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« WITH MY HAND, the left, placed lightly on the rim of a pocket-sized cornucopia, I swear never to pinch or squeeze a tomato and other obJects of produce that are not mine. The resolution is being made simply and with no thought ‘of inspiring others to do likewise. I Just not to pinch fruits and vegetables last night after meandering through the South Side Market. One less pincher may not be noticed in this pinching land of ours but I'll have a heap of personal satisfaction at least.
You know, the South Side Market is as good a8 any sideshow at a carnival. It has everything. Ever watch a housewife shop on the open market? If a basket of tomatoes is 50c, the Missus offers a weary farmer 40c; if it's 40c, she wants it for 30¢ and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if a farmer were giving his produce away, someone would ask that the gift be delivered.
Like a Whiff of Autumn
TOURING THE market at this time of the year is difficult for me. My mouth waters easily at the sight of most fresh fruits and vegetables. Apples especially. And bushes of apples send me reeling. Tough.
For the man with a sensitive nose who loves the subtle aromas that emanate from bushels of deep red winesaps, the South Side Market can make his hair stand on énd. It's like getting a whiff of all the pleasant smells of all the pleasant autumns in one's memory. Probably the funniest sight to see is a husband and wife shopping for a bushel of peaches or apples, green beans. Anything. The husband usually tags along ready to lend his back to haul the pur-
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Harvest . . . A farmer at the South Side Market relaxes in the midst of his crop of watermelons. The supply is a trifle greater than
demand.
A True Amok
Inside Indianapolis
chase to the car as soon as a display of what ® after is spotted. “How much?" That's the way 99 out of a 100 women at the market will open ‘a conversation. The couple I have in mind came up to a farmer with a load of cantaloups. A “The baskets of No, 1's are $2.” “Look pretty good,” said the man. “This one is getting soft,” sald the woman, driving a finger in the end of the melon. “Is this all you have?” Lucky I was standing near a truck. The farmer only had: about 1000 melons for her to choose from and she wanted 000.
Which reminds me, if I should ever get married the shopping is either going to be done by the wife or me. Solo shopping for this kid. Oh, how that poor guy squirmed before wifey picked a bushel. Really picked, too. Transferred melons from basket to hasket until the farmer looked as if he were on the verge of giving her a basket of cantaloups. Right around the ears. . A man has to be agile fooling around the market. Two women carrying a bushel of peaches between them galloped down an aisle. At the rate they were going I expect what happened was that they ran into a wall and if they are lucky, should be able to leave the hospital by Easter. Pumpkins are beginning to come in. A display of bright orange beauties next to a stack of watermelons {llustrated how much summer and fall dovetail right now, Two boys of school age walked along eating apples. They were several feet. behind their mother who carried a baby in her arms. It may be unfair, but from my observation of the clan I would say the outfit was on a sampling trip. The way the boys and the mother reached for fruit and vegetables you could tell they were experts. Sometimes I wish I had more nerve to grab a sample or two. “A peddler will come here tomorrow morning,” a farmer told me, “and buy this basket of toma-
~toes for 50c and turn. right. arouhd and sell them ||
for $1.50.”
Melons Sell for As Low As 10¢ WITH A BUMPER crop being harvested, the farmers are finding it tough to hold price levels. Early in the season I paid $1 for a watermelon that wasn't any better looking than what was on display for 35c. Fine melons sold for 20c and as low as 10c. é Wonderful place. Everything is hand picked to begin with and nobody knows how many more times after it reaches South Side Market. ’ As ong farmer commented from the back of his truck where he was stretched out, “They just can't keep their fingers off. If a tomato isn't soft, thev'll make it soft.” Not me. . > oo @ I'm sorry but the dedication page of “You,
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” By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Sept. 8—I do not believe that the ablest cabinet of skull-feelers will get very far with an analysis of why meek, religion-ridden Howard Unruh pulled an old-fashioned Malay amok and killed 13 people in a few minutes. Although history shows me to be a great respecter of the soul-probing trade, 13 murders for no cause seem a little too lavish a demonstration of frustration to be tied to an early shoe-complex. That Unruh is insane is a mild understatement, and maybe his insanity is traceable to an early father hatred or mother-fixation, but his
_ will to kill in such job lots can never be saddled to
a true motive or a deeply buried frustration. This was just a bad one, a true amok, and you can shoot him or shut him up but you can’t explain him. : reddy .
