Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1947 — Page 15
, WHAT COMPARISON can be made between going to a Christmas tree lot and saying, “1 want that one,”
" over'hill and dale in quest of cedar and yuletide log? None. : : " The thrill of going after the Christmas cedar should be experienced at least once in everyone's life. «Nothing like it. After that experience, it's up to you whether you want to give up Christmas entirely or buy the dandy table model paper facsimile. With “Whistle While You Work” on my lips, crosscut ‘on my left shoulder, ax on.my right and a written permission in my pocket from the property ‘owner to cut a yule log, I stepped off a gravel road along Big Eagle Creek and immediately experienced the dangers of wooderaft. The crosscut caught in a vine and I felt the shiny blade slip backward across my neck. Pure luck it was that the teeth were away from the vicinity of my jugular, Somewhere in the neck-of-the-woods theres a thoroughfare called Dandy Trail but I wasn't on it. Cedars were rather scarce. There were plenty of maples, oaks, elms, tulip trees and an occasional walnut. A line of evergreens, obviously a windbreak, caught my eye. My crosscut even quivered as I hopped over a rail fence in my excitement, But cutting a tree in
the line would be like pulling a front tooth. Back to the woods,
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"CAREFUL, BUNYAN—Getting the Yuletide
» log and tree isn't what it's cracked up: to be.
and taking ax and crosscut in hand and striking out °
Quest Comes to An End
MY QUEST ENDED with: a 30- foot ‘cedar. No use picking a shorty on this my first yuletide venture. Getting at the trunk presented some problems. I couldn't swing my trusty ax. Jabbing the prosscut inside the foliage didn’t produce any Staring results except scratches on the wrist, - Then I got mad: ‘Wading into the Stately, green £lant with hard. blows, I made a . couple of healthy dents in the bark. “Where do you want this tree to fall?™ a voice asked behind me. A prickly branch caught me across the face as 1
turned to see who was asking such a question. “I want it to fall to the ground,” I said. “Where else?” “Son.” the character said, “niche it right and the tree will fall exactly where you want it. I'd suggest that clear spot straight ahead.” “I've got it niched,” was my answer. Tncuentally,
who are you?” “Daniel Boone Jr. and this is my dog Tim. Here, Tim.” A red monster of an Irish Setter rushed me. head made another niche on the trunk. Boone Jr., eh? “Show me where I should niche it.” Mr. Boone Jr. a stocky, gray-haired, sharp-eyed gentleman took the ax and asked me to step back— way back. Then he proceeded to cut the lower limbs with mighty accurate blows.
And Now the Niche
“NOW YOU'RE ready to niche,” he said and made }
the niche. Accommodating fellow. cut on the other side and cut away.” 1 asked him to step back—way back. him, My saw went into the cedar with a whine. Daniel Jr. chuckled. The chuckle got louder as I got slower. “Don’t force the saw,” he advised. “It will bite into the trunk itself if you take longer, slower and more rhythmic strokes.’ I took everything he cracked off about just like a gentleman. He did have some good pointers. But there was one thing I wouldn't tolerate, I told him. “When the cedar starts falling, I'm the one that’s going to holler TIM—BER.” Dan said he wouldn't give out with a peep.
“Get your cross-
Halfway through, the saw began to stick. Dan produced a wedge. Then-—the big moment. . “TIMMM—BEEERRRR,” resounded through the
countryside. From then on it was Dan and I until it came time to pull the tree up the hill. I never knew there
was so many things to know about handling a simple
ax. Dan said a man gets heat two ways from a log. By cutting and then when it's in the fire. He was telling me. . “What do you say? Are WE ready to drag this thing up the hill?” I asked. Dan disappeared. So did Tim. Now, as T was saying, a guy should get the thrill of cutting a Fairlead tree and yuletide log—at least once in his ife.
