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my 1 Bt better than to come around time. 1 put in my appearance after ace pitcher of Engine 6, began gathering ent. : 8 : epipme station looks. spic and span,” I told Lt. Charles Shipley. “Spring fever hasn't hindered a bit with the work, has it?” william Wyss, Engine 13, private and the ugorid’s worst horseshoe pitcher,” made a comment I don’t care to discuss here. man a loafer isa serious charge. sary, I can do three men’s work if I'm in charge of 2 four-man crew. :

stiff and Out of Practice? PRIVATE SEAL and Vernis Brunson, ¢ feur, teamed up to’ pitch against and Harry Benton for the first game. After a few practice pitches, voices in the ylery began kibitzing about moving all the ga along Maryland St. Mr. Seal and Mr. Brunson took the lead easily even they complained about being stiff and out of practice.

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WATCH IT, BUDDY—Station 13 Firefighters (left to right] Kelly Murray and George Seal indulge in a bit of a discussion about a vital "oint” in horseshoes.

House Rules

: NEW YORK, Apr. 21—No matter how hard I ring side drape fri“-and T've tried brisk walks, good books, cold riatile V-netk- “showers and six hobbies, including bird-watching bow trim ..» ~I can't break myself of the furtive Vogue to 3014. Magazine habit. Sometimes I'll stay away from that heady portfolio for six months, and then—— jersey boom—everything goes black and I'm’ off on od akirt with another tear, which generally leaves mé muttes- « + + tallored ing for a month, : . ag belt... This time it's an article called “Memos to 3 to 8014, Guests,” an excerpt from the forthcoming Vogue 3 i Book of Etiquette, by a Miss Millicent Fenwick. It describes the perfect guests, and lays down FASHIONS, more ‘restrictions on ‘conduct than there are at WASSON’S hotise ¥uled in 4 Woossgow:' I don't know wi y Miss Fenwick gets her stuff, but it's pretty o ’ vious she never culled it from the people I know. She assumes that a housebroken guest knows enough to. forswear pinching. the maids, kissing

the hostess and kicking the kids, so she skips the blunt mandates and gets on with the frills. For instance, I learn for the first time that you are not supposed to say “Hello” to the servants. You can say “Good morning” or “Good evening,” but never “Hello.” It is presumptuous familiarity, deeply wounding to the:self-ésteem of a prideful hired hand. f ER ‘ In my set, the guests give hotfoots to ‘the butler, are always giggling in the corners with maids, and can often be found shooting craps in the kitchen with the ¢ook. The help seems to thrive, too. E La

We Whip ‘Em Into It “THE UNPRESUMING GUEST,” writes Miss Fenwick, “should never make himself at home.” He should never mix a drink, tell the other guests where the host hides the non-footwashing whisky, or make his own bed. “Even in a house where there is no maid,” says Miss Fs creamy quill, “it is just possible the hostess might prefer to make the beds herself , , .” It is just possible that Miss Fenwick never visited the hostess of this house. A common week-end sight in my castle is: a ‘healthy lady, armed with a bullwhip, scourging the guests to their rooms and refusing to feed them until they've not only made the beds, but washed the clothes and vacuumed the carpet.

Standing Fast

WASHINGTON, Apr. 21—"After the President has shaken hands with the presiding officers, he Will stand fast while the Marine Band plays ruffies and flourishes... .”: That's what the official Muga said. ‘a 4 elbowed my wa, rough: the cops aroun the Capitol for a, on i this phenomenon. It is not Sverybody who gets to see. the President of the United States—in person and in a blue pin-stripe fult—standing fast, The deal was for Congress, the Administration Mot-shots, the ambassadors extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, their ladies and others to gather Special session to remember the Maine. It took 4 Pecial law to put on this show. The statute sald ® Proceedings were to commemorate the 50th anary of the liberation of Cuba. : 0't get the jdea that I am sneering. A beauSenorita wearing long white gloves sang the national anthem; a ‘blond wearing short i» Bloves sang “My Country "Tis of Thee,” They €Ivous, but sounded fine. ie flowers were red carnations, white snapagons and blue frises. The Marine Band, in red With gold braid and blue pants with red with aS pretty, too. Everybody shook hands everybody else, a color hauled in the” a, Flag and then the Cuban banner, and Y Was sore at anybody, {

