Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1949 — Page 21

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MONTHLY ‘meeting, Catering Executives Club of America, Bob‘ Theard, purveyor, Theard Packing Co., says it's a good deal.’ Dewey F. Campbell, manager, Thomas Slaugh-* ter, chef, Warren Hotel, joined us in the lobby of _the Lincoln Hotel at 7:55 p. m. ’ Theard, athlete, led way to Parlor A on mezganine via stairs. Parlor, empty . , . tables, empty . + + portable bar, unmanned . . , lights not all on, Btomach, growling. Campbell doesn't understand. Neither do I. Introduced to Robert Ries, Harrison Hotel pastry chef; Frank Schaefer, assistant manager of CaEDITOR'S NOTE: Today we publish notes and snapshots our boy, Ed, dropped, fortunately, near his desk sometime last night. We assume his evening's work was a success and we'll ask him about it when he comes in.

nary Cottage, and Theodore Peterson, chef, Woodstock Country Club, All surprised at condition of Parlor A and bar. Schaefer kicks bar. Introduced to E. R. Dilley,

. m nager, Keys. Moved and Second ;

SUGGESTED we go to Mirabar for refreshments. All in favor. On the stairs met James T. McNees, owner of Jolty Chef and treasurer of club and Frank Johnson, chef, Marott Hotel, Theard stuck with bill. Nobody drinking beer. Parlor A half full of men . . . smoky . .. no food or drink in sight. What a deal. Met Eugene Denari, Naval Ordnance plant cafeteria manager and president of club and Curt Bidgood, manager of Riley Hotel. Bar opens, 8:35. Introduced to a couple more guys . . . not a bad meeting except for no food. Theard says to wait. Bernard Pollack of Stock Yards Packing Co, Chicago, has a camera. Takes picture and develops it in one minute. Pollack not drinking. Says he'll take any picture I want. Denari calls meeting to order. Bar crowded. ++ « Chefs Fred Haver, Claypool; Bob Kiefer, Linecoln:—Henry Van Beaten, Columbia Club and Henry Bick, Athletic Club, enjoying themselves.

Hunger, enemy of man.

~ by Ed Sovolo

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Reading of the minutes . . . 35 seconds , . . reading of the treasurer's report , . . 29 seconds

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. «.« things look good . . ..not so good . . . George Rahm, catering manager of Antlers Hotel, leav- |

ing city and club gives him wrist watch . , . sits] down. . . . good. 5 { - Howard Clark Greer, general manager andl *

vice president Kingan & Co, introduced by Denari| as speaker of evening. Good speaker . . . two| very good opening jokes , . . terrific speaker . . .| Kingan must be terrific outfit , . . 20 per cent of hog is fat, Mr. Greer says . .. light, great enemy of germs . . . bacteria, ‘enemy of meat, etc, etc.

Fascinating Topic—Food

, END OF speech. I'm dying of hunger, Tom Slaughter invites club to Warren for next meeting, Pollack taking pictures right and left with magic camera. Fine fellow. Food . . . Bob Kiefe} explains . . . roast sirloin of beef, Parisian style . . . goose livers . . . chicken saffron, Cuban style . . . pork tenderloins, Chinese style . . . meat salad, Russian style . , . herring| salad, German style . . . phéasant, hunter style . » «» food, any style for me. : i Lincoln Head Waiter Smith T. Erwin puts the| highlights of the table on my plate. Ate every-| thing but the pattern off the plate. Second helping | as good as first. How come I haven't run into the club before? Must check. Pollack still taking pictures. Special notation: This is a pistol of a party. Everyone is smiling. | Bar is a busy little place. { « Some kind of a game starting on a table, Men | are shouting, “Seven” and “Little Joe.” Four or five off-key voices are singing “Dark Eyes” in corner where pianc is. Piano player playing “Chopsticks.” { Cute game on table. Shouldn't have faded the last. time. Walking is healthful, especially when| there's no carfare. i Piano player now playing “Dark Eyes” and | men are singing “Chopsticks.” Special notation: I'm in fine voice tonight. | Special notation: Gotta go to work In the morning. Yeh. “Special notation: Yeh:

