Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1949 — Page 19

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Thoughts of Home

EVERYONE should have a home to go to d ing holidays. No one should be homeless. There what

Couldn't get the stuff down. Supposed to be turkey, too. My. stomach didn’t feel right and it wasn't from too much turkey. ) Along with the thoughts of home for several weeks, Mrs. Bovola’s youngest, only 30, has been thinking a little ahead. Oldest brother, John, has a home and two rip-snortin’ kids. Older brother, Stan, has a wife and a home. The wheel of time is slowly and relentlessly turning. The fable about the grasshopper who played all summer while the ant worked even came back to scare the daylights out of me momentarily, How hungry and lonely can an old bachelor get? The ant, as I remember, had a family, full cupboard, a warm home and when Christmas cafe

Going home . . . Drumsticks and cranberries aren't the only things “Mr. Inside” is thinking of today.

“+ Have a real good dinner and a happy holiday.

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ment wasn’t half as good as the hollow-soundi empty-looking, varnish-scented joint he called his . , What an understatement. What about the hills of dirt and sand in the front and back? : | 1 remember we built a five in the fireplace. The jdea was to take the chill out. In a few minutes) the windows and doors were open. The fire-

RETR Food for Thought : The police traffic depariment today aims at the best safety Big and little stores will be asked to do their OVER THE years, work, care, pride and what| record in local history. Ta combat the dangerous next two months part. Winders, Winders & Strieby Gun. have you changed the pile of lumber and paint| bluecoats plan to fleod the yi with calendars and posters. John smith Shop, 534 Massachusetts Ave. posts a ridien St. It cautions drivers that gesch : into a home. The fireplace has worked beauti-| Wooley, owner of the Thrift Shoe Repair Shop, Merchants Bank warning given him by Officer Rex Waggoner. alcohol don't mix. Several posters of Bully: Several mes a happy and Sattfres youth building, promises Patrolman Jack Arthur he will display one of The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce donated similar nature will be displayed in taverns and all ra n asap ‘aires oF | the 2000 calendars supplied by Indianapolis Chevrolet dealers. 500 of these to warn the public to be careful. liquor stores. This year we're eating the season's first turkey, gag at home. Ma is doing the cooking. Come Christ-| mas and the big dinner will be at John's. That's| because he has the tree and the kids. How come no one ever comes to my place? Maybe I sheuld ask who wants to come to my place? Something to think about. - Oh, well, the important thing today is I'll be home. Ma is always happy to see me. And the kids are if I'm carrying packages.

That comes straight from a grasshopper’s heart.

Hammock Sleeper By Frederick C. Othman

CAMPECHE, Mexico, Nov. 24—The only bed in this ancient port are for those silly people known as tourists. Everybody else, from banker to lowliest peon, does his sleeping the sensible way, in a hammock. The hammock, I hasten to add, was invented in these parts. The making of hammocks is a leading industry, while the making of beds is an art the housewives hereabouts never have had to bother about. The bedrooms look a little bare. The furnishings consist of two hooks hung on else.

When you want to go to bed you bring in your hammock, hang it up, and crawl in. If you have a wife, she gets aboard, too, while for those with children there are hammocks of sixpassenger capacity. My informants, including Garcia, the

except bedroom suites, tell me, however, that for a good night's rest no more than two should climb into the same hammock. More, according to them, creates havoc. > * She Sleeps Crosswise SENORA GARCIA, who is a small lady and inclined to be plump, reports that she prefers sleep crosswise in her hammock, digging her into one hem and trusting to the welllaws of physics to keep the rest of her floor. The senora said I ought to have a hammock to take back to the states. I . She introduced me to Senor Lavalle, who sells furniture in the front of his establishment, operates a restaurant in the rear, and conducts a hotel de luxe on thie second floor of what used to be his uncle’s marble-lined mansion. From him I bought a beauty-—a two-passenger model in case my bride is interested in tropical

" sleeping—for $200. Mexican dollars, that is. It

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Credit a Woman

steep price for a hammock, but as Senora Garcia said, when you're buying something you're going to use nightly for the rest of your life, it is economy to get a good one. She sounded like a mattress saleslady. So my hammock is a multicolored job, made of thousands upon thousands of cotton threads of the smallest size, intricately woven in diamondshaped designs so that it has more give than an old girdle and more stretch than a new garter, Senor Lavalle said that it was cheap at the price. When he’d explained why, I didn’t haggle.

Weaver Gets $3 a Week IT TAKES eight weeks for an expert weaver, safety poster conworking 10 hours a day, six days a week, to make| fest in public high schools. Alex Clark, Municipal Court 4, looks at winning such a hammock. At that rate the Indian woman| pogiers with top artists (left to right] Annette Keith of Howe High School, and who wove mine earned $3 a week, not counting Uoyd Cast and Platt, both of Technical High School

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the several. pounds of cotton thread she used. And while I'm on the subject of Senor Lavalle, Td better mention his hotel upstairs, the best in the walled city (walled against the pirates) of Campeche. When his uncle, Fernando Carvachal, built the mansion nearly a century ago, he sent to Italy for marble to make the grand stairway. He died the day work began. After a suitable period of mourning, Senor Carvachal ordered the work on the staircase to proceed. And she died. Now nobody in Campeche will touch the job. And when pressed, Don Felipe will admit that he’s none too anxious to get that stairway bullt, himself. Only way to the hotel part of his establishment, consequently, is via a rickety scaffolding of mahogany, which has been in place now for a full century. Upstairs all is magnificence. Don Felipe even has beds for those who want em, but he also includes hooks in the walls for the use of travelers, who really need their sleep. When I get back to Washington, who knows? | I may have a bed for sale. If I can find myself} a sucker, that is, who doesn’t know any better,

IT'S A SHAME the way that Gov. Bradford character always has taken the credit for Thanksgiving Day. Actually, it was a woman who fixed it so that we get a day off every last Thursday in November, and if there was any justice the leading lady in those schooiroom pageants would be somebody dressed up to look like Sarah J. Hale of Boston. Nobdy's trying to deny that old Bradford threw the first Thanksgiving party in Plymouth in 1621. But it was Mrs. Hale 242 years later who made it official. Mrs. Hale was a woman's magazine editor back in the 1800's and you know how a female. editor is when she wants something. Well, what Mrs. Hale wanted was a national Thanksgiving Day and she badgered the authorities about it for 36 years until finally in 1863 President Lincoln gave in and proclaimed one.

Was Irregular Event

UP TO THEN, Thanksgiving Day was a pretty affair, In 1644 the royal Dutch Governor of New York issued a Thanksgiving proclamation. Congress recommengled one every year during the Revolution, but after the peace in 1784 everybody forgot about it until 1789 when President. Washington ordered a Thanksgiving Day for the adoption of the Constitution. Then in 1815 President Madison set a day of thanks for peace and that was all until Lincoln's proclamation in 1863. In the meantime, of course, Massachusetts kept right on having its Thanksgiving Day every year to get out of having to observe Christmas, which the early Puritans denounced as pagan and wicked and passed laws to punish anyone caught celebrating it. At first, the day was divided equally into praying and eating, but by the time the 10th Century rolled around politics had taken

" giving proclamation as drivel, whereupon Ben ,...nce also is necessary, he baby, William Richard Hunter, cated today. Ihouse,

young artists’ posters cry stern warnings to the erring. Currently accidents are down almost 1000 over last year, injuries more than 500 with moving arrests up 9000. : & 4 FEY ; ll Wife, 24 °° MOH. ’ NEW YORK, Nov. 24 (UP)~— Druggist Benjamin Feldman twice F year-old wife while she lay preg- First will La \ nant ig a hospital, went free to- Meet ing ry Chosen for Post trial found him innocent. Take e 12 Donald Shaw will serve as bat-| o.oo hed to Defense At-| Two Indiana ‘Ripple High School ROTC . unit {in a public debate in ithis coming school year. Cadet Kissed Je tmburrgssed yer ® launching the 1950 political cam~ : .__ /male jury brought in their verdict P&80. Two other seniors, Cadet Cap- qrior 27 hours of deliberation. | Republican State Secretary | Hirst Lt. Kenneth J. Cruger will! lyn druggist had remained in| first debate between Sen. Homer {be assigned as company com-| gino ging's death house 25/E. Capehart (R. Ind.) and Rep. : | Other commissioned officers are non walked to the electric chair. will be staged here Dec. 12. | {Cadets Second Lts. Bruce Baird, pe twice had applied for and re-| Sen. had challenged By Andrew Tully, |Clure and Robert Nicholls, alligor poisoning his wife, Harriet! Democrats to | : 18, vy » a debate on the subSoberly Capt. Audrey Jacobs, traffic head, and Robert Em. seniors. {in a hospital Dec. 9, 1943. ject: “British tn vs. the over and the preachers took advantage of their| survey the daily record at police headquarters. They would like | Promoted to noncommissioned Gusie Berkowitz, also died con-/He will support the latter position annual Thanksgiving services to give their ene-! $o hold the Ts number police he a ut to 40. The campaign officer status were Edward Elrod vulsively Aug. 26, 1841, but thre in the coming forensic matches, Naturally, there were all kinds of skulldug-|- pe ———————— _________ |sergeant first class; Donald L. been poisoned. gery and the politicians had to think fast to pre- Ordnance Plant Takes Kirkpatrick, Myron Hack, Spencer Preliminary details of the first vent their opponents from getting the best of Junk Collector

This scene faces traffic violators appearing in Judge Clark's court today. The i [= ————————— re - - — . -~ _ | . 2 Al 4 % i . . Name Broad Ripple Freed ir Peisoning Canehiart-Japohs of wel & convicted of poisoning his 24Donald Shaw day after a jury in his third tall d f the Broad today to “talk turkey” on commander of the Bro | to k { ‘torney Hyman Barshay, and y de ¥ Indianapolis |Captain Shaw is a senior. {tain George K. Toombs and Cadet The pudgy 41-year-old Brook-| George J. Edick announced the |manders, months while 23 other condemned Andrew Jacobs (D. Indianapolis) {David C. Herriman, Thomas Mc- .sjyeq reversals on convictions Rep. Jacobs and other leading | | erick, Indianapolis Safety Council education committee chairman, | Those Promoted | Mrs, Feldman's mother, Mrs./American Form of Government.” mies a going-over. { is designed to do 0. and Thomas F. Johnson, to cadet! was never any proof that she had Details Worked Out | F. Trudgeon, Stephen W: Gars- Police Find Recluse | aehate were worked out late yes. them. One year, most of the congregational pas- Machinist Job Bids

tang, Phillip B. Shepherd and | terday at a conference between tors were opposed to President Jefferson, and so| : John N. Achor, to cadet sergeant. Was Far From Wealthy sen. Capehart, Republican State Gov, Elbridge Gerry, a red-hot Jeffersonian, knew Applications for machinists to . Ronald V. Ragsdale, Willlam GREENSBORO, N. C., Nov. 24/ Chairman .Cale J.. Holder and their sermons would be loaded with rough stuff. work in the U.S. Naval Ordnance eld n eath H. Nixon, Richard A. Gayde, (UP) — Officers said today they| Democratic State Chairman Ira He wrote a proclamation that took the preachers| Plant, 21st St. and Arlington Thomas C. Jett, Clyde F. Heffel- might as well have left the junk- Haymaker in Republican ‘state two hours to read and by the time they got around Ave. are being accepted by the v NF . man, Spencer 0. Brock, Edward jammed shack of an aged recluse headquarters, : to denouncing Jefferson most of the customers had U- 8. Civil.Service Commission. ABERDEEN, Wash., Nov. 24 5 Hughes, Kenneth O. Deppen, open instead of nailing it shut to! The first ‘verbal duel will be gone home to dinner. €. P. Bernhart, setretary of (UP)—A 28-year-old junk col mifrord I. McCoffery and Reuben keep out intruders after her held at 7:30 p. m. two weeks from {the commission examiners board, lector was held on an open'p Robertson, to cadet corporal. |death. next Monday, but arrangements Governor Popular said qualifications for the job in-charge today while police investi- rrr | They nailed up the tumble-down for its site were not definite. ANOTHER YEAR Massachusetts had an un 046 8, (OUear apprenticeship Eated the death of un 18 month JAY CORRUPTION SOARS | |puiing atter;Mre, Luvlls Tone 10 was agreed howsvery that popular governor named Ben Butler, whom they 4 }0el and Hie palit OF 38 rents er LR vie ruption among Japanese govern. | Ellington, 69, died of malnutrition the debate will ‘be open to the taxpayers always accused of talking a lot of non-| oynarience in one of these trades. Swarthy, six-foot Alfred Leoh- ment employees has reached an had $25000 in cash hoarded! for radio

and the word got around that she public without cost and available sense, Sure enough, -| al f ough, they denounced his Thanks-|one year of journeyman ex-|ner admitted that he dropped the Dew high, official figures Indl, 00 ne nies of refuse in her] Tentatively, the debate was set

