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checking m¥ Sad resort to internal tonics? No.

a flashy new outfit appears on his back. Then

off he flutters drinking deep of the intoxicating mysteries of the season. ¥

suspicion that the racks kirg fisplay tables have a lot to do with that eagerness. Now, five years ago, when I embarked on a similar venture to get out of a cocoon, the spirit

was different. So was the merchandise. But let.

pygones be bygones. The first thing I.needed in my closet was a snappy sport jacket, That was easy. The man said corduroy was A chocolate colored jacket, the first one he showed me, almost made me clap my hands. *

Step Right Over «pERFECT. Just the thing for me,” I said, making my friend with the salesbook happy. The jacket only cost $25. «pon’t you think the well-dressed man should have a cardigan jacket to relieye the monotony somewhat?” Right up the man’s alley. YES, SIR. Step

SPRING TONIC?—A batch of new clothes, on the cuff or otherwise, is a swell substitute for

Who-Dunit Stories

NEW YORK, Apr. 9—For distinguished men who know. murder best, it's poison two-for-one, with just a coupcon of ground glass and an occasional dagger in the night. At least, that’s what 1 learn from ssbylietin sent out by the Columbia niversity press. " It seems that Columbia’s bi-weekly publication, “The Pleasures of 'Publishing”—and do I hear hollow laughs from Messrs, Cerf, Doubleday, Bimon & Schuster—has a fast rundown on what ve prefer in the way of who-dunits. Mystery gtories. There she lay, strangled in her own pink pearls. This surveys reveals that 77 per cent of the authors, college teachers, librarians, editors, pubishers and booksellers who read “The Pleasures of Publishing” are ardent mystery story readers.

They read, each, 4.8 detective stories a month, which confirms an old belief I have had about editors and publishers. When they stumble wearily into the sack, they are not clutching copies of “The Neutron and You.” They retire with Miss Dorothy Cameron Disney or Raymond Chandler, and they can't doze off until the last maniacal yell has come from the mad scientist, or the last gout of gore extracted from the dowager.

The ‘Hard Boiled’ School

I AM PREPARED to quarrel with this survey, because it says the most favored type of mordant literature is the suave, drawing room opus, ‘where the detective wears a monocle and commits epigrams between slayings.e

In second place is the “psychological suspense story”, and them ain't my quotes, Mac. The “hard-boiled” school, a top-running favorite in 1841, is one of the least liked. That's where I quarrel, ‘

Other people may sing of Mary Roberts Rinehart, but I am a Raymond Chandler man, a Dashiell Hammitt aficionado, a rapt follower of the fellow who wrote “Kiss the Blood Off My Nahas That was an actual title, and a best seller, vt It had to do with a chronic murderer thug and footpad who was unable to fall for a frail until she had stabbed a blackmailer to pieces with a toasting-fork. Before the corpus delectable hit the carpet, love had blossomed, and the shy swain

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them away while I went to pick up my Jackets. Yes, sir. Certainly, sir. . Did | Need Slacks?

THREE BRIGHT T-shirts set me back $6.50. Gotta have T-shirts you know, ol’ sport, ol’ bean.

The man was perfectly willing to hold them until] ¥

I picked up my shoes. SLACKS. Oh, hrother, did I need slacks. Oh. brother, did I buy some dandies. Two. pair at] $39.95 a copy. The salesman agreed it was wise to buy two pair at a time. A sport coat, terrific is the word to use here, touched me for $79.50. Genuine camel’s hair, yet. I turned my nose up at a half Cashmere and half camel's hair. “Can't quite see putting out $112.50 for a sport coat, right now,” was my comment to the salesm

an. “Oh, that $79.50 coat is a swell buy. You won't be sorry.” . Gs Yes, sir. Why certainly he would be glad to hold the coat and trousers while I picked up my shoes, jackets and T-shirts, Good deal. What is better for getting a man out of the dumps than a suit and a topcoat? Three suits and a topcoat. I shot the works when I saw the racks of finery. I don’t know how that cheap gabardine got into the deal, only $68, but I was stuck with it. Anyway, there was much gladness in my heart with the gray fannel at $145, imported double breasted oxford at $135 and a smooth gabardine topcoat for $110. Almost took the $175 topcoat with the “extra fine tailoring and. super-duper button holes” but my better judgment stopped me. A little too steep for a topcoat, don’t you think? “Just keep your eye on those things while I pick up my slacks and sport coat, will you?” Yes, sir. He'd be looking for me. Don't doubt that a bit. A couple ‘of cheap: $12.50 sport shirts, imitation leather belt at $2.50 and four ties for $12 wound me up. to the point where I was practically walking on air. The lady said she'd hold my merchandise while IT ran upstairs and picked up the suits: and topcoat. When this jag wears off, I'm going to have to figure out how much it will cost to get a couple of suits cleaned and pressed, a topcoat mended and I may blow myself to a couple of shoe shines. Nothing like starting a new season spick and

span.

