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THE ONLY THING to do when you hear about a “nose for magic” is to go see it. Not only did I see this magic nose but its owner, Roy (Scrubboard) Wallace, 2205 N. Bellefontaine st. staged a command performance. It was no trick at all for the dealer in tricks and sleight of hand to get into a routine, He worked so smoothly. that he even had me in one. There's no mistake about the type of work Mr. Wallace does. The tools of .his trade are piled all over his place. Of courses, I got right down to the main point of interest, the magic nose, My, Wallace was bound and ‘determined to save the best for the finale. He tried to sidetrack me by asking if I would like to have a magic cord yanked through my neck. “Will it hurt?” . “No. Here let me show you,” he said and before I knew it he had a cord wound around my neck twice and the ends pinned through my shirt.

‘Can't Give Secrets Away A QUICK jerk and the cord with the pins were in his hands. It didn't hurt either, “How does it work?" Mr. Wallace thtew me the cord and said,” You figure it out. "I can't give away secrets just like that.” Trick stuff that I can’t figure out always did make me mad. After five minutes of close inspection I gave up. There's no use getting riled up over a silly

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“Show me this nose trick,” I urged. “I don't believe you can be tied through the nose and get loose.” Mr. Wallace dgesn’t fool joay,

THERE'S A WAY OUT—Magician Réy (Scrubboard) Wallace ties himself by the nose, crawls “into a trunk and does a Houdini escape” act,

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“fet me show you the Hindu rope trick I learned in India (pause) ana,” Mr. Wallace said. . I wasn't fopled with the India—ana gag so I played along with the magician, “How long have you lived in this Indla—ana?” While he flipped a length of rope around cutting ends off to show there were no attachments, Mr. Wallace said, “37 years.” He wasn't satisfied with cutting the ends off, He had to-cut the rope in two. Then he tied the cut ends together and wrapped it around his hand. A quick flip and the entire length of rope fell to the floor. It -was all in one piece and the knot was gone. Beats me. “Tell you what I'm going to do” Mr, Wallace chanted like a carnival barker. “Not only will I get loose after I tie myself by the nose but I'll get into a trunk and make myself disappear to boot, “Do I get to hold the rope you tie yourself with?" -*Pijat's the idea but I'm not going to use a rope. Just a silk thread and you'll see the reason for that." I sure did. This trunk from which Mr. Wallace was to escape was solid. I can vouch for it. Of course, I may have overlooked something. Mr, Wallace shoved the trunk in the middle of the front room, took the silk thread and passed it completely through his nostrils. Honest. Then he pulled it back and forth to show it was in there to stay. The idea was for me to 106k him in the trunk, walk outside with the two ends of thread, lock the front door and wait until something happened. I did as I was instructed. A slight tug after all the rigamarole was completed assured me that Mr, Wallace was in the trunk. He didn’t know it but I wasn't’ going to wait longer than a half hour on the porch. | Just as I was peeking through the keyhole a hand | touched. me on thie shoulder. “Can I be of any help?” Mr. Wallace was standing as free as a jaybird, I was holding an empty trunk with silk thread. “It's a trick,” was my profound observation. “You're so right, my friend. Shall we go inside?” “Will you show me this business again with a godt heavy cord? And I don't want to be on the out side holding it either.”

Cord Threaded Through Nose MR. WALLACE was agreeable. I watched as if my life depended on the outcome. The cord was really threaded through Mr. Wallace's nose. There was no mistake. “Hold the ends tight,” Mr. Wallace cautioned, “because at the count of three I'll be free. Seeing is believing but I can’t help saying that I was: still tricked, but good. “Aw, be a sport and tell me how you do it. I won't tell a souli” I told the magic nose artist, “Why, I can't tell anyone how I do it.” § “Not even if I say cross my heart and hope to die?” I asked. “Not even if you say that. Say what are you |§% deing with a half dolla® behind your ear?” asked Mr. |} Wallace as he produced a half a buck in his hand. Ta That was my cue to shove off. Half dollars just |e don't grow behind my ears. Now. to find a good stout cord to tie up my nose with,

