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Major Grid Season May Be TR > But Legislators Still ‘Huddling’

Photos by Bob Wallace, Times Staff Photographer

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The room was packed with men, the majority of whom were stout and made funny wheezy

IF YOU ARE planning a trip to the State Democratic Headquarters in the near futire, keep ile b a d ) h mind the “bo " k 1 ar nojses while breathing and turned purple wheninal Be i 0M 5 Snow all about—"0 the VICtOr over a dapper young fellow with glasses and bow

You'll be much better off, tovak bart tie walked through the room." ch better off, as a loyal party mem- Behind the secretaries pictures of the Presber who is now seeking a bit of gravy, if you go . y ! to the jackpot suite on the second floor Of tn. - ent and governor-elect look the job-hunter in

the eye. Right smack in the eye as if they were Claypool wearing trousers with a heavy-duty seat i “Wh: ign?" and the ability to at least rattle oft the names ng: “What did you do for the campaign?

of your ward chairman, ward vice chairman, pre- To Mr. Publics yight as be focuses “on the

front desks rather than the piercing eyes of cinct committeeman, precinct vice committeeman , county chairman and county vice chairman, * Harry 8, and Henry F, there's another picture

of the man who gave the polisters a’ migraine. Take it from a man who went through the mill And to his left is still another of the little man and knows what it feels like to be among that in the white hat. Gulp. “grrrréat” mass of people referred to as the public. The name doesn't rin g any bells with the secJohn Q. Public, Democrat, if you please. retary. Mr. Schiicker happens to be extremely Now; Mr. Public, by and large, knows very busy and Ira L. Haymaker, chairman of the comlittle about the top men in an organeyezayshun. mittee, is too. Maybe if everything goes well Mr. He recognizes Henry Schricker and once almost Haymaker might be able to lend an ear for a shook hands with him. Of course, Mr. Schricker few minutes. answers a salutation on the street.

The rogm could stand another five feet in all Mystery of the Inner Sanctum directions, a few more chairs, another soft drink THERE IS some hesitancy about saying im- Ing.

.machine and ashtrays. But, it isn’t too bad standmeédiately where the Democratic state committee Looks Like a Man's World

operates and more. hesitancy about naming the i iy members. There is nothing wrong in not knowing MEN COME -and go. Men greet. each other how the inner sanctum -operates except that it affably, Men appear and disappear through two ‘makes it tough getting a political job. Fortunately, doorways on either side of the room. Men whisper in the room. Men perspire, Some look sick. Some

& great many Americans don't want political jobs. 5% 5 In spite, of his better judgment. however, Mr, 100K worried. Some obviously are taking a c ance Public took an afternoon off recently and wan- °0 8 long shot. Some, like John Q. Public, don’t dered into a room where a bellhop said “they understand it all.- After three hours the decision pass out jobs there, I think.” to start taking action brings results. . + Shortly a lot of facts come his way. The|dapper young man who appears and disappears

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BE ot Is no longer significant,” says the Journal, spit- |gaded with -life-lengthening hormones, br platting out a loose crumb of tobacco. inum deposits, and. if they were good enough $ It goes on to say that there are so much for.test tube peerers they were good enough bacteria, chemicals and heat loose in the public for lovely little me. domain that you can’t tell whether it's a bug . th feet or a butt that sets you to coughing your head They Won't Teach the Rumba ) eet, off. Also, it seems the techniques of measur- oy — ’ : gripper N Ing throat irritation are not standardized. Now, DODLIMB it, as Grandpa used to say. self-help 7 i I find that they won't make me»pretty, won't L Reads Cigaret Ads With Relish grow. hair, won't teach me to. do the rumba,

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Up in Smoke

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[. "Who? -Oh, I'll see. Hello? No. Can you call tater? Yes." Mrs. Gene Branigan is one of the secretaries you see (also note the gentlertan in the batkground) working hard these days at the offices of the State Democratic Committee.

