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COUNTING PEOPLE is much more fun than counting the leaves on a tree.

day in front of Wm. H. Block Co.’s three doors at the Market and Illinois entrance. You know, there are some mighty girls in this

Doorman Helped to Get Set Up

A FEW MINUTES before the store was to open, Doorman J. C. Holeman, who was helping

me set up, commented that I would have a difficult

time counting those who were waiting to go in. J. C. evidently wasn’t familiar with my counting ability or he wouldn't have said that. I let the remark slip ‘by. My Veeder counter and my sharp eyes would come through any situation that might arise, I was sure. : Eighty-two customers pushed their way in as goon as the doors began to revolve. I had an anxious moment or two but I doubt very much an error was made. The survey was under way. My ‘sign, telling those who cared to read what was going on, was fn place. The counter worked smoothly in my hand. # plunked myself into the folding chair just as a woman with a baby in her arms went through the door. How would you count a baby? Customers, or potential customers, were what I was interested in. How many people walked through one entrance during one day’s operation? How’s a man going to figure on the half pints?

Clickety-click—13,021 is the number of per‘sons Surveyist 'Mr, Inside” claims went through a department store's front doors, When picture was taken an eclair was getting some attention.

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“I'll take care of your survey,” she added. “I'm capable. Why don’t you get something to eat?” I left at 12:20.

Figures Lost a Little Punch

GETTING back to my survey figures, which had lost a great deal of their punch, I find the period between 1:30 and 2 was the busiest. During those 30 minutes, 1230 persons shoved the doors.| Well, not all. Some rode in free. Breaking down all the statistics we come to this: Total persons entering through that one entrance—13,021; half pints, 226 (we divide by two. and get 113 and add to 13021) for a grand total of 13,144. That's a lot of people. BE Of these thousands, 22 went in without pushing, three entered eating ice cream cones, two with cigars in their uths, nine with cigarets, 147 threw their cf away before going in while six different youngsters went around twice or more. , Sixteen mature folks went through, giggling, of course, two at a time. My last notation is that one woman carried in a guitar. Well, that’s it. Yes sir, 13,021 people, capable of asking clerks questions, walked through those doors.

| Whatta Party

By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, May 17—Miss Mary Margaret McBride, a lady with whom I have conducted a discreet romance for some time, is celebrating her 15th anniversary in the radio business on the 31st day of this month, and it ought to be a heller. I guess M. M. McB. is the only gal who -ever needed Yankee Stadium to throw a party in. Miss McBride is unique to our time. Once a day, five days a week, she gets up and gabbles happily, in a wee girl voice, into a microphone, selling. paint and peanuts and shoe polish and . noodles and similar truck. In between her breathless, girlish plugs for the products, she chatters beguilingly with guests who range from authors to hog callers. : For this they pay her an outrageous amount of money. Mary ret has made at lesst.five million beautiful dollars in the last 15 years. About eight million housewives accept her every word as purest gospel. She has worked through more than 8000 programs, and has chatfered with about 12,000 guests in that 15-year. span. ’ . -

100,000 Turned Away af Garden

MOST OF them will be at her party at the stadium. wAtop the invite list will be just as many women as they can cram into the house that Ruth built and Joe DiMaggio—when he is working— maintains, Reason for the rental of Yankee Stadium is that when they threw a party to commemorate M. M. McB.’s 10th anniversary, they hired Madison Square Garden: They had to turn away 100,000 admirers. There’s never been anybody quite like my gal Mary Margaret. Pushing 50 years, she is a little pouter-pigeon of a woman who wears a perpetual expression of childish delight. : She has a voice approximating that of a juvenile to whom Santa Claus has come unexpectedly. Behind this frilly facade she has a head as hard as a paving block, and a cantly brain that could tangle with Gromyko and come out at least even. Miss McBride's anniversary party will consist of an hour's entertainment for radio and an

hour's entertainment for the guests, of which a minimum 80,000 are expected. I asked Estella Karns, M. M. McB.'s strong right arm, about the plans and got the following answer: “Thus far,” said Stell, “we know that Olsen and Johnson are going to land in the ball park by helicopter. Lawrence Tibbett, Morton Downey and Jane Pickens will be singing, and Fred Waring and his choir in attendance. Gen. Omar Bradley and his wife will be guests of honor. “There's some indecision about how Mary Margaret will make her appearance on the platform, which will be built sturdily and large in the vicinity of third base. The Marchioness of Donegal wants to give her an English thoroughbred to make her entrance on, and there’s talk of bor: Gen. Bradley's horse. Also. talk of an elephant, but Miss MecBride never liked riding on elephants.

