Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1949 — Page 31

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ois hips and a -15-pound dolly bar in my hands, Three seconds after that, Dale (Whitey) Shue, riveter, and Milton (Bugkets) Totton, ‘catcher, me out on a purlin beam. The ground eet below. And it was rough. “Anybody got a safety beit?" I asked in abou the same way a drowning man would ask for a life belt. ele Never should have asked that question. The picturesque language it provoked would have heated a rivet. A couple of the men were practically doubled up laughing. Another gang of men was working on the roof supports, approximately 65 feet above the ground, was informed that Whitey and Buckets had a guy who wanted a safety belt. Well, how it happened that Jack Kelly, Arthur

igh, Leon Brown and Virgil Teeter didn't fall from the steel beims is beyond me. But, I had my own problems. 2 I was straddling a narrow I-beam and holding ‘another with my hands. It took all my steel nerves

pointing and yelling.

In order to grab that nin It was necessary .to ' fet go of something with my hands. Grabbing the

informed me lustily of ‘hat ss’ he waited for a red hot rivet-from Roy Smith, heater. “cet your dolly bar ready to buck the rivet.” Blyth Brenton, the bucker I had replaced for the nonce, was suggesting in a voice usually used

lax. Relax. X After a pin is knocked out it should be quickly

the bridgeman's belt. That's because a rivet catcher at the sarhe moment is slipping a cherry red rivet where the pin was and the riveter is already waiting with the pneumatic hammer. You should know that the dolly bar is & hunk . ‘of steel about the size of a baseball bat. With it

Mutated Mink

NEW YORK, Apr. 2—The mink, an amphibious musteline carnivore of the genus Putorius—shove over, Kieran, your competition is hi the mink is a nasty little beast, but he has gallantly for decades to demonstrate man's domination by woman, an ambiguous crepe de chine carnivore p of the genus Uxorius. : ; Even more than the diamond on third finger left hand, a sufficiency of mink pelts on the female form was the loud badge of topmost success in

Rh i oy the lady's league. It shoutéd that her man was : ‘+ pich, that he cherished ber above all others—or a # 2 slse he had been apprehended for paughtiness and huang - was paying off for peace. it in The mink coat was the pinnacle of girlish day-

#2 § dream, in that its possession took you from be- " 4 ‘hind the counter and shoved you into the queen class... Mere mention of ‘the magic word induced a slumbrous, stunned look, somewhat mixed with naked craving. This languorous look is invoked . only if the mentioner is a man.

A Jungle of Mink

the word—or worse, illustrate it with a coat of her ‘own—and such lances of poisonous hatred dart from the minkless damsel’'s eye that a male eavesdropper is shocked by the pent-up violence behind the fluffy facade of sugar and spice. New York is a veritable jungle of mink, so that a man strolling through the middle 50's feels suddenly that the animals have taken over the city. You can watch the magic at work.. All women who wear the stuff ‘imagine they have automatically lost 20 pounds, grown .a foot, resemble Hedy Lamarr, and pack the siren punch of Madameé DuBarry. They have achieved the presidency of their guild. Before the mink industry went mad, alt a man had to do to score with his maid-—or remove himself from a matrimonial hook-—was pawn his birthright and come home with the coat. That was when things were simple. But such iz no longer so. I was doing a little research in front of one of the big celebrity traps the other day,

2 bolt off... put a pin in there . .. put your wrench in

(Fido) Faust, Rufus Marks, Herbert Barker, Paul

to keep my eyes focused to where Whitey was -

“Grab that pin. C'mon, let's grab that pin.” |

barrel pin with two hands wasn't right. Buckets £8

when a cattle stampede is in progress, that I re-

placed in the barrel pin pouch on the left side of

_ JUST LET another woman possessively utter

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} behind a te It. tate wp mow oo Carlton Hotel Polishing’ Up Best Silver, grab that pin. . . get that bar in there again. . Finger Bowls ‘Equipped’ With Rosebuds the. last BF 1he sny's Joiting, ih} di ashioned streetcars when

take your crescent wrench and get that nut and -

back your bar up...” : : ; Friends, my very dear friends, I almost cried. All through this, remember, I'm

