Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 September 1949 — Page 9

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The pond is artificial, to be sure, but it's got everything a lucky duck needs for a happy exist. ence for a limited length of time. Pond, ducks, water, the whole shooting (no hunting allowed) match, belongs to Sears Roebuck & Co. Surprised? Russel Savage, store manager, Knows how you feel, In his case, after he arrived at the local Store Tast May, all mention of ducks and rumors of ducks were ignored. He thought he was getting the business, Then one day high atop the Merchants ‘Bank building in the company of Gene Vaughn, WFBM salesman, the latter, among other sights of the city, pointed out the Sears duck pond. Mr. Savage almost fell off the roof. At least he told me he did, Stories like that have a tendency to get better. I don't know, in a couple of years he may say he fell off the roof,

What a Guide ALL THIS information comes through the courtesy of the store manager who was very happy to act as my guide to the duck pond. What a guide. He carried a pencil instead of a shotgun.

- And he wouldn't listen to my entreaties about

borrowing a weapon from the sports department. “Let's just go up and take a look around,” Mr.

Savage kept saying. “In the fall of the year we have a duck chase but I can’t allow hunting. Besides, they're out of season.”

What gives? , . . These penthouse ducks, very shy of a camera, huddle tow A to a wall of a downtown building.

. The ducks have a shelter out of water which they

400 gallons a minute. That's the water £As ( rowds ) a ] has gone’ through the refrigeration unit. Rather! m n ia n a “than have .Jt-go.immediately to the sewer, the

- are placed on the roof to idle the summer away.

are covered with three to four inches of water. | Two sun decks; one for men and one for “women, and boatdwalks are built above the water. |

seldom usé; They like the boardwalk better, might be because the feed trough is on the init On either side of the roof two outlets smil

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water is pumped out on. the roof where ft further cools and prevents heat from penetrating into the y interior, : . Earl Fluharty, chief engineer, explained the" part the ducks play. Without the ducks pasdiing * around, the roof Jake would become ‘so that about every two or three weeks, Mr. Flul ant and company would have to drain and clean the topside of Sears. It would also necessitate turn-' ing off the air-conditioning. Bad business. With the -quackers around, the roof can go practically unattended all summer. Employees! | consider the ducks as a fine plece of scenery on the water. “They earn the 75 pounds of feed a week required to keep them happy,” said Mr, Fluharty.|_ Feeding is done by Eimer Pollard and Raymond Rodgers, two of the assistants in the engineering department. Before I left, Elmer showed how that was done.

Food for Ducks : SILLY THINGS, ducks. Although theys eat)’ almost all their waking hours, when Elmer poured) the growing mash in the trough you'd think the ducks hadn't eaten in a week, | “Ray put some gold fish in the water once,”| laughed the chief, “but they didn't last long. We didn't see anyone fishing up here so we - assumed the ducks ate them up.” “What happens to the ducks when the leaves turn, there's a tang in the air and the birds start

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‘the water, got all the porters to netp! the engineering department and we have a duck chase,” laughed Mr. Fluharty. “Then they're passed around to various members of the staff. It's duck soup from thenion.” Oh. | a Come spring and another batch of ducklings|

Nice work up to a point, don’t you think? he The 1949 Indiana State Fair opened on a chilly note yesterday but mid-day crowds brought a, new first.day attendance record. This morning shot shows the early slim attendance.

“Brie Benson, 13, of 3410 Brookside Pkwy., N. Dr., wd Pat ' Sloan, 12, of 3490 Fall Creek Pkwy. E. Dr., ake a’spin in the whirling “Spit-Fire." Amusements on the midway were crowded yesterday as the gate were opened free to children and Boy and Girl Scouts.

A gentleman, obviously a lover of good _ Jirbra:] ture, thrust a4 piece of paper in. my hand yésterday| on the Circle. “We want a book,” he said. Four| men from the Circle Engraving Co. had put their| stamp of approval on “You, Too.” Wonderful. | Saved from a shutout again. Total, 1562. Goal, 30,000.

A Short War

.. NEW YORK, Sept. 2—It is with. great pleasure that one notes that Mr. Sander Katz, the militant draft-dodger, is at large again, after doing an eight-months trick in Lewisburg jall on his ear, as-the-thieves-say:

This absolves the artistic Mr, Katz from his responsibility to the state, and since he now wears a forcefully donated draft .registration card, I assume he is safe from further raids by the Selective Service Act.

