Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 December 1947 — Page 25

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THE MASTER EYE, bulls eye, fat eye, evil eve, cockeye . . . oops, just had a nice chat with Ralph Slater. Of course, you know who Ralph Slater is. He's the guy who'll ‘put half his audience to sleep and get applause for his efforts. He's also the guy who claims to be the world's greatest hypnotist. Last, but not least, he's the guy who matched his “master eye” against my two 20-20 peepers ‘yesterday. . Being something of scientist- myself, I thought I'd best hold a little clinic with this Slater fellow. I'm not exactly ignorant on the subject.of hypnosis. The doorman at the Lincoln Hotel was my first subject. As he opened the door, I paused, fixed my eyes squarely on his and started to generate. “Are you feeling bad, sir?” he asked attempting to help me through the door. “You looked all right this morning.” I entered the lobby. My appointment with Mr. Slater was still 10 minutes away. What better place to kill 10 minutes than the Mirarbar, I thought.

Didnt Win the Drinks’

PAYTY ORME delivered a drink (not to me) and Joined Glen Lagle, bartender, and myself at the service end of the bar. “Patty,” I said, rolling my big brown eyes, “how ou you like me to hypnotize you?” (Five minutes ot.) Then I turned to Glen and asked the same question. My ol’ pal not only didn't get sleepy or helpless

RUDE AWAKENING—"Master Eye" Ralph Slater tangles with "Evil Eye" and some startling results follow.

By Ed Sovola

but he didn't make one move to giveime one on the house. Time to go up and see Mr. Slater. Something

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definitely was wrong. With an unsteady gait, due entirely to the frustrating experience with my mental gymnastics, I approached Mr. Slater's room. Thumping his panel gently I pressed my ear to the door. No eerie music. The door opened and Mr. Slater, sans turban and flowing robes, bade me to come in. I noticed immiedi“ately the absence of incense: His suite looked like a— hotel suite. I was careful to avoid his eyes while we shook hands. Fixing my eyes on a pastoral scene on the wall, I suggested we jump right into the subject of hypnosis. I noticed he had on a natty, herringbone striped suit, long-collared shirt and neatly tied necktie. His voice was pleasant enough to the ear. Mr. Slater said there were no secrets about hypnosis. “Even you can learn to hypnotize people,” he added. (I didn't say a word about my recent experiment. Thé picture began to get dull) He droned on about how hypnosis was an art like playing a violin; no one could be hypnotized against their will; how the hypnotist is only the instrument through which a subject is hypnotized and it takes confidence, practice and constructive purpose to be able to master the art. There was a lot of other stuff he told me but the above are some of the main points. The phone rang. Mr. Slater answered it and excused. himself. He said he'd be back in 15 minutes. While he was away he said I could read his book, | “How to Hypnotize and Self Hypnosis." | Some of the paragraphs in his book were practically identical to what he told me a few minutes previously. I was catching on fast. i

Ready for Big Test BY THE TIME he returned I was ready to look him straight in the eyes. In fact 1 did and to my| surprise he had brown eyes just like mine. Mr, Slater commented on my “new look.” It was time to get to work. I suggested that 1 try, my hand first and would he please tell me when I was doing anything wrong? Mind over matter. “Sleep, Slater . . . sleep, Slater . . . you're getting sleepy, ' Slater , . ." ' The next thing to do was to accuse him of not co-operating. I did. Mr. Slater asked if T could play a violin after a half hour of practice. How do I know? Never took a lesson in my life. “Sit down. Ed,” Mr. Slater said, “and I'll demonfirate. Now close your eyes.” I closed my eyes and felt his fingers on my forehead. He began to count slowly “Hah! Couldn't do it. could you?" I taunted as I jumped out of the chair. Mr. Slater smiled broadly, as he offered me a cigaret | The first coup'e of puffs tasted good and then I was poisoned. While I screamed. “I'll sue,” Mr, Slater said T was merely experiencing his post-hypnotic suggestion, i “In a few minutes the cigaret will taste all right,” he assured me. “Shall we continue the clinic?” “I'm going to buy a violin,” 1 answered.

