Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 August 1949 — Page 9

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IONS, SON'S.

glances,

was off ‘a great deal.

Fa oe. “50 yards from shore on White

past, Sitting calmly behind the wheel was a

¥ * poker-faced man wearing a long-bilied baseball aboard zipped past. 8 ~teap. The kind. Bill Halsey was often photo cap and shorts. She was sitting. on the side of

graphed in during. the The smooth Suifach of ot the river suddenly beMula g ‘smenace. Closer and closer “1 barely’ Kad time 16 slip off my shoes hy flex a couple of swimming muscl The

Steps Rocking After Ages hy

ER WHAT seemed like an endless length of oly the pile of lumber in the shape of a stopped rocking. All power was off. You my hands were holding the sides: - Tightly, too The worst, for the moment, was over. = Just about the time I was putting my shoes back on, the water cowboy was back. From a greater “distance —tHan before we exchanged His was friendly. He was Aaving 4 a goo tire and-it must -be said - that--his Even so, it would have been’ impossible to catch up and put a shot across his bow. . : ; ps A Chris-Craft slipped by at a reasonable rate

Oh, captain . . . Row dat boat, here comes a Chris-Craft.

From out of aWherd a speedboat hurtled

. girls

red Chris-Craft with two shapely young women The driver wore a

the boat while her chmpanion, also in Was iying on the. mIddL portion. of the. edt completely Felaxed and a bit of an an Hig,

t on up the river, Boy, my Kingdom .for a PT boat. a A man and woman in an outboard followed by

wearing babuskas sputtered Into Everyone looked so happy and cool The girls! ‘glanced toward me and my aching back. 1 had a feeling they were saying, “Look at that sad

And they were so right.

rower: Braving Wake Aftér Wake

TWO MEN, each piloting a sleek speedboat, carried on a conversation. boat headed for shore. Then they nodded and waved. Front ends leaped out of the water and the race was on. Great. Proceeding with caution, eyes always on the

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‘alert for the two girls with the boat, I braved

wake after wake. Most speedboat drivers cut their engines, Unless, of course, they came around the bend so quickly that a man in a rowboat hugging the shore couldn't be seen immediately. “A white monstrosity which can best be -described as a floating hot water tank labored past. There weré 20 men, women and children aboard.” The driver and -a couple of engineers sat under a blue awning. Everyone was having

“with two young fellows and Cylew

The bow of my row-|

a gay time —child-trying-to-falltin.— What an outfit-for-a- beer; party. Outboards and inboards came and went and, pretty soon I had my fill of cruising down the! river on a Sunday afternoon. The heck with this|

rowing and taking off the shoes and preparing]

to submerge. Someday some kind soul will give me a ride in a fancy Chris-Craft and will I sit up there with my face hanging ont. :

Out of the way there, ere, you, with the rowboat. |

‘Full steam ahead toward that 30,000 ‘mark, ; With 73 requests for “You, Tao” yesterday, 64)

from friends at the telephone company, I'm think~| ing of that opening chapter. Total—749,

_ Canine Ham

“NEW YORK, rs 3 — Time bounds by 50 blithely, despite the heat, that I clean forgot to mention that Junior is well past his first birthday,

and he has been giving me the old querulous look

lately, as if to agcuse me of neglecting his public.

It is the same stare I used to get from socially--

inclined old ladies whose pet projects had been killed out of the paper in favor of a a spicy lovetryst shooting.’ That is ever the way with hams, be they dog or human, and Junior is no exception. You would think that any mutt with a nanie like Admiral the Baron Schnorke! von Doenitz Ruark would be satisfied, but not nature's noble dog. He is the only hound I know who sleeps among his press

clippings, and whines fretfully if the old man

doesn’t freshén the nest from time to tinfe with updated material.

