Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 May 1948 — Page 11

AS ONE RAILBIRD to another, just what is one * he nature of the critter? What moves him

dBother. A few sat alone in silent boredom. Fs SECOND SECTION

I'm a great one to ask those questions since an 1 can mooch a little time—bingo, arms over the rail, eyes on the track, in the pits, trying to catch a glimpse of the drivers, mechanics, straining to get the full benefit of the castor oil everytime a speedster roars. by ‘and plain sitting and doing nothing. Why? I see some reason for going to the qualifications and the race itself. Men and machines are competing for money, glory- dnd position. Whether you agree or hot there's a purpose, or more of a purpose during qualification days to out to the track. : The railbird question struck me on a day when there wasn't much doing at the track. One car went around the oval twice in an hour. From a railbird’s standpoint, that isn't much activity, You could do better by sitting on the side of 16th St. or even Georgetown Road. But you don’t: It's not the-same. - Again, why? Won't Anything Pop? : THE ABOVE ARE a few of the things tha ran through my mind as I waited for something to start popping on the asphalf, , even the asphalt popping would be better than nothing. Looking around the grandstand, 1 saw a great many people in the same straits. One guy had his shoes off, feet over the rail and he was reading a book. There were railbirds stretching, rubbing their backs, standing and jabbering to

, not being able to answer my own questions satisfactorily, I wandered among, the rallbirds. I was hoping for answers even though there weren't any prizes being offered. Not even passes to the track for the next day's inactivity. :* A foursome, the type you'd expect to see on a “golf course, lifted their arms off the rail when I asked my question: Why did you men come out to the track on a day like this? . John Kent, Moose Lodge bartender, said they came out because their boss wanted to come out. The boss, Charles H. McCall, secretary of the lodge, corroborsted the answer.

‘“oped’ for Action RUSSELL SERVIES and LeRoy: Lucas, also employees of the organization, didn't have too much of an explanation except that they “hoped” there would be activity. All four finally agreed! they came out for relaxation. . . Mr. Kent ddded, “Everytime we hear a’ puttputt we hope somebody will burn the track up.| It gets into your blood.” I understand. “I can't figure it out,” said J. H. Arford, New! Augusta, “except I get a big kick out of it.” Mrs, Arford, her first trip to the track, said she got a big kick out of watching the race cars, too. “I understand now why my husband has been coming out here, It's fun.” It was significant, however, that the couple couldn't explain why people sat for hours waiting for something to get going. I moved along to a couple of young men. Jim Baize and Frank Anderson, students at the Lane Business and Drafting College, explained they weren't exactly cutting classes. They were interested in the engineering aspects of the racers. Besides, it was nice to sit in the fresh air and relax. I'm inclined to think the word| relax has quite a bit to do with railbirds. | Mrs. Carl Heaton, Russiaville, pointed across to the pits and said, “There's one of the reasons I'm out here.” ) A “"Eight-yeéar-old~ Gordon chirped, “That's our Daddy there in the brown shirt and hat.” Woody, 12, looked to see if his younger brother was right. | He was. won MiTs HALON, a0. AVIA Fecing fab. has.the. whale family interested in racing. And there are no complaints. They love it. | As I said, relaxation and the urge to get out in the open prompts many. There are } and office workers who don't want to be men-; tioned. I understand, gentlemen. Your secret is safe. | And then there are the wives of the men who people come out to see in action. They sit and| sit and wait. Occasionally they team up as Mrs. Fred Agabashian and Mrs. Louie Durant did. ! What do they do? Chat and wait and hope. I told them that all railbirds hope for the best for the drivers. Heck fire, we like speed and A ’ action but we can do without accidents. Relax, ladies. That's what I'm going to do in that| "MAMA" MILLER — Anna (Mama) Sunny Ipot io the Jet jw of the grandstand | into the heart of Indianapolis, still finds time to whi action. dish for a special customer,

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ENGINEERING RAILBIRDS—A day at the _ Speedway is worth two in class. Well, almost, say (left to right) Jim Baize and Frank Anderson who have the open air fever,

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NEW ‘YORK, Mag 25—Through the years, in the newspaper business, the cat-up-a-tree, the strayed -infant and the dispossessed tenant; seated among-his-bales and boxes-on- the curb; have been sure-shot stuff for the photographers. . °

BEER HORN

Well, Believes in Hard Work

By DONNA MIKELS

“By Robert C. Ruark

came to Indianapolis 28 years a and her son.

