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LEANING AGAINST the long workbench in garage No: 1 at the Speedway these the Arst faint rumblings of the “500” are to: sound—a man finds it hard to believe that Cotton won't be around. Fe A casual glance in the garage makes you feel that the-old master of the Maserati might have stepped out for a minute and would be back before you had a chance to make a sandwich from makings in the well-stocked refrigerator.

Engine and chassis parts litter every available space on racks, benches and cabinets. At this time of the year, three months before Memorial Day, H. C. (Cotton) Henning, who died Dec. 9, wouldn't have been farther along. +. The same speculation and small talk with the visiting race fan who knows the “boys” automotive dealers, drivers and mechanics is still there. The talk isn’t knee deep yet but it will pick up. There's plenty of time, Hundreds of tools, neatly placed in slots or hanging on the plywood above the bench, are ready for the experienced eye and d. A place for every tool and every tool in its place: That was Cotton's rule.

New Boss of the Maseratis

THE ATMOSPHERE is unhurried, easy. There will be anxious moments later on, closer to the day of qualifications and the race itself, Not now, though. ’ Shortly, some of the new additions to the scene come. into focus. Clarence Cagle, new superintendent of the Speedway, is one of the men in the garage. His question is directed to the new boss of the Maseratis, Ed Metzler. . “Is thie the picture of Ted Horn's wreck?” asked Mr. Cagle, who was standing next to Cotton's old desk in the so-called office part of the garage. .

. sputter, let alone run in the race. You had to keep| plant in her backyard, those city people did.

The late master's fooks. . . . H. C. (Cotton) Henning's- workbench is in new hands at the

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Photos by Henry E. Glesing Jr., Times Staff Photographer

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Littie Old Lady Pulls F -And ‘Josep

Ed immediately had to kid Hal about his native|: state, California. “Hal read about the mild weather we've been having and decided to quit all that snow and come back to God's country.” It didn’t do much good to protest that he wouldn't have come back if the only reason were weather. Hal said the work and the race. itsslf had most to do with his arrival at the Speedway. “Anyone know where I can rent a house trailer?” asked Hal. No one knew where a house trailer could be rented. ) “I want to get my family down here,” Hal sald gloomily. A set of wheels was delivered. They were unpainted and buffer marks in the metal were shiny. From unpainted wheels we got on the subject of what color the three cars would be. Ed hoped it would be black.

Filling the Ola Master's Shoes

SOMEHOW AN argument developed over the color of the numeral on Mauri Rose's car last year. Was it white, silver, blue outlined in white? Well, what was it? Not even the man who delivered the wheels was sure. Cotton would have known. Ed pulled out a racing paper from Switzerland. There were stories of Ted Horn's accident and Cotton's death. About the only words any of us could read were “8 zylinder-Maserati . . .” You must admit zylinder looks a lot like cylinder. The afternoon slipped along lazily. Every day! something was done to or for the cars which in| the present state looked as if they'd never even

Josephine, the 40,000 kw generator .

Mrs. Flora Hoss and Skippy . . . they built the Centerton . she began running this morning in lpalco’s big new reminding yourself that three months Memorial Day things were the was around. “Now, Ed “Metzler, who was filling Cotton's shoes, was in the same kettle of Maserati parts. | And speaking of filling Cotton’s shoes, Ed was wearing the old master's work shoes. They fit.| That may be a good omen. P id ine wore Be and I saw Cotton's shoes here,” : ; XX explain “ need now is to learn to chew RE ih a. 3: - i wer Bai) CRE tobacco and spit like the Old Man.” y ; A & po vr : And make the Maseratis run. Then things will - Por SR x: vi . be right at No. 1 garage. I pu Sm thgpRt sok ; pa by

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Gilting the Gilt

By Andrew Tully,

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21-—Just keep calm and no shoving—there’s plenty of worthless Canadian stocks for all. Maybe the swindlers haven't got around to your street yet, but they haven't run out of oil fields or gold mines and you can still invest your life savings to save some deserving confidence man from a destitute old age. This year the season opened in Virginia, where those open-hearted Southerners are knocking oneanother over in the rush to buy low-priced oil and gold stocks. : As a result, the State Corporation Commission has slapped injunctions on two Canadian brokerage houses—The First Seeurities Co. and The H. G. Rogers Co.—and has .action pending against two others—Perrin & Co. and C. Douglas Wilson & Co. William C. King. director of the Virginia Securities Division, doesn’t want to spoil anybody’s fun but he feels it his duty to point out the strictly philanthropic aspects of the movement. As such, he says, it would be unworthy of any Virginian to hope to make any profit. “There is no record of a single one of the investors having ever received a penny for his investment,” says Mr. King. It’s hard to figure accurately the take so far, but from the handsome literature bulging Virginia’s mail sacks Mr. King estimates that close to a half-million bucks has been poured into this unique social security fund. “And,” he concludes sadly, “some damn fools are still buying the stocks.”

