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I Revenue” This tax-paying bloke takes no GI tor ‘the above play on words, Mrs, Evalina Lowden and Florence Monahan, mail sorters in the Internal Revenue Department, 10ld me Shey ‘See: envelopes ad. dressed in such a flippant manner quite oftén. : It was easy enough to think in terms of “Infernal® a ere son, the \sy<disitiy wa of our government in the Federal building. Right now it's a madhouse. You probably think Biling ON 8 1000 Sore. oeiles you oovy Sink Jacket. What would you do if you were one of the 550 . employees who will handle 1} million forms in some stage or another? Go nuts? Naw, Wilbur Plummer, assistant to the Collector of Internal Revenue, swore on a stack of W-2's that everything was normal and progressing at a fast clip, “We're really organized up here,” Mr. Plummer said, “It just looks helter-skelter to an outsider.” (I wish he would have used taxpayer. instead of oute sidet.)

‘Conscience Money’ Comes In

THERE ARE plenty of divisions and sections In the departmént. Even though the sorting section looks like the claim section and the account section looks ilke the sorting section, Mr. Plummer insisted they're all different and perform differently. That also went for the fille section, computing section, listing room

“and receipt and deposit room. I probably left out a

“SLICING ‘FOR “UNCLE ' SAM—W. n° Dickson has a busy time cutting open. envelopes. these days with tax returns on the inside. That's __one way of cutting taxes,

NEW YORK, Jan. 22 have seen a great many curious things and people in the entertainment business Including talking dogs and trained fleas, But this must be the first time in musical history that a singer who does not sing has become a raving success by not singing. I know there are lots of singers who can't sing good, who still manage to eat off their tonsils, but in the case of Miss Rose Murphy, it is different. Miss Murphy, a large brown lady deep into her 30%, does not sing at all, She just plays the piano and says "Chee, Chee, Chee,” in a voice six inches smaller than that of Bonnie Baker, which is pretty small, "A press agent would automatically dub her “the squeak.” Or sometimes, when Miss Murphy wearies of saying “Chee; Chee, Chee,” she goes “Brrrrrr.” When saying “Brrrrrr” becomes too much of a strain, she just-breathes Into the microphone, Some people think that Miss Murphy's microphone - breathing is downright erotic.

“My breathin’ sexy?” asks Miss Murphy, in the tones of a shocked mouse. “I'm pantin’ because I' play the piano so hard.” ; The lady got out a recording, not long ago, with “When I Grow Too Old to Dream” on one side, and “I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby,” on the other. It sold a quarter-million copies in its first two weeks, and has plunged past the million since. She has since cut 26 new sides, most of which are stil! unreleased, but which will guarantee that

~the nation is kept aware of Miss Murphy from now on,

Can't Remember the Words

. IT IS NEARLY impossible to switch on a radio today “without hearing “Chee, Chee, Chee” and “Brirrrr” from coast to coast. Show business is ‘Stark dead in New York, but the downtown bistro “where” Misz Murphy works is packed "to the eaves, night after night.

como Ehis Surprises’ Mag: Murphy: considerably, since

-Not“only did Mr, Dickson have to cut the bottoms off 50 to 60,000 envelopes a day, but he had to stack “them in boxes. Herschel Brill now does the stacking}

i that-Ahey-are mailed with-checks doesn't stop a man

‘Chee, Chee, Chee’

half dozen others but forgive me, please. 1, too, get,

confused with a W-2 form.

an envelope with the sender going to all the trouble —-of clipping the address and pasting it so he wouldn't

have td type ype or write “Collector of Internal Revenue.” ‘There wasn't oné thing which would iden whoever sent Uncle Sam thé dough.

hie uty To the Tefund section, 1 was wid that hat year 921,000 kickbacks were handled. ‘Immediately a bell, similar to a cash register’s, rang in my head. Last

year, instead of a refund, the Treasury Department]

Seb Mat 3 notice that I owed $33.52. 1 wonder how come,” 3 head of the file section. : Ly “Why, we can find out in about two minutes,” Mrs. Lowes answered. We headed for a line of cabinets. Then we crossed the room to another line, It was fast service. “See?” sald Mrs. Lowes. I saw. They're all nice people up there but don't think you can get awdy with &nything, wilfully or innocently. Brother, pocket. From this year's batch of income tax returns, 20,700 refunds have already been sent to St. Louis. In & couplé weeks the refunds will be cash in early filers’ pockets.

