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IF YOU HAVE any questions on “his premiere ‘day for parking meters, stick dround, we may have the answer, : : . The we in this case is L. D. (Ditch) Behrent, deputy city controller, William Norris, mainte-
nance man for the ‘meters, W. C. Bush, factory en’
gineer and Mr. Norris’ tutor, and Bob Wight, Brandt Automatic Cashier Co.
Since a portion of the controller's office was
littered with the vitals of a meter, my opening.
uation had to us wii the exact number of parts co Bet by completely demolishi contraption. | y y inbing one Mr, Norris informed me that it would be rather difficult to demolish a meter. Mr. Bush smil his pupil, ae : a ot “There are 41 parts in a parking meter,” said the maintenance man, indifferently jabbing the pile of small metal pieces witht his screwdriver, “With the proper tools it will come apart easily. With a sledge hammer or a truck bumper, tough.” “Can you get into the coin box?” ;
Key to Each Compartment
THAT LITTLE QUESTION took approximately 15 minutes to answer, Everyone got in on the act. They convinced me that the city would Bet every nickel and penny put into the meters. That is accomplished by simply not trusting anyone. Not that a worthy employee would want to get a nickel or two, tinderstand. Just in case, though, the meter has two separate compartments. There is a key to each. Mr. Norris has a key to the upper half where the mechanism is and nickels aren't. Mr, Brandt and a collector have the only keys to the lower half, The collector won't find it very
* Open for business . . . The parking meter goes into action today. :
“touch his fingers.
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hard to be honest because loose nickels will never
g 0S | Obviously it's a' creation of people ‘who have
very Mtl” faith. in humanity. A coin-gatherer
will travel around with a little cart which has)
room for five satchels. In these satchiels will be 30' metal boxes. Cute things. . | Minute inspection revealed that: the coin box is better than any table box ever.in the hands of this pin artist. A collector takes an empty, sealed with- wire and special lead fastener, pokes it into a meter. The poking action opens the slot where, the nickels fall through, When he removes the, box the slot closes. The trigger arrangement which does all this isin the meter case, | Mr. Behrent is ‘the only one who is authorized to break the seal and open the little boxes. Should a collector appear with an open coin box, the deputy controller would ask him a few pertinent questions, After all, too many fingers in a coin! bo* may cause people to talk. “Watch,” sald Mr. Norris. He inserted a nickel into the reassembled meter and turned the crank. The jitney showed through the round window, “When I stick the Key in the lock and turn it, the nickel falls into the box,’ exphained the fix-it man. In the downtown district, there are a total of 542 meters.’ On the distribution map, I saw the total broken down to 11 12-minute meters, 61 24minute meters, 87 36-minute meters and 383 1-hour boxes. The shorter parking time meters are located In the busiest areas, For instance, the 12minute meters are located by the Post Office. | Fob best results turn the crank as far as it will] go after you stick in your penny or nickel. It's rather hard to turn so put your back into it. After you've turned the crank, the experts suggest you see that the proper time is shown. If there's| something wrong, report the meter by number to
Guard Against! Bad Coins
THE DEPUTY CONTROLLER is hoping pretty hard that no one puts slugs and bad coins into his new babies. Besides being dishonest, the practice can gum up a machine, cause others to lose faith
Another very important item mentioned by Mr. | Behrent is that, once you've put your nickel in for one hour's parking, you're through for that hour. Dof't put in anymore. You won't get two hours,
. for two nickels. !
