Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 August 1949 — Page 13
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’ and tell him to do three tricks and he'll do five. Tell Neighbe
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him to'do five and he'll 4 seven. Terrific. Wonder‘ful relaxation.
Behind the canvas which separated the trickaters from the audience stood about 15 men where
Sa uke “StevR _- for - dn on the, Chinese” guillotine while Taek Blount knocks knocks himself out hoping the brick works.
| his turn to go before the audience. As a youn
guillotine S64 ahRouliiedl we Wntendod Vo Tala off Jack's scalp at the d€ckline. There was much yelling and puting on before Duke: pushed the big blade down and through a vital portion of his partner's anatomy. You + Beaged 1. It was a trick. ‘A trick 10 lay them in the aisle, One gag is the absdhite tops in enieriainment. Bel one will swear it is. When it has been perjormhd. however; th next one coming up is the tops. he killed, laid low. murdered Oy TA PT I tie eared immortal side. :
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upon he pulled u cOncealed &rfow from his shirt It killed me.
reproducTalkative 16-year-old Jan Berkshire, North Vernon, I must admit, considering his age, i + have to take any back seat. : embers of the fraternity stick together like flies and honey. Ansel DeLong, ‘Speedway Cliy, just starting out in the magic business, got all kinds of help and encouragement whén it was |
ham, not in years. but in experience, Ansel was! a bit shaky. |
All Have ‘New’ Ones
THE REAL show, the hocus-pocus at its best comes when old friends pull off to the side and show their favorite tricks. They all have one ready which they hope Is new. When it comes to the new ones, nobody shows any secrets. With my own eyes I've seen normal, rational men reduced to jabbering idiots as they tried to! figure out a routine that had “killed” them. Duke. sent one. man off witha plece of rope. trying to tie a knot without letting go of either end: "Duke tied a knot scientifically, he said; over] and over again without letting the ends go. The! last IT saw of Duke's friend he was throwing one end of the rope over a branch. “THIS “HOY Afan"t Tea ve without getting’ Yored: In my possession I have a deck of cards whic will perform a trick called “Out of This World. Something better happen pretty soon. It has vis work: It's gotta work, I'm telling you. Grrrrrrr. * 4 & “You, Too,” has a couple friends in the Police |
Capitol and want me to start writing. ang Xr asbingign. votes Se 20 others gives me 933. It takes 30,000 to get the| publisher Interested.
Success; at Last
NEW YORK, Aug. 1 10—As a practically + constant foe of the ,gadget, which my mechanical imbecility generally turns into a vindictive enemy, I sue for permission to make a few exceptions in & blanket condemnation. At the risk of sounding like a shill IT would like to come out firmly in favor of the T-shirt and the nylon shirt, the spinning reel and the pdlaroid camera. In their fashion, they are more important than any inventions since the wheel. The spinning reel has saved my sanity.as a fisherman; the T-shirt has saved my suits from-—-you should excuse the expression—sweat, the nylon shirt lets me travel light, and the polaroid ra has unmy life as a Considering that most gadgets merely add confusion to an already over-contrived existence, this seems to be worthy of note. You are gazing at the kid who cannot change the tire or fix the blown fuse or repair. the lock or unjam the window. Never made a crystal set. Never tried a trout fly, Baffled by the Brownie No, 2. Never learned to cast a bass plug without ‘ Cat even Tul the-toaster. Se
FAB TR SAAN
He Can ‘Catch Fish!
