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ity| t until his death. Judge Clark said he and the|the pilot, a Capt. Kittley, was 1" f the nicest statues in town is that of Marconi, a SQpkespeare Library, is under the jurisdiction of i Salt Lake City AcCen 28nd the was pumping gasoline into the - le of miles out. oe Folger Foundation. The Justice Department Dr. Yost and C harles| ms Months . aloo committee were Bptimistic killed. They said nothing regard- jeep's under-the-hood intake when , has one of Nathan Hale, given by Yale University. Posner of Indianapolis. Dr. Yost,| Before his final o nasa, pave the fund drive ywould exceed last/ing any other casualties. the fuel ignited, apparently from Just One More Statue And one of the most famous is “Grief,” the ta Seventh Day Adventist, is asso- lasted three months Mr. Schil- year's total of $63,000. | Hope for a low casualty list'y pottery spark. |

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our Cot W from ander on the highways" display 4 fancy chain with an ks tooth and [Known. Prevention statistios’ ase’ knif melted butter. Vests are : elusi Secuming iors and mos unpopular, Then there's marches .on . . . the pocket watch is appalling tact 1s. that since a wrist watch: Which fits slowly. becoming a candidate these articles began on Jan. 16 the ’ . - People Can't Be Bothered the fewsler chuckled. “I don't know why they|iovS 4166 in traffic, This num“PEOPLE don’t want to be bothered by hatl- (oy Lor how they're never on ‘time anyWay:"|peen killed in the past 24 hours, ing out a pocket watch when they want the Bag. The time lag is necessary for all Hime he SA, Qmostrating how simple it was World War | Started It All areas of the state to report the wrist . dead. > Older men still buy an occasional pocket watch WATCHMAKERS working in jewelry stores! It would be an ironical but Business firms still dabble with them for faithful report the same depression in the pocket watch interesting fact to know how employees who are being retired. But even here business. One fixer-upper said he was doing well many of these “murdered” perthe watch is. making inroads. -- if-he had two pocket watches come ina month.|sons began to read the series. ‘Men with jobs where a wrist watch is not “Would you give $8 to fix this thing?" I was/ gach undoubtedly thought he’ have reluctantly put money on the line. asked while a ticking potato was thrust at my would not be among those listed More often than not, the jeweler thought, where nose. I said no. The watch was large, the case|;, obituary columns. a wrist watch can’t be worn, no watch is used. was worn to a frazzle and guessing conservatively, p+ the are dead--forever “The Tr generation isn't buying pocket the watchmaker “thought” it to be well ahove It 1 a 1 that the 1 watches. You know, I remember when I was a 50 years old. Sentiment plays an important part! BY alarin el kid . . .” About that time I took a powder. My in most of the pocket watches that come in for{Siana State Police view the stasubject was pocket watches, not the dawn of repairs I discovered. tistics for January. The. number sun- dials. : In the course of my travels, I found out the Of fatals mounted to 70. At Another man who claimed in his day he sold wrist watch got a start in World War I. The|least four more injured are ex- ns Wik mT more pocket watches than he could count made first models were pocket watches on wrist bands.|Pected to die aa ha Ld Ran by a raspy noise in his throat and waved his hand The ease of getting at the time by the innovation a" 8 8 a : across his face when on pocket appealed to the soldier. Manufacturers caught] THIS is an increase of four watches, I assumed by his actions he would follow on quick. By merely looking around the officeover January, 1948. The number in the line-of his competitor. He did. a’ man can see how well the wrist watch went/may go ‘to eight. “For every 95 wrist watches we sell, we'll sell over. But in the 20 days that this five pocket watches and. three. of those. will be The -men behind -the counter -don’t - feel badly|series of articles has hammered to railroaders or trolley operators,” was his offer- about the pockét watch going out of popularity./at YOU, 52 of YOU-—the motoring. . Wrist watches cost money, too, you know. ing public—died. Style, speed and convenience were mentioned. Although my trousers boasted a watch pocket] Out.of this welter of Hoosier He also brought up the idea that the average (never use it), I was shown a pair that didn't|lacerated flesh and blood have man doesn’t need the accuracy that a fine pocket have. You know, there are serious implications|come some interesting qbservawatch has. This brought up a couple of experi- in this. Here we are, doing away with the pocket|tions. 1 ences my friend > had dealing with streetcar watch ~becxuse there's Ho more need for it: Ot the state's 92 counties the operators. With taxes piling up, I wouldn't be a bit sur-/52 fatalities were concentrated

