Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1949 — Page 11
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1 Inside Indianapolis
: By Ed Sovola
CHANCES ARE you don't know what went on in the auditorium of the World War Memorial Friday night. Chances are even greater that yoy missed a little program honoring newly naturalized and newly majority-aged citizens. The program had the affair labeled: “I Am an American Day’ Observance.” I know just about what you're saying, You're saying, “That's fine. We need things like that every once in awhile.” -And as far as you're concerned—what did the Indians do today?
He Did Some Serious Thinking
THERE'S nothing wrong in that, I guess, but let me tell you what I saw there Friday night. What took place made me forget about clowning or counting the bricks in the walls or the feathers on the many bronze eagles in the auditorium. In
' other words, I did some serious thinking. Unusual
for me but the experience was pleasant. pleasant, The balcony seemed to be about ‘the best place fo see the proceedings. I sat in the front row and behind me was the 10th Air Force Concert Band. T/8gt. Robert 8. McPherson was the director, the boss, the big stick. The sergeant said a few words. “When we finish with the ‘Queen City March,’ we can go. We're through.” Smiles broke out all over the balcony. “Go quietly to your buses and cars. Make sure, however; that I'm the first one out of here.” The smiles faded. : Ah wonderful. The good ol' sarge talking. For real Americanism, you can't beat a sergeant. “Make sure, however, that I'm the first one out
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of here.” Words like that, kind words, bring a lump to a man's thoat,
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Leader of the band . Pherson leads his- men through a march. leads them in everything.
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Easter Parade
While we have a lump ‘in our throats, let's remember many of the boys had dates, it was Friday night; there were a few beers to«irink, a symphony orchestra to hear at Cadle and many other things GI Joe wanted to do besides play five marches, Play music in the auditorium, that is. There was sacrifice on their parts. i The color guard marched in with a snap fo a rousing Sarge McPherson number. Everyone stood at attention. Below were many proud faces. The type of faces that took me back many years while the pledge of allegiance was being made. Directly below was a thin, raw-boned woman with hands that looked as if nothing ever touched them but hard work. Her hair sort of fell from under ‘a feit hat that wasn't exactly in style. I wondered how. long ago she had come here from the “old country.” A little closer to the stage a white-haired old, gentleman stood next to a roly-poly wife. Both | had round, chubby faces. Both had that “scrubbed! look.” I would liked to have seen their kitchen. It probably, probably, my eye, it had that| "“Scrubbed look,” too. { It was easy to pick out more new Americans] below. It was easy because my people are new| Americans and I remember as vividly as I see this typewriter how my mother and father! practiced the pledge of allegiance. | Although that was 22 years ago and my father| has been gone for 18 years, I still remember when | he came home from the post office and said, “I! am an American, now-so is Mama.” We were all | Americans celebrating the occasion with golombki, | zZupa, herbata, poncki and of cource, especially for! us kids, ice cream for dessert.
Their Faces Were Proud and Happy TO become an American is a very important | occasion to. the foreigner. You have to feel it, to| understand. You have to be frightened half to death that maybe you won't make the grade to! appreciate getting your “papers.” You have to| be able to recognize all this in those intent, serious, frightened. happy. excited faces. Proud faces. Patriotic faces. The new Americans who know more about the Constitution than most of us “old” Americans. Mrs. Lillian Lynch, who was the driving power] behind the program introduced the guests and made the recognitions. { J. Russell Paxton, director of the Tech High! School chorus, led his singers and Narrator Gay-| lord Allen through as fine a work as I have heard | an amateur group perform. It was called “Our Heritage—In Words and Music” and Sarge Me-| Pherson will back me up on the excellence. It ought to be recorded. It's that well done. Dramatizations by grade school and Camp Fire groups followed. Ervins Liepa, a displaced young fellow from Latvia and now a student at Tech told “What America Means to Me.” The program might have been shorter and accomplished the same thing. But the program couldn’t have been better. | “1 Am an American” packs wallop if you just sit and think about it awhile, Terrific.
By Leo Turner
NEW YORK, Mar. 28—Fashion designers hinted today that the well-dressed American male might blossom out with a walking stick in the
Easter parade.
