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the pay stations revealed a during the early evening hours, 6:30 to o'clock. The company had made no noon hour, Neither did the surthat the origin of the early evening calls where there were loud voices and

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“What was the nature of the calls?” was my n.

questio The official wasn't sure but he did: venture to #ay that the calls were of the “usual” type,

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Love Goes Calling I found out the boy was calling he didn’t work in an office. the he worked wouldn't allow a longladen conversation,

One swering a question, her son was in for dinner. Her husband wasn't in yet.

found out it hadn't to “I'm going to have a cup of coffee,” she said, “and I'm calling home If it's not there, I'm going back to the store.” Not all people using the pay stations co-oper-

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ate. In fact, some give yon the impression it's none of your business what they're calling about. A couple of people made their impressions quite emphatic. Must be the stress of the times. My report and recommendations will be sent to the phone company. Conditions: Busy; subject matter, the “usual” things; recommendations, calls should be made between 6 and 7 a. m. or carrier pigeons should be made available,

noon hour at pay stations. “Hurry up, you, I want to call my girl.” By VICTOR PETERSON " Times Staff Writer . ! ® . You are Joe or Eddie or Aun All Hail, Harry By Robert C. Ruark ma was a nice fellow. So was - Eddie.

NEW YORK, Jan. 18—In a country which has special"weeks to do honor to dogs and.cats and flowers and special ‘days for Army, Navy, Air Force and motherhood, it has always seemed a shame that the collective citizen should be feted only on that baleful date, Mar, 15, Tax deadline day, or All's Hollow Eve, gets its name-from the vacant status of the bank account. It signifies the meek little man’s vital importance to his nation. * Its slogan has to do with the nobility of giving until it hurts, and its insignia is three golden balls rampant on a Morris Plan bank note. This is the

* little man’s day, when he thrusts the fruits of his

toil down the maw of government, We are throwing a big shivaree for Uncle Harry “in Washington, come , in which the new deck of destiny moulders will be rifled for all to see and tq admire. Somewhere in the festivities should be, prominently mounted on a spangled float, a little man named Elmer or Oscar. His face should be covered with white silk, to preserve his anonymity.

Rent Receipts, Doctor Bills. LONG, G * robes

his thinning hair. Around his feet. on the dais, should be a montage of doctor's bills, rent receipts, income tax blanks, butcher bills, tax receipts, grocery bills, mortgages and parking-ticket summonses. As this little man passes In review, the admiring throngs should scream, “All Hail, Brother!” and throw their battered hats intosthe air. For

- this little guy is the true hero, the true martyr,

the final indorser of Thursday's big show for

»" There has been an intreasing tendency, in recent years, to ignore this little guy As a neces-

sary nuisance. They take his money as a matier of course, and blandly scatter it into the breeze. They reward his faith with a stone. They continue to take the administration of his government out of his hands, and often pervert it to their own ends. They act without his knowledge or consent, on an assumption of omniscience which is often as fallible as any little man's decision. They patronize the little fellow as a country cousin, when he is actually a prefty. solid character. : : If they whip up a war, out of their vast wisdom, they stay home to administer it and send the small guy out to fight it. They also demand that he pay for it—before, after and 4 When he muffies a personal selfishness for what he feels is the greater good of all—that selfishness is rewarded by a hand plunged deeper into his pocket.

Bullied, Gagged, Overridden

MR. TRUMAN might remember, in his Thursday glory, that he himself is a little man elected by the little men, over what seemed an impassable barrier of . massive Republican reaction

conceit, -

Our little friend has two houses full of rela- REST is an old, old newsto speak for paper . Ascreech of brakes, momentarily in Washington. relatives the thud of impact and then the have, in the past, been bullied and and ambulance.

overridden by a powerful few, with delusions of global grandeur and a sweeping contempt for the freight-carrier. The 81st Congress might brood a bit on the importance of being hired by this little fellow, in a great demonstration of true political and civil liberty. They might bear him in mind when tempted to gamble his bankruptcy on the dicta of a few cloud-walkers. : This little* man to ‘date has been a faithful vassal of his nation, and it seems to me the time has come to reward him with respect.

Weeks fend Weeks By Frederick C. Othman Sheed and the twilight made dis-

and|and into the street.

Indiana trafic accident ports are written with blood of Hoosiers. In this third article of a series, The Times has torn a page from the book of death. There is a new chapter eyery 24 hours. Three dead comprise each cast. ’ -

And Aunt Ella, that's what the neighborhood. youngsters called her, was one of those kindly old souls who always had a full cookie jar. i The day didn't start any differently for them than any other day of the year. 2 ©” . . THEY DIDN'T ENOW they were the three Hoosiers marked

hours. Joe went to work, Eddie to his

It was about 3 in the afternoon before Aunt Elia had tfme to slip across the street to the neighborhood grocery. She never bothered to go to the corner. Hers was a quiet street. An automobile and delivery truck. were parked in front of her home.

