Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1948 — Page 15

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Wa ine having ‘to stand with a fistful of greenpacks in downtown Indianapolis for a full 10 minutes schance.” . i » And in these days of rising inflation and clearance sales, it doesn’t make sense. The sales resistapce I encountered on Washington St. for the first few minutes made me alinost lose faith in humanity. -. ~The sign on my chest told the story in red and plack letters. The dollar bills in my right hand verified the authenticity of my business venture. : The honest . smile on my face should have been enough to tell anyone that I was ready and willing to hand out a crisp $1 bill for 79¢. :

Hung Up My Sign for Business WASHINGTON ST. is lined with bargains from one end of the business district to the other. Everyone is unloading. I thought it would be a cinch. When I hung the sign'on my chest I was ready to do business. The bargain seekers

weren't, ie My original plan was not to hawk my merchandise, This was going to be a legitimate, sophisticated sftempt at free enterprise. Phooey on the margin of t. Come one, come At least as long as my

LONELY DOLLARS—A¢t this point, "Mr.

Inside” and his money were not parting.

Site for Suckers

MIAMI, Jan. 2—The big business of gambling, which I understand is illegal, is about as tricky and involved here as gambling can get, which is pretty tricky and involved. 3 : Two local syndicates run things In Miami, Miami \Beach and Dade County: The northern mob— the Costello - Prischetti - Kastel - late Buggsy Seigal putfit—holds forth in Broward County, notably in the, Colonial Inn. There are scores of. joints in Broward. whose Sheriff Waltér Clark is supposed to

You can’t buck a crap game or take.a mild crack. -_at-the wheel on- Miami Beach, until you pass out of # es 7 sa LI 4a biditg "Beach. - _Bookies Pay $10,000 ‘Fee’ EACH BEACH hotel has its bookie, who pays sometimes more than $10,000 a season for the privflege of operating openly and exclusively in the lobbies. ~~ it is really humanitarian, sinée it allows the visit ing sun-worshiper ‘to risk a few -bob on a. nag without going to all the trouble of riding out to Guilfstream or Hialeah. If they. come back brokefthey at least come back ‘sunburnt. Se ALL The big syndicate underwrites the bookmaking both on the beach and in the city. It buys the pro- _ lection, coppers the heavy losses, and keeps everything Tieat and business-like, ~*~ : I am not the man to say that there are any dis-

honest politicians in these parts, but the lowesi-case

handbooks on the beach start their day.by writing $28 for protection at. the top.of the ledger. This Sout Increases according to the magnitude of the “play. : )

The bookies operate” openly. Some get arrested -

every day; fined, and turned loose to go and sin no more, until the next day. The fine actually amounts to a license. They tell me that in Miami proper, one gambler has a record of more than 60 arrests without a single day's roost in the brig. Of course, Miami shudders at the idea that its flowered streets ‘should be cluttered with hoodlums

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“man stepped up and said he'd take a chance. T-didn't: like the Increduluous, comprising, bravado smile he

“considerate folk would give me exact change. . They

"my counting it. There I was, losing 2ic on the dollar

—-—-My 25th single went to a charming young lady “with honest eyes. As 1 slipped the sign off my chest’

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high school kids paused and asked if 1 1. There would have been a sale except didn't have T9c between them, 's that got it can get it. At about the five minute mark, when I began to good and ridiculous, I started. to .vocalize. As loud and as vociferous as any candy butcher in a girlie-girlie show. - x Still no response from- the shufing, suspicious

public. A protective mother told her two teen-age

daughters, “That's a trick. Come along.”

My hasty comeback, “Madam, this is the bargain of the year,” was ignored. :

" Confidence bubbled within me as curious folk

began to line the outer fringes of the sidewalk. I waved my money. One man stepped off the sidewalk on the street. I felt evil and I was glad. Just about the time when I was going to slash my prices a young

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wore. . But—he had 7c and I had the bucks. My first| deflationary sale. I was losing money, A slow start. | It's an old business axiom that one satisfied customer brings another. My first apparently was| satisfied after looking over the biil-I had handed him. The doubting Thomases on the curb moved in.| “Il” take one.” “Can I have two?" “What's the limit?” In two shakes of a dollar bill I was surrounded. The gathering crowd attracted the attention‘ of! passers-by. ' Hot cakes couldn't have sold faster. What really hurt was when someone bought a! dollar at the reduced price with that you-must-be-| off-your-nut expression. Even with the lawful tender in their mitts they'd keep that expression.

