Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 August 1947 — Page 19

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NOTHING GETS YOU QUICKER. than the. sound .

of stout wood against hofsehide when it's applied right. Just watching the Indians run through their, bat~ ting practice from the dugout at Victory field wasn't enough. That feeling of wanting to “get in there and fight” began to show, itself. Woody Williams was under the batting cage pasting baseballs all over the park. Red Barrett was slinging to Woody. 3 Manager Jimmy Brown was standing to my left talking to Ernie Andres. ; “Boy, 1 sure would like to hit a few,” I said loud enough for everyone in the dugoys to hear. Jimmy turned away from Andres for a second and grinned. ‘Did he, or didn’t he, hear me? Johnny Riddle stepped into the dugout and for the water fountain. an " “YES, SIR, I SURE WOULD LIKE TO HIT A FEW!" Can't blame a guy for trying can you?

My Turn Next “JIMMY,” SAID ANDRES, “I think he'd like to hit a few basebdlls.” “Do you really want to?” asked Jimmy. In a whisper, I said that I'd REALLY like to try my hand with a bat. “Okay, pick out a bat and go on out there. I'll relieve Barrett prety soon. I might even toss yop a few,” the manager told me. J Hot dog. Back up, you guys. Watch out for flying covers and the 480-foot marker, here I come. : Johnny Riddle stopped me as I reached for a nice thin bat, He said that was a “fungo” bat for hitting

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Guess where I was when the umpire said: “Play oh Ha i . . ball.” On the field? No. In the dugout? No. In Indian" has trouble with his batting and Ernie (pe grandstand? Well, yes, looking for the guy'who Andres has the solution. yelled: “Throw the bum outta fhe park.” r——— — ——

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e Indianapolis Times big bat. 's what I wanted. | [ ton rr ; Moran lifted one into left field very prettily.’ limbered up his six-foot frame. He Jaid several long! wanted the ball out of the park. : F Th . Ly 7 “ ~ | TE Nothing Happens | or € FiIS o Kingan & Co. oh All my power went into the next swing. ‘Nothing| | yn : \ | | The next pitch game right over the plate and my “Hold the trade-mark up.” “Hit the ball square” minute with a real bat. He said it was a “No-sting-bum outta da park. Get outta there.” hit felt as if it packed 250 volts. The loudmouth in the stands called: “Beat him a few fly balls appealed to me. Yes, sir! Steve Nagy and Glen Fletcher passed me in a fast . ONE BALL CAME out my way. Larry Rosenthal Andres-laeed. a grounder my- way. What. a dirty,

SECOND SECTION THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1947 _ TAGE Tu Mo Another high one towards the fence. . 8 . balls out ta 'the fence. My tum was next. Jimmy threw one at me. LARRY ROSENTHAL called: “Step up and lay; : happened. Ben Guintini said I was swinging too t paralyzed “Swing faster.” “Take a shorter grip on the bat." can't-miss bat,” 1 took a bead on the 350-foot marker. No good. Andres came running up with a huge hunk of over the head with it.” Sounded as if he meant it He tossed mé a mitt and sent me off to centertrot. » called to “get under it.” I did—on the second bounce. bounce that ball took. Ah, it's still a lot of fun to| ’

wo { fly balls. ..X dign’t-want to use a fungo, did I? No. A | Sikeliy : 3 ® . : é - : 4 “ . » 3 ; 7 3 : Jimmy Brown took the mound and Frank Kalin| i © hn " i : . y J e, Homey The early fans began. to raise a ruckus. - They . - rl Rei never realized baseballs traveled so fast. one out.” late, \ both hands. Instructions began to comé€ fast. Andres sald to keep swinging. He'd be back in a Someone in the stands was yelling! The 335-foot marker was still np good. Each ball 1 lumber that had all the ear-marks of a bat. Johnny asked me, just in time, whether catching field. On my way out pitchers Lou Tost,” Stah Ferek, Get Under It It was relayed to the pitcher's mound. chase a ball.

