Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1947 — Page 11

FROM NOW ON A match-book-cover lying on the street, sidewalk or gutter will have a new meaning. I'm going to learn some geography. It all came about from attending a little clambake of the United Matchonians, an outfit which is devoted to collecting match-book-covers. : Robert Pickard, 467 N. Concord st. played host for the evening. As one who flips an empty cover away with utter abandon, I was shown Mr, Pickard’s collection before the little group started to talk shop. All I could do was whistle and wish I had a nickel for every cover Mr. Pickard had. You can tell what kind of a collector I am. “I have more than 25,000 different kinds of mafch-book-covers from every state in the country and maybe another 25,000 in duplicates,” Mr. Pickard said. I looked in the direction .of Cal Eastwood and. . Wesley Westenhoter, Mr. Pickard's friends and felJow Matchonians,

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Mr. Fastwood said he was ashamed to say he had approximately 6000. Mr. Westenhofer said his collection was well over 8000. .. Mr. Pickard hauled out his collection and asked me to name my home town. He picked out the Indiana album ang turned to Hammond. It was incredible to recognize eovers from several pubs, restaurants, hotels and gasoline stations. "I tried several other cities such as Peoria, Ill, Los Angeles, ‘Tucson, San Francisco. Mr. Pickard had

"I'LL TRADE YOU EVEN"—Cal Eastwood (left) inspects Robert Pickard's 25,000 match-book-cover collection with an eye for acquisi-

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covers from each. Then I mentioned the notorious little hamlet of Calumet City, Ill. It was like old| home week looking at those match covers. Matchonians, I learned, aré ‘loeated all over he world. They have their own monthly magazine, The | United., This year the orggnization is having a con-| vention in Atlantic City, N. J. And the trading, buy-| ing, and correspondence they ary on would make your head swim,

Westenhofer had such small collections. “While we wete in the service we stopped collecting. Bob was in the service, too, but he didn’t stop.” The men indulged in a little of that conversation. }. Mr. Eastwood told how he and Mr. Westenhofer: went to the Memorial Day race at the Speedway in 1938 and picked up 900 different kinds of covers.

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More Navy Ammunition in Storage tims + wy At Crane Depot Than During War

“Wes and ‘I went under the grandstands at 11 in| a

the morning and didn't come out until 20 minutes of six. We had to ask who won the race but we sure had a field day picking up covers,” sald Mr. Eastwood.

Mr. Pickard asked his friends if they had seen’ SS

the new cover from Marott hotel and Block's, They hadn't but after they did it was agreed that the old cover from Marott hotel was prettier than the new) one. | Interest in match-book-cover collecting isn't limited to the men alone. Mrs. Eastwood and Mrs. Pickard were there taking part in the discussion and] the trading. Mrs. Westenhofer couldn't come to| the meeting. | The best system the men use in expanding their collections is simple. They buy boxes of 50 books. | One is put in the collection and the other 49 are| sent to members all over the country. Trading is| Usually done with batches of 50.

Some Covers Worth $20

A GOOD COLLECTOR keeps a stock level sys-| tem,! index of trading members and advertises in the magazine, The most valuable covers are from the wii] Some covers from U. 8. warships which have been lost are valued at $20.. Next in value are the “girlie” | covers, hotels, cafe and service station covers, I cast an appreciative eye on the cute figures) which adorn the “girlie” covers. Mr. Pickard promptly | handed me a set of five. I hated to take them for] free so I offered to trade my only cover which had! a candy advertisement on it, | My specimen was worthless. Any nationally advertised product on a cover is taboo with Maich-| onians. A cover has to have an address on it and] the “nationals” don't have. In other words, it has| to have geography. . | But the. geography isn't the only good point | match-book-cover collecting has, Mrs, Eastwood! said. “It’s interesting to work at, we get to correspond! with people from all walks of life and best of all it's! fine with Cal's dispdsition,” she said. What more can you ask of a hobby?

