Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 August 1949 — Page 11

——— Bat-Jim-Moran isan extraordinary guy. - Opening the rear rear_nd of in Traveler, Jim ean Bardly call 1t Glsgracerul to bu Dascuied be showed me what he had to offer. "You name it a man who has bamboozled the Los Angeles Art and I've got it.” he said. Z Association with a hunk of canvas decorated with Before my eyes was a vast accumulation of red nail polish and flashy bits of magazine ad- very practical items such as crutches, ice skates, vertisements, Jim pocketed $500 for his master- sworls war . shields,

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Jim. hugs mam with at th riendinss of a “I started out with 20 buck's worth of mer- . Bernard and nice blue eyes made. even bluer chandise;” said Jim. “The first thing swapped was Re Ne welcomed me to the elipping one of my own teeth. I was mounted and sveryblock. thing. Hated to part with: it."

Beware Buyers

- touradage that “it's better to give than to receive.” For Ain it's better to. receive than to give. ind it all is a fervent desire to help the ¢ béard n National Multiple Sclerosis Society. fight the ne hisvaed ud une dreaded disease. The same disease which took ‘book,’ “Let "Em Eat Cheesecake.” Lou Genrip 11 graphed by the aut We were doing When he returns to New York in December or it Poof on revealed a Janioary, Jim will mastermind an auction on a message by Mr. Wilson. “This book is dedicated three-hour television show and=in the name of @ to some lucky person who receives it in Jind good cause—let the buyer beware. Moran's Barter. I'm sure Jim won't get what it's Although he'isn’t sponsored by the society, Jimi “worth in return—he'll only get diamonds, rubles, readily admits his tour has its blessing. He started. gold and platinum. Saloon Editor, Earl Wilson.”

would make all the little friends I e-cockr

laugh. “I'll tell you what I'm going to do,” chanted

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~Oh, No, Not That

‘Romance i in Y Vienna

“What do you want?” “What have you got?” Listing my worldly goods, from a battered nighll hat to a new squash racket through my golf clubs and back again, Jim would not part with the book. “How about the shirt off my back?” I screamed. The situation was desperate. “Anything else?” “There’s one thing,” I finally admitted, shaking like a leaf. for anything. "

JIM. PUT his arm around my shoulders as I! sobbed out the story of my most prized possession, an Alpha Chi Omega Sorority pin. - . “When this Alpha Chi pinned me at the Well| House on the campus of Indiana University, it was supposed to be for life, Jim, for life. I can’t do it.”! He began reading from the book: Now I knowhow a cobra must feel when the snake charmer makes with the hot lips. My hand slowly floated to the secret pocket where the little Jewelled lyre pin reposed. Something inside me died as Jim took the pin. Choking back a flood of tears, I left Jim standing on the curb. I didn't dare look back. What was that wonderful girl's name? well.

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So Oo Firemen from Station 13 have come to the rescue. Twenty-three fire fighters have pledged their support for “You, Too.” That makes 840 for the volume whose fate is in the hands of friehds “of this corner. 15a TequEst, IT have to write the book.

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—syret Sparks

VIENNA, Aug. 8—1Is romance the same all over the world? When boy-meets-girl and they get that “certain feeling” do they immediately clinch like a couple of tired heavyweight fighters? - Not in Vienna, where romance—19th century style—still curbs the advances of amorous Austrians. To investigate local wooing I've been sipping “spritzer’-—half wine and half soda water—with -.@—-pair—of- young -honeys-bups - but. .recently engaged—blond Suzanne Haider, 23, who is putting on chins, and slim, brown, Freddie Selternreieh; 21, cool in his leather shorts, She's a “number please?” girl and he argues with tenants who bang on the radiators in a large apartment house.

