Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1949 — Page 33

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a—— SUNDAY, MAR. 20, 1949 "v THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES : - . - TIMELY) dha m—— | t . . 1 . |playboy hus ; Z . r= fe = he Laundry Sales Rise /Coal Town Loses Police Chief No. 5 |Acquit Carhop, Friend |? = 0 Otter handyman Ale * Insi e In ianapolis | By. Ed Sovola|Here by 8.48 Percent | HARLAN, Ky. Mar. 19 (UP)— Killed, he was free on $20.000(In Meat-Ax Slaying ian adron shot him twice. 2 : Si If laundry service can be an ac-| The tough little coal town atihond. SMusjer Shatses had Jesu LOS ANGELES, Mar. 19 (UP}| — - h aced against him after the fata : 5 PANHANDLING is a pretty good avocation. curate guage, Indianapolis resi- Evarts, Ky. today lost its fitth ng A ATE ~—Betty Ferrerl and Charles . es — a in This Size, $1100 good for the Ind dents were cleaner than those of police chief since last August Baumgardner, one of Combs Fauci were acquitted of murder(: Sanifary, Sound eon 1 HM Symphony Orchestra. : the when a Harlan circuit court jury d : harges today by a that|! RL le on 'T've done my Dit for. the cause andl can aa} the average city last year, the jury many predecessors |charges today by a jury ‘RUBBER FLOO

American Institute of Laundering found Isachar Combs, 28, guilty, lof voluntary manslaughter. Combs and Patrolman Lewis Deaton, convicted on the same charge, were sentenced to 10

Evarts now is looking for its heard their trial for the meat-ax-|} . sixth polite chief in seven months, gun slaying of her . husband, : No. 1 resigned, after several shots|Jerome. ’ were fired into his home, No. 2,! The seven-man, five women Baumgardner, was shot to death, panel gave the innocent verdict

I tried to help the city keep an important part of its. cultural trappings. sis Funny thing this begging for something. But, with the campaign to “Buy a Share in the Indianapolis Symphony” officially ending tomorrow (un-

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reported yesterday. A national survey by the insti tute showed laundry sales here

were up 8.48 per cent over 1947, The beight of modern,

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and the average increase over the years in prison for killing Bryan| No.3 quit to go back to driving for Fauci, an ex-convict, first.\§ (ii %eaned. Soo them . . . Wey CKI officially you can help out anytime) and the min- nation was 2.6 per cent. Middleton in a fierce ‘gun battle a taxicab—he sald it was safer.| The jury foreman then read 1 them. Phone for estimate. IES imum goal still $14,000 away, begging seemed to National business volume rec- on the main street of Evarts last No. 4 resigned after he was ar- the acquittal verdict for Mrs. Fer-|3— % ap noes NS be the only od left, so beg I did. ords revealed an all time high of December, rested and charged with drunken- reri, who sat straight up in her Custom-built Cabinets | J - /§ he officers an- ness. And ther ame N 5, chair fighting back tears. ) ust Beqaqe and B $855,686,000 in sales which in Attorneys for the no can 0. . TILE AND SICAL lid lh to be iorrowed sort of a beg volved 22 billion pieces and seven nounced immediately that the Combs, convicted of killing the The verdict climaxed .a six- RAUP CABINET (CO. ger, I begged, borrowed and . . . begged and bor- and one-half billion pounds, the case would be appealed. man who was charged with week trial of the 26-year-old car-|3,45 N. PENN. MA-2408