GOP ‘Neros’
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By Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16—My job today is to explain, if I can, why Congress is having trouble passing any kind of anti-inflation scheme, no matter how diluted. The boys would like to stop the gray market in steel and a few other things, you understand, but the Republicans blame the Democrats for obstructing progress and, of course, vice-versa. So they got themselves tangled up and there isn't much the government can do except worry about the fact that building nails, for instance, are selling at golden spike prices. wI'm using understatement, I'm afraid, when I say the House action on the bill was weird. Rep. Jesse Wolcott (R. Mich.), the distinguished and portly chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, announced that, President Truman's program wasn't much good. So the committee thought up a betiter one, he said, or at least one which Congress could adopt. “Yes,” said Rep. Sam Rayburn (D. Tex), “the honorable committee labored long and brought forth three or four very small mice.”
They Could Ignore Anti-Trust Laws
THE BILL—in case you are interested in history— among other things would have allowed the President to approve voluntary agreements between business men to distribute goods fairly. If he okayed such deals, the gents involved could ignore the antitrust laws. The Republicans brought this bit of legislation up uncer a rule whereby it could not be amended. They hated to do it this way, explained their floor leader, Rep. Charles A. Halleck of Indiana, but time was ‘wasting. Congress adjourns next Friday for the Christmas holidays. The Democrats winced visibly.
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The elderly Rep.
Brent Spence of Kentucky charged the Republicans with being Neros, interested’ only in their fiddle music: he predicted thev'd get burned. He said President Truman had asked for bread and they'd given him a stone, He suid the camel had got its nose under the tent. Rep. Mike Metionsy of Oklahoma, another Democrat who also had been-studying Bartlett's quotations, said the Republicans were asking the Democrats to send a straw man out to fight inflation.
Bill Looked Better Dead Than Alive
“BUT NO,” HE CRIED—and cried is the word.
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BEFORE — Veterinarians. held little hope for survival of this tiny Sottie puppy the day he was taken away from his owners, as a cruelty to animals complaint was investigated. He is shown wearing the
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Home Boarding About 50 Pets Which Are Available for Gifts
A MIKELS { SIX WEEKS AGO most dog lovers wouldn't have wanted
By DONN
on a Christmas tree
The word “bedraggled might have been coined to describe the way d semi-Scottie dog looked the day
the tiny, bow-legn: Otto Ray found him.
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“Duffy”
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Mange had left only skimpy bits of fur on him. His stomach was
distended, a result of near starva-
tion. In addition the dog was covered with lice and fleas and was near death with worms,
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little
80 strength left in -him that the heavy Great Dane-size collar around his neck almost weighted him down. That's
the way “Duffy” looked six weeks ago when Deputy Ray found him tied out in the rain at a North Side
home as he investigated numerous reports of cruelty to the dog. Today “Dufly,” inarians g
whom two veterave only a fighting chance
to live, 1s a frisky. shiny-coated pup who has several persons. bidding for his presence in their Christmas stockings.
Deputy Ray took the Scotty to his
farm, where he gave him two things the dog needed most—medical attention and aflection,
Father of 4 Keeps Death Vow After Killing Mother of Two
"Duffy"
Scottie with the Irish monnicker previously pictured. "Duffy" a Christmas stocking.
