Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1949 — Page 13
problem about time we got rid of every last pigeon in the city. They're a No, 1 nuisance.”
Good Riddance, Mayor Thinks THE MAYOR of the town agreed pigeons were a nuisance but questioned the pogition I placed them in. In part, too, he thought $4500 would be 8 good investment if it guaranteed that pigeons
I admitted my failure to the Mayor and told him how the pigeons flew to”the post office ramparts as soon as I began to set up my trap and scatter the corn. -
smart,” a disguise.” : : “I've ordered a shawl already,” I chortled. “No Pigeon is going to outsmart me.” They're not, The Mayor wouldn't commit himself about the pigeon question. Instead, he began to philosoph He said he didn't hate the “poor little thing;
obviously were placed here for a purpose; pigeons were driven but the starlings would move in and wouldn't that be worse? s
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with, but I don’t think we could do it with $4500,” continued Mayor Feeney. “Pigeons are pretty smart.” x . He wasn’t telling me a thing. Just an hour beBes TR fom ha
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Pigeon pie? ... . A local tra has an idea how to get rid of pigeons: feed them to prison-
ers and shve the city and county money.
he raised pigeons as a youngster.
licenses for $1 to shoot pigeons in outlying dis tricts, don't you?” That was news to me. There was no fee attached to trappers, I was happy to learn. Also, it’s against the law to shoot pigeons in the downtown district which is the main reason there are 50 many taking up housekeeping downtown. “We need more buildings like the Telephone Building,” was the Mayor's suggestion, “but in the meantime why don't you see the county commissioners. They buy most of the food.”
Commissioners Have Headgche
COMMISSIONER FRED W. NORDSIEK, servIng as spokesman, was interested to a minute degree. He insisted the commissioners still have a headache from taking office and the problem of doing something with the roads. His groans almost had me convinced. “Go over to the jail and try to sell your pigeons,” pleaded Mr. Nordsiek. Sheriff James Fnningham was investigating something, Chief Jailer Harry J. Cook said, but he'd be glad to talk about pigeons. No, he couldn't buy pigeons, the commissioners did all the buying. “If the commissioners want to buy them from you, we'll feed them to the prisoners,” said Mr. Cook. Mr. Cook frowned on the suggestion that we poll- the prisoners to see if they would like pigeons. Flatly refused, he did. Come, come, gentlemen, I've got a new string on my trap, some fresh corn and a shawl; I'm ready to go into business.
Mae West's Pupil
NEW YORK; Feb. 23—We have been up to see Miss Mae West, who claims she pioneered a field Dr. Kinsey cashed in on. Miss West tells us she has always been at least 20 years ahead of her time, and what she went to jail for, 20 years ago, Dr. Kinsey got famous with. Not that Miss West, who was wearing a pink kimono and ‘az blue hotel blanket ‘round her
knees, is jealous of Dr. Kinsey. She regards the widely public chronicler of the fraiities
of the human male as a kind of youthful disciple. “We are both in the same business,” says Miss West, archly flicking her eyelashes. “Except'I saw it first.” : Miss West is working the town again with “Diamond Lil,” a somewhat bawdy drama concerning bad ladies and their friends.” “Diamond Lil” opened here 20 years ago, ran § couple of seasons, ahd transfused the theatrical arts in New York. : . When they dug it up again, recently, they scheduled it fof a limited run, but business is so brisk it now threatens to fetch up in a photo
. finish with “Mr, Roberts.” -
This surprises Miss -West no single solitary whit, since she has been plowing the same field for. years, and finds sex a reasonably imperishable commodity. ecg “Diamond Lil's” only concession to the modern age is half-a-dozen gags Mae salvaged from the pasteurized movie version of the play. The rest is pure, vintage West. For naked innuendo, nobody has yet been able to. improve on: her original lines.
What's the Difference Anyhow? THEY have settled on 57 as Miss West's official age, which I will not be boorish enough to dispute. But the lady looks early 40's, at worst. Her skin is still a child's hide, her figure is trim, and she wears no more chins than she owned in 1929. Her voice is demure, offstage, and bears no resemblance to the husky vocal leer of her dramatic voice. She is modestly indignant about the copycats who took her concept of s-x and muddied
' Miss West.
