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.~ FREAKS, COMEDIANS, stunt artists, masked _ eye gougers in .the wrestling game will take the count: Ed’ (Strangler) Lewis brought thé news to town. The Strangler feels strongly about the €xhibitionism in the sport of which he ‘was five times world heavyweight champion. When ‘he speaks, windows rattle, chairs tremble lights flicker and you listen. He packs punch any six ways you want to look at him Meeting the. Strangler for the first time .is an occasion for .a few silent words of thanksgiving that he arrives on the scene in good spirits.
Handshake—Fingers Gone
“I'M AT YOUR DISPOSAL, young man,” announced Strangler, aftér we pressed fingertips and I discovered mine wera missing. Interviewing the 285- -pound master of the stranglehold who can fill a doorway and have muscle. left over, is a simple tusk. Pop a question, fold your hands and listen, Then you wait until the Strangler digresses from the subject of wrestling to the subject of helping youth of the nation. . Every so often you try to get him back on thé wrestling track “The movement to throw out the fantastic in the grand sport of wrestling is on,” said Strangler, narrowing his beady little eyes to slits. “The fantastic must be eliminated.” “How did it get started?” “Trend of tne times. The public demanded circus stuff and got it. Don't misunderstand, 1 like action and 1 say give the customer action but leave out this., . .” Strangler demonstrated what he meant. It left me quaking. ~The wrestler, not exactly a handsome man, snarled, worked his knees like
Still grappling . . . Ed (Strangler) Lewis at 60 fights for youthy--betterment of wrestling and God.
Roll, Jordan, Roll
TUSAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 8-1 have “beer study< “fig modérh music lately modern music.being ap-
proximately .one-half “Mule Train” and the other
Ralf Hopand-I-may have-found an antidote Tor
the whole business. “This antidote wolild be a young ‘colored génileman, originally of Los Angeles, whose name _is Connie Jordan. : Mr. Jordan is in his late 20's. and. he looks rather like a sunburned Sinatra. He 1s a reformed drummer, and he sings in a little joint called the “Say When” here in town. The “Say When” finds itself stacked to the eaves each evening when Mr. Jordan begins to roll, and remains stacked until Mr. Jordan goes away.
Clap Hands, Here Comes Connie THIS IS because Mr. Jordan has a voice that combines something of the old fashioned Georgia camp meeting with a sly sophistication and even a wistful tenderness—Good Gawd, Ruark, lay them adjectives down, boy—which makes him about the best parlay in enfertainment I have clocked since Crosby had hair: When Connie is singing hot he opens up his mouth like a sinner come to mourn and he whacks his hands between phrasings and when Le rocks on his heels and whacks his hands and opens up his mouth you can see the whole jampacked crowd whack hands and rock on “eels and follow him with silent, open mouths, When Connie renders “Saturday Night Fish Fry’ ' unto his faithful, there is no doubt at all that the young man has a song in his lungs. He does not croon. Connie can stroke a ballad as soft and sexy as Sinatra in his better days and he doesn't have to fake a falsetto. He can turn loose on a ditty with as much or as little noise as the ditty needs and knock the crowd dead with one reaction—namely, that a pleasant looking hrown youngster named Jordan has just cornered the market on all the rhythm of the world.
"pistons, thrust his thumbs into imaginary ‘eyes and genersily succeeded in driving me into a corner and shutting my eyes. ~ "It all began with this relentless push towird mere speed speed-—-and that's when the aerial stuff was born, Awful, And what a bad. éxample it has been to all of us,” growled Strangler, He recalled the days when a man, he named several wrestlers, wouldn't. do an unsportsman Itke act for $10,000 - ‘Wrestling 18 too fine a sport to kill,” the big fellow thundered. “You know it's fine ‘when it can survive ad the condemnation wrestling takes and go on to pull itself up again by the bootstraps.” The bull neck of the Strangler had me guess- | ing the size, Would he get sore if 1 asked? The
biggest neck I've seen since the State Fair, Finally,|
I asked, just as he was saying wrestling was the best body-conditioning sport.in the world. “Neck, 21 inches; chest, 58 inches; waist, 4“
inches; feet, 13's and head, 8'% inches” an-i, swered Strangler. He began to shake with laugh-
ter and when a man his size shakes, hold your| seat. . | “You know, 1 was probably the only baby in the world who was never slapped when he was! born Ma. i “Why?” Had to go along with the gag “Because 1 was so big the doctor thought ra slap back.’ We resumed the conversation shortly, in about the same length of time it takes to learn to weave baskets, and Strangler told how impatient he was to have wrestling get back .3o where the audience applauds instead of shriek maledictions at the referees and the “bad guy”“in the ring.
In Pure Form in Amarillo
IN AMARILLO, TEX., promoters have wrestling in its pure form. And the Strangler said the people are going for it in a big way. “We have to get away from the freaks and] bring back athletes with: splendid physiques and| good sportsmanship. Matchmaker Bill Thom is} doing it gradually in your town. Youth must not | look at the type of thing that almost Kkilled| wrestling.” His eyes light up whenever youth Is | mentioned. Eighteen months ago the Strangler wrestled| his last match. Today all his time is ‘devoted to| speaking to organizations interested in youngsters and to the children ihemselves “Youth is my hobby.” admits Strangler When | he isn't working toward the betterment of his hobby, as he calls it, Strangler throws his weight and words around for the betterment of wrestling He is the ambassador of goodwill for the grappling associations
Strangler is that when he speaks of God, harmony,
peace of mind and happiness, you feel his words aren't being pumped out of the usual word factory. He doesn’t sound like a preacher, either. When he talks you have a feeling that you ought to listen. should listen. And it isn't because you.
know he could knock vour block off, either,
By. Robert- -C. Ruark
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On- top” of That he looks nice. There is a touch
of the choir bey -about - him; and a” ¢léan good humor. --This is a refreshing change from . the. Hasty aking Heh “With “the berets a a the little
goatees who holler “0009 and ‘"peee’ in leiu of.
words, and whose whole repertoire seems slanted at the marijuana, or happy-stick, set. I am just about caught up on this : bebop kick. Paul- Weston, 4 rare band leader who plays soft and pretty, was telling me the other day that bop | has become 20 esoteric that when a player gets up, now to take a solo break, all he has to do is stand] there for most of his 32 bars and the applause Is just as heavy as if he were playing. This is known-as performing to a *“‘cool” audi] ence, a cool audience being one which is so hep!
that it does not need to ‘hear the music at all}
but can imagine what the music would sound like|
if it were actually being blown out of a horn or!
thumped from a drum. It is somewhat like paying| a singer not to sing or a football player not to run,|
and may have soms-advantages, at that. I mean that is the proper place for bop, anyhow—in the!
heads of its fanciers and not in the public eardrum.
Bop Heresy: He Stays in Tune
MY MAN Jordan comes from a musical family George Harris grasps his partner, Miss Pat Scott, for svpport after losing a heel during a fast step at the YMCA square dance.
3 Lose Fur Coats At ‘Stove Party’
Three women who went to a [Jemonstsation party at Chambers
and hence has some respect for sharps and flats, His stuff ends on the beat and he is so old-fash-joned he even sings in tune. This is a modern miracle in jazz singing, since most of the ones I hear lately wander around the melody like a drunk in the subway. Ordinarily I do not make a habit of going about discovering people, since this sometimes earns you| a rap on the snout or additional financial obligations, but 1 break the rule in favor of Mr. Connie| Jordan. If this young gent isn't the hottest thing in the vocal business before he's much older I will take up bop myself and try to make it popular with people who speak English
Horses, Blue Eggs By Frederick c. Othman
NEW YORK, Dec. 8—Now I am the proprietor of two single-foot aes directly descended from
“the nag of Don Quixote and a bob-tailed rooster
whose wives lay pale blue eggs. Otherwise, my troubles are small ones. There's nothing quite so pretty, according to my bride, as two blue eggs boiled four minutes for breakfast. As for the single-footers, says she, a fellow might as well be comfortable on top of a horse as anywhere else. They're the equines with the original three-point spring suspension, which has been copied so successfully by the Detroit auto makers. What happened was.that I dropped up to New York to interview Mrs. O., on her return from six weeks in Peru, on the theory that she'd probably have some news. She strolled off the 8S. 8. Santa Cecilia looking innocent. The customs collector wondered did she have any silverware to deckare? Any trinkets? Souvenirs? Well, yes, said my bride, she did have a few little things, including a couple of small horses and . .. “we “Live?” inquired the poor devil at the baggage counter, . '
They're Full of Beans
MRS. O. SAID she hoped so. They were full of beans when she left 'em on the dock down in Buenaventura, where they were to board a following freighter. The customs man said in 30 years of service at the docks of New York he'd seen ladies bring in strange merchandise, but never before had one of them declared a horse. Much less, two horses, And \ furthermore, said he, what was a singlefoot horse? A kind of animated pogo stick? My bride laughed at this sally, on the theory that it's\always wise to enjoy a customs agent's jokes, and said th. single-foot horses have the usual number¥of fd. The.trick about. them Is that they never have more than one foot off -the ground at a time. This produces a rocking éhair ride, even while crossing ditches, which should be
" ad satisfactory.in Fairfax County, Va., as it used
to. be in Spain many a century ago. The customs man said he preferred streetcars, himself, ot, then everybody to his. own. tastes,
And now said he, what about this decorative rooster? Stuffed? Mrs. O. said if anything happened to her rooster. which has spots on it like a peacock, she'd wring a G-man’s neck. Down in Peru, she added, blue eggs bring a premium on the market. The federal agent said if she didn’t mind, he believed he'd sit down while she explained that one. Any hen husbanded by a bob-tailed Peruvian rooster automatically produces blue eggs with small red speckles, she said. When all her hens at Mclean, Va. start laying easter eggs as a matter 57 course she's going to be in business. Where, the man wondered, was this miraculous rooster at the moment?
It's Flying to New Home |
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problem was to persuade Pdn American Airlines
to fly her rooster in a plane equipped with a pres- gm a7¢p gt surized cabin. Peruvian blue egg roosters live on $65 and three pairs of trousers 4he coast, only. High altitudes make them dizzy cometime during the night, and her problem is to persuade the airline that Feist, her bird has got to have a seat aboard a plush oo. window had been | broken.
lane, The agent was a nice Joe. Flabbergasted he may have been, but polite he remained. The singlefooters, he said, probably can enter the. country without much trouble. All they'll need are some inoculations and a certificate from a federal vet. Thé rooster he feared was something else again.
Department of Agriculture, | The trouble, he said, is that the administration has evolved no policy ‘on hens’ eggs colored blue. What if this strain of chicken spread across the land and eventually everybody's eggs were streaked with blue? He ‘could foresee trouble, 1 My bride told him to worry no more. She sald she personally would undertake to persuade the, ‘Secretary of Agriculture that what this country needs is blue eggs. I have no doubt that she will. I'm also glad that she got home, Tomorrow: Politicians in Washington, if [| can get my mind back. to such a pedestrian subject. |
‘The Quiz Master
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When was the first ational forest in the United States created? The first forest reserve—the Yellowstone Park Timberland Reserve—was created by President Harrison on Sept. 16, 1891. The land Included within this reserve now forms parts Bf several national forests in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, to the Yellowstone National Park. —
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18 po—ye by livestock harmful to hardwood forests? Yes. Hardwood forests should “be protected | pa grazing, because livestock browse the young | | “trees to the point of Yestiuetion, it! i
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The Indianapolis Times “8
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8. 1049 re PAGE Ed
City Dwellers As Square Dancing Comes Back
(Picture story by John Spicklemire and Bob Wallace, ' Times Staff Photographers)
$200 and Watch Taken by Bandit
Three Local Firms Are Burglarized
One man was robbed of $200 an dhis watch by a strong-arm
nat By a a stove o> keep. [them warm on the way home. While they were watching the demonstration their fur coats disappeared from the c.oakroom. Two of the women, - Long, 1529 Prospect St.,
Mrs. J. W. motorists were on file at police and Mrs. headquarters today following a Verlin Spurgeon,
Willie Carruth, 62,
] The cut attended the 16th St. , reported he was at-
demonstration and held a benefit card basey in the Chambers Co. the traffic division, said motorThe third theft vic- cycle officers and men -in un G. Ewald, 34. Dorothy Kenoyer, , a, store, employee. All ‘three Women Wad muskrat night.. Some men regularly as- they were revived by police rescue The signed to school details were workers each said the other
walked through a vacant lot near
He said his wallet and his gold wrist
watch were taken. , each valued at $350.
theft was discovered as the party broke up late last night. salesmen sald they believed two men were looking at stoves and made within a few hours, Capt : aay ; the Sloe Jacobs said. An additional 26 Churchwomen Plan [prison in August after two courtroom on e way to e restroom | were arrested in W. 16th St. last ’ | might have been responsible for night and early today. Speeds Party for Onetime DP’ $ he was unable to understand the
Rainey's Diner, 111 W. , reported $468 In silver stolen by a burglar=whq broke a rear
Enter Services Stabioh
An undetermined ameunt SHE SAID that she didn't know for sure, but money, 22 cartons of ciragets, a that she had arranged for it to fly here. “Some $5995 radio and an electric razor rooster,” muttered the government's represen- were stolen by burglars who entered the Galovic Service Station, Mrs. O. said she meant in an airplane. Her 942 N, Tibbs Ave., police reported The F & F Launderette, was burglarized of
Woman Reports Flight | From Night Molester
deputy heriffs she lost one. shoe H. Daily, said the petition- was _ and ‘her purse containing $75 dur- peed C ch. ing a flight from a molester north Tests on 5 way furch : filed without his knowledge or of Indianapolis last night. The young woman said she had was the scene this week of a sehouse ries of secret tests on an uncanvass in the suburban area and ,. med six- cylinder passenger car
been making a
KIWANIS TO MEET Alex M. Campbell of Ft. Wayne, J. 8, Attorney General, |will address a luncheon meeting of the Indianapolis Kiwanis Club free and ran: the Claypool fiight fo a home where she called hicle was a small-model Nash. committee chairman and Mrs. F./for signs of blood. Most men who
m., waiting for her der the direction of American gona
She aid a man walked up and The car was understood to be a
wrenched gtandard model. During a six-block He said she'd have to take that one up with the jomagro noon in
| Choice Before Civilization.”
THE STORY OF THE SAVIOR
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Square dancing, an ever-popular rural pastime, is staging a comeback ‘among city dwellers. In Jessie Morton Spencer, 509 W. 30th St., fiddles a sprightly Indianapolis, more than 100 groups have held square dances this year. Here Mr. and Mrs, Richard tune for the Civic League's revelers. In his 70s, Mr. Spencer began Lenglade (lett) and Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Jones swing their partners at a dance of the Fall Creek fiddling in Russiaville. Mrs, Norma Koster of the Park Board ca One dominant characteristic about the Civic League, 45th St. snd Evanston Ave.
the steps.
Four couples link hands in a square dance at YMCA. The winter square dancing season opened last week and will be held every Friday. Tony Lippa acts as caller and plays the accordion.
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Against Speeders nw ee ne Bi for Freedom
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Police Patrol Two {day were arrested on vagrancy| Judge Rabb Refuses North Side Streets charges. |. Petition for Release
Speeding charges against 48 Each accused the other of Billie Burke Edwards has lost turning on the gas jets, a bid to obtain his release from Another tenant in the building, Al Michigan City Hospital for heard someonethe Criminal Insane.
324 N. Colorado police drive to cut high-speed groaning at about 5 a. m. He and| Criminal Court Judge Baul I.
driving in E. 38th 8i, and w. his wife traced the sound to Rabb refused last night to cone {Apartment 19 on the third floor qan a petition for release preCapt. Audry Jacobs, head of’ and called police. sented by Edwards, accused in : ' Police found Thelma Goodwin, the “slapping” death of his infant 4, apartment tenant, and Mey} daughter. employed at Ft. 4 bb ruled the petitio marked cars and regular squads .,, ison Hospital, unconsciods in po udge Ra ow 5 Mwy on were patrolling the streets last ihe gas-filled apartment. After Indiana Supreme Court. The res
quest, prepared by Edwards hime
chifted to the two streets on turned én the three. gas jets self, claimed that errors were
Store completion of their regular duties. Police said the couple had been made at his commitment hearing.
drinking. | Committed In August
8 8 { ere In FE, 38h St, wo arrests w TT —— | Fdwards was committed to the
appointed psychiatrists testified {ranged from 42 to 60 miles an Former displaced persons of eharge against Rim in ahho HoVY; police zepor (ed, Indianapolis will attend a get-\y.. (ndicted in the July 20 death Five more were arrested on W. 40q,4inted party tomorrow spon- of their infant daughter. The 16th St. this morning. sored by the Indianapolis Council charge was later dismissed, of Churchwomen at 7:30 p. m At a conference with Judge New Car Makes=Setret | ,. riret United Lutheran FADD. Edwards’ attorney, John
‘Indianapolis Motor Speedway The onetime DP’s will teach aid. ~ ® the American women to sing ————— Furopean- folk songs and play MAKES PLEA IN HUNT: games native to the Baltic coun-' pIrTTSBURGH, Pa. Dec. 8 tries. The council's members, in (UP) Without a single clue to The new car. not yet on the turn, will lead American games (he gex- slayer - who bludgeoned "production lines, was tested un- 5,4 the singing of this country’ 3 Jean Brusce, 38, dress shop worker, to death Nov, 25, police today The party was planned by the broadcast an appeal to the woms« race relations committee of the en of Pittsburgh to check the It was reported that the ve- council. Mrs. Lionel F. Artis is clothing and shoes of'stheir men
Automobile Association officials
He will speak on "The the sheriffis office she lost her But officials would not divulge M. Hanes, party arrangements commit such crimes are married, the ‘hame of the manufacturer. Chairman. ipolice said,
“By ‘William E. Gilroy, D.D.
Whe hey ied ebm he ic vo ‘ ; crowded with homecomers there wos no i room for therh in the inn. . But the innkeeper Wrinces of Jud: for out of thee shal come 8 y »
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