Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1947 — Page 9

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Inside Indianapol

IF THE SOVEREIGN state of Indiana will accept it, Pll buy it. I'm speaking of a dust cloth, whisk broom” or a feather duster. Out of my own mad money I'll buy one of the items mentioned. There's only one reservation in the deal. If I'm taken up on this proposition, take heed officials, the presentation must be made with as little fanfare as possible. No press releases, no photographers, no speeches and no plaques. Take ft or leave it. Best I state why the sudden surge of civic philanthropy. Did you ever take a couple of spins through the basement of the State House? Did you ever look the “white pelican” (pofecanodae) in the eye? Take a gander at thegelk’'s head on the wall or peer, squint and strain rough the glass into the egg case?

Pity the Poor Albatross

IF YOU HAVEN'T, you should. If you have, this kazazz about whisk brooms and the like is' clear enough. Take the albatross Prof. Irvin Stanley brought back from Kerguelen Island, South Indian Ocean in 1874. All I can say is—it shouldn't happen to an albatross, What a fate. At one time something of & kingpin and then bingo—a chunk of cyanide of potassium, a glass case and dust.

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STATE HOUSE MENAGERIE — This fellow needs a complete facial as do a lot of other beasts and "things" in the Capitol Catacombs.

Rolling in Sin

MIAMI, Fla, Dec. 20—Ever since Carl Fisher disgorged his first load of sand onto Miami Beach, there has been a popular suspicion that this synthetic atoll is three cuts wickeder than Gomorrah, and so expensive they slap a surtax on thinking. : Starting around the middle of January, you can hear the outraged howls of the fleeced suckers as far north as Baffin Bay, and the visiting journalists always trot out the stock, class-X expose. It is a curious thing about some of the visiting Journalists and camera snappers. Armed to the ears with an expense account, they close in on the beach about Hialeah-opening time. They hole up in one of the plushier taverns, wher® the cabanas rent for $100 a week without blonds. They huddle around the $50 window, every afternoon, improving the breed at Hialeah, and you can see them bucking the tiger every night at the gambling hells. a

Anointed Wiflk Scotch

THEY GO for the nine-buck table d’hote in.the big night spots, and anoint themselves with Black Label scotch at a buck-and-a-half the gargle. This idyllic existence continues until about two days before it is time to head back to the chilblain belt, and then a curious change occurs. Moral regeneration sets.in, hard, and of a sudden Miami becomes the wickedest sin trap since the Barbary Coast. Rising above an obligate of clattering typewriters, the sermons begin fo blossom all around. Gambling is evil. The prices are murderous. Everybody is a robber and a thief and a sinner. Horses are vicious beasts, better rendered into glue than allowed to gallop at large, swindling the innocent bystander. All the city fathers are loosely identified as crooks. and the general impression is that, out of 500,000 people, 499,882 wear guns and have police records. Breathing hard, the reformed sinner returns to the northland, there to sit and brood about the evils of the city until next year. Then Higleah opens again, and the crusader can put the arm on the boss for another trip down South, in order to expose the wickedness of it all, The year-round residents of old Sodom-on-Bis-

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Jard ducks which I'm sure haven't had a drop of

Is _. By Ed Sovola

he Indianapolis Times

MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1947 i

Here's the story: “The Stormy Albatross can not = rise to fly unless it faces the wind. Prof. Stanley] SECOND SECTION approached the bird when it was nesting and when i it tuined its head to fly, threw a noose over its|

; Ses : : ; PF \ Be \ - v - : ‘HB head. Then it opened its mouth into which Prof. | ity oy ® Stanley dropped a piece of cyanide of potassium, | We This killed the bird.” (Taken from the card on the ’ y v y

front of the case.) -

. “Alby” needs more than a whisk broom or feather | So a ns 4 . y duster but the best I can hope for is to start the! dust rolling in the State House catacombs. -- f 4 NN L aie \ Rha :

The white swan or whistling swan is in no better | shape. He might not have had to swallow cyanide! to get into the same type of dust bowl but that's neither here nor there. He's in. In with three mal-

water roll off their backs for more years than I can remember.