Aunt Ella was an old lady. She died in the hospital-—a broken hip, internal injuries and shock. Joe was killed about 5:45 p. m. on the highway while on his way home from work. He got a late start from the office. mised his boy, the oldest of

that model airplane tonight. ¥ * .

JOE KNEW he was going too fast. It was ‘an unreasonable

WASHINGTON,. Jan. 18-The Department of Commerce comes up with the harrowiiig news that there isn't a single, solitary day left this year that a man can call his own, Or week, either, All the days of the year are dedicated to worthy purposes, such as honoring cats, wearing neckties, eating figs, admiring sweaters, looking at birds, drinking tea (both hot and cold), veverIng grandmothers, publicizing onions, standing up straight, sleeping in hotels, just sleeping,. using honey on hot cakes, smelling flowers and a few bundred other things I hope to mention in a minute. Take today, which is ‘a little busy.” We are in the midst of Idaho potato and onion week, Jaycee (meaning Junior Chamber of Commerce) week, large-size week, march of dimes, church and economic life week, national civil service. week, national coin machine week, printing week and national thrift week. National crochet week begins Saturday. eh . These celebrations are self-explanatory, except possibly large-size week, which has nothing whatever to do with fat ladies. It means rather that this is the week chain druggists are supposed to push the large, economy sizes.

‘Hot and Ice Tea Weeks’

NATIONAL FUR care week, dedicated to keeping the moths out of the mink, begins on the 26th; which also is Douglas MacArthur Day in Arkansas. February is linen month (buy some new sheets): Feb. 8 inaugurates fig (eat more of) and heart (treat it gently) week. Everybody's supposed to drink hot tea during the week of Feb. 11 and iced tea the week of July 1. ’ : There's a national apple week and also apple day. The sweetening boys have latched onto Apr.-17-23 as honey for breakfast week and Oct. . 24-30 as national honey week, when it is advised also to eat honey at lunch and dinner. Anybody who wants to appropriate a day, week, or month for his own purposes can drop a

The Quiz Master

A recent question: “Can a President and Vice President be elected from the same state?” was snswered as follows: “Yes.” This was incorrect. The answer Is “No.” The Constitution provides that “the electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President President; one 6f whom at least shall

a inhabitant of the same state with themselves . . .” - oly * * * wheat domesticated? The aeigin of wheat is unknown. Its cultiva- © Hom recorded history, I - monuments indicate that it was domes od §t & very early pesiod.

are British cohsols? ‘

They are bonds, like United States government bor wi

line to H. B. McCoy, director of the Office of Domestic ‘Commerce, who keeps track of. same.

There are no days, weeks or months left that| Other cars were injured. The ac-

haven't been taken over by somebody, but a little more doubling up won't hurt. I was thinking of notifying Mr, McCoy that keep out of Othman’s hair week was about to be celebrated, but it turns out that F. Lander Moorman of Douglas, Ga., has a better idea. He has grabbed Apr. 1-8 as national leave us alone week, when a fellow can go about his business without beg solicited ‘by organizers of other days and weeks. Only trouble with this, as Mr. Moorman doubtless has discovered long since is that Apr.'1 also is bird and flower day in Tennessee. The same day begins national laugh week, perfect shipping month, national baseball week, national peanut week and national Negro health week. Then comes sleep week, when the furniture dealers exhibit the latest inventions in mattresses; national wildflower day; national donut (that the way the donut moguls spell it) week, and national cutlery week. Buy a new butcher knife, preferably of American manufacture.

‘I’opes for Free Diamonds’ : RAISIN WEEK, foot health week, dairy week,

luggage (your suit case is showing) week, save

the horse week (which also is for saving mules), and silver week (having to do with knives and forks) are not far behind.

A maker of shoulder braces is sponsoring na- boys

tional posture week. The jewelers have a diamond week, when I hope they intend to distribute free samples. June is drink more milk month, Oct. 12 is farmer's day (a legal holiday in Florida), while Nov. 1 has been taken over by Mrs. Nellie Verne Burt McPherson of Bement, Ill, to appreciate authors and inspire others to put pen to paper. National automatic m week, when slot machines presumably will not gulp nickles without giving value received, Dec. 1. And I'm polishing up my eyeglasses for the week of Sept. 26: national sweater week.

cut in fast enough as he tried to |pass. Three cars piled up. Joe died instantly. Three in the

[cident happened a half mile from

{built for the family outside the! city limits. Joe has no future. It's a bleak future for his family.