Low Prices for Suckers

THE THING that contributes to such wholesale suckerism, according to Mr. King, is the low prices of the stocks, Most ef ‘em sell for 50 cents to $1. a share, which puts a modest plunge within range of the thinnest pocketbook. And, since some of the houses send out as many as 100,000 mail pieces, it’s not too hard to realize a net of . $20,000 on a normal 20 per cent return. For his six bits or buck, the contributor is let

tention of the Ontario Securities Commission in|

in on one of the most amazing sure things of the| century—say the circulars. These elaborate printing jobs, whose phrases would turn a circus ad man green with envy, croon of Canada’s “great oil boom,” its fabulous deposits of silver and gold | in “hitherto inaccessible areas,” its “rich and pro-| lific reserves of untapped wealth.” f The sucker+is asked to recall “the tremendous fortunes that stemmed from the rich oil discov-| eries in Texas and California.” Well, in Canada, it seems, “a story of Inimyense riches is now being written in oil.” Just send the! coupon—they won't take any money until they! make sure you're okay—and before you know it

Transmission lines . . . new electrical energy for Indianapolis. The plant at Centerfon . . . a neighborly place with a lot of power. . w Via : day from her yard. It wasn't] As the switch closed, steam| THE ENTIRE plant, designed Centerion Woman Yields After Long Fight, Jong until they were calling. Der|niased Into the turbine. and tnelt0 THE ENTIRE Fant, dtuigned you'll be sitting up there with the Rockerellers, Happy to Have Utility Neighbor in Backyard (the “superintendent. |glant generator—large enough to| 8 Capacity to meet the future and Sinclairs and Pews, smoking Corona Coronas. | THE FIRST multi-million generator of Indianapolis Power &| She would stand out in her yard, | ply a city the size of Terre of Indianapolis, is part of Fortunately the promoters need money “for de- Light Co.'s giant electric generating plant at Centerton began turn-| "iD her dog, Skippy, who strayed| y a $50 million expansion program velopment” or you wouldn't get such a break. |jng on its test run today when a little, old lady who didn’t quite into her household many years Haute—began turning slowly. to be completed in 1952,

. i" ago, and observe every phase of] The 21-ton rotor which nor-| The plant is located on the 2: lapprove of the plant next door to her property pulled the switch at KN Publicity Only Weapon '9 a m. eonstruction. mally revolves 3600 times a min- (NY OC (IVE TONE, Shere TODAY'S fairy tales, as in the past, eome She is Mrs. Flora J. Hoss of Centerton and very determined she ute moved at low speed, while west of Indianapolis. It is access from a gang of clever Toronto brokers who op- was two years ago when con

sible to southern Indiana coal. erate. sporadically in this country through the struction began that the house in the shadow of thé mi iWebtric C t | ‘ ) ghty| tending” the construction of the r 0. experts from Sche- fields, its source of power, Coal mails and long-distance telephone. At various utility in the city wouldn't oust! ant. |big power plant. [nectady, N. Y., observed it.

burned to produce steam will be periods, these lads have taken as much as $1 her from the house she lived in| r million a week from this country. {all her life. | This is only the first of four ground as fine as talcum powder

” = » } » ~ - . | MRS. HOSS says the plant is, THEY THOUGHT it would be gentrntars to be installed in Cen-jand fed into bollers .under presAnd nothing much can be done about it. It's) The house might have beeniin her backyard. : {fitting if - she pulled. the switch terton, with 40,000 kilowatt ca-/sure. : illegal to use the U. S. mails to defraud, of course,/doomed, but Mrs. Hoss' de-| She doesn’t mind it a bit, now. which started a turbo-generatoripacity each. It represents a good| These details are nothing new but you can’t put a man in jail if you ean’t catch{termination saved it. In the She likes having neighbors. {by the name of “Josephine”: on/portion of the $14 million which to Mrs. Hoss. She has studied him. And there is no treaty allowing the U. 8. to agreement whereby Mrs. Hoss While the plant was building, |its test run today. Mrs. Hoss|the installation will cost when them thoroughly. Today is her extradite Canadians for fraud. {turned over acreage to the utility,ishe watched the workmen every|thought that would be nice. {the second unit is installed. {day down in Centerton.

