Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 February 1949 — Page 11

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time. That's what I always thought stations

when-my-tank-was- full. .._Bt. where someone was having tire trouble. All Gas | Id A soldier came in and asked how to get to A s | Could Carry U.S. 40. 1 directed hitn as best I could and. after FLETCHER COTTON, owner. pointed to a be left, I wondered whether Meridian was small stool aftér I intimated there might be plenty best way. Dick, in between

opportunity to snooze, and said he'd give me all the gas I could carry in my pockets if I didn’t change my mind before the night was half over. What ab offer and. there 1 was with a hole-in one.ol uy : . ; “You came just when we're having a breathing spell,” said station attendant Richard Loudenback. “You should have been here 10 minutes ago, we were

station, as all gasoline ‘stations, had that peculiar oily odor, lot of chances to get oil on one’s clothes, and space was limited. Door chimes soynded above the dance music coming from a

* radio. Which ‘was place’ under tubes

All the air is gone . . . Fletcher Cotton inspects a tube at his all-night station where there's plenty air.

“from Arizona where he said it was colder than

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customers, exp! I should have sent him straight on U, 8, 36 wh runs into U, 8, 40. Great. : There were people with battery trouble, brake trouble, light trouble and

Three bucks were going into detail on héw to install the best-sounding muffler. By best they meant the noisiest. During the course of the evening, I had learned six ways to make. a car sound “right.” : rly

Gets There Thumb Way

A YOUNG fellow who rubbed his cold and gloveless hands, upon questioning, told me he was hitch-hiking to Noblesville, He was returning

and he wanted no more, of the “sunshine” country. . X “People are leaving the Southwest in droves,’ wad his observation. “The weather was screwy. I wished him luck in getting a ride at that late hour.

There were six persons in the station when a~

hatless young man, obviously a hot-rod driver.| began telephoning. He laughed and pleaded and joked with Frances, Billy and Sugar for a good 45 minutes. No one wanted to go to Dayton with him... What a sport. =.

= ARN RR —At: midnight Richard Woltman re Dick

Loudenback who hung around for another hour. Mr. Cotton stayed until all the hot-rods, hot-air artists and business slowed down to a walk. My ears were ringing with talk about motors, mufflers, women, tornadoes and Coatsville, icy roads and automobile wrecks. It was a few minutes before 3 a.m. that a car with two young couples drove up for two gallons of gas. At first I thought only the front seat was “One of Woltman’s acquaintances came in with an air pistol. The stuff began to fly again. I really didn‘t care whether the 22 was better for rats or not. Not at 3:15.

Péople ought to be In bed at night instead of]

gassing and running out of gas.

Sally in Stew

By Robert C. Ruark

what seemed like nose WHE “"

Stricter Law By VICTOR

tain conclusion are inevitable.

Needed are: ONE: A maximum speed limit incorporating portions of the present “reasonable” speed law. TWO: A very rigid driver Iicense law. THREE: Periodic examination of all vehicles for mechanical defects. FOUR: Tougher penalties for drunk driving.

NEW YORK, Feb. 8—Undoubtedly “Axis Sally” has pretty legs, for a lady of upper middle years, but they seem inadmissible evidence in what she’s being tried for, which is wilful treason by an American citizen in time of war. ‘Sally, otherwise Mildred Gillars, worked over in Washington's federal court, on charges she treasonably aided the Germans by making propaganda broadcasts designed to poison the mind of the American GI against the war he was fighting. Her design was. ostensibly snipped from the same Axis pattern of morale busting that produced Lord Haw-Haw and the Tokyo Roses. It will be admitted, I believe, by the average soldier who was exposed to the Haw-Haws, Roses and Sallys, that the net effect of their programs was minus nil. But that has nothing to do with the point of the trial. The British strung up Haw-Haw for a sin ho greater than the one with which Miss Gillars fs charged. If it can be shown that the well«constructed Miss Gillars is guilty, in the Haw-Haw manner, she rates a noose or a hot seat or a gaspill or whatever maximum penalty for broad treason the court is empowered to decree,

‘Is She Guilty or Innocent?’