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 11—Let us consider today merry-go-rounds, beer, finger-bowls, dog biscuits

. and the fact that Congress is taking a dim view of’ President Truman's scheme for a peace-time, little

OPA. All over Capitol Hill these days Mr. Truman's helpers are scurrying to assorted committee rooms. They are sitting in hot seats, trying to explain to the satisfaction of the lawmakers the President's hopes of feeding Europe and also cutting the cost of living at home. You can look at their worried expressions and watch ’'em polish their steamy eye-glasses and see they're not doing so well. Some of their inquisitors are luke warm and some are down-right antagonistic. And for a fair sample of what's going on, drop in with me on a judiciary subcommittee headed by Sen. John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky.

Placed on Carpet SEN. COOPER & CO. had on their green carpet the underlings from the Department of Commerce who want to ration steel and hang on to their control over tin, antimony (a metal which goes into tooth-paste tubes and storage batteries) and cinchona bark. This latter when peeled off a tree in the East Indies and boiled down comes up quinine, If tin is so scarce, Sén. Cooper wondered, how eome they allow it to be wasted in cans for coffee, engine oil, dog food and beer? They could stop that if they wanted, couldn't they? H. B. McCoy, director of the Office of Materials Distribution and a man nearly as big in size as his title, stuttered a little at that. He said he and his experts hadn't realized tin was going to be so scarce.

Go-Rounds By Frederick C. Othman

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Take beer, the Senator contihued. A beer can is plated with tin, but mostly it is made of steel. How much steel did the beer can makers send to America’s! trash baskets this year? McCoy figured. That ought to make a good many freight cars in itself, Sen. Cooper said. He wonders how the Commerce Department figured on saving steel, if Congress allowed the President's plan to become law. Mr. McCoy said by stopping the manufacture of non-

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essential things. Well, said the Senator, what things? B 57 between Martinsville and Blooming- stock to the Indianapolis market

Reads From List

MR. McCOY READ from a lengthy list: Merry-go-rounds, finger bowls, shoe scrapers, cocktail shakers, gambling devices, ‘ All right, said the Senator. And where would he, use this steel? Mr. McCoy said he'd channel (his word) steel to the freight car, farm- tractor and oil pipe makers. Sen. Cooper said how much extra metal did they need? Mr. McCoy said he wasn't certain. Why not? He hadn't made a survey—Why-hadnt-he2 ~~ | Because, said he, Congress cut his appropriation | and he didn’t- have enough men to make the count. Sen. Cooper glared at him owlishly through thick | lenses and asked him had he talked to the freight car, tractor and pipe folks about their needs? Mr. McCoy said he hadn't really, but he did hold a conference with the stgel makers last week. They said (and he quoted ‘em) that if they had more freight cars, they could make more steel,

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So much for the sample. President Truman's _.

helpers are getting similar rakings-over by numerous committees; my guess is that it'll probably take another war to outlaw steel merry-go-rounds again.

By Erskine Johnson

Desert Varieties

mmmrmem— LAS VEGAS, Nev., Dec. 11—Sun-baked notes from the desert's Hollywood and Vine: Clara Bow, “It” girl of the roaring 20's and last year's Miss Hush, is seriously ill at the Rose de Lima Catholic Hospital at Henderson, Nev, 13 miles from here. Clara and her husband, Rex Bell, have been Hving on their Las Vegas ranch ever since they both retired from the screen 15 years ago. The exredheaded star has been ailing for several years.

Night Club Big Names HOWARD HUGHES’ latest discovery — Faith Domergue—is in town for six weeks to divorce orchestra leader Ted Staufer. She plans to wed Hugo

Fergonese. The night clubs are. still getting the biggest

Big Perks Trid Boy Who Apparently Died Revived by Heart Massage

Ohio Doctor Tells of Opening Chest And Reviving Lad in Two and a Half Hours |

: ; : a CLEVELAND, Dec. 11 Perk) Perkins, king-size Indiana gi.4» while undergoing a chest operation here, realized today how close than 24 burglaries—in-Indianapolis transport’ Admiral Sims.