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: At 11:58; a, M.—On the Dot T I'M TRYING to say (With the aid of a Te tonary) Is that this was y felicitous occasion. 50 ung ¢ Scarce in these snarling days. They're ‘Tews that, when one comes along, it makes quate. por . 2 right, . front Marti, [rOSTam as ‘published by Sen, Edward p organdy or Pa, the ¢ sald the orchestra ollar, front I timeg 0¢ Prelude at 1135814 a. m. It did, too. sd-or green the spo." the big clack on the wall underneath ia The LE1S of the television fellows. : c print on Presentatives already were on the job. + oo ruffled : i | |The Quiz Mast td es e Quiz Master adidas Photomet ning of footSSES, lat Ty what is the meaning of f00 i 8 Ons. pianos toy i 3 it of llumination, the direct illuminaa "We of one ne Toot from a uniform point

they handed Murray and Benton a 21-to-3 shellacking: of a ey ; Lt. Shipley and TI stepped up next. I chased two practice pitches along Kentucky Ave., and cinocked lieutenant chased my two in front

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Benton's momentary erratic didn’t have any “effect on the final outcome of the 52m, Brunson and Diliman lost decisively, 9. ;

1 When the sidewalk is free of pedestrians, Mr.

Benton can do some fancy horseshoe pitching. | E

One time he plunked ‘a_double ringer. The two

' horseshoes were crossed around the peg and there

wasn’t a chance in a million that Mr. Dillman

n, took aim and plunked his horseshoe on top of the pile. For his efforts the gallery gave him a beautiful round of r s A telephone call alerted the whole crew. The

men might be pitching horseshoes, watching §

or washing windows but the sound

tha he two men were 50 stiff and out of practice,

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of a bell, any kind of a bell in the station, whams| uf

them to attention. For my last attempt at horseshoes, I picked Mr, Murray as my partner. Mr. Dillman picked Lt. Shipley. Mr. Murray really gave me support. I do believe the lieutenant would have been better. Mr, Dillman was red hot. Mr. Murray was colder than a snowflake in January. We collected one point late in the game. Mr. Murray had nothing to do with it, either. Need the score be mentioned? Why are horseshoes considered lucky? I'm

" going to quit believing that.

By Robert C. Ruark

The good guest, although his tongue cleaves||

to the. roof of his meuth, is not allowed to ask for a glass of water at the table. He interferes net with the discipline of children or dogs. And

_aboye all, he never relaxes. I quote:

“When the unpresuming guest comes to call, he is always found sitting in a small, straightbacked armehair ; . . not sprawling on the sof or in -a deep chair, smoking, and reading a magazine. . A hostess may be quite pleased to find her guest looking at one of the pictures on the wall (the suggestion being that he has been struck by its beauty).” 8

Wave a Glass of Bourbon 190AN’T answéf €or the hostess, but the

. guests T know greet the host by failing to get

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have holed up for the winter. They wave genially with a glass of the Old Man’s best bourbon, which they've unerringly ferretted from its cache in the loudspeaker—and apt as not, one of the lady guests will be cuddled in his lap. ' Miss Fenwick says the discreet guest must never repeat ahything he learned about the hosts or the other guests while visiting in the house. To show how. wrong I've been, I thought that was the whole purpose of the party. It lacks spice unless the visitors have combed over the host's salary, the weight of his wife and the comparative shabbiness of her wardrobe, and the physical mental and moral astigmatisms of the assemblage. At week-end’'s finish, they bundle up the juicier plums in a special delivery letter, and shoot it to the nearest gossip columnist, In addition to a couple of pages of charts, showing how late you. may be, i1orgivably, to assorted functions, she mentions that considerate guests never fétch outsiders without giving the hostess a chance to wiggle out from under. She could make that law, if she wished, for here, the first guest to arrive runs up the freeloading flag from the nearest lamp post. In five minutes, the joint is seething with thirsty, semi-starved strangers, all busy wolfing the food, gargling the

hugging the hostess, treading on the dogs, cuffing the children and never, never going home. ,- I admire Miss Fenwick’s aim, but I don't think very much will come of ii. 3c

By Frederick C. Othman

They had to get up and sit down and get up every time a group of Cabinet members, Spanish War veterans, ambassadors E. and P., generals, admirals and Senators came in. This was rough on tre legislative knees. Pretty soon the band played

And in strode El Presidente Harry 8. Truman to stand beside the Cuban Ambassador, His Excellency Senor Guillermo Belt. His Excellency’s hair glistened bluish in the floodlights; so did El Presidente’s eyeglasses.

