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“Chicago ‘you the guy . . . ugh, of his mouth, Je remem in his eye made me wonder was going to do. My main concern was i exit door. rm TAs " 1 right?” asked Eddy as he sat down pefivily in a chair. Before I could answer a <"‘muffied laugh filled the room. The odds that I

Girl Scouts, their mothers and their “gale. wouldn't be tossed out on my ear went up. their ‘cookie gale “I was the one who waited through three

He was showing his wide expanse of teeth through pe : a big smile, autographing bits of paper and Ta performances yelling ‘Swampfire’," was my ad-| RE ro eae rapunE b comeback. The kids mission. “How did I know you needed music, were getting a kick out of tdlking to him so 1 tO Play it? it

; TR guess all the commotion was all right. “How did 1 know you were going to pe so! . persistent? You Know, that's -awfull “Th

ON q “funny,” Made Me F eel Bad ; laughed Eddy, rising and extend) MY PRES E was noticed by the orchestra “I'm. very happy to meet one 6 leader on ope of the rounds of goodbyes and he hecklers. It isn't often I get.

something of a feat in my memory book. ter... . 1937... ecially if you only have the voice and one word ‘Swampfire’,” came memories, - eS Chereds THE } ! Frankly, 1 was taking a chance when I piled what he backstage in the Circle Theater to try my experi- locating ment on Eddy Duchin, whom I remember as the pn with the “magic fingers of the piano.” My could have turned out awful sad for me. * Eddy was just saying goodbye to a group

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Accident potential . . . The traffic record has heen good-at the threw:way ins fersection of English and Southeastern Aves. and Rural St. The situation, however, is complicated by school children crossing four times a day. :

Dangerous diagonals . . . The main. avenues radiating from downtown Indian. apolis are traffic traps and accidents jam the flow of traffic repeatedly. This is Ohio and Pennsylvania Sts. where Massachusetts Ave, intersects.

nidded psantly. Just for a moment he made’ “very happy i rE J _ “Very happy to meet you,” I countered. “It feél bad. about what had happened in the uit often I get to meet You people under such litle stinker. : CE : : ¢ Eddy looke ; : ' The_situation”got most friendly. -If the United dy d about the same except for being Nations nro, Beionily an Body Duchin. and I still had the appearance of a decent sort of a’ pi 4 a stinker would pick on to heckle, . ts all over the world and vodka highballs self as any other person would was coming up, We Started remembering. Eddy told how he e last of the a girls ‘were Ee considered going out after the second stage show! dressing room. His back was a gigi popular “Swampfire” but didn't, because he was SW AMFEIRE! Trek as gery top of Sure the character out front wouldn't sit through lungs. , requests, , id \ % ) & a exe ng 1 : I told how determined I was to'get some sort id AE i ba ; 8 my requests even at the first two Shows. LOT ok ir “I did, I did,” said Eddy. “And that third time : Remember how I tried to play ‘Swampfire’ and couldn't and finally had to stop?” . : DID I remember? -Did he remember the hootin’ . and the hollerin’ he got? He did. piano music for “Swampfire.” He also told about “another favorite heckler (someday he hoped to for requests with: “Play a march and we'll all march out of here.” around a heckler’'s neck?” ®¢ x i “No and don’t look at me like that. No want to get into the act. Audience participation, any form -of participation, is good stuff. There's It was mews to me to find out Eddy spent ‘six years in the Navy and broke up his band in for more than a year and (this he stressed) niimbers like “Stormy Weather,” *Stardust” most often requested. ; “How aboiit ‘Swampfire’'?”

