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Success . . . John ©. Spisiman fright) talks to Rep. Andy Jacobs about the GAR commemorative stamp which the California men spearheaded

to realization.

BE £5:

Designed GAR Highway Sign

. man. “I won't retire until ¥ wind up this highway

lan

i | Jos Clovesp t

plblic, he was here last encampment.

first business ; Often he lapses into French, - I our heavy y Baring. 1 siden once said. ‘shelled . the tongue he learned from birth. woods’ ™ The : successful even|It Was the language his mother

whip me but himself, and he only

“I'l be fn Nevada the first of 1951 when their|3ia it once” he said.

legislature meets and I'm going to shame them . wou into making it unanimous,” stated Mr. Splelman.! quar ONE TIME coming,” and the wrinkled old face twisted into a chuckle. THE SCRAPBOOK is full of snapshots of mark-| “Man, I was tired. I should hove

ors from coast to coast. He also is the designer of been working, but I found a straw

pile and went to sleep. ‘That's when Master John got after me. He was a busy man raising chickens and hogs, but he got tired of it and bought 1W acres near Vicksburg where he set out cotton.

ing work for the past 20 years,” sighed Mr. Spiel-

business of which I'm engineer and that will put an end to my work for the GAR which began in

1913” “ii. : “ § " “I ran away after we moved youl and something else to go after,” was there. Was 17 and bad wo busi

ness running away. Just did it like a foolish kid. Maybe it was the war. Anyway, no one ever tried to. find me and send me home. : . » ” “IT WAS A YEAR later that 1 joined up. I wanted to help free my mother and all the other

“Maybe so,” Mr, Spielman laughed. “I have a few good years left.” As I said, the youngster of 86 did quite a bit of talking. - = : ® + <

Someone signing himself as the “Bluebird” says he’s going to help with the sales promotion of “You, Too.” He sends five authorized requests from Salem. There were 17 today and that brings the total to 1552. Go to it Bluebird, only 28,448 to go.

Customers Wanted By Robert C. Ruark

State Service

_ NEW YORK, Aug. 30—There is a fellow who lives way down yonder in New Orleans, a lad by the name of Robert Tallant. Mr, Tallant is a book author. His books do not sell good. They sell like maybe 5000, 7000, 10,000 copies, which is a poor return on the energy it takes to write a book, even a bad one. 3 - Mr. Tallant has written three:that I have read «Mrs, Candy and Saturday Night,” “Angel in

+> the. Wardrobe,” and “Mr. Preen’s Salon.” They are - all pretty good books, if what you want in a book

is no lecture or sermons, no messages and no tracts. Mr. Tallant deals lightly in modern people

—N’Awlins-type people—and N’Awlins-type people

are apt to be as interesting as any people there are. Now there is a guy who gives you all the New -QOrieans atmosphere aif the New Orleans feeling,

‘and he gives you good dialogue and some sharp,

clean satire and a lot of sound and smell, which is supposed to be good book-writing. But the volumes do not cause riots at the bodk stalls. I giess

' {f Mr. Tallant is not eating independently of his

literary endeavor he is apt to be very hungry indeed,

Others Selling Millions

WORKING in the same town is Mr. Harnett Kane and Miss Frances Parkinson Keyes, both of whom sell 9,000,000 coples of everything they write, Miss’ Keyes’ last avalanche was a piece of competent hokum called “Dinner at Antoin’s” and was written strictly for matrons. Mr. Kane's last was one of those bosomy historicals, full of crinoline and sideburns, and I guess the customers still love it. : What I do not get is why the stylized hokum will sell, and the historicals will sell, and the loud ones with the big messages will sell, but a guy writing it pretty clean and quiet with his humor can't seem to find a customer. Mr. Tallant has poked more incisive fun at the modern old South