“I had two men come fin here and tell me it prised if all pockets would disappear in the future.!in 29 counties, Fourteen counties

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. * "yp | “murdered.” Ball-point Boom By Robert C. Ruark| “Matison snd Marion ‘counties ye : {led all the rest. A fourth of all m : : . |the deaths happened here. Madi NEW YORK, Feb. 4—All the bum jokes about tor. Mr. Blythe feels that a busted actor, waiting ®on lists 8 dead, Marion 5. writing under water have dried up, thank heaven, for a break, is the ideal technician, since his| “4.49 ) and the prices have come down from a Cartier nervous energy is twice that of the average, A I THOUGH the grinning level. But the ball-point pen continues to be big laborer. {skulls of death spread over tha business, despite my assumption that everybody Hence Mr. Blythe is not disturbed if his assem- Map of Indiana for 10 days, had reverted to the goose quill. bly line runs through the first act of a play script | arming of The Biogt..hAZArdouA A man heavily responsible for pulling the ball- While fitting cylinders into pens. Nor is he re- » died sentful if they quit him suddenly to accept a walk-| numbers. The -cities of Indiana v40-a more homely. spot 3 x P claimed only 14 of the victims, named Bob Blythe, in “Hollywood now, says Mr. Blythe, he will soon| “Of the 38 to die in rural areas, asse {22 met the isly skeleton on Former hoofer Biyfhe is president of the firm “¢ Mring name directors to assemble his pens. |% MU. AC KUAY SL Lon Ch , Dr. Jack Stein. Their product was born under dif-| grinning skulls. Blythe's initials. This year alone, lie will produce 4," "nr “Stein's garage. Their fling at ink| Only one of the 20 days encomsome 20 million pens in his Hellywood plant. He | ed withwill sell them for 98 cents each, a figure he arrived MIXINg caused considerable strife in the Stein passed by the series pass

y household, since they continually befouled Mrs. | — ~~ ~~ at in a rather interesting fashion. Stein’s kitchen: sink. This is the last in a series

When he was making the same pen and ped- » {| of articles which was designed dling it for $12.50, Mr. Blythe suddenly decided 10 pain of Jewelers. Just prior oo SlGaing the sey| to Point fo traffic conditions cut prices in interest of volume. When they cut exploded In the boss-jeweler’s face. End of Den over the state and to save the price in half, Mr. Blythe decided that anybody trget, The partners started over again. | lives. How many are alive towho would pay $6 would pay $12.50, so $6 wasn't } day because they read and the answer. They halved the price again, and Mr. Southpaws and Chinese paid heed cannot be deterBlythe figured anybody who paid $3 would pay $6. ‘ mined. However, during the 20 Finally, he arbitrarily chose 98 cents as exactly ALTHOUGH some 82 brand names still afflict] gays encompassed hy the series, the right price for a pen, today, and has been the ball-point market, Mr. Blythe's BB and the! 5 died in “murder” on Hoosier selling a million a month ever since. Sheaffer product make up the bulk of volume] highways. * sales, ‘Mr. Blythe figures he's got the business| __ ~ - :°

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MR. yas as eves lost his Thespian yiqe | Thursday, Jan. 20 : : smirch. He dresses Hollywood, talks Hollywood A couple of surprisingly fecund customer) ; oe y FRR pa : and looks Hollywood. He seems naked outside & gources are left-handed people and Chinese, The ; oor, death rode with a heavy “ki iy . . ; ” . days. Seven There is little warning when DEATH decides to claim anothe yellow convertible, and he spends less time in his pgjipoint is eminently suited to southpaws, who| CC: oo next two days Vv

