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TODAY WE TAKE up the subject of cat's whiskers. ‘My findings. probably belong in a scientific monthly, ‘but for reasons of expediency, let's take & whack at them here, The question as it materialized was: Are a cat's whiskers of any. practical use? Frankly, at first, it didn’t make any difference to me whether they were or not. Then I read in a question and answer column that the whiskers ensbie & cat to determine the size opening he can go through. If the whiskers brush heavily against a hole, it went on, the cat knows he can't get through.” OK. : A few days after learning that startling bit of information, accepting it, too, lo and behold, some guy writes that The World Book Encyciopedia states the question and answer man was all wet. The big book says the story about cat's whiskers is an “old legend.” The real purpose for the feline juttings was to help the animal after dark. The whiskers were an aid to get through bushes, avoid walls and trees. Oh, ho, Now we had whiskers of two different colors and uses, There was no other recourse but to take the cat by the whiskers and get the thing settled once and for all. I couldn't go through life not knowing for sure about cat’s whiskers.

B:ef Liver and Three Cats

A FRIEND supplied me with three cats and a living room. In addition to a tape measure and

SO SORRY—Blackie watches "Mr. Inside" dress a scratch. Just one of the things a scienfist has to put up with when he's after the truth about cat's whiskers,

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It was no easy. task to get measurements of these three sets of whiskers. A quarter pound

I had no idea it could be that

I bet I repeated “Here, kitty, kitty,” a thousand times. My recommendation is to forget that come-on with cats. They won’t listen.

Blackie Got There First ; THE LIVER was put to good use. I settled

dangled it. Blackie was the first to respond. Sandy and Josie were not as eager, but you could see where their interest was.

I made the mistake of dangling the tidbit too low. Blackie gouged the liver and my forefinger with the speed of lightning. As I watched him gobble’ up the liver, my friend brought me some antiseptic. Blackie watched m:. dress my wound with interest. . pit

By that time I was a little teed off. It didn’t take me long to get him in the box. With a piece of liver in front of the 23-inch hole, I began my research. The other openings were covered. Blackie, with the 53;-inch whisker spread, couldn’t make it through the first hole. The 3-inch opening wasn’t a cinch, but he got through.

The whiskers, I noticed, were bent back almost tem, Will look to Mrs. KatzenberFrom her spot

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The other openings Blackie took like Grant | took Richmond.

Josie was most unscientific. She stole three pieces of liver before I finally convinced her that she “should” go through the 3-inch opening. With my coaxing, Josie couldn’t make the 21%. Good enough for me. The liver was running low.

Sandy, he got gypped of most of the liver, even with my help couldn’t make either the 2% or 3-inch opening. We did manage to get through Jue 3%. Remember, Sandy had the 6-inch whisers.

Cats certainly are contrary beasts. As I figured up my findings, all three cats proceeded to have a field day with the box. In and out of the openings they streaked. Without coaxing, liver or anything. I'm afraid my feelings toward cats hasn't improved much after the experiment. Luckily my finger has. The great conclusion. ' The whiskers on a cat have nothing to do with the size of the opening the beast goes through. Fold them, bend them or brush them back, if a cat is hungry enough and there's a piece of liver to be had, he'll get through a keyhole. I'm convinced. ' And I'm. speaking from a strictly scientific point of view. I wonder if I could write a thesis for a master’s degree. on this, z §

Huey’s Boy

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By Robert C. Ruark

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NEW ORLEANS, Mar. 30—It's my private opinion that the next four years of Louisiana politics will produce anything but another hayridle—and that, if not scrupulously clean, Gov. Earl Long's regime will at least be demure. I have just had a Jong chat with Huey Long's boy Russell. Huey's boy Russell is quite a lad. The reason I.say that Louisians will be exemplary for a spell is that Russell will demand it. And Russell is the lad who can make a demand stand up. Russell Long is. the spittin’ image of his old man. He has Huey’s little eyes and broad, upturned snout. "His mouth curves up the same way, and he’s getting a little fat, like hts Poppa. His hair grows the ‘same and his voice sounds the same. He drawls, and lapses into northern Louisiana red-neck -argot when he makes a speech, He isn't as good a Bible hand as his daddy was, but he can move around, politically,

in both testaments.

