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© WHEN he was all through with his revolutions, 1 introduced myself, he introduced himself and we started from the beginning. There are a few bucks in my pocket that are ready to go into circulation, Rex, my friend. I want a record player. One that plays. Cheap but good. Like this one. Rex Fordice, a young man Pearson's Music Co. pays to sell records and phonographs, was pleased with my choice. Excellent machine. Plays all three types of records. Watch, First, Rex took a tiny record with a Columbia label and by performing a series of manipulations, got music out of the player. Beautiful, “Now, say for example, you want to play the 45 revolution record,” continued the perfectly-at-ease salesman,

Spinning «+ + Rex Fordice (right) explains

records and record players to a customer. Yike.

‘reduce noises, On one long-playing record you can!

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She couventiansl inh or 12-inch recard. Noth Ve FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1950 il Ba rh LEE ~~ Venice Canals Can’t Hold Cand The small record with the large center hole ' . is an RCA Victor product. Victor has a special 5 Fe ; : : SY phonograph for it. But, Rex explained, if you : " ou bought a new Victor you could only piay Victor s g i =m ties ww To Flood-Bound North Side Area stand. He'd get to those later. Right now, here's y what You do. with the df pm fepard-on the J-epeet : | : 2 ik 1 A plug reduces the large hole They can be had Ne : ate Trak WE Le JE ; 10 for 50c. The plugs slip in easily. Ooops. Pile 10 Ay i Rs 4 + converted Victors on, punch this switch, flip this| : . ;

ing of the conventional, This is the way you . . . see this switch? . . . and the other arm? However, don’t forget the long-playing records are distortion free, more economical, longer-lasting by virtue of being unbreakable.

measured, of course. No. Well, anyway, speed is measured by the space traveled in a certain length of time. The conventional arm on the conventional record travels faster on certain areas of a record. There is one section of grooves where you will find a tonal distortion. Also, in the conventional records you have surface noises. Victor has captured the distortfon-free zone in their 45 rpm record. Capitol and Columbia have more music in less space on plastic surfaces that

Kessler Blvd. have made a lake of Centennial St.

| want storm relief. The addition is a new one.

have a complete symphony where it used to take south of 23d

four and five heavy 12-inch discs.

Brrr——Ha Ha—Brrr

YOU WANT a conventional machine? Fine. Anything to please a customer. Now, with this machine, which is limited to the old-type records, you can buy a Micro-Verter. It will enable you to play long-playing records by means of a planetary . The turntable goes around 78 turns. apter on top and by tripping this little

patient. He understood that people catch on to things quicker than others, No, the adapter will not handle the 45 rpm records. Even the plug for the large hole wouldn't do any good. You see, sir, it all depends on the revolutions. Let's go over the whole thing again. No.,..no,,. brrrrrr... ha ha... .brrr.,.,.,

Courtesy Aloft

By Robert C. Ruark

Twin rivers of flood waters from Groff and Centennial Sts. meet in front of 2237 Centennial St. This is a view from the living

. NEW YORK, Jan. 2T—About four years ago I started a fight with the airlines, a highly personal battle, and I think I won it. The gist of the scrap was that it seemed ridiculous that a method of transportation with such wonderful possibilities for speed and comfort should be run like a ratrace, at maximum disservice to everybody. I was going back to the pogo-stick. This created quite a chunk of {ll-will, as I recall, but it also touched off a raft of “what's wrong with the airlines” stories. The lines blustered some and whimpered some. They said they had personnel problems. They couldn't get the right help on the ground. Airport facilities were inadequate. But they still had plenty of customers, left over from the war, and the customers were still used to being abused by everybody who took their money, 3 Then business began to drop, as mass movements lessened and the population settled down. Rashes of fatal accidents gave the lines a recurrently bad press. And the cowed customer began to get back some of his prewar starch and pride of ownership in his dollar.