Rood of gold-stock swindies and was srs Eoundation Aids Attention . . . Miss Hoosier Marine Mostly About People [5 , Stout, assistant di- She received a court citation

The big utility people in the i : |city began hearing of the little, she was permitted to retain thelold lady who was ‘“superin-/Mra Hoss and a crew of General

Best Smeller

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21—A ceporter ordinarily writes about what he sees and hears; seldom does he have to depend” for news on his sense of smell. there was Mon C. Wallgren, President

of the National Security Resources Board. And there also was Sen. Harry P. Cain from Mr. Wallgren’s home state of Washington, to oppose him on charges of being incompetent. of having been expelled from high school, of making a fizzle of the jewelry business, of being a pool shark, and of smelling pretty. Mr. Wallgren was a nice fellow, maybe, sald the Senator, but he was not heavyweight enough for a job like this. And he read on, quoting from a recent magazine piece: ' “Liberal in his use of eue de cologne and shaving lotion, he is known as the best-smelling Governor the State of Washington ever had.”

Governor Knew His Cues

FHE SENATOR denounced him at length as the one-time proprietor of a pool parlor and.as a fellow who was slow in paying his bills in 1932 and said that in 1923 he was the national amateur balk-line billiard champion. No man, obviously, to be chairman of so important a bureau, no matter how much Mr. Truman liked him, Senator Cain added. My job, obviously, was to sniff Mr. Wallgren and discover exactly how he did smell. I did this, as unobtrusively and as carefully as posgible, when he came in later to defend himself before the Senate Armed Services Committee. He was white-haired and smiling, clad in a pin-striped suit of gray, wearing a gray necktie * to -match, and sporting a fresh shave. Sniff. Sniff. IT detected a faint aroma of soap about Mr. Truman's fishing crony. I think I smelled a whiff of talcum powder, but I obtained no Indi-

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A. with and M, Sat. Cerl H. Cd Schutze or for » future lady Marine, the Book. Local Girl Named First

“Sweetheart” of the annual DeMolay dance Saturday night in Scottish Rite Cathedral. Miss Carter, a student » Shortridge , i{igh Bchool, Miss Carter was selected from a' group of 13 candidates,

ratifying it. So harassed authorities like Virginia's Mr. . King do what they can, which consists largely of giving the racketeers a lot of bad publicity. | y | rector of the Indiana Department after In addition, the frauds are brought to the at-| of Veterans’ Affairs today was| burning sofa, o { { “Too man le fight their ) $78,691 Appropriated jerans Re-Employment Rightsown fires,” re Malas Hoon. for being naughty in another country, but it can. {Committeeman by Becretary of Stone declared. “It's against the revoke the licenses of any “improper persons.” ) ! J een ; | The Indianapolis Foundation Mr. Stout will serve with the p.. Cook, former | not going to be any serious shortage of phony disbursed educational, health and Bureau of Veterans’ Re-Employ- oe mer local ice Canadian stocks in this country for a long time. } RAMA (Indianapolis residents during lective Service Act. For the past gon wg shows, yester1948, Paul M. Ross, director, an- four years has has served in a ay won the coveted Silver Dance Total 1948 appropriations to-| i the Eastern Ss /taled $78,691 to. 10 community] |Belective Service Mee. chairman skating competi- 8 cation that Mr. Wallgren was wearing any board of trustees for specific proj-| ; y wi , | His partner in heliotrope toilet water. I suppose I should have ects. {sity business school departmentine finals at the how td go up tg a public official and say, sir, are last fall's campaign of the In-| Renee ail represent the: Nar was Miss Vera you addicted to eau. de cologne? dianapolis Community Fund. The Ruth Elliott, annever was tossed out of high school. He quit to(of $12,000 and $10,620 went to the S& PO en tii Mas, |dianapolis resi go to business college because his father wanted Indianapolis public. schools for| ! i dent. 1 during the summer of 1951 | business and things were tough. Remember, he ships and transportation of crip- bee! i : parents, Mr. and said, it was 1932. pled children, and to the Visit- Ea Gloria Miller, 24-year-old wait- Mrs. L. M. Cook, Rex Cook | . . . a; certain today it doesn} pay to|is a form be lived with the same wife now for.35 years.” health care and. treatments. | Miss Shirley Thompson, Capt. Robert ty | er member of the Indian« So Mr. Waligren got into politics and spent] Value of Indianapolis Founda- P Pt {compete with the city’s fire de-|apolis Figure Skating Club. He and a Senator, -before he returned to his home ffm which is expended annually Caro « |Y., Figure Bkating Club; state _where he served a tefm as Governor. ‘tor the “welfare of residents of Anti-Segregation His next competition will be in sald it and he charged that he was being bom- short 3.282.677. These Springs, Colo. barded with a rehash of all the charges hi |the report as $ y tM Miss Marga Lee Carter, honpolitical enemies had tossed at him during (fe! : : a ing from $1600 to more than §1 . . heat of his several Campaigns. | million. Shirley J. Thompson Set for Fingl Jobs Daughters - Processing in Cincinnati Today Broad Rippl & today demanded defeat of a bill] Pple, “AS YOU gentlemen know,” he continued, ‘2 Birthday Beer Oy eae Can OA | ad reigned Democrat can’t do anything right in the eyes of P Bi k U ‘Thompson crinkled her freckle-speckled nose with pride over being|regation in the Indiana public arty FrOKeN UP ine first Indianapolis applicant selected as a new recruit in the regu-| school system | |