I like the spear case fastened on the wall. The collection could be converted into mops so easily. If such action would be taken I'll volunteer my services for one, full morning providing I get the Bohol spear with mop attached. The taxidermist who got the idea of putting a white crow, albino raccoon, albino opposum and white piggon in one display probably never figured they'd have their complexions changed. At least they all changed together. The “bird of distinction"—peacock—is getting about as raw a deal as you could ask for. He doesn't even have a glass case tg cover what once must| have been quite a display of featherwork. Cobwebs on his head, the stuffing coming out around ‘his neck, tail feathers a moth-eaten shadow of the originals, Mr, Peacock stands on top of a showcase| : and fairly screams to be “taken away from it all”

A Chance for Elks to Horn In

EVEN SADDER than the peacock is the case of the American buffalo. One member of that mighty family of yore needs a complete facial and a dose of vitamins. Should he ever be fortunate enough to get some attention I would recommend putting a rubberized silk shower cap over his kingly head. We should have more respect for the old fellow. | If I were a BPOE I'd certainly raise a little] cain with the way one of my number is being treated | in yon State House. This particuiar elk has one ear missing, a smile that literally makes his mouth go from no ear to ear and dirt practically drips from | his place on the wall. BPOE'’s, up and at 'em! i Seriously, citizens, I'm ready to buy if you . give me the word. If we are going to have a collection | of birds, eggs, snakes, sharks, crabs, shells, fossils, |

ON HIS WAY UP —Mr. Fulmer, as a battalion—chief and chief instructor for the department, posed beside his special car with his driver, Harry Sanford. This

picture was taken in 1926, just two years before he was promoted to assistant bre department was effected in 1921.

VETERAN SMOKE EATER — Fire Chief Harry H.

bones, guns, sabers, spears, carpet bags, mink, musk-| Fulmer will retire Jan. | after 48 years of department

tonto poulalo, pottery, pebbles, etc. etc, we| service. Known nationally for his firefighting zeal, he 1% ought to have a dust cloth handy. I'm ready to : tol ief. Motorization of the buy and present. And as far as the other ofter] Nad no desire to be a fireman when he joined the force. chie + Moto

goes, don't forget, I lead the mop brigade with the sk pg « pol 8 Bohol spear. x

By Robert C. Roark

cayne Bay have been yawning, for years, at the an-| nual unveiling of their fair city as a cesspool of as-| sorted evil. They take a sort of quiet pride in their! reputation for rolling in sin. | They stay out of the obvious traps, bet on the bankruptcies, and manage to live a generally God-| fearing existence in their home town. They are, of] course, beset by the casual acquaintances whd turn up each winter, looking for a free flop and gratis horse tips. They generally heave a relieved sigh when the last registerer staggers onto the train tanned black and mercifully unladen with money. Flamboyant vice and the big spending seems to separate itself quietly and automatically from the maJority dwellers and the casual chumps. ! One of the finest new restaurants on the beach, the Colony, presents its guests with an ala carte menu which is cheaper at the height of the season than the average decent restaurant in New York, New Orledns, or Washington. There are scores of flashy hash joints and glittery cafeterias which keep their prices low and are still in imminent risk of buttoning up the shutters.