A Balcony Strutter

* THE BEAST has been impossible to live with ever since. a little magazine came round on some

. devious business or other, and printed a picture of .

him sitting in front of a typewriter, I am now _ firmly convinced that he believes he makes the money, around here, to pay for the horsemeat and cooking whisky. In fact, I do not believe he is a boxer, at all. I think we. own a werewolf. He spends most of his working day, now, either sleeping on the desk, crouching in front of thé typewriter, or reviewing the citizens from his balcony on the . fire-escape. A sudden herrid thought-eceurs {hat abaya he believes himself to be Mussolini. Whatever Tiethinks he'is he {8 certainty stupid

in his personal habits, and his vanity Increases with the stupidity.

wonder who took the chicken-bofies and corncobs away from the first wild dog. We feed this four-footed spook on such things as minced venison, plovers’ eggs and powdered pearls, but he is ever on the prod for the vertebrae of something verboten, and he minds so well that when you say “drop it,” he drops it.

Honest John

I suppose this is also a typi-+ cally human foible, but from time to time we’

He drops

By Robert C. Ruark |

it right into his esophagus, r—— spasms, follow and the ambulance i= summoned:He will eat anything. Not long ago we —

some dickty company and the lady left her hat!

downstairs. It was a real flossy bonnet, tricked out in-fresh flowers. at thé Lord only knows what cost. The dog admired beauty, and wished to retain same. Ate about $89 worth of hat. Spurred by this demoniac craving, he hides his time until young brother came to call. Youn brother, possibly in a crap game, had a several bills, ranging from $1 to $5 in denomina-| tion. I swear the doge ate a week's wages, and he started out with the fins. A dog smart enough to eat the five-dollar.bills first ought to be smart! enough 10- know how much, or little, hamburg $5 will buy. Second thought again: Maybe he knows, and figures he can squeeze more nutriment out of the cash.

Hears Call of Love

THE WEREWOLF'S ‘emotional life is as yet unstable, He is madly in love with a bob-tailed

cat named Short Change, and also with a duck.

He has malformed the duck’s carriage, and for] all 1 know, character, since he: follows the duck around, boosting him in the caboose with his snubby nose. The duck walks now in the fashion

talking, gawking, screaming at some| g

Goal «30,000. They say the first 1000 is the Birdest:

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Girl Against the Channel—

Shirley May Sets Aug. 15. As Tentative Swim Date

Gives YU

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DOVER, England, Aug.

By SHIRLEY MAY FRANCE Special “to The Indianapolis Times

3_I've been trying to guess about

of a plow, with his bill in the und what. day ‘I'll. be ready to swim the English Channel and right P STN. and tis Anow I think it will be about Aug. 15. That means FH be 17 when I swim because my birthday is

rear echelon in the air, Regarding his affection for Short Change, ‘tye cat, I am pretty sure he thinks Short Change/ is |

on Aug. 11.

Giving up my dream of swimming the Channel at

* Cleopatra, and is undecided, himself, as to Whether 16 has not been easy but we've had a tough break’ in the weather.

HEI -Ouesar or Antony. e THE frustrates) him oe-bas-havpered my training. "somewhat, for Short Change: ‘regards hin ‘as a almost three days. bum, and bats him -on the snoot when Abe op-

portunity offers. __ Altogether this is—the—by-goshest- ie T ever owned. I suppose I shall have td have him psychoanalyzed to find who or what /he really is, a fresh reincarnation if I catch /him -with his bone, Caesar, Antony or Mussolini.

off that bed, even if you're the, shade of William Shakespeare!

By Frederick C. Othman

‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 3-The time has come

to" consider” Honest John “Maragon, “the Greek’

shoeshine boy from Kafisas City who wound up (by the time he'd developed a bald spot anda taste for $15 neckties) as a habitue of the White House. He's in what you'd call a jam.

People are making cracks in print about him smuggling in French perfume and pockets full of diamonds. They're tetling about him showing photos of himself with his arm around President Truman's shoulders.” Investigators are checking his income tax returns, Senators are questioning him in secret almost every day, and he’s scheduled to be one of the star witnesses in next week's

Inquiry into Washington's five percenters, ’

TEKH TR ERE LE THER THE FRITH ET THE te of Honest John's head a dull pink and cause. him, in-his-exeitement to mangle the English-language until he’s hard to understand. John Mardgon tells the truth and the truth only, says he. If it seems

that he lies, that is because (and I'm still quot- *

ing him) he's stupid.