Many Notables Due to Attend

“THIS WE KNOW: She'll be piped onto the platform by a covey of Scots bagpipers. Heaven knows how many of the prominent 12,000 she’s interviewed over: the years will be present. Some that can’t make the platform will be piped in from Paris and Palestine and. Norway and other places by short wave. The president of Haiti is sending a decoration and the President of the U. 8. might even come. Last time Mrs. Roosevelt was here.” A certain breed of roses has been named for Miss McBride—an acre of them are currently being forced into bloom to commemorate M. M.'s field day. Miss McBride's costume is already a subject for. feverish controversy. A prominent psychiatrist has said that pale ‘blue is the only color that is psychologically suitable for Yankee Stadium.| Final choice has been left up to Mary Margaret's faithful listeners. The guest list, says Miss Karns, will include actors, publishers, authors, playwrights, prize fighicers, baseball pidyers, ex-convicts, song writers, historians, Nubel and Pulitzer prize winners, adventurers, explorers and poets and peasants. All come to honor a little ol’ gal who sells fioor wax and chit-chat over NBC.

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Single Party Withers Away

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d country into another civil war. &

More than a million Spaniards

people well remember. a Fascist organization with the

co Franco” signs are gradually fading from the brick walls of the cities and villages, and one sees fewer and fewer of the bright red berets and black coats that mark party members.

Falange Has Waned

waned steadily. Franco has slapped it down on several occasions. He recently kicked out one of the most aggressive leaders and installed his Minister of Justice, Fernandez Cuesta, as ‘head. Some Spaniards contend that gradually the Falange will “die on ‘the vine.” The next most important group, politically, are the Monarchists, They are divided among them-

from people like the foreign minister, Alberto Martin Artajo, to the outspoken Duchess of Valencia, who gets her name-—and a highly flattering photograph——in the foreign papers every now and then by being jailed for monarchist activity, She has almost no real following here. The republicans, who were defeated by Franco in the civil war, were ruthlessly suppressed when he assumed power. They maintain a sort of “government in exile” in France, but they do not have a large following in Spain. "Republicans Took Cash Many people who were on the qpublican, or loyalist side, during the civil war, say that the republican leaders took all the country’s money and ran out, and left them behind to take the beatings

Leader of the exiled republicans in Indalecio Prieto, a So-

Today . 0 No. 2

=Franco’s Bul ZrseermBecause Public Fears

were killed in the last one, as the 3

| The only political party per-& {mitted in Spain is the Falange,

usual uniforms, bully boys, and i violent slogans. But the “Franco §

Since the war, the Falange has

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TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1949

out for ill ordinary

ists, are extreme left wingers and for all practical purposes, Communists. The important ° monarchists base their hopes on the restoration by Franco of 12-year-old Juan Carlos, who is being tutored here, and is grandson of former King Alfonso. Outside Pressure The socialists hope to compel a change in regime by outside pressure, as well as by underground work. Although they would probably welcome a liberal “third force” coming to power in Spain, diplomats who must assess the situation realistically do not see any possibility that any of these moves will succeed.

They) believe the only force

al border crossings, ice.

cialist. There is an underground ist group in Spain, called the “Alinza” group which main. org IER 98 orga) een 88 per cent of the socialists are followers of Prieto, and the remainder—the so-called Negrin social-

‘Car Hop’ Robbery Nets Woman $800

Leaps Into Auto at

Corner, Takes Purse Lloyd Allen, 43, of 1026 Churchman Ave. today had recovered $100 of $900 taken from him earlier by a woman who, he said, leaped into his car at an intersection, fought with him and lifted his billfold. Mr. Allen, a New York Central Railroader who said he had drawn out the $900 from a Fountain 8quare bank for a vacation trip to Dallas, Tex. told police he was robbed at 10th and West ts

Mr. Allen called police at 3:16 a. m. from a restaurant at the intersection, but he drove to po-

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, May 17—Rep. Harris KEllsworth of Roseburg, Ore., comes from the big-tree country. Aside from his wife and his two beautiful daughters, there is nothing so wonderful to him in this world as a tree. Trees are good for houses. They can be turned into clothes. If it weren’t for trees you wouldn't be reading this newspaper. They're even good to eat. No wonder Rep. Ellsworth was the leading legislator in the efforts to establish in America its first plant to distill food, drink and aspirin tablets from trees.

