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| inside Indianapolis The Indianapolis Times Bree ST rE ————————r— tas re eR Seat io the red nar Gun hay oe a an gr” 1 2 (Done ? wir SECOND SECTION _ __FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1048 TE _ PAGE IT m : 3 HE ¥ r though paint a : . ag, se pote Toot Ta et te Tema shove he a sd unbis ad| 2h or -P—THERE HE GOES— king work on N. Meridian Si ns and corrected Mr. Greer. .

wi " " " - 2 bl “= *I"think a man could mark lines with his cart . : wus || ESSERE wramigzmant Railbirds Sun On Speedway Fence asphalt speedway, called, “I've ‘been fanned more ~ Were In the middle of Meridian with cars to the : P. \NDAIS Sores than 1 have fingers and toes.” left of us, cars to the right of us and some . ALVIN “Stand in the center,” advised Foreman Claude Jan near on top of us. arguing. about how fast...

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push * 4 Measuring men and the twine handlers cant’ he Join > HY Stase spheres, -— 3 dat do their work as fast as the marker can.” : (Picture Story by Victor Peterson)

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“1 don’t care, just stay out of the way. HEY, such our” shouted the Otherwise it 01 _ gp Sf ot mening Ugh Hamam he SA atti di te iis UGE HE Has NU we ie Gl ‘aud-twine twosome to follow. One of the men, : didn't know which one, was discussing food. He's the Toucher-Up Odd hour to be talking about lunch, I said to! “GET BEHIND ME,” said Tom Greer, “and Mr. Greer. we'll all be a lot safer.” a that's Joe Momino,” he said. “Joe's alMr. Greer has the job of touching up after ungry. soles and . Mr. Donovan and painting circles at the ends whe iS place 10 be lunges. A man 4 never sure in natural, of the lines. I jumped behind him just as he meal. y are motor-| le. . He. whi ists always in such a hurry on downtown streets was finishing a circle, e whipped out a bottle and in an area where men have to work? with a perforated top and sprinkled the circle. But enough about the danger involv od 3 don't) ) That's when I found out what gives the lines yy ¥

nt you to the impress! cared gparkie at night. - The small spheres of glass gti Jou to Set Sy oi that I was 8

out there. The men were do their job dry in the paint-and-illuminate when a bright without a grumble so I decided to do mine with| 1 light hits them. ‘ The glass looks like king-sized just a little bit of a grumble. as

ALS grains of Salt. ; While we paraded down the center of the —— . , a ‘ street, Otis Harris, driver of the supply truck, | ¢ as hells oo) Hy , kept close by sneaking into parking spaces when-| 4 : ever he got a chance. Good thing, too, because! the street marker runs dry quite often. | All .in-all- it's- a pretty slick operation, I tried to figure out ‘how long it would take to mark a line from coast to coast. Mr. Donovan didn’t, know, didn’t. care and wasn’t interested... J - It seems he has enough ‘to do around ‘the city | i without taking off cross country. “Out of paint, Otis,” called Mr. Donovan. Mr. | Harris sald more would be coming up. Maybe marking lines to San Francisco would be quite| a problem with such a small container as the | j -marker-has, -A-crew-would-have-to-have mighty | good ‘supply lines, |v “Quit worrying about going cross-country.”. sald Mr. Donovan, “and pay more attention to | the traffic.” - A bus just left a smudge of dust! on the back of my coat. . | Someone cut across & fresh line and white! tire marks appeared where they shouldn't be.! The men spoke sharply among themselves! about it.. a " “Red flags don’t keep them off the lines, do 4 4 = 4 . : ey?” | ; - - STRAIGHT AND NARROW—Painting guide “Are you kidding?” asked Mr. Boone. "You've SWOOOOOSH — Here he comes, NEVER TOO YOUNG—AIl the thrill, excitement COMPLACENCY AND ANTICIPAfines on city streets has its tense moments. “Toe- been out here long enough to know better.