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\ ; ints, The Chinese, who paint their. characters, | © one is a modern Achilles/deep. Severance will bring death] Death by a blow on the skull is ability and suffering some victims step, and does daily knee-drops to keep his legs can use a ball-point like a brush. aye ng a Sun. hi 8 only vulnerable spot is alin 5 to 8 minutes. The heart lies merciful—it takes but seconds./must endure. oar, Mr. Blythe sees no end to the ball-point boom, 4.v was Jan. 16 the day this heel. - {only two inches beneath the skin./With a crushed chest the vietim{ Looming with every . Even apart from his haberdashery, Mr. Blythe - since the price-has dropped low enough to make 2 fy, iss began. Seven died that day. ~ There are at least 10 places ofA severed major artery at-the lingers for 30 to 40 minutes. the horrible possibility of ? is an arresting fellow. He has highly unorthodox replacement a minor annoyance instead of a per-| ‘ss = the human body where a lacera- elbow or upper arm usually will] A dislocated neck, commonly tion of any of the four Ii a ideas about running an industry. Mr. Blythe's sonal tragedy, like having a car stolen. And hel THESE are cold hard figures. |tion, blow or dislocation can bringiresult in death in 10 to 15/ called a broken neck, will causeispinal cord Injury re n - studio—pardon, I mean plant—hires a great many has one final joke, spawned from his Hollywood|* The humsn being is a warm death on winged feet. | minutes. ? : ' {almost immediate death if the paralysis or a major bone ! actors who are down on their Tuck. Mr. Blythe existence. : land tender figure. The head and neck are the most | #8 # [damage to the cord is confined 10 resulting In shortening or SUIT, maintains an actorist air at all times in his Holly- “We make no claims about writing under| Every time you step into your vulnerable. They also are the| IN THE GROIN, the artery 1s the upper three vertebrae, [Ing of a limb ___ _ -° wood ‘setup. water,” he says, “but we have an exclusive Tine automobile you aré one inch and] portions of the body most ofteri| protected by an inch of flesh and] An inch and seconds from nee Y have caused ad He fills his shop with Klieg lights and catwalks which writes under blood. This line is strictly for three seconds from DEATH. {injured in a crash. The major muscle. If it were cut, the person death—it is no pleasant thought. accident, it is too late, ° A and refers to his personnel man as a casting direc- actors’ agents.” . | The body is a rugged machine. | vein, artery and windpipe of the would bleed to death In foiir| But death can be sweet com-| Death may he your lot-—so ’ . | Nature has protected vital parts, neck lie a mere haif to 1% inches minutes, maybe two. pared with the permanent dis- might permanen disability,

tf 4 ki | Dr. Frank Yost | | Cphilling [Polio Fund NPA Parrving RB) Driver Uses Head Leif the Lucky By Andrew Tully ro Speak at Forum U: L Schilling Now at $32,000 OC-4 Carrying i Before Dynamite

| : . * : WASHINGTON, ‘Feb. 4—When five stalwart Mr. Jusserand and President Teddy Roosevelt used) The Unitarian Forum will = [ies Here at 8] The ' 1048 Infantile Paralysis Crashes in Africa On Jeep Blows Up { { fund-raising campaign reached : Wi Ha

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mazar mtroduied a bill the other day to build a to sit and shoot the breeze. |sent Dr. Frank H. Yost of Wash8 Leif cson, everybody went around ~~ The biggest statue concessionaire fn town, ington, D. C., and three addi) ....... the half-way mark with a total Robert Hatue like SE Cae Nu, sauother: however. 1s She Capitol A Htott. woud 1p thie Rupe. onal speakers ip 4 discussion of Cabinetmaker lof $32,000, #t was reported today Pilot Known Dead; —— pnt? ne or two ; . an o 0 e city’s stone figures, of which 74 ' “Let’ arate . | | “Come “to find “out, ‘though, there's plenty of are in Statuary Hall in-the Capitol. our We and Born in Germany [by Judge Alex M. Clark, fund d+ Fear More Casualties i, geciae now to save the lives

room. The National Capital Parks and Planning There are supposed to be two statues per state Commission says so. but so far none has been put up by nine states. There -are already more than 175 monuments; - Four other states have only oné.each. ‘mostly statues, in this town, but that's okay. A The architect also has the responsibility for the Parks Commission spokesman said plenty of nice statue of John Marshall outside the Capitol, the| little triangular plots were still available. “Freedom” figure atop the Capitol dome, and the| “Why,” he said, “there muet be room for at Neptune fountain outside the Library of Congress, least another hundred statues.” . . : To be sure, the central"part of town is a litte His Man Here First crowded, with statues breathing down one an- : other's necks, but the outskirts are real virgin THERE ARE plenty of statues in the assorted territory. And it's just as pretty out there; one Job lots department, too. Puck, at the Folger