Molasses From Trees

SUCH a $3 million factory was built during the war in Springfield, Ore., where there is more sawdust piled up than anywhere else. It was designed to turn the wood waste into molasses and lignum. From the molasses would come alcohol; from the lignum, chemicals. oi 5 When the shooting stopped, the governm leased the establishment to a syndicate of lumbermen for the manufacture of industrial alcohol, then selling at 90 cents a gallon. They spent $300, 000 of their own, trying to get the kinks out of the machinery, and by then alcohol was selling for 20 cents. And the factory still neddea a..ouc'$250;-

+ 000 worth of work. They gave up and, to Rep.

Ellsworth’'s sorrow, the sawdust-rendering plant went back to the War Assets Administration. The gentleman from Roseburg kept an eye open for customers, who also appreciated trees. And to his amazement the other day walked into his office two gentlemen with southern accents, Charles B. and W. 8. Hudson of Americus, Ga., who seemed to know more about trees than he

did. When they got out of the Army, where they'd learned something of the German process for turning waste wood into valuable products. They thought they might try the system in the cut-over pine lands of the South, They got in touch with the Forestry Service, which suggested they might take a look at the Oregon setup for hints on how to get started. They did and got so interested in the abandoned factory they decided to buy fit. Rep. Ellsworth said they'd already made their bid and raised the $300,000 or so they'll need to get started. Their idea is to forget the alcohol for the time being and concentrate on the molasses. This they intend to use for cow feed. One ton of sawdust makes one ton of fine, fattening molasses, Rep. Ellsworth said. That sounded like perpetual motion to me, but he insisted his were correct. A few tons of water, which he didn’t count, go into the mixture, too.

Efficiency at lis Greatest “THERE is nothing so efficient,” said Rep. Ellsworth which a dreamy look in his eye, “than a tree

for making sugar.” Render out the molasses and you've got a fine,

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flavor, like maybe maple syrup. He said the COWS)

liked it fine. I insisted. What did it taste like? “Sweet,” Rep. Ellsworth replied. But he could not tell a lle. He never had tasted it, himself. This is a pleasure he has reserved for the future. It comes from a tree, doesn’t it? Then, of course, it's good. Like nectar, probably. It just has been his misfortune so far never to have had any tree syrup poured on his pancakes.

The Quiz Master

2??? Test Your Skill ???

Is natural rubber a plastic?

small units linked together. Both these statements are true of rubber. oe

How many varieties of dogwood are there? The dogwoods comprise 40 different kinds of plants, chiefly trees and shrubs. They are distri-

buted widely in temperate regions, and some of HSH Yield & very hard 11d valuable wood, Fifteen

ve been identified in North Argerica.

product. I asked whether it had ~~

lice headquarters before officers dispatched to the scene of the! robbery arrived. | At headquarters, Capt. John {Ambuhi searched Mr. Allen’s car and found the billfold, containing one $100 bill, underneath the|

right doog. { Capt. Ambuhl told Mr. Allen that the woman probably had picked his pocket, rifled the bill{fold during the scramble and slid

Capt, Amnbuhl believed that the haste of the robbery was responsible for the woman's having overlooked one of the seven $100 bills in the bilifold. Mr. Allen said the other $200 was made up of smaller bills. |

State Socialist Party Raps Use of ‘Marxism’

The Indiana Socialist Labor Party today went on record as opposing “distorting the term Marxism . . , by pointing out to Stalinism and identifying it with Marxism.” It blamed the “distortion” on | many agence ‘of capitalism” and added that Stalinists also share the blame. The resolution, passed at the state convention in Ft. Wayne Sunday, said the party “strongly {condemns the willing attendants

deeds against Marxism” and further resolved that the party “call upon the working class to hear its message of in which is the only means of | workers’ salvation.” { | I Te Sponsor Card Party | The Women of the Moose will {Inc.; store, 2468 N. Meridian St.’

