Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1948 — Page 11

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The young lady came in third to show. It was more than a hunch that I picked Molly Threlkeld to carry the 1L.'V, L. winner's ¢ircle. In my Threlkeld stood head and shoulders rest of the aspirants. I'm not trying to detract from the other girls, mind you, and T have long, low and high whistles for Patricia Russell, Riley Dramatic Club, who, ultimately was crowned by the Mayor. : : What I'm trying to say is that dufag the long afternoon session of parading and practicing how to walk, hold one’s head, shoulders and other things a girl counts on in a beauty contest, Threlkeld struck my fancy. Jean Goulette, who runs Jean's Fashion Service and should know a champion when she sees one, commended me on my choice but told me to be careful. I don’t know why. Those were my sentiments. :

If My Hand Swells, I'll Sue

HERE ARE SOME notes I made while I sat through the rehearsal with Trainer Miss Goulette: Why are the chairs at the Roof so hard? Why do girls enter beauty: contests? Pzaul Roberts, WFBM’'s “Happy Monster” sure can get corny when he wants to. Blondie should have prac-

ticed walking in high heel shoes before she entered the contest. Junior C.C. men have the darndest handshakes. If my right hand even swells a sixteenth of am inch I'm going to sue. Molly Threlkeld will be “Miss Indianapolis.”

HOBBY LOBBY—Behind the scenes of the “Miss Indianapolis” contest, “Mr, Inside" (left) introduces (his choice] Molly Threlkeld to Jack Hatfield, one of the judges. Later, Patricia Russell was crowned the beauty queen.

A Crazy World

NEW YORK, Apr. 20—A state of great unrest is reflected in the nation, according to the latest findings of the Ruark Survey, a coldly factual poll which raises its head from time to time, according to its founder's’ whim.

This insecurity stems partially from the loud ,

talk from Washington, but mostly it is on account of the ants. The ants have just conspired to kick a few thousand years of legend squarely in the shins, The scientists have recently proven that the busy little ant is not busy at all, but spends 40 per cent of his time hanging around the poolrooms and lolling on street corners. According to Dr. Theodore C. Schneirla of the Museum of Natural History nearly half the ants studied by a group of his scientists are bums, who hang around the house all day, reading the racing forms and yawning. About 10 per cent work when they feel like it, and the -earry the load. This intelligence provides almost as much shock as the fact that swallowing chicken gizzards whole does not necessarily make you pretty; that carrots are not a sure cure for night blindness; that spinach is harmful to some people, and that honestly sometimes “seems to be the worst policy. . But it ties in with the general mood of the country. Out in Hollywood, a psychiatrist has announced that 80 per cent of the population is either nuts or potentially nuts. In Washington, they have installed FM radios in some of the busses, to quiet the jagged nerves of commuting congressmen. '

Police Chief Arrested Self THINGS GOT SO contused in Central City, Pa, that a chief of police, lacking a superior officer was forced to arres{ Himself on a warrant charging non-support. My agents do not specify whether he clapped ‘the cuffs on himself and extracted a confession by mesns of a rubber hose. It is representative of the times, too, that 10 deafmutes recently were arrested and fined here for making too much noise ove: a card game. There is bleak desperation in the countryside, as the elms cower before the twin plagues of bark beetle and a recently isolated virus, which threatens to hospitalize them all. Connecticut has heen

3 Army Stew

WASHINGTON, Apr. 20—The good old Army seems to be in a small stew. Oyster flavor. The oyster is a sensitive beast, but even more sensitive is the Army. It isn’t sure who ruined the oysters in Louisiana. All Secretary Kenneth C. Royall knows is that the Army didn’t do it and he'll thank Congress to. quit libeling his oyster-loving engineers. , < These are the gents who built near New Orleans ‘a flood control project which began spilling fresh water at the rate of 250,000 gallons a second through the Bonnet Carre Spillway into the oyster bayous. : ; There’s nothing an oyster hates so much as fresh water. When he drinks too much of it, he turns up his toes and dies. So Rep. James Domengaux, of the Louisiana oyster country, wrote a bill appropriating $50,000 to survey the damage the Army had ‘déne to the oyster. . He led the New Orleans oyster men before the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee to testify in behalf of his favorite bivalve. To his amazement he discovered that Secretary Royall had ‘taken ‘time off from national defense, atom .bomb plans and such matters to protest the implication that the Army had harmed the oyster. Study ’em $50,000 worth if You want, said Ken, but don’t blame the Army.