Nothing spectacular happened until Guintini| stepped up to bat. Williams was on the mound. A' Beautiful line drive came my way. There was nothing DE FTN Ly to do but syick the glove out, . A . . . By all that is baseball, that ball should have stoped} LAST ON THE HILL—Martin (Marty) Hession, long-time Kingan & Co. employee, IY WR Ea when the ball hig kes right nf lays claim to being the last of the Irish on Irish hill. Here he walks through the going towards the Ivy-covered wall. For a second Ij | i 45 the courtyard lane of the apartment houses built by the Kingan founders

thought my arm was headed in the same direction, : . Ab rd Roy Weatherly was kind enough to ask if it hurt.| to relieve the housing shortage back in the ‘70's, |

I told a bald-faced lie. The Minneapolis team began to appear on the field. Chasing balls became my specialty until Jimmy Brown called the Indians in, The players disappeared into the clubhouse for last-minute instructions. Bat Boy Jim Colby gave me a few instructions in! the dugout.

OUT OF THE PAST—William Taylor, in his 59th year with Kingans, stands before the house in which he was born on Irish hill. One of the few original buildings still standing in the area, it is now for sale. s

Ghostly Rubble H

BERLIN, Aug. 14.—This ghostly rubble heap, that is Berlin, seen after an absence of twq years, still lies half-numbed and semi-prostrate amid its incredible ruins—unrepentant, increasingly arrogant and ever-

opportunistie. Today's warm sunlight softens the grotesque patterns of the wreckage left by British and American bombs. But the stark atmosphere of living hatred, fear and political ambition casts its ominous shadow over all. ; 3 G. L's who marched over the autobahn into the Nazi capital in July, 1945, would not see much change. They would not recognize the Tiergarten, of course. That has been denuded of its Worest until those monstrous statues erected by the kaiser rear up like icebergs drifting in a sea of vegetable gardens. Pewer soldiers—including the sullen, unfriendly Red army men—are to be seen along unter den linden. American tanks that used to be on the alert at intersections long since disappeared. Soldiers. no longer go armed and there is more civilian life in the streets—more trams, more street lights. But mile after mile of great sprawling ruins still lie like a ghostly monument to Nazi greed and brutality—amid which more than threg million Berliners manage somehow to live,

City Comes Alive

I STROLLED early today through the building that was the heart of Hitler's dreams for world conquest—the reichschanellery. It presents a strange contrast to the same place two years ago when hordes of conquering soldiers crowded the Wilhelmstrasse day and night. It is deserted, dark and dank—the tomb of mad ambitions. Its facade is in process of being torn down to provide materials for a country in desperate- short supply.

Calamity Jane

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 14.—Jane Russel] covered up her famous charms with a high-necked dress, stuck on her dressing room door a note from Bink Grosby reading: “You have miy deepest sympathy,” and ‘went to work this week as Calamity Jane opposite Bob * Hope in the comedy western, “Paleface.” Jane is the pistol-packin’ mama who becomes the bride of an itinerate“ dentist, Painless Peter Potter. That's Hope. From then on it's pretty rhuch a burlesque of “The Outlaw,” and “Duel in the Sun.” As usual, Jane isn't too excited about the part, although she admits it is her best break .in Hollywood since her discovery by Howard Hughes. Jane Just” doesn’t care whether she works or not. “If IT have to work,” she told me, “I'm glad it's this picture.” ; Jane sang with Kay Kyser's orchestra this winter and wanted also, as a gag, to play the bit role of a blond night club singer. singer in the jaw for making eyes at Hope. But Producer Bob Welch said “No,” the story would fall apart. Keeping the story in a Hopé picjure from falling apart is a big enough problem as is. « walt Jane denied reports that she might be called to Washington in the Hughes investigation, She snapped: “I never went to any of those

Stewart Starts Anew THERE'S A REASON behind Jimmy Stewart's appearance in “Harvey” on the Broadway stage right now. Jimmy is out to win a new fan following. Those five years off the screen while he served In the air

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We, the Women

“IF I WERE JUST a few years younger I'd do .any other needs of members of her family, she - s0-and-s0,” says the past-middle-age woman with

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“If T weren't so tied down I'd do such-and-such,”

says the young mother wistfully. .

