Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 April 1948 — Page 15
« jeberstraum.” happened 7 an “honorary City Sticker” got fired immediately. Spike, it seems, wants only perfection in his organization. Earlier that afternoon when I asked Spike if he could find a spot in his show for me, the head man of wash board outfit came through in a hurry. The fact that I couldn’t play any musical
ces. eTYices. you play & siot machine?” he asked. What a silly questiol Modestly I told Spike that I was p a virtuoso. Everything was set for the big “Salute to Industry” show and Spike's regular Friday night broadcast for Coca-Cola. I was to report to Eddie McCarthy, wardrobe manager, at 7:30 p. m. for a “Slicker” suit. Naturally I was worried. No rehearsals behind my belt or anything would or should make anyone nervous.
Orange and Blue Checks
1 REPORTED to Eddie in the dressing room at the specified hour. He showed me an orange and blue checked suit that made me turn green. “pon't like it, eh? How about this orange and rrested him on a blue checked suit with a snazzy pink stripe?” ertising a lottery Pretty awful but there wasn't anything more ise.. conservative in the Wardrobe trunk. I had to SE —. t it on. Doodles eaver thought it looked R STRICKEN pap” He would. Some of the stuff he wears ES, Apr. 5 (UP)—< would make a dyed-in-the-wool zoot suiter turn er Mark Warnow and run. ondition today at Practically sneaking out of the dressing room, ebanon Hospital, I made my way to the stage. How would I face aken Friday night 10,000 people in this outfit? Show business—bah. ttack. One of the property men tapped me on the shoulder and asked what town “we” were in. I told him I thought it was Louisville. He grunted and went about searching through trunks. Who was doing the kidding? . ; Some guy in “civilian” clothes was yelling, “On stage in five minutes.” George Rock, he’s the fat boy with the trumpet, thought we might as well go on stage. “You go first and find me a place where I can sit,” I said. ‘
Those Guys Don’t Worry
GEORGE PUT a hand to his forehead. “Find you a seat? I have to find myself a seat.” When I finally worked up enough courage to make my entry, the “Slickers” were almost in position. Those guys don't worry about when the show is to go on. George met me in the middle of the stage and said I had a place next to Joe Colvin, the trombone player. Next to my chair was a smashed, beat-up horn that I'm sure Tommy Dorsey could not play. Joe said to make off I was playing the thing. “Just for a gag.” Spike appeared on stage and the show started. The “Slickers” played “Sheik of Araby.” If you think it sounds strange out in front, you should
gated the pub on at pick and win eing sold. They 8, but observed a | the bar. laid King refused to them and atstroy the punch
Grandpa . . .
NEW YORK; Apr. 5—My Grandpa didn’t have much time for politics, owing, chiefly, to a squeeze- . play which got: him amputated from the position + of register-of-deeds in Southport, N. C. Grandpa L sald that, Dod-limb it, there never would be any good politicians so long as a man could get flung -out of office on a minute’s warning. He said a man just didn’t have time to get sot in the job. When Grandpa got divorced from the register-of-deeds job, it spoiled him for work. He entered into a permanent retirement, which lasted for better than 40 years—and it would have lasted longer if bourbon had been the true specific for cancer that Grandpa always thought it was. While Grandpa was retired, he brooded about politics and politicians. Grandpa said that the trouble with politics was it attracted the wrong type of fellow. He said that everybody you had in the legislature was a crook, because you had to be a crook or you couldn’t eat. He said that everybody in Congress was a thief, because if you didn’t steal fast you couldn’t make enough money to justify letting your business go to pot while you were off serving your nation.
