Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 July 1947 — Page 11

IT'S SAID THAT everything comes to: him who waits. Well, I've waited a long time for & man with a sincere mustache. And by sincere I don’t mean cookie dusters (disgusting things) .or anything even faintly resembling them. For me, mustache is synonymous with luxurious growth. A real forest primeval. That's why I had to see Jerry Colonna of the sincere mustache when he blew into town. My first close inspection of the Colonna trademark left me practically speechless. I was able to say “boy, oh boy,” several times. “What can I do for you young man?” Mr, Colonna said as I stood in front of him gawking: “Would you tell me the secret of growing a mus~ tache exactly like yours? Something first class In mustaches?” Before - the lusty-lunged comedian answered, he

rolled his huge eyeballs and stroked his uper-lip

underbrush.

Sovola Gefs a Bit Rattled

“WELL, MY BOY, how bad do you want such a mark of distinction?” asked Mr. Colonna. “I want one awful bad. I've always wanted one." I really do, no kidding. . “You know that you just don't wish for a mustache. It will take work. A lot of work,” he sald, obviously trying to discourage me. But I was firm. “You know if you raise a mustache like mine, women will want to kiss you. That's awful, isn't it?” ! “Who have you kissed?” I asked quickly. “Oh, Rita Hayworth, Frances Langford and Lana Turner, just to mention a few,” the comedian said nonchalantly. “Let's go. Give me the secret. I want a mustache. How do I start? What do I do first?’ I was getting a bit rattled. ‘ J “First, let's check the plot where you want t grow this mustache. Maybe the soil isn't the right kind.” I shoved my face under a light. “Take a look. I just got to have a mustache. That's all there is to it.» Mr. Colonna made his inspection. He took his time to give me the good or bad word. He almost drove me mad as he stood there silently stroking his mustache. Why are some people endowed? “I-believe you -can-grow-a-mustache,” Mr, Colonna finally sald. “Do you have Vigoro?” “No, but I can get some.” “Pertilizer?” At this point I was confused and said so. “Do you or don’t you want a mustache?” Mr, Colonna seemed perturbed. “1 want a mustache,” I answered meekly. “Okay. Get some fertilizer and good hair tonic. Rub the tonic on your upper lip gently for the first few days. When the first tender shoots appear, apply the tonic with extreme care. Are you taking all this down?” . There I was scribbling notes like mad and he was asking me if I was taking it all down.

Start Vigorous Training Program AFTER THE tender shoots appear comes the good

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_«SECOND SECTION FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1947

Privately-Owned Lots Target of Drive

By LOUIS ARMSTRONG | Indianapolis today was girding for battle with another major civic problem— privately-owned dumps. The offensive is being led by the new board of sanitary commissioners, the smoke abatement . office and the board of health. They intend

to clean up the dumps. Magnitude of the problem is revealed when it is learned that one of the two proposed solutions to the problem calls for expenditure of several hundred thousands of dollars for disposal equipment. Here is the problem: ONE: Only two of the approximate 12 privately-owned dumps in the city are operating legally. TWO: Although each is required to obtain a license from the office of city controller, only two licenses have been issued during 'the current year. A third expired this month and as yet the operator has not renewed. THREE: All have been accepting combustible materials in violation of existing city ordinances. FOUR: The combustible materials in the dumps ignite periodicWith the first and second fingers and some help |8lly and cloud surrounding areas from the thumb, he grasped the right side of his |With smoke. mustache and tugged to the right and then slightly 1. upward. On the left side he repeated the tugging BUT THE biggest headache of all process without the thumb. This is very important. [to city officials is the absolute lack If you'vé ever looked closely at Mr, Colonna's nrus- (of any facilities for proper disposal tache, you probably noticed what a jaunty sweep lof the troublesome combustibles. the right side has. That's due to this particular | Large city-operated incinerators motion. : where the materials could be burned “After you do ‘all this,” said Mr. Colonna, “and Would of course solve the problem, you have the works, be careful of one thing." These would costs hundreds of thou~ : “What's that?" he sands of dollars, yet they are being “Brush fires.” considered.