Hotel Rents Still High

THE OCEAN-FRONT hotels are stil] sky-high on

To Sido

THE VERY FIRST — Records in the Indiana State Library claim this automobile to be the first piece of motorized equipment for the vf local department. Shown are (left to right) Charles Miller, Chief C. E. : Coots and J. Walter lig. :

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Germ-Proof

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29—Our leading exponent of the push-button age, I guess, is President Truman. Strictly involuntary, Every time somebody invents something tricky, he ships a sample to the President, including electric whiskers. . You've read about his one-way wrist watch radio, which has a range of 200 feet and would be elegant for calling his new dog, if the pup only would wear earphones. The President's kitchen is littered with electrical machinery. He has the finest television set in Washington, an automatic movie projector, radios of all sizes and shapes, an assortment of electric razors, heat lamps, sin lamps, a steam generator for his gymnasium, afi electric riews ticker, electric eye burglar alarms and other apparatus with dials and push buttons too numerous to mention outside an engineering laboratory. The scientists even have been tinkering with the lamps in his office. These not only give out light, but also invisible rays which are quick death to’ germs. The President's doctor, Brig. Gen. Wallace Graham, is certain about this because he has counted the bugs, before and after. He caught 'em on glass slides coated with agar jelly, which stuck to their feet, and he said the number of germs in the presidential office has been lowered 62 per cent.

Did Press Bring in Bugs? DOC. WALLACE said that the invisible bugs in Mr. Truman's sanctum were thickest on press conference days. Begging the pardon of the news reporters, that is. The White House physician déesn’'t claim that news men carry more microbes than anybody else (a diplomat is the Doc.), but that when 150

Wigged City

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 20—Latest fad in Hollywood is “evening wigs.” All the glamour gals are wearing them. Well, I know that at least Lucille Ball, Marie Wilson, Eleanor Powell and Sonja Henle (when she’s skating) are wearing them. Not that these cuties are bald, but evening wigs save a lot of time when a gal is working. She dashes home from work at 6 p.m. takes a shower, puts up her hair in‘a" knot atop her slips on the wig and an evening dress and dashes to the Chanteclair or Ciro’s.

Max Factor Washes It THE WIG 5 the sie Sol 4a hat own halt

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their room rent, but they aren't full right now. while| ’ : " i : i the cheaper places are loaded." The two or three big \ Gi BRI / i HRB NA : . 3 ; . nightclubs and the handful of gambling joints lend THE VERY LATEST — This was top equipment for the fire whatever aura of wickedness the town can actually department in 1911. Chief Fulmer got his start with such apparatus boast. For the rest of it, Miami tries as hard to be . P { * : middle class as any other town I know. in 1900 when he took a job as swing man. Horse-drawn steamers and You can get scalpeq in the Lincoln Road shops! pumpers gradually were replaced with modern rigs. of course, but you can get equally-purse-maimed in| fps . ’ any other big town in the country today. Known as a Fire-Eating Fool; There are some crooks—Ilots of them—in the ad- s . ministration of greater Miami, but this is not pre- Fought Many Major Blazes cisely unique in the land. They run horses and shoot craps ‘and they have a big, blow-hard Chamber of By VICTOR PETERSON. Commerce. They have a lot of retired rich folks, too, FORTY-EIGHT YEARS AGO Harry H. Fulmer grudgingly went, to but any place that’s got a benign sun generally has work on a 60-day unwanted and temporary job. a lot of retired rich folks. . On Jan. 1 he finally will leave the distasteful” job of a fireman. He I aim to carve a unique niche for myself in the will retire from the department's highest position, fire chief. annals of winter-time journalism. I refuse to expose Since that first dag in 1900, when he went to work as the swing man Miami. Its greatest evil, as T see it, is that greater at No. 4 station, then at Madison Ave. and Morris St. he has changed Miami owns more drum majorettes tha. nd about his job. ——————— ————— 17 cities in the world. ; B any other he win man who et his job placement I» a man killed while i attling a blaze. _ — ————— he hag cone a Wp job.of dung M These 48 years, since his first day, » 1 ns nN - are engraved on his mind. There By Frederick C. Othman THE MEN on the force call him hardly is a single big fire that he : » |“a fire-eating fool.” They never are has not worked on. And he recalls surprised when he appears through|them ag if they all happened topeople crowd around the presidential desk, some of the smoke in the most dangerous day. ‘em are likely to have the sniffles. Even traditionally spot of a building at the height of! Outstanding in his mind are such healthy correspondents. a fire, ‘ as the Coburn warehouse in 1908. The two overhead lamps slaughter germs whole-! In fact, they would be surprised Tt was a stubborn blaze and Mr. sale at press conferences. And that isn’t all. “Thelif he didn't show up. Fulmer, then a lieutenant, was on President holds a number of soireés every winter for| “I don’t believe in sending my duty there for 10 days. Another, diplomats, Supreme Court Justices, Congressmen, and |men any place I won't go myself,” even more stubborn; happened at