- | EVANSVILLE, Aug. 30—Win-

than anybody I Know but I Guess nobody but me sae ERNE aru Sutter and his editors want : s " There seems to be some sort of reader revulsion| buxom y vans ville Bonsewife a). today against satire, unless it is laid on in rough seaay pol m on a or Then a chunks with a steam-shovel, and plainly marked we done" of: arsenic “joke” at all the intersections. Also I guess books a aI prondbinitheigen have got to be physically thick to sell Beavity, on or ' 8 the premise that anything long is a bargain, . I never met this Tallant fellow, nor do I owe The Tady Sy mer. easing him any money, but I thought I would bring him a a a on up as perhaps a fresh breeze in a business that has Thur sy MOE a is ry practically scared me away from reading. Mr. daughter protested her innocence Tallant handles his characters in a nice easy man- Sang ie ye acs ner, and if he espouses some hidden cause or is Bunic al ey mo 2 a, practicing a subtle literary voodoo I have not been Tee brs p” og. » irom able to discover it in the three volumes. 2p Zansville a Tatiana Ca g t Up on War Books formed the autopsy at dawn last THIS DOUBTLESS betrays ‘some shotking Thursday, said Winter Dearing triviality of soul and conscience, but I believe I “could not possibly have lived” am all caught up on neurotic war books weighing s¢ter the “enormous” dose of areight pounds each, and if one Jaore nan he One€{genic entered his. body. more weighty novel about civi rties being fractured I will be tempted to go out and fracture a, Daughter iro Batumation couple myself, just to let off steam. ; ville ’ hospital This mood applies to all historical novels, all|__: books pertaining to doom, all inside revelations of| the Roosevelt regime and all shortcuts to Heaven| cumstances as portrayed by the professionals who use religion .

just five months after his wife died in the same

The circumstances

Jos Has Clear Mind, A ight, Hearing Are Failing a slave, the property of John Lengree, plantation master.near New

La. ‘Last surviving Negro veteran in the Grand Army of the Retoday with five other Boys in Blue, attending

t/take me, said I was too young

I had it/}

hospital under “mysterious” cir-|

slaves. At first the Army wouldn't

of Colored Infantry. The outfi not permitted to fight but f

lowed the advancing troops as garrison guard. ‘ » y

r he i (at the plantation home of Jeffer-

son Davis, president of the Con-

ederacy. “Man, that was a’ beautiful place,” he recalled. “It burned to the ground while 1 was there, It was a shame, but that's what ‘happened. We had a lot of ammu‘nation stored there and we sure imowed fast to get it out.” | The war etched many mem|ories. before he was mustered out {in '65 in Arkansas: He was de(tailed to the mass burial of the {dead at Vicksburg. Vivid are his

—

{recollections of plundering troops.

{of both sides and the fear of {Negro soldiers should they fall {captive to a radical Southern | leader.

¥ » be | THE END of the war brought | freedom, but not the immediate happiness for which he (hoped. In the welter of wecon{struction, he could not find his aging mother. For the next 20 {years he never gave up the |search, ?

Evansville Woman's Father Had ‘Huge’ Arsenic Dose

arrested by detectives in Mem{phis, Tepn., as she drove her {ailing husband, Arleigh, 39, to {Hot Springs, Ark. She has been

}

lin jail since.

| Arleigh Spurlock, who has been {ill of a “nervous disorder” which {makes him a partial cripple and {prohibits the use of his hands |because of numbness, has refused {to submit to an examination to determine if he is suffering from | poisoning. “Love is blind,” Sheriff Me{Donald said in discussing Mr, {Spurlock’s refusal to be examined.

| Meanwhile, Mrs. Spurlock was

University toxicologist who per- genied freedom on a writ. “of! corpus yesterday _wéfore

habeas Circuit Judge Ollie C. ves in | Vanderburgh. County.” She had sought to prove t the state {did not have sufficient evidence {to hold her on & murder charge. ! Grand Jury-to Act > { The court overruled the move of Ted Lockyear, defense attorney, that the Circuit Court {lacked - jurisdiction in the pre-

as an author's gimmick. Mr. Tallant is n6 Veltaire, and maybe he isn’t even up to Evelyn Waugh, but he has some qualities I consider fine. He did not personally win the

war, he is not outraged at the military caste sys-

of Mrs. Dearing’s death resulted diminary hearing. He contended in Sheriff Frank McDonald ef that Mrs. Spurlock could not he {Vanderburgh County causing her held on an affidavit and must be body to be exhumed, over her Indicted by the Grand Jury on a daughter's protests, and the sub-| murder charge. {sequent finding of arfenic which, The Grand Jury is in session

campment,

For a time he worked in the (cotton fields and then sought em-| ployment as a stevedore on the! steamboats plying the Ohio and; | Mississippi Rivers.

