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IT'S ALMOST unbelievable what happens at & Hollywood-type screening of a motion picture

Although no tickets or. telegrams came this way, the oversight didn't prevent me from busting

into the Universal Film Exchange at the specified - hour and taking pole position for “The Big"

Wheel.”

Where was Jack Dempsey, producer of ‘the movie featuring Mickey Rooney and. the “500” track? Where was Rooney? Three characters took plenty of time to answer. Often the only sound in the building was a dull thud which a man could make by kicking a heavy glass door when time hung heavy on his hands. The door sure was strong.

Screenings Are Never on Time

WELL, it was known for sure that Dempsey and Rooney were in town. They'd be there. You can't expect screenings to go off exactly on time, Why not? - You don’t, that's why, bub, The heavy glass door had no intention of shattering. A few familiar faces appeared. No one sensational. Small talk made a humming sound until & sport with one of the familiar faces produced two dotted cubes. Did anyone care to join the fun? The appearance of Wilbur Shaw and Tony Hulman, the “big wheels” of the Speedway, stilled the cubes, We would have some action now, While some of us brushed our knees, Mr. Shaw announced that the Manassa Mauler would be

Jack Dempsey . . . he came, shook hands and left. Busy, busy.

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along in a few seconds.” He was right. Mickey Rooney was very tired after his plane ride from

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Chicago and was resting. Hard to imagine how!

The former heavyweight champion piled into the building. In front of him was a lovely young several yards of snappy. outfit. Most everyone

Arbutus Queen of Indiana University. She was a guest of Mr. Shaw who brought her here to present the key to the Speedway to the two celebrities. “Are you going to be in pictures?” Right in there, boy, until someone tapped me on the shoulder and said, “Shake hands with Jack Dempsey.” As I said, Mr. Dempsey’s. handshake isn’t anything to rave about, Strong. Ever grab a ham that squeezed back? That's the Mauler. Would have shaken hands with Miss Soenksen but I couldn't get my fingers apart. Something always goes wrong. : Reporters fired questions at the big man because he said he couldn't stay long. He had seen “The Big Wheel” a hundred times and besides, he had another appointment. Men with deadlines! became vicious. I offered to protect Miss Soenksen. Fight on, men, The 1850 Arbutus Queen laughed when I said she ought to be in pictures. As quickly as he arrived, Jack Dempsey was gone. Happily he left Miss Soenksen behind to see the movie. A couple of Speedway officials, with no souls at all, escorted the girl into the screening room. With, Dempsey gone and Rooney not coming, the Hollywood-tvpe screening began to lose steam. Shortly there were only seven or eight people left. Mr. Hulman and Mr. Shaw sat in the back of the room imtently watching the screen.

Some Scenes Are a Little Corny

“THE BIG WHEEL” is good entertainment most of the way. To anyone who has kicked around the Speedway, parts of the movie are corny. Typical Hollywood corn. The closeup shots of Mickey Rooney driving in the “500” have the Hollywood touch. A real race driver better wear a safety belt when he sees those shots. Regardless of a few corn fritters, movie fans and race fans ought to go for the picture. Rooney is good, actual crash sequences filmed at the Speedyay are excellent, - Wilbur Shaw said at the conclusion of the movie that “The Big Wheel” was the best race picture he had ever seen. Mr, Hulman agreed. OK, I liked it too. | The. Speedway bigwigs and Miss Soenksen went) one way. Familiar faces went another. There wasn't a streetcar in sight on Illinois St. so my feet began pounding concréte. No one on the whole street would have known I had attended a big, Hollywood screening. It was hard for me to realize it, too.

turned toward Dempsey. He was shaking hands. x: i TE Ee Tr = Does it exactly like the next man. 4 ’ It was a surprise to-find out-that the “movie| oO r star” with the orchid ‘was. Susan Soenksen, :

Haunted Pond

By Robert C. Ruark

MASTERS, Colo., Nov. 11-1 want you to meet my friend Bill MacPherson, who has just turned 61, is balder than an egg, and is very probably the only completely happy man in the world. Bill is so happy he even ¢ontemplates dying with glee. Bill runs a cattle ranch where I go to slay a pheasant when I am in Colorado. It is a medium-

sized spread, nothing like the big King outfit down

in Texas, and Bill is able to handle it with a couple of assistants and Irene, his wife. Irene cooks: for the cowhands, when necessary, and for the guests who always seem to ‘congest the place.