What do you do with the loot from a 17-roomer, when the man says outside, we need the space, Bud? They don’t build the sidewalks big enough: alo

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‘Mama’ Miller Cooked Her Way | rom $10 Job To Own Restaurant

Miller, who cooked her way Educated Son, Feeds Customers”

HOPES HIGH and finances low, a young Polish war widow 80 to build a new life for herself

Anna Miller had little education. She spoke no English. She was |

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man. He needs space to turn around in. He| yin a little known success story. | ain't gonna like it out there on the sidewalk, with| 37," C* KOON Sutcess story. The Millers were again

his typewriter perched precariously atop a crate «Mama» Mijler—has cooked her! little discouraged. of war books, all written by himself. way from a $10 a week restaurant. Somebody has to be around with a notebook jo." ownership of = Miller's and pencil, to trap the sulphuric quotes of Gen. 'peciayrant, 135-139 W. Market Donovan, when out he comes, with the souvenirs . ' lit of two wars in the hands of the moving men and i - no place to hang the Samurai swords and the “MAMA” MIL autographed whatisit. _ ’

The Poor Find a "Way IN BROOKLYN or the Bronx, when the flinthearted landlord tips the tenants out into the street, the kindly neighbors usually take over. Baby Herman goes to visit with the Schultzes. long wait had only fanned a, Little Miasma goes around the corner to live with burning desire to “get an educaCousin Bessie. Pa sleeps on the Joneses’ sofa, and tion for my son and a nice busMa sharecrops with the Smiths for a spell. iness of my own.” But up there on 53d St. and the East River, the - The young widow spoke no neighbors are in the same boat—and T don't mean English, had no skill or experyacht.: Looks fo me like they're all out on their ience to qualify for a job. All she ear, with no possibility of the Hartfords going could do was cook and clean. over to bunk with the Ballentines. No eviction She took a job working 12 hours notice has been served yet, but all the tenants a day, seven days a week in ay rent on a month-to-month basis, whith gives the South Side restaurant for $10 a landlord the right to unload 'em on short notice. week. It seems to mie that this is the story of 1948. All Anna could do was cook, We have adjusted the lives of the poverty-struck work, save—and dream. And she through social work; we watch over the orphaned did all these things well. Many people who hear “Ma child and. guide the unsteady steps of the. chronic, BB EE alcoholic. There are missions for the fallen poor,, SHE PUT ABE in school. When | doesn't hospitals for the fundless ill. But up to now, nobody has ever given a minute's thought to pro- the first grade at 10 years of ag vision for the suddenly homeless millionaire, rude- with no knowledge of ly ejected amidst a profusion of Chippendale chairs she admonished him. “You can ‘and Ming vases. “It"is a problem for our times. do anything you want enough.” Whither the hearthless rich? |And he remembered her words

Cable Fable By Frederick c. Othm

It seems to me I've seen a thousand treed eats; half a million little boys and girls eating ice . cream cones and -wearing the cop's hat, and at least that many sidewalk squatters clad in brave smiles, If the shutter-snappers wild just quit playing poker in the darkroom long enough to hustle down to a place here called River House, one of these days they may be able to snare for posterity the all-time switch on the stock situation. It's as if the tree climbed the cat; the child found the lost cop. } I want to be on hand when they start“evicting the tenants of River House, a 10-million-buck establishment with a yacht landing. About the smallest apartment in River House boasts nine rooms, and any of the tenants with just a lousy one or two million dollars is regarded as po’ white trash. :

Out in the Cold

RIVER HOUSE has just been sold.. It is'to be remodeled, and its 79 apartments—some of which have as many as 18 rooms—will be cut up into 170 suites. This means that the tenants are going to have to stir around for new lodgings, and eventually they'll all be forced to move even if they haven't found a fresh flop. Yes, sir, I want to be there when the likes of . Huntington Hartford, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney= Allison Armour, Henry Luce, Ferdinand Eberstadt, Maj. Gen. Wild Bill- Donovan Arthur Balitine and Quent Reynolds get shoved out on. the sidewalk... This,.L think, would. be. news, and it is selfish of me to hope that all the tenants won't be able to find new homes before the deéadline drops. In the mind's eye it is easy to see a man with Cornelius Vanderbilt and Whitney, all in the same -hame; sitting ruefully on the curb among his handPainted cookstoves and 14 Louis Quinze escritoires.