WITH A SPINNING réel L find. I can cast, and catch fish, without spending the afternoon unsnarling the reel or unsnagging fish hooks from my ear. With the polaroid camera I can take pictures and develop them in one minute without holding up a darkroom or farming out the negatives to a developer. I can take a shower with my shirt on, hang out the shirt and it's ready to wear again by the time I tie my shoe laces. and the Tshirt, or skivvy, with its short sleeves, provides an anchor for a rebellious shirt tail and insulates the man against his woolen vestments. Let us regard the reel. For years it operated on a set principle—the spool turned, allowing the
line to run free. If the spool was allowed to spin. a
without careful thumbing, you got a snari-up, or backlash, and spent the next hour unravelling the twisted skeins, Then some noble soul in Europe hunched himhe Hne-to
strip from a, non-revolving spool. It can't back-
“fash. You can hit your hat with it AL 50° yards
Took the Rap
"Oddly, “the be best casting motion is ‘that of a a woman throwing a baseball, so that given 10 minutes worth of instruction, a girl can make a bum out bf| Van Campen Heilner. Now you take this polaroid camera. It's got directions on it. Anybody who can read can play it. You load it, shoot it, and develop it, all in a
make it go.
happy holiday group, big as life and only a-littie! bit over-or-underdevel
| her talents
| under sponsorship of the Recreation Division of Department. Trafic Officers Jak k Coendon od} the Parks ents
Euna Williams, first- place baton twirler of the | “Indiana School Music Association, demonstrates
ance To Show *
_ Photos by. Bil Oates, Times Staff Photographer a
Shirley Merrick, 15, accordionist; Barbara Smith, da at a Variety Show at Willard Park city-wide Amateur Talent Contest sponsored “Department.
Accoun
Of $2.1
By IRVING LEHBOWITZ |
City Coun
task of cutting a record $17 mil-|
minute. Even a mechanical moron like me can lion budget, today began studying No F-stops, no mysteries with the the administration's proposal to light meter. Point it, press it, and there is the create 143 new city jobs at a cost!
‘of about $255,800. \
One time I went to Africa with a wondrous]
machine somebody lent me, a magnificent camera which eost about $800 and even had radar on it I took a short course in driving this camera, and| then I took it over to Tetuan, Morocco, where the Khalifa, African Mohammedans, was conducting his week-| ly prayers.
ram's - horns, wonderful costumes, huge black! {learned. that the increase would soldiers, palace guards, old Sentisinen w with dong be HIgHEr tan 1000 jobs."
‘white ‘beards, cunuchs and afl
this camera charged with color gy Ap was the city payroll for 1940 was $4.5
going to be for the permanent bbok.
Fizzles Whole Thing
SO HELP ME, just as all the big business
shots of my belt buckle. By the time I got it reloaded everybody had gone away.
That's when I gave up any mechanical device the total for more jobs over the .more intricate than a slingshot. Just got weary of hundred mark. Street Commissioner Tony Maio requested 22 “additional for his street program and-th
Sanitation department has od From River
for 25 persons to fill new jobs,
turning in that ¢ilm, and having it come back as] blank as a starlet's expression. Maybe the fish I: catch aren't as big as the ones the experts snare, and, maybe the pictures ren't as sharp as the ones Steiglitz grabs with a Graflex, but I now catch fish and take pictures and it never happened before, I am very willing, still, to let the people who fancy silk and broad-| cloth indulge themselves shirtwise, and the expert “IA TIShing and phot yoann go Ris-0wn-Way.. with the old stuff. But privately, 1 say hallelujah the ype man has finally come Into his own.”
By Frederick C. Othma
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~ WASHINGTON, Aug. 10—You been wondering how John F. Maragon, the railway news butcher, got started on his career as a man about Washington, pal of the mighty, and doer of favors for bigwigs? Easy. He merely took the-rap when a Senator's suitcase. sprung. an. embarrassing leak -in-Washing-ton’s Union Station during prohibition, When he'd paid the fine on a charge of transporting lHquor illegally, the “Senator was grateful. He wangled John his first government job, as a Gman. Since then a surprising number of officials have found themselves in debt to the immigrant boy-from -Greece-and might call the pinnacle. Now he's being investigated by the Senate, his White House pass has been taken up, and few are the front pages on which his name doesn't appear. So he's a mystery man. He's also a neighbor of mine in McLean. Va. and while I don't intend to defend him here, I must report that he’s a delightful companion over a cold beer. The Senators ‘will bring their charges let's look at the life of our Horatio Alger-with-an-accent. Even with episodes still to be supplied by the lawgivers, 1 think you'll agree it's fascinating:
Rises fo Position of News Butcher
WHEN HE- WAR. in an over. from (ireecs.. and barely able to shining shoes in the Ph Hotel, hangout of liticlans in Kansas City, Mo. He worked from a, m. until 9 p. m. and he slept on a pool table at a cost of 10 cents per night. This bed eventually
parlor car he got to “talking with n Ath a citizen who identified himself as a U. 8. Senator, freshly, elected. The Senator's dead now; but John still doesn’t want to identify him in print. The red cap, in any| event, bounced the Senator's suitcase in the sta-| tion rotunda: Two: whisky cracked within and.the aromatic trickle]
brought a prohibition agent on the run. Who! owned -that grip? John thought fast. Said it was his. Went to
made bond, stood trial, and paid a fine.
jail, ful. That was too mild;
said the Senator was grate
John ... ..
$7 a Day and Expenses THERE cerfainly was. G-man. The Senator said the word-—these being: the days before the organization of J. Edgar Hoover—and John went on the payroll as a federal sleuth at $7 a day and expenses. Having learned the art of hawkshawing in one year flat, John moved over to the old War Shipping Board as a private detective to look into the
operations of those ships that always seemed to)
lose money for the government, He shanghdled a sailor in Philadelphia, or at
least got him too drunk to leave his rooming working on the LaRue Carter
emorial Hospjtal west of the nglish, John was able séaman aboard a suspicious tanker bound (OF Indians University Medical Cen-
house. Then John signed on in his place as. an New Zealand. The captain and the first mate] later went to prison on charges of defrauding the government. John is proud of that. Back in-Washington; eventually, John went to
tties of gin and one. of|
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The p icount for about 4 cents of the 182. 19 tax raté requested by the
icity. This y
By Robert C. Roark fye New og
t for 4 Cents | 9 Tax Rate |
cil, faced with the|
new. positions. nel
!
ear's $2.03 tax rate]
16 cents less than the rate pro-
the spiritual chief of all the North Posed for next year. In eomparing the number of |
{city employees proposed in next It was the most fascinating sight I ever saw. year's budget and the number oe The little, arch-necked Arab horses; people tooting/employed 10 years ago, Council a
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Council’ &lso discovered “that! |
{million. The proposed payroll is|
{more than §
10 million.
‘54 New Policemen
This year’s Police budget calls! started, I fumbled at the camera, accidentally for the largest increase in perturned it upside down, and took 35 brilliant color sonnel—54 new officers. Two other departmental
posals for
including cle
Controversial Mayor Feeney's request for a pastor of {department of, personnel consult- jumped into White River and res-
ant, Calling
was regarded by Councilmen last from. its depths. but. he. himself, Aight as one of the more contro- drowned when his water-soaked {versial items in the budget. Coun- clothes “apparently dragged him cilman Joseph Wicker, chairmaniqown, authorities said today. the finance quested that Council study the proposal further before making Joho. sivep With “her S-year-oid}
of
recommenda
Traffic Engineer Lewis (Cap) intq deep water and the Rev. Mr. {Johnson's request for seven new Hands {workers is expected to find tough ciothed. |going at the next Council budget-| islashing session tonight. | Mr. Johnson requested addition- body was recovered from 7 feet to Haigh.
ial traffic’ repair and street sign a water ‘about 30 minutes’ later. {men on a part-time basis.
The Boar
1 calls for 43 new jobs at General |
| Hospital, of
and he has reached what you a word. If there was anything he could do for nursing positions. The remainder] {are for secretaries and attendants.
A new finance officer is also {requested under John wanted to he aiHealth h budget.
Fall Kills Worker On Hospital Job
' Floyd V.
(ter, was kill
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{fell 40 feet to the basement of the -which was under con-
+building,
got too hard and John moved up in the world; he work for the National Recovery Administration, |g yction,
became 4 water boy for a track gang of the Union Pacific Railroad. Then later he put on a celluloid collar and became a news butchef In the day coaches across Nebraska and Kansas. By now it was 1923 and John was in his early twenties; he was ambitious; people liked him. He decided on Washington as.the place for a bright young man to make good. On his way here in the
Gen. Hugh (Iron Pants) Johnson in charge, His principal job: To organize a baseball team for old Iron Pants, And I guess I'll have to teil you about tha tomorrow and how it led to John's operations as funeral director--no less—for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. For the government mournegs he arranged cocktail parties.
The Quiz Master
“®fourth estate’? A==This ‘term was , applied - to’ the press by
Thomas Macaulay about 1828 to indicate that in = — with
7? Test Your Skill 27?
United States call“amextra session of Congress?
A~The Constitution provides for this. Article
IL Section 3, says: “
them . . ."
Mr,
{he apparen
Coroner Leonard Cox said he died almost instantly from a fractured kull,
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Friday in
Survivors
kodak ‘ ally. “, . « he may, on extraordinary James Nevins, and a sister, Mrs. | the three estates of the réalm, the Lords Spiritual, occasions, convens both Houses, .or either of Margaret Montgomery, both of InLords Temporal Commons. |
| dianapolis,
Nevins was swinging scaffold from where he t|stood on ‘the fourth floor, when}
| A lifelong resident of Indianpolis, Mr. Nevins was a member of £ the Hod Carriers Union and the’ | Eagles Lodge, . | Bervices will be held at 2 p. m. frst referred to the press as the Q-- “By what authority can the President othe heast ChApe Burial win be | {in Floral Park.
ballads of the West for entertainment. tainers in the weekly Variety Show. test in June.
Pastor Drowns »Saving Daughter
promore positions sent!
laborers
John George Haigh,
rical and labor. Item
| "PETERSBU RG, a. 10 (UP) The Rev. Paul ¥X. Hands, 37, the - Church of God, LONDON, Aug. 10 (UP) and calmest killer known to 20th TOF "To “POSITIONS. |dijed hig T0-year-oid daughter claimed he committed..
Dapper and ¢alm to the end
the prison walls, In keeping with British procedure, there were none but official witnesses when Albert Pierrepoint, Britain's master. executioner, dispatched Haigh to his death. A few minutes before the execution a post office messenger in He reached the struggling girl a blue uniform arrived at the! {and pushed her to saftey. His prison. with a. telegram. addressed.
committee, re-| pig daughter, Lois, was wading
ons. Jerry, yesterday. The! n girl called for help after wading
dived after her, “fully
Conterits of the message, and
By Dick Turner.
d of Health budget
CARNIVAL
which 30 would be!
the Board of
Nevins, a hod carrier
ed yesterday when he!
a, lowering a
tly slipped. Deputy
He was 43.
the Moore and Kirk
include his father,
Pretty entertainers at the Willard Park Variety Show were Lewellyn, accordionist. The children recently participated i in the
The robin Colwell — Paul, Ralph and Steve — are aie boys. but ey prefer the The brothers, musicians and vocalists, proved popular enter- |from his rooms while he was They, too, placed high on the list in the city-wide talent con.
Britain's Bloodiest Killer | Meets Death on Gallows
Slayer of 9 Women, Is Calm to End
John George Haigh, 40, the bloodiest
Wanasworth “Prisofi ‘today to-pay for -one-of -Ahe- nine.murders. he;
® a. m. while 4 crowd of 100 curious bystanders } gathered outside,
Picking her .own accompaniment, Linda Jo Tomlin, 5, executes a Hawaiian hula dance for the enjoyment of the Variety Show. She recently competed ir in the city-wide ~ contest.
ncer, and Paula by the Parks
Two Stores Here
Escape With $50 In Merchandise
Burglars who forced their way " inside two business establishas) {ments last night escaped with $50 {in merchandise and more than 1830 in cash, police said today. A diamond ring valued at $1100 {was stolen from a parked ear
land $100 was taken from an |apariment_in in other thefts, of5, tiers reported EF | At Hollander's Food Market, 11101 WW, 27th was taken from the cas er and $10
was missing rom a cash box. Four cartons . of cigarets were also” HE esing today.
L No-Cash-Taken-
Employees. of the Tasty Bo Inch, 942 EK. "Washington id: -cigarets
aa walued stolen last night, but no taken. ; John Schreive, 68, of 15% 8. West St. told officers his bankbook and $100 in cash were taken
absent about four hours. - | The diamond ring was stolen {from the car owned by Fred {Clements, 908 Edgemont St, . while the vehicle was parked at the Belmont St. plant of the Link-Belt Co. where he is employed.
Hoover Receives
Ex-President to Make
its sender, were unknown. Ob-| Important Address servers speculated it may have| PALO -ALTO, Cal, Aug 10 come from the mysterious woman (UP)—Former President Herbert
Who ran crying from the courtoom when senténce was 'pro- Hoover delivers. a major nations
HO gnd who visited him in wide address today at an impress the final hours before he went to sive ceremony honoring him on the gallows. ‘his 75th birthday. Although Haigh was sentenced | The university town of Palo to death and hanged only for the|Alto officially designated the day murder of Mrs. Olive Durand- as “Hoover Day” in honor of" Deacon, 69, a “wealthy London the still‘vigorous former" Chief widow, he confessed to killing Executive. In Arkansas and eight ‘other persons in London Maryland it also was “Hoover * and its vicinity. Day” by decree of their gover. Mrs. Durand:Deacon’ was lured NOTrs: to a factory in a London suburb,| Congratu latory messages
Admitted ‘Acid Bath’
Century England, was hanged at
Haigh ‘walked to ‘the ‘gallows at]
shot in the head and her body poured in for America's world dipped in'a vat of acid to dissolve Citizen,” who holds honorary lit. Haigh sald the bodies of his Citizenships ini seven foreign naother victims also were dissolved tions including two now behind in an acid bath. the Iron ‘Curtain. = California, New Mekico and Vermont issued proclamations calling.attens Red Cross to Begin tion to his birthday. Nine gov. ernors of other states have wired Home Nursing Course - their congratulations. : A free course on home care of “Think of the Next Genera the sick will begin Monday, Aug. ton” was the title of Mr. Hoo15, in the Red Cross chapter “*'® talk today. ‘house, 1126 N. Meridian-- 8t.| Honored by Congress [Classes will meet Monday and| He will deliver It at 8 p. m, {Thursday from 7 to 9 p. m. for, [TIndianapolis Time) over four ~~ (three. weeks. } {major hetworks on a nations Subjects to be taught; the Red | Wide hookup at the Stanford Uni c unce 2 . include *4ha [versity campus adjoining Palo T08S...-aNN0. Alto: Tt will -be- the first “Major —— |réading of thermometers and réc- | speech on the campus since Mr, ognition of common disease symp- Hoover dedicated the Hoover Lis toms. Persons enrolled will also brary on War, Peach and Revolulearn how to improvise sickroom tion in 1941.
facilities; to give béd baths and [Bow to follow & doctor's orders| mony boging at 1:30 p. m. (Edi | scientifically. anapolis Time) outdoors in the Ws in the course can gorst Amphitheater. He will be [be made by calling the Red Cross, introduced by Dr. Wallace Sters Ti. 1441. ling, president of Stanford. i | Among honors Mr. Hoover will | PERSONAL INCOME UP receive will be a joint resolution | WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (UP) bY the U.-8. Senate and House Co D tment has extending its birthasy. 8 ing Feported a slight rise in personal or devoted service to his: incomes in June. It sald the June More than 12,000 faculty {annual rate wags $213500.000,000. bers, alumni, ts and The ” :
Ititude’