' ———————— et {fo Said that twas amy | hecans he q veg lm Same said. while putting him to bed, police CHURCHILL IMPROVED | Yesterday searching ofiders| High Sehoot, which has 5 Gore, Who'd been rated 8 Fight Tuy PREF! Age limits, which do not apply|said. | LONDON, Nov. 24 (UP)—Win-/found seven purses with money in|capacity in excess of 1500. How= Most communities .uiually Bave colobeat alto veterans, are from 18 to 62, Grays Harbor County Coroner | gon Churchill, confined to his/them and other caches of bills in/ever there was a possibility the y ed|yvears. Applicants must be on/Pr. E. B. Riley sald there was home by a severe cold, was re-the house. But the whole take!school commissioners could not

Thanksgiving Day the same way--with a couple| evidence that the chi i of a 3. Soup ale hot later than Dec. 6, Mr. ce e child had been ported much hetter today. | approve such a use of the hall.

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can dig up a sleigh for the occasion. . In the old days, though. some of the more School Has First — —_ erratic stern cities took on a lot of old world 2 aim . ad i customs. Kids went around wearing masks and OF Two Christmases Convicted Slayer ant Rc He vl old clothes and blowing tin horns and asking| GARKS, Ariz, Nov. 24 (UP)— ose 30.Day Sta : | strangers for candy, like they do on Halloween Maine school's 45 students, rush- Y y pe : now. This went back to the old Scotch custom ing the holiday season before ATLANTA, Nov. 24 (UP)~ 4 Ro ii of New Year's Day wassail, when the poor made| Winter snows end all community| Convicted murderer Wayne = nh h the rounds with their wooden bowls asking for activities, held the first of their Woodruff of Jackosnville, Fla, contributions of hooch so they could celebrate|tWo Christmases on Thanks- and Bedford, Ind, won a 30-day properly. giving eve. reprieve on Thanksgiving eve, Thank you. In an isolated rural area that|six days before he was schedis virtually snowbound from De-|uled to die in Georgia's electric

The Quiz Master

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For whom was the ‘gardenia named? event to compensate for the mis-|{Pléa for commutation of the

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lina. Q ; * oe {a OES Cha r fo ‘Meet ; Where did the game of chess originate? $350,000 Fortune Away oo 549, OES Chess is an ancient game of uncertain origin; AURORA, TIL, Nov. 24 (UP)—|will meet at 8 p. m. Monday. It seems likely it was first played in India, and in- James Powell, 74-year-old retired Beatrice C. Fisher is worthy troduced into Persia in the 6th Century. The date businessman, died today, less than matron and Dr; Henry I. Berger of its Introduction into Europe Is obscure, The three weeks after he gaye away|is worthy patron. modern form of the game dates from the 16th his $350,000 fortune “So I'can see : - Century and the earliest k work an the|People enjoy my money while 'miSETS AIR SPEED MARK

subject was written in 1561 by a Spaniard, Ruy alive.” CHICAGO, Nov. 24 (UP)—An Lopez de Segura. Mr; Powell wis alone In hislAmarican. Altlines pilot. Capt Indianapolis bh, A, SOR EE ~ (room at the Leland Hotel when Walter P, Steiner, Lake Zurich, : napoli Sytnphany Flan Such, Wopd 1s nied sas hei? _ (he died shortly after midnight.Ill, today held a new record for Reicherts and Gale: weet lo estimated that $3,000,000 cords of wood was attributed to & mallg-|the Ch Tork scheduled! \o8% Felcharts aedl © Bray all the wood in the ; d alone for years, oF Seam erans’ Hospital, Cold Spring Rd.