Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1948 — Page 11

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< PEOPLE WITH PLATE glass windows don’t like to have them broken. Neither do insurance gompanies, because usually they foot the bill. Too bad.’ Now that we have expressed sufficient sympathy for the lot of insurance companies, we might as well proceed to a nice big plate glass window. A broken plate glass window. Ever stand ‘around and see the men change one of those bakes? It's tricky. - 1. 8. Ayres had a window on the Washington St. side go kerplunk. The Stewart-Carey Glass €4., 270 Virginia Ave. was called and a crew of men headed by Foreman Cecil Brinegar to action. Well, they went tg the scene

£ of their next job.

“Who busted the window?” I asked using th: old cliche. Johnny-on-the-spot, that's me.

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"MR. BRINEGAR didn’t think anyone “busted” the window. After an inspection it was decided that the cracked and sagging giant had met misfortune through: the simple process of settling. The window frame, the building or the sidewalk seftled someway causing a strain which gradusally grew into a beautiful crack. A big crack which threatened to get even bigger. There's a lot of glass in a section that measures 228 inches long, 130 inches high and a quarter inch thick. The particular chunk. which was causing all the trouble weighed 800 pounds. Back at the plant there wasn’t another such piece to be had immediately. The only thing left to do was to splice a section. Mr. Brinegar and his crew, consisting of hi® 86a, sawn, Fran!

GLASS CUTS EASILY—It breaks easy, too. Glazier Cecil Brinegar squares a department store plate glass window while son Jack looks on. There's no hiding from Dad on this kind of a job. .

End of Trail

NEW YORK, Sept. 13—Last week a lean, starved-looking young man with wild hair committed suicide here in New York. The papers called him a poet. First he jumped off a building in Greenwich Village and when that didn’t kill him, he went home and strung himself up from a pipe. “His. name was Jack Demoreland. The police The art critic whom he visited just before he leaped off the roof knew him scarcely at all. He attracted attention only because. his first attempt at suicide failed to kill him. I knew Mr. Demoreland well, He was a friend of mine for many years, before the war. He wasn’t a poet. He was an artist—a painter and a cartoonist. We had worked together on the Washington Daily News. I have several of his pictures. The anatomy of suicide is a strange, complex thing; rarely the same in any man. I know why Mr. Demoreland killed himself. He killed himself because he saw the most beautiful pictures any man ever saw. They were right there, clamoring to come out of his head, but his hands weren't good enough to draw them forth.

Possessed Carpenter's Hands

JACK KNEW what he wanted to put on paper, knew it so well that it hurt him. But when he picked up the brush or the pen it was always a bad distortion of what he was trying to say. He was like a man whose head rings with wondrous music, but, when he opens his mouth to 8ing, only croaks emerge. An alienist would say that the man was a definite psychopath, and so, I suppose, he was. He had’ tried to kill himself once before, long ago, in a fit of horrid depression. He had spent a short time in a mental hospital. It was the one true case of complete artistic frustration I ever knew. : Mr. Demoreland used to do little line sketches for me on sports stories, and later illustrated the top city-side feature of the day. During the first days of the war we set him to doing ‘the daily military map.

Monkeyshines

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 — The celebrated magician, Robert Mistrough, who can turn precious cast-iron pipe into concrete and back again with one wave Of a garbled export license, gets to explain in the next couple of days to a senatorial committee exactly how he does it. That other master of legerdemain, Murray M, Nelson, also has a little explaining to do about Mis secretary, who traveled with the speed of light. She seemed to be all over the world at oe with her trusty typewriter. "i Weird and incredible were the words for the monkeyshines in the export business as performed by these two Houdinis of international commeree. The tale as unfolded by Sen. Homer Ferguson of Michigan, the demon investigator, indicated that they both regarded the law limiting exports of ‘scarce materials as something to laugh about. pr Take Mr Nelson head of an export house in w York. The licenses issued to him by the Office of International Trade showed that he shipped hundreds of tnousands of pounds of soda ash. iin plate and pheaol to Syria, Calcutta and Lisbon.

Documents Confirm Deals EACH POCUMENT was accompanied by 18tters of merchants in these far places, confirming the deals, according to law. So far so good. * The Senator. unfortunately for Mr. Nelson, Was suspicious. He called in Ira Gulick, the capital police department's chief examiner of questioned documents. Mr. Gulick looked at 'em with his magnifying 8s and testified that he believed most of them Ad been written on the same typewriter, by the same stenographer. 2 “¥ How this lady could have been in Portugal on the same day she was in India, when actually she was in. Syria, is the small item that Mr. Nelson will explain under subpena. And what, demanded Sen. Ferguson, ‘turning fo the chief counsel of the Office of International

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: € <x Speller, Mattison, Carl Rodewald and son.’ SECOND SECTION Jack; hy Grady and Frank Rodier, started opera

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By the time O. L. Kenworthy, glazing intendent, arrived on the scene, salvage tions were in full swing. With the big glass much salvage is attempted possible.

