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FOR A LECTURE, and a free one at that, the

pretty Certainly you have heard about the game that is “sweeping the country.” Why, almost everyone plays canasta, don’t you know. More fun than roulette or a slot machine. - If everyone plays the game, if it's smart to play the game and if #t's more fun than playing the slot machine, a guy whose business it is to be current should listen in. On your way, bub. There must have been at least 150 women in Block's Auditorium waiting for Mrs. Ottilie H. Reilly to soft-shoe on the stage. One man, besides _ myself, represented the opposite sex. Don’t think «from this that canasta is a woman's game. Men, a woman told me, play it almost as well as women.

’ Everybody's Happy About Canasta MRS. REILLY tripped into the glare of the spotlight on time. She smiled. She told the audience how happy she was to be at Block's. Just a few seconds before that a man told us how happy Block's was to have the opportunity to have Mrs. Reilly come to town to talk about canasta, the Argentine rummy game. It's wonderful how many people can be happy because of an Argentine rummy game, Behind me someone was telling someone else that Mrs. Reilly was a member of the Regency Club in New York. There was a tiny gasp. Must is Suns a thing to be a member of the Regency ub. Mrs. Reilly asked for those persons who have

Canasta . . . Mrs. Ottilie H. Reilly explains a few things about the Argentine rummy game.

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Reilly. That's because canasta is an Argentine) you-know-what. Ability to shoot dice doesn’t helv.! - I figured that out. or

The game was played with two decks of cards, 2

four jokers (cards), a canasta tray, for easy handling of the playing deck and the discard pile and four players, said Mrs. Reilly. So far so good. Then she really got going about scoring, melding and . On the fancy blackboard Mrs. Reilly made up mythical playing hands and reminded the audience that after the lecture everyone would have an opportunity to play a couple rounds. Mrs. Rellly was getting attention, Even the old man up front was listening. Lot of interest in the game, Of course, the question that was bothering me was how did so many women find time in the middle of the afternoon to attend a lecture on cards. On a Monday, too. Certainly all of those present don't use the facilities of the Bendix joints. >

Forgetting Red 3 Is Disastrous

ANYWAY, a lot of good pointers like when a guy happens to forget to put a red 3 on the table

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the first time he has a chance, he can play it with-} « =

out a penalty the next time. But, if the deal ends before the oversight, and it-better be that, is corrécted, the side is penalized 500 points. As the above stands, it might not mean much. You ‘can see, I'm sure, how important the above could be to a canasta player making an oversight; and not wanting to be penalized 500 points. Mrs. Reilly told a lot about playing canasta.

On several occasions what she was talking about J didn't make sense. Everyone else seemed to think|

Mark National Newspaper Week

A report by Lloyd B. Walton, Times staff photographer, on progress in Indianapolis high school journalism.

rmation was great. I'm just won | oe Inter that I rif Know Et yong ne 4} The latest issue of the Arsenal Cannon, 37-year-old weekly games of any kind has something to do with it., news magazine at Arsenal Technical High School, rates smiles of Pretty good lecture about canasta the Argentine satisfaction from editor-in-chief Janet Hosea and Miss Ella Senrummy game. enberger, head of the Tech High journalism department. The Canasia ‘means Fai i annon will devote this week's issue to National Newspaper Week, Oct. 1-8, with special articles and pictures about the Cannen, a talk on feature writing by Jean Tabbert, Times society staffer,

® | Black Wednesday. Today not one single request came in for “You, Too.” That's the first shutout since the drive for 30,000 requests began July 6.

The city room, heart of the newspaper, hits the high point of activity about 10a. m. every day, when” Cannon staff members devote the third period to bringing out a publication which has won many awards for journalistic excellence. In foreground, reporters sit at the table to write stories and articles in longhand, since many have not yet learned to type. Farther back lie the copy desk, city desk, make-up desks where pages are whipped into shape, and the door to the sports department, A lineage chart for individual reporters is kept on the bulletin board at right to assist them in deter. mining how much copy each turns out every week. All Cannon workers will receive a half-credit for

Yesterday 109 requests from Howe High School |g

students; today, blank. The total is still 2326. At! least I didn't lose any ground. Standing still is| better than going backwards. Sniff.

