Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 January 1950 — Page 13
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In Just a Blur IT'S NO exaggeration to say coming into Pier 9 was a blur so far as the rank and file was con-
comfortable 80. No seafarin’ man myself, I think the ship was 15 feet away from the dock when I made a landing. : The Navy provided a guide and an automobile. It was sheer coincidence that the driver was going for a short junket over roads cut through lush jungle. We headed for the Gatun Locks. Tomorrow. the men will have a chance to see the whole works on an organized tour. We wound through Ft. Sheridan and proceeded to Ft. San Lorenzo, the oldest fort under the jurisdiction of the United States, Ft. San Lorenzo was formidable looking if you cared to push your imagination back to 1601 when it was built, but fresh off a modern man-of-war the pile of stone was just that. In the shadow of rusty cannons Canal Zone employees picnicked and drank beer out of cans. Little children
No Rest in Sight
WASHINGTON, Jan, 17—F. Leander Moorman of Peachtree St., Douglas, Ga., is my boy and I'm all for him. But I'm afraid he's losing the good fight for just one little week a year during which he'll be pestered by nobody. The long suffering Leander, you may remember, staked out the first seven days of April as National ‘Leave Us Alone Week. That was about three years ago and the idea was that nobody would ask anybody else during the week to buy milk for Hottentots, eat apricot pie, soak his feet in epsom salts, contribute to the welfare of cats, wear a paper flower in his lapel, or go to bed at night in boxing gloves. Peace, it was going to be wonderful. ' Now comes Thomas J. Davis of the marketing division, Office of ‘Domestic Commerce, U. 8. Department of Commerce, to report that Leander’s beautiful dream has turned inte a nightmare of edi - more - popeorn - be - kind - to - owls - wear-topaz-breastpin days, weeks and months. Davis didn't put it in so many words; he just reported the facts. There is not one single day left in 1950 that'a man, including Leander, can call his own.
Many Others Coming Up COMING .UP is Idaho Potato and Onion Week, Large-Size Week (which has to do with the big economy package), the Fig Festival, Apple Day, Butter Day, Cheese Festival and ‘Hollywood Salad Bowl Month. This is March and if the American Dairy Association of Chicago has its way everybody (you, too, Leander) is going to eat peaches and cottage cheese. } En route is Cranberry Week; the idea is to make you eat ’em long before Thanksgiving. Daughter's Day is coming up; sponsoring this (I'm inserting no comment of my own) is the National Cedar Chest Association. The National Federation of Grandmothers Clubs wants to glorify grandmothers on Grandmother's Day. Two associations of feline lovers
. was breakfast with the president of the Republic,
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‘ Monpett B. Davis, a + «The Ambassador is a native of Greencastle. One of Mr. Leckrone's highlights . of the day
Arnulfo Arias. He sald champagne. “™ ay
A Different Breakfast 1 TOLD of my breakfast. It consisted of two eggs over light and toast, Only Yankee know how and sticktoitiveness got the breakfast down the hateh. You stab at th gs Between rolls and swallow quickly. as the ship goes down for another dig into the briny. Great stuff, Our sailors really took the town over. They were everywhere, curio shop¥. parks, hamburger joints and show places. things were brewing in the winds ‘off the Ca arf We'll be here for two days and from the looks of the place we'll get what we came after, Gosh the weather here is ideal. : GMM3 Raymond Higgenbottom, 2141 N. Meridian St., drinking in the sun and air, has this to say to bis wife. “Panama will be fine after last night's bout with heavy seas. I wish T were ashore in Indianapolis. Happy birthday.” Susie Higgenbottom's littie daughter didn't have her daddy to help eat the cake. He's thinking about her though.