: er ro, : MM: iol 3k mites —Mrs. Dori left ches” Bn or ear pane eras. Toe. Bodie Ain't kidding shout the, flags, _but Mr. there he goes and Railbird Matt Bering's and tenseness generated at the 500-Mile track is mir- TION—Mrs. Doris Madlem (left) mun

: OE out here head pivots to follow another car during . rored in the face of 8-year-old Nan Marie Gardner. as... a chicken.| with the air of an old-time 2 Cauce: Denar, es Jong * | qualificatiens at the Indianapolis Motor she is held to her precarious perch by her mother, Mrs. - race fan while Miss Joyce Felker stretches | 78 ; : | Speedway oval. A fan from Cincinnati, he Ben Gardner, Atlanta, Ind. This. was-the girl's first trip for a better lock down the west straight- | gai. ane re 4 ee rE Iwas cal by the. vei. $0.the Speedway... : rey be Joe § 1 : Gentleman Sp By Robert C- Ruark was caught unaware oy the camera o.the Jpeeadway

away. -Both-are from Logansport, Ind. NEW YORK, May 28—The passage of time is sadistic brutality that people like Dempsey and not a pleasant topic to those who are beginning to Ace Hudkins had inside the ring. I don’t think thin out on top and bulge a bit, in the middle. It Louis was ever real sore at anybody but Max gives you an unpleasant shock to see a shot of Schmeling. He had all the competitive heart in Shirley Temple dangling her daughter, or a picture the world. but he rarely angered. I remember of Jackie Coogan showing him bald as a bone. once, in a fight with Lou Nova, that Nova started It was the same sort of thing yesterday, when making those ridiculous Yoga motions of his. | was standing im a rubbing room at Pompton Louis threw back his head and guffawed. Then lakes, N. J.; listen to Joe Louis expound on he shuffled in and destroyed Mr. Nova's chin with

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i how a man his 0¢ is 34—has to train him- one swipe, setting back the cause of Oriental) lub broadcloth wif on rest and stored"energy, instead of beating mysticism some several thousand years. He was ite ... . organ- 1 himself viciously into shape. Seems less than last still chuckling when he left the ring. | 2 roidered with veek Joe was an inarticulate lad with a panther's . Louis was born with dignity. He had it even arts... guar- mergy. as a raw youth, in a wild, rude racket. The! H ‘ce k “Like treatin’ a sick man to get him well” dignity has always rubbed off on the people | od Housekeep- Joe said.” “You got to get him healthy by de- around him. | 3. > grees. I do it all, but now I do it slow.” 1 never saw anything ribald or rowdy around | Louis looks the same—to me, anyhow—as he 2 Louis camp. It was run with calmness, B @d 12 years ago. Just a little heavier—he was 220 courtesy, and the subdiied atmosphere of a minor yesterday—but he’s grown bigger and taller in shrine. Only a few people were able, ever, to : all these years, and 25 championship fights. He Joke with Joe. The rough pranks that featured vo-piece rhum- has become suaver, with years of money and at- Other camps never were obvious around a Louis lastic waist- tention, but never any less nice. I never yet left bivouac. Somehow—even in stilted press inter-. eas 1 mi t talk with Louis without marveling, a little, at Views—voices were kept deferentially low. 13 to 8 fe instinctive gentleness of the guy—a sure touch jyrg o Certain Thing Called Class | 3x and 3 . for the right thing that never led him to make ’ “Good House- 2 wrong remark. : THIS WAS an obeisance to something the ’ . o “ sports people call “class.” It is a thing- that Still Wait for First False Move a few bullfighters had, a few baseball players, B : IT WOULD be my idea that Joe Louis has done a jockey or two, and not many fighters. It's!

more for inter-racidl relations than all the organi- way apart from a skill, a technique, or even ations which devote time to lobbying for brother- innate” ability. Sort of -a refinement of all those | i WEAR, lylove. This big, brown boy with the sleepy eyes, things, needing no advertisement. | WASSON’'S who says he is fighting his last fight next month, Joe looked awful in his last fight with Joe has been squarely on a spat.since he stepped into Walcott. Yet yesterday he lumped Walcott with the ring. With the memory of Jack Johnson's Johnny Paychek and some of the other bums he faudy profligacy still fresh, they just sat back blew down. Joe rarely makes personal remarks snd waited for Louis to pull some sort of. trick about anybody. Somebody asked him if ht made to buy him—and his race—a bad public name. the crack hecause he was sore at Walcott. All his actions ever commanded was respect. I “Naw,” Joe grunted. “Made it because I-was doubt if anybody thinks of Joe as white or colored; mrad at me: “Monthy tater, the champion was tnymore. He is as categoryless as Babe Ruth. still whipping himself for appearing inept in the They say that there should be a heavy cruelty ring with a man of .his own race, whom he tuotient in a man to make him a good com- regards as inferior to his own standards of Mtitor, athletically—the kind of meanness and professional behavior. ; {