NEW YORK, Dege. 2—As a “steady swain of lady nicotine—say, three packs a day, and my cough is strictly from sinus—I am a little hurt at the irritable stand taken by the Jour-

nal of the American Medical Association “concerning the vitamin-enriched copy of the coffin-

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nail advertisements, The Journal, speaking as petulantly as a man “who has just sworn off cigarets and isn’t fit to, live. with, questions the health-giv-

‘» Ing, -bone-building, brain-sharpening claims of.

the various cigaret companies. ~ Cigaret advertising on the basis that the product advertised does not irritate the throat “is approaching a paint where the advertising

IN THE palled monotone of the scientist, the Journal goes right on. It says that people who smoke in moderation aren't any worse off than people who don't smoke at all; that there is as much evidence for 1s against, This just breaks my heart,

gall the rest. i Have you seén your precinct commit-

in the office is Ira L. Haymaker. He's the man to see. The man to see if you can’t see the gov-ernor-elect. . The informant, a highly informative fellow who mon 3 close relationship with the organ-

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The first jobs? All gone, all gone. The rest? teeman? Mister, you have no idea how bad that is not to know the name of your precinct committeeman. You a Democrat? Well, that’s something anyway. No, there's nothing like patronage except more patronage. Who are the two ladies at the desks? Well, one is. Mr. Haymaker’'s secretary, Mrs. Bernice Dick-| son, and the other is Mrs. Gene: Branigan, Rub | Ware’s secretary. Mrs. Ware happens to be vice chairman of the organization. Want some advice, mister? No, the secretaries can’t give out jobs, Here's what you do: Go to the county chairman and get an application blank; fill it out, complete, just like this (gulp); yes, there's quite a bit of information required; find out the names of. these 10 committeemen and chairman and have them sign your application. That's all. Yes, that’s the way it works, sorry. Don't tell your committeeman you didn't know his name.| That would be awful bad,

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“By. Robert C C. Ruark

king-sized papa and so old I can even remember when Piedmonts and Three Kings were popular. Well, all these dreary years I haven’t smoked ‘because I actually wanted to. I smoked because I thought it would keep me well, immune from harmful irritants, re fon socially “> suave, sweet-breathed; nonchalant — I forgot “Myurad—and hep, as we say, to the jive. I knew all ‘this from reading the ads, which promised sylph-like figures, political infallibility, and the skill to run-a jet plane if only you sucked on Brand X. Besides, all the doctors smoked them. The ‘special investigating boards had found them

won't cure strep throat, won't lower taxes, won't elect Tom Dewey and won't cut prices. All they will do is relax a little tension, stain my first two fingers, left hand, and get drier than old benes if you leave them overnight in a box. It's enough#*to\ kill a fellow’ s belief

Wie GWAR,

State politicos moved into town yesterday for pre-legislature caucuses of Republican and Democratic solons.~ GOP- State Chairman Clark- Springer mapped. strategy with (left to right) Sen. John Wan Ness, Valparaiso: Rep. Lang Helt, Dana, and Sen. Wesley. Malone, Clinton. Democrats rejected sales tax to finance Gl bonus.

While Republi cans met in the Claypool, Democrats huddled in_the Spencer Hotel. Bending an ear at this solemn conclave are {left to right} Sen. Marker Sunderland, Rep. Raymond Johnson and Rep. Charles Weeks, all from Delaware County,

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caucus got under way with lunch, House Speaker Robert. Heller for a word with House Majority Leader Walter Maehling

The Democratic

Ah, the todas, One element of informality was missing from their conferences naused. at the table

—cigar smoke. Reps. Grace E. Roach, Ripley and Switzerland Counties (seated

Ever since I was old enough to appreciate in the Boy Scouts; ) [seated left). Rep. James Fagin of Vigo County looked up startled from his fruit left), and Elsie Barning, Vanderburg, studied agenda, Looking over shoulders are ? the racier passages of “Lady Chatterly’s Lover, You go around shattering childish faith, and | cys History does not record what they said. Rees. Jane Nolde, Howard and Tipton (left), and Mabel A. Duna, Marion » County everything seems suspect. ) A :