The Senor Lost a Page

SENOR TRUMAN delivered a speech which he read from a manuscript bound in covers of brown leatherette. It was a pleasant talk about good will, the sinking of the Maine and 50 years of friendship. Then Senor Belt, who is about the handsomest diplomat in these parts, delivered a speech. Only his ‘manuscript was unbound. It wasn't even held together by a paper clip. This was unfortunate, because the Senor spilled the last page of it by mistake onto the wrong desk. He didn't realize this until he found himself in the middle of a word that wasn’t there. Talk about your crises in the life of an ambassador, But he spotted that missing page out of the corner of his eye, lunged for it, and resumed his oratory with hardly a pause. Then the ladies sang their songs, the Dominie said a prayer, and Mr, Truman, as per program, began shaking hands, “G-r-r-r-r-ump,” went the band. That was the ruffle. “Tootle-te-toot,” the bandwecontinued. And that was the flourish. The President stopped in his tracks. He was, I am happy to report, standing fast. He stood fast (in an exceedingly slow way, it seemed to me) for exactly one minute.: Then the band struck up a march, which 1 couldn't identify, and the President strode out. He marched in time to the music, shaking hands as he progressed down the aisle, and never lost a beat.

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Champs Face

Champion spellers from 18 districts of Indianapolis and nine Marion county townships will compete - tomorrow night in the semi-finals of The Times Spelling Bee

At 7:30 ‘p. m, the grammar school pupils who spelled down thousands of aspirants for the title of Indianapolis Champion

War | Group Plans Reunion

Purdue Trainees To Meet Here.

World War I veterans who were members of the first Purdue training detachment to be sent overseas will hold a reunion Saturday and Sunday at the Warren Hotel. More than 125 members of the original group of 500 which was trained at Purdue for nine weeks beginning Apr. 27, 1918,

pected to attend. Many of the men saw duty in the 8t. Mihiel-Meuse-Argonne drive and returned to this country in June, 1919, They: served as members of the 344th field artillery, 215 ammunition train and other organizations of the 90th division, a Texas-Oklahoma unit, All veterans who had sons in World War II are expected to bring the sons to the reunion. Features of the reunion will be a dinner at 7 p. m. Satusday and a breakfast Sunday. : Eugene H. Bridgins, Indianapolis, is president. W. H. Donovan, East. Chicago, is vice president: Samuel J, O'Connell, Indianapolis, is secretary and B. Harris Facemire, Indianapolis, is treasurer. John McMahon, East Chicago, is northern vice chairman and Felix

southern vice chairman.

Five Local Students Honored at Illinois

CHAMPAIGN, IIL, Apr. 21— Special recognition for high scholastic honors will be awarded five Indianapolis students at the University of Illinois during Honor Day ceremonies Apr. 30. They are Jack Hare Jelliffe,

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Alice Gass Stump, 6112 Broadway, and Houston Harry Meyers

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HONORABLE MENTION—-This one, tit earned honogable mention for a newcomer to the contest, Reynolds Brownstown. He used a 2 with Super XX film. Exposure was [/50 second at f: 8.

District, Township Spelling

and}. sailed for France July 4, are ex-

J. (Star) Brown, Indianapolis, is|

PRIZE WINNER—This composograph, first submifted in The Times Amateur Photo Contest, won first place for Paul Brading,

It is printed. from a negative of

the recent Coatesville tornado with the background .printed from negative of the Smoky Mountains. : :

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Semi-Finals

will begin their elimination round on the stage of the Central Library Auditorium, Pennsylvania and E. St. Clair Sts. Those who survive the first pre-

auditorium Friday night for the second semi-finals. Twenty pupils remaining at the close of Friday night's round will take part in the finals Apr. 30 thére. Public Invited : The public will be permitted to see the spellers in action. No admission will be charged. The Indianapolis Champion, who could be a county school Pyril, will go to Washington, D. ., next month to compete in the National Spelling Bee. All oxpenses for the trip and the weeklong stay there will be: paid by The Times. The Times stages the spelling bee here each year with the cooperation of the City Park and

liminary will return to the library|

{collections are natural history,

Entries Due Friday;

Runners-Up Honored By ART WRIGHT

A PICTURE made from two

negatives won top laurels in the weekly Times Amateur Photo Contest for Paul C. Brading, of Speedway City. The contest, which started last August with awards each week, will end Friday at midnight. Pictures brought to The Times or

postmarked by that time will be |

considered by the judges for the group which will be published in next Wednesday's Times. The

kt best photo will win $5 for the

amateur shutter-snapper. Mr. Brading's winning picture was a composograph of ruins after the Coatesville tornado and the Smoky Mountains in Tennes- »

» ” MR. BRADING said his picture

. of the Coatesville ruins showed . a bare background so ne used a

negative of the Smoky Mountains to provide a background Yor his winning photo. For the Coatesville negative he used a 2% x3, Speed Graphic and Super XX film. Exposure was 1/100 second at f: 8, For the Smoky Mountains negative he used a Bantam Special Kodak ahd Plux X film. Exposure was 1/50 second at f: 8 with a K2 filter, ® » s ANYONE MAY enter the contest if he is an amateur. A pro-

