Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 October 1949 — Page 13

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The tub had no customers. I mentioned taking a bath and you would have thought a real snappy Joke had been told. The old man said it's bad luck to take a bath. Draw up a chair, son, if you have the strength, and take the load off your feet. Groans and grunts filled the room. Ralph's shoulder was killing him, he said. He didn’t know about his legs which were partially paralyzed. Jack just groaned and nipped at his glass. Gene's legs were so tired he couldn't move. His arms were dll right. The old man thought. age was creeping up on him. He didn’t know whether he could make it again. As for me, the only working part of my body was my right elbow. It worked up and down occasionally. In a half hour the crew began to come to life.

Brass ‘Squawks’

NEW YORK, Oct. 26—1If you have follqwed the squawks from the generals and admirals and defense secretaries, in the unification hearings down in Washington, You might just possibly have the impression that the situation is unchanged. They have hollered at ea other, and pointed fingers and shaken fists, who won what is still unclear. It’s my impression that little has been proven by the recent hearings; not much argument settled, and little save loud malice resultant. I know that the admirals all yelled that the B-36 was somewhat frailer than a Piper Cub as a vehicle for tomorrow's war, I know that Air Secretary Stuart Symington angrily replied that the B-36 was, too, a good airplane and better than them old carriers and battleships. We have heard the Navy say that their fighters can shoot down B-36's on the best day of the B-36’s life. We have heard that the guided missile is just around the corner, and that all airplanes will be obsolete when the thinking weapon {s perfected. We have heard Gen. Omar Bradley blow his top and yell things about “fancy Dans” in the Navy. But all we have heard is noise—accusation, counter-charge, boasts and heated denials.

Likened to Juvenile Rows

YOU ARE REMINDED, a little, of two small boys arguing over which owns the best scooter. First kid says his scooter can go faster and the second kid says it ain’t so and then the first kid says it is so, so. Then the second kid says you're a liar and the first kid says you're another and the second kid says my brother can whip your brother. Then the first kid says naw he can't either and then the second kid says well my papa can lick your papa and the first kid says he cannot lick my papa neither. This continues indefinitely, with the argufiers

Money, Money

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26—When I first came to Washington 17 years ago the adding machine in the Treasury pressroom counted only to $999,999 - 999.99. It lacked one cent of reaching a billion dollars. Not that it mattered much. ¢ dollar was a dollar and we reporters assigned to the Treasury in that innocent day never bothered with the calculator until one day it began to squeak. Mice. We had plenty of time in the Treasury pressroom then to play blackjack. We wrote pieces for the paper about the heroes of the Secret Service; we pounded out thrillers about the T-men and the opium trade; occasionally we did an item about the Coast Guard finding an iceberg. Dollars éidn’t make news and in print we ignored ‘em, Came the New Deal of President Roosevelt. To our amazement one afternoon his first Secretary of Treasury, Wee Willie Woodin, dropped down to serenade us on his fiddle. Soon after this delightful citizen died, the financial fur began to fly. The dollar was devalued and billions began to show up on the daily Treasury statement.

Need Adding Machine

FOR THE FIRST time in the history of the nation the Treasury pressroom needed an adding machine—and our old one wasn’t big enough. We ordered up a new one with 12 rows of zeros on it. Now we were set.

The card game proceeded much as before, though not as many workers as before had time to sit’in. Our art gallery of naked ladies on all four walls continued to be one of the sights of Washington. I remember shortly before prohibition was repealed that we held a party for ourselves with the

U.S. Sleuths Try to Trace |Milkman Gets Bogus $10 Bills Seized Here

Phony Money Found as Police Arrest

2 Men in Massachusetis Ave. Tavern

Secret Service agents today sought the source of $320 in counterfeit $10 bills found by police last night after the arrest of two men. The prisoners identified themselves as Willard Kelly, 47, of 6921 River Front Blvd., and Herbert Aiken, 36, of 821 8, New Jersey St. Both were charged with vagrancy, disorderly conduct and resisting

_ He Took Only Four Shots

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BEFORE we left I was even convinced that had knocked feathers out of six or seven birds. The fact that I had only shot four times the whole day didn’t matter. Feathers flew. There was semething else that flew in the kitchen. Hunters and fishermen are liars.

Ralph got limbered up so that he began to rub his shoulder with the alcohol. He was getting along so well that the rest of us began yelling for the rubbing compound. Two guys, who better remain unidentified, doused themselves with VO. The makers of that stimulant can get indorsements for their product upon request. It's just as good as any rubbing compound I have ever used. Has a good bouquet, too.

When all pain was gone, there was a unanimous vote to get something to eat. Where would we go? Not much trouble deciding since there's only one eating place in town. What to eat? The old man said they would decide that for us. Great. Heck, we didn't care.