THAT IS, of course, if it can be shown she was working for thé Germans without constant threat of death or torture. A reasonable proof of intimidation -should- gether partly off the hook, since no human is responsible beyond a certain stage of coércion. ek ! ~ That seems to be the crucial dot of guilt determination. To date I havé seen no evidence that the Nazis jammed a luger into her sacroiliac as she talked into the mike. Miss Gillars’ gentler ¥ex, which is generally introduced to plead amelioration in trials of this sort, is much in point, however. rt If guilty she be of treason, then the expiloitation of her femininity as a propaganda weapon actually “enrichés the erime. The baiting ‘of mud smeared troops by a velvet-voiced American woman —the taunting suggestion of ynfaithful wives and sweethearts at home, in a silky home-

is being

side tone—was conceived as the ultimate in psychologic assault, | The sexy female voice was as much or more vital to the aim than the text, no matter who wrote it.

side of the fence ever appreciated, though, was the broad American indifference to anything heard

What nobody 6h the Gérfan-Tapanese-Ttalan

FIVE: Greater co-operation.by the courts In prosecution of traffic, violations. SIX: Elimination of all undivided four- and three-lane highways, narrow bridges, dangerous curves and hazardous sections. . SEVEN: More adequate and

on the air. A generation wedned on the soap opera, thorough removal of snow and Orson Welles, the singing commercial and the as- ice from roads,

sorted fantasies of daily drama and contrived comic, regatded radio as little more than a mish-| mash of conflicting viewpoint and inspired fiction. We had teethed on the voices of doom, the secondguessers, the pontificators, and they were all mixed up Winchell, Crosby, Hope, Amos 'n" Andy and Jim-

Bit of Off-Stage Comedy

“I HAD the fine fortune to listen endlessly to

EIGHT: Compulsory driving )classes in all high schools. NINE: A definite and sizable increase in the number of Indiana State Police troopers.

Death's path . . . The 90.¢ Enforcement, Compulsory.

Driving Lessons Can Cut Traffic Fatalities

What is needed to halt “murder” on Indiana highways? There is no single prescription. on the state level for more than three weeks, however, cer

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After “living” with the trafic

These “answers” are those which cropped up most frequently in talking to scores of persons whose business is traffic.

{ The photographs accom- | panying this story graphically illustrate “murder” on the highways. They are “spot” mews pictures of the fatal accident yesterday om . Madison Ave. in the 6200 block. One man was killed and another seriously injured when the driver apparently lost control of the ear and = crashed head-on into the tree. } James Otis Borders died of a broken neck, deep throat lacerations, head and internal injuries. A passenger, Jake Eatmon, suffered » possible concus- . sion and is in serious condition,

amination coupled with manda|tory insurance. Every driver then | would be subject to periodic re-

with John's Other Wife, Kaltenborn, TEN: A continuous safety cam- ®Xamination of the same nature.

/paign by all Indiana newspapers| e to pass automatically my Fidler, They were amusement, never stern and radio stations. doctrine.

Federal Law Suggested Other possible aids were suggested, the most novel of which is so broad in scope as to be

both Haw-Haw and Tokyo Rose. My "innocent nationwide. This solution would laughing

gunners busted a gusset especially when he reported us sunk every eve-| ning. : In the Pacific, we so loved Tok comedy program that we started one drive to have a batch of new recordings chuted on Tokyo. Her record of “Stardust”

yo Rose 88 a1

was getting mighty markings.

at Haw-Haw, place the traffic problem in the

hands of the federal government. Nationa] legislation would regulate speed, institute uniform traffic laws for all states, and adopt identical sign and highway It might also include

would result in revocation of the license. Car Inspections Needed Every vehicle should be subject to examination twice a year-for| mechanical defects, If defects are found, the driver should be ordered to have repairs made. Failure to comply within a stated interval would result in the, car being impounded. One of the frequent laments by state police is the inability to se-

scratchy. But she was powerful good company in|federal regulation over automo-|Curé convictions after an arrest

the, sterile places where we lacked the sound of bile

apy woman's voice.

the incorporation of specific

From a standpoint of actual morale-building, safety features.