other big-wigs. They're probably as germy as the|Chief Fulmer said. “Don’t let any-|the Standard Grocery Co. in 1925. reporters. So Doc. Wallace is figuring on sneaking his/one tell you a fireman doesn’t get It was 17 days before the last line anti-bug lights into the East Room, the Blue Room scared. I think it gives the men alof hose was rolled up. and the other chambers where the gold-braid cavorts! feeling of confidence if their chief, But of all he has fought, tops in sedately. drops around to each company dur- his mind is the gigantic fire which i J y offs . ing a fire.” i swepf ‘an automobile storage build- 4 i There I Be Bug-Killing Mist, Too or all his chasing to fires, big ing and surrounding structures in y 4 THERE'LL BE NOTHING obvious about this, you|and little, for nearly half a century, 1918. The blaze was fought in 19understand. The lights will be concealed and no am-|Chief Fulmer Fas been more than | degree below zero weather and the bassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary willl fortunate. Perhaps his first injury!loss ran to $1,154,595. It was called realize that he’s being gone over scientifically for|placed him on guard. |the Laycock Industrial fire. germs before he shakes the presidential hand. That|® It was just 10 days after he joined Non. si Sn si The Doc. is tinkering with a goo|the department hat he was hurt. THE LIFE of a fireman, however, - . a —- called prophylene glycol. An alarm rang out, the horses were| 1 e-eating and carry-| ETT ° . = It's. supposed to kill germs, too. If it works as| hitched and in about eight seconds|ls Pot, 8, siucke cal . safety. ne | ff omin Pi eons Yi el a Clu e S| ‘WORD- A-D AY advertised, it'll be sprayed through the ventilating | the steamer was rocking down the ,.i.¢ pag had the latter pleasure 3 od to system in the form of an invisible, odorless mist, |street. several Yimes, however. ~ By BACH

{ - \ a The President finally is getting one of those new 478 8 ¢ Chief Pulmer's rise in the «10 Pull of Earth on Fliers beni super-dooper motor cars with shiny steel pants cov-| FIREMAN FULMER swung from partment follows closely the expan- |

DISASTER OF 1908 — Graphic in the mind of Chief Fulmer is the Coburn warehouse fire which is shown here in an old print. The stubborn blaze resisted efforts to extinguish it for 10 days. The chief put out the last bit of flame himself.

