Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 January 1949 — Page 17

I ust say wing I'm glad : my path because I up to anyone and say, “Olives are a fruit é or nut, billions are grown in you can get 710 size 210 manzanilla a gallon jar.” ; . ino) ; In my storehouse of informa-

on pn to be president ot . C., ntucky Ave. How he happens to be president? That's what I the t, 36-year-old food man. I'm

Machine age? . , . Not here (left to right) Ann

olives " Marcella Brounfield and Thelma Clark 3

Ey Webb, testify.

_ _length of tim@, I eat ‘em.

The next time you're at the market, check a few bottles of olives. The stuffed olives which are in neat rows with the pimento showing are hand packed. The jars with the olives in a helterskelter fashion are throw-pack. That's right, just thrown in. ;

Operate Pine Tweezers

ANTHA MIZE, Ann Webb, Marcella Brounfield and Thelma Clark operated the pine tweezers. The packing is begun by placing two olives end on end on the bottom of the jar. They must fit snugly with the pimento next .to the glass. Two more olives are placed on top which makes something similar to a plus sign out of the four. So. it goes until there are

olives in the jar and so tight that they won't]!

fall out when the brine is poured off. The girls admitted with a smile that an occasional big and small olive gets eaten. Seems like a good thing to do with big or little olives that are out-sized. 4 It takes on the average of three minutes to pack a jar of olives containing 28, Larger jars take proportionately more tithe. When the boss casually hinted the time could be improved, all four of the packers sighed. Olives are supposed to be one of ‘the. most stable of foods, They don’t last quite as long as rock candy but the brine they're shipped in from Spain in barrels and later packed with in Jars keeps them in top-condition for a long time. You'll have to take Mr. Schortemeier's word for that. I've never been able fo keep olives any

Capital Gaff

By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Jan. 20—Oh, I'm going to miss that Washington during the next few months— miss the silvery streak of the hurled dagger, as it quivers in a boon companion’s back; miss the velvety purr that goes with the unsheathed claws; miss the plots and counterplots at the eink An dear old smelly Georgetown. The rat-race in the cocktail-and-caviar league, all by itself, should k drama worthy of Ibsen. A has been uprooted in , and the battle for the

be epie. oF ‘them, Cissy Patterson and Evelyn a practical corner on the big lion-hunting safaris on the Potomac. When Cissy and Evelyn snapped the whip, the Cabinet members and the new Senators and the diplomats turned handsprings. Nobody challengéd those doughty old girls very hard. Their invite list pretty well summarized the Who's Who in Transientville. Since the fairly recent deaths of both Cissy and Mrs. McLean, only one serious pretender has emerged. That would be Msgs, Perle Mesta, an open-handed Oklahoma g#l with enough oil mil—lions to insure that the champagne is valid and the caviar ample. Mrs. Mesta -is momentarily all by herself in the race. She remained loyal to the cause during the Dewey dog-days in Philadelphia, and has been rewarded with the co-chairmanship of the In- + augural Ball, : 5

Lion Hunters Make Big Mistake

MOST of the wishful lion-hunters made the serious mistake of cleaning house for Republican occupancy, last fall, and when they threw out all the .musty old Democratic furniture -they killed off their Truman-reign prospects. The young, pretty and heavily rich Mrs. Morris Cafritz was stepping along fine after the war, getting in a good crop of celebrities and middlin’ dignitaries. And it looked very much .as if she

Bottoms Up

be a literal barrel of

wo be a serious contender after a few more mellowing years, . But my Washington spies report she went hook-and-sinker for the Republicans, too, last year, and now must win back a lot of lost ground among the same old faces. ! Mr. Truman, himself, sets a dificult task for the aspiring salon-keeper. Past Presidents have not circulated among the canape snappers, but played quiet king in the White House. Mr. man has just snapped the precedent by accepting an invitation to a cocktail fight given by Treasury Secretary dar at his home. "This the / household a'stout threeup on the field. Henceforth, every ambitious hostess will have her beady eye pinned on a presidential acceptance, and the sound of breaking hearts will be heard as far north as Baltimore when Harry turns most of them down.

Trumans Come a Fur Piece

THE Truman family, I understand, has come a fur piece away from its small-town modesty during the last term, when Poppa was just stand-ing-in- for Mr. Roosevelt. Bess and Margaret didn’t compete very strongly in the clathes-horse sweepstakes, and were pretty folksy when they ventured out into sassiety.

“But,” says my operative, “the gals are sprucing up considerable now, and are beginning to tilt the chin. Bess used to be downright chummy when I ran into her, and now she looks a hole right through me.

" “The whole family’s attitude has changed since Harry got back under his own steam. Matter of fact, nobody here knows where they stand, because most everybody got off the winner last fall. We will just have to stand quiet, and jockey for position all over again.” That would have been too slow for Evelyn Walsh McLean... She would have had the President and the whole Cabinet out for Sunday beans within a week, if she had to kidnap the lot of them.