Resumes Monday ®

An all-woman jury will consider] the gambling case of Andrew (Big

Ave. hoodlum, when the hearing is he had come to reconvened at 9:30 a. m. Monday in s Municipal Court 1. The 40-year-old camera-shy racketeer sat indifferently through- and out a preliminary hearing yesterday, blood. while his energetic attorney, Sam Dr. Claude 8.

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Blum, closely questioned each pros- professor of surgery at Western Re{serve University, g7! method of resuscitation to Richard

pective juror. Perkins, whose “exchange” at 7 Indiana Ave. is a hub for the take-a-chance fraternity, is charged with operating a lottery scheme and gift enterprise and keeping a room for pool selling, Police said they were repeatedly drawn to the Perkins’ Exchange by

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II — names in show business. Katherine Dunham and her dance troupe are at the El Rancho, and the Pied Pipers at the Flamingo. Eddie Cantor, Olsen and Johnson and Harry James are coming attractions. Nimble as Ever | BILL ROBINSON, who will be 70 in May, was the toast of the town during a two-week engagement at the Flamingo. A new routine in his act is how he'll be dancing 40 years from now—leaning on 4 cane, hut as nimble as ever. Norma Talmadge, ex-silent star, is one of the town's social leaders since her marriage to a local _doctor, Carvel James. Plans to convert a local magnesium plant into'a film studio have been shelved. Uncle Sam is putting the plant back in operation,

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(UP—A 14-year-old boy who “apparently

death,

Only yesterday as Richard Heyard of Uouisville, O., told how he past few months. All three admitted was the first person in medical history to survive a ventricular fibrilla- participation in the burglaries In Jaynes said tion—a contraction of the heart chambers into disorganized fashion addition, two of the men, Sipple and

Of, rie a" into the heart to relieve irritation and electric shock applied, bringing it to a standstill to enable it *o return to a co-ordinated motion, “Almost immediately, feeble, r2guago. He and two lar and fairly rapid cardiac conit in the Dec. 13 tractions were seen. .. . From tais

al expellation Beck, an associate

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issue of the Journal of the Amer- point on the heart gradually m-| ican Medical Association, The operation on Richard, ae

creased in vigor. . . . After the cnordinated beat had been established for 20 minutes, the wound in ‘he chest was closed. , , . Three hrs |after defibrillation of the ventricle

completed and the

dozens of discarded pool tickets: on boy's pulse suddenly SLO; wd, the patient .responded rationaliy 7o the. sidewalk, When the name Big Blood pressures sounds eould -no tions d by eight hours h : be heard. The patient was ap- questions; an y eR urs he

Perk appeared consistently in print on the edge of the tickets, police decided Andrew Green Perkins might have more than an average interest in the pool

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parently dead” Dr. Beck said. Cardiac Massage Applied

was fairly. alert in spite of his stormy operative course. . . , There were no signs or symptoms of in-

The electrocardio (record 91 fury \erv y e diogram (record 91 jury to the central nervous system.| .... leading woman flier, today

) was characteristic, “Three months after the patient

[of ventricular fibrillation, he said. | was released, electrocardiograpnic pellor-driven planes which she said Dr. Beck reopened the wound, and 'Acings were normal,

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CULVER, Dec. 11—Harvison Hunt, chanical respiration was used to ARRANGES YULE PARTY

t of Indianapolis, has been

der published at Culver Military ventricles to do Academy.

in of Mr. and Mrs. Lester M, force Richard to breathe, un For almost two and a half nours

procaine hydrochloride, was injected Roosevelt Ave. and Adams 8t.,

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Land and how the jolly, old barrel-bellied Spirit of Giving personally

About 192,000 tons, Mr. selected by lean and bronzed Warren Palmer, administrative assistant

“Brightwood Chapter 309, OES, |

named a member in the Culver the surgeon used his hands to Will have a Christmas program withan hour, a new world's record for' Rifle Honor Guard in a‘'special®or- massage the bare heart, forcing the its stated meeting at 8 p. m. Mon- [the 100-kilometer closed course and their work. A drug day In. Veritas Masonic Temple, sis a new women's record for the

ae BR OUT OF THE WILDS—A wagon-load of trees from the MorganMonroe forest start their way over fire lanes to paved roads where wholesalers will pick them up in trucks. Driving the tractor is Harold Myers while Julian Rogers sits comfortably atop a cushion of some of

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START TO TINSEL LAND-—State forests provide Indiana with some 7000 Christmas trees a year. Coming from the woods at MorganMonree state forest with two Scotch Pines are (left to right] George W. Tabor and James Hueston. They are two of 16 men cutting trees in seven state preserves.