It has really been a short war for Mr. Katz. whose principles are so stout that he has twice visited ‘the clink as a gesture of disdain to the draft. On emerging from his latest long week-end, of which he served only two-thirds of his sentence, he was met at the train.by a delegation of young men who form a committee for “non- -violent revolution.” Addressing the press, Mr. Katz allowed as how he hopes all the other young men will do as he does, and says, quote “I will continue to counsel and abet them, and if drafted I will refuse to go.” 1 suggest that the manipulators of our nonwarring draft print this comment into the general ~ orders of the soldier camps, and read it to the boys at morning muster. .

Follow Hay-Foot Routine

MANY OF the men who were literally blackmailed into enlistment are still following the hayfoot, straw-foot routine, and might be interested in what an outsider has to say about beating forcible impressment into the military services. Mr. Kraft, lest you forget, is an objector of the draft on “social, political and philosophic” grounds, which might make him one with about 14 million young men who stored their serge and took up khaki as a steady costume. ‘ The only difference ts that while Mr. Katz. mulled over his philosophy in a snug calaboose, some of the other lads swapped their khaki for a shroud. It is of some importance that this Katz was a wartime dodger as well as a peace-time recalcitrant. He has, as a result, become a hero to the odd cliques which fatten off purposeful martyrdom,

‘gently with some dissenters.

By Robert C. Ruark

and he has been abetted—his word—by our own law and order, which sometimes: seems to deal so

When - Katz came up to trial under” Judge| Harold Medina, he of the nonstop sedition trials| of the 11 Communists, the judge left the boy a| beautiful out. He stated at the time that if Katz came back repentent, bearing a registration card, it was possible that some of the harshness of his sentence might be stroked away. Katz was not repentent. He stood by his social, political and philosophic principles, and was: stricken by the horrid penalty of eight whole! months in what is called the coziest clink in the) United States, Lewisburg. This is the same Jug| that is known as the country club, and boasts such! distinguished alumni as Serge Rubinstein, another. hero who is currently on the town, |

Contrast in ‘Clink' Time |

THE TIME in service for the handcuff volun, teers of our current peace draft is 18 months; and! the time for the draftees is 21 months. By simple ~addition.I do not find that eight months of sitting ih a can is as long as either 18 months or 21 months. By the same addition I do not find that 19 months of wartime penal service is as long as the téme from Dec. 7 to the discharge dates in the

fall of: 1945. The wealth of Indiana's summer harvest is hovers The “best “ i 4 "Barbar . getables and fruits are. on Four-year-old’ Barbara Klopp, 2219 S. Randolph St., clutches : Xt seetns highly Joviar ty ine Spat Jha laws Jiopay in Ma Aglailture building. Row on row of ‘onions, peppers, tomatoes, beans, corn and cab- kewricd prizes won for her by her brother, His al in the basI .

civilian loose from his private life and ship him ketball toss won the trinkets.

off to, play soldier at a time when his country is! not &{ war but*when penalties for non-conforma-| tion are passed out the penalty is less than the, alloted time for compliance with the regulation. | The post-war administration of Selective Serv-| ice has been weird, at best, and I suggest now that the weirdness continue and all the brave lads who, dare heeding a sergeant's whim be released from, their bondage. Katz is out; home free, and I see! no reason to discriminate against the other thou-| sands who merely went.'when they were called. | Or else we might toss Mr. K. back in‘ the brig| again, against the expiration of the act June 24,| 1950. o

Mr. Fixit

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2-—5Looks like we'll have

problems

Mr. Fixit with medals. Just drop in at the White House, if you want a favor done, and ask for Gen. Harry.

If he's too busy doing favors for other people «

to get around to you, he has on the job a Mr. Fixit Jr.. fn the person of the assistant military aide, Col. CY. Mifa, Who “is no ‘slouch-at solving either. Just tell the cop at the front gate of 1600* Pennsylvamia Ave. your troubles. He'll relay same inside, And if either the general or the colonel think you're worthy of help, they'll be delighted to take over your troubles. -Or. so. said. Col. Mara under tough cross-examination by the Republicans of the Senate Investigating Committee. You don’t have to be introduced by John Mgragon, the gal loping Greek, Col. Mara said, though a number of troubled citizens were, What I'm getting at is the plight of the two Mr. Fixits, sitting side by side in full uniform, explaining how they ran the White House Service Bureau for taxpayers with problems. The Senators by their questioning didn’t make it any -the less embarrassing.

