Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1948 — Page 2

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a RA te Ls i WHY DO MEN, particularly young men, object to my reply of “yes, sir’ and “no, sir”? If they're worthy of my keeping company with they're worth respecting and I say it as kindness, not as degradation. I've always used “sir” to bosses and professors. One young man asks: “What do you mean?” ' Another says, “Don’t ‘sir’ me, you ‘red It's obvious they don’t care for it. What do

M. C.

There are ways to show respect without adding years to a man’s life and formality to his romancing. You're making a mis-

take—yes sir! You aroused my curiosity

so I tried this “sir” business. Only one man enjoyed it. Now I'm stuck—and it's your fault. If I don’t | inflate his dignity he'll be hurt. I couldn’t draw the attention of of the spreading overflow along| two men I addressed with “sir,” but “hey” brought an audience. Indiana's southern border were

The “social sir” definitely seems associated with receding hairlines

and bulging waistlines.

Il bet “sir” with some feminine “no’s” would be baffling in |

several ways.

‘Who Were the Publishers?

WHO PUBLISHED The People and The Independent newspa- course.

pers in 1887 and 1883? ‘Are they valuable?

E. B. Reed published The People in 1887 and Solomon P. [Aurora today when the river

A READER.

Ohio River Towns Wait As Crest Nears

Families Evacuated Well in Advance : By United Press The Ohio River flood crest edged toward Indiana today as an anti-climax to days of feverish preparations for its arrival. Nearly all families in the path

| evacuated well in advance. The! emergency was over. { All that remained to do was sit by and wait for the crest to pass along the Hoosier portion of the big stream and for the water! to fall back into its normal’

The crest was expected at

Hathaway was listed as “proprietor” of The Independent in 1888. |stage reaches 65 feet. It was a Ask about their value at the Indiana State Library, mewspaper

division.

Wisdom About God, Understanding Needed

LEEM, WORRYING ABOUT leaving his wife and religion, needs wisdom about God and after wisdom, understanding. He is conscientious or he wouldn't worry about doing wrong and displeasing God. Read Revelation 20:13, King James version of the Bible lo see

what hell is and then read the

next verse,

Leem's conscience wouldn't be easy to overcome, would it?

young girl, 16,

MRS.

German Girl Wants U. S. Correspondent

TO THE HOBBYIST interested in writing to foreign children— 1 wrote once to a German lady who wrote only in German, but a

MANNERS.

one her age to correspond with. I don’t have the time.

She wrote: “I have a good wish. Would you be kind enough to give me an address from an American girl who wants to write to Germany? I have no relation in America, but I'd like to know more about it, so I thought you would be so kind and help me. - corresponderice. is also favorable for learning English.” Her nafe is Evika Wuoser, and her address, Wehrstrasse 46, 14 a Goppingen

Wivitt, A Zone, Germany.

MRS, E. 8.

I'm very grateful for the help you readers give. Mrs. Manners’ Fame Has Spread

My boy friend and I plan to marry in September and because we want to live there.

n Indianapolis

after in the take accessories. Marine looking?

seven

Tl forward your letters.

long and doesn't know his way aroun spend a lot of time in Chicago. Besides, he’s only been a civilian

the Marine Corps.

He hasn't been d because he likes

WACSs for two years and learned to like the simple two rooms, furnished or unfurnished, with the Can you give me advice so I can start my ex- : HO

MELESS AFTER SEPT. 1. File your name with Homes Registry, set up for veterans.

Wonders How Much Sleep Needed

HOW LONG can a person go without sleep? Newsweek (Feb, 8, 1945) conducted an experiment among 850 Marine volunteers. ' At the end of 112 sleepless hours their balance,

sense of Their reaction

worse and by the

time. He's old enough a good shoul

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w y men cry am looking an For awhile we had . meeting once a week for fered, claiming

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to the gutter.

Their daughter knows me. I like her. He provides for 3s Saugn:

ter and two son. What shall h

The number of men crying on your shoulder doesn’t surprise me in the least, mor would your scarcity sincere men or your lack of friendship with women of character.

to know

e do?

’ Seeks Theme Melody Publisher

COULD YOU TELL me the name and publisher of the theme melody used in the International motion picture, “The Woman in the Window?” The picture featured Edward G. Robinson and Joan

Bennett,

Nunnally Johnson produced the film made for Inte

melody.”

