Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1949 — Page 17

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“Inside Indianapoli

THEY men on their own two feet, through , thigk and thin, never wavering or flinching and tomorrow the demobilization begins. The job is done. Barking dogs will quiet down, There are many wonderful things about the Christmas season. How long. do you remember that you spent too much, imbided too much, complained too much? Only th& good things remain Otherwise; would we do the same each year? Charitable thoughts come easily at this time “Silent Night” is always good for a lump in the throat. M: agic. Thus, ‘We come to what I consider.

.. one of ‘the wefiders of the world—a saleslady’s

feet: Old gr young. big or small, flat or arched. the feet. nthe gal behind the counter deserve a momefit's consideration. ver try.to be charming for eight or nin# hours Aen your dogs are barking? Do you think you, the. Christmas shopper, are the only one with

problems, aches apd pains and 10,000 things to do.

Ever peek behind a sales counter and watch a pair of feet which have supported 100, 150, sometimes 152 pounds for seven hours? Toes will wiggle, often a shoe will come off for a restful moment or two and the weight is shifted from one foot to the_ other. And no matter if the corn on

“‘the-little toe is ready to explode, Miss Saleslady

grits her teeth and goes on to the bitter end.

30 Years on Job

HAD THE PLEASURE of talking to several

‘women of the salesbook. Most, I think, were pleas-

Feel good? ... You bet. A rush season sales. girl eases a foot to freedom. :

“partment.

is : By Ed Sovola

antly surprised that there breathes a man with a spark of appreciation for their toéoties. . Mrs. Mildred Kelleher, saleslady in the handbag department of Block's, is seeing her 30th Christmas season come to a close, That's a long time in a department store. A long time to be on your (eet. There was a day, Mrs. Kelleher said, when her feet hurt a little. Jokingly, she. quipped that today shé must be at the stage where there's no more feeling 1efP in her feet. Oh. they'll hurt when the weather changes. ’ § The secret of getting the best out of one's feet tsa good posture. Low heels and an interest in your work helps, too, said Mrs, Kelleher, The low heel angle interested me. Marge Hart. ley, fresh out of college and currently working in the jewélry booth on the main floor 6f Block's,

is one of those sharp gals who wears high heels, | |

Miss Harley swears by the open toe and heel shoe. Smart, chic, neat but, are they comfortable? “Yes,” answered the department store freshman, slipping an alligator sling pump back on her foot, “I find this type of'shoe very comfortable.” It took some digging but we finally had on record the fact that Miss Hartley will wear flat shoes from two to three hours a day. She indulges on occasion in hot and cold water baths which give relief to her feet. In conclusion, Miss Hartley hinted “that when. she had a big evening ahead of her, seldom did she feel any Pain inthe lower extremities. Ah, youth, Over at the y S. Ayres glave department, Mrs. Julian Adams believes in shoe changes to keep her feet in shape. She changes four times a day. In| warm weather her feet give her the host trouble. “The best way to do is keep your feet squarely | on the floor,” Said Mrs. Adams, “When a girl begins waving her foot and has a weak smile for the customer, her feet are killing her.”

Old Shoes a Big Help

FOR THE PAST

three _vears, Alice Hamilton

has been working in the Ayres silverware department during the Christmas rush. { “When [ first start” sighed Miss Hamilton,

“my feet are twice as big as they usually are: Old’ shoes and time help.” At H. P. Wasson & Co. there's a happy lady who has seen eight seasons go by in the shirt deMrs. Helen Norris says her feet never hurt, she's never sick, never changes her shoes during the day, never met a corn or a bunion. Lucky, . You turn right around and talk to Mrs. Charlotte Graves, extra clerk in men's sweaters, She tells about soaking her (feet in solutions of Purex and warm water or alum and warm water. “Sometimes the balls of my feet feel like they are falling apart.” Ladies, a sprig of mistletoe and a ranch of | holly to you. About the men, there's nothing I dislike more than talking feet with them. Besides, women have| prettier ankles. |

ltchy With Dough

~.By Robert C. Ruark

HONOLULU, Dee. 23—-My oid friend, Don to teach the natives how to be Polynesian on al ‘Beach-Comber, a wiry Louisiana. Creole whose broad, showman’s scale. ~~ name used to be Beaumont-Gant before he The gdark, thin, cigar smoking Beach-Comber

changed it in the interests of business, finds himself in the unusual position of being a pillar of Hawaii's civic uplift group—practically a Babbitt of the southern seas. This is apt to be amusing to the people who know Don, because Don is a fellow who built a successful career out of being a tropical tramp of the more picturesque persuasion. Mr. Beach-Comber is the boy who ran about #iX bucks’ worth of rum, a bamboo shack and a couple of coconuts into a million-dollar restaurant husiness before the vem to return to the tropics hit him. Mr, Beach-Comber also was possibly one of the more vivid warriors in the late unpleasantness in Europe. He rose to a lieutenant-colonelcy on his talent for scrounging. He was put in charge of rigging rest camps for aviators in the Mediterranean area, and when Don went abroad in a jeep or plane on a scrounging expedition, nothing unprotected by armed guard was safe from his itchy fist.

Keen Nose for Brandy

PON COULD SMELL a horde of rare brandy or a cache of precious Scotch around a corner or over a hill. He once illegally commandeered two targo planes and flew them all the way from Naples to Leopoldville and back because he heard about a stock.-of -Seoteh--and other liquors. to- be had in-the Belgian Congo:His rest resort on Capri was famed all over - the theater, and sometimes the fliers rested so hard there that they had to return to active duty to catch up on their sleep. . After the war, Mr. Beach-Comber returned to his restaurant interests in Los Angeles and Chieago, but Chicago drove. him nuts and he kept fretting for the Pacific. He finally sold out and packed up for Hawaii. He took all his capital and plowed it into a huge thatched Samoan night club across the street from the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, where he has proceeded

is one of the better showmen of the age. His series of large interlocking long houses is built in a palm grove, around the palms themselves. On moonlit ‘nights the inmipression is that one is loose] at a pig-killing festival in Tahiti. | When Don throws a luau, authentic Hawalian| prayers are said over the pig. and Don is some-| | thing of a sight himself in a 25-year-old battered linen jacket, a pareo or he-sarong, boar’'s tooth bracelets and a shark's tooth necklace, with a male lei around his shoulders and a battered kona! sombrero perched on his head. 1 On other nights. he is an impeccable yachts-| man in blue coat and white flannels, or he is'a! pukka sahib in shérts and bushcoat. When he throws a party, even at $10 a Head for the tourists, nobody gets in who is not attired at least in an aloha shirt and a sarong. His music is authentic. He has revived interest herein the classic hula, and constantly imports galent from | Tahiti and Samoa.

Romantic Tourist Spot

MR. BEACH-COMBER'S operation, while built according to Hollywood specifications, is the first striking thing Honolulu has offered the. tourists that would convince them they have actually arrived in the romantic South Pacific. It is a shrewd approximation of what they thought they ought to find, and has even been successful enough to survive the long-winded longshoremen’s strike, ‘which busted many & busimess:| With the solid backing ofe the Matson Navigation Co., which has the biggest stake in Hawaii's tourist industry, the picturesque Mr. BeachComber has become the local authority on what the town needs to lure the tourist trade. He is a tireless prognosticator at the betterbusiness conclaves,

papers.

a leading light in a luncheon-club set and, for all I know, a potential deacon _in-the church.

Full-Dress ‘Blues

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23—In the long, long ago B.T. (before Truman) I was invited with 3000 other people to a brawl at the White House. "This meant standing in line to rent a full-dress suit. Unfortunately, T was a little late. My leased coat fitted like a second-string diplomat’s, “but the last remaining pants in stock, having been designed for congressional use, were eight inches too big around the middle., The man fixed them with a safety pin, which hid the tuck underneath my claw-hammer fails, and 1 was a smooth-looking citizen gliding confidently into a two-step beneath the East Room chandelier. Haifway around the room my pin popped open And there I was in high society in a costume

that looked like Bliding Billy Watson's at the Gayety -Burlesque, 1 also got stuck. Hurt like rin. }

Bumps Into Old Friend

WHAT HAPPENED next I do not intend to recall in public. I thought I'd forgotten the whole unhappy tale until, as fate would have it, I bumped into my old friend and renter of evening dress to the elite, Martin Manning. Business, said he, was good, but it could be a lot better. Did I realize, he demanded, .that President, Truman had not tossed one single shindig in the executive mansion? First it was the war that blanked out presidential whoopla. The. red-headed Mr. Manning

“took this pliftosophically, because he was in the

Navy at the time. When the shooting ended, Mr Manning returned to Wishington and stocked his emporium _ with a line of soup-and-fish, tuxedoes plug hats, hard-boiled shirts synethetic pearl studs and striped pants for weddings. He even put. in-a stock of black bow ties with silver stripes for dina

" ner-jacket wear, as pioneered by Mr. Truman, him-

self... Then blooie ’ The President moved out of the White House, which he ordered patched up before it fell in on him. And the 10 winter receptions. each one of

The Quiz Master

Why ware” certain houses Io Fredericksburg Tex. called ‘Sunday houses” \ Many. of the stone houses 6f the early settler re of this city, founded In 1846, sfill remain. The socalled “Sunday houses” were built by - families livIng a considerable distance from town and were _used when thelr, | owners came ,in for Sunday

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-who goes for these.

By Frederick C. Othman

which meant rental of hundreds of suits at $7 per throw, were no more. That wasn’t all. The striped neckties failed to catch on. 'Mr. Manning has only one customer He is a Senator and, of| course, a Democrat, but Mr. Manning refuses to| identify him further. The‘result is that the suit renters are limping along this winter on the trade of ambassadors, debutant parties, lodge doings, weddings, and high-school proms The happy days when hun-| dr >dg of desperate men with bids to the White

House descended upon Mr. Manning for penguin suits are only a fond memory. Not until .1951, when the White House is reopened, do the suit

renters expect ‘business to boom.

Good for 30 Wearings

NO MORE safety pins, either, he assured me. All his coats and pants were cut from the same bolt of midnight-blue serge. The result is that he can guarantee anybody a good fit from stock because his merchandise, you might say, is Interchangeable. One of his suits is good for 30 wearings Then he sells it to a walter for $20. Fact he keeps an ad posted on the wall at waiters’ union headquarters A shirt is good for 40 times at bat. wrecks shirts is starch little of that as-poasible, His plug hats, which tome collapsible and also tall and shiny, he rents for $1.50 extra, but De hates to do it. The trouble is, says he, that average celebrant in 4 rented topper takes ne drinks and fancies himself as an amateur magician Either he tries to pull a rabbit trom his hat, or he breaks an egg in it. These skimmers are worth $35 each and the damage from the legerdemain makes a big hole in the profits. Almost as’ big a hole as a White House full of scaffolding instead of waltzers

What

g Mr Manning uses as

??? Test Your Skill 7?

Were there any men on earth when the dinosauts were Hving? No. The dinosaurs lived during the Mesozole Era, which extended from about 200, million to 60

million years ago. They were extinct by the end

of this period. Man has appeared on earth only”

the last million

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years,

In Bomb Attempt

Every third day finds him conduct a “full field investigation” quoted in the best Babbitt tradition in the localjof ‘the attempt to dynamite the Don the Bea h-Comber has come home to#10 United Auto Workers buildcomb his beloved beaches, and find himself instead ;,

gators for the first time woudd

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1949

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Children Find Yule Parties == ge Welcome Interruption From School

Christmas parties and plays make a welcome interruption to elementary school classes during pre-vacation week. At School I, children present "The Little Shepherd Who Was Left Behind." Gathered around the manger are "Mary" played by Marilyn Hall, 3602 N. Bancroft Ave.; "Joseph" (standing) by Merle Staletovich, 3a40 N. Adams St; "Wise Man" (left) by Eugene DeTurk, 4415 . 16th St., and’ “Shepherd” by Sam Starrett, 3552 N. Gladstone a

: Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus appear during a Christmas party at School 44 ind satisfy the curiosity of little ones who may have wondered whether Old Santa was a bachelor, The two women who form the Santa ream have been making children happy with their impersonations for. 23 years. Mr. Santa, at left, is Mrs. William Taylor, 1501 W. 23d St. Her partner, Mrs. Herman Willwerth, 2471 E. Riverside Dr., has the role of Mrs. Santa. Neither of the two ever tires of their make-believe marriage, no matter how many times each Christmas season the call goes out for Mr. and Mrs. Santa to appear,

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Who would + ever recognize this lly Santa Claus as lay Hutchings the rotund pitcher for the Indianapolis Indians? If he fooled these children at York Kindergarten as well as he fools

(sometimes) opposing batters at Victory Field, his job was well done. The two children Scaupying : re he'te fleft) Linda Carol Gregor, 5, of 5645 Winkrsp Ave., and Martha Antibus, 4, of ; floft), | | od ofucith 37 Chadwi She I FBI Opens Probe Whinrey Named Soldiar Forgives Defend New Auto Plan to Discuss To New Position | License Law

Gl Pickpocket LT = hor Control "Recovers $230

yunty Commissichers’ “As ~|aceidtion today sald they will join ‘Lifted’ on Bus A youthful soldier will be home

[torces with the Indiana Municipal! ial Sliedale ey {in Iowa for Christmas instead of

League. | Military and civil air officials The law, passed by the 1949 will review Stout Field and Weir lin jail, because the fellow GI that’ {he robbed forgave him.

General Assembly, which will Cook aircraft control systéms in at 1:30 p. m:.-Tuesday at Weir ' | Pvt. Richard Wells, en route cStimated $6 million annually, it C0K Atrport.

Richard Whinrey Raymond Wood rom Springfield, Mass., to Paris, | |under fire in a recently filed Safety di ‘ hed rE Ee na Il. called police from thie Bus © MAFIOR CURLS Subcrofiuled following the near collision Co. Dodge pint here, will be Terminal and reported he had ihe Private Truck Owners of In-|a eioll plan piloted #5) and transferred May 1 to the com.| Deen robbed of $230. diana, Ine. Clarence 7 OTaIaD ats ASO pany’s Ewart plant to hold a simi:| Ie sald he had been riding [eading the commissioners in Ta Ease i lar post. He will be replaced by with anotfier soldier, who was en tne battle against the truck op-| 4 Raymond Wood. now general Toute to Iowa to be home for grator's ‘suit is Claude Hodson, COL Cornish ~ was: reported manager at the Minneapolis divis- Christmas. When the "bus Greenshiirg, president of the com- about to land the aeronautics dejon. reached Indianapolis, he said. he missioners’ state organization. {partment’s plane uty Weir Cook Mr. Wood's appointment will found hi§ wallet and his com- “Mr Hodson sald his association When a National Guard fighter become effective on Feb. 1. He Panion had disappeared. will petition the court to inter. Plane swept below Bim. Tha will be succeeded at the Minne- Discarded Bilifold vene in the suit “to protect our go. oo apolis plant by Leslie J. Carson, Police picked up the second interests.” : formerly. chief engineer at Ban soldier who first denied the there, He 5aid the association feared] A crash was. barely. ayoided, Francisco and. current chief at. ne’ broke down and ad the state's 92 counties would Jose|Alrport officials said.

‘Full Investigation’ Planned in UAW Case

DETROIT, Dec. 23 (UP) —FBI lagents said today they would!

The announcement apparently {meant that government investi-

enter the search for gunmen who tried to assassinate Walter and Victor. Reuther. Attorney General J. Howard McGrath ordengd the FBI to “look into everything connected with the bombing attempt which failed because of one defective fuse and a piece of taped wrapped too tightly around the other. He said yesterday that any of three federal laws may have been

|boost truck and auto licenses ant safety conference to be held —

colonel was flying a four-place ~~

’ their 32 per cent share of the] Conference invitations have T orentient Truman told his newl issieilbeiiini Bilis mitted he had taken the wallet. state Hote vehicle license fund been given the Civil Aeronautics conference vesterday that the * He said ‘he’ had thrown theif tre law, which goes Into effect| Administration, Stout Field and plot was an outrage. He said he 42 Escape as Fire bifold away in the bus station jan. 1 is declared invalid. |Weir Cook officials and Indiana was personally interested in ef- . in Richmond. eet - adjutant general's ape: a forts to find the dynamiters, Attacks Freighter . we returned the many to m Woman Badly Hurt rs ie riiary and cei ioe pi . ‘ 0 to police he would \ . TBOSTON, Dec. 23 (UP) —Forty- not prosecute. The twn soldiers to offidials said the conferences will South Sider Stabbed J Ee onan reser natrow. DoArded another bus to 80. on When Hi by Au was In bs Jie mn Ro, Planes asing 4 cluding two stewardesses, narrow- their w t ther. Bb- mid-air collisions by plan In Tavern Brawl ly escaped early today when a ay together critical condition in General Hos- poth places. James E. Butler, 23, of 1302 spectacular fire raged through pital today after she was struck The Stout Field aircraft conPleasant St, was reported inthe Norwegian freighter Fernbay Behind" Door Now down while crossing 5700 W. tro] tower is in operation only “fair condition” today in General a few hours before tt was to LAWRENCE, Mass. Dec. 43 Washington St. during daylight, but the Weir Hospital where he was taken have sailed for New York and (UP). — Charles A. Wyman, 52, Hospital attaches said Mrs./Cook tower is active 24 hours a after being stabbed last night in Gulf ports, ‘opened the wrong door and Dora Cummings, 819 Mickley day. Friday's near crash took a South Side tavern brawl. | The blaze. which did an esti- landed in state prison today on Ave. suffered a broken leg and place about dusk.

head injuries. She was struck by| Afrmen said review of the cona car driven by Ralph Ault, 31,/trol procedures followed at the of 21 8, Reichwein Ave. |tields would be underigken to Sheriff's deputies said the driv- prevent duplication of recent er sald he did not see the woman crashes in the east and loss of until after he ‘had hit her. (life.

When questioned, police said, mated $500,000 damage, was con- burglary charges for a four- to Mr. Butler refused to identify his trolled after a four-hour battie seven-year term. When a policeassailant, but police learned he from land and sea during which man surprised him burglarizing a|0 was wounded during an argument the 8000-ton ship was towed to shoe store, Wyman yanked open with another man in the Max mid-stream from its berth at. the a door to thake his getaway and Rose tavern, 1124 Prospect St. Army..base in South Boston ran into a closet,

THE STORY OF THE SAVIOUR

By William E. Gilray, D.D.

COPE. 1s BY NEA SERVICE. We.

And Jesus healed the ick: "At even ere the sun

Jesus showed his love for children disciples, “Suffer little children, them not, to come unto me: for of

"The Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to mister, and to give his life 0 ronsom for many.” (Matthew 20:28.)

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