Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 August 1949 — Page 11

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Stage door . , . Frank Jones sees vaudeville come back.

~ Tribal Queen

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20—If the British say it's okay for that English girl, Ruth Williams, to be queer of the , she'll have won

- only half the battle. The payoff is going to depend

on how good she is with a hoe. Maybe it ‘hasn't occurred to her yet, but as assistant boss of an African tribe Ruthie’s going to have her hands full. The natives take this queen business seriously and have a long list of things for her to do once she gets her crown on straight,

That's where the hoe comes in. Whenever there's any sowing or reaping to do it's always the queen who has to trot out at the head of tribeswomen, with royal hoe or sickle in “hand, and show ‘em a good example.

Bamangwatos’ Emily Post AN ER THING she'll have to do, is referee the fights the dames of the tribe get into.

morning they gather in a special soundproof hut to holler ut their grievances and it’s Ruthie who's to have to decide who owns what cow

or if it's okay to pull hair in the heat of an argument over a pair of lip-stretchers. Then there are the class distinctions. Ruthie’s going to have to de the Emily Posting on whether

+4 babe who lives down by the river and owns

only two cows should be invited to the swankier dances, and things like that. She's also got to help out with the baby-sitting and be ready to lend a hand whenever a sick aunt needs some special drum-beating. ~~ ‘ By now, of, course, the .24-year-old English

‘girl who matriéd King Seretse Khama must have

discovered that her kingdom is slightly lacking in the politer things, like plumbing. Serowe, the capital city of the Bechuanaland protectorate, has a population of 30,000 but not much else. Most of the houses are made of mud and there's no electricity, no gas, no telephone, no drugstore and no movie theater. She can go shopping all she wants; the white traders have a swell stock of beads and whistles and bolts of bright-colored cloth.

< d@nd Mack, Gus Van.

. “They were all here.”

Recalls Fabulous Doys i)

ANNA DIXON, head cleaner, who has been at

the Lyric since 1919, joined the group and recalled

the fabulous days of Peaches Browning, Moran

“I'd much rather see actors than popcorn.” she said. Her eyes scanned the dark backwall of the stage slowly and she kept the rest of her thoughts to herself, ; “I think the public is ready for good vaudeville again,” Mr. Loulso remarked with the unanimous approval of his fellow workers. 3 Frank Paul, manager of the theater, came waving a telegram from Jack Carson of the movies. Mr. Paul read aloud: “If vaudeville can

come back to the Lyric, why can’t I? Best of luck

in helping revive a great American institution.” The message didn’t impress the men much. Their thoughts went to the turn of the century and free lunch, nickel beer and on through the prohibition days. “Maybe vaudeville will come back as strong and good as in the old days.” . “That's what we've been hoping for, ain't it?” said another. “The victrola came back.” “Hey, Jonesy, remember the time . . .” Vaudeville came back to the city.

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“Put us down for two copies of “You, Too,’ we really want to read it.” Mr. and Mrs. V. B. Jackson and Mr. Otto Liehr, 1434 Samoa St. Check. Twenty-three added to 1535 totals 1558. Gosh, 2000 would be nice to have. Then I'd only have 28,000 to go. .

By Andrew Tully

Except for the camping-out part, however, life Serowe is prettly nice. The Bamanwatos are most all Christians and never go on the warpath any inore and the. cops have practically nothing to do except watch out for overtime oxen parkers. You never run into a drunk on the street, either, because the government doesn’t allow any booze. Mostly this is a result of the job dofie by King Seretse’'s grandfather, Khama the Great. Khama was a kind of combination one-man OPA and WCTU. The first thing he did when he took over was to get a prohibition act passed; then he organized a bunch of revenooers and used to ride around with” them seizing whisky and pouring it in the river. Even thé missionaries thought he was going too far when he banned the native beer, which wasn't mach more powerful than a

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The Indiana Air National Guard fliers cruise in formation of F-51 fighters.

Weather Studied 5 Re. To Aid Mothers

Climate Linked to Eclamptic Convulsions

By Science Service CHICAGO, Aug. 29—S8aving!® ‘expectant mothers from eclamp- | tic convulsions and death by| scientific weather control is the hope of research now going on at the Chicago Lying-in Hospital and dispensary of the University of Chicago here. A “climate room” where the

super malted, but Khama told 'em he was sick of spending his mornings trying to sober up his counselors and besides, it was lousy beer.

