Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 December 1947 — Page 13
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Inside Indianapol
MY HAT AND SHOESHINE go off to that band of hardy people known as commuters. After indulging in one night of “survival of the fittest” on downtown loading zones the appreciation for my 843 N. Meridian St. address has grown by leaps and bounds. It took me a year to get enough courage to mingle’ for an hour with the I'm-gonna-get-on-that-trolley-if-it-kills-me crowd. "The time was a few minutes after five. The place was on a corner of Washington and Meridjan Sts. As the safety zone began to fill up my courage began to ooze out on the sidewalk. An E. Washington St. streetcar rolled up. “There's our car,” someone yelled behind me. The time of indecision was over. I found myself being pushed toward the safety zone. Fortunately the lights were in our favor. The streetcar was packed. Hopeful riders were packed six deep in front of the doors. The second the doors opened you could feel the tempo of the charge quicken. A Prospect trolley tooted its way behind the streetcar. I was really beginning .0 get the feel of things. By things I mean a shopping bag against my legs, a fist in the small of my back and a high heel cracking the toe of my shoe.
Safety Chains Awfully Mean
IT DIDN'T MAKE any difference to me whether I got on the E. Washington car or not. In any case I didn’t get on. You learn quick to stay away from the safety chains. They're awful mean. I gave my all to board the Prospect trolley. But with the appearance of two E. Michigan trolleys my efforts were in vain. On top of it all I dropped my token. It was impossible to dig into my pocket for another, I thought I'd try my prowess in the safety zone on Washington and Illinois Sts. With another token tight in my fist, my goal was a Mt. Jackson streetcar. I got as far as the doors. Even had my hand on the bar that time. Would have made it, too, if there had been room. to get my feet on the step. - A slight misjudgment of distance cost me a ride on fhe Central 37th & Penn trolley. It went past me about five feet and the next thing I knew I was wiping the side of the trolley with my raincoat. Squeezing in along the side toward the door was a new technique. A real clever man could crawl under the body of the trolley and bypass a lot of the master shovers but I hesitated to try that. It might prove
. hazardous to come up from under the step.
All Caution Flung to Winds
A W. INDIANAPOLIS streetcar pulled up. Throwing all caution to the winds, disregarding women and children, I hauled myself into the car. Couldn't see the operator. Someone took my token and passed it up. A couple more people piled in behind me. I heard the door close and the car started forward. I'm not sure but'I think my feet were on the floor. Anyway, I was upright. ._
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W | EVENING RIDE—Getting on a vehicle of transportation in the evening takes strength, endurance, speed and persistence. No place for | weaklings. At Capitol Ave. and Washington St. I had one heck of a time getting off. People just didn't want] to relinquish their hard-won bit of space. I know how a salmon feels going-up a waterfall now. Next I tried the loading zone in front of the Circle| Bus Station. Busses were piled: up one behind an-| other, There was a N. Meridian, Central Broad Ripple and a Beech Grove Keystone: Everything was goinig rather well until the Millersville Road bus appeared. ) That old junker didn't have a chance. Neither did I. Such a stampede Cecil B. DeMille should see. | Such a stampede I should be out of. I would have! given 15 bucks for a pair of safety shoes then. A great number of Millersville riders were disappointed and you could feel that disappointment. Al Central 70th St. bus was followed by another Millersville Road antique. That's when I was carried by the crowd right! under the English theater marquee. The Millersville riders, I do believe, are the most determined I have encountered. | I had to call -it-a night. There's just so much a man can take before he throws the token in, Commuters, I feel for you. Really I do.
By Frederick C. Othman
I WASHINGTON, Dec. 1-If anybody is sorry for himself because his only home is a back bedroom at his mother-in-law’s, I urge that he read this dispatch to its bitter (exceedingly bitter) end. He'll feel better. He may even have some pity for the firm of Othman & Othman, building contractors extraordinary and also involuntary. With lime in their hair and percentage figures buzzing in their brains. The house we bought was what the experts called fundamentally sound. Meaning that it needed a little plastering, plumbing, guttering, papering, insulating, locksmithing, wiring, roofing, glazing and—I think, tuckpointing. These same experts, hired by us for their honest opinion, agreed that this small job in these inflated times would cost us about $5000. “Correct,” agreed three building contractors we called in for bids, “but make it $6000.”
Adding Machine Trouble
THEN THEY sent in $heir/formal estimates neatly typed on page after page and reaching totals so stupendous as to indicate the zero column of their adding machines was short-circuited. One of these gentlemen was as frank as he was unashamed.
Take the $6000 for a starter, he said. He had to
add 10 per cent for insurance in case any of his men fell off a stepladder. That made the bill $6600. Then there was his overhead, including his trucks, tools and office. That was 20 per cent and my bill was now $7920. Of course, he said, I wouldn't want to see him starve, would I? My speechlessness he took for assent. He added 15 per cent for profit and this brought my $5000 job to $9108.20. It was at this moment in history that the con-
tracting firm of Othman & Othman was born. I provide the blank checks; my bride does the hiring, firing, and worrying.
P._.sterer Gets $22 Per Day
SHE GOT A plasterer (and I am using the exact figures) for $22 per day and his helper for $12. They are working hard, I must admit, and doing a good job. Some of our new ceilings have-metal lath, some gypsum board and some wooden lath. They buy these materials where they can, mostly in the dark gray market, at prices to make me shudder. Two plumbers also earn $22 a day each and so does’ an electrician. They seem to be giving our enterprise their all when they actually come to work. For the last four days they've been on a hunting trip; we continue to be without a kitchen sink.
Our carpenter cheerfully rips out walls and puts, The kitchen opens into the 8 by
‘em back in other places to Mrs. O.’s specifications for $16 a day. He's only been absent from work once;
seems he was butchering a pig at his place down the oak, walls are papered in dual tones. |
pike and accidentally stabbed himself. .
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5-Room Structure
Open for-Inspection WHEN INDIANAPOLIS builders set out last summer! to build a model home, they intended to show the town] what they could construct to, I
sell for $10,000. When they completed the model | home, 1947 style, at 2723 Northview, Ave, they discovered the home will have to sell for $13,000. The $3000 increase in price between laying the foundation of the home and opening its doors for inspection is symptomatic, builders said, of price fluctuation in the industry.
” THE HOME, a five-room frame structure with brick trim, is how | open for inspection between the hours of 6 and 9 p. m. Monday through Friday and 2 and 7 Saturdays and Sundays. | It was built by the Indianapolis Home Builders Association and the Marion County Residential Build-
Hugh Bremerman was the architect and Albert E. Thompson was| Association and the Marion County Residential Builders. It the builder. H. A. Lindeman Jr.| Sie served as chairman of the joint builders’ committee.
o » » THE MODEL HOME is contemporary in design, but has no fancy, futuristic gadgets. It is ranch type, with a low roof and overhanging eaves. It has no basement, but substitutes a utility room between the] living quarters and the garage. One|
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It is heated by two gas furnaces one at each end of the house, and {forced air. Gas, which is not avail-
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|at the present time, was supplied on!
Gas & Coke Utility. |
n » » | THE LIVING ROOM is 13 by 17% feet. In addition to the corner| picture window, with aluminum sash (all windows have aluminum sash), it features a center fireplace with| marble trim and apron. ) The sill of the picture window is 'also Tenfiessee marble. Mantels are old fashioned, the architect said, so
{there is no mantel above the fire-
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place. The living room opens into a ain(ing room “ .2 by 11 feet. The kitchen, opening from the dining room, is of standard, functional design with | built-ins, It is 8.6 by 9 feet."
11-foot utility room. Flooring throughout the house is
KITCHEN — This is the model home kitchen, as
| Woodwory finish is white pine. seen from .the dining room. Built-ins ‘and sink are
" wu ” . . ye He has a helper, who works by the hour for $1.75,| gy FEPING QUARTERS are sepa- standard. The kitchen leads into a utility room. Space
but we haven't seen much of him because lately ated from the living room oy a : . ' ' ‘ the weather's been nice. He has another job On|gmall hallway which contains anor] for stove and refrigerator is provided. A utility cabinet
sunny days, shucking corn for a neighbor down purpose closet. Closet space] Separates these appliances.
Vienna, Va. way. He comes to us only when it rains. throughout the home is ample.
-. My bride says that her crewmen in general are| The front bedroom is 10 by 15% doing a bang-up chore. They're solid citizens, every|feet. The back bedroom is 11 by 112 er 0 ISCIISS |
‘one. According to her figures on the back of an old envelop she may even get the job done for less than $5000, unless she has troubles with the plumbing supplies. But bathtubs are another story which, with your permission, I propose shortly to tell you. Very peculiar, the bathtub situation.
Hollywood Asleep
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 1—Something is wrong—and Tm looking for the answer, Fredric March will go to England next spring and play the lead in a picture based on the life of Christopher Columbus. The picture will be by J. Arthur Rank in England. Christopher Columbus discovered America. Hollywood, believe it or not, is in America. Yet Hollywood sits by and lets one of the most dramatic stories of history slip through its fingers.
Hollywood Asleep at Switch
ENGLAND will make the story of Columbus, while Hollywood fights over who will be the first to make the story of Al Capone. It should never have happened. Hollyweod is asleep at the switch.
Hollywood makes “Forever Amber,” -an English
By Erskine Johnson
story with all the importance of a plate of fish and
==! ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. 1 (UP)—
increased Costs Up Model Home To $13,000 Instead Of $10,000
MODEL HOME — This is the 1947 Model Hom @, built to sell for $13,000 by the Indianapolis Builders
i&now open for public inspection at 2723 Northview Ave. A 3 ¢ HN B A
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BUILDERS — Some of the men who planned and builf it are (left to right) Eimer Meadley, secretary of the County Residential Builders; Robert L.:Mason, president; Hugh Bremerman, the architect, and Ross Neeves, Indianapolis Home Builders president.
feet. The bath, with tiled walis around the tub and shower, is 6%
. by 3 tect Trends in Humor Following a three-weeks’' inspec- d
tion period, the home will be sold on the basis of veterans’ preference. Publisher-Writer To Talk to Forum
Ld Stassen Decries “Changing Styles in American House Hoarding Humor” will be the Indianapolis
Open Forum topic of Bennett Cerf, publisher and humorist, at 8:15 p. m. Thursday at the Kirshoaum
Succumbs to Heart
Attack in Home HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 1 (UP)— Ernst Lubitsch, 55, veteran direc~ |tor-producer of American and European films, died yesterday of a heart attack. His body was found by his per-
Former Gov. Harold Stassen of
chips. Yet we let England do the most important|Minnesota proposed at a press con- |, oo. ‘sonal servant, Otto Werner, on the
story in our history. It doesn’t add up. On more than one occasion it has been apparent that the motion picture moguls of Hollywood are far more interested in making pictures about psychopathic men and neurotic women, bed-flitting society cheats and gangland killers, than im mgking good pictures.
Washington Ignored
IT SUDDENLY dawns on me that there has been
fio picture on the life of the father of his country, DOrers. George Washington. This could be one of the most| Mr. Stassen said more than cie-|, 0 404 Random House on thelfrom
dramatic stories ever filmed,
try were occupied by only one In the early days of motion pictures, the screen coun tions of classics. brains had other ideas. They made historic epics,|Per®on. He urged that Congress re-
and most of them paid off in good hard cash.
This country’s history is loaded with stories . far Witish, jt any Sates wold Sore nels. He now publishes such authors last March presented the more gripping than any modern fiction can offer. . jas Sinclair Lewis, Quentin Reyn-|smoking Lubitsch a “special” Oscar |
ABC Suspends 7 Tavern Permits
stationed at Ft.
been suspended by the State Alco- Col. Craig and
holic Beverage Commission. erville.
ing in the military village of Buck-!
Col. Craig Takes |l|rgpg That Cards
Post in Okinawa
Col. William H. Craig, formerly Harrison, is now S ass
stationed Ln Okinawa as deputy Liquor permits of seven tavern op-\commander for the Military Goverators and two bartenders have ernment, Ryukus Command.
his family are liv.
For sale to minors the permits of| ge y5 supervising the rehabilita- and directory service.
Minnie and Walker Baker, North tion of ‘825,000 Ryukuans in co-op-
Manchester, and Ray Moore, Evans-|o.ation with the ville, were suspended for 30 days.
island citizens.
His wife, Mrs. Emily Craig, for- cause they are incorrectly addressed
The tavern license of Clifford and merly of Indianapolis, and their and carry only third class postage.
Bally Lou Ballou, Ft. Wayne, wasitwo children, joined him in Sep-
suspended for 15 days on a charge of tember. permitting minors to loiter. A sevenday suspensibn was given Joseph E. Bowles, Plymouth, for the same of-
Kentucky Insurance
tense. Executive to Talk Here Sale to intoxicated persons drew| Benjamin #. Woodson, sales ex-| a 15 days suspension for Leonard | ecutive, lecturer, | J. Schindler, Sellersburg. For a like leader, will address the members of cards and packages for out-of-state violation Isaac R. and Catherine, the Indianapolis Sales Executives Stutezman, Plymouth, , were sus- Council at a 6:30 p. m. dinner ineetpended for seven days. ‘A seven- ing today in the Marott Hotel. day suspension was. also given) Mr. Woodson,
delivered, the postmaster added.
| sticker said.
author sand civic
be mailed by Dec. 15.
who is executive]
Frank A. Rohrbach, Dugger, for vice president of the Commonwealth State Bar to Hear
after-hour sale.
| Life Insurance Co. of Louisville, Ky.,|
Bartenders suspended were Earl will talk on “The Mainspring of Indiana Law Deans
Ray, Laurel, 15 days, sale to an in-| Management.”
toxicated person, and Isaac Lowe, The Indianapolis Sales Executives Plymouth, seven days, minors loiter- Council will hold the final business ing. meeting of the year at 4 p. m.
Women to Swap Gifts
“+ OES TO INITIATE
Members of the Indianapolis bai
anapolis Athletic Club for the an
. The Irvington Social Circle will will hold a stated meeting with! sity School of Law.
meet tomorrow in the home of Mrs. |iriitiations and honoring the worthy] Speakers will include: Mr. and Helen Hester, 5365 E. Washington matron and patron tomorrow at/Mrs. Eugene Pulliam; Bernar 8t:, for a covered dish luncheon and|8 p. m. in the Masonic Hall, 30th Gavit, dean of the university's law | Christmas gift exchange. Mrs. and Clifton Sts. Mrs. Lucile Moore school in Bloomington, and Henry ng, president, will bells Worthy Matron and Ralph'B. Whitham, dean of the Indian-
Nellie Manning,
in charge of the business meeting. Smith, Worthy Patron.
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| apolis division, *
Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker today urged that Christmas cards| myn, tea is be sent by first class mail, which Mesdames James W. Wilson, C. E. [Sram in a question period following| Mr. Lubitsch’s name was identientitles cards to both forwarding| Kidwell, Glen E. Moreillon, William |
Third class mail is not returned | to the sender when it cannot be —
“Only cards that are sent first {class may be sealed,” Mr. Seiden-
| The postmaster said all Christmas|
| delivery should be in the malls by | Dec. 10, and that local cards should
and attorneys throughout the state will meet Wednesday in the Indi-
nual alumni dinner of the IndianNorth Park Chapter 404, OES, apolis Division of Indiana Univer-
d C.
Teresied Yodey Jes Congress ake . Cerf, president of Random bathroom floor in his palatial Bel media _aclion . agains ngle|., se and Modern Library, is the|Alr home. A fire department pul-
persons occupying three or four-| cond presentation of the Open motor squad and a physician failed [to revive him.
room dwellings as a means to solve | um. The forum opened Nov. 12 Jemporazily the housing shortage. |), Walter Duranty and H. R.| The Berlin-born Lubitsch started The Republican presidential can- Knickerbocker, foreign correspond- in show business at the age of 19 as didate also came out for increased | wi lan actor in Max Reinhardt's thea{wages for white collar workers and |
fewer increases for blue shirt la-
One-Time Reporter iter. He came to Hollywood in 1923 Mr. Cerf; a one-time reporter on to direct Mary Pickford in “Rosita.” the New Pork Herald Tribune, His famous productions ranged “Passion,” - starring Pola theory of publishing luxury edi-| Negri, to “Cluny Brown,” starring {Jennifer Jones. Gets ‘Special’. Oscar the house into conventional chan-| Director-Producer Mervyn Leroy -cigar-
half million rental units in the
move rental ceilings on such units When this did not pay, he guided
units available to families.
|olds, Vincent Sheean, William for his directing genius.
La pL Faulkner and 8. J. Perelman, i Daylight Chapter, OFS; complied ates His father, 8imon, a Berlin
" clothier, encouraged Mr. Lubitsch To Hold Tea Wednesday His dern jokebook, “Try and|in a theatrical career. Mr. Lubitsch Daylight Chapter, OES, will give e,” is his own contribution (liked to recall the 1913 days, when a Colonial Silver Tea in the home to the literature of humor. It is a he acted in his first movie. of Mrs. C. E. Kidwell, 5703 Carroll.|c0mpendium of anecdotes of mod-| “In those days, any actor who
ton Ave, Wednesday from 2 until em humorists. had the chance did pictures in the 4p m | * The audience will have an oppor-| daytime and plays at night, if he being arranged py | turnity to participate in the pro- had the stamina,” he said.
Mr. Cerf's talk, | fled closely with the progress of
| H. Williams, Noble B. Wood, William | movie-making, the billboards pro-
|P. Schoettlin, Albert H. Oglesbee J. claiming his association with “big” Mr. Seidensticker said that many | 4 1. Frances Pease F en 0 all S pictures, including “Three Women," cards are destroyed each year DE | —————————————————— .
| “Porbidden Paradise,” “Kiss Me
yv: {Again,” “Lady - Windemere's Fan,” WORD-A-DAY | “80 This Is Paris,” “The Student By BACH Prince,” “If I Had a Million” I | “Broken Lullaby,” “The Merry
CONDOLE The men of St. Paul's Episcopal Widow,” “Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife,” ov -1/ (kon-dol”) ves TO EXPRESS SORROW OR.
SYMPATHY OVER ANOTHER'S MISFORTUNE
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" More recently, he was proof th . John H, Vruw the Rev n Fuwink, NEV ducer-director of the topflight pro-
jcurate of the church, at 6:30 p. m. qyctions, “Heaven Can Wait,” “A Wednesday in the parish home, {Royal Scandal” “Dragonwyck,” The Rev. Mr. Vruwink is 32, a and “Cluny Brown" former minister of the Reformed Turns to Writing Church and comes here from Og-| Mr. Lubitsch played a clerk in densburg, N. Y. In Ogdensburg, he/his first picture, but soon turned to was an assistant to the rector of {writing and directing, first handling Bt. John's Episcopal Church, {only comedies because he believed
Princeton where he was graduated, time were so silly, it was much mere the curate was captain of the foot- honest to make comedies.” ball team and also played varsity] European pictures he directed. inbasketball. He will be ordained to the Epis-
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ducted: by the Rt. Rev. R._A./in “Arabian Nights" in 1919.
Dec. 13, at St, Paul's.
wink and their daughter Bar- Productions, Inc. bara, 4, and infant Henry, are liv-
ing at 606 E 58th St. The curate
Gaye, whom he married in 1935
William Burrows, rector. Anne of New York City.
|Church will give a dinner in honor ‘Ninotchka, and “To Be or Not to’
cluded Pola Negri in “Gypsy Blood” and Emil Jannings in “Deception.” | also was sentenced to a year in|treatment. copal ministry’ in ceremonies con- He quit acting after playing a clown prison. The sentence was sus-
He leaves a divorced wife, Vivian 1937.
Ernst Lubitsch, Noted Film [Five Lose Lives Producer, Found Dead
In State Traffiic
Six Hurt in Two-Car Crash at Oakland City
By United Press | State police reported five traffic deaths in accidents on Indiana | highways during the week-end.
| Rex Turner, McWherter, 23, Tom~ | kinville, Ky., was killed in a col{lision with a Greyhound bus on | 0. 8. 31 south of Greenwood. State | police said Mr. McWherter's broth|er, James,’ was injured when the {car in” which the two were riding | crashed head-on into the bus. No | bus passengers were injured. { Struck by an automobile on Ind | 43 near Logansport, William Prater, 5, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Prater, {| was fatally injured. Police said the
| auto which hit the boy was driven
! 1” Kirk Quinn, 33, Lafayette, |
| | | { Bacteriologist Dies Dr. Morris, Weiss, 47, a Moline, | Ill, bacteriologist whe was injured In an auto accent on ThanksgivFILM CAREER ENDS—Ernst | ing Day, died in a Logansport hos-
{ , | pital. Dr. Weiss and his son, Larry, { Lubitsch, 55, veteran director | 11, were injured when their a of American and European |wagon was wrecked on IfAd. 24 near | films was found dead yesterday |Monticello, | ‘of a heart attack in his palatial | Mrs. Helen Gavin, 54, Bellaire, Hollywood home. |O., was killed Saturday night when seet—————— —|a car driven by her son, Charles, 25,
Limburger Cheese i, ir io. o's wo To Shed Smell
|v. 8. 30. Mr. Gavin suffered cuts CHAMPAIGN, Ill, Dec. 1 (UP)|
{and bruises. Car Overturns ~They're going to take the smell Marjorie Koselke, 18, Wanatah, out of limburger cheese. died when a car in which she was Stewart L. Tuckey, University of riding overturned at the junction Illinois professor of dairy manu-lof U. 8. 30 and 330 early yesterfacturing, today announced a new day. The driver of the car, Eugene scientific process to make limburger A. Kammerer, 28, Wanatah, and cheese taste like it smells without two others in the car received minor smelling that way. |injuries. “The outcast of cheeses doesn't! gix persons were injured in a need to be spurned any more,” Prof.| two-car collision on Ind. $7 near Tuckey said. “It can be deodor- an intersection at Qakland City. ized.” In serious condition at a Prince ton hospital were William Nichols, Hitler's Father-in-Law |70. a mining company executive . » . in Pike county; Miss Irma Jean Fined for Being Nazi |rrederick, 18, Monroe City; Lester { MUNICH. Dec. 1 (UP)—Adolf!Juncan, 19, Vincennes, and Miss Hitler's father-in-law was fined|Rita Marchino, 18, Wheatland. Mrs.
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During his student days at “the dramatic productions of that | 2000 marks (about $200) in a de- Capitola Hubburd, 43, Oakland City,
| nazification court today for be-|Was also hospitalized with injuries. longing the Nazi Party and six of John Machino, 19, Wheatland, sufaffiliated groups. fered only minor injuries and was Fritz Braun, father of Eva Braun, [released from the hospital after
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Kirchhoffer, bishop of Indianapolis, In 1935, he became general pro-| Braun told the court he had ; > |duction manager at Paramount and learned of‘ his daughter's “affair”| EAST MOLINE, 1ll, Dee. 1 (UP)
The Rev. Mr. Vruwink, Mrs. Vru- in 1938 organized Ernest Lubitsch with Hitler only by reading about, —Forty-two persons, driven from
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|by a fire Saturday night, were fed ' | “It was not easy to get along with| and sheltered by relief organizations
will serve as assistant to the Rev,/and a 9-year-old daughter, Nicola those three girls,” he said, refer-| today. The homeless lived on : 'ring to Eva and her two sisters. | Campbell's Island
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