See? No Diamonds in Pockets

“SOMETIMES,” amplified Honest John, light-

- Ing another cigaret, “I am dumb enough I seem

to lie. But I don’t. .Is because of. the language.’ He said he never did fill his coat pocket with HARON as charged, when He returned with the pafty from 'the Potsdam .conference. Nei- ~ ther did he try to gneak pass the customs agents a jug of essential olls for perfume when he was an agent for ‘the Albert Verley Co. He added ‘that he never did show. anybody, in Greece or anywhere else, a picture of himself with the

President, because he had no such photo, Was he sure? “Well,” hedged Mr, Maragon. “I've been

around: Maybe at a -funeral party or something, in a group, there was a picture of us. But what happenéd to me was I sticking my neck out and bringing out all these disgraceul things. These drinking orgies. in Greece,” . It turned out that, Honest John got himself a

The Quiz Master

Job as interpreter for the’ American mission to, Athens a while back; the then chief, Henry Grady of the State Department, reported he fired Mr. Maragon because he was a nuisance. Mr. Mara-| gon said this wasn’t so; he just reported to Mr. Grady the diplomats who got drunk and insulted the Greeks.

“ ‘I could go into this at length, as Honest Johm 2V&ilable opportunity I'm going did, but’ more Intéresting, pernaps, is the story| or &-Feally lang. swim OF Several

of his rise as a confidant of the great and neargreat, Favors did it. Honest John showed up here eight years ago. as a special agent of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. When a federal hot-shot needed a berth on _a train that was sold out, Mr. Maragon got

How Come He Went to Potsdam?

HE USUALLY traveled on the trains with the! biggest of the big-wigs and became friendly with

“day; reasonably goodJuly 31 on.

not been rainy

ih¥ whitecaps, ~

FROM THE

Channel steamers {harbor on a fairly |begin "to

Since T had planned to be read a day or two ahead of my birth-|

Instead it has ‘bgen and in the meantime I am going to beat him into/cold and rainy and when it has it has been so face in the wastebasket again. #Drop that fish windy that even waves ‘in the And get shelter of the harbor were tipped;

WINDOW of my room I've been watching trans- Water, I stop to eat.

pitch and buck like liquid ‘bronchos as soon-as they pass the |chemist.. The. main ingredient is.

a — the riourishment- F-need-Jmost is protein. Y =

» swimming is a

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EATING while

-it-wag-necessary-that Ihave! [bigger problem: After four hours,

‘weather from yo get pretty hungry and as the

hours . go by, you get hungrier still. The -rules of most distance swimming associations forbid the swimmer from touching the boat twhile eating, so you have to grab your food from your coach's hand, About every four hours in the 1 generally cut through the switch to a side stroke for: even keel, then My food isa bottle of-a-=s formula, devised by ec |

breakwater. It's been what even glucose, and the. stuff looks and |veterans down here call impossible tastes something like malted milk.

|weather for training. So far all mygswims have been |

|It’s good, and it's filling: Oné¢e in a while, too, I'll be

inside the breakwater. At the first/81ven a chocolate bar. That's good

hours outside

for energy but “I can't have the kind with almonds in them, ;

breakwater, !

{That first swim is important site National Guard

{you can't really say that you ha

{faced up-to-the Channel until wis Lists

have gotten miles

Last -evening the nowling wind ~hitn-one;-He-aisdextersd-to: Tewspaper-reporteryrRien. down. the telephone wire. and. when they had to go places in a hurry and, in [cut us off at the hotel. I went to general, he seemed to represent the railroad weil.|'N® movies and saw.my favorite actor, Bing Crosby, in® A Connec-

{ticut Yankee.” ” ”_

| NOW I'WANT.