“ie open when they ¢l6séd up the other ones.”
it all up with profanity, in a strenuous effort to capitalize on her name. ) “The worst word I ever used in ‘The Drag,’ one ef my plays I went to jail for, was ‘lousy’,” said “It was the first time ‘lousy,’ ever was used on the stage. Then those people, trying to cash my precedent, started writing profane plays, and using nasty words like ‘s-o-b.’ Naturally they had to close them, and they couldn't leave
Miss West sighed. “My trouble,” she said, “was always being ahead of the times, When I was starting out, the word ‘sex’ was only used two ways. ‘The other sex’ and ‘the weaker sex.’ It wasn’t polite to give it my meaning. That Kinsey would have) gone to jail, for sure.”
Hollywood Was Queasy
MISS WEST also informs that she is responsible for the popularity of the costume piece, or historical novel, as a movie vehicle. She says that when she was nominated to make “Diamond | Lil” as a movie, they tried desperately to modernize the drama to fit current clothes, on the ground that period epics wrecked -the-star.. She held out for the lush costumery of the Naughty 90’s, and so, she says, bred a whole epidemic of historicals.
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Senators ‘Choke’
2 Education Bills
Committee Holds Fast to ‘Hot’ Issue
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gation in Indiana schools and to halt teaching of religious ed-| ucation on school time were be-| ing “strangled to death” today| by the Senate education commit-| tee. . One member of the committee who preferred to remain unknown, said “We want to study them for two and a half weeks, That action would automati-| cally “kill” the bills in committee, since the législative session ends
been a potent point of determination in her moving picture career. As a concession to the tots, the basic business of “Diamond Lil” was changed from white slavery to counterfeiting, and she was not allowed to murder a rival in the picture. Hollywood had a queasy stomach, in those days, and a braw lad like Archie Leach—excuse me, Cary Grant—would never have been allowed to love a lass who had just slain a girl-chum in a fit of maideniy pique. Miss West momentarily contemplates a new play, a new picture, and an endless career— since, she says, her specialty withers not with time. As for interference from Dr. Kinsey, no. “That guy merely makes it easy for me,” she says. “Now I don’t have to draw ‘em any blueprints.”
Do-Little Congress By Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON, Feb, 23—The eighth week since the 81st Congress went.to work. is underway, with the page in the official calendar titled, “Status of Major Bills,” as snowy white as a blizzardswept prairie in Wyoming. It's blank. The boys have introduced about 300Q separate bills so far, but none of importance so far has become law. Not one, unless you count the raise they gave President Truman in sal and tax-exempt expense account. : Let us not denounce the lawgivers as lazy-
bones. They've been arguing early dnd late, most- : subjects
ty In committee, on aif s “from cabbages to
"king (literally), but they expect the lawmaking
machinery to go into high gear shortly. Maybe. The House seems to be in pretty good shape. Its appropriations bills are in the works and if it can shut off John Rankin and his pension bill, the headmen figure they can keep up with the’ Senate easily and even be ready to adjourn before the summer gets hot.
Will They Bust Filibuster? IN THE Senate, where a fellow can and frequently does talk as long as he is able, things are different. The gentlemen now are bracing
themselves for a filibuster against a law which
would make filibusters impossible. They're getting ready for ‘a battle, such as even they seldom have waged, over changing the Taft-Hartley labor bill. Whether they'll give President Truman the $4 billion tax boost he demands is problematical, but they're dead set on talking about it at length. - More strife is coming on the housing law and Mr. Truman's insistence that what this country needs is another OPA to keep prices down. One Senate committee, meantime, is about to investi. gate why food prices alreddy have comé down.
The Senate has passed one bill to limit ex-
The death by method is a often used on politically “hot” issues. The education committee, meanwhile, has acted on half al
|dozen lesser school bills in the|
past two days. " Tine Against It |
Even if one of the authors managed to force his proposal| out of committee by the end of] the week, it is doubtful whether the measure would have enough time to run through legislative| machinery for passage. “Ben. Clifford Funderburg (R. Huntington), a former county, school superintendent and chair-| man of the-education committee, | said yesterday the bills have not| come up for consideration. The sénator said
port control; the House another.“ The House has authorized the Maritime C ships; so has the Senate, but in a different way. They both did adopt a law concerning turning the Los Alamos atom-bomb center over to the state of New Mexico and spelling out how an atom splitter there may sue for divorce. | Both bodies have extended the life of the War| Assets Administration for another four months, while the House has passed the first “deficlency| bill, including a couple of millions to buy itself fnew roof,
the Rules Committee couldn’t bottle up any bill the boss men didn't like. Immediately John Rankin, the loudest orator in all Mississippi, brought up his bill to pay pensions to all veterans. of World Wars I and II, when they reach the age of 65.