In fact, you shouldn't be in a parking spot for| more than the Specified length of time. That sort of defeats the purpose of the parking meters al-
though at this time there is still some question as _
to the legality of putting coins in every hour on the hour and occupying a hunk of street. What will happen to all the coins that have been dumped in for the past several days? They'll £0 into the parking meter fund, said Mr. Behrent. Oh, yes, thaliks for the nickels and pennies, 2 ¢% ¢ * :
Knights of Columbus, Indianapolis Council 437,
- boosted “You, Toq” over the 2100 mark by peuring
in 242 requests. Took my breath away, it did. Imagine yesterday plugging along with 1885 votes and-today struttin’ high with 2107. My book is getting closer and closer to the publication date. |
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Immortal Bobby
By Robert C. Ruark
ATLANTA, Sept. 21—Unaccustomed as I am to undue sentiment where athletes are concerned, I do believe there are a select few who have earned an immortality in the land, to the point of outweighing politicians and prepaid statesmen and military chieftains with shrewd press agents. Of these I would list Dempsey and Ruth, of course, and certainly Robert Tyre Jones of this -heah Atlanta town, . 1 fetch up Mr. Jones at this time because it is not generally known that the greatest golfer of
our age very likely will never play another round of golf. * es
More than a year ago Bob Jones acquired a. .
spinal ailment that affected the motor nerve, and. but” for a highly successful—and hazardous—operation, probably would have lost all use of. his legs. He walks, today, with a cane, but he walks slowly and awkwardly and his golfing days are done. “I just thank God there'isn’t any pain,” he was saying the other day In his law offices here. “Also it's a good excuse to get out of playing in the Masters Tournament every year. You know, when you've spent your life playing a game, it's surprising how many other interesting things .you miss. I'm just catching up on a lot of them now.”
‘Time Stopped in 1930’
IT IS HARD TO realize that the fresh-faced, quiet boy from Atlanta, who wore the floppy linen knickerbockers, is now a weathered man of 47. Jones was one of the few who are never supposed to grow old. “For those who are old enough or young enough to remember his feats, time stopped for Bobby Jones in 1930 when he pulled his grand slam of American and English amateurs and opens to climax a golfing career that hasn't been matched before or since. Bobby Jones—who, by the way, always hated to be called Bobby, but put up with it as graciously as he endured the other trespasses on the life of a public figufe—was a golfing approximation to Joe DiMaggio. His color was in his self-containment, the perfection of his skill, and the quiet class that marked him. Nothing of Walter Hagen’s boisterous color {intruded on Jones’ game, just as DiMaggio shares none of the gaudy imperfections of Ruth. Jones merely went out and played golf more brilliantly than anybody else around. His vast
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concentrative powers were mistaken for coldness. His politeness to the mobs and the bores and the swarms of pests who clawed and pulled and hauled at him was sincere, if not hearty. He didn’t have to rassle strangers or to bid them to his home. i To his old friends and cronies, Jones was an-| other man entirely. He liked to drink red licker— and still does—and he liked to cuss and sing and | cut up.
He régarded the 19th hole as the best part of| a game of golf, and was remarking to me that,| thank God again, he could still play as good a game. in the 19th as ever before. - { Jones’ honest fondness for a spot of bourbon actually ‘was the tip-off to the qdd disease that struck him suddenly and mysteriously. | “I would take a couple of snorts and sit down, to the table,” he says. “Then I would find I couldn't get up. My head would be cléar and I'd be cold sober, but I couldn't work my legs.” Twisted His Spine | IT DEVELOPED that, at some time or other, he had twisted his spine out of shape; and the resultant pressure on the motor nerve was affecting The doctors told him then that unless something was done to ease the pressure, he would certainly get no better and likely lose all motive power in a very short time. The operation was risky but at least there was a chance. f “That was the easiest decision I ever made in my life,” Jones said. “I told them to start cut-| ting.” - f They lifted a series of discs off the top of his spine, The operation was successful, and now Jones can tilt his usual allotment of painkilier| without losing the use of his stems. There is a chance the condition, will improve, almost a cer-| tainty that it will not worsen. For all this Bob| Jones is a very grateful man, _ A Jones now accepts his semi-invalidism ‘as calmly as he put up with the importunings of the mobs that dogged him even on his private course | when he was playing a friendly round with his father and friends. If he is bitter at the abrupt finish of participation in the game that made him semi-immortal| there is no indication of it. Down through the years Bob Jones has mislaid none of his class even if his mashie rusts forevermore.