| “I was afraid for a while this dog!seldom-fed dog was tied for hours would never pull through,” Deputy in all kinds of weather in the yard Ray said. “However, he's improved of its owner, with collar and rope| so much that several people who've so heavy it almost choked the anicome out to give a dog a home have mal. asked for him.” Deputy Ray said he has stateqd ments attesting to cruelty inflicted on the dog by its former owners. He said he found a damp garage with no bedding was the dog's only haven,
» » » THE FIRST COME, first serve policy, however, gave “Duffy” to Mr. and Mrs, Carl Weinard, 5811 'N. Meridian St., who fell for “Duffy” the! minute he wagged his tail and tilted his head toward them. | Meanwhile, as “Duffy” is heading x for a new home Deputy Ray said he Was, “Duffy” is preparing a cruelty to animals who is sent to one of the citys charge against the former owners animal shelters by either cruelty The little dog was the subject of °F thoughtlessness of its owner. numerous complaints to local ani- Deputy Ray, who takes care of mal agencies. Several letters were dogs picked up in connection with written to The Times Hoosier humane investigations in the sherForum about the mistreatment of iff's office at his own farm, has the dog more than 30 dogs which he has | Complainants reported that the trained, house- broken and nursed
‘Big Perk’ Faces 'Love Dealer
EXTREME
” ” THOUGH his case is not the only dog
AFTER—Six weeks eter. There's s little tesemblance belvcan this
and the half-dead animal
is one of the dogs who will end up in
to health. All are available for placing in approved homes, The Home for Friendless Animals Shelter near Bridgeport is currently boarding about 50 abandoned animals. Persons seeking dogs for Christmas gifts can obtain information by calling HUmboldt 30430r Plainfield 5471. More than 150 dogs, weluding puppies and trained animels, are available through the city dogs sales room. In addition to the regular $4 dogs, the sales room is offer~ ing free dogs to shut-ins and invalids. Information can be obtained through MA-0648. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has a list of almost 100 dogs, representing almost every breed and age, which can be placed in good homes by calling MArket 8776.
Who Boasted
Of 55 Wives Takes Poison
Another Trial
Chicagoan Accused of Swindling 7 Women,
Couple Found Neor Lonely Lake by Hunter;
Tries to Cheat Law in Court
ST. PAUL, Minn, Dec. 16 (UP)—A middle-aged “love merchant,” boasts he has 556 wives, was in serious condition today after taking
“I think they are bringing this bill on the floor to Surviving Families Knew Two Were in Love
kill-it because it looks better’ dead than alive. They | KNOX, De c. 16 (UP)— hope .they can persuade the people to blame the Fut halted on )—A 33-year-old bartender and his attractive |
| Second Pool Ticket
Case Opens Thursday
Democrats. They underestimate the intelligence of the people. " Wolcott, Halleck & Co., said vote for this bill, or. there wouldn't be any other. They said there wasn't time te think up a new one. The Democrats ought to know, they added, how long it takes the Senate to pass anything. Came the vote. Two-thirds of the membership had sto favor suspending the rules, or the bill was as dead --for the moment—as a 70-cents-per-pound dressed duck. Bang went drioaker Joe Martin's mallet. bang, bankety-bang. “The vote is 202 aye ip nay and the rules are not suspended,” he announced. So that was apparenly the end of the bill at this special session of Congress—unless the Senate should induce the House to reconsider. And that's uncertain at this writing. I don’t think the Democrats can be blamed for this expensive status quo, or the Republicans, either. But when you take both sides and mix well, boy! And I don't want any argument from any of them.
fe ——— WASHINGTON, Dec. 16—Jesse M. Donaldson is getting plenty of bouquets as the first career postman ever to become postmaster general. But has learned already that the job has its headaches. Reports are coming in that it sometimes takes three weeks for a letter to cross the country. Even on short hauls some customers are complaining that there are unusual delays even for the Christmas season. Washington and: New York correspondents for example, are wondering why it takes four days for a first-class letter to get delivered when it involves only a four-hour train ride between the two cities, So your assignment it's the Christmas rush, ment has gone to, pot, or (3) a combination. You decide to ask Jesse M. Donaldson, the first man who ever rang twice and got into the President's cabinet. Mr, Donaldson says reports of unusual delays probably are accurate. “The trouble;” he says, “is in distribution. We lost at least 60,000 Post Office personnel during the war, We had replacement for many of these people. Under Civil Service, the department is being restaffed, but the new employees are slow to catch on,
Heaviest Mail in History “CIVIL SERVICE had to hold examinations in . every first and second class Post Office in the country to fill the ranks,” he says. “Why, in Washington alone, we have put in 1500 persons during the past year.” Furthermore, he says, the Christmas mail this year is “the heaviest in history.”
is to find out whether (1) (2) the Post Office Depart-
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By James C. Austin
“We also have 15 times as much poundage on| the Christmas mail to Europe as we had during the war,” he says. “That sort of mail is food, medicines, and letters” “Added to that, we have a lot of new help | working. In some places, Chicago, for example, they | are even trying to get high school kids to help out. The situation in many places is tougher than it was during the war.
