Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 August 1947 — Page 11
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JUST SITTIN’ AND A rockin’ and a watchin’ the world go by. That best describes Sam Aynes, 2338 Union st. New York Central railroad crossing watc n at W. Washington and N. Missouri sts. , The most noticeable thing about Mr. Aynes' job Is the absence of hustle and bustle, After he closed the trapdoor to his lofty domain behind me, Mr: Aynes filled his well-smoked pipe, settled into his rocking chair and hoisted his feet on thé side of the crossing gate pump. ‘Below us, streetcars clanked, motorists honked their horns and gunned motors, “Kinda nice up here,” I remarked. “Yes it is. I've been up here for 10 years. Ever since I left the bridge gang,” said Mr. Aynes, puffing slowly on hi# pipe. “After 33 yéars of bridge “work it got a little toc much for me so the company sent me up here’ “Why do you keep looking south?” The native of Shelby county, Ky. ‘in answeringy “Well, the north engine is due pretty spn. Alter it ‘goes by the horn engine will come along.” Of course, I had to ask about the two engines. The north engine usually hauls coal and goes to .17th st. The horn engine carries mostly grain and it goes to the Acme-Evans Co, Check. “What comes after that?” Mr. Aynes, explained that the erossing wésn't very busy. He remembers one year when five trains went by in one eight-hour period, but that's,unusual. ‘The ost he can expect during a normal day is the going and coming of the north and horn engines.
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et ———— x 2! w Drink-Cheating HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 18.—A couple of bartenders cautiously opened their book of trade secrets today and revealed the tricks most every other joint in the country uses to keep the customers sober. Our informers, of course, work in high-price bean“eries on the plushy sunset strip where at a buck a’ shot it isn't necessary to switch labels or water the brandy. They rob their rich movie customers at the till instead of in the swill. But, they whispered, it's a safe bet you walk home straight from an ordinary pub, the weak way the boys there mix ‘em up. “Drink-cheating doésn’t. exist at Chanteclair,” announced. Art Kaehler, who wears a tux, is handsome, and isn't in pictures. “Mr. De Lucia wouldn't allow it. Besides, the movie people we get here are too fussy. They've knocked around plenty, and if they don't get a good drink they raise the roof.” Mr. K. waited delicately until Boss Pep de Lucia rushed into the dining room to coo hello to his girl friend, Audrey Totter.
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“I USED to work in some dives on Vine street and on Catalina Island,” he whispered, rubbing his towel nervously-on the bar. Beware, he hissed, of highballs with four ice cubes and whisky floating on top. “In those joints the boss insists you get 50 jiggers from a‘ bottle of whisky,” Art explained. “We get from 25 to 30 here. We use the legal one-ounce jigger glass. : : “Sure, the dive bartender keeps the legal jigger ll glass in sight in case an inspector comes around. But under the bar is a jigger with a phony bottom. It holds half an ounce.” To make that half-ounce taste like more, the crafty bartender pours it in the drink after the ice and soda, instead of before like the receipt books says. That means you get straight whisky for the first two sips—and straight soda for the other 45.
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HOLLYWOOD, Aug™18.—As I expected, Columbia studio was quick to reply to my editorial on the Larry Parks suit to break his contract. “This isn't official,” a studio spokesman said, it’s pretty much the feeling at the studio.” The studio, says the spokesman, claims it made Larry ‘s star overnight in “The Jolson Story,” but then hesitated in letting him carry a pictur® because the public didn’t know the real Larry Parks. They knew him only as playing Jolson. So, to establish the Parks personality, the studio first cast him with Rita Hayworth in another musical, “Down to Earth,” then opposite Ellen Drew in an action melodrama, “The Guardsman.” I've been screaming that Larry should have been cast in a light modern comedy opposite a big-name feminine star, and not as a Hayworth coat-holder. “He's definitely not a Hayworth coat-holder,” said the spokesman. “He Bas a wonderful role in the picture. If he clicks with Rita and if “The Guardsman’ makes money without a big feminine star, you'll know Larry can make money for us on his own,” ¢
Dubbed Again: A PARKS fan writes me that she saw a sneak preview of “Down to Earth” and in the picture Larry sings. Only it isn't Larry singing. Nor Jolson. The fan pald she recognized Larry's voice double as Hal Derwin, the radio singer. No wonder Larry is unhappy. In “The Jolson Story” he sings like Jolson and in his very next picture he sings like Hal Derwin. It's rather obvious that Larry should have been
We, the Women
ACCORDING to news items from Tokyo, a for"army officer, now attached to Gen. Douglas cArthur's, reparations section at allied headquarhas married Teruko (Pia) Kurusu, youngest daughter of Saburo Kurusu, the special “peace envoy” at Washington at the time of the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. .. What Aierican, huddled close to his radio on Dec. 7, 1041, would have believed that such, a thing could ever ‘be?