Cusses in Two Tongues

UNCLE WILL and his twin brother, Bob, who recently died, have been on the acres for about

39 years, since they were cowpokes in Wyoming,

and they wouldn't have traded a minute of the time, blizzards, droughts, crises and all, for a palace and pension. All they ever wanted or needed they had right there—and these were gentlemen who occasionally traveled to Europe to compete in fashionable shooting matches. Bill is the only reformed cow waddy I know who cusses as fluently in French as in English. Bill and Bob, who alse was known as Onion and the Baron, the first” because of his peeled head and the second because of a lordly manner, got along together better than any brothers ever got along. This affection extended to everything from. shooting to work to drinking to poker and, as vou shall gee, to death. Rp SN Bill and Onion loved to get a little loaded from time to time, and sing a song called “Lord Randall, My Son.” They wrangled amiablv and cussed colorfully and worked hard and played a tremendous game of poker. After they got prosperous they stopped playing poker, because it was only work. - ~ Times were. lean during the late depression, with heifers selling for $14 apiece, and little market even at that price. So Bill and Onion plugged the. chinks in their economy with a poker deck,

and some innocent bystanders. There were times when the stand-up ability of a busted flush was the difference between eating and not ealing.! That's why they quit playing it when they didn’t, need it any more. | Both men were prideful gunners, especially Uncle: Willie whe shoots lefthanded, and is pure hell on anything that runs, flies, crawls or flut= ters. They had a good duck pond and a lot of pheasants, and in between roping and branding and weaning and roundups, they waged a noisy war against theif feathered friends. They were so expert that a miss was a personal insult. This) leads to the end of the story. | The Baron died a short time ago, and was cremated. His ashes have been kept, with a plan| in mind. When his twin brother, Bill, decides to investigate the other hunting grounds, he, too,| will be cremated and the ashes will be co-mingied.

Hark, Hark, Spooks Will Bark |

“AND THEN, Rawhide,” Bill says with a gusty, snort. “I am to have them ashes scattered on the duck pond. Any time some slicker comes] down here and misses a duck, me and the Baron will rise right up outta the water and holler ‘boo’| at him. This will probably be the only haunted duck pond in the world, “In the meantime, Rawhide” says Bill, meaning me, “me and Mama and Jill will continue to work...take a. drink, eat and shoot birds when we feel like. it.” : t Jill 1s a: springer spaniel .who is more of a daughter in the house than a dog. “And come to think of it,” Bill savs, “we better scatter Jill's ashes on the duck pond. A haunted duck pond is no good without the spook of the hest retriever in the world. By God,” Bill said with a tremendous laugh, “I can scarcely wait) to see the expression on those fellers’ faces when. frie “and the Baron -holler ‘boo’ and the. ghast-of. Jill begins to bark.” {

Super Ship

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Nov. 11—In a small office here is an elderly citizen with a salty tongue, name of Paul Wadsworth Chapman, who is president of Liberty Lines, Inc. This is a shipping company without a ship. All the skipper has is an idea. go He wants to build the biggest ocean liner in

the history of the world, Two of em, in fact. ' Ordinarily, ‘a reporter-like me-would kiss off .as..

politely as possible such an old gentleman and certainly not write a piece for the papers about him, But this is no ordinary. Mr. Chapman. - ~ He used to be president of the llnited States Lines and as such the proprietor of the Leviathan, the mightiest ocean greyhound ever built. She was a good ship, but only 950 feet long. A little too short to suit the skipper. His calculations indicate that a ship has got to be 1250 feet in length, if she is to ride smoothly through any kind of a gea. A boat any shorter in heavy weather is likely to bounce, even as the Levi used to.

He's Figuring on 5000 Cabins

80 MR. CHAPMAN has. a design for the doggonedest ship anybody ever saw. He has a model of her under glass. She's a full 1250 feet long, better than 400 feet wide, and so roomy that Mr. Chapman calculates she'll have 5000 cabins, each with twin beds and private.bath, (He's got models of these, too.) And here's where the statistics get a little dizzying. The Liberty Lines’ commodore figures that she could carry 10,000 passengers to ‘Europe at a crack, and at $50 a head théy'd turn a handsome profit. ‘But, says he, figure on 5000 passengers af $100 each. Makes your eyes bulge. . Her steam turbines, grinding out 368,000 horsepower, would send her across the North Atlantic in four days at 34 knots per hour. She'd be too

big to dock in New York, but Mr. Chapman says| he has her home port all picked out. This, at the| moment, is a secret. | Come a war, and Mr. Chapman's. ship ‘would turn instantly, or almost, into-a combination air-| craft carrier and troop transport. Her twin stacks] (which are phonies he'd keep only because they! make her look like a ship) would telescope below decks. and automatically she'd be the biggest flat-| top Jn existence. Inside, he figures she'd carry| 30,000 troops, easily, but without private baths. He's got to build two ships, because one is no. good for a shipping company that wants to make money. That was the big trouble with tive: Levia« than. There was only one and hence he céuldn’t maintain a weekly schedule. Ships like the 8. 8, Sally, under plate glass in miniature, are costly as sin, full size. One of the Hners would cost about $125 million to build. but Mr. Chapinan estimates that the pair of them could be put in the water for $200 million. |

