Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1947 — Page 13

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Inside Indianapolis

ABOARD THE U. S. S. ROCHESTER. —Field day, I was told this was the day a man could really step out and show his stuff. That was for me: Even at

the crack of dawh witen you're still not all there you -

knew. the coming event was going to be simple by

" the number of swabs, swab handles, soap buckets, sand

buckets and holy stones (halves of boiler bricks) on deck. I fell in with 40 members of reserve divisions 11 to 12 on the ship's bow. Decks were watered and sprinkled with sand. & Coxswain Albert Ray of Boston, was our leader. His instructions were simple. He lined up eight of us along the starboard side of the ship. Each man had a holy stone and a swab handle in front of him. The idea was to take 20 strokes forward and &ft on one piece of teakwood decking before you moved up one toward amidship. We were in our bare feet. “Crews. of eight to 10 men were lined from one end of the ship to the other. Our holy stone forward wall was represented by apprentice seaman Paul Compton, Brockway, Pa.; Dick Zimmerman, Cleveland; John Jay, Pittsburgh; Vince Woomer, Altoona, Pa.; Robert Schmit, Dubuque, Iowa; Louis Furmanski, Philadelphia; Robert Hazen, Elwood, Pa.; Frank Castro, Duquesne, Pa.; 8. 1. George McCabe, and myself. McCabe of the ship's company would set the pace. “All right, count,” ordered the Coxswain. Holy stones moved back and forth three times. A couple of the men including myself lost their holy stones.

Tricky Business

IT'S TRICKY to keep them under your stick. We were ordered to begin again in unison and stay that way. All hands shouted the number of strokes that were taken. “What's the matter with You guys? keep together?” shouted the coxswain.

Can't you

By Ed Sovola

The Indianapolis Times

Time was all we needed. Maybe a little food. You see we started fleld day before breakfast. Our section|

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got into cadence just as my left wrist began to get) numb. ‘It was easy to keep going after that.

prentice seaman John Jay of Pittsburgh was our|

sandman. He kept sprinkling ‘sand under our holy| stones. Plenty of sand and elbow grease is what it takes. - The decks had to be spanking white for

tomorrow we wotlld be in Bermuda. Every so often a man fell out when a holy stone caught him across the toes.

Tiring -on Arms YOU SOON learned to keep your work well in front of you. If it weren't that your arms felt like they were ready to fall off and your back was break-| ing you could say the line of men wofking in unison

was a smart looking sight. - You might even notice the blue sea and drilliant sunrise. The best way in the world to appreciate the amount of teakwood on the main deck is to holy stone| it. About an hour of steady work and you don't feel| a thing. Even your feet don’t feel the coarse sand. | The Coxswain said it would make ours soft and nice| and tender. After the teakwood is all rubbed it's| swabbed with soap and water. Then the hoses are, turned on and the deck washed off. Finally the decks are squeegeed and swabbed dv The wind and the sun dry it off in a hurry to a beautiful white. It looks clean enough to eat your dinner from and you're hungry enough to do just that. But chow is a long way off. In fact it's time for quarters where roll will be taken. After the fleld day gear is put away it will be time for general quarters.

Battle of Century

NEW YORK, Sept. 30.—Over a lengthy span of enforced association with athletes, I met about three whom I admired greatly. Two of them are figuring in this year's World Series, and the other one was a horse. I hope the Yankees win this thing, on account of Messrs, Stanley ‘Harris and Louie Newsom, the two gentlemen I revere for vastly different reasons. 1 am a fan of Mr. Harris because the Yankee man"ager allowed me to practice sportswriting on him for about four years without ever once assaulting me with a bat. This long and painful exercise in self-control finally won Mr. Harris a loyal follower. I will do anything for the man except play hearts with him. You can carry adulation too far. My adulation for Master Newsom, the itinerant pitcher, is built on a different blsis. 1 love Buck because he made me famous. I could win a Pulitzer prize, be elected President of the U. 8, or even become a man of distinction, but those achievements would be as dross alongside my early accomplishment. I shall go down in history as the man who socked Newsom in the jaw.

Many Versions Given THIS HOMERIC feat has ripened, with the years, to the stature of David's tussle with Goliath. There are more versions of it than there are versions of the Battle of Jutland. There are some who say that Newsom knocked me cold. Others claim that I felled Buck with a single swipe. Others say I knocked him down twice, with one hand tied behind me. I propose, for the last time, to present an accurate version of this battle, It was half-dozen years ago, and Mr. Newsom was then employed by the Detroit Tigers. He was winning 13 straight games, or some such number, when we had a falling out over an unpleasant piece I had written. I paid Bobo a call, and he called me a variety of things which sat evilly on a temper already frayed by contact with Mr.

