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Inside Indianapolis

WHEN YOU'VE GOT a good thing take advantage

this weather we've been havinga ¥ Get out in the open, feel and hear the soft crunch On a quiet sweet-smelling air and start living. No, I'm not which they

have to sit in the office all day? Frank Wallace, state entomologist, knows this Frankly. 1 Florida-California stuff isn't going to last and he's making solo fl

; “Mr. Wallace was on the. lookout for aeronbutic . of it, That's a little maxim I dreamed up especially spiders. . These little critters are supposed to.know when the last, good fall day comes around,

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By Ed Sovola

“SBOOND SECTION"

, warm day, Mr, Wallace said, you can

of fallen leaves under your feet. Fillyour lungs with see "them floating through the air on long threads pin. Their takeoff point is any high " ¥ %

preaching rebellion in the ranks. Is it my fault you spot such as a fence post or stump. The power comes from warm air rising. {

didn't want to see any balloon spiders ights. This weather can stay here until

n also making the most of it. Of course, Mr. Wallace next April and then get better as far as I'm ee OoOusli ng ! O

Is paid to get out in the open, and commune with concerned. On the other hand, how can a spider

nature. I'll say it was good luck that T found Mr. Wallace

entomologist (insect expert) planned to take pictures of trees and flowers : “Need an assistant?”

know why.

Settle for Ice Cream Bar toes SLOW-SPEAKING Mr, Wallace said an assistantship for the afternoon was worth one ice cream bar.

I accepted. bright foliage

I don't know why the Smoky Mountains seemed ‘wallace made things better by giving 'a short botany!

80 appealing. Mr. Wallace also thought the Smokies jecture as we were fine but my sales talk fell flat. We were going He pointed to Woollen’s Gardens on State Road 534 and Fall / this AOWEr Ww Creek Pkwy.

aster family.

sycamore or

buckeyes. "An especi Wallace stop was going int

it would be a

our safari to “Ginger,” has its flavor

the flavor. A fallen t death by sa thought he sapsuckers. We found

po have been in % COMMUNING WITH NATURE-State Entomologist Frank Wallace says the Florida-Cali-fornia weather isn't here to stay. else.

A Bobby-Sox Riot

doesn’t it?” “Spoken a

know when the weather is going to change? Mr. Wallace plowed through the u : preparing to head out in the open yesterday. The jf ne had er ee of a her. nServeush a

“Chiggers are all gone for the vear he said. “In that case,” I said, “I'l quit walking on my,

Mr. Wallace is an expert on insect life but he

isn't bad on trees, flowers and weeds either. I would have been content just to look at the

know “Farewell to Summer” is the small, white flower with the yellow center! It belongs to the |

It was surprising to™learn there are so many | different kinds of trees around these parts. A tee isn’t just®a t

beeches. lindens, basswoods, tulip poplars and

Hard to Shinny Up |

MY ONLY THOUGHT on the buckeye was that

A whole hillside of vivid green leaves brought!

Well, we tasted the ginger root and it didn't have

stumped. He clipped the blossoms and put them behind his hatband. . At his office he'd look them up. | “No, the colors this vear aren't as brilliant as they

» «Still beats being cooped up in an office, though,

On an afternoon like that, I wouldn't be anything |

By Frederick C. Othman |

and enjoy the forest primeval, but Mr.

hoofed. { out “Farewell to Summer.” 1 had seen | any times. You may be interested to)

ree to Mr. Wallace. It's an oak or a an elm. He put his finger on ashes,

ally rough-barked buckeye made Mr. and whip out his camera.’ This one" o the files

i n awful tree to shinny up |

a halt. { sald Mr. Wallace. “I wonder if it still

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ulip poplar which had been jabbed to psuckers got Mr. Wallace excited. 1 was going to declare open war on

three flowers that had Mr. Wallace other years,” Mr. Wallace remarked. s a true woodsman.” Mr. Wallace said.

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erush of females outside the House caucus room.

throb voice was inside. All that kept the ladies out were a couple of heavy

applauding.

of minor impedimenta with one magnificent shove.

Juries?

steam radiator, stepped on the edge of a swivel chair, and blooie! The cops hauled her downstairs where the congressional nurse swabbed the blood off her face and took a couple of stitches in her scalp.

