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the foliage and tossed out in the Sure, Cwristmas is over and there are things tb tink about. Tr rere ars other you're absolutely right. You couldn't be more right but did you ever stop and look twice at a discarded tree? A tree with a bit of angel's hair. still on the branches or a few strands of silver Bing
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No, no, no . . . a Christmas tree shouldn't be tossed in the ash can, Well? ra
a.lot to keep working for in the future. is i
Life
great day comes with so much excitegood things that no one wants the
minutes to keep ticking away. If only time would
the
no other season like There couldn’t be.
Relatives, neighbors, friends come over and|
stand still on such occasions, dad thinks. There Christmas season.
admire the tree. Bonds of friendship, love and good fellowship become stronger and lots of memories are made. Through it all the Christ. mas tree stands, the center of attraction, the symbol for the good work, hope and things that are deep within us all when the carolers sing
of the “Silent Night.”
Then Comes the Sad Ending
THEN, it's all over.
The decorations are
taken down. The tree is handled roughly and there's no sparkle in dad's eye when he hauls it out in the alley and gives it a final shunt
against the trash pile.
The tree has served its
purpose. Nothing more than a prop in a bigger scheme of things, that's about all it was. The
+ cycle—beginning, middle and the end-is com-
plete. Kind of sad. Well, I guess all endings
can’t be happy.
It's a cinch I can’t go around picking up old
little Tough, I know, but you've had it.
‘Double Jeopardy’
trees and taking them where all good Christmas trees should go. So long, tree.
By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Jan. 11—A young man I know, man who is called up today is supposed to -be
wh was declared a flat 4-F during the last war, potentially able to handle a bayonet and gun and
has just received a cheerful invitation from his
tncle to come play soldier, and the young man Our young man, if he ever mislaid his cheaters, ‘would be more dangerous with a weapon in his
is a little bitter. He may have a point. —This-fellow-has been pretty close to. childhood. He wears glasses with lenses, and without them, he couldn't tell an undraped blond from a fire-plug at 10 feet. When he loses his cheaters, he has to sit until somebody comes to find them for him, At the start of the war—he was about 17, then, and the product of a military school, he went huffing down to local headquarters to volunteer for heroism. They took one short eye test and steered him out the door. ‘A year or so later, he got a summons from his draft board. Same story. He couldn't see well enough to replace a WAC. Complete 4-F-— 80 4-effy that they never reviewed his case for the duration. He completed college, and this year has bounced. off on what looks like a pleasant career.
Likened to Double Jeopardy
NOW, AS HE GETS his teeth into economics, the board crooks a finger at him and by some mysterious quirk, he is pronounced 1-A, although his eyes, haven't improved. They never will improve, : The young man says that, according to logic, if he wasn’t good enough to bleed and die when there was a war going, he is unable to see how he's good enough now to play toy soldier for fun. He says it's like being tried in double" jeopardy, and he dislikes the idea. on Ostensibly the new draft does not contain a limited service. They have what they call a profile A, B and C, with the low-totem guys in the last category. Technically, however, the young
blind since inch-thick So far as I can make out, physical / demands by the armed forces have relaxed on/into Howard's head. some counts, tightened fitness on others. There is more attention, now to a man’s psychological fitness for a uniform, and possibly less on some|him, Frank Nitti,
to indulge in violent physical exercise.
hand than a platoon of unreconstructed Nazis.
phases of his physical qualifications.
For instance, a man who can tell the difference whose|f
between light and dark with one eye, and
other eye can see at 20 feet what normal eyes
discern at 100, is in.
Called Up 9 Different Times -
even as a legatee from the last war,
occasions before they let him alone.
