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sure as shootin’ that you did? “If it were possible to go through the dead letter department at a post office, more than likely you'd find your epistle among thousands of other dead ducks. ‘ Why? Carelessness. Kind of a blunt way to explain it but I saw plenty of examples at the main post office yesterday and I know what I'm talking about, ' Harry 8S. Lane,’ who has 46 years<of postal work behind him, held out a letter and asked what I'd do with it. »
No Return Address, Either
“DELIVER it to 3! Miles South of Trafalgar, 1 guess. That's. the address, isn't it?” I answered. “There is no such street in the city and even if there were, 3's miles south of a certain street might be a cornfield.” - Mr, Lane had something there, Well, what happens to the letter? ’ Not much, Mr. Lane said, because it didn't even have a return address, The letter bore an out of state postmark and it merited directory service but unfortunately even the name wasn't listed, “Dead letter?” oe “And how,” Mr. Lane said.
stamp “Same As In Directory” alongside his pencilled address. !
Mr. Lane claims his job in the directory department is getting more complicated every year, ! :
“When I started back in 1902, Indianapolis had! about 160,000 people and this job was & lot simpler,” Mr. Lane said. Nellie Ridlen, who handles the change of address cards said that from 25 to 50 people move to Indi- ° anapolis every day. I won't mention how may are. moving out. The Chamber of Commerce might not like that to be known, | Directory Clerk Frank Boswell showed me a let-! ter he didn't have any luck with. It was addressed, 1610 S. Luck st. There is no such street in the di-| rectory. Neither was the name on the envelope, I found out from James Steele, box, department ; clerk, that this is the time of the year for the “Uncle Harry” letters. : . | “We get letters-addressed to Uncle Harry or Aunt Harriet, Indianapolis, Ind. almost every day. Now, | how are we going to find Uncle Harry and Aunt| Harriet?” asked Mr. Steele.
Tip to Married Women Here's a tip to the married ladies who use their| given name instead of their husband's. The city| directory lists the husband's first name alphabetically and the wife's given name appears behind it. It would be almost impossible to track down all the given names of married women through the directory. So, if a clerk looks up a Mrs. Alpha Jones -and she's| not listed that way, the letter stands a very good] chance of not being delivered. 4 John J. Lynch stopped working with the directory “3 long enough to explain that the practice of writing * wCity” instead of spelling the name out is bad. hy Especially, if a letter is mailed in another city. The| 3 J letter just doesn’t get anywhere. 5 | Mr. Steele asked me if I knew what Nixie mail 54 was. Never heard of it. Nixie mail is simply correspondence that has the name, address and city on it. No state. If the city is New York, a clerk has an easy time but if it's Gruber-| # ville——oops. It's, still oops if the city can be found #7 in 10 or 12 states. | The letter goes back to the sender if-—the return address is on the envelope. No return address, the dead letter department gets another letter. Everyone in the department told me the same thing so it must be a good rule to follow. Just re-| member: Every letter worth mailing is worth having a return address, - I'm going to try to remember that.
lt YOUR LETTER?-—Harry S. Lane tries to supply the correct address by means of the city directory and years of experience with wrong addresses, :
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By Robert C. Ruark
It's In the Stars
NEW YORK, Oct. 31—The Marshall plan will come off all right; Howard Hughes will take care of himself in the next investigation; Marlene Dietrich will continue to wear legs habitually and taste-
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—— Still pursuing the scientific approach to the | i chances of next year's competitors, I learn that we! have a full stable of Aries men. Governors Dewey and Stassen, and also Sen, Vandenburg, all operate under the aegis of Aries, a pretty blithe planet. “It looks good for the Aries boys,” says Mr, Righter. “None of them will be eclipsed. Also Mr. Dewey will have more charm, especially for ladies,”
Picking Up for Senator Taft THINGS ARE PICKING UP for Sen. Taft, too.) He comes under the heading of Virgo, which usually | sponsors a flock of severe critics. But, says Mr. Righter, under Robert's unspectacular front lurks a potent capacity for playing the pixie, Also, he's a suppressed ham, or actor, according to what the] planets say.