THOMAS

erest of the wave) was blinking his eyes under the of officers. spotlights and biting his lips between questions of the Un-American Activities Committee,

Handsome Film Hero, : HE WAS a glum-looking movie hero in a brown suit, who denounced Hollywood Communists in a

voice so low it couldn't compete with the whirring of him. They walked out on him en masse, making $0! same realty company. Four months much noise that Mr, Thomas had to call another ago a veteran bought the house. a trailer out of crate lumber sup- could offer “parking space for the a nice bunch of fellows,” Mr. Bur- ...iotain a home for them himself. trailer, but that was about “It's about the size and shape of cause he, too, had a big family and

the movie cameras and the excited chattering of the ladies. Chairman J. Parnell Thomas of New Jersey, recess. who functioned as director, repeatedly banged his

actor to speak up. The trouble was that every time Mr. Taylor said Worker. He

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23-1 never did see such a ladies outside so the doors could be closed. n- | fully the bluecoats accomplished this, but the ladies| Tay JJassic prof +. inside—who still had seen nothing but the back of Robert Taylor of the classic profile and the heart rs al (wiiicn nected # i eat or

“This is not a show,” cried Director Thomas, bangmahogany doors and 19 cops. The ladies took care ing his gavel. “The audience must not applaud.” : The ladies subsided and Mr. Tavlyr wound up his, pers of the Paul Burnett family. The baby is with an aunt in a furnished room ? idd] " tely, with y foot- i sayi ‘d never work in a movie : : he Le ban neimet, But why should I moan about lr a Mrs. Burnett, Jack, 4: Frank, 8: Paul Harvey, 5: Mr. Burnett and Rosalie, 7. After the picture was taken they drove off again, in their so far

ball helmet. But why should I moan about my in- with a Communist if he knew it. In answer to a J couple of leading questions, he complimented the fruitless search for a house.

One of the ladies spilled red blood in a vain committee on its work. And then the problem was) attempt to see her hero; she tried to climb off a getting him out.

Hooray, Hooray, Hooray

while the witness left. “Hooray, hooray, hooray, The cause of the riot (I got in, all right, on the cried one shrill voice as Mr, Taylor joined a phalanx

They surrounded him like guards marching a condemned man to the guillotine and deposited him Tea safely in a taxicab, amid squeals from ladies who today for a “hearing.

never did get into the hearing, an - —— : The chairman called the next witness, Howard For eight years 33-year-old Paul he needed a place to live himself,

Rushmore, but none of the female was interested in| Burnett, rented a house from the $0 he moved out in two weeks,

When eventually Mr. Rushmore got the chance to !little Burnetts had to move,

gavel, toM the ladies to pipe down, and urged the testify, he told perhaps the best story of all. He x» used to be a Communist movie critic on the Daily

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Daddy's Gone Hunting for Home, but

Meantime Family of Six Live in 1931 Buick | By ROBERT BLOEM { yn.

regular house car,

TOLD the ladies to keep their seats

THREE MEN on a horse is comical But there's nothing funny about a family of six forced by the acute shortage of rental housing to live 24 hours a day in a 1931 Buick, The joint congressional committee on housing came to Indianapolis Well, Congressmen, here's something you just!

Burnett decided it was

have to see in order to believe it. thing—a down payment.

Anyway, Mr. Burnett

Mr. Burnett, Mrs. Burnett and five plied by his employer.

a big dog house” he says ruefully. only a three-room house. THE NEW OWNER wasn't tough

back to Russia, or feeling complimented when they it was worse than that. Mr. Rushmore said it wasn’t. live. But Mr. Burnett figured the want it. Some objected to the large! jusioned. Since that time

fnsulted him, the ladies applauded. They clapped One thing led to another, He got sore and quit, not new owner bought the home because family—"too many kids,” they %aid. ents and four of the youngsters, was a “good workman and can have no house.

only his job, A few mo!

their hands and they cheered. Mr. Thomas finally called a two-minute recess to

but the Community Party, too.

eonfer with the cops. He told '’em not to be afraid, less strenuous employment. Movie stars I can take,

but to stick out their chests and force the excess but their admirers are dangerous.