The unhurried peacetime draft owes a greater)
individual responsibility to his labor pool than the . op I think, O'Rourke departed to lay the jetters, mailing them to friends
old, frantic wartime grab-all. Especially,
H with rage -and-
: 1 1 TOLD THERE IS NO such thing as a’ permanent 4-F, © ; This is reasonable in the case of men who’ have replaced missing teeth, gained weight, or otherwise re- only pseudonym in the story.) paired deficiencies which kept them out of the conflict. But in the case of basically unqualified does, but we don't know who does men—the eye guys, for instance—seems to me/what or how some things are Capone. Pat was given Room 724, your line?” « they should be left alone. There were too many done. Can you find out?” revisions of standards in the last draft—I know one fellow who was called up on nine different
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in Brooklyn and somebody took a.knife to him to quiet him down. He was having trouble with his family, and a distant relative, Johnny Torrio, brought him to Chicago and got him a job in Big Jim Colisimo’s restaurant as a mop boy. He wasn't smart enough to be a bus boy. He got $25 a week for cleaning up the place. & =» ® ¢
“AL IS a fathcad. He is one mobster Who doesn’t care about money. He wants {0 be-the Big Guy, and if he-ean take the bows he doesn’t care much who gets the cash. “He is sensitive about his source of income,” Mr. Madden continued. “The only time he ever came close to being nabbed for one of his murders—and he used to commit them, if he doesn’t now-—was because he lost his temper when somebody accused him of living off women. It was in 1924. A hood named Joe Howard slapped the ears off an old Dbrothel-keeper, Jack Guzik. Jack is now Al's third in command, right behind Frank Nitti, “Howard beat up Guzik and Guzik went crying to his old friend Al. Al went looking for Howard and found him in Hymie Jacob's saloon at 2300 South Wabash, Howard was talking to three men when Capone entered and he turned to greet Scarface with, ‘Hello, AL’ , * ~-» - f .,,. WALRED up and said, ‘What's ea of picking on i Guzik? He grabbed Be ng > Tou bystander seems to think the shoulder and Howard laughed, '" ° "uy. at him, saying, ‘Go back to your|te)] Boo-Boo why, and Boo-Boo girls, Dago.' Capone went white|gian't ask. From
Guilty? Al Capone. leaving Federal Court in Chicago, scratches his ear in amazement.
and which will not return to O'Rourke's mind until a notice in
» » - 3 4 : . 8 =» ‘Decide to Joi n Up Hotel Is Capone Camp Madden to take i hin f an investigation of Al, similar] FAT WAS now ready. = to that on Ralph. Then I turned He got off in Chicago, called to- Pat O'Rourke. (That's the Madden's office and took a tax to the Lexington Hotel. He signed the register “Michael Lepito.”
The Lexington Hotel-was Camp
“Pat, we know what the gang]
right next to Phil d’Andrea, Ca“I guess 50,” he grinned. |pone’s chief bodyguard. i “How?” I asked. | Pat started hanging around the| - nen» | lobby of the Lexington. He asked | LL JOIN Capone's gang,” he no questions and was asked none. answered -and grinned again,
{ Pat was writing himself a lot of {
to make.the first examination definitive and inso-|STOURdWork for weaseling his in Philadelphia and having them
far as possible, a permanent record.
Certainly there is no justice in lowering stardards to embrace men who were rejected as unfit in the last one, merely because of the temporary absence of a declared enemy. If we are building a functional peacetime army, it is only valuable
way into the Capone gang. His|majled back to himself. first stop was Philadelphia, where $e was pleased to discover that he looked up Max “Boo-Boo” Hoff, somebody was occasionally open-| the Al Capone of the City of ing a letter. Brotherly Love. s 5» When Boo-Boo was something] “THE FLOWER and chivalry
when constructed on a wartime basis of physical Of an apprentice thug O'Rourke of American hoodlumhood passed
evidence.
Going Up
By Frederick eC; Othman
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11—Everything’s inflated these days, including the budget. The blamed thing weighs six and a half pounds flat. It contains 1428 pages and all I can say is that it'll be no easy job for our government to spend $41.9 billion in the next year: Getting rid of that kind It's also difficult to comprehend, but I may be able to give you some idea of the task ahead for the spenders by plucking out a féw of the places where our dollars will go in fiscal 1950. Let's first consider the billions, themselves. These have got to be printed on special paper impregnated with threads of red -and blue silk. The Treasury figures this paper will cost $1,461,250, For printing pretty pictures on same with green ink the bill will be an even $17 million. The longer I pored over the budget's fine print the sorer got my eyes and the more worried I became about the transportation of things. Every agency in the government has an jtem: Transportation of things. : Moving things around in the Navy will cost $75 million. The bill for moving things at the White “House will be $48. The U. 8. Senate Intends to. spend $3000 for packing boxes in which to haul its things, the mysterious things in all cases are
unspecified. !
Putting Out Fires Yet to Burn SECRETARY OF INTERIOR CAP KRUG Intends to spend $250,000 putting out fires (which have not yet begun to blaze) In inactive coal mines. The Postmaster General figures he'll have to hand out $55,000 in rewards for the capture of fice robbers. The governor of Alaska says e's got to have $64,500 to fix up his house and $1800 to buy a new sedan. The pipe orgpn at West. Point is out of tune
and the cost of patching that is included in the $6,280,000 for running the military academy. The Navy wants $2000 for dusting and polishing its collection of ship models at Annapolis and $416,000
for laundrying the shirts of its cadets,
For maintaining order among the Indians the
Jnaimns, 5122 Jewish Assembly |
bill. will be $164,500; for educatin million; conserving Indians’ heal
catering to Indians’ welfare, $604,000, and develop-
ing Indians’ art, $37,000.
