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‘WOULD YOU SCALP ‘your ‘barber if ‘you could in. a chair? Would you hair-line fall where it may?’ right after Carl

Bill's customer, Gardner's Record Shop the street, dared Carl to go through with it. he was serious about his proposition. Fancy crew cuts, home-coming specials and Belgian originals flashed

Time Not Right I WAS GOING to ask Carl to hurry it up but he was working around my right ear with the straight razor. That's no time to ask for speed. I must admit I was dubious, just a little, to the time I had the cloth around Carl's neck. “And how would you like your hair cut—hmmm?" I asked. “Feather edge style,” answered Carl. smoked ‘a cigaret.

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BARBER'S APPRENTICE—A surprise turnabout day at the Haywood Barber Shop finds

"Mr. Inside" giving Carl Haywood the business.

is By Ed Sovola

“Right.” I slipped over to Bill and he told me feather edge was a light trim. Hah! | - Yes sir, he who hesitates is lost. The vibrating clippers were poised ready to go from the back of Carl's neck to his mustache. Bill said, “Let ‘er ‘80.". Frank Weaver, at the chair near the front, paused in his work to say. “Keep the clippers close to the scalp.” : Carl shuddered as Tom Markey, who spends quite a bit of time in the shop, lifted his hat and showed me a shiny pate. “Just like this,” Tom said jubilantly. The cheering from the sidelines did no good. I fust couldn't do it deliberately. The “feather edge” |

last time I had clippers and scissors in my hand! was some 15 years ago when I tackled. my pet dog, Pal. The clippers dug a little too deep and too high on the first slice, The second was better, hu confidence ruined the third" Bill said the scissors would take care of the rough spots. Carl didn't want any off the top. Just a little! off the sideburns. Handling the scissors alone was easy but trying to combine scissors with the comb and hair didn't work too well. It wasn't long before Carl had a terrace effect on the back of his head.

Mr, Gardner wanted to know if I was using rubber scissors. “Make that hair fly,” he urged. Bill came to his brother's rescue, He showed me how to handle the ‘comb, Bill clipped out one of the terraces. I tried to clip out the other but wound up with two jagged ones higher on Carl's head.

Damage Is Erased

PAINSTAKING WORK finally made the two lines disappear way up on the dome. My right hand was taut from using the scissors. Clipping the sideburns around the ears was mighty ticklish work. Carl was either a brave man or a paralyzed one. Didn't’ nick an ear. It was time to hand my customer the mirror and ask if he wanted any more hair off before I took razor in hand, Carl fairly shouted the trim was exactly sight.| No, he didn't want a shave and his mustache was trimmed that morning. “It's really not necessary to shave around the ears,” Carl said. “Really it isn't.” Everyone in the shop inspected the feather edge. Tom Markey, Frank Gardner and Postman George Kingery, who just walked in, wanted more, a lot more, off the top. My two fellow barbers thought my handiwork was not beyond repair. But the last word should come from the customer. “I'm satisfied,” Carl said, “and much relieved.” The customer is always right. Next?

Pity Poor Phil

By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Oct. 20—S8ince this is the week set aside for compassion, I should like to extend a sympathetic hand to Phil the Greek, as he is called by his intimates in England. There is one young guy who is starting out with more matrimonial liabilities than any grdom in the history of the Lohengrin production. He's got a nice gal, but she's strong-minded, and she will rule over the checkbook, in actuality, and on top of that they got to live with the old. folks and Liz will eventually wear the pants and I doubt if you can falk sharp to or maybe slug a queen empress for cooing the wrong note in the dove-cote. It won't be too long after the honeymoon that Phil's old lady will be turning up mad as a wet hen over what some heel in Commons said and all he'll bave to counter with ‘is his trying experience that day with the head gamekeeper. She will be impatient and say if he really loved her he'd go out and -punsh the member from Marylebone in the

And that will lead nowhere because under a Socialist government the prince consort can't go around sloughing ‘the subjects, because after what they are doing to the House of Lords it is not inconceivable that some day they will pass a bill making kings and queens illegal,