ceiling prices on everything from cows to magic| snakeskins. He also cleaned up the witch-doctor| racket, running the worst offenders out of the country and putting the rest under a set of strict regulations which banned things like howling at|

the moon after midnight and casting bootleg! charms. , |

Uncie .Tshekedi Takes Over | KHAMA’S eldest son, who was Seretse’s pa,| died before Khama did, so the throne was loaned to Seretse’s uncle, Tshekedi Khama, until Seretse was old enough to take over. Meanwhile Seretse was sent to Oxford University to study up on how|

to be a king. {ing labor, is said to be one of ©

Seretse and his uncle got along swell untill

Miss Williams came along and then Tshekedi re-|/childbirth and is fatal in 13 out | fysed to have anything to do with his nephew. He of every 100 cases that develop also tried to hold onto the throne, but Seretse came in expectant mothers, back from England and got all the young tellows| on his side and they agreed to give the white queén| a . official, though, until ‘they British say so.

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Good Neighbor

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 — Now my worldtraveling, perfume-dealing neighbor, John Maragon, really is a mystery man, The question is what did he do with the money? : While Honest John was palling around with the presidential military aide and giving parties for clients at the Carlton Hotel, he also was living about four blocks from me in a heaten-up little house at 10 Marion St., McLean, Va. It was built 27 years ago. It could stand a coat of paint. Within this cottage he dwelt with his wife and his 19-year-old son. John cut his own grass and

worried about his water pump, even as the rest of ,

ruralities,. When he went into Washington, he traveled in a medium-pricéed black sedan with a big bump in "the side. The bump indicated that he was distinguished also as being the worst chauffeur in these parts,

Looked Like Small-Time Guy

WHAT I'M driving at is that John seemed to be strictly a small-time guy; he was -a friend of

the mighty, maybe, and a hand-shaker of note,

but it was obvious that he'd made no financial killings. I was inclined to-feel sorry for neighbor John when he got tangled in the Senate's inquiry into five percenters, deep freezers, suspended

“generals, and high-flying perfume magnates.

He dropped by my place a few afternoons back to tell me his trobules, I poured him a beer and I still was sympathetic. If ever there was a fall guy for the bigwigs, it seemed to be John. He never had earned any money, much, since he quit his $75 per week job as passenger agent for the B&O, specializing in Congress’ funeral trains business and presidential trips. I patted him on the shoulder ahd wished him well when he headed back to his own lawnmower. i " Now all I can say it, h-m-m-m-m-m-m. It turns out, according to official evidence, that in the last

«four years Honest John deposited better than

$119,000 in three bank accounts. He collected no

The Quiz Master

telling how much more than this and never aia) 2%

deposit it, Some of his funds came from a molasses out-

fit that wanted a sugar quota from the Agricul-!

ture Department; some from a Britisher who bought bargain generators from the War Assets Administration, and some from thie Chicago perfumer, who passed deep freeze units around to the wives of gentlemen in high places. - All this was sworn evidence, backed up by cancelled checks with Honest John’s endorsement. Yet he told me that he never had collected a hickel from anybody who dealt with the government. And on his income tax returns he told the

government that he'd earned between $6000 and $7000 per year. :

Double Expense Account

THE EVIDENCE showed that while he was working for the State Department as an observer in Greece, thie perfume man in Chicago was paying him $1000 a month, The government paid his plane fare adross the ocean, but Honest John put in for travel expenses anyhow with the auditor in Chicago, The government was paying him $15 a day for expenses while he was in Greece, but he also got $9500 In expenses from the perfumer. Things looked black for Honest John. But there he was in ‘the committee chamber. Here was his chance to explain all. He certainly didn’t seem worried in his nafty gray suit, his fancy necktie, and his smile for the photographers. Chairman Clyde Hoey of North Carolina swore him to tell the truth and nothing but. And then John sald, in answer to all questions concerning his fimances, his deals, and his friendship for Gen. Harry Vaughan, that on the advice of counsel he refused to answer because anything he said might tend to incriminate him. I'd still like to stick up for a neighbor and it makes me sad, now, that I can't.

27? Test Your Skill 27?

Is there any record of the first cornerstone laid with ceremony? 1 The eustom of laying cornerstones with ceremony dates from very early times and according historians sacrificial rites were practiced when laying a foundation of a buliding.

What is meant when the corner of a visiting card is turnsd down,

There is no universal interprets ation of this.

