Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 April 1949 — Page 9

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Tulip: A Tough Bud

By Ernie Hill

LAS PALMAS, Canary Islands, April 4—-Two years ago. a young rooster nade a sad debut in the cockfight ring here. All but dead, he- was carried out after three minutes, 80. . .Don Luis Cabrera, one of the leading trainers on these Spanish islands, decided to use the bird as sort of a punching bag and sparring partner for tougher youngsters for awhile before sending him to the soup bowl. The cock, however, got tired of being pecked silly, knocked over and spur-ripped. He began to hold his own in the training ring. Don Luis decided to let him live. Last week, “The Purple Culip” won his fifth fight in a row and was proclaimed “the toughest bird on two feet” by Spanish cockfight experts. “The Tulip” has beaten the best from Madrid and from Teneriffe in the Canaries. He will now have three months’ rest in the country before any more bouts. At the Las Palmas rooster gymnasium, cockfight addicts are flocking out tp see ‘The Tulip” before he goes to the mountains, - ;

‘The Tulip’ Shows Off

“THE TULIP” enjoys the show. He struts and postures in his outsized cage, and crows with full self-assurance when on display. Don Luis says he’s the smartest bird he has ever handled in 20 years. Roosters that are tagged for the soup bowl lead a hard life. In training others, they are held. by the feet as a decoy. Those on the Jist to fight in the next few weeks, maul the helpless bird until it is virtually unconscious. Then the unfortunate one is turned loose to be knocked over. That raises the ego of the one that must fight, “But “The Purple Tulip’. started to fight back,”

says Don Luis. “He was tired of being pushed

around. I could tell he had spirit. That's why I gave him another chance”

Since he got that chance, “The has killed four out of five opponents, the ring last Sunday a 2-to-1 favorite. Like a boxer, he feinted and bobbed until he found an opening. Then he spurred his Sppanant on both sides of the neck. He was “the victor” in two minutes, eight seconds. Las Palmas’ cockfight ring is area. The fights attract 1000 to Sunday. Bets usually range from better is his own bookie ing how much he wants to bet. Someons inthe crowd waves acceptance,

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in the downtown 0 2500 Juople every

To keep cockfighting on a high social level, | men

must wear both. coats and ties to’ be admitted. Very few women attend. — There are two cockfight training grounds here. They produce rival teams which meet every Sunday except when a team comes from Spain or from another island. :

They Go at Everything AT PRESENT the 8an Jose team has 500 cocks in training. In the city 200 are preparing for fights coming up. In the country are 300 more getting basic training and resting from past fights. “We have to keep them caged all the time” says Don Luis, “because they would fight each other and kill hens and baby chicks. They just love to fight. They will go at anything. “Small dogs run from them. They have injured children with ‘heir spurs. All they want to do is battle.” Don Luis says he has ben informed that there are first-class cocks in California, Texas, Venezuela, Mexico and Cuba. He would like to match his against them. The Canary Island chickens have beaten everything in this part of the world. “The Purple Tulip,” says Don Luis should be at peak performance ir early fall, He's looking for an opponent with a reputation.

$1 to $10. Each|| standing up and announc- |

High school collar on Don Shaw's polo shirt dresses it up enough for movie dates. But it has the ease and comfort of a T-shirt. The hat is pork-pie, modified.

What are men wearing anyoné care? Women care. So do men, but they won't admit it. Here's Shideler Harpe three-button tweed sports jacket, worn ih but-ton-down shirt of Oxford

fers say you must have a hat this season. A new hat, that is.

On Tap For

~ MONDAY, “APRIL 4, 1940

Roomy, Versatile, Gay Clothes | ents This Spring

A Report on Men's Fashion by Ruth Ann Hamilton

this season, or does with a . And a hat. Hat-

arty tie.

togs are versatile. The new club

Gray with a bit of white is for men of all ages this spring. J. H. Steinmetz wears a suit of gray worsted with a thread of white yarn. it will remind you it's spring lest you forget on . o chilly dey. Neat,

This is the bold approach to neckwear. Paul Reed sports a bright four-in-hand against a solid color pastel shirt in new helio shade, Haberdashers are featuring the gay tie this season. Nothing less than brave are these cravats with sports scenes, hand - painted panels of surrealist duign, Impressionism dominates the godging traffic in W. Wa

spring. Wallace Nees selects a one in light, soft Shetland wool.

enough room in the

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hadging homeward in your favorite bus.

The straight, easy cut of Gordon

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Raeburn gabardine suit coat. is full, No semi-zoot suit ty this year. Boxy is the word, with only a suggestion

Off-Stage Act

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Apr. 4—In my day I've seen strange things come out of congressional pockets, including rabbits and once a bottle of beer, but I still was not prepared for what Rep. Walter K. Granger of Utah extracted from his double-breast-ed blue suit. “I suppose,” said he, “that I really should wash my hands first.” That being impossible on the floor of the House of Representatives, he pulled from his pocket one soggy pound of white oleomatrgarine and announced that he didn’t feel too sorry for housewives using their time to mix in the yellow color. ; “I now propose,” he continued; “to show you how easy this process is.” The gentleman from Cedar City kneaded that envelope of margarine, he pounded it and he punched it and the sergeant-at-arms was aghast. What if the package burst? And spilled greasy goo on the baby-blue carpet?”