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General Puzzle
| By Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21-It becomes my duty to report the disillusionment of Tom Kenworthy, age 12. Last week anybody who'd. hinted his father wasn't the smartest man in the world would have received a punch in the nose, Now Tom isn’t 80 sure, This tragi-comic—incident in the process of growing up had its beginnings Sunday when the phone called his father, Carroll Kenworthy, to the office in a hurry..The British pound had just been devalued. E , And Kenwofthy, the distinguished foreign edftor of the United Press in Washington, was in the thick of it. Bells clanged and red lights flashed. The machinery was gushing cables from all ends of the world. . Editor Kenworthy assembled his staff. He batted out bulletins, which an office boy pulled from his typewriter line by line, all afternoon and most of the night. Monday ‘came and the tempo was hotter still. Now nations all over the globe were devaluing their currencies.
Puzzles Boy Like Everyone
RED OF EYE from lack of sleep and blue of face from carbon paper smears, the editor staggered home for'a bath and bed. Young Tom was waiting. What cataclysm had ruined thie week-end in the Kenworthy home? The elder Kenworthy sald the pound had been devalued, “Yes, but what does that mean?” insisted Tom. “The end of the world?” = . . “No, son,” replied his erudite father. “It means, uh, that the British money isn’t worth as much as it used to be” ; : Tom said it still was money, wasn't it? His father said yes, but in terms of. dollars it was . worth less. That made no sense to Tom. The more the elder Mr. K tried to explain, the dopier it all sounded to his son. Tom walked away finally, sad-
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ly shaking his head, struck by the realization that while his father still was one of the great men, he wasn't the greatest, He didn’t know everything. Young Kenworthy will recover from the shock.
And I can make it a little easier for him by reporting that nobody knows exactly what all this tinkering with the world’s money will do. The general idea “seems to be that the price of Scotch| whisky, miniature British’ automobiles, fancy chinaware, and de luxe woolens will drop. In dollars, | that it. _ |
General Confusion the Rule
YET THE whisky people doubt that their product will. go down in cost mgre than a few| cents, The auto importers are fearful that while the price skids In dollars, wages will go up in| pounds, and cancel out most of the savings. The price of riding in a British flying machine across the sea has skidded by nearly a third; the
head men of the American Airlines are in a series
of huddles now, wondering how to match this com-/be screened
petition. The woolen importers are wondering about)
whether they'll have to absorb substantial losses i, the INdiana World War Me-
on goods already in stock. I tried to talk to the morial,
capital representatives of the imported whisky and wine people, but they all were in New York, conferring on orice problems. About the only people whose wallets suddenly were stuffed with new spending money were the
* stragglers among the tourists in Great ‘Britain.
When. 8ir Stafford Cripps, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, made the historic squiggle with his pen, their American travelers’ checks immediately weére worth nearly a third more than before. | I am glad I'm not going td be seeing Tom to. day. He'd ask me, why? I doubt if I could explain it ‘to his satisfaction. I don’t believe Sir
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| {| -Authorities believed that the } convicts’ car may have been | [aC lires abandoned in the Brown County, -P have sought cover on foot. 1 | Arthur M. Thurston, state po- ame in p
. i. his - Commerce Friday and Saturday Teachers of 4 Counties oor ie weeks apo "oF Gus Suess nin, Profotal would make ¢ To Hold Meetin Mr. Suess was a member of the| ape tion of churches. of all denomin The films will be chown as a| Times State ns St. Philip Catholic Church, the| NOW NROTC Chief tions, to be spent under sup
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ony Hulman Lands A Beauty
In International Tuna Tournament
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Tony Hulman (right), Terre Haute business man and owner of
Whoa . .'. easy does it. Frank Pothier, guide, signals the & pilen fo slow the boat as one of the the Speedway, is among the Hoosiers competing in the Interna- giant fish strikes Mr. Hulman's bait. With feet braced and rod anchored the Terre Haute sports tional Tuna Tournament, Westport, Nova Scotia. Here we see man gets set for a long battle with the sea giant. The tuna is given line as he takes off with
him with his fishing guide baiting the heavy hook. - the bait.