The 29-year-old..Mr. Long is, I believe, the grand mufti of: Louisiana politics. He is the stone on which the resurgence of the Long party was based. Friends and enemies alike will tell You that Russell was greatly responsible for the topheavy election of his uncle, Earl, as governor, in the recent victory over sad: Sam Jones. What happened was that Russell. looking like Huey and talking like Huey, healed an ancient Josath between the brothers, to the voters’ satisaction,

100,000 Votes for Uncle Earl

HUEY AND EARL fell out, a long time ago, and folks still remembered that Earl called his brother a potbellied coward and some other nasty names. Since Huey Long is still a living presence in the Louisiana wqpds, something had to be done about it. Yo Russell came out for Earl on the stumping trips. He made speeches, and backwoods peoplé who still keep his father’s picture on the mantle literally kissed his hands. Russ Long sewed up close to 100,000 votes for his Uncle Earl, and Uncle Earl rode in easy. Such is the mesmeric quality of the Long hold on Louisiana's imagination that young Russell, given six more months of age, could have been elected governor in the last elections. He is a practical cinch, unless something ultra-smelly pops up in his uncle's tenure, to wind up in the mansion four years from now.

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Russell Long has two big bugs in his brain. He is obsessed with the idea of fumigating his father’s memory, which is quite a task. And he wants to follow in his pappy’s political path. As a young, but practical politician, Russell recognizes the impossibility of accomplishing either feat if a loud reek arises from Uncle Earl's sway over the state. And, as the young prophet, Long holds power enough to make the boys behave. I have his word, and I believe it, that there will be no flagrant stealing in Louisiana for the next four years.

Political Flare in College

HE'S A FASCINATING youngster, this Junior Long. He was 15 years old when his father was murdered, and he has spent the intervening years frothing at the label of dictator, crook and grafter which was tacked to Huey’'s cloak. Even in college Russell was a polished politician, employing spectacular promotion to lick a deeply dug-in party in a race for the presidency of the freshman class at Louisigna State University. The skeletal structure of that fuzzy-faced political party serves today as the backbone of his mature organization, “ui With time out for the war, in which he performed with considerable distinction as a naval officer in charge of a lot of hotspots like Anzio, Lawyer Russell has bent every effort to politics. He is bemused by his father’s record, and has studied Huey's history as eagerly as a soldier pores over classic battles.

He is less crude than Huey and not so animally magnetic, but there is plenty of attraction in him for his father’s people... When he took the stump in the last elections, it was much as if Huey P. had come alive again. One impassioned radio speech, in which he attempted to justify his father’s political record, is popularly supposed to have been the big stroke in electing Uncle Earl.

I doubt very much if Huey’s boy Russell will attempt to persuade the citizens of Louisiana that every man can be a king. But there’s more than enough of the old man in him to sell them the idea that there is opportunity for every man to be a prince. ‘It is a saleable theory, because in Louisiana there are several hundred thousand people who still confuse Huey P. Long with God Almighty, and Huey’s boy knows it well.

My Own Tub

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Mar. 30—Tonight's the night for public celebration at my house. I'm taking a bath in my own private bath tub. The one I

ordered last October. That, fellow home builders, is symbolic. The beaten up old house the involuntary contracting firm of Othman and Othman bought in Virginia last year is a wreck no longer. Suddenly, after all these months of work and worry and firing incompetent carpenters, all the pieces have come together, almost over night. And we have about as slick and shiny a house as humans could want. Even the crystal chandelier I bought my bride as a Christmas present if the naive belief the remodeling job would be finished last year, is being installed in the dining room this afternoon. 1a going to do a. lot of eating in this room; Mrs. . has used ol on She read Payeholony that blue walls, or gray, or even green had a bad effect on the appetite. Red, or some variant, said she, is the eating color. The walls of our dining room, consequently, are coral colored, with white bouquets on ‘em. My bride says if this works, it will be better than martinis, and hence a genuine economy.

They Won't Stay Long

THE BIG OLD ROOM that used to be the dinng room seems to have sprouted bookcases and henceforth ‘will be the library, the color here is dark green,.on the theory that when I'm reading I should not also be eating: All the colors in the house are soothing, except In the guest room. Here I made some demands of my own and insisted on wallpaper striped red and gray and white. I'm not against house guests, You understand, except when they stay indefihitely, In this room, ‘as done by Othman, the Interior decorator with a purpose, nobody’ll stay long. A couple of days of gazing at those stripes

and the most détermined relative will leave voluntarily. . Tin : And that brings us to those bathrooms; Hilda's is pink tile; mine is tan. The fixtures even now are being hitched to the pipes and henceforth (and for the first time in my life) there will be no bobby pins on my wash bowl; no female hosiery on my towel rack. All this sounds like dreamland, I know, and I guess it is} but I must report that our hopes of

keeping the remodeling charges down to $5000

SECOND SECTION -

Mrs. Katzenberger Keeps

t/Pace With Speaker

By DONNA MIKELS WHEN a national convention meets this spring in Pittsburgh the eyes of many a delegate will be trained, not on the speaker, but on an Indianapolis woman who will be their special interpreter. Mrs. Ruth Oehler Katzenberger will interpret without voice, a lip-reading link between the speaker and the hard of hearing audience at the American Hearing Association convention May 20-23. The somewhat unique job of voiceless interpretation was given to Mrs. Katzenberger because she is one of a few persons able to translate into lip-reading rapidly enough to keep pace with a speaker, Those to whom the speakers’ words are inaudible, despite hearing aids and a public address sys-

