Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1947 — Page 23

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Zounds, but American kids are qucky. » Which There's one suggestion 1 have forstofes featuring

brings me up to the next point. When toylands chemistry sets. There should be more room to work : : open up. school should close. with on display cases. The reason I spilled a vial of : My reasons for promulgating such a proposition —what was that stuff?—anyway, the. reason

comes after &n extensive “study” in local. “kiddy spilled it was because there just wasn't enough room

heavens.” It would have been more extensive if . to set the junk around. : ; 3 ; elerks, as I said before, hadn't poked their noses A “liquid light” kit wold be ideal for Keeping 3 a : n . we into my business just as I was midway into some- youngster home evenings with homework. 0 ti a n n 0 rece thing such as an Erector set. sorry I can’t say more about this. The floor ar ’ - ou 3

It's staggering to the imagination how much edu- ager didn't think it was necessary to turn out any

cation they pack into toys nowadays. You can al- lights for a demonstration. . ~ } Ge a . most take your pick of a field to start your child in. Is there any school in“the city that boasts all \ Fahd 2 he { ® oO There's- science, engineering, music, practically the practical experience in home economics, hys WE all the crafts except plumbing, pure culture and if ~giene and crafts thai’ several of the well-equipped an offspring of yours shows exceptional ability with toy departments do? ; : games of chance you can start him off in grand For instance, an ‘electric toy range that will style in almost any “toy” department in the city. actually tarn out tood for the young cook. A ‘doll Next to carpenter. tools, microscopes have been = that does ‘everythifig.” Miniature, built-to-scale’ my favorite. This year theyre better ‘than ever, furniture which teaches interior decorating and arBome, still included in the toy lists, would make rangement. Sewing kits, needlework, bead Kits: and Leeuwerdioek, fathér of the gadget, green with complete: laundry equipment are piled so high on envy. we counters it's a wonder to me launderette establish . ments are still in business. Move Alzng, Mister, Move Along EE ir, i # “MAY I HELP YOU, SIR?” a charming young White Christmas on the Drums lady asked as I brought one of my loose hairs into WHAT CHANCE DOES a young Edison have focus, If she had stayed away just five minutes these days in school? Send him, I say,’to the counter longer I would have had a dandy report: As it where he can build a radio telegraph signal set, a was, I had to move along to the chemistry sets. crystal set, learn the MorSe code; and just in case Next to carpenter tools and microscopes, chemis- you want him to come home for dinner on time, try kits are my favorites. Some of the prices start remind the voung genius to be sure and rig himup a chemical reaction but who cares when he's self one of those electric clocks: i Plastics, which anyone will tell you is a good field fo get into; is .being offered by .the carload. The “Kar Kit” that caught my fancy boasts four models of metal and plastic.’ In less time than it takes to get your name on a car dealer's 1% I had a yellow convertible and was started on a sedan One of those “May I help vou?” people interrupted me and I had to move along. Aplastic moulder on the end of the cdunter sold for $3295 I noticed. Just noticed. A little too ricn for my blood. : Next, let us consider the young musician. 1 * don't care how young he is, he can play a well-

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99 Known tune the first time he sits down. ‘One con- aT i — traption is so fool proof thi wi Suptn ts 3 dont broot Sai sme vie en!" "NEW POLICE— (Left to right, Jronf row} Ruth A “Krug. Ama M. Schaub, Porcthy H. Roland, Betty B. Cashman, Betty Meagher, 3s Brahms “Lullaby.” Betty Lee and Viola M. Maxwell. (Left to right, rear) Maurice. D. Hindman, Robert L. Johnson, Robert J. Baker, Thelma J. Sansbury,

Sad, but true, 1 didn't last long in the music youl, 0 T Babbitt, Harold E. Phelps, Robert F. Whitsett and William E. Kaiser.

department. My rendition of “White Christmas on a snare drum wasn't. appreciated. Just for spite I retired to the wooden block section and completed a little Christmas message. The clerk didn't even read it before she boxed the blocks READ CAREFULLY—Somewhere in -the and straightened up the counter.

mass of blocks is a message. + Maybe the kids are better off in school.

: ‘Wise Men’ Scarce By Frederick C. Othman

— WASHINGTON, Dec. 18—It's nearly Christmas, flimsy as ever; it's odd how those Japs can't manuall right. Elevator operators have their gimme facture anything that doesn’t crumble when touched boxes out. Lady reporters are interviewing the wives The Germans are something else: their toys this of prominent men, asking 'em what they're SCN year are enough to make your eyes bulge. Particularly to give their husbands. The price of eggnog their miniature automobiles which race across the

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materials, including the eggs, is up. dining room table—and turn around when they The butcher told my bride he couldn't offer her reach the edge. : an estimate yet on the cost per pound of her turkey. The U. 8S. Army of the occupation came up with Congress, which just had a vacation, is figuring on one Christmas scheme too late. It chopped the! - knocking off again to mgr for two weeks. price of Jap silk in half, but this won't reach ladies'| President mio fig ready to light his nightgowns until next- year. Buy your wife a good

Christmas tree Saturday night and such a commo- silk gown for Thursday next and it'll set youghack tion in his back yard you never did see: Carpenters $50. building phony red candles, painters tinting green the speakers’ stand, electricians snaking cables across Poetry—By Wire—Periled | the dead grass. The cops have chased -the photo- THE WESTERN UNION telegraphers are figuring graphic Santa Clauses off “F” street. on going on strike in time to ruin the Christmas

The new model Christmas lamps give hubbles. Ppoetry-by-wire business. I hate t6 see a gent jobless For the first time in my life I'm getting a free tree; at Christmas, but I can get along without the staff

chopping down same from my south pasture. poet's canned sentiments. Also talking pre-Chiistmas! . strike are the cooks®ut the government cafeterias. | ES Senator fo Sing Carols I doubt if any federal clerk will mourn the lack of CHARLES W. TOBEY, the good gray Senator the traditional 50-cent Christmas Eve lunch of : Rr il 2 13 from New Hampshire, will sing Christmas carols as iy Tirkey with a dab of cranberry sauce ?) : a Photos by John Spicklemire, Times Staff Photographer. ; ) c Sh $ She New Bowland SOW. Tie na Teminigen is Not many federal stenographers will be Here a PATROLMEN APPOINTED — (Left to right, front row) Norman R. Hunt, Charles E. Johnson, James R. Hindsley, ‘Robert T. Morrison, they are many years ago, he told them. a housing shortage Week from today anyhow. They've saved time off and, | awrente D. Feeney and William F. Deakin. (Left to right, rear) Beauferd D. Marcy, Donald J. Sleeth, Arthur L. Plaskett, Delbert E. Pounds, 13. forced a mother to cradle her infant in a barn. In a like the lawmakers, ate hiching Nellie to the sleigh. Herschel H. Robinson, William E. Clark, Vernon G. Britton, Richard P. Krachenfels and Raymond L. Roach.

town called Bethlehem. Now many a child, he said, The railroads and airlines are swamped with reserva-

; : , tions out of Washington. . statement of Capt. Rouls who will ing jobs in the department. tcompete with industry for persone illed BOE i%t Satliens trough tne Window. of The town ought to be a nice, peaceful place for| 8 Women Among Recruits Sworn In; be your new chief beginning Jan. 1, While the group of 30 new officers nel. . : : : a few days. One other thing: If Christmas is here, jv which he said he intended to live fills what department officials call - * a a a bees 2 warelly a wise aig = these carr the bargain sales in the department stores be Year’ S Tryout Starts Of With Schoo on his salary and expected every a “pressing” need on ne. dep there Sanders diclared, “There Cet FL Y, however, while the neares Ing to ay? is vear ‘tunately / ot - an and woman on the force to do was no. in cation the department Sanders declar ple Tunincens ava es ‘3 peroouee a, 13 An, The Jar. nor inall, they in. Be py LUIS ARMSTRONG group sserty as thy vere sworn BAD bur no ndcuion the apartment Sader decir called allure. January when he's dead certain they're going up THIRTY W police 0 period in “You can be proud of the fact” “Don't forget the average citizen cancies. “But before they are ready for ace A large consignment of Japanese jingle-bells has again in February? -That's the way it. is, fellows an Eh today in one phase he said, “that you have survived is likely to judge the quality of the “non . tie. duty,’he said, they will undese ’ arrived for sale, but I regret to report they are as Might as well spend our money now as later. of the department's effort to build the merit system examination and city government by your actions.” THERE was no flood of appli- 26. a seliooling period of 10 weeks, . —————————— itself up to full strength. have received your appointments » nn 4 cants in answer to this call for po- Tig schooling will begin immedi-

