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Inside Indianapolis

ODDS ARE good that 50 Indianapolis. swimmers will have conquered the English Chanpel by Mar. 31; 1950, ; : . “An old “channel ‘swimmer fIndianapolis water canal, Friday, Aug. 5, 1949), saw and worked out with 12 of the hardy 50. At the present time Some members of the Athletic Club Dolphins. are in better shape than others, but time and practice will make champions of all. If you are thinking there's a gimmick in the English Channel announcement and doubt whether Hoosier tootsies will curl in-the famous ditch, you're right. However, with the exception of a few minor differences involving the tempera ture of the water, current, waves, time and expense, members of the Dolphin Chib will" swim the Channel. Nine swimmers have completed the necessary 46 miles in the pool already. The Dolphins, in case you're wondering. is an organization devoted to the promotion of women's swimming. They're. serious about paddling and that is one of the reasons members have set the Channel as a goal. The girls (heard a Dalphin use the terms so it ought to be all right for me) don’t hanker to splash around ‘aimlessly for hours. Besides, 46 miles seemed like such a fine distance.

Make Up the Difference

SINCE NO ONE is capable of going straight across the Channel because of tides and currents, the Dolphins decided 46 miles in the Athletic Club pool would adequately make up the difference between 20 miles in treacherous watér and the longer distarice under more favorable conditions. A visitor to the camp on the make-believe shore of Dover, England, is shown the charts of progress and the line of the great swim. Look impressive on the board,

Channel swimmers . . . checking the distance. from “Dover to "Calais" are (left to right, rear) Mrs. Gordon Peck. and Mrs. A.D Blackledge and (left to right, front) Mrs. Bernadine McAree and

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1949

Casual chatter about distances of three and: gr five miles, 400 laps in the pool and talk of swim-| — ! ming all morning made me, the world’s greatest DACE Ly exponent of the dog fashion style for distances up i P AGE 25 ie “to two yards, wish ‘for a chafige of locale, 3

“You -are going to swim the Channel, aren't! ; u . ; A : a you?” ‘asked a charming lady of the chlorine : ‘ . ro flavored water instead of brine, She proceeded to A ; B : f } Hmber up by vigorously stroking the air, { ’ , ” oo . . Bat ! “Forty-six miles?” I asked, weakly, | od

“Here you see the ladies who have completed, ’ . X " : the Chapnel swim,” sald Mrs. A, D. Blackledge, : ie ; chairman of the swimming committee, drawing i a “4, i & a ~ * ;

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my- attention by striking me lightly with a erawl board (heavy plank used in practicing the kick). ' h : I burst out with a thankful snivel for a timely| J ; Lae wid interruption. * | : Si Then; focusing on a merry group, which I im-| \ Ty EE ) € 3 ; Roh agined to be the intrepid nine; my eyes beheld an! ’ 4 Wk * aan By % - Re o 5 assortment of vocally potent females, They might! A : si in. bd a i : \ have been gathered at a bargain counter except) for their bathing attire. : | Mrs. Blackledge brought the crawl bbard into play again and refocused me. With her finger she pointed to a sheet full of names, squares, numbers and red lines. She read: “Mrs. Gordon Peck and you know who's next ..."” ' “Mrs. A. D. Blackledge.” “Silly-——anyway, Mrs. Mildred Sweeney alsq has the Channel behind her as does Mrs. Ed Aspinall, Mrs. John Eix, Mrs. M. T. Patton and here on this other sheet —we had to tack an extra sheet on—we have Ethel Lindeman, Elizabeth Schifflin and Dorothy Loser.” { “These girls have swum 46 miles” “Yes, and we're going swimming right now,” cried Mrs. Sweeney, as firm hands shoved me into the pool. Didn't even have time to put my pencil behind my ear. {

Answer Sounds Like 72

DOLPHINS popped into the pool room from all gides. On the way to the bottom, I asked Mrs. Peck how many laps in the pool make a mile. She aod said something that sounded like 72. My hearing ha ; never has been much good underwater so up I a a hh, went. LL ws i La

On the.ssurface of the then boiling pool, Mrs. wor. . . ' ‘ ‘ J. A. Burnside was asked. She said 72. Gosh. the BoP McGraw, Evansville's Mesker Zoo Juperintendent, and Hiram, the emu husband, tried in vain ast winter to hatch a setting of emu eggs. ithe official temperature dipped to

bottom of -the pool is pretty. Mrs. Frank Goode, Mrs. Charles Isaacs, Mrs. . . Birds an Utter Flop Trying to Use Australian Schedule in Indiana “rhe Emma. in her efforts to

C. A, Paul and Mrs. Harry Pritchard, fins in high gear, kept the lanes in the pool busy. A traffic cop With superhuman effort, I swam one length of By MACE BROIDE, Times State Correspondent Jake 3 Family, Shep. aff Sissre: the pool. I'm not sure but the length of the IAC EVANSVILLE, Dec. 15—Hiram and Emma, Mesker Zoo's egg- 6F five weeks found her laying 1¢ Eggsira special care pool must be at least 880 yards. Close to it be- prolific emus have done it again. . more eggs all over the emu run. cause when I touched the other end my lungs Come snow or high water, they're bound to-rear a family: Since poor Hiram could accomwere hursting.- And they don't burst easily. Last winter Emma laid 28 of the two-pound dark-green eggs modate only 17 In the nest, many “How many points does a person get for swim- hut her efforts were in vain. Despite vaiiant work by husband Hiram. of the eggs were. frozen before ming one length. How many squares get painted Zoo Superintendent Bob McGraw and students ang teachers at Reitz they could be picked up. red for a trip”. mp (High . School Evansville's fey == me ——— THE Back to the bottom. For one lap you get exactly weather chilled the eggs. So it was only natural for them’ oo {oar _nothing. Seventy-two laps amt you qualify to have - Now Emma has started over, '0 start their famity last year ini BEFORE EGG 2 waa--laid,-— one of the 23 squares on the record sheet filled. She's laid three eggs so far and early December. Superintendent McGraw decided You ‘don’t stop, you go on for 1584 more laps.'ail of them were snatched away Just because it was summer in it was silly to risk the chance of Fun? You bet, boy, gurgle . . . bay . .. gurgle. before they could get cold and Australia, Emma made her first having Hiram give up his life for

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eggs to try and keep warm while

could get a little Dolphin across. A little Dolphin couldn't do it alone.

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Mrs. Mildred Sweeney. Co Makes Em Mad

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15 Alberto Morin, for- corn

aN . aC attempt at a fantily just as it was SOme eggs-that might never hatch were placed in the Reitz sc lence oo tting cold a year ago. In two 8nyhow. 80 the superintendent

classes’ incubator. Alvin Mann days she laid seven eggs in the Placed those that had been at By Robert C. Ruark es Stent at the school, 100k elu Tun. least partly warmed by Hiram in _ him. Immediately Hiram accepted @ 40-year-old incubator.

technique of Vince Barnett, a lop-eared the: husbandly duties of a male The 27th attempt .at a family

In the comfort of his home,

merly of Puerto Rico and now of the world, is comedian turned ribber, and aims always at wellmomentarily at liberty from his specialty. Senor camouflaged sensitivities. He turned a Los AnMorin's specialty is making people angry, via a geles party for J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI chief, into type of joshing called the “rib.” Mr. Morin is sym- a shambles one evening by posing as the chief of bolical of the present-day film capital, because he the French surete, and criticising FBI criminal-|

emu and squatted over his eggs. She added four more the following week.

young Mann is trying to get Hiram’s job done for him. If all goes well, the eggs will be wu - hatched by next Thursday. A CHILLY Christmas Day

was left with some others one morning in the open. It was still {warm when MeGraw found it. An attempt to hatch it in an incubator failed.

represents a loss of individual sense of humor, fetched about by an anxiety neurosis’ Mr. Morin, a backslid emphasizer of other folks’ foibles, finally came to the conclusion that there was neither time nor place for spoofing in a town which has suddenly gone deathly serious. Alberto wishes to make his eating money as an actor, and he found that actors who tell dignitaries unpleasant truths in lieu of humor do not eat. The “rib” or ‘reeb” as Master Morin pronounces it, is a highly specialized form of wit. It calls for character analysis of the vietim, and the fun quétient derives from a dead-pan assault on the weaknesses of the subject. It is the polished insult, based on intimate knowledge of the loopholes in the target's conscience.

Every Man Likes Himself

SINCE EVERY MAN owns a sizable chink in his private estimate of himself, Mr. Morin has had little trouble in piercing the social armor-plate of the people he was called upon to insult. A versatile linguist, who speaks such tongues as French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Turkish, Greek and English, he has small difficulty in posing as an imported expert in any field. As a French music expert, he once drove Nelson Eddy to enraged distraction when he attributed Mr. Eddy’s wooden delivery to lack of knowledge of the “clicknab™ school of vocalization. There is no such thing as a clicknab. Affecting an exaggerated French accent, Mr. Morin murmured sardonically that Monsieur Eddy could nevair hope to achieve fluent delivery onteel he had mastered the cleeknabs, and Eddy, long sensitive about references to his cowish cadences, wound up furious. : - Mr. Morin scorns the spilled-soup and stomped-

Bathtub Tempest

This in itself will be unusual found a just-as-chilly Hiram still

capture technique as a branch of the old rubber- ir it comes to s. Mr. McG Meanwhile, Emma laid two hage and torture school {fi comes to pass, Mr. McGraw at his post. Day, ond JIEht, he more eggs in the field. The local cops wer# near about to inflict bodily . % Isoggy grass in the open of the These, however, were under-

harm on the man when he revealed himself as a [gy STUDIED UP on habits of emu run while it snowed and Sized and weren't even fertile, as fake Frenchman, and they never really forgave emus last winter in the midst of sleeted and poured rain. / most of the others had been. him for treading on a policeman’s guilt complex gmma’s deluge and he found that| He spurned the man-made com- Then came spring and Emma, about extraction of confessions by painful process. jess than 60 per cent of the eggs forts of an electric pad and a and Hiram settled down to thinkHis performance impinged sufficiently on Mr. Hoo- of these large Australian birds shelter offered him by the super- ing about the next time it would ver to move Edgar to direct Mr. Morin’s arrest on hatch while they're in captivity. intendent. Now and then he'd be spring in their native land. a phony traffic charge. The actor spent a couple; But the same book told him that hop off the.eggs and nibble at the, Came Evansville fail and Ausof hours in ‘the clink as penante for his levity— the average number of eggs laid menu of lettuce, chopped fruit and tralian spring and the national all, of course, in the best of good humor. {in a season by one female is six grass tha’ the attendants would champion egg-laying emu started

’ I a . {to 12. And Emma presented her lea. e him. {in sR § : He's Always Enraging |husband with 29. | He was truly Mesker Zoo's can-/ 2 “Superintendent MR. MORIN, posing as a celebrated photog-| Though they've been In this didate for “father of the year.” McGraw was , One morn rapher, spent hours taking pictures of Claudette country nine years, the emus still] And Emma was heroic, too. At/ing about 6 o'clock he found three

Colbert's equally celebrated legs, blank photo Operate on the calendar of their night she refused the comparative eggs. He whis’:ed them straightplates. He has insulted the intelligence of the chief native land. Australia, When it's'ease of the emu’s lean-to and way to the nearby school and now chemist of a liquor firm by pointed reference to/fall here, it's spring there. And|/hovered beside her spouse as he Hiram has settled back to con‘the absence of the clicknab technique in booze When it's winter here, it's summer tended his eggs. sider the possibility of becoming a manufacture. His attitude is always lofty, always down there. By mid-January Hiram had 14 father in comfort.

High school science fries where nature failed. Al

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15—Rep. Robert E. Rich (R. Pa.) came out unequivocally today in favor of baths. Except, of course, for New Yorkers. They may go unbathed until the real rains come. “Evervbody ought to have a bathtub, .goared the terrible-tempered gentleman from Woolrich, Pa. “Everybody ought to take a bath'™But whether they do or don’t, he shouted, is ¢ none of their Uncle Samuel's business. 2 “What,” inquired Rep. Walter B.. Huber, the Akron, O.. Democrat, “about shower baths?” Rep. Rich, still red of face and still incensed about the government's interest in the bathtubs of its citizens, replied at the top of his voice that he personally favdRed showers. had the best shower bath in the world. Then suddenly his anger left him, and plaintively he asked “How did -we get on.this subject, anyhow? Why are we worrying about baths?”

How It All Started

A NUMBER of other people were wondering the same thing. And I guess it is up to me to let them know how the august subcommittee on lowincome families of the Joint" Committee on the Economic Report—that's a title as is ‘a title—got to pondering the pros and cons of bathing. First off, I must report that Rep. Rich, wealthy woolen manufacturer in the town named after him and his business, is one of my favorite Congressmen. These many years I have heard him cry, whenever a new appropriation came along, “Where are you going to get the money?’ His confreres never have been able to answer this question to his satisfaction. When the current investigation of the poor began, Rep. Rich announced that everybody, from the White House down, ought to have his head examined. On the second day of the proceedings, Thomas C. Blaisdell, the Assistant Secretary of

He said that he

condescending, always enraging. ; eee ——— TT | The kidder is a good actor, a world citizen, a : much-decorated performer in the Office of Strategic False Jobless Tuffy Mitchell Prosecutor Plans M Jr. Service during the war. He wears the rosette of . : $ ’ eit 8 ; . “ / | . the French Legion d'Honneur for his work behind . » Again Beats Rap ’ . Banat e High Scheol student, tends an emu egg in the school the German lines with the French underground, Claims Decreasin > Beatin Probe |” incubator. and has sundry other ribbons in his lockbox. Appeal Upheld oe L Vi r - ; “But all this is no good if you hit people where . | "ISAAC (TUFFY) MITCHELL. Do aw io ators oe i 3 : they live,” says Mr. Morin. “I find finally that it, Several Persons Indiana Ave. gambling figure. asd Attendant Admits | 9 d of Rabies My I wish to be an actor I cannot be a kidder, because . ; : os . ) ou kid never since! Admit ‘Errors’ [it again. Beat the law, that is. Striking Patient Warne 0 ables ; : the people whom you never forgive you, Tuffy won his appeal on a 4 ribbing is at least 75 per cent emphasis on truth. | Fear of prosecution has cut gambling charge yesterday In Times State Berviee | Eight violators of Judianapolis or “I am no longer a ribber. I am an actor now. down the number of persons mak-| Criminal Court 1, before Special NEW CASTLE, Dec. 15—Henry opdinances regulating dogs, § ; J Actors eat. Ribbers starve. There is no room in ing false jobless claims, the In- Judge Edwin McClure, |County Prosecutor Robert M. escaped fine in Judge Alex M. z : 3 ihe YONA II 9. Tas Who makes fun. Not if Here) diana Employment Security Di-| He was convicted July 25 in Brown said today he will make|Clark's Municipal Court today Grocer's Report : jy aon, 1eDO ay. {Municipal Court for keeping a's comprehensive investigationipyt were ordered to attend a Leads to Arrest . \ { Everett IL. Gardner, state em- room for pool selling and adver- into. char a 9-year-old patient! ¢ snowl on Jan d . k Cc Oth ployment director, said a number tising a lottery and gift enter. J Shaiges at the Indiana Epi eon picture ng Information , provided by an By Frederic . MAN of persons admitted “errors” fol- prise. At that time, Judge Pro jantic Village 17 in the courtroom. alert grocer last night led to the lowing a story in The Times last Tem John.. R. Barney fined .; _. going to confer with The 80 ddg owners wers among capture of a house painter, an Commerce, was talking about what a fine thing week which told of five men who Mitchell $50 and costs and sen- Judge John H. Morris,” Prose- ticketed for not having 8 dog | ex-convict, on charges of mall h ext vear would be drew fines and sentences for tenced him to five days in jail cutor Brown said. “If he agrees Ycense, allowing dogs to run theft. . the fensus pext ) “ i iq fraud. ’ on the first count and fined him, in G grees, without a leash or other viola-| - Fred Colwell, alias Fred For one thing, he said, the census {akers wou , $50 and costs on fhe second we will start a Grand Jury in- tions. Rearrest orders were issued py 58. of .4505 E. 19th St. will ask every fifth citizen how much money he made Mr. Gardner quoted them as BN vestigation of the hospital. Other- : Uw y, 98, Of. a # and the government at long last would get a saying: ] ’ wise, I will make my own in- against the 14 who falled 10 8p- appear before U. 8, Commissioner “It occurred to me that I signed MITCHELL, who gives his yegtigation.” pe |Asa J. Smith today after his aps

ar. Judge. Clark told the offenders, ehension by Postal Inspectors he wanted them to see the film M. P. Wood and Ora Workman, depicting the dangers of rabid yr wood said Colwell was |dogs.. traced through the license mums |“ “There were 114 rabid dogs Ini," on vie car, ‘jotted down by

Indianapolis so far this year and , "y pupp owner of a grocery

pretty good idea how many were poor, how many B ” were rich, and how many were medium, like me. for jobless benefits a couple of business address as 248 Indiana Rep. Rich, a wispish man with a surprisingly reso- weeks ago, although I was work-, Ave., immediately filed; an appeal. nant voice, blew- up. ing. Now I want to get the rec- His conviction in the lower A waste of fnoney, he shouted, to ask people ord straight.” court was made. possible on the ; “The division has always testimony of Capt. John Sullivan,

how much they earned, when they already had told, ; . the same thing to the tax collector. The federals clamped down on persons who who sald he entered Mitchell's

Mr. Brown ‘emphasized that a probe of the beating, and possibly a review of the hospital conditions, would be made,

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, Y “ y ron County outsiae the ~ p . b thing attempt to draw benefits to which Place of business on a “routine, The patient, Stephen Watson 99 In Ma . : at 6939 E. Washington St. after ried to or that one, but they proved nothing they ee hot entitled,” Mr. Gard- check.” The offfcer told the court of Muncie, was covered with city,” Judge Clark said. 1 {Mr. Rupp cashed a $45 check for ‘ . ’ a search qf the plate revealed 30 bruises and large welts from his MPloring you all to co-operate. . .

ner pointed out. He reported that in most cases it was difficult to get the cases to court.

in eliminating the dangers of Admitted Charges

Yables.” | The check had been stolen and

books of baseball tickets,

«~ _» Shoulders to legs, his parents told On the appeal, Special Judge’

Prosecutor Brown yesterday.

And, Says He, Futhermore

“AND ANOTHER THING,” he bellowed, “What McClure ruled there was in- Dr, W., C. VanNuys. hos Tn TTT ; Mr. Wood om ) ’ . C. ys, pital ithe signature forged, Mr. avon o s asking the. people “Whether they own " rackdown on Dutravien 2 Miclent evidence. superintendent. sald the attend. Woman's Purse Stolen said. The inspectors said Oo el rathtubs? Suppose a family says it doesp’'t have Mr. Gardner sa reall \ tn ———— ant who beat the boy has been admitted having stolen mail al a bathtub? Do you give this informat| n to the by judges and prosecutors that $972 in Cash, Checks dismissed. However, he declined In Downtown Store {over Indianapolis “for the last. .

bathtub manufacturers Mr. Blaisdell said no, sir. “And you couldn't tell whether he could afford to buy a bathtub if you didn't know how much money he was mak-

defrauding the state is ‘theft has ME resulted in a crackdown on de- Taken From Firm's Safe

frauders. in | Cash and checks totaling $072 He added that the. division. were reported removed from

to- name him. . The boy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Watson, said they discovered the marks on the youth

Mrs. Loma Mahan, 438 N, Con- year." cord St. reported to police her| According to Inspector Wood, ini jewelry valued Colwell was-one of five men sen~ purse. containing ) ‘ itenced to serve five years in the

ing,” added the helpful Rep. Huber, while relentless in penalizing jarge safe jimmied at Hiller Of- when they look Bim homie JER at $850, was stolen yesterday inf... prison at Michigan City “Aren't the bathtub manufacturers . alert “cheaters.” is insistent that fully- fice Supply Co., 132 E. Washing- js y Y a downtown department store. when convicted in 1937 of 21 enough to find their own customers?” demanded Qualified unemployed Hoosiers (or St, dur‘ng the night. Dr. VanNuys was Informed Mrs. Mahan said she placed her Indianapolis safe burglaries.

Rep. Rich, ignoring the interruption. “The gov- receive all benefits to which they! Richard Yoder, office manager ernment doesn't have to tell them who needs to are entitled. there, found the«safe door hangbuy bathtubs. Or maybe you think you ought to] Mr. Gardner reported that the ing open and $412 in cash and subsidize bathtubs. Why...” , division still has several cases $560 in checks missing when he . 1 , pending in Indianapolis courts as opened this morning. He said information in general would be helpful. It was Well as several others out in the burglars entered through a rear

here that Rep. Rich made his statement in favor State. second-floor window,

rol or hry tr nd 1 sons THE STORY OF THE SAVIOUR

purse on a counter while looking Colwell also drew a 5-to-14-year at some merchandise and when sentence in 1915 for armed she reached for it it was gone. robbery, Mr. Wood said. He was She said it contained a diamond sentenced under the name of ring worth $800. a $49 wrist Fred Grigsby, the same name in watch and a wedding band of which his car license was rege undetermined value. "listered.

and he requested the boy be returned for examination. An attendant, Dr. Van Nuys said, admitted he struck the pa tient once on the shoulder, Dr. Van Nuys discharged the attendant immediately,

By William E. Gilroy, D.D,

who've got to go easy on the water, And I hope this straightens out the gentlemen, including Rep. Rich; ‘on how they found themselves suddenly in .hot and sudsy water,

Racial Angle Voids ‘Michigan W. C. Fields Bequest

LLO8 ANGELES, Dec. 15 (UP)

W. C. Fields’ will on grounds the late comedian was asking the

state to practice racial discrimi- today that he w

nation, Superior Judge William R., MeKay said yesterday that the residue of Mr. Fields’ estate special could not .be used to set up a Gov. “W. C. Fields" college for white orphans where “no religion of any sort is to be preached.” _The

million . state building progra

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700,000 estate has been tied up dre in a court fight between heirs . almost sirice he died on Christ. With their bare mas, 1946. {ing attendants,

Fund Asked

A judge ruled void a clause in| 7 y A NGING, Mich. Dec. 15 (UP) for the Federal Bureau of InvestGov. G. Mennen Williams said tigation make up the entire legal

legislative session, Williams’ followed revelation of “snakepit” Car conditions in’ Detroit's receiving TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (UP) bulb - nosed comedian’s hospital, whére reported smashing windows

Hospital Law Firm Composed of Former G-Men ~~

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personnel of the law firm of Costello, Moran and Mahan. They now have hired another the 1950 ¢ormer-FBI man, -P. Joseph Kenney.

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announcement eT tb hn and Boat Crash mental patients Burl Broomhear’s automobile: col- ; lided- with another car and bounced over a river bank, land-

feel and assault- ng on a motor launch anchored below, :