I think. Because 1948 is going to be a pretty od year for the Capricorn Kids. This is on the word of Mr. Carroll Righter, an astrologer, to whom I finally turned in a desperate attempt to find out Mr. Righter, who makes a very comfortable living adjusting the stars to people, will not comment on the atom, because the atom has no birthday, and birthdays are essential in the horoscope profession. Jupiter is acting up all over the heavens, says Mr. Righter, and we have a very good aspect for Uranus-in-Virgo; not to mention Neptune-in-Taurus. It is a tough way of saying that you can finally indorse the Marshall Plan and continue to admire Marlene's legs, because 1948 is on the calenlar as a very big season for the December-January babies who work under the wing of the highest planet in the skies.
Still Hope for Harry IT'S A SHAME I can't drag in an equally blithe report on Harry. Poor Harry, I have just seen this horoscope. You know what's wrong with Mr. Truman? The transiting Mars conjuncts Saturn in the sign of Leo, squaring his natal sun in the sign of Taurus and opposing his natal Mars in the sign of Acquarius. “What does that mean?” I asked. ' “Very tough year for Mr. Truman,” he said. “Truman is a Taurus Boy and that old’ droopydrawers Taurus is awful slow and gradual. But there's still hope . . . “Mr. Truman's one good aspect is that Mars conjuncts Saturn in the sign of Leo; Sextiles has native Saturn in the sign of Libara.” Well, well, translation, please. “By being consciously diplomatic® and tactful he ean overcome some of the difficulties,” repligs Mr. Righter, momentarily abandoning the heavens for a helping of herring-in-cream, “But the axe will drop on a lot of his hired help.”
The only real shadow on his future | is the definite indication that a lot of influential | people will give him the run-around. Mind you, $his isn't my view. I am only quouing the heavenly bodies. “Hitler was an Aries-Taurus Cusp,” Mr. Righter | said, suddenly, fixing me with a finger. “Huh?” 1 answered. I mean, family news-| papers . . . “An Aries-Taurus Cusp,” repeated Mr. Righter x firmly. “He was halfway between both influences, | which means he had a double capacity. If he was| good, he was twice as good. If he was bad, he was | FOR THE RECORD—S twice as bad.” ette, makes a moving pictur “What's with Gen. MacArthur?” ! “Declining, I'm afraid,” said Mr. Righter. “His| power is diminishing. But he is in there, under the Acquarius sign with a lot of famous people. Mr. Lindbergh, Mr. Edison, John L. Lewis, Mr. Roosevelt, Mr, Caruso, Katherine Cornell we get] most of our important people from Acquarius, Very | positive people.” T am naturally curious about Gen. Eisenhower, who, it seems, falls under the Libra heading with] Henry Wallace. Libra is in very good shape, and TTT it says in the stars that both Mr. Wallace's judgment and his ideas will improve for 1948, but he
. Labor Disorders will go into a tailspin in '49. As for Ike, he is vague { but favorable, and I am not the one to say that the . 1 | planets may have been reading the newspapers, | 0 erts d { y — — " » By Frederick C. Othman
| George Aten, of Muncie. | now, Mr. Aten once was a h He also was a pioneer in pa Atlanta.