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Boss of Sears

WASHINGTON, July 16.—Into the senate strode the world's greatest storekeeper in a Sears, Roebuck & Co. $22.50 summer suit of tan cotton. His coat was rumpled and threadbare arbund the collar from repeated washings. With it he wore a speckled necktié from Sears’ 89-cent rack. When you're the biggest retailer of all and you're expecting to do $2 billion dollars worth of business this year, you don’t have to look like any fashion plate. So Gen. Robert E. Wood, chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck & Co., sat at ease in his well-worn haberdashery before the congressional joint economic committee. He said among other things that prices are on the way down and that. no depression is in sight. He mentioned radios as one of the things which already have dropped drastically in price.

Didn't Embarrass General WELL; THEN, demanded one of -the congressmen, what about the mantel radios that cost $10 before the war and $30 now? That question did not embarrass the general. Yep, he said, he was strolling through one of his own stores last fall, looking over.the stock of midget radios priced at $30. “They weren't worth $30. either.” he added. “Or anywhere near it. Today the price of these same radios is $20. The congressman said that still seemed too high. The general still was not embarrassed. “Of course it is,” he said. “And in about three months more that same radio will sell for $15.” He said he believe congress could leave it to the people to bring down prices. The customers simply don't buy when costs are too high. “Yes, because they've run out of money,” spapped : Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney of Wyoming. “Not at all,” replied Gen. Wood, crossing his knees and displaying his scuffed, $4.95 Sears, Roebuck

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Petraits, both of Troop 66.

shoes. “This thing all started last fall when rich classes are held.

women refused to pay $5000 for fur coats.” He said they'd only pay $2000. Prices of all coats] fell, cloth ones included. Then the bargain sales| spread to dresses, jewelry and high-grade cosmetics. “And soon there wasn't any demand for costume jewelry at all,” he said. “And that’s the way it goes.” Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, the chairman, wondered whether he'd care” to mention any other fields where prices were too high, Gen. Wood fingered the collar of his $2.95 Sears, Roebuck shirt and said he certainly would. He said textiles were too high and that eventually the price would break. He did his best, in fact, to break it himself.

Received No Co-operation

“WE WITHHELD textile orders for three and four }* months, hoping that we could force prices down,” he said. “And I talked to some. of these manufacturers. and told them they were displaying a very poor form| : of industria] statesmanship, holding their prices up.” " These gents, he said, refused to co-operate. So, unfortunately, did the people. They kept on ‘buying shirts from the general and finally he was forced to re-order. He indicated (without quite saying so) that if his customers had played along with him and made their old shirts do, the price of same would be much lower now. Even so, he said, he wasn’t much worried about the future. The business prophets have heen wrong on every count Since the end of the war and he ignores them,» Only thing that bothers him, he said, is the mess the building trades have made of the housing industry. . He blames the union workers and their bosses equally for trying to sell the people less formore money. This, he said, won't work. And when Sears, Roebuck & Co, cuts the price of men's suits again, T wouldn't be surprised if the general bought himself a new one,

Film Grab Bag

By Erskine Johnson for the bugler to sound the’

HOLLYWOOD, July 16.—Exclusively yours: There's a movement afoot in Hollywood and London to make it read Sir David Niven ala Sir Laurence Olivier. Paramount will co-star Ray Milland and Paulette

Goddard in “Jed Blaine's Woman.” There's plenty of dirty work going on, trying to keep Monte Proser from opening a Copacabana club in Hollywood. The Maria Montez- Universal- International . billing battle ‘on “The Exile” will probably be aired in the courts. Ava Gardner and Greg Bautzer are a new twosome, Because of her handicdp, Susan Peters will work only from 10 to 4 on filming of “The Sign of the Ram.” Speclal- refrigeration units have been purchased for use on the sets on which she'll work, in an effort to fombat a heat allergy which is an aftermath of her daccident. Peter Lind Hayes’ description of “Brute Force,” story of a frustrated prison break: “It's definitely not an escape picture.” : Now it’s Danny Kaye, in “That's Life,” who goes “Woo, Woo,” imitating Hugh Herbert. Herbert, also in the scene, turns to the audience and says: “My, how vulgar.”