“It's President Truman,” ‘one style expert said. “If he keeps carrying his walking stick, they may become as popular as they were in the early 1900's.” . The clock may turn back for the walking stick. but not in the line of neckties being packed now for Easter wear.. They include such féatures as waterfalls, flying ducks. barking dogs, naked women, embroidered initials or your wife and/or 'sweet1eart's photograph. T.
Spring Is Definitely Here
OH YES, it's spring when flowers blossom in a riot of colors, but they will not be alone. “The spring situation,” reports the National Wool Bureau “is in sharp contrast to conditions six months ago. Then the accent was on the dignified and the sedate.” Ha! That's putting it mildly What the wise boys in. the wool business are
Rough Sledding
WASHINGTON, Mar. 28 ~My spies report that
squirrels (with bushy tails) are playing in the White House. : The whole insides of the executive mansion
have been torn out and the place is empty, except for those small beasts cavorting where the East Room used to be. Squirrelly doings all over town, too. These included the matter of President Trumna’'s silhouette in a. bathing suit. the lady who tossed a plate of senatorial bean soup at a columnist, the wife who charged a gentlewoman of Congress with breaking up her happy home, the House of Representatives not understanding exactly what it was voting ahout, and the spraying of hormones (out of a bottle) on the Japanese cherry trees. All these things coincided with the arrival of spring and we might as well consider 'em one by one, starting with the hormones } These are chemicals which the experts hope will tend to calm down the cherry tree. Like all things Japanese, the trees are unpredictable. With the cherry blossom festival nearly a week away, the blooms are busting out all over; the hormones are supposed to keep same on the trees until the people get here to see ‘em.
Pension Bill Killed by Lone Vote
A FEW HORMONES sprayed on the House of Representatives might have helped, too. Here the gentlemen got so excited over honest John Rankin's pension bill that for three days they seldom knew exactly what they were voting about. They passed it, killed it, revived it, revised it and amended it until nobody knew at any given moment what was in it. The disgruntled lawgivers finally killed it for good by a margin of one vote. after counting noses three times to make sure. I'd mention the name of the beautiful lens-lady with the wonderful aim, except that I ordinarily .
The Quiz Master
getting ready to peddle to the unsuspecting males! are windowpane plaids, chalk stripes, shepherd's checks, bright blues and chocolate browns in assorted styles and drapes in spring suits. Contrasting jacket and trousers are hot stuff. the style makers said. “Patch pockets are practically de riguer.” the wool bureau said. “De rigeur” means good form, as contrasted with “rigor mortis”, which applies to a man who wouldn't be caught dead in such duds.
Homburgs Are Smar{ Thing
NOW the smart thing in hats, the wise boys say, is the homburg, also known as the “beaver,” once the exclusive adornment of diplomats, bankers and executives, | It gives the boys in the sticks a “big town note,” the advice to salesmen says. However, it isn’t compulsory. The college man can get along with a narrow snap brim, low crown, light colored felt and be in perfect stvile The “junior executive” goes in more for the higher crown, wider brimmed numbers, the advertisements say.
By Frederick C. Othman
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eat my own lunch at the press table in the Senate dining room and I'm taking no chances of a bean soup hath. - Anyhow, there was this columnist. who'd written a little squib about the lady teasing Sen. Kenneth McKellar, the venerable gentleman from Tennessee, into looking pretty before she squeezed the bulb. Peacefully the columnist was eating his lunch, The lady sat down beside him, ordered a large, economy-sized plate of bean soup and let him have it on the kisser. She announced that she didn’t have to tease Senators to make ‘em smile for the birdie and resented anybody saying she did. This indicates the hazards under which columnists and even Othman have to operate; even so they're nothing compared to the perils faced by the ladies of Congress, such as Mrs. Edith N. Rogers of Massachusetts. There she was making laws, when a blond lovely charged her in court with being a homewrecker. The blond’s husband, it turned out, used to be Mrs. Rogers’ secretary. Mrs. R. said the charges were ridiculous. But that wasn't what | hurt. Every reporter in town looked up her of- | ficial biography to discover when she was born and all the papers printed her age. The gentlewoman is 68. And, T hasten to add, does not look it.