ge =“ Snapshots ,. . Among his notes our wandering boy had this “terrific” study of the shindig he attended. A few minutes of careful scrutiny will reveal hats, people, one man, dishes, more’ ; people, : : 9 © - * | 8 Bonus Backfire By Robert C. Ruark { A —————————————————————————————————— - w— | HIONS, NEW YORK, Mar. 18—There is a moral in The letter that hit me iiag was Lom Miss. stairs of the mail, 1 think, on this itchy subject of the J. 0. Bedsiey of BRO Re Your SSON'S uptoming vote on the vast bonus—or pension— artcie bin (the % me Set } Des pe. My | | for veterans, which eventually is supposed to cost mie a am familial rh y p . ‘ close to 200 billion bucks. : . The moral is reasonably brief: Anybody’ll “I had to make a choice of (1) trying to —— ~-accept a handout if he doesn't have to pay for provide 2 home aid Hig Jo my son Sn 3105 it in advance. a month, of whic m cons I had more vehement mail on a piece I did widow's ‘dole, plus $40-a-month insurance... . ; : « . ' 1 po back, condemning Rep. Rankin's pro- or (2) oy to work. Moderns . . . These five Howe girls démonstrate the modern dance they will Sticks . . . A stick dance will be presented by these four Manual High School posed $90 pension plan, than on anything in a “Obviously, going to work was the answer| present at the physical education show. They are (left to right) Nina Ferguson, girls. They are (left to right) Phyllis Harman, Marie Boone, Colleen Freeland and long, long time. Most of the letters blasting the security. Later the allotment for the Dorothy Howard, Diane Moeller and Judy Springer, Mary Jo Harris. The show is sponsored by Shortridge and is the first te be gi g to... y | y y ry pon given. bonus came pi np veterans of No NL child was raised from $30 to $58—the month} Most of. the letters favoring tie before November elections, incidentally. BA . Se T= sudden extinction) came f5pm, the veterans of ".o.. .houiq my earnings, and mo doubt -~ TWO Pals of Messamore Kirshbaum Plans Ab 4 R Rural Rule World War 1 son's future earnings, be taxed to support able-| * ¢ > . > * B b I T ou 0 L Weary Road Ahead bodied men, many of whom never left the country? Picked U in Mississi i Baseba eam | | ; ong, y It's their country, too, and they now profit by el pp The Kirshbaum Community Pp | ! l isl QU V - J 8 vi rell he rest of us.” ' i - atu war SMILE EA intend = the World the victory ae we - the ; U.S. Balks af Release of Suspected Center is planning to enter a eop e Nn egi Ie ) ’ . . age baseball team in one of the fast - much contribution to it in extra taxes | The Gravy Train Still Running Bank Robber to Indiana Authorities Clasg A leagues in the ahs OT thor ms | pr ae tot OVS 0 ' ) FETE is . ow , . > Ty : vei 188) wad, ’ - s AYNE, Mar. payment ahead before they achieve the collection FROM VETERANS of World War II: “I never By SHERLEY UHL, Times Special Writer surhmer. titis and the dairy cow, will lead! ar. 18—Indi. age (65) and they don't like the idea of instalment Once heard a GI in combat areas talk about Ml LOUISVILLE, Mar. 18 —Arrest of two Kentuckians in Vicks- In & } a discussion on proven new meth-|20a’S cities are shackled to horsepurchase of something they may never need or bonus, let alone a pension. Most of us said|, ..o Migs as bank robber accomplices of the Hoosier mystery 0 fine with those plans, a °° liminating the disease at/and-buggy government in a jebi we'd pay Uncle Sam. to let us go home. ... "AS William D. Messamore, was announced by the FBI here today. Player call has been issued for ' | may never live to collect. / » ice in the Army, I ™2% " : yD : tuk WW _ the Mastitis Clinic at 2 p. m. power age by a legislature that here i dd corollary here, too, on indig- 2 veteran of five years’ service in the Army, Taken in custody on warrants charging participation in a | ednesday night at 7 at the Cen- he Purdue build-! ‘ There is an odd corollary here loo OF ns of am in full agreement with your article against coo ank holdup in Kevil, Ky., last Aug. 12, were Charles Ed- ter, Cecil Abbott and Charles Wednesday in the Purdue bUlld- represents a rural minority of _ Word War I proceeded immediately to a breadline Pensions. I thought the gravy train hag wih Buti y,rq Stegall, 32, Louisville and "Thomas White Gore, 42, Love- (Rutenberg are the co captains of Ing. OO Ne tand magician [0d1ana People, Walter Leckrone, : p this looks like the same station. .'