Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1948 — Page 23
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4 4 THERE ARE people who would rather play with bis Tacquet and the game goes on or fs squash than eat. Squash is a game, friend. It's forfeited. played with & racquet, like tennis, The re- “I's always best td get there ‘fustest with semblance ends there, However, and anything fur- the mostest’, Rie one gentleman of the courts told
Ratitonii wbAidhinung me he. touched the ends of several ther-you say Sounds like a lie unless you'd #ather me while he gingerly temple. 2
Legislators Hear the Public— play squash than eat. Tt takes 15, points to win ‘a squash game. These This department undoubtedly wil be flooded points can be acquired by ar or cheating.
EE un pd RE riz DEMAaNd s Range From Gl Bo nu ses
the game. It can't be helped. The best in descrip- way although in a tight spot the other is accept-| -
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1948
tions will be attempted and after that ... mercy, able. & po ms. ‘ a An enthusiast told me to go to the Athletic O oO ert il : . u if I cared-to “real gam 7 ‘ J ame Has a Bit of Zing Ct ee? yon, Sam P Y ! ; Vi eges’ ogs
YOU ALREADY KNOW squash is a game and’ it's played with a racquet. A small, black; dead, hard rubber ball is used to give some zing to the game and, more important than that, I sup-
pose, to get points. All games have to have some kihd of a point system. Two men lock. themselves in a four-walled
fiotch, I went. With the help of one who has haunted the hallways of the club ever since it was built in|8 4925, this is a partial report of what happened. On the second floor, where the squash lounge is located, the first man I saw was Ned Teany, athletic director. I remarked to my friend that Mr. Teany looked hungry. And that observation
room especially designed for squash. Usually they will wear attire that is extremely fragrant. Oldtimers at the game claim it’s bad luck to change sweat shirts and sweat socks while one is winning. Many believe it’s bad luck to change while one is losing. You can see all this makes for a most fragrant situation, Well, after two men lock themselves in this squash room, squash court is better, they proceed to flail the ball, the air, the walls and sometimes each other's head. When a player gets hit in the head he usually claims a hinder and demands (if he has strength)’ that the point be played over. Often his opponent will take another swipe
~All over . . . Sam Johnston (left) is helped by Dick
i
“._ Weisenfluh as they lunch and squash.
Grishy Gifts
NEW YORK, Dec. ¥7—1I suppose there was a time when the encroaching. Yule drew blithesome. pictures of logs snapping on the hearth; of snow and evergreen and the kids all come ‘home to Gramma's arm; of red sleds and niistletoe. Santa was a Jolly old party, himself. ~T, Of late, Christmas has seemed little mare than a signal for a general transportation LEG a Kringle is a federal mediator. Christmas co to our house about Jan. 15, when the communications finally ugtangle. That is when the shriveled: fruit and soggy hams arrive, The dire practicality of recent years also has placed an unpleasant accent on giving. An un-
due emphasis, quite ‘apart from ‘the delightful
frivolity first designated by the Magi, falls on the bestowal of the grimly useful—food and Workay machinery and rubber overshoes. Especially Even if the intent is good, there is something patronizing about giving food, and Christmas is one of the few times you can get away with it, without offense, I have even felt sensitive about sending it to my friends in England—who need it and appreciate it and still don’t like to be forced to receive it as a gift. ~ The sunburst necktie; sb long the Yuletide -darling of unimaginative aunts, has succumbed to the food package.
Human Beings Are Groceries THE HABIT has become so dispersed that I dread the time when it reaches the Pacific, and some cannibal chum of Navy days sends me his neatly trussed uncle, an apple in his mouth, and ready for the spit. People qualify as groceries out there, you know. This subsequent shower of vittles is a far reach from the salver-of nuts and fruits and raiSing I Ear A child prowling freely through e today ma; “beliyache of historic horizon. may Judging from the ads which list sides of bacon,
had nothing to do with the hqur, noon.
" “No one thinks of food here,” my guide con~
tinued. “In fact, they even forget how long they've been away from work sometimes.” Everyone was in a hurry and everyone seemed perturbed but Coach Teany. ‘“This is Teany's day to get beat by Dick Weisenfluh,” my friend told me, “apd he's come to accept it.” I'd say that’s taking things in one's stride. For several minutes a stream of disheveled, sweat-shirted gladiators toting their weapons streamed passed. There were Rex Young and
Dave Ross, playing off grudge games of long
standing; H. O. Wright and George Newton vociférously took fo the steps leading to the fourth floor: Sam Johnston and Grant Young passed. Mr. Johnston stated he'd play for a small wager which meant he would lose to Mr. Young, I found out.