LUSH BRUSH—Jerry Colonna, mustache impresario, divulges timely tips about the care and feeding of upper lip foliage.

part of mustache growing. You're supposed to get a beautiful woman with romance in her soul to caress the shoots! After the foliage is out of danger and begins to sway in the breeze you start a vigorous training program. Oh, yes. Don't forget the fertilizer and the Vigoro. Apply generously but be careful of your appearance. That's what Mr. Colonna said. He demonstrated the program. The shoots or sturdy saplings should be brushed and combed every day. Above all, do not cut. Train them to grow to each side of the upper lip with the nose as the dividing line, - : Mr. Colonna was sure giving me the fine points of mustache control. He showed me what to do when the timber doesn't yield to comb and brush or rake and hoe as the case may be,

More Communists

eration of privately-owned dumps is being rewritten. The sanitation de. Gump has reached as far as

partment will supervise their oper- hearing Aug. 7 ation and they will be checked by | smoke nuisance, the odor of the

‘By Frederick C. Othman

tries and commercial establishments

WASHINGTON, July 25.—The wonder was that the General Electric Co. at Bridgeport, Conn., turned out any self-heating blankets at all, so bruised and battered was the help. The trpuble was Communists. Almost every time Local 208 of the United Electrical Workers union held a meeting, it ended in a riot. With cops, busted chairs, smashed eyeglasses, the works. The members (those who didn’t take to their beds) would limp to work the next day and automatic blanket production suffered badly. Joe Julianelle, the union's business agent, and Mike Berescik, its president, faced the facts bravely in their testimony before the house committee on unAmerican activities. One of these facts involved love. Mike said many of the 6000 members were afraid to attend union meetings because they never knew whether they'd leave the hall in one piece. And Joe said , . . but let’s have his own words: ,

Not Interested in Politics

“YOU GET THE average American worker who loves his wife and has his friends and he doesn't want to spend all Sunday afternoon and Sunday at a union meeting. He doesn't take much interest in union politics.” So it was, they agreed, that a smidgen of Communists gained control of the union. The intensely serious Mike in his tweed sports jacket and the sober-sided Joe (who was a little older and grayer) said they added up the names of the Communists— 26 al] told—and give 'em the old heave-ho. * These included .a Miss Cleopatra Daniels, a Mr. Cornelius McGillicuddy and in particular, a Mrs. Josephine Willard, who had campaigned for a seat in the Connecticut legislature on the Communist ticket. y “Where are these people now?” inquired Chair-

Young Curves

HOLLYWOOD, July 25.—Elizabeth Taylor has to lose 10 pounds, on studio orders. Her curves make her look older than 15 and the studio wants her to keep that teen-age appearance as long as possible. There's a rumor out that the state department will not approve film production in Central Europe (Germany, Italy and Austria) by American companies because of the touch-and-go international situation. Warner Bros. just canceled “The Children,” which was to have been filmed in Germany. Enterprise studio is interested in a film about auto racing built around Barney Oldfield's life. In case anyone has been asking you what happened to silent star Madge Evans, she's playing the Bergman role in “Joan of Lorraine” in the summer playhouse circuit around Cambridge, Mass. It looks like William Powell is definite for the role of Elwood Dowd in the film version of “Harvey.” Joan Crawford is adding four more rogms to her Brentwood home to accommodate . those adopted children. The house started out with six rooms and now as 20. y Hollywood is having fun laughing at its early antics these days, with “Merton of the Movies,” starring Red Skelton, and Betty Hutton's “Perils of Pauline” both clicking big.

Breaking Box Office Records BOBBY (LITTLE BEAVER) BLAKE is breaking box-office records on a southern personal appearance tour. When “Life With Father” closed on Broadway after an eight-year-run, Irene Dunne wired the play's authors, Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse: “I told you it wouldn't last.” : Overseas report: A lot of English autos in Lon-

We, the Women

YOUR HUSBAND is going to a convention in a distant city, and after just a little hinting en your part, he has sald: “Sure, why don't you come along —if you can get someone to take care of the kids?” Should you go? lady, you shouldn't. y about offering to take ‘d have a better time

the health department. burning materials and the unsight«

"8 liness of the dumps. DR. GERALD KEMPF, city health| Robert Wolf, city combustion

department director, said there had |engineer, said a new trend of think-

beén cases in the past where gar-|ing must be developed about disbage had been unloaded into pri-|posal of combustibles. He sald

vate dumps. This causes a serious |that dump operators could not be health problem since the material expected to dispose of the materials

draws rats and flies. However, he properly for the small dumping fee said there had not been a large they receive. si

number of these cases. PE The major trouble lies with the! HE POINTED OUT that indus-|cover the increased cost of disposal.