George Preston Marshall, the Washington Redskin -

owner. 1 remember cranking up and dabbing Mr, Newsom daintily on the whiskers. I also remember that

By Robert C Ruark

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he neither blinked nor dropped the coke he was drinking. I remember further that I conceded the | battle then and there, but a combat team of Tigers| would not have it so. They were in the process of | devouring me when I was saved for finer things by Messrs. Henry Greenberg, Charlie Gehringer and Birdie Tebbetts; all noble, upstanding men. This puny battle did nothing to mar the beautiful Ruark-Newsom axis. If anything, it solidified it. Chiefly, it richened my life because all the rest of

Centennial Luncheon

ONE HUNDRED years of rail

it I am allowed to remember that in my youth Ij transportation in Indianapolis will! ;

once had the temerity, while stark sober, to take a, cuff at 230 pounds of successful athlete. It is a beau-| Ibe observed at a centennial lunchtiful memory, and I will fiever have to be brave eon Wednesday at the Hotel Severin. again. Also I have to protect Bobo from here in. State and city officials and busi-

ness, civic and railroad leaders will Technically Finished |

{gather to commemorate the 100th! THE SECOND phase of my admiration- for Mr. anniversary of the arrival of the| Newsom is founded on his indestructability, his mag- first railroad train in the Hoosier

nificent belief in his own talents, and his capacity capital. | for self-dramatization. The Pennsylvania railroad which Buck has been technically finished for the past 10 brought the first train into In-| years or so. But here he is today, somewhere on dianapolis on Oct. 1, 1847 is co-' the starboard side of 40, pitching, and undoubtedly Sponsor of the celebration with the winning, a World ‘Series game. He has busted a Indianapolis chamber of commerce. the bones a guy can bust. = wn = He has worked for everybody in baseball. He " SPEAKERS will include Gov. the only man who ever lost a no-hit ball game. He Gates, Mayor Denny. Paul E.! is the only guy who gee finished a game with .a Feucht, Chicago, vice president of broken leg. the Pennsylvania railroad; C. E. Newsom is the only ‘ui in the world who is as Whitehill, president of the Chamber good as he thinks he is on any particular day. Sur- of Commerce and Harry B. Mec-| round him with sufficient drama, and he will be Neely, veteran transportation man. pitching and winning vital games 10 years from now. |Edwin 8. Pearce, president of Rail-| Assigned to a routine task, he was superbly mediocre, way Service and Supply Co., will be! Buck would have been a better bullfighter than toastmaster. pitcher, but as a pitcher he is good enough for me. | Although the Pennsylvania's| I.hope Mr. Newsom wins the last, crucial game Madison line in Indiana is 115 years of the series for the Yankees, 1-0, in the tenth in- old, 15 years were required to comning, and I hope he wins it by hitting a home run iplete 86 miles of track through to for his boss, Mr. Harris. And I hope it develops [Indianapolis after the original later that he %id it with one broken arm, and a charter was granted in 1832. non-fatal fever of 109. We have to keep this legend a 8 going, or my fame will wither. PART of the reason for the delay The horse? Oh, yes. He came on in the stretch Was the hill between Madison and to win by a short head at 15 to 1. I had 50 bucks North Madison. This 7012 feet plane

Butch Is Busy

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—The senators who invited Dick Rickert, the honest butcher of Shamokin, Pa. to tell the secret of the 39-cent sirloin steaks, have nudged him into a’ mental meat grinder. When the high-cost-of-living sub-committee of Senator Ralph E. Flanders of Vermont, invited him to testify on how he maintains pre-war meat prices at his butcher shop, business began to boom as never And who'll handle the customers lining up

before.

for the 29-cent hamburger, the 15-cent lamb chops

and the 35-cent rib roasts, if the portly Rickert is away making a speech at the lawmakers? This question puzzled Mr. Rickert. He stopped everything finally at his Little Giant Market in Shamokin, got on the long distance phone and asked me if I thought Senator Flanders could find a fill-in butcher while he was explaining the economics of the 19-cent leg of lamb? I told him I doubted it and ‘Mr. Rickert said he guessed then he'd have to send his regrets. “Of course,” added Brother Dick (the name Ws customers have given him), “the dumbest farmer sometimes grows the biggest potatoes. I mean even a jackass like me can come up with an idea and I'd sure like to tell it to those senators, but . . .”