We will spend $2,005,500 propagating fish; other delegates, will attend the
| arrested him. But, like so many beforé Pat's eyes. Machine Gun |of Pat's victims, Boo-Boo became Jack McGurn, Tough Tony Ca-| an O'Rourke fan. Boo-Boo and|peizzo, Jack and Sam Guzik, Paul| Capone had been friends, but Ricca, Frank . “The Enforcer” were now on the outs. {Nitti, “Louis -Campagnia, known O'Rourke told Boo-Boo he as “Little New York,” and the wanted to know all about every- Big Guy himself. thing that went on In Philadel-| For weeks nobody spoke to
and in recent years. He didn't] One afternoon a gentleman
Three to Attend
Julian Freeman, Morris Good-| man and Sidney Cahn of "Indian- | apolis, with approximately 1000 | |
Educators in all social fields]
$1,316,000 investigating fish, and $10,000 keeping l fish statistics. For protecting seals we must Jee 67S ee tiane end Wer. | throughout the state will gather]
in $481,300 and for Investigating seals,’ $37.400. For controlling wild animals, from lions to mice,
the fee will be $1,080,000. Rum Business on the Bum
THE rum business is so bad that the Virgin Islands Co., a federal corporation, expects to lose
$247,100, for the winter trade in New York. -
Of the $740 million for the Atomic Energy Inspecting locomotives will cost $667,000 and meat,
Commission, $8000 will go for newspapers. $12,577,000.
Nut investigations (this phrase is the budget’s) will cost us $280,540; I gather these will concern pecans, filberts, and possibly almonds. Controlling pink bollworms, golden nematodes, sweet potato weevils and phony peaches will nick the taxpayers $3,219,000 and probably will be cheap at the price. The t of Agriculture has 3900 automobiles, but it wants 760 new ones at a cost of
Recently it went into the bay rum trade, methods however, and has hopes. It's also raising tomatoes
fare Funds — Friday through at the second annual conference Sunday in Philadelphia. on Adult’ Education by Purdue! {. The assembly will map joint and Indiana Universities Thurs-| (plans for raising the money re- day and Friday in Purdue Me-| quired to meet the needs of 1046 morial Union building in West Israel and other overseas ‘and Lafayette. local localities, They will explore, After the welcome by Frank C. of obtaining greater pockema, vice president of Purcommunity - participation in set-| que University, purpose and proting national agency policies and cequre of the conference will be programs. Speakers will discuss explained. means of eliminating the annual,
fied national fund raising
“nd | versity, will present “The Case
the model Jewish community. Adult Ed ” r Gducation, Mviurey 8. Fas, special rep- n.ne1 discussions throughout the resentative of the Provisional |. ning afternoon and the next Government of Jsrael ‘to the .
UN, will address the assembly. Miss Pauline French, 650 E.
13th Bt., director of adult activi-
$1,064,400. And if you want your own copy of the Ww. J. MacNeill Honored ties in Indianapolis Public
budget, either for study or as a doorstop, the cost of that is inflated, too. Last year it was $5, but it only weighed 8% pounds. This year it's a
quarter of a pound heavier and $1 costlier.
a Bchools, will represent libraries By Foundrymen Here || "i ".hiwii of 10 phases of William J. MacNeill, assistant aquit education Thursday after to the president of Dayton Mal-| noon, Presiding are W. A. Knapp
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Television to Link East, Midwest Today
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“Normally, the roar does not carry more than two or three miles. However, boatmen on the Ni agara River have heard the roar of the falls when) T A oLs UP TOKYO DUTY
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Adult: Education Proceeds of Ice-O-Rama | Conference Set Again Will Go fo Polio Fund pie yrs
HEARS Oa Baker Brownell, professor of crises which have hampered uni-| pijiosophy at- Northwestern Uni-|side mezzanine and 60 cents for children and pupils through the| 8 Indianapolis, will serve as
develop a platform for bullding tor Community Organization in ed tax. The prices will remain the ' fOr last Saturday's tryouts. followed by|same for next month's show. i
at the monthly man and C. E: Dammon will pre].