By Robert C. Ruark

re was free to thoke, slug, bash, hack and et with a clear conscience, because he Was doing it in the name of cupid. oor Tb Up to the time his light-o-love knoc! 0 first Ray pigeon, he had temporarily been reduced to peddling eggs for a nice old lady. The moral of the story was that they all wound up happily in Canada, leaving a trail of rigormortized citizens behind, she with her face disfigured and he on record as willing to murder anybody who said she wasn't cute. Is it any wonder I wake up screaming? You can have your genteel murders, where the victim gets suavely poisoned by the second footman, and where eternity is induced by the constant ringing of churchbells. “You can take the detectives who never shoot until shot at, and give them to the public library. Us strong-meat fans demand more and lustier action. I like books which start this way: «I walked over and kicked her in the chin. « ‘Hello, you rat,’ she said, shooting out my left eye, ‘long time no see.”

‘ Subdivided Pete the Goon’

THAT'S LIVING, kids, That's the way the hard eu spin their tales. They always use. detectives who speak in the first person, too. Like Xo! “Sure, I loved her. But a private eye can’t play it the way other people play it. I kissed her once, hard. Then I threw her off the cliff. Boy, did she bounce. Then I take another slug of scotch. 1 reach for the chopper. I cut Joe in two pieces with it. I subdivided Pete the Goon. I carved my monogram on Mike the Moose. Thep I went home. 1 hit me with another scotch. I set fire to a cigaret. I went to bed. I was tired.” Tough-school dicks are always tired, account of being beat up so much—wherein they differ from suave-school flatfeet, who always get rescued by the Marines. The subtle who-dunits always concentrate on a main murder, but the Hammett-Chandler outfit considers that no climax is legitimate unless it is fittered with defunct innocent bystanders. You never worry about the plot, because of the thud of falling bodies. It saves thinking. No, I quarrel with Columbia, the rats. They ain't hep. Shaddap. Who? Me? you. Drop dead. Boom. Ho. Hum.

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idly today in four major primary election contests that will determine the balance of power in the Republican organization here.

scramble for GOP nominations for two county commissioner posts moved up to the front line of public interest with the prose-

missioner post now held by Wil-

SECOND SECTION

County Commissioner Seats in Spotlight By NOBLE REED Battle lines were forming rap-

For the first time in years, the

cutor and sheriff races. The primary campaign is cen-{ tering on .the first district com-

liam T. Ayres and the third district commissioner office of Ray Mendenhall. Both are seeking renomination on the GOP ticket. ! 2 Three-Way Fight

A three-way factional fight has developed nomination. Running against Mr. Ayres are Charles F. Koehler, former Kast Side. grocer, and

the County Council.

associated with JoSeph J, Daniels

ganization around the old faction led by James L. Bradford, former county chairman, in a coalition with supporters of Sheriff Al Magenheimer. Carrying the regular GOP organization’ banner ir the third district fight against Mr. Mendenhall is Arthur W. Grayson, State Highway Commission supervisor and former Wayne Township GOP chairman.

Similar Lines Formed

Similar alignments were forming in the races for prosecutor and sheriff. Both incumbents, Prosecutor Judson L. Stark and Sheriff Magenheimer, who beat the GOP regulars two years ago, are out in front with the same campaign material this year for the GOP nominations. Forming alignments against them are Frank Fairchild, former deputy prosecutor, backed by several GOP ward chairmen against Mr. Stark, and Otto W. Gasper, backed by some of the party regulars against Mr. Magenheimer. Some of the former GOP regulars who fought both Prosecutor Stark and Mr. Magenheimer two years ago are reported working for them this year. But most of the new lineups under Mr. Dan-