News Cameramen Get Sore
THEN THERE was the business of Charlie Ross, the presidential secretary, confiscating photos of his boss on the beach last week in Florida. Made the cameramen sore. When President Truman got home he said please don't blame Charlie. Turned out that Mrs. T. had seen in the papers a photo of her husband in his swimming shorts. What she saw, she did not like. He said she said this was not to happen again. Charlie saw that it didn't and the cameramen, most of whom have wives as well as incipient bay windows, forgave and forgot.
??2? Test Your Skill ???
In American politics what is meant by “log rolling?” A group of statesmen is said to be “log rolling” when working in a group for certain purposes. The expression originated in the early days when logs were cut and rolled together by a settler and his neighbors, the task being too great for one man. edb When bunting of the national colors is used, what is ‘he arrangement?
The bunting must always be arranged with the blue on top, or to the left, white in the middle; and red below or to the right. The reason for this is that the blue, heing the éolor of the union of the flag, is the “honor color,” and should therefore come first, either horizontally or vertically. > @ What insects have been domesticated by man?
that have been domesticated. However, m
Does a sundial always tell correct time? .
Compared with a clock that runs uniformly, the sundial is slow from Dec. 25 to Apr. 15 and from June 14 to Sept. 1.. It is fast the rest of the year. Making this correction to your sundial gives the “mean solar time” for Your particular]
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How did the expression “to carry coals to Newcastle” originate? In 1238, Henry III granted the people of Newcastle the right to dig coal. By 1€15, the coal | trade of Newcastle employed hundreds of ships’ and extended to foreign countries. Hence *‘to carry coals to Newcastle” expressed the supertiuousness of any act. * e & How much of Alaska lies north of the Aretic Circle?
The bee and the silkworm are the only insects on about one third of Alaska lies north of
Insects such as the lac insect, the source Shel” lac, have become most useful. AP * ¢ What does the “C” rtand for in Herbert C. Hoover's name? ! The only living ex-President’s full name | Herbert Clark Hoover, . ( * 4 o ; In there an estimate of (he number of cigarets &n average person smokes ih a year? / The average person in this country smokes 11s packages of cigarets a year,
tic Circle. ? > Are there more men or States? In 1948 there were 498,000 more women than men. By 1970 it is estimated there will be 1,468,000 more women than men. . * + # Do plants give off oxygen? : Yes. In the process of photosynthesis in green plants the absorption of carbon dioxide is ac-
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The Indianapolis Times
SECOND SECTION
Campus Atmosphere
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At Grounds Of State Girls School
Picture Story by Victor Peterson IY y
As beautiful as any college campus, the grounds of the Indiana Girls School off Crawfordsville Rd. have a quiet charm, The serenity of the landscape is all part of an over-all program designed to rehabilitate girls committed there until they are 20. Today there are some 250 young women who have been sent to the school from over the state, the largest per cent from Marion County. This is the chapel, the institution's most beautiful building on the school's 250 acres. Some 225 acres
are in farm and orchard land.
With the aim of reclaiming the young women for society,
the institution provides regular schooling. The girls also are required
“to work on various projects incl
uding the butchering of livestock
as in thie scene shown here. Many work on the farm, in the orchards,
laundry and kitchens. The school cient homemakers of the future.
hopes to prepare the girls as effiOne phase of this is to parole the
girls to families to assist in domestic duties.
Swank 811 Club
Find Place Crowded; Three Arrests Made
An early Sunday morning raid on the county's swankiest “after hours” spot, the National AC R11 Club, was revealed by the State Excise Police today. The elaborately furnished cottage on 86th St. and White River, just south of Rd. 534, was crowded with some 20 patrons when a squad of 10 excise men made the raid. Three persons who excise police said comprised the management of the place were artested. They were Harry (Bud) Souders, 33. of 324 Harlan St. and Richard and Angela Tegarden., 8400 Union Chapel Rd Two Freed on Bond All were charged with sale of alcoholic beverage without a permit. Souders was hooked into the Marion County jail at 5:23
a. m. Sunday and released four minutes later on bond signed by Marty Frankfort professional bondsman. Mrs. Tegarden was later released on $250 bond and Tegarden remained in jail today The three are scheduled to ap-
pear in Beech Grove Magistrate's Court at 7 p. m, today The R811 Club, which has been operating for several months, is rumored owned by a prominent Democratic politician and tavern owner. The excise officers who led this raid were the same men who led e now famous Sunday raid on the Printers Club in which high ranking state and city Democratic politicians were said to have been caught following the ihnual Hibernians breakfast.