I have been rezding the ciggret ads with undisguised relish plus the kind of comfort a man generally gets from” an exemplary life. 1 walked miles for- Camels. I Teached for

“Luckies instead -of-“sweets—until the Federal

Trade Commission, ~ acting in. Joehalf. of. the. . “pandy “trust, amputated ~the- sentence. at. Sin... stead,” 1 stayed moist with Kools, got satisfied with Chesterfields, called for Philip Morris, observed what a whale of a difference a Tew cents made, while dealing with Fatimas, refused to cough in a carload while puffing old Golds and inhaled so much apple honey that I was a motel for traveling bees, T.zone free of harmful displaced persons, anhdlive a full free life with life, life, life! I'm a

Elsewhere or Else By Frederick C. Othman

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WASHINGTON, Dee.-2—The lady who didn’t move to Boston has clinched my suspicion that the

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I am beginning to wonder, now, if maybe there isn’t a cough in a carload of Old Golds. Has anybody ever < smoked a carload of Old ‘Golds at the same sittin? Chesterflelds satisfy, hey? Whom do “they satisfy?

_ Baruch, for ifistance? They do not. “Mr. Ba

“riich quit smoking donkey's years ago. Yagan |

Did you ever see anybody walk a mile for a Camel? Will the meek inherit the.earth? Is honesty the best policy? Is a man known by the company he keeps? Search me, fellows, All I know is I'm getting warier and warier, and have just switched to chewing tobacco. It may be messy, but I ‘can nail a butterfly at 20 feet, Ptui!