Rose, Sally, and the late Haw-Haw deserved an

allied medal as much, say, as Mickey Rooney, who ever, traffic experts would like to}

On a strictly state level, how-

manufacturers demanding|h3s ly Jor u Sraigie oo

{state the record of convictions)

lation.

for arrests almost is nil. Police complain that unless the

got a bronze star for entertaining the troops. They see a 60 mph maximum speed individual pleads guilty it almost were as good as a USO show. But unfortunately|limit. Included, they say, should|is impossible to bring the case to their Axis employers didn’t know that--and un-|be a clause on reasonable speed. trial. If brought to trial, a con- snow and ice, I can tell the min-

fortunately, neither did the traitorous disc jockeys. Otherwise a person would be viction seldom is secured. lute I hit the Indiana line from) In concept of evil, they are guilty of treason strictly within his rights to drive| Statistics prove that four-lane Ohio or Michigan.

eet from the point whire his wrecked cab left the road in the 6200 block of Madison Ave. were. the last tha

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two men; b were the el h going Boor 60 mph before leaving the: “ ; ; properly-trained drivers have only half as many accidents as

(the. state. . Steps are being. taken to. make them safer as rapidly as possible. Many three-lane roads are being converted to twolane highways. The northern portion of the stat is plagued every winter by snow and ice. It also’ is the section most frequently traveled by out-of-state traffic. these cars constantly complain to state police about the slick roads. An Indiana truck. driver, who contacted this reporter, was particularly vehement about this condition. Slips at State Line “When the weather is bad with

One moment

Otis Borders, The speedometer y -

Drivers of

maps. (I never did get a look at the r SECOND SECTION © sft TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1049... One of a ast and lasting of an a case of oll cans when the phone rang. He er on : e 9 ways ; le Sa fis yi VA mat aR, ; was confirmed rather quickly the grunted and it sounded like “Oh, oh.” : " oe Fe HA i A other wight at Cottow's Shell Service Station. Fall * yi was 1045 p.m. When the chimes and the ‘od CE ys enough ol, 8 Place where Junior. phone rang. Just then I had no idea it would be -— i r r : n enough gas to get the family car 12.10 om. before the three of us would be stand-| H : ; 2

Death Toll

ay added another victim in

«i+ "Murder" on the highw on the car stuck at 51 mph after the crash, A companion, Jake RAT Yo, i8 i serious © ay Wr tanh N (pd BS ie I id as sb

drivers [younger a person learns methods, the safer the roads are going to be, : For this reason many safety specialists would like compulsory driver education and tral programs In high schools. At the present time, in the nation,

without training.

dents graduating from high school receive behind-the-wheel training.

Today the state police are asking for an increase of 150 troop{ers. The force definitely is un{derstaffed. There are 207 troopfers. The number on duty each day, and this only when shifts

as any spy, or deserter. For baleful purpose they at 60 when common sense dic-|undivided and threé-lane high-|the roads will be clear, the next overlap, will average about 110,

rate the top punishment, and I would not, like to

see Miss Gillars’ gams let her off lightly. War has; The driver license law should The state highway

tated a slower speed.

{ways are the most dangerous.

department

1 can feel the tires slipping.

‘passed over-all chivalry and ignored all sexes, arid be particularly striet; demanding aiready has ceased to build such!satd: if she's proven guilty she demands as high a gal-|a tough mental and physical ex-'roads, but many are in use over

lows as Haw-Haw, Her failure in the business of treason has nothing to do with the original talent.

Shorter Skirts

WASHINGTON, Feb, 8—My spies on the Rue . .

de la Paix report (hold tight to the arms of your ‘ chairs, gentlemen) that the Paris dressmakers have decided to whack about a foot and a half off the new look this spring. This means. that by. summer ladies’ knees will be adding to the beauty of the landscape everywhere and in particular on breezy days, About time, too, if you ask me, By fall, no telling what. The wonderful part about this revolutionary development, from a mere husband's standpoint, is that it won't cost him much. All he needs to buy. his. wife is a pair of scissors. And this brings up the mental workings of the lovely beings known as ferfiales. Two years ago when Paris decreed long skirts, you may remember, ladies everywhere said it was an outrage. They organized clubs against the new look. They picketed stores. They wrote letters to the editor. Never, they said, would they hide their legs under taffeta. One of the bitterest of these ladies (and I'll probably get myself in a domestic tangle unless I can hide our newspaper today) was the blue-eyed one known as my bride.

And Finally It Happened

I'D NEVER see her, said she, id long skirts, A few weeks later there she was, in long skirts, Said she hadn’t intended to buy same, but there weren't any other kind, and I didn’t want her to go nekkid, did I? Fact was, I thought the new look on her looked fine. I made my mistake by sayin 80 in print. Embattled women everywhere swung at me with their reticules. They sald that I undoubtedly was cross-eyed and that my bride probably was bow-leggéd. I hasten to add that she wasn't and isn’t, but in 1947 my feminine correspondents weren't listening to reason,

__ By Frederick C. Othman HB

~ 7 A lady in New Orleans said it was obvious that| I was in the pay of the dressmaking trust. One| on 59th St, New York, said, drop dead. I could

{Gowan, quote from my mail at length, because it was Dome, 1643 Cornell Ave., will be dergo instruction

McGowan Rites

To-Be Tomorrow

Mrs. Henrietta - Sylvia. Mewho died Saturday in her

seared in my memory, but a few months passed buried in New Crown Cemetery

and all the womeri in America were wearing long | following services “at 1p. mi. t6-

skirts. Bar none. - ” They bought new dresses if they could afford ‘em; ‘otherwise, they sewed ruffles on the bottoms of the old ones. A smart fellow in Los Angeles made a quick fortune with new look ruffles ready to tack on old hems. | Eventually, the hullabaloo quieted do

morrow in the Galilee Baptist Church. She died at 66. "Mrs. McGowan was a native of Bedford County, Tenn. She

had lived in Indianapolis five begin an adwe and Years and was a.member of the vanced course in

everybody ‘was ‘happy, except a few narticulate) JAllice Baptist. Church...

males who still remembered their old artistic interest in legs. Remember? Those handsome items enclosed in nylon? 80 much for memories. When the memoranda from my sples arrived about the short skiris about to be unveiled in most of the atellers of Paris, Mrs. O. was aghast. So was a friend of hérs.

Liked to Hear the ‘Rustle’

THEY SAID they liked long skirts. Kept 'em warm. They didn’t have any worries about cross-

Ing their knees. Liked the rustle of their petti-|

coats, Felt more ladylike. And said that no Parisian dressmaker ever could get them into short skirts, Being an exceedingly intelligent fellow, I said nothing. All I'm doing now is waiting. I'll admire my bride in short skirts. I'll probably write a piece about it, when she gets her first one. -And then I'll be deluged with letters from ladies saying I am a low, leering lout. } Or you-never can tell about the female sex. And the more I think about it the more certain I am that America soon is going to be a better place to live. At least, prettier. Paris, I saluté you. Boy, hand me down those scissors.

The Quiz Master

??7? Test Your Skill ???

Did Michelangelo sign his sculptures? _- One difficuity that scholars have had with Michelangelo's sculptures is that, except for the early “Pleta,” which is now in St. Peter's, he never signed his works. = p Where was the first atomic pile | history begin? tf Me. 18 At the University of Chicago on Dfe. 2, 1042,

Is _the quail or the owl of more value to the

farmer? :

The owl is of greater value hecause it destroys a larger number of farm pests and is one of the

most successful monensin the bird world.