Mrs. Merle Hartlage will be in charge. |

Auxiliary to Meet Prospect Auxillary, OES, will meet at 2 p. m. Friday in the lodge hall. A luncheon will be

in old age falls o|setved at noon. Mray Maria

Kokemiller will preside,

science |

sponsor a card party at 7:30 p. m./ today in the Chambers Products,’

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capable of taking power from Franco would be a military junta. The Spanish people are not 80 worked up about Franco as

don’t like him they don't hesitate ‘to say so, but neither did they like many things that went on under the

“All for the fatherland.” The civil guards—or National Police selves. They range all the way ~-—are seen everywhere in Spain. They patrol the

highways, watch are rated somewhat higher than

republic, and, before that, under the graft-ridden monarchy. . Religious Persecution They have not forgoften that the ordinary Spaniard was miserably treated under the monarchy, nor that there was religious persecution, and ruthless use of troops against the people even under the republic.

The biggest deterrent to political reform in Spain is the extremely low standard of education and literacy in the country. For a few years, there was a real effort on the part of the republic to install democratic principles in the government. But these few years were not enough to give the Spanish any real experience with or understanding of democracy. “The average Spaniard doesn’t know the difference between liberty and license,” one observer commented. “Until he learns it, and 1t will take a of

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Signs ke. this one, probably put up by the Falenge, are gradually fading out. This says, "Death to Russia, Long Live

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In the foreground, a member of the Civil Guard.

ground, and when Communist leaders are caught, they are tried by colirt martial and almost always executed.

who know him, sincerely believes that he saved Spain from communism. He is strongly supported by the Catholic Church, the army, and the enormous bureaucracy of federal employees. These groups all fear that any change in the

80 far as they are concerned. Franco keeps himself aloof from the people, and those in his closest circle of advisers constantly feed the notion that any. one who is not entirely for his regime is a “red.” Although this is by no means true, it has until. recently prevented or delayed even the most obvious reforms, Cut Food Supply The country is in -bad shape

many Spaniards abroad. They education, there isn’t much hopela series of droughts, These have particularly, and|for a democratic government in| cut the food

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supply : t hy ‘depends ; in many areas, In Barcelona, factories are

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|operating only two days a week. Crops which ordinarily provide a

Franco, according to people] UP

This forces the government to look to the outside world for aid. It is partly to get such help that Franco has made some reforms,

regime would be- forthe worse and-.put-a curb on: the most

violent fanatics, American experts on the scene say that Franco's present need for outside economic help offers

and the only, opportunity to get tangible reforms which will benefit the

Bpanish’ people. They contend, and the vast weight of the evidence throughout Spain seems to back them that there use in

backward in many as this, and in a i . thirds of te {where twos completely. dn basic principles of’ ,

Telephone Worker Hint

Serves 30 Years

Benjamin Frey, testing foreman for Indiana Bell Telephone Co. marked his completion of 30 years in telephone work Sunday. He will receive a 30th anniversary pin from the company. Mr. Frey began work as a central office repairman in’ South Bend In 1919 for the former Central Unfon Telephone Co. He became a testman for In-

Mr. Frey diana Bellgin 1923 and was promoted to testing foreman in 1946. He lives at 910 N. Lesley Ave.

Lebanon Boy, 11, Buys | Top Gilt in 4-H Auction

Times State Service {

FRANKFORT, May 17—An 11-| year-old boy, Don Richard Web-|

front seat between the seat and er, Lebanon, bought the top gilt|Police:

in the 4-H Club Livestock auction | held here by the Central Indiana | Hamshire Breeders Association, | More than 200 club members, |

tended the sale.

CARNIVAL

Cat’ Burglar On West Side

Prowler Reported

At 3 Addresses Police today sought a “cat burglar” who prowled the West Side last night.

Police received three reports of

an burglar who awakened occu-

pants at 1006 Fayette St, 834 Fayette 8t. and 404 W. Walnut St. He got only $10. At 1006 Fayette 8t., Charles Redd, 38, told police that he and his brother-in-law were awakened by a man in their bedroom with a flashlight. He fled through a side window without taking anything, Mr, Redd said. Man on Roof At 834 Fayette St, Mrs. Daisy Hill reported to police that she had looked out her bedroom window and had seen a man on her porch roof attempting to get in a front room window, He fled when she screamed, she told

At the third residence, Leo Perry, 22, told police that a man stole his bilifold containing $10 from his trousers hanging on a bedroom chair, Mr, Perry sald

{the bilifold down under the seat./SWine breeders and farmers at-the man fled out of a window

when Mr. Perry got out of bed.