Religious Educa-| Carl -L.. Schilling, . cabinet- rector. ‘ | CAIRO, Feb. 4 (UP)—A four-lof a lot of people. ; tion” Sunday 3 maker. who emigrated to Indfan- | Seven industrial firms. reported engined transport flying from| had -& ease containing 25 7:30 p. m. in-All|apolis from Germany at the age the following contributions: {Kenya Colony to England with ticks of dynamite in the of .. Souls Church. of 16, died yesterday in Mia Stewart Warner Corp., $1474;/52 persons reported aboard sticks of dyn rear “ The other home, 1810 Olive St. He was 87. International - Harvester Co. crashed at Tripoli today while his jeep when he pulled up at a “three speakers] When Mr. Schilling came to $920.27; P. R. Mallory Co., $341.11; going in for a landing. gas station here yesterday. are Dr. Charles/Indianapolis to become an ap-| Veterans Administration Regional There were eight crewmen and| The dynamite was used by his Clayton - Morri-|prentice cabinet-maker, he could Office, $225.28; RCA Victor Divi-|44 passengers, most of them employers, the J, & D. Construcs: son, Chicago;/speak no English. He finally sion, $439.53; U. 8. Marine Corps British servicemen, report tedtion Co. of Loiilsville, Ky, to blast the Rev. Edwin taught himself But spoké with 4 Reserve, $216.09, and Fox Theater, aboard. {holes for utility poles. ; H. Wilson of|Pleasant-sounding “Old World” $322, Reports from the scene sald) gation attendant Earl Lane Jem

Gaudens figure erected by the historian Henry| ciate secretary of the Interna- ln8 had been employed 15 years) [was bolstered by advices that|

{for the C. & G. Potts Co., brick- e lal h the ge d tail of! .: 8 8 Under the Motion bi hb phe] Darks Poole Sammy, * emrial to hi wit In Tock Creek ton Rellgous Livety Assoca 2 ng Cropchinery im. as + Halleck Schedules 3 (NIUE Ue, tot Sd, I Ui rum mmr caught are and the . . — : - ' i “(flames spread ra and that's all right with them. They're already Sénator Warren Magnuson (D. Wash.), plug = Morrison is the former edi- maker of moulding forma 2 Lincoln Day Talks _the Skymaster, were smashed dynamity, piely > got 75 assorted memorials under their wing, from ging for the Ericson statue, says it's a shame LT: Morrison ’ i Services a A. m. Monday but the fuselage was not badly

y — —to a lit- _/tor of the Christian Century; the in the Lauck Funeral Home will] Representative Charles Halleck damaged. | Mr. Goforth, who is middle : the XN ashing Os Washington hiss never honored the man who dis Rev. Mr. Wilson, minister of the be followed by requiem mass at| (R. Ind.) will make a series of ae brokes out in the engines Sed, leaped jo the Jas. sazied of the land which is now Washington. “Never ‘mind “the propaganda for that Johnny-Salt Lake City Unitarian Church,/9 a. m. in St. Catherine’s Cath-|three Lincoln Day addresses In when the big ship “hit the desert he engine and | ey wt gear, . 3 And they're always pleased to add to the fam- come-lately named Columbus, says the senator. and Mr. Posner, director of the olic Church, of which he was a/Indiana's Second Congressional at Tripoli, coastal town far west 100 Fa ar re Fagen fly; they're getting ready now to put up a statue t6 His man got here a couple of hundred years before Indianapolis Jewish Community| member, Burial will be in 8t.|District, it was announced today of Cairo. Airport workers put out! po eX