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By Nat Barrows

But this morning the city suddenly became alive, Those bucket lines of women, endlessly. passing} along bricks from the rubble mountains, were at work long before the visiting United Nations Palestine committee had breakfast. 3 And Germans ‘by the thousands trekked along the sidewalks or jammed the ragged streetcars on the way to their hand-to-mouth jobs. * Rumors fly about as recklessly as two years ago. The only difference is that now they turn on prospects of war between Russia and the United States,

None Have Any Regrets

MUCH OF THIS “quatsch” (nonsense) seems to stem from the peculiar kind of psychology: that the Germans have developed as a form of escapism from their dreary, monotonous existence among the ruins their own leaders brought down upon them. I have yet to hear a single German, either in| ? . Bavaria or here in Prussia, express the slightest re-/ ns 2 Fl 5! i! » st at havi started the war or the merest sug- . ye . , CA. “ifs Bn of gut. : : 8 BORN ON THE HILL—These Kingan employees first saw the light of day on Irish hill. William . . Ld . “i An old crone stopped me at midnight on Kurfuer-| Hildwein (third from left) is the only non-Irishman, They are (left to right] Joe Flynn, William Taylor, Stendampm, asking directions for an obscure sueel.( \jp .Lijidwein, Mrs. Catherine Pickering, -Edward ‘Doyle, Miss Margaret Hogan, John Dugan, Mrs.

When I explained that I was an “auslander” (for- ’ Helen Edwards, James Dugan, Mrs. Roselyn Powers and Frank (Quinn.

eigner), she peered closer into the darkness and be- . . le The ) f hie A Typical Thursday Night Found Families t upomcial banker of Iris

gan a tirade against “the bombs that killed our| children.” - hill, Pat Manley seldom closed his Gathered for Usual ‘Breakdown’ Dance place. At almost any hour it was|

When I mentioned Warsaw, Rotterdam and Lon-| don, she shambled off, muttering imprecations. ! {possible to either borrow money or! get a drink, |

These ruins and this kind of mental attitude have “Pat opened at five of a morn-

their own depressive effect upon the occupiers. . —- Berlin is slowly crawling away from the stunned | By VICTOR PETERSON ling,” Mr. Hession said, “and sup-| coma of two years ago, but one tremendous monument | FROM THE RAISED WINDOWS over the arch opening into the posedly closed at 11 at night. But to Nazi madness will remain for many years. ¢ court of the Kingan apartments drifted a lilting tune on summer air. |there always was the side door] It is officially estimated that it will take 20, per- Echoing were the stomp.of dancing feet on the floor and a babble which never seemed to be locked 4 haps 30, years just to get Berlin cleared of its rubble, of voices from the courtyard. {for some reason or other.” Lo Copyright, ND he Jndianepolis STmes and The It was a typical Thursday night on Irish hill many, many years | x" 7 — | ago. The Irish employees of Kingan & Co. Ltd, and their families WHILE they had their dances "| were celebrating. {and Manley's saloon on Irigh hill, | ; {they also had their sadness. | pe PAI”

OLD MEETING PLACE—From 5 a.m. to || p. m. were the hours for Pat Manley's saloon on a corner on Irish hill. The building still stands.

“But undertakers didn't know their trade as they do today, and * | the body filled with gas. y £ BR. nN... , “SUDDENLY the strap broke and the old man sat bolt upright, sheet _ and all. ‘Irishmen left through the 'doors and windows.” . ) Mr. Quinn can't recall his manner Hiof exit, = 1] “Man, I left so fast I can't even 4 remember getting out,” he said. If the dead was a special favorite, | Kingan's closed for the funeral. A band was hired and all the friends

Second of a Series

|- The “igs and reels would follow

It was no special occasion, just followed it for a parade through the

. “ «one op top of the other. Heavy heels| gmven in this, however, the Irish|“ ; ; | By Erskine Johnson fe ou kl ek down woul stamp the floor in an at- cold see humor. TO REVIVE their own spirits streets. Then by horse and! buggy te OA ul v's, or the Logan's or the empt to break it in, hence the 1t was a sad day when a favorite there was the ever-present Whisky they accompanied the departed to an 6, Hi name “breakdown” ‘darice. passed away. Then great plans bottle from which they could take the final resting place.