“Not Blamed on ‘War
THE ONLY THING that surprises me in the post-slaughter handling of the killer is a reticence about blaming the war for his shooting orgy. The old saw about “they taught my boy to kill” has not been employed, except by Unruh's brother. I would imagine that at some time or other Unruh would have run wild with an ax or a club or a torch if he had not been taught the knack of handling a Luger or had never seen a war. Where the assembled psychiatrists will strike a snag in unsnarling Unruh’'s psyche is in the old standby of symbolism. A man, driven to murderous violence by growing tensions, is apt to choose a symbol of the thing that drove him crazy. Hence, a man with a gnawing hatred of his mother might well choose his wife for a vic-
-tim, in a sudden blind resentment of all things
feminine. . But I do not think than even the spook of Sigmund Freud can find a clearly defined psychologic motive in the slaying of a cobbler, a bride, a barber, a baby, a little boy, a.12-year-old .boy; a drug&ist, a tailor’s wife, an insurance man, and some assorted strangers. ‘This is a case of ‘gun mad: ness, and the killer's story that “he made up his mind to kill them” is so much hogwash. He didn't
Peril Points
‘flying out of schedule, and man. outdoing himself,
even know whom he was going to kill until he started whanging away with that German gun. I also find it difficult to believe that a doublefeature movie had any bearing on his outburst. What I am more apt to believe will rouse derisive hoots from the spade-beards, but I swear to John I think somebody's been tampering with
the molecular structure of the globe this year; and, ®
everybody, from bird to beast, is a little out of| kilter. Even the animals have been acting oddly, | the weather misbehaving outrageously, the birds
A broad, lay diagnosis on what motivates a man to slay 13 might be an averpowering resentment of a world in which confusion, stupidity and! harassment achieve such furious proportion that the urge of a religion-galled neurotic would be to!
attempt to destroy the entire world he lived in,
stating “with thé nearest thing at hand: This might be called a God-of-Vengeance complex; if. you deal in complexes. i
He's Got Them Baffled
THE PSYCHOLOGISTS claim to be able to
explain any overt act in term of repressions and frustrations and tiny, hidden incidents in the formative period of a person's life, and in most cases they're probably able to put a finger on some festering soreness of the soul. Concerning | this particular creep, I think he’s got 'em baffled. | In the case of the Malay amoks, when a Moro suddenly proclaims himself ‘“juramentado™ and runs to kill with a kris until they finally stop] him, there has never been any solid explanation of what starts the amok, or of why an amok Moro can take twice as many heavy bullets in vital spots as a normal man. It cannot be blamed | on religion,” becausé the Moro is a Mohammedan | and amoks are not practiced extensively by other] races of Mohammedan beliefs. You cannot explain the bug that crawled into this boy’s head any more than you can justify a Malay amok. All you can do is count the corpses, bury the dead, shut up the wild man and thank God that you yourself were out of range, at the time. i
By Frederick C. Othman!
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9—You'd think from the sound of it. that there's something horrendous about a peril point. Like maybe a déad man’s curve on the highway. And maybe it is, at that. For the next couple or three weeks you're going to be seeing .a lot in the Washington headlines about these peril points. So you might as well buckle down with me here and find out what in the name of international sin they are; I'll try to make it-as painless as possible.