Says Service Improved

MY, MY, and bless yo’ little heart, honey, how things did change. Entire systems of ticket service and ground operation changed and streamlined. Courtesy on the ground became practically creamy, I don’t know how they did it, but the habitual stackup over airfields, except in bad weather, suddénly seemed io evaporate. They even began to take the client into their confidence when mishaps occurred, so that at least he knew whether the wing had come unpasted or not. I would say I won my private war because scheduled air service today, in my book, comes as close to perfection on major runs as it is apt to get. My shell-pink ears are still popping from a recent jaunt of 30,000 miles over mountain, water and desert, on assorted lines. In those 30,000 miles there was not one major delay, not one foul-up of luggage, no instance

Mrs. Moneybags

of discourtesy, mo hitch in ticketing, no lousy| room of the home.

meal aloft, no snippy stewardess with delusions

Overloaded "dry well” sewers in the new Kessler Homes Addition at Lafayette Road and

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Only motorists who drive on sidewalks and lawns can reach their homes in Centennial St. Water was engine deep to some automobiles there. Photos by Bill Oates. Times Stag Photographer.

St. Resident property owners

Dry well sewer inlets, clogged with mud, back water up to sidewalks and lawns in 2300 Moreland Ave. Although no damage has been done to new homes in the area, pedestrian and motor traffic is blocked there.

of being a movie actress, no nothing but smooth- | BN | ness of operation. Navy Gets More Advice— -

They let you f the act, now. They tell g® ° you who is driving the kite and who is helping Bi Mo Rescuers Doing Job = FST TE Hind End To, Says Old Salt how an vou ar wen vou set tire wed lind End To, Says alt

him, They tell you where you're headed, how what weather to expect en route. : . If there's a delay they tell you why. One old Sea Captain Declares Tugs Pulling at Stern |

pilot tells me he considers that any plane un- Only Force Battleship Deeper Into Mu d

equipped with working public address system is Shyglels as a public SasTe. . 3 By HARMAN W. NICHOLS, United Press Staff Correspondent s closer contac ween passenger an y crew is a heavy morale builder for the timid WASHINGTON, Jan, 27—The way my captain looks at it, the] * passenger who has read too many crash stories. Mighty Mo will stay stuck in her mud puddle on the flats off He feels that he is connected with the operation, Hampton Roads until: : ma not Just riding an anonymous broomstick. ONE: A stiff rior'easter comes along; or, he cheery chirrup of a stewardess or the confi- . 'S WAV dent bass of the skipper is a heady tonic when TWO: They do thingy my captain's way, , the craft begins to buck and plunge like a loco] Erie Just, a Merchant Marine captain who has sailed the seven Pelee piston a —————— — - horse. Seas - ang more amis that al ior had gotten the salt water ope . good hard blow could get the job Shrinking in Personnel |done quicker. {out of his nose he was six feet | But he thinks his idea, gathered UP the pole, hanging on for dear IT IS NOW possible to get food, instead of from experience, has merit, too. |e : slop, served in flight. On the long flights, more| «rpe Navy, the Army, and the| leg room, impromptu beds, full-sized berths and coast Guard are doing the job alll CAPT. JUST fancies himself a a little nutritious snake-oil take the curse off wrong » he said. good cook. He learned the busitravel. What used to be torture has now become ’ tai hed id his| ess the hard way. He was in bearable, and in some instances, fun. The captain pus he Sa o his the South Atlantic on a square Oddly, as the schedules and fleets expand, and | coffee and drew a diagr ° rigger when a gale came up and the planes get bigger and faster, the airline busi- Dapkin. the cook was washed overboard. ness is shrinking in personnel. Only about 100,000] ‘These guys,” said the old salt During the storm tie crew had people are employed by the 28 scheduled lines, Who came of a long line of sea-|nothing to keep body and soul tofrom president to grease monkey. Old skippers Men from Denmark, “have gol gether but hardtack and water. are flying as co-pilot. |all those tugs attached to the when the wind died, the skipper As new. gimmicks and gadgets are invented, Stern end of the ship. The Wayicajled the boys aft and looked fewer and fewer people are needed. The old Pan- they're doing it, the prop wash them over. He kind of went eenieAm clippers used to carry 14 in the crew, now {rom the tugs is pushing against meenie - minee - mo. The “mo” they only work seven. Here you have the para-|the ship, rather than pulling the pointed to Eric Just, who had dox of a burgeoning business which actually 57:000-ton battleship Missouri out never even boiled water before. shrinks as it expands. (of the mud. ‘He became “chief cook.” | This, then, is my peace pipe. I have thrown! “I've had a lot of experience] For 60 days he parboiled his away my pogo-stick. Airlines, I forgive you. If of that kind. The thing to do is/face over a coal stove and kept you will continue to be good kiddies, I might even|t0o put the steel cables on the/the crew happy. They reached come to love you. bow and attach the tugs at that port pot-bellied on the captain's end. Then the prop wash would cooking. Mostly hash and stew. [be to the advantage of the opera-| The old tar isn’t too much wortion.” {ried about the fate of the Mighty