By Frederick C . Othman

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20—The U. 8. Senate, a humanitarian body if ever there was one, has come

out with three formal votes in favor of no diserim-~ mother in Connecticut.

ination, taxwise, against babies with sore bottoms. "Jt didn’t take off the tax on the creams and powders that mothers customarily rub on their infants, you understand, but neither did it remove the tax on the tickets entitling citizens to sit on hard planks while President Truman's inaugural parade rolls by. This; as 1 think you soon will

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District's Death Toll _By VICTOR PETERSON HEADQUARTERS POST, Indiana State Police, Jan." 20-—This

,| 18 the smallest post in area in the

state. police set-up. It is by no

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lor pub Comprising Marioh County only, police

the work of the state basically is confined to territory outside Indianapolis city limits. I'There isn’t much left to the county when the capital city is excluded. Nevertheless, last year, 28 Hoogiers lost their lives in that restricted region. Totalling in those

skyrockets the number to 92, .n . THAT GRISLY figure places Marion County, Head rs Post, fourth in deaths of the 10 post districts. Many

more counties. The very nature of the -post area creates a special problem for the under the command

Sgt. Richard Sutton.

for all intents and puris urban in character. lys radiating from Indianapothe hub, are built up much city streets. State police are supposed to ptrol-all roads. They can't. The major state and U. 8. highways outside the city are more than the 19 patrol troopers can work around the clock. Even so it totals about 175 miles of road. . . » 2 NINETEEN TROOPERS ap"pears ah adequate number on the surface, but because of days off, special detail, court appearances and infrequent illness the number on patrol drops to a shameful low. On the average, during the most hazardous hours of traffic, there are no more. than five troopers on patrol. Mathematically, this places one trooper to every 35 miles of road. Actually it doesn’t. The necessity of criss-crossing from one highway to another runs the average over 50, : : From 11 p. m. to 7 a. m. only two men are on the roads. Mathematically, each patrols about 88 miles. The actual distance can not be calculated. Meanwhile, “murder on the highways” continues.

sorry the amendment had failed. Even so, he wanted to read a letter he received from a young “ ‘My little Louie's bottom got-al-sore and irritated,’ ” roared the gentleman from Connecticut, quoting his constituent. “ ‘So I went to the drugstore and paid 47 cents for a bottle of baby oil and 10 cents luxury tax. Since when, I ask you, has it become a luxury for a baby to have a sore bottom’?”

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who died within the city limits

of the other . |districts are made up of nine or

troopers of Lt. David Laughlin and 1st‘Densely populated, Marion

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Watch the skulls grow. “The skull-marked roads are areas

where accidents are as Indiana State Police posts are

other roads are not patrolled. spot map of accidents is all tha

Indianapolis.

This pedestrian is courting death on U.S. 40, near Lyndhurst Drive. Pedestrian deaths are the. rule, not the

encophion, here,

Tax Dodzers . .. No. 12

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Missouri Compromise Insurance Scandal

US 40 west of the city is a

concentrated. Each day more will be added

analyzed.

SOME STRETCHES of high- mass of pins, each depicting an way are considered so hazardous accident in several troopers may work the|trooper headache area. same mileage. The result is that

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Headquarters commander Lt, David Laugh hich to combat traffic problems whi

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the number of accidents and their severity; but the deaths still are recorded with monotonous regularity. ;

» . ” MOST OF those who die here are pedestrians. There are no sidewalks. Most of the accidents ocleur at dusk or at night. There is no street ligh A yoo US 40 west accounts for 20 per cent of all the accidents in the county outside Indianapolis. Almost as vicious for “murder” State Road 67 southwest

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agree, was a signal triumph for the babies, and in particular a year-old infant in Connecticut

Led to Downfall of Kingpin of Bosses

By ELMER L. IREY, us Told to Willlam J. Slocum

{Missouri official was within his

END LETTER, said the Senator. He asked (rights in ordering the reduction,

named Louie. Sold Tax-Free

THE GENTLEMEN in charge of the whoopla for the inauguration sold tax-free tickets for the parade, the grand ball and the big concert, on the theory that Congress would pass a special law, as it usually does every four years, making this legal. The House passed it in a hurry and sent it over to the Senate and, oh baby. The bachelor lawgiver from Wisconsin, Sen, Joseph R. McCarthy, said he didn’t particularly mind taking the taxes off the tickets,’ but that he'd insist Congress also remove imposts from newlyweds’ . cookstoves and the unguents with which he said women must anoint the sore bottoms of their babies. He offered an amendment, which his fellow Senators promptly turned down. This cleared the way (so the leadership thought) for a cut-and-dried approval of the bill removing the taxes on those Inaugural tickets. But Sen. Raymond E. Baldwin of Connecticut ahd in a booming voice he said he was

‘The Quiz Master " What is the Kensthgton Stone? : Kensipgton Stone, found in Minnesota, is

The believed to be a recofd of a party of Scandinavian

explorers who as far inland as central Minnesota In 1062. Although the stone Is carved

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with Norse runes its authenticity has not been definitely. established. ¢

¢ & ¢ When did the Jewish State of Israel come into

his colle what they thought about this propo- | sition and continued:

THOMAS J. PENDERGAST was born in 8t. Joseph, Mo., in 1872 panies

Nevertheless, the Insurance compromptly raised thelr

“These people who attend these Inaugural nd 20 years later he was living in Kansas City, Mo., a college educa- rates 16% per cent. ceremonies can more afford to pay the tax than tion in his head and the siren songs of half of the nation's big

can America's young mothers on baby creams.” | league baseball scouts in his ears.

