Good Songwriter

AND FRANK is such a good songwriter, too. “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition” was a Loesser hit. Romantic people have sent him fan mail for writing such tunes as “Iwo Sleepy People,” “I Don't Want to Walk Without You, Baby,” “In My Arms” and “They're Either Too Young or Too Old.” But now Frank 1s getting fan mail from plumbers because of “Bloop Bleep.” I guess it's because he just can't resist the pixie fn himself now and then.. A few years back Frank sneaked “I Got Spurs That Jingle, Jangle, Jingle” on unsuspecting America. Everybody, of course, thinks Frank got the “Bloop

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We, the Women

ER ATE te er ed ts ot time war wife that her husband has completed his readjustment to civilian life and that she needn't have worried about his being able to'make it. His army trappings and once-important souvenirs are gathering dust In the attic.

Where's That Button?

IF HE HAD to have his discharge button tomorrow, the one he wore so corisclentiously for a few

< taikifig? the senators and representatives on the joint

By Ed Sovola

"SWAPPING WAR STORIES" —The 106th Division reunion begins with registration and waiting. Chatting while they wait are (left to right) Frances Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Holbrook and Mr. and Mrs. Jobe Weyman.

“That was worse than enlisting,” said Mr. Holbrook as he pulled up a folding chair and relaxed. When Mrs. Robert Snabel, Perkasie, Pa. informed me that she was born in Indianapolis and formerly lived at 533 N. Temple ave. “That's where my husband and I are staying right now with my parents,” she said to the delight of the other three waiting wives of the Golden Lions. Mrs. Byron Wright, Vandalia, Ill, said that her husband promised to take her to the top of the Monument. Mrs. Snabel promptly cautioned her not to “walk up like I did the first time.” A real native.

Holds Her Daddy's Hand

“I USED TO WAIT for my husband with my daughter, Mary Ann,” sald Mrs. Leonard Barnes, Marshall, Mo, “but now I wait alone, Look at her in line with her daddy.” Sure enough, there was 5-year-old Mary Ann holding her daddy's hand and occasionally glancing over at her mother. Mrs. Walter Gosztyla, Scottdale, Pa.; had to search | the line to point her husband out. Mr. Gosztyla! stepped out of the line to see what was going on. “Aren't you afraid to lose your plgece?” I asked Mr. Gosztyla. “No, this isn’t a chow line even though it moves ike gne,” he said. The Scottdale couple are planning to -“see the sown,” while they're here. : Mr. Gosztyla' also spent seven months at Camp Atterbury and says he still knows his way around. A major called for attention. He announced that “the Red Cross is serving cokes and sandwiches from a mobile unit in front of the war memorial. Oh, yes —and -doughnuts.” A how! went up from the men in the lines. Doughnuts from a mobile unit seemed to strike a familiar chord with the men of the 106th division.

By Frederick c. Othman

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ing sold. People are buying fewer things (including shirts), but are paying so much for each article that the dollar sales are breaking records. This, be said, is not good. And another thing. The customers are doing more looking than buying, because they think prices are too high. Mr. Ney can't blame 'em for that. He thinks so, too. But the. manufacturers keep raising prices and there's the retailer caught in the middle. And how much longer does congress think that can last?

Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, the ¢hairman, wondered if Mr. Ney had any suggestions. He hadi plenty of them.

+ He said it was a crime in a hungry world to destroy food in order to hold up farm’ prices; let con-

, gress stop it. He said let farm prices drop.

“No good to anybody can come from our spurt in food prices,” he added.

What's Wrong With Building

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SECOND SECTION

State Park Appeals To Tourists In Winter, Summer

Numerous Attractions

Lure Visitors IF ANY Indiana state park has it,

Pokagon has it. Indiana's northernmost park, Pokagon is located on two large lakes in Steuben county. Though {it probably is best known as a .vinter sports resort, the state parks division lists for it 15 major attrac tions to lure the summer tourist or the week-end visitor: No other state. park has such variety. Potawatomi inn on the shore of Lake James offers year ‘round hotel accommodations, and for those who prefer them, cabins are available. On the camp grounds on a bluff overlooking the lake electrical outlets, central comfort station, shower baths and laundry tubs take some of the worst rough spots out of “roughing it.” - # .

THE WILDLIFE exhibit with {ts “thundering herd” of buffalo and its pens of deer and elk is one of the top exhibits of its kind in the park system. Lake James is the third largest lake in the state and Snow lake adds to the water sports appeal. Fishing, boating and swimming of fer summer fun and when the season turns, ice-boating and skating are on tap to keep up the growing popular interest in the park. The ski trails which attract hundreds of visitors in winter give way to miles of scenic hiking trails and horse trails in summer months. The northerly location which gives Pokagon the longest winter season of any state park also knocks:a few degrees off the heat on sweltering summer days. . # »