Gossip’s Wrong

Be Housing Woes: Family of 8 Refining Company Windshield Hit by Pumpkin; Seeks Charter

Tires of Living in Jail Mother, 29, Wants a Home So Kids Can Play;

By Erskine Johnson | 2 Oldest Children Live With Grandmother

Articles “of {incorporat

Bim

HOLL OOD, Oct. 23—Back-sta ossip to the I didn't recognize him visiting an RKO set. He's OLLYWOOD ge gossip . k 8 8 through the -bars on her window today and said she wished her of state's office by officials of the family could find a real home. newly organized R. J. Oil & Rec-

contrary, Loretta Young swears she and Cary Grant still on milk

hit it off fine as. co-stars of “The Bishop's Wife.” screen. RKO wanted to give him another gangster

She told me: role in “The “1 was worried about working with Cary, so I i€ holding ou talked to Irene Dunne and Myrna Loy before start- I L ing the picture. They told me: ‘He'll wear you n ove down, Lorefta, but only because he's such a per-

I don’t think Sam Goldwyn ever did’

No Greetings From Olivia ‘JOAN FONTAINE celebrated her 10th anniversary

licity? 1 ser anyone—exce The} New

in Hollywood. Nn, Olivia de Havilland didn't send out tiny plastic bathtubs to herald Cecil B. DeMille’s

her congratulations. new movie,

Lawrence (Dillinger) Tierney looks so well that one look at it and said, “Corny.”

Gifts Help Boy's Fight for Life

Estranged Mate

" - i If | ST. LOUIS, Oct. 23 (UP)—Ex- To ur State | 3 | pressions of sympathy and more

than $1000 in cash poured in today to aid cheerful Jimmy Blount in

ROCKFORD, Ill, Oct. 23 (UP) Burlie O'Donnell, 41, killed his wife his fight for life. and himself yesterday after five years of domestic trouble. from tuberculosis meningitis O Donnell drove up in a car and needs continued doses of the stopped his wife, Evelyn, 39, as she! pensive drug streptomycin, was walking to work al a container plant, where she was a secretary James O. Blount, are not well Mrs. Beulsh Collins, with whom Generous persons, however, I

ghe left her hushand a month ago, the drug which doctors say is walked on ahead. O'Donnell got out only thing that can help him. of the car, seized his wife and dragged her behind a lumber yard offer of free hospitalization at fence. National Jewish Hospital m

Conrad Pearson, a bystander, said tained -by B'nai B'rith at Denver, he saw Mrs. O'Donnell break loose Colo, on the @dvice of his physician, and run. Pearson started to her who pointed out that the effort of aid. but O'Donnell drew a pistol traveling and the lack of visits

from his pocket and fired at his from his family might have an

wife. verse effect on the boy's chances To a, Then he shot himself, They both for récovery Banks, Fairmount; Byron V. Hoo- sulamebtie Tustors. He said he was : i 8 self, : . ver. Carlisle.” and Biiwin J. Seng offered a five-room flat recently Three teen-agers received minor died. w————— ene ’ “y io ' injuries yesterday when they were

mem SE Chiang Defeat Predicted *™" Without U. S. Support Standard Oil of N. J.

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 23 (UP) LONDON. Oct. 23 (UP)~Foreign' Two congressional armed service Secretary Ernest Bevin disclosed in commiitteemen predicted here today

British Curb Tobacco Imports to Buy Food

" a'speech at Wandsworth last night that Chinese Nationalists w _ that Britain had stopped buying bow to Communist forces soon ¥ American tobacco.

smoker and that the increase in the’ They were Reps. F. Edward

tobacco tax had not stopped him bert (D. La.) and William E. Hess Eastern states. A company spoke:- Lookehill was uring the torch while C. Krug, 32, of 1202 E. Tabor St,

from smoking. “We have decided ‘R. O), who have just retu to stop buying tobacco so that Wwe.from tour ‘of Japan, China ‘J ean buy food.” Pacif tallations, . . 8

PUZZLE DEPARTMENT: Isn't it odd that Joan

fectionist.” After two days I got used to him but Crawford gets involved in those terrific “romances” this codld siav Jrivthe jail a8 y ‘ only between pictures? Or when she needs pub- ey CONG aw Ja’ as ‘ors Mother S Home | The papers showed that pany planned 3000 shares of $50 taken to the U, 8. Veterans’

Jimmy, who is 11, is suffering wartime polling. stock, will travel month-old Dickie, has never known children moved in rent-free with

The boy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. chef de gare of Forty and Eight, ., =... amps Ehnow said as she Mrs. O'Donnell had been living since 'endbled them to buy quantities of canvass 475 Indiana Legion posts doesn't know too much about what Houser that he thought his mother

Jimmy's parents turned down an headquarters between Oct. 20 and Esther, 10, and Patsy, 9, live with

ys less the U. S. gives material aid to begin rationing gasoline supply to Lookebill, 3338 Foltz St, In Mai€ Morris 8t, and Don Fisher, 12, of He confessed that he was a heavy The Chiang Kai-Shek government: ‘operators of —25,000 Esso and Co- Hill. ‘

———————————— I ——— KENOSHA, Wig, Oct. 23 (UP)--Mrs. Lillian. Ehnow looked out been filed in the Indiana

punch and is ready to return to the

She's tired of living in the Kenosha County Jail. Mrs. Ebhnow, 29, her husband, Ervin, 37, and six of their eight « children have lived in the jail since last Januar) They haven't been With Career able to find a place since their previous” house was sold. County authorities told them

Window,” but he turned it down, and fining Co., Terre Haute,

t for a sympathetic role.