By Robert C. Ruark

safely barricaded behind their own picket fences, until finally the mamas take their charges by the ear and hustle them off t6 supper. The question of who owns the fastest scooter is not settled, and whose brother can lick whose brother is not proved and the matter of fistic superiority of fathers is not determined. I suppose the role of mothers was scheduled to be played by Messrs. Carl Vinson and Louis (Defense) Johnson, the heavy gunners, but some sort. of private peace appears to have been promoted by that pair, and the big blood-letting is not to come off. So we are right back where we started. In this great nation, capable of producing atom bombs, bubble-gum, television and other marvels of the peace there must be some method of determining who is right, and of setting up a future schedule of some coherence and cohesion. One learned friend of mine .suggests that armistice might be achieved if the Navy were allowed to absorb the Air Force, but this appears to be an unlikely possibility.

Seek to End Inequities

THE ORIGINAL INTENT of these hearings was of deadly seriousness to the country — to smoke out inequities, to clear the air of resentments, and to chart a course, finally, which might allow us to spend more time perfecting a war machine than is currently spent by the warring services in back-stabbing each other. If any of this has been achieved it is not readily detectable. All we have had is fishwivery, which is interesting enough, but of small importance as anything but a commentary on the selfish deafness of both sides to any cry for the common good. Is the B-36 any good, or ain't it? Do we need a carrier Navy or don't we? Are we putting too much faith in bombing or ain't we? I would like to know which scooter is best and fastest, and I don’t care a hoot about whose father can lick whose father.

By Frederick C. Othman

water cooler full of gin. The Treasury reporters took billions in their stride. All but me. I couldn’t keep those zeros straight. I made so many errors trying to report the news concerning dollars that my employers wisely decided to try my reportorial talents elsewhere. The years passed and those blamed zeros didn’t mean much to me in Hollywood and other assorted places. ’ When' finally I returned to Washington the Treasury still didn’t interest me much, except when it nabbed a counterfeiter and again when it hired a pied piper to get rid of its celebrated rats. These were wondrous beasts; the story was that their diet consisted of old thousand-dollar bills. This made 'em smug and difficult to get along with. Ah, well. Enough of the good old days.

Cooler Gives Water, Only

" I HAVE JUST returned from the Treasury. The blackjack game is no more, Neither is the art gallery, while the water cooler is one of those electric jobs that gives water, only. The reporters there are so busy worrying about dollars that they have no time left for fun. Billions all over the place. Now some experts are claiming that the government is going to raise the price of gold, of which we have in Ft. Knox at the moment 702,348,496 1-10 ounces, worth $24585347,362.56. If the price of gold goes up, the profits would be fabulous. Only Secretary of Treasury Honest John Snyder gets red in ‘the face denying that any such| thing is going to happen. And every once in a while somebody of importance mentions the word trillion. That, unless I'm mistaken, is 15 zeros in a row. The crisis obviously is upon us again, The Treasury pressroom needs a new adding machine.

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Hero Award Today

W. J. Bechtel Honored For Saving Children

The Pasteur Gold Medal for heroism will be awarded to an

arrest. @-ofice made the arrests at the Sportland Inn, 643 Massachusetts ave, after a bartender became suspicious of two customers. The

British Sportsman

Dies in Hotel Plunge LONDON, Oct. 26 (UP)—Hon.

Indianapolis milkman today by Gov. Schricker, William Jay Becktel, 34, of 1428 Groff Ave. is scheduled to receive the award during cere-

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most brilliant in its history.

ducting. 2 . Dr. Sevitzky will conduct the Indianapolis orchestra in two pairs of orchestral concerts, the first of the season on Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon, Nov. 12 and 13 and the final pair of concerts Mar, 25 and 26.

Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale, duo-pianists, will be the first artists to play here. They will appear Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon, Nov. 26 and 27. Solo-pianist Ania Dorfmann will be with the orchestra Sunday afternoon and Monday evening, Dec. 11 and 12. Also in December, Pierre Fournier, cellist, will perform in concerts Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon, Dec. 17 and 18. # #” » BYRON JANIS, pianist, will be with the orchestra to start the new year, with concerts Sunday afternoon and Monday evening, Jan. 1 and 2. Vladimir Golschmann will direct the St. Louis orchestra in concerts Sunday afternoon and evening, Jan. 15. The Indianapolis orchestra will be on tour at that

ime. Also in January, Ginette Neveu.