Television is preparing to link recently at Methodist Hospital, |their present home,
vice president of Electric Steel Work ties in with points as faritient in the same hospital, injured offered the house to any organizawas west as Chicago, Milwaukee and| when she was struck by 4 motor tion that would use it as a center
in New Brig. Gen. Whitfield P. Sheppard, to Indianapolis; Cincinnati, Day-{was hit at 16th and Illinois Sts. wiring. City officials attended During assistant commandant of ton and Louisville will depend on |by ; ng: oon¥ . the the Ft. Benning, Ga. Infantry|the development of the industry Renshaw, 28, of 1912 E. 65th St./lald the cornerstone, in which School, arrived in Japan today|itself and the demand in this|The hospital ,
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Probably the family that had the tree was large and in a tion to have a fine Christmas. The kind of & Ghristmas everyone ought to have.| You know, where the family is all together, and they get a terrific charge out of decorating it. I could just see the father, proud as proud can be, coming in ihe door with it. He's tops that night and none of the kids can do anything wrong. At Joast it doom: seem wrong Whi the: : Accidents will happen. The little i Net Inexorably Closes In on ‘Scarface Al’ Ba athe queen of the house brings in ail the| = AS Another Agent Pores Over Sets of Books decorations and a souple ot uses of new omen, © " A Treasury Department agent with little regard for his perEveryone : ] md since sonal safety joined the Capone mob in Chicago to bore from kids get stay up Jase. : bg stay within as the government pressed its Herculean task of getting up, they couldn't go to sleep anyway. (The Camp-| yh, goods on Scarface Al and his horde of hoodlums. He acted, bell soup people would do well to put out a lttle| tyixed and dressed like them, rubbed elbows with cold-blooded heavier cardboard box. for alley gazing at ani yillers to learn their secrets. Meanwhile, outside other agents Sd hiatus tree. Darn near fell over when under Intelligence Unit Chief Elmer L. lrey were digging out the - The tres. ™ ah its in the Sets t B Spstied prion Jor Capone. Nut: Tor murder or theft or front room. It's the prettiest tree in the block, a * ie ‘in the nigiborhiod, wed, Jn: the elty. Heck, it's the ey ELuER L. IREY, as told to. William J. Clocum : t Arthur Madden had made a professional = Long after the lights are out, the children inthobby of Al Capone for. almost a decade. He filled et their meas ail neg ult gs snd Iagine Whats Sentivan of our desires, : going to be under 's same for mom an '“Al Capone was a Brooklyn hoodlum,” Mr. Madd Id us: “He * dad. Christmas, this year, they say, will be the wasn't a very good hoodlum. TIE gem told reach ine best yet. There's a lot to be thankful for and|gunner in the war. He got it because he was showing off at a dance
Al Capone's palatial estate in — Miami and (inset) Scarface ; himself. 4 of the receipts of a Cicero game bling house.
” ” . AGENT TESSEM took it from there. The March, 1930, Grand Jury handed down a secret indictment charging Nitti with accumulating $742,887.81 in 1925, 1926 and 1027 without filing—much less paying ~<any tax. This secret indictment was evidently no secret to The "Enforcer, because he had depart. { . ed for parts unknown. He was on the lam,
. . . § ~ WITH NITTI unavailable,» we | proceeded to put the screws to Guzik. ‘Like Nitti—but unlike Al ; ~Jakes had signed a few checks N = pri was drawing down profits Johnny Torrio . . . got Al a job from gam houses, as a restaurant mop boy. at ; we deposited
iy le of aliases and lyn, ind to thugs he was always wn in the form of cashwh. “ Al's a smart guy, all right,”
fer's checks when bills were to be paid or profits divided. ‘We knew handwriting :
the alcoholic told O'Rourke. from | experts that 1“They ain't never goin’ to get|/the cashier of one shop, Fred nothin’ on him.” Ries, had been depositing and The friend was the \ thing is businesslike. The withdrawals, we also knew, line for AL gets | Enforcer) Nitti tries fo of line, AI tells The Enforcer; Ries around so to testi
next thing you know a but ; of guys get off , incidentally, had Jake Guazik,
{ ~ enforce a point of argument. LJ BAGGED IN a St. Louis hotel, -
| of sa 4 the train from { | Detroit or New York or St. Louls, [mown as Mike Kelly, but bap-iang The Enforcer tells them who (pias did his talking on {tised Michael Speringa, broke| has to go. The guys do the job 1930. Twelve days oe ot. 18, the sil ith tle, “ 'sjand go home. The pri ! ence with a gentle Wats 4 a go e price is $2500 was arrested. Oct. 3 he was In-
dicted, convicted Nov, 19 and sent’ off to jail for five years.
: ~ ” a Pat looked at Kelly a moment and drawled, “What's yours?” In Another Hotel Pat knew that the family-man type of gangster frequently lived
Jelly considered for a second] REFORE PAT O'Rourke slith- hicago suburb ana aid. “I work around here.” gored into the hoodium-filled 16bby n Bet) bo a i Be Ps Au e down a bit, My line, {of the Hotel Lexington, Frank| ot f ys oh ne 1 ie Said, is keeping quiet. : | Wilson had checked into a Chi- Yul ain mn or Halegied Hviug petve ere you from? {cago hotel of nicer repute. Wil- - te ie -Be: Sound _ Slowly O'Rourke explained. son gathered all ‘sorts of books ? Originally I'm from Brooklyn. Iifrom gambling joints, houses of came out here from“Philadelphia.”|{ll fame, breweries and other = = - {Megal - industries then flourishing Plays Cards With Boys to and Mvind Sicngo: KELLY NODDED and walked many a Avert a 2 Jay sos pay away. After a couple of days Kelly hooks. I was commuting to Chi- ; yu passing the time of day. gago practically every week-end, yaad Appeared 4x ext he was playing cards with and one week end early in 1930) iyo’ : Kelly and some of the boys. Wilson sald, “I think we've got O’Rqurke felt he was accepted Nitti and Guzik.” ; when ‘a drunken junior grade| Frank Nitti, the one-time bar: mobster sang a maudlin song her, was a Brooklyn importation of praise about the wisdom|like his boss. of Al Brown. Al Brown was the| However, Frank made a slight error, He indorsed "a chee he came to Chicago from Brook- | $1000 which we knew Sec" or
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Times to Turn Over Receipts of Gala
: 2 A Show to Aid Fight on Infantile Paralysis | + George Leamnson, Tell City, By ART WRIGHT {was named editor last night of Net proceeds Trom the annual Times Toe-O-Rama show Feb, 24 ‘he Butler University Collegian, ve-0)- eb. 24 again will be given to the Infantile Paralysis Fund. campus daily newspaper, at the t will be the third year that The Times has turned over to the semi-annual dinner of the Jour-
{Polio fund the returns from the low, popular admission charge for nalism Club held in the university
the all-amateur ice extravaganza. cafeteria; =
In the past two years, the Polio fund has received a total of, Miss Mary Caroline O'Dell, Ine
$7393.39 from The Times lce-O- — HE ———— gy lis ed Rama. The capacity ¢rowds Students and adults, including | 40 Ye amid Jaragig
which saw the two-hour show in | those who have sent registration the Fairgrounds Coliseum paid ?'®0ks to The Times and those| Alderson, editorial director, bargain prices of $1.20 for box who have not_signed. the blanks. | ames awter, Indianapolis, wii and parquet chairs, 85 cents for Saturday, 8 a. m.— Pre-school | *¢ telegraph editor, and: Thom:
sports editor. Other staff appointments for Sunday, 5 p. m.—Sevent! [the spring term, beginning Feb. 2, |elghth graders and high schoo are Kenneth Bush and Miss Mari. |students who missed last Sun. V0 Hotz both of Indianapolis, as-
end mezzanine. All prices includ- *Xth grade who failed to report
500 to Take Part
At least 500 .local skaters of day's tryouts. {sistant sports editors; Robert . all ages will take part in. the gala| All skaters are eligible, includ. CHAPMAN, sports columnist; Miss event next month, judging from Ing the beginners, The only re.|Marjean McKay, Indianapolis,
the record number who’ reported striction is that they m feature editor. for tryouts last weekend, amateurs. y ust be Also Miss Jean Bancroft, Ane This week is the final week for! tte ets govaon; aosinl editasi, Miss Pally tryouts and registrations. Fol- RI: “ochran, Anderson, and Miss June lowing is the schedule for evans Blind Couple Bodley, East ‘Chicago, assistant at the coliseum: ; | . social editors; Robert Braun, InTomorrow, 11 p. m. — College Builds a Home Slanapalis, ames MmanLer Mark! chet——— Sh —————Tho—_—_——— enderson, Indianapolis, business Melvin Jones, a former building ‘manager; Dale Hal, :
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Shortly after visiting her son pleted building a two-story house : who underwent a major operation all by themselves in Tampa, Fla., Nam, Tergusos, Jndianapolis or-
Discuss Convention The coming 1948 Young crat convention and new CAT, {for helping zational plans were Sunday at a district
Mrs. Bertie Zaring, 76, of 722 E.| Then, after the nine-year job 48th St, lastnight became a pa- was finished. the sightless couple
: others who are physPolice reported Mrs. Zaring suf- ically handi A {fered a fractured left leg and In a near-perfect job, the two/the Y Democrats of J [possible internal injuries when she did everything except the eleetriclin’ w Canthe city
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today her these words were inscribed: condition as “fair,” ~A “It can be done.”
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