Poor Mr. Rabbit

By Frederick C. Othman Duo-Piano Recital

WASHINGTON, Apr. 9—Practically everybody, announced Manfred Benedek, lawyer for the furcoat makers, knows that, Hudson seal is not seal at all. Qops. : “Well, I didn't know it,” snapped Rep. Robert Hale of Maine, “Maybe I am naive, but I thought Hudson seal was seal. What is it?” Counsel Benedek blushed to the roots of his curly hair and said it is muskrat, dyed black. And I don't guess I ever spent a fuzzier day than this One, listening to the fur boys explain why they Wanted no part of a law forcing all imported furs, of whatever color, to bear a label in plain English saying from the back of what animals they were removed. The Congressmen on the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee kept using that word “rabbit.” Caused the fur experts to shudder. It is a hateful word as far as they are concerned and they would prefer that the lawmakers say coney” or lapin.” “What is this lapin?” asked Rep. Joseph P. O'Hara of Minn. Mr. Benedek said that was a French word Meaning coney. And what was coney? “R...t" Whispered the witness.

y - I's Dyed Rabbit, Too “WHAT DOES the phrase Arctic seal ‘mean to you? demanded Rep. John W. Heselton of Mass, turning to Joseph L. Stein, counsel for the Dressers Association. Mr. Stein said he Wouldn't know. ? “It's not a seal that came out of the Arctic,”

sald the gentleman from Ohio. “It is a dyed rabbit.”

“Jungle mink raccoon is our baby,” said Mr. Albach, “We are just experimenting with it. It isn’t on the market yet.” “1s it rabbit, too?” asked Rep. Harris Ellsworth of Are. “Oh, no sir,” said Mr. Albach, sounding hurt. “It is raccoon.” “well, do raccoons live in the sisted Rep. Hale. “I don’t think so,” said the jungle-mink-rac-coon man. “But we chose that word, jungle, because this fur has a greenish tinge.”

Non-Persian Lamb : «IS THERE any such thing as a jungle mink2"” asked Rep. O'Hara.

jungles?” in-

Mr. Albach said he doubted it. And the more in Kephart auditorium.

the fur fellows argued, seemed like, the more trou-

fels are backing Mr. Fairchild and Mr. Gasper.

To Be Given Tonight

The Indiana Central College music department will present Miss Anna Hite of Plymouth and Vernon Smitley of Decatur in a duo-piano recital in Kephart auditorium this evening. Tonight's program is the first in a series of five recitals to be presented by. the college music| department. Concerts also are scheduled for Apr. 18; Apr. 23, a senior - violin recital presenting Robert Simper of Greenwood; Apr. 30, senior voice recital by Miss Roberta Good, Greenfield, and Sunday, May 16, concert band and college choir at 2 p. m.

ble they had convincing those Congressmen of anything. Let's listen to another segment of the argument: _ “Where does Persian lamb come from?” asked Rep. O'Hara.

world, except in Persia. “You have not convinced me that it is proper to pass off a rabbit as a leopard, or a lion, or a Baltic brown fox,” suggested Rep. Haselton. He asked what was an ermine? “A weasel,” sighed Mr, Albach,

And if a New York beaver swims the 8t. Law- | rence River, Mr. Benedek wondered, does. that

make him a Canadian beaver under the bill? “Beavers are good swimmers,” he added. He wasn’t making jokes, either. He couldn't have been more serious. ‘Chairman Charles A. Wolverton of N. J. said

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TEEN-AGE DISC JOCKEYS—The Be-Bop-Inn jumps with jive every Friday night from 8 p. m. to || p. m. with a record dance. These happy teen-agers are members of the canteen with headquarters at the Northwestern Community Center. Ready to spin a platter to open the dance are (left to right) Curtis Johnson, Margaret Gaines, Candis Driver, president; Roscoe Carney, Robert Fields and Evelyn Lolla.

Draw Battle Lines For 4 GOP Posts

in the first district|

George E. Kincaid, member of].