Joined in Pub Singing PHILIP USED TO BE a great hand for hanging around the pubs, singing four-letter chanties with his shipmates In the royal navy, but I guess that's out now, too. Let him wobble in too late for the state function some night, singing “Blow the Man Down,” and he gets unregally crowned with whatever scepter she can lay hand to. The royal navy is a fine service, but I guess Phil will have to be right careful about what cronies he fetches home for a little snort and a snack, because the old lady will have things on her mind pretty steady and you know how it is when the old lady has things on her mind. There are two problems Phil won't have to cope with. Won't be any of this strife about: “Well, your family does so-and-so,” or “my family never did

such-and-such,” because they got roughly the. same family, It is awful hard to knock an in-law when the in-laws are as mixed up as their'n and royal to boot, The other thing is naming the kids. There aren't but so many names you can hang on the chillun, like George and Edward and Philip and Mary and Alexandria ahd Victoria and Albert. It is merely a matter of ipping a florin to see which

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one you pick first. I do not know what the y hin is when the empress-elect has the morning miseries or is ex-

pressing a keen desire for sour pickles and chow-meln| : at 3 a. m, so I will not attempt to advise the young ;

man on that one. For all I know they have a lord chamberlain in charge of going to Soho at 3] a. m. for sour pickles and chow mein,

Not Much Leeway

HOW MUCH LEEWAY they will give young Phil] i

on the checking account is a matter for time to decide. ‘They are upping his taxi-money and crown- | check dough, for sure, but I doubt if he will ever] be enabled to wield the husbandly prerogative of screaming when the dressmaker’s bill runs too tall! Fighting over finances is a fierce pleasure which will be denied them both, because they keep a tame noble in the lodge for the express ‘purpose of riding herd on the grocery bills, { The common refuge of the momentarily dis gruntled spouse is forever lost to Prince Philip. I, mean, he can't go around saying she don't under-! stand him, and maybe snapping a wink at one of, the ladies in waiting, or theyll put him in the tower, and take away his rubber coats.

He can't ever fall back on the stock weapon of | ol

the breadwinner, because he will know where the, bacon comes from and the sorrowful fact that hel isn't bringing it home. I doubt if he will be able]

to seccnd-guess her very much on how she’s steering,

the ship, either, because Liz has spent 21 years learn ing how to navigate a nation, All the boy can do is remain silent, attentive and| discreet, which is good advice for any young buck on the verge of a life-long bliss.

Moans & Boos

By Frederick C. Othman |

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 — First come the anguished moans. Then the gavel pounding. The bitter arguments with the chairman about civil rights, The arrival of the cops. The citation for con~ tempt of Congress. The boos of the movie stars in

.the back of the House caucus room. And the cheers

of another segment of the audience.

Bang—bang—bang—bang. One famous - movie scenarist after another gets the bum’s rush for refusing to say whether he is or isn’t a Communist. And sepsations at the Un-American Activities Committee hearings about the pinkos of Hollywood are repeated and repeated again until they become routine, It is a weird situation. The movie writers seemi somehow to be ashamed of the fact that their $75,000 and up annual salaries turn them willy-nilly into capitalists. They admit they're liberals—and claim it's none of Congress’ business whether they're also Communists, Or as one of them put it: Whether they're Republicans, Democrats, or members of the Prohibition party,

Gets Sore Sometimes

80 CHAIRMAN J. Parnell Thomas tries to wheedle answers from them. Sometimes he get's sore. The writers he has charged with being Reds give him double-talk. He cites ‘em for contempt, calls for the next witness, and the 150 reporters blinking into the spotlights flex their writing fingers and wish they could use ditto marks in their dispatches, Four of the screen writers, each ohe of whom draws a larger wage than President Truman, have been cited for contempt at this writing. There are 15 more to go, counting a few lesser stars of the cinema, These, plus such supporters as Gypsy Rose Lee's sister, June Havoc; John Garfield, the hero of many a gun battle on the silver sheet; Lauren (The Look) Bacall, ‘and her stern-visaged husband,

Humphrey Bogart, sit in the rear of the chamber. It is odd, the way-they slump, bored by the repeti-| tious shouting, until the newsreel spotlights sputter bright. Then they sit up straight—the ladies espe-| clally—with smiles to match the lights. Or maybe it isn't odd at all. They're movie actors. When a camera is turned their way, it is their second nature to smile until it hurts. The writers so far headed for court on contempt| charges include Dalton Trumbo, Alvah Bessie, Albert Maltz, and John Howard ‘Lawson. Between them they have written some of the biggest hits ever to appear on the movie screens of the world: It is only fair to say that some. of their movies couldn't have been written along more patriotic American themes,