Ready for the Gong
FRED HAGEN wandered through the halls calling for Chuck Stimming, who take on all
x
comers, and telling all that he was ready for}
Chuck. Don Hawkins, a gentleman who played the first squash game in the Athletic Club and who some believe will play the last when the club is torn down some day in the distant future, announced he was ready. For one hour and often more the stalwarts of the city’s business and professions will run around like no kid ever did at recess. To a man who loves his lunch, it was heart-breaking to watch. About 1 p. m. most of the men begin coming
down. They'll register genuine surprise at the
time of day. Loud moans and groans will be heard over the work that’s “piled up on my desk.” And in the same breath the squash score will be discussed one way or another. Lunch? What about lunch? Oh, it’s either a quickie sandwich or nothing at all or it's a meal such as only a horse would tackle, Of course, the latter only when the boss is along, you understand. Yeh. Squash builds you up, they say.
By Robert C. Ruark
casks of salt cod, pails of mincemeat, crates of fruits, hams, turkey, cheese, caviar, dates pickled in brandy, racks of jams and jellles—Junior can
take on an assortment of delicatessen which would |"
derange ‘the digestive plumbing of a swordswallower. All this heavy eatin’ food, gift-wrapped. and tasseled with hotly, has an unpleasant association for me, since I was raised to regard Dec. 25 as the day you got stuff you didn’t see for the other 364 days. Poar.Seem fo Resent Largess
1 YEAR: RNED for no new pair of shoes; I had ed for an air rifie to shoot Grandpa
gluey Christmasy The giving of soli useful gifts at Christmas time was always confused. in my young mind with “charity”—the bestowal o lum necessi on people less fortunate than you--poor people, who would have chased you off the fe s but for the fact that a growling stomach Ws through pride. Mother used to drag me along on her Christ-mas-basket expeditions. And I hated it. It convinced me that I was -an awful lucky young man, but I can still recall the bruised resentment in
- ~the eyes of the poor who received the groceries
and cast-off clothing. It took some of the pleasure out of the pony. Doubtless I am incurably impractical, but I would still prefer it if Santa arrived in a deerdrawn sleigh, rather than by. parcel post, as commercial emissary for firms which make a business |’ of shopping for people. Were I a woman, I would divorce the man who presents me with a vacuum cleaner as token of his Christmas affection. As a male, I have only just become reconciled to-handkerchiefs—as-gifts.—It-always seemed -to me that anything you blew your nose on was misrepresentative of the Magi's intent.
Extra Baggage
By Frederick C. Othman
William V. Pierceall . . . Dis-
abled veterans should have
more bonus.
“with teeth.” Attorney Henry Richardson
it takes abolition of Indianapolis’ independent, bi-partisan school board to do it, Mr. Richardson implied, the NAACP would propose that, too.
tect thé evil rights of ail people
WASHINGTON, Dec. '17—The literary gentlemen who hang around the O. K. Pool Parlor in the
“Did it also have a monogram on it?” Mr. Reddan wondered. Benjamin said it was a nice warm coverlet, all
It was the windup of the first day of a three-day -schedule of public hearings in which the Democrats hope to find out what the public wants of the legisiature. “After hours of listening on subjects ranging from the veterans’ bonus to the “property rights” of dogs, the policy makers concluded - hey were going to find ont plenty. # . ” E ANTI-HATE LAW of d the effect of outlawing ool segregation as a lic policy, Mr. Riche Senators and
1047 public 8 matter of ardson told
| Representatives. “Now, - he said, |
‘the time has come for specific legislation to put an end to this outdated and un-American system.” “Education,” he said, “is the] very core of the social-racial] problem. Until we stop teaching little Negro kids to hate white kids and little white kids to hate Negro kills, other efforts to pro-
are meaningless.” Louis B: Greenberg, local attorney, led off the FEPC fight. He spoke for the Jewish Community Relations Council and the Council for Civil and Human Relations.
National Association for the Advancement ” Le People, If
[working hours for women. While
land 7 a. m., the CIO reversed its
John J. Tinder . , . VFW would pay bonus up to $900, but how?