_ | . By Frederick ®€. Othman have two separate cat weeks, which come almogt { simultaneously. I can't help hoping that my friend, Leander, is a cat hater. The National Cat Week of the American Feline, Society, Inc., of New York, designed to help save cats, starts on Nov. 5. The National Cat Week of National Cat Week, Inc., of Pittsburgh, Pa, intended: to promote appreciation’ and understanding of cats, begins on Nov. 7. There is a National Bow Tie Week to get everybody to wear the kind of neckwear that President Truman favors. There's also a plain. old National Necktie Week, during which mankind is supposed to wear a cravat, nature unspecified,
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cides with National Table Tennis Week, National others for the junk pile, Save Your Vision Week, and Bird Day in California. National Sew and Save Week will be along — soon. So will National Hot Tea Week, National Iced Tea Week, National Peanut Week, Nation New Potentate Trimmed Dress Week, National Cutlery Week, Na-| tional Pickle Week, National Sweater Week (starts) on Oct. 25, a day to remember), Save the Horse| Week, National Automatic Merchandising Week and National Restaurant Week. There's going to be a National Raisin Week, too, but the California Raisin Advisory Board of Fresno hag not yet decided when it will commence. Poor Leander. He's got to observe Sleep Week, the Ice Cream Fiesta, Wine Week, National Kraut and Frankfurter Week, and Poetry Day in Pennsylvania. What makes his defeat more bitter still is that his own week, in which he had hoped to enjoy his ease without one gingle solicitor ringing his doorbell, has been taken over by a number of competitors. 1 These include National Laugh Week, which is . not to be confused with National Smile Week; Perfect Shipping Month, National Negro Health Week| and Army Day. I think Leander had: better flee i
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Rabbit a Villai MELBOURNE, Jan. 17—In the United States a bunny rabbit is regarded as a gentle wee beastie, symbol of Easter, and the hero of the nursery, be he Peter Rabbit or Bre'r Rabbit. Only in movie cartoons has he ever been 'presented as a villain, and Mr. Disney's Bugs Bunny is a raffish sort of ruffian with no real menace in him. It is hard, then, to picture a Dante's Inferno of rabbits, a weird hell seething and teeming with rabbits, a wasteland despeoiled by rabbits, a menace of rabbits so great that the livelihood of man and the welfare of the land are threatened. It is hard to picture the gentle cottontail as a villain, with a flamethrower in one paw and the seeds of famine in his fur, but that’s what he is in Australia. Just recently I borrowed an airplane and went off on a barnstorm of New South Wales’ vast “out-back,” the sun-scorched wasteland where a sheep station of 90.000 acres is regarded as medium sized, and a cattle ranch of 50,000 acres is called tiny. We visited Haddon Rig, a show place of a sheep station owned by George Falkiner, and a tiny cattle range kingdom of cattle and wool.
Mangey and Hungry THE BIBLICAL plague ‘of the locusts was small stuff alongside the effort of a combat team of rabbits, I saw square miles of sun=baked earth, denuded of vegetation, as hard as concrete, and this was land which should be maintaining forage three feet high. The salt bush is killed; the trees girdled and
dead; with not so much as a twig left. Oyer this
arid waste roam millions of rabbits. They are starving rabbits, their coats patchy with mange, and they are emboldened by hunger to the fierceness of carnivores. } It is odd to. see a man living in fear of rabbits, but that is the case with the graziers in the outback. Leahy's Oxley ranch has been laid seige to by rabbits. It is surrounded by rabbits, pressing closer and closer. Mr. Oxley is protected by a river from the rabbits, and on the bridge sits a dog. Like Horitius, he is there to keep the rabbits from crossing.
Chalk Up Total of 133 Years With Gas Utility
typist, 20 years; Purchasing Agent E.‘E. McMullen, 36 years; assistant fudhating
: By Robért C. Ruark
“Sometimes they will advance to within a few feet of him, and one day, Mr. Leahy figures, they'll
~ " » rush the dog off his feet. . 1f drought comes, and the river shrinks, the [ine eva es rabbits will scurry across the dry bottom to Mr.
Leahy’s lush acreage, and then a year-long battle
will be necessary to stding®-out the fast-breeding| PC plague, eaters Tor rear
If drought comes, the denuded areas will blow away and erede. Left unchecked, the innocent little] bunny can easily wreck the meat-and-wool economy of Australia. Rabbit-killing 1s a vast business today. As many as 5000 a night are taken in traps. Ranch