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And T fear the coaxial cable is doing it no good. This cable 1s a kind of empty pipe that runs underground between ‘Philadelphia, New . York, Baltimore and Washington, . For. reasons which the scientists-never will be able to explain to my satisfaction, television waves travel along the

had made it, there would have been no room for the politicians. 80 the headmen forced the television folks to pool their operations, with only four cameras in-| side the hall, and 350 people to crank ‘em. The standing committee of newswaper correspondents, |

| “Mama” cooked. She kept the. When. someone says “vacation’ Iplace clean. And after hours in the kitchen she still. had enefgy to. walk from table. to table ask-' ing “Is everything all right? " And everything was, bécause in much work to do.

up her hands and exclaims:

¢ , Wi { to } ventions this summer was this cable gave ‘em realize how fortunate they are, will be forced un

of those cold and attenuated convention hot dogs. Returning committeemen bring disturbing reports of incredibly high prices being posted for meals, such as one of the hotel's special ménus listing the regular lunch at $4 flat. This is hard to believe of Philadelphia, where I've never been cheated yet. Many of the delegates have been chopping] themselves in small pieces and multiplying, like | amoeba. * Each is supposed to have one vote, So now there are half votes, quarter votes and even one-sixteenth votes, meaning that in some cases it will take 16 red-faced ladies and gentlemen to cast a single ballot. They expect to eat regular

A housing shortage persists and sponded the resultant shambles is ——— give a room erk the everlasting heebies. Hg gy, AIR hotels have raised their rates a , the flea bags a lot. Many a Philadelphian por Sone into the room-renting business temne Y. 1 have been offered a room in a house A little suburbs for $10 a night. That seemed ty igh; now my honored employers report » Ave reservéd for me a room at a still 0 litre pice (Paid in advance) in a hotel which e better than a flop house. Claim I'm lucky.

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called Wall Street. Banks failed and “Mama” saw her dream fade. But one failure only made “Mama” and Abe more determined. He got his chemical engineering degree but came home . help work for the new place. ' et nd in 1933 scraping and savin pala off—the Miller's Trane State Police Hold lomon's Restaurant, 531% 8. i i Illinois 8t., a “nicer place.” : Memorial Services Again “Mama's” customers followed her, more came and thin

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BUT IN 1040 they found - St, | not quite big enough, but with In 1943 Miller's, expanded into the restaurant next to Indian- door, In 1946 another expansion! X years in was necessary and at the same war-torn Poland, waiting for her time the place was redecorated {passage to be honored. But the nto the “nice place” “Mama” had

. | During the war “Mama” We-| v came a great favorite of soldiers §% ge {who- dropped from the bus sta-| R tion. They weren't used to pro-! prietors. coming over with extra! slices of bread and butter. And!

sponsibility to the soldiers! ® Mama” did an unheard of thing|% wo years in a row-—she took al day off. Both years she went tole Camp Atterb s8 { . " RD . Pine Sedar’ tor the yer iio! eating at "Mama's" when she opened her first restaurant and have

‘story wonder why she retire after all her years he ‘was discouraged at starting of hard work.” But trying not to ®, work is tHe hardest job "ever

LL KEEPS an eye on lafter he caught up with his class. ne Hitchen, helps eat Deople, to graduate from Pur - gr due Uniyer |the restaurant, asking “Is every-| And, for cusshe opened her first place and. sti.

J plain room with ——. floors Patronide her restaurant, she oc-| WASHINGTON, May 25—Philadelphia is the Philadelphia conventions in 1940. If all the tele- 314 bare benches at 1101, g. casionally darts back into the City of Brotherly. Love. .One.of. my. favorite. places... vision- boys. who- wanted. into-the. convention Balk: frywpre gee : kitchen to: cook a -special--dish

or “retire” to ‘Mama” she tosses

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. - en | and James T. Vawter, all of In:|deus- Callis’ Madison; arold Sutside of it. They won't have anything to do meantime, has received 1000, applications from 1929 enough customers had be- Anyway, she sometimes con- / |dianapolis; Curtis Kyvik, Richard Clinkenbeard, ewig Paul TJ i wee ana Coedings. "They Rave Bi3 seats marked of on Come, TOENIAT Patrons at {ion heh {was vound all Lp Alecander Mr. Carroll |Hirschy, Jack Gilberg and Bu |Alln, Denver. Cor Ror ne : ? ‘ ve | “Mama's” t y © : { ' : the Republicans chase panei (mocrats on those planks. Nearly 500 news men, who don't needed, *" that a bigger place was did not educate myself. Always 5 ” gene Nahrwald, all of Ft. Wayne; Schumann, Chicago, Ill; Alan