‘Field Costs’

out in it training for the Indiana National

tional Guard was estimated today at $766,424.70. All costs will be pdid from fedferal funds, Gen. Robinson Hitchcock, state adjutant general, said Ground. force, field training at

‘say some-|

many of them. He first hit the public prints|thing about the painful topic of {Camp Atterbury was estimated at!

when somehow he managed to wangle a trip with

swimming nude,

That question | $598,040.70, while air training at

officialdom to the President's Potsdam conference. |c2Mme up back home and I sald I|Camp Grayling, Mich, was estiThe question, never satisfactorily answered, was|thought a bathing suit might be) {mated at $109,118, The remainder

how come? His special White House card was taken U

to work for the perfumer,

| bindin, wate:

after a long while in the | Buf actually I hadn't made soon thereafter nd Honest John then got his{any firm decision and didn't plan job in Greece; this lasted five weeks and he went, '© make one until I saw the ChanThe Senate investi. Del. Now I know that a woolen also was estimated that a

{of the amount, $58,266, will be roils.

During the two- week period;

gating. committee got interested when his name uit Will be necessary to maintain would consume 15. carloads of turned up in the diary of James V. Hunt, the five [body temperature, along With a food stuffs, inc luding 9000. dozen

percenter whose activitiés in behalf of befuddled business men in ‘Washington have made frontpage news for weeks,

+4he- Democratic Party and’a ditto ‘of the Repub-| lican. Between sieges of questioning, Honest John

grease coating. 80 I'm going to

« (Suit when I swim. Honest John said all these things are worri-| ties the matter. once and for all some; they also interfered with his new job. He's and stops stories about my swim. working now for Capitol House x Chisago pub= ming in the nude. which. have! lisher, now printing two ‘hooks; a who's who of Caused me some embarrassment

here,

| Eating is a mighty important|

| eggs, seven tons of flour, six tons wear a bathing lof chickens, 12,000 pounds of butI hope this set- | ter, and 24, 000 pounds of BUgAar.

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Push Costs Car; Pull Saves Man .

A push cost Janes R. Elswick

i= hustling up-photos and biographies to appear |proulen for a distance swimmer. 28; of 4802. W. Washington St I dearly love French fried pota-this car but a pull helped save toes, but I won't be able to order Him from injury early today one-

in these volumes de luxe,

??? Test Your Skill 27?

In railroad vocabulary what alley? ’ it is a hand-fired, coal-burning locomotive. A fireman throwing in the lumps of coal goes Huvugh “motions that resemble bowling. az pr py

is a bowling

ow a’

When our flag is flown with flags of othef na-

tions, what is the position? When the 1. 8. fiag is flown with flags of other . mations, all staffs: should be of the same height -

and the flags of approximately equal size, Inter<

national usage forbids the display of the flag of Helning diet. Likewise ice cuhes, Parl pop and candy. kids who can have them, but

any one nation above that of any other nation im sod time of peace. + * $ ‘When was the English College of Arms founded?

pedigree, - century.

oe &

{them until I've finished my at-| tempt to swim the Engl Chan-

nel. All fried foods

half mile south on Bridgeport

are out of m : y Brooks, Bridgeport. {steering mechanism on the Els-|

x |wick car locked and the auto]

envy

[I've got a job to do. I drink only| Jotled into a ditch, théy told offi-|

fri. Everything . I

Founded by Richard IIT in 1484, the College brofied or botled: Nothing canbe’ from of Arms Is a supreme arbiter .in Britain family greasy. Nothing '« can ‘be heavily... Its «ollection of family records——the Seasoned, ¥ greatest in the world—goes back tothe 15th Almost every dinner I

way + a pound and

4 “The car burst Into flames but;

be {Mr. Brooks putled Mr, Elswick: the car in time to keep him béing burned. Mr, Elswick gave. up his dar as a total Joss tuck .and caught a ride home with a a half of steak Ipasserhy.. vy

eat must

The total cost-of summer field

OuArd Ang The THAT RE ATF "NAT

[Spent inelvilian employee pay-|

tomorrow at the church, |at Davidson and Washington St. } {last night, Driver of -the car, devotions A special muscal pro. Emma Red 31, of 1820 8. Fruit Indiana cities Biron ti grem will Tclude & group of! pi- dale Ave, was arrested on’ a 1950 will receive an estimated ae tubers by Miss Batbara |chidrge of Fuikenness. : Ava 38 per. cent Increase over 1048 Chapman. Miss Glenna Adams, BRAS ol ie) : Molin Pry in the distribution of the State Joprane, Th A bamputied persons: were injured when one of Motor Vehicle Highway fund achy of mother, Mrs. . Mildred.) =o fos overturned. cording to the Indiana Taxpayers’ ki hha a “i Treated and released at. Gen-'Agsociation. ] elldwship tea will cone ude eral Hospital. Were Ruth Rome.|. The 1048 distribution also ne the program with“ Mrs. Mary 43. of 303" N. Dearborn St." and cluded the: cigaret tax fund, A |Yundt, Mrs. ‘Willlam Towles and Carl Bretten. 52,0f 11115 N. Ala-/tabulation of the estimated disMrs. EW ood As hos "anges, Ibama St,

ad. ut Elswick's dead car was| being pushed by a car driven by, Passed over hér left ankle after| The|she fell in its path. 4

| condition as fate. ~

= “City Steps Up War on Ragweed, Vacant Lots With Added Force

CONTINUED “MILD, cool weather,” might help keep the city's llen count’at its current zero, Kenneth Payne, of the State Board RE Health; said today. \ So far, Mr. Payne said, there has been no appreciable rise in aie ‘amount of pollen dust found in the air. The high, since the . beginning of the “hay fever season,” was pegged at seven- grains |pér cubic ‘yard of air, during a ‘ 5 {test made last Sunday. _ | Meanwhile, Tony Maio, stree

‘personnel to his force whose sole t duty is to cut down or spray with | commissioner, has stepped up his chemicals, pollen-bearing weeds, | destructive war against ragweeds| Dr. Gerald F, Kempf, director | Aourishing in\more than 1200 va- of public health, #&ld there are a [cant ‘lots throlighout the city, number of drugs available for the relief of hay fever, but warned UNDER a y special appropria- against their use without a doce (tion, Mr. Maio said, he has added [tor's advice, -

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Want Faces Veteran, Wife

After Loss of Pension Cash

+ Envelope Containing Disability. Payment... Hd ~~ Disappears “on- Downtown Shopping Trip" Mr. and Mrs. Artemus Cripe ‘Rave’ been retired for several years ati 1119 §' Randolph St. Their income has been small, but with a

bit of economizing here and there, \they have been able to stretch a monthly disability check to cover \their living needs.

Mr. Cripe, a_world War I veteran) receives a monthly pension check for a disability received during military service,

Traffic Victim cperomr be, Fate Sr pau Hurt

cashed check of between $60 and $65 has been lost. There will not be another until the first of Pedestrian, 54, Struck. [cashed the check. She then went - Crossing Street ito-a real estate office in the-100 A 54-year-old pedestrian struck lock N. Delaware 8t.; Indianape

[Semember, A

Festerday Mrs C Ihe Indiana Trugt Co. at Wash« ington and Pennsylvania Sts. and

cripe went “to

|.down last night as he. crossed olis Power & Light Cou on the Cire Alabama St. at’ Ohio St. was in|Cle; Merchants Bank Building in serious condition today in Vet-|S. Meridian St. near Washington | erans’ Hospital, St., and then to a dress ‘shop in Traffic victim was Harry L. ihe first block in W, "Washington : Brown, 1244 E. Washington St, St.

struck by a car driven by Charles R.. Boyer, 65, of 1702 N. Illinois St. :

When she attempted to pay for a purchase, the brown envelope containing the money was miss. MF. Brown, a newspaper ven- Ing. dof, was taken to General Hos- Now PEAT: Then (ransferrad 14 The YA Phare ia. : Hospital on Cold Spring Road: | haps the unmarked government Three Others Injured . ED YI find its way back to Three: other persons wer -in. em its contents intact.

oe Shira May: oer: Nad urhe.t

brella in British climate.

WSCS Group to Meet

the. Souple As waiting.

At Church Tomorrow fured in traffic mishaps last night. The _ August’ meeting of the] Ben Doke, 38, of 5075 Rossy : Cities to Receive. Women's Society of Christian Ave, way If fair condition

- : . General Hospital with injuries hn Service of the Broadway Method: vaived when the car in which he!

ist Church will be at 1:30 p. m. was riding struck an abutment