Chicago Theater 12- years -ago. Ooooh, was 1.8 ciroumstanecs.” a little fuller in the face. From his actions he Vy cy would be selling round-trip tickets 5 The time to do my routine or simply introduce jo d be free. : through the door. Eddy took one step into his and getti the music to the then currently, "My effort”was so loud it made me * ‘third movie and third stage show to yell his jump and I was sort of of recognition because he surely must have heard around you about knocked me off the stage. We All Remember . Eddy explained for a long time. there — meet him) in Brookiyn who answered Eddy’s call Do you ever feel like wrapping a piano stool kidding, I mean it,” insisted Eddy. “People always a little of the ham in everyone.” 1942.. He's been on. the road with his new band “Night and Day” and “Embraceable You” are-the “Where's the nearest music store?”

Haunting voice . . . Eddy- Duchin meets an old*friend from Chicago. Note the expression £ © of welcome.

Heartless Beasts . . .

WASHINGTON, Mar. 2—A small but vigorous lobby has been snapping at my ankles for-the past several years, and I am finally forced to go to bat for it. This is the LOMMFTE, of which I peak—The Teague of Militant Mamas for Tax Exemption.” - ers . This league is composed of ladies, with young; who are forced to work to°pad out papa's payroll, or to rear the children solely on their own efforts. They are the ladies who park the offspring in a nursury home, or pay a maid a buck an hour to feed and water the progeny while the woman of the house tolls eight hours in the local ropewalk. . What these women want is a tax revision = which. wollld A116% tHem to write off 'servant:hire ~ as légitimate business expense, since the presence of a servant is necessary:-if the lady is to earn a living outside the home. 3 They say that a man can charge off his secretary’s salary as a businesss expense, and a seoretary is no more vital to his career than a babynder to theirs,

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By Robert C. Ruark

The pins denoting accidents on the police spot map are heavy at this point— Virginia Ave. and East and South Sts. A concentration of truck traffic funnels in through these arteries. /

‘Drunk’s Corner’ Most Dangerous; "Pedestrians Always ‘Fair Game’

By VICTOR PETERSON

n Dr. is one of the dangerous police marked: up a fatality when.an automo-

This bridge at Pleasant Run Pkwy. and Sherma ones in the city. Only recently the bile crashed against a rail, ipedestrian steps. With a traffic/wherever they cross violation, the probability of an street. » ly Ls asan 1 ; accident immediately increases. The long crossing of a alagonaly tot SL} pleasent Rup Pew:

Some portions of Our Fair City, intersection increases the prob-| . however, are so scarred from BDIlIty for pedestrian and -auto-/and Rural Sts.; Michigan St. and So ee mobile accidents. A further diffi- Tibbs Ave. - :

some blonde trick to take his dictation’ and tell him he is wonderful all day long in the office and make him dissatisfied with the home cooking and run his grrands for nim and the-government says, fine, Miss Switch’s salary is a necessary expense and you can. saw it off your taxable income. } o But when a poor, lorn lady wants to deduct rn e king's ransom she has to pay some reform- Cat { : to EL school graduate to keep her ONE from poison- THERE IS 3. date with death waiting for every citizen on [Cashes they come to mind in lty Br a Chr anes the The Wwe: Sould Fuk’ ou: abd om ing themselves, in her absence, the Internal Rey- \ndianapolis streets. 4 : y wl ¥. ;, (three-way stop lights with two: The deaths and injuries and accie enue people throw up thelr hands and holler fraud. No street is safe for the pedestrian or the driver. “Murder”| Washington St. from West St. wou jority at neighboring inter. njuries and ac nx 3 Stalks She dati Shes waitig pe when the yap is sprung./to Noble St. is' the worst stretch octions 3 & ® : ents. go. ; of : ; ndianapolis otte c traps, areas where the fre- in town for pedestrians. In { a . Y after year the same tragic Their Lords Don’t Make Enough quency of accidents is great. | - concentrated Pees a bedestrian|y, Danger. wai ts. everywhere. scones are repeated. The pedes“I DON'T know how many million of us work-| With the sickening thud. of accident rate is very high. The mma ro on Ave. Znd 16th pot trian leads the list for fatalities, “ing women there are, the spokeslady said, but you metal on flesh or the grinding La Then come deaths in automobile “can bet none of us would be slaving over a hot . motions counter if our Lords made e to keep