Raw Nerve

| By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Oct. 5—I wouldn't give a dime if the Yankees had blown the big one, the piece would have been the same. Even if the Red Sox were champions today all the class would have been riding with the Yanks. They took it on not2ing but hard innards when they had no business being in business. If they had lost it they would have lost to a club that has had everything but concentrated courage for more than 10 years, and I guess you can’t climb that hill witout some communal guts. Guts is not a nice word, not in the DearNelly sense, but it is the only word to describe what some have and some haven't, especially in job lots, and guts is what the Yankees always had and what the Red Sox never had since I started watching them professionally 13 years ago. Guts is what makes incompetents hit homers in the clinch and the lack of same makes mechanical geniuses like the Red Sox’ murderers tip ‘em weakly into the air or dribble 'em on the ground. You can’t buy guts or borrow guts or hire guts, a thing the Red Sox have attempted ever since Tom Yawkey shoved his millions behind 'em. Tom has tried hard, even to the hiring of the outworn Yankee manager, Joe McCarthy, and all he gets for his money is almost. He got “almost” last year, when the Cleveland Indians—on guts—outnerved the Red Sox on the last day. He got the same portion two seasons before, when the supposedly acquiescent Cardinals made a large and vivid bum out of the Sox in the series.

Pays a Cool Quarter-Million

YAWKEY bought Joe Cronin from his father-in-law, for a quarter-million, after Cronin performed the impossibility of steering the Senators to a pennant. Tom bought the lusty homesteaders of the last great Athletic team, such as Jim Foxx - and Mose Grove. He bought the new babies like Teddy Williams and Dom DiMaggio and the good pitchers and all. He even got mileage out of used-up hitters like Rudy York, who went great for him for one season. But on the long haul he has never been able to make his talent jell, not even when he hired the surly but supposedly genius-ridden McCarthy to weld his team into a weapon. I think it was Yogi Berra who said, after the game, that if Vic Raschi had needed to win Sun-

day’s clincher by a 1-0 score, he would have won it and that I believe. They got Vic an extra fou runs by one feat and a break, so he didn’t have! to push too much in the ninth, when the Sox got!

their three, but I will still bet retroactively that ®

anybody wearing a Yankee suit this year might) have done it any way he had to do it. | What this road show of Johns-Hopkins Hospital had was the thing that wins wars for in-| ferior troops. It was a desperate incompetence that finally becomes stronger than anybody else's competence Yy sheer weight of glandular exertion. This is the first time I can remember that the mighty Yankees have pulled strongly at the na-| tion's emotion because of their pathetic, dogged refusal to quit.

Sparked by-Tiny Rizzuto THEY LED THEIR league for all but the last week when they were no better on the charts than a fourth-place bunch. They were sparked by little Phil Rizzuto, who was tacitly washed up. They had nearly 70 separate injuries.

biggest gun, Joe DiMaggio, was mostly out, and, when he came back for the payoff effort, he outstrived the entire Red Sox galaxy, although he! was so weak he had to be withdrawn in the final} game. Johnny Lindell stitched up the Saturday game| with a homer, and Lindell was the boy who was| playing squat-tag on the waiver lists, Gerry Cole-| man, an accidental type second baseman, delivered the blooping blow that fetch: 1p three conclusive!

A roisterer, a § singer, Joe Page, became their pitching hero. Their | §&

and visits to the Cannon offices by elementary school

runs, and Coleman bats at thé¥bttom of the line-| BS

up. | What you had, also, was the kind of lousy luck|

that never grinned in the Yankee direction until|ZS=

Sunday’s chips-down game. Al Zarilla, on frea

catches, took four or five runs aways=from the."

Yanks last week, in one game—the one that put! ’em behind. One breach of etiquette, and another,! had the Néw Yorkers four runs in soak, all un-| earned, in the tight Saturday determiner, and they had to lick that handicap with Mel Parnell going pretty. They beat it. | All through the year the Yanks owned no home| at the top, but they kept the lease open, and at] the end they cinched it, and they did it on raw nerve. Or guts. Horrid word or no, it's a commodity you can't buy.

Mumbo-Jumbo

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By Frederick C. Othman Central Avenue Church

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5—The U. 8. Senate intends to keep the farmers happy, or suffocate in a silo full of big words trying. The problem is, er, simple. The plan of Sen. George D. Aiken of Vermont to hold up farm prices now is the law. It goes into effect Jan. 1. Charlie Brannan, Secretary of Agriculture, claims it’s no good. He has the Brannan Plan. Sen. Clinton P. Anderson of New Mexico used to be Secretary of Agriculture. He was Charlie's boss. They were pals. Now they aren’t. Clint says Charlie’s plan is punk. He has a better one, called the Anderson Plan. Clint is a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee. Sen. Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma is chairman. Elmer says Clint's plan is bad. He likes Charlie’s. Sen. Aiken, another member of the committee, approves neither Charlie’s plan nor Clint's. He prefers his own. The House of Representatives insists none of these plans is worth sour apples. It likes the plan of Rep. Albert Gore of Tennessee. The Senate says the Gore Plan is terrible. There are a few other plans by a few other gentlemen, but with your permission I'll ignore them. The plans of Charlie, Clint, Albert and George already have me whirling like the pitmans on a sickle bar.

