Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 August 1949 — Page 15

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MINUTE inspection of the spool revealed the quality to be inferior and almost five yards less thread. Madam X sighed contentedly, practically jumped up and clicked her heels. Beats me. A conservative estimate of the distance traveled to find Belding thread is 12 miles. I never realized merchants had so much thread. What do people do with Belding thread? That's one of the things I forgot to ask Madam X, “We shop for all types of merchandise,” my companion said, as we turned to go back from whence we came. My suggestion that she carry me piggy back was flatly turned down. “Tomorrow we may be shopping for refrigerators or sweaters. Anything.” “Solong, gumshoe.” Wonder how she does her Christmas shopping. She certainly doesn’t buy the first thing she sees. Rough. :

ee © Wha hoppened? “You, Too” almost had a shutout today. If it hadn’t been for Patsy Troyer, 1119 Lexington Ave. the score would have been 1552, same as yesterday. Patsy brought the total up to 1553. Looks like there’s going to be tough going ahead.

False Spokesman

By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Aug. 31—It is just a wee touch

nic that Mr. Paul Robeson, the political lark... an tio ‘in the same tone of any other civic society that tion of the riot at Peekskill, N. Y., which busted up *

should demand a Department of Justice investiga-

a concert at which he was supposed to sing. Mr. Robeson being of the Communist persuasion and a disliker of his own land, one would imagine that he would regard the Justice Department with that malaise peculiar to all Communist followers, which is to say that Justice is a fascist arm with no legal probity in its administration. It is very amusing, I think, how the cop-haters always holler for the law when they gét in the

grease. It's also regrettable that the hotheads who were provoked into attacking Mr. Robeson’s songfest, at which he did not appear, should have given his agitators some solid grounds for complaint, since a riot is always regrettable for a variety of reasons. One of the chief reasons is that any show of violence is the finest of grist for the Communists,

Beat Me, Daddy ‘

“HIT ME with that club, you ever-loving Cossack,” they say. “Stroke my bleeding brow with that knout, so that all the world may know how I suffer. Beat me, Daddy, eight to the bar.” Mr. Robeson, with- remarkable inaccuracy, is now portraying the crack-up of his concert as an “attack on the whole Negro people.” This is how the system works—a flock of hotspurs tangle with an evil symbol and it suddenly is transformed into a mass attack on a whole people, good and bad, poor and rich. , . It is a matter of fact that Mr. Robeson has been disclaimed officially by the top spokesman for the Negro in America, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peaple. Last April, when the singer was flapping his face in Europe, Walter White, the then secretary of the NAACP; put out a stout bulletin. It just said simply that Mr. Robeson had never been selected or appointed as spokesman for Negro America, and that he was screaming on his own time. The NAACP yesterday deplored the rioting in

Peekskill, and sent out assorted telegrams to Gov. Tom Dewey and other key New York staters, but

frowns on mob scenes. Nowhere, however, is there a broad indorsement of Robeson as a. qualified representative of his race. Actually the big ex-all-American and Phi Beta Kappa has become an embarrassment to his people, a freak among his fellows. Young Jackie Robinsdbn of the Brooklyn Dodgers was more or less forced to tick him off sharply a few weeks hack, because Robeson has wishfully injected himself into the ideological scene as typical American Negro, and that he ain't. He is a sophisticated disciple of the K treasonous in his talk of the land that bred him. He is a rabble rouser leaning on an old reputation and an old vogue among the too-too set of esoteric New York.

Spoiling for a Fight ANY TIME your Robesons or your Henry Wallaces go out among the people to preach their own peculiar gospel, they are eager and willing to accept the tilted autos and hurled fruit which sometimes greet them in sectors which are less tolerant than just plain annoyed at the pass. I was with Wallace on the egg-throwing tour of the South last year, and his every move was an insult to local tradition; his every action ‘was hopefully geared to inspire riot and violence, When shrewd handling by local authorities often frustrated his opportunity to foment trouble, he folded.his caravan. and snuck off. 3 Somebody ought to tell these lusty youths who slugged it out with the Robeson followers that they do a great disservice te the country and a great favor for the creed of Paul Robeson when they give him fuel for a legitimate beef-—when they supply him with the kind of material which has ever been employed gainfully by the hatepeddlers. , A man like Robeson, who has been officially cast out by the prime spokesman for his people, acquires no importance either for himself or his cause unless people dignify his existence by a disgraceful show of mob resentment, Let the guy alone and he withers on the. vine, :