I'aybe It Was Hurricanes

THE SECRETARY wrote the Committee at length that hurricanes, maybe, or salt domes, or gas wells or no telling what killed Louisiana's oysters, It wasn’t his fresh water. He said it

Sushed the beds and probably did those oysters good.

The Quiz Master

When was the first modern novel published in English? In 1740, Saumel Richardson published “Pamela,” the first modern-novel in English. * o ¢ What is the oldest American patriotic society?

R: oie Society of the Cincinnati, organized in

- * oo Is there an underground passage from the Cap1 to the White House? ge The White House and the Capitol are not conby an underground

Rected by an passage. The House and Senate Office i and the Library of ConEres are connected with the Capitol by subways. ’

distinguished ~ white head, T don’t think it was at “Miss Kay

“tipsy seooter

“Wait until you see Miss L. V. L. Club,” I said. giving out with a whistle. The Mayor looked puzzled. -

“What's L. V. L. mean?” His question almost bowled me over. I asked; if he was kidding. He snook his

Jewelry” in the person of Eunice Swindle, so I explained L. V. L. meant Liberal View League.

“Oh. Oh, yes. That club is out of my territory.|

It's in the county, isn’t it?” “Wait until you see the county girl.” Miss Threlkeld, dressed in a white formal, made her appearance. The Mayor moved in his chair. By flapping my arms, I'm sure I could have flown around the ballroom. All the girls looked a lot ‘different than they did in the afternoon. Wonderful what paint and a little coaching can do. Patricia Russell drew] a nice hand. The Mayor moved in his chair! again. The Roof chairs get awful hard after a couple of hours: i I didn’t lose hove An nour and a half later] Miss L. V. L. appeared in a white swim creation. ! The five judges told me to scram. “We're doing the picking,” they said. i The suspense was killing me. So were the chairs... Who would be the five finalists? Miss Threlkeld, to my great relief, was one of the five. She was subjected to a personality quiz of all things by Mr. Roberts. contest?” “What are your ambitions?” Tommyrot. The official announcement came after 11 p. m. The Mayor was getting sleepy. My Molly took her third place cup with a smile, Joan Newby, “Miss Hoosier Fence,” was nanded the second place trophy. The Mayor crowned Patricia Russell with a bunch of roses. Everyone was happy. Miss Russell was the happiest. - Mayor ‘Feeney was the sleepiest. Even though the crowd approved, I still think I wuz robbed. On second thought and closer look, maybe Miss Russell has wnat it takes to be “Miss Indiana.” I hope so. !

‘By Robert C. Ruark,

full of surgeons in white coats, busy injecting chemicals into the roots or into the trees’ circulation system. Even the trees are beginning to develop complexes, never knowing, from one minute to the next whether they'll come down with Dutch fungus or a palsy in the branches. Out in Springfield, Mass., a son is suing his father for swiping his wife. He said life with father was so enticing that his wife wouldn't leave, so he is smacking Pop with a suit for $200,000. A fellow doesn’t know where ‘to turn, these days. x

Tipsy Scooter Pilots Scare Autos

A MAN DAREN'T cross the streets in Portland, Ore., because of the motor-scooter menace. Even the automobiles are cringing at the curb, as a ‘result of an epidemic of crashes caused by

Fashion, already so Involved that not even the French can understand it, has taken another dizzy turn. The extreme decollete of the strapless gown has left no mooring-place for corsages, so a Hollywbod designer has come up with the flow-

erpot in milady’s bustle. The receptacles are de-|

signed either for fresh flowers or potted plants, necessitating a watering-can as part of every escort’s equipment. The designer says the ladies may achieve either sophistication or innocence, according to the flowers worn. If you see a lady with a tiger lily leering at you from the bustle, run for your life. In New Jersey, the cost of living has risen to the point where the beaches are jammed with searchers after pirate gold, in order to fill in the budgetary chinks. In rural New York, baby-sitting is being conducted by radio amplifiers, placed near the crib. When baby squawks, a circuit rider stops off to see what ails’ him. A manual entitled "The Care and Protection of the Dodger Fan” has just been issued here, in the hopes of reducing casualties. Most common are contusions incurred by fall-

ing off seats, fingers bitten while eating hotdogs, |’

concussion from being Pounded on the head by other fans, jaws dislocated by shouting, apoplexy, sunstroke, fainting, and choking on food. That was America, Mac, as we march inexorably to the grave,

