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Inside’ Indianapolis

. By Ed Sovola

ESKIMOS rub noses. New Caledonians crouch when they greet other New Caledonians. The early Greeks did a version of pattycake as 'a salutation. We shake hands. is The holiday season is a great time for shaking hands, all kinds, new, old, young, soft, wet, cold, Hmp, bone-crushers and most of all unfamiliar hands at parties. Ever give it much thought?

Do you like this custom? Wouldn't you rather nod your head? ’

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fessionals have to say on the subject.

“It is one of the finest American customs we have,” Gov.-elect Henry F. Schricker said when approached on the gentle art of the handclasp. (I'll be honest and say that I expected a different answer.) To a question which was worded in such a way that it was practically impossible (I thought) to say anything other than “I don’t like the custom of handshaking,” Mr. Schricker stated: “I learned many years ago that it pays to walk across the street ‘to shake hands with a friend or neighbor. It doesn’t cost anything to shake hands but it does ‘show friendliness and warmth.” ‘But’...

There's an art to shaking hands,” continued Mr. Schricker, “which involves taking the other fellow's hand first, That prevents.the man from squeezing your fingers which is very important when you're doing any amount of hand shaking.” Mr, Schricker likes the custom.

Cabbie Doesn't Like to Shake

ON THE WAY to the Statehouse I asked a cabbie in front of Terminat Station what he thought of the handclasp as an overt act of friendship. Some drivers have a unique way of expressing themselves. Boiling it all down, however, he didn’t like to shake hands. With nobody.

‘Shaking hands . . . would rubbing noses be

“A handclasp is one of the finest methods of showing friendship,” Gov. Gates told me a’ short time later. Strange how closely his opening statement parallels the governor-elect’s. : ~The Governor immediately made known his preference for a handshake. He doesn't like a weak-sister hand. It doesn’t show warmth, As an ‘old campaigner, Gov. Gates also cautioned me to get “in there first” if I had Intentions of doing any amout of hand-pumping., Gov. Gates likes the custom. On the way out of the governor's office I

~RODPIUs- gtuek—out—my—fHipper-

=a secretary. Mr. Steele isn't bad on the draw, either, He's had a lot of practice and it probably would take a good man to catch him off guard. A portion of the morning later I was seated in the office of a hotel manager who said he wished almost every day that people would quit shaking his hand and he could get by without shaking theirs. “Do you know how this thing got started?” he asked popping a Tums into his mouth. I said no, thinking he knew. ; “I don’t know either,” he snapped *and I wish did.” ] It was a“rather difficult maneuwer but I did hem-haw enough and scratched my head enough to remember that the custom began with the early man wno seldom travelled without a weapon in his right hand. - (Records -do not show any early southpaws and that is why we never shake hands with our left hands.) 2 To show friendship, especially when he wanted to get the drop on his neighbor, Early Man would hold his weapon in his léft hand and extend his right. That grew into this glad-hand business as we know it today.

Time to Do Away With It

THE HOTEL MAN appeared grateful as he

screamed that it was time we did away with such an old custom. “I knew it was passe.” Good man. (He likes his job in spite of the hand-shaking which is one of the reasons he didn’t want his name mentioned.) = = Nate Garland, manager of the Industrial Exposition at.the Union Station, thinks the handshake is great stuff. To him'it-shows warmth, too. Although he shakes about as many fingers as Heinz has pickles, Mr. Garland wouldn't do away with the custom.

James Rogan, president of the American Natignal Bank, a man of many handshakes, thinks it’s a fine custom. His only objection is to the hand-pumpers, the guys who don’t know when to let go. Couldn’t get Mr. Rogan to join a movement to do away with shaking hands. ; “It's a pretty cold world,” he concluded, “and shaking hands is one of the few warm expressions of friendliness we have left. ~~ You know, during Christmas, it must have been my luck to meet only those people with clammy, wet cold hands. I forgot to mention that I was in Illinois. That's probably the difference. They weren't Hoosiers. . But I'd like to give rubbing hoses a try, anyway. :

$300,000 Whoopl

@ By Frederick C. Othman||

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28—"Twas the day after the day after the day after Christmas and all through the Capitol nobody much was stirring except Melvin D. Hildreth in a 165-horsepower limousine with- his title ‘emblazoned on its ebony sides in boxcar letters of gold: Chairman 1949 Inaugural Committee. } Boy! In the works he's got a parade nine miles long, with President Truman, himself, leading same and a genuine steam calliope drawn by

" nine white horses bringing up the rear.