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glass. took out sash metal and bent their backs until Mr. Grady was able to stand on a ladder] and support more than’ half a plate glass window that was squared off and ready to be met halfway with another. ) The men relaxed after the nasty and ticklish Job of taking out about 300 pounds of thick glass. So much so that when a worker on top of Wasson's called down for a ladder, one of the Stewart-Carey men answered, “What say?” The fellow on Wasson's roof repeated his re-,

quest. He didn’t appreciate the ssecond “What! * say?” when he discave where it was coming from, {

Just as we were leaving for the plant to get the new plate, a couple of women ‘passed by and’ me said to the other, “Look, Ayres is putting in storm windows already.” $

‘rew Scrambled a Bit

GLAZIERS Howard Tingle and, John Glazier that's. his: name, so help me) fixed us up in a jiffy. It's so simple to cut glass when you know now. Sorry I can’t tell you how. The crew was scrambled a bit. The fatherson combinations. were broken up when Mr. Brinegar, Mr. Mattison and Mr. Speller were picked to complete the. job along with Mr. Gridy. A word about the father-sbn combination. ' Al} young guy has to watch his step with: Pop on the job and boss, as.in the case of young Jack Brinegar. But, it seems to work out all right. You may be interested in knowing that a window rests on two points «that ‘are located. a quarter of the distance of the glass from each end. At those points are placed strips of lead| about four inches in length. That's all there is, Salesman Ben T. Carter told me that. He's the one that will inform the insurance company about the job. Getting a plate from the truck requires some fancy handling which brings into use suction cups, rubber pads, pieces of fire hose which serve as cushions, regular glass carrying straps and

SOLEMN DEDICATION — Catholic laymen and women yesterday saw two new grade schools blessed by the Most Rev. Paul C. Schulte, Archbishop of Indianapolis. "Here Archbishop Schulte prays before the front door of St. Andrew's,

The men handle the plate with confidence. § I guess you have to or élse you'd never get the § job done. One thing, a glazier can do without breaks after he starts a job. Get that, after he starts a job. And a glazier can do without windstorms such as we had last spring. | “Who washes the finger marks off this window?” A final’'word. Glaziers don’t wash finger marks off windows. They hammer them, cut them, push and pull them, sometimes even bust them; but they don’t wash them.

By Robert C. Ruark &&

- Gs Those maps finally got him. Here was a guy v who wanted to scream out loud with a paintbrush,

and he was over in the corner with an inkwell, TOMORROW'S SCHOOL TODAY ~The new North fracing the progress of the Germans agsinst.ihe jut word in modern design both inside and out.

Rint of nd thas Sines the Amerigtns a quiet, | 1947. 1t/is the first of a Group of buildings,

seemingly “normal” human being, who wore neck:| rectory, to be erected at an estimated co:t of $300,000. ties, shaved, drank moderately, went out with a Id i + 5 variety of women, and who rarely talked art. ola 1s pastor. : . But occasionally the black desperation would . . ha . ) stifie him, and he would forget to come home. ; 4 LSE WC BR He would forget to eat to sleep, to wash. 9 It was then that a girl reporter used to take him in hand, Sie would throw a big slug of bourbon ‘into him, feed him forcibly, and plant him on the divan, where he'd sleep for 20 hours or so and snap back to his cartoons and his maps. I think the girl loved him very much, but there wasn’t much future in it. His head was too full of! pictures—pictures that couldn't be born.

Visit Cheap Gin Joints , YOU MEET A LOT of dilettante artists in big cities like New York. They live in Greenwich Village, mostly, and spend more time in the smoky little cheap-gin' joints looking picturesque than they spend in front of an easel or at a typewriter. Jack Demoreland was no dilettante. He was a 14 worker. He would work 24, 36 hours at a crack, striving for a perfection he knew, actually, he'd never achievas. { There was no bogus Boheminan in Jack—at least not through the years I knew him. He dressed like a young business executive, when he was off on one of his “tranquil” stretches, which’ sometimes ran for a year at ‘a crack. He was a handsome youngster. well. him. Something, I guess, finally went really. wrong in his head. New York, which he once told me seemed like the answer, obviously couldn't supply the necessary skill his hands lacked. He tried, and he tried again, and finally he got so tired it all seemed too tough to live with. But a great artist lies in the morgue as I write this, It isn't his fault that he was born with a carpenter's hands.