It's Going to Click “OVER THE long haul, we'll do all right. The Postoffice Department is going to click. It's got to.” In 1903, when he was 18 years old, Mr, Donaldson | clerked for his father, who was postmaster at Shelby- | ville, III. Five years later he was one of the three postmen who ‘brought Shelbyville home delivery service. He carried a leather bag. Now the. burden is strictly administrative. But little postoffice people around the country write in and say they like the idea of one of their boys running the show Mr. Donaldson is pleased by the hundreds of congratulatory letters that have come in. His associates say that Mr, Donaldson particularly is pleased by the letters from people who say they are glad the job has gone to a career man instead of a politician. The Senate confirmed Mr. Donaldson's appointment yesterday. Mr. Donaldson is proud that he came up from the ranks. He is more than pleased that he is the | first postmaster géneral who knows the business. His | avocations ®are hunting, fishing and baseball. He doesn't collect stamps.
“They are nice to look at,” he says, “but whether
they aré worth anything or not, I wouldn't know.” |
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 16—Cecil B. DeMille hits the nail on the head in the “What's Wrong With Holly wood” Department. Says Cecil: “Movie patrons have grown up in their attitude toward Hollywood. Not adults only, but young men and women with whom I sat down in the metropolitan centers across the nation framed questions that assured me Hollywood's gaudy, garish days are about over,
The ‘Circus Ere Is Over
“THE NEW PUBLIC viewpoint no longer fits the traditional picture of Hollywood as a voluptuous Montmartre where oceanic volumes of champagne are consumed by dazzling maidens and god-like Romeos filling Byzantine castles with their eternal revelry. “Hollywood's circus era is over. The age of mind is now upon Hollywood. An art form has grown into one of the great industries of the world. No other art form in human history has experienced such a transformation. The Public is serious Shou
Garish Days Ending
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By Erskine Johnson
Hollywood.”
The Oscar derby contestants are at the post. |
Among the favorites are “Gentleman's Agreement,” “Life With .Pather,” “The Paradine Case,” “The Sign! of the Ram,” “The Bishop's Wife,” “Mourning Be-| comes Electra,” “A Double Life,” and ‘ ‘Cass Timberlane.”
Television to Boom Films SIGNS OF THE TIMES: Eagle-Lion is planning to mse television to help exploit its flims, If Perty Como accepts the role of Russ Columbo, when the late singer's life is filmed, chances are the film will be made in New York, due to ‘Como's heavy, radio schedule. After Roy Rogers and Dale Evans are married, Dale plans to retire from her film career—unless she
[te refused to give him a divorce, "Hoke, 27, Walkerton, were found | the shore of an isolated lake near
Emhardt to Wield Council's Gavel
New Body Takes Oaths on Jan. 1
A new City Council will hold the first meeting of its term at noon Jan. 1 and its members are already committed to install Christian Emhardt, South Side Democratie member, as president, The council-elect, composed of six Democrats and three Republicans, has already held an unofficial organization meetirig but members were not willing last night to say upon what other matters of organization they had agreed. The Jan. 1" meeting is required by | law. nicipal matters will come up, the various council committees will be announced and each councilman | | will take the oath of office. Turkey Dinner The old council