War Bride's Death "c=" evei— Nets Slaying Count

Report Husband Admits Killing

COLORADO SPRINGS,” Colo, July 25 (U. P.).—Authorities said

with large amounts of combustible

man J. Parnell Thomas of New Jersey, the reddest faced man in congress. “Oh! they're still working for General Electric,” Joe ‘said. “Take Josephine. After we expelled her she was promoted to he an inspector in the electric blanket division. She got a better job since it came out she was a Communist.” Joe paused a minute to think over how this statement might look in print. Then he blurted: “But I don't think the management promoted her just because she was a Oommunist, She probably was a good worker.” : After the Communist purge by Mike and Joe, they said, peace reigned in Loca] 203, except that the international union kept trying to expell all 6000 members. This indicated to the witnesses that Communists dominated the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America. ;

Huskies Glared at Him

“AND THERE are several] leaders’of this union here in this room this minute and I hope they take in every word I say,” Joe shouted. A number of

huskies minus neckties in the second row glared at! they would file murder charges to- PT. SMITH, Ark. July 25. — This is one of Arkansas’ industrial him, but said nothing. day against David A. Downey, 29,! cities, and the most famous firm here is Weldon, Williams & Lick. ThouJoe added that the Communists did their dead- who they said confessed strangling |sands of people all over America may glance at those names today— levelest to get him to join and even sent him a sub-|pis pretty Czech war bride. | under happy circumstances. scription to the Daily Worker, the Communist news-| You probably won't remember. Have you ever seen the Ringling paper. Brothers’ circus? Ever go,to the races at the Indianapolis Speedway? “I had a hell of a time getting rid of bat rag, a week How about football games and the] ———— mem Sate. aetm—— Joe added. “But I believe now I was unwise. I] cpl itted that he kill | movies? 'ads, pictures—historic samplés ke think I ought to read it to see what the Commies," 1°" Le “i led his Now you've got it. You sec the firm's work : are up to next.” Ra ye » LOLY, ON 8 MOUN-| roiaon” William & Lick” in tiny! Mr. Lick came here from St. Louis “Indeed you should,” interrupted Rep. John Mc-| ainside “in a fit of passion” He

| [letters on the borders of the tickets. | In 1887 to work for a local printer. Dowel o Sowevhania “1 ve 10, have the Daily previously told police she had That firm printed the tickets. {Five years later he had a little shop x ys every morning, just like coffee.”

[slipped off a cliff but authorities] i 0 8 Pretty soon the meeting ended and everybody contended she died of strangulation. i Wh 08 ent m. Rll 1 ysis drifted into the hall where, I am happy to report, | Hovey, sald he committed the| ire, far from the great cities anda theater operator said he had to there was no riot. Probably because of too many | Slaying on the spur of the | amusement centers of the nation, have a big bunch of reserved-seat Capitol cops. moment. but this firm is believed to be the|tickets—100 sets of tickets for 100 Arugments Revealed country's second largest ticket| performances. ~ “We had been arguing,” he said.| printets. The Globe Ticket Ca, of| “You've been bragging about what “We were always arguing. She was| Boston probably is first. Last year|you could do,” he told young Mr. 'a leftist and her ideas didn't jibe|Weldon, Williams & Lick’s business|Lick. “Now here's something for | with mine. topped $1 million. you. You've got three days to print li — i “I had a rock the size of two # un = |those tickets.” teacups in my hand and 1 struck| IT'S ALL DUE largely to the| us. 8 Aim." London. Wags, however, are peneliing 4 one her on the back of the head. She! foresight, courage and hard work] MK. LICK. aided oS Nag word: “Where? It reminds me of the time Holiy-{1 0}. Sow sid 1 pw ny Jee Paar vo one small, bald, soft-spoken man | going day and night. i “ rd . i | 3 Y Sony Pl” = Movies are Sour ea: Botan Downey said he placed her body —C, A. Lick, ou the Arm, He That gave him an idea. He would ee bb Work pat ee oy <hog OD the mountain slope where he is » Jeary on ut he oH ages Sealize in ticket printing. He Tek the Jad of hier clothes ns ho lho SECOND | frst claimed she had fallen. {down to the office at 7:30 every with discouragement and .reverses, ! nes: } Although friends and relatives | morning and stays till 4 p. m, with but he stuck to his ambition. In best entertainment. . . time out for a nap in bis offtice/time he bought into the firm of Loyce Whiteman, former wife of Harry Barris, will described the Downeys as a “model | fter luncl ow ldon & Willams. Mr. Weldon i marry Ken Hubbard, Santa Barbara peace officer couple.” Downey: sald he and his fice imply furnished aibee on d Ln y » "pr oo a *| wife’ “quarrelled increasingly” dur-| 5 s office is simply urnishe an en dea many years, and ahout the Cagney Brothers production company and has 1o-month marriage. | erro mec CUspiays OL Leinis, 10 snier he ops. Wusiniess,