Wants Government to Kick In Most

| SINCE. THEY'D BE exceedingly handy in case of war, Mr. Chapman figures it's only fair that the government put up mot of the money. So that's why he's in Washington, giving the statesmen a look at his models. This is nothing new to him.| He used to spend a good part of his life in the! capital, worrying with the government worrying about the financing of the U. 8. Lines. | He's in no particular hurry about getting start-| ed, being by nature a patient man. But he would | like to see the S. S. Sally and the 8, 8. Teddy, _named after his father and mother, plowing the Atlantic before he dies. What will happen to the, skipper and thé Liberty Lines, I hesitate to predict. | But I do hope that when I hit 70, I'll be as full of ideas and energy as he, |

The Quiz Master

27? Test Your Skill 27?

Why do we say of a polished, cultured man that he is “urbane”? The Latin word urbs meant originally “a city enclosed hy walls or palisades.” From urbs came urbanus, “of or pertaining to a city,” Urbanus entered English as urban and this is the source of the word urbane, meaning “polished, suave, citified.” : : : wh CT Which is the largest public trust fund in the United" States? The Ford Foundation, with funds amounting to $205,000,000, is the largest public trust. It was established in 1938 for scientific, educational and eharitable purposes all ler the publi wellare

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What type of dance is the mazurka? The mazurks is a Polish national dance, and can be traced back in history as far as the 16th Century. In one respect it remains distinct from the other more formal national dances-—the comparative freedom of form and treatment allowed. Repeats can be made and the dancers may im-, provise steps of their own... | ; ¢ ©. 0 x { What causes rot in trees?

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oA ne fe. ae 3 . To al ’ i ¥ : 3 Hoosier farm folk chat about the weather and crops and renew acquaintances prior to attending sessions of the 3Ist Indiana Farm Bureau convention. More than 4000 persons are here for the three-day meeting.

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Mrs. Paul pins a convention stedt in Murat Theater. Both are from

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- "Jackson County is the best in the state,” boast these convention visllors, They are (left to. right) fdward Pollert, Seymour; L. M. Cross, Brownstown; Walter Rumph, Brownstown, and Gus Laming, Seymour. , :

Two oldsters, George N. Woodhill, Vevay, 4nd’ Chris Doyle, , said there's nothing like a good songfest. Mr. Wood-

Montgom fill is 81 an

Hama Againhieads Yule Seal Drive

The Christmas seal campaign lin Marion County this year will again be headed by Harry -8, 8. Hanna, president of the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. if was announced today by Wafren 8. Tucker, president of the Marion County Tuberculosis” Association. The campaign. part of & nas ~~ tional drive, will be the 43d annual Christmas Seal sale. It will yopen---in-<Indianapolis. and. elsewhere on Nov. 21. _Mr, Hanna, who- headed last year's successful drive, said that 95 per cent of the money contributed will remain in Indiana. “Tuberculosis is one of Marion County's costliest diseases but continued vigorous efforts will eradicate it,” Mr, Hanna said. - “Everybody's help is needed in the voluntary effort to stamp out tuberculosis by buying and using Christmas Seals. Marion - County citizens -con-

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Four-year-old Christopher Milar of Detroit, Mich, seems just a litte bored with the speechmaking. He. if with his grandfather,

Ben Kegerreis, Hartford City. be Woman Burned |tributed $112,000 last year and

Ang : ; Beer Drinker Shows Gun, 2 Counties Hope | the association hopes to expand In East Side Fire

Mrs. Kathleen Booker, 74, today Robs Tavern Keeper of $50 T° Save Old Rouen Spa _

Armed Suspect Seized in All-Night Cafe J

tween Martinsville and Blooming- Frank Edwards to Go As Police Investigate West Side Holdup ohsldefation

as a state highway was under . ‘ today by State On National Hook-Up An Indianapolis tavern Keeper was héld up at gun point early Highway Department officials. | Frank Edwards, news .comtoday and anothér man was Slugged; robbed and left lying un-7 , q..04tion from Monroe and menator on Station. WISH, has