‘Try Again This Year’

“YOU OUGHT to try again this year,” Mr. Plummer, Might at that.

Room 335. It's somewhat on the uncomplicated side yet necessary. If the mail sorters and gutters don't do their job well, Mr, Plummer would have a hard time saying everything is “normal.” Along with the “Infernal Revenue” ladies, Mrs. Lowden and Mrs. Monahan, picking the long envelopes from the short, fat from the thin and “personal attention” mail to department heads, are George Cole, Mrs. Ruth Heistand, Willis Holliman and Don Heustis.. Uhtil the big rush, W. B. Dickson, cutter, handled all the envelopes on his cutting machine by himself,

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Shortridge Echo, In 50th Year, Oldest High School Daily In U. S. |

and chasing when Mr, Dickson cuts the 9d-sized and small envelopes. Just about the time I was asking if I could: sorta |

-_ keep the envelopes that fell on the floor, Charles A. |

Scott, assistant cashier and head man in the sorting room. softly. told me the man with the whiskers frowns on such-a practice. Heck, I was kidding, cross my Tan, I was, -A-guy-ean't“be-put-in- fail for thinking though, cant her “About 90,000 returns-a day come in. ‘The fact

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from dreaming how nice it would be to have, say, evéry 100th check, That old man with the whiskers sure has him a business, doesn’t che?

By Robert C. Ruark

she has prem not) - TRE ‘professionall years, with. no large return on the investment, ‘The Rose is the first genuinely shy entertainer I ever met. She cannot talk at all, to most people, and only in short, embarrassed gasps, to a few, The reason she sings “Chee, Chee, Chee” is very simple. “I never could remember the words to any songs,” she twitters, in the voice of an adolescent butterfly.

A Little Girl About to Cry

SHE KEEPS HER eyes clamped tight, when she sings, She also sticks out her tongue and traps it securely between her teeth, in the corner of her mouth, as a gesture of embarrassment. She looks like a little girl who is about to cry because she can't remember the last word in the statement:

BEHIND THE SCENES—Before a pa per "hits the sree,” even in high school, there is a lot of good hard work. Copy-reading and make-up are but. a small, yet . important, part. Checking copy and proof ‘are (left to right] Mark Colby, Miss Jeannette Grubb, adviser, Barbara Redding and Linda McLain. Tonight the Echo celebrates a half-century of publication with a dinner and program | in the school; AL graduates have been invited. es ws

s by Victor Peterson, Times Staff Photographer.

CHECK PROFITS — For 50 years the Shortridge Daily Echo has been in publication. It hasn't always had clear financial sailing but the smiles on the faces of Bloor Redding, business manager, and his assistant, Mary Louise Jamison, indicate. that thi¢ year is one of. poset

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“Mary Had a Little .-, ” I had a short chat with the lady and she was “quivering like a scared puppy all the time, with® her eyes squeezed shut as she “forced out a couple of answers.

I spent one whole evening trying to figure out,”

what makes Miss Murphy so acceptable to the | publi¢; and I'm still stumped. - There is some novelty value, of course, to a flea-sized voice coming out of a big dame, and she does play a good, loud, gusty piano. But the world is loaded with people who play better and louder pianos, and a great many of them are sticking cardboard into their shoe-soles. AH can figure is that maybe her breathing into a microphone is melodious, and that the world has been waiting for “Chee, Clhiee, Chee” and “Brrrrrr.” Or, possibly, she touches a forgotten remembrance of the time you got up on the stage to recite "Boy Stood on the Burning Deck,”—and suddenly had only a mouthful of cotton with no words in your head. Perhaps that memory builds sympathy for the | hysterically shy Miss Murphy, Or else the listening public is reaching for surcease from the 11903 male baritones who emulate a bull-in a barbed wire fence. ' ‘Whatever it is Miss Jewphy's got, itll make ~her-rich - this year, “lw a

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Poor Betty Isabel ©

WASHINGTON, Jin. 22—The brawl at ‘which sgt. Edwin A. Shunke of the U. 8. Army celebrated his marriage to a beautiful AWStrallan must have been a little whiz-ding. The. flowed. like water at the Potts Point Cafe in. Sydney. And there was

_ this Norwegian. sailor, who took. an. too much. bubbly, .

“and started throwing his money around like a<erdrunken sailor,

Things went from pad to—worse, the Bobbies

- hauled the sergeants bride down to- the: gaot; and ne

telling what would have happened if the good, old " ntimental Congress of the U. 8. 'A., hadn't passed law in a hurry to smooth the international bumps inthe path of true love. The sergeant went out to Australia from Illinois, met his Betty Isabel and fell in love with her. They Were married. They held their celebration at Potts Point and-the drunker this Norwegian seaman got, the more Australian pounds he tossed at the cigaret Birl. Me woke the next morning broké and feeling fuzzy in the head. And what did this ungallant NorWegian do?

~ Sentenced fo a Month, Suspended

CHARGED THE bride with swiping $50 and to make it worse, said she stole it from his person. You ‘an imagine how Betty Isabel felt. With all the excitement and lawyers barking questions at her, She pleaded guilty because that seemed to be the easiest Way out of an Embarrassing situation. The judge at Paddington didn’t think she was as guilty as she was hysterical. He sentenced her to 4 month in jail; then he suspended the sentence. That was six long, long years-ago, When the sergeant got ready to bring his bride back to Illinois, the State Department (which wears striped pants and “pince-nes eyeglasses) said “merciful heavens, no.” This woman was guilty 6f moral turpitude and no fit person to come to America. Poor Betty Isabel. She took to the hospital. Poor ‘Sgt. Shunke. He started a six-year fight to prove his < bride was no moral turpa-whatever-it-was. Eventual.

Why 18 e 1s colonel pronounced “kurnel"? oe 7" sound in colonel is a holdover from the h Century when the word was spelled coronal. oe a What state produces the largest catch of shrimp? v na. About two-thirds eof the Nited States catch ha shrimp Is taken there.

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‘By y Frederick c. Othman

ly he reached his. Congressman, Noah ‘Mason of Oglesy, Ill, who loves love .as much as the next fellow. i ~JRep.- Mason -wrote bil, H—R.—421, instructing | the attorney general to let Betty Isabel into the

United States, no.matter what. the. immigration. aot! pends now-upon-the students.of the day..

of 1917 said about morals: Then he took it to the Committee on Judiciary, whose members never forget to send their own wives flowers on their wedding

anniversaries. “These gentlemen wiped thie tears from,

behihd their eyeglassés and unanimously approved the bill giving Betty Isabel the freedom of the U.8. A.

Hardly a Dry Eye in the House

REP. FRANK FELLOWS of Bangor, Me, one of! the committeemen who approves of romance, took | the bill to the House in formal session assembled.

He presented his report (No. 1206) about Betty Isabel. sor.

He went into details of the charges by the unspeakable sailor, who'd muscled into the sergeant’s champagne . supplies. | He produced also a message from Douglas W. Me- | Gregor, the sympathetic assistant to the Stiatne) general, who'd studied her case and decided that Betty Isabel wasn't really a thief. There was hardly a dry eye in the House. If there

was, the proprietor of same didn't know what was|

going on, and hence wouldn't admit it, The gentlemen with tenderness in their “hearts stopped worrying about the- Marshall Plan and such as that and—it| was like an ovation to Betty Isabel—passed her law.

now and probably will, because what Senator willl __ prove by his vote that he's opposed to love? Then |

President Truman, who long since has shown wat Miffed Translation, gram, depicting the progress of the yrday ini ‘the Cliypool Hotel.

he approves of hearts and. flowers, will sign. And! Betty Isabel falls six years late into the arms of her bridegroom. ‘I hate to include any sour notes, Sarge, but this was a good deal of trouble for everybody, If you're}

figuring another celebration, how's to serve, tea and tongue, but it was so appropriate ‘Schultz, Orin Thundier, Mrs. Ken-| Byers, secretary; -Mary Gaskill, | Wiles, : [that ‘United Nations delegates had [to laugh.

maybe crumpets? Hey, Sarge?

7? Test Your Skill Pop, speaking in Russian, had just given ng.y Monica Lennox, Miss Barbara |years, Marie A. Mount; trustee for the East, Venora Geisil: marshal in

Wint 1°the price of viewly Tined gold? At present the price of newly mined gold is set ‘oy Vi & wah 93 ahh ounse,

~ What is the old national academy in the!

Thi Malian Ataduing ofthe Lawes.

- | WED. Bist Mt 100k OB out Satarstic Continents Mus msthers Borchtgrovink and his pany ia ios, 2 ~ ”

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lyonth showing through the now stealthily left the room. Mr,

| But quoted from the private file! journalists wrote stories, checked | {of the first editor, Fletcher Bernard copy and followed it through the! ( lub will Install Mrs. White =,

| desk, and extract from one of the|..... at the anniversary dinner in Stalled as royal, matron of ChrisThe Senate's got to go through the same process|drawers a large _ thickly wrapped ry

Commission a long lecture on the Richars Stout ts. y

| Bernstein began to ® & : |Gromyko's Russian into English, he|

mente to 8 “reduction of argu- Miss Jeanette Grubb is adviser, as- by; truth, Goldie McEifresh; wis-|Toney £. Flack Jr.

and then complimented Mr. Bern-|two days pussed without the Echo warder, Lean Galloway; sentinel, Douglass, Louise Degner, Mae Mc-

Norwegian best translator of Russian that the lishers are proud of United Nations had. ‘pc che-minute

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PERFECT PLANNING - == How fo lay out a page is part of the troining all Shortridge High School journalists receive. Ann Robinson of and Danie] Wakefield absorb some of the knowledge of Miss Doris Manuel, assistant adviser, The paper today has .a circulation of about 1800 compared with an original 200.

All Graduates of High School Invited To Golden Anniversary Dinner Tonight

By VICTOR PETERSON The ad, “Smoke Kildow's GENUINE OLD STOCK,” no longer | appears- in the Shortridge Daily Bcho, Shortridge High. School pub- | lication. - . t But it did In Volume 1, Number 1 of the Daily Echo, Sept. 26, 1898. The same issue also advertised, for high school readers,” mort. gage loans; champagnes, rye and bourbon whiskies: Crawford's Glove Headache “Capsules “and. carriages, Bask, labeled “Horse Medicine. ’| buggies and spring wagons, . |Glancing furtively around, he slip That merely. was: tiie bloom. Of. thie bottie:- under his “eonty" mud

FLYING FINGERS — Pal Gakstater, notype

operafor, shows two students some of the finer points in setting type. Watchin right) James Merrell and Ri

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~ |yellowed paper of the early editions. has heretofore enjoyed the confiToday the Eche marks its. 50th/dence and respect of. all his pupils, anniversary of continuous publica- who considered him a man of most] |tion. Records show it to be the exemplary habits, | first. high school daily established] » i As such, it is the oldest in the.na-| EDITOR WAGNER stayed on tion. |when the paper was reorganized! The opening editorial in '98 read: Jan. 16, 1809, but he was only one; “Whether the paper is to be a of five. The first issue established success or an. inglorious failure, de-"the current practice of an editor a;

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school.” | Over the years the paper nas) grown from a. three-column two-| SOMEWHERE og the ling pager to a four-column, Tour-pager. ] ? there was a letdown. * The PRFSFOH SHIEH JOBE Jr J0F a) flopped after 30 issues. 1800 and subscription rates from |about 40 cents a semester to $1.25. | But the seed bad been planted. In the early morning hours of| The early attempt was the brain-|aparch 29, 1899, the school suffered | child of students. Now the Indian-|a fire. That day the paper crowed! apolis high school stepped in with how it had scooped the five morn. some financial backing and a cen-|ing daily papers who failed. to! {change over their last editions for| It meant the end of such copy.as| [the story, appeared in an early issue but| { which the principal managed tol IN 1909 the publication became | curtail without too widespread cir«'the Shortridge Daily Echo. Over| culation, |the -years, thousands of budding |

ON ‘THE STONES — Another Short ridge Daily Echo is just about ready fof the press. Next the press will roll and another issue will become. history. Shown around the composing room table ‘or “stone” are (left to right} J. W. Auble, in _charge of print shop; Otto Feucht Jr.: Lawrence Noling, and Charles Irby, pressman,

WORD-A-DAY

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Wagner: composing room and off the school “A few days ago, as the 4:15 bell press,

Onl th { war aie Me. fae ded nee bevoms nema AS Royal Matron Saturday sie

was seen , . : to glide nolselessiy| Tonight however, all Shorfridge | M Rachael ite will be in- and Mary Alice’ Wyne; and [into the office, step softly up to the {high school graduates will be wel- Tye Allison. Lois Thomas and Maybelle

Willoughby are chorus members, Paul Pleyte, junior past royal patron will be installing patron, as- | bisted by Whitney Reeve, Other officers to assist in the ne] stallation ceremanfiées for Mrs, White | Others to be installed are: Ruth are: Aide, Mark Wiles; prelate, Flack, associate matron; Curtiss Florence Herrman; musician, Har | | Jordan, associate” patron; Maymie| riett Reeve, and secretary, ' Pansy |

‘the dining room. Festivities will tina Court 9, Order of the Ama- | — get under way at 6:30 p. m.. A pro- anth, during public. ceremonies Sat- | | paper, will follow in Caleb Mills) Pleases Gromyko ' | wutoriun. 2 Those in charge of the program LAKE SUCCESS, N, Y, Jan, are Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Mead, | (UP) It was just :a slip of thé Miss Dorothy. Peterson, Robert!

Ceremonies also will bé. held for | retiring officers.

{neth Christena, Mrs. Everet Scho- treasurer; Ether Woodruff, con-| Coronation officers will be: Sie. | field, Miss Hyla Doyal, Miss Mona! ductress; Frances Duggan, associate beth Pleyte, crowning matron; | Jane Wilson, Miss Mildred Poster, conductress; chairman of trustees, Blanche Wurs, marshal; Carrie Lee Richard Gause, Miss Sara Lauter, Delores Worrell; trustee for two |Jones, standard bearer; marshal in

Soviet “delegate Andrel Gromyko,

the United Nations Disarmament Lawrence Noling and three years, Paul Pleyte. the West, Ann H

Marshal in the East, Rosalié(er, Marie Mount; Current editors are Marilyn | Flack; marshal in the West, Mary Whitney Reeve, ‘But "when Translator Robert Gernstein, James Merrell, Mark Alice Cravens; standard bearer, ‘Guards of steel, Archie Everett turn Mr. Colby and Mary Lockwood, Bloor, Ruth Jordan; prelate, Anita Wha- | Lloyd Rushton, John Simmonds is business manager and ley; musician, Maybelle Willough- Leonard Jones, Mr, Hessel and

11; crown bear- | sword bearer,

Flower girls are: Ora Simmonds, Mae Dunbar, Ruth Riley, Euna

(sisted by Miss Doris Manuel, - | dom, Oarrie Gerdls; charity, Elva | School files indicate that only Spratt; historian, Bertha Kindler;

Mr. Gromyko led in the laughter,

eT, or helps, the Ning off the Pras, and the Jube| Helen Howard; prompter, Elizabeth Candlers, and Charlotte Halter, Es- | Ahaie._ypwte- [PlEVIS} chairman of light, Paullcorts will be of Christina Ls Pleyte; SAREE SA Lag eke Cou, Ott of endiiem.

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