Henry L. Weil

Fourteen-year-old Richard Becker came to Indianapolis from Waukesha, Wis., on his vacation to see the Grand Army's last enHe realized his ambition to talk to Civil War veterans like Joseph Clovese, 105, lone surviving Negro member of the GAR.

Rites Tomorrow | Ex-Lawyer

Judge in 1936 | Alfred Evens, senior member of the Indiana University School of |}

Every trip into New Orleans he would take up his search. Then came the fateful journey that brought reunion. Taken sick after docking, he was hospitalized, “A

Alfred Evens

“That made it’ sure,” the old soldier said and pulled back h shart to show the mark. .

. ! UNCLE JOE, as he is called today, cared for his mother until

- | her death at 90. He gave up being

a stevedore and broke horses for driving. As age crept up on hin, he turned to gardening, never leaving ‘the South, He worked until infirmity took its toll at 8. A year ago he moved to - with Mrs. Vi

Today he spends his o reminiscing, but aks for an understand between his

race and the tes. “Serve Lord. Do unto thers you would have

nt you. In time we all ‘will come together tian band.” The last surviving Negro GAR

veteran bowed his head. :

IU Professor Dies

Nominee for

Law faculty and active in the ReVincent's Hospital. He was 68. Bloomington attorney, Mr. Evens joined the Indiana University Law

tion for judge of the Indiana Appellate Court in 1936. Mr. Evens was born in GreenMrs. John W. Evens. He was

School and received the Ph.B. de-

Henry L We Victim of Polio

Local Businessman

Dies in Hospital

Services for Henry L. Weil, prominent Indianapolis business-

‘| Frankfort, for four years.

tem, but he did not formulate Mr. Roosevelt's : z tansign policy and he is not dead set against ain. Teiited re he Svirdes warrant He has never retreated to the woods to raise Following his wife's death. Mr chickens, and has not yet discovered communism pone sold his Huntingburg as a literary bonanza. If these be frail talents, = willed his $20,000 estate to just consider me a man of frail tastes who is tired ye. 0 “Spurlock and went ‘tp Her of being hit over the head with the gwfulness of | poansville home to reside.

the present or forced to retreat to the pantalented 1," "short time, although he past for ‘escape. {

Iwas supposedly in excellent | health, he was seized with a sud-

FCC Sees Spots

7 {den illness and died under circum- : : |stances which Sheriff McDonald By Frederick C. Othman tances ~ equally as mysterious ! {as those surrounding the death of

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30--The poor old Federal Communications Commission has spots hefore its eyes today for sure. Technicolored spots. And if television never had been invented it would

. be all right with the commissioners.

how a bloody nose looks on a video screen. - : Worrying the government is what's going to - happen to the millions already invested in tele-

The battle, and it is a little lulu, is over television in full color. In one corner is the Columbia Broadcasting System, which has a spinning disc of color that turns the gray ghosts of television into actresses with big blue eyes and peaches-and-cream complexions. In the other is the Radio Corporation of America, which says it has an even better widget to accomplish the same colorful result electronically. But everybody wants to get inte the act. Several other fellows have apparatus to color television by other means. Sen. Ed Johnson of Colorado, insists that politics has held up approval of tinted vision for the last two years. He has demanded that the U. 8S. Bureau of Standards investigate. Still others insist that television ought to remain black and white, And the egg is in the

middle. . Rainbows by Wireless FOUR WEEKS hence it has called publio-hear-ings on the subject; even now the engineers are getting up .their circuits to transmit rainbows by wireless, and the battle is about to come jut in the open. Before it’s over I havé no doubt T'll see

vision receivers in American homes. Sen. Johnson says, a little more politely than this, nuts. He figures that if the government had been in charge of automobiles and wo about obsolesence, we'd be riding still in Stanley. steamers and Rauch-Lang electric coupes. Both CBS and RCA claim they have this one