{Fahrenheit tothe “dripping heat Then he went after the businessmen, putting|»f the tropics” has been built for |

(may bring on in susceptible pa-

By Frederick C. Othman ircuistion ana sca vase. soot LEGION Color Guard Title

‘|Worth, Tex. and Detroit, Mich.,|fourth straight year. Portage]

3 e BroadWay Church, will pre- - REE side tonight. Wayne Powell will Comfortable Night

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weather may be varied from crisp coolness at 50 degrees

the research being conducted by| Dr. William J. Dieckmann, chief-| of-staff and professor of obstet-| rics and gynecology. { The onset of the convulsions and coma of eclampsia in preg-

Members

Minton, 5949 Central Ave., and way, Indianapolis.

obert W. Summers, 1528

411 Rockville Rd., and S. Sgt. Edwin Gulley, 1321 Exeter Ave.

of the 113th Utility Fl flight are (left to right) Pfc. Dennis F. Wilson, 825 Lincoln St.; Pfc. John M. Gollingsworth, Russiaville; Lt. Dale K. Snider, Gregnfield; S. Sgt. Robert H. Lay, 755 Richland St.; Capt. Joseph P.

Four Indianapolis guardsmen loading a & are (left to right) S. Sgt. Gene 'Garri

Unit briefing a training

Lt. Frank Moynahan, 1946 Broad-

rity, 2405 Roosevelt Ave.; E. Ohio St.; Pvt. Roy R. Arnold,

nant women is definitely: related to hot, humid climate, Dr. Dieck-| mann found from a statistical study. ae ig Eclampsia, most frequent dur-|® ing the last two and three months § of pregnancy and especially dur-|

the two greatest threats to safe

Grayling weather is cold for Lt, Farrell Grossman, of 501

Polio. Victims Urged To Put Faith in God

Never Has Failed Me, Says F. B. Snite Jr., After More Than 13 Years in iron Lung

Blue Ridge Drive, a junior at Butler College. He is shown wrapped Blames Weather in an electric blanket and hugging a big stove in the camp

Sudden changes in weather, al-| barracks. though not the cause of the con-|

dition, Dr. Dieckmann woe Kokomo Post Captures

| librium which intensify the high blood pressure, dropsy amd kiddisorder = uitil ‘convulsions|

Hoosiers Edge Out New York Outfit d coma occur. By Narrow Margin of 91.55 to, 91

The climate room will be used) PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 29 (UP)—The James De Armond Gollito find out.whether the convul- day Post No. 5, Kokomo, Ind, won the American Legion's national |’ sions and coma can be warded champion color guard contest yesterday in one of thé closest com-| off by controlling the weather petitions in Legion pageantry. and also what conditions of tem-| The Kokomo post captured a total of 91.55 points to nose out | | perature and humidity are most the Garbarina Memorial Post No. 1523, New York City, which| helpful to the patient. received an even 91 points. a a —

| Refrigeration for the room, The first Chicago Post No. 985 {unlike air conditioning, uses a|took third place with 88.95 points, | srine solution for securing proper and Hamilton Post No. 20, Balti-| temperature and humidity. | more, Md., ran fourth with 86.75. » | A oroWa of 3000 watched oe (If $2000 in Cash {Legion's tof, 14 marching units Ft. Worth Pastor [Lesions ioh 14 mar ( i The Memorial Band of Har-| To Speak Here Ri Post No. 5, Joliet, Ill, won

Dr. J. Frank Norris of Ftithe senior band contest for the

Liquor, Cigarets Taken by Thieves

Burglars netted nearly $2000 in|

. ’ Ohio, was second will speak tonight at 7:45 o'clock Post No. 486, Ohio, cash and an undetermined I Church, While third place was tied between BE ati Tn Chy the Fifth District Post. Dalias, amount of liquor, cigarets and

. { other merchandisé in’ looting twa Dr. Norris sérves as pastor of ex. and Nashville (Tenn.) Posty ianapolis taverns last night| the First Baptist Church, pg

. or early today, Worth, and the Te Sioux Falls (8. D.) Post No. 15} Danny Coyle, operator of Dan-

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airplane ‘between the two cities.|George H. Hockett Post No. 127, 000 “Ave “reported $1000 was| He 1 RE omemedais of the Baptist| Anderson, Ind., second, and Gillen, y¢o1en from his safe after burgBible Seminary of Ft. Worth. The Fost No. 33, Bedford, Ind. third... ymimied a rear door -of the ‘Texa$ church of which he is the, The Brooks-Doll-Ebeling Post, tavern and knocked off the safe minister is said to have a mem- Bellefonte, Pa., successfully de-| sombination. A large quantity of! bership of 15,000. |fended its junior band title, being| whisky was also stolen. In addition to his pastoral opposed only by the Fitzgerald-| ar Coyle, who lives at 234 E. duties, Dr. Norris conducts evan- Cummings Post, Augusta, Me. |gtn St. told police his office was| gelistic services in many places| The Albert L. Quinn Post No. wrecked. Desk drawers, files and| in the United States and has/52, Jersey City, N. J, won the other papers were scattered over preached also in various European| junior color guard contest, withthe floor. | countries. The Sunday schools/the Upper Darby (Pa.) Post, No.| Earl Stamatkin, who operates a | of his two parishes are said to|214, second, and the Logan Square tavern known as the Working-| have a weekly attendance of 3000 Post, Chicago, ‘third. man's Friend, 234 N. Belmont| each. \ hy A ———————————————————— Ave, reported Bis Sriloced Safe) { was ransacked of $20 and another Mp BEY: J 0dr, pastor Harry Lauder Spends {$15 was taken from a cash regis-| {ter by burglars who forced. a direct ‘the choir in the special| STRATHAVEN, Scotland, Aug. |"®&F door. : music. | | Also missing were 20 cartons of ’ {20 (UP)—8ir Harry Lauder spent cigarets, a case of liquor and an