At the same time, Police Chief You are embarking on an honorable wyppiAM H. REMY, Safety lice. And out of 74 applicants only

. Howard Sanders announced that 65 profession and I hope you live up ; : Hitt TOUS AD waka _ For the next year they will be Star rs to See Stars By Erskine Johnson vacancies will ‘Still exist on Jan. 110 It. Board president, charged the group 19 were found suitable under exam under critical eyes and if they don’t

in the approved strength of 640 “The ugliest thing to happen to a 0 live up to the oath of office. ination. come up to expectations they face — = officers for the force. police officer is to accept favors from = As the new officers, eight of them = Police say the $200 a month salary dismissal. Their salaries at the end FoLLYwooD, Dec. 18—Hollywood is about to Orson Welles, working in “Cagliostro” in Rome, Pa law violators and potential law vio- women, begin special schooling, ap- paid probationary officers is not of one year will jump to $2700 a 1 adopt the “New Look,” too, to bolster a slumping box writes that he's discovered a new drink there—| MAYOR DENNY addressed the lators. I especially like the recent plications opened for the 65 remain- enough to allow thie department to year.

office. There will be a big drive for better pictures, Negronis. It's made of gin, Italian vermouth and and a campaign to. find new talent to replace a Campari bitters

long list of shopworn stars who are poison to the “The tatters. ure axeeliens for your Lver. the sin Evil Portents Seen i in Sky Two Racing Cars Death of Crippen Nemesis’

paying public. Those cheers in the background are

" " oll “1? " is bad for you. They balance each other.” Dama ed by Fire B fli 4 S | 4 Y Mr. and Mrs. M yelling, “It’s about time. Hob tiie er : ; i . Fond Mrs Movierer vel, 10s shout time. on menus sister, use, 5 sens n+ rn Bg Mt, Everest Climbers 70m 2 we von . Baffling to Scotland Yard