Black Box for $25

v his wife. licked. They've. got converters’ which will bring: Sheriff Swore Warrant color to present sets. rr | ‘With"the finding of arsénic in The CBS job-T have Seen. This Sonsists of a the body of Mrs. Dearing, Sheriff round transparent scréen with segments. colored! McDonald swore out a warrant green, red and yellow, You slide this in front of{charging. murder of her mother any television spt’ (even an RCA set, as CBS didiand the attractive housewife was in its demonstration), turn it to spinning and the) —

black and white gentlemen with the jokes mirac- » He ulously dévelop ‘sunburn, red mustaches, blue me, Geor ge Heckman

and pink neckties. MN: : nau converter, hoxed mostly in mahogany, is Dies at His Home neat enough, but CBS hasn't said what it'll cost. The nearest it's come to prices is to announceiman, former pressman for two that color television by its system will cost about Indianapolis newspapers, who died 25 per cent more than black and white. | yesterday in his home, 2571 8, {California St., will be held at 1:30

RCA HASN'T managed to set up its machinery here yet. So all I can do is quote the management, It claims to develop the color inside the tube itself and that for $25 it will provide a small black box that will do the trick. - | The two corporations aren't talking about each| other's systems in public, but they seem to be about as neir together on how. to produce color)

| Chapel of the Chimes. . Burial will be in Gregnwood Cemetery. A lifelong Indianapolis resident, Mr. Heckman had been a pressman for the Indianapolis Star 31 years before going to the Indianapolis News four years ago.. He

television as they are on how fast to spin phonograph records. 3 ROA’S records run at 45 revolutions a minute, as you know, while Columbia's travel at 33. This means that: they've got to have separate ma-

s-chinery to play. This has so confused and angered

the music loving piblic that sales of all kinds of records have skidded almost to depression lows, The government's problem is to get the two firms to kiss and make up. At least in technicolor. That's easier sald ‘than done. But I'm a hopeful fellow: if the right gentlemen shake hands we'll have tinted television by spring, instead of five years from now as the experts were predicting only a few weeks ago. 5

The Quiz Master

272 Test Your Skill 77?

Who

was successful in the quest for the Holy

ng for Ht, And finally Sir Galahad did the trick. legend,

How was the term “filibuster” first used? It was a name originally given to those frée-

booters that the coast of America ing the 16th and 17fh. centuries. It was later - applied to Ia adventurers, not from

Oungresn, Bat Trom the United Slates who st tempted to seize upon various countries of Spanish * +

What was the first steamship to cross the At-

was a veteran of World War 1

and a member of the Olive Branch Christian Church. He

was 53. | Burviving are his wife, Josephine; three brothers, Charles E., Joseph and Donald Heckman; {four sisters, Mrs. Ivy Wineman, Mrs, Vera Martin, Mrs. Geneva Jones and Mrs. Agnes Basso, and a nephew, Robert E. Worland, all of Indianapolis. ’ :

Mrs. Thomas Bailey Jr. To Head Committee

Charles Brownson, chairman |of the Juvenile Court's Advisory Council, has appointed Mrs. Thomas Bailey, Jr., as chairman of the council's scholarship committee, 3 The work of the comniittee will

dur-| consist of alsin g funds for the

training of promising “* young gradustes at Indiana University’s division of social services. " Other members of the committee are: i Mrs. E. C, Atkins, Mrs. Edwin |B. Evans, Roscoe Conkle, Mrs.

lantic Ocean? TE |Lawrence Dorsey, Mrs. Brandt It was the Savannah—a vessel of about 350 Downey; Mrs. Karl M. Koons, tons’ burden, measuring 100 feet in length. She Wallace 0. Lee, Miss E. MacDou- % Tr

“was. finally wrecked oft the south coast of Long pall, Robert St. Pierce and Mrs. XY fi Ca | Thomas D, Sheerin.

now and the prosecuting attorney has said Mrs. Spurlock's {case will be presented. | -In evidence presented yesterday the prosecution sought to establish that Mrs. Spurlock did not

man and amateur dramatics enthusiast who died Sunday nignt in Long Hospital after a threeweek battle agajnst poliomyelitis, wil! be held at 10:30 a. m. tomor-| row in the Aaron-Ruben Funeral)

want to send her mother to a Home, Burial will be.jn the: In-|

hospital. | Her physician, Dr. R. J. Rossow, however, testified that Mrs.