Mr. Springer
Gains Top Office
A. Marshall Springer, 309 N.
help is hard to come by. because anybody can Kenyon St., a 33d degree Mason,|
make 20 or 30 pounds, or even more, a week was elected illustrious potentate killing rabbits. They shoot rabbits and trap rab- of the Murat Temple Shrine last bits and club rabbits and still they breed and night at the mple. breed and breed. : ‘ Mr. Springgr, .a special repThe hawk and the fox, once the enemy of all resentative of ¥Indianapolis He &ucceeds 1949 illustrious
tected by the grazier, because the hawk and the at Murat in 1942. fox eat rabbits. Max Blackburn, Packs of dogs which once would have been potentate. denied admission to the big layouts run all night. other members herding rabbits and catching rabbits. People g0 (yjon IL. Campbell, chief rabban: out in jeeps with guns and shoot rabbits all night pay] E. Rathert. assistant rabban long. Harry E. Geisel, high priest and : prophet, and August J. Sieloff Prey fo Passing Cars Oriental guide Dr. Clifford E THEY NEVER pick up a carcass, or hother to Cox was re-elected treasurer. Karl finish .off a wounded rabbit. They woh't waste a I. Friedrichs was re-elected shell on a rabbit outside ‘their own boundaries, recorder and building manager. Hundreds of thousands of rabbits hop across the ,,nintive officers are Cecil M. roads, prey to passing cars which swerve out of gyrne first ceremonial master their way to run them down. Edwin K. Steers, second And still the rabbits flourish. They ‘glare bale- n\onial master, and J. fully at the ranchers from perches on dead trees pier, marshal. and then play ring-around-the-rosy in haymows. At the moment, nearly all methods of preven- ) tion have been only partly satisfactory. At last elected included Mr. Springer. Dr. count, one staid scientist was attempting to re- COX: Mr. Campbell and Mr. Blackproduce a high-frequency recording of the rab- PufD: bit’s mating call, in order to lure them to traps. [Elected to the board of directors If this seems uncricket, in the best sporting of the Murat Temple Association sense, you might reflect that I, a visitor, have were Mr. Springer, Mr. Blackburn been dreaming of rabbits lately. And if I have and Mr. Sieloff. Others are Dr. nightmares about rabbits, yg can imagine how William E Bodenhamer, Mr. they must prey on the minds’ of the natives, Campbell, Dr. Cox, Mr. Fried- - — richs, Mr. Geisel, Dewey E. Myers, Mr. Rathert, Granville A. Richey Ike Riley and F. L. Tompkins
Rocky the Way When Dan Cupid, ‘Muffs the Ball
BERLIN, Jan. 17 (UP)—A young Berliner filed suit for divorce from his bride of one day and accused her of ‘false pre tenses and non-existing facts” because she wore falsies, the newspaper Der Abend reported today. }
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JACKSON, Miss., Jan. 17 (UP) -—An 83-year-old man was granted an uncontested divorce from his 75-year-old wife here yesterday on grounds that (1yshe kept him awake at night and (2) she dipped snuff and “smelled up the house.”
LOS ANGELES, Jah. 17 (UP) --Mrs. Iona KE. Watkins,
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Alert Ci Of Full
Adrian Floreancig, city superintendent of weights and meas-
Inspectors Find Most Devices
Accurate and Make Few Seizures By VICTOR H. PETERSON Without fanfare the city’s department of weights and measures goes, about its business protecting the public The basement office prgsided over by Adrian Floreancig, superWE'VE GOT National Smile Week, which coin- intendent, overflows with a variety of scales. Some are for testing,
The latter have been econdemmed by a staff of six inspectors Ta ~~ | constantly covering the city on Proutine check operations.
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And if you think the taxicab) bitterly contested, however, demeter is wrong the next time you| E L ° d T (spite factionalism which has pay your fare, take it up with | dd riddled second district R - Mr. Floreancig. The.city’s 500 cab} n S eningra our can politics for several ig | meters come in for an annual] | Mr. Cre hton was 1 : check. Mao Tze-tung Returns to Moscow After | Mr. Creighton was reported not
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bags loaded with various weights to test the scales. Packaged items where weight] is indicated on
spot
tests. Last year the force] 7 ’ 2 {diana U tossed 61,000 such items on scales. ner, today Soon Mr. Floreancig plans to warned doctors
a En-'add more work to the routine.|yw - men who live on the land, ®pw are tacitly pro- graving Co. was appointed. in line: Modern living has brought Gli ray and radionc-
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which will be used in in- and death. . - Civil Epfineers meeting Jan. 18- olis reported that Mr. Halleek spgcting prescription scales and, - Writing in the 20 in New York split votes controlled by him be. hts. American Scien- James H. Carnine, vice presi- tween the two candidates. Others, “The day of the heavy thumb tist=Magazine he Prof. Muller dent of the board, and James H. representing the Conrad-Creighe said. sald many doc- © Bookedis, sanitation plant super-{ton faction, persisted im the bee.
is ast,” Mr. “Naturally, the department was|tors and hospital technicians ex-!intendent. plan to attend the na-|lief that Mr. Halleck threw His created to protect the public, but |pose patients unnecessarily to ra-| tional meeting starting tomor- entire political weight to the supe |today there are very few mer-|/diation “without regard to the in-row. {chants who don’t want to be per- evitable genetic effects for future |fectly honest.
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| Twice a year they walk unan{nounced into some 1000 grocery stores, open. their kits and quietily test the one to 10 scales in each
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dozen were confiscated last year. sity chaplain.
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Department inspectors Sany this collection of tools in their work kit. The weights in the back. - ground total more than 30 pounds:
On this large but delicate scale, Mr. Floreancig tests a set of Not Bitterly © pumps are tested to determine if| apothecary weights against standards kept in the department. | ° erly Contested
Chinese Red Leader
Inspecting City’s Defenses, Opera and Ballet nominated by Kosciusko County
Chinese Communist Mao 7Tze-tung has returned to Moscow after a round of festivities in Leningrad. Radio Moscow said Mr. Mao toured Leningrad, inspected wartime defenses, and attended the opera and ballet. ~
Prof. Hermann J. Muller of Inniversity, Nobel prize win-
The Universjty of Pennsylvania U's William Lowe Bryan
“The quickest way for them to today announced the appointment kill their business is to get a bad|0f the Rev. Edward G. Harris, reputation. We find relatively few pastor of St. scales: Only a half Southborough, Mass.
