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and is still ‘going strong, few things about the work he was in that a lot of us don't know about. Take his remark about women's hat boxes. Why did they used to be a pleasure to carry? Why have hat boxes lost their popularity and a Red Cap no longer goes for them with outstretched arms? Simply because hat boxes may have everything but hats in them, Imagine how you would feel if you slipped a finger under the string expecting a few ounces of fur felt and feathers and found a set of earthenware pulling you to the ground.

They Rarely Contain Hats

DURING THE war hat boxes began to gain weight. Harry has never seen the contents of any hat boxes, during the war or recently, but he thinks he has carried plenty of sugar, and canned goods. Today, anything. On rare occasions boxes feel as if hats were inside. Very rare, though. We were joined by Fred D. Fisher, Red Cap with 30: years of service behind him, and Milton Cruze, 24 years at Union Station. The three men were in agreement that Christmas and New Year travel is the heaviest. Summer.months with vacationers going in all directions are good, too. Dur. ing Lent their business curve touches the bottom of the barrel. A question in my mind was whether the arms of Red Caps became longer after years of totin', Harry wasn’t sure but he said his arms didn’t feel longer. After the three men did some measuring and comparing it was decided all their arms were just right. Luggage fit in them. Balance is important in carrying luggage. It is harder to carry ‘one bag than two and except in extreme cases, four bags are easier to carry than three. Everywhere but through a crowded Pullman aisle. Three bags are ideal to carry if one is large and two are small so the weight in either hand is about the same, Trouble begins, when you have something like a sewing machine in the largest bag and feathers in two smaller ones. Harry has a lot of pride in what Red Caps can do for a traveler. He mentioned their motto: “Service first, efficiency always.” Then he told of one woman who had just a little two much faith in him. “I took her luggage when she got off the train,” laughed Harry. “She told me she'd see me in the station. She did all right, three hours later when I was going in circles trying to find out what bad happened to her.” : Women, bless them, they're wonderful. It seems the woman got the urge to go to a movie and went. When she returned she was surprised that Harry was in a dither about what had happened to her and what was going to happen to her luggage. “You should have known I was going to the picture show,” she said. That's all ; The temperment of the traveling public has

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Balanced . . . Harry Harper's arms haven't stretched after 38 years of being a Red Cap.

changed over the years. Everyone is in a hurry, great big hurry, the way Harry described it. He remembers the time people would come to the station an hour before train time and leisurely await the train's arrival. Travel was fun instead of a chore. “I have customers now who hit the platform! when the conductor is yelling his last ‘all aboard,’ "| said Harry. |

Never a Cross Word

HE MENTIONED a lady he has been helping] for 35 years. Just recently the woman has taken

to worrying and fussing about her luggage and, gross income and bonus taxes will

train schedules. Harry doesn’t believe it's her age. The tempo of our times is putting us on edge. I mentioned to Harry that he appeared to be the type that wouldn't rile easily. Fred Fisher interrupted that during the 30 years he has worked with Harry, not one cross word ever passed between them. Quite a record. Also a record is Harry's service time at Union Station. When he was hired, a spindly boy of 14, the station master told him he'd never stay. Now, a tall, well-built, athletic-looking man who looks years younger than the 52 he is, Harry, just keeps smiling a lot and is always looking for, the chance to make someone's load lighter. I wish I could talk to the station master who said Harry would never stay. Wonder what he would have to say for himself?

Temperamental Nut By Robert C. Ruark

HILO, Hawaii, Dec. 20—About five years from now the nut-and-raisin bowl on most holiday boards will include a plump, crisp specimen of nut, flavored somewhere between a Brazil and an almond, called Macadamia. It is available on the mainland now, but at about $3.50 a pound, or roughly 10 cents a nut, and is deemed generally too dear for plebeian purchase. Reason I mention five years is that I have just looked at: about five million bucks worth of experiment, based on the bet that Americans will like this nut, an Australian export that is more capricious than a red-headed actress, and twice as hard to tame. - It is a fascinating example of modern farthing. ; Back in 1920, one dutfit blew about a million dollars trying to get this nut to grow. The firm of Castle & Cooke is back now, ‘after a breather, with some more hunch money and considerably more know-how. This know-how was made possible by the Seabees, the airplane, and the orchid industry. .

