Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 March 1949 — Page 9
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“WHAT YOU NEED is some Junch.” Lunch. My genial host, an old friend whom
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Lunch, What I-needed was Barbara. “Jim, you don't understand,” I said after the
* hollow, bitter laugh had died out. “Barbara; my
old girl friend, got married, She's gone. I've tried
eating parsley, studying vocabulary, standing on my head; but nothing seems to help.* ~~ =
“I still say. you need some lunch,” insisted Jim.
“Let's go to the Tea Room.”
ple, sharp, beautiful, well-built people, : "YA B “That, my sad friend with the popping eyes,” : morsel of fopd down my throat, I followed my said Jim, “is Mary Lou Bronnenberg. She's : ‘
-. Doubting seriously whether I could force a
friend who. I had hoped would come up with a lovely person, sweet as they come—and she’s hapsolution to my dilemma. How could he talk about pily married to a Mr. Bronnenberg.”
lunch at a time when I was pouring my heart out to him about Barbara. A man doesn’t — a girl like Barbara every week.
‘Just Forget About Barbara’ + BHERE'S something in the Tea Room that
will Take your mind off Barbara,” said Jim finally, “Forget about her, she's gone, boy.” He was telling me she was gone. The Tea Room hummed pleasantly with voices of gay, care-
free people out to enjoy a bite to eat, visit with
friends, fiddle away an hour or two with witty
repartees.
Jim told two or three, don’t remember exactly, Jokes; He ordered food. At the time it dtdn’t make
No harm in looking . . . "Mr. Inside” forgets his heartaches a moment and gives a gander at . Model Ann Henshaw. Alas, she, too, has a boy
friend.
‘we have Miss—MISS Ann ! ;
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much difference. My heart was so heavy all thought of sustenance was gone. ne Suddenly across the d floor floated a
again, happened. “Do you know her?” My hands rubbed involuntarily together and a slight whistle popped out. “I thought you said you were heartbroken,” Jim sald, wasting a lot of valuable time. Fate had pushed me into Jim's office. He knew a lot of peo-
Well, well, well, “Hey, who's that?” On the steps of an elevated stage to my right appeared a lovely. little thing that was just crying to lean on somebody's arm. In fact, ‘my bicep muscles began to twitch, 7 “Dressed in.a new creation for a new season}
my host as if he were running a style show. “I'm up there introducing myself,” I said. “Jack,” apd a menacing note was in Jim's voice now, “wouldn't like that. Jack, incidentally, is a rather large boy for his age, 25.” . : The food arrived. Jim mumbled about eating and I placed something on my plate. 5 “Who ...™ = “Mrs, Mary Beth Brown and doesn't she look nice in that print dress and yellow sweater. That's the latest . . ." : k “Very nice.” I tasted the soup. It required some effort but I finally managed to get a. few spoonfuls down. Very good. “Before you jump out of your chair, that is Mrs. Mary Schachte,” said Jim.
‘She's Lovely and She’s Married’
“SHE'S lovely and she's married,” was my reaction, A second helping of chicken velvet soup from the tureen tasted even better than the first. A little nourishment might help me fight on, I told myself, forcing each morsel. ia bie op “Oh, there's Ann Beck,” chirped my friend in need, “wearing a blue ensemble. You might try winning her hand. She has’only five or six boy
‘friends. “A little competition THEI Be HINES 5
ing.” A little competition, he says. No use even starting anything I know I couldn't finish. ‘While I was on the last lap of the chicken soup, Jim. gave me a running account of the approach of Miss Barbara Witham who was lovely and almost to the. point of getting engaged to a son of an oil man in Texas. Boy, that soup was
“Is there anything else to eat?” : The waitress brought a chunk of ice cream pie. That was what Jim had in mind when he said there was something for’ me in the Ayres Tea
Room. : With a broken heart I gobbled up the ice cream pie. What a friend. Jce cream pie won't. ever| make me forget my Barbara who went and got herself married. Not one piece of pie.
Gal Spies _
‘By Robert C. Ruark
WASHINGTON, Mar. 7—We are coming along only fair, it seems to me, in our selection of alleged lady spies, subversionists, traitors and kindred distaff villains. We've still got a far piece to go toward literary perfection. Newest candidate for spy-hood, Miss Judith Coplon, is the cream of the herd, to-date, in that her eyes have already been described as “sultry,” and her long black hair, or “tresses,” might even be called “raven.” She has a moody mouth, and a pair of reasonably good legs. But she still falls way short of the spy ideal. :
petite, and of a much-too-average background to satisfy the purists of the E. Phillips Oppenheim Alumni Association. a She is an athletic lass, given to the brisk pedaling of a bicycle whilst clad in culbttes. She wears flat heels and reads mountains of-news-papers.
background was a fondness for the music of Burl Ives, the socially significant ballad singer. For some strange reason, one of the first symptoms of a dip to the left is a passionate admiration of folk songs.