Car Trouble

AFTER leading the Mr. Fixits through explanations of deep freezérs, race trkck deals, special passports for perfume magnates, surplus propgry sales, and other such items which Gen. Vaughan sald_wére a part of his daily business, Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin wondered how many automobiles he'd bought this year, or last The portly general said, none. The

~Senator said what about 1947

This fag also had

“I'm driving ‘a Packard, but I can't recall whether it is.a '46 or a '47 model,” the general replied. “I bought it. " “yes, but didn't you secure an Oldsmobile In

fiance dropped by- the. White House, picked up her

19472" general “Do you know a Mrs. Maurice Cavanaugh of} Spring Green, Wis.?” Sen. McCarthy asked. That refreshed the general's memory. Yek, sir, she was an old friend in the lumber business up in the north woods.” And she'd phoned him that she was desperate for an automobile. So the general put in an order here .and the lady's

insisted the Senator. “No,” snapped the,

sedan with hydramatic drive and delivered it to’ her In Wisconsin. oo “And she sold ft--in the black market and made $600 or $700 on it,” Sen. McCarthy continued. “She paid $2300; later it turned up on a used car lot in Iowa, priced at $3400.” Thi was a Surprige to Mr. Fixit.” Well, won=4 dered -the Senator, how many other people had “he helpéd buy automobiles? Gen. Vaughan said he'd fixed up the captain of President Truman's] { Garold Hampton, Crawfordsville, watches Robert Servies, yacht with & new car.and also the President's) New Market, prepare his butterfly collection for display in the naval aide. | Agriculture building.

a * J nl Sen. Karl E. Mundt Schedule Exhibit Why He Got Dr oe 0f Auto Trailer

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The- Armstrong family takes time out for lunch and rest at a telephone center. Left to right re Tommy. Mrs. Howard Armstrong, Nancy and Mrs. George E Armstrong of 314 and 316 N Wins and Loses

Religion School ins and Loses By, Fireman Hur In Traffic Crashe:

of 8." Dakpta. “I was in the market then for a car, myself. Looks like I overlooked a bet.” Sen. Clyde Hoey of ‘N. Carolina, the chairman, said this evidence looked to him like chicken

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: | the home of 72-year-old W. | G. Westren today to tell

feed stuff. He suggested that his Republican col-| the judge. “And I'll tell you him he had won the £22,500 leagues turn to something more important, The Butler School of Religion | o by think it is im i. when The Presidents The world's most complete auto Why: # Re Routh ee tf “tney | A 12-year-old boy was ii crit 2ide elps “th. aga np . that 4 in the trailer."the Duo Flagship, will be “1 WEE not to. a today announced ‘a series of men ottery u hey cal condition ‘at Methodist Ho black Eo " Sen. PMcCarthy retorted. He said *Xhibited on the auto lots of the man in a restaurant wheni.; events which will open: the school jus a relatives In _ pital today.and a oity firema Jones Aute Co, in In : x 3 . ’ 1 ! the lady in Wisconsin had bought a Buick and a gone 3.1. dlanapolis ay) of a sudden he pulled a | vear of 1049-50. Dr..O. L. Shelton "Upiyll od ail his was treated at General Hosplt Cadillac... But not with his assistance, Gen. . gun and blew his brains is dean of the school. life to win the big prize." as ‘the result of traffic acciden Vaughan hastened to add The trailer has a fying : ; Enrollment: for the first se . his sobbing daughter said yesterday. All the general ever got for favors, he in. Dridge” with a 10x12 folding Po ee ring. me He died ot a heart attack Frank Wiicox of 3707 N. Meric / ¢ eV p . - ( i 0 you blame me for get- ter will be held Sept. 12, 10 ‘He died o e ac sisted time after time, was the satisfaction of Porch (and a pooch porch). The oy d- Sel 13 and lan St, Apt. 1, received a possib

ting drunk?” last night.”

“No, 1 don’t.” Municipal Judge Walter Richards. replied yesterday. ‘Case dismissed."

motif is marine throughout with porthole windows, It is sound-proofed with plastic {and has an’ Astra-dome and wall (fittings of oak, birch and mahog-

14 with classes opening Sept. 15, Dean Shelton said.

brain “eonicussion and a fracture arm late yesterday afternoc when struck by a ear operated

New students will’ be enter- 5 E . A . Ran 3m Lo r tat ir Activities lichard. Eugene Miller, 18, of 5 ea e E. 31st 8t., at the intersection «

tained at a dinner in the--Uni- ’ 8 activ ! Indiana. State Fair activities age ang Tinos Sts.

helping out his fellow man. Guess I'll have to - drop over to the White House, I need. a new suit. Mr. Fixit yndoubtedly knows a good tailor

who can fix me up cheap.