By Frederick C. Othman wes pone 1t Before Mo: He's about to open a restaur-|

ant out West, i | Capt. Just, who went to sea at - —

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27—When I call on Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, the handsomest director of the mint this nation ever had, she always gives me a piece of candy. When the House Appropriations Committee has its annual chat with her, she gives the gentlemen something nicer still. Usually a million or so dollars. This leaves 'em flabbergasted and urging that she cast a gold medal in her own honor. She always blushes and turns this idea down, because as a matter of principle she doesn't believe in making medals at her money factories. As a government official, Mrs. Ross i$ unique. She's the only one I know who asked Congress for less money this year than she got last, who turned back $1 million because she didn’t believe she needed it, and who said she'd be a sorry bureaucrat indeed if she hadn't learned in 16 years to run the mint efficiently. 80 let's sit in with the gentlemen at their session with Mrs. Moneybags. If it sounds like a love feast, that's the idea. As a taxpayer, I'm in love with her, too.

Wants to Return a Cool Million

MRS. ROSS said she figured she'd have to manufacture about 700 million coins next year and for this she'd need about $4,065,000, or $735,000 less than she got the last time she visited the gentlemen. And, by the way, she added, she had about $1 million she wanted to return because she really has no use for it. “Golly,” mfimmbled the Congressmen. It had been many a cold winter since they'd heard a federal bigwig say anything like that. a “You must have an electronic machine that will make the eagle squeal when you hold a silver dollar,” marveled Rep. J. Vaughy Gary of Virginia, the chairman of the subcommittee in charge of doling out next year’s millions. Mrs. Ross said she didn’t, really; she just tried to run her bureau as carefully as she could. She. manufactured the money and she melted down the

' to have worked well. She's only had to strike otr Death Sentence Today

, |19 and stayed there 25 years, . . gold and the silver stored by the government. y b of getti Hurls Hat in Rin Quite a little melting job, too. About 24,000 tons | OP¢® directed the job of getting g

{the SS Rollo, of 9000 tons, off a; of gold have gone through her melting pots, she sand bar in the Bay of Biscay.

sald, and 65,000 tons of silver. The gold she keeps| “It sounds a lot easier,” he, under lock at Ft. Knox, Ky. {said, “but it was the same sort Rep. Gordon Canfield of N. J. wondered if she'd | o¢ problem and we handled it] actually seen all this shiny stuff. He recalled the ike I said.” { suggestion of another Congressman that every| (Capt. Just started out as a deck

gold bar in Ft. Knox be sawed in two to be Sure hand and he can't count the| | it wasn't brass. Was Mrs. Ross absolutely sure!storms he was in. He was ship- | it was genuine gold? ‘ wrecked twice. Once, in 1922,

“Of course,” said she. “I've seen it many times. when his ship, carrying a heavy (She spends a good deal of time in Kentucky keep- 10ad, broke up with ripped seams ing the world's greatest gold hoard well dusted.) during a storm off the coast of The gold is there. I wish I were as certain of Madagascar. The captain, an ordieverything as I am of that.” nary seaman at the time, was The gentlemen didn't cross-examine her; when among the six of a crew of 47 she says something she doesn’t mean something who survived. He got hold of a else. They asked her what she thought about the spar and drifted for 20 hours idea of a seven-and-a-half-cent coin. until a fisherman picked him up.