|siantfulis Hebrew Congregation Cemetery. | The family has requested no

grea from DePauw University in 1902. He received a law degree from Indiana University in 1907. In 1903 and 1904 Mr. Evens took graduate work at the University of Chicago and was superintendent of schools at Monrovia. He later practiced law in Indianapolis and was associated with Frankfort General Insurance Co.,

From 1914 to 1920 he was as-|' sociated in law practice with the late Congresman Will R. Wood of Lafayette. Mr. Evens was counsel for the Monon Railroad for eight years before joining the Law School faculty. Active.in Bar Association work, Mr. Evens was a member of tie American Bar Association, Indiana Bar Association, Monroe

[County Bar Association, Sigma

Nu Fraternity, Phi Delta Phi,

Spurlock wanted her mother to flowers be sent to the funeral legal fraternity; Order of the £0 to the hospital when she was Dome. Instead, friends are asked Colf, legal honorary; Columbia

stricken.

{to send contributions in his name

Club of Indianapolis, Blooming-

Authorities were studying the to the National Foundation for ton Kiwanis Club, and president

case today but it was undeter{mined whethér additional charges

Infantile Paralysis. | | Mr, Well, who was vice presi-|

of the Monroe County Alumni Association. of DePauw Univer-

would be filed as the result of dent of the Victor Furniture Co. sity. .

the finding of arsenic in Mr, Dearing’s body.

was active in civic affairs and a'

stanch supporter of the activi- Kathleen Lindley Evens, Moores. summer

He is survived by his wife, Mrs.

It was said that the additional ties of the Kirshbaum Community | ville. :

evidence would .nrobably be presented to the Grand Jury.

William H. Thoma Dies at Age of 80

| Times State Serviee

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{were to be held for William H. {Thomas,r Wells County farmer {and one-time operator of the

p. m. Thursday in the J. C, Wilson farms of former Gov, Warren T. former employee of the Harrison!

(McCray, near Kentland, at 2:30 Pp. m." in the Thomas Funeral Home here. Burial was to follow lin Churubusco. ! | Mr. Thomas died Saturday in| Wells County Hosptial following! a long illness. He -was 80. { Surviving are 10 children in-

Union City, O., he had lived ii Including Mrs. Maybell Ballinger, dianapolis Indianapolis; Mrs. Ethyl King, 58.

Kokomo; Albert L. Thomas and/ Mrs. Flossie Sumner, Ft. Wayne!

Center. He was a member of the! {Kirshbaum Players and. had {played leading roles in severxl of |its productions. He was 37, | Active pallbearers will include! Leonard Solomon, William 8. Deckelbaum, Joseph A. Rothbard,

|and Alvin L, Cohen. | | Russell J. Cassel i - Services for Russell J. Cassel,

| |

Hotel, will be held at 1 p. m. to-| {morrow in Shirley Bros. Central Chapel. Burial will follow in} Crown Hill, Mr. Cassel, who lived in R. R.! 12, Indianapolis, died Sunday in Billings General Hosfiital after an]

Former Mayor Of Muncie Dies

MUNCIE Aug:

ryiee

John C.

Services for George W. Heck-| BLUFETON, Aug. 30—8ervices| Burton Kohn, Walter Lichtenstein| Hampton, ‘former mayor of Mun-

cie and a Republican candidate for the nomination for governor in 1948, died early today in his home after a heart attack. He had been in ill health for the past four years. He was 58 Mr, Hampton served as mayor from 1925 to 1929 and from 1942

publican Party, died today in St.|} A former Indianapolis and}

castle in 1881, the son of Mr. and} graduated from Greendastle High [8

Served 40 Years as Hotel English Clerk

Services for Irvin 8. Thorpe, clerk in the Hotel ‘English for 40 years, will bé held at 3 p. m, tomorrow in the Kirby Mortuary. Burial will be In Crown Hiil Cemetery. “. . Thorpe ‘died yesterday morning in his home, 434 W, 43d St. He was 70. His long years of service in the hotel came to an end early this year when wrecking gpera(tions to make way for the new [Penney building began. Until a year ago, Mr. Thorpe and his wife, Merle, operated a photo {graphic concession. during the months at Riverside

| Park.