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win x + ; —_— te ” RRO graduating. fromthe And: then, to amazement; the : - "1d De : ) y oy Porty ‘years ago, atter gra esing took this black marketers. in steel invaded Montana ana] ; : bu ; ! imes i1agea Pa vi ature University ‘of Minnesota,” said s . i ] 290d advice and went West to seek my fortune.” began offering fabulous prices for the ancient pipe onors em He set up as a lawyer in Great Falls, Mont, inside producing oil wells. They wanted it to sell Su ests Gadget to married, bought a house and mortgage, became at still higher prices ta, operators drilling new 99 .

the father of a daughter, and in a somewhat com- wells. | Plan Provides Protect High Heels Questions Authority licated legal beca rietor of a “Every time the pipe was pulled from one of . in . | h h ! of hi Peal me: the - prop our wells, the ofl beneath it was lost forever.” Mr... Added Distinction a ot prize for her suggestion f a Under Terms of Will

“ sand.” the fascinated Senators Thelan continued, “The good Lord put that oil on Tow Ry bul deny Committee. “Good for . there for our upe, and for us.to abandon it I don't tothing much. And then they began to find oil think is right at all.

| Establishment of an honors The Times* Idea Payoff feature. |program for superior junior and Mrs. Mae Murphy, a housewife |senior students at. Butler Univér- or 1621 N. New Jersey St., wants

The state today sought to block {the sale of the historic English

all T logist told me there was more gp edtoS$ it nounced today by to devise a gadget that {Hotel on the Indianapolis Monuaround. The geolo, old m a . . sity was announc ) ¥ someone to dev a ! . ol'under my land than any lawyer ought to have. Threaten ’ to Sue President M. O. Ross. would. protect women drivers’ {ment Circle, to a New York in He leased the ofl rights, the drillers sunk the THE FINAL BLOW came a couple of weeks| ge program, which will go into high-heel shoes from scuffing

surance company whith plans to jrepiace it with a department store building Atttorney General Cleon Foust appealed to the Indiana Appellate {Court a Marion Probate Court order authorizing the sale. The | court authorized the William E. ll | English Foundation to sell the io hotel, once the gathering place of Indianapolis society, to the Equit{able Life Assurance Society of [New York for $2,100,000. | The company planned to tear {down the building and replace it | with a business building that would be_leased to the J. C. Penney Co. for use as a department

holes ' ipe, and the royalties ago when the fellows who'd paid the royalties alll, "pn po a ybe. dribble in—on Mr. these years notified Mr. Thelan that they were lan. The wells were shallow, and each one pulling up all the pipe they'd sunk on his land 40, Produced only four or fivé barrels a day, but the years ago and were selling it at outlandish prices. | Wmps kept chug-chugging year: after year. and ‘1 threatened ‘em with an injunction suit,” he|,. ) on and sophomore -stu-| Merchants of America. ¥r. Thelan was in the oil business. said, “but that's the way things are going. Not . +. ot the local university dur-, Although Mrs. Murphy asuaily

nly in Montana but all over.” | : 8 | w § ’ Thanked Heaven for Oil ° He ough, to Row. es ploglent now of the| NE the Past three years, Dr. Ross a heel hoes iment To an Army Montana Association o pper (low-production) } rotect her high-heel shoes nS AUGHTER grow vp. a who'd Oil-Well Owners, and he’s here demanding—not os Ronorh Plan will permit the protect. we] Sunday, wounded in the Battle of the Bulge, and soon asking--that the government put a stop to this nab A ore en type.| A driver the past 10 yeiirs, Mrs. found herself th . ther of twins. Meanwhile, loss of oil. Quit shipping pipe to Saudi Arabia, he S e Swar ino in Sep Spe. Mirphy says she has been ; Thelan th: even for that ofl, which says. Don't let the big oil firms have more than | Students Shite ng a an “honors "Pretty good” as a woman motorstill gurgled Han] the pipes. All during the war, their fair share, Crack @own on the gray mar. Program and se g

had kept things going ‘keteers. Anything, he says, to stop this waste of|in course” distinction must comWhen the shooting was over, he made a deal good oil.

plete -all requirements for gradu-| Mrs. Murphy, wife of George C. fo his son-in-law, whose health was shaky, to

Not that it matters much to him personally. ation including not Jey than 0 Murphy, a - general contractor, a little house at the ofl field and supervise He made his fortune as per Horace Greeley's for- hours earned in Butler University

flect in September, will provide while operating the family car, a natural complement to the Uni- For this suggestion to Idea versity College which has proved Payoff, Mrs. Murphy won $2 and successful in the handling ofa membership card in the Idea

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ing contests, |store. ! for | mula. He doesn’t need any more money, but he during the junior and senior: |” 78e- attorney: generale a ine” ttking mes Siegning out dogged rea is worried about the young fellows in the business Years, maintain ap average of 38 oaid 8 9 Lathe Jer a saappesl rqine The sory os Whel they neem Id the Sen- and, for that matter, about his country. The time (in the department in which the vided that the property be made is story the elderly Mr. Thelan to o has come, he told the committee of Sen. Kenneth |distinction is earned, and success- yt Saat the Iroperty be ; SLIP Wo, Suod dead of eloquence. ed to get 8. Wherry of Nebraska, for the nation to quit{fully participate in not less than| $2 for your ideas we print. Write Jerry itable organization. char Ith war's end, the pipe supply seem ‘asting the things the good Lord gave it. two honors seminars. Lange ¢/0 The Indianapoiis Times Ughter and tighter. No mew ofl wells were drilled wasting a -——mmm———ee Added Distinction Local Kindergarten | : Under the new honors program 00 * . y * {ft will be possible for a rogram] To Hold Graduation = 1 ; Master ??7? Test Your Skill 7? win honors in coyrse as an ad- | | e UIZ |ditional distinction to tne Jrenint a ld io : {graduation honors, eum laude and | " . t { magna cum laude. The superior fection, this new, ow” many years of Independence has Finland he me Day mark the anniversary o {mages eum | succesarully com | : “®oyed during the t centuries’ Y ; jew Pi" ‘es at least two honors semi- |] - ue stripe rayon \ Thirty-one years. Sweden conquered island wa marks the Gay ‘Yn Nasehua The New har and writes-a thesis will re- {RQ aR b’ ’ res 10 ronng - 13th century. leted her, othe ; ATi, Mi ove the a Rinetion. lags. Sum | HIGH-HEBLED WOMEN : FOR WOMEN. DRIVERS—Mrs. Mae Murphy, 1621 N. New top, adjustable early in the 19th and held Who was the first author to make mentioh of laude wi onors in | : : y ) +t Lon to - Tvelution of 1917. ballad “Barbara Allen?” : Honor stydents who do not write | DRVERS...AN ACCELERATOR Jersey St., is the second local First Prize winner within two weeks | se in sizes 34 to Bue. vier Wo The Perhaps the most popular of all the tradi- a thesis but who successfully | TO MAKE THE ANKLE ANGLE | | The Times' Jdes Payoff feature for her suggestion of a gadget | Th : the electric eel a true eel” fi ‘ballads, “Barbara Allen” dates at (complete the two. seminars will MORE COMFORTABLE... wh pi FA hill ‘drive ! : The famed electric eel is not .s true cel. tional Bagish the 17th It is [receive the distinction, cum laude | .. ses sso Juowvadoug ser | to protect women's igh-heel shoes from scuffing while driving an GERIE - chnically it is a Latin A tive of least to Smad ' hn. . with } in-course. : auto, Here she makes & quick change before goihg for a ridp. 4 Catfish, ” 8 n ¥ : ir a : lL Ea ile

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