) long has been a intersection of Washin ) 9 crash of metal on metal, another gion andy ountain Square. The three-|collisions. Third on the frequency trap claims another victim. \pronged intersection of South-|ji ig the train-car catagory. ‘& slab of sidemeat in the cupboard without our paycheck assistance. :

East Sts. is “drunk’s corner.” It take no imagination to analyze ; Then the radio dispatcher at} eastern Ave. Rural St. and Eng- : headquarters begins to give or- lish’ Ave. is watched with esre. | Ine automobile has no more Or, if the worthless wretch hadn't had the bad taste to run off with his stenographer, leaving spots might be in your neigh-

the. reason for the name. ders: To date the accident record chance with a train than a pedes{Pedestrian struck. Ambulance on us with the little mouths to feed, or made us | borhood,. Read and take heed.

another Ave.; Emerson Ave. and New

Every street, every intersection in Indianapolis is 'a traf: fic trap. “Murder on the streets” ever is the problem of Our Fair City. This article of the current Times’ series is designed to saver YOUR LIFE. Some of the most dangerous

» - w PEDESTRIANS are “fair game” yp. has not been bad {trian has with a car : “ - ! «HK . : Fa Car 55, 16th and Meridian, owever. Tn Indianapolis today, ‘accord : ; penniless widows by thoughtfully colliding with/the way. Car 54 make this run vt Scissors to the Cat Dl ; also

any place in town, but the fouria; the potentials are : there and| = corners of the mile square mark|pmade worse by the 575° grade Ing to police records, there are THE. PLAINT is logical. If, they say, the hired _ The point is, very few of us ladies labor because| help doesn’t show up, we cannot go down town” we iike to play a typewriter or stand up all day

{up an impressive number of auto- gonool and kindergarten children|231 railroad crossings within the to strive behind the perfume counter. If we do not on our poor, sore feet. We. work because we have

mobile crashes. They are East who cross here four fimes a day.|City limits. » E strive behind the perfume counter, our darling those little mouths to feed and that is the only

and South Sts, South and West| . =» At 42 of ‘these the onl guards Sts, West and North Sts, and| OTHER hazardous spots in-lare cross arms. Four I no children starve. We cannot leave little Henrietta reason and as long as there.are little mouths at home by herself, to set fire“to the curtains and around the house somebody has to look after

North and East Sts. lclude the Arlington Ave. bridge warning device at Indianapolis’ diagonal avenues at Pleasant Run 'Pkwy.; Ray-|are Bug dan by a1 all Five Stness radiating from the heart of the mond and Shelby Sts.; Raymond ithe day, nothing at night, Only a ® put the scissors to the cat. them, while we slave in the sordid marts of com- } We cannot leave Little Archie in the crib with™ merce? an ali-day sucker for eight hours, while we make And as long as we have to pay for this service

To list the accident traps would downtown section create definite St. and Madison Ave.; E. 25thinandful are guarded by gates. ! the money to buy the little monster's paplum. it is a necessary business expense and we want] : We must have help, which families with non-

be an impossible job. Any street traffic problems. They complicate St. and the New York Central] rptieinsmaeg— = or intersection can become one|the picture at the edges of the yard tracks; 16th St. and Capi- , ORROW: The Traffic the moment a car moves or amile square just as they do tol Ave: 16th St. and Senate Division. ; : ; from th 1 ting School News— | Mai Re b Ww working women regard as luxuries. By the time 10 deduct sume RVI 1H ASAIAT AGONY SCOOMDIS, 9 » : ° Mails 50 Cents, | oO ot arfare Conducted © we have paid the help, and they have chopped It is still a man’s world, the spokeslady said, National Monor Society Store Ships Her In Shad 7) BERL es es | ow of White House To Induct at Broad Ripple G°ods Worth $5000 on Ie Neuse | PpPie | Navy Carries on ‘Push-Button’ Tests