~ “Would you say the reverse of that proposition also is true?” inquired Sen. Raymond Baldwin, a a d out by “The ay” were drowned oO 1 Re Wallgren Thep Prisoners’ Song’ as police dropped Women’s Reserve sould enlist in the regular Marines. Miss Thomp-

the Senators got him to talking about how he|ln on a Sunday beer party at the po I the daughter of ur and, handled toll bridges while he was Governor and home of Ernest Harris, 37. of a. . n Thompson, 41 '|by Marine Corps Headquarters in| Copies were sent to the General] how he passed out liquor licenses to so-called 2031 N. Kenwood Ave Hey, Ave Washington. Applications are re- Assembly and to Gov. Schricker. privated clubs. Police found four persons. in- [Excited over plans 10 "see (ejveq locally at the Marine| The resol tion stated the! Mr. Wallgren explained at length. Later, it cluding a 21-year-old Afr Force places and people,” Miss Thomp-| corps District Headquarters re- leagues felt fe e of the bill was indicated, we'll hear more about his yacht corporal, drinking beer which Mr. son went to Cincinnati today for crulting station in the Post Of-|“wduld have-{ar-reachin effects his real-estate interests, and a few other things|HArTls claimed they brought toifinal processingt If she fulfills re-/gze py(iging, in charge of Capt lon residential districts inthe var-|P b C which Senator Cain-said he had documented in a D'S house. The party-goers said quirements there, she will beipiion A Mills, Women must be jous communities within the state| robe Lause ENS, couple of large filing cases. But, I there'll | they Were ‘celebrating the cor- formally enlisted. in the WOm-|petween 20 and 31 to enlist, and and the social order of ong OF $1 Milli ro be no more references to smells. They're too hard [POT2!'s birthday. en's Marine Corps and sent t0|,,,y enlist for two, three and|standing” Hion Fire to detect in the first place, and too difficult to| hyn ied hey teaming nd: 8 Co for six week¥ our years. Applicants must be 4 Calls Bill Harmful | CLEVELAND, Feb. 21 (UP)aheriie In the second. |tound him hiding in the attic and Travel has long appealed Lo Hinkle and high school graduates. pel leagues expressed “the Two investigations of the $1 mil. |charged him with violation of the ty, 21-year-old girl whose long-! Dj Televisi firm conviction that a social or- lion fire that swept an entire busi«/ I1SCUSS evision der cannot be changed by legisla-| oq block in exclusive Shaker

11935 beverage act and neglect of 4 trip was to Buffalo, N. Y. She . th d attempt to do so his eight children The other w..- graduated in_ 1945 from’ At Meeting Thursday Non A Dy Miemp, tensions, Square Sunday were begun today. p Fire Chief James Granger ore

arty-goers were charged with y,uwe High School where her sis-| “Television Today and Tomor- oot oo and strife.”