Islands Are Cramped

THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS are exceedingly

"cramped for available lands on which to practice

their top industry, which is agriculture. The is land chieftains have been prowling around for some way to utilize the jungles which grow lushly from “A-A” lava, a rocky volcanic substance on which only certain plant growths thrive. It looks as if the macadamia nut one day may run a close third in importance to sugar and pineapple. Some 3000 acres of tangled jungle have just been bought by Castle & Cooke, after the area was charted according to vegetation by aircraft. This survey was so precise that as little as 10 feet mark the margin between desirable and undesirable soils. : Using huge bulldozers and Seabee techniques, they are clearing and plantin this jungle at the rate of 20 acres a month, for about 14,000 trees a year. All vegetation save the stone-hard Ohia tree is left to rot for compost; the Ohia is burnt and the ashes used. The macadamia is a temperamental nut, as

Old Reliable

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20—Charles E. Wilson, the motor car maker, says the $1000 automobile has gone the way of the buggy whip. No chance of it ever chugging across the land again. This, he adds, is because people like their sedans big. He did not ask me. , I can excuse President Wilson of the General Motors Corp. for this oversight, but I must report that I am people—singular, too. I like my automobiles small and if he'd make a coupe like the one I bought in 1930 for $712, I'd buy one so quick it would knock .off his eyeglasses, This wonder car was a Model A Ford, painted black with a red stripe under the window panes. 1 remember it well and also fondly and for the benefit of President Wilson's designers I can describe its specifications accurately. Its great virtue was all the modern features it lacked. It had no

- gasoline tank in back from which to lose the cap,

no longer gas line to get clogged with mere air, no fuel pump to go haywire, no electric gasoline gauge to lie to a fellow and leave him stranded.

The Gas Goes "Round and 'Round

THE TANK was under the dash where I could keep an eye on it. The gas flowed down to the engine under a fool-proof system, known as gravity. For a gauge there was a hole with a glass cover and a float inside. It was comforting as I drove along to watch the actual gasoline sloshing around. ' I wooed my bride In this shiny equipage and for years after we were married I drove it with pride. Never once did it falter. The battery'd go dead once in a while, of course, but this didn’t matter. No tow truck for me, because my car was equipped with a device called the crank. A quick spin of this and away we'd go again. There was no automatic choke on my coupe to confound even a graduate of Georgia Tech. Instead there was a wire with a button on the end. When the engine was cold I pulled this out. Then

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mentioned. It will enly grow on certain soils, and. it won't take wind. So a special project of ‘planting Norfolk pines as windbreakers is neces‘sary. The nut is tender; it cannot be allowed to fall on the lumpy lava in which it grows. So a vast grass project is underway, to find a cushion for the nut to drop on, but which will not grow so high as to mak finding the nuts difficult.

IT IS necessary to coddle the trees in their early growth with a special compost. After much experiment, it was decided that orchids—the kind that cost = lover $5 or §10 a copy—were ideal as “food for the baby trees. These orchids.are rejects from flowers of Hawaii, Ltd.,, and it is not unusual to see a huge truck lumber up to the fields completely filled with orchids, Three or four hundred thousands of these blooms may be scattered on a single nut orchard at one time—a fantastic sight when you consider how much they slug you at the florist’s. Scratching holes in the lava for planting by

hand was considered impossible; a special ma-g3

chine was invented for the purpose. Manpower could only dig four holes an hour; the machine} drills 27. Building roads and running electricity and water into the jungle were staggering feats of mechanized labor which would have been impossible before the war. Z It will be a good five years before the firm sells a single nut, so they are not fretting too hard about how to harvest the crop. Special experiments are running at the University of Hawaii to develop a harvester along the lines of a vacuum cleaner, to pluck the nuts from the trees. By that time about $5 million will have been invested on a scientific hunch,

It is already estimated that more foot poundsiof America, and Northeast Com-

of energy have been sunk into the macadamia project than were expended in the building of the biggest pyramids, and there is a constant running battle against nature fascinating to behold. This is modern farming, children—and right now the farmers aren't even sure that America will cotton to the crop.

By Frederick C. Othman

| I jiggled it a while, mainly to impress my passen-| ger with my mechanical knowledge, and when the engine got hot enough to suit me, I pushed the button in. It was as easy as that. { Living in Chicago as I did at the time, occasionally I'd bump into a truck. This was no financial disaster; it was, in fact, a laughing matter. All I had to do was give my bent fender a ‘hard yank and for all practical purposes it was good as new. Changing tires was no trick, either, because my fenders were built with the sole idea of keeping the mud off me, They were not intended to hide the wheels from public view, as though they were obscene. I take the opposite view. I think Jt is fine to see a wheel, especially when you're trying to take a tire off of it. ' Another beauty about my coupe, aside from the $100 down payment (This was a special deal be-| cause the dealer agreed 1 had an honest face) was the ‘monthly payment of $32. Bo it was that I| could drive a car and also eat, I still consider| this a great advantage. I hope all this proves helpful to President Wilson, but frankly I am a little dubious. I have written pieces along this line befdre and from the motor car manufacturers I have received only sneers. One of them wired that he was sending

a buffalo. robe for me to use in my ox cart. He held at 10 a. m. today in Moore|is business manager.

never did. | The Citizens Cry for It 1. ANOTHER SAID that he still had in stock an | elderly automobile which he had patched up as good as new (which wasn’t saying much, he in-

sisted) and which he intended to offer me at a/a member

nominal price to shut my mouth. I never heard fromm him again, either, | From citizens across the land, however, I received baskets of letters agreeing that my dream|

President Wilson.

The Quiz Master

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What would cause an egg to explode violently when the water in *vhich it was cooking was allowed to boil away?

‘While boiling the steady temperature of 212 F. Is maintained. With all the w gone, however, the temperature inside the pan rises much higher, The moisture inside the shell is quickly converted to overheated steam, and the pressure may build up until the breaking of the shell suddenly lots it go, thus causing an 5

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Is the Amphitheater at Arlington a memorial! to the Unknown Soldier? { The Amphitheater was erected as a memorial] to all the soldiers who have died in the service of our country. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier!

is in front of the Amphitheater, |¥y . & !

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new form for reporting your ‘gross income and veteran bonus tax in Indiana.)

The Bonus Tax is your contri bution to World War II veterans

in Indiana. . Since this tax did not become - effective until July 1, 1949, you ge b. SOURS shows th Out. 4,

will pay only on earnings during . -

in addition to gross income tax upon the same income, The Indiana Department of State Revenue warns everyone receiving more than $500 in taxable gross income during the last half of this year and whose taxable gross income exceeded $1000 for the entire year is subject to the bonus tax. The regulations, exemptions this tax as for the gross income tax, the department says. For those who receive wages or salaries, computation of both

wages ( betare roll dedee) le poyer Sections

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be comparatively simple. Employers will give wageearpers Form 12A (as shown above) or a similar form which denotes (1) total gross income for the year and (2) gross income for the second half of 1949.

~ . . EMPLOYEE'S gross income tax will be 1 per cent of total year's income (shown in “1” above) plus other income for the year as out.

lined in Schedule “A,” and his acted bonus tax will be one-fourth of Boome wap surieq OF. COntR

1 per cent of the amount shown| ; fn “2"—July 1 to Dec. 31. In entering your computations Those operating their own busi- {°F | the bonus tax in Schedule ness, or having multiple sources| © It is important to remember of income such as rental income, that your bonus tax rate is dereceipts from investments, sales ‘ermined by your gross income of properties, etc, must make '8% rate. their own division of income for, Therefore, your official form is the year, reporting income re-arranged so that your bonus tax ceived in the second half of the computations are in the same colyear in Schedule B and comput-/umn or columns and directly being the bonus tax accordingly. {low the gross Income tax comThe law provides that the bonus putations in Schedule “A” that tax applies to all income received appears on the top half of your on or after July 1, even if such official form.

Mrs. Lockridge |Leng Services Today

Burial to Take Place in Spiceland

Bervices for Mrs. Pearl R. Lockridge, hostess at Moore & Kirk Northeast Chapel, who died Tuesday in her apartment, 2530 Station St, were to be at 1:30 p. m. today in the chapel. She was

Career Ended

Burial was to be in Spiceiand. Mrs. was born at Grinnell, Iowa, and lived in Indianapolis 32 years. She was a member of the Calvary Baptist Church and president of the Friendly Helpers Sunday School class there, She was hostess at the mortuary eight years. Member of Eastern Star

She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, White Shrine of Jerusalem, the Patriotic Order

Blaine W. Bradfute

B. W. Bradfute Sr, Dies at Age 65

Bloomington Editor Heart Attack Victim

Blaine W. Bradfute 8r., Bloomington newspaper publisher and leader in Monroe County Republican politics, died, last night at Norway's

munity Center.

Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Doris Enzwiler, St. Louis, and Mrs. Helen Swanson, Chicago; a son, Homer W. Lockridge, Waco, Tex.; three brothers, Carl and Clyde Thomas, Indianapolis, and Murray Thomas, Spiceland, and a granddaughter.