Gov. Schricker, a 30-year member of the Farm Bureau, addressed yesterday's opening session. He said the state is Yrapidly running into the red.” SE :

was recovering from burns she received last night in a fire at 302 N. Colorado Ave. Paul Reece, owner of the twostory framé building, who oper-

ates a tavern on the first ficor, conscious in the street. Re . Morgan Counties yesterday called pond a contract with the Mutual said Mrs. Booker was burncd Three men were arrested following the holdup of the Interna- ,n yighway Commissioner Sam roadcasting System to broads after she discovered smoke com- tional Tavern 613 W. Washington 8t., shortly after midnight today. gaqden requesting the state Ca5t on a national hookup. ing from a broom closet near her Chester Propes, 32, proprietor, wh resides in the rear of the .. oo 014 1nd. 37" as part of the Mr. Edwards’ programs will go

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tavern, told police - he was robbed Revived n Mr. Clark highway system of approximately $50 by one of evived at the-scene, Mr. Clark pene beginning Dee. 5, b the close two men who were drinking beer told police two men had sluggoed | The delegation presented a pe- ol 8 ut at fl

of the ye him and a check revealed he had tition to the state backing, the Red he a nate to te f 4 band Ha ew one of the men but’been robbed of his wallet and be- measure signed by 500 persons.| cull sor pect e face and hands. Hot the man who produced a tween $30 and $40. including Dr. Herman B Wells, ," = nning Jan, After being given first aid by gun and ordered him to “lay your The victim was “insured,” how-| Indiana University president. le > DBO Pp of the Amer. members of the fire rescue squad, honey . on. the bar” he told ever, and after removing his shoe| The old road winds around and an Federation of Labor, Mrs, yhvoler was taken to Gen police. He ‘supplied the name of told police he wasn't quite broke. through hills in Monroe and, © fra papita Wiiere she San the man he recognized. The sluggers had overlooked a4 Morgan counties. It was recently Fire Department a reatment. . . large sum in his shoe. : replaced by a new straight road 2 Sia 0f ihe fire wis not Imme- wh u Subteguent itvenigation, Curtis Martin, 37, of 43 8 completed at a cost of $3.5 mil Auxiliary Elects etermined an amage . ‘ LaSalle 8t., told police he was lion. | es Auxiliary to the Mars was slight, fire officials said. all-night cafe and one of gi held up and robbed of $14 by + pens {Hill branch of the Wayne Towns. F Na was Meld on a pre.|t¥0 Men who approached him at Mqlnutrition Death [slip Fire LDepartmetit BAS Quite armed man was he n Pre-itne Coffman Trucking Co. ga- v : {pleted election of officers to serve In California Probed

liminary robbery charge and the age at 574 Reno St. {during 1950. two others slated for city va-| | At held J | He said one of the men slugged | a meeting held last night in {him as the other took his wallet. HANFORD, Cal, Nov. 11 (UP) {the

second floor apartment. As she opened the door, Mr Reece said, the flames flared out at Mrs. Booker, ‘burning her on in his place at closing time.

VFW Gives School New Flags

rancy. fire house, Mrs. Eileen Classes In 18 rooms at School “Mr. Propes told police he be- tn —- \—a coroner's jury verdict that a field was named Crean Hats ¢ 67, ‘3615 W. Walnut St, were lieved the holdup came as a‘pouenye Agents’ Make 16-month-old infant died of mal- Dorothy Hall, vice boasting new flags today. suruprise od the Hew he Shew. lcl : inl d ‘nutrition today prompted San William Unsel, .secretary, In observance. of ~Education Hi said the armed man turn eaning in Laundry Joaquin Valley authorities to or- Mrs. Clyde Lacky, treasurer,

Week, Speedway Post 2839, VFw the gun on his’ companion and| pURBAN; South Africa, Nov. and . its ES presented the ordered him to accompany him 1, (UP)— Two well-dressed men dér an inquest into the deaths of ‘Light Up the Sky’ ’ national ensigns to the school 38 he left the tavern. walked into a local laundry and Other farm workers’ children. | A Wednesday during open house They were to: be arraigned in told the proprietor importantly: | A jury of nine fien last night Coming to Murat a ceremonies, Municipal Court today. “We are from the Inland Rev- agreed with Dr. Paul Murphy, di-| “Light Up the Sky.” one of the Sherman Ray Clark, 25, of 708 enue Department. We wish to in- rector of the Kings County hos- brighter comedies to . on tion committees included Robert Central Ave. was found lying un- spect your books.” pital, that the child died of mal- Broadway last season, has besa Schaub, Dale Walters and Ralph conscious in the 1100 block of | They spent two hours poring nutrition, gastroenteritis and de- booked for the Murat

Chambers of Speedway Post, and, Peck St- late last night by El- over the company books, then hydration. | Dec. 8, 9 and 10. Cast for the

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