State Reaps $6000 Forest Crop; Supply Still Short of Demand

By VICTOR PETERSON

THERE'S A CHILD'S BOOK which tell all about Santa Claus ©

tours his forests and selects Christmas trees. Now there's a little bit of that going on right here in Hoosierland. The difference is that the trees are cut in seven state forests and

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chased the entire output of the state forests, and many others had to be turned down. . ” »

OF THE 10, two will turn thelr

to the State Forester. For some 10 years now several state forests have been providing many a tree to brighten Hoosier homes. Chief contributor to date has been the Morgan-Monroe forest

ton. —” » {but their supply will be a mere ; 14 4 OTHERS ARE JACKSON, Clark, dip in the Christmas tree bucket Hd Scales Lake, Ferdinand, Pike and re. i 4% Sal ie Ri Th t | There is one advantage to buy- he alamonie River. The average cull, , pgoogier-born tree. It is cut § ting of top Scotch, Red and Jack at the last moment before Christ. gg Es:

Pine is some 7000 trees which bring mas and so is guaranteed fresh.

an income of about $6000. This is Canadian, far-Western and most J : out-of-state trees.are cut anywhere y t Depart- ’ flowed back into the State par from eight to 10 weeks before the

ment of Conservation. The demand by wholesalers is so great that the state cannot meet | = Here, cutting gets under way the it. There just aren't enough trees to 1ast week in. November and concut without seriously depleting the tinues until mid-December. A total stock. As it is, the yield from Mor- of 16 men in the seven forests do gan-Monroe has fallen off and a the whole job. concentrated re-forestation program But there is no ring of ax on now is planned. wood. They all are felled by saw to This year 10 wholesalers have pur- insure a flat cut for tree stands,

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f da vs Aa? 0% 7 0 a MIS wy en NO, TP Fo SA MOUNTAINS OF NEEDLES — Workmen directed by Fred Hacker, superintendent, unload, the wagon of Christmas trees. Only two wholesalers plan to market their of state-cut supply in Indianapolis. Reforestation replaces the annual cutting. History Group

History Group Ways ity Aids Visitor to Discuss Standard Oil Ups: |

: : . _ Reincarnatio | . | Earle W. Newton, secretary of the i | Miss Clara M. Codd, native of { American Association for State and {Local History, will address the af- ’

{England and world traveler, will] ternoon session of the Indiana His- speak on “The Romance of Re-| Standard Oil Co. of Indiana to{tory Conference

Judge Rabb Sorry | Bureau Issues Report incarnation” today at 8:15 p. m.| day announced a price increase of [tomorrow in the 74 |

Law Isn't ‘Stiffer’ t Expert 'n the Rauh Me- my | ® COOL and a half a gallon to its : Lincoln Hotel. On Fake Ra pe t morial Library 71 dealers in Indiana and other MidDisclosure of long criminal Mr. Newton %

An Intriguing “Pied Piper” whose gpa ig sponsored | west states. & { g, 3 | records resulted in maximum prison gho is also di- ability to escape criminal prosecu- py the Indianap- The announcement applies to the sentences for four men convicted rector of the Ver-

tion has impressed health officers i. 1.d0e of the tank wagon price of gasoline. The

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4 Burglars Get 10 3 Years

on burglary charges in Criminal mont Historical much more than his control. over pyaag5phical 80 { |increase becomes effective Dec. 15, Court 2 yesterday. Society, will speak rats, was expected to pay a VISit , ary jy America ,» Kerosene and distillate fuels will , here, . / oy, go up one and three-tenths cents

Miss Codd, who has been a lec

a gallon and residual fuels a cent a gallon at the same time.