No Bust—and No Mess

THE GENTLEMAN'S oleo by now was soft. He rolled it between his hands, like an oversized cigaret and in two minutes flat it was yellow. No bust; no mess. The sergeant subsided. Mr. Granger said no housewife ought to kick about a little

chore like that, And the battle over whether yellow...

oleo should be legal was back where it started nearly 60 years ago. The arguments in general sounded like A cracked phonograph record until the fall and almost cadaverous Rep. L. Mende! Rivers of 8. C.

. (who likes oleo) got into a battle with the pink-

faced and roly-poly Rep. H. Carl Andersen of Minn. {who prefers butter), They were going good, when Rep. Ben F. Jensen of Towa suggested they stop in their tracks and stand there so their fellow lawgivers could look at ‘em. . And there Mr. Jensen was, a kind of master of ceremonies in a congressionsl beauty contest.

Mr. Andersen, he said, obviously ate plenty of] good, fresh cow butter. And look at him, gentlemen, Mr. Jensen said. Robust, healthy, and clear of eye; pleasantly plump, vigorous, and brimming ‘with the joy of living. Allowing the beaming § uttie eater to sit down, Mr, Jensen suggested that the congressmen observe Mr. Rivers. “He is too thin,” said Mr. Jensen. “His skin lacks that tone of health. He is old looking and he is gray, and yet he is the same sage as Mr. Andersen. Why?” Nobody answered. except Mr. Rivers, who protested that he was not either sick, but Mr. Jensen shouted him down: “This is why: The gentleman from South Caro-| lina likes oleo. He eats it.” -

He Spies a Gentle Woman

LET US not forget the freshly colored oleo o Rep. Granger. It was getting softer by the min-;

spied. Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas of Cal. she want it? The gentle woman said she did not. Rep. Granger handed it to her, anyhow. She looked

And 1 eould tell you more about the great Sleo-]

while. How many billions of words, literally, haye been wasted by the lawgivers on this subject in the last half century nobody knows. i Nor can anybody tell at this moment whether oleo is going to be freed of its taxes at long last, or whether the yellow variety will be prohibited as though it were cocaine. The Senate's got to go fo work on the problem next and some of the gentlemen there, I understand, feel that margarine should be dyed purple, while Sen. Raymond Baldwin of Conn., holds out for a deep orange. - Fe

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It Happened Last Night—

Artie Shaw Will Conduet Symphony in Temple of Bop

Beord:ond-Beret Set.ignored by Night Club During Opening Week in Favor of Music for Long Hairs

By Earl Wilson

! “He sald, 1 want 0 be differ

NEW YORK, an 4—Artié Shaw is going to . . ont) I said "Don't sou-thiok Is a" (No, Taffy, no. Not get married again. Not just yet little foolish, really? janyway.). |” “As he left, he said, ‘You al-|

Artie, who gave up aisle forever, .is going to conduct most talked me out of it"” {a symphony orchestra in a Broadway cafe.

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The Quiz Master

27? Test Your Skill ???

How many hunters are killed each yeaf iff the United States?

i In an average year in the United States, apJeoximately 399 humors are Xilisd sud 308 Wn.

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Who is the author of the song “There: Will Be

One Vacant Chair”? itor Was uonipised

This at: Thanksgiving, 1861, and H. 8. Washburn 181, a1 Pulisteod in Chicas. 0-3. Wes Root for the musie. ® yoErET LN Te

the margarine debate, but it hardly seems worth goateed beret-wearers who are crazy about be-bop music, and {probably lots of other things. “I think it’s going to be one, of the best things that ever hap-. pened to music,” Artie told me

‘cafe Tn its honor Apr. 14. f Possibly fearing that hordes of

Earl’ s Pearls

Saloon sign: “If the television performers look good to you, you've had enough to arink” . ..« Frankie Mar. lowe at the Strand contends that when you bet it all on the nose, you. pay through yours.

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“It's a hell of a deal been a place where you could re ig to order 100 pounds of garden lax over. a drink -and listen 10 fertilizer sent to friends... . Sally

I sald to Artie, “You're going!

{ This'll astonish all people who astonish easily. “. [to be back with the autograph | Artie, the clarinet genius, i. \will conduct this long-hdired ute and he didn’t know what to do with it. He jmusic at “Bop City,” 4 new

14 pot dedicated to the idea that od, *Verybody is entitled to his own,

at it, sniffed st it, and placed it on the next seat. "rand of pain-in- “the-ear. - Then she vanished.