Choose Rather Tame Names
1 WILL SAY that Miss Copion is more optically believable than either. the dumpy Elizabeth Bentley or Axis Sally, whose treason trial concludes this week. But holy cow, the names these dames choose.
" Mildred (that's Axis Sally), Liz and Judy! They
sound about as sinister as Louisa May Alcott, As everyone knows, lady -spies are supposed
- to be named things like Sonja and Tamara and Yvonne and Magda and Elissa. They are sup-
posed to have murky backgrounds, many men in their ‘lives, and a look of brooding tragedy in their eyes. These eyes should always be slightly a-slant, so.that. the reporters may use. the word “exotic” when referring to their faces. The hair of lady spies should always be ghining black or dark red. Black paren lady spies
must draw it tightly around their skulls, like
Dolores Del Rio, and only the redheads should
wear it wild.
A really believable female agent would never appear in public without a long cigaret holder. Her exotic face is a pale mask, heightened only by her “smoldering” eyes, and cruel, lipsticked mouth. She always affects long fingernails, a size 36 bust, and a variety of black evening dresses. Dues-paying spies never go out before dusk.
We have had the cart before horse, too, on| Miss Coplon is much too young, much 100 what female spies are supposed to do. We charge |§
them with pinching state secrets for passage to
other agents, when anybody knows that.a really)
efficient spy causes the (a) brilliant young officer or (b) doddering old ¢abinet minister to fall hopelessly in love with her, Then, as they dawdle in her “lush” apartment,
'mongst the priceless draperies and low-slung) The only thing sinister I could scent in her 4.0..." tne jove-maddened victim babbles the secret of the new bomb or the next move toward
Transylvania.
Tips on How Spies Should Act
THE BEAUTIFUL (see “sultry,” kee “glamour,”
see “exotic’) woman then reveals she is Tamara | Tschaikowsky, and whips out to report her findings to Operative X-9. | Her lover shoots himself through the head| and leaves a note revealing all. Tamara is pulled |
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off a plane by a secret operative who looks like
Dick Tracy, and immediately poisons herself. | 4
That is how spies really act, but all we seem to come up with is gals like the buxom Bentley
or the athletic little Judy, who is barely out of}
her bobby-soXx.
"If we ‘are to have spies; tet us have them lean: and tigerish, like Ava Gardner, and let them be) =
temptresses of lofty octane. The best of the bunch
to date couldn’ fetch = leer out of Tommy Man-{ ville, let alone a cabinet minister. We have not been indulging in espionage, my friends. Shop-|
jifting is the better word.
Whoooosh WASHINGTON, Mar. 7—Our up-and-coming Navy, as you doubtless have observed in the newsreels (if you looked quick enough), is the proprie: tor of some devilish devices known as jet flying machines. . : Stoke up the furnace of one of these with coal ofl, as T understand it, light a match; and whoosh!
“TH'§ ‘away front there so fast it's likely. to break
the pilot's neck unless he has it (the neck) bolted down. The Navy, with excellent reason, is proud of this item, which flies in such a hurry that its wings have to be polished slicker than the dining-
. room table. A small bump, like maybe a rivet, it
turns out, would get red hot. Just from friction against the air. ‘, So the man in charge of this device had a {dea. He said how would I like to crawl in beside the pilot, clamp my own neck down, and once we were up somewhere in the direction of the moon about 30 seconds later, say “boo.” i
Catch Up With the ‘Boo’
THEN, said he, the pilot would yank the stick,
‘we'd turn around before we even knew it and I'd
catch up with my own “boo.” It would be waiting there, on the road back, to scare me, Thé telephone, which is a wondrous device in
itself, went dead. But I recovered in quick order.
and asked him to say that again, please, in different words.
would be traveling faster than the speed of sound
‘and that, obviously, if I spoke, I'd leave my own
words behind. And I could hear em on the way home. And even if I didn’t, because of bad ears
By Frederick C. Othman
or other mechanical difficulty, I could make like I did. What he meant, he added, was that this
was something new and ‘should prove of interest I rl
to you readers. This trip, he said in a wheedling tone of voice, wouldn’t take long, nor interfere with my coverage of the Senate's filibuster, * I wondered, how
dong?
SECOND SECTION .