dates. A reconciliation? Springs night club,

’ : i : 500-) ac t May 30 Marie Wilson's husband, Allan Nixon, has given Dub Love-Maker Due for Hit | Priests Clamp Barrier on Tibet Until 1950; He. S00 Me Tact De fire Loy Gas Fatal to Noted British Pathologist; 3 up acting and is now working as a leg man for a { ’ id 1 } : ’ ge Ing Hollywood writer. : THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE Gary Cooper will Ask Sacred Lama s Aid in Averting Calamity Another car used in dirt track races Was He Again Experimenting on Himself? w June Lockhart is having a quiet romance with ign a one-picture-a-year deal at Paramount, similar; LONDON, Dec. 18 Ly A Royal Geographical Soviely spokesivan also was damaged. LONDON, Dec; 18 (UP)—British authorities-attempted today to solve Bernard Strauss, producer of her hit Broadway show, !0 his WB contract. . + . Seen 3 the Paramount said today that two Proposed. expe dons to climb Mt. Everest had been Damage to the two racers was the mystery of the death of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, 70, most famous “For Love or Money.” studio cafe: Marlene Dietrich luhching at a table postponed as a result of evil portents found in the sky by the high expected to be high. The cars were pathologist in British criminal history. He was the man who broke the Move Ty Power turned up stag at Cezar's Supper Ciub, With 13 men. priests of the Dalai Lama, being worked on by George Metzier Crippen. case. 3. yy Jo Stafford is. the “Best Girl Singer of 1047" Maxie Rosenbloom will be starred in a half-hour The spokesman said the priests had barred all foreigners from Tibet in a two-story building converted Mr. Spilsbury was found dead last night in his gas-filled laboratory ation in the second annual poll of juke-box operators. Jo comedy airshow next year. until 1950. They also directed the 14-year-old Sacred Lama to do ; a a barn in the rear of 1121 At London University College, where he had been working. 5.528 v i 55 ; i " enanc tential calam- ! pulled 45.528 votes, .with Dinah Shore second at 41,559. With 77 important speaking roles in “Joan,” an pen Ace adver a po Ataf eta nique to supply the 12 mountaineers Pleasant St .:: One ‘point to pe Cleared was t to lie bath d ddenl If there are separation rumors floating around ynbilled player named Jefl Corey is the only char- : "ey ’ in their effort to scale the world’s Cause of the blaze was not deter- whether or not he had been experi- suit to lie In a bath and suddenly sbout- Janet Blair and husband Lou Busch, don't acter who makes love to Ingrid Bergman. He plays his horoscope highest: peak. mined menting on himself as he some jerked her feet up by the ankles, beljeve them. He's going East alone strictly on ga guard in Ingrid’'s prison cell and, in 50 feet of flim Politics Held Cause " His a . eloot 1 throwing her head under water, usiness. makes the clumsiest and vainest attempt at love- Bryan Donkin, secrétary of the C . | B k T r. Spilsbury was pathologist to," © CLC the ns ! — us ater e natal | ; . . . making in film history. Director Vic Fleming thinks society's Himalayan committee, lent arniva Y Dic urner the British Home Office. He had ae saad Coa We les Bitters His Gin it will be one of the picture's top bits, credence to reports that the priests’ . carried out investigations of almost passages cause VREOnSC lousness, ne= FRED ASTAIRE brought his young daughter, Ava, ' Not in thé script: Bette Davis, refusing to go fear resulted from political rather eyery major murder case since 1910. The nurse would have drowned had . to the “Easter Parade” set the day Judy Garland whole hog on the New Look long skirts—"I have noth- than astrological developments i : His laboratory provided medical she not been revived. tant brought her daughter, Liza. Fred was in dance rou- jing below my knees I wish to hide.” “The Tibetans are keenly aware 4 ; . 4 tvidusve that brought many murder gu... qon.onciration helped convict tine when little Ava turned to Liza and said: That's Eve Arden has been bitten by the stage bug again of the political disturbances caused i | convictions, George Joseph Smith, whose three er my daddy. He dances.” Liza looked long and and will retutn to Broadway in late spring to star by developments in China and India 0 S om IN 5 | Overcame Heavy Odds wives all had been found drowned earnestly at Astaire and then, pointing to Judy, in “Sally Martin.” and by Russian foreign policy,” Mr - - Once, while an undergraduate jn their path, said: “That's my mother. She knits.” M-G-M is looking for a story in which to team Donkin said 's | “% medical student at Magdalen ColRita Hayworth is the 17th actress to play Carmen Carmen Miranda and Jimmy Durante, “It {is only natural that they ilege, Oxford, he put himself to sleep = TY on the screen. Among the others were Theda Bara, Enterprise will film “Cairo Incident.” A loca- should endeavor to keep these dis- NY with carbon monoxide so he could | WORD-A-DAY Pola Negri and Dolores del Rio. . tion unit will go to North Arica. turbances from spreading to their We ree. study the effects of the gas. {