New Gimmicks

ans of the Civil War,

In the Service—

2 Finish Course At Ft. Benning

Local Marines

In Basic Training Second Lt. Stephen M. Noland, son of Mrs. T. M. Noland, 2124 Broadway, and Second Lt. Marfon "D, Joyce, husband of Mrs. Gladys E., Joyce, Acton, have, been graduated from a special associate infantry course at Ft. Benning, Ga. The course is a requirement for infantry graduates of officer candidate school. ¥ n . Two Marine privates, Jesse 8. Webb, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lionel E. Decker, 104 W. 334 St, and Robert Herrick, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel T, Herrick, 3344 E. 34th St, are In basic training at the Marine Recruit Depot, Parris Island, 8. C. ” - = With the 24th Infantry Division on Kyushu, Japan, BFC. Warren W. Thomson, husband of

Friends Boys In [

Mrs. Anna B. Thomson, is serving as a member of the division rifie team. Mrs. Thomson and| the couple's three children are! also in Japan. {

Donald F. Greene, son of Mr. and Mrs. Forrest A. Greene, 32) McLean Place, has completed the radio repair course with the) Eighth Army Signal Corps School| at Hiyoshi, Japan, | » # »

Four Indiana men have taken a two-week course in recruit training at the Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Ill. They are Robert Dobbins, Mooresville; William * D. Minkner, R. R. 2,! Brownsburg; Garland Dean Ruse, | staff, 137 8. Second St. Beech Naval Reserve. n . r

Vaughn C. Overstreet, 427 Ww. | 424 St, and James M. Roberts, | 602 N. Bancroft 8t., have suc-| cessfully completed the inaugural!

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31—Now we've got liquid sandpaper on the market—and push-button auto. polish. And I wouldn't be surprised if oldfashioned elbow grease goes the way of the buggy whip. You apply the liquid sandpaper with a brush: it takes the shine off the old paint, roughens the surface, and leaves it ready for a new coat of varnish. It's something like paint remover, but not quite. The no-rub sedan shiner is something easier still, S This comes in one of those mosquito-slaying bombs. But instead of vontaining bug juice, the bomb holds self-polishing: liquid wax under pressure. Touch the button and it hisses a spray of wax on an automobile body in less time than it fakes to read about it here. That's all there is to the job. When the goo dries, the car is polished. . Wonders never cedse¢ and with that in mind I rushed over to the U. 8, Patent Office to see what further labor-saving devices were in the works. The inventors this summer have come up with a wide assortment of self-sharpening lawnmowers, full-color television sets, underwear to make ladies look more shapely, and turbines for flying machines. "And then there was the ‘device of George Yurkovich, the long-suffering father of Harmarville, Pa.

Invenis Self-Rocking Cradle

HE INVENTED, Patent No. 2478445, the self-rocking cradle. Touch the button and wan electric motor gently rocks junior to sleep. Max N. Mosel of Fulton, Mo,, invented an apparatus for putting the butter on the corn instead of on the tablecloth; its ‘a squeegee dingus curved to fit an ear of corn. The butter's inside. Zip. Each kernel gets greased. Laurence A. Werth of Dearborn, Mich,, who believes that food tastes better when pretty, produced an automatic carver to make radishes look like roses, '

The Quiz Master

| | I don’t know what to think about Aya Mary

Kiss of Cleveland, O., who patented a process to miake green chicks (as well as blue, crimson and pink) hatch from hen’s eggs. The system is to insert the color via a needle into the egg. When this becomes a chick, its down is colored to order. The trouble was that Miss Kiss did not tell the patent office what she wanted with lavender chickens. - °

basic course under the Naval Re-|

Naval Training Station,

Two. Central Indiana men are| attached to the aircraft carrier| USS Valley Forge which has been | awarded the Battle Efficiency

cellence during the fiscal year] ending July 30. | They are Charles W. Keeling, | airman, husband of Mrs. Grace |

Leon L. Kuempel of Cincinnati, O., produced | a refrigerator to fit under the hood of an automo- | bile and blow cold air on the passengers. | Leo Feldman of Santa Monica, Cal., inventéd the first shoe tree that does a job on, heelless shoes for ladies, while George H. Von Koscielski of San Diego, Cal, thought up a drinking fountain to fit on the side of your.jce box,

Device Removes Hairpins |

WILLIAM H. MOORE and Lela B. Fuller of Buffalo, N. Y., made a little easier the life of the beauty parlor operator with what the government