held its last meet-| ing of its five-year term last night, after treating the new council mem | bers to a turkey dinner at the Athe- | naeum. Among the Republican-ma jority council's final acts was approval of a $1,100,000 loan to supply the general fund, park board and fire- | men's pension fund with cash until receipt of spring tax returns The council also approved the transfer of 10 acres of land near Veterans Administration for the] new veterans hospital. The land is owned by the park board. Defeats Bond Issue Also approved was ordinance setting up zoning regulations for the new addition of Windsor Village at 21st St. and Arlington Ave. The council defeated an ordi-| nance calling for a $250,000 bond issue which was to be used with | Federal funds for improvements at Weir Cook Municipal Airport. A measure which would have |scrapped the resolution setting up| {the routes of the Northwestern | |trackless trolley and the Golden | |Hill bus lines drew hot debate from, |Councilman Dr. Lucian B. Meri-| |wether and Ed Kealing. Two-Block Walk Dr. Meriwether, favoring passage lot the measure, contended the present system inconvenienced persons who wished to Jransfer be|tween the two lines. Transfer calls for a two-block walk. Mr. Kealing declared that thé) deiegation in favor of bringing the lines closer together should go to the Indianapolis Railway, Inc, and ask for what they want instead of coming to: the council. President—John- Schumacher said that since the matter was
fu what with taking care of Roy's three children tion by striking the measure from
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eetheart apparently died in a suicide pact because his]
The bodies of Carl Eric Rosander, Groverstown, and Mrs. Gertrude lack of
authorities said today. ' | evidence,” Andrew
Freed in one lottery case “for, {poison during his trial for swindling $9000 from a St. Paul matron. ‘Blg|
John Hurley, 44-year-old Chicagoan, who is alleged to have traded | his charms for the life savings of at least seven women, tried to com-
aren two, had been keeping company for about a
“highly | controversial’ he felt that the “lame appears in films with Roy, She'll have her hands duck council” should sidestep ac-|
ate yesterday in a car parked near erk)
here.
Sheriff Elmer Anderson said Mr, Rosander apparently shot Mrs. Hoke, then Killed himself. Mr. Rosander, father of four chiland Mrs. Hoke, mother of
year, Sheriff Anderson said. Mrs. Hoke's husband, Edward, had agreed to give his wife a di-! |vorce, but Mrs. Rosander, an expectant mother, refused to give up! her husband, the sheriff stated.
He added that Mr, Hoke told au-
J. thorities that both he and Mrs. lishment was illegal
Rosander had known of the attacn-
ment for some time and had tried!
to break it up. Sheriff Anderson said Mrs. Hoke's position in the car “was one of utter relaxation” ently was not alarmed when Mr. Rosander shot her with his 38Sgither pistol, just behind the left
rN Rosander, a Marine veteran!
It'ls unlikely that any mu-/of world War 11, had a cigaret be-| was declared invalid by a ‘Hendricks | but| tween his lips when he put the gun! | County Circuit Court decision last
behind his own ear and pulled the| trigger, the sheriff said. The stub was still in his mouth when the bodies were found. Andrew Randell, £nox, found the; bodies as he returned from a hunting trip Sheriff Anderson said Mr. Randell} told him he noticed the car parked | at the small lake early in the morning. He investigated when he saw it still the.e later in the day. The couple had been dead since about 10 p. m. Sunday, the sheriff stated.
and she appar-|
Perkins, 40-year-old Indiana mit suicide yesterday ii a bull pen
Ave. racketeer, will face trial In pital attendants sald he probably a second pool ticket case in Munici- would recover. ped Court 3 Thursday. ; | Police said he had concealed ie Judee Louis Weiland, of Munici- poison in the heel of his shoe. | oi Court 1, dismissed the 300- swallowed it during a recess in ow pound gambler's case yesterday aft- trial. er the state had finished presenta- The suicide attempt came shortly |tion of evidence to a .jury on a after Mrs. Ruth Vick of Philadel (charge of operating a lottery and phia told the jury of 10 men and| | gift enterprise. two women that Hurley had wooed The judge upheld a defense mo- her, won her, married her, taken |tion to dismiss the chaiges on the her money and disappeared. | ground that a search warrant used {in the raid on “Big Perk's” estab-
| Left on Street Corner i
“He left me on a street corner Also the motion held that the last February,” she sald. “He said state failed to prove that the de- he was going to the barber shop for |fendant “operated” a lottery, that a haircut. That was the last time the only evidence was that he had'l saw him until today.” lottery tickets in his possession. | gyrley has been accused of mar- | Samuel Blur, defense attorney, yving several women for their mon[pointed out ‘that his client might ev, but none of the official estihave been convicted under the re- .otes even approached his own |cently passed city ordinance that pooet made shortly before the sui- | provided penalties for possession of ide attempt yesterday. Hottery-tickets. This law, however, “Wives,” he said, “I've got 55 of
| Federal authorities paid little atFriday. [tention to the boast. Some of them, said they felt certain that Hurley |
Canteens Join to Hold probably is a bigamisl, buy soubled if the total ran as high as women Yule Dance Tomorrow | Linus J. Hammond, assistant U. 8. The “Crosstown” and the “Swing si¢(orney, sald “we are trying him Inn” Teen Canteens will have a ony on one chargé and can say Christmas dance ~from 8:30 10 nothing about other accusations 11: 30 p. m. tomorrow in the recrea- ,oainst him.” tion room fo the Standard Life In- pe charge against him in the | surance Co. [current trial is violation of the stoMiss Sara Karabelle is chairman j,. property act, The government of the free dance. Max Wilson and accused him of swindling Mrs. Barhis orchestra will play |bara Kishler of about $9000 in cash
Carnival—By Dick
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|and property. J. Mrs. Vick, the first of the government, witnesses, said that Hurley answered an advertisement she ran for boarders for her rooming house She said he proposed to her after |a short courtship and that they were married in Virginia. 8he said she finahced a honeymoon after he told her he was short of funds. She said she raised $1625 which she gave to Hurley. On Feb. 26 he disappeared, she| said, and she did not see him again [until he appeared in court yesterday |
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‘Armed Forces Restricted 'Due to Panama Unrest | PANAMA CITY, Dec. 16 (UP)— | All American soldiers and sailors were restricted to the Panama Canal Zone today as indignation mounted against the proposed defense base agreement between the | United States and Panama. | Th restriction was ordered 'SBaturday after Friday riots be- | tween demonstrating students and police, The situation i expected to {reach a climax Thursday when the National Assembly may vote on the base agreement,
YULE STORY ON PROGRAM * The St. Paul Methodist Church WSCS will present a Christmas program including the “Christmas Story” by Mrs. Forrest Lytle Thursday .afternoon. jseseion, luncheon and installation of
officers will proces the sory.
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Boy, 12" “Admits ¢ Killing Sister, 16, He ‘Didn’t Like’
——— — LAS ANIMAS, Colo., Dec. 16 (UP) —A 12-year-old boy confessed today that he shot and killed his 16-year-old sister because “I didn't like her
anyway.”
Deputy District Attorney Fred Sisk said Jimmy Melton, son of a hardware store employee, admitted killing his sister, Marie, amidst the holiday holly and tletoe in their living room. ” ” ¥ THE BOY was held at the county jail today while authorities decided what charges to file.
The shooting occurred yesterday.
{Jimmy ran to the store where his
father works. ~He told his father, J. H. Melton, that two men broke into the house, slugged him, and shot his sister. Mr. Melton found his daughter's body in the basement. She had been shot five times with a 22-
caliber rifle. »
” ” POLICE immediately doubted the boy's story about the robbers. They began questioning him. 8ix hours later he broke down and confessed that he had shot the girl. He said he played hookey from schoo} in order to commit the murder “She was always nagging me,” “I didn’t like her, anyway. 80 I decided to kill her.”
PLANS CHARITY BALL Times State Service LEBANON, Dec. 16—The annual charity ball-of Alpha Beta chapter, Tri-Kappa Sorority, will be held in the Armory here the night of Dec, 21.
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