He talked! There was never anything “arty” about

HALL OF LEARNING — Workmen

We Wouldn't Sell Our Dog, Trade. had he done shut: masican xeon: con BUT SHE Stole Him Anyway’

sled his 1 , of : 4 : Nathan Ostroff, , “When demunocd th envi Paul and Albert Wagner Report Theft

Nathan Ostroff. . “When?” demanded the Senator.| Of Pet Terrier; ‘Sure Want Him Back’

“Just now,” said Mr. Ostroff. “When we heard! this testimony. We wrote out a wire” - | Sen. John W. Bricker of Ohio remarked that “We told her we weren't gonna sell,” but she stole our dog anyhe was weary of doing the work for the govern- way,” said Paul Wagner, 13, and his brother, Albert Wagner, 10, of ment’s cops, who never seemed to see what was 644 S. Illinois St. happening under their own noses. | The two brothers, almost in tears, came to the want-ad departMr. Ostroff replied that he'd have stopped Mr. ment of The Times to ask the price of an advertisement to find Nelson's operations sooner if he'd only known their stolen dog. rie opr pai i about ‘em, | Major, a small terrier pup had. “He is real furry,” Paul volThe lawgivers then turned to that othar al. been shipped from California as unteered. { chemist, Mr. Mistrough, who could turn iron into a birthday present from their sis-' “We sure want him back,” the cement at will. He also was a New York exporter ter for both their mother, Mrs. boys said. and he also got a few export licenses. Fred Wagner and Albert only a

His main business was plumbing supplies and month ago. * SRDS TP Woman Wins Bout,

cast-iron pipe, both among the scarcest of all com- Asked to Buy It

By Frederick C. Othman '

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Construction was begun in June, which will include a church, convent and

yet have to put finishing touches to St. Mark School located 6200 south on road 31. The sixroom, building, of early American architecture, will welcome 102 students when it opens. Sister Mary Alfred, OSF, is superior. She also "| will be assisted by three Sisters. Like the North Side school, St. Mark

is but the first of a group of buildings which will be constructed. durin Carnival—By Dick Turner

tory by Victor Peterson)

EARLY SERVICE—Hundreds jammed the chapel auditorium of St. Andrew at 7:30 a. m. to celebrate a low Pontifical Mass. Registration of students was: to begin

today with classes scheduled for tomorrow. Sister Justine is the school ‘superior, She will be assisted by three sisters and a lay teacher. - Designed for the first eight grades, the school will enroll some 200 students. path hel eG

PROCESSION OF FAITH-=Within two weeks thesé youngsters will be sitting at desks in the second of two new Catholic grade schools dedicated yesterday, Here; _however, they are shown partaking in the ceremony at = St Mark Evangelist. «7 Gosiuns enn aaiRl

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THE BLESSING—Archbishop Schulte (rear) sprinkles Holy water on St. Mark School as he proceeded about the grounds. The procession.is led by the Rev. Fr. Leo Schafer, pastor, who was celebrant of a High Mass in the chapel. So many members of the 145 families in the parish attended the event that a large number stood outside the building during the dedication. LD el ae

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VATICAN CITY, Sept. 13 (UP) —Pope Pius XII last night summoned Catholics throughout the

world to defeat hatreds. social miseries, materialism and denial of God. =

. Making a rare outdoor appear- ‘ ance fn St. Peter's. Square, the Pontiff addressed 600,000 persons, half of them young men of the Catholic Action who are holding an international conference in Rome. His words were carried

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And Then Comes tha Dawn walked by our house while my : THEN HE MADE an important discovery. He brother and I were playing in the! JARRETTOWN, Pa. Sept. 13 couldn't ship iron pipe without a license, but he Yard and asked if she could buy (UP)—A 22-year-old telephone could export all the plentiful concrete pipe he OUr pup. operator sald today she gripped wanted without saying boo to his Uncle Samuel. - “We told her two or three times , enraged. deer’s antlers and So, according to Sen. Ferguson, he seemed to We weren't gonna sell’ but she 0 0" 00 inttes ber have bought iron pipe, sprayed it with cement, kept on asking. Finally she min ore and sent it abroad as concrete. walked away. She was pushing being rescued by a farm hand. A number of legitimate exporters, including a an old baby cart with a small Theresa Rowe, a slight, 105pair, of GI's who'd gone into the business as the brown dog in it. pound young woman, was tréated Magellan Enterprises of Newark, N. J. and 8 ca Fridays While OU rated, for bruises and shock but doctors smiling Ch w r w York, w y, Was playing som : Sling. nese Who, Sperated In New York *T® triends at the end of our alley “aid she suffered no serious inThey bought iron pipe from Mr. Mistrough, who he's oily 3-=she came. by and jury in the struggle during which insisted on delivering it in wooden cases. The took Major away from him and her clothes were ripped to shreds. official records said these boxes contained concrete started walking down the p're<t ae 0 Rowe, a country club tele pipe, but when they got to® Manila, they turned With Major in that old cart, Bud- pine anerator. said the buck | out to be iron, v dy came home crvin. {attacked her as she walted for a How many thousands of housss in Americal ‘Sort of Terrier’ bus near her home. Bhe man-! didn’t get built because of these shenanigans, Sen. | Major,’ Albee caw Ferguson does not know. He hopes to find out sort of terrier with a black eve. ~nd to harg on until a nearby’ when the magicians testify in their own defense one brown ear and a hisBk apd farm Ba~d haard her screams and here Wednesday. : brown spot in front of his tail” ichased tie beast away,

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