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— NAPLES, Italy, Aug. 26—My favorite spot in Naples is Zi Teresa, a waterfront cafe off the Via [Partenope, overlooking the crumbling old Castel dell’ Ovo and the blue bay. The food is pretty good here, 1 suppose, but I go strictly to witch the tenors. The Teresa has.a band, a loud one. So does the Bersaglieri, down at the other end, Tenors sing with both bands. Tenors, operating independently of both orchestras, patrol the mid-section, bursting their lungs. It is a wonderful thing to sit, picking at a dish of frutta del mare, and hear the combined effect. The band on the left is playing “O Sole Mio,” and two tenors are killing themselves on the high notes. Off at the other end, out of deference 0 a visiting foreigner, the band will be playing “Beat Me Daddy,” while the tenors fight a losing battle to U. S. Jive-talk.

Tenors and Spaghetti

I HAVE been studying tenors for years, and have reached the conclusion that they are not as you and I. They are an isolated breed, like the duckbilled platypus, and should not be subjected to the rules applicable to average mankind. Tenors have souls full of pain. Other people sing when they are happy but tenors are sad when they sing, and their souls flutter, as tangibly as little birds, around their back-thrown heads. Neapolitan tenors are the greatest tenors in the world, in all ways. They quiver until their bodies are little better than a blur, and every note that comes out is tremolo. They squinch up their eyes tighter than other tenors, Also they are the proudest tenors in the world. There is, for instance, a situation seething over

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In Hollywood

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 26.—Hal Wallis is coming back from England, where he just completed filming “So Evil My Love,” with one of the prize show business stories of all time. While in Brussels for the film festival, Mr, Wallis met a Polish film exhibitor, fellow by the name of Boris Jankolovics. “Because of you,” said Boris, “I spent four and a half years in a Nazi prison camp. I showed your’ picture, ‘Confessions of a Nazi Spy,’ before Hitler invaded Poland. When the Nazis came they arrested me.” “I'm terribly sorry,” said Wallis, “Don’t worry ‘about it,” beamed Boris.. Sure did terrific business.” Mr, Wallis also reports that “The Lost Weekend" is doing terrific business in Pari but no one can understand how Milland could get drunk on only three bottles of whisky in an afternoon.

Modern Youth

JOAN CRAWFORD'S adopted daughter, Christina, hag BK only one of Mama's films, “Dancing

“The pic-

By Robert C. Ruark | |

at Capri which may only be settled in blood. In the | Gatto Bianco ristorante, there is a tenor who looks | like a starved rat, but who fancies himself as 8 Caruso with a Victor Mature chassis. When he sings to you, he gets his elbow in the! spaghetti, and if you are not careful you are apt to stab him with the fork. He believes in working close to the audience. I did a horrible thing to this tenor. I ‘vearied of him, after a couple of renditions of “Sorrento,” and 1 discovered that the chef was a reformed opera singer .with a lusty baritone. So I snuck back into the kitchen, blessed the chef with lire, and in a moment he came out, greasy apron and all,

Artistry Insulted

HE STOOD in the middle of the restaurant, and| he sang all the baritone parts in all the operas, while| my tenor quavered ineffectually in a corner. This! occurred on the second night, and now there is nothing but strife. The tenor has threatened to kill the cook, kill me, and throw himself off the cliff where the Emperor Tiberius used to dunk his passe girl friends. The cook is striking for higher wages, and the | guitar player ic sulking because he has to accompany the cook. The manager is vergihg on a nervous break- | down, and it's all my fault, But that isn'{ as bad as what my ever-loving did to one of the tenors in Zi Teresa. After contributing twice to the passed 'gift-tray, she refused a further donation when the tenor came arqund again. “What's the matter, don't you like my voice?” the tenor asked. “No,” she said, eruelly. That was a week ago. The tenor has not been seen since.

« By Erskine Johnson 113,000 different items of stock such! |as spare parts, underwater or nance, equipment,

Lady,” Joan says her most recent pjctures have in- | volved too many adult problems. But Christina

wailing: “A}l my gir] friends have seen all of your pictures. I don't even know what Mildred Pierce! did.”

blown leading lady role with heavy dramatics. It) looks like her chance has come in the lead ‘opposite Zachary Scott in “Prelude to Night,” for Arthur| Lyons. But there's a joker, too—at the opening of the film she'll be seen as a girl of 13,

Our Gang ‘Heroine 21

REMEMBER the blond héart- breaker in Our| Gang comedies? Her name was Jaqua Lynn. She! Just turned 21 and is being prepared for her grown- | up bow in films by Ben Bard, the Hollywood dramatic | coach. | In addition to its English problem, Hollywood is! worried about & black ‘market in 16 mm. prints, Out- | law outfits are rénting current pictures. One black market company is even renting out a 16 mm. version of “Duel In the Sun.”