Air Hunt for Two Convicts Starts. |
Michigan Fugitives . Believed Sighted State police launched an air the Camp Atterbury area today for two escaped Michigan convicts after the pair was believed sighted in northwestern Bartholomew County: F
The desperadoes, Henry Shel-| ton, 42, who was serving a life] term for robbery, and 8am Leib,| 39, a convicted murderer, made a successful bidg for freedom Sept.| 15 when they crashed out of the Northern Michigan Prison. Since their escape, police said, | the pair left in their wake a trail] of terror, robbery and kidnaping covering at least three states,
Search Two Counties A state police airplane, piloted
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by- 1.t. Earl Smith, was ordered = The big fight is on and Mr. Hulman brages himself. in #he.
The ‘guide signals for a slow turn as the tuna: shows signs ¢ Leon Storz of ‘Worchester, Mess., prepares fo ge
into the search today. The air| boat as the tuna pulls him: from his seat. The tuna is a mewn weakening. Dr. Le / search was to include Brown and} fighter and will do-its best to break the heavy line. - a picture if ths "big tuna fries any fancy surface leaps.
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hills, The pair was believed to
lice superintendent, called on all Hoosiers to be on the alert for the convicts. He urged that per-| sons sighting the car or the fugi-. Doctor Testifies tives report’ immediately to local authorities. | TRCHMOND, Sept. 21 (UP) { ichmond state mental hosTruck Stopped {pital physician testified today at| Authorities turned their attefi- an attendant’s manslaugther trial tion to~.Brown County late yes- that a patient died of pneumonia terday, after A. J. Driscoll, a caused by 18 rib fractures. Columbus truck driver, told Sher-| Dr. Norman R. Cook, a coniff Richard Thayer that his truck tract physician who spends sev-| was stopped by two men on the eral hours a day examining and highway two miles west of Colum- treating patients in the hosiptal, " said the fractures and their comThe men, Mr. Driscoll told Sher- plications killed William C. Stewiff Thayer, were riding in a light art. 75." former Alexandria post any oa I charged. with beating} { n trial charged w ating One .of them, he said, got out Stewart to death was Ray Van of the car and demanded
the +, 2 | Voorhis, 66, for 6 truck driver's money. Atter | his, 66, former attendan |
) Dr. Cook told a jury of 10 men| learning Mr. Driscol had only al,4 two women he was called to| dime in his pockets, the robberithe nospital last Feb. 16 while
demanded a supply of gasoline, a¢tendin high school b | Mr. Driscoll#bld police. E a high school basket
(ball game. He found Stewart in| ‘Tallies Somewhat’
(“serious condition, close to| A description of the man who| attempted to rob Mr. Driscoll, ” | Sheriff Thayer said, “tallied|, Pr Cook said it was possible »| ‘but not probable” that the in-| somewhat, but not positively | juries were received i fall. He with the description of Leib, the] r eC nate. e escaped murderer {believed they were due to a : * | “crushing weight.” | Mr> Driscoll told the sheriff that| Stewart's widow, Lillian, an| the man got back Into the car|Ajexandria school teacher, testi-| when he failed to get either|fieq yesterday that her husband
won be al 0 8 ene net yeeraty Br Vonens 58. Y ear Barbering Career [Jenner Urges Hug
the car, Mr. Driscoll said, turned recognize him.
he vehicl d and “took off] 3 | A G S Di as iro rt wey oust Ends As Gus Suess Dies npn pid Fund i
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The big fellow is boated after a-battle which lasted an hour and 31 minutes. It weighed 5e° ounds and took the combined efforts of all hands on board to bring it in. Dr. Storz is a mem of the American team and is Mr. Hulman's partner in the tournament. ‘
Mr. Driscoll said he was able to 8ressed in its second day of a| The little .shop at 202 W. copy the first four numbers of Session expected to last through ; St. was closed tod: the Hcense plate—8661—as the car tomorrow and possibly Friday. Maryland 3. Say Sioa tidre ay.