Senate to Talk Tariffs
THE WORLD'S finances seem to be all unstuck, Nobody has any dollars, except us. .International trade is going to the bowwows. The British are. facing a crisis. Their masterminds and ours are meeting in secret even now at. the modernistic State Department building to figure out how we can do business with our English
cousins,
We claim if they'd lower their prices, we'd buy more. They claim if we'd lower our tariffs they could sell us more. And from there on the argument turns into double-talk, because those diplomats speak a brand of. English all their own, We can skip them and their protocol and turn to the embattled gentlemen of the U, 8. Senate, The lawgivers came back mostly sunburned (some are about to peel) from their week's unofficial vacation and took up reluctantly the subJect of the unhappy British. They barely managed to get a quorum for the opening of 1949's historic debate on the tariff. This may well de-
. cide whether the world has a business boom, or
a bust: It's important and mostly it has to do with those pesky peril points. "The bill is simple enough. It merely would allow President Truman to make trade agreements with other nations and lower tariffs to match. The idea is to let em sell more stuff here so they
State Polio Total Hits New Record | Hoosier Kiwanians
Indiana’s toll of polio victims toll from polio in Indiana 1s 70. Meet on Rolling Deep has reached the all-time high oti 1940 there were 79 deaths.
693 cases, State Board of Health officials announced today. mounted.
The previous high of 682 cases was reported in 1940 health offi-
Gov.
reported yesterday, there w
As the number of polio victims —Hoosler Kiwanians were liter0
|claimed Sept. 8-15 “Polio Emer-| vention today. [gency Week.” . The Governor's
proclamation coincided “with aAmerican h cials said. [nation-wide drive to raise $14, Mackinac Tiana. Th se _to Although 17 new cases werei300.000 to Be Be by he Natio! vention opened officially at -the no antile Para Foundation In|Spaulding deaths among the newly d COV-|its war against the dreaded Hotel Do sa; ered victims. The present death ease, A
can get more dollars to‘keep the wheels greased. | This seems to be a pretty good idea and no-! body’s kicking, not even the Republicans, who have believed in high tariffs these many years to protect American business. The Republicans, though, have suggested one little gimmick. | If Mr, Truman were to lower the tariff so much! on clothespins, for instance, that the Swedish clothespin industry got all the business of American housewives, then the Federal Tariff Com-| mission would have to warn Mr. T. that he had|
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And instead of going ahead and allowing cheap|Indiana men on their faculties.
clothespins to flood the nation, the President would have to argue this one out with Congress. That's all there is to peril points, though I wish I could have discovered who thought up such a frighten- | ing phrase for such a plain idea. These peril points, according to the Democrats, | are going to make it hard for the President to dicker with other countries. Maybe, say the Republicans, but isn't that better than bank-| rupting our own merchants and manufacturers?
We'll All Go Down Together
HAW, retort the Democrats. If we don't start| doing business with foreign nations, they'll go| broke and smash us up with them. Or as Sen.! Walter F. George of Georgia, the gray-haired |
chairman of the Finance Committee, put it: If)"
Britain goes down (financially speaking) then so| do we and in a matter of months. | You could have heard a pin drop, or at least| a small spike, when he said it. The argument to come is so complicated that it will keep the Senators here until the trees turn red. Mostly they'll be fighting about peril points. of the front pages gets hot, just remember those clothespins.
MICHIGAN CITY, Sept. 8 (UP)
Schricker pro-jally “at sea” for their state con-
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“My goodness, gracious me, my jams and pies "Beauty parlors are all the same, if your head
"Daddy. said | was too young to date .. . it's awful the way he were much, much nicer than that." isn't under a drier your face is in a rack."
keeps me shut in."