It Would Foul Up Cash Registers The seconq time was in the)

{Indian Ocean when his ship ran| THIS DIDN'T sound like such a hot idea to her.|afoul a reef and busted up. The| Nobody was interested in it much, she said, except boys got into lifeboats and lived | the vendors of soda pop via slot machines. And on hardtack for three days. | tink how such a trick coin would mess up the na-|~ That sounds bad enough. -But| ; tion's cash registers, adding machines, and cash the worst scare the captain had, Frank R. Owens drawers, which make no provisions for half cents. at sea was the time he was| , | Of course, she continued, she was prepared to sitting on a bow sprit—a pole The first of what is expected make any old kind of money Congress wanted. which crosses a fore and aft sail./to be a long line of candidates for She can turn it out square, or stamp holes in it. Rep. Canfield — a Republican, even — said he|trying to take in the jib sail. All|joq,, thought she ought to strike off a medal for herself.(0f & sudden, the ship dived into| = Owens. retired

Mrs. Ross flushed prettily and said she'd rather|the water and by the time the... 0. oon a" ow head of the Drought up to date every hour.

hear him say that than have the finest medal eve

r cast. Talkfng about medals, she said, her cam- Slayer of Child Faces paign to keep Congress from ordering them seems |

Link Belt Co. guards, who ap{nounced his candidacy for the Re-| {publican nomination for Sheriff.

one this year, in honor of the Veep. .| LOS ANGELES, Jan. 27 (UP) | And I hope Mrs. Ross will consider this dispatch |—Elderly Fred Stroble today will} a kind of medal, too. I know it's a little blurred | be sentenced to death for the sex| around the edges, but it's the best my foundry murder of little Linda Joyce could turn out. | Glucott.

nomination two years ago.

ized the patrol system for the In-|

Filipino Guild to Publish Books in Englis

By PAUL 8. KATIGBAK

Times Foreign Correspondent launched in 1937,

MANILA, P. I, Jan. 27--Re-\with a capital of $500.

suming a project interrupted rising paper and

since the outbreak of World War NOW seeks a revolving fund of

II, the Philippine Book Guild an- least $2,500. hounces plans to publish at least] two volumes a year in English.

The monprofit organization is “The Wound And The Scar” by DY the widely esteemed poet Jose|ine day he

5 campaigning larger A. B. Rotor, “H. fund. “Wien is Philippine itera: (her Laon Brought Home A| Hiss 18852 Iv Ingaraml Time gig girl. .

ture - in - English pro gr am was Wife,” by the late Manuel E. Ar-lof first degree murder.

Before the war the guild 'Is- gate to the United Nations; . sued four volumes. They are:

|! vi-year-old . I'S dlanapolis public {sentence to the gas chambers which he served as safety direc{was made automatic when theltor many years. {jury found him guilty Jan. 19 It didto a int as his deputies onl the guild worked guilla, both books of short stories; not recommend leniency. men po are experienced in ho rinting costs, it “Literature And Society,” a vol-| The state Supreme Court, how- lice work. Pp g ume of essays by Salvador P. Lo- ("Var wy review his conviction. | He is a member of the Brookpez, now lippine alternate dele-| roble's bid for commitment gide United Brethren Evangelical | dp Sim Aisa last Friday | Church, the Moose Lodge, prespo when Superior Judge Charles W. idenf of the Guard Chiefs Associ-| book of verses, “Many Voices,” pricke ruled he was sane Nov, 14, ation, member of the American

strangled, hacked, Legion and a veteran of World|

My Bro-| Villa, now in America. [peat and stabbed the. six-year. War I. He lives In 944 N. Bradley Ave. 1

| years in a few weeks.

{bly resolve the NLRB conflict by!

i meme D@NI@S Hubby'’s Charge

He was forward at the time, Sheriff tossed his hat in the ring announces the latest forecast. The

He was a candidate for the same W-E-A-T-H-E-R.

(lice Department and later organ-|jess than half the 1

schools for the temperature ‘soared to 97.