Met During an Exam . £ _. “WE MET,” says Freddie,.“during an examina- . £ “tion at the University of Vienna. Girls are very +) ‘anxious before tests and try to get boys to help rime _ them, Of course, itis not allowed, ‘but + vs ere anekreant ORI". snapped. Suzanne, e.... Boys never rememF “per to bring .pencils or pens . . . 1 lent him a pencil ... . That is-how we really met. " In any case, whether Suzanne cribbed or Freédborrowed, this was the first chapter’ He -waliced-her-home,-hardiy-daring-to-hold-her-arm-: “We learned to dance together,” says Suzanne. "During the war dancing was verboten. When the news was good, then we could dance. But In 1941 £ the police stopped all dancing.” Together they learned the conservative foxtrot, tango and march-—and the polonaise- oldtime. imperial two-step, best done while wearing a sword. They also took in some Strauss operas, she,

-When-“Sie* Becomes “Du

by custom, paying for her own ticket. He was not permitted to ‘send her any kind of. gift accept “conservative” bunches of flowers. They had many long walks along the snaking Danube but never—cross-her-heart-and-hope- ~to-die—did he so much as kiss her left ear lobe. Always as formal as an engraved invitation to a stockholders’ meeting, Freddie called her “Fraulein Haider” and she called him “Herr Collegue.” : :

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IN GERMAN you say to strangers sie?” which means: Have you? To mom, wife or sweetie-pie you say “Haben du?” which means! exactly the same thing, but is as intimate as.a rumble seat. To say “du” to a stranger would be like wham- | ming Mrs. Truman on the back and shouting:| “Hello, honey!” When a boy gets around to addressing a oir “du” ‘they've arrived. So, after. long- months, Suzanne one day and asked her: d

She “satd, on drop around this EE and’ ‘I'll let you (sie) know.” When Freddie arrived Suzanne had - two glasses of wine on a snow-white tablecloth, With-

as Freddie phoned | “May. I call you

—out-speaking-they-both-picked-up-a glass, -erossed arms, and brought the wine up to their Tespective TT d ey Tams mouths.

True to tradition they gulped the stuff in one| swallow. Then they rapidiy put the glasses down: and their lips met like to two freight cars being coupled. From that point on the clinch replaced the| handshake and it was “du” this and “du” that

Probe Target

‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 — My distinguished neighbor in McLean, Va., John Maragon, claims that the phone is being tapped at his house over on Marion St. This I doubt. The ubiquitous John, one-time Kansas City shoe shiner, pal of the mighty B. and -O. passenger agent, ex-holder of a White House pass, perfume salesman, and reporter for a political Who's Who, is being investigated all over the place. But if the gumshoes of the Senate’s demon prosecutor, William P, Rogers, are listening in on his. line, then they're undoubtedly hooked onto mine, too. John complained about funny buzzes, cli ing. noises and suspicious silences on his telephone. .

Buzz and Roar Are Normal I CAN TESTIFY that these manifestations are normal on the phones of McLean. Sometimes mine doesn’t work at 21]. Sometimes I can talk into it, but can't hear. The buzzes frequently develop into roars. For a while there I couldn’t hold a convergation without being cut off at least once, but this ~J am happy 10 report hasn't happened much 1atélys Maybe John's complaints about spies on the line did some good. The swarthy Mr. Maragon of the sunburncd bald spot and the big. hands With the square !/ fingers is about to spend most of Kis waking hours soon in the Senate caucus room, before the special ' investigating subcommittee of Sen. Clyde R. Hoey of North Carolina. “The Senator, who still wears a _claw-hammer coat and who ‘thus looks like a senator should, is interestéd Tn John's business deals with friends in high places. Mr.- Rogers, who is Sen. Hoey's chief counsel, has had gumshoes in Texas checking Mr. Mara-

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gon’s bank accounts there; he’ s had others looking| over John’s income tax returns, Of what, if any-| thing, he thinks Mr. Maragon is guilty, he’s trying| to keep secret. But rumors have leaked out concerning John’ s| help in gétting race tracks built when lumber was| short and of fixing up licenses for those who would| export machinery abroad. These Mr. Maragon has) denied, excitedly and in accents Grecian. A few days ago, however, he hired a lawyer, who sug-| gested he abandon his impromptu press conferences and hold his:voluble words for the Senators, | Since then John hasn't been talking about any-| thing except’ his flower garden, He is proprietor | of some of the prettiest rose bushes in McLean, | which he sprays regularly. |2

Wasn't in Potsdam, Period

IN A RECENT piece I quoted him as saying it was a lie that he brought back home a pocket-| ful of diamonds when he returned from President] Truman's Potsdam conference... John sald his| pocket was empty. Neithér, he was quick to add, did he try to smuggle in-later 4 couple of-jars of perfume essence.’ 1 have received from a source I consider re-| liable word that John never went t6 Potsdam with| the presidentia} party. He never went to Potsdam period. While Mr. Truman was there, neighbor John was in Paris. *If- all’ these things and more, including John's five-week sojourn in Greece as an official of the federal aid program there, we'll soon be hearing more in the caucus room. Should be Jelaesung, I'm pegging out a seat for the duration. Hope I get a soft one,

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| The Quiz Master

In what historic building in Kentucky is there k a self-supporting circular stone stairway? The most interesting feature of the Old State _ Capitol built in 1837 at Frankfort, Ky., is the cir cular marble stairway having no other support Ahan the arch action of its Steps, ’ : ¢. o ¢ * Who, announced the existence of an Antaretie continent? In January and February, 1840, Charles Wilkes, commander of America's first naval exploring expedition, sighted the, Antarctic ; conti-

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the South Polar Region, hie was the first

| lintless to announce the existence of an Antarctic conti- - pent. . " it St gL ok Where did the first Congress of ‘the United 17 ‘Btates meet? . 1a An Fotuml Hall Wall St, Note Sur J 1700

ment. Though not the earliest to glimpse land in definitely —

22? Test Your Skill ???

Which is the largest lake in. the southern states? Lake Okeechobee in Florida. Although 40 miles long and.23 miles wide, it is only 22 feet deep at ifs deepest point. Most of He lake is much more shallow. * ® 5, When was the abbreviation U. 8. A. first used?

“A thing I swore never to pant -

pace in the second Raa] Indianapolis brickmason’ s apprentice contests, puts the

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~James“‘Watson; 25-of-1213-& Market St. vinnaret he dirrophy afer A wasaad home of inishing. touches on his the contest, held Saturday, are (stand... KF: ing) M. W. Hankins, Indianapolis Herb Pavey, Anderson, and Doyle Plummer,

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«With: trowel in hand, Hugh “Harmai, of 500? Manfler St, Dom Wise ‘luibs the corners studies the blueprints before starting ‘ to work. - The ipgroufices of his flue, a. difficult job. on “were. “competing for: a total of. al.of $88 48. prizes and. numer = - uneven ground; - »

First ‘Cutest Baby’ Cont

In “the Service"

= f In Airforce" a xr waren SRR Pe | Times’ “Cutest Baby" Contest tore {day indicated a difficult job infantry in Japan ead 1 dges. ; So cute were all o e entries Pfc. Gerald R. Hadley, son of "yo grt mal that the contest {Mr. and Mrs. Howard H. Hadley, editor didn't attempt to select the [t aining as an Air’ Force Techni- day were selected at random. Any {clan at "he US TOYHErE published also willbe ger AF Techni- | 5 a {lected at random . . . until the

The first entries received in The R : ? Cpl. Baker With |ahead for the. judges. 12719 N. Gale St. is undergoing cutest. The pictures you see tocal School at Ft. B® judges make their final decision.

| Francis E. War- 5g g od The mother. of the “cutest , Wyo. 4 baby” in the opinion of the “Cpl. Jamey E. : | judges will receive a $2909.50 WestBaker, son of inghouse Laundromat free. Other Mr. and Mrs. ‘prizes in the $750 prize list will Robert W. Walk- be divided between the next three. ler, 210 8. Ed-' | mothers ‘of entries. The other {mundson Ave. # {prizes include a $16.95 play yard,

ia $24 set of toys, a $9.95 toy § ipony,. a $30 set of Keko baby~ |wear, a $15 supply of medical s supplies, a §12.95 baby doll, a

[has arrived Ing Osaka, Japan, and is now assigned to the 25th Infantry Division { Lightning). Cpl, Baker. has just riage, {finished a short stay with the! chair, a $15 set of weighing 4th. Replacement Depot rear Scales, a $20.50 wading pool, a Yokohama, Japan. $12.50 baby car seat, a $15.95 nylon snow suit, $10 worth of diaper bags, nursing bags, nursing bottles and accessories, and other prizes. The contest’ is free. Childrent

Pte. Hadley

First "Cute Baby" entry . . . (Tropic $175 set consisting of baby car-

Blond Linda Lee Taylor, nearly 2, is daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Taylor, 1450 Pleasant St.

stroller, crib and high-

test, Indianapolis Times, 214 W, {Maryland St. Write on the back of the photo the child's name, birth date,” weight, color of eyes and. hair and name, address and telephone number of the parents‘

Recruit Charles A. Hinds, son

of Mr, and Mrs. James W.. Hinds, [S047 Hardegan Road; is partici {pating in maneuvers at Mt. Fuji, between 1 and 5 years-old, in-or guardian: {Japan. He is a member of the clusive, are. eligible. Send your| Any size photo is acceptable, 27th Infantry Regiment, Camp “cutest baby” photo by midnight but 5x7 inches and larger are-the Sakai, Japan. (Aug. 15 to ‘Cutest Baby" con- | best, Employees of the sponsors]

Cpl. John A. Wortman, husband of Mrs. Ruth Wortman, 21] E. Regent 8t., is now on duty with the occupation - forces in Kobe, | Japan. He is serving as a-supply—ser-; geant with the 5th Special serv-| ice Co. a

Arrest Opponent Of East Sider Slain In Night Gun Fight

John - Bledsoe, 26, of 3305 N. [Hawthorne Lane,” is dead and {Lester Redd, 31, of 5435 E. 33d Robert J. Parker, fireman, son|St.,. faces murder charges today of -Ernest B. Parker, Zionsville, as the result of an early morning is serving aboard the submarine gun battle Sunday at the vietim® 8 |USS Tilefish, based at Pearl Har-| home, bor. Sheriff's deputies said the shooting followed an altercation T/8gt. Elwood R. Newton, sonlat a drinking party in which of Mrs. Clara Newton, 1321 W. Bledsoe was accused of insulting |, 23d St. has been returned to the) Redd's girl companion. U.” 8. from Johnson Air Force| - “Cr. Base, Japan, for discharge. Sgt.

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 8 (UP)

bachelor because she had been m to find another husband. Socialite Gloria McLean, 31(Ned) McLean, sald her * wedding Tuesday.

“I've heard older men especially

We before,” Mrs. McLean said. She confessed the lanky .actor|

The first use of the abbreviation U. 8. A. was to stamp approval on barrels of gunpowder made for, Washington's army at a mill near Frankfort, Pa. ¢ & Did Robert Ingersoll, the well known lecturer,

REDD. told officers he went {0 first took her eye when they met

Johnson had been assigned to the {his home and procured his 38-| at a dinner party because “he re-

35th Air Installations ‘Squadron.

find Bledsoe armed with a 20-| Teel cameraman Edgar Hatrick {caliber rifle. Witnesses said the/

‘Quartet to Sing Sunday

i | The Missionaries’ Male Quartet{two men pursued each other’ in| “or Brst-three Sates wer very) Ingersoll served during the Civil. I War as “a8 8iof {the E a 8 LW0 0d Methodistithe darkness around _the house, brotherly,” she sa colonel. Ji (Church, will sing next Sunday at taking pot” shots until Bledsoe ~ Proposal Was Surprise

i ; Who are the Mosquitos of Nicaragua? ney are native Mosquito with Negroes from Jamaica,

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intermarried Sunday at 9:45 a. m, at Third Christidn Ch

the meeting of the Christian Men, fell. Builders. The CMB meet ne An autopsy wounds in the victim's body. Redd bride-to-be said she |escaped injury, surprised” when he pi

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Apprentice Brickmasons Pursue

Show Judges Face Difficult Task

'Unhurried Campaign’ Won Jimmy Stewart, Says Bride

Film- Star Isn't in ‘Bachelor Rut,’ Says Socialite on Eve .of Wedding

bride-to-be said today she won the film capital's most famed

‘campaign” will be climaxed with their|

ke a woman who has been mar-|

lealiber- revolver and returned to minded me of my brother,” news-|

Although Mr. Stewart stopped | “When men marry young, there 113 candidates scheduled to rerevealed seven being 80 “brotherly” later, his] “very |

obpurposelul.. activity at: 416. N. East. Sk, siteof 4 pros et Indianapolis Bricklayers’ Union 3 and scene of the contest. Twenty.

our contestants: were required to. build brick flues on rough ground. Some of the things they had to worry about were “height, level, plumb, neatness and correct

Phillip Spicer, Greenwood, with a board full of mortar and only a few bricks to go, pauses in. contemplation of he Fgiisoncy

lid his rhix. He placed seventh i in the. Sompefition.—

est Photos Burglary Wave Nets Jewelry, Cash

Thieves Break Window In North Side Shop

| | 1 Jewels, clothing and merchane dise with an estimated value totaling "several hupdred ' dollars (was reported missing after a ‘wave of week-end burglaries in .Indiananalls.., | Jewelry Worth approximately $150 was stolen from the window of the E. C. Crum Jewelry Co. 670 E. 42d St. early yesterday by a burglar who broke a small show window. | “V. D. Rossemer, 335, of 2237 Carrollton Ave, an employee, told police .:a card of watch bracelets valued at $85; six cigaret light. ers, $50, and costume jewelry with. an estimated worth of--$156 jwere missing. Police are ques~ tioning four suspects. Gerald Howard, 25, of 222 8. Walcott St, reported a sneak thief had rem a screen from a bedroom window and looted a

Sally Lynn Neese, age 2, daughter of Mrs. Lucille Neese, 746 N. Sheffic’'d Ave. is entered by her ‘mother.

and members of their families closet of five suits and a topare barred. coat valued at $375. The Times’ “Cutest Baby” con-

Drink Machine Tapped

A soft drink machine and a file cabinet were broken open at the Baxter Steel “Air Equipment Co; 1550 ¥, 21st St, Sunday night and an undetermined eee (amount of money taken, . - - . James Oliver; of 1950 Hillside Ave. a watchman, discovered the burglary, He said the thief telimbed a fence in -the rear of [the building and entered the steel storage department. A bathhouse was ransacked at {Willard Park sometime early Sun|aay, police reported. Nothing was — Movie star Jimmy Stewart's [qund missing but the telephone [nag been ripped from the wall. . W. McCalfrey, 49, of R. R. 5, owner of the C. KE. I. I. Expreés -year-old former wife of Edward|CO- told police. three large trail lers, parked at 1245 8. West St.

test is being staged in conjunetion with the appearance . of ‘Boopk ins” in Universal-Interna-tional's “Yes, 8ir, That's My Baby.” which opens for a week's run Aug. 17 at the Indiana The=| ater,

arried once and was not hurrying|,

had been looted during the night be present in a West Los Angeles chandise’ stolen, |church, Mr, and Mrs.’ Alexander | He listed a carton of paint Stewart arrived by train yester-hrushes, two cases of boots and day from their Indiana, Pa., home shoes and a quantity ‘of candy, {for the ceremony. |stolen by thieves who broke locks Mrs. McLean said she had no on the trailers, fears about marrying a 41- ~YQAr~| jold bachelor, although friends |

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. | , Herbert C rveland Swinney, son | nT ‘don't think Jimmy is In al [of Mr. and Mrs. Alongo [DACHEIOF Fut,” she Bat

are 10 years of honeymoon. Then ceive degrees at Abilene Curls

|they start 1 around "tian College |she said. ooking again, {met in Abt in Abilene, i,

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| The bridegroom’s parents willl |Sunday and considerable mer-

her he would be “hard to Will Receive Degree: z

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