In between he seems to have most of the brass bands in America, the Philadelphia Mum-

mers, 300 drum majorettes in buttons, bows and

goosepimples, Indians, cowboys, “cops, assorted marching and chowder -elubs; 48 floats representing the states of the nation, and a few things even he hasn't learned about yet. .

All this happens on Jan. 20. Overhead will bes

flying machines; underfoot, probably sleet: Fifty special trains will roll into the sta tion. The yards will be full of Pullmans for those who couldn't get hotel rooms, most of vhich long “Since have been reserved at boosted rates, . : / <0 There’l be balls and shows and movie stars, pilus a concert led by James Caesar Petrillo, the celebrated cornetist, in person.

Whoopla Gets Bigger 'n’ Bigger THE squirrels already have been driven from LaFayette Park, across the street from the White House, by carpenters building $98,075 worth of stands of new pine lumber to hold ‘the diplomats and the $10-per-head ticket holders. Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey are sending up circus chairs for their comfort. Bach day the whoopla grows bigger and Hildreth figures it'll cost $300,000, not counting the $79,000 the Republican Congress spent for its own stands at the Capitol in the belief that somebody

This, as you can imagine, is no picnic for

Chairman Hildreth, who is an attorney when-he’s not organizing parades. The ‘locals are in the midst of the wrangle now on whether the District of Columbia ought to have a replica of the Capitol in papier mache on a float, or an action scene showing the unhappy plight of its voteless citizens. . When Hildreth announced that the calliope of the Cole Brothers Circus, a musical instrument built in 1880 and said to be the only one left in America; would be in the parade, Mr. Truman's military aid, Harry H. Vaughan, blew up. Said it wasn"t dignified. Said the plans were getting out of hand. Said what did the committee intend to do, inaugurate a President or outdo the .New Orleans Mardi Gras? :

Keep Stepladders’ at Home + THAT saddened Hildreth, but only temporarily. A few days later at his press conference. Mr. Truman announced that Gen, Vaughan didn’t remember having said any such thing. The general, sitting beside him, contemplated his well“polished | Mr Mr. Truman said that anything Hildreth and “his numerous committees intended to make the day a gala one was all right by him. Now come the Capital cops to take some of the joy out of it. They want to arrest and fine anybody who brings his own stepladder to Pennsylvania Ave. They hope to make confetti against the law on the great day and make anybody who hires out his front porch to spectators subject to special building inspections. Hildreth is spending $33,000 for engraved invitations and stationery; the District commission_ers have ordered up from the foundry at Lorton _Reformatory a special batch of zinc (painted gold color) keys to the city. TT More than 750,000 visitors are expected. From | their expenditures the businessmen who put up| the $300,000 expect to get their money back.|

...Should be a big day, an right, unless. everybody,

gets snowbound at home. ’ f

London Letter

‘By William McGaffin

LONDON, Dec. 28—People here don’t get to church the way they-used-to, any more than they do elsewhere in the world. “This. situation has inspired a pessimistic observation by a London cleric who thinks that “Christmas has become the pagan ‘Saturnalia of a materialistic civilization.” d He estimates that only 25 per cent of the adult population. goes. to, church three times a year, an

Lime AT, and only one-per-eent-can-be said to have a religion

which makes any difference to their lives.

“According to his definition a child ceases to be

a Christian when it no longer believes in either Father Christmas or the Virgin Birth. But the commentator who signs himself “Critic” in London’s independent weekly, the New Statesman and Nation takes a more optimistic approach. He points out that if belief means acceptance as a scientifically verifiable fact, then many

‘of our leading theologians have long ceased to

believe in Christianity. “But if Christian belief means accepting the New Testament story as a revelation of the pattern of life as it should be lived by human beings, then millions of agnostics are still Christians. “People often write as though the decline in the influence of organized religion—which is a scientificially verifiable fact not only in Christendom but. in the Moslem and Buddhist world—is the same thing as a decline in morality. But, in reality, while the churches have been emptying, human conduct in this country has in certain ways become more Christian. We are, for instance, an infinitely more humane country today than a century ago. { “The general standard of conduct whether of employers to their work people, or of parents to their children, or of everybody to animals has surely improved immeasurably. As for morality. in the narrow sexual sense, there is no evidence that men and women display less Christian love for each other. What has happened is that the moral problems which we face have been so transformed that the orthodox teaching of the churches about married life now seems irrelevant or sometimes sheerly wicked.” Ja

Best Christmas Since War

WHATEVER its religious aspects this has been the best Christmas for Britain since the war, There is plenty to buy in the stores—much of it off ration or at reduced point values. The only trouble has been high prices. Punch wisecracked: “Recent official warnings that a quantity of worthless money was in circulation did not great.