State Senator Walter Vermillion of Anderson, one of ‘the Democratic policy makers, played the role of Cross examiner,
Minority Groups Also Urge End Of Racial Segregation in Schools
DEMOCRATIC legislative leaders -last night heard minority groups demand the end of racial segregation in schools, racial equality in the national guard, a fair employment practices law
put the school demand for the
~IN THE * AFTERNOON, the legislators heard an impassioned
demand .for repeal of the state]
compulsory arbitration law. Carl Mullen, of the State] Federation of Labor, charged the law was un-American, was passed in the face of a “beautiful record in which the state had nexer experienced a labor tieup of a vital utility.” Mr. Mullen also demanded that the “profit be taken out of industrial injuries” by letting the state, not insurance companies, be responsible for collecting money and paying out benefits under the Workmen's Compensation Laws. Louis Austin, District 11 head lof the United Mine Workers, entered a plea for extension of the state's authority over mines to include all mines instead of only those employing more than 10 {men on a shift. He also urged improvement of facilities for miners, such “as more spacious wash houses to replace the cramped quarters now PEE » » LABOR LEADERS left the legislators hanging in -the air jwithwa divided stand on night
the AFL continued to drive for return to the old law prohibiting women from working in" industry| between the hours of 11 p. m.
Three state adjutants, each
ocrat legislators what they want.
Photos by Lloyd
L. Walton, Times Staff Photographer.
fopreseniing a veterans’ organization, joined the crowd to tell Dem-
eft to right are Howar
W. Watts of the Disabled Ametican
Veterans, James Herod of the VFW and William E. Sayer of the American Legion.
Claude Bechtol . . . Equal
rights or women who work in
Mostly Abo
Fred Sondorman ver AVC didn't. “really want & abo,
ut People
Patrick Cuddy si | . sounded Shanber of of ‘Commerce warne
AN INTERESTED observer in State Supreme Court yesterday when a hearing was held on the petition of Robert Austin Wafts for a new trial was Hugh D. Mer~ rifield. Mr, Merrifield, an attor-|. ney, was the husband of Mrs. Mabel Merrifield, oné of the two women -to whose slayings Watts confessed.
» ” » President Truman's wate, daughter, and mother-in-law were home at the Summer White House
in Independence, Mo. today to
prepare for the family's Christmas.
»o.ow : People around City Hall get quite a kick out of W. B. (Billy)
“FGI habit —of changing —the
furniture around in his office: every five or six weeks, ~The -—superin-{ tendent of the Gamewell Department ex- , plains the furniture shifts by : ying: “I like a change of scen-
Joseph. One of the probation conditions imposed was that Mr. Oxley rot attend any athletic events for a yeur, » »
rock decorations in the Hibernian! m, Club, was put on the spot _ when he vis fted in Judge Clark's court this morning. A lawyer for a man who was being tried for wife -beating asked that his client be freed for Christmas,
tenor in Indian-apolis.”-—*“That's
Judge Howard no recommendation in this court,”
said Judge Clark. “What about it, Judge Howard?” The Irish judge suggested that the tenor would need his freedom more on St. Patrick's Day than on Christmas, but refused to be drawn
i ha ir Bid = > Municipal Court Judge Joseph! Howard, ag Irish as the sham-|
Of Gift Tricycles
Indianapolis Association of Retail
nation of a sum of money for their. completion. . Yesterday the Matthews Gene eral Repair Co. 511 E. 34th St, offered to donate approximately 200 tricycles to who would not ordinarily be able to
obtain them. _John 8. Mathaws, company
parts on hand, but that spokes and aluminum paint were needed
Sir their side,” he said, not be more than $1 a anit.” secretary
The Times shortly after the story was published, saying his organi-
sure Needy Tots
Druggists announced the do-
lowner, sald he had the tricycle
At the outs. -
zation was wiiling 3 to donate up
center of Washington's little Harlem are omnivor- : imilar stand of two years ago. right, and he liked it fine; but he'd never noticed aan > ta ery every so |into the case. 4 - z/OS. readers. There can be rio. other. explanation... ie is had. Be: Fy H.ombr OTHER STATES, he said, have RI sores fue Jie ca Ee Eiaemsicis 40..3200.. =
Ltoroved thay PEPQO can work. By
a... i
~* for this dispatch.
“of his
ey buy a tremendous number -of newspapers and magazines from Benjamin Franklin Harrison, who runs the news stand there beside the front billiard ‘table. ° So Benjamin, a dapper little Negro, took some considerable profits ‘over to Uncle Jo& Cher” ner, -the a yea who. chernerizes every car,
politan “onl ET with a five-piece, $3! of matched calf-skin luggage and a reversible s7 5 lap robe to spread across his knees on cold mornings.