This Is the Deal

SO BROTHER DICK and I made a deal there on the phone. Since he had to stay behind the meat counter, he'd give me the details of his scheme and I'd relay them to the lawmakers. We ran up a whopping telephone bill before we got through, but here's the dope. Dick Rickert, America’s best- known butcher, talking: “My selling meat at these low prices is not the answer to the high cost of living,” he said. “I'm just one little fellow in a little town. I'm not so smart, but I've been in the meat business a long time and

Jots;-and -finally tothe -farmer-who raised the steer. |

Everybody’d have to shave his profits a little. “And another thing: I don’t know why the government’s investigating the meat packers. They've) got to pay the price now to get the animals be- . cause the people are willing to pay the price for meat. It's not the packers’ fault. It's a case «Three Heirs Sharesupply .and demand. And tell those senators I'm|

sorry I can't get away to testify for ‘em. * It's kind!

of their fault, anyway.” that he had S A p

Brother Dick said, as he hung up, to catch up on carving 39-cent sirloins. The pa VALPARAISO, Ind, Sept. 30 (U le ) ~A jury decision in Porter cir-

on his nose. with a 59 per cent grade still is the steepest in the United States. The total elevation remains 413 feet ™ 311 feet to the mile. * The line was completed to GraBy Frederick C. Othman {ham’s fork in November, 1838, to| | Vernon, June, 1839, to Griffiths’ June, 1841, to Scipio, June 1, 1843, to I'd say it's the public's fault, itself, for buying at Elizabeth, Sept. 1, 1843, to Clifty crazy prices. {Creek, Feb. 1, 1844, to Columbus, “But the public does it and that ruins competition.|July 3, 1844 and to Ifidianapolis, Why, a fellow posts cockeyed meat prices on. his Oct. 1, 184 1847. window today and he's not even ashamed of him-! self. And the fellow across the street doesn’t do anything about it, because he likes the high profits, Feene Wemmer too. And the housewife pays the price. So. I'm y afraid she brought this thing on herself.” Brothef Dick paused at this juncture. I could hear him shushing the impatient gustomers. 10 g d p Sslies Suggests One-Week Boycott | Mayoralty candidates Al Feeney, “HELLO,” he resumed. “If the government puts on Democrat, and William H. Wemmer rationing, they'll be patronizing black markets for| Republican, will appear on the prothe thrill of it. But I am a highly publicized jack- |sram of an old-fashioned political ass now and maybe the people will listen. This i s debate at 8 p. m. tomorrow at the all there is to my idea: If every housewife in this| s/ Indiana world war memorial. country would boycott meat for one week and then | | The debate is sponsored by the buy only from a butcher who reduces prices 25 per| eR oan I vir commitiee, cent below what he charged before—that would bring| bib waz 1 veterans organization. dow he cot of met JE Sin sie 4 we ake Ml Yundered if the butchers of America could ag Both Mr. Feeney and Mr. Wein“They'd afford it,” said Brother Dick, “or tea Ti0L JHU Slate huis plains in 13 go out of business. The price cut would go all the spond to questions pid a panel of way back to the wholesalers, the packers, the feed-|newspapermen and radio commer: tators. The open meeting is the first of a series of fall public service pro-! {grams to be sponsored by the AVC

Whatta Party

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 30.—Earl Carpoll has a five-pnd-a-half-acre estate overlooking Beverly Hills and Hollwood that is ideal for mountain climbing, landslides and goats. Every. year Carroll's 60 showgirls, modestly described as “the most-beautiful girls in the world,” give their boss a birthday party. It is a wonderful way to throw a party because the boss pays all the bills and the girls get a night off from his Holywood theaterrestaurant and get to wear clothes for a change. Instead of hiring a hall, the lovelies give the party on the mountainside which Carroll calls home, This year there were nearly a thousand guests, five orchestras, half a dozen bars, searchlights, bouncers, a few movie stars, 384 bald-headed men and a typical Hollywood fight at 3 a. m. between movie villain Steve Cochran and ah unidentified male guest.