Gold and Fizdale... Duo-Piano ...Nov. 26 and 27

Fabien Sevitzky Has Selected Nine Guest Artists to Perform

FABIEN SEVITZKY, conductor and music director of the In-

dianapolis Symphony Orchestra, has selected nine guest artists to perform with the orchestra during the coming season—one of the

Also on the subscription concert series will be two concerts by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra with Vladimir Golschmann con-

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violinist, will appear with the local orchestra in concerts Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon, Jan. 28 and 29. In February, Blanche Theboni, contralto, will be with the orchestra Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon, Feb. 11 and 12, and Artur Rubinstein, pian-

ist, will appear Sunday afternoon and Monday evening, Feb. 26 and

Joseph Szigeti, violinist, will be the last guest soloist for the season, appearing with the orchestra for concerts Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon, Mar. 18 and 19, All concerts by the.Indianapolis orchestra this season will be conducted by Dr. Sevitzky.

Moose Champion

LANDER, Wyo., Oct. 26 (UP) —L, C. Spencer of Casper, Wyo., claimed a new world’s record today after killing a moose with a 59-inch spread of antlers. The previous record was for a 58-inch

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Szigeti... Violin... Mar. 18 and 19

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Symphony Orchestra Prepares t New Season Here

Times and Theater To Sponsor Group By ART WRIGHT Here's good news for boy and girl fans of Roy Rogers. You can now join a brand new Roy Rogers club. The nation’s top western movie star and idol of millions of youngsters has granted permission to The Times and the Fountain Square Theater to organize a Roy Rogers Riders Club here in Indianapolis. Here is a new club that packs lots of action. It will have plenty

ing contests and Roy Rogers souvenirs , . , even autographed pictures of the movie hero.

contest coming up that will give some member of the Roy Rogers

Riders Club a free trip to Hollywood to visit the movie studios

Rogers “showing

around.” 2 Birthday Parties, Too

doing the

antler spread.

employee, Cecil Whitham, said they were paying for all their drinks with $10 bills. Officers found 29 of the bills in a rest room. During the inwestigation, officers said one man, then unidentified, struck Patrolman Lloyd Whrobrey. : During the scuffle, Aiken was cut on the head. He was treated later at City Jail. Police said all the confiscated ‘counterfeit bills bore identical

Peter Beatty, 39, son of the famous First World War admiral, Earl Beatty, fell to his death today from a window on the sixth floor of the exclusive Ritz Hotel. Mr. Beatty was a well-known sportsman whose horse, Bois Roussel, won the English Derby in 1938. He had been staying at the hotel with his brother, the present earl. Mr. Beatty was a friend of Prince Aly Khan and the princess, Rita Hayworth, and was widely known on the turf. He owned a house at Newmarket, one of Britain's foremost racing centers. Mr. Beatty served in the Royal Navy Voluntary Reserve during

monies at 7 p. m. in the Indianapolis Athletic Club. A native of Columbus, Mr. Becktel was chosen for the award from a national group of fellow tradesmen who had given “service beyond the call of duty.” The medal represents the milk #hdustry’s highest service award. Mr. Becktel was chosen for his rescue of four children from a burning house here last December.

-Roy Rogers Riders Club

Fojcw fiom, lagietons cxpeul, : e and the date, month year of birth. Memberanip is open to boys and girls 12 years of age and under, ti applica and take it ‘oy of the Wm. H. Block Co. or the Fountain 4 un oa te 8 rs, of ce. to Yeceive your official member ship card.

He saved 17-year-old Odessa

Willis, 2, and Diana Marie Bruce, 8 months, when fire broke out in the Willis home during absence ct the

the war,

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MEMBERSHIP IS FREE: Membership in The Roy Rogers Riders Club is absolutely free. There are no fees, dues or

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there will be birthday parties for club members, picnics, free shows at the Fountain Square Theater, free ice cream and candy, goodlooking membership cards, official club buttons to wear, Roy Rogers lucky pieces, and many other things. But you get these souvenirs and fun only if you're a member of the Roy Rogers Riders Club, Co-sponsors of the club with The Times and the Fountain Square Theater are the Wm. H. Block Co. department store, Borden’s Capitol Dairies and Borden's Furnace Ice Cream division. The Roy Rogers Riders Club doesn’t cost a thing to join and you don’t have to buy anything. Here's all you do: - : Clip the membership application which appears in today’s Times.

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Riders Club for Fans

"Hi, pardners” ... Movie star Roy Rogers and "Trigger"

Roy Rogers OKs Organization Here Of Action-Packed

salute Indianapolis youngsters about to become members of the

Roy Rogers Riders Club.

the membership application, Fill out all the information requested on. the application, get mother or dad to help you, then take the application to the toy department of Block's or to the Fountain Square Theater during show hours, or bring it to The Times. When you present your application you will

card will make you a regular

member and will allow you to participate in all the contests for

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Clip your membership tion from The Times NOW. will be in tomorrow's along with more news.

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