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. : ——— a : pi Inside Indian IF YOU WANT to hear a real “anvil chorus” stop in the circular saw division of the E. C. Atkins --Co., 402 8. Tilinois St. 5 AR

The Indianapolis Symphony at its loudest couldn't compare with the 11 anvil whackers when they get

“going. Sevitzky's boys would have more melody but

for sheer noise ‘with the “anvil” it's Atkins, two to As you stand in the department and cringe from the terrific din, you get the idea the sawsmiths are pounding the living cadenzas out of huge steel discs without much rhyme or reason. s = “You're all wet when yop tnink those guys are beating the saws just any old way,” Charles Barton, foreman, told me after I sort of asked if they knew what .they were doing. Mr. Barton, who has served his four-year .aprenticeship and spent 15 years as a sawsmith, explained that I was observing a highly skilled trade,

Tension on Saws and Ears

THE MEN are putting tension in the saws.” Mr, Barton was yelling at the top of his voice. My ear was about two inches from his eye teeth. Even at that distance it was difficult to hear what he was saying. ’ The way I get the story is that the greater the speed of a saw the more tension it needs, otherwise, it would crack. Each saw is designed for a certain speed, too. Without the proper tension a saw which is tempered and hardened for 1350 revolutions per

"THUMBS AWAY"—They better be, too, when Sawsmith William Many (left) and Elzie Fish start in on a circular saw at E. C. Atkins Co.

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minute would stand a pretty good chance of literally ‘falling apart, Mr. Barton showed me such a saw. I immediately made the brilliant observation that it looked cockeyed to me. : : “That's: the way it's supposed to look. Only we don't gay cockeyed, we say cupped,” said Mr. Barton and proceeded to flex it. The 85-inch buzz circle, whanged musically. o | “The centrifugal force at that rate of speed will straighten the. blade out -and a smooth cut, i8 the result.” Foreman Barton looked as if he was a bit tired of yelling. I suggested we watch the smiths in action at close range. I'm not much of a Hp reader but I think he said, “Good deal.” William Many, sawsmith, was right in the midst of a 60-inch saw with a 14-pound hammer. Mr. Many's| helper, Elzie Fish, twirled the saw from left to right after the sawsmith thumped a spot three or four times. There wasn't any use of asking any questions. 1 could just barely hear myself think. v Mr. Many would slam the saw sharply and then

lay a steel level over the spot. A lump persisted in|

letting light under the instrument. Not for long. Whamo—it was gone. (Keep in mind the men know when to whamo.) . Samuel Magness motioned with his hammer to

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come over to his anvil. The sawsmith had something|

to show me.

“You saw Bill flatten a lump. How would you}

like to see me bring up a hollow spot?” Mr. Barton said it was OK, lumps are flattened and lumps are brought up. 'It all has to do with the tension. “Show me.” Mr. Magness motioned his helper, Atlas Stewart, to move the saw directly over the anvil. “Lookout maestro,” taunted sawsmith William Caulfield at the next anvil. His helper, Jesse Clark, relaxed for a momeht. A huge disc rested on Mr. Clark's specially built pad. It resembles an .apron except this particular piece of equipment is made of seeel with a steel bar on the bottom where a saw can rest. Without the pad a man wouldn't get through a working day with both his legs.

A Peening Hammer, Eh Mates?

Mr. Magness ignored his fellow workers for a moment and showed me the hollow spot under the level. He was ready to bring it up. “He's using what we call a peening-hammer,” Mr.| Barton explained. Just then (I hope this is correct, sawsmiths) Mr. Magness peened the spot. One peen, mind you. Then he laid the level over the spot. No light showed between the level and the saw, him a genial round of “Yahoos.” The demonstration was over. The grinding and! polishing department was calling for saws. anvil chorus started at a high pitch again. Mr. Barton had to ask three times whether I had! enough before I understood him. I had enough. Gad —Illinois St. was quiet that afternoon.

Tangier Tidbits

NEW YORK, Nov. 25—My friend Bill dropped by the other day. Last time I saw Bill, it was in a wicked place called Tangier, in Spanish Morocco, and we were having a couple of cheering sarsaparillas with a phony baron named Flic and his beautiful Arab sweetie, Tania. Bill is in the United States rather casually. That is to say, he arrived as he always travels, extemporaneously and without benefit of money. He swam part of the way back from Africa, as a matter of fact. William is the guy who was, going to open the first hot dog wagon in North Africa. The deal blew up. He had some State Department trouble, I gather, and they nixed the food license, which is funny. You can contract to shoot a man in Tangier without a license. Or buy a slave. Or arrange for a consignniefit "of"opium or a few bars of gold or & néw Buick

or a Sherman tank: But to start a hot dog stand.

you got to have a permit. Things have been percolating right along in Tangier, the last stronghold of casual piracy on earth. Freddy, the Viennese ex-Foreign Legionnaire who runs Freddy's Embassy Club, is putting in a ‘new decorating scheme and has just imported a couple of dozen néw hostesses from Spain.

The El Morocco of Morocco

I USED TO SIT and listen to Freddy for hours. He was very proud of his joint, which he considered to be the El Morocco of Morocco. “All the worst people come to my place,’ Freddy used to say, proudly. “It is the best place for bad people in the world.” Freddy is an alumnus of the Legion because of some trouble with women and bad checks when he was a lusty lad. Bill tells me Sam is missing. Bill and Sam roomed together. Same was a big, slim, high guy

Shopping Spree

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25—The ladies (bless ‘em, and are you listening, President Truman?) turn out to be among America’s leading grain speculators, Many are the housewives who go shopping for a package of bobby pins. a half pound of butter, two spools of thread and—oh yes—May wheat on margin. There are more women than grain merchants plunging into the razzle-dazale of the Chicago Wheat Pit. They're playing the commodity market as though it were bridge at a quarter cent a point. The female who Jobks as if she’s heading to the grocers for a package of corn flakes probably isn’t. She's on the way to her broker's to order March rye, President Truman, as you know, for months has been denouncing grain speculators. Charges ‘em with hoisting the price of food. So a Joint Economics Committee of Congress called in his experts to see what they intended to do about the grain gamblers, : No. 1 was J. M. Mehl, commodity exchange administrator. He said first you had to know who they were. He knows. He asked all the grain brokers to tabulate their customers on one particular day, "This was quite a chore, but they finally came up with the figures for Sept. 17. : ,

308 Wives Were Traders

ON THAT DAY—one single day, mind you, and on one single grain exchange—308 housewives bought and sold 11,112,000 bushels of grain. Much of it hadn't even been planted then, On that same day less than half as many professional grain merchants on the Chicago Board of Trade did about a third that much business. Everybody, seemed like, was gambling in corn and wheat, Mr. Mehl said. Six preachers on that historic day in September bought and sold 62,000 bushels of

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WANT NO

Residents Fear Hordes Of Rats If Incinerator Is Built On S. Side

Neighborhood Stirred by Choice of Site; Housewives Join Storekeepers in Protest By VICTOR PETERSON

langered citizens.

with brown eyes and the girls loved him. He came|

LJ “THE commu this property,

from Staten Island, and was an ex-major in the proposed action circulated the area.|part,” Mrs. Hill said.

British Indian Army. saving up to be a smuggler. Seems like Sam finally got into business and

When I knew him, he Was|8hoppers put their names to one in Mr. Oliver's store.

since. Nobody knows whether Sam is such a success Mothers’ Club are opposed to the he has gone high-hat, or whether he is languishing proposed buildings.

in the old freezer or maybe the cold, cold sea.

“It's not just the fear of beingibe My bosom buddy, George the expatriate Australian overridden with rats,” newspaperman, has finally come into his old aunt's/G Emerick, 2320 Spa

“About the only way these trucks |could enter the proposed garage is Besides local residents, the Wood- on Keystone,” said Mrs. Richard shoved off for Malta and nobody's heard from him side Civic League and the Keystone Cordell, 536% S. Keystone Ave. | “It is a very narrow street and {heavily traveled now. What will it those trucks? said Mrs. H. They'll be coming back to the gann Ave. “We|rage just at the peak of afternoon

money. He has retired from the sordid business of |qon't see how a very strong odor of | trafic. newsgathering and is now a pillar of the export-|garpage can be stifled. We don't import business. George is one of the few people want that smell around here.”

I ever met who hired a sorceress to pray his rich aunt to death.

Tradition Lives—~Coat Vanishes THERE IS NO NEWS from niy Arab godson, Ab-

Baron Flic, an ex-British chorus boy, is still living] happily with the beautiful Tania and the cockatoo. | To get back to Bill, he got discharged one night] and, wearing only shorts and a cherished Stork Club tie, swam out to 4 navy tanker and smuggled him- |

lar cook went back to swabbing decks. Since arriving in September, he has visited Mexico and is now planning to go to Palestine. He doesn’t know why, except he’s never been to Palestine. Bill's the boy who hitch-hiked from Algiers to

“What's it going to do to our|children in ‘this neighborhood?” asked Mrs. Mrs. Cordell asked. Charles H. Hill, 526 8. Keystone|lmpossible to get across English Ave, “The city isn't taking care of

salom Karok, but it's fine to ‘hear that the bogus 1% NOW ad She Mothers Sip Yani

communiyy center?”

Ave. and Prospect St. at Keystone

like with all

nity house is on } too. Last summer there were no water or toilet racilities for the youngsters. Besides, the |place is falling apart. The Mothers’ » {Club has raised about $200 to nelp © LAST WEEK petitions against the refurnish it if the city will do its

“I SPENT $400 to get rid of the rats in my store and I don’t want them back,” said Harry Oliver, grocery store owner, 502 8. Keystone Ave. That thought, along with a lot of others, stirs the home and store The owners around Keystone Ave. and Pleasant Run Pkwy. Today a body of them formally will protest to the City Sanitation !Board against the erection of an incinerator and dumptruck garage

on a 40-acre tract at the parkway and Keystone Ave. The city has voiced its intention

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“DOESN'T anyone think of the

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thing, he'll be warm, because when he left my house dispute over employment rules.

the other might he absentmindedly borrowed my |

pleased, though. survive in the stuffy U. 8. A.

By Frederick C. Othman ood across the nation.

futures. Six household servants, including butlers and parlor maids, proved once again that domestics are in the big money, They bought twice as much! grain as the clergymen. . * | Mr. Mehl listed all the gamblers: Stenographers, butchers, barbers, judges, actors, artists, chiropractors, | dentists, newspaper reporters (not Othman, Mr. Truman), nurses, pharmacists, school teachers and rea! estate agents. The thing to do, Mr. Mehl added, is pass a law forcing 'em to pay at least half cash for their speculative orders. And “fever” was the word he used. |

And a Fool There Was |

is there some broader reason?”

trying to protect the market from the fools. “I thought what we

grain prices,” observed Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. O)ito mediate the dispute went un-

the chairman. “Yes, but, not’ from the 50th floor to the sub-base- | ment” retorted Mr. Mehl. “And that’s what happens ‘when speculation gets out of hand.” . The gentleman from Ohio, looking particularly ruddy-faced since his presidential campaign tour, had another question: Could Mr. Mehl show any! evidence that the speculators, including. the feverish ladies, had boosted the price of wheat? Mr. Mehl said he couldn't, But he bet they

The strike made Chicago the battleground for the fight on the Inbrand new topcoat, worth’ 100 bucks. I am sort of | ternational “Typographical Union's policy that it will not sign labor | A “Cabaret” party is planned at I like to see the Tangier tradition, contracts so long as the Taft-| | Hartley law is on the books. == Union hopes to evade the law and

retain the closed sh “conditions of em

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Reject Demands | John J. Pilch, president of the)

(union, said the strike was called to | ” { That, he said, should: cool their fever, Enforce the typographers’ demands

for wage increases and for. changes in employment rules. The strike vote was called affer! “ARE YOU TRYING TO protect fools from their publishers of the six Chicago daily | folly,” ‘asked Sen. Ralph E. Flanders (R. Vt.), “or newspapers rejected a final union

heeded.

Spokesmen for the struck news- |

napers, The 8un,

Times, Daily

News, Journal of Commerce, Trib-| une and Herald-American, said that | he question of wages was not in-|

Thugs Douse Lights,

kept the price from going down. There you are, Mr, Slug Gas Attendant Two men slugged and robbed which howled the loudest about the high cost of living | Robert Birchman, 19, of 302 N.| were betting on Sept. 17 that it would go higher stil] | Lyndhurst Dr., last night of $56 in|

President and Ladies. Some members of the <ex|

It did. No telling what their profits were.

Inside Hollywood

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 25—Exclusively Yours: Pifteen top Hollywood stars were slated to accompany the Friendship Train from Hollywood to Néw York. The idea was canceled at the last moment, for fear it would be dubbed “another Hollywood publicity stunt.” \ Marjorie Reynolds is London bound to do a stage version of “Burlesque.” ,

Hair-Pulling Party Threatened

MARIA MONTEZ just disgovered another actress is spreading those rumors that she and Jean Pierre Aumont are breaking up. Maria is threatening some hair-pulling next time they meet. But Hollywood's fashion designers may be pulling Maria's hair when they hear she puchased a $15,000 wardrobe in Paris. Linda Darnell’s “Summer .8torm” will be re- , Issued. It's the kind of a role Amber should have

heen but wasn't.

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By Erskine Johnson | about a little playmate for their 4-year-old som, Lance, i

weeks. He's also- traded those crutches for two canes. But doctors say he won't be dancing again tor at least three months. | Charles Chaplif Jr. and Rudy Vallee are

cash, he told police.

An attendant at a filling station |

tion for a while bef out the lights and th him, ~

i . : | Gene Kelly's ankle is out of its cast ‘after ux $1432 in Cash, Checks

Missing From

Frank E. Green, byt manager of the Brevort Hotel, 207|

{at 3428 W. Washington St, he said the men stalled around in the a.)

ore one turned | e other slugged |

Hotel 63-year-old|

tling over the same doll—Toni Dokle, Miss Califorfia N- Illinois St, today reported to| police that $1432 in cash and checks |

Centennial. |

No Retrenchment on Words MARY CHASE, who tried unsuccessfully last year

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concert appearance of Josh White. She still wants Hedy, or Greer Garson, for the play. *

were missing from a his office.

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‘He said he thought the money to sign Hedy Lamarr for a Broadway play, “The May havecbeen taken Sunday night Reluctant :Virgin,” is in Hollywood to manage the Put that it was not missed until

today.

There's an economy wave with money in Holly. CARD PARTY POSTPONED wood, but there's no cutting down on words, Greer| The St. Catherine’s card party) ; Garson’s next contract runs 60 pages, Gary Coop- scheduled today has been postponed Ras. Ruse). and, Preddis’ Bessson, (9, reaming: ers syuitash at, Waimer Brougsg has 19900 words, r

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4| Billings, with games of skill and {other carnival acts to be featured. {Members of the Red Cross Canteen land 21 girls from Marian College |Red Cross unit will serve refreshments, A “Football Festival’ is planned at Indianapolis Veterans Hospital Gray Ladies and 25 girls from the | Marian , College | Highlight of the evening will be the |crowning of patient. Bob Horning {as “King -of Cold Springs UniverMr. Horney won the election {with campaign slogans of “Smaller

volved in the dispute. They sai the only issue was the union's “no contract” policy. Officials of the Chicago local an|nounced on Oct. 20, the day before! its contract with

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ended, that it would refuse to sign| any contracts with the publishers. This action followed the pattern set | by its parent organization, the International Typographical Union, at its national convention in Cleveland {in July. engravéd and then stereotyped and; AFL craft unions were not observing the picket lines, but made] " “ no statement concerning their at- | Pils lo Cure Our 1s". and "More titude, Guild (CIO) representing “editorial workers at some of the newspapers, | announced that its members would | “continue to perform their normal] Brookside Chapter, OES, Saturday duties,” saying that officers of the had conferred with comrepresentatives and had [sroposal that wages be increased to! ‘not been asked to refrain from Mr. Mehl said it was the other way round; he was $100 a week for day work and $106 Crossing their picket lines.” Wor night work. . rr

wanted was a depression in| Mayor Martin H. Kennelly's offer

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Carnival—By Dick Turner

The parties will be spon. |sored by the Gray Ladies of Indian|apolis Chapter, American Red Cross.

RATS—Harry Oliver and his wife, owners of a grocery store at 502 S. Keystone Ave., sign a neighborhood petition protesting erection of an incinerator and garage for garbage and trash trucks at Pleasant Run Pkwy. and Keystone Ave.

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WANT NO TRAFFIC OR ODORS—Women in the area read the petition opposing the city's action. They are (left to right) Mrs. Richard Cordell, 536//5 S. Keystone Ave.; Mrs, H. G. Emerick, 2320 Span Ave., and Mrs. Charles H. Hill, 526 S. Keystone Ave. “

For VA Patients

Patients at Billings and Indian-

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WANT THEIR COMMUNITY HOUSE—There was neither water nor toilet facilities for youngsters at the Keystone Community House this summer, area residents charge. They have raised money to help refurnish it if the city will see that the building is repaired. y or “None of us Is rich,” Mrs. Emerick] “We don'taaga t, an incinerator said. al

= I The homes in the area are mod- said. “But we're good . citizens _who and a garage for ga | ; {love our homes and keep them up. trucks in our neighborhood,” she'in defiant agreement. HH

Papers in Chicago Shrink Parties Scheduled self aboard. o days later he e Ss r he! ° ol Tie wae Torsiven me sys wad in ere AS Printers Go on Strike Photo-engraved Editions Reduced in Size; Typographers Fight for Wage Increase

CHICAGO, Nov. 25 (UP)-—Chicago newspapers appeared today in| apolis Veterans hospitals will be Tangier with only 10 francs in his pockets, and I am | greatly reduced photo-engraved editions after members of the Chicago [feted at Thanksgiving partes to- | sure he will go anywhere he wants to go. One| Typographical Union walked off their jobs at 9 p. m. last night in 8 night.

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3d Parties, Aided by Reds, May Avenge Wallace Firing

Could Swing Electors] Votes of New York,

Illinois From Truman Into GOP Column By LYLE C. WILSON, United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 26—It is beginning to look like Henry A. Walhas decided that about next November would be the right time The

| lace to pay off President Truman for booting him out of the cabinet. ‘Communist Party is all set to aid Mr. Wallace in that chore. Mr. Wallace is talking third party louder than ever. He has been around too long to think Me or a third party could win much of anything in 1948, Mr. Wallace would| ——— —~ A — Er 1952 for more positive re- term against Gov. Thomas E. sults. But a third party movement Dewey. It is reasonable to benext year surely could sink Mr, Tru-|lleve Mr. Truman could not carry man if it got a few breaks. One|New York without ALP help and of those breaks came this month!'lt 1s beginning to look as though and was scarcely remarked. jhe won't get it. In Chicago a rump slate of can=| Mr. Roosevelt's 1944 margin In didates for judicial office was en- Illinois was 140,165 votes. A left tered in the Nov. 4 election and| Wing party’ backing Mr. Wallace shell-shocked Tllinois politicians by|Obviously would jeopardize Demo- | getting 113,000 citizens to vote the, cratic changes there next year and rump ticket straight. The ticket! could not hurt the Republicans

won better than 16 per cent of the much. total vote cast and probably has qualified as a party entitled to be on the ballot iY the primaries and in the presidential election next year.

Leonard Pearson Heads Earlham Men’s Club

Leonard E. Pearson was elected | nresident at an organization meeting of the Indianapolis Earlham ‘Men's Club last night. Dr. Thomas E. Jones, president of Earlham col-

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May be ‘Kidnaped’ It is not suggested that this organization is for or against Mr. Wallace nor, of course, that they

: { lege, spoke. are Communists. But it now ‘con= trols the making of a third party Other officers elected were Robert

torganization in Illinois and the Kellum. vice president; Dr. William | Communists will do what they can Hugh Headlee, secretary, and Fred

| to kidnap it. 8. Ruethe, Weasurer. The Worker, New York's Sunday PASTOR KIWANIS SPEAKER Communist newspaver, revealed Dy, Roy Ewing Vale, pastor of

what the comrades have in mind in an editorial stating that the old

Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, will speak on “Main Beam in the Ship of State,” at the meeting of about third party developments. the Indianapolis Kiwanis Club at |The editorial said? in part: {noon tomorrow in Hotel Antlers. “They have looked at the elec. | mm

[tion returns. These show such forts WORD-A.DAY

as these: In Chicago, a new party By BACH

polls over 110,000 votes with one| |candidate getting 250,000. This fact {has been nationally suppressed in ————————

{the press. | a am | “In Cleveland, a Communist can- || ISSEM didate, Krchmarek; gets nearly 65,» | 000 votes, In New York the Amer- ~~’ | (dY-sem’bl) vera

{ican Labor Party held its own. In | California the petition movement | TO HIDE UNDER A FALSE for a third party is vigorously under | ' APPEARANCE ; TO PRETEND; | way.” DECEIVE , DISGUIS % If uneasiness is beginning to de-! |velop .because of the third party threat led by Mr. Wallace and sparked by the Communists, it is| among Democrats, not Republicans. | If third party organizations went

November in California, New York and Illinois, Mr. Trumgh's chances] of winning would be reduced more’ 4 than somewhat, |

Hold Power Balance {

The third party is a going con- | cern ‘in New York. It is a Communist-dominated outfit called the American Labor Party which) cast 496,405 votes for the late FDR,

i 1944 when he ran for a fqurth