How to Stop Honest John ONLY WAY to stop this from coming to a
short-sighted and not be able to see Honest John|labor leader. The bill passed the Republican Senate opposition. Thus far, the six GOP bolters have supported the arbitration re-| peal along with the Democrats. | Today, with the arbitration bill {eligible for firal passage, Being Elkhart) declared. “The fn t
wooed earnestly by both parties. °f the public is paramount.”
when he jumps up, waves both arms and asks| for recognition. | If he’s recognized, passage seems assured and then it'll be up to the Senaté to kill a measure the experts claim eventually would cost us tax-| payers as much as the rest of the government. All this is by way of introductien to the stories) you'll" soon be reading out of Washington. I'm] getting an asbestos note pad now, ear stoppers for when I can’t stand the noise a minute longer, and a catcher's mask to wear when the going gets too rugged. Last session I was conked by a senatorial witness (he stumbled over a cuspidor during a fracas and landed on me); this session I'm increasing my accident insurance. :
The Quiz Master
222 Test Your Skill 79?
How old was William Cullen Bryant when he
wrote “Thanatopsis”? He was 17 years of age when he wrote this poem, sald to be America’s first great poetic work. ; ® oo Who originated the custom of outdoor presi dential inaugurations? Le James Madison introduced the open-air inagufrom. 8 temporary platiorm In
How is the Library of Congress maintained? It Is maintained by personal gifts and govern ment Appeopriations. . The Library receives, according to copyright laws, two coples of all books published in the United States. . Y ¢ & 9
+ What -is dry farming? : It is scientific farming of land where there
rece pe er ee oe SS URGAY---Bchool) teacher, . introThe House also changed its own rules, so that|gucedq the bill to outlaw religious
mission to" sell” some! cation BNE, despite “thelr “Wghly!
dontroversial nature. Me2il Pours In For three days, senators and
representatives have been flooded! Pvt. Junior A. Alford, 1006 Cor-'organization of new Bo with letters, cards and telegrams nell Ave. has enrolled in a guitar Troops in Marion County: either favoring or opposing the training course at the Kyoto eduin Kyoto, Japan. and Extension Committee chairin man, said the program would inelude an address
proposals. Sen, Russell Bontrager (R. Elkhart), a former Presbyterian
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instruction during public school hours. The antisegregation measure, which has drawn fire from two) Northside . ¢ivic leagues and] ’laudits from the Church Feder-
ation of Indianapolis and the In- rested squarely in the hands of six rebel Republican state Senators |
dianapolls Community Relations council, was proposed by Rep.
House last week.
Local Youth in Navy At Atlantic War Game
Apprentice Seaman Ralph E. DeBolt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil-| liam L. DeBolt, 2524 N. New Jer-| sey Bt., now is participating in
[the Atlantic Command ‘Exercises 2torial being held in the Atlantic and Handley of La Porte, Edwin
Luctus Bendix Reports Rise
Earnings SOUTH BEND, Feb. 23 (UP) ~Although last quarter earnings of Bendix Aviation Corporation
Caribbean from Feb. 14 to Apr. 1.| Presently attached to the U, 8.
Rico, he is an. assistant to the First Lieutenant there. He enlisted in the Navy in May, 1948.
Girl, 13, Grabbed,’ Dragged to Lot
i A 13-year-old North Bide girl who “was grabbed and dragged into a vacant lot near 3200 N. Pennsylvania St. today had identified a 39-year-old suspect as her rassallant, Police sald the man attempted to drag the girl back into the deserted section last night but that she broke free and ran. They
on a vagrancy charge.
a.
. Ad Citizens of Indianapolis tend to use outlyin loads up a truck with years’ accumu] night on a lonely road. That's how this trash was "left" in
‘meeting of Two bills to end racial segre- Women of the
he would y))nns st,
Our Fair County Becomes Just ublic Dump For Local G pe
Fail, RT nant - &
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sections of
a!
mountain dew, one
Moose Lodge Head to Speak
ity and ation of RL dumps it
Dead chickens are scattered along this woodland glade bedecked with beer cans and bottles of west of Ladywood. Who will clean it up? Anyone?
Chiropractory
Charles Sager, governor of Moose Toage 17, WIT be the guest]: 2 pe [
speaker on a program to be J given during a §
Moose at 8 p. m. tomorrow in the oose Lodge. After a pitchin supper at 6 pm, formal? initiation will be held, with Vin- 3 cennes 1040 in charge. The
Musgrave,
Juanita Beckley, ritual chairman, the
will be a guest,
strangulation legislative device pp 0ca en 1 3 lof Indiana University's graduate y n iM {school. | The committee's report was
made in the ‘form of an amend-
Mrs. Beckley Kitchen Band will entertain. Mrs.