Did You Get the Luggage? “YOU DID get the luggage?” asked John T. M, Reddan, chief counsel for the congressional subcommittee investigating sales policies of local automobile dealers. : “Oh, yes, sir,” replied Benjamin. “But I didn’t get the initials on it.. My mother was sick and I didn't have time to wait for the monograms.” But was it good luggage? Benjamin said he didn’t know. His wife liked it, but as far as he was concerned he wouldn't give a $10 bill for all
* the suitcases in the Union Station. Mr. Reddan
wondered about that lap robe that came as an
“accessory with his Lincoln. It was plain blue on
one side for when Benjamin felt sedate, and plaid on the other, when he was in a gayer mood. And what did he pay for it? Benjamin sald he never bothered with looking into that little detail. Hepjust gave the man the
- money and drove away in his motor car de luxe,
Well, look on the invoice, suggested Mr. Reddan. Benjamin looked ‘and seemed surprised to discover that his lap robe had cost him $75.
~The Quiz Master
. $4006.39 for a Lincoln unit i
roidered in. the. corner. So much for the literary life in the O. K. Pool Parlor. Benjamin and a lengthy list of Mr. Cherges clients testified as to their automotive purchases; I must report in all candor that Uncle Joe came off a good deal better than most of the dealii he ‘previously have sweated-on-the witness stan Uncle Joe, whose picture appears in his adver“or the™
dealers in Fords, Lincolns and Mercurys. He also is in the insurance business and in the first seven months- ofthis year he sold $50,000 worth of polfcies on the cars he sold. Whenever a customer wants to finance his car, Uncle Joe recommends the Shirlington Loan and Trust Co. ag a good, reputable bank. He knows the officers. He is, in fact, president of the institution.
There's Nothing Wrong THE EVIDENCE indicated that Mr. Cherner had made nobody any promises when they'd actually find a Ford in their lives, that his deliveries were exceedingly slow to strangers who put up their $100 deposits and unusually. swift to those who were old customers and had cars to trade. He saw nothing wrong in that. After the session was over I asked Uncle Joe whether I as an old customer (I once bought a second hand, chernerized Ford coupe from him) could buy a set of luggage with maybe a sedan thrown in as an accessory. Uncle Joe said he thought I could. He's got plenty of Lincolns for sale, but not quite so many Mercurys, and far too few Fords. , 80 be it. And I think I'll drop over to the O. K. Pool Parlor now and see if Benjamin will sell me a newspaper, Or maybe five suitcases, without monograms.
??? Test Your Skill ?7?
having a law with teeth to back up the principal of fair employment practices, “he said, these states have been able to settle all cases of race discrimination in in-|
resorting tothe full power of the Indiana's present FEPC TAW,
American Veterans Commi ttee, | “Is just a pious statement.” H. J. Noel, representative of | the CIO®Industrial Union Coun-| cil, told the legislators “discrimination certainly exists” in In-| diana ‘and sald the CIO would prepare a bill outlining what it believes to be a workable FEPC| law. Flonoi Adams, Army reserve captain, told the group that] Negro youths were staying out) of the National Guard because of | the segregated setup. He said he had been approached, along with| other Negro reserve officers, to| establish an all-Negro but still] segregated unit in the guard. » ” ” MR. ADAMS told the committee segregation of this kind was npt necessary, that “we proved in the Pacific war that| white men and Negro men could soldier together.” He urged leg-| islation to outlaw the practice of| separating guard units on the basis of color. In a deviation from the night's] main business, a Vigo County|
dustrial employment Without even;
i Posta-Worker said - J. Atnold Feldman of the
time a bap ; women to work the night shifts | be continued on a peigament . basis. It is a matter, he "sald, of giving women qual employ
Mr Griffis Griffis is to present him with a her dressing room at NBC studios
ment Fights With
a
vaton
To Get widay
All departments of the Post Office will be closed in observance lof ‘Christmas Day, Saturday, Dec. 25, and all employees given a holi|day with the following exceptions: ONE: A sufficient number of {employees will be on duty to make| “1¢ 1 live until the regular holiday collections |inen I'll be able and dispatches and to receive in-\¢; gay I've been coming. letter mail and dispatch lin the plumbing {outbound mail, [supply biisiness TWO: Only delivery of gift par-iy oe “sor exactly cels and perishable packages willl 4g years,” he be made Dec. 25- and should be| said. completed before noon. Barry has THREE: Special delivery sec-!
day that they there Saturday.