corps were reflected in the box-office take of “It's a Flynn's, Kelly's, Murphy's, Duffy's, Wonderful Life.” Sullivan's, Flaherty's or O'Rourke's. | His agents told him: “Jimmy, you have to start! The Belfast, Ireland, founded! all over. People have forgotten you.” | firm of 1845 took roots in IndianBo Jimmy started. “Harvey” (for its publicity | apolis in 1861. The founders brought value) is the first step. Meanwhile, he's making ad- some of the original employees to vertising tie-ups like mad, to get his name and pic- this country: Others seeking work ture in the newspapers and magazines. Then he in the new country merely adhopes to do a western to capture the juvenile trade. dressed their trunks to Kingan's and

’ were made for the wake and the|“a nip now and then” | On the way home, pallbearers IN TWO'S and three's the men ¢,nerq) Throughout the sadness of it all were. treated to “one Stiff drink af’ disappeared into the courtyard | por two. days and nights the ran small talk of banshees, lepre- the nearest saloon by the under" swap yarns and partake of the ever | ,roee never would be left alone as chauns, fairies. and little men who taker. present keg of beer. it lay in a coffin or was covered with brought good or evil. 2 | Ju po Thén back to the dance they, sheet on a stretcher. | Thus talking and nipping one TODAY those days are gone. Only would go for the special event, |- priends took turns keeping -the night about the stretcher of a vestiges of Irish hill remain the Martin (Marty) Hession, 10n8- departed company. A midnight friend, many an Irishman had the same. time Kingan employee and believed ||,nch would be served. While some scare of his life, | Kingan & Co, along with some New Outdoor Sport | showed up: for work. {to be the only Irish worker still zat around smoking long, white! Prank Quinn, the third genera- third and fourth generation ems THEY SWEAR over on the set of “Linda, Be . living on Irish hill, well remembers jay pipes provided on a platter by tion of a family who has served Plogees, has. passed the century Good.” th it's it y A | JUST AS during and after world the parties. |the host, others-gave forth with an Kingan's over a century, well re- mar £0 : ‘ at it's true. A gal friend asked Marie Wil-lyar IT, the city was a ripidly ex-| “They gvere as jolly as any get- irish cry about the bier {members the évent, He was there. Today Kingan's looks to a second son bo Join her on a Canadian vacation. “Wouldn't|sanding one in Civil war days. This togethers ever could be,” he said.| 15 a sing-song fashion they told| “The dead man was a little hump- 100 years of servicé as a packer of ed 0 Bo to Lake Louise and Banfi? the friend produced a housirig shortage, and “Never once was one marred by an of the dead's good deeds, how he back. To make him lie flat on the meat. : you a 8 exciung.” replied. Marie, "how. do epiojess had aimailey nding | upset. If any men had : difference would be missed ‘and nevermore stretcher, he was Sirapued own | {suttaiye homes near Lhe * ey con it. | ; . the chest,” Mr. Quinn said. | The forgotten man of “The Outlaw"~-Jack Beutel custom necessary in those days. |, Spiniag. i Shceuing Oh WM bi hold his grandchildren across th Q ad. —and his wife have a date with the stork. To meet the situation in part, |iime they met, they settled it with | Roark's Travels—

Another father and son team, Roscoe Karns and | pounders Samuel and Thomas D.|pare knuckles. The wiriner always . Marks 100th Year of Mormonism;

his son, Todd, will be featured in the next Richard Kingan erected, in 1872, & 12-unit |pejped the other to his feet and id Utah

Arlen movie, “Speed to Spare.” 'apartment building with old-world’ ner ied friends. { * . . Only 2 of 56 Brigham Children Alive