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» HER LIPS move almost as rapidly as the speaker's. Even when the Speakers are medical or technical men who use unfamiliar terms which the “interpreter” must translate, she manages to keep pace. This strange avocation grew out of Mrs. Katzenberger's lifelong interest in persons with hearing afflictions. So much did their mother’s interest in the life of Helen Keller influence Mrs. Katzenberger and her two sisters that all three of them dedicated their careers to helping the deaf and hard of hearing. One sister, Hannah Oehler, is supervijging teacher of the primary department of the Western Pennsylvania School for the Dea., Wilkinsburg, Pa., and the other, Phoebe E. Oehler, is a teacher in the intermediate department. » ” ” MRS. KATZENBERGER herself has taught at various schools, including the Indiana School for the Deaf and night classes at Manual High School. She started lip reading classes through some YWCA work and was instrumental in forming in 1929 the Indianapolis League for Hard of Hearing. She was executive secretary of this group until it became a Community Fund Agency in 1942 and now continues as an instructor. In 1929 she was made chairman of legislation for the American Hearing Society. With such fellow workers as Juvenile Court Judge Joseph Hoffmann and Mrs. Nelle Downey, state representative, she worked for passage of the 1941 law requiring annual hearing tests for school children. s ” NOT ONLY was shines one of the’ first states to pass such a law. If has stood the test of time as a model law and is being copied by other states. ‘ In addition to teaching classes, giving private instruction and being active in women’s clubs, church groups, rehabilitation and youth wor:, Mrs. Katzenberger finds time to follow very closely the work of hard of hearing groups over the nation. Right now she’s trying to get enough Indiana people to attend the Pittsburgh convention to merit an all-Indiana luncheon.

Veterans today were finding

they were last fall, “This is due to a tighfening © Mr. Wilkinson said financial institutions here are asking that veterans pay 10 per cent down on loans they obtain. “It is practically impossible to get business financing now under {the GI loan plan,” Mr, Wilkinson ‘said. Loans to veterans interested in buying trucks for busi- | ness purposes fall in this classi- | fication. The situation scope, A Washington, D. C., banker said his institution “doesn’t like GIl-type loans as such” and has adopted an “exceedingly” selective policy toward them,

Applications Decline

National figures show that veterans’ loan applications sub-

long since have gone glimmering. The trouble | mitted by financial institutions

was when we got started, we couldn't stop.

‘Mrs. O. Takes Over Show

WHEN WE TOOK OFF the old wall paper, the plaster came with it and we had to install new ceiling throughout; cost, $1200. The pipes wouldn’t unscrew from the old tubs; they broke off. Rusted through. And there we found ourselves. putting in new copper piping from cellar to attic. One jackleg carpenter we had to fire; fixing his mistakes was expensive. The old electric fixtures had to be replaced; dozens of things, it seemed like, we had to buy that we hadn't even considered. - The financial, department long since I turned over to my bride; I'm afraid myself to look at the bank book. . The agent who sold us the place dropped by the other night, tip-toed around on the freshly sanded floors (all the furniture was on the front porch) and expressed amazement at the transformation. He said it did not matter what the remodeling cost. He had a client who wanted a house exactly like this and he could guarantee us a substantial profit, no matter what. The really good news I have saved for last...

This is the final dispatch (I guarantee it) on traffic only with detours provided; j111 at Bridgeport; 157 southeast. of Clay City; 235 east of Medora,

our ‘tribulations in the contracting business. And we have appreciated all letters, expressions of sympathy, and offers of help.

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{have declined from 52,700 last September to 32,600 in February. Bankers are reluctant to loan to veterans because other types

Highway Commission Opens 4 Flooded Roads

As flood waters began to recede after last week’s torrential rains, the State Highway Commission today reported - four affected roads open again. , The roads are 46 west of Columbus, 59 north of Clay City, 250 west of Uniontown and 258 west of Seymour, Roads still closed due to high water or tornado are Road 11 at Mauckport; 36 in Danville, loeal traffic only with detours provided; 39 of Tampico; 56 ‘and 156 sou lat Lamb; 45 in Coatesville, local

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THE NATIONAL. SOCIETY'S request that she be an official interpreter this year recalled to Mrs. Katzenberger the incident in which she first served as voiceless interpreter.

It was in Cincinnati, she recalls, when a group of her students were with her at a dinner. of her students, now a successful scientist, asked her if she could tell him by lip-reading what the speaker was saying, since he could not see the speaker to read his lips.