. # . IT WAS ABOUT 2 a. m. when Eddie's dad stumbled sleepily to the telephone. It was long distance. Eddie was dead. Eddie talked a bit just before he died at the scene of his overturned. automobile. His college basketball team had played away | from home. It was late when the carload of boys hit the open road and Eddie was dead tired. He yawned repeatedly and another youth begged to take the

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way. Startled awake, turned sharply .toward the pavement but there was a three-inch drop from the cement to the berm. The car careened crazily, then

rolled. Eddie 4 The other walked without a scratch. Eddie would have

graduated this June.

~ ~ = EVERY DAY-—Seven days a week, 365 days a year—three Hoosiers leave home never to return. They are the trafic victims you read about. The day after the crash you read the obituaries unless you are one of the next three marked for death.

r » » WE LIVE in a state with a traffic

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What is the meaning of the ‘name of the banyin tree? It was so called in allusion to the use of the

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The name is derived from the fact that origl-njey nally the purpose of this knife was to make and sutomobile, the

places us among the 14 worst in {the nation. We are the only {state 80 blighted north of the (Mason-Dixon line from the East coast to the Colorado border.’ Indiaba’s yearly “murder on the highway” ratio is 28.7 deaths per 100,000 population. | Statistics prove that only 10 per. cent of the traffic accidents are caused by mechanical failures. Road and highway conditions account for another 10 per cent.

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pro three children, he would help with imile from

{ tig, who was picked up dead {Joe's new “home which he hadion White Plains Rd. one night,

wheel. But Eddie refused. Then hig.time - mobster he dozed for.a second and the When we finally got him before! right wheels slipped off the high-ione jury he got

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" 10-Year Term and $20,000 Fine Put Mobster 4" Out of Beer Business; Schultz Shot Down

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millions available in beer, Building a brewery during wanted the

Slocum for the hoodlums who

prohibition was just a little too raw. The solution was

buy old breweries which had closed or buy breweries that were

Dutch, Schultz who had a nice

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breweries operated in Paterson, Union City and Elizabeth. Waxie’'s larger factories ran day and night, but only a truck|

or two of beer left the brewery

in a week. And that was near

reling plants in garages a halifthe brewery. Waxie pumped it through pressure hoses that ran in the sewers. »n . BOTH SCHULTZ and Gordon kept a gruesome collection of] triggermen and gougers to ride the beer trucks and keep hi-| jackers at bay. Gordon had such discipliners| as Murray Moll, the St. Louls|

a victim of Dutch’s gunners. George Aarondt was another | Gordon killer. Schultz bad such worthies as Rocco Delarmi and Dannie Iamascia, who was silly enough| to shoot it out with New. York police when the officers attempted (successfully) to pick up Danny's boss, Dutch. Dutch came out of the scrape! unhurt, although we took out a lien against the $18,600 the police removed from the Dutch man’s pocket. That was the first of a long!

had a brewery in Yonkers and worked with

movements. Beer was about to become legal and beer barons Schultz and Gordon found themselves with more potential customers than they could supply. Both men

beer. The hundreds of thousands gq 4e uests, n demands, of of gallons of real Deer left-via, hdd Fequests, the > He had|the sewers to bottling and bar-

Beer became legal Apr. 1. On Apr. 4 we heard one of the Schultz henchmen tell another, “The Dutchman says he'll take care of Waxie when the time comes.” a The time came on Apr. 13, when Waxie clambered out a window of the Carteret Hotel in Elizabeth, N. J., while in the very next room somebody stuck a gun in the ear of one of Waxie's chief lieutenants, Max Greenberg, and blew off the top of his head. Five days later Waxie lost another ranking aid when his ace trigger-man, Murray Moll, was cut down, » . » GORDON'’S OUP of woe spilled all over the place a few days later when the grand jury returned indictments for tax evasion against him. Yio We sent ‘Pat O'Rourke out to bring Gordon in. A little bird-—of the genus pigeon—told Pat that Waxie was holed up somewhere in the Catskill Mountains. 80 Pat and another agent from the Intelligence Unit, Joseph Har-

' Coroner's Case . . . Eddie refused fo give up the wheel when he got sh He died. The tired, sleepy driver is a major cause many accidents

crosses on Hoosier roads.

"beat the rap.” Waxie Gordon.” I'm William

Palinski. I'm in the tobacco business. Them's my friends,

Peters.” 2 *Look, Waxie, you oughtn’t to say you're William Palinski and walk around in silk drawers that have I. W. embroidered on ‘em. I. W. means Irving Wexler, Waxle,” Waxie looked at the unmentionables and shut up, but Pat continued. “Now your friend Mr. Herman

to pick pockets with you before you got to be a big shot. And ‘Joseph Bloom’ is good old ‘Flea

guard. Joe fs wanted In New York on an assault-with-gun

charge.”

York. « Bail was set at $100,000, which

series of clashes the Intelligence vey, went looking for Waxie and(Waxie promptly produced. Tom

Unit had with Schultz, the only] to beat

a hung verdict!

Eddie and on the retrial he was ac- State

quitted.

IN EARLY 1933 we were about ready to

for income-tax violations for 1930

Crooner Dick Haymes today faced a divorce suit brought by

Actress Joanne Dru, who charged the singer with mental cruelty. Her suit, filed IY yesterday In % Hollywod, "Cal, "asked 353000 monthly for her support, $2000 a month for thelr three young children and $25,000 in attorney fees

Mr. Baymes Dusendand court costs:Haymes' 1948 in- Against winners of the Blooming-isehon, 1202 N. LaSalle St., cele ni-

come, she said, was “in excess of $200,000.”

© Any burglary suspect with

“|sprained hands is going to be The human element, that com-|eyed with suspicion. by Lt. Roy machine which created theseayley of the Indianapolis po-8OV-|ljce department. ;

Lt. McAuley was investigating

Eighty per cent of the traffic a break-in at Frank's Brake LR THEE tickets to death are written as It Is a keyboard musical instrument consisting personal invitations, : -

Bervice Station, ‘336 W. Bouth St. yesterday, trying to figure out how burglars got in. ° He traced

ers and producing bell-like Jpnes. It was ln- Indiana —— ns/their steps, found a ladder hidvented by Mustel of Paris. : First Trafic Death. " |den nearby and was attempting

(them. The house ‘was an arsenal. ” ” » + |

indict Waxie Gordon up, Waxie. You're under arrest.”

whatever bodyguards he had with; us. him. 3

Everybody was sleeping peacefully when Pat, Harvey and four Troopers walked In on

There were three men, and Pat walked over to one and said, “Get

Dewey knew he had the biggest one yet in Waxie and he started to’ prepare the case. In addition to his 150 wit- , Mr. Dewey had more than 1000 exhibits ready when the trial began Nov. 20, 1933. It was against Waxie that Mr. Dewey first introduced the “secret

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Mostly About People Found in Today’s News

|to duplicate their entry when he fell and sprained both hands. Lt. (McAuley went to General Hos{pital for first aid. k 5»

| Bradshaw Patrick, 3055 Dela(ware Bt, and Richard L. Gilliom, {3850 N. Delaware St, were win‘ners in the Moot Court compe: {tion in Indianapolis division of (Indiana University School of Law, [it was announced today. | Both will receive a $25 prize

from the trust fund set up by)

[Alumni of the Old Indiana Law |8chool, and will be matched

{ton campus division of the School {of Law in the annual Moot Court Debate. ; Members of the State Bupreme {Court will hear the arguments on {Law Day, May 4. ; . » » . Emile Lalone, 65-year-old deepsea diver, searched tié*vottom of the St. Lawrence River at Mon[treal today for a 1000-pound safe containing $10,000. Police sald they ' had* “definite’ information” ‘that. the safe was dropped in the {river by holding men took it from a cafe last W .

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Mr. and Mrs. Guy M.

versgry Saturday. They three sons, six grandchildren and

ple has lived here 50 Dusendschon was 82 last Mrs. Dusendschon

bridge yesterday and his 1 truck and trailer plunged a 15-foot embankment into {feet of water. lunhurt,

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Joseph Bloom and Herman|®

Peters is Hymié Pincus, who used |,,

Bag Joe' Aarondt, your body-|an

Ark, and ge live like a king when he had ever made more than $9000 in any year from 1925 to 1931. It took the jury only 40 minutes to decide Waxie was guilty on counts and the judge sentenced him to 10 years and fined him $20,000 and court costs. He served the time, less good be-

” r » ha THEY LEFT quietly for New

Then during the late war he went into the soft-drink but got caught diverting 10,000 pounds of precious sugar to a liquor still. He got a year for that on a guilty plea.

TOMORROW!

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Pythian To Install Officers

stalled Most Excellent Chief of

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Mrs. Jewel Shields will be in-

Irvington Temple No. 411, Pyth-

Mr. Groshong was