off the weekly withholding, there is not enough a trifie hysterically, and it is time those heartless left to buy a can of baby-oil let alone a prep- beasts in the government realized that a legitiInitiation Banquet on Apr. 29; | MILL RIVER, Mass, Mar. 20° In Giant $35 Million Laboratory By DOUGLAS LARSEN, NEA Staff Correspondent

school education for Little Luther. And yet they mate business expense can be something besides (UP)—Mrs. Homer B. Stanton,| | Symphony Plays Concert for Students WHITE OAK, Md., Mar, 2

these messages of death and injury sound over the police radio while Indianapolis continues its bloody way as one of the nation’s greatest killers in traffic.

“Car 59, Tibbs and Michigan. Two-car accident. No other information. “Car 57, Raymond and Shelby. Hit-run, personal injury. Attention all cars. Be on the lookout for a 1948 . . .” .

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tax us as if we were Keeping every cent of what a voucher for'a wild party for six susceptible Conwe make. v ‘ gressmen -with- blonds dancing on the table and [47-year-old housewife, got a $5000} Push-b ’ : The Broad Ripple High School” chapter of the National HOROF qos. 0 € t 2 Is: ) 2—Push-button warfare is safe, fun Society will induct ew members (bargain from a Buffalo, N. Y. and comparatively cheap the way they wage it in the Navy's fane

You take a man, they say,-and he will hire .champagne slopping in the buckets. Wednesday, Mar. 30, at an tastic new $35 million ordnance laboratory.

. . . “ spe By Frederick C. Othman ziorium: program, “An initiation banquet will: be held . Friday, Store for 50 cents. oh ) ’ ; | night, Apr. 29. ry URL Mrs. ‘Stanton read in a ‘maga: gr upying a 935-atte tract. in White Qak, just 12 miles from. the. i » a. { . use, s a ES ‘i ra : 2 WASHINGTON Mar. 2—D ad t. plunked d ned ith Sent di : Members who will speak on the pinciples of the society are zine that Sattler's of Buffalo was tne Washington _ y the most heavily guarded instalation in Ww , Mar. 2—Do you, madam, want. plun own on the desk with evident distaste Jack Engledow, character; Suzie Grob, scholarship; Sue Stark, | : { ; . ur oleomargariné dyed pink? Kelly green? —this—nose crinkied)—ajar-of -horse-liniment-size.ljeadership, and Paul Ross, Serves woo P e Stark, famous for its bargains. - She [i's the most modern and revo- Acteristics through any kind of oyal purple? Or bright orange, like a taxicab. Within it, said he, was the dye the dairymen:ice. . Daniel Nyhart and Richard Lugar Mailed the store50.cents-in iutionary laboratory of -its kind Atmosphere. ____ . § This colorful and somewhat gooey question ysed to make butter yellow when their cows Committee chairmen for the in- won with a negative team. stamps and asked that a “bar-iin the world. In its crazy assort.| Another test firing range looks © Jee Setting gules By the minute) i plaguing rebelled and produced it white. He said he wanted duction include Martha Wilson, New officers of the Shortridge 50 Nowe ny Yo gr: {ment of giant tunnels, tanks and| like a big, long hall. —Super-fast BE Ie EL nero arote bills 0 7or repoalirg Lhe Sommitteemen to"examine bis jar; they didn't, auditorium; Johii Lyman, stage orem Club are Thomas Todd, . [tubes, every secret and outland-|cameras along one side take pic. -. = excise taxes on margarine, adding more taxes ’ ’ Meranda; grades; Susan ; a | THE store sent her 42 items ish weapon—that the scientistsitures of any sizes projectile in oe ting vellow margarine, banning same and- The stuff that gives the golden color to butter Bassett, initiation program; Alice president; Richard rubaugh, including a complete bedroom set, have dreamed up will be tested. |r) ont the whole length of. th prot ne tts “color 10 something new and bright. is a deep, reddish-brown in its concentrated state|Cyrtis, banquet; Jeanne Bryant, [Vice president; Georgiana Rup- a radio, six rugs, lamps, a fur| There's a huge, pipe-like affair] ’ ength of the 3 and has a pleasant; drugstorish odor. I got some|gecorations, and Rita Taylor, In- precht, - secretary, and Elizabeth coat and 8pring ensemble, and about a quarter of a mile long range. Continuous pictures of the