o Carroll play-within-play. It was as if a newspaperman “All I know is what we do now on the air Reg. $29.95 Value . : Reg. $49.95 Value Reg. $59 Value McNeely wrote a story about people who write stories is no good for television—that most of our best : 1g Crosby about people who write stories about newspapers. and oldest stuff won't go. We have been selling | Waring Mr. Morgan, the elfin despair of all other the same stuff a long time, and the video audience : Haymes sponsors he's ever had, hiked off an unsponsored just won't buy it. i program. Mr. Allen was his guest star. Monroe Fred was written into the act as Morgan's Customers Have Enough Troubles ly Martin sponsor, and was convincingly sponsorish in the “MAYBE future generations will not be so my Blade- cruel Allen interpretation. Fred once referred to passionately interested in Benny's toupee or his | radio's highest mucketies as “hyperthyroid office- parrot or his clanking car. We've been operating chil boys.” otitis Soe goog ring 50c DOWN—S50c A WEEK $1 DOWN—SI A WEEK $1 DOWN—S! A WEEK k Sinatra 1 The Morgan show was pure shop-talk, de- trade, and suddenly they're no good any more. ’ voted to the vast irrationalities of sponsors, “God only knows what Bill Paley (sachem of wh ’ Yonkavic comics and radio executives. It dealt with the war CBS) will do with all those comics he’s bought, E C 0 L 0 ¥ | A L - S T | L P S 0 P A B E D prt Clarey between CBS and NBC for comic talent. He's got nearly everybody. Maybe he doesn’t el Torme Mr. Morgan spent a great deal of time satiriz- want to be rich. I understand Benny’s signed for Enjoy this double-purpose piece of furniture every hour of the day. rry Come ing the charactérs on Fred's stock Sunday offer- 10 years. : During the day it's a modern, attractive sofa . . . by night, it’s a fullg Crosby ing—characters who satirize other characters. Maybe Paley hates money, and will be happy size, wonderfully comfortable bed. Underneath and out of sight is a armichael They Jou nd ar BA argein to borrow each Eg Wh noth pi Smet. iar he large compartment for sheets, pillows, blankets and other bedding. other an S. S . . . . Williams It was a very funny show, if you know any- figures to use them on television—but there's no The cushions are covered in durable tapestry and abundantly filled I. 1030 thing about the tooth-and-toenail strife among guarantee television will need 'em.” with coil innerspring. For extra beauty and comfort, this sofa bed : the major networks, which are wrestling for Mr. Allen himself does not agree, as do so many [18 has wide Maple arms. We've slashed the price drastically to put it ndsy eminence out of a deeply bitten fear: that tele- other panicky radio people, that television has N in the bargain class . . . take advantage of this money-saving opvision will curtail radio so. drastically that only already ‘slain the golden gander. He figures ———

rowed a card table, portable crank-it-up phono-

- graph; several jazzy records suitable to the occa-

sion, official pads, a sign explaining to the public what ‘the deal was, a container for money, toy trumpet and a few needles, My location was right in front of the Canary Cottage on the Circle. It seemed to offer so much white clean atmosphere to my project. I needed all I could get. “MacNamara’s Band,” a Spike Jones effort on a RCA Victor 10-incher, opened my program, My call to the pocketbooks, “Save your Ine dianapolis Symphony with nickels, dimes, dollars up to $10,000 bills,” didn’t ring quite right to “MacNamara's Band” However, heads did turn, which was really the important thing.

A well-dressed man with a sporty air about

him, hit my container with a buck. My campaign got off-to a snappy start but it wasn't"long before it bogged down. I began to leave out the $10,000 bill part out of my call. The citizens were also slow in buying a share in the symphony for $5. Or even a fifth of a share for a buck. Small coins clinked into my coffer. A few pennies from what I thought to be heaven at first, dropped near me. Investigation proved they were falling from the Test Building. Herbert Elliott, 720 E. 73d St., was the first to buy a share. Mr. Elliott mentioned that he cidn’t care for “Diggin’ My potatoes” by Washboard Sam and his Washboard Band. Not while I was plugging to save the symphony. He left when I put on “Won't You Ride in My Little Red Wagon?” by The Frontiersmen. I must be truthful and say that there were quite a few people who viewed my stand and music with a little mi%givings. It's unfortunate that I can't play the oboe or bassoon. I'm afraid the plastic horn with the kazoo didn't have the proper effect on music lovers.

A big smile and a hearty greeting was wasted fore, I took in $47.65. With that, I got the impres- Co \ on a fellow who charged up to me and gave me a sion generaly that the people wouldn't allow the 6 SPACIOUS quarter. Indianapolis - Symphony and Fabien Sevitzky to CONVERTS INTO “Would you give me change for that?” he sink. : de DRAWERS TWIN BEDS asked. “I want to make a phone call.” You know, if we did, a city this size, mind you,

Before I realized what was going on the fellow had his change and was dialing the phone in the

Radio Raves

institute reported.

At the

time Middleton was

fatally shooting No. 2, hop who admitted slashing her

Wanna give? . . . You might call it pan-

handling but "Mr. Inside" wants to save the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.

doorway of the Cottage. Some people have nerve, I'll teil you.