Rotarians to View

The Quiz Master

Speeder Caught After MPH Pursuit

any. It has a kitchen, bar and full- et bath, . TBI Hittle is sales manay x the Jones lots at 1250

versity cafeteria Sept. 13 at 5:45 p.m. The formal opening of the and a state fair parade of cham-| school term will be-heralded by a pions will be featured at.the Ro- t A Rreatenr Spetaiar WAS Slate tary International of Indianapolis ‘>, #PPear in unicipal _ Cow p after his vehicle collided with #-

convocation Sept. 15 at 11 a. ni. Preeident R. M. Bell of Johnson meeting ag 12:15 p. m. Tuesday in|

??? Test Your Skill 27? w

Who wrote the southern war song, “The Bonnie Blue Flag"? The song was composed by an Irish comedian, Harry McCarthy; who set it to an old Irish tune, “The Irish, Jaunting Car.” It was first sung by his sister in New Orleans in 1861, * > How many stars were there in the flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write our national anthem? Fifteen. Thirteen of these represented the original thirteen states. The two additional stars were for Kentucky and Vermont, the first two states to enter the Union after the Revolution. 15 stripes. Wh ‘ ry

—eser T§ Cobb held 90 records when he retired.

| Washington und 630 E. ay: Hobart White, 33. of 1576 Bible College will be the speaker, the C laypool Hotel, Indianapolly fire truck early la: What t ; e tye ton St. There also are Jones lots - y : The annual faculty venti Foremost among; the champions |? Dat percentage. of the American. peopl in Anderson, Richmond, Shelby- Broadway, was charged with I hen will be 4-H ‘boys and girls and the _ William J. Bigley, 35, of 472

for the student body will be held Sept. 15 at 7:30 p.m. in the student lounge of the School of Religion bldg, Students and their

in the West? Forty per cent of the nation's land aid 35 per cent of its natural reseurces are in the West, yet only 14 per cent of the American people live

reckless driving and operating a

car while Intoxicated early today. after police said they chased him

ville, Evansville and Bedford. exhibits they have brought to the [Rosslyn Ave. driver of the fir 934 State Fair from the rural dis- truck, suffered a.crushed left ar

tricts of Indiana. {In the impact. He was taken t

Candle-Making Exhibit

/ ’ ’ . - . |General Hospital in a departmer inthis region. » \ several miles through city streets families have been invited, ALK ON TE ENGINES | [a A 0 ¢ ! [Draws Fair Crowds at a reckless and excessive rate giident organizations a 1s o Roger CNglleming, public rela-| mobil 83. of 2022 Lock How many. records did Ty Cobb hold when he! Standard Oil of Indiana has an Of speed.” scheduled to begin activities in- tions director, Allison Division of burn St. the streetcar operator’

retired? - |interesting. candle-making exhibit) Police said White turned a cor-|clude the Student Volunteers General Motors Corp., fssisted by was In in the center of the Manufac- ner while, speeding at more than meeting Sept. 20 at 7:30 p.m.; the test pilot Jimmy Younghans, ‘will give an emergenc ehicle. th 1946, when sports writers of the entire nation turer's building. 50 mijes an hour. In the ensuing Ministerial Association meeting describe recent jet engine develop-|right of wi rgsncy hiv a were asked to pick the names of ths 10 leading] Candles are formed, sized, col: chase he was accused of ighoring Sept. 27 at 7:30 p. m.; and-the Ze- ments during a meeting of the officials a he fi pap wi figures in the game for Cooperstown's Hall “of ored and striped while you watch.| {red traffic dignals, stop street!lbtai Club dinnér Oct. 11 at 12:30 8cientech Club at noon Sept. 12 burning red lights Td a a.

Fame, Cobb led his closest’ rival, Babe Ruth, by Tallow is kept heated at 150 de- signs and failure to signal at p.m. All activities will be held in|in the Hotel Antlers. A display ofthe siren when curred.

to face court for failure t

povom votes, Tol nO heen Co i, ©. i. ___ ithe Religion bldg. | {testing gear will be included. Wham {he accident go wr er =w od) BT . ii ts #4. : 3 i : 5 . J oie : J I & aa *