Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 March 1949 — Page 13

: : : 5 ; ¢ — . ; : 7 22, 1949 i : i TT me . | bi * 2 +} inside Indianapolis — oY yeu A wu [I Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola The Indianapolis Times ms in "JOHN POWERS couldnt have picked a better of me. Without a moment's Sinton I welcomed : : i MAB Tan Sante rl, ‘ . “i 3 Arms mesma fe A ER Nay SECOND SECTION TUBSDAY, MARCH.22, 1049 PAGETS. :¢

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It's spring and . . . man, oh, man are. they gorgeous . . . and I met them at the station. You know, I think I'm in love. Again, Here's what happened. It's going to be tough writing this since. my head is in the clouds and my feet are off the ground. Anyway, this is the story. Inside informatjon came to me that the Powers models would arrive yesterday morning at 8:46 a.m. in the Union Station. I was told to watch out for a Pennsylvania train from New York. At T a.m, just a little ahead of time, I was on track 5 checking the situation over. It never hurts to get there early, I always say, } « Well, several tons of soot later, that was about 8:46 the train roared in. My feet took me helterskelter downstairs to the gates. There wasn't any use appearing too eager.

Butterflies Play Tag

SLEEPY-EYED travelers bégan to stumble into the station. Butterflies played tag with one another in my stomach. What would they look like in the morning? Surely, they would, they had to be different. Suddenly there was music. No kiddin’, call it what you will, I heard soft music and the station began to Spin. Grabbing myself by the lapels of my, coat, I dashed up to a distinguished gentleman and cackled, “Mr. Powers, I presume?” It was Mr. Powers. An inspiration took hold

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"Goodbyeeee” . . . The Times' "welcomer" says adieu to Powers models (top to bottom) Mary Alice Ward, Ellen Brooks and Caroline O'Connor.

beauty should come here to give style shows a shot in the arm, break a few television carheras at the Television and Electrical Living Show, make life worth living again and placed myself at their disposal. { “Thank you very much,” quipped Mr. Powers, . “but who are you?" | The question was well put. It required an! answer and. don't mind admitting it, never in my life did I talk faster and stretch facts more. If I| do say so myself, it was quite a selling job. At least, he didn’t call the cops. Introductions were made. There were. Caroline, O'Connor, Suzanne Sommers, Lisa Prokoff, Ellen Brooks, Maryalice Ward, Edwina Osborn and Mar-| garet DuVal. With superhuman effort I collected some statistics. Four of the ladies were married and had children. One was a grandmother, Lisa Prokoff had two children; Margaret DuVal, grandmother; Edwina Osborn, one child, and Suzanne Sommers, two children. My course was clear. “Mr, Powers, may I escort Miss Ward, Miss Brooks and Miss O'Connor to wherever they're going. They're probably unfamiliar with the city.” J

“What about the rest of us?” asked Mr. Powers, 4

to which I replied that the taxi drivers know the city pretty well. They do, too. Ca A lot of fast shuffiing took place but before it was over the three extremely charming young ladies were in a cab. More precisely, in cab 391 and the driver was Joyce Bailey, Miss Bailey has been driving a cab for six months, incidentally. The driver wanted to know where she was to go. Since all the models were staying at the Lincoln Hotel, I thought the best route would be through Broad Ripple around Butler University

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and then to Illinois and the hotel. “I'll tell you where to go.” I sald. “Drive out Meridian. north.” [ We drove around the Circle and the girls engaged in chitchat about the sights that met their| beautiful eyes.

Beauty Spills Beans WE WERE in front of the Athletic Club when Miss O'Connor spilled the beans. “Where is the Lincoln Hotel? Is it far from here?” | Miss Bailey glanced at me. My complexion] turned a solid shade of scarlet. Lucky it wasn’t a/ radio cab. { “Lineoln Hotel,” Events moved rapidly. My three very dear friends moved into their rooms. Co-ordinator| Betty Casper wanted to know what took them so] long. She also suggested they hurry, there was a| show rehearsal in a few minutes. | The door was closing in my face and *“Goodbyeeee.” | “I'll be back if I may,” T said. I don’t think it means anything when a young

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lady slams a door in your face, do you? Heck, |

spring is in the air and the birds are singing and everything. Mr. Powers must find his work awfully tough. TI wonder if he hears music.