this is important, I don’t want to fall 25 feet on cetting out the best si}

my ear of any other part of my anatomy. * oi ; oR oad However he and the more lordly waiters are 'ém. Incidentally, its press agent © : : ing, Buckets os aug ‘and throw. = warned not to lift any eye- is Mrs. Perle Mesta, the agen’ 102 the oid bump-buggies. re s catching, Whitey is pounding with ("oC "lp on “poreign Minister 10 end all hostesses, |New York concern which bought,

his hammer and I'm swallowing tobacco juice, gp... in’ of { BE Doltng o mi ny Sawn nd tne Bevin of Gesst tam) just a little. Bolts and Brenton just laugh gut the real tip-off on the kind and laugh and holler. " “lof swank that's going to hold Gentlemen, One Side forth is the awed announcement,

; 4 : ‘from the Carlton inner sanctum, CRAWLING BACKWARD each- time higher about the finger bowl arrange

as we finished riveting sections was excruciating. : died The ol’ legs were shaking and it wasn't from ments. Each ane of dy Joma bucking the hammier, either, i have & yellow Tose A new instrument of torture was handed me ., . ; . and the dolly bar was jerked from my clutching Dining and Wining i

paws. “That's a nine bar. It's easier to handle THIS TOWN'S having so many Back in Graces { Even though many of the

‘but & new man has to break in on the dolly Bar.” dinners, cocktail contests and:

snapped Whitey. "Get the nine bar in there.” tea-drinking orgies for. the visit- of © Washington's - million-dollar- far back as 1917; most of them Just when 1 thought I was going to fail off the ing dignitaries that IUll Le a dealing real estate operator, was will be reconditioned and sent to beam the hard-driving, hard-talking members of wonder if there's enough guests in the Administration doghouse Europe and South Adierfea: for Local 22 relented. They actually helped me, prac- Io gO oun BM all thelarter the last election on account more years of hauling passen- » Whose of she'd been a littl gers. Someone said, “He might be all right” The Schedule ale oid two Gi with the Dewey rot Bn |T Eaulpped with a new motor Hous two incheons, and tWoiooks like she's in again—she and a fresh coat of paint, the Pouch was stuck in my hand. inners in tour days. gave a dinner the other night for cars bring between $4000 and Vice President Alben Barkley.. [$10,000 each.

tically led me to safety.

words were music to my ears. A package of Mail

” » Saddest sacks in town, with all My chew, where was it? Gentlemen, one side. |... Atlantic Pact howdy-do, are the Iron Curtain laddies. The |best they could offer was a re{ception the Czech Embassy gave for a colple of their delegates {to the alléged New York “peace, { conference.” ! Nobody was lounging on any {couches nibbling grapes, but that | dinner given by Hawafian Dele-! gate Joseph R. Farrington had {the kind of touch the old Romans, would have loved. All the cor-| {sages were flown from Hawail,|

| Orchids, naturally. . » » » !

Nothing Elaborate

THERE WAS such a crush at

the other night that people like ‘| Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder, Secretary of the Interior Cap Krug ana Clark Clifford, e E5 a ra | presidential adviser, had to wait) Pina " ovals li , in the receiving line for almost] . Look out below . . . ove, t00. [an hour before they could shake | Riveting is simple for those who know, such as [the new club member's hand. | oft ts right] Dale Shue, Milton Totton and Blyth { Nothing - elaborate; of course!

for the goings-on. i . ~ ” An Indiana lady who's on the

By Robert C. Ruark copmittee for the Hoosier { Club's Art Salon at the Smith-

and I wouldn't dare buy a dame a mink coat! Sonian Institution Apr. 7 to 27 | today—not even if I had the money. | Rot-kind of a shock the other | Prior to 1935, mink was mink, like diamonds 9a when she received 8 post- | are diamonds. But the furriers got busy with, and Aswigning not to dui, | madame’s natural susceptibility to change, and , ny calls it the Hoosler | started tampering with the sex life of the mink. i raf . : First we had light mink, and then we had the Subterfuge 1] very dark. Then we went to blond mink. and SENATE RULES say positively

black mink. ‘This bred silverblue, platinum, no smoking on the floor, but Sen. |' Kohinoor, Starlight. Out of them came white, Bill (Chivalry Is Not Dead) |-

