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IS THERE. ANYONE who would dispute the statement that the life ofa shirt is short and sweet? (Persons with w; g machines please do not enter ‘Into this.) . «» Being dn ordinary bachelor with an ordinary distaste to do my “little things” in the bathroom wash basin, I can speak with a reasonable ‘amount of authority on the longevity of my laundry-wash&d trappings. I have ceased in my quest for the laundry with the perfect tub. The ‘only thing’ I haven't tried was hiring a native from “south of the border” to beat my unmentionables and shirts on the banks of White River with a club.
I've always been curious to see what happens
to my favorite Arrows after I plunk them on the
counter and ask 'the lady, “How long on these?” The people at Excelsior Laundry, 840 N. New Jersey St., said they didn't mind if I saw what they did to my shirts. In fact Wiliam E. Scott, foreman, would be glad to show me around. He's been with Excelsior for 40 years and knows pretty well what happens to the dirt. Mr. Scott and I watched Mrs. Bertha Nicholas take in some bundles. That was the beginning of a tortuous journey.
Marked on 3d Floor
FROM THE FRONT desk we followed the route of dirty wash to the third floor where it is marked.
HANDLE WITH CARE — Bertha Nicholas takes a bundle of shirts from a customer and starts them on a long journey ‘through sudsland.
Five women were pusy putting those marks on the
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inside of collars. Sally Beech, Mr. Scott said, would handle my, bachelor bundle. She stamped initials with a marking machihe. The woman put all the shirts in cotton mesh bags. Fifty bags made up a lot and received a lot number: From the marking department a lot goes back downstairs to thé wash house. Since we were on the trail of shirts, Mr. Scott went directly to Paul Stewart,
pounds of shirts. ' : Mr. Stewart said a batch of shirts goes through
an hour and 10-minute treatment which consists of a
water, detergent, five ‘different soaps and six rinses.) “So you're the guy who takes the buttons off my shirts?” I asked facetiously. Mr. Scott came to. the rescue. ‘No, I'm the one who takes the blame for that.” Before we left, Mr. Stewart told us how little he
thinks of the synthetic buttons shirt manufacturers!
are using these days. After the shirts are washed (they're still in the cotton mesh bags) they're taken to the dryers. For |
10 minutes the bags of laundry are spun. | E.
“When the spinner gets through the shirts are
ready to be ironed,” Mr. Scott explained, “but we! |
have to go back to the third floor to see that "
Two women do nothing but open bags of wet | @
laundry, check the lot number and count the shirts. | They also do a bit of unravelling for the ironers. Four women collaborate to press a shirt. One takes the sleeves on a special press, another the cuffs, collar and yolk, the third does the bosom and back and the fourth woman folds. This four-woman team can breeze through 100 shirts an hour.
Part of Post-War Plan
THE FINISHED SHIRTS are placed on a rack and taken to the sorting room. In case the pressers notice a button off, a collar torn or an elbow missing, they send the dilapidated item to Gladys Vaughan. Seamstress Vaughan is part of the company’s plan the. get that “post-war look.” So far the: shirts have been handled helter-skelter in whosesale numbers or lot numbers. The job of getting a shirt in the right bundle falls to Mrs. Mamie |
Amick at Excelsior. i As. I watched her slip shirts in different shelves, | 1 tried to figure out how she did it. Finally I couldn't! stand it any longer. Mrs. Amick uses ‘a memory system all her own. She has been working with the markings of shirts] for quite a long time and has evolved a technique which defies explanation. } {
From the cubby holes the Shirts goto” the wrap
ping desk.- A quick flip-a-dip through the wrapping |
_ machine and the bundle is on_its way down a chute]
to the first floor for distribution to the drivers and] front desk. Well, I was back where I started. “When did you| say I could have my shirts?” Mrs. Nicholas said, “Four days.” 1 guess there's no use worrying about my shirts They'll have plenty .of company. .
\Burlesque Blues
By Robert C. Ruark
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14—Our sensitivity to the times is deepening, and I can prove it: Here in Washington today you have to take it very easy with burlesque. Otherwise, you wind up in an interna= tional incident, and maybe everybody goes to war. I have been paying a short call on Messrs. James Lake and Bernie Ferber, co-authorities on world trends as reflected by Ninth St., which is the Capital’'s limp excuse for Broadway. Mr. Férber manages the Gayety Theater, which exhibits partly peeled ladies to the Congressmen, diplomats, and other visiting yokels. Mr. Lake, known as the Mayor of Ninth St. has been tied to the strip business since the Century started turning. They give out a pretty dim view on the freedom of artistic expression in the pelt belt. Washington's single burleycue house catches a closer censorship today than an editorial in Pravda. “We have to take it easy,” says Mr. Lake, preening his white carnation. “Very easy. You got a very sensitive audiehce today. One day we have the min{ster from Abyssinia in the front row. Next day we got, maybe, some Russians. Always there are Congressmen and garden-type diplomats. They all come in on the sneak. One crack about any country—say England—and we're dead. Very sensitive people.”
Make It Good and Dirty
MR. LAKE MOURNS for the good earthy days when Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes was a weekly visitor to the Gayety. Mr. Justice Holmes used to storm into the lobby, stand with his legs a-straddle, and bellow: “Is it dirty this week? If it isn't, I'm leaving now!” In the Gayety today there is still a little office, encumbered by the manager, Which used to serve as President Harding's private peeping room. They cut
“ the door in two, so that by opening the top half and
shutting off the office lights, Warren Gamaliel could ogle the prancing chorines without tipping off the audience that their President was an ardent connoisseur of the G-string. 3 While we were discussing the High price of straight men, an indignant comedian shoved his head in the door. It was Billy Wallace, who, at 70, is still bouncing along in the business. Mr. Wallace was sputtering. “They chop this gag and they chop that gag,” he said, angrily. “They chop everything. We got nothing
left and what I want to know is, can I get away with the -aphrodite number? There isn't any international significance in that. .Anyhow, I'm the only one eyer does it.” “Yes, yes,” said Mr. Ferber, soothingly. “Go and
do the aphrodite number. Go and do it." | 8
“It’s always this way,” Mr. Lake said, moodily. “We
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to all those pals of mine. The refrain was— (Mr. Lake | lifted his voice melodiously)—'They're all in Congress, | now.’ We had to cut it. You can't even get away with | Democrat-Republican jokes any more. Very sensitive audience.”
$250 Brassiere Wavers
BURLESQUE HAS changed immeasurably in the last few years. In Washington, at least, the uncover= ing is 50 per cent less frank than it used to be. Sal-| aries have risen until one mediocre stripper is mak- | ing the equivalent of the weekly salary of a whole show, i “Back in 1906,” says ‘Jimmy, “we had Will Rogers | here. Think of it! Five people and a horse for 150 bucks a week. Now a broken-down peeler gets $2501 for waving a brassiere at you.” I have admired Mr. Lake for some 12 years, beeause his life-has-always-been- so rich. In Cedar! Rapids, back in 1920, Jimmy's company once com-| pletely outdrew David Warfield's road show of the! “Music Master,” and Mr. Warfleld turned up in-| dignantly the next night to find out what Mr. Lake | had that he hadn't. Jimmy gave him a short answer. | Mr. Lake remembers with pain the horrid night in Butler, Pa., when 34 members of the WCTU showed up at the theater and demanded front-row seats. He remembers: the day when a prankster induced him to toss-a- charitable 50 cents-at the late Heywood Broun, | for breakfast: money: Mr. Broun habitually dressed | like a tramp. “How was I to know he wasn't a bum?” says Mr. Lake. “But Broun never forgot it.” | The burlesquers’ second biggest beef today is the raid that the movies and stage have made on their actors. The burlesque wheels are practically denuded of talent. “It is scandalous,” say Mr. Lake and Mr. Ferber, in outraged tones. “You put a half-decent actor on our stage today, and before he gets into the old hotel lobby gimmick five producers have shoved a contract at him.” 5
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Pajamas $s
By Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON, Nov, 14—One of the major crosses now borne by the human race is pajamas. Particularly the pants. They feel fine when you put ‘em on; they still feel all right when you sit on the side of the bed to contemplate the tribulations of the day. But after you crawl in between the sheets, the pants also crawl. Up the legs they go. There isn’t«much. you can do about it, -or at least there wasn't until today, except get up, stand on the cold floor, shake down the pants, creep back into bed, and continue the vicious cycle the rest of the night. This has been going on since 1569, I understand, when a Venetian haberdasher with a hate for his fellow man, foisted off the first pajamas. Only acrobats for the last 400 years have been able to keep their pajama pants down around their ankles and even they have suffered a numbé of spinal lessons in the doing. !
Perambulating Pajama Pants
LET US journey now to the prosperous little city of Beaumont, Tex. where the Misses Lillion and Anna Nahas—believed to be sisters by my informants in the government—pondered long the problem” of the perambulating- pajamas pants. The Misses Nahas considered but discarded the
{dea of using glue, court-plaster, thumb tacks, whale- -
bone, steel ankle cuffs, lead weights, or a light-weight
block and tackle (attached to the‘bottom of the pants and swung over the foot of the bed) When all seemed to be lost, one of the sisters— I'm not sure whether it was Lillion or Anna —~cried, eureka. Quickly the Nahas girls applied their development to all the pajamas in the household and the sigh of contentment that night could be heard throughout the neighborhood.
Everybody Wearing Nahas Pajamas.
RELATIVE told relative and friend told friend and it wasn’t long before everybody in Beaumont, except for the hermit at the east end of town, was wearing Nahas improved pajamas. All this happened about a year ago. You may ask why I'm just getting around to reporting it. It's not my fault that the U. S. Patent Office can't get its work done any sooner. Yes sir, the Nahas girls applied for a patent on their pajama pants improvers and today they receiyed it: Number 2,430 406. Their invention is simplicity itself. It consists of a strip of cloth sewn to the bottom of each pants leg. I could tell you how these strips work, but I like the governmenit's language better: “The strips are for receiving the toe of a wearer, whereby to enable the wearer to pull down the leg portion.” You use the right toe on the left leg strip, of course, and then vice-versa, with a minimum dis-| turbance of the covers. Let us bow low to the sisters; there's no better invention since the wheel, |
Hoosier Drivers Face Test For a 'License to Live’
“Times Special NEW YORK, Nov. 14-—Indiana isi
going to issue ‘its motorists a «}j~ highways.
‘speeds and death bn streets and The Hoosier plan, he
|diana was included among a large! number of states so lax in the issuance of drivers’ licenses that such {a license had become a “license to kill.” Responsibility for success of any safety program, he said, lies with “top management’ in government.
cense to live,” not’ a “license to|Said, recognizes that in the future indiana, he said, has integrated all|
kill,” Hoosier Secretary of State a motorist, like an airplane pilot, | functions pertaining to motor ve- COVERED DISH SUPPER demonstrate his. ability to hicles under ~his office, centralizing Mr. Bath told the American As-|drive safely or forfeit the right
Thomas E. Bath said here today. |must
Yociation of Motor Vehicle Adminis trators that his stafe is.preparing to meet the challenge of high
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drive at all.
- He referred to a Evening Post article in which
to this responsibility and making pos-| . {sible the Midwest state's intensive recent Saturday program to tighten up its driving by next year,
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Touring Drama Cast Opens yin Yas sof sewivaf’ Semecit ot wi | n T he Late Ch risto D h er Bean’
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“BRIEFING THE MISSION" —Prof. Richard Moody (standing, left) of Indiana University's speech department gives final instructions to rembers-or-the-ecast..of 'The«Lafe Christopher Bean" before a dress rehearsal in the IU Theater in Bloomington. Cast members, who constitute the National Theater Conférence Touring
Company, are (seated, left to right): Jayne Alice Groves, Bloomington, dll; Nancy
Seward, Bloomington, Ind.; Beth Laikin, Detroit, Mich. and Henry Biedinger, East Chicago; (standing, besides Prof. Moody, left to right): John McMullen, Ossian; June Harney, Newark, N. J.; Jack Shaw, West Lafayette; Roger Cleary, Grosse lle, Mich., and Delno Vickery, Merom. The group of scholarship-holding drama students will bring their play to the Indianapolis. Civic-Theater next Jan. 23.
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MAKE-UP PROBLEMS—Discussing grease-paint are (left to right): Miss Seward, Miss Harney and Dr. Lee Nervelle, head of the 1U Theater and producer of "The Late Christopher Bean” revival. Dr. Norvelle is currently booking engagements for the student actors in Indiana and nearby states.
Navy Gets New Jet Plane Youth Admits Aid With Sonic Speed Range tn Jail Break Plot
Success of Marshall Plan at Stake, : GOP Spokesman Tells Senate Group
EL SEGUND@Q, Cal, Nov. 14 (UP)—A swordfish-nosed jet-and- Herschell Sandusky, 18, Mt. Vernon, rocket plane, so fast that it may perform momentarily like a bullet Ky. today admitted taking part in instead of a plane, was groomed today for speeds faster than sound. a plotto help five prisoners break Unveiled by the Navy yesterday, the Douglas Aircraft Company's out of the Wayne County jail with “gkyrocket” was expected’ to’ produce “substantially greater speeds” Smuggled hacksaw blades, Sheriff than its sister ship, the-jet-propelled “Skystreak,” which holds the of- Carl Sperling disclosed. ficial world’s speed record of 650.6 SOE ee | Sheriff Sperling said the mother miles an hour.” lof a prisoner brought to her son a A ‘Flying Swordfish {two-pound package of cheese in The sleek white craft is known |which half sections of five blades informally as the “Flying Sword- thad been concealed.
Little Assembly . | fish” because of a four-foot needle | The woman, Mrs. Arthur Schaefout in front, designed to cut the pp S in diary fer, told the sheriff that Sandusky,
t shock when crossing the “wall released from the jail Tuesday, had when. its speed matches that off UNITED NATIONS HALL asked her to give the cheese to her sound. FLUSHING, N. Y., Nov. 14 (UP) |prisoner son. The Navy and Douglas said the The United Nations “Little Assem- Mrs. Schaeffer took the cheese “Skyrocket” was built for explora- bly” was tentatively scheduled to- package to the jall, but a turnkey tion in’ the so-called sonic speediday to convene Jan. 5 or 8 for the told her it had to be sliced before range of 650-750 miles an hour. first post-war attempt at tackling it could be passed to her son, RayThe speed of sound varies from 760 big world political issues without mond Gordon, serving a sentence on miles an hour at sea level to 660 Russia. a grand larceny charge. She disat 40,000 feet, | The “Little Assembly,” biggest of covered the blades while cutting “For periods of a few seconds,| Secretary of State George C. Mar- into the cheese to make sandwiches. the machine may become a pure shall's three successful proposals in The sheriff sald Sandusky told projective, independent of the air the United Nations General As- him other prisoners were included for power or lift,” Douglas said. sembly, was officially established in the jail break plan. The woman Burns Aviation Gas last night when 41 United Nations/was not implicated in the plot, he The plane's first flight is at least countries voted down the six Soviet said. a month off. After final inspections bloc nations. The six* Arab 510105 | mmmm— sr p——— and installation of the rocket mo- abstained from the vote. | tors at the Douglas factory, it willl Andrei Vishinsky, Russian dep-| WORD-A-DAY be disassembled and trucked 100 uty foreign minister, removed ay] By BACH miles to the Muroc desert testing doubts about the Soviet opposition — = DY — base. Three Douglas test pilots will by rejecting a last-minute American ) put it through preliminary flight appeal for Soviet participation. tests there. Russia, he said, will nat participa PROBITY The “Skyrocket” T .
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. A AS flies to about 25000 feet on the U k r a i n e, Byelorussia, Poland, (prob” 1-41 ) wow power of a Westinghouse turbo-jet' Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia . INTEG . HONE engine, burning aviation gasoline have said the same. Nt oe instead of alcohol, the usial jet] heir boycott meant that for the 3 fuel. — LEE
| first time since the Big Three Then the pilot turns on an un-| syruck their wartime alliance, major specified number of rocket engines, | international issues will be debated
enough fuel for two minutes flight g5y on the rockets. .
mn cpg VETERAN PLANNERS conver You Can Have Eggnogs
PHILADELPHIA, Nov, 14 (UP — Jj The National Planning Committee If You Have the Eggs WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (UP)
of the American Veterans Committee met. here today for its annual President Truman was asked wheth«, three-day conference, : er his food conservation committee's : | “eggless” Thursday program would rule out the traditional eggnogs on Goldmound Cotineil, Degree of Christmas, which falls this year on’ Pocahontas wili hold a covered dish a Thursday. supper and card party at 6 p m.| The President’ smiled and replied Sunday in the home of Ruth that he thought there would be
Soviet participation.
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“HANGING THE PICTURE—Charles Parker (left) .of-Linden.adjusts.qne. of "The Late Christopher Bean's" paintings on the stage set, with advice from Richard Le Scammon, chief scenic. designer of the IU Theater. The oil painting is the work of V. A. Smith, a director of the IU Theater. Mr. Parker will serve as manager of the student touring company. Performances of the play which opened at IU Wednesday will continue tonight, tomorrow and Nov. 20 to 22 before the cast goes
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RAISING AN EYEBROW—Prof. Melvin Pape fir former University of Texas football player and now in charge o up, lends assistance to Mr. Shaw, who is the son of T. E. Shaw, professor of forestry at Purdue University. Funds for the students’ drame
{U Theater make-
are derived from a Rockefeller Foundation grant.
Mrs. Dorsey D. King Heads Council of Churchwomen
i , Mrs, Dorsey D. King, active work- | ‘er in the Third Christian Church and in civic projects, today was elected president of the Indianapolis Council of Churchwomen in the Roberts Park Methodist Church. Mrs. King succeeds Mrs. J. H. Smiley who becomes an honorary member of the council board. Mrs, King ‘and other officers will be in{stalled April 8. Mrs, Harper Sibley, Rochester, N. Y., president of the United Couneil of Churchwomen, of which the local council is an affiliate, addressed the Indianapolis Council last night in the church. A | Other Officers Officers elected in addition to Mrs. King are: Mrs, E. B. Carpenter, first vice president; Mrs. Harold - H. - Klingel, recording secretary, and - Mrs. E. 8. Farmer, assistant; Mrs. | L. J. Riddle, corresponding secre- { NEW PRESIDENT—Mrs. Dor- tary; Mrs. I. Albert Moore, DE sey D. King is the new president 'and Mrs, E. A. Piepenbrok, parliaof the Council of Church. \mentarian, Re-elected officers are: women, {Mrs. Arthur J. Leigeber, second vice president; Mrs, John Carter, third . vice president; Mrs. A. M. WelchOne Woman Attacked; ons, treasurer, and Mrs. Roy Sahm, Another Foils Intruder auditor. One woman reported she was at-| i Headed Mission Society {tacked by an intruder ‘in her home Mrs. King is first vice president. of {last night and another told police the Woman's Counsell of the Third she escaped by slamming the door Christian Church and a former preslin the face of a caller. ident of the - Missionary Society A 21-year-old Lexington Ave, which it superseded. She held -vawoman sald when she answered a|Tlous positions with the Red Orbes knock on the door the caller knocked 2% alr bases where her husband was her down and assaulted her. |stationed during the war and served Mrs. Marie Sandbige, 3510 N. also in the Marion County Civilian Pennsylvania St, said .a man Defense Office.
« knocked on her door, saying he had She traveled all over the state as a telegram for her. When she ® representative and organizer of
opened the door she said the man Chapters for the Riley Cheer Guild. stuck his foot in, but that she/AS Dart of her duties as president slammed it so hard he ‘fled. of the Council of Churchwomen, she ER i (will be second vice president of the
Donate $10,000 Fund "**™ polis Church Fedefation To Aid Housing Crisis Program Arranged TERRE HAUTE’ Ind, Nov. 14 In. Kirshbaum Center (UP)—A movement to solve the A special year-round Sunday housing problem here got under way afternoon program for boys and today after the Terre Haute Cham-~ girls of grade school age will be in ber of Commerce voted: $10,000 for augurated at 2 p: m. Sunday in the a, building fund. Kirshbaum Community Center, . Terre Haute labor organizations) Special interest groups will meet pledged their support to -the plan,| following a movie in the auditorium, Executive Secretary C. L. Shidler| The terest groups include swim.
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