~ TERRACED ponds which add to

the park also are used to propagate} ‘game fish with which the two lakes

are stocked. For small youngsters not so likely to be impressed with the things that please and relax adults there is a fully equipped playground. Handy to the picnic area, the playground has swings, teeter-totters, slides, a

large sand box and other tots’ play|

equipment, Both ‘shade and the traditivnal beach sun are afforded by the picturesque beaches at Potawatomi inn and at the picnic grounds. s = = THE PARK is the home of Camp Pokagon, a summer camp for boys and except for the period when the camp is in session its facilities are available for use by other groups, , The park is accessible from all

{directions on improved roads and

is just off state road 27 a few miles north. of Angola. It has a total area of nearly 1000 acres, not count-

LET THERE be few, if any more wage raises, he ing the area of the lakes themselves continued. Find out what's wrong with the building and has been a part -6f ‘the state

industry, and dust off. the anti-monopoly laws fori use on the selfish ones who are fixing prices to re-| turn unconscionable profits. Senator Taft suggested he name ‘em.

Mr. Ney said he thought congress ought to have] a pretty good idea. “I am pointing no finger,” said, “but many witnesses before this very wii ay have referred to the building business. If that contains monopolies, then it seems to us. that other in-! dustries also are suspect.” He walked out then with shoulders back and eyes glistening behind his spectacles; it was hard to recognize him as the little guy with the hang-dog look | who once tried to explain—never successfully—why | congressmen couldn’t buy new underwear to replace their pre-war rags.

By Erskine Johnson

Bleep” idea one night from a leaky faucet. He said

"it himself on a radio show the other night.

“But to be honest,” he whispered, “I've never been kept awake by a leaky faucet. I just thought of it.” “Bloop Bleep—Bloop Bleep.” I wish he hadn't thought of it.

Unhappy With Contract

DANE CLARK is unhappy with his contract at Warner Bros. and wants out, . Edward G. Robinson just bought a summer home five minutes from his winter home. The summer house is half way between his Beverly mansion and the beach, M-G-M has three writers working on a movie idea for Clark Gable and Mickey Rooney. J. Arthur Rank, by the way, offered M-G-M $400,000 to borrow Mr. Gable for an English film.. On top of his regular salary, yet. Maybe we can credit Greta Garbo for Joan Crawford’s inspired acting lately.. She runs an old Garbo picture at least once a month, studying her technique. Joey Adams, at the El Rancho Vegas, has been introducing Tony Canzoneri every night as “the world’ 5 greatest fighter.” Then Jack Dempsey checked into

the hotel, Canzoneri met Dempsey in the lobby and |

sald: “Tonight Joey can’t introduce me as the world’s greatest fighter. You're here.” A bit player dropped Orson Welles’ sword during a scene in “Macbeth.” “I had a GOOD sword carrier once,”

‘with Cornell on Broadway in 1935. . Young fellow by name of Tyrone Power.”

By Ruth Millett

EE —— Se a : el

in their businesses and professions while he was overseas. " ‘He has forgotten those ideas he had about life being too short to spend it trying to be successful, ‘and is working just as hard, it not harder, than he ever worked before. He no longer gets off in & corner at parties with other. ex-servicemen because he can't find anything to talk about with the men who didn’t share his war experiences.

Letters Into Wastebasket

Sam keeps sending

even gets i SUTHS Hg World Whey A038 Sam aps. =

mused Orson, “when I was playing Mercutio|.

the form létters Uncle He has almost quit putting “Veteran” in his house spartment-wanted advertisements, | gets annoyed at the few veterans who

The Indianapolis

TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1947

PICTURESQUE POKAGON — Indiana! s ottherimotk Ear, Pakagon avarlooks two large lakes i in Steuben colnty, Swimming, eating 2 ond fi ishing Jako the place of winter-time ice-boating and skating.

HANDY PLAYGROUND — Small youngsters can be appeased on the fully equipped playground close to Potawatomi Inn on the shore of Lake James.

park SYSiem. since .192 since BS...

World Bank Issue Oversubscribed

NEW YORK, July 15 (U. P)~ The first $250 million bond. issue tof the international bank for re-

construction and development was { oversubscribed today. Bidders who failed "to obtain bonds on the subscription promptly

| went onto the New York stock exi change-to buy them at premiums of {$20 to $30. The bonds were sold I par to the subscribers.

The bonds constituted a small

== fraction of the bank’s authorized

$10 billion dollar capital, but they were the first securities of the world

'bank offered for private sale. About

$1,600,000,000 had been paid earlier by subscribing governments. Marketing of the bonds through- | out the U., 8. developed into a colassal job handled by some 1600 | dealers, largest number ever to cooperate in a selling. operation of that type. The debenture bonds are divided |

Annual Show Begins July 28

By ART WRIGHT Maybe your mutt dog can't do any tricks today—but you still have time to teach the start of the annual Times Mutt Dog show on July 28, If your dog does tricks better than any other unpedigreed pooch in the city, you'll win a valuable prize. There also are five other divisions in which you can win prizes, Awards will be given for the largest dog, the smallest dog, the

or best descriptive name or the best, behaved dog. 80, you see, there is nothing to! eliminate any dog in the city if he] is not a “blue ribbon” pedigree. This | contest just has nothing to do with | those “blue nose” pets. This one is

break. There are no fees of any kind.! All you have to do is send in the

{nounced within afew days. Winners of the playground show |

into two groups—a 2% per cent is-|in each division will take part in| sue due on July, 15, 1957, and a 3[the district eliminations July 30.

| per cent issue due July 15, 1972.