Mr. Kincaid is being supported; by the regular organization forces]

Mr. Koehler is building up an or-|

FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1948

500 Teen-Agers Jive And Play At Popular Be-Bop-Inn P

(Photos by Lloyd B. Walton, Captions by Victor Peterson)

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all events. The group has been or year, co-sponsor, talks over. problems with canteen mem

Ask Mrs. Manners—

MY MOTHER-IN-LAW is mean. My husband promised before our marriage his folks never would live with us, but they did. They now live for nothing in a house my husband rented three years ago. I'd love to-iive there myself. My husband won't sell or put them out and he’s in debt. He's hard to get along with and I've lost my love for him. He never takes me anywhere and he's out all hours of the night, maybe with other women. ! he My brothers-in-law mistreated me and I went home to mother. It has been hard to take their evil ways. My husband never forgot the nice car his mother cheated him out of, His family includes my mother-in-law who gets a $50 monthly pension; her father, on old-age pension; her oldest divorced son who won't work and his two daughters, and her single son and her two married sons. My husband is the only one who has done anything for his mother. If I should die I know he'd take the children to his mother’s. Can I prevent that? Would I be responsible for his debts? WORRIED MOTHER. You and your husband need fo get on the same team and have a calm talk. Try to persuade him to tell his family that you need your money. Tell him of the things you'd like to have, and stop running home to mother. : He is as worried as you are but he won't stay home 4f you keep fussing at him. He won't take you with him, either, if you're erabby, \ . These legal matters requiring an attorney’s advice would fade if you and your husband get together;

‘Should 1 Get Another Girl?’

I'M A BOY, 19, and go with a girl quite a lot younger than I am. She's always accusing me of having other girl-friends but I haven't. I love her and she says she loves me but she always flirts around and talks to other boys. . : “We've been Boing steady six months.” She has written to you 80 she will know what to do.” What should I do—get another girl or keep going with this one? ANXIOUS. Making each other suffer is normal for teen-agers but it's risky to marry without trust. Why «don’t you both date other

people? You might find another girl you like—and one who isn't Jealous. :

Thinks Ex-Wife Is Turning Boy Against Him

1 WAS DIVORCED a year ago and pay my ex-wife $10 a week support for our son, 11. She doesn’t bring him to see me unless he needs something and she doesn’t have him write. I have a nice second wife who would enjoy having him visit us. I think my ex-wife is trying to turn the boy against me. M. H. You could consult an attorney, but I wouldn't. Haven't you had enough public trouble, with divorce and all? Tactful talking should do it, if you show love for your son.: Devt play Sp your Jeena wife's willingness to entertain your son. Your ex-wife probably resents her enough without h that invitation. us easing

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‘Should Neighbor Be Paid for Baby Sitting?’ SHOULD A NEIGHBOR be paid for baby sitting?. Should one insist on paying her? A MOTHER. Pay her or give her presents, and don’t overdo letting her

help you. She might tire of sitting and complain to thé neighbors, not to you.

Hushand Runs ‘Around

I'M THE MOTHER of three children and for band has run around with other women. I'm no can understand some of our trouble but we didn’t have enough for him

A FEW HOT LICKS—With a lull in the dance, the piano becomes the center attraction. Only a few of the 500 members, however, can cluster around. The canteen is one of a city-wide system. At the keyboard is Rae Kurtz. Joining in the informal session are (left to right) Jean Cross, Paul Barber, Lawrence Golden, Laura Cummings, Roscoe Carney, Jean Sullivan and Curtis Johnson.

POLICY MEETING —Like all city teen canteen groups, Be-Bop-Inn is a anized, but two and a half years but is one of the largest in town. Mrs. Ray Pur

rence Golden, Rae Kurtz, Robert Fields, Margaret Gaines and Laura Cummings.

‘My Mother-in-Law Is Mean,’ Complains Wife

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self-governing body and members plan

bers. Others shown are (left to right) Roscoe Carney, Law-

He has been going with a woman, three married, for three years and talks as If he won't ever come home.’ ‘She gave up her husband and home so she and my husband could go into the tavern business. My husband keeps her boys. He seems afraid of her and I can’t reason with him, though he Hasn't asked for divorce. I'd like some hard, sensible advice. Sh

AN UPSET WIFE. Your decision depends on how much you love an respect him, how far you fell short of being an “angel,” your willingness to make corrections, and your ability to support your family on your own. He doesn’t sound worth much and three years out of your life seem enough~-but do you think you'd forgive and love him if he came back? he I imagine you talked straight from the shoulder. Maybe he'd like talk smothered in feminity. He should know his mind by this

Il him to make his decision. ’

The other woman holds him with something other than fear. Wish we knew what it was. :

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Let Mrs.’ Manners and readers of the column shape your problems and answer your questions. Write in care of The Times, 214 W, Maryland St.

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