By Frederick C. Othman

This caused Rep. Domengaux and Co. to splutter, politely, of course, because they were gentlemen. They didn’t exactly call his honor, the Secretary of the Army, an old fuddy-duddy, but they did point out that his own engineers admitted the water did those oysters no good. ° And along came Harry Gamble, of New Orleans, the courtly barrister for the Louisiana Department of Fisheries. He said that as a lawyer, he was used to standing up to talk. _ “Youll find,” said Sen. Homer E. Capehart of Indiana, the chairman, “that we sit here in Washington. That's one of the best things we do. (Pause.) Or the worst, depending on your point of view.” :

Dissertation on Oysters SO ATTORNEY GAMBLE sat and explained about those oysters. A good job of it he did, too. He said he didn’t much like the idea of the Secretary of the Army laying in ambush for him, waiting to take a shot at him with that letter. The Senator from Indiana, who also is an oyster fancier, said he'd invited the Army to testify on its alleged innocence, but that it declined. So there seemed to be no opposition to studying Louisiana’s languishing oysters. “Well then,” sald Counsellor Gamble, getting up, ‘I've long since passed the time when I wanted to make a speech just to be making one.”

“You should run for Congress, Sir,” suggested] {

Sen. Capehart. “Yes, but he comes from my district,” cried Rep. Domengaux. The Senator withdrew his suggestion and my guess is that the Louisiana oyster gets an official $50,000 study. As for the insulted Army, it can go stew in its own juices.

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v How long have minstrels been known in the 8.7

The first American minstrel was Thomas D. Rice, and the first company was the Virginia Minstrels, 1843. : *

Who made the first flight over the North Pole? In May, 1926, Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrd and

Floyd Bennett flew over the Pole from Spitsbergen =

in a monoplane, the Josephine Ford. e © o

How did George Washington's home acquire the name of Mount Vernon? Lawrence W:

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Band Of Mercy Helping To Raise Funds For Pet Hospital-Shelter

POSTERS ARE REMINDERS—M iss Lula B. Hoss, Home Room 15 teacher at School 9, Vermont and Fulton Sts., discusses with Pupils Barbara Pittman, center, and Patty Gluff posters on the care and training of animals.

Vermont and Fulton Sts., are too after school these days.

for a hospital-shelter for ani-! mals, : So far, in less than a month, the Band of Mercy of the room has addressed almost 4 envelopes to be used to mail ISPCA literature to prospective donors.

» » ” FAR FROM content with their achievement, they set up an assembly line to stuff the envelopes and get them in the mail. So far they're ;:almost halfway through with this task. All this in their before and after school time. “It’s been a wonderful experience for the children and they've worked very diligently,” their teacher, Miss Lula B. Hoss, says “I see much improvement in some of their penmanship after 4000 envelopes.” All the studerts~af Room 15 belong to the Band of Mercy, junior organization of the ISPCA, as do 500 other students in School 9. Since the Band of Mercy was organized in Indianapolis schools

received®the button which signifies they are crusading for humane treatment of animals.

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Some 36 busy students of Home Room 15 are putting every spare minute into their ‘special project of aiding the Indiana Society. for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in its drive io raise money

SOLICIT DONORS—Seventh-grade pupils Patty Hamilton, Betty Glover, Donald McKinney and Gwendolyn Sims, left to right, enclose letters to raise funds for an ISPCA animal shelter-hospital,

School 9 Pupils Mailing 4000 Envelopes

To. Prospective ISPCA Contributors By DONNA MIKFLS THERE'S A REASON why seventh grade students of School 9,

busy to play ball or have a coke

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BLACKBOARD PRA CTI CE—Vanceletta Baker writes while classmates watch. They are left to right Eula Hudson, Myrtle Chatmon and Ruth Tooley.

READY FOR THE MAIL—Other pupils hold some of the 4000 letters already sent in the campaign.. They are | urgelsRiérence Hifiant andl Patfly Cochran, left to right. | 1

are Geraldine Scott, Esther

Butler University

Sets Honor Day

Program May 6 In Fieldhouse

Butler University's’ annual Honor Day exercises will be held at 10 a. m. May 6 in the fieldhouse with President John R. Emens of Ball State Teachers College, Muncie, as principal speaker, Dr. M. O. Ross, president of Butler, will preside and will introduce the deans of the various colleges of the university who will announce the names of students receiving honors. Announcement of fellowships, scholarships, honor roll students, awards, prizes and various other honors will be made. The annual ceremonies, honoring Butler students for scholastic achievements, are sponsored by Phi Kappa Phi, national scholastic honorary of which Dr, M. G. Bridenstine, assistant dean of the College of Business Administra-

lowed children to school and other dogs followed along. Since the children have taken up Band of Mercy work, teachers say, they've put into practice

in 1945, some 20,000 children have[the rule of keeping pets at home

or under supervision. And as a result, the stray dog problem has practically disappeared. - ” » IN. ONE ROOM a little boy

member doesn't stop with wearing a button. Both at home and| at school the children must put into practice the creeds of the hu-

fore the Band of Mercy was organized the yard was usually filled with stray dogs. Pets fol-