been put up for rental and charter to other film Met in London companies. They met in London during the There's talk of Dick Haymes doing a straight war Downey brought her to this dramatic lead, minus singing, after he compiates “Up country and married her in Cali-|

In Central Park.” {fornia following his army discharge. |

Joe E. Brown's Role Serious unui recently she had worked us a} RICHARD LYON. son of Ben Lyon and Bebe hotel accountant in San Francisco. | Daniels, will play Joe E. Brown's son in “The Tender, He 1514 oplice there. was. ROUIDE Years.” It's Mr. Brown's first serious role—the part oui of the way about 1wo. $10,000 of a Protestant minister. double indemnity insurance policies Orson Welles hops a plane to Brussels late thus| De carried on his wife. : month to accept a film award from the Belgian gov-| He said his foster father had died ernment. \ {leaving him only $1000 insurance. Roy Rogers, on a p.a. tour with his circus, really After that, he said. be' was “de. sets himself in solid with the kids with his exhibition | /6T™ined to have plenty of insurof sharp shooting; hits balloons and clay pigeons— | *"°® without the aid of mirrors or a double.

them trucked to private dumps. There they are tossed on a large heap for a very nominal cost. If the owners of private dumps are made to dispose of the combustibles under ‘the strict supervision and regulation of a new dumping

C. A. Lick Makes the Tickets That Let You

* Enter Speedway to See Racing Classic ©By ELDON ROARK, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

Downey broke down yesterday and | » confessed after being questioned for

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By Erskine Johnson

don are carrying signs reading: “See a good British |

Carnival =By Dick Turner

ianapolis Tim

George Kaufman, directing his first movie, “The, Senator Was Indiscreet,” noticed Boris Karloff made, up as an Indian in the UT studio cafe. “You know,” sald Mr. Kaufman, “I think I'll take up a collection to have Karloff’s face boarded up for the summer.”

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up his heels a little and do exactly as he pleases. If you go along, the convention is just another trip. However much you plan to look after yourself and keep out of his way, he'll feel responsible for you.

That Martyr Feeling : “BUT WHAT'LL you do?” his conscience will ask

dutifully when you insist he mustn't miss out on some invitation that either doesn’t include you or

Qdd Fellows to Discuss

Homecoming Picnic

Marion county home-coming committee of I. O. O. F. will meet at 7:30 p. m. Aug. 2 to discuss plans for the annual picnic and homecoming at Indiana State Odd Fellows home, Greensburg, Aug. 22. The annual outing, which will be the 42d, will include vaudeville acts and music. Mrs. Mary H. Nelson is secretary of the county committee.

Veterinarians to Hear Dr. G. E. Botkin ‘

Dr. G. E. Botkin, state veterinarian, will address the Ninth Dis-

ames Miller near North Vernon.

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| This plan of controlling private dumps is the alternative to the

difficult for the city to administer,

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” » » THE SOLUTION is not coming overnight. But it will be met one way or the other. The city has closed ore private dump at 23d and

week.