Charlie the Luck

La By Robert C."Ruark

NEW YORK, Mar. 22—They tell me down in Washington that at least three. lawyers have been approached, lately, with, serious propositions involving the re-admission of Lucky Luciano to the VU. 8., a piece of scenery for which he pines with ardent patriotism. Mr. Luciano, if time has dulled your memory, is the old panderer, murder-engineer, and narcotics peddler who was fucked away by Tom Dewey, and deported when he turned in a 10-year credit on a 50-year rap. He almost got back in the country on a phony public relations campaign. This campaign claimed he was a war hero and adviser of generals, from his cot in Dannemora. A rumpus in Havana bounced him back to Italy again.

An Old Buddy and a Hobby

I HAVE very few hobbies, but keeping Charlie Lucky in Italy is one of 'em. The years have made buddies of us, since I had some mild part in bouncing him out of Cuba, and we used to live next door to each other in the same hotels in Italy. Also the press chief for a general friend of mine went to work for Lucky after the Army released him. It's sort of family stuff. Just before he merrily sailed away, Mr. Luciano was visited by a Mr. Francis Costello, who calls’ himself a reformed bootlegger, but who is generally conceded to be the boss of the nation’s rackets, and a born friend of politicians. Mr. Costello carried brief cases which were supposédly bulging with greenbacks. Mr. Costello also cuffed at a newspaper photographer, at the time, for making a pass at taking his picture. Then Mr. Luciano, much later, received aid and comfort in Cuba from assorted highflown hoodlums, and from a popular entertainer who

The word was that another scratch was passed on to the wistful, frustrated war hero. Luciano. From the way I know he lives in Italy, money is not one of Lucky's worries. Just prior to election, Mr. Luciano was re-

ported jubilant, and was widely quoted that he!

would soon be back in the United States, now that his boys (the Republicans) were on the verge of | victory. That they were not victorious bothered | Charlie the Luck not at all. successfully switched horses, like so many other Wednesday morning Democrats.

Still a Hero—to Himself

LUCKY always prided himself on his political contacts, and is still, I understand, bragging about his potent affiliations back home. An article in Esquire magazine, by one R. Michaels, says that the Lucky One still sells himself as a former lieutenant in the American Navy, decorated for his aid in organizing the attack on Sicily. Luciano still claims a bum rap on the pandering charge which put him away, but to my knowl edge has bankrolled three night clubs in Rome which feature prostitutes as a chief attraction. He is also deep in the black market. Luciano claims his involvement with the narcotics racket was also a phony charge, but the Federal Narcotics Bureau will tell you that he was the No. 1 boy in the coke racket since 1931, and in course of duty, engineered a succession of quiet business murders. ’ It is perhaps selfish of me to wish to restrict a man of such varied talent to permanent occupancy in Italy. But the old move to bring Lucky back is stirring again and I would like to thwart it if possible. Selfish or no, after all we've been to each other, I like it better with him over there and

A milestone in railroading was passed here in 1948 when the Hawthorne Enginehouse of the Indianapolis Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad completed the year without a reportable injury. eneral superintendent; J. P. Newell Jr., general manager, and Paul to right) tour the division during the safety rally.

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Mayor, Dailey Deny Any Friction By IRVING LEIBOWITZ Mayor Feeney and Prosecutor George Dailey have agreed to

| Li {ternational beauty pageant here. dress an assembly of business|, 1. oirlg of h their own “North Alabama Street “ "oo ras! i | e girls of her tour! (The “husband” she said, was leaders, educators and scientists.) ons and the way things are on Broadway these days Sally feels

fright) enginehouse foreman, points out a safety feature on . one of the Pennsy's largest steam engines: With him are T. F. Schaekel, superintendent of freight transportation, and Mr. Newell.