Reply to Puzzled Botany Teacher

TO “R. 0.” (Botany Teacher)—I have biology from 7:45 to 9:10 | Ohicago seas a. m, my first two classes. At that time I'm not very willing to Cincinnati n listen to anyone talk and talk. On the other hand, if we were draw- |; ing pictures I'd awaken, I suggest you talk but also let your pupils iv

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hearing and eyesight changed only slightly. time somewhat slowed. As fatigue increased most of men complained of loss of memory and appetite and of ‘mansea and Inability to concentrate. The second night seemed the morning most of the men felt better.

Begrudges Man's Attention to Own Wife en «i | | Dakar, 48. Nopth 2 ¥ hr edt. Irn Aes = Ad an pab is SHOULD my friend take out his Wife when he doesn’t Suwanee RINEEIN-FIorida " +Mke to? I don’t op my but if Pm nice to him he sure shows me|8an falling out of

: t he wants and if he time with me, this is 1948, t “until death do us omitted from the marriage ceremony. You'd be surn my shoulder. like this married man with three chilfine time talking on the phone and a beer and to talk. Then his, wife interI'm breaking up her home. She won't call him to the telephone when I call and complains about his beer drinking. She said he's 36 and never drank beer before and that he wasn't going to now and live with her, She said beer led to women and they led

of proposals from

avallable as to the theme

do some work. Exércise always wakes a person up.

I didn't think teachers worried about their pupils being

and interested in their class,

Thanks, Phil. I guess pupils and teachers need to wunder-

stand each other, don't >22y?

Let Mrs. Manners and readers of the column share your problems and answer your questions. Write in care of The Times,

214 W, Maryland St.

You sound human.

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rnational Plotures and released by RKO Jan, 25, 1945. RKO New York offices write: “No information is

{major flood but 15 feet below the crest of 1937's worst flood in history. 3 It will be Sunday night before the crest reaches New Albany and Jeffersonville, obgervers pre-| dict. A height of 60 feet is ex-| pected there, 14 feet above flood, stage but far below the 1937! mark. The crest was due in Evans. ville next week. A flood wall at Lawrenceburg | saved that city from inundation and gave a preview of what river folk all along the stream may | expect when further flood control projects are completed. Meanwhile, the Weather Bureau, reported that no rain of any con-| sequence was expected in the’ next four or five days. Warmer temperatures were forecast today | and tonight. The number of Indiana National Guardsmen on evacuation duty along the river dropped to 50 in the New Albany and Madison areas as the emergency | passed. Only a few scattered | families reinained to be moved to safely, and at least half of the! Guardsmen yet on duty were! watet:ing property.

Thousands Battle

A huge flood crest rolled down the Ohio River today, threatening to add thousands of refugees to the 22,000 persons already driven from their homes by flooding rivers in eight states. A thousand soldiers and volunteers fought to save the Newport, Ky., flood wall from crumbling today as the Ohio sent a massive swell of water on Newport and its sister city, Cincinnati, nearing the expected crest of 64.3 feet, 12.3 feet above flood level, é :

its banks for a week or more. The Red River reached an alltime high at Oslo, Minn, and residents were forced to use rowboats in the city streets. The Red River was seven miles wide at points,

Financial Knowledge

To Save Newport ‘Wall’

INDIANA

POLIS TIMES

Flood Threat Ended

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AWAIT CREST—Ohio River flood refugees at New A stage, expected tomorrow night, in tent homes provided by the Red Cross.

FIGHTS THROUGH—Spilling water fails to keep a freight train from pulling into New Albany yards with its cargo, although the engineer found it rough going.

lbany wait for the peak

ing Bubcommittee, he'd sen investigators to Trenton to out. They asked the WAA’s gional director what was inside those boxes (which had been sitting there for four years). He had no idea. :

knows what's in 'em,” Reps Rizley

of our Uncle Samuel's flyers into international big business. At the moment, nobody knows from nothing, including the Russians.

plete oil refineries, plus two spares and some other machinery for $233 million. On tick, of course. Tey promised to start paying in

shipping cases of refinery equipment to Russia and had sent most of the stuff across, when Congress

property. ;

{sians with oil refineries complete, : |except for the pieces which would

"“I doubt whether anybody

They bought from us four com-

markings from the ‘ ing cases,” he said. So our State Department began

chinery on

decided the Ruskies would get no more machinery from us. The State Department turned what was Jeft—about $17 million worth —over to the WAA as surplus

maybe.