Princeton,

as necessary “I hope it won't be much longer, : Mrs. Ehnow said. “It wasn’t too Begins Sentence bad living here when the kids could . m— . play in the jail yard, but the officials here stopped that. They said 16-year-old boy who confessed he E. Skiles.

jously doubt that Joan is in love with pt her career. York office of Paramount publicity sent

par value. Agents listed tion to Mr. Smith were

Unconquered.” My '6-year-old son took { E $ y "be playing on the jail lawn home because she let a friend with man Jr, Terre Haute, ha “1 suppose they.were right, but eight children move in with them, cial interest in the concer it's hard to entertain the children began a two-to-14 year sentence in # lall day.” ‘he Indiana Stale Reformalory Carnival By

She said her husband had been today.

~The Indianapolis Times .

WHERE TO FROM HERE?—Looking at you through the window of this ancient car—their only home right now—are six of the seven mem-

- | And it wasn't substantial enough to aged 8, 7, 5 and 4, have been living a job whenever he is able to corge he licensed on the highw

| ABOUT THREE WEEKS ago, Mr.

possible to find a home in Indian- eat in the car. And they sleep in! oo» apolis, at least one to rent. He has the car. Only the youngest mem- pyniie agencies haven't been able

found one or two for sale t, be within his means except for one month-old Joyce Burnett lives With (re department came gp with the

: [rickety trailer to the home of an During that two weeks, he built ypcle, 80 miles away. The uncle

: be The family lived in the prailer The Burnetts went to Cincinnati | thought “Gone With the Wind was a about it. He gave the family time for a while. That in itself was to try their luck, Two weeks later, housing Mr. Burnett is a glass an offer to break up his home. But something about hating Communists, or sending ‘em magnificent bore, The Communist leadership thought to do something about a place to plenty bad. Trailer camps didn't'jast Sunday, they returned, disil- grinder and beveller by trade. His despite the best efforts of his em-

Henry P. 8mith, president of the Deep Vein Coal Co. Terre Haute,

> "revealed last week that Boy Who Burned pany would build a refinery near # jalopy and bore no license. Atl

it didn't look right for the kids to burned down his mother's modest. Mr. Smith's cousin, Anton Hul- Charles Ettinger, 17, of 512 W. Mer-

f'n . rr Try TRIG Ta CATT TY TF . og nn ar ET af

Have A Look— lem First Hand

Photo by Lloyd B, Walton, Times Staff Photographer

to protect her from the chill of autumn nights. Left to right are

/AYS AS A in the old car, to work.” | When they want to use a rest! “This in my third week off my : job now.” Mr. Burnett told The room, they stop at a filling station. qynas “1 can't do good work with They buy lunch meat and other n. family sitting out on the street. just im- staple foods at grocery stores and) x,q vet 1 must get back to work

hat would Der of the family has a break—14- |i, hei solve the problem. The wel-

an aunt ina furnished room be ,.... aabie “stigiiestion that they fook the cause her folks feared for her ang other temporary homes for the health in the car. children — that to a man whose Operators of filling stations are ,.... object in life is to find and

all. be- Nett says “Honestly, I don't Know' rouaive jt Congressmen. Whatwhat we'd do if they weren't." ever testimony you get tomorrow, uw Indianapolis’ best offer to date to THE PROBLEM is just one of help this self-supporting citizen is

. the par- employer told The-Times today he ployer, himself and his friends —

Driver May Lose Sight

Delicate Eye Operation Scheduled Today; Youth Reports Attack by Gang

A delicate eve operation was scheduled today for a 26-year-old man who was injured when a pumpkin was thrown through the windshield of his car, The victim, Nathan Berry, 1606 E. Minnesota St, told police he was driving in the 2300 block of Roosevelt Ave. last night when someone in an automobile headed in the opposite direction threw the missile.