Barbara Jean Floyd, “Miss New meeting of the Indiana Associa- | Orleans of 1948,” back home from tion of the Massachusetts Insti-| a South American tour, said to-|tute of Technology at 6:30 p. m. day she married an airman in tomorrow in the Apex Grill, [Colombia last month to get money | E. 16th St. | Members also will plan for an But the ‘marriage was strictly Indiana delegation to attend a business, she said, and was to be convocation at Cambridge, Mass. | hancii today and said she was completing her new book: “How to

to come home.

annulled after the tour through atin America to promote an in-

Officials also visited the freight station to greet representatives of labor. Mr, Newell and Mr. Adams confer with G. W. Close and W. R. Hottle (left to right),

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Cold War’ 0f [Mostly About People [Sally Looks for New Kind

Of Fans—Literary Ones

Dancer Has Written Book Telling Girls “How to Stay Good in Big, Wicked City

By ROBERT MUSEL, United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Mar. 22—8ally "Rand chewed thoughtfully on a

(Mar. 31 when President Truman| pg, » Good Girl in a Big City.” The first copies, hot—and Sally means hot—off the press will go

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Non-Aggression Pact” and Capt. George Cauthen, an Amer-| = = = |they ought to have a standard - pledged each other mutual ald ican. Fig Newell H. Long of the In| reference work on what to do in . | And the 19-year-old beauty diana Jniversity school of mus Clemer, encies. $ Il P t t By Frederick C. Othman o combatting crime and vice In added that she “supposed” her /was elected president of the] “Toe had it typed for mimeo- , ower U Y qa en 3 city. engagement with an unnamed De- North Central Music Educators graphing.” Sally said when asked | Mayor Feeney said he has inoit Mich, man whose diamond Conference at its recent meeting to show the manuscript. “As you other end, thereby propelling the submarine at a Placed the entire resources of the|,ing she is wearing, “is auto-|in Davenport, Iowa. can see I don't have it on me.” speed unspecified by the inventors. The valves City administration behind the |, ¢ica)1y off now after all this| Indiana president of the con-| This was obvious since the fan work with electro-magnets and from there on Marion County prosecutor's lat- ,n¢ayorable publicity.” ference is J. Russell Paxton, In- and bubble dancer was about it's too complicated for me. est drive on gambling. r % = |dianapolis, and president-elect 18 ready to go on stage at the Clique A Ser Te 8 en wh Sr SE SH Ting, FI JA bry er, Varner Chance, FL Wayne Ch wire her cota ofr on both sides o e antic { y y, year. r the subject to pants for those who stumble off ofjready to put his staff on an Sd Son Sha As at haa ow, I of thehiane part a deep blue spot bridges. Or even out of spumarines. ted these. around-the-clock basis to pros-|peen transferred from-Ft. Harri- Purdue University extension di-| Sally said her book or booklet Jacob J. Podell of th Orta swell up and ecute Eta Ry violators un-|5on to March Field, Cal. vision, is chairman of the educa- will distill into a few pages what When you hit the water, the pan p jcovere y Chief Rouls’ police! pfe Hardy, who is a graduate tion in accident prevention com-|she has learned in years of obser-

deals in social therapy as a sideline to crooning. me over here.,

WASHINGTON, Mar. 22 — I was burrowing through the new inventions listed by the U. S. Patent Office, when whoa! There among the suitcases with the built-in wheels the buoyant pants, the collapsible bull fiddles and the gasoline scooters for weary golfers was a jet-pulse engine for powering submarines. Our Navy, as you know, has been more secretive about its own submarine engines almost than about the atom bomb. It wasn’t talking