By Dick Turner

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Newton to Direct Atherton Center

Robert F. Newton, assistant professor of accounting and manager of the Butler University book store, has been named director of the institution's new John Whistler Atherton Center, The $1 million center which Mr. Newton will head is scheduled to open in Beptember. Before join ing the Butler faculty, the in-

Kidnaped Child Returned to Home

Charge Angry Suiter Held Baby 6 Hours

A l:year-old tot was returned to his home chilled and feverish at 3 a. m. today after he had

L [been kidnaped for six hours.

The child, Roland Miles, was snatched from the arms of his mother, Mrs. Pearl Miles, 2426 Winthrop Ave, by a re sultor of the mother's sister-in-

structor received his BS degree from Indiana State Teachers College. his 1944 Mr, Newton is the author of several articles published in educational magazines. He holds memberships in the National Edu{cation Association, Indiana Busi{ness Education. Club, Indiana State Teachers Association, and the Indiana Association of Cols lege Store Managers. An advisory board for the new center will be organized with members representing the school classes and organizations.

Butler Announces

Summer Staff

Advisory staff members for the annual summer session and veterans’ semester at Butler University were announced today by Dr. George F. Leonard, summer sessions director. Information and advice on courses in the university's six colleges will be given by Dr. Harry E. Crull, University College; Dr. Ray C. Friesner, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences: Dr. J. Hartt Walsh, dean of the! College of Tducation; Prof, Har-| old Van Cleve, assistant in the Collera of Business Administra-| tion; Dr. O. L. Shelton, dean of] the School of Religion, and Dr.| Edward H. Niles, dean. of the College of Pharmacy. Dr. William L. Howard, chair-| man of the freshman faculty advisors, will assist beginning students, and Dr. H. M. Whisler will advise persons on elementary and undergraduate studies in the College of Education. Dr. Albert Mock is adviser for graduate {studles,

Robert Newton

He won M8 degree from Butler in

Gas Station Reports 2d Car Theft in Month

Thieves drove away a car—the second this month—from the ‘Cunningham Service Station, 11025 N, Delaware St, Manager Ed Cunningham told police today. The car was owned by J. N. Cranney, 1040 N. Delaware St. | Both times entry to the station | was made through a rest room | window. Nothing else was re- | ported missing. '

law, Alice Jackson, after Mrs. Miles refused to tell him where Miss Jackson was, ; “You'll never see your kid alive again,” Miss Miles told police the kidnaper said as he grabbed the child from her, The 19-year-old mother reported the kidnaping to police at 9 p. m, Bquads searched six hours for the 24-year-old man who had fled with the baby. Then at 3 a. m. a “bootleg” cab came to the Miles home with the baby. The driver told police a man had entered the cab with the baby but had left the cab at 21st and Alvoyd Bts., directing the cabbie to deliver the baby to the Winthrop Ave. address. The child, clad only in light summer clothes, was suffering from exposure. Police still were searching for the man Mrs. Miles named as the kidnaper today,

Democrats to Hear James A. Eldridge

James A. Kidridge, midwest field director of the American Association for the United Nations, will speak on “United States Foreign Policy: 1049” at a dinner meeting of the Indiana Democratic Club at 6 p. m. tomorrow- in Spencer Hotel. Mr. Eldridge, formerly execu tive secretary of the Young Democrats of Indiana, has recently returned from a national conference on “American Foreign Policy’ held fn Washington “by the State Department.

Blame Flaming Engine In Death of 6 Fliers

ROSWELL, N. M., May 17 (UP)—A flaming was blamed today for the crash of a C-47 cargo plane that killed six Alr Force men yesterday. Officers were seeking the cause of the blaze, which started shorts ly after the plane left Field on a training flight. It crashed six miles east of the field. 8-8gt. Chris 0. Wentzel of Coo~ ter, Mo., parachuted to safety, None of the dead was identified as coming from Indiana. Set Dinner Meeting The Indianapolis Chapter of the National Office Management Association will hold its annual social dinner meeting at 6:30 p. m. tomorrow In the Washing: ton Hotel. New officers will be

installed Suri Sh, soning i