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¢ : “A bad horoscope is often a con- iy (£ 0 ~ Y ' crime work. Pr TODAY 12:30 p. m. WIRE Radio Broadcast. Johnson, director, venom: resson Tor political’ decks BN pYe So) aL know hr two cates . 4:45 p. m. Campfire Girls Chorus, Broad Ripple High School Golden 7:50 p. m. Indiana University sions in Tibet.” in which fre cbiained murder con- " Mrs. Barbara Felland, director, | Singers, Roger Riley, director. School of Medicine Mixed Chorus, ‘Stars Not Right’ victions despite almost impossible - he 7 ) $ p. m. Pirst Presbyterian Church 12:45 p. m. Ipalco Chorus, John M. Mr. Goar, director. Mr. Donkin said a semi-official odds ( in-her’ ent ) sou A Junior High School Girls and| White, director. 8 p. m. Indianapolis General Hos- gyerest expedition projected by the From a piece of skin of’about six INBORN; ESSENTIAL; Junior Choirs, Mrs, G. F. Holler, { p. m. Gradé School 2 Choir, Miss’ pital Student Chorus, Mr. Goar, British Alpine Club was turned square. inches—all that was ‘left of INALIENABLE Vo director, Charlotte Moore, director. director, down by the Tibetan priests last a suspected corpse buried in quick- HE 8:15 p. m. Speedway High School 5 p. m. Beech Grove "High School ei— —— vear because “the stars were not lime—Spilsbury provided the eviMadrigal: Singers, Miss Melva ht.” dénce which brought about the con- ' Miss . Hearings right. dded Schull, director, { Phair, Evelyn Mossmae, di Refls Union il - gt A private expedition proposed by viction and hanging of Dr. Hawley y $:30 p. m. Lawrence High School] rector. 1 Kecess nn an. British scientists and financiers just ‘Harvey Crippen for the murder o ce: Girls Glee Club, Hugh Mason, 5:15 p. m. Indiana Farm Bureal o~p1caGO, Dec. 18 (UP)+Frank has received word it ‘would not be ‘his wife, Belle, in 1910. director, ; i Chorus, Paul Coat, difector. "Douglass, chairman of the National permitted to ‘enter the remote By an appendectomy scar on the 8:45 p. m. Railway Business Wom- 5:30 p. m. El Lilly Chorpses, Gor- 4d said: today: that mountain country. plece of skin, and traces of minute en's Glee Club, Mrs. Edward La~ don Gilbert, director. Mediation Board, sa ay Group Captain A. P. Bandidt, war- muscles identifying the eXach opers vt Shelle; director. 7 p. m. Koran Temple Daughters hangs in a dispute between the (i, RAF fighter ace and official ation. he proved the body to be that wanted Tto8p m Wired Music through of the Nile, Mrs, Clyde Clark, di- tion's railroads and three big of (he group, said plans had called of Mrs, Crippen. in’ two the courtesy of the Meeker Music i... ¥ , ligne had been recessed until Jan. ¢o. cing wartime parachute tech- Drow. in Bathtub b, : 5 Crippen was arrested at sea by green TON ROW 7:15 p. m. El Ravezo Spanish Clu e unions, representing 150,000 . ; 3 ' OMORROW Ben Davié High’ School, A. T. "me un me eneinemen and Food Bill $16,366,000 Walter Dew, a Scotland Yard in11:30 a. m. Trinity. Lutheran School, d g , : spector, who died Tuesday. Pearson, director, switchmen, announced that returns BERLIN, Dec. 18 (UP)--The 3 3 Otto Hellwege, director. M d States and .Great Britain In the second case Mr. Spilsbury! . To Davis High School 7:25 p. m. Brightwood "Methodist ¢f a strike vote tabulated thus far Unite a \ ; ; . Fa would be led 11:40 a. m. Ben Davis Hig 6.000 for food imports to 2-0 proved . that a .person cou Choir, Omar Rybolt, director. Church Choir, Fred Iske, director. jydicate “overwhelming” support of spent $16.36 or Do COPE. 1947 BY NEA SERVIOR WR. 7, W. AR. U. & PAT. OFF. drowned in a bathtub with no 12:05 p. ‘m. Manual Training High 7:40 p. m. Metropolitan Missionary strike actiorf to back up demands western Germany in the first two

"Another thing—I m simp v lost without a 9) bs: of water af three marks of violence ir, nkle orus and Indiana State Board for wage increases and changes in weeks of December, the military or Ms pa 8! on rg Sextette, Mrs, Willa working rules. \governifient reported today. | o clock in the morningl”, He induced a nurse in a bathing pin : - # 5 5 a i { 1 ‘ p } ; A . 3 : :