Dentists to Erect $100,000 Building
A group of local dentists today filed an application to construct modernistic office building. at 49th and Pennsylvania Sts. The dentists formed a special building group known as the Penn Dental Corp., headed by David H. Draper, 41 E. Washington St. The City Zoning Board will act on the application this afternoon. The bujlding, which will be con-
(gtructed by C. Daniel J. Zimmer-
man, Inc, and agsociates, a local architect and engineering firm, is a one-story glass-encased struc-
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Center Township Assessor as It is one thing to pass a law to carry it out 1947 1949
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(Second of a Series) By ROY T. COMBS
A remarkable degree of individuality is allowed the gi
personality in a number of ways. T
As far as it is feasible, each girl is allowed to develop he
f r here are no institutional uniforms
and the girls may fix their hair to suit their tastes and wear cos. metics. Current authorities are planning a more complete vocational guidance program and a license is being sought for the
operation of a beauty school.
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rls in the furnishing of their rooms.” They
are encouraged to take an interest in sewing, knitting and crocheting. Much of their handiwork is placed on display and sale in the school canteen housed in the administration building. Recently one of the cottages was remodeled and is strictly modern. - It is planned to use this cottage as an incentive toward good behavior. Compliance with regulations will lead to housing in the remodeled
further changes in other buildings on the campus.
Excise Police Raid Experienced Men to Handle Reassessment PSC to Reopen
told to Phillip F. Clifford Jr.
and another to provide the money The Reassessment Act passed by the Legislature in provided us with limited funds to re-
assess the-thousands of properties in Center Township alone Our appropriation to make the greatest survey of valuation ever attempted in Indiana is $367,612. That sounds like a lot of money,
but when you consider the size of the field and office forces required to compute the valuation of every structure in .one of the nation’s richest townships, the money doesn't go very far. After countless interviews, 1 have secured the services of a capable group of men and women willing to do the job at salaries we could pay. Chief deputy in charge of ground reassessment, is George Whelden, who has had more than 35 years active experience in Indianapolis real estate development.
Elmer Warren, superintendent
of the Bedford Stone. and Construction Co., because of his 20 or more years service in building construction, . was appointed chief deputy in charge of building assessments, : Has 8 Supervisors Among other projects, he super vised construction of the Merchant’'s Bank Building, Loew's
Theater and Under Mr. we will have
the Circle Theater. Warren's direction, a chief supervisor
with eight supervisors under the!
chief. One supervisor will be in charge of commercial property. One will supervisg the reassessment of the township's filling stations, and another will command the field agents examining
Nab 14 in Gaming Raid
After Loser Complains On a man’s complaint that he lost $60 in a poker. game, police swooped down on four suspected gambling houses and arrested 14 men for gaming. One of the prisoners was charged with resisting arrest... . Armed with a search warrant, a squad’ under . Capt. Ralph Chambers, smashed its way into 708 Massachusetts Ave, They arrested the doorkeeper, Angelo Mipistratta, 36. of 2136, ,N. Illinois St. on a charge of resisting arrest, keeping a gaming house and keeping a room for pool seliing. « James Geage, 41,.0f 1129 Central Ave. was booked on similar
gaming charges. Five others were
the downtown property. The other five supervisors will be assigned to the residential districts.