a comfortable night but there was/undetermined amount of other i ' {no improvement in his condition, merchandise,

| LOS ANGELES, Aug. 29 (UP) sported today. |~Ernest A. Tucker, St, said Eon is Physicians rape ay

but ps A aaeiond ante bis cat strel and composer has had long

HURRICANE KILLS ONE The 79-year-old Scottish min-. CARACAS, Venezuela, Aug. 29 (UP)-—One person was killed and |

Many turn down the corner of a card to convey car and his garage crashed to-|Spell§ of unconsciousness in the 300 families were left homelgss|

that the card was left in person, while others wish S¢ther at an intersection while jt past. Week, they said. Se Yn Shit wt wn ment for 41 he Ml

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by 'a hurricane which lashed the Was being moved. Police booked| Mr. Lauder was stricken ‘with|big ofl field town of® Maracaibo! Mg. Tucker on suspicion of being cerebral thrombosis and uremia yesterday, reports received here)

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Frederick B. Snite Jr., 38, famed for his fight against polio, has been in an irom lung for 13 years and five months. He prepared the following dispatch as a message of encouragement to

all victims of polio. By FREDERICK B, SNITE

BRAINERD, Minn, Aug. 29 — For those persons, young and old, who are suffering from infantile paralysis,

I'have this adyice:

“Trust in God and all will be well.” ! I have followed this advice myself for more than 13 years, i

and it has never failed me yet.

When I was stricken in China in 1936, I was taken to tHe Peking Union Medical College which provided an iron lung. It | was the only iron lung in all Asia at that time. It could only have been Divine Providence that cared for my needs in that region so remote from my own country. 4

» » n NOW I have progressed to the point. where I can leave my fron lung for as long as four hours by using a home-made portable respirator. The portable lung is especially helpful when. I play in bridge tournaments such as the one in which I am now participating at a resort near Brainerd. To those persons who have not contracted infantile paralysis, but who are afraid they or their loved ones will do so, 1 would offer the same message: “Place your faith in God.

Know that He is with you in |

whatever you are doing.” . » » THERE ARE .many good, common-sense rules that can. be followed to minimize the possibility of contracting infantile paralysis. Everyone — especially chil-dren-—should kéep as well: rested as possible. They should avold fatigue, because fatigue cuts down the resistance of

| even the most healthy person.

There Is no need for hysteria when the word polio is mentioned. Doctors tell me it is a fairly rare disease—that it affects no more than dne person in 6000. And of those who-do contract it, three out of four recover completely. x

» vr r THESE, THEN, should be the rules for all to follow,

whether or not they are suf-

ferers from Infantile paralysis: Be sensible, Keep calm. Trust completely in God. I cannot emphasize too strongly the power of prayer. Those of us who have called on

God for help to carry on, know *

that He supplies it abundantly.

JR., Written for United Press

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Bolivian Revolt

Rebellious - Miners 4

| Threaten Attack | La Paz, Bolivia, Aug. 20 (UP) [—U. 8. embassy planes were ore dered today to bring our Amerie {can technicians and their families {from the Andean tin mining re« |glon of Catavi, where a rebellion {was believed underway. The rebellion was reported by the offices of Patino Mines, which said miners in Catavi had threat {ened to attack the town garrison, Meantime, acting Presidént Mamerto Urriolagditia said rebels remained in control “of Cochabamba and Santa Cruz in the southern provinces, where a right-wing revolt broke out. Mr. Urriolagoitia sald Loyalist planes bombed the Cochabamba Adrport, wrecking the runway and {setting gasoline supplies afire, to prevent a possible air attack against La Paz . Sucre, another city taken by the insurgents, was reported back in the hands of Loyalist forces, There was nothing to indicate that the outbreak in the mining was conpected with the