: ® = AND THERE were the Ruswtih ‘em, holders,

So. are make ‘em work. They said they wouldn't pay until they got the missing parts. The inventors who held the

boxes at Trenton.

Our Fair City— Approaching GOP Primary Presents Puzzling Picture

(Continued From Page One) dependent projects and at the same time supporting their own group's program, if any.

el Regulars Split

TWO YEARS ago the regular GOP organization under former Chairman Henry E. Ostrom squared off and fought the anti-machine group, the latter winning with Prosecutor Judson L. Stark and Sheriff Al Magenheimer, This year the regulars are split and no one is sure which faction is lining up with Sheriff Magenheimer or Prosecutor

Needed, Koehler Says

A financial knowledge of the county and business ability are requirements of a county eommissioner, Charles F. Koehler declared last night at a GOP meeting in the Cactus Club. He is a Republican candidate for nomination as commissioner in the first district. He is a former precinct committeeman.

Official Weather

UNITED STATES WEATHER BUREAU ~Apr. 17, 1948

_ Sunrise ..... 5:08 | Sunset_ Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7: Total precipitation since Jan. Excess since Jan, 1

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ture and precipitation in other cities: Station h Atlanta

the nation.

¥ry.is due for partly cloud lower left of the photo map.

TONIGHT AND TOMORROW—The high pressure cell over the eastern third of will bring clear skies and cool weather Saturday night. The rest of the couny {0 overcast conditions, as is shown by

“The following table shows the tempera-

Stark, if either. » » » POLICE ARE getting a lot of telephone calls from citizens who say they remember a man answering the description of Ralph Williams, confessed child rapist, as molesting them or their children months back. In broad terms, police officers are inclined to blame some of them for the attack upon the eight-year-old girl here last Saturday. If they had called police with descriptions of the offender at the time, he might have been caught long before any serious crime was committed. Detective Chief John O'Neal

mentally ill some fatal ‘sex fiend” = = s

crime.

| Scalping Law Test

YOU CAN look for a test case in Criminal Court on the constitutionality of the state law against ticket scalping. Attorneys for Otis F. Kirtley, . of Muncie, who was fined $100 in Municipal Court 3 on a charge of ticket scalping at the State are preparing a motion to challenge the law on appeal to Criminal Court. They will cite a U. 8. Supreme Court decision which

ticket scalping unconstitutional. The decision stated in effect

come personal property and therefore salable by any individual at any price he can get. ” . -

Penal Institutions A LUNCHEON meeting sponsored by the Church Federation and the YMCA here Monday at the “Y" may provide the ground-work for a concerted drive toward improvement of Indiana's penal and hospital institutions.

speaker George Stoll, Louisville businessman, who has attracted nation-wide attention

prove Louisville's institutions.

in utilty rate cases, larly where an increase is requested. He feels the munici-

As a result of asking for a

. will achieve an increase in payments to the City the utility

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makes in lieu of taxes.

mission . engineers

FOR THOSE who are wondering, the State Highway Comsay flatly finished by

Bets fair weather, . Engineers say drastic legislation will be necessary to save Hoosier highways from being wrecked by super-heavy trucks. * The weight of these vehicles actually bends the T-inch concrete roadway which pumps water and soil from underneath the roadbed, leaving a gap. Unsupported where the gap occurs, the concrete cracks. Illinois is spending a fortune increasing the thickness of its concrete roads to remedy this condition, but Hoosier engineers say it can be prevented

id - with’the School Board to, ¥ | ik | feel encouraged about the pros-

and (2) by a special kind of dirt sealer, ’

o ” ” : The New Manual PLANS FOR the new Manual High School are moving along now. South Bide. parents are going to bat on it through the | newly formed Manual ParentTeacher Association. Roines alumni have a meeting sched-

af revised plans. Alumni “pects of the new school.

Bedford Girl Scout Wins Trip to Europe = ‘Times State Service BEDFORD, Apr. 17—Ann Elizabeth Furst of Bedford has been named one of two winners of the 1948 Juliette Lowe Awards, consisting of a trip to Europe this summer to represent the Girl Scouts of the United States at an international encampment in Adelboden, Switzerland, July 26 through Aug. 15. The other winner is Penelope

Ticket Order Blank Legion-Times Charity Horse Show.

Fairgrounds Coliseum :

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One of the witnesses said he didn’t care what the Russians claimed about missing pieces; they've got some of those re. fineries making gasoline. The State Department's negotiating patent And if I had an ax I'd certain. ly like to what's in thos

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