Polar Pastel and haii-biood. They all paid off Langer of North Dakota gets in the current aberration-—lord save us all—which around it. He gnaws on several is called Breath! of Spring, yet. This costs niné stogies a day-but in a genteel: ~ million dollars the square inch, and the minks way. He leaves their cellophane who bear it dine off caviar and are kissed to jackets on. |

death by Ingrid Bergman when the time comes, - eis. i to yield the pelt. g The Nationai Press Club sent | . . ; ; out. notices to all 2100 resident Getting Complicated members about the Founders’ |

AN ORDINARY stupid man is foddied enough | Day party Thursday, Mar. 31. with wild mink, ranch mink, Canada mink and, Them followed a postcard, . Labrador mink. but when they start to hurl the| changing the date to Mar. 30. mutations at him he just covers his head and| Seems a member of the enter: whimpers. Where even the most pampered wom-| tainment committee was asan used to get 10 years of mileage out of one signed to invite President Tru- | eoat. and love the donor most of that time; now | man but he got his dates mixed | the one-coat girl is a practical pariah at the 21! snd asked him for the 30th. The | Club. committee figured it would be | “Pssst” ‘they say. “Here comes poor old| €asier’ to send out 2100 mew | Gertie, still weating last year's silverblue. You Wotices, changing the date, than suppose her husband's got outside interests, now?” to ask the President to re. Or’-“Poor darling. = Trying to wear Royall B&frange Minsthadule, : { Pastel with that hairdo., Maybe her husband is o slipping in the Street, like they say.” - : Slight Oversight SA You would not dare fetch home a Kohinoor,, THAT'S LIKE what happened if Breath of Spring was on Milady’s mind. You to the Polish Embassy. It sent would get crowned with a cuspidor if she had out a raft of invitations to a her mouth fixed for one kind and you dragged musicale but forgot to put enough in the other. And, with mink now as fickle as postage on 'em, with the result other female fashions, you are automatically out that those getting 'em had to pay of high style every spring. \ : ithe three cents due. Few days I run on about this. but actually it's no prob- later, everybody got the following) lem of mine. I have just bought mama a steel- communication from: the Emtrap and half-a-fish, ‘and if stie’s the girl I think bassy: “Enclosing herewith a 3c she is, she can go out to the marshes and corral stamp. Chancery of the Polish her own coat. | Emb&ssy wishes to apologize for | the ‘discrepancy which occurred in ithe postage of the recently mailed

Coolidge Economy By Frederick C. Othman jnviation to a concert at the

{ . - » | Marshall Plan Note: Foreign |

WASHINGTON, Apr. .2—The gentlemen didn’t exactly charge Cal Coolidge with ruining the White House. Not in so many words, they didn’t. But the implication was there: .Cal was a house wrecker. 8 Along In 1926, soon after Mr. Coolidge signed his second lease on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. the roof sprung a leak. He wanted it fixed in a hurry, but the public building people took it up-with the architects. The House Appropriations Committee put in its oar and first thing anybody knew Mr. Coolidge’s leaky roof was a $375,000 project. Se the boys hauled $375,000 worth of steel girders aand reinforced concrete, weighing nobody knows how many hundreds of tons, and installed same on the topside of the mansion. Without any thought. of whether the ancient walls would hold the weight.

A Magnificent Ruin ih ACCORDING TO THE EXPERTS now testifying before the Committee on Public Works, the : White House has been collapsing slowly ever since, , * and unless they spend $5,412,000 patching up the - place it soon will become what they ‘call a magnifi- ~ eént ruin. 2 The idea, which they didn't express quite so bluntly, seemed to be that if Cal had swabbed a little tar on the old roof instead of hoisting up so r _ ~ much ironmongery, the White House today would be shout as good as it was before the British set ’ At this very moment, testified the pink-faced,

"7 And Mr. Hunter said he didn’t rightly know who = Mr. Mack said he still wasn’t satisfied. All I