, ‘body can see by You float until rescued. squads. of Technical High Sch . itt f the President's C - i ; ’ about the patent, which any \ . chnical High School, enlisted mittee o resident’s Confer-|vation, personal and detached, of th fancy strolling down to the cellar of the Commerce Redcap Substitute The offers of mutual assurance jn the Air Force in 1948. ~ {fence on Industrial Safety which the American branch of genus Department, where vast rows of filing cabinets . ] | followed a conference of the two 8 = = will open tomorrow in Washing-| homo. It teaches a girl how to say now hold exactly 2,464,196 descriptions of inven- in MAU RICE FaRTION of New ig produced officials Saturday behing closed) The late Sir Malcolm Campbell ton, D. C. |goodnight so her escort will Know ee tions. e suitcase w e wheels bu n the corn oors in the mayor's office. |of London, Eng., automobile and| President Truman will open the r ‘ WASSON'S But a friend of a friend of the admirals finally for when you can't find a redcap, while Robert | Deny Friction £ nal ’ that she means goodnight and

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did confess that the Navy was gnashing its teeth when-it first heard the patent was being published. Now that it's in print, the sea dogs are breathing easier, because this turns out to be a British invention. America’s jet submarines, if any, gn are a secret. .

Jets Take Time

THE NEW ENGINE, which sucks in-water at front and blasts it out in back, much as jet motors handle air on planes, is the invention of Charles Stafford, Rhos-on-Sea, and Frederick Reed, Colwyn Bay, North Wales. They patented it first in Great Britain Feb. 13, 1943, and applied for a patent here on June 26, 1944, almost five years ago. Why it took so long for their application to get through the works is a question nobody's answered for me yet. “ The Stafford-Reed engine, patefit number 2,463,820, gulps in water, instantaneously turns it into steam at high pressure and sends it out the

J. Jackson of Houston, Tex. came to the rescue of the tired golfers. . I always understood that the walking in the fresh air was the great virtue of golfing, but apparently this does not hold true in Texas. Jackson: has concocted a three-wheeled surrey

Both declined {o discuss the (session, but later said there had |never been any friction between

“@ritics stirred up a synthetic, non-existent feud between us,” the

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will disclosed today. {last New Year's eve. {of $309,424 has been paid.

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Pasadena, Cal, who became a

with a gasoline engine, a seat, and a special holder | mayor protested. “We have never| father two years ago at the age

for the clubs, and, barring Nat fires, finish the game as fresh as when he started.

Mr. Dailey.” | Mr. Dailey said the prosecutor’s

A golfer can ride from tee to tee|been at odds. I never criticized of 85 today sought a divorce

{from Opa Beedle, 44. Mr. Beedle sought custody of his son, Joseph

Ernest L. Martinis of Southgate, Ky. has|office would step up operations Curtis Beedle V.

invented a special cog wheel with spikes on i to fit behind the regular wheels of automobiles. Keeps 'em steady on icy streets. - Then there's Pater Ruggiero, the musician of Newark, N. J., who has wrestled his last bass fiddle aboard a streetcar. He built himself a new one which falls apart at the touch of a button and can be assembled later on the job. And I bet that jet engine would make an elegant outboard motor if it didn’t scare the fish. At least I can hope it'll never be used for anything else,

The Quiz Master

??? Test Your Skill ???

What was the name of Gen. Sheridan's horse on his famous ride to Winchester? The horse was called Rienzi. ® oo o

How many American famiiles have an income According to figures for 1047, 4,000,000 of the country’s 37,000,000 families have an Income of $6000 or more, } > _»

What is considered to be the oldest building in the world? Cl The great temple of Amon, erected some 4000 years ago. It Is now being put back in its original forma by the Egyptian government. * * ¢ Has a vice president bf the United States ever resighied? RL ; In 1882, John O. Calhoun resigned as vice presdent and went into the Senate, where he could better support his constituency in the causes of nullification and seccession, ~~

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Did Solomon write the book of Ecclesiastes?