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came to school with his Band of Mercy pin missing from his shirt. The reason, he told his teacher,

mane organization. {was that his mother had found

One indication that they do this him mistreating his dog. is the schoolyard at School 9. Be-|

| “She said I couldn't wear the |button again until I learned how to treat him right,” the boy admitted. It wasn't too many days before the button reappeared and a lesson was learned. The children make posters on animal care and write speeches

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speech writers winning the honor of going to other rooms to address pupils, At Easter two {Room 15 girls took on the spe|cial project of urging all School {9 pupils not to buy chickens or

could not care for them the year around, ”\.» » “BESIDES learning thoughtfulness and kindness, the Band of Mercy instills some sense of civic responsibility in the children.” Miss Hoss says. “They learn that to have a pet is to have a responsibility. Their pets, their

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neighborhood and their commu-

fnity will always be better for

their practice of humane creeds.”

Burned by Hot Metal

Dennis ¥'. Moriarty, 45, of 1325 Hiatt St., was seriously burned late yesterday when he fell on a conveyor of hot metal at the Corp. plant, 3000

Shelby St.

with the best poster-makers and|}

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tion, is president. He "will announce the names of senior students elécted to membership In the organization, Music for the Honor Day program will be provided by the Jor-dan-Butler Choral Union under the direction of Farrell Scott and by the Butler band under the leadership of Charles Henzie.

Carnival—By Dick

Wayne and Perry townships

the first semi-finals of The Times

Indianapolis, The semi-finals and finals will

Auditorium, Representing Wayne township will be Nancy Graham, 7 grader of Clermont Grade School, and Marjean Smith, 8th grade, Fleming Garden School. . Winners to Return Perry township will be represented by Shirley White, 7th grade, and Loretta Coofis, 8th grade, both of University Heights School. \ Contestants still remaining at the close of Thursday night's session will return to the library auditorium on Friday night for the second semi-final. That night the field will be narowed to 20 finalists who will bid for the title of Indianapolis Champion on Apr. 30. The champion will go to Washington, D. C., next month, with

all expenses paid by The Times,

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Wayne, Perry Twps. Select 4 Girls in Spelling Bee

Winners to Compete Against. Indianapolis

Representatives in Semi-Final Contest By ART WRIGHT

have selected their best spellers

who will compete against Indianapolis schools Thursday night in

Spelling Bee.

At 7:30 that night the two winners from each of the nine towne ships in the county school sysfem will compete for the first time in the 1048 contest against the pupils representing

18 districts in to compete in the National Spells Bee. The champion will spend a full week in the nation’s capital

seeing the wmights and joining champions from other cities in

hig crowded program of entertain.

ment.

Armour & Co. Plant Still Idle

The local packing plant of Armour .& Co. still was not in production today despite deter. mination of Armour officials to defy the month-old strike of the United Packinghouse Workers (CIO). George Shaner, president of local 43 of the Packinghouse Work. ers, sald today .about half the employees recruited by the plant Sunday to cross picket lines lad come back out yesterday. Plant spokesmen have not estimated employment higher than 30 or 35 or about 10 per cent of a normal working force, = Mr. Shaner also said railroad employees had refused to haul cattle across the picket lines for slaughter in the Armour plant, R. H. Borchers, local plant manager, sald plans were being made, however, to begin slaughtering cattle today. Picketing continued to be orders ly, but police details maintained Union spokesmen said they had no desire to restrain workers forcibly from entering the plant, but demanded that they be permitted to explain the strike situation to potential new employees and to point out to them that they werq breaking a strike. Armour negotiators broke away from strike talks between the

{lunion and representatives of the

“big four” packers last Friday and announced Armour plants everywhere would go into produc

{ition in defiance of the strike,

Other members of the “big four”

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—Swift, Cudahy and Wilson— continued hegatistions. Motorist Faces Charges After Car Hits Fence

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