the U. 8. Senate, but Canada never got around to | Harvey B throwing water on her {appointed as a volunteer VetToronto. The commission can’t spank its brokers! For 10 Agencies {Labor Maurice J. Tobin. law.’ But unless tougher methods are found, there's fother practical benefits to 11,611 ‘ment Rights under the 1948 Se. Skater who has appeared in past By Frederick C Othman “tots today. |similar capacity under the 1940, Championship of . service agencies, voted by the on leave of the Indiana Univer- on > asked him, but I didn't. I don’t exactly know| Largest grant was $25,000 to| of management, and newly ap- Boston Gardéns That wasn't all, testified Mr. Wallgren. He|next two highest appropriations tonal Management Council at the other former Inhim to. Then he joined his pappy in the jewelry high school and college scholar- agement in Brussels Belglum,| Mr. Cook's “And 1 got married,” he continued. “I have ing Nurse Association for home ress, of Pasadena, Cal. was jive at 3636 N. Dearborn Bt. Rex 12 years in Washington as both a Representative tion principal funds, the income partment. _|now belongs to the Brooklyn, N, H looked directly at Senator Caln while he; Indianapolis.” was ‘estimated in . |the National finals at Colorado * cman rer omens ot mis ros. WOMAN Recruit Here ) : ored queen of Tells About Tolls ———— Two North Bide civic leagues ‘Bethel 3 in Blue eyes sparkling with prospective adventure, Miss Shirley J.|in the legislature to outlaw seg-| a Republican.” | The strains of “Happy Birth- lar Women's Marine Corps. The demand, in the form of a

Prior to Jan. 13, only former members of the Marine Corps resolution, was signed ly the Fairview Civic League, Inc. and - - the North Indianapolis Civic| Indianapolis application accepted League, Inc. |

??? Test Your Skill ???

What is the coldest “cold wave” officially recorded in this country? The coldest wave that ever hit the country invaded the northern. Rocky Mountain region in February, 1988. It hung up the all-time low - perature record for the United States when it * enrdled the mercury of a thermometer in Yellowstone National Park at » hea zero Fahrenheit. ¢ 2. ‘Will there be -any total eclipses ot the ‘moon In 19407 - | 4 There will be twa total eclipses of the moon,

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beth visible in North and South America. These will oceur on the nights pf Apr. 13 and Oct. 6, @ .

y cy. ” vagran y. _ |ter, Barbara, is a senior. row” will be discussed at a meet-| rp, resolution particularly took dered his men to seek. the cause | 1 She spent the following twoing of the Association for Edu- j..ue with a section of the billjof the most disastrous fire in the Wemmer Grave V4 years in the Normal ‘College of cation by Radio in the auditorfum which would prohibit discrimina- history of Shaker Heights. Bulld- " William H. Wemmer, Repub-|the American Gymnastic Union,|of Indiana Bell Telephone Co. at tion in the “hiring, upgrading, ling Commissioner William Guion What are “anadromous” fish? lican candidate for mayor in 1947/415 E. Michigan St. ‘There her|8 p. m. Thursday. - tenure or placement of any teach- ordered his investigators to check The word anadromous refers to such fish as|gnq past president of the Indian-| favorite sports were bowling and| E. C. Belzer of the telephone or on the basis of race, creed orjreports that a number of shad, which ascend rivers from the sea, at certain apolis Bar Association, remained | Swimming. company and Merrill Lindley of color.” barely escaped death when feel: seasons, for breeding. y in “very grave” coridition today in| Two years ago Miss Thompson William H. Block Co. will discuss| It was contended this one of the : * oo o¢ Lilly. Clinic, General Hospital. went to work for the Bell Tele-{the topic. Mr. Belzer will demon-|was harmful since it provided for cause an exit What tonstitutes the supreme law of the.land?| Mr. Wemmer, who. has been {ll phone Co. She recently resigned strate operations of television re-| placement of teachers of one The fire The Constitution of the United States, several months, has been on the her job as long distance operator|lay stations after a movie on the race in schools entirely or largely Shaker More! with foreign treaties and acts of Congress “critical” list in the hospital since there. } ) {subject. . .Mrs. Ressie Fix is pro- composed of students of another|destroying 1 onder its authority. y Saturday. : A | ‘Miss Thompson's was thé only gram chairman. s © trace” 0 ing three o

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