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oxy YOU ever get lonesome up here by yourself?” “No, there's always something going on. a fight or a drunk puts on .a show.” ‘It’s against company ruled to leave the tower but Mr. Aynes fold of the time when he went below | to pull ‘a drunk off the tracks. Ry the time Mr? Aynes got back to his post, the drunk was back on the tracks agsdin. “I asked the police to take care of him. They brought the paddy ‘wagon and tobk him away,” chuckled Mr. Aynes. - After noticing the button which summons his riot squad, I' inquired if he had much trouble with characters who thought they could come up to the tower. Mr. Aynes stepped over to the caboose stove and
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“No one can get up here unless you want them up or this thing breaks and it isn't going to break."
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when I came up. It makes a beautiful target. Just as Mr. Aynes got well into the accolnt of | the 1913 flood and how the men worked to clear’ the debris in Earl Park and then moved on to Lafayette to save the bridge, a train whistle sounded in the distance.
‘Easy Does It “THAT'S THE north engine. I can tell by the He'll be sticking his nose around the corner " said Mr. Aynes, Slow but sure the train chugged
whistle. pretty soon, He was right. into view. Mr. Aynes stepped to his pump and pulled two levers down. When the train reached Maryland st. he hegan ringing the bell. The sound was deafening at close range. . The bell kept ringing after Mr. Aynes let the rope go. He turned his attention to the pump. The gates began‘to go down. After they settled to the street he grabbed the bell rope again and Sianged away. The gates went up with a couple ‘of sharp punips on the handie. The switchman on the last car waved to us. Work slowed up to a walk again. “They're working on my retirement papers right now and I hate to see the day come when I'm led out to pasture, so to speak.” The tower swayed from left to right gently In the breeze Almost like a cradle. Mr, Aynes said it could easily put a man to sleep if he weren't on his toes. The north engine's whistle blasted. going to have some more activity. The bell raised a ruckus, the pump handle went | up and down and the gates settled to the street again. Mr. Aynes waved fo the men on the train. | The “easy-does-it mood” 1 was in sapped all my energy. Didn't move a muscle. “Now when will these trains be coming back?” “Oh, the north engine should be back in a couple hours and the horn sometime after that,” answered Mi. Aynes. “What do you do in the ‘meantime?’ ' “Watch the world go by.' That's for me,
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He also can stuff your highball glass full of ice, which takes the place of the whisky you don't get.
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SECON D SECTION
RUSTIC TRAIL — Miles of trails through the wood
quiet streams invite the visitor to Brown county state park to take
life easy. There is a naturalist service which can maki “instructive, too.
Wooded Hills, Sweeping Valleys, Wildlife
Exhibit Comprise Indiana's Largest Park WHEN HOOSIERS begin planning fall motor trips, their thoughts, nvariably, turn to Brown county state park. Largest of Indiana's parks, it is located near Nashville, 17 miles east of Bloomington, 54 miles south of Indianapolis and easily accessible
“The customer often sends back the drink for! trom any part of the state.
more whisky,” Art said. “If he’s watching, the bar- |
bottle and pretends to pour.’ When it comes to cocktails, the white-coaters are smooth operators. Watch out If the bartender shakes your cocktail like he could hardly bear to let go or leaves it on the electric: mixer while he- goes out to Junch.
A Trick of the Trade “THE LONGER YOU shake, the more ice melts,” confided Art. “You can pour ingo five glasses what you originally Wised for four.” “Of course,” chorused Messrs. Kaehler and De Lucia as we departed for the Players, “that doesn't happen here.” “That doesn’t happen at the Players, either,” in-| sisted our pal Sully, whe: unlike Mr. Kaehler, wears | a white coat and is in pictures. “Mr. (Preston) Sturges wouldn't allow it.
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fore I tended bar for him and acted in his movies, Iimanders Elmer Wooldridge, adjuworked in joints on Main street, in downtown LOS tant: Robert Copeland, finance offi-
Angeles.” c Bartenders there pour whisky into a tipped jigger|e glass, he recalled. It just gets full on one side. Org
they stuff the nose of the bottle into the jigger, which doesn't leave much room for firewater. Then there's the gimmick of watering whisky or pouring a cheap brand into a fancy bottle, whispered Sully. Unless a customer knows that only diluted, bonded whisky has lasting bubbles after it's poured, he's liable to get gypped. “Fancy mixed drinks are easy for a clip joint to make money on,” scoffed -Sully. . “A whisky sour is nothin’ but a fruit salad, lemon juice ,and a lot of orange slices,”
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Lana Turner probably will get the lead opposite | Hollywood” will be held at Warren | She'll play a war Central high school, nurse who makes Gable forget about his wife back! Post rd., Sept. 13.
Clark Gable in “Homecoming.”
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By Erskine’ Johnson Church Youth Plans Benefit Breakfast
Although the park is most widely known for its gorgeous autumn : tender just holds his thumb over the nozzle of the apestiry of red, orange, yellow and, brown foliage, the scenic beauty o
iT ina modern pool; fishing in two
Brown county is equally present at’ beautiful lakes; horseback riding all seasons of the year. = Recrea-|OVer scenic bridle paths; hiking tional facilities include swimming | over shaded trails, and archery onesie | hunting. » ” » BROWN COUNTY state park afso is the scene of one of the largest wildlife exhibits in the state,
The animals include -déér, buffalo, elk, bear and a variety of ani[als and birds native to Indiana. “Playground equipment and a Ray W. Riddle is new commander | Fave pool adjoining the swimof Carl Griffith, Indianapolis rail-| ping pool are facilities for the youngsters, and numerous wvicinc Kenneth |areas add to the pleasure of visiting | families. Park visitors who enter over highway 46 pass through a covered bridge that was constructed in 1838, Although it has been moved from lits original site, the RQridge now
Other new officers are: first vice-commander, second vice-com-
William Moran, chaplain; RobHow-| and
er; rt Raker, sergeant-at-arms; vd Huffman, service officer, much of the lumber that was used
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ton Estep Jr, Frank Benes and a Robert Copeland, executive com-| THE WOODED hills and sweepmittee, ling valleys have been an inspiration Post. Auxiliary officers are: Mrs, to artists the world over. Near the Clara Benes, president; Mrs.- Minnie Park is the home of Theodore C. {McUne, first vice-president; Mrs, Steele, nationally known Hoosier Velma Dawes, second vice-president; artist, who originated the colony of
Mildred Callahan, recording artists in Brown county. A number Mrs. Jacquline Gillis, of his paintings are on exhibit at Mrs Mary | his home near Belmont, where the Mrs. Dorothy | T- C. Steele State Memorial is loMrs. Loretta cated. Pree nature guide service is available in the park and a naturalist is on hand during the summer months
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» ” » ABE MARTIN lodge, situated. on A “Tom Breneman Breakfast in Kin Hubbard Ridge, provides appe- | tizing meals for visitors, and cabins] inestling among the trees around the ridge furnish overnight lodging | space for guests, Each cabin is It will be sponsored bv the young named for one of the characters
10th st. and
dating with millionaire Bob Neal only seven nights, \people’s. Bible class of t. Cumber- | made famous by Abe Martin. Hoo-
a week.
the radio transcribed a la the Crosby show,
Torch for Lupino DANE CLARK is carrying a torch for Ida Lupino. And Bob Walker “is burning over M-G-M's refusal to loan him out as Ida's co-star in the Ben Hecht story, “Miracle in the Rain.” William Eythe is reported quitting the screen for| good. He never quite clicked.
Woody Herman, who gave up his band to sing orf
the radio and make records for Columbia, says he's making twice as much money now and will never return to the bandstand. The first post-war war picture is on the "horizon. The title is “Taps at Dawn” which Curt Bernhardt wants to direct. Gary Cooper is the possible star. RKO! will release “Mourning Becomes Electra” as a three-hour movie with an intermission. The Howard Hughes-Johnny Meyer gags are still popping. Someone said to producer Bill Thomas:
“Why don’t you film “The Johnny Meyer Story?”