Now She's a Redhead

FRANCES GIFFORD goes redhead for her next at M-G-M, “Luxury Liner.” Lana Turner is sponsoring a bowling team called

- We, the Women

ONE ANSWER to high prices and the help shortage is the do-it-yourself trend. In one small town, for instance, all of these self- - help services are available: A beauty parlor, unable to get enough help, and : aware that high school and college girls like to do | their own hair, offers a wash-and-set-your-own-hair ! service. Btn Job is prety cusp when & girl has beauty

i Hh rma charge 1s nominal. :

the “Pin Down Girls.” Their uniforms are navy slacks) Physicians Study

and, of course, sweaters. Bill Bendix heads for New York immediately after

completing “The Time of Your Life” to help his = Basic Sciences year-old daughter, Lorraine, launch a stage career.

Bill tried to talk her out of it but failed. Frances Langford rates a bow for that swell job she's doing on the airwaves. Johnny Weissmuller and his estranged wife are i trying to work out a final divorce settlement. If it] ter hospitals are enrolled in a pos {graduate basic sciences course ‘at fails to go through, Johnny will ask for the divorce. | th { ity's School of Medicine. | Romo Vincent, a click at the Florentine Gardens, | e university's D i ting movie offers in. whol 1 "| The six-week course is being con- | 5 getting movie elie in wholesale ots. ducted by Dr. Khalil Wakim, Mayo Dinah Shore may turn disc jockey at her home Clinic, and Dr, Prank Forry, Dr. | while awaiting the birth of her baby. :

|John L. Arbogast, Dr. Edwin N.| Powell Goes Western \ {Kime and Dr, John H. VanDyke, of | DON AMECHE, turned villain in “Sleep, My Love,

Twenty-one resident physicians | {from the staffs of City, Veterans’

nthe Indiana university school of | | medicine's faculty. | l

says he wants to do three more heavy roles before he he. enrollment’ Mmciades goes back to being a romantic star, Meanwhile, Dick| City hospijal—Dr, Samael J. Davis, Dr.| Powell, who started the fad for tough “private eyes,”| Ted L. Cruel and AD Nalial EAN . will go western in RKO's “Stations West.” tals—Dr Have A. Mien, vr. HA A J. Edward Bromberg will be among the first to be| Bot ba sr Dr A Hicks’ Re

oden signed ‘in support of Ingrid Bergman in “Joan of | 2%. Ottis W. Olis vPro Ra Lorraine.” Starting date of the film has been moved | B Simonds, Dr. Paul W. from July 14 to Aug. 1 or later, | George 8. aun: 1,U. Bobby Jordan, one of the original “Dead End” or Frederic W, Brown, Dr. J. R. Do kids, is hoping to make his bow as a cafe comic in $a8,2 En Dr Lou fe pies. Jovep New York. { TT Tt Robert Alda, best remembered for his role of Real Estate Board's

George Gershwin, just completed his first record album, €inging eight tunes by Irving Berlin. Golf Tourney Tomorrow / The third 1047 Real Estate Board |

: golt tournament will be held tomor- | row at the Indianapolis Country! club, W. Lawrence Sexton and David Woods are chairman and vice-chairman of the committee in

By Ruth Millett

charge. A garage that has found it difficult to hire enough PS will tee off at 12:30 p. m. car washers advertises a service in which you wash ig dinner is scheduled at 6:30 p. m. The farmers are even advertising fruit on a pick-| outing will be held July 31 at the it-yourself, basis—which takes care of the no-help|mMoose Lodge country home. situation for the farmer and cuts down the price oi canning fruit to the housewife.