Mrs. Angeline Laughlin

Services for Mrs. Angeline Laughlin, who died Tuesday in the home of a daughter, Mrs, Faye Smith, 1517 Harlan St, will be held at 8 p. m. today In

Stirling Funeral Home. She was|20d publisher of the Bloomington 9.

World-Telephone, came ‘to Indianapolis for treatment Saturday. Death followed a heart attack. Born in Bloomington, he had been a newspaperman since his youth.

Other services will be held at 11 a. m. tomorrow in the New Weston, O., Methodist Church] Burial will be in Fairview Ceme-

Papers Merged in 1943

He joined his father, the late Walter 8, Bradfute, in the publication. of the dally Bloomington Telephone in 1911. The WorldTelephone was created by a merger of the Telephone and the a brother, -Marion| Bloomington Evening World in Briner, Marion, O.; a sister, Mrs, 1943. Emma Westfall, Greenville, O.| Although his Influence as a nine grandchildren ‘and seven Republican editor was widely felt great-grandchildren, " |in the community, he never held

| public office. ) Mrs. Daisy Forbeck His two sons were associated Services for Mrs, Daisy For-|with him in the

beck, who died Monday in the newspaper. home of a didughtér, Mrs. John serves as city editor and his oth-

Curran, R. R. 16, Box 513, were er son, Blaine W., Bradfute

Mrs. Laughlin was born in

In addition to the daughter, she is survived by two sons, Darrell and Royal Laughlin, In-

& Kirk Northeast Chapel. Burial, was in Memorial Park. She was 78.

Veteran of War I

Mr. Bradfute attended Bloom-

{ington High School, Indiana Uni. Born at Lawrence, she lived Ins ersity, Pennsylvania Military

either. Indianapolis or Beech) United = States

om, mont or ns 2 Church. of the Metnogisy He served as an Army lleuIn addition to Mrs, Curran, a in ay orld war 1 ' ls survived by another daughter, poo iin’ Rotary Club and

Mrs. Ralph Pi : p roe; Wo sisters, Country Club, he belonged to the diana University. ‘ Mrs. Vincent Wessels

Wessgls, former Indianapolis res-|Pradfute, Bloomington.

dom, were to be conducted today in Mohammed, Ill, followed by burial. { Mrs. Wessels died Monday at! her home in Leavenworth, Kas. where she lived for the past few

Scientist to Speak

her life. Surviving are her husband; phone Laboratory,

Robert and John Wessels, both

of Indianapolis. 1

day at Butler University.

In addition to his sons, sur- traffic books as corhpared to the vivors include his-wife, Anna, and $271,357 for the same period this Services for Mrs. Eva Btrole(lls mother, Mrs. Florence W.year. When the final week of Cremation will follow funeraktexceed $275,000, traffic clerks re-

his residence in Bloomington. |

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RETURN - CALENDAR YEAR 1949

TO WHOM PAID (Print some, full 06¢r 000,004 Soe. 900. No.)

Be sure you fill in Schedule “B" and Form 12A when you file your 1949 Gross Your employer will supply you with the correct forms. They must be filed before Jan. 31, 1950.

LINE 18, All taxable income received from July 1 to December 31, 1949, should be entered here in the same column or columns ‘used in Schedule “A” to’ compuete Gross Income Tax. : + LINE 19. Enter here in the appropriate column your allowable exemption which is $500 for all except retail merchants. Retail merchants exemption in Schedule B will be a maximum of $1500 if in business the éntire six months (July 1. to December 31) or $250 times the number of months in business during that period.

Rev. John Tyner Rites Tomorrow

Retired Pastor Dies in California

who died Friday in San Diego Cal, will be held at 1 p. mn. t tery. He was 84.

fan Church. He attended the old Public School No. 1 at 42nd St. and Sherman Drive and was graduated from the oid Bright. wood High School at 28th St. and Sherman Drive. Plans for the formation of the Broad Ripple Church were made in his home here, before he began traveling in the West, He held pastorates in Christian churches in Colorado, Nebraska, Illinois and Indiana. He retired two years ago as pastor of the Church pf Christ, Kenney, Ill, after his wife died. Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Frances Tyson and Mrs. Emma Tatman both of Indianapolis; Mrs. Martha Dell Hamson, Van Nuys, Cal, and Miss Betty Jane Tyner, Long

Sanitorium, 1820 E.| Beach, Cal, eight grandchildren, 10th St. He was 65, |and one great-grandchild.

| Mr. Bradfute, who was owner Homer C. Amos

Rites for Homer Clifford Amos, Evans Milling Co. employee who died yesterday in St. Vincent's Hospital, will be held at 2 p. m. tomorrow in the Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church, New Palestine. Burial will be in the New Palestine Cemetery.