Arkansas Printer Runs "Shirt Tail of Type" Into Big Busiiiess that Blankets Nation

Mr. Lick's son, C. A. Jr, Is vice president, and his son-in-law, 8. W. Jackson, is secretary-treasuper. A grandson also is learning the business, and a great-grandson is warming up. The plant has about 150 employees, Mr. Lick sa) one of the reasons for their success is their passion for accuracy, In printig Humbered tickets, especially those calling for reserved seats, you can't make, er{rors and stay in the business. A mixup may cause a riot at a football game or race track. » » » 80 THEY EMPLOY a staff of girls they call “verifiers” who check, check, check tickets “all day long— turning them over one at a time, And, of course, the system includes checks and rechecks to make sure no dishonest employee has slipped a wad of tickets into his pocket. Posted about the plant are warnings that the counterfeiting of tickets is a serious crime. Once a lot of Ringling Brothers’ tickets disappeared before the printing was finished. It was easy for the ticket takers to detect them when they were presented, so: the circus didn’t lpse any money. “We don’t have much trouble due to dishonesty,” Mr. Lick said. “Probably less than anybody in the business. Most of the ticket counterfeiters work in shops in the big cities.” - Mr. Lick can't bear to see anybody wasting time. Once he went to New York for.a big Wall Street deal. He arrived there Friday afiernoon, The bankers took him to {their clubs and showed him a big time Friday night, Saturday, Sunaay, he'd have to wait till Monday, win a’ BY MONDAY Mr. Lick was so fed up he caught the train for home He'd do his financing somewhere else, \ Mr. Lick is a circif~fan, but he never asks his circus friends to give him passes. “Now, wouldn't I have a nerve to ask them for a free ticket?" he | asks. “They pay me for my work, | and T pay them for theirs.” That's the kind of businessman Mr. Lick is. 2

Frederick D. Bly Named

To State Tax Post

Frederick D. Bly of Indianapolis has been appointed chief deputy of the newly established petroleum severance tax division of Indiana gross income tax division. Mr. Bly has been employed by the tax division for the last two years, Before that he was a production foreman for Goodyear Engineering Corp. plant at Charles town. :

Speaks to Scientech

Charles Trask who recently re-

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3 Municipal Boards Open War ° To End Dumping-Ground Nuisance |

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Timmerman, Times Staff Photographer,

ILLEGAL —This dumping grounds in the foreground located across from the Indianapolis Water Co. aeration plant on W. 16th st., is operated by Charles Webb who does not hold 4 city license to operate a dump. Garbage The city code governing thé op-° thrown info the area in the past has threatened to contaminate the water supply. At other times smoke from the Methodist hospital at Capitol aver and” L6th st. The dump may be closed after a court

The combustion engineer, backed by the city, says the dumps must be

waste materials have-heretofore had [city incinerator plan and would be stopped from smoking. Combustible

materials placed in dumps evens tually ignite or are set afire, results ing in smoke. Right now there is no other place for the disposal of combustibles. It would be impossible to shut down all the dumps at one time, or

ordinance they will be required to|Moncalm sts. and another probably a large pile of waste materials multiply their fees many times to| will be forced to shut down next|would back up at their source, caus-

ing a serious fire hazard.

Indonesians Flee, Scorch Earth

Retreat Before Dutch,

Put Torch to Estates BATAVIp, July 26 (U, P.).~Indo= nesian forces have burned “great

areas” in western Java but continue {to flee’ before Dutch mopping-up | operations, a Netherlands communi~ que reported today. 3 Dutch troops have taken Pasa roean on the north Java coast, the communique said, and occupied nearly a dozen island villages around Bandoeng in western Java, The Dutch announced that their troops seized intact a key railroad, funnel on the Bandoeng-Powerwas karta railway, and captured two nearby villages. The Dutch high command res ported Dutch casualties for the ene tire: campaign so far were 32 killed, 41 wounded and seven missing, Fleeing Indonesians were reported to have burned large areas during this action. Dutch aircraft pilots reported that a large radio transe mitter at Malabar was burning, Fire ruined big estates in west Java, | (In Sydney, Australia, demons | strating university students and

| Communists engaged in a free-fore {all brawl in front of the Dutch con | sulate. The consulate staff poured {water on the sprawling, bloody fighters. Thirteen were arrested. | (The Australian Watersider feds eration, a union of ship workers, announced it would continue to re fuse to handle Netherlands shipping until all Dutch troops leave Indonesia, and Indonesia is. granted “full independence.”)

Church Social Tonight

Members of Old Bethel Metnodist

| Youth fellowship will hold a band

concert and jce cream social as 8 o'clock tonight at 21st st. and Franklin rd.

WORD-A-DAY

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