Don’t Pay Em Peanuts
PIGS, HE SAID, demand a certain amount of tending, and a cow has to be milked every day. You can’t practice law from a seat in the House .of Representatives, and you can’t boss a harvest from'a home in Georgetown, D. C. Grandpa said it wasn't the politicians’ fault; it was the gov- . ernment’s fault. He said the government was just like a bank; expose a man to all that loose money, pay him peanuts, and then clap him in jail if he got caught With his hand in the tambourine. Grandpa said it wasn't fair to stretch human nature that far. Grandpa didn’t put much trust in human nature, anyhow, wma “The only way you can get the shysters out of Politics,” he used to say, twitching his red beard, is expensive at first but economical in the end. You got to pay them high, make them permanent, and raise ‘em up in society.”
Grim Days _
° . WASHINGTON, Apr. 5—1I was sitting there On my perch in the press gallery watching the lawmakers turn President Truman's tax veto into fonfe, And for bettér or worse, I got to thinkg. y The President's up the same creek with Con2ress that Herbert Hoover was in 1932. Only then It was a Democratic Congress slapping a Repub: lican President in the face. This isn't mere hearsay; I was there. I worked for the United Press then and I was. fresh from covering gangster uprising in Chicago. I suppose I knew more synonyms for the word oo than anybody, but this was no help in the ital, . The late great Ray Clapper was UP bureau Manager here at that time, and he said, “Son, there's only one place for a man green in. WashDgton to learn the ropes. I'm putting you in the White House.” He meant nothing ever happened there. T could sit there and learn a little about how the town ged. ; And that's the way it was during that last 1 Mastic year of Mr. Hoover in the White House. 5 didn’t matter much what he suggested to those ni ocrats in charge of Congress, ‘they ignored him. When they passed a bill, he usually vetoed > Then, with a roar of ayes they'd adopt the un over his veto. Nothing much seemed to pass tween Capitol Hill and 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.,’ except insults.
We Kept Hoping AND EVERY morning two other news service Men and I would turn up at the White House for 2hother day of sitting in the big leather chairs. Sper reporters seldom appeared, but we had to X there just in case something should happen. never did, but we kept on hoping.
dress with crisp self belt, Title e print in . sizes 16 to 44.
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"DON'T RING DAT GONG, SPIKE" —After innocently lousing up the last number of Spike Jones' show, "Mr. Inside’ tries to make a quick getaway. A loose connection saved a skull.
hear it on stage,
to go to the slot machine.
While Juggler Bill King was doing his act, ! Spike came over with a big grin and said, “Relax,
boy, relax. Everything is set.”
The band went imto the last number, “Lieberstraum.” Between puffs on his trombone, Joe
kept saying, “Not now, when to go.”
Not now.
You see, the gimmick on the slot machine was this, when the handle is pulled the third time, an auto bomb explodes and a. pile of slugs come roll ing out. It’s supposed to be a terrific punch end-
ing.
I was up. I pulled the handle once, twice and the third time. Nothing happened. Spike wanted
to know what was wrong.
“You loused up the whole act,” he yelled beI knew I had to get
tween rounds of applause. out fast.
Spike caught up with me backstage as I picked up my typewriter and a piece of luggage. He was
holding a ball peen hammer.
“Hold it Spike,” yelled O. L. Corkrum,.prop“Somebody kicked the connection
erty man. loose.”
Spike said he was sorry. I said I was sorry, too. Everybody was sorry. That's usually the case when you get to fooling around with slot But it didn't make me any happier. A “Slicker” for one night and a guy gets loused
machines.
up
better off.
ever they came from.
What a Title Does
“YOU GIVE HIM A TITLE,” he used to say, “and the man spends the rest of his life trying to The English figured that one out a couple of hundred years ago. You even see it Once a man gets to be called colonel or judge or even doctor, the larceny sort of dries up in him, If the Senators was all Dukes and the Representatives was Lords, and the Cabinet members was Princes, you wouldn't have any frouble
Of course, you might have to call the President King, and pay
Justify it.
down here:
with your National Government.
him a quarter-million & year . . .”
My Grandpa was not, however, a monarchist. He figured to elect and appoint everybody from Mayors to Presidents only for a 10-year period.