All's Not Quiet
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (UP)—This, for capital newspaper reporters, was to have been one of those wonderful, lazy autumns of happy memory. Nothing much was supposed to happen and correspondents, like me, were figuring on shuffling through the leaves in Rock Creek Park once in a while to interview Dr. Wiliam Maan about such interesting subjects as the love light in the eyes of the baboons at his zoo. We were intending to play some friendly games of hearts in the press rooms around the town, prowl through the Smithsonian Institution to see how Lindbergh's plane was holding up, and lap up a little beer of an afternoon at the National Press Club. Peace, it was going to be wonderful, And what happened? Everything, period. There have been more press conferences, pronunclamentos, hearings, handouts, and meetings both secret and public here lately than since the beginpings of the New Deal. The House's week and a half of Gary Cooper and sther assorted Hollywoodians ori the stand about ‘Pinkeroos in the movie business, wound up yesterday. The Senate's inquiry into. Howard Hughes, his portly press agent and his® gargantuan airplane—it has a ead as long as a football fleld—resumes Monday,
Arguing Via Mimeograph THE POLITICOS are arguing, via rimeograph machine and otherwise, about who's going to be the pext President. So many fellows, including an 80-
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Oct. 31 (UP) Labor relations under the Taft-| Hartley Act had been more peaceful) __ than in any other three-month] period since the end of the war,|
terest in living for the next four years at 1600 Penn- . : y |government labor experts said to-|
sylvania Avenue, that I have lost count. dav Congress is returning in a couple of weeks in gs : { special session to consider foreign relief. Dozens of| Some quarters believed the: era lawmakers inspected Europe personally—and expected of labor peace would probably wii to be interviewed on stepping off their airplanes. Yue uti nex. sprung Bardi? amy] Mostly they were. | d " 3 Foftmer ex-governmental hotshots all seemed to regal wil then, ~ | have felt the literary urge once. Jim Farley, James. jal sald 3 SBOE FeRsIn I FP. Byrnes, Henry Morgenthau and others wrote| =... ~" : 3 wax lhe books that not only had te be read, but reviewed. caution with, which unions pro-| Then the curent crop of big-wigs had to be inter- ceeded to crystallize policy toward viewed on these typographical productions. Also few contracts Chuck Luckman; the soap man, held meetings 4 bl every hour on the hour about meatless Tuesdays and TO ADDRESS PENSION GROUPS allled subjects. The interstate commerece Commis-| The Rev. Ora Simmons, of Marsion, through whose stately potals a reporter seldom jon, and B. J. Brown will address needs to trod, made news with protracted railway an all-day meeting of Indiana Old freight rate hearings. |Age Pension Groups Sunday in|
Questions, All Kinds of Questions Machinists Hall, 49% 8. Delaware JOINT CONGRESSIONAL committees called in ~~ maar witnesses on the future of farming and on why can't OES: PLANS FRIENDS NIGHT a fellow buy a house at a reasonable price? The| Broad Ripple Chapter, OES, will hotels filled up, tighter almost than in wartime, with observe friends night Wednesday business men who wanted to talk to the government in the.Broad Ripple Temple: Beulah —and the press—about apartment house rents, Taylor is Worthy Matron, and whisky distillation, grain market margins, the won- Francis Julian is Worthy Patron. : ders of ice as a food preservative and the sorry stat’ es
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Marvel Marriage By Erskine Johnson |
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 31—People continue to marvel at the successful marriage of Bill Powell and Diana Lewis—there's a big age gap—but it's one of the town's steadiest. I remember when they were first married and Bill was talking to a pal in his den when there was a crash in the direction of the living room. The pal looked startled but Bill said: “It's nothing to worry about. Just Diana sliding down the banister.” Paulette Goddard's new film; “Hazard,” is another “It Happened One Night"—a cross-country . chase with Macdonald Carey chasing’ her. Bob Hope has collected nearly "half a million dollars as his share of “My Favorite Brunette.”
Ranch Dubbed ‘lll Manor’ SWEDISH VIVECA LINFORS just bought. a ranch in the San Fernando Valley and named it El
Pals of the actor, noted for his temperament on’ the set, have dubbed his home “Ill Manor.” | John Wayne, who just won a battle with a couple of ulcers, is back on the Republic lot, looking great. |= Stepin Fetchit, the great Negro comic, is starring | in “Harlem Hit Parade,” currently touring state fairs in the east. i
Bergman-Selznick Feud Ends
INGRID BERGMAN and David O. Selznick ended their feud when Ingrid's performance in| “Spellbound” won the Venice Festival award, The trophy was sent to Selznick, and he presented it to her. i The box-office report on “Song of Love” have Director Clarence Brown beaming. There were some | dire predictions about the success of this picture, | Gregory Peck and Laraine Day are each collecting $2000 a week .for their eight-week Pacific Coast tour in “Angel Street.” yA
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DAYS OF THE PAST—The sight of a covered bridge sets many persons to dreaming of a time long since gone. About them hangs a nostalgia that has carved its own place in American history.