Complicated Stuff

EVERY DANGED one of these plans is so complicated, and so much like the next one, that all I can say for sure is that holding up the price SE Sang will continue to cost millions, no matter what. So there I was trying to listen to Clint explain his plan as the debate opened. His hair was parted in the middle, his brown suit was neatly pressed—but so many other Senators insisted on

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getting into the act that I never did get exactly what he was driving at. = - The gentlemen, who insist they know what, they are talking about, fortunately have produced some charts showing the differences between all the plans. It says here. So: Albert, Clint and George would support the prices of wheat, tobacco, cotton, corn, peanuts and rice. Charlie would, too, and also eggs, chickens, pigs and cows, The trio of Albert, Clint and George would

give the farmers more if they played along with]

the government and cut down the size of their crops. If they didn’t, they'd still get something. Lone wolf Charlie would pay off only those farm«ers who “co-operated.”

That Word Parity THE GENTLEMEN kept talking about parity. This Word has a different meaning to nearly every-! one, but, in general, it's what prices ought to be if this weary old world didn’t have a headache. Clint and George have something special. They call this modernized parity. It is more than plain

old parity, but they don’t agree as to how much. the pockets of his striped pants:

Sets Dinner Tomorrow

Dr. Guy QO. Carpenter of Vin-

cennes will speak following the 6:15 p. m. dinner tomorrow in the Central Ayvenue Methodist Church. The theme of the meeting is “Homecoming.” Dr. Carpenter is a former Central Avenue pastor

and a onetime superintendent of the Indianapolis Methodist District.

1. S. to Finance

Stored Corn Here

grades.

Cannon photographer Bill Funkhouser snaps feature writer Janet Cox and business manager Ed Landreth as they stroll past Stuart Hall on their way to work on the weekly. Staffers vie with one another to have their work appear in the “glass case,” a special bulletin board for display of the best story or feature appearing in each week's issue. The Cannon and the June Magazine, |12-page annual,

for §3 a year. |

Woman's Attacker Evades Police Net

Believed to Have

State police today said they have found no trace of the ragged hobo who broke into a] farmhouse, criminally assaulted! a 21-year-old mother and threat-| ened the life of her baby yes-| {terday. i It was almost an hour before,

Escaped on Railroad |

Government to Spend About $84 Million

Uncle Sam will dig deep into

George would see that farmers got at least 60/¢nis year to finance stored Indi-

to 90 per cent of this new style parity for their

crops. Clint would give ‘em 75 to 90 per cent. 302 COTR.

Albert disagrees. Old-fashioned parity is good

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enough for him. He figures 90 per cent of that is Administration figures that near-

about right. ‘

All this mumbo-jumbo is at least as confusing as I've made it sound. The Senate in the next

few days will stir the mixture hard and put some

froth on it. Politics will rear its grizzled head.

And no matter what happens, or which plan gets

the: nod, eating still will be an expensive luxury.

Of that, and that alone, I am certain.

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ly 60 million bushels (double 1948) will be put in storage to qualify for government loans at an average of $1.40 a bushel. The government will put about $84 million into Indiana's stored corn which is a little less than last year when the crop was somewhat over the 263 million bushels due this year. Farmers were caught with some 27 ntillion bushels of 1948 corn on hand

Is there a planet, or some other astronomical object, called Miranda? This name has been assigned to a mew satellite of the planet Uranus which was discovered in February, 1948. The four satellites that had been previously are named Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon. cid

Do stored carrots lose their vitamin content? Stored carrots increase their supply of carotene, a valuable food element, tests made by the Department of Agriculture show. Carotene

What type of vehicle was the Conestoga wagon? : t The Conestoga was a on, often ted blue and red® 4 Join gave it a patriotic tinge. The wheel rims of the Conestoga wagon were broad for travel in soft soil and on the prairies. It was named after the town in Pennsylvania near Lancaster where it was manuf . & 9

How many statute miles are there to one nautical mile? : In converti 1.1515 nautica

nautical miles to statute miles I equal one statute mile.

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(this year which the government, is beginning to move from cribs. The corn crop will squeeze meat

which the dull whize cloth covering prices, pork leading the way

down. Heavy pork supply affects the rest of the market, including

i This week Washington figures [that in the last fiscal year endling June 30—the government put $314 billion. in all price supports {covering corn, wheat, flaxseed, cotton, peanuts, potatoes, eggs |and butter,

this victim struggled free from bonds with which her attacker tied her and reached a telephone ito call police. | | The rapist cut telephone wires in her isolated farm home west ‘of Speedway before leaving. He) {left armed with her husband's

a camera, watch and $3. | State police said they had patroled the area but found no trace of the man. They speculated he might have escaped on a. nearby railroad track. t The victim said she believed the man, who broke in through, a basement window, was a tramp. 8he said he choked her and warned her he would kill her four-month-old son “if he doesn’t stop crying.”