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. MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1949
Broken Bones And Broken Lives— men Traffic Victims
Picture Story by VICTOR PETERSON
the fancy needleshe was hit by a eyes of her onths since the
Mrs. Agnes Kite, 215 Bicking St., has ample time { ‘and “weaving she “deilfes. An employee of ‘Ei Lily & Ce; truck on Nov. 5, 1947 as she went out for lunch. accident, she has yet fo take that first step. She estimates the injury has cost “her $8000 in lost pay and medical expenses. She is in debt, ;
Carey, 62, of 927 W. 27th St., probably ewes her life to the shape i aw Fouchen:M 0 SA hr x VG:-GAL. ANG } h out, Grandma." Mrs. Carey dodged too late to escape injury. Both “of her legs were broken that night of Oct. 17, 1948, She also suffered a frachired pelvis. She is another in the parade of traffic victims. }
Mrs. Reba Martin, 27, of 536 Arbor Axs., remembers nothi : which sent her to the hospital two days after Christmas.” She suffered a mulfiple fracture of the pelvis, compound fracture of the wrist and a knee fracture. 4
‘Oxygen Converter Effects Big Saving in Plane Space
Mrs, Mary Parker, 86, of 4217 Evanston Ave. was within 100 yards of her home when she and a friend were struck by the same automobile. Both were i
28 last year, Mrs. Parker more seriously. Both |
logs and both knees were fractured.
nounced development of -a- revolutionary space-saving means of - |packaging oxygen for use in rockets and high-flying airplanes.
|safe, rugged and effective device has been perfected for converting {Uquid oxygen into gaseous form for breathing and other purposes,
ling in the rarefied atmosphere
heavy, bulky cylinders. [container occupying three cubid |verter” was developed by thejof high altitude - flight.
Quivers in Quake | .. oo de oe ro i Ith
SALT LAKE CITY, Mar. 17 }1(UP)-—An earthquake struck Balt in the operation of certain types
|rocked some. sleepers from. their) The advantages of supplying
If we only were going' a few hundred miles, = ¢ -like maybe from here to Pittsburgh, he said about] 3
15 minutes. Of course, he continued, if I could] spare the time for a jaunt to the Pacific Coast, |
that might consume part of the afternoon. About |
three hours, say. ; Regretfully I had fo tell him I was a busy man. 1 didn’t have 15 minutes to spare to go to
n Pittsburgh. Or even five minutes to go to Phila-| . delphia. And come to think of it, I told him, I|
in a passenger-carrying skyrocket, I didn’t,
What If the Thing Exploded?
AND FURTHERMORE, I demanded, what if|
Parents Warned Not fo Toss Out Comics Or Shut Off Children's Pet Broadcasts
Adviser on Books Calls Hue and Cry
Against Pleasures ‘Reckless Claims’
‘NEW YORK, Mar. 7 (UP)—Don’'t throw away the children’s] The pamphlet suggests thaf He said, and I quote him accurately, that we. that the next time it had a slow boat to China/comics;, a child study expert advised parents today. id . ry cir to give me a ring. I never have ridden in ol .
this boiling kerosene got too hot and exploded? The Navy said I didn't worry about that. What it meant by this I do not know. I remember that one of these jet ships blew up over England a while back. An expedition set out to pick up the pieces, but there weren't any. No. dust, even. I trust you customers will understand. I told the Navy that I was an old-fashioned man, who favored night shirts instead of pajamas, and
rickshaw, either, and I would be delighted to give it a try. And say “boo” to myself during the entire journey.
The Quiz Master
??7? Test Your Skill ???
Of what value are air photographs in studying timber areas? They are of great value in sizing up the commercial timber possibilities of an area. They not only show what kinds of treés are present, and In what sizes and numbers, but also indicate to the properly trained eye the height and steepness of the hills and the general character of the soil.
* & o For what year is the Western Hemisphere census ned? xr & A us census of the 22 countries of the W Hemisphere is to be undertaken a kount of population, it is
How fast has the world population been increasing? World population has been Increasing at a rate of about 1 per cent every year. * 0% & - What percentage of people struck by lightning e. ' On the average, 40 per cent of persons struck by lightning die. +e *
Who created the character of Sir Roger Coverley? : i
16 was Sir Rickard Steels who invented the
. Spectator Club and Sir Roger de Coverley, al- : A aus datz Rabe lo Comets
81, of 5911 E. Washington St., is a retired Butler University .teacher. | didn't have to say “boo” to frighten myself. Not| Struck by a motorcycle in the 2400 block of N. Meridian St. on Jan. 2, she now has nothing to look forward to but a long siege of being bedfast. A mass of bruises when admitted to the hospital, she _also received fractures of the shoulder, ankle and pelvis. (TOMORROW: Men are Not Exempt.)
j Miss Elizabeth Downhour,
(fects were felt 18 miles away. nothing to. 65 pounds per square
— the Tribune-Telegraph building sure is maintained by a control |for two, minutes before subsiding.