sped away. at ops [last 17 years, died. yesterday in State police sald. they had Citizens Gas Utility his home, 623 N. Keystdne Ave.
information that two men, an- ow swering the, description of the Pays Off Debt to City He was 72. Inds | escaped convicts, were known to| Payment of a Citizens Gas & , A Welone PUIAIADY A aie be riding in a 1946 tan Mercury, Coke Utility, debt to the City of 360'. WI. Duess wg 8 fh Y > {when he was only 14 years old. stolen from J. Byron Copas, Fow-| Indianapolis was in the malls to-| JJoars ’ He was one of the few surviving ler Parninend. Mr. Copas Hence day after interest on the claim| ‘= 00 C50 ocidental Barber numer is -153, state police had more than doubled the | shop, where the L. Strauss &
al " . | . au : amount due, : Co. now stands.
When the utility: ‘was under|going reorganization as a munici-| Mr. Suess also had barbered
pally owned business, $6810.72 at 112 W. Maryland St. then on |was lent it by the City. Interest E. Michigan St. and finally at {charges have boosted the’ pg present location.
Wants $100, Million ~ For Rebuilding Abroc
Times Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21-8 William E. Jenner today call {upon the Senate to allocate $1 {million of proposed arms-¢ money for reconstruction |ehurches in the Atlantic Pact r tions, Greece and Korea. In introducing an amendme [to the $1.3 billion arms aid t under consideration, the Hoos. Senator sald the $100 mill would give “tangiblé proof of ¢ own faith inthe living God.”
Educationel Movies To Be Shown by C. of C.
Forty-three non-theatrical sound moving picture films will in the semiannual free film exposition sponsored by of
fo $14,171.04. Payment was au-| Heart troublé forced Mr. Suess thorized yesterday by the util- to close his shop for several weeks ity’'s board of directors, last May. But he reopened soon |after, before he had completely
the Indianapolis Chamber
Eagles Lodge and the Journey- Ng ed t Notr COLUMBUS, Ind, Sept. 21 m a ote Indiana State Teachers College T°" Barbers Independent Union
graduates from Bartholomew, of America.
Dame vision of the President. SOUTH BEND, Sept. 21 (UP) _— us: not just pour mo © _|—A yeteran Navy captain who!Physical force into a spirtual ve * Requiem high mass will be sung " i Brown, -Decatur and. Johnson at 9 a. m. Friday in St. Philip was a participant in every prin-|uum,” he told the Senate. He a Counties will hold a dinner meet- Church after services at 8:30 a. m cipal invasion by American forces wd ‘Wednesday at 6 .} ; ein the Pacific theater duri 1 ing here next in Grinsteiner’s Funeral Home. ng World War II today headed the
preview for representatives of educational, church, fraternal, labor, business and olher groups which may want to use them during meetings or educational programs. Films will be shown simultane- . ously in the main auditorium and /P- Mm. in -the Chamber of Com-|p, a) will be in Crown Hill, - the east and west assembly rooms, merce building cafeteria. Survivors include his wife, Mrs, | NROTC unit at the University of gig aki all on the main floor of the Me-| H. Kenneth Black, new director|araude H. Suess; two sons, Gus/Notre Dame. ; the | Fe morial. The showing is designed (or alumni relations for the col-\y and Carl R. Suess; two daugh-| Capt. Thomas F. Danley suc- ; to. demonstrate the nature ofilege, will be introduced and Dr. ters, Mrs. Alice Younce and Mrs.|ceeded Capt. Anthony L. Danis, |w i. Wit ; films now available to the com- Paul Muse, chairman of the com- Frieda Trout,-all of Indianapolis,| who moved to command of the ‘confiiet with 1 i munity in the C, of C, library. |merce department, will speak. and two grandchildren, ' naval recruit station, Norfolk, Va. A tLe
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