Replied Bill, “Too expensive. He spends more on a dinner guest than I do on an actor's salary.”
By Ruth Millett
Or that with world war II so recently won we would be talking seriously of world war III. Or even that in 1947 we would be able to take, as light, amusing summer reading, juicy tidbits uncovered by senate investigations into the whys and wherefores of war contracts,
War Is Far Behind .. MANY FHINGS have -to, pass and are happening today that would have seemed inconceivable, w - back in December, 1941, marriage of A former American army officer : of Kurusu is just one of many “unhelisvible
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land St. John Evangelical and Re-|sier artist and cartoonist, Olivia de Havilland will do a dramatic series on formed Church for a Sunday School | homespun bullding fund,
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Brown- County’s Scenic Beauty Continues To Thrill Visitors
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BROWN COUNTY VIEW — Aver [inspiring views like this. one are common in Brown county state park, When autumn begins its colorful handiwork on the leaves, such vistas. become breathtaking
and world famed. Europe Losing Dollars Rapidly Expert Says U.’S. Must Cut Shipments
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (U.P) .~ Europe fast is running out of dole lars, gold, and credits, the commerce department said today. As a result, United States ships ments for relief and reconstruction soon must be sharply curtailed, the department indicated. Writing ih the Foreign Commerce Weekly, William McCarroll, departs ° mental expert on foreign economics, said U. S. exports to Europe evens tually must be balanced against ime ports. The vast gap between rds requirements and its ability to pay poses “our greatest foreign economie problem today,” Mr. McCarroll ree
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ported. He said that in 1946 goods and services supplied to Europe by the U. 8. exceeded by $5,340,000,000 the return shipments from Europe. The difference was accounted for by American gifts totalling $2130,« 000,000, loans amounting to $2,710,« -1000,000;, and gold and dollar paye | ments of $530 million, Mr. McCarroll | reported. The American surplus of ship {ments, he said, now is accumulate ling even faster than in 1046. As a result, Europe is losing gold and dollars at an even faster rate,
GASOLINE FROM GAS WASHINGTON —- Gasoline ean now be made from natural gas a$ a cost competitive with petroleum products,
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WHAT'S UP, MAC? — Bruin junior, a member of the greeters’ committee in the wild life- exhibit at Brown county park, steps front and center for the entertainment of his fans.
Roark’ s Travels
54th Child of Brigham Young Names Kindness, Devotion, His Shining Traits
Only 2 of the Mormon’s 56 Children Still Whiz 1s the Plate” Monument hety,
Living; Survived by 307 Grandchildren a a a oe
climax of the centennial celebration, By ELDON ROARK, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer Mrs. Sanborn has been married SALT LAKE CITY, Aug; 18.—Mrs. Mabel Young Sanborn, one of | twice. and has three living sons, the two living children of Brigham Young, the Mormon leader, answered |
two in California and one in Wash the door when I called at her home for an interview, and she was a bit [in8ton. D. C. She is a devout mem disturbed.
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of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormon and Mormonisin-—an artic le Peggse to Utah's centennial celebration— | Young had ® a matter of contro- | young men who go out as missions { versy. you not to come” she said. But his unions -31 daughters and 25 look in their eyes. Our young men ‘1 didn't like it.” None of the 56 had any physical | | | WORD-A-DAY MRS. SANBORN 18 a short and She was the 54th child. She wis) fair and smooth for 6ne of 84 years | many gables, which is now a toursonality and sense of humor make statue of a lion over the vestibule. per’ i-pa-tet” 1 | & grandson in a small, two-story | there, and in perfect harmony, ac- | the grandson, a former G. I. Who mpan the father moved some of stairs, and she rents the upstairs, lin 1871, s0 she has a clear memory.| by the Genealogical Society of | kindness and love for his family, | fsters, and works at a table in her | appearance.” talked. And with simplicity and |of Brigham Young is Mrs, Sanborn's . x » He also is survived by 307 grandexact ‘number of ‘wives Beige bronae Agere for he)