“I started moving my lips to relay the words,” she recalls. “Pretty soon others who ¢ouldn’t hear noticed and began quietly moving over and formed a circle around me. After that I got to doing it at all the sessions and people began asking me to ac as interpreter for them. : » » ” “OTHER PEOPLE do such interpreting but it was noticed that I could do it totaly without any voice or whisper that would disturb the listening audience. I guess that is why I was picked to interpret at the national group.” Unlike other interpreters, Mrs. Katzenberger is never bothered with hoarseness or sore throat. Her occupational affliction is yawning; doctors have told her it comes from over-use of the false vocal cords in her voiceless speech-making. , “So if I yawn in the middle of the principal speaker's talk, it isn’t that I'm bored,” she laughs. “I've , just been working too hard.”

Tighter Credit Bringing

Decline in Veteran Loans

Drop of 15 Per Cent Noted Since Last Fall, Business Financing Practically Impossible

it increasingly difficult to obtain

GI loans, particularly the 100 per cent variety. E. G. Wilkinson, loan guaranty officer of the U. 8. Veterans’ Administration here, said total loans are about 15 per cent fewer than

f credit,” he believes.

of investment yield more profit, a survey of comment shows. Also, GI loans are not readily

|negotiable, since the Reconstruc{tion Finance Corp. stopped buy{ing them last July 1.

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'GOP Group Books Jenner Rally

A rally meeting of the 9th district Republican organization has been called for Friday night at Austi®, Scott County, to indorse U. 8. Senator William E. Jenner for the GOP governor nomination, The meeting was called by Ivan Morgan, district chairman. He said all the county chairmen in the district had indicated they will formally indorse the senator for the governor nomination. Rep. Earl Wilson, congressman from the 9th district, formally indorsed Sen. Jenner's candidacy last 8aturday in Washington.

Carnival—By Dick

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SELF-IMPROVEMENT — That's the name that this class of hard of hearing persons chose as they went to Mrs. Katzenberger and the Indianapolis Society for help. In reqular meetings and programs they seek to improve, after learning the fundamentals of lip reading.

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ip-Reading Teaches Hundreds To ‘Hear’ With Eyes

TEACHING THE YOUNG — Learning lip-reading as young as most children fear normal speech- habits are Carolyn Long, 948 N. Drexel Ave., and Tommy McDaniel, 430 N. Jefferson Ave., two younger pupils of Mrs. George Katzenberger (back to camera).

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Chicago Police Kill Suitor Out to Avenge Jilting

Spurned Swain Felled by Nine Shots

In Gun Battle Before Divorcee’s Home CHICAGO, Mar. 30 (UP)—Mrs. Mildred Barr, 38, described today a day of terror which ended late yesterday when police killed a rejected suitor who went to her home to murder her. The suitor was George Paulsen, 58, married and the father of

a grown daughter,

wounded slightly. Mrs. Barr, a divorcee, said she once kept company with Mr,

He was shot fatally in a gun battle with detectives Clarence Gersch and Terence Kane.

Mr. Gersch was

Feeney Names New

Paulsen but broke off the rela- Police Merit Board

tionship some time ago after she discovered he was married. She said that he chased her in his car as she was driving to work yesterday morning. - « Draws Revolver { He drove up in his car and curbed hers, she said. Then he reached into the glove compartment and drew a 32-caliber revolver, Mrs. Barr sald she backed up, maneuvered her car around Paulsen’s and sped away. As she fled he fired three shots which nicked her automobile, she said. She went to a suburban ovolice station and police details were placed at her home and at Paulsen’s place of business, Yesterday afternoon the| spurned suitor telephoned her. | “I'm coming to see you,” he said. “I don’t care 4f there are| a dozen cops there. I'll kill them | all if I have to.”

Some time later, Detectives Gersch and Kane, who were watching from Mrs. Barr's front window, saw Paulsen circling the block in a cab. As the cab came to the curb; the officers stepped outside. * Paulsen fired three times, emptying his gun. One of thé bullets hit Gersch in the back. The detectives returned the fire and Paulsen fell with nine billets in his body. He died instantly.

WRATH WAXES OVER WAX

Mayor Al Feeney today named

a new merit board for the Indianapolis Police Department.

The new iembers are Dr. M.

O. Ross, Butler University president; Dr. J. William Wright, surgeon, president of American and Hardware Corp.

nad L. J. Bernatz, vice Cabinet

Old board members, whose

terms expired, were Dr. Murray DeArmond, Dr. James Peirce and Philip Lewis.

WORD-A-DAY

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DETROIT, Mar. 30 (UP)-—Mrs. Winifred Harbauer, 45, testified in a divorpe action that her husband, Charles, 30, disdained the domestic mustache wax she bought and made her prowl the streets in search of a

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