. . “I'll never ros ’ J ha the team. , ’ or to an apple-box on the corner. The capacity Vosges Mountains or the Citadel at|lace. Ky. |through a blizzard in a stolen and cartoonist, will entertain. | editor of The Indianapolis Times i s in- forget the Vosg ug The squad which will consist of | Lg for whining in the WW I man appear Bitche, but I still wouldn't vote for a vet pension. In the meantime, Messamore, gps, 115 uniformed players will be Mr. Bjorkland is nationally|told the Engineers Club here last 1 finitely more Fopust than 10 od Toi Couldn't it be Rep. Rankin is a veteran of World who complains he has no future] Too Long to Wait coached by Moris Olshean. whe known for his magic. night. “ a po Rn fledged in the same depression War I...7" in Indiana, was spared, at least| Hoosier officials, he charged, last year was in charge of the s = = The legislature has failed for the old bo s cherish as their very own, and were “In November I severed a long association with temporarily, the ordeal of re-., ..ioneq to imprison him for baseball program at the Center. Two members of the Indiana|y,, ,,. 25 years to carry out the ot untimel from their civilian lives at the the American Legion because of their stand on turning there. |life as a habitual criminal on the| His assistant this year will be a University anthropology depart-| titutional moment they ro just getting under weigh. pensions, and enclose a copy of my letter of| Federal authorities here Te-pagis of his lengthy record. Be-|/former semipro player, Clyde ment will have important roles | Constitutional requirements for The oldsters sneer at our present prosperity, resignation. . . . Keep bangi ng away at thisifyged “to release Messamore 10 sides, he added, they didn’t intend Danahower. ] lin the 29th annual International [re-apportionment of legislature as if it were something the young vets dreamed idiotic pension scheme. ... i |crawford County, Indiana, offi-to try him until June and that] The Center plans to furnish Congress of Americanists in New representatives, and did nothing up especially to taunt them. There is no mention, That's how the anti-Rankin sentiment runs.|cials who futilely sought to Te-iwas 400 long to wait. the uniforms and equipment for|York City this summer. |except talk about it at the session however, of the boom years of the 20's, when the The pro-pensioners merely curse me for a capi-|claim their erstwhile prisoner in| “I figured I could pay for my the players. Dr. Carl F. Voegelin, depart- just concluded, he said. older claimants for pension had a decade of lush talistic moron, who was born rich, which is reals two-hour conference yesterday. Kentucky robbery and get it over TT ———————— {ment chairman, has.been ap-| Meanwhile Indiana’s population pickings to delve in. In their pleas~for pensions funny, and say that as long as we ladle it out Explains Stand | with.” Churchill Sails Today |pointed American chairman of has shifted, cities have grown now, they ignore the fact that they were a small to Europe, we might as well scatter it around | 5 | For that reason, too, he con- x the symposium on linguistics and larger, and 55 per cent of the minority group during WW I. engaged in fighting at home. None made the point that Operation Assistant U. 8. Attorney Ten fessed participation in the Kevil 10 Speak in Boston culture and Prof. George Herzog people of the state have only a relatively short time on few fronts—and that Ladle abroad is aimed at prevent on of t nen Cooper said, “Those peoble bank robbery, he asserts. But In- LONDON, Mar. 18 (UP) War- Will speak at a general session (about 40 per cent of the reprethe rest of the nation also suffered through the tion of future Candidates Jor future pension '{here chagrined and Q)sturpe 4 ut diana police held him to prod time Prime Minister Winston °0 the IU archive of folk and sentation in law-making. same depression. whether they need it or not, |we feel a bird in the han I8 deeper into his past and farm. "° e Minis : Smitive music, | The Congress) The assembly fnsists, however . |worth two in the bush.” His o “lands, so he skipped to Kentucky Churchill sails from Southamp- will meet Sept. 5-12. lin keeping its "own close TS y y < = fice decliney 10 Dany Messamiye the hard way. He was recaptured ton today fer the United States s 8 # lover Indiana municipal go : ’ over, to the Hoosiers becau: t Bri but. | . > verns What's Matter? By Frederick C. Othman jue: "serious “bank rovbery “Prantl: tute] Sons sll 3ddrese 8 Boston Mrs. Maybelle Parker, 20. of Ment, Boling he rans so tightly charge against him and can Pros-| anges from bland candor to quiz- “The 20th Century—Its Promise Lewistown, Idaho. today claimed _ J pay or buiid a rn lot ecute it immediately.” io in sy” the title of the nation’s youngest ; Bg | . zical melancholy, is a Louisville and Realization. imother without specific permission from WASHINGTON, Mar. 18—When IT waz a young to yammer the: rest of his natural life. Sen.