“ ‘fe - delivering impassioned speeches . | : & on Now Boia Fae ap A hes the On my finger and #0 far I've been unable t0| 4 .¢i0ns {Wolf, treasurer. Trips to Indiana | gifts for her husband and three and four feet in diameter used for [flight of a bullet have never been : The Indianapolis Symphony Or. Medical Center and Pitman-{daughters.

butter states. who have been passing laws against Wash it off. She also received a missile range. Any altitude possible before. 4 chestra, conducted by. Dr.-Fabien| Moore Co. are planned.

margagine since 1886, offered what they call 2 Who's Fooling Whom? round-trip airplane _ tickets to/can be simulated by changing! There's a 150-ton pressure Sevitsky, presented a concert for! Ward Holaday, director of

tompromise: They'll go along on cutting the taxes, |Buffalo for herself and her hus-| pressures and temperatures in the

98 1 Congress will make yellow margarine a crime. Or-at least evidence of one. ries

{1A Few Suggestions : © THE OTHER Congressmen claim this is a “@ phony; they're insisting that. the manufacturers take over from the housewife the job of squeezing the sack until the color capsule is mixed into the goo. Never, cried the butter boys. ? Rep. Walter K. Granger of Utah said why not make margarine pink? Rep. Reid F. Murray of Wisconsin sald what's wrong with green? Somebody else liked lavender. And Sen. Raymond E. Baldwin of Connecticut actually introduced Senate Bill 877, which would force the manufacturers to tint their margarine a brilliant orangerusset shade like that of a ripe tangerine. You'd never * know until. you tasted it, under this

scheme, whether your salad was spread with lec’

or marmalade. j “fhe poor old Agriculture Committee of the House, in any event, was inundated with legislagion, the authors thereof, and an assortment of gentlemen with evidence on both sides. Take Rep. Thomas G. Abernethy. of Mississippi, who

The Quiz Master 77? Test Your Skill ???

If THE dairymen dye their butter to please

the customers, said Rep. Abernethy, what's wrong

“with the margarine fellows doing likewise. Nothing, said Rep. Granger, if they'll settle pink. Who, he added, is fooling whom? “Why,” said the gentleman from Utah, “when momma stirs up the color in the bowl, she’s just trying to fool the kids.” Harold 0. Smith Jr., of the wholesale grocers, the witness, managed to squeeze in a word. Said

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he was glad the butter people dyed their product;

because he didn't believe he'd like it white. “Well,” interjected Rep. Murray, “if you want to perfume up some vegetable and sell it for

butter, the next thing you'll want is filled milk}

and ersatz cheese.” Rep.-W. R. Poage of Texas had spme remarks about “the greedy gluttons of “privifége, the” butter barons... who long have fattened at the public trough.” . We weren't getting anywhere, for sure. 8o'l had lunch at the Senate restaurant where “the butter was dyed'the exact shade of the brochure handed to every Congressman by the National Association of Margarine Manufacturers.

“When was the game of bowling invented? “Bowling is an indoor modificatiop.of the more sndlent outdoor game that survives as lawn bowling. The outdoor game is prehistoric in origin ‘and probably goes back to primitive man and round stones that were rolled at some target. A game similar ‘to niite-pins was popular among the Germans and Swiss about AD 1200, at which Hee the game was played outdoors. When the

Who is the patron saint of shoemakers?