ion have secretary

the com-

Witnesses said the other car was walking in the 100 block, W. Me-

Carty St, least two young persons were in the com- the car, police were told. Berry was Police held a city park employe, Ad. James W. Tanner Jr, 20, of 2339

N. Capitol Ave, on vagrancy and Peeping Tom" charges after a witness said Tanner was looking in a window at 2310 N. Illinois St. last night,

in addi- ministration Hospital with glass in Russell J. one eye, facial cuts and injuries. A general Hospital physician ad- ” ministered first aid last night to

s a finan- rill St, who told police five young Hugh Dunlap, 34, of 1321 E. Tabor n, trangers beat him up as he was St. Was charged with vagrancy

- early today when a waitress identiDick Turner

fied him as a man who had claimed to be an FBI agent.

trying desperately to find them a Orville T. Sater Jr. pleaded

home. He spends~“almost all of his guilty in St. Joseph Circuit Sent a J “ wn spare time looking for one,” she yesterday to _hurning down his Forty and Fight” boxcars and said, mother's eottage Oct. 14, five days

t 3 re engines, patterned after French The Ehnow's voungest child, 5- aftér Mrs Howard Smith and her

\ y to collec and Hoosier highways Nov. 2 to collect any other home but the ail. the Saters.

ex- American Legion membership cards Baby's Really Lucky Harold V. Haines, retiring grand “He's about the luckiest one

~ » ~ THE Smith family was. homeless hecause Robert Smith, 21, the oldoff. has been appointed to direct the tucked him into one of the fam- est son, had set fire to their house 1ave approximately 35 teams ‘that will on Oct. 9. He told Sheriff Claude

ily's Army cots for a nap. “He

could use the $2000 insurance moriey to buy a hetter home Both Mrs. Sater and Mrs. Smith work at a laundry on the campus of Notre Dame University. Mrs, Sater is a widow, Mrs. Smith's hushand i= in the Army of Occupation

the for the boxcar roundup All cards arriving at state Legion

goes on.” The two oldest Ehnow. children

the ain-

Nov. 2 will count in the membership their grandmother. The six who drive. have become accustomed to bars

The membership campaign of the across their windows, besides

Hoosier Legion is directed by a Dickie, are: Eleanor, 8; Brvin Jr committee consisting of John A. 7 Mildred, 4: James, 3 and Eddie ad. Cartwright, Greencastle; Frank 19 months, 4 Teen-Agers Struck

Florkowski, South Bend: John O. Mr. Ehnow works in the Nash By Cars in i Accidents

but “just couldn't afford it.” : : - struck by automobiles while cross-

$7000 Fire Destroys ng he street Home i M Hill | William VanZandt, 15, of 1901 N . . ' in ars I {Tibbs Ave, was struck at 16th St To Cut Gos Deliveries, A $7000 fire that apparently and Tibbs Ave. by an automobile NEW YORK, Oct. 23 (UP)— ctarted from a spark from an acety- driven by Herbert J, Lemon, 31, of ould Standard Oil Co. of New Jessey lene torch yesterday destroyed the 1832': Central Ave. police «aid, un- announced yesterday that it would garage and home of Clarence . Dickie Lohman, 14, of .1020 E

mans 1115 Wright 8t., both were struck He- lonial Beacon service stations in 18 According to a police report. Mr. by an automobile driven by Richard

med man said dealers would be limited a friend. Marcev Davis, was washing police were told. The michap '- ~ and to 85 per cent ofstheir normal de- parts from an automobile in the happened at State Ave, and Pros- So your wite still get liveries. ¢ (garage. r (pect Bt .

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The waitress, Mrs. Betty Weighlein, 19, of 1644 N. Alabama St, told police Dunlap came into a restaurant. af 1515 N. Pennsylvania St, and asked for the manager. Then, he “flashed some sort of & card,” she said, “and said he was an FBI agent.”

Doctor Says Board Blocks Progress

Dr. Peler 8 Kaadt of South Whitley charged in a Supreme Court brief yesterday that state

revocation of his doctor's license is

a threat to medical progress. The physician's license Was revoked by the State Board of Medi- 1 cal Registration on charges connected with his treatment of diabetes, The license was restored by Whitley Oireuit Court but the state hoard has appealed that decision to the Supreme Court, Insistence by the state board. that there be no departure from ortho~ dox methods of treatment, he said in the brief, “is to set up & dicta~ {torship which will shackle and re. amped press all medical progress.” ied * Dr. Ksadt charged avi iled - “22d io prove the alleged’ 5 up. mornings and makes your breakfaét-~ his treatment of i