- | Born in Metamora, Ind., he had

made his home in Indianapolis for 47 years. ‘He was a member of the Third Christian Church and its Christian Men Builders Sunday School Class and the Elks Lodge. Surviving besides his wife are a daughter, Mrs. Carl Tr, Indianapolis; a son, Irvin. 8. Thorpe Jr., Shelby County, and six grandchildren,

‘Mrs. Everett Winings

| Services for Mrs. Bertha M.,

: | ; to 1048. He retired from politics mings. 49 N. Chester St. who

because of {ll health following his| second term in January, 1948. | A native of Indianapolis, he! was educated in city schools in|

ifiness of two “years. Born in| gountain City and came to Mun-|

Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Edith Creamer, Louisville;

cie in 1916. Here, with an uncle, |

a furniture business. |

died Sunday in Methodist Hos pital, will be at 2 p. m. tomorrow in Dorsey Funeral Home. Burial will be in Crown Hill. She was 51, A native of Owen County, Mrs, Winings lived here for 35 years. °

for 25 years,’ He Was Horace G. Hampton, he operatec She was an employee of Bowes

Seal-Fast Corp. and a member

Past district president of /the/of Fourth ‘Church of Christ,

American Legion. During!

1 four Elks Lodge, he was also active in Scientist. Mrs. Bessie Easterday, Hunting-| sister, Mrs. Nora Jemings and the

Surviving are her husband,

ton; Mrs. Mildred Leazier, Churu- M¥s. Mary Walters, Indianapolis; World War I, he had served in Everett F. Winings: a son, Robe

busco, and Gayleand Merle Thom- Mrs. Bessie Thompson, Mt. Car-/the Medical Corps.

as, Bluffton. * imel, Ill, and Mrs. Anna Miller,

|Granville, O.,, and a brother, And four sons, Mrs. Charles Saltmarsh|xobie Cassel, Indianapolis. Mrs. Walter Martz

{Services for Mrs. Catherine B.| {Saltmarsh, Indianapolis resident {for 35 years who died yesterday {in her home, will be held Thurs{day ia Louisville, Ky. Friends may call until 10 p. m. today in the Conkle Funeral Home. She was 87, (A native of Louisville, Mrs, Saltmarsh is survived by her husband, Charles Saltmarsh, and two sons, Robert and Eugene Saltmarsh, all of Indianapolis. Will Attend Parley Dr. Charles C. Josey, head of the psychology department at {Butler University's . College of {Liberal Arts and Sciences, will lattend the national convention of

the American Paychologien) Asso elation, Sept. 5-10, in y

i J; and a brother; Venture

Farris C. Stevens

Farris C. Stevens, former salesman for the Champion Undertaking Supplies Co. in Springfield, 0,, will be buried in Rose Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, following services at 10 a. m, Thursday in the Gillis Funeral Home there. Mr. Stevens died yesterday in his home, 214 N. Tremont St. after an illness of six months, He was 46. : Born In Clay County, "Mr. Stevens moved to Indianapolis two years ago from St. Louis, Mo. He was a member of the United Brethren Church. Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Ella Stevens, Indianapolis; two daughters, the Misses Diane and Mbrry Ellen Stevens, Elizabeth,

_|Years. Prior to her fliness she alterations

. | Bryant, of Crawfordsville.

Surviving are his wife, Reba,

Mrs, Ina Grace Martz died today at her residence, 715 .8. Gerard Drive, followin a. long iliness. She was 47, A native of Frankfort, Mrs. Martz had been a resident of Indianapolis for the past thive

was employed in the department at L. 8. Ayres & Co. She was a member of the Fleming Garden Christian

‘Surviving her are’ husband, Walter, and a son, Robert, of Indianapolis; a brother, , Grover Wills and a sister, Mrs. Ruth

_ Services will be held at 2 px m

of Crawfordsville

Terre Haute,

Thursday at Moore & Kirk Ben Davis Chapel, 6112 W. Washington St, the Rev. Arvin Taylor

Burial wil follow in. Crown Hilla gran

ert R. Winings, Lawton, Okla.;

in one great