Pot Was Growing . . . a Little

THE OFFICE girls in the Dun & Bradstreet agency in the Test Building sent a representative down with a handful of change. Especially for them I played “The Clink Clink Polka,” another Spike Jones effort on Victor. While drinking free Canary Cottage coffee (asked for it like a gentleman), a couple more civic-minded individuals invested a fin in the symphony. The pot was growing. Why about five, people stepped up to offer excuses why. they couldn't help in the drive] puzzled me. Still does. Why didn’t they just keep, going? ! | My tabs showed J. K. Rickles, 765 N. Bolton| Ave.; Tom Woerner, 1221 N. Bancroft St.; Mildred Young, 6331-N Illinois 8t.;-and-Mr. Elliott contributing a five spot. Rod Stevenson, Gaseteria Inc., ‘bought a fifth of a share for $1. ’ Mayor Al Feeney dropped a five spot in the pot and refused to take a share.." Good cause,” he said. Gov. Henry Schricker walked past my stand and waved to me after my greeting got his attention. Maybe he didn’t notice what 1 was doing. Anyway, a hand wave was better than nothing. In four hours of begging, as I mentioned be-

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BUT it also demonstrated rather sharply that nearly two decades of static radio humor has decayed to such a point that the boys are now building comedy on their own probiem of staying alive. I was talking with Fred afterwards, and he admits an end of era in the radio funnyman business. He includes himself in the decline and fall. He is merely sparring until summer, at which time he will attempt to redesign himself for the new. interim audience of radio pending the broader diffusion of television around the land.

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“We're all of us at the finish of a cycle,” Fred was saying. “Benny's been on 17 years, and so have I. Amos and Andy—we're all at the tail end of a vogue. We're sort of like John Gilbert and those other silent stars at the beginning of talking pictures. We've got to adapt. ’

radio, as such, will be around as an adjunct forever, and that until the number of video sets reaches at least 20. million, the competition is still not overpowering. His idea is that the survivor today must be equally facile in both media—but that the old, unseen audience concept of entertainment is dead. I wouldn't know about all this trade thinking, but as one of Mr. Allen's faithful slaves, I will bet he winds up somewhere atop whatever heap there is. But one thing sure, he ain't going to get there by harping on his and Henry's technical problems in the business. The customer has enough troubles of his own:

WASHINGTON, Mar, 19—My favorite slotmachine operator (candy bars)—not one-arm bandits) is engaged in a happy task. He's taking out the little lead weights that have been substituting these many years for candy. Oddest tate of economics I ever did hear. Has some villains, too, over in Africa. And also a happy ending. Back before the war, you may remember, you could drop a nickel in a slot anywhere in America and get yourself a whopping big chunk of caramel, studded with peanuts, thickly coated with sweet chocolate, and likely to break your foot if you dropped it by mistake.

"Twas a Weighty Matter THESE BAK®With the weird names and the wonderful innards fell through the machine of their own weight when you inserted your five-cent piece. When the shooting started the candy bar almost disappeared. } Then. the war ended and five-cent candies returned to the slot machines. Ohly they seemed to have more paper around ‘em than before. Crimped ruffies took up some of the room in the packages. Other bars had heavy backstops of inedible cardboard. And with each passing month it seemed like there was less nourishment in a candy bar than the month before. i. Soon the slot-machine operators were havin mechanical troubles, Each candy bar now weighed such a small fraction of an ounce that it wouldn't even trip the mechanism. Cusomers were attacking the machines with axes to get their nickels back. The desperate proprietors had to bolt to each .rack ‘a piece of lead to help move the featherweight bar along to the customers. My man installed his weights in the dead of night. .Said

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small bite of candy hidden inside? The candy makers cried for relief. They were caught in a squeeze. The price of their ingredients had soared so high that a full-sized chocolate bar was precious enough to keep in a safe. And still they could charge only a nickel because of the way the slot machines were built. Some of them urged in all seriousness that Congress adopt a coin worth seven and a half cents for use in vending machines. Then, they sald. there'd be some candy in the candy bars. Sugar, it turned out, didn’t cost much more than it did before the war. The wages of candy makers were up a good deal; so was the price of peanuts, but what made the candy moguls weep was the cost of chocolate. That's what brought on the lead weights. Before the war the producers in Africa and South America were pleased to deliver cocoa to New Yerk for six cents a pound. When the war ended they were charging 54 cents for the same cocoa. This was an increase of 900 per cent, the biggest price hike on anything sold on any world market, and they laughed when the candy men moaned. They said pay, or else.

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