Amphibious Base, Little Creek, Va., and Kenneth L. Dalton, tor- | pedoman’'s mate third class, aboard” the USS Diablo at Nor-

called a device for removing hairpins. It's a big

electromagnet that swings over the customer's band of Mrs. Vera E. Dalton, 1101/9:15 a. m.

head. Push that little button again and whoosh. No hairpins. And that brings us to Adam E. Labser of Hamden, N. Y; who is by all odds the inventor of the month. He has turned an automobile crash into a pleasure. Under the roof of Mr. Labser's sedan, mounted on tracks over the doors, is a mattress of foam rubber. Behind it, up by the rear window, is a small charge of dynamite. This is connected by a wire ta the front bumper, 80 he smashed into a truck, The first impact sets off an explosion. "This shoots the mattress forward and down in front of the windshield and all ‘those sharp knobs sticking out of the dash. All this aappens In such a hurry that by the time he's thrown forward he’s not killed, or even maimed, but cuddled in padding. .

27? Test Your Skill ???

What is the record for a baseball throw? Sheldon Lejeunie, in Olncinnati, 0. Oct. 12,

1910, threw a. baseball 426 feet 915 Inches. Later

records: do mot ‘state that this throw has been

Where is the highest light maintained by the U. 8. Coast Guard?

It is the light on top of the island of Lebua,| Hawaiian Islands. This light Is

folk, Va. Mr. Dalton is the husWaldemere St.

Fair Visitor's Cameras | Stolen From His .Car

A State Fair visitor from Goshen reported to police today the theft of two leather-cased cameras values at $600 from his

Brownsburg, and John Bigger-|}

Grove. All are members of the

serve Officer Candidate Program |: at the Newport, R. I.

£73 ate

James Hard, 108, whispers to his granddaughter, Mrs. Lola Eksten, a accompanied the oldest GAR veteran here from his home in Rochester, N.Y.

ind Relatives Surround lue At Last Encampmer

William M. Hevner (left) and Charles Marsh, son and great-grandson of GAR veterans, came to Indianapolis from Easton, Pa., as members of Company D, 2d Regiment, of the Sons of Union Veter-

table.

The 102. chat with each they assembled in Mr. Penland's room.

National Commander Theodore A. Penland, 100, and coms!

panion, Mrs. Eleanor F. Stables, Shpesred at the official reception for the six "Boys in Blue" yesterday.

Albert Woolson, 102, breaks a cracker ah

veteran managed to his, comrades yesterday when

At the last encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic are (left to right) Commander Theodore Penland, 100; Charls: Chappel, 102; Albert Woolson, 102; Joseph Clovese, 105; Robert

Baptist Editor Speaks Friday

The Rev. Lewis E. Maples, pastor of the First Baptist Church,

{1718 N. Meridian St., at the Naval Muncie, and editor of Sunday

School lessons for the -Indiana Baptist Observer and Muncie Evening Press, will address the Marfon County Teachers’ Institute at Friday in Manual Training High School, Active In church and eivic movements throughout the state, he is a member of the board of directors of the Muncie Kiwanis Club, the advisory board of the Muncie Boys’ Club and serves on the executive board of the Delaware County Society for the

parked car. |Crippled.

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E. C. Cripe, Goshen, said bely

In the summer of 1947, the Rev. r. Maples was the Indiana dele-

parked his car in front of 2701|gate to the Baptist World Con-

N. Pennsylvania St.

where he|gress in Copenhagen, Denmark.|se ! Cy . was staying. When he returned|He spent five oo observing at|Ex-Ruce Driver Fined:

last’ night, missing.

Two baseball mits—one auto- many, Belgium and France. ————————

graphed by the Indianapolis In-| dians baseball team--were stolen| from the home of Mrs. A. C.| Pritchard, 2613 Harlan St., she! reported today. the los« was $19. Burglars smashed a window at the Central Boiler Works, 1135/ 8. Harding St., knocked the combination off a safe but obtained

707 feet above only $1.50 and an adding machine Ee — for their efforts,

Sir Harry ‘Weakening’

STRATHAVEN, Scotland, Aug.

though the 79-year-old Scotch minstrel and composer spent a “fairly comfortable night,” his physicians sald today. Sir Harry has been ill with cerebral thrombosis and uremia since Oct. 20,

Pennant and “E"” for general ex-| Barrett, 102, and James Hard, 108. Tonight the Grand Army will muster itself out to eternity.