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2 Sond chance to get their faces seen in homes stay home. THE PLACE was all picked out WAAL A Nad hothing nd. or, saloons up and down the East coast. Lun h—3$4 Flat and “Mama” was ready for a \ , neglectful. 80 12,000 people, including Othman, are be- v ¥¢ : “nicer place” when something f The prize answer to this came comes Philadelphia for places to sleep during the NO TELLING what the price will be of one panneneq in a faraway place 0,2 long-time friend who reons,

But “Mama, if you had an education when you came over here you would have gotten a better | Job and not have worked so hard. Now you would probably be a

Annual memorial services were and three other Hoosiers gs held recently for 21 state police among of Braduating class at the Naval

was the only by the classes

were going smooth. Then came REPO , meals, unfortunately, and sleep in full-sized beds. | .___ *"& © WAI department. members, four at conv NLERS, fortunately, don't sleep much geyeral thousand will find themselves in Cam- pr {whom died 1 batt! entions, anyhow. They spend most of " m n gun battles. Field ir time gp" pAnYROW. ey spend mos den and even In Atlantic City, two commuting | ZN A0]515" Captains Willlam A. Th lights. L Dine, planks, sweating under the pours away. | srOUlSAFL P mA. ‘iompson Ye on their shirt oS Jt) their badges dribble That gives me an idea. If this coaxial cable| $2 for your ideas we print. Write Jjery |20d Robert N. Bush were in It ‘turgg nts. is all it's supposed to be and I could find me a| Langel ©/9 The Indianapolis Times charge. t man a out that ‘the experts who intended television set, I bet I could cover the doings of | —__~ ~~ ~~ | Among those honored were two han the new Nit] cable were more numerous the politicos from the Atlantic City beach, in {board members, Albert Raab, In“1% Newspaper reporters who covered the comfort. Hey, Boss? dianapolis, and Claude R. Crooks, ) ; aot Lebanon. Mr. Crooks died shortly i . EE ——— 1" after he had resigned from the The 4 299 r y skill ° * board due to ill health." ( D i M ’ ,- AlsOF. receiving tributé were VIZ aster est our n ?7? a”, Troopérs Herbert W. Smith, Shel- , — 8s byville; Eugene Teague, IndianWhat “e . apolis; Paul Minneman, LogansCon ‘Te the three capitals of the Southern Of what great inventor has it been said, “He port, and Ray Dixon, South Bend, "lederacys pio py needs no memorial”? dy Eecrere WALL PAPER | who were killed by underworld Trt tres aa : Thomas Edison, because. we are seldom out | TO GVE MILD SHOCK: © bullets. a ita) ‘Was Montgomery, Ala; It of sight or Nehring of ote of his Inventions, KIDS WHO LIKE TO WIPE | Trooper Rex Barwick, JudyVax and , % : : ; THEIR. HANDS ONWALLSS.., | ville, shot ‘down while piloting a aa hnville, Va, wheal, A and. fually aay Whom were Negro apirituals first ‘pop-|| ...kamisen #2 ome | B17 over Germany, ‘ a ularized? . . RENIN OMO | one of 120’state policemen in the ; ; Mederacy. ; a The Fisk Jublice Singers in 1871. daa cg ~ : : y os . . : ’ - , y Soni

LONG-TIME PATRONS—Bernie Polisner (left) and Max Rosenber (right) started

een following | ‘her from place to place since.. Another fan of "Mama's" cooking is her son, Abe (center),

State Seamen Biller JIS Vig ‘Ro radiated Initiate 50 Students To Be Graduated | ny ‘than 50 students have Smith, Robert J. Smith, Charles

|been initiated by the Butler Un. |Amold, Robert Chapman, Dougie {J. Thomas, char enderson, versity chapters of Sphinx andy, "r, "Ges. Robert Bennett. {Utes, junior and sophomore men 8/Fred Rohr, James Buchanan, [national honoraries. The men George Crossland, William Lesch, |were chosen on the basis of Ronald Giles, Philp Ruedig, H iastic a {and ing campus ac Robert Wotnesich -Hitbert: tivities and general contribution haver, Thomas Cross, Robert to the school, ~~ (Steinhart. and Wendall.. Jordan, Sphinx club initiates include|all of Indianapolis. ; {Herman Wichser, John HoliIngs,| Other Utes club initiates include {John Martin, Albert Reed, L. James McConnell, Gary; Gene {Mark Henderson, Paul "Tiernan, Frick, Huntingburg: Robert | {Richard ‘Steele, Gerald’ Sheppard, Stacks, Danville, 1; wWilltam {John Woods, Ferdinand Becher MacLeod, Haverhill, Mass.; Thad1

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Local Man Among Four From Indiana

Clyde Steckel and Harry Farmer, 8wain, Buffalé, N. Y.; Carl Hann, both of Anderson; Robert Ayers, Peru; Paul Bevelliimer, Anderson: |Frankfort, and Robert G. Collins, Wilbur Disser, Shelbyville: Robert Tell City. . ] Alexander, Franklin; Edward °F Those initiated into the Utes Fike, Louisville, Ky.; John Van- | [club are Edward Perry, Thomas divier, Shelbyville, and Clyde Lofton, John Huston, Ralph Green, Anderson.

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- ~ IU Students Plan McClure to Speak ists Dance Saturday ‘At Underwriter Dinner

{ Walter R. McClure, of the State Mr. McCurdy | A “Forget-Me-Not” ball will be Mutual Life Assurances Co. will held Baturday on the Hotel Sev-|addréss a dinner meeting of the erin roof by seniors of Indiana local chapter of Chartered Life University Training School for Underwriters at 8:30 p. m. Thurs-

day in the Gold R of Are Nurses here. More than 200 cou-ia.. oom the

‘al {Marott Hotel. the members of this year's, .; ore expected to attend. Tick-| Mr McClure, who is pastspresi-

School, ¢t8 Will be on sale in the TU|dent of the chapter, will discuss

Medical Center here and on the| Indirect Payment of Life Insurpus in Bloomington. ance Premiums.” Wendell Bar-

[rett will preside. Miss Mary Lou Hamiilt of {Earl Alexander, 20, of Evansville; u on

|Jerry Thomas Becker, 22, of Tell Elution 1s Sunes} Sarma. |City, and Robert George Carroll,(Committee members are a8 . oa or 8oith Bend. Be Thelma M. Harting, Greenfield; Georgia Hotel Fire | If the men meet all the require- Miss Betty M. Henderson, Bed-| BLACKSHEAR, Ga. ments for graduation they will be ford; Miss Mary L. Daum, Plain-| (yp) commissioned ensigns, except Mr.|fleld, and Miss ‘Dorisvan McCurdy, who would enter the Indianapolis, advertising.

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| Midshipman Floyd Miles Me{Curdy Jr., 23, of 728 8. Illinois 8t.,

{Academy Preparatory | Bainbridge, Md. | | ‘The other candidates for grad{uation are Midshipmen Thomas

All Guests Escape

May 25 -Guests at -the Trankiia Barnes, Pierce Hotel here were getting ; over a good scare today, espeMarines as a second leutenant, Miss Lois J. Hoeltke, Colum- cially Jerry Kunik; vice president: r————— ie . bus; Mrs. koualla M. Reinhardt, of the Chicago Dickie oo. : (Indianapolis; MYs, Jewell C. Cof-|. Fire route e guests from Named to Council |fey, Richmond, and Miss Regina their rooms yesterday. Mr. William R. Higgins Jr. Indian- Goztowt, Stratford, Conn., tick- Kunik, here to buy cucumbers, apolis, has been named secretary- ets. {escaped by jumping from his secgeneral of Hamilton College's first| Mik8 Anna J. Englehardf, In-|ond-flook window into a truck. {United - Nations - Model Security |dianapelis; Miss Beverly Hp]ton, Other guests climbéd down fire Council, The council is presented rt; Miss: Billa A. Cun-|/ladders three-story hotel Clinton, N. Y. bara J. Hamilton, Indianapolis, was seriously damaged, but so gt decorations. AL B55 faith Fo rs

relations at the school. .

M e in international ningham, Kempton, and Miss Bar-| - The small ‘ - one was injured. 2 ¥