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ly disturb Christmas shoppers. They had alread | noticed it." . Coa | Some people still had $25 and '$30 to pay for black market turkeys, although the number of net| incomes over-$20,000 a year after taxation has been reduced from 11;000--before-the.war. to 250 now as a .consequence of Sir Stafford Cripps’ “veritable social revolution.” { Some peopie;-too;-still had money to blow on! “Christmas. parties at: the expensive. West. .End hotels.. _merous and .more lavish than at any time since 1939. Champagne dinners at these establishments cost about $20 a head. The common man in Britain couldn't afford even chicken at $5 and $6 but he was content as he ate his mutton joint that he had more money in his pocket than ever before—and that his own specter of unemployment seemed tightly locked up. On the economic front there was cheerful news for all when they compared this year with last. Economic experts struck a balance as they ¢ommented on Britain's four-year plan, announced this week.

Hope to Dro. Outside Help THE PLAN, in which Sir Stafford made his disclosure about revolutionary leveling of high incomes, is aimed at making Britain independent of outside help by the time Marshall ‘Aid comes to an end. . In a single year Britain's dollar gap has been reduced from $2520 million to $1200 million. “A year ago the pound was shunned and suspect; now it is among the world’s hard currencies,” wrote the London nomist. “Then, the world’s criticism was-that tish economy was incapable of paying its way; now, it is that British policy is aiming at making the pound too scarce.” This change “has been produced by the restraint, that has been shown in British spending abroad ‘and the energy shown in the export drive . . . and though the ultimate credit belongs to the _ British people's capacity for self-control by far the greatest individual share of praise attaches to Sir Stafford Cripps and the small circle of his intimate advisers.” * . The four-year plan, full of “intelligent guesses,” as Sir Stafford put it, is called ‘an “inspired gamble” by The Economist. Contrary to the speculation of some American correspondents before the plan was announced, it does not call for reduction in either nationalization or social services. Unlike the Russians the British admit their plan might not succeed. But The Economist says it is to be hoped it does, Copyright, 1048, by Indianapolis TimeW and Chicago Daily News

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SECOND SECTION

z Michael Morrissey . The Record Holder . . . The-"let the heads fall where they may" political patronage setup in the Indianapolis Police Depart ment has produced at least one bumper .crop—the city probably has more living ex-chiefs of police than any other city of its size in the nation. Almost invariably .an election has meant a new chief—and then there were some chiefs who didn't even survive one administration.” Unique on the roster of chiefs is Michael {iron Man) Morrissey. He lasted from June, 1931, to December, 1942, longer than any dther chief in Indianapolis history. "Mike," whose - reatest contribution was modernizing police methods and training acilities, is currently chief of the private police of the Pullman Co.

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Herman-—Rikhoff a 2

From Tailor to Chief . . . Herman Rikhoff's only police experience had. been watching the neighborhood cop walk by his tailor establishment when Mayor Shank made him chief of police in 1922. He lasted four years

But this was overcome by naming President Remy which ended wit short:term predecessor, Mr.

and personnel director of Red Marcy Lane.

under Sheriffs OHY Pettit and Al Magenheimer.. Now 76 years old, Mr. Rikhoff retired last De-

cember. .

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No Wrong Number as Yank Sergeant in Ft. Worth Is Nervous; Bride In Milan Comments: ‘I's About Time’

married to-“his—Itdlian sweetheart early today in an qverseas

Clifford J. Beeker ) The Fair-Haired Boy . . . Clifford J. Beeker was a lowly bailiff when Mayor Tyndall won the election and named him as the new chief of police. The appointment hit a snag when it was learned Mr. Beeker didn't have the background of rank to qualify him.

elevating Mr. Béeker to a lieutenant, qualifying him for the top and Tafer served as chief jailer post. “His administration was marked by feuding with Safety

McMurtry, Mr. Beeker now is safety

friends In F¥' Worth and. “telling them about the ceremony.” } t J will remain in Ft. Worth to- where he will be sent overseas on FT. WORTH, Tex., Dec. 28 (UP)—M. Sgt.-John-Kent--30;- was 6 hé said.

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Howard Sanders Ancther Kind of Record . . . In comparison to the record of Chief Morrissey, Howard Sanders established another kind of record, that of the shortest term of an Indianapolis police chief. Me was appointed by Mayor Tyndall in January, 1947, after the Police Department had been under fire for laxity in desling with gamblers. He went out of office in December of the same year

when Democratic Mayor Al Feeney took office and surprised the -. "city with the nonpatronage appointment of Republican Edward D.

Rouls, present chief. Ex-chief Sanders is now a captain in the “detectives department. He relaxes evenings at 16-N.-Ridge View Drive, comparatively secure in-the knowledge his desk will still have his name on ‘t when he goes to work the-next day. rps

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A Cop at Heart . . . Jesse police chief: he was just an "hon crossfire between then Chief Cl

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Claude Worley Another Ex . . . Claude Worley lasted for three years, from 1927 to 1930. Before being made chief, he had put in nine

le contribution was a public subscription campaign which

ent police radio system after City Council refused to grant money for the "newfangled" project, ;

never wanted to be a

McMurtry

an acting "chief for a day" and on 4 gimmick necessa later he succeeded Chief Beeker

h Mr. Beeker bowing out to his since 1911, resigned because of ill

Cab Co. and resides at 4530

Weds Italian Girl by Phone ead war ete Bound.

But. Sgt. Kent was en route to “Barksdale “Afr Force base, from

and “rest up,” and-return Fiadale Field Tate tomorrow, an assignment he requested. | i | He declined to give his home

telephone ceremony. performed. by a Ft. Worth minister and lasting. Sgt, Kenl stationed at the Ft. town, and it was not listed on the

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only SIX" minutes”

Even though his bride was thousands of miles away, thre’ the scene at the Sylvan Heights|™ Baptist Church at 6:40 a. m. | WOTK Next was a reporter, followed the ceremony from this end. by the Rev. A. B. Lightfoot, | For the sergeant it was th pastor of the church, and H. E. end of nine nervous days of

his wife, who as a Red Cross

United Press office in|

. , "nally ‘Thade arrangements for the that NE father wis “getting -eld- | 'sergeant- was as nervous as any bridegroom. He" arrived first HON | ed ding Dec. 20.

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“Worth quartermaster depot; -orig-(marridge. license. He" explitied’” The" asso

_He waited word erly, and I tholight I would han; his bride through last Fri-|dle that part myself about telling] Word came she was ready him.” He said he didn"t-want his]

% {father “getting excited.”

Milan.

: Go Shurley. The latt sented| waiting, delays and red tape. | ~N y. The latter represe { The overseas call went through, ost Y out eop & .

Welles’ Condition Still Satisfactory

sweetheart. ’ Sgt. Kent picked up the phone] when the connection was com-|

py bled. WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (UP) Pied. He tremble |dent of the company, presented a

—Doctors kept vigilant watth We're ready to be married,

over former Undersecretary of Diftah, honey” he said in a low State ‘Sumner Welles today: to de-|voice into the telephone transtermine if his all-night ordeal in mitter. the freezing cold will necessitate “I have waited long enough for| amputations, this. It's about time,” suffered severe frostbite of the end of the line. { toes and fingers in his Christmas| The couple will be remarried in night hap. The latest hospitalla church ceremony when Sgt. bulletii said the “chief hazard” |Kent gets to Milan on his renow is “possible complicationg enlistment leave, probably late in

Milan at 7:35 a. m. (Indianapolis

| Twenty-five Year Club of the Indiana Lumbermen’s Mutual Insur|wrist watch to Miss Hudson, who

ganization,

was the “incident” between U. 8S. The * 56-year-old ex - diplomat reply from the bride at the other|D. McKellar (D. Tenn.) and pub-|tenced to death by the Japanese

Nashville Ten-

—president- Will Remy and ended up in day—Dec. 31, Y to make Mr. Beeker chief. Two years

hey January; 194F;-when-he ‘was. removed. to. make. way. for. Chief... i] - Sanders. A few Months later, Jesse, who had been on the force

and is in charge of the guards at Indiana Gear Co. He and his wife reside in a small bungalow at 411 N Wallace St.

est cop.’ But he got caught in ifford Beeker and Safety Board — . Me had been Jan. I, 1943

and served from Jaa. 30, 1945,

ness. He's now somewhat better

Indiana may get a-seven-man state tuberculosis council to im- ° prove -the care and -treatment-of —— its. tuberculosis patients if the 1949 General Assembly heeds a suggestion of the Indiana Tuberculosis Association. :

creation of the council "5 estab lish closer integration of theecare and treatment of tuberculosis T patients in indiana by fixing re--sponsibility in an advisory body.”

Miss Helen Hudson, 727 N.

|Time). Waiting on the other end tof the line was Dina Macchetta, Gl ) thing like that happened, but I Jladstone Ave, ‘was . recently i y 2 - r-old blond! ! h t a, anything| the. SErSeanE's 24 yen 4 ‘honored at a dinner of the don’t want to say y

about it.” '

Mrs. Freida Johansen, expectant! mother who was marooned on an| ice-covered lake when her plane, was forced down last Tuesday, has given birth to a 8ix-pound,| none-ounce girl at Providence Hospital in Anchorage, Alaska.

Jacob Deshazer, 35 once sen-

ance Co. I. G. Saltmarsh, presi-

has served 25 years with the or-

Published reports of a one-blow Sen. K.

the as a member of Doolittle's raiders, returned to Japan today as a missionary to do “good for evil.”|

Mrs. Henry Ford II was reported “doing fine” today follow-

lisher Silliman Evans of

nessean, were confirmed today by the partici- 2

fram pxposure.” January. He said he expected to pants. ing the birth a seven-pound,| His ' "condition otherwise ~was|be sent overseas shortly after the| It was report- three-ounce baby boy at Henry| said to be satisfactory. Attend-|first of the year. ed Sen. McKel- Ford Hospital in Detroit. It's] ing physicians had reported pre-| When he first arrived at thellar and Mr. Ev- their first son and third child. | viously that they would be unable church, the sergeant read Unitedians met in a Dr. Charles Myers, superintend-]

to determine for several days Press dispatches telling of his whether amputation of any. fin- bride and her family waiting in gers or toes-would be necessary. the Milan U. }. offices yesterday. (The Washington TimueHeralt | He laughted nervously, but hapquoted unidentified physicians at-|pily, carefully folded the wire tending Mr. Welles as saying his|copy and put it in his wallet. long exposure to sub-freezing| “Gee,” he said. temperatures had apparently im-| Sgt. Kent arrived last night] paired circulation in his legs. Both after a trip by bus and automo-| may have to be amputated below bile from Barksdale Field. He is| the knees if more serious campli- on a three-day pass. He planned) cations set in, the dogtors were to spend the first day of his|

quoted as saying.) {

|“noneymoon” .by visiting a few McKellar was

Washington hotel recently and Mr. Evans was quoted as say-

ing: “Senator, o. wmoKellar

ent of General Hospital, is on the sick list himself these days. He's| been bitten by the flu bug which] has been going around town. He's| we have differed up and around at his home but is|

politically, but there is no reason still feeling shaky. why tliere should be any enmity . W. Stuart Symington, U. 8. Air between us.” Sen. cKellar's secretary, said today in London) reply, it was said, was “a smash- the Russians never had inter-| ing blow to Evans’ face.” feréd seriously with the Berlin In Washington last night Sen.|airlift. He was asked: ! Wed 'as saying! ‘Has there been any seriqys ine

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that “all I can say is that some-|cidents deliberately provoked by

ger bakeries in Cincinnati, Day-

the Russians?” “None that I know of, or have been informed of,” he replied.

Mr. Hockemeyer éarl F. Hockemeyer, 119 N. Somerset St., has been named bakery superintendent -of the i Kroger Baking €o., succeeding Ralph R. Gray. Employed by Kroger since 1930, Mr. Hockemeyer became bread and cake foreman in 1947. He is married and has one child. Mr. Gray, 813 N. Layman Ave. is retiring after 24 years with the firm. He has been operating Kro--

ton and Cleveland. He became bakery superintendent -in Indianapolis in 1939, He is married and attended Ohio Wesleyan “University. :