His idea was that if you
He also sponsored a half-pay pension for all honorably discharged politicians, and the death penalty for anybody caught in the act of perverting his office. for private gain. The titles of office, ranging from High Sheriff to the Lord of Alabama, would persist after retirement. “That way,” Grandpa said, “we build a political aristrocracy, since every kid will t
his old man.”
Despite the fact that Grandpa kept in eager . touch with both local, state and national politics, he never voted. He used to say that a pure political theorist couldn’t vote, since there was nobody running for office who was worthy of an
honest man’s poll.
By Frederick C. Othman
Once a week Mr. Hoover held a press conference. He'd look at the three of us-and say, “Good morning, Gentlemen.” We'd reply, “Good morning, Mr. President.” And he'd say, “Nothing today,
Gentlemen.”
We'd go back to our sitting. To this day 1 . cringe when confronted by a leather chair. Hour after hour after hour, we'd sit. We'd jump up to interview occasional visitors to the President, but they never had anything to say, either,
We Fed the Squirrels
SOMETIMES we'd play
came,
Occasionally the President would go fishing at Rapidian, Va., and we'd wheel along behind him, He was the only fisherman I ever saw in a high, stiff collar. We liked Mr. Hoover, but none of us ever got to know him well. We didn’t call
him “Herb.”
What little news there was, was bad. The President's veto messages came out in mimeographed form. The anguished screams from Congress always brought word from the President's secretary: No comment, The White House was as
glum as it was grim.
So much for ancient history. The way those tax-cutting gents in Congress today yowled “Aye” leads me to believe that history is about to repeat, with nothing changed except the political parties reversed. If that's the way it's going to be, I can only thank providence I'm no longer a White House reporter. I don’t believe I could take those
leather chairs agaih.
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SECOND SECTION
MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1948
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Gen. Richards to Keynote Observance With Talk af Columbia Club Luncheon
. By VICTOR PETERSON TOMORROW is Army Day. It is the day the nation honors all who have served their
nation and kept it free.
* With the world on edge and the government calling for a
as Operation
draft and Universal Military Training, new significance. The theme is “A Strong America Is a Peaceful America.” The federal government has designated today 10.
In 101 of the nation’s larger
My nervousness increased with each number. Joe said he would give me the cue
cities, top military officials will be on hand to speak and review parades. There will be five such representatives in Indiana—Indianapolis, Terre Haute, Gary, Evansville and Ft. Wayne. Maj. Gen. George JY Richards, Army Comptroller, Washington, D. C, will keynote the day here with a talk at the Army Day luncheon in the Columbia Club.
{National Defense Committee of
The luncheon is sponsored by the Service Club of Indianapolis, the
the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce and the Indiana National Guard. Approximately 500 persons will attend.
Army Day assumes a
group. They are Gordon L. Moh, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond G. Mohr, 3921 Spann Ave. and Joseph P. Gallagher, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gallagher, 1341 Tabor St. Other marching units include the Indiana National Guard, 2000 ROTC students, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Span-ish-American War Veterans, Dis-
abled American Veterans, Maries, Naval Reserves, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts,” Red Cross
and high school and American Legion bands. Military vehicles from Camp Atterbury will participate and planes from Stout Field will fly overhead.
» » = THE LINE of march will be from North St. south on Pennsylvania St. to Market St. west to Monument Circle and north cn Meridian St. to Michigan St.
day will
» » . THE PUBLIC highlight of the be a half-mile-long parade which will begin at 10:15 a. m. 2 Heading an impressive array of
military might will be 650 .eenagers from Ft. Knox, Ky. They are the third group to be trained as an Universal Military Training Experimental Unit for a sixmonth period. This will be their
Among those who will review the parade besides Gen. Richards will be Gov. Gates; Maj. Gen. Ben H. Watt, commanding officer of the 38th division; Brig. Gen. Jesse McIntosh, assistant commander of the 38th; Brig. Gen. Howard H. Maxwell, state Adjutant General,
state officials. Tomorrow will be the 20th ¢b-
I should have driven an International tractor on stage just for a “gag.” Would have been much
paid them sufficient | money to allow thm to retire after their term, | they wouldn't be tempted to graft; if you forbade them the right to run for a second term, they wouldn't play ball with machine politicians.