Commission Plan
sion in 1951.
mission. Makeup of Group
“They also suggested 1t bé made] licensed practicing
up of two
House Group Favors
A House committee today rec-|,merica” at the ommended appointment of a com-| mission to study the question of licensing chiropractors in Indiana.
The commission's study wouldirow, in Murat be made during the next two Theater. e years and a report accompanied by proposed legislation would be given the General Assembly Ses-
Members of the State Medicine mother of Mrs. and- Public. Health Committee of House recommended the com-
chiropractors, a physician, an osteopathic physician and the dean
Three Indianapolis. men have yon 1 a House bill which would
appeared with the
Symphony Orchestra as membersitrol of a state board.
man Chapel Choir.
lof the Naval Academy Midshi - "hey are stricken out by the committee Round Table of Christians
Baltimore jjcense chiropractors under con-
|
This vista of Our Fair Millersville one paid the spot a visit with a
“More of the same along Arlington Ave. between 45th and 56th Sts. complaining for months, but county administration can't k marring the landscape, trash becomes a health menace.
Catholic U. Official
To Address Forum
The Rev, Fr. James A. Magner, 8, T. D., assistant secretary and treasurer of Catholic University lof America, will speak on “The
| European Atti{tude Toward j
{Te Deum public {forum series at 8:15 p. m. tomor-
Father Mag (ner 1s editor of {“The Catholic University Bul letin,” associate editor of the “Shield” and.sec-
lic Historical Review.” travelled “extensively In Europe;
ca.
Set Panel Series On Brotherhood
A new series of panel discussions on “Brotherhood” will be
| The entire licensing bill was|sponsored by the Indianapolis
and
James P. Oberholtzer, son of Mrs./@nd replaced by the study com- jews. Dr, Dallas L. Browning is
Bonnie Lou Oberholtzer, 519 E. mission proposal.
|25th St.; Clifford M. Rigsbee, son| {of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Rigsbee,|Censes
The state has no
to
686 E. Drive, Woodruff Place; ana|1927.
Beville Ave,
{John W. Jeffries, son of Mr. and! Mrs. Kenneth W. Jeffries, 850 N. Seek New Scout
Sgt. Paul H. Bailey, son of Mrs. 1TOOPS in County
Guam,
cation center Pvt. Alford, who November, 1947, is the Ruby M. Alford.
is
enlisted son of Mrs
chiropractors since
| Jessie Fauline Dailey, 2821 N.| Representatives from 50 proas been assigned as spective Boy Scout Troop sponsornot howd public hearings on ohe clerk in the orderly room at Clin ing institutions have aceepted the gregation or religious edu-\yon county Afr Force Base, Wil- invitation of Gov. Schricker mington, O. Sgt. Bailey enifsted|the Central” ‘Indiafia “Boy” {in October, 1946, and has served Council to attend a dinner tonight las clerk in supply headquarters in/in the Woodruff Place Baptist
and
Church gymnasium to discuss the
W. Daniel Kibler Jr,
[Schricker,
y Scout council]
6 GOP Senators Hold Fate
Of Utilities Arbitration Bill
Outright repeal of the Utilities Compulsory Arbitration Act
today.
They. have formed a GOP labor bloc, which with the ald vote is for the speaker to become temporarily James 8. Hunter, East Chicago of the Democrats, has enough voting power to overwhelm reguler
Republican senators’ are
strike.”
D. Russell Bontrager
Speaking against full repeal,
|the laboring people secondary citizens in denying them the right to
(R.
He reminded Democrats that
Led by Willlam Bates of New|, schricker had called for vol-
Albany, the rebel Republican senHarold B
ranks include
Beaman of Princeton,
|pulsory arbitration,
Bomers of Hoagland, Clyde M.
compulsory arbitration bill
which passed the Housé. Yesterday Senate
S [Matthews of North Vernon and|in Quarter! Naval Station, San Juan, Puerto Leslie T. Thompson of Evansville.|
The Senate yesterday returned the outright repeal clause to the
juntary arbitration to replace com-
This move came after more|s1 05 me : A ain than an hour of debate on the'p Ferguson, president. told the Senate floor. Last week the re-| annual meeting here today that pealer had been amended to sub-|“current trends in business acstitute voluntary arbitration for|yvity will unquestionably chalthe original “full repeal” measure lenge continued earning power.” Consolidated net income in the
Demderats three months end ) and a few Republicans voted o!inftial ondeg 2
a,
quarter of the current
amend the “il again and returnfiscal year, increased to - it to. its original state of full re- 625 from $2,224,308 as S02
peal of compulsory arbitration.. '|dated In arguing for full repeal. Sen. other Louis Baldoni (D, South Bend) $49,586, held the suspect, arres later, declare |
A“
[ Compulso in utile makes
gross sales, royalties
and
operating income rose to from $38,991,753 - in ry arbitration the - corresponding a segment of year. i i
last
. ! ¢ issued Ii-| chairman.
At 1 p. m. today, a panel composed of Dr, Browning, Rabbi Maurice Goldblatt and the Rev. W. A. Shullenberger was to spe to students at Butler University.
Tomorrow at 9:45 a. m. another
B. Connor Jr, the Rev. Chester Winter and Rabbi Goldblatt will appear before students at Tech-
out m. Friday a third
At 9:45 a. group comprising Rabbi Goldblatt, the Rev. Herbert Huffman, the Rev. Joseph Wick and the Rev. Marcus Johnson will speak at Washington High. School.
vould ‘Freedom Flame’
Winners Named
Citizens Gas and Coke Utility
ties and William Kelly, salesman
{for Chambers Range Stores, Inc. Zionists) tonight at 8 o'clo
won first place for individual salesmen in the first quarter “of
Campaign. The campaign is a contest sponsored by Servel, Inc, Evansville, manufacturer of gas
achievement program for sales.
ing. Servel Gas Refrigerators. Mr. Kelly received $150 for his
Range salesmen who “placed in the event thicluded Elsworth Winiger, fourth place; Edgar Lock-
Harold Kerimerer, tied for tenth place. Each will receive $25.
JAD Officials Quiz Burglary Lookout, 13
police while he acted as “lookout” for a burglary was being questioned by Juvenile Ald offi-
als today. . olice noticed the boy loitering outside the Gansburg Coal Co., 1001 Beecher St, last night, As they stopped him, three other
fice. | The other three ‘youths outran pursuing officers but three suspects, one 15-year-old boy and
County be visited Road between Sherman Drive and
oop up with Try In addition
|nexation of thelr property.
“Rev: Magner retary«treasurer of “The CathoHe bas
the Far East and Latin -Ameri-|
\the city's
panel, composed of the Rev. Roy tax the
won first plade award for uthli-| {lain, will address an open meets
the “Flame For Freedom Sales
national’
refrigerators, and is a 12-month|
men and utilities companies sell-|
first place prize. Other Chambers|
wood, eighth, and Bob Amos and | Hospital was - closed to
Jcoccus infection spread to nurses.
caught the infection, Dr. Danieleski, head
A 13-year-old boy trapped byl; a
boys ran from the company of- }
Ss
two 16-year-old youths, were of arreted
Sr
truckload of
Beech Grove Sued By 2 Railroads
- City Proposes To Annex Property The Big Four and New York Central Railroads have filed suit Against Beech Grove in protest against the city's proposed an-
ot he : 10. the city’s tax rola. Karl J. Stipher ; Daniels lawfirm; representing the ; was ann solely to increase Beech 's tax revenue. He estimated the property to . be worth $166,000 for tax purposes. The property, situated northe west of the NYCRR shops In Beech Grove, two main lines of the NYCRR, several side tracks and ground for storage of coal.
Mayor Defends Mr. Stipher charged that annexation was illegal since. the
railroads were not given notice of proceedings. The ace tion ‘also is “discriminatory,” said, “since the city is seeking only to annex property of one ins dividual.” ? Beech. Grove Mayor Richard H. Byland defended the saying that he Is anxious to
increased ‘valuation of .the valuation of the town.
He said the city has been
property as well as the ) shops. He. further denied the rails roads were singled out for annex-
{ation. % “We are just sett our 2
Mayor said.
Cleveland Rabb og To Deliver Address ST ac: sewinng
Rabbit Louis Engelberg Cleveland, = former Army
ing of the Mizrachi (religic the Central Hebrew Synagog, 21st Bt. and Ci Ave, ; : New films showing scenes Israel will be presented. Nandor Fruchter, president of local chapter, will preside. Engelberg will speak in Rabbi Fishel Goldfelder cinnati who canceled his ment for the address.
Eight Nurses Caich Infection at GARY, Feb. 23 (UP)—Mercy
hinge
today ‘after 4 patient's.
None of the other patients
L. 8