Petroleum Association To Meet Oct. 13-14

William Simon, Chicago attorney, and R. C. Shannon, St. Louis Socony-Vacuum Oil salesmanager, will address the fall meeting

fourth year of

Mrs. Spurlock Held to Grand Jury

Mrs. Clarice Spurlock languished in jail here today, awaiting a grand jury investigation

slated for Oct. 10 into charges that she was responsible for the arsenic poison death of her mother. Justice of the Peace Russell Judd yesterday ordered the attractive, 28-year-old housewife held without bond following oral

{arguments by state and defense

attorneys.

The preliminary “hearing was|

the second conducted into Sheriff Frank McDonald's affidavit accusing her of administering arsenic poison to her mother, Mrs. Eunice Dearing, 56, who died last November. The Supreme Court had voided an earlier affidavit filed in Vanderburgh Circuit Court. Sheriff McDonald filed a new affidavit when the first was

gun, which he took along With thrown out and the high court|

ordered preliminary hearing in a lower court.

Adult Education Panel Scheduled Here Oct. 27

A panel forum on community adult education, emphasizing the role of the library and public schools, will be held here Oct. 27 during the Indiana State Teachers Association meeting. The forum will be at 2 p. m. in the Indiana State Library, Senate Ave. and Ohio St. The meet-

without charge.

Announce Bridge Bid

today said the St.

{ turkeys and chickens. lot the Indiana Independent Pe-

troleum Association in the Severin Hotel Oct. 13-14. 4

Corp.. and L. C. Allman, vice

ing will be open to the public

The State Highway Department Clair Construction Co., Columbus, submitted a low bid of $15,689 for reipair of a bridge across the White

their efforts this year, the first time scholastic recognition has been given at Tech high.

Students in the large printing shop at Tech High receive instruction in many phases of a newspaper's mechanical operation. Ralph E. Clark, printing adviser (standing), shows Kenneth Bishop, junior, how to operate a linotype, the machine on which type is set in lead slugs for printing the paper. In the foreground, W. Ray Thompson, senior, works at the keyboard of another linotype machine. He is in his

print shop work.

IU to Honor Marcus Dickey

| corner-

stone - laying ceremonies at 2 p. m. Friday at Riley Hospital for Children. Marcus Dickey of Nashville, i Ind., 90-year-old, Re . secretary of the | Mr. Baxter famous Hoosier | poet, will receive a master of arts| |degree. A school teacher and, {principal before he became the |poet’'s personal ‘secretary, he is recognized as one of the leading authorities on Riley,

Dr. Arlie R. Barnes, chairman of the board of goveraors of Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., and Dr. Grover F. Powers, professor of Pediatrics at Yale University, will receive doctor of science degrees. A native of Jennings County, Dr. Barnes holds four degrees and is a professor of medicine in Minnesota University. Dr. Powers, ‘a native Hoosier from Colfax, holds four degrees, including B.S. and 8c. D. degrees from Purdue University. Arthur Baxter, 5110 N. Meridian St, will receive a doctor of laws degrees. A retired manufac-

turer, he has been a leader in

Other speakers listed are H. G. \Meader, vice president, Gulf Oil

River at Columbus. The commi§- civic and charitable enter: sion said its plans called for re-\many years. He has beén ns opening of the closed bridge byiher of the Riley Memorial Associ

president, Fruehauf Trailer Co. Detroit. ot ga

Nov. 15, if weather permitted a ation Board of Governors since normal number of work days. 11926, esd = 5 . . . v

Gunman Takes Victim

To House, Robs Him A near North Side man re.

ported to police early today that he was held up in Ft. Wayne Ave. and forced to accompany the gun-

man to an Arch St. address where he was robbed of $60. Ernest Newman, 43, of 934 N, Alabama St., said a man placed a gun in his back as he walked past an alley near Alabama St, and Ft. Wayne Ave, After he was robbed, hie said, the gunman told him to “get going.” Police took Mr. Newman to the Arch St. address but were une able to find the robber.

Parking Meters Take In $1256

Could Pay for Keep in

Year at Present Rate

Downtown parking meters operating on an experimental basis could pay for their keep in about a year if the current weekly in. come from the ‘boxes is maintained. Phillip L. Bayt, city controller, said the first full week of operation netted $1256 for the meters, If that figure can be recorded after each collection, this year’s total would be $65,312. However, Mr. Bayt said it was “strictly a guess” whether or not the take from the machines would remain at that level. The purpose of the meters, he said, is to help solve the parking probe lem, and not increase city revenue. ' Half the collections are paid to the M. H. Rhodes Co., Hartford, Conn., as rent for the machines. The payments will be applied to the purchase price if the meters are accepted. : JE The city’s portion will. be used for trafic improvements, Mayor