| “The Indiana authorities €an hoy who fired pot shots at de-| The visit will be Mr. Churchill's grandmother © caid she has held the legislature. : . gprout in Soldan High School at St. Louis more Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan disagreed, put detainers on Messamore, but tective sergeants at the tender first since he made his famed a oo per sald : Cas Me! In general, Mr. Leckrone said, o vears ago than I like to remember 1 was a mem- while Sen. Kenneth Wherry of Nabraska, so help he's not going up there, and I sge of 16, At one time he held “iron curtain” speech at Fulton, d Or Soir Rous Rogers the Toral majority Nea Ho - ber of the Order of DeMolay. in me, undertook to explain the difference between guess it would take a requisition up a man across the street from M in March » daughter, Mrs, Velva § gers jority as e unT as d still is a kind of lodge for a motion and a matter, between the two governors to il wher h {Mo., in March, 1946. Bongert, gave birth to twins in|derstanding of urban problems his was, an ‘h th 1 the value of good cit- “Suppose,” cried Sen. Forrest C. Donnell of move him.” said U. 8. District e ja ere he now reposes. The 74-year-old leader of the Chicago in January, 1948. and very little sympathy for Youngsters to each pr an idea of th joys of Missouri “a senator files a motion to change the Attorney David C. Wall. Planted Grape Vines |Conservative opposition in Brit- Marjery Homai, 16, of Mance- them. He cited the recent action renin, This fellowship business, which con- word, and to but?” This would make no differ- - iy, sald Hoosier officers could He was on parole from Eddy- ain will visit New York and lona, Mich, was killed last nightjof the assembly in ordering cities : ; f he ) a " Sen. C Jaydén of Arizona. Oh yes, ne in Kentucky ville penitentiary when he pur- Washington ‘and meet President when she rushed into the family's to abandon daylight saving time, ite largely oe ee Ret were i rruptod Dew. Robert A Taft of onio. gril the prisoner in Rentueky. bit chased his Hoosier ‘farm pur Truman, who also will address burning home to save her mongrel as an example, although 70 per rahi ‘Over the citizenship. And my memories of arguments in the St. Louis more important business with $875. Asked if he acquired the the Boston meeting. puppy. _- LL ee ane Duanle ot the cities . ! , : ro ’ te tract as. a robbery gan H We brothers obviously couldn't do anything to lodge hall paled by comparison. him than they have. remo gang and ero! im rove our fair city except by proceeding under .. “The question,™ intoned Sen. Donnell, “is just hideout, the wan, green-eyed Senate Avenue YMCA Opens Drive [52 per cent of all the people in the arliamentary rules of order. Interpreting the what does the word, matter, mean on page two, | More Serious Charge suspect smiled: “That's hard to : . ” [state prefer it. par’ was the problem. Some nights we'd argue . line eight” That may sound funny here in print.| Mr. Wall pointed out that Ken- say. I planted some grape vines, p $ Tied to obsolete forms of gov. until after midnight about the meaning of a single but Sen. Donnell wasn't amused. He was just tucky law provides the death pen-'and planned on a little clover in % (ernment, Mr. Leckrone told the word and when finally we got homé our mothers about to bust a gusset. What was the matter alty for conviction on. an armed the back.” i |engineers, cities now are unable to I gave us the dickens. ‘Occasionally the battles got with the matter? Why didn’t somebody tell him? robbery. charge. At least 10 per-| Messamore implicated Vandiver % [install more efficient civic operaparesis: so heated that only the intervention of older A dozen gentleman tried to, but Sen. Richard B. sons have been éxecuted in ‘the in .the Kevil holdup. But neigh- ? Jong, and are compelled to pay for napolis! heads prevented bloody noses. Childish, you may Russell shouted the loudest. [state- on that charge. bors found it difficult to picture . ; |costly duplication of functions say. Well, maybe. frock , ’ | Indiana at present can accuse Vandiver, drawling, easy-going [which they neither want nor need, Join Heartily “oe Except Messamore only of stealing a dog. lifelong Crawford countian, in| He advocated combining munie-