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automobile makers, like some other fellows I to take care of his old customers—with old cars to} needn't mention, may be the victims of thelr own trade. of polls. He had, therefore, no compunction about] . ' They look at their lists of orders for new “adjusting” the names on the list. One “custo-| ® motorcars and moan that it'll take 'em two years mer, he said, moved to Boston. Mr. Garner put to catch.up. Well, maybe. that name on the bottom of his list. AIl'T Know is that the local auto dealers so far Rep. Macy told him to stand aside a minute| IBLE questioned by a congressional committee have such and called Mrs. Sarah M. Eigen, an attractive lists with hundreds and even Shousunds of names young woman in a green-plaid suit. They don't pay much atténtion to ‘em. worn “ oa ARD br oo they're too busy selling auto- a: Bigen, PI Jou move 1 Bonk de {ET Fioblles fu a hurry to folks who don’t care what counsel. | . She sald she hadn't. She'd stayed home all : ing illegal about this, you under- : de sig : . : . . : are Bot sel a wh at list price to a fel- his time, wang Joe the Shiviviet she'd ordered | _ Secretary of Jtate Charles M. Fleming sealed his path of James M. Probst, new State Auditor, pinned a rose on Mrs. Probst after inauguration ceremolow, when somebody else will pay—one way or an- y ck, Inc, in November, 1946. ce yesterday with a kiss: She-is-Mrs. Flaming. nies..It was a big day fer.Democrats. lnaugurations followed 8 an all -day | leg slative cautus. other—a: good deal more? So what good are the ‘ trimmers ais a in ot : ough Siswhers Moscow Seen Losing Grip On World Labor Movement iso McCarey's Brother The folks who have jotted down their hamss ’ BY APRIL, 1948, she said, she learned that ng ip n or a or ‘Possible’ Suicide and put up their $100 deposits eventually get tired she was 25th on the list to get a new sedan. The] : ) waiting, Pwr their money back, and buy cars v4alesinan tole her it wouldn't be long now. "Pro-Soviet WFTU Begins fo Crumble (Communist labor Jeaders over [3 toe witn Monarwy sew at HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 3 (UP) somewhere else, . n May I phoned again,” she said, “and “tude o w I'm talking about one Oldsmobile dealer (who I was informed that I was oo 35th place. I was + Alter British and U.S. Workers Rebel iy line between the two big 2 the West. Kuznetsoff 1s . EE us. ordered today in later lost his franchise), orie Hudson salesman and rather annoyed.” By LEON DENNEN, NEA Special Correspondent can, trade union rivals, the AF known to.be a supporter of the twe merchants of Chevrolets, who have been on She wrote the Chevrolet factory in Detroit, PARIS, Dec. 2—The Kremlin is losing its grip on European 2nd-the CIO. | Politb “moderate™ wing. fina McCarey, 44, brother. of the hot seat of Rep. W. Kingsland Macy of New which referred her to the branch office. in Balti-|labor for the first time since the continent was liberated. Kremlin Concerned B NE views of French and noted producer-director Leo “Mea York. He figures that they are typical of many more. The manager there wrote her that he| The pro-Soviet World Federation of Trade Unions appears| “For the first time the AFL| Ln n Communist * labor|CaTeY: v “4 auto dealers across the land. If so, then there's had no control over the policies of. his dealers, to be on its way out, The WFTU never has been of much {mportance(and the CIO are united on oe allan ag a ond Ides Mr. McCarey’s body was found no shortage of automobiles. So Mrs. Eigen waited some more. ws |88 a labor organization, but it has been very useful to Moscow question of ‘foreign policy,” u Jedgers, . fen They feel that ¥Meeling beside his bed in his : Last month, after waiting, just 30 days short|as a sounding board for pro-Saviet propaganda, and as a cover llealer - of the Force ‘Ouvrier, has Some a w y 4 East apértment yesterday, with two Dreams Dream of a Dealer of two years, Mrs. Eigen got her $100 back./for Communist activity in the —= my | French trade union organization|the split tween iy, the WFTU empty prescription bottles nears EACH NOW let's consider the 1ady who stayed away Then she bought a car from another dealer. Middle East and the Far East. Congress and the American Con- {that recently split’ off, the Red-| 18 beyond. saving. by. . Police listed the case as . fron ‘Boston. On the stand wis Walter H, Garner, Had no trouble getting it, either. The break, which European gress of Industrial Organizations; dominated General Corifederation | \ posgikie suicide ‘ the partly bald sales managér of Kemyon-Peck,—: Mr, Garner said he didn’t quite understand|trades unionists are confident|principal non-Communist back-|of Labor, told this correspondent F n if Leo -MeCarey said his brother Ine., retailer of Chevrolets. Hé was the man, he her case. Seems there were two customers/means the quick ‘death of theiers of the WFTU, have with- “This will help us in our fight London 0g rivis {was ailing ‘and despondent over sald, who dreamed up the. idea of driving new cars +named Eigen and he didn’t remember what did|WFTU, resulted from. the Federa- drawn their support. The Ameri-against foreign domination.” LONDON, T #6. 2 (UPT=The fog| a pending divorce suit. Li who won two a few miles. That made 'em demonstrators, which happen to Mrs. E's.grd tion’s opposition to the Marshallican Federation of Labor has! So copcerned is the Kremiiin| Brit nl The dead man, he could sell to old customers with used cars to And if that's the way it is all over, as sug-(Plan. Louis Saillant, general sec- reiterated vigorously its opposi-| [about the weakening of the {that has hovered over the Britis {Academy awards for his short trade in, gested by Rep. Macy, then maybe the auto makers|retary, has followed the Soviet tion to communism in organized WFTU that Vassili V. Kuznetsoff, Isles and Western: Europe .for films, had been a movie writer, -80 70 per cent of the Chevrolets that came into had better take a poll of their customer lists.|line, inchiding bitter-end opposi- labor. European unions have been [spokesman for the gover ment- almost a week drifted slowly director and production Gy his shop were sold as demonstrators; 30 per cent May he that most of the Mrs. Eigens got so tiredition to the Marshall Plan, con- [released from the squeeze that controlled Russion ‘‘unions,” isieastward today. Meteorologists tor more than 20 ii Bl went to the hundreds of people who waited months of waiting and walking that they bought their|sistently, “had handicapped them badly, reported willing to compromise on [predicted London would be able rected the first fea hl ; and even years on his list. cars some place else. Now the British’ Trade Union Ever since the liberation non-ithe Marshall Plan. This Would bé to resume its normal life today, Laurel and Hardy comedy.

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