Oscar F. Pure
Mr. lan excellent {tion will be open as usual and once of reach-
tall special delivery mail will be severed oe ie gow: FOUR: Collections and deliver-| 7 who are jes to hotels and dispatch of out~ {going mails will. be made on a {holiday schedule, George J. Ross, acting postmaster, also announced/ no mail| {would be dispatched to Ft. Harri-|
more active. He is suppose {having sold his {ness, the Barry
Mpa Apple ple. . {cook a pie hima and at it alll
Domitican” consul " yore M. Lo- a Christmas tree with lights and and Miss - Franco announced in Miami to-|
the Sanitation Board, has more] than one reason for wanting | Christmas Eve to roll around.
{more healthy or’
{style is ‘company’ spelled out’
And that’s not| Comedian Fibber MoGee and
to. get on the one lifted Molly's purse containgood side of Mr.{ing a $1000 gold necklace out of
last . nightein- -Hollywedd.
i County Clerk *Jack Tilson, . t, | really goes all-out when ft comes}
HH heal he]
followed | Court House officials and installed
Ana Leonor tinsel, but went them One better. At strategic points in his office, will be married Mr. Tilson placed cardboard \coffee containers to which. he attached signs reading, “Help ry, “president of | Clothe-A- Child. " ” » A cold and sore throat kept screen star Gary Cooper hospitalized tagay in Hollywood. The lanky actor was lost nearly all last Sunday in a small®boat at
Los Angeles harbor during filming of a
Warner Brothers picture. Mr, Cooper will miss several days
Mr. Barry
a on) the Mr. Cooper bine: bua. 170 First-Graders
plumbing busiCompany (“our ily) School Program More than 170 first-graders in
all; A tip on how Molly reported today -that some-|,
He-not-oniy the pattern of other]
: gree to Donation After Mr, Fritz read of Mr, Matthews’ offer, he got in touch with Leo Merz, of the association, who agreed to " donation. ThE
Cycles 10 heedy cniaren. of al denominations. The tricycles range in size from the smallest up to 20-inch
pedalers.
Hess, Mr. Matthews plans to work evenings this week to fill the orders as the charities pass on them. Who said there isn’t a Santa Claus? »
2 Arrested Here With Stolen Car
day held two men in Marion County jail on charges of inter state transportation of a stolen car. Thomas E. Campbell, 19, and Emmit Lynn Fish, 21, were are rested near Bainbridge by agents who said the with friend, had stolen a car in. Tos o peka, Kas. and drove it to Okla~ homa. Eugene Sullivan, the third pe son involved, is in custody in Topeka. Federal officers said C
\apolis aTitable. ‘organizations ; for the distéibution of the tri-
With another employee, Roy :
Special agents of the FBI toe
amptall
dog ‘breeder, Erwin J. Leach, son, the main office parcel post|¢, his thPee sons.
handed the legislators something windew would be closed and there) “ (John Strange School, 3660 ®.|and Fish will probably be transe ~ What is the range of speeds of electric Tare : Why 18" the horseshos associated witlr — new. Unless dog owners pay would be no carrier or rural routes ‘ay vervday he Lod 2a 62d St, will sing in the school[ferred to Topeka, Kas. for proses uc HUAItortum at 7:30pm. Monday |cutio i
' The speeds of electric motors range from 120,000 revolutions per minute to as low as a single 7m or stall, ! ¢ o @ In art, what is meant by a vehicle?
The liquid with which pigments are diluted. In Waleceolar: the veltiele 1s water, in oll pyiuting, oll
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The superstition that nailing a horseshoe over the door will bring good luck is widespread and dates back several ¢enturies, One of the many theories advanced is that the horseshoe acquired its magical properties because it was similar in
shape to the lunar crescent, which in ancient)
times was a symbol of Food luck.
{property tax on thejr dogs, he said, the pets are not legally property, and somebody can steal! or shoot them without fear of]
protecting personal property. “I want the legislature
stop this dog Urevery, he said.
.
{deljvery. | Post Office departments will ob-| serve a half-holiday Friday, Dec.| |24, wherever. possible, The
|open from 8 a. m. to 12 noon and
a minimum,
bis
fe
in-| legal retaliation under the laws quiry-claims department will be N. J., was fined $500 and freed
early or stay as late, but I like {to be there,” are, his words. Barrett Oxley, “8, ‘long Branch,
on probation yesterday for at-|
to|all window service will be held to|tacking a basketball referee who
called a foul against his son,
‘“
ay As part of a “Nativity” program {sponsored by the school. | The program Tuesday will include 124 second grade pupils. Mrs. Ruth Allison and Mrs,
rect.
+
Jessie France, teachets, will diC
naff