Held My Whole Business in 2 Hands

MAKING CHANGE slowed me up somewhat. You see, I held all of my business in two hands. More

were honest, too. A “Throw it in my hand,” I'd urge and they'd insist

and I should worry about a penny or two.

und “went out of business there Were a& MOAt ‘encouraging number of people standing with money outstretched. Disappointment was written on many faces. They asked if 1 were coming back. But the Sidewalk Bank of America had to close its ‘doors. It was cleaned. ; *

Moral? Keep your eyes open for bargains, :

By Robert C. Ruark

during the big season. To keep the place as pure as

can be, a special goon squad composed of three re-|.

tired dicks-and three strong-armed cops prowl the precincts, with a sharp eyve-peeled for undesirables, They are armed with Miami's: impregnable vagrancy ordinance, which has enough teeth. in it to dub young Henry Ford a vagrant and pull him out of -the limousine, if such was the desire. : This goon squad thing is a pretty little fantasy which is supposed to keep unshaven pickpockets and

: : al Photos by John Spickiemife, Times SUA Photographer. CITY LAWMAKERS — Members of the new City Council held their first session yesterday and elected officers and named standing committees. Christian J. Emhardt, their president, said, "'l hope you all do a good job." Seated around the table are (left to right] Guy O. Ross, Joseph Bright, Porter: Seidensticker, Miss- Mary C. Connor, Mr. Emhardt, Joseph C. Wallace, vice president, Don Jameson, Charles P. Ehlers and Joseph A. Wicker. en To : re ny : it

shoplifters with halitosis out of town. The od "is “viable Citi i ti SOR

G us place to move into unless you have been soundly informed about the right boys to bribe. One unfortunate bistro operator kicked in & neat $25,000 to what he thought was the right outfit. ’

Paid Off Wrong Crowd. a rs

WHEN THE cops knocked over ‘the joint a few days later, impounded the loose déugh on the tables . and made the safe for $28,000,.the poor fellow learned. broken hip bone.

that he had paid off the Wrong folks in the first place. It is this sort of uncertainty which drives honest - businessmen to drink. SD The established dicing joints are as lush a propo-

is fineand free.

Phe Brook Club, the 115 CIUY; ther Colonial Tn A South-Side-father-catied-potice

ahd Green Acres run heavily to the plush. The Colonial “Inn carried a .weekly nut of $25,000 last year for entertainment-alone.-A clean shirt-and an eager look is- sufficient to get you inte most of the places. If there is sufficient plumpness to your. poke, you can dispense with the clean shirt. _ As 1 said earlier, this is no indignant expose. Neither politician nor taxpayer tries to hide Miami's illicit gambling from the casual eye. If anybody is indignant, it's the chump who tries to whip the blackjack ‘game.

De ASHINGTON, Jan, 2-If the Republicans, mocrats; liberals and conservatives kindly will

| “keep their shooting irons holstered—I give ‘em my

word “there's nia politics involved—1'd like to write & piece about Hank Wallace, The ‘newest presidental candidate, . I first met him in those unbelievable days when We had too much to eat. He was plowing under little Pigs before they grew up into bacon. There was too much of everything then and the tousle-headed Hank was plowing under stuff all over America. Stilt there was too much, - a <And there he was passing out “blue tickets to poor folks, entitling them to free food in grocery stores. This entailed a lot of doing-and the Agri- - Culture Department, which was my .news beat inty days, found. itself full of économists. About alf of them were ladies. They talked the ears off of reporters. ai SES Hank was conferring with the late Gen. Iron Panta Johhson, issuing loans to farmers, exercising oy East Potomac Park with his Australian bomerang hi Was pretty good at it), making statements abdut © ever-narmal granary, studying Spanish and RusSan, and going on a diet of mush.

Constantly in ‘Hot Water’ FROM MY viewpoint as a reporter writing feature

Stories, he was just the thing. He studied astronomy, ought with photographers, and managed to make,

Somebody sore somewhere, every time he opened-his

mouth,

ane that mush. The livestock industry was hores when the Secretary of Agriculture announced had concocted the perfect diet for man. It consisted of corn meal, ground soy beans and, if I ped Hank boiled 8 together in a grayish mash and ate nothing else for weeks. Something seemed to be missing. When he'd lost 12 pounds he began eating again like other people. bra: Ss m— . Fl

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CN PER chil ae 1 5. JOR, SNE hg ofr) tant $6: cash dey: uddrey. 400k ppe GPR cg ge new Hank === By Frederick -C:-Othman- niu cera. bits 90 Minutes Later | fl Sq Je

‘All the time he was trying to cut down production on American farms. As Secretary of Agriculture, he also was experimenting with hybrid corn in hope of making two ears grow where only one grew before. This, as it turned out, was a good thing. His corn operations turned into a multi-million dollar business. With farmers all over the corn belt planting Hank's special seed, he actually was responsible for feeding many an Allied soldier. ~~ Well I do remember the time a photographer happened by a hotel barber shop, where the secretary was sound asleep with his mouth open. The resultant flash brought him to his feet with fists flailing and lather spraying from his face like a damp snow.

The camera was ruined. and so, almost, was thei

cameraman. The hot-tempered Hank apologized profusely a little later.

Sorry Hank Got Fired SOON HE was advocating a better diet, including more milk for babies, all over the world. Somebody asked if he included Hottentot babies? Hank said, of course. His political enemies never let him forget that, ' President Truman. fired him, you remember, from the Commerce Department, Hank ‘moved to New

York as editor of the New Republic Magazine. Ij

‘was sorry about this, speaking personally again, because it was some other reporter—not Othman— writing now about his experiments with the super chicken, producing drumstick de luxe.

‘ville, Md. experimental farm on hogs which gave tender hams. They did, too, but they Were such pale-skinned pigs that they got sunburned, languished, and lost weight. Hank & Co: provided them with

That, politicians, i§ why I always shall remember Hahk. When the day was dull there always was a

headlirie to be found in the unpredictable doings of Henry Agard Wallace. : :

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (UP) —| «Mr. Hoover urged & “returh to_ing led toward crime as parents

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover says God .and to the practice of dajly ‘more and more” American chil- family prayer.” In many cases, he criminals ‘be- said, God “is not accepted in the shirked their re- home and concepts of morality have

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been relegated to

throw away responsibility,” he said, in a broadcast Inst night. - _ The result, he crime is on the upswing, He said

the junk heap.” |the war led all other groups in ar-

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sition as you'll fee anywhere in the world. At the “Af ; . Club 86, in Dade County, the doorman pays sour (J : Father's Ti : taxifare, ott of a bushel basket of bills, and the food. :

When I knew him here he was working at Belts- b

ges ‘Return to God"

id, is that major .| that the 17-year-olds at the end of, "If he'd only been content with welcoming

GOR RE a dE REL

SAFETY FIRST — Members of the Safety Board pictured here with Richard Stewart (left), city clerk, have pledged themselves to making the city “a safer and better place in which to live." Board members to the right of Mr, Stewart are Howard W. Fieber, Albe Risler and LeRoy J. Keach, president. = :

* MAYOR NO. 34 — Mayor Feeney and his two sisters, Mrs. E. O. Marquette of Rose Point, Mich. {left} and Miss Mary Virginia Feeney of Indianapolis greeted visitors in the Mayor's office yesterday after the inauguration. Then they hurried off to St. Vincent's Hospital to be ‘with their mother, Ms. Mary Feeney, 81, suffering from a

_Revelers Blast | Windows, Roof

8 t —OWHers-of-five-properties-suryveyed: their damage today after. several persons decided to observe the New

to arrest his 13-year-old son and an Year with gunfire. ! older boy for burglary yesterday Shots broke the plate glass win‘after learning the teen-age pair dow in the SmokeRouse, 401 W. (had burglarized a coal company... Michigan- St-i-went- through-a-win- | In the custody of Juvenile Ald 4 0 .¢ 314 N. Mount St.; smashed

Authorities, the 13-year-old boy A and his 16-year-old companion im- 12 panes of glass and drilled two plicated a 20-year-old youth as the holes in the roof of the Advance Imaster-mind in their burglary Planing Co; 330 Orange Ave; and: forays. : pierced windows at 938 N. Sheffield The teen-agers turned over loot Ave. and 2915 Annette St. consisting of fountain pens, flash- - {lights, tools, sunglasses, a billfold

Kiss. Happy '48; Kills

{Coal Co. 1937 Madison Ave. NEW YORK, Jan. 2 (UP)-James N : [ They said they were planning to Harrisori, 41, and his wife, Helen, : i bn : |burglarize a filling station last. 34, kissed and made up at the . COUNTY OFFICER Louis W — i .

night. } stroke of midnight New Year's Eve J | Police: arrested Donald Wright, Ninety minutes later, police said Fletcher yesterday took office as treasurer of Marion County.

NEW JUDGE — Joseph T. Markey, appointed by Gov. Gates, became judge 120, of 1123 8S. East St, as the pe stabbed her to death with a of Municipal Court | yesterday. |master-mind. of the’ juvenile gang kitchen knife in an argument over ; TY aay.

{and held him on a vagrancy charge. the way he was making sandwiches Fil S it t ! Halt a Dik Tamer Fle Suit to Halt val—By Dick Turner |

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ar 1 12Store Project

An injunction” suit to stop. construction of 12 store bulidigs at 38th and Pennsylvania Sts: hak been filed in Superior Court 3. . The action. was brought by the Thirty-Eighth and Penn Realty Co. and William R. Jenkins, owners of~ residential property in that immediate neighborhood ‘against the Boulevard Realty Corp. the firm which has started plans to construct: & business block on. 38th St. at Meridian St. | The suit contends that an ordinarice passed . by the ‘city - council last August permitting business construction at that corner was, not {properly ' advertised and therefore invalid. The defendant corporation was given until Jan. 15 to answer ithe sult. z

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SUPERIOR JUDGE SWORN IN — William R. Higgins, right, veteran attorney, today was sworf in as new judge of Superior Court 3 by. retiring iJudge Emsley W. Johnson Jr., left, who resigned from that bench to reenter private law practice. Judge Higgips...|

Gross Income Tax

"Receipts Soar in '47 ~The Indiana Gross Income Tax Division ‘collected more money in 1947 than. ever before in the: agency's “history. $a | Total receipts were $57,315.803.26, (an increase over 1946 of $0,304, 9324)... |

Wilde was ‘#eappointed court Bailiff: and Lulu Mi Graysen was renamed court reporter. The four other

leather brief case as-a farewell gift. Taxpayers making returns totaled 2 DIE IN ONTARIO WRECK {LANDS WITHOUT GEAR 3 11,393823, an increase of 121946 COBALT, Ontario, Jan. 2 (UP)—|. ATLANTA, Ga. Jah. 2 (UP) = “over the previous year. The aver- The engifieer and fireman of an On- An Eastern Airlines DC-3. plane |age taxpayer pitid $41.12, compared

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It he r New Year, Doctor! Since 1033, when the law was'head-on collision with a freight as it touched the runway, None of yi But no—he had to go on and hold an extra celebration ~~ '|enacted, Hoosiers have: paid $425,-triiin. “Three others aboard the pas- the three crew members of 13 pasa ‘over bejag ble fo pull through 19474". |= [uauask Sy” |senger wal were injured. yg ; : Ln OP ME, fr

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reappointed former Judge Johnson's staff. Urban Kil

superior court judges presented Mr. Johnson with a

‘tario Northland Railivay passeriger made a “bélly landing” here yester-

to $37.74 in 1946 And $35.63 in 1945. train were” killed yesterday in a day whem its landing gear buckled