ering the wheels. Why the automobile makers con-|the steamer, broke a door glass aud| gion of the organization. By Science Service | “Part of the {lls occurring in DE sider it immodest to expose the tires, I don’t know, threw his body against the door t0| promotions—were orderly. In 1906] STATE COLLEGE, Pa. Dec. 20 ju ic in guper-speed “planes and but no matter how expert the President's chauffeur, break it in. {le was made a lieutenant: 1908 a|—Discovery that homing pigeons other high velocity craft, and NN JN - he's likely to scratch the paint on the pants. Mod-| “I got in, but so did the glass— captain; 1918 a battalion chief; 1921{may navigate by the spin of the rnd entire] to la; a its (vi-sis I-tad) NOUN ern science steps in again: : {into me. A plece of glass knifed chief instructor and battalion chief; earth and the earth's magnetic attribute en ire y ge alee "A COMPLETE CHANGE OF A Californian is manufacturing electrified whisk-| through my hand,” the chief said. 1928 assistant chief, and 1941 chief. (field may be important, to pilots of of acceleration,” he proposes, “may CIRCUMSTANCES: ALTERNATION; ers, which hitch to the fenders and ring a buzzer on|"“That's the only fire injury that| In 1921, the year he became cnief high-speed planes, Dr. Henry L. .ncejvably be due to moving rapidly GREAT VARIATION IN the dash when they brush against a curb. Mr. Tru- ever kept me off duty.” linstructor, the department ~om-|Yeagley, Pennsylvania State Col- through the earth's magnetic field.” CIRCUMSTANCES man’s electric whiskers even now are en route, com-| The chief has experienced others, sjeted the transformation to a lege physicist, declared here today| =. 0 urged that biologists and 5 7 pliments of the maker, but none was such that he couldn't motorized unit. A total of 250 men in his first scientific report of the jayohologisis ‘study the results of stay on the job. His latest injury|aiso were added to the force. study of how homing pigeons find 4, "0" experiments and try to came directing his men at the roar-| . nn |their way home i find out whegher human nerves * ing fire which swept the New York] . . 5 ...{ In Dr, Yeagley's experiments, - By Erskine Johnson ‘Central Railroad warehouse in 1945.) CHIEN FULMER hat! Jat if homing pigeons taken from here reatt to the magnetic. fleld of the | He dislocated a shoulder at the ‘Urned from the New York Ito places west of a midway point, | .

| : School, where he been sent tof Nebraska ine; Meanwhile, new experiments and'it's delivered <0 her house.in the afternoon, Fi ee Jor deveral Jerks ent % learn what it would be necessary to 30% In She Spot vs Nera here are aimed at answering some

. of the still-unsolved questions of Nobody knew the difference—until now. Over the years, the department, Wier, I"OPMINE tne. Chief Puimer| Investigation established that the bird navigation. | One of these is Aliey 17 years iv show business, Barry Wood 18ing, yeen almost us fortunate. lean look back on years which has| Nebraska location had the same in-| (ne apparently disrupting effect of visiting Hollywood and may wind up with a contract | seen the local départment rise to|lensity of earth magnetism and Bowe Tot Torito Uroadieasting stations Jay (Mr. D.A) Jostyn will. do a series of film “IN THB TIME I've been on the hecome-one of the best in the na- that the spinnihg of the earth on i, the flight of birds flying in the shorts dealing with juvenile delinquency. force we haven't lost a %ingle man tion, : its axis was at the same rate as region Como Chosen to Do Columbo

killed at a fire. We have had inju-| He alone is not. responsible for| here. | ———————————— ries at them, but even these haven't the record, but his has been a great| Thus, it appears that earth mag- |g orts Man Dies skiing PERRY COMO is first choice of Mrs. Carmella resulted in death,” he said. “The part which has made Indianapolis’|netism and earth-spin may answer P Columbo Tempest for the role of the late Russ Co- good Lord, good luck and increas-!fire insurance rate the second low- | the ancient question of how these SARANAC LAKE, N, Y., Dec. 29 Sealy + lumbo. She's his only sister. ingly imprbved methods of fire- est in the nation. Vids fan Bnd het way Tome - TB) Walieem Jaraiie; 3 3 pa ws JUST DUCKY he ’ A - down these dis- doesn’t like fires. He never also ra. e question as writer for the ref or nie sn ey. Ras eo |oghne have, sui r ha "whether humans may be affected and student at Tetgple University]t Sixty per cent of i: starting a vacation, said it, and that's’'the most’ The chief, himself, however, got ' “All fires are the worst fires,” he by moving across. a magnetic field was killed in a ski accident here Seed soummereiatly th honest thing I ever heard an actor say. ©* nis job on the department as a re- said. ‘in fught, Dr. Yeagley suggests. yesterday. ta aye raised Lang og

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