East Drive, Woodruff Place, was a native of Shelby County. He had lived in Indianapolis the past 10 years and was a member of the

{East Twelfth Street. Evangelical

61. | Surviving are two sons, Charles {R. Amos, Fountaintown, and Willlam H. Amos, Finly; a daughter,

operation of the yrs Carolyn Beckner, Newport, ed the U. 8. Naval Academy in Walter 8. Bradfute yy . nig father, Charles W. Amos, [1910-11 but resigned due to a

{New Palestine; a sister, Mrs.

Jr. Pearl Galyean, Indianapolis, two|the Army and served on the Mex-

|grandchildren and a nephew,

‘Sticker’ Receipts Soar On 1949 Violations

|" Police department collections on | “stickers for traffic violations have climbed more than $80,000

the above violation receipts of last

year, department records showed today.

jyear, $191,263 was registered on

1949 is totaled, the figure may

services at 2 p. m. tomorrow 4n ported. Meanwhile, the fire department

{recorded only $562,000 in fire

Services for the Rev. John L. Tyner, formerly of Indianapolis,

morrow in Flanner & Buchanan mortuary. Burial will be in the| Ebenezer Lutheran Church Ceme-

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LINE 20. Subtract line 19 from line 18 and enter the difference here. This figure is the total income subject to bonus tax. Schedule “B” Explained LINE 21. Enter your bonus tax which is one-eighth of one percent of the amount in Column 1, Line 20; one-fourth of one per cent of the amount in Column 2, Line 20, and 1 ‘of one percent of the amount in Column 3, Line 20. Then add and carry tale directly across to Column

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4). LINE-25. This line is for com~ putation of interest at one cent a month on your ‘total tax (Line 24) if you are late in re~ > porting your income. nee i ‘LINE 26. The penalty for fails ure to- file your ‘return before Jan, 31 dead-line is 10 per cent of the combined gross income tax and bonus tax, and the minimum penalty is $2. y : However, when payment is not made after proper notification from the Gross Income Tax Division, or, where there is a des : ficiency resultiig from an & : to evade or defraud, the Is 50 per cent of the combined total gross income tax and bonus

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MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 29 (UP)— Hervey Allen, whose novel “Anthony Adverse” was a best seller, died after a heart ittack here yesterday,

died in the bathroom of his home in suburban Coconut Grove. He had just arisen, having slept late afer working until the early-morning hours on the fourth and final valume of his historical novel, “The Disinherited.” Mrs. Allen found his body. A heart specialist was called but he was unable to revive the author. . Philip Wylie, author and friend and neighbor, said he was told by Mr, Allen recently that “phys-| lcally, I feel sure of 10 good years ahead of me.” Native of Pittsburgh | Mr. Allen was best known for it “Anthony . Adverse,” “which |was completed in 1933. : { Mr. Allen was born in Pitts{burgh on Dec. 8, 1889, He attend-

{physical ailment. Later he joined

ican border and in France during World War 1, Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Ann Hyde Andrews Allen, two

Mary Ann, and { Francis. : | -

310 Unit Housing Project Approved Here

Approval of a 310-unit housing project proposed by an Indianapolis firm at Keystone Ave. and Minnesota St. was announced to-

a son, Richard

the Indianapolis office of Federal

Housing Administration. {of customs.

Builders have éstimated cost of the structure at $1,612,000. It will contain four-room apartments in one story. Construction will be

losses this year compared to little {more than $1 million last year.

Indiana Section of the Ameri-|In reports to the Safety Board, Ginger. ears. She lived here most of can Chemical Society will hear|the Indianapolls Building Com.| (Dr. A. C. Walker, of Bell Tele-/missoner sald permits were issued speak on|for $45,815,026 worth of building Vincent Wessels, and two sons, “Growing Crystals for the Tele- projects this year. In 1048, per-'will hold its annual New Year's | phone” at 6:30 p. m. next Thurs- mits were issued for $37,646,331 in|party Saturday evening at its

bullding projects. q

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carried out by Leo A. Lippman, IM. B. Lippman and George V.

ee ————— LIEDERKRANZ PARTY SET The Indianapolis Liederkranz

day by R. Earl Peters, director of |Fed

officers three years ago of accepting graft from Indiana Ave. vice racketeers. U. S. Customs Office Here to Move Soon

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