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. ” » plot still hasn't jelled. | Within the Irish hill unofficial, ANY ONE who would have Janet Blair will check off the Columbia lot when boundaries of Blackford and West | snofled a party never would be inher contract expires in eight months. Due to a legal sts. and Pearl and Chesapeake sts. vited to another. And they were her salary to agents, Thé girl has great talent, but |cottages. tn a twinkle in hia Irish blue| .:. BALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 14—Only two of the 56 children born to Bh Shi health so far it has been wasted. She told me: “Over at! Though many of the families aves, he loves best to recall the Brigham “Young and his 19 wives are still living, and this is a pride- atid lat been thable to take active Columbia they call me the poor man's Rita Hay-|were Catholic, the Kingans thought special event of the “breakdowns.” | ful:year for them. rhe memory of their father is being honored all over Utah. This but Mrs. Sanborn attends the big Dorothy Lamour is stafring on a summer radio In "12 they built the church long | giirret, “the most eligible girl on|is the centennial year, and the whole state is celebrating. functions, and, of course, is an show designed to. stimulate army recruiting. If any- knéwn as the 12th Presbyterian. |yrish hill," put on the special event. | It ‘was 100 years ago that the Morman statesman and empire-t, oo. 4 oy ect thing can stimulate the boys, it's Dottie, | . a : mmr

“Arch of Triumph" is due for added scenes. The architecture. { RO , Scripps-Howard Staff Writer [56th child, and Mrs. Mabel Young mixup, Janet has been paying out 45 per cent of [other people built brick and trame | just 100 much fun to miss,” he said. By ELDON ROARK, Scripps-H a " part in the centennial celebrations worth, {of the spiritual welfare of others. That was when Bridgett (Bid) : “Bid was a beautiful and buxom ; builder led his weary band over thes ~ ta At uh the | «x» IN THIS little town of “Kingan’s” colleen.” Mr. Hession said. “A lovely | mountains and through Emigration as they saw fit, and “where L€Y| oo. pyryy ‘ine centennial come ' | Canyon. On July 24, 1847, as he might build a holy city. | mission. sent Ber. ‘and “a group-iof { one time, as many as five saloons, | blue eves, sife was. Her tiny feet| gazed down on the Great Salt Lake| He turned a deaf ear to all who pioneer citizens on a plane tour. Tb

By ‘Ruth Millett (the most. popular gathering spot could flash in a dance with Pat|and the desert basin, he said, “It suggested that they seek a green, i, , 4.4 Nauvoo, Ill. That's ‘the

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{peing that of Pat Manley. The old Kaney playing the fiddle. is enough. This Is the place.” | pleasant valley, or that they follow town the Mormons built before their , “Many’s the time I've seen her do It was the barrénness and the the lure of gold. No, they. would westward trek, and from which they ‘an Irish jig atop the bottom ‘of an! remotenesh of the region, more séttle in a place so unattractive and had to flee. ’ than its fierce beauty, that attract- so inacessible that nobody would, “But all has beek forgiven. ‘In ed him. . | bother them. Nauvoo, Mrs. Sanborn was preThe Mormons had been perse-| They had a terrific struggle at|gented with the key to the city. I$ i cuted back in Missouri and IIlnois. aree, but through devotion, hard was made from a part’of the fronte - The founder of their religion and| york determination, irrigation and door sill of her father's old home in ny their prophet, Joseph Smith, had Giner intelligent farming methods, Nauvoo. BONE sl been lynched. Their homes had {ney made the desert wastes bloom. Mrs. Sanborn has traveled been burned. They had had to flee) snq this, their capital city; is to- country and abroad, but for their lives. day one of America’s most beauti- that plane tour was the the heavy: bar looked --.. <7 ltul, dus largely to the foresight of she ever experienced. J n it really was because| SO Brigham Young, who had Brigham Young in planning it. It took her father and rat #0. succeeded prophet Smith as their . » over three months te .| leader, decided to go into the ! «

_ meeting place still stands. can| Life was simple, and Kingan families provided ‘much of thelr Own upturned wash basin,” he said. entertainment. "IN. Thursday nights would ring with) THERE was plenty of laughter tunes, “St. Patrick's Day in the over Irish wit on the hill; and many ng,” “Wearing of the” Green,” a sociable hour was passed in Pat “The Old Irish Wash Lady.” Manley’s saloon with its swinging This was the night for dancing doors backed by a screen fo halt’ : had time prying eyes. : floor was covered with saw-

usually them, ls "But the troublé with so many women and the reason for their unhappiness is that they put off! doing the things they want to do while they are young and tied down. \

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