Mark's
. Falvella today not permitted to go into the inner ended a 59-year newspaper career workings. If a major overhaul {s{by retiring from the Laredo, Tex. necessary, the merchant is told Times. to have the scale repaired. After career as a printer at Corpus yerqity-last Friday night was held in a beautiful hall and was well sufficient time has elapsed, we go Christi, Tex., in 1891. He said he ,¢ianded \ back and check it out,” he said. would write a book on his expe-
He started his newspaper
Edward Everett of Carrollton,
housewife,” Mr. $300 he had lost — and there It campus. He is a remarkable gen-| poor, little speaker to stand. up
” Shirley Arnow, 19-year-old Miss Junior America, will marry her, (high school sweetheart, Willhum | C. Pomeroy, 20, at Phoenix, Ariz, She will follow her fellow Arizonian and Senior Beauty Queen
Mercer Cook, who became Mrs. Probationary Patrolman John Doug Cook last month. jand shall treasure pleasant mem- Dimes took up a collection.
C. Arens, 1216 N. Beville Ave, s % @ | William H. Franklin of Okla“gor homa City picked up the nick-|y ta “wolf” today, because he whistles at the, girls. and academic, qualifications” tour. Franklin, 40, stopped his car|or Or, Aitending a dinner at the © when he thought he hit a'pedesOfficer Arens, who was appoint-|trian. A 36-pound wolf lay dead goited me with a. rather unig police department's in the street beside his fender. award <a prayer beaut Rated} & = training sghool Dee. 1, will go on a na | {fully i . (charg, n a divorce suit atlactive duty Jan. 22. : Neighboring fruits poked fun/pressed good wishes for A v-messenger, 33 years: husband drove onto a railroad, Presentation of the trophy wasiat Loren Helm of Andarko, Okla., future. 1 deeply I date rg AW crossing, waited until a train made at police headquarters by today because one and calm
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! | | | Elected Second | * . . ! | District - Chairman ! Another newcomer was added today to the growing number of new faces in Indiana Republican Party leadership. Leland Smith of Logansport, Cass County GOP chairman, was elected second district chairman In a meeting at Winamac yesterday. He succeeds Ira Dixon of Kentland who resigned as disP (trict head and as a member of the state committee to give. full time to Sen. Homer E. Capehart's campaign for re-election. ? Mr, Smith was the third new Idistrict chairman to be elected |since the stinging Republican defeat in Nov, 1948. Since that time the party also has 10 new {county chairmen in a total of 92, and a new state chairman, |Cale J. Holder, who succeeded Clark Springer of Butler.
—| Mr, Smith defeated Hobart | Creighton of Warsaw, 1048 nomi nee for governor, by a vote of {14 to 10 to win the district chair. ymanship. The election was not
present at the meeting. He was
Chairman Gene Lee, also of Warsaw. Two of Mr. Creighton's top factional backers, Morrison Rockhill of Warsaw, who managed his oo | BOVernor campaign, and State sitting on a nest when ste should Sen. Roy Conrad of Monticello, have been pecking at feed. He also were absent from the dis gave her a “right smart” swat. trict election meeting. She pecked his hand and climbed Election of Mr. Smith was cackled and laid an egg. widely regarded as leaving Con- - - gressman Charles Halleck effec tively in control of the District . GOP organization. This interpre To Attend Meeting tation varied depending on which Two officials of the Board of party leader was doing the ine Sanitary Commissioners will at- terpreting. ' tend the/ American Society of Certain spokesmen in Indianape
Sanitation Officials
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Remarkable President Emerifus
By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT World Copyright. 1060. by United Feature Syndicate, Ine. eproduction in Whole af Part Prohibited . LOS ANGELES, Monday—The evening session at Indiana Unie
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The following morning I enjoyed breakfasting at the Women's Faculty Club. Then I did a radio recording, some of the questions being used on the College Hour, which is sold to 20 radio stations in the state Emr # Before leaving, 1 stopped with thing else before going to talk on United Nations at the Ch his’ ye president emeritus, Willlam Opeta House. That building was containing Lowe Bryan, who lives on the built for opera and not for ons
Miss Ma-
tleman, over 90 years old, an In- on the stage and look out at that diana boy educated in the state Vast auditorium. and graduated from this univer-| The audience was attentive are and kind, however, and we were He devoted many years of his even able to have a question [life to the presidency, and the period by having the questions school owes to him many of its written and allowing an inter. most forward-looking aspects. I jude during which time repre {left Bloomington with real regret sentatives for the March of
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{ories of my time there. Reaches Chicago Late We did mot reach Chicago until
Saturday afternoon, so we/in a light snowstorm. The had very little time to }
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