What is the name of Ludwig van Beethoven's

ethoven's only opera was “Fiddle”

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I'm sure;

Survivors include two daugh|ters, Mrs. Anna Ro {Mrs. Sadié Randolph; four sons, | George McGowan, and six children, all of Indianapolis,

| |

‘Mrs. Julia Tucker Rites to Be Thursday

| ~Bervices for Mrs. Julia E. Tuck-| jer, who died Sunday in her home, | 1518 N. Senate Ave., will be held | at 1 p. m. Thursday in King & King Chapel. Burial will follow in New Crown Cemetery. Mrs. Tucker, who was 70, was a member of Bethel AME Church. A native of Saddlersville, Tenn. she had lived 28 years in Indianapolis, =. She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Kathleen Miller, Mrs. Georgia Martin ‘and Mrs. Mabel Starks, all of Indiznapolis; 20 grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren, ;

State Rests Case

|Randolph, Robert, Clarence and f the technical grand- Training Command.

started training at- the Afr

{to 368 weeks the ” | soldier will un-‘, 4

in the fundamentals......a.n.d principles of elementary elec | tronics as ap-% plied. tq radar. | HE& then wil

ground equip{ment or airborne equipment at the eld, which is one of the bases division, Air

Pte. Towner

| Pvt. Towner is the son of Mr. |ahd Mrs. Leslie R. Towner, 1728 | Ruckle St.

” » ” Mrs. Nita Beckley, star recorder of the Women of the Moose, will

16-Year-Old Tenor To Sing Here Feb: 19 Philip Coffin, 16-year-old tenor of LaFontaine, has been selected

as soloist for the Indianapolis Symphony's second children’s

Saturday, Feb. 19, in Cadle Tabernacte. Announcement of the selection of Mr, Coffin from eight finalists in the annual Young Indiana Vocalists’ competition was made to~ day by Fabien Sevitzky, director of the Symphony. ‘

in public, private and parochial

In Trial of Driver

The state rested today in the Criminal Court 2 trial of Marquis M. Glick, 5426 E. 30th St. on trial on charges of manslaughter and reckless driving. Police charge that Glick’s faflure to stop at Post Road and 30th St. un June 2. 1948, caused death lo n Moeller. The opened Yesterday,

cinity starting next Thursday.

Guest Story Teller | Ruth Reynolds of Radio Sta{tion WIRE will be ‘guest story! teller at a children’s hour to be heid at 3:30 p. m. tomorrows in|

the . Prospect Branch Library

Mostly About People

Pfc. James A. Towner, 19, has night program of

Tickets for the Feb. 19 chil-| i dren’s concert will be available

schools in. Indianapolis and vi-

George Washington and Abraham Lincoln will ‘be subjects of the stories.

Again statistics show that

‘Hansford, chairman

Mrs. Cathryn!

etry Gilbert. R. Drake. 29. ranted ly State Traffic cam

Force Radar School at Keesler en Band, at 8 p. m. tomorrow in 0 Anderson yesterday as a ‘deField, Miss. For a period of 20 Moose Lodge. The 10th Air Force serter from the U. 8. Army to[concert band from Ft. Harrison,

I'At other times there will be only|rate of three every 24 know: I'm back in Indiana,” a " —this eid ck diana,” he 40 troopers “blanketing Indiana are Injured-—this is one accident

T=this is 1688 than one-half trooper per county.

Arrest Deserter in Anderson

day was taken under control by

less than one-sixth of all stu-even

i 3 |

forts. During that month the constantly

public was ered with safety by these two great mediums, Death did not ride over the traditionally bloody July 4th holiday. 5 All of this may seem a gigan{tic task, Miny will Febel at ef« (forts to “save” their lives. However, the automobile year. ly claims a third of all the accidental deaths in the nation. It {eJmost runs a tie for first place {with tragedies in the home. |" In Indiana, Hoosiers die at the hours; 63

every 7% minutes, It is “MURDER.”

More Killed

The names of three more ‘murs

directed by Maj. Bernice C. Phil- military authorities from Ft. Ben- OF victims joined the roster of

{lips, will play. oo ~ ¥ . “rani A: Price; 30, of 1425

{Jamin : Harrison, according to

Nt Harvey -G.- Foster, special agent; Emerson Ave., vice president of!In charge, Indianapolis FBI of-|

Renner’s Express Co., 333 W., Ohio|fice. ’

8t., reported to police last night v the theft of four cases of cigarets|in Anderson and resided there! <J8mes Otis Borders, 26, Smith

Drake, who was In business

| Indiana's trafic dead today. They are: ~~ Austin W. Cook,

| derson,

{valued at $375 from a semi-trailer with his wife and three chil- Grove, Ky.

|truck In the company yards: | ” ” on .

Maria Jeritaa, opera singer, will:and- the Madison County sheriff {return to her native Vienna some-| or D

time fn March to star in {performances of “Tosca” by Vienna State Opera, nounced today in Vienna. » » LJ The First Friends Church Christian Education Committee will preesnt Joe Pearson of the Indianapolis Chamber of Com-

- sts cosmic si

be guest speaker at the chapter merce in a program of technicolor

|dren, was arrested by FBI agents fin co‘bperation with state police

| According to Mr. Foster, Drake

TWO has been sought for return to

the . it was an. Military control since he deserted

from Ft. Bragg, N. C., on Oct.

6, 1942. o Plan Unified Program Of State Disaster Relief

The Indiana Economic Council

| Mr. Cook was killed yesterday

when the automobile he was drive

ing. was. struck... by... a. Penngyle. oi

vania Railroad train at a coun-

#1, Cayton | | Wallses Gene Phelps, 20, An

deathless. July, 1948, to such ef

Boe

try road crossing one mile north.

of Belleville, Mr. Phelps was injured when his motorcycle overturned on State Rd, 9 a quarter mile south of Anderson. He died about three hours later in Bt. John's Hospite al of a fractured skull. ) Yesterday afternoon Mr. Bor. ders was killed when his ear

pictures on Palestine Thursday has been named to formulate a Struck a tree in the 6200 block

{following 6 p. m. dinner in the (church. Dr. Ralph Wilmore, chair'man of the visual aids committee, ®nd Private services in providing

will assist.

sales. promotion

the Indianapolis Sales

| |

tel,

Sales Meeting.’

4 4

Mr. Douglas Sales Executives last year. A veteran of World War I

11930, and meat sales

there. He was

present position

. » ” | | Stephen A. Douglas, director of director, in the Kroger concert of the season at 10 a. m.|Co,, Cincinnati, O, will address cj hy Gov. Schricker. It co-ordi-

woe Ml D0. LOS gory will orp pre-| sent a e lec-! ture titled “How

(plan for coordinating all state

{disaster relief in Indiana, accord-

ling to P. E. Middleton, council

The task was given to the coun-

Execu-\nated relief and recovery pro-| tives’ Council gramg §n the Coatesville Monday ‘evening qisaster a year ago. in Claypool Ho-| up Middleton sald a conference

tornado

lot state agency representatives

A miotion to quash habeas corus appeals for James Grant, 28,

in Indiana State Prison, was taken under advisement today by , Special Judge Bary LE. Gause in

Mr. Douglas formerly worked in Criminal Court 1. Swift & Co. He joined Kroger in e director of on the motion tomorrow. r several ‘months and Shewmaker were sentenced a to the in 1946 to 10-25-year terms. for|i Hie fer

Judge Gause sald he would rile

i auty

Studies Move to Quash/? to Conduct * Habeas Corpus Appeals

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of Madison Ave, Jake Eatmon, Park City, Ky. a companion, was seriously injured, :

Grants Jury Trial

‘To Burglary | Special Judge Harry L. Gause today granted a jury trial to Paul Braun, 21, of 211 BE. Minnesota | St, ard Fred Dobson, 20, of 1429 N. Sherman Dr, both chi with second degree

Davis Cleaners store at 2042 Clitton Bt, on May 2, 1048. =,

on mn 8 pom, in

will observe ¢