j i e| | Seco | d not set any hbuses Jose Gervasio Artigas, liberator of the Uruguayan ol’ Chris and liked it so well he came bac | Relations Council, Dr. J. Hartt Joseph Cemetery, by Ira Dixon of Kentland, nd the flames quickly, the reports/Plosion coul To which ‘was presented by the school kids times to spend his vacations. pe * three) Walsh, dean of the Butler Uni|- In addition to his wife, Mar- District Republican chairman. said. lon Bre tort barely’ got. clear of Uruguay. Not only that, says the senator, the first white/ versity School of Education, will garet, he is survived by a son,| Rep. Halleck will speak in Val-| Headed for Alrport . | 0 ed ite i The Also among these memorials is a marble bench child born in America absolutely was not Virginia serve as forum moderator. Clayton Joseph Schilling, Indian-|paraiso next Wednesday night, in| The plane was under charter to was d Ram bat up: in Rock Creek Park in ry of Jules Jusserand, . Dare, but a little fellow named Snorro, son of Leif! apolis, and two grandchildren. |Rochester Thursday and in Delphi/the British War Office. jeep shattered & few windows French ambassador who served from the Mc- Ericson’s sister. The senator says Snorro was| Lg d Universi wra——————— Friday, Feb. 11, Tripoli réports said. the plane, only xnocked down: DIASIERT Kinley administration to Frank D. Roosevelt's. born somewhere on Long Island and he wouldn't oward University Examination Proposed | pos operated by British Skyways, B00, MCE iP n ’ A { . td, was on a e my " ‘ Its supposed to be set on the exact spot where Be surprised to find out it was Brooklyn. Professor to Speak To Detect Diabetics A Shifty Fellow d 1g 8 fro

Khartoum, in the Anglo-Egyptian : Dr. Rayford W. Logan, chalr-| CHICAGO (UP) —A--Bostoni WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (UP)— gudan, to Castel Benito airport Winslow to Coach man. of’ the, Howard University hygician has a plan which he|Jolin L. Lewis’ United Mine Work near Tripoll, ph bat

e plane's passengers were en-| TUCSON, Ariz, Feb. 8 ( fourth annual convention of the|,y,pe that they have diabetes, | Shifty fellow” whose views listed ten except Sr one British rs 3 Ul

- . " Indiana State Council of the Writing In the Journal of the change almost dally. officer traveling with his wife and Who administeréd the oath of office to George How many states have ratified the proposed|American Veterans Committee In| \ pericarp Medical Association, baby. : : needed today Washington at his first inauguration? amendment limiting the presidency to no more|Bl0OmIngton. Dr. Elliott P. Joskn said “the un-|Orchestra Cancels Tour The Supreme Court had not .

{ hel { - administer t ; will n at 10{ture=he is the relative of a dia- ‘Detroit Symphony Orchestra can-| Mrs. Mabel 8, Fraser, president the oath to Washington. This was ment, It requires 36. Under the terms of the| Und or betic person.” celed plans “for {ts four-week of the Federation. of Indiana

la. m. lose’ Sunday} settled by Chancellor Robert Livingston of the amendment, it must be ratified within séven > morrow and delat - Dr. Joslin suggested hy 5 doe. spring tour today without an ex- Women’s Republican Clubs and of planation.

state of New Yark, Wha atsutiod the responsibility. years of its proposal! by Congress — by March, from Indiana AVC chapters will(tors test all the re vice chairman of the Republican yesterday on

3 : a be declared adopted. ok attend the sessions. : known diabetics. es | State Committee, attended the Mul How many new countries were admitted to ® * .Martin L. Larner, Indianapolis,| - “More than 80 per cent of. dia-| DOGS KILL 1000 DEER | meeting of the advisory board ch the United Nations in 1948 bath gir A ad In reference to the House of Representatives, regional AVC chairman, will de-|betic persons are fat,” he sald.| During January, 1048, free hunt-/of the. National Federation of afity 3 y . At present there are 58 members. No mew What is a viva-voce vote? liver the keynote address at the Dr. Joslin proposed that over ing dogs killed 1000 deer in New|Women's blican - Clubs: in| Arizona President members were admitted through: the year, al-. It Is a vote taken by roll’ gall and answered convention. Dr. Logan “speak weight relatives of diabetics be! York State, accordi to the Washington, D. C,, which closed Cormick was warm though several nations applied for membership. orally by each momber. : : lon “World Minority lems.” examined immediately, wildlife Managementustitute.” today, : lof Abe selection, : iy : Po } pL i ; ’ 4 ’ . PR X : 3 A : ? v me : ¢

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