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home owner reported a two-inch|in flight tests up to 40,000 crack in the wall of his house.|the bureau said. ; Techs [A water main broke in the Can-l =. ; {yon Road district.
sald. “Excessive comics reading, be a symptom of dis-
parents see that their children apartment buildings and houses Instead, she said, read their favorite comics with them andihave plenty of enjoyable things as the quake shook residents GARY, Mar. 7 (UP)—Thres discuss them together. Don’t shut off a child's favorite radio pro-/to do and varied experiences so/awake. One woman called po- Civic groups will hold separats gram or drag him out a movie, but instead watch his reaction. that radio listening or movie go-|lice and demanded they kill the meetings today (o discuss = Josette Frank, educational associate in charge of children’s books and radio on the staff of|"" ee as the Child Study - Association of America, expressed her views in i a pamphlet issued by the public affairs committee, Inc. (of 22 E.| vious parents may do more 38th St.), a non-profit, educa-/gamage %o their children than comics reading,” she said. She advised parents to watch
{ing does not absorb them to the — exclusion of other activities. Miss Frank suggested that par-|. ent-teacher groups and couneils study what is available to children on newsstands; the air, and in motion picture houses and express their approval or disapproval in writing to those
any of the recent attacks on the comics have made parents anx-
“This fs unfortunate, because
tional organization. , Miss Frank said there was “no| basis in fact for the current news| their children’s reactions to excitheadlines which blame comics for Ing programs or movies. children’s delinquent acts, or for appear to be too upsetting, she reckless claims that they have said, parents can suggest that their youngsters skip them for
She suggested also that com-| ‘munities might help solve any problenis raised by prdviding op-| portunity for boys and girls of all ages to have fun and creative
\derground ledge hanging against Will be supported Ly the civic af
caused a rise in juvenile crime.” Not So Simple “The causes of crime are not so simple,” she said, “They Ii much deeper, in our society's fall-\ may ure to meet the basic needs of these children.” pia
She added, however, that just {sitting with the children while
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"New Device Does Away With Bulky ‘Cylinder in High-Flying Aircraft 2 WASHINGTON, Mar. 7 (UP) — The government today an.
For the first time, the National Bureau of Standards said, a
Up to now, crews of planes fly-' oo "0 Tos oneration with the
above 10,000 feet have depended Navy. It packs enough of the on gaseous oxygen compressed in life-giving element in a 60-pound
The new “liquid dxygef '¢6n-(feet to supply 10 men for 10 hours
Cae eet Sy
gam A comparable supply of gaseoga : 2% or wo J) loxygen.. requires. an installation {taking up 74 cubic feet of space : ; |
and weighing 400 pounds.
r. e Bureau of Standards,. sald Cart 3 the new compact, low-weight conSeries of Light Shocks ihe oe will be useful not only in Brings Minor Damage aviation but also “in the welding " nd cutting of metals, in manufacturing and refining processes,
Lake City-early today, hitting as of -engines.. and rockets, and in ... a series of light shocks that medicine.”
beds, cracked the walls. of -h joxygen ‘in liquid form have long Apert OUSES been Knowh, the bureal said: Bat and tumbled dishes from shelves. ti] now no means had been The first temblor was regis- found “to .build up pressure tered ‘by the U. S..Weather Bu- rapidly upon demand.” reau at 12:50 a. m. (Indianapo-| The pyreaw and the Navy solved lis time). Four others struck inthis problem by using heat gens rapid succession at 12:54 ‘a. Mm, erated when liquid oxygen evape 1:09 a, m, 2:06 a. m., and 2:16/orates to speed up the evaporas a. m. (Indianapolis time), tion process. This is accomplished The shock waves seemed, to by means of double-coil system; center west of the city and ef- Pressure can be built up from
The tremor at 1:09 a. m, shook inch in 10 seconds. Constant pres
valve,
Walls cracked and dishes felll The e¢onverter has proved its in some West Side homes. One|reliability in laboratory tests and
; a ¥ Blames Mountain Lion Rally to Discuss ¢ Lights - flashed on In notels, Gary ‘Crime Wave’
mountain lion that was shaking| c’ime wave” here, including thé her room. or murder of a school teacher while
A couple was thrown from resisting a petty thief last week. and a woman routed her children| All Gary women's clubs wers from the house for fear it would Called to a mass meeting this eves collapse. Chairs were shoved sev- (ning at Seaman Hall, city church, eral inches across the floor at|{l0 discuss the killing of Miss the Salk Lake Municipal Airport Mary Cheever, 44. : west of the city, - Simultaneously, a committee of * Residents of northern Utah/teachers. will appear before the have long been apprehensive oficity council today to demand in~ the Wasatch Fault, a massive un- creased law enforcement.
another ledge. Should the hang-|fairs committee of the Chamber ing ledge slip as little as 15/0f Commerce. ° | Sr inches this area might suffer a’. The law enforcement major disaster with - widespread mittee of the Gary Coun loss of life and property damage. |cial Agencies will
ily a handicap to safety in auto-
cob of the Univarmity of Utah ge. [forees ology department bell today
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