Knew the Subject at Least

ALL I KNOW is that our lodge of 16-year-olds never got into such.a parliamentary shambles as the Senate of the U. 8. A; finds itself today: The

unshaven brethren in St. Louis at least knew at-

11 times exactly what we were talking about, > And at this Yoriting I defy anybody, inside the Senate or out, to explain <o the satisfaction of anybody else the meaning of the compromise rule the gentlemen prought up to end a filibuster which had been threatening for 16 days to label them the do-nothing Congress. ; ; Majority Leader Scott Lucas of Illinois, who'd been vanquished by the Southerners in their fight to talk indefinitely on any subject, was an unhappy man. He looked as blue as his doublebreasted suit. And he wasn’t sure the compromise, which theoretically could stop a talkathon sometimes, maybe, was without loopholes. He feared that if anybody offered an amendment to the Dafty Journal, he could use it as an excuse

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“I JOIN heartily in everything the gentléman from Missouri has said. Except the conclusion he has reached,” Sen, Russell shouted. ! Brother -Othman adjourned for lunch, which ‘happened to be hot dogs, exactly as in St. Louis] a long time ago. When I returned an hour later, ! Sen. Donnell still was pleading for enlightenment on what was the matter with the matter. | It turned out that for more than 30 years the lawgivers have been arguing on and off about the meaning of the word, measure, as used in their antifilibuster rule. Now that it has been decided that the rule won't work, the experts have rubbed out that word and scribbled in, matter. But they don't seem to know what. this means, either. And if I'd argued about it so long in St. Louis, myself, I have an idea that my mother would have made me resign from the lodge. Particularly if I couldn’t have explained to her any better than this what the argument was about.

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High School

Demonstrators. These—four_Manual High School pupils demonstrating an American country dance will take part in the high school girls physical education rogram tonight at Shortridge High School. The girls are Bettie Austin (left) and Flockwise) Patricia Gruner, Wilodean DeVasher and Irma Clifford.

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Acrobats , ,.. More than 200 girls from Indianapolis in the program to be given at 8:15 p. m. in Caleb Mi : (left) demonstrates a chest stand while Mary Torrence performs a lever, a junior and senior, respectively, attend Howe High School.

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But they want to resume grilling this role. The FBI here issued him on disappearance of Thomas 2 bank robbery warrant against] Vandiver, 30: Vandiver's wife, Vandivey, but now they say its Beatrice, 44, and her daughter, “inactive . Wanda ‘Johnson, 17. They van-| The Vandivers moved in with ished from Messamore's English, Messamore at his invitation after] Ind., home January 9 without a their own adjoining house burned trace. down, Messamore contends Van-| In county jail here, Messamore, diver received $7000 in bank loot,| 32, begged the missing Wanda to while he netted only $4000, but is| rescue him from the southern In-|rather vague on this discrepancy. diana jam. He appealed through Messamore said he advised] press and radio to Wanda. to Vandiver to handle the cash with| come back and dispel suspicions caution and recalled that the lat-| she and her family were mur- ter had tpld him he “buried” his dered. . share on the farm. Messamore Wonders About Wanda deposited - his in an Olympia, “Wanda could clear this up,’ Wash, lockbox where it was dis- | moaned Messamore, who de- covered by the FBL scribed her as an ex-girl friend.| Messamore says he's as baffled “Frankly, I'm disappointed. She|as police about Vandiver's sudcan read. Why hasn’t she turnedde up?” ‘Even 80, Messamore proclaims, liver pudding and bacon- one he would have married her if his night and when I came back they pending divorce had materialized. Were gone. - They didn't even Glib and affable, he admits he's; a bank robber, but denies he's! . anything worse. For the first time usual that Vandiver s unemploytoday he explained why he risked ment compensation check lay un-

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{ipal and county governments in {such communities into metropolf[tan city-county units, with police, (fire, health and fiscal departe ments of city and county merged into single offices. Mr. spoke at the dinner of the Engl neers Club in the Chamber of (Commerce.

Local Legion Post Marks 30th Anniversary

Indianapolis Post 4, American Legion—the oldest Legion post in the world--celebrated its 30th an-

members. : : Post Commander Herbert A. Asperger and W. Francis Polen,

Dr. E. B. Alexander

Dr. H. N. Middlefon Dr. E. D. Moten adjutant, were in charge of initia= Dr. Paul A. Batties Dr. Joseph H. Ward Son, assisted by Tudge 2 Sat

Senate Avenue Branch of YMCA this week opened its annual drive for membership and funds. The organization set its membership goal at 1500 and its fund campaign at $6000. The campaign ends Apr. 20. Members of the drive planning committee are Dr. Paul A. Batties, general chairman; Dr. Joseph H. Ward, S8en-’ ate Avenue Y chairman; Dr. H. N. Middleton, Dr, E. D, Moten and Dr, E. B, Alexander, J EL AR a aa |