*St. Crispin, a_saint about whom mothing Is known but the legend that he gave up his property in. Romé and supported himself as a shoemaker until he was martyred under the Emperor

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were bullf is & matter of dispute. Which city in this country is known as the

modern Rome? _ ait

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beosuse it was originally built. on

in-the school - auditorium, nn’ 8 » Miss Ruth Lewman is organiz

meet for eight consecutive Mon days at Shortridge High School Bert

McCammon, started

include: ties,” Mrs. E. M. Dill, chairman “Home Nursing,” diz 'apolis . Chapter, Red Cross What,” Mrs. D. J. Hendrickson

committee, — Mar, 28-2“Let's Tell a Story, Miss Evelyn: Sickels, Public-Library; Apr. 4—“The Pre School Child in Games Rhythm,” Miss Ida Connor, su pervisor of kindergartens, In dianapolis Free Kindergartens Al

in health education, State Boar

Review with Awarding of Cer

{tificates,”” Mrs. Bert McCammon. | : Two.debates against Speedway statewide search was underway | ‘| High School were won by Short- today for Clyde M. Johnson, Caliridge teams In the, seventh dis- fornia bandit who escaped from

{trict debate discussion of the In ‘diana High School Forensic As sociation. Walter Wo tf

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Broad Ripple students Monday visual

ing a new child care group to

The. programs, arranged by Mrs. on ers of America.

Monday, when Mrs. McCammon spoke on “Orientation in Child Care.” Other programs scheduled Mar. 7 — “Your ResponsibiliState Youth Council; Mar. 14— Miss Georgia Oshorne, nursing Instructor, InMar. 21— “When Do We Eat, and |

nutritionist, “Red Cross advisory

Apr. 18—“Health in General,” Miss Mildred French, consultant

of Health; Apr. 25--"“Resume and

Robert. Lichtensuer took the af- phis, Tenn.

education at Shortridge and a lecturer in‘ the evening| division, Butler University, pre-| sented a program on the purpose and use of visual aids Thursday) _|at Jordan Hall, Butler. The |demonstration was sponsored ‘by the Butler Chapter, Future Teach-|

The Shortridge Discussion Club [will present a radio program Satjurday, Mar. 19, over station] WISH, concerning tHe filibuster.! C! E. Shoemaker, faculty mem-| ber. of the Eriglish department, ' Shortridge, has been appointed a member of the Councti Commit-| tee on Speech of the National! Council of Teachers. of English,!

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13.3 Per Cent Heavier The Indiana State Highways

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Indianapolis| Gommission reported today that fH -|Hoosier traffic is 13.3 per centiH and heavier than.a year ago.

.| Chairman Samuel C. Hadden _|said traffic count figures not only showed a big gain in January over the same month in 1948 but also a 33.3 per cent increase over {the count for January, 1941.

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-ithe 21st floor of city jail here - yesterday, less th&n an hour be‘he was tobe flown

MIAMI, Fla, Mar. 2 (UP)—A|}

where he is wanied| team,” andifor a $43,000 bank robbery.

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[tube to determiné the. flight charexistence, 38 feet long, nine feét in diameter, made of steel five

{under pressurés up to 2000

diving gear. A T5-foot steel drop tower tests fuses on projectiles which weigh |up to 1000 pounds. The world's {largest anechoic room, three |storfes high, is completely “dead” |—soundproof. Sirens, micro{phones and acoustic air fuses are (tested in this room, as well as the {effect of explosions and .unusual (air waves on the human ear. This “dream” lab also has the world’s most powerful X-ray testing gear, including a 10,000,-000-volt betatron. Able to penetrade 20 inches of steel, it will be jused to study the insides of captured mines and torpedoes, and for detecting flaws in various steel mechanisms,

The whole fabulous layout of

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sonic ‘tunnel at Peenemunde in the Baltic, where most of the Bass research was done on ‘the.

The had loud it ®

"Good moraing, sirl Whisk the covers off for youl". i 7

: By- Dick Turner!ince. thick. Tt actually Stretches

pounds per square inch. It is used . to test hulls, torpedoes, mines and ~

{/ing noise the Nazi tunnel made, “shattered ¥

tank, the only one of its kind in ~~