Appears on Balcony

1 DIDN'T see Earl the whole eyening. Somebody 2 as 1 1éft that he would make an appearance on e balcony at midnight. This he did, I was later told. From the vantage point of the top terrace, fit looked like everybody in Hollywood was-giving a party in Carroll's backyard. A pretty blond with bare shoulders 0% off her shoes and sat down on the grass. “Whew,” she said. ought to have escalators.” Everyone looked alter climbing up and

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were getting impatient. cuit court gave Mrs. Jeanette Blaikie, Terre Haute; Charles Pelkey of Knox, and John A Kruzick, Valparaiso, each a one-third share of the $50,000 estate of Mrs. Agnes Pelkey Eyke Kruzick, today. Mr. Pelkey, son of Mrs. Kruzick

By Erskine Johnson

down the five terraces to visit as many different bars which ‘bore such names as “Moscow Mule,” “Cham- ; pagne-Ola” and “Tequila Monster." {by a former marriage, contended Steve Cochran made his appearance on SO Mps. Blaikie ad no wight 1 No. 4—the one with the “Moscow Mule” bar. Steve! share In the pn because She was saw an unidentified guest slap his feminine com- 8 und SM he vii panion and immediately took a swing at said Mr. ww ok OF EE pd U. G. The latter struck back and, in the melee, a 8 pyke, Terre Haute manufactorer Carroll beauty named Jan Hilton stopped somebody's |; rd 10 prevent 3 rati : fist with one of her pretty little eyes, which now is a 8 OI%eF 19 preven a sipara’ on. lovely shade of blue. Mr. Eke died 1937, having lus Twelve husky bouncers, hired to protect the most Serr ep Io. sang Qaughler beautiful girls in the world, slid down the mountainside to Terrace No. 4, and that was the end of the |

fight. ." ope Aid in Red. Probe - Mingling Can Be F un | WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (U. P.). 1 ASKED Beryl Wallace, who is the star of —President Eric Johnston of the Carroll's show, where all the co-hostesses were keeping Motion Picture Association of themselves. | America promised today that the “Oh,” she said, “they're mingling.” . industry would co-operate fully witn There were never less than 200 people queued up in'the house un-American activities the food line. One of the waiters guessed they would committee in exposing any. Comserve akout a ton of spareribs, baked beans and munists in Hollywood. potato salad, In a letter to Committee Chair1 asked a young “lady from St. Louis, who ‘confessed man J. Parnell Thomas (R. N. J.) that she had no idea why she was invited to the Mr. Johnsion said the poevie magparty, to give me a report on the decor of the powder nates welcome the forthComing inroom. She came back shaking her head. " quiry -into subversive activities in “There's a Imewp, there, 100." ” the fim capital.

Film Capital ital Pledges

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Planned at Severin |

‘rana’'s 156th state park.

= 7 Century Of Hoosier Railroading

"Here Tomorrow

READY TO ROLL—Though refirec 1. this. old Pens

1 condition to operate. It | between Madit is believed to be the first mount a grade of about six

ogs and rack rail.

THE LONG PULL—One of the difficult engineering feats in railroad history was the construction more that 110 years ago of the Pennsylvania railroad's line of the hill at Madison, Ind. Built on a 5.9 per cent grade, it is the steepest in this country Bordering embankments, cut by hand, are nearly 100 Joo! high.

e ‘Monday Deadline

Cat: Like Fugitive Eludes Police For Registration

CENTENNIAL SPEAK-. ER—Paul E. Feucht, Penn- | sylvania railroad vice presi- |- dant, Chicago, will address dinner quests at the Severin hotel tomorrow as the | company celebrates - the |00th anniversary of the arrival of its first train in Indianapolis. ~~

Jukebox Fan Mrs. Manners

Fired on Twice | Voters to Sign Up A cat-like man with buck teeth) Has Moved A final appeal was issued today ! and a hankering for jukebox music| both Democratic. and Republic’ |lay= i hiding today, probably] headquarters for all citizens of I

{dianapolis to see that they a wounded, affer eluding police by registered t t s le climbing buildings. registered to vote in the Nov. 4 ele

Sha by Lill es’ y i y (tion before the deadline next Mo apped in a blind -alley behind | iday.