ner bn | © Dir . | | Doctors to Honor Fund Drive Names Byrpay Witnesses Plan for Separate Couple Acquitted | . . Ie. " Township Chief | ih Navy Day Dropped i 3 | John H. Bookwalter, president \ Members of Indianapolis Coun-| h Sh tin . X- 00SIers of the Bookwalter Printing Co., cil of the Navy League today "= ’ 3 {has ‘been: named chairman of the 5 bowed to the suggestion of the . : township division of the Indian- Secretary of Defense that nation: : » sors will Attend 4-Day {apolis Commun- i Prosecutor Prepares jal Navy Day Saleh: ations be dia. Woman Convicted Meeting This Month ity Fund Drive | For Watts Retrial nt a "the “nang Of Carrying Weapon Former Hoosiers who have Oct S310 24, 4 ‘ Rrosecuior George 8. today] would be tolerated. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Williams, i ; i an a group o witnesses today risen -to prominence in medicalitoday by cam-! |planned. to revisit. the scene of], John D. Hughes, president of 5169 E. 65th St, were acquitted science will be recognized when paign headquar-* bo [the slaying of Mrs. Mary Lots 0 bership une Join Jejoe charges of shooting with a 15 doctors return to Indiana to **7 xwal 3] |Burney, at 8558 N. Pennsylvania |S 2 00 Hn EX rmed Forces felonious intent and reckless drive lecture before the Indiana State! Mr. Bookwal 3. |St.. in November of 1947. |Day on May 8 and would omit/ing in Municipal Court 3 yesterMedical Association during the ere paceplgnest | Purpose of the visit was a_pre- tne usual Oct. 27 Navy Day ob- day afternoon, but Mrs. Williams Tait week in Septeniber of the post lef paration for the retrial ‘of Rob-| oo 0 |was found ty Ly Todge Joona Song lin ember, Hoos! only the mercan lert Austin Watts, a former Indi-| “The Navy League will con- Howard of carrying a weapon i ctr %ill fibd id art tile diyisons janapolie city truck driver, Once |sirue to advocate a strong Navy,” without a permit. Judgment was eaukased doctors | ap a chairmanship un- convicted of the crime and now|y, Hughes emphasized, ‘as a withheld em of ‘home ming about the four-ifijjed, W. E. |awaiting a new trial in the State |p. Jina of defense and will in- . day meeting. The association dur- Kuhn, general Mr. Bookwalter penitentiary at Michigan City. |sist upon maintenance of Naval Mr. and Mrs. Williams were, ing this week will celebrate its chairman, said. Watts was granted a new trial air facilities.” CE |arrested by sheriff’s deputies 100th anniversary. a a «
Mr. Bookwalter has long been by the United States Supreme gq, added that “we will con- Sept. 1, after a chase through the
All recognized medical schools active in civic and business af- Court on appeal of defense coun- | . _ county. At the end of the chase brought the local clothespin makers to a Ld ot i by the Committee fairs of Indianapolis. bpe {tinue to co operate in every re
He has sel. The high tribunal set aside ; ‘uritv several shots were fired at a city on Scientific Work for names of served in Indianapolis Red Feath-|the —- ist in a Shelbyville | rogram HE aration Seourisy policeman and the family of a |er campaigns for the past 10 court last year on grounds Watts’| any discrimination against the merchant policeman whose car Those To Be Honored | years. |confession was forced. He 18| Navy or weakening its position-as| Was commandeered in the chase. The list of notables includes Dr. —— |scheduled to face trial again Oct.|the best equipped Navy in the| Patrolman William Babbitt told Leonard A. Scheele, surgeon gen- Navy Deserter Seized (3 in Shelbyville Circuit Court 3. world.” [the court that he had Hailed the eral, U. 8S. Public Health Service, Prosecutor Dailey said he ~—————————— car of Arthur Schlangen, retired wanted to familiarize trial dep- . |police sergeant, of 20 Parkview cian’s Role in the Fight Against’ Clarence Harold Alexander, 21, uties and . witnesses with ce Railwa S to Fi ht |Ave., to pursue the speeding cars Cancer.” Dr. Scheele is a native|or pairmount, W. Va., a deserter scene of the slaying and review of Mr. and Mrs, Williams. of Ft. Wayne. from the Unitéd States Navy, was Jo iopoe R the case on today’s| When the chase ended, he said,
Other scientific speakers and apprehended early today in Ha- "np rosecutor said he woul at the home of the Williams’, the their subjects are: gerstown, Ind, by FBI agents... i... Rhe N. Pen rants ae | age ficrease {officers were met by a hail of Dr. Edward G, Billings of Denver, and Wayne County deputies. Iresidence, Which has since been | bullets. t
- . ling: Colo, “The Gen 1 Principles of Psycho-| 3 > & therapy in General “Practice © The FBI said he deserted inl o14 and is occupied by new own- The defendants, represented by ers, where. Mrs.
Dr. Rolland, J. Whitacre of East Cleve-| June of this year at the United
Indianapolis Railways, Inc, to-
Burney's head | ent attorneys Wilbur Grant and C. F, land, O revention Preferred in the . “eo | day prepared to fight a recent - . " States Naval Training Center at| yw. qo virtually blaste { { Steger, Oa Hl YR" Kirklth of Rochester |Great Lakes, Ill. He is heing held | sot virtually blasted off by al... awarded wage increase aft-| ger, produced evidence that Minn, “Bezoars. of the Gastro-Intestinal shotgun.
He said the party would | they had been followed nome on
Tract." in Hagerstown for Navy authori- retrace the route taken by the|ér company officers asserted the|previous occasion . :) , , and were Pra teal Consideration, in the Treatment, ties. 4 |slayer and spots where he dis-| utility's life was at stake; afraid of a robbery attempt.
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Citing statistics purporting to! Ope of the shots fired by the show that the utility lost about|wijjjams’ passed gt the e Evaluation of Syphilis Thera P F B t Watts has been in close von. $500,000 in the last “two years, Schlangen car narrowly missing he {idluation of Syphilis Therkmy ropose rare bDOOS (finment _in the prison since his President Harry Reid said: | Jerry Schlangen, 17, a passenger n The Significance of Ocular Var CHICAGO, Sept. 9 (UP)—The conviction and, according to the “The threat of public ownership|in the rear seat. . is G. Hermbnn, of Cincinnati, O.| Chicago Transit Authority totlay Prosecutor, will be kept there un- t
* u ’ * e ’ hangs over the city's network of] by Rey of Rochester, Minn .| proposed that streetcar, bus and til shortly before the beginning 0 od and streetcars. = Like wad ty Cleveland, Detroit and other
eumatic Fever and est in the nation, be boosted to Following his arrest Watts con“Newer Antibiotics fn the Treats ni ¥,jmeet S.10eent howsly Xoge -{{ataed i flares Of Another In into ccatversnip. with the’ city : e eatment o rece » : the Diseases " crease granted 21,000 AFL em- dianapolis matron, re. a % 1 ably i" shodsrase, of Oalveston, Tex, aT | Merrifield, This case has not been| {aking control of mass transpor Fall Program Set ," Cha A. Rufnagel, of Boston,| Under the proposed increase, tried. . ; . i, SEG) JOE po ear, POP, TEA ae Sesromiies mast |BY Redmen Here
nald A.C ..of New York.| . Bigeaic - ynamic Therapy in Chronic|15 cents on busses and streetcars, Reject Wage Request ing to appeal the wage decision. The fall entertainment p m T- How 9 (UP)—A| At the same time, the utility of thé Improved Order of n
re Howard ©. Coggeshall. of Dallas, and from 15 to 20 cents on ele-| LONDON, Sept. pe es |vated and subway trains, Labor Ministry conciliation board petitioned the City Board “of jwill open tomorrow night I the : : announced today it had rejected Works for five major changes in|organization's wigwam, 1 w. Rent Controls Lifted BR TISH BOLSTER FORCES [wage demands of the Es {bie and street. car service and|North St. 3 WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 {UP)—| HONG KONG, Sept, 9 (UP)—|of Britain's nationalized rallways.|thrée ‘experimental .15-cent ex-| Open house will be held Housing Expediter Tighe Woods Two thousand British troops ar- The announcement sald the board |press routes. v1] music will be provided by today removed rent controls in 11|rived in Hong Kong today as addi- unanimously had refused to grant| Mr. Reid told city officials the{Wicker and his orchestra. - >
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