Judge Saul I. Rabb, after hearing on “Strengthen-

records that linked the men with ing the Local His- There is no reason why the pied

a large Midwest safe-cracking ring, torical Society.” piper should by-pass this thriving {er of the soci- / 7 i al ales and sentenced all of them to two-io-five Richard B. Sea Midwest city, say Better Business ,,y for many ad independents, too, were expected to : years in prison. lock, lbrarian of ; Bureau officials, since he has plied oo. i an au % follow the increase which comes on Earle W. Newton ,, at ble t t of Bishi the Gary Public s questionable talent on most of 0. ond former Sis Codd the heels of a boost of 50 cents a Miss C

“1 regret that the law does not provide for heavier sentences for burglary, in view of the past records,” Judge Rabb said.

barrel in the price of crude oil. The higher tank wagon costs are = expected to bring increases in gasoMrs. Emma Lou Murray ine prices to motorists ranging up

Library, will present his project to the other large cities of the nation president of the determine the origin of place Uses Name of Averill society both in South Africa and names in Indiana. The bureau said the self-styled Australia

Those sentenced were Joel H. (tl rat expert uses-the name of Roy Reg nrecitont of the local lodge: a Sipple, 34, of 718 Beecher Bt; Last Troops in Italy Averill and follows this approach: P % R = Smal go d Thomas C. Hilton, 33, of 1536 S. To Start Home Sunda He hits a town with a bang, says ~~ . 2 k Alabama St.; Richard James Tur- | pGHORN, Italy, Dec. 11 aay the Better Business Bureau, goes to Carnival—By Dic Turner ner, 37, of 1316 Union 8t., and Maj. Gen. Lawrence C. Jaynes the city health officer and offers to Charles Dailey Vermillion, 34, of commander of the Mediterranean rid city dumps and other neglected 718 Beecher St, |Theater. announced today that the spots of vermin. Since -most cities 3 Linked to 24 Burglaries last United States troops in Italy (this one is no exception) have disgraceful conditions on dumps, the

Police linked three of the men, would sail from Leghorn for New offer usually is accepted without Sipple, Turner and Hilton to more York Sunday aboard the Army delay The helping hand of Mr. Averill is extended free of charge. In some cases, he has been appointed a dep-~ uty health commissioner, asserts the

The 1600 troops will arrive in the United States by Christmas, Gen

and other Indiana cities during the

RIN ak Eh = bureau. Turner, had been convicted previ. ‘W & Then © . " A ’ wl e | n comes the “routine” letter, H ously on robbery charges. ORD A DAY {on official stationary, to stimulate a y; Glenn W. Punk, chief deputy By BACH {local campaign to exterminaie. the A prosecutor, said it is possible the dia rodents. | 0 defendants may face charges of be- Solicits Bisivens | A ing habitus! eriminals bY the me The next step, asserts the bureau, | 3 they have completed their burglary Y ‘ is to solicit business, f sentences. v [ SL J nh ~ Mr. Averill has a fondness for a eo cted of 1 The. four Men were conyjcled (men di-kant)au figure of $87, which he asks of most

burglarizing the Crossroads Tavern, 2179 Bluff Rd. last Sept. 1 and again on Nov. 9. Large quantities of whisky were stolen in each burglary.

of his businessmen suckers, says the bureau. His methods bring a| complete extermination, he claims, | but it is slow enough to allow his| FMinhurried exit from the city with-| out leaving a forwarding address, the bureau warns

PRACTICING BEGGARY,

Jacqueline Cochran | Sets Speed Record

| PALM SPRINGS, Cal, Dec, 11 | (UP)—~—Jacqueline Cochran, the na-

Soviet Union to Resume.

Lend-Lease Negotiations

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (UP)—A Soviet embassy spokesman said today that negotiations on Russia's $11,207 million wartime lend-lease account will be resumed as soon as the new Soviet ambassador arrives here, The spokesman said tha new en- ] 1947 BY h i Trg TR "You've got him guessing, Bottar—hu' wondering what's month.” — Balding you wp’ ©

held a world's speed record for pro-

was set “just for the fun of it.” | “I wanted to see what was the top ‘speed I could get out of the [Mustang,” Miss Cochran explained. The top speed was 460.349 miles,

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