{tans You once thought #0 moironic.’ “Oh, they won't bother me. First, I haven't béen-around them {and they don’t know who the hell {I am: second, when you get to ithe age where you can be their father, how can you get sore? . & » Today's Best Laugh RECENT, TYPOGRAPHICAL + ERROR: "The doctor felt the pa-| itient’s purse and admitted there was nothing he could do.” { . » y ALL OVER: The second half

Marlowe ee | HONE Of “Btop the Music” has been hot for you. He'd Jet you Play, sold to Old Gold for television.

+ Ford dealers bought a TV | show with Jimmy Bavo as regular arrator - called *

1ixpr. 18, at 9. . . . Radio Row is {talking about the full page IBM

They said, spokesman Arthur Godfrey with K. * [a pack of Luckies in front of him. Never|, , , B'way's latest practical joke!

{Ran d flies to Milwaukee today the Tosca- | with her dog and S.month-old

: Lenny Green asked a walter in & B'way restaurant, “What do

Ends Life Dressed in Her Very Best

college freshman, Roderick Turner, also 17. they had a date nearly every night last-wee

Undated Date That Failed Too Much for Girl of 17

After Inducing Family to Go to Movies. PORT WASHINGTON, N. Y., Apr. 4 (UP)—8haron Cate, a tall, auburn-haired 17-year-old with green eyes, was in love with a Rod was home on spring vacation from Cornell University and

But Saturday night Rod failed to eall. Sharon dressed up in her

best outfit, a powder-blue cordu-; roy jumper and a trily white. blouse, and waited. “He'll Get Here” “He'll get here,” Sharon teld {her family at 8 o'clock. Then she {persuaded them to go to the movies. She promised that when |

Giant Skyliner Crosses Atlantic In 12%-Hour Hop

{Rod came they would stay at the] LONDON, Apr.

er brother, Bobby, 7. | Finally, late in the evening, |’

| plane, Pan

to come, She went upstairs and opened trouble between wide both windows in her sleep-! ‘and Ireland. ing brother's room. |

would be no explosion, turned on all four jets, - When her family returned home at 12:15 a. m. they found her;

Shannon, Ireland. » ~

{still wearing her tclothes, She had been dead f more than an hout. Young Turner was stunned. “1 - guess Sharon would have the! liked me A see her every night)” he said, “but I just didn't have enough money to take her out both Saturday and Sunday night, age and I'd been saving Sunday because that was the last night before I was to go back to school”

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Windsor in London For Family: ‘Visit.

Shannon,

4 (UP) — The

house and baby-sit for her young- | {world 8 largest: commercial land American Alrways' ‘Flying Cloud,” landed here toe Sharon realized Rod wasn't going day op a ‘maiden trans-Atlantic flight marred by slight engine

Newfoundland

Fifty-nine persons, including & | Then she returned to the kiteh-icrew of 16, stepped down from en, blew out the pliot lights onthe 71-ton sky giant after it the gas stove to make sure there |3nded at Heartrow Airport to and complete an 80-minute fight from

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$40 _on_the over. : : : be fully a - Berets Whiskers lyon have ih the way of a good'n ferry train from Paris and venison. What is ‘the number of foreign students pres- Foon SUE adh oid oy ! meal?” And the guy replied, drove to the homie of his mother,| Mr. Bridgewater was called ently enrolled in American olleges? Dprih TRUE. STURY About batets 20d tug the chef.” . . . That “Hari Queen, Mother Mary, with whom [dispose of a deer UA total of 38,714 foreign studests are mowDO™ induced Shaw to put 40(ine whiskers—what's that got to) CY ee : Be Will'stay, He Plans to visit it higeay paar. A studying in this country, The stndents represent “YTIPDONIC musicians in {he ¥Pot do with musie?” Artie coritinued. brother, Rook George Vi, Who Js |r mservation” De 120 countries and isiand groups and are scattered “PTT NE Week. - | “Its some kind of outlet for STANFORD GETS NEW HEAD convalescing from a leg opera. that among 1068 colleges ‘and universities. Sint exhibitionism. SAN FRANCISCO, Apr. #(tion, and his fiVarite niece, Prinpom * + 0 ib “TEE A with Artie pid. “One n ight T went to the Koval! (UP)—Wallace Sterling, 42. to-cess Elizabeth. hie Sao will see How much of the land of Alaska is arable? “When they first asked me, I Roost and talked to one be-bop day took over as fifth president for the first time Alnaks has shout 65,000 square mile of potes- said, "You know I'm through with kia there who had = little beard. of Stanford University. He was, nephew, Prince tial farm lands and another 35,000 square miles dance music.’ . : {AS That 40 JOU WANE 1 Wer formerly 2X ine Hunting” Princes Elasbeth and suitable for grasing stock, | “They said, indaqtnpt fort [ton allot

U'RING the 15+ - slumped over the kitchen table, | SLR ihe ra hor trans date - : going chief pilot Capt. Robert D. Forfidyce of Valley Stream, L. I, to cut one engine and feather the propeller as a safety measure. ite the cut, the plane landed 10 minutes ahead of schedule at

The Stratocruiser’s maiden voy

regular the 75pianes,