"HOT DOG

YM Hobby Show Friday, Saturday

The annual hobby show_sponsored for YMCA members by South West Branch YMCA will be held Friday and Saturday at Central YMCA. Boys 9 to:11, 12 %0 14 and 15 to 17 may participate in three classes. Eight classifications of

coin, miscellaneous; stamp, handicraft, art, mechanical and models. Exhibits will be open to the public from 3 to 5 p. m. both days. The Gra-Y and Junior Hi-Y rally of South West Branch YMCA will be held at 7:30 p. m. Friday at the Hobby Show.

Attends School Session Dr. C. R. Maxam, Butler University registrar, is attending the

American Association of Collegi-

Recreation Department.

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ate Registrars this week in Philadelphia, Pa.

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1948 :

Composograph Wins Firs In Week's Amateur Photo Contest

fessional is one whose chief] source of income is derived from| photographic work. There are no| charges for taking part. On’ the’ back ‘of: each picture! {should" be written the photogra-| {pher’s name, address, telephone] {number, type camera and film|

used a Recomar camera with Su 1/50 second at f: 16 with a yello

—Norris J. Starkey, 720 E. [3th St. came through a tion entry. He used a 9x12 cm. Voigtlander camera. Film was A 1/50 second. Diaphragm opening was f:!1, came from one No. 25 flash bulb,

PHILADELPHIA, Apr. 21 — Scientific evidence of the intelligence of fish, long suspected by anglers, was reported to the Eastern Psychological Association here.

It has been known, previously, that minnows could be trained to turn to. the right or to the left to get food. They could even learn to make detours.

Now it has been found that they can remember which way to turn even after the food has disappeared from their sight. In the experiment, conducted by Dr. Paul H. Schiller, of the Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology, Orange Park, Fla. four minnows were shown an object which was the sigs of food to come. But it was beyond their reach, separated from them by a glass window. Sometimes it appeared in a compartment to the right;

fish. Then it disappeared. |

Three to five seconds later bothgwindows were opened. After) a ‘course of 400 lessons, two of

2 More Students Open Campaigns

Twbd -more ex-GIs attending) Butler University have opened their campaigns for nominations on party tickets for election as state representatives. Frank J. Russell, 104 8. Harris St,, who is taking a general business course at the university under the GI Bill of Rights, is seeking the Republican nomination for the House of Representatives. In the Navy four years during

months at sea and on foreign duty. Willlam T. Sebree, who is taking a pre-law course at Butler University, is seeking the Democratic nomination for state representative. He served in the Army during World War II. Mr. Sebree has been active in Democratic party waqrk for- the last year in the 13th ward. Last week four other Butler students entered politics by opening campaigns for seats in the Legislature, .

cl cl be SPONSORS CARD PARTY A card party will be given at 8 p. m. Friday by the ways and means committee of Alfarata

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RUNNER-UP-John G. Hale, 634:Ny Riley Ave.. won honor able: mention with this human interest entry he titled !'Friends.” He

carrier, has been a constant winner, . Eo

The picture was taken at night and ‘the only light

Hungry Minnows Used To Prove Fish Can Think

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used, type lighting, shutter speed, and diaphragm opening. Any number of prints may be submitted ‘by an individual. The decision of the- judges is final and all entries become the property of The Indianapolis Times.

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the fish learned to make a per. fect score—24 times right out of

24 tries. Two others were “dymber”; they each made two errors. »

Then a still harder task was designed for the minnows and tried out on six of them. Again the food sign was displayed pehind‘'a window. But this time, instéaldl of being released into the compartment with the food, they had to go through a central alley ‘with opaque walls, It took them four seconds to swim up the alley. Then at the end of it, the fish had to remember to turn right or left, according to where they had seen the food signal. ' ‘Four of the six minnows learned to turn correcty 2 times out of 24 after 300 als,

State Fire Chiefs

Meet Tomorrow

The annual ‘fire prevention award banquet of the Indiana Fire Chiefs Association will be held at 6 p. m. tomorrow at Hotel Lincoln.

Prize trophy awerds will be presented to the highest ranking cities and industries of the state in the National Fire Prevention contest.” Indianapolis will be one of the winning cities. A special trophy also will be .sent to J. Edgar Hoover, ‘FBI director, in recognition ‘of notable contribution to fire service of Indiana and the nation, particularly in the suppression of arson. Plans also will be discussed to expand emergency first aid and fire defense in Indiana.

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