{Wingers of the districts will take

Carnival =By Dick Turner

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him (or her) before

dog dressed in the most comical cos- | tume, the dog with the most unique |

for the little cur who never gets a|

official entry form which appears in part for the grand prizes in the "The Times, then an July 28 take city-wide finals Aug. 1 at a downyour dog to the city playground town location. | nearest, your home. The time of the | Owners must be not more than 16 preliminary contest will be = | years old. .

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You Can Teach Your Dog New Tricks— But Do It in Time for Mutt Contest

MUTT DO

G- SHOW

Wins $5 Prize For Freak Squeak

Name Contest

Spomored by The dana Times and City Recreation Diyision

Here is the official entry of my dog in The Indianapolis Times Mutt Show. My pet is NOT a thoroughbred and I understand

not over 16 years of age.

Dog's name

Entrant’s Name

Entrant’s Birth Date .. : v

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My mutt dog will compete at

Maryland st., Indianapolis 9.

that he (or she) will be disqualified if not a mutt dog. I am

AERA Rr RE ENS SRO e RENO Cedi a shat cresnes teessesannes

(fill in name of city playground nearest your home) Mail to: Mutt Dog Show, The Indianapolis Times, 214 W,

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Sebi Rsan Innes sesavee

This year’s show is the second annual event. The first was staged last year with co-operation of the city park and recreation division which again is assisting.

5 Teachers Attend Butler Session

Pifty-nine classroom teachers are | enrolled at the five-day meeting of | the annual Kindergarten-Elemen-tary Education conference at Butler university.

Mrs. Isabelle Mossman, assistant superintendent of music of Indian{polis public schools, addressed the opening session yesterday, speaking {on “Looking Ahead in Elementary | 8choo]l Music,” Bpeakers at the remaining sesslons include Miss Frances Hollis day and Miss Ruth Patterson, both of Butler's elementary education department; Miss Clare ~ Williams, | supervisor of art in Franklin, and| Harry E. Wood, director of fine and | practical arts and vocitional educa- | tion of Indianapolis schools.

Chicago Trucker Dies

Near_ Terre Haute TERRE HAUTE, Ind., July 15 (U, P.) ~The driver of a tractor-trailer truck was killed early today when it plunged down an embankment and at the Intersection of U. 8. 40 and U. 8. 150. “State police sald papers found om the victim identified him as Henry Kurtz, Chicago,

HOLD FINAL MEETING The 4-H.Club of School 3,

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Young Democrats

Plan Convention

Officers of the Indiana ‘Young Democratic organization will meet tomorrow at state party headquarters to complete plans for the group's state convention Aug. 8 and 9. James Noland, Bloomington, will serve as permanent chairman of the convention. Mrs. Sarah Beasley, Indianapolis, heads the enter tainment committee. Miss Helen Warvel, executive secretary of the Young Democrats, an~ nounced Annette Short, Harry Latham, Walter Myers Jr. and George Finney, all of Indianapolis,

In Front of Train

“I was so excited that I was back at work before I realized that if I hadn't tripped T would have stepped directly in front of the

moving train.

“My Preak Squeak taught me

uals» to Gross Jas at Tegular

Burns 4 to Death,

Declared Insane

SALEM, Mo,, July 18 (U. P.).~= A 40-year-old expectant mother who set fire to the gasoline-soaked beds of her family was committed today to the state mental hospital, Her husband and three of her children were fatally burned. A fourth child was given “a chance” for life at a St. Louis hose pital. The Dent county coroner's jury found late yesterday that the wome an, Mrs. Murl Dunlap, “in a fit of insanity” poured gasoline over the beds and set fire to them Sunday night. The dead were: Lawrence Dunlap, 44, who died Monday in Deaconess hospital at St. Louis; Marylin Ruth Dunlap, 6; Betty Lou Dunlap, 4; Barbara Dune lap, 2.

WORD-A-DAY

By BACH

and Robert Young, Noblesville, will serve as a committee for eneral. convention arrangements.

‘Pardon Me for Killing You—| Shot at My Wife’

ROCK ISLAND, Ill, July 15 (U.| .|

of a Rock Island restaurant own-|

er. sald the shooting was acci-| dental. { “I intended to shoot my wife,” he sald. “This other guy just got into the line of fire. The victim, Nicholas P. Pontikes, 26, was killed instantly Friday night. Deweese’s wife, va, ¥ 8 waitress in the cafe.’

SPONSOR CARD PARTY

. Bouth Side Service club will sponsor, a card and bunco party at 8:15, p.m.” tomorrow in the community center, Sanders. and Shelby Mrs. George

EXHUME

(eks-hum’) ) vers G DIG UP SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN BURIED

P).— Robert A. Deweese, 322, PPR charged with the shotgun slaying | PFs