Old Friend Upset ‘

BUT THE COMMITTEE has produced long, convincing memoranda, with names, dates and places, showing they all are members of front organiza. tions, writers for the Communist Press, and speechmakers before Red mass meetings. Some of these gentlemen I used to know well when I worked in Hollywood a few years back. So yesterday I had lunch with one of the witnesses— he'll be called to testify tomorrow probably—and tried to get some idea what was stewing inside his head. The poor devil couldn't eat his sandwich. He had circles under his éyes, Ulcers, too. He said he couldn't think about his work in one of the greatest of the studios. He' was too worked up- about his troubles. Why shouldn't he have the right, he asked, to talk where he wanted to talk? And why shouldn't he associate with Communists if he wanted? That's about all I got out of him.

He wasn't the easy-going movie-maker I knew|

in the good old days. Communist or not, I felt sorry far him.

The Lady’s Late

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 20-Clark Gable and Lana Turner aren't getting along on the “Home-coming” set. Cable blows his top when Lana comes in a couple of hours late (it's been happening frequently). Darryl Zanuck will shelve Olivia de Havilland's “The Bnake Pit” until after Jan. 1. He wants. to

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"HELP . . . MUMMY'—The first prize in the ‘12th week of The Times Amateur Photo Contest goes to Mrs. B. E. Coody, R. R. 15,1Box 510, for this human interest "action'" picture. This reproduction was made from a print 234 x 4!/4 inches. It was filmed with a Hawlaye X Kodak.

FIRST HALLOWEEN—Eugene C, Edwards, 1115 N.

By ART WRIGHT A pastor's wife, Mrs. B. E. Coody,

|R. R. 15, Box 510, today was the|

| first woman to win a fifst prize in | The Times Amateur Photo Con- | test. All other weekly awards since ! the contest started went to male photographers.

| Gale St. earned honorable mention for this one. The camera was a Kodak Vigilant 620. Film was Super XX,

Mrs. Coody’s husband is the Rev. | each Mr. Coody, pastor of Bells’ Chapel of the Church of God near Law-!

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Mrs. Coody will receive the first| prize of $5. Three other amateurs received honorable mention rec-| every amateur plcture-snapper.

ognition. More pictures are being entered!

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PALS—A Agi and oe dog eomed fonorablb 1022 Churchman Ave. Mr. Waldo used Triple S. Pan film. Shutter speed was 1/50

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week and the contest will continue as long as suitable enip are received. The $5 prize will be given each week. - Everything has been done to keep the contest within the limits of

There are no restrictions on the size of prints. They may be of any

Near-Hysteria State Over Communism

Presidential Civil Rig

and real Fascists.” The recommendations were pr committee on civil rights which he created last. December to survey the (condition of human freedom and equality in the United States. Charles E. Wilson, president of General Electric Co, headed the committee, issues 178 Page Report The committee in its 178-page re-

port also recommended a series of |

steps to protect the rights of Negroes and other minority groups.< | It urged congressional enactment of: An anti-lynching law. Elimination of the poll tax. Passage of a permanent fair employment practice act. And the withholding of tederal jaid from any public or private |agency which practices discrimina-

Lioyd Nolan will be FBI boss Briggs again in tion or segregation.

“A Street With No Name.” “The House on 92d Street.” Jack Wrather and Bonita Granville will go

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Defends Liberties

The committee defended the

to right of Communists and “native

Honolulu next month for a big civic festival. Theyl}| Fascists” alike to have their say also preview Jack's latest film, #The Quest of Willie before the American people, pro-

Hunter,” Aside. to M-G-M: How about taking Kat Grayson out of those sweet little girl roles and giving her a glamour doll buildu, best figures in Hollywood—if

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Proposals for Protection of Liberties By MERRIMAN SMITH, United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct. 20—A presidential committee sald today that “a state of near-hysteria” over so-called Communists in this country threatens the freedom of other citizens, But it called for zealous, “legitimate” exposure of “real Communists