All Have Credentials
Residential supervisors will each have teams of two men working under them. One man will make statistical entries on the field sheet, the second man of the team will carry the tape line and do the measuring of all property in their area. Since it is necessary for men in the field to make internal examinations of industrial buildings and dwellings, .each team member will carry a badge and credentials 1ssued by my office. The men assigned to this type of work are now being schooled in the elements of reassessment A portion their duty will require them th ask a few simple questions of the home or build ing owner Some of the questions asked will be the age of the building, the
of
number of rooms in it, heating facilities, and a summary of latest improvements must be given,
Based .on information obtained
{by field deputies, members of the
office force, some of whom will operate at our Headquarters annex in Tomlinson Hall, will com-
Furniture Polish Fatal to Child
Services are being arranged today for a year-old child who died 12 hours after drinking a small quantity of furniture polish. The youngster, Hilbert Andrew Englert Jr, was playing about the home, 3513'; W. Washington St. “Saturday night while his
mother cleaned house,
. Mrs. Englert turned to see the child holding the furniture polish bottle to his lips, The child was rushed to the Methodist Hospital where he died yesterday morning. Services will be held at 2 p. m.
arrested for visiting a gaming Wednesday in Moore Mortuaries
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pute the figures to arrive at the {exact rate of valuation after the survey has been completed.
Assessments Found Low
Reassessment is not a raise taxes, It is not designed to raise the valuation of vour pro perty. It is an equilization or readjustment of the assessed valuation of real estate in Indiana. To demonstrate that many inequities existed due to the now out-moded assessment on real estate, we made a spot check in several residential districts within the township. In the course of that during which 1600 inspected, we found percentage valued at between $4000 and $5000 were carrying assessments ranging from $90 to $250. This exist
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(Tomorrow: Right of Appeal and the New Law.)
Church Building Drive Continues
Officials of the North Methodist Church today started the first week-day of their drive for $200 000 for a new educational build ing with §122,000 already subscribed. \ The new building will stand on the properties adjoining the church at 38th and Meridian Sts. It will cost $400,000. The present drive lasting two weeks is expected to bring in half the amount in subscriptions. John A. Goll is chairman and Dr. Dallas A. Browning is the pastor: The drive opened yesterday and included a spécial meeting last night at which. total subscriptions of $200,000 were reported. Dr. Sumner L. Martin, district superintendent, presided.
Pastor to Speak Lee Carter Maynard, minister of the Angola Church of Christ, will offer an evangelistic message! at a meeting of the Fountain Square Christian Church at 7:30 p. m. Thursday.
MOSLEM LEADER SHOT ASMARA, Fritrea, Mar. 28 (UP) Unidentified gunmen shot apd seriously wounded Abbel Kader Kebire, president of Eritrean Moslem League, on an Asmara street last hight, He was! scheduled to leave soon for Lake | Success, N. Y., with the Eritrean Moslem delegation,
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~ structure. Superintendent Mrs. Mary Margaret Sumner currently is seeking funds with which to effect
Phone Rate Case
Public Counselor to Offer More Evidence
The public Service Commission today upheld a motion by Public Counselor William E. Steckler to reopen the Illinois Bell Te)Jephone rate case {or new evidence. The company immediately filed a request for an emergency temporary increase in Lake and Porter County rates on grounds that the present rate structure is losing the utility $20,000 a month. The commission set Thursday for a ruling on the company's emergency proposal. In its ruling today, the PSC pointed out that full hearings already had been held last year both here and in Lake County on the proposed rate increase. It ex-
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orezsed a desire, “however, that Mr. Steckler be given an oppors tunity to enter additional evi
dence and ordered the hearings renewed Apr. 6 in Hammond.
Came in Late Mr. Steckler has been handi« capped in the Illinois Bell case hy the fact that he came in as public counselor after the bnlk of the hearings had been completed, He asked that they be continued to permit him to introduce expert witnesses who, he said, would produce evidence necessary for a fair ruling on the rates, The company's motion for an emergency increase to plug its losses during the coming hearings suggested two alternative plans for the temporary boost. Generally, the two plans proposed some increase in rates for virtually all telephone users in the two upstate counties, including a doubling of the five-cent long dis« tance toll charges now in effect in the Calumet area. Balloonist Dies SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 28 (UP)—L{, Col. Albert William Stevens, 63, who established a stratosphere balloon flight record of 72,395 feet at Rapid City, 8. Dy in 1935 died Saturday at the Army's ‘Letterman General Hospital. GEORGE TO GO TO SHOW LONDON, Mar. 28 (UP) —Rucks ingham Palace announced today that King George VI would aftend a royal variety performance in London Nov, 7, the first public engagement booked for him since his illness was announced last November, of
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