and
first parade outside Kentucky. Lt. Col. Charles Wesner will command four companies of infantry, field artillery, engineers armored troops. Two Indianapolis trainees will be in the
originated by the Military Order of World Wars and on Mar. IT, 1937, received federal when a National Army Day was proclaimed.
By Robert C. Ruark
Grandpa's theory was simple: When you elect a man to office, the first thing you do is figure out how much he can steal in his position, and double it. He was for paying U. S. Senators $75,000 tax-free, a year, and electing them for a 10year period. With the salary would go a title of Duke of North Carolina or New Mexico or wher-
Times Spelling Bee
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Eligibility—An entrant must not have passed beyond the eighth grade at the time he competes in any preliminary, semi-final or final match and must not reach the age of 16 years before June 1. This form to be mailed or brought by city, parochial or private grammar school pupils (not county) to: Spelling Bee Director, Indianapolis Times, 214 W. Maryland St. (County Schools will determine their own township cham
pions for semi-finals by contests within county schools).
All Set, Kids?—Times Spelling Bee Opens Tonight
21 Schools Will Be Represented in First Spell-Down Round Which Starts at 7:30 P. M.
By ART WRIGHT The annual spell-down to determine which grammar school
pupil will represent Indianapolis and Marion County in the National Spelling Bee gets under way at 7:30 p. m. today.
Twenty-one schools will be represented in tonight's opening
round of The Times Spelling Bee at three centers. | are public schools and five are Catholic schools. The other public, parochial and] private schools will spell tomor-| Adventist. row and each night this week at other centers. The county schools
are holding their own contests in
Sixteen of them
St.—8chools 27, 29, 32, 45, Seventh Day
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GARFIELD PARK COMMUNITY CENTER—Schools 18, 20, 31, 34, 35, 72, 19, 64, St. Catherine's, St. Roch’s Sacred Heart. NORTH EAST COMMUNITY CENTER — 3300 E. 30th St.
their townships to select their|3® representatives finals Apr. 22.
semi-
Schools 1, 51, 69, 73, St. Frances
Northwestern Ave.—S8chools 23, 42, 63, 87,
Central YWCA, 320 N. Pennsylvania St.—8chools 2, 5, 9, 10, 14, St. Joseph's, Holy Cross, Cathedral grade school, Trinity Evangelical, 4 THURSDAY AND APR. 15 Hill Community Center, 1800 Columbia Ave.—Schools 26, 37, 56, St, Rita's. Coleman Community Center, 2535 W. Michigan St. ls 50, 83, 67, 78, Ho Trinity, St. Anthony's, Grace Evangelical. Christian Community Center, 4300 EngJish Ave.~Schools 21, 82, 85, Our Lady of urdes, Holy Name of Beech Grove. « Communal Building, 17 W. Morris St.— Schools 6, 12, 23, 25, 83, Holy Rosary, St. ohn's.
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St. Paul's Methodist Church, 2000 Rader St.—8chools 41, 44, Holy Angels. y
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rummy with the Secret Service Agents. On nice days we'd sit on the front steps of the executive offices and feed peanuts to the White House squirrels. But mostly we stayed inside, waiting for the news that never
Test Your Skill ???
What do sailors mean when they refer to
Mother Carey's Chicken?
This is a name given by sailors to the stormy | petrel, a small web-footed seabird with remark-
contest centers.
at any center.
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PRESBY-| Ferre msde sbob— TERIAN CHURCH, 34th St. and| Legion to Hear Rector Central Ave. Schools 60, 66, 76,! 91, St. Joan of Arc.
The public will be admitted free| to see the contests. viving the first ro return to their centers next Monday night for the second preliminary. Pupils who have not sent in the {official entry blank Times may bring the blank to the| The Times 3pelling Bee is open free to all grammar school pupils who have not passed beyond the eighth grade] {and who will not be before June 1. Champion Goes to Washington In addition to district and i finalist medals and other prizes| | awarded locally, the Indianapolis ! Champion—who could be a pupil [4 from a county school—will be sent to Washington, D. C.’ with all| expenses paid by The Times |
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compete in the National Spelling Bee next month. The champion will spend a full week in the nation’s capital for a round of sightseeing and entertainment. No new entries will be accepted after the first preliminary contest The second preliminaries will be open only to those pupils who survived the first | round. Following is the schedule of contests for tomorrow and the balance of the week, and the schools that will compete at those centers:
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m rk and Emerson Aye.—Schools 3, 57, 58, 62, 77, 78.
't Roberts Park American Legion Post will sponsor an illustrated lecture at 7:30 o'clock tonight in Roberts Park Methodist
will speak on “Wearing the Silver Cross.” Raymond Potts will provide a musical program.
650 UMT Teen-Agers To Parade 1 In Army Day Pro
who are scheduled to march
the Universal Military Training Experimental Unit at Ft. Knox, Ky. Here they lay a bridge over a stream near their Kentucky camp. A total of 5000 persons were expected to participate in the parade.
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i Be a) oN ¥ - - oA aL & o STRENGTH OF AMERICA—These teen-agers will be but a few of the 650
in the Army Day parade tomorrow. They are members of ‘
Welfare Group
youths are receiving training in all cA. industries, branches of the service. This one practices tossing a hand gre- [business and professional groups, the association has worked
nade. Maj. Gen. George J. Richards, Army comptroller, was to
-. > ® 3 ! Lists Program | Hawthorne Unit to i Hear John McDowell
John McDowell, executive director of the National Federation of Settlenients, will speak at the . | 24th anniversary dinner of the Hawthorne Social Service Association in Washington High School tomorrow night. Cleo Blackburn of Indianapolis Flanner House will introduce Mr, McDowell. Mr, Blackburn is first vice president of the federation,
Other features of the program include violin solos and songs by the male quartet of the high school. 3 Co-ordinates Program In its 24 years of service to the West Side, the Hawthorne Association has co-ordinated its p:ogram with those of a large number of churches and schools. It 4 houses many activities for na- . tional agencies such as the Boy verage age of UMT trainees here |Scouts, Camp Fire Girls and the
toward providing better school conditions, playground facilities,
Critically Injured By Assailant
Everett Cain, 56, of 239 W. Morris St., lay in critical condition in General Hospital today as a re{sult to a beating Saturday night ‘at the hands of an assailant who {attempted to rob him on U. 8. 52 {near New Palestine. { Mr. Cain told State Police
Center, 901 Oliver Trooper Charles Longstreet he! w 41, |decided to go to Kentucky with eign submarine was sighted by a
two strangers after cashing a {$100 check at a grocery store in Indianapolis. He said one of the strangers struck him on the head with a soldering iron en route in an automobile, Mr. Cain said he threw his wallet into a field before he was dumped out of the vehicle. The wallet was recovered.
Jewish Veterans’ Group
To Present Play
“Spring Follies of 1948," a play, will be presented by the Ladies’ Auxiliary to the Jewish War Veterans, Post 114, at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow in Veterans’ Hospital. Included in the cast are Ginger McKay, Samuel Richman, Martha Jo Thurston, Mack McQueen and Stanley Zolotnick. Dal Leonard will be master of ceremonies; Mable Thurston, pianist, and Mrs. Jennie Barnett, sponsor and hos‘pital chairman.
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streets and utility services. Hawthorne draws its board membership from the ranks of the West Side citizens. All of the board members either live on the West Side or have business interests there. Members of Board The following business men make up a part of the board: Re x Royster, rd Farquar, oy Katterhenry, ill Emrich, By JIM G. LUCAS 44 ! Scripps-Howard Staff Writer Rotcoe Conkle and Harry Mar NOME, Alaska, Apr. 5A for-
Sight Foreign Sub In Kiska Harbor
Air Force Crew Gives Detailed Description
un. Went 8ide industries are repre-
low-flying Air Force plane ‘in Kiska Harbor in the Aleutian Islands within the last month, The harbor has not been in use since the war. The incident, as related by Air Force Capt. Robert McNary of Portland, Ore., follows: Early in March Capt. McNary, a hephew of the late Sen, Charles McNary of Oregon, was flying a two - engined transport {from Shemya, near Attu, to Adak, in the center of the Aleutian chain. As the weather became foggy, Capt. McNary chose to fly below the fog at about 50 feet above
sented on the board by: Earl Buchanan, National Malleable Co.; Ralph Phelps, personnel manager of the Link-Belt Co. and H. Rupprecht, personnel manager of the J. D. Adams Co. The women’s department of the board is represented by Mrs, J, W. Carter of the Citizens School Committee, Mrs. T. W. Petranoff of the Federation of Church Women, Miss Marian Dunlap, Hawthorne librarian; Mrs. Harry Litchfield, past president of both Hawthorne School and Washington High School PTAs, and Mrs, Grace Gr r, supervisor of
teacher's tr: of Indianapolis public schools. The West Side churches are represented on the board by the Rev. Clifford Lanman of the West Park Christian Church, the Rev, Harold Mohler of the West Washington Methodist Church and the Rev. Charles Armentrout of the West Washington Presbyterian Church. Public schools, which co-ordi-
the water. Rock Moves As he approached Kiska Harbor he saw what he first thought was a “large rock.” But this one moved. As he came closer, Capt. McNary saw that it was a submarine, decks awash, emerging from the harbor. As his plane moved into investigate, the sub crash-dived but not until Capt.
MeRary and his crew got a good nate their program with Hawook. . {thorne, are represented by the | There is no doubt in their following teachers and executives: {minds that it was a submarine] Principal W, B. Johnson of the and that it did not belong to the Hawthorne Sehool, Principal U. 8. Navy, G. Gingery of Washington High His superior officers at first| School, Miss Myrtle Johnson were unconvinced. Later they dean of girls; Coach Rowland changed their minds. The cap-i Jones of the athletic department, tain’s description was too detalled|and William H. Bock, head of
to be questioned. A check withthe lan e the Navy at Kodiak and Honolua) nguage department.
disclosed there were no American submarines near the Aleutians at the time.
Navy Planes Find No Trace of Reported Subs
SAN FRANCISCO, Apr. 5 (UP) —Navy scout planes failed to find any trace of two “foreign submarines” reported cruising off California during the week-end, the Navy said today. A spokesman for the Western Sea Frontier sald no American submarines were in the Santa Maria, Cal., or Santa Cruz areas where observers reported seeing the craft: However, he said, there might be “some doubt” about the reports. “The submarine scare may be leading. people to report fishing boats as submarines,” the Wastern Sea Frontier said. {
OES INSTALLATION
Committees will be installed af a meeting of North Park Chapter 404, OES, at 7:45 p. m. tomorrow in the North Park Masonic Temple, 30th and Clifton Sts. Mrs. Mary Green is worthy matron and Orville Switzer is worthy patron,
Decatur to Discuss = Fire Department Plans.|
Plans will be made for a De-' catur Township volunteer fire de-|
en Stitt mmetueeetnl
: p.m. there—1'll be going out a little laterl” ‘ship High School
\partment at a meeting at 7:30] AND