The “Save the Shades” campaign es Cleaners at 658 E. 16th st. | All voters who failed to cast bi was substantially boosted today by | the man climbed a fence and leaped llots in either of the 1946 electio: 4 5.000 plage irom the EU LIVI pre fool of u se-siory Bulging a ah tot setts Pharmaceutical Co. las patrolmen John Mickey and get their names on the poll boc Company officials said the money, Talbert Grimes fired at him. before the deadline. to be taken from Lilly Endowment,| ‘The fugitive then raced across All voters who cast ballots eith poss will be made available only(the roof top and scaled a sesguary in May or November last year $300,000 goal would be story building from which

not have to register. dropped to the ground. The he Branch offices for registration w 'men fired again and the fugitive

be open from 2 p. m. 10.9 p. | gh Indiana school system, nearly oried out, but made his escape, at the following places: stale banks-and various civic TODAY Tae a Jarticipated in the {drive to secure the picturesque area near Crawfordsville for the state so that it could be developed as Indi-

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Photo Winners Due Tomorrow

The police were called on a re- ‘The best entries received in the rt that someone was trying 10 eighth week of the Times Amateur enter the cleaning establishment. photo contest. will be published in They found a window broken and tomorrow’s Times. the fugitive lurking in a blind alley The eighth week division closed at |in the rear armed with a brick. midnight last Friday. Photos now

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Rhodius park community hou: The man had been reported earlier being received will be judged for the Rhodius park.

i War Dead Due (in a restaurant near the scene drop- ninth week which ends at midnight Wither's drug store, 1243 Oliver. I u. S. 0 26 ping nickels in a juke box. Wit- Friday. The contest will continue TOMORROW n ct. nesses said he stood around nerv- weekly as long as suitable entries School 7, 748 Bates. NEW YORK, Sept. 30 (U. P.) {ously while the box played, then are received. A top prize of 85 Is School 6, 702 Union. The first war dead from Europe are | hurried out when it finished. awarded. ‘Honorable mention photos School 12, 733 8. West St. “scheduled to arrive in the United] —— are published in addition to the School 13, 714 Buchanan,

states Oct. 26, the army's New ‘Peeping Tom’ Suspect Qame of the winther, | School 28, 931 Fletcher. York port of embarkation in Brook- | ¢ t d R § The contest is open to all ama- Pire Station 30, 340 8. New Jerse lyn said today. apiure on 00 teurs whose chief source of income! Fire Station 13, 102 Kentucky a\ The Joseph V. Connolly, with a| Mrs. Lucy Keating, 62, of the Is not derived from photographic m——————— capacity of 6300 bodies, will bring Spencer hotel, told police last night york. Any number of prints may Cafe Register Looted the-men-who-died-in-the-battie-of{a-man. believed. armed was lurking submitted by an individual the Bulge. jon the rooftop near her window. Prin may be of any size but they AS Youth Snoozes The first American war dead to! A police squad climbed the roof must be in black and white. An undetermined amount of ca be returned were scheduled to ar- and captured Joseph R. Powell, 21 On the back of each picture must was” taken from the cash registc rive in San Francisco Oct. 10, when | of Kokomo. He allegedly said he!P¢ Written the photographer's name. of the Hurryburger restaurant, 29¢. the Horido Knot will bring 3500 | was peeping after attending a Addregs, telephone number, type N. Ilihols st. while John C. Bar: men who died at Pearl Harbor | burlesque show. camera and film used, shutter speed, 17 of 316 N. Rural st, was aslee) ———————— eee ee. dlAphragm opening, type lighting. in the basement, police said toda: All photos become the property of The safe had been battered, bu the Indianapolis Times and the de- not opened. cision of the judges is final. 5 an ee Mail or bring photos to: Amateur CORINTHIAN OES TO MEET Photo Contest, Indianapolis Times, Corinthian chapter, O. E. §, w 214 W. Maryland st. Indianapolis 9. eek at 8 p. m. tomorrow at 251

Washington st. Mrs. Sarah Asks Clarification * Hollon is worthy matron. Mauri 0f River Right

Hollon is worthy patron. The Public Service Co. of Indi- | ana has filed suit in Superior court here, asking legal clarification of | (White river water rights at River- | wood, five miles north of Nobles- | ville, The suit involves interpretlion | of a 25-year-old agreement on witer rights granted the White River Corp. The corporation was formed years ago by the Indianapolis | Water Co. and the Noblesville Power and Light Co. | R. A. Gallagher, Public ‘Service| Co. president, sald the suit was| filed to clear the way for construc-| [tion of a new $12,000,000 genrating! plant at Riverwood:

VANDALS DAMAGE ROME Willlam 8. Akin, Indianapolis ad vertising man, today reported to |ENREN police that vandals last night dam- |e ‘aged his new home on Pleasant Run pkwy., South dr. now under con“struction, ‘The vandals hurled rocks

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