Backward, But Popular Mas, Samuel M. Ralston, widow MAYBE THIS do-it-yourself trend is a step back- of the late governor and senator ward in the matter of service, but it seems to be pretty \from Indiana, will speak on “Life's

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BOY SCOUT HAVEN—Six Indianapolis boy scouts stroll through the entrance of Camp Chank-tun-un-gi, located on Fall Creek northeast

PRIMITIVE HOME — Learning to build a lean-to from tree branches and leaves are (left to right) Don C. Smith, Troop 6, and William David Beck and Richard

% Ta 2 ‘ ¥ po ' JAM SESSION—Ronnie Allen, a member of the camp band, blows a few hot licks on a trumpet for entertainment of scouts of troops 42 and 90 while waiting

| and Indiana university medical cen- office court-martial review author-'listed men.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1947

oal of every scout in the city, the third egan today.

"THE OUTDOOR LIFE—

Daily camp and handicraft

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FAVORITE SPORT—High on the sports agenda at the 29-year-old camp is a daily swim in the pool. Before he can earn his camp ' emblem, each scout must be able to swim at least the length of the pool. There are nearly 300 now enrolled in the camp. ’

Although comfortable quarters are provided on v the

250-acre campsite for all scouts and staff members, camping in the open is some: thing -that appeals to every boy. Members of camping-class-are- Heft-to-right} = Alan Helgesson, Troop 90; Myron Colber, Troop 97; James Hueston, Troop |95Jame:

White, Troop 6, and Jack Weemhoff, Troop 78.

call for retreat formation.

Revision of Army Justice Moves Ahead)

WASHINGTON, July 16 (U. P.).— ity, it also would {imit the review The house armed services commit- | of authority of the secretary of war. tee .has approved legislation to re-|- It would prohibit command influvise army military justice procedure. {ence on courts-martial and give en~ The measure would set up the | listed personnel the right to dejudge advocate general's office as mand that up to one-third of the an independent corps and give that {members of a court-martial be en-

‘Carnival =By Dick Turner

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RETREAT - nh Campers parade past the colors evening retreat formation which closes ®ach i formal activities. Photos by John Spicklemire, Times Staff Photograph; *

| Three Reserve Officer: \To Attend 15-Day Car:

Three Indianapolis area men : {to participate in a 15- day encan

. At Record High {ment at Godman field, Ft. Kn [Ky. for air reserve officers and «

WASHINGTON, July 16 (U2 P.).— listed men. Americans hit the air and sea trails! They are Capt. Leonard Grif’

{6116 Kingsley dr.; 2d Lt. Dale d-break-to foreign countries in.record-brea Snider. Greenfield. and 1st Lt. W

ing numbers during the year ended | liam R. Cummings, 1863 N. Tal June 30, passport records revealed st, today. BE Tourists traveled all over the! Assigned to UMT world to marry wartime sweethearts,| pvt, David E. Napier, son of § study, look up relatives, attend to | Napier, 924 River ave, has b business, visit graves, or attend con- pasigned » a trainee in the u ventions and festivals, Thousands|® i military training experim

tal unit at Ft, Knox, Ky. He i more went just for pleasure. |sraduate of Washington high sche

new highs during the next months ye) foreign travel, A "'WORD-A-DAY ing and food problems may ease, By, BACH the state department said. Issue Passports Freely Passports are issued freely for PERFUNCTOR! travel in any western hemisphere | country which requires them. They|: Z40-ri 1 ao.

cannot be obtained for travel in|

Germany; Austria, Japan and Korea without military permission. || CARELESS MANNER; WITHOUT -|

Travel to Bulgaria, Rumania and|| INTEREST; INDIFFERENT, Hungary requires a permit from the| 7 allied’ control commissions in those | ‘ countries. But travel to Yugoslavia is banned because of internal conditions there. The state department anticipates] that up to 70,000 persons may travel to Europe this season. They must, however, show evidence of return if travel by sea or air as well as hotel |¥ or other reservations abroad.

RESEARCH DIRECTOR SPEAKS R. W. Indianapolis Power & Light Co. research’ director, Wil speak ion “Pulverized Coal

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