He promised, if elected Sheriff, one

‘River, Stay Away From My Door,’ Is Plea of Water-Soaked Residents

» | Weathering Storm op TE ATION SCHOOL CHILDREN sometimes sing a romantic ballad of

Measure Will Soon | flowing canals in Venice. WL. i Some of their parents know the song, but they don't sing it Pass 2 /2-Yeqr Mark any more. Not if they live in a new addition between Tibbs Ave, By EDWIN A. LAHEY Kessler Blvd. and U. 8S. 52. As in the song, “the streets are Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 — The fowing rivers” in the Kessler addition. cement is beginning to set around, Since out-of-season floods have) the Taft-Hartley Law, which will struck Indianapolis, some streets WO Streets has backed up at the be in operation two and a halt have been blocked. in the area by| Intersection of Centennial an \water often reaching a depth of Groff St. Powell of 2246 N The National Labor Relations three feet. Sidewalks. disappear Mya. Ame oweil vol ter Board (NLRB), which admin. Inder ri¥ing water backed up Centennial BL shill ihe water isters this law, is torn with dis- from “dry well” sewers. | Sometimes stands for ays | re sention between General Counsel There has been no property roPPIng enoughto perm e Robert N. Denham and the mem-/ damage in the addition, but trafbers of the board. This dissention fic In at least four sections of the, TYPICAL of many families in grows out of conflicting interpre- 20né is at a standstill. Many the addition, Mrs. Powell and her [tations of the law, and continues homes can be reached only by husband, Carroll, bought their because the law makes the power- Walking across soggy lawns for home for a permanent residence, ful general counsel independent of ON OF two blocks along the gp. 5 family emergency may

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the law. | Streets, force them to move. Labor leaders want to solve this y x = | They believe flood conditions in problem by firing Mr. Denham,] THERE IS no storm relief the addition will make sale of

Whose term does not expire until sewer servicing the new addition their home difficult. Water somelate in 1951. Congress could possi-| which once was the site of the!times recedes less than six inches

trimming the independent powers °'d Hoosier Airport. Dry well i 1 hours; Mra: ti watn.

{ Mrs. Charles Procter, of 2261 of ‘the general counsel. (drainage has been provided for|oniennial St. said water does Will Retain Restrictions

all the new homes there, but con- not reach the new homes, and But whatever is done in this|tractors said storm relief would only one neighbor has reported respect, observers here feel that be a city project. |“seepage” under his house. High unless the Supreme Court itself] Construction of the addition water is mostly a great incone knocks out some portions of the was started last spring. Most of venience and an eyesore, she said. Taft-Hartley Act, Congress willithe home owners are young Most lawns on the street are being retain many of the major restric-| people. Many are veterans. Prop- damaged by water and pedestions now in the law. Labor law|erty costs range from $6300 to|trians forced to leave sidewalks, revision will not come up for de-|§9000. Although builders said installabate for another year, and by that] go + (r 934 St in Goodlet Ave. tion of storm relief sewers would time the cement will be even ,.q (Centenial St. streets are be a city project, additional dry harder than it is today. {blocked by water extending from well systems will probably be ine Unless John L. Lewis should die,

to sidewalk. Water from stalled by contractors, which seems highly improbable, saewalk wo s

neither the Truman administra- s tion nor Congress would be will- About People— ing to give up the government's . injunction power in national & . ’ emergency strikes. Congressmen ISS ess rl r=] frankly legislate against the coal miners when this problem comes

mit privately that they want a weapon to use against Mr. Lewis President Truman, it should be noted, has never specifically renounced the labor injunction, in

English Spouse of Actor Jack La Rue Fights Annulment Action in New York

all his promises to ‘repeal this Edith Rugland-Dakin Von Rosenberg LaRue, whom actor Jack slave labor act.” LaRue described as his kissless bride, said today: “We had millions Copyright. 1880. by The Jndianapoiis Times or Kisses. Informed that Mr. LaRue had asked for an annulment in New York on grounds that his marriage

86,000 Calls never was consummated, his wife added: “Jack is trying to make me out to be a frigid. unlovable English woman-—just the opposite Just an Off Day

of the truth. My third husband For Yehudi

divorced me on the grounds that Clair. But he held on to his pail

We kissed everywhere.”

Jack and I were lovers.” of fish and waded 300 yards to eee eee ee seamen. | . