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A Fresh Note
By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Aug. 24—These two years and more ago I ran onto a sweet Swede kid named Marta Toren, a long-shanked, coltish lass who had just been imported to be a new Garbo or a new Bergman or a new something. I may have been the first frjend Marta made in America—certainly I was in the first clump. I met her when she was fresh off the airplane— scared, dowdily dressed, stuffed to the gills on banana splits, wearing flat-heeled shoes, openmouthed in awe of New York, speaking a comic Swede accent. Strictly raw material. All she needed was woollen stockings and a shawl over her head. : I wrote a piece about Marta then, because underneath the awkwardness there was a lot of stout stuff. If you don't mind a requote, one of the sentences ran: “The odds may be heavily against her success, yet Marta Toren has more than Garbo possessed when she stepped off the ship.” : : Always the than to turn a mood into a column, I did some worrying about what would happen to this nice kid when the Hollywood processors got through currying her over, fixing her hair, correcting her accent, designing her clothing, and inventing a suitable past. It was an even bet she'd turn out like all the rest—lah-de-dah accent, upstage air, delusions of Duse.
IT'S A real pleasure to report that my little Swede gal is still as sweet and unmannered to-
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now, for the premiere of her newest picture, “Sword in the Desert,” which I guess is the first romanticized version of the struggle in Palestine. Marta premieres tonight, and it's a dress-up affair, worthy of a lady who will probably be around as long as Garbo. . My gal Marta *has taken it slow and easy in" Hollywood. She has performed the modern miracle of continuing to be the same dame who came over on the plane on a long-shot chance— the same girl whose clothes were so bad then that they had to rush her off the aircraft and
Absenteeism
brandy and port. When she first hit New York
redress her before the publicity photograhpers popped their flashbulbs. Her clothes are chic, now, put just as simple. The hair-do is still little girl—none of this highpiled landscape garden business. The heels are still flat. The manner is still the same—still the pleasant Swede with the stubborn Swede underneath. But no Garbo. No Bergman, just Toren. Marta displayed a remarkable set of guts for a Scared kid in a strange land. She withstood all the stock Hollywood ideas of remodeling her into a bad carbon of the other two celebrated squareheads. She wouldn't go for the cheap publicity, the leg art and the rest. She fought with the studio for six months, and won at the end. They shoved her into one dog of a picture, then gave her a small shot at a better one, and now have
* ¢ 9» | “For goodness sake don't leave me out of your order list for “You, Too.” Thus wrote Mrs. A. C. Moffitt, 218 8, Emerson Ave. There's plenty of room on the list, Mrs, Moffitt. With today's 102 requests, thanks to Shirley Wallace, Fletcher] Place Community Center, we have 1364 people! encouraging me to write the book. There are; 28,638 more places to fill on the list,
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The Center Township relief George K. Johnson. While The
cies in what the reliefers get and what the county pays for, Mr. Johnson asserts that the relief situation in general is in good shape. The Trustee is asking $900,000 for direct relief next year.
plumped her into an important number with Dana/ Ss
Andrews, who is no bum at the box-office.
Long, Light Eyes ABOUT THE only publicity I've seen on Toren was as good as you can get—Life's cover. Marta has a remarkable set of eyes—they are long and narrow and startlingly light, so that she looks| more Oriental than Scandinavian. Her studio hung| one of those stock titles on her, “The Eye,” which hasn’t obscured the fact that the kid can act. Our Miss Toren has become sophisticated, I suppose, in that now she knows the names of four
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she drank port before lunch, because port was the only name she recognized on the wine list. She, SCOTCH SOETATTY, DUE prefers a net. She is still hungry at all meal times, although she has abandoned banana splits in favor| of a slimmer figure. . There is no real point to this piece, apart from
a private satisfaction. I thought thaybe it == Traffic Accidents Forest Fires Rout 2000,
Threaten to Raze 3 Towns | 10,000 Thrown Into Battle With Burning
be nice to update one of the few actresses I ever| met who was worth writing about, and to say! that it is possible for the right kind of gal to undergo the Hollywood treatment without blow-! ing her roof. Call it a fan letter, if you will, to a dame who has spent two years in the movie cap-! ital and still owns no mink coat. !
By Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24—If you see a Congressman lolling in a summer resort rocking chair, don’t do .,any bowing and scraping. He is an indolent sloth. Lasso him, stuff a handkerchief in his mouth so he can't make a speech and talk you out of it, and ship him home, colleot. . We've got about 125 of these truant lawgivers at the moment, all earning better than $15,000 a year (because part of it is tax exempt) and wandering around the country, catching fish, sitting on their handkerchiefs, and in general not earning their wages. So many of these babies are taking their ease in far places that the management of the House :0f Representatives has heart failure.every time there's a quorum call. To date this enterprise has squeaked by with a bare majority but the chieftains fear that if only a few more gentlemen decide to play hookey, there won't be any quorum. The sergeant at arms will go through the motions of huntthg 'em down with his silver-studded mace, but if they're up at Lake Winnepesaukee trolling for trout, the poor old sarge isn't likely to find 'em. In that event thie House has to.shut up shop until the gentlemen decide to return to work. ‘ v 1
Fighting Over Pork Barrel’
SLIGHTLY more than half of the Representatives have stayed on the job. They are wrangling
at this writing over the $1114 million rivers apd *
harbors bill, which they insist is not either pork barrel legislation. Anyhow, here they are, doing what we paid "em for. The wandering ones, each of whose wages continues at well over $1000 per month, are the gents ~who.ought to be docked. At least they could refund the money they aren't earning. Or maybe
.we ought to change the rules and put ‘em on a! plece-work basis. . y | If you should stumble across one of the shift-| less lawgivers, he'll defend himself eloquently. He'll say that the legislation in the Senate is in| such a mess that there isn’t ‘much thé House can! do. There's a good deal of truth in that. But I still claim anybody who is paid as much as a| . Congressman ought to stay in the factory, even if he hasn't anything much to do. So tie him up
ti ght and express him back here, C. 0. D. Iblock College Ave. by & Car op-!fled as the flames ddvanced.
The remaining representatives are figuring on voting (if they can raise a quorum) to give themselves a-two-week recess when they tie up the loose ends around Labor Day. That'll be legal
“and -T-ean't kick about it. Phe hope, a pious one | is that maybe the Senate can untangle itself!
enough’ from, the legislative snarls to catch up.
They'll Be Home for Christmas
SO 1 WAS sitting In the House press box, listening with one ear to 'my fellow reporters moan about their shattered vacation plans and with the other to the gentlemen battle about the money for the harbors. Rep. Joe Martin of Massachusetts, the Republican chieftain, ambled back. He was worried about those vacationing lawgivers. Along toward the end of the week he feared there might not be any quorum on account of too many Congressmen rocking on too many front porches. One of my confreres asked the standard question: When did he think Congress would 2 R#p. Martin sa e expected this happy event to occur In time for Christmas. UIP. “Mark my word,” he said. “We won't get out of here until Dec. 20.” That's bad. And if it comes to pass it will be one of ‘the few times that Congressmen, who are paid by the year, actually stay at work (officially, that is) a full anfum.
The Quiz Master
~ 27? Test Your Skill 7?
Who will select the Unknown Serviceman of World War II for the burial at Arlington National Cemetery? The selection of the unidentified man to be buried in Arlington will be the task of the Army's Quartermaster Corps’ Memorial Division. v ¢&'@ In the vocabulary of a railroad man what is a kan court?
named because it may be held wherever most con
BAroo It is an official hearing or Investigation, so.
What famous peace conference was once held on Staten Island? = Jie In 1776 three Americans, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Edward Rutledge, held an finformal conference with the British Admiral Lord Howe and rejected the peace terms he offered be-
cause they did not recognize the independence
of Americas. * + Which is ‘the. oldest state university in the country? . :
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It was provided for in the state constitution of 1776 and the cornerstone of the Old East
What nicknames were givep to the baseball/Centennial celebration night|/through 12, Monday through attending physicians today.| Mrastus Nelson, 30, of players Paul and Lloyd Waner, when he swallowed the tle.| Sept. i vould "|The doctors said Sir §Yarry's con-| Colorado Ave, was arrested The players, at one time of . the|State Police rushed the m to] Al rollments will be heldidition was “practically un-/the rear of Corry Cigar Pittsburgh Pirates, were known as “Big Polson” Indianapolis and were at the/from 3 p.m. to 8'p. m. changed” from yesterday when he 1437 Columbia Ave. after po and “Little Polson.” Paul, “Big Polson,” also city limits by a city poliée squad Classes will start ‘at 8:15 a. m.,| was reported to be in “very grave found and confiscated from him Boston Braves, ~_\mbich escorted them to Riley, seid. condition.” : seven books of haseball tickets.
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Injure Three
| | Grocery Store | Damaged in Crash | Traffic accidents on Indianapolis streets last night and early]
left a damaged grocery store ad} utility pole in the wake of the]
collisions, None of the injured was in serious condition today.
Guilford Ave, was reported in Vincent's; | Hospital where she was treated {for a broken right leg. Mrs. Query | was struck last night in the 2700 erated by Joseph F. Tague, 35, |of 3148 N. Harding St. ¢
Two-Car Crash
|ville, was in fair condition at General Hospital where she was treated for a broken left arm. Police said she was driving north in Alabama St. and struck [I car in the 1900 block.
{She was ‘arrested and charged
with drunkenness. At the jail, she no official figures were available, Oxford, Me. A four-day-old blaze complained of pain in her arm, .. estimated that 10,000 men |smoldered at Flagstaff, Me., with
and was transferred to the hospital for treatment.
Rams Building
A car driven by Clyde R. Mitchell, 21, ‘of 1213 Norton St. rerashed into
“& BTOCEry 1658 E. Raymond. 8t., struck a utility pole, then rolled to a stop] |in a yard at 2134 8B. State Ave.,| {following a two-car collision, to-| day at State Ave. and Raymond | st, + Police said Mr. Mitchell was driving south in State Ave. when car collided with one operated by Edward Quear, 22, Tipton. A passenger in the Mitchell car, Betty Harp, 18, of 1342 Wade St, was released from General Hospital ' after treatment for an 1
ankle cut.
‘At Fortville Celebration
A 9-year-old Fortville boy who swallowed a tin whistle last night was undergoing surgery in Riley Hospital today. Doctors sald that Jerry Gimple was in fair condition this morning ward. The whistle was lodged in the boy's throat. t The boy was at Fortville's big
pa ot
dian army officers feared the]
2731! ! 1 Mrs, Divona Query, 39, of 2731 gored explosives might blow Png Dor th sitios Bent
as he was taken into the’ surgery
Woods; Ammunition
By United Press 2 Raging forest fires threatened to destroy three towns in South Dakota, California and Quebec today, forcing almost 2000 persons to flee for their lives.
The greatest danger was at
|today injured three persons and firefighters were trying to stop a wind-whipped blaze before it swept through the town of 1500 residents.
The fire was creeping toward]
{an ammunition depot at nearby {8t. Therese, Quebec, and Cana-
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Winds of 40 miles an hour swept a timber-and-grass fire out) of the Black Hills National Forest to within four miles of the town| of Tilford, 8. D. Fifty residents
California Hamlet Menanced
In California, a fire burning|'n the Stanislaus National Ior-
over 3000 acres on the Marine
| “Juanita Davidson, 38, Nobles- | COPS" “Camp ‘Pendleton «- near;
Oceanside threatened a tiny hamlet after destroying a set of ranch buildings. Six hundred Marines and 300 civilians were trying ta halt the fire. The outbreak of fires stretched across the continent from the Pacific to New Englahd. Although
were engaged in trying to Yuet) them. nv | Volunteers and rangers man-
aged to control a big fire thay
ravaged 12,000 acres in the Mo-
Franklin Twp » . Pupils to Register Franklin Township school pupils attending classes in Wanamaker will ‘ start * registrations Monday, W. A. McKinzle, principal, said today. During the four-day enrollment period, text books will be sold to pupils in the first grade, and a book rental plan will be avall-
able for grades two through eight. The rental plan also will
{apply to some high school books, Boy Swallows Whistle |Mr. McKinzie sald. Used books
{will be sold during registration hours. - The Wanamaker principal said pupils attending the township school in Bunker Hill may purchase books at Wanamaker while the enrollment schedule Is In forge. . Grades one to three will register Aug. 31 and Sept, 1; grades four to six, Tuesday and Aug. 31; grades seven and eight, Monday and Tuesday; grades nine,
Sept. 6, Mr,
probe revolves about the records of Trustee Times investigation shdws widespread discrepan-
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Move to Recommit Edwards Blocked he
A defense move to recommit Billie Burke Edwards to Marion
longs in Edwards, a totally disabled vet. eran; is under indictment in the “slapping death” of his 7-month-old daughter, Beryl June. At a hearing Aug. 16 before Judge Saul I. Rabb, Drs. Murray DeArmond and Earl Mericle, court-appointed psychiatrists, pronounced Edwards insane. At the same time, however, the doctors told the court that Edwards’ Brit-ish-born wife, Brenda, also under - indictment in the death of the infant, was sane.
At the conference held in Judge Niblack's chambers today, de-. f AK gy “ pe who - sought to have Edwards committed to the Veterans Hos- .
Depot Menaced
Terrebonne, Quebec, where 2000
of ‘California and Oregon but three blazes sweeping through 18,000 acres in the Payette Forest of Idaho were still destroy-
timber. Lightning Starts One
California foresters sald they had controlled 118 fires sét off| by. lightning but that 450 men| ere still fighting a brush blaze
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est and 172 others were trying to. control a fire in. Ant Canyon of the Sequoia National Forest. New England rangers said their forests were in “class 4”| condition — extremely dangerous due to lack of rainfall. Two hundred men battled a fire near New Durham, N. H., and 100 others were on fire lines at
50 men watching it for fresh flare-ups. Two other blazes burned near Roxbury, Me. and in northern Aroostook County near the Maine and Canadian
Power & Light Co.'s First-Half Income Up “The Indianapolis Power & Light Co. in its semi-annual statement released tdéday, announced a net income of $2,304, 168 for the six months e June 30. thing The total net income for the 12 months ending June 30 was $4,335,443, compared to $3,361, 217 in the 12-month period ending June, 1048, and $2,025,685 for the six months ending June 30, 1948. Gross income the. last six
revenue totaled $12,767,141. Operating expenses and taxes reached $0,982,607 and preferred stock dividends totaled $2,008,668,
Lauder Still ‘Very If
County Rejects
{pass near Madison Ave.
months was $2,970,050. Operating
STRATHAVEN, Scotland, Aug. 24 (UP)—8ir Harry Lauder, 79-year-old Scot minstrel and com-|run-down sheets,
Underpass Plan
Morris St. Project Bond Issue Refused
In a terse letter to the Indianapolis Board of Public Works, Marion County Commissioners today said they “are not in sympathy” with city plans to reconstruct the Morris St. under-
pital, was told by Barney Breedlove, VA official, that such a move would be a violation of the institution’s regulations. Mr. Breedlove said regulations prohibit the acceptance as a patient of any ex-member of the Armed Forces “who is being held by civil authorities and charged with a crime.” ““The jurisdiction of this case” Judge Niblack observed, “still be longs in the criminal court. After hearing Mr. Breedlove's testimony, I have no alternative but to deny Mr. Daily's petition for a sanity hearing in my court.” The prosecutor was represented at the conference by Deputy
The commissioners said they would refuse to issue “the bonds
of raising money with which to pay any portion of the project's cost,” and added they had no “intention of
share assessed against the county in the project.”
Protested Plan
torney Scott Ging, protested being included in the city’s move to begin reconstruc tion of the existing Pennsylvania Railroad underpass at. Morris St. The commissioners charged the proposed project was ‘“‘unnecessary and a wasteful spending of taxpayer's money at this time.” Under state law, cost of such projects are divided between the city and county, each paying 40 per cent, and the railroad 20 per cent. ‘Will Move Along’
Meanwhile, Mayor Feeney said the street widening project would “move along,” despite the commissioners’ announced unwillingness to participate. He charged, however, that as the commiissioners refused to go along with the city a bottleneck would be created in the street at tha underpass.
Three Men Face Gaming Charges
Three men, arrested on charges of keeping a room for pool selling in two police raids yesterday, faced arraignment today before Judge Alex Clark in Municipal Court 4. Jerry Agnew, 57, of 1217 N. New Jersey St, and Clift West, 43, of the same address, were arrested after police found them in a garage behind 1019 N. Pennsylvania St. with racing forms,
Secated
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of Marion County for the purpose will
levying a fundraising tax to pay any purported!
Last Monday, the commissioners, represented by County Atvigorously
‘|tendent. He was appointed acting
and a radio race results, They con-
Prosecutor Edwin J. Ryan, who conduct the state's case against Mrs. Edwards. Immediately following the conference, Judge Rabb said he {would ‘announce his decision re(garding disposition of Edwards on Friday.
Gas | Co. Employee Marks 40th. Year
Ralph Varin, acting superintendent of the distribution department, Citizens Gas & Coke iCo., has completed 40 years’ . service with the company. Mr. Varin started work July 6, 1909 at the main office of the Citizens Gas Co. and in ) 1913 was transLd ferred to the dis=i [Fibution dep 4 A ment as records engineer. He remained in that mr. Vor position until 1922 when he went to the public relations department, : In 1926 he was named tendent of services and in 1941 promoted to assistant superin-
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superintendent just before his 40th anniversary with the company.
Farmers Mutual Breaks Ground for Building
Ground - breaking ceremonies scheduled this afternoon near the southeast cormer of 30th and Me-
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