While this book ‘of the Old Testament has been |

traditionally ascribed to Solomon, scholars now agree that it was not his work. The Book is probably a compilation of many writers, * % 2 !

What is a thoroughbred dog? . There 1s no such thing as a thoroughbred dog. “Thoroughbred” is a technical term usually applied to a strain of horses bred in Kentucky. - ® oo “ Lo What is banana oil? " : There is no oil in the fruit of the banana plant. The oil used for giving” puddings this flavor is derived from isoamyl acetate, which is itself obtained from potatoes and peelrroots ® @

In the Navy, what is a “side boy"? The term refers to enlisted men of the crew who are detailed to stand at the gangway as & mark of respect to a distinguished ‘person on his arrival or departure. oi

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|Apr. 1. | “We expect to have more than [17 new members of the office at {that time,” he said. | Mr. Dailey declined to name any of his appointees at this time, although he said he was “handpicking” the staff daily.

Our Fair City Found Bit Rough

A Cincinnati, O., visitor to Indianapolis was nursing a sore mouth today as the result of a rough welcome he received in Our Fair City. Charles Raabe, 26, the Ohioan, told police he left a South Side tavern early this morning ‘and that three young men asked for a ride to the downtown area in his car. He said that during the ride the men acted as if they were going "to pocket some of his be: longings in the car and he had an argument with them. At Washington St. and Virginia Ave. he stopped the car and got out. But the men got out, too, and’ one of them struck him in the mouth, he said. r Ea ,The men then left, Mr. Raabe told police, but did not take any of his property. Y

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| Mr. Beedle charged extreme cruelty. He alleged that his wife {left him Mar. 15, taking the child, land $10,000 from a joint savings (account. The Beedles were married Feb. 4, 1933, in Yuma, Ariz.

” » ” Clarence Bessey, 67, admitted in New York City today that he's too old to be a successful burglar. Bessey was arrested last night! because he didn’t hear a burglar] alarm after he broke into a! Queens home. “I guess I'm getting "a little deaf,” he told police.

Public Health Commissioner, will be guest speaker at the March)

Navy Nurse Corps |

‘Opens Recruit Drive The U. 8. Navy Nurse Corps| today opened an officer procure-| ment program here to fill vacan-| ciés existing in Nurse Corps units. | Lt. Mabel Houtz, assigned to the Chicago office of naval officer | procurement, started a two-day counseling tour of Indianapolis hospitals today, outlining advantages of naval nursing careers open to registered nurses and in-| terested students. The recruiting station In ‘the Federal Building is open from 8 a.m tobp m

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[speedboat racer, left $702,320, his| three-day conference at 11 a.m. how to enter a taxicab without He died tomorrow inthe U. 8S. Department qualms. Death duty|©f Labor auditorium. |

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about the birds and bees. Let the momma birds and mamma bees worry. 1 just want my kids to know that the sweet guy who says he wants nothing but friendship may try to knock out their teeth if that's all he gets.” One chapter of Sally’s book is headed “So he wants to be a brothér ‘to you.” She said it was worth the price alone, Another carries the title “How to Drink Like a Lady.” A third is “My Wife Doesn't Understand Ms.”

3 Seized in Raid Upon Barbershop

Gaming charges today were placed against three persons taken in a raid on the Blakemore Barber Shop and Smoker, 1437 Columbia Ave. last night, George Taylor, 27, of 1308 Cornell Ave., who police said was the proprietor of the establishe ment, was charged with keeping a room for pool selling. Violine |Jones, 30, of 1435 Bellefontaine St., was charged with advertising a lottery and gift enterprise and Herman ~ Sharter, 40, of 921 E. 16th St., was charged ' with ‘gaming. - i Police, under Lt. George Snead, said Sharter was buying baseball «| tickets at a counter when they (entered the shop. A number of books ‘oi. baseball tickets were

g—goodness knows displayed on the counter, they