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NEW YORK, Aug. 26.—Franz Polgar often feels like a heel. He hypnotizes people. They forget their But soon he must

“It is a so brief respite from their many problems,” explained Mr. Polgar, 47, the only professional hypnotist listed in Who's Who. “Americans are so worried and frustrated that they leap at any chance to forget. , “To be hypnotized, of course, is to be put to sleep. And to be put to sleep is lovely if your are unpleasant. Sometimes my clients wear composed expressions that I feel myself exto break the spell” Mr. Polgar completed 25 years of hypnotic work Soar. wi with more than 150,000 individual cases be-

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“crry DWELLERS are much easier to hypnotize than country folks,” he added. “I cannot say for but I believe it is because the country person is

better adjusted. To him, life is more simple. To the

By Robert Richards

America existed largely on the stage,” he said, “Jt was! |. done with stooges and“ many times was phoney. It! took me five long years before I could erase the |

prejudice thus created and be accepted by educated people.” Now he Jeetures regularly in universities from coast to coast. Mr. of Yugoslavia and in 1930 the Nazis approached him on the subject of working with Hitler. “But a very good hypnotist named Erich Hanussen had "already worked with Hitler,” he said. “When Hanussen learned too much, they knocked him off. 80 naturally I declined with thanks.” «

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feet of covered storage space and 4,443,367 square feet outside stor. | conditioned and stored in ware- - ho |nee.

|tons per month and prepares the

Diana Lynn, who joined Paramount at the age billing for approximately 117 shipof 13, has been waiting seven years to play a full- ments of ammunition material as

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Polgar once hypnotized former King Peter |i

IN RESERVE These forpedc tbes at at the Crane naval ammunition depot are ready

for instant shipment.

DANGER, EXPLOSIVES — Thousands of gow and shell n stud the grounds of the depot. More material is stored now .than at the war. The navy is prepared for action.

FOR CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES — Here | in this navy 600-unit housing project live 1800 people. The men are part of the. 2380 employed to ioep, fhe depot. in top running order.

110Sq. Mi. Indiana Area Filled With Explosives)

And Parts to Be Reconditioned for Fleet

By VICTOR PETERSON Times Staff Writer 3 CRANE. Ind. Aug. 26.—The U. 8. naval ammunition depot here 1s

one assurance that this country never again will be caught short if!

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| war should come.

Today this depot alone, the largest in the nation could supply the American fleet with needed materials long enough to get all assembly

lines reopened and personnel hired.

Capt. J. H. Jacobson, USN, com manding officer, estimates that \are operating on limited production

within a month from the date a '© SuPPly fleet practice needs. Other plants are in a stand-by condition given, the depot could begin funnel. '0, begin operation almost at a ing war goods at peak production. moment's notice. Today more supplies of all types Mountains of material in the of explosives and components are form of used cannisters, unfired stored here than at any time dur- Shells, bombs and the like are piled ing the war. In all there are more 8CTe on acre. These have been brought back Supply alone has 1202223 square {from battle stations the world over. Here they are being checked, re-

ouses for any eventuality. Normally must of this would have | been junked or sold for berap. But d- not today. The theme is on salsmall arms and infantly| vage, economy and preparedness, automotive equipment | As one example alone, cannisters| and automotive and tractor spare for small projectiles, which origArts. inally cost about seven dollars each, Today are being reconditioned rather than | junked. One plant alone has an assembly line set up for this operation,

The department handles about|

it handles about 45044

{well as 800 shipments of ordnance ne NATURALLY THE civilian employment figure of 2380 does not begin to compare with the 9600 wartime peak. The depot today almost is entirely storage. Neverthe-

{and automotive equipment. » ~ » THE THOUSANDS of concrete magazines are: filled, warehouses jammed - with non-explosive many assembly plants

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magazines d such’ as this one any time during

| million which Is Crane, which is one of five in-

naval gun factory at Washington, D C, Mare Island, Pear] Harbor

land depots, directly supplies the

HEAD MAN—Capt. J. H. Jacobson, USN, Crane commanding officer, supervises activity at the nation's largest ammunition and ordnance depot.

MOUNTAINS OF MATERIAL—Acre on acre of ground is covered at Crane with war goods shipped back from battle stations for salvage. Preparedness and economy go, hand-in-hand at the huge depot.

distributed to workers from 15 counties.

and Guam and Saipan. These in turn furnish material to smaller stations. Grounds for the depot cover iii square miles and are crisscrossed by 322 miles of improved highways

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less, the annual payroll runs to $6

PETALUMA, Cal,

Petaluma, Cal., Calls Itself "The World's Egg Basket’

One Hatchery Sets 1,800,000 Eggs af One Time; ‘Has 40,000 Hens, 65 Roosters

By ELDON ROARK, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer "Aug. 26.—This town takes pride in calling itself

“The World's Egg Basket.” It is the capital of the largest poultry pro-

ducing section in America,

20,000 fowls. And here in town you see hatch | eries, feed stores, frucking termi-| nals, egg-storage plants-*and even a chicken drugstore.

Today 1 ‘visited ‘the Sales and |

| | Bourke hatchery, said to be the’

largest in the world “under one roof.” W. A. Devitt, assistant mana- | ger gave me some facts about it, They can set 1,800,000 eggs at one time in their 18 enormous incuba-| tors. In one war year they hatched five million chicks. Normally they! hatch from two to three million. The busy season is from January to May. ” » LJ

THE HATCHERY has 40,000 hens |

ston its own ranches, and has 100,000

other. hens under contract. /“And we furnish the roosters for | the contract flocks .and supervise] them,” Mr. Devitt said. “The ratio is usually 65 roosters for 1000 hens.” | The hatchery specializes in white | leghorns (for eggs), new hampshire reds (for meat), and black austra~ lorps (for both). They also produce

.|some austra-whites, a cross between

a leghorn and an australorp. They are increasing in pdpularity because they arc better winter layers. The period of incubation is 21 days. (Chicks are shipped 12 hours

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y many as

Drive around the surrounding hills for miles and miles, and you pass one chicken ranch after another. They have flocks ranging from 1000 to

price of chicks. Right now straight- !

{run chicks—roosters “and pullets mixed, just as they come from the |incubator—are 19¢ each. And sexed chicks—guaranteed 95 per cent pul\lets—are 40c each. » ” » | THE HATCHERY employs five, sexers, and they sex from 500 to 800 ‘chicks an hour. They work under| \strong ‘lights, grab chicks, take a fast look, and separate the males from the females, “It's work that requires a quick, Mr. Devitt said. “Oniy one person out of six who starts in to become a sexer ever makes good, It usually takes about two years to reach the required speed.” Everybody wants pullets, but few want the young roosters. Durifig |periods of top production in the spring, they sell for as low as two cents, And even then there is sometimes.no market for them. Bo thousands are drowned, That, hatchery men say, is the fastest and easiest dedth, ¥

male and 50 per cent female.

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| Jerry Stevens, 179 N. Post rd.

Eggs hatch out about 50 per cent,

On the fifth day after eggs are [ placed in an incubator, they are,

as 10 per cent are found in- | edible——and "are sold to

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and 105 miles of railroad tracks. And everything is kept in “spit and polish” condition, If the government ever need call on this depot in an emergency, it will .be ready to respond immediately,

Ralph Taylor Attending 'AAF_ Medical School

Pvt, Ralph Taylor, son of Mrs. ary Taylor, 502 N. DeQuinecy st., is"attending the course for medical corpsmen at the Air University School of Aviation Medicine, Ran~ dolph field, Texas, The intensive four weeks course, covering 1§0 hours of instruction, i8 given toltrain basic medical department enlisted men to perform the duties of medical corpsmen in medical installations in the army air forces.

Group Plans Picnic

The Cumberland Homemakers will hold a family picnic at 6:30 p. m. Thursday at the home of Mrs,

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