The Quiz Master

So the gentlemen are about to appoint a com- o ison isinding both Republicans and Demo-| Mieister Evarst flavin of Geat | crats (so they can share in the praise and, OF. own Scoretary of State Dean | blame), to rebuild the entire house, except for those 5 n.qin gets only $15.000 { outside walls. They’ll be left for looks and senti- in oy : ment’s sake, but they won't bear the weight of any’ » roof, or bathrooms, either. : F emale-Conscious Odd thing is that President Triman, who irs." AS IF this town wasn't already sisted that the place be patched up when he noticed buiging at the seams with women, the ceiling shaking in his study, probably won't the National Woman's Party is get much chance to live in it. Once all hands make holding forth At its annual threeup their minds on what to do and how to do it, Mr. day convention, That's the outfit Hunter said his architects hoped the job could be Which 18 so female-conscious all

finished in i8 or 20 months, That's nearly two the books at its headquarters are years from now. by women authors, and which

: a |won’t use any postage stamps exElegance—at $5 a Foot cept those with women's faces on

IF IT TAKES a little longer, as such projecis nearly always do, the President probably won't get to live in his new, nonshaking house even a year. But it should be an elegant place for the next tenant. pi 4 Too elegant to suit Rep. Russell V. Mack of Washington. He said he didn't want to be a penny-pincher where the President is concerned, but how much per cubic foot does the average

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public building cost? | ~OPTOMETRIST— About $1.85, said Mr, Hunter. And how much will the charge be for the remodsied Whité House, EYES EXAMINED Mr. Mack asked. Around $5, Mr. Hunter said. But | GLASSES FITTED quickly he explained it was going to be something

"The ceilings with their fancy plaster ‘eupids d i and rosebuds, he said, will be taken out intact]] I» Most Cases Your Eyes stored away, and replaced exactly as they were.] Can Be Examined and dul : | GLASSES ‘chandeliers will be wrapped in cotton batting. the] - FITTED | the Same Day Ordered

“BUDGET TERMS ARRANGED Have Your . Byes Examined Now! Wears 5A We SW FM evens ; Gay—Monday evenings ‘W S00

know is that the boys better hurry, before Cal's roof crashes into the cellar, : ; ;

987 Test Your Skill 72?

; elected? : «SET 3 J i James Bi and Grover Cleveland were

How long did Joe Louis hold the world heavyLouis held the heavyweight crown lomger—il defended it more times (25) and sarmed more (about $4,500,000) any other boxer

By Ed Sovole Aliantic Pact Fete Toni

By ANDREW TULLY, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer final 200 were “retired” recently, 3 your belt. . . held that barrel pin. . . get WASHINGTON, Apr, 2-That's going to be a really hoity-toity But they were doomed to disap- : ow ; shindig President Truman tosses for the Atlantic Pact foreign min- pointment. : : . isters in the Carlton Room of the aristocratic Carlton Hotel tomor-. When some of the citizens drop | fow. The Paty Shut oe had hus Blair House bees use it's too small, in on the nearest barber for a I don’t Mk i Gu J i y're | n on elegance same. {haircut or attend Sunday school especially like to chew tobacco. Also, and Flunkies are already polishing up the gold dinner service and in the next few weeks, ey may

iy ) : i aniss Sm New Year atied (trolleys, says the old cars are go- : oo , 5 . i

L polon Jujay. which is ries iy 'into houses. barber shops, Sunday

! the dinner for Defense Secretary} Louis Johnson at the Mayflower}

on | they just took over the entire} . : {Kast - Lounge of the Mayflower }

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LA "8 ~ i Fancy Groceries: Dept. The (UP the final batch of streetcars. to RE y ibe replaced by modern trackless rr —- a

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lobster and . irrfed | I oui 4 ou MR. DIXON says he has sold ¥ {streetcar bodies to be converted

{school rooms, cafeterias, diners. nothing Nk ' photo studios, clubhouses and ng "this {even slumbering perches . for {Georgia chickens.

MRS. MORRIS CAFRITY. wife streetcars began their labors as

That's - t y to = 7 : Rep. Katherine 8¢. George ot | Trapper Trapped

New York. When a reporter PITTSBURGH, Apr. 2

asked her for a quote during all (UP)-—The billboard of to- ER aa he id Dovtuv Sora those morrow will plague speed- L 3 F { OC par » Mrs, St trappin motorcycle “ George said she never went to By . por awn shee ‘em; so there. Right off the reel, Carnegie Tech art stu- ERECTED COMPLETE people. like the WOTU thought | - dents have designed one | or MATERIAL ONLY

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