but the faithful made a pilgrimage over Hoosierland to view many of the state's horse and buggy" bridges. The one shown is at Cataract Falls
rom one of the bridges over the east fork of Eel River a half mile southwest of Cunot. In the right foreground is the group's founder, Down to earth studying covered bridges
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Photos by Viclor Peterson, Times Staff Photographer NESTLED AMID THE TREES—Most of the covered bridges are found in just such spots as this one also over Mill Creek near Cloverdale. Association members made a close study of each one on their 160-mile jaunt. Parke County, with 4| bridges, has the distinction of ranking first in the nation. Bridges were covered to protect the wood construction from too much stress and strain with weather changes. The covering kept snow and ice from blocking the passageway and thus kept traffic open. Many a first kiss also was stolen in the dark passages.
No Fuss, Muss With Jelly Promised by New Patent
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31-Jellylacid is added.
Taggart and Simmons
Two Indianapolis men have been (chosen for the chorus of the Princeton Triangle Club show, “All Rights the Reserved,” which will play in Indithe housewife in U. 8. patent product consists of sugar crystals, anapolis Dec. 31. taining sugar, pectin and food acid THY ale RRA ee ’ g cid, i In its finished form his prepara-| plus about 10 per cent of water. a of a flexes tion is a caked granular powder, | Its most convenient marketable and Wairen ‘H Aid Jr son which only requires the addition of, form is as blocks or bricks, which of Mr, and Mrs. W. H thaway water and flavoring, or of fruit fiiicf need only to be dissolved in waiter gimmons, 5707 Sunset a away
The Triangle Club, founded by the late Booth Tarkington, will present this year's show at Shortridge High School.
{bolled. firm jelly. | To prepare it, a thick sugar syrup! in is made up, and pectin added. Pectin TURNER TO SPEAK is the stuff that makes jelly jell; Times State Serviee (it is prepared commercially from ANDERSON, Oct. 31—-An address good but unmarketable fruit. Iby Col. Rokeoe Turner of Indian- | After the pectin addition {he apolis will feature a dinner meeting Englewood Chapter, ‘syrup is re-coneentrated; ‘tartaric acid or some other food next Wednesday evening,
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Dr. FAW. Eckert, 919 N. East St.; W. B. Dickson, 4135 Park Ave., and Mrs. J. C. Harrison, Chardon, O. The group wants bridges preserved on their natural sites. If this is not possible, they hope states will see
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Hughes Set to Test Flying Monster
| HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 31 (UP)— Howard Hughes will launch his {giant flying boat tomerrow, two {days before a Senate committee reopens an investigation of his contract to build it. The $23 million “Hercules” will {undergo several hours of dockside | tests. Taxi tests around Los Anigeles harbor start Monday. Mr. Hughes, rushing to provide the plane's worth before the committee starts probing it again, | probably will be at the controls himself. He annouriced earlier he would get it into the harbor “between {Nov. 5 and Nov. 10. The Senate {subcommittee later moved up his {hearing from Nov. 17 to Nov, 3,
| i Indiana War Dead Reach Chicago
| CHICAGO, Oct. 31 (UP)—Lt, Col. Carrol V, Grinnel, commanding officer here for the Graves Registration Service, said today that eight mortuary cars carrying Illinois, In|diana, Iowa, Michigan and Wasconsin war dead had arrived today and that nine more were expected by tonight. ‘ | They were carrying the bodies 941 veterans to the Chicago quar {termaster depot. | He said that it would be from two to four weeks before all of the bodies would be turned over for burial because of the complicated record Iprocedure involved,
Minnesotan Indicted § For Killing 3d 4
| ST. PAUL, Oct. 31 (UP)—A grad [jurv yesterday ‘indicted Arthur de Zeler, 49, of St. Paul, for the first ‘degree murder of his third wife, x whose battered body was found anchored to a concrete block in a northern Minnesota . lake 16 days ago. Thirty-one witnesses appeared be{fore the jury, including De Zeler's divorced wife, Elizabeth de Zeler, '43, who spent an hour in the jury
| room. | The indictment charges that De {Zeler killed his wife, Grace, 37, the = {night of Sept. 19, and poe d
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