Then came the vote and dramatic it was, too,

with the issue: Inaugural guests vs. babies’ sore soft County Tipperary accents of Tom's fathe

bottoms. The sentiment was closely divided, with the Democrats mostly coming out in; favor of seat holders and the Republicans favori babies. A number of Democrats were absent, however, and babies’ bottoms won, 47 to 45. This was a bitter blow to the inaugural comniittee, which stood to lose thousands of dollars. There was an immediate motion to table the resolution 80 it could be reconsidered later, This lost, 49 to. 41. The babies still were ahead. The opposition frantically offéred another motion to recommit the whole bill and again the babies triumphed, 47 to 44. That ended it, the Senate still considers creams for bables’' sore bottoms as luxuries, but so, by golly and by a triple vote, are seats on Pennsylvania Ave. ’

27? Test Your Skill ???

Is there really a waltzing mouse? The waltzing mouse is not an ordinary mouse) but & member of 4 rare domesticated breed, supposedly of Japanese origin, that has the habit of spinning around rapidly on its hind legs lke a top. Waltzing mice are produced by selective)

. ee What was the Line of Demarcation? It was the boundary line estal by

It was sweet music to young

“I'll have no son of mine play-

{ing professional baseball,” the seen |elder Pendergast purred firmly: follower in the White House,

“It ain't respectable.” Respectabllity won out and young Tom went to work in a saloon owned by his brother; Jimmy. Jimmy got brother Tom a job as a police officer in Kansas City’s immortal and immoral First ‘Ward. In 1911 Jimmy died and Tom laid aside his nightstick te take over the political organization his brother had constructed so soundly. This. college-bred athlete, Isaloonkeeper and First Ward cop brought to the organization a genius for political larceny unsurpassed in our time. ]

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TOM PENDERGAST left behind him an impressive - collec. tion of widows, orphans and broken men, : Tom had to have money because he had to bet $20,000 a day on the races and because he had to have it a Treasury agent had his brains kicked out.

Pendergast made judges, Rep-

P Alexander VI to settle claims of Spain - and Portugal to lands in the ‘World. :

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/ months longer ke

Had Tom three

resentatives, Senators and gov-|¢

Tom, but it was drowned in the r.

a faithful and devoted! Harry 8. Truman. No one ever has suggested that the President profited by one illegal cent from Pendergast's boodle. That Mr. Truman was once P t's crehturk is not evidehce that he remained one.

ernor of Missouri with Pender gast’s consent and support, and Stark helped us put Pendergast in jail, Mr. Truman, then Ben. Truman, used every bit of pressure that his office legally per mitted to keep Pendergast out of jail

all suspicion that. he was still & creature of Pendergast's by tossing Robert Emmet O'Malley out of his job as State Buperintendent of Insurance. Robert

dearest. friend. » » » IN October of 1022 the Missouri State Superintendent of In-

have

| |a Pendergast man, and then gov-

In 1927 Gov. Stark banished F®

| ‘There was more litigation, and, lin May of 1935 $9,020,279.01 lay {In escrow. ' On May 18, 1935, Guy B. Park,

ernor, was presented with a compromise bill which provided that the insurance people would get 850 per cent of the money in escrow, meaning more than $4,500, 000. The people of Missouri were

cent, or $1,800,000, which would be distributed among the policyholders. Gov. Park took this compromise to Roy McKittrick, the State Attorney General, who although a Pendergast. man, refused Park's request to pass the compromise jas a legal document. However, Gov, Park signed the! document. He had phoned Tom| ndergast. The walling of the shorn was so, loud that the state legislaturé appointed a committee to investigate the deal. It cleared all concerned. But two men in Missouri were un-

Emmet was Tom Pendergast's !mpressed by the whitewash job.|oomnromise.

| They were Lloyd Stark and vu. 8. Attorney Milligan. They came to Washington : together {asked the Treasury for help. . J ”

: | MILLIGAN was blunt. “Pender-|

The insurance les gast got paid off fog that insurYemen Yanoe deal and everyBody in Mis-

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to get the smallest cut, 20 -per |

Thomas J. Pendergast . . . T-Men got his number.

sourl says ‘he got a half-million dollars.” 4 Certain of the late Charles R. Street's methods were already known to us. Mr, Street had run the fire insurance industry in the West. It had been Street who steered the 157 companies to. the bonanza of the 1935 Missouri

‘We had taken a good deal of nonsense from Street, but wel

rap for anybody. us deeply by notes as this: