Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1949 — Page 19
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Inside Indianapolis
THERE ARE A lot of sledge-hammer betwee Bow and the time English a Theater are street level an i - age d completely 1-00n Joe Svoboda, foreman of the Wreck« ing Co. crew presently smashing the garage in the rear of the hotel, is of that opinion. 80 am I. We speak from experience. Joe counts his in Years and I in hours, There's ‘a lot to learn about a simple activ such as swinging a sledge hammer, And pon more to learn about tearing a building down. You just don't pile Into a joint and beat it to the ground. The latter point was one of the first to be fearned from Sam Passafuime, superintendent of the Cleveland-Buffalo firm specializing in systematic demolition. . After Sam handed me my wrecking bar a slight misunderstanding developed. I wanted to start swinging on the pillars, elevator cage, theater seats, mirrors and definitely intended to get a few licks on the gilded boxes which Capt. William English and friends used to grace. . It was a whim, I'll have to admit, but a good one, right? It's all going to be torn down anyway. The boss said, no. There was a right way to wreck a building, there was a right way to get salvage and there had to be a system. He couldn't have 50 men swinging wrecking bars and sledges any. old place.
Time to ‘Report to Joe’
“REPORT TO JOE,” ordered the superintendent. “He's on top of the garage. Don’t touch a thing until you see Joe.” OK. Oh, boy, did I pass some fine stuff on the way to report to Joe. But, musn't touch. In order to get where Joe was, it was necessary to climb an iron ladder to the second floor and cross a five-foot space on a four-inch pipe. I stood on the fire escape and didn't budge until Joe had two planks 10-thches wide placed from the roof of the garage to the fire escape.
Blow-by-blow . . . The English Hotel is coming down. Here "Mr, Inside Indianapolis” is shown pitching in with a sledge hammer.
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: ] ek = : ; ; 5 wy od 8 : : - aa : ibn RNR SRO. By Ed Sovola ¢ Indianapolis 1imes | 5 > LC. Bates, who came in with the wrecking : ro — — —— a emonsi at how easy it was to cross on) SECOND SECTION \ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1049 : Joe thought a sledge hammer would be better than a wrecking bar. He moved me into swinging position alongside of Frank Greenwell and Roland Barker, weighing a mere. 200, explained what we were supposed to do. Simple. We would smash the roof, blow by blow, the debris would fall below and after we had that done we'd knock the sides down. The first healthy blow shook me more -than it did the roof. I felt as if someone had hit me across’ the back with a shovel. The men explained what was wrong. ; In the first place, the roof was built originally to stay, namely, with three-inch concrete and re-|” inforced with sheet tin. A direct blow was comparable to hitfing a new sidewalk right smack in the middle. . “Hit close to the edge,” advised Roland, “and have your sledge hit at a slant.” My second blow dislodged a hunk of concrete the size of a chicken egg. We all listened as it clattered down below. Roland swung and knocked off a hunk the size of a small desk top. I'm not sure but it might have been a lucky blow, Bates and Herbert Pasley were on top of the skylight knocking the roof to pieces. Incidentally, the skylight roof was also reinforced ‘concrete. That old joint was built to stay and I'm not fooling.
Scoops Away the Pebbles
MARK COOK busied himself with the shovel scooping up the pebbles, A 10-pound sledge on top of a pebble can be very dangerous to the eyes, you know. It gives a guy a strange sensation to knock a hole in the roof and look down perhaps 20 feet. I don't mind telling that you wonder if the por-| tion you're standing on will hold. The fact that| you have been beating it with a sledge doesn’t give one confidence, At least it didn’t me. I don’t know about the other men since I didn't tell them I was scared nor did I ask them! if they were. We just swung the sledge hammers. To the people who spend their working days be-| hind a desk, I'd like to say that sledge-swinging| is mighty relaxing. After an hour's time I could feel my muscles practically falling apart. Joe said he wasn’t surprised. In fact, he} thought I'd be so relaxed that I wouldn't be able| to get out of bed in the morning. He was only| kidding, I know. Heck, I'm in pretty good shape! although my arms are beginning to tingle. Joe figured roughly it vould take from three to four months to do a complete job and stressed | the point that on an old building you never know | what you run into. Take the concrete floors and| roofs, for instance. Yeh. So, I listened to the foreman tell me how hard the concrete was. It coincided with”my findings: it's going to take a lot of muscle to knock Capt. English’'s last stand apart. Owwww. I'm not sore, just a little stiff, that’s all. I'm in shape, man. i. |
In Times lce-0-Rama Tonight
' Photos by John Spicklemire, Times Staff Photographer ie
There'll be plenty of "flash" in tonight's annual Times Ice-O-Rama in the Fairgrounds | as exhibited here by Evelyn Everett (left) and Shirley Roberts. Some 600 skaters of all ages will take part in the show which starts at 8 p.m. The Coliseum doors open at 7 p.m, and Butler University Band plays from 7 until 8 o'clock.
Coliseum Mary Maloy, 13, is featured in a solo routine during the Bird Tales production number in which 45 skaters take part. Hete the camera ‘catches her skating backward in her routine. Mary has
been skating only one year.
Russki-Rouser
NEW YORK, Feb. 24—Mr. Bruce Barton's suggestion that we might improve our Russian propaganda by dropping a few thousand Sears Roebuck catalogs on Russia, to spell out and picture the available wealth of our peasants, has spurred
* a perusal of a bog I hadn't read in 20 years.
The old Sears catalog used to be awaited with the tense eagerness of a child, for Christmas, since, indeed, Santa did a great deal of his shopping with the firrs&. My boyish eyes focussed most avidly on the sports segment—the bicycles, the catcher’'s mitts, the saddles and guns and hunting knives and mackinaws and high-laced boots. In the current spring and summer copy of the catalog. those sections seem, to have shrunk. There aren't nearly as many lethal weapons as formerly; not so many mitts and gloves and baseball shoes. : : I notice that Bob Feller is the big signer on the baseball gloves, with a remarkably unfamed catcher named Jake Early indorsing the mitts. In my day names like Stuffy McInnes and Rabbit Maranville were stencilled across. the heel of the equipment. The new Sears portfolio of goodies lists 1178 pages, not counting the order blanks, and offers a rough 12,000 items for sale. The table of contents starts with “A—vitamins” and ends with “Zonite.” You can still choose anything from Peruna to petunias. The male models for the suits and coats are still the fine, ruddy youths of yore — men who obviously eschew the coffin-nail and confine their profanity to “darn.” Their clothes fit perfectly — no bulges, no creases, no bags in the knees.
Freak and Innocent Fillies
THE LADY models are always fresh and innocent fillies or apple-cheeked matrons, with never a martini glass in hand to sully their appeal in the Bible Belt. The old-time corset-and-maternity-harness section has been replaced by pages devoted to the pantie-girdle and other airy bulge battens, but the ladies pursue a prim circumspection even in those racy chapters. . There is none of that gay abandon so char-
By Robert C. Ruark
acteristic of the fashionable jadies’ magazines—| on a Sears model, a girdle”is just something to| squeeze down her bumps, not send her off on a giddy romantic spree. } I was a bit shocked to find three kinds of falegies and two brands of bras to cup the counter feits, since falsies on a farm seem a touch extraneous. But you can buy a type called “Bud-| Ees” for 49 cents. Sears now has its own book club, a sterilized literary department indorsed by a minister, who| says they “are books without an ax to grind either for or against any ‘isms’ or un-American| group. They are good, clean fiction books which provide a few hours of relaxation.”
Start 10 Percent Down
HOWEVER, on the next page I note that a reader may purchase “Forever Amber” as easily| as “The Virginian,” and the complete, harsh works | of James Cain and Erskine Caldwell right along with “Girl of the Limberlost” by Gene StrattonPorter, James Farrell's “World I Never Made,” and “Strange Fruit” are in there, too. These gusty morsels are obviously for non-conformers to the precepts of the 4-H Club. Sears demands a stout 10 per cent interest, plus breakage, on its time-payment items, and requires 10 per cent cash down on everything. But rugs, furniture, deep freezes, stoves, -ironers, mattresses, phonographs, radios, refrigerators, sewing machines, vacuum cleaners, washers, air compressors, trailers, boats, outboard motors, paint sprayers, rebuilt auto engines, rifles, shotguns, saddles, saw mills, power saws, and truck tires. You have to plunk down 20 per cent on these. Sears seems stuck with what the ladies called the New Look, since the firm's dresses are chopped off at the calf. This could be catastrophe If Paris’ decree of shorter dresses takes hold this spring, but Sears has weathered these crises before with little loss of prestige. Altogether, I believe Mr. Barton had a sound hunch. The untold wealth of America is not hoarded in its banks, forests and mines. Much] of it lies, acquiescent, in the Bears catalog, just] panting for the peasants to rip out the handy|
order blank and mail it in, satisfaction guaranteed.
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Al dressed up for the Dutch Garden number . . . Johanna Spolighted | in "A Merry " Con ifs. oN WwW Cummins, 9; Josephine Roberts, 10, and Judy Earl, 9. Also in this Ee and Karl Komef 'ISORins: Velerany have a Yortied on _ hod number are Dutch boys, “Tulips,” Gardeners. despite their young years. : she was a victim of infantile paralysis. :
Funny People
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24—Let us pity Caesar Nobitettt, “who hires more doormen-to-stand in Swiss uniforms and white gloves under the canopies .of apartment houses deluxe than everybody else. Up and down Fifth, Park and other fashionable avenues in New York lounge the doormen of the unfortunate Mr. Nobiletti with snowy palms out .for. the tips of the city-slicker millionaires who live within. A bitter man is Nobflettf, " " As vice president of the City Investing Co., he gives his unappreciative tenants caparisoned flunkeys, fireplaces, private terraces and three baths each. Three, that is, for the husband and three more for the wife. And they pay rent lower per room, he moaned to the House Banking Committee, than does the dweller of an ordinary walk-up flat. This glimpse of how the other half lives, as presented by Mr. Nobiletti and the proprietor of the 32-story Eldorado on Central Park West, amazed the congress-
men. Tells of Super Service
THE LAWGIVERS were figuring on a bill to extend rent controls, and here were’ the managers
of ultra-ultra apartments demanding that they be.
exempted before their rich tenants bankrupted
thelr. Nobiletti told with tears in his voice about the white gloves, the super-service, and the prewar rents in 15 of his plush-lined towers. At 150 East 73d St., in one of the fanciest buildings in America, he said, live a man and his wife in a 16-room apartment with six baths. They spend their winters in Florida and their summers in the country and seldom are home to take a bath, but they pay $291.60 a month rent. This breaks down to $18.22 per month per room, which Mr. Nobiletti said is less than the average white-collar man pays for his own diggings.
By Frederick C. Othman
He told about the rich widow who lives alone ina H-room-apartment with six-baths-at- 2-8. 67th 8t, the couple with 13 rooms and five baths at 133 E. 80th St., and the family of three with 17 rooms a conservatory and seven baths at 907 5th Ave.
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Laughingly they pay him rents fixed by the 4 ; Ch I rent controllers at levels which are driving him to ; : URI. | NEw AAP WE wa "ig § a bankruptcy, while they rattle around in apart- . - . » ' . * ments four and five times bigger than they. need. Soloist . . . Betsey Todd, one of the Ice-O-Rama headliners each year, does a "broken leg" Rodney Young is one of the all-American boys in the exciting
spin-in her WhirkA-Gig routine, which is. negotiated .to_toetepping tempo of the |5-piece or- Donald Dyck number which presents || “characters” in playtime
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Gladly he'd "Kick thent "out and ¢hop up the
units, but a conflict in the city and federal laws chestra. : antics. prevents that. i - — — - “But if you could cut up these apartments,” M | hh . . suggested Chairmah Brent Spence of Fort Thomas, t A t p 0 - t © Ne S To Ky © where white Be re oor only by the un- OS Y N ou e e in WwW , ay eo oo eo oo sme dertakers, “you could get rid of the doormen in - —— . ——————————— — —————————— ————— the Swiss uniforms and the gloves, couldn't you?’ Congressman Andrew Jacobs, Co. is the southern ‘city's “NO. 1|president of the state Exchange|heard the poker game in progress. purchased a home at 3124 E. 47th who came back from, Washing- walking delegate 12 months out Clubs and a former Elkhart] It was then Lawyer McClure|St., convenient to the Western Funny People, These New Yorkers ton this week to speak to teh Ro- of every year.” judge. tossed his fast ball, “Your honor,” Electric new Shadeland Avenus i . . tarians, found himself lined up to “He eats and talks Ft. Lauder- > = he said to Judge Clark, “Gam- plant, now building. } NO, HE COULDN'T, said Mr. Nobiletti. New speak also at teh . dale,” an informant says Although it 1s not generally bling is not a misdemeanor that| Incidentally, their daughter and
Yorkers are funny people. They like aids in gold braid and, of course, white gloves, to help them out of their taxis, he said. riers meeting, & Harold J. McCormick of the ultra-luxurious El- Butler Un i verdorado, a towering landmark across the street sity, the Century from Central Park, handed up a photo of the Club and the Inrooms he rented novelist Sinclair Lewis at a fee|dlana Democrat he sald was far too small. {Club, to mention “I am amazed at so many rooms for so few(a few. But the
What kave they got that the known, the U. 8. Navy is con-can be perceived by the sense of son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Hoosier capital hasn't—except tributing very much to the sdc- hearing. The only misdemeanors Booth of Indianapolis, also work for oranges, sunshine and a near-/cess of the Berlin Airlift, At the that can be heard and not seen|for WE. {by Seminole Indian reservation? |present time the are profanity, disorderly conduct y & . » Navy is operat- § and slander.” Eugene O'Neill, of New Yi Although he had never been!|ing 24 planes in | | Judge Clark admitted it was (City ‘author and playwright, ii in Indianapolis before last week, |the run from la “new one on me’ and dis- selected today as the American
Court Sallander of Stockholm, Rhein/Main to © author most likely to be regarded Sweden, has been closely associ-| Tempelhof Air. Shargen the Jetsadsat, f ¢ ‘ —
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people,” interrupted Rep. Ralph A. Gamble of |busy Represent ated with one po . (a . , ) poll of subscribers: to &. book New, york, ve ' pun ound lof our industries Indianapolis is V. A:(Vie) Halvorsen, who has oo)lectors’ quarterly. a umpf, sald Mr. McCormick. In this same(time to for several years. represented In the longest company service rec-| .,... ty phed for
building live a wealthy man, his wife and theirjon the local
{ the Navy squadtwo children in a 16-roomh apartment with eight|“D 0 bbinburger yA
rons by Ensign Alfred N. Cave, USNR, a C-54 pilot. He is the
ord of any employee in Western new Colophon Electric's ~Indianspolis plant, TS OF (0 10 ert Peet: started to work Jog (Ernest Hemingway, Carl Sande (38 years ago to-, ¥ tvburg and John Steinbeck, {day as an office {boy in the com-
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Mr. Jacobs |
baths and two terraces. Only both the children are|ring. In a speech in which he comaway at private schools, while mom and pop|Pared man to the “lowly mule” spend their winters in Florida and their summers |he departed from text and in-
vo in New England. For a place to hang their hats|jected “who is. I understand, said tf, Ens. Cave | nt“ in New York they pay $4400 a year. . - |to have contributed materially bpenid Man- nn ola. I ave, 30 N. Ta-Pany's Haw- ; Club to Hear Taylor Very low,” observed Mr. McCormick, who!to a solution of the local meat coma Ave. thorne works in { Carl Taylor, Wak ) Wis,
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The Quiz Master
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. the Sherlock -Holmes pipe that's : his trademark. “Takes too much : 7? Test Your Skill 7? time to light,” he explained as he Defore had he seen lightning In out of the hat in Municipal Court here, there had : : February, : |4 yesterday, : been only orie in-
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Which famous artist always prayed before painting? ¥ra Angelico, the saintly Florentine painter. Believing in divine guidance, he prayed lor inspiration for his work and it Is sald he never handled a brush without prayer.
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finished off breakfast with a ..m" Defense attorney McClure, wh hi . ; ; ) v 0 niin his JIn what year was the first shipment of cotton cigaret aston d a8 Sen. D. Russell Boyteager (R.iwas questioning legality of the term of service, exported from the United States? Word from. Ft, Lauderdale. Elkhart) will discuss the Indiana arrest of a client for gambling, when he took time out for a hitch In 1784 eight bags of cotton were exported from Fla., reveals that Wallace O. Lee, General Assembly at a meeting was trying to establish that theiin the Marine Brigade of the 2d the United States, the first shipment of the kind vice president in gharge of per-jof the Indianapolis Exchange arresting officer did not witness Division AEF during World War! which had ever been made, The eight bags were sonnel and public relations for Club tomorrow noon iff the Clay-a. misdemgnor. The officer ret. : | about equal to one bale, ithe Indianapolis Power’ & Light|pool Hotel. Sén. Bontrager is past piled that he had; that he- had) Mr.
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