County Teachers’ Meeting Will Hear Talk by Pastor |

The Rey. Lewis E. Maples

the cameras were first hand conditions in England, | a i Denmark, Sweden, Holland, tac: $25 for Pistol-Toting

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31 (UP) ~Millionaire sportsman Joel | Thorne was out a $25 fine today {for carrying a pistol to shoot {birds along the road to The-500-

The amount of|31 (NP) -— Sir Harry Lauder's'mile Indianapolis Speedway race (strength is “diminishing” al- last May.

| The 34-year-old former race (driver paid the fine yesterday ant {told Judge Charles P. Johnson he didn’t know carrying a weapon as small as the 22-caliber target pis-

tol was lllegal.

Former Muncie Mayor To Be Buried Tomorrow

MUNCIE, Aug. 31 — Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p. m. fomorrow in Jackson Street | Christian Church for John C. Hampton, who died _early yes|terday. | Mr. Hampton, who was B58, served two terms as mayor of

| governor of the Elks Lodge. {was widely known in local and| [state Republican circles but had {been inactive since his last term ‘as mayor which ended Jan. | 1048, | Services will be in charge of! | Rev, Edgar Faye Daugherty and Rev. Robert G. Sulanke. Burial re be in Elm Ridge Cemetery.

Lodge Office Robbed (Of $498 in Cash, Checks

Police were today investigating the disappearance of $498.77 in

: {cash and checks from the office

of the Modern Woodmen of {America Insurance Co., 509 Board lof Trade Building. R |

Legion Reaffirms Hostility to Reds

All Anti-Communists PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 31 (UPY ~The American Legion, -re-afs

firming a pledge against come munism “under any cloak,” urged the United States today to sup. port any group which would try to stop further aggression in Eue rope and Asia. \ The declaration was contained in a resolution adopted by ace clamation at the Legion's 31st annual convention. The resolu tion recommended: 7 ONE. Rejection of defeatism and abandonment of China: support to any groups of Chinese ‘who will vigorously fight communism and outside aggressors”: formation of a Pacific Pact to help free peoples of the Far East to preserve their lberties. TWO. Continued support of the North Atlantic Pact through eco momic aid which “we are cone vinced will help prevent further aggression in Western Europe by the Soviets.” tv

Maj. Gen. Willlam (Wild Bill) Donovan, wartime commander of the Office of Strategic Services, urged in an address that the nation organize and unify its “cloa kand dagger” forces. The unorthodox ‘methods of warfare, such as Spreading rumors, employing deception, the harrassing of the enemy and the inciting of disorders in population centers, have been called “subversive and irrégular,” Gen, Donovan said,

+ ‘However, he added, these cloak

and Tr maneuvers are “older

_ {than orthodox and conventional

warfare.” 3 Gen. Donovan predicted the “final stage” will soon be reached in the “life or death” Marshal Tito’s Yugoslavian Bove ernment with Russia. The Soviet, he said, must act before Western

|help to Tito materializes,

(Sterling Named

To Revenue Post.

| Conn J. Sterling, director of the | State Gross Income Division, to |day was elevated to the post of {Commissioner of Reverue, suce ceeding Dr. John F. Mee.

Dr. Mee, Indiana University {School of Business professor, will {return to his teaching duties. He {had been on loan from the unie[versity since last Jan. 1; | Gov. Schricker announced that Mr. Sterling will continue as {Gross Income. Division director {until an assistant is named. { The Governor lauded both men {for their “splendid” service.’ He sald that Dr. Mee had gained the

| Muncie and was a past district|, Xdmiration” of the administra He|

tion for remodeling the. revenue (department, At the same time, three De partment of State Revenue heads were officially sworn in to their

[offices by Indiana Supreme Court

Judge Paul G. Jasper, They were Lawrence Lebanon, administrator of the Intangibles Tax Division; Frank Finney, Martinsville, head of the Store License Division, and Ver. non U. Dwyer, Muncie, director of the Inheritance Tax Division,

Writer Craig Rice Under Observation

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31 (UP) ~Mystery Writer Craig Rice, 4 wag under observation in Ge:

| E. H. Wilson, the office man:|liCiPital to@ay after police said

ager, said the money represented

|a bank. deposit which had been|ys

|prepared yesterday. morning by {A. G. Williams, company secreHH TL The money and checks, Mr. Wil|son told police, were placed in an envelope by Mr. Williams just pefare neon, When Nr a ato went to his desk to get the money, later he ot tetnon n, the envelope con the deposit was police were told. ~-

struggle of