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disclose throtigh systematic registration such pertinent facts about themselves as: ONE: The names of officers, TWO: Bources of funds, THREE: Expenditures. FOUR: The purposes of the ore ganization, ‘Gone Too Far Mr. Truman was informed by the committee that “public excitement sbout’ ‘Communists’ has gone far beyond” the dictates of “good judgment and calmness.” “A state of hysteria now threat ens to inhibit the freedom of gen~ uine democrats,” the report said, The committee warned against an emotional abridgement of the traditional American right of free speech, Listed Eight Key Steps The report contained these basic recommtndations for strengthening and protecting civil rights: ONE: Expansion of the civil rights section of the justice department. Establishment of a permacommission on civil rights under the President. A Jotnt stand-

Perils Freedoms, Committee Finds

ing committee on civil rights In Congress. TWO: Drastic increase in fines and prison terms for police brutality. THREE: Enactment of a stiff federal law against lynchings, FBI investigation of all lynching cases. New laws against involuntary servitude. x Urges New Laws

FOUR: New laws to end poll]

taxes as a voting prerequisite. FIVE: Belf-government and the right to vote for citizens of the Dis-

‘trict of Columbia. Suffrage for In-

dians in New Mexico and Arizona. Citizenship for the people of Guam and American Samoa, SIX: Legislation to end all forms of discrimination and segregation in the armed services, i SEVEN: Trial rights for federal employees whose loyalty has been challenged. EIGHT: Passage of a permanent federal fair employment practice act to prohibit all forms of discrimination in private employment,

Realtors Plan Party Members of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board will give a Halloween party tomorrow.noon in the Washington Hotel. Party arrangements are in charge of Willis Adams,

APPOINTED SALES MANAGES Prank J. Kirchberg, former Indianapolis sales representative for| Castings

American Airlines, been ap pointed sales for the firm in Charlestown, W, Va,

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‘HONORABLE MENTION—Mrs. Edward Peters, 3402

Madison ave., used two dolls as models for this honorable’ mention: photo, It was taken with an Argofiex camera. using: Plenachromae film. ;

mention laurels for Floyd E. Waldo,

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ize. Prints must Lighting. Bix Josar larger nite to permit THe : only restriction is ‘that be in black and w PET hotographers must be ama‘eufs ; the best reproduction, whose chief source ‘of income does : On the back of each picture not come from Photographic work. 4 must be written the photographer's | All pictures become the property name, address, telephone number, of the Indianapolis s and the type of camera and film, shutter| decision of the judges is final, Southwest Center Southport Lions - 3 Pass Fund Goal 2, In a spirited campaign carried out ans al {by the Southport Lions Club, Perry | Township went over its goal for the Ghosts, goblins, witches and 1947 Community Fund drive. other sprites will gambol on Oliver | | ge goal u 3145 was suspasted per cent as the ns ra Ave. Friday night as the school $1006.50 in a three-hour drive Sune | ehildren of West Indianapolis par-| day afternoon. ticipate in a “Ghost Parade” spon-| Harold Burnett, chairman of the sored by the Bouthwest Social Cen-|township campaign committee, re. ter. cruited 69 members of the Souths Prizes for the most original and port Lions Club for’ the intensive most’ gruesome costumes and for|campaign, i the smallest character portrayed a x EE TE $l the parade will be awarded by C. i [i Vickland, branch executive of | WORD-A-DAY { | the social center. By BACH yo The prizes and refreshments (or ES ——— the young sprites will be provided| i by the merchants of the district. | oBVvI ATE Judges for the parade are Mrs, Ernest C. Horsman, Mrs, Charles| ( ob /vi-at) VERS \ | Germaine and Mrs. Malcolm Biggs. 10 ANTICIPATE $0 AS TO REMOVE OR CLEAR AWAY BEFOREHAND, AS A DIFFICULTY OR, ~~, * Foundrymen Ain Dhl To Hold Panel The American Foundrymen's Association will hold a “Question and Answer Panel Meeting” at 8 p. m. Monday in the Athenasum. A din-| ner will be given at 6:45 p. m. | Members of -the panel are R. E, Coady, Hoosier Iron Works; J. P. | Lents, International Harvester Co.; ngsenka Langsenkamps| Wheeler Brass Works; W. Zennik, National Malleable and Steel Cast-| ings Co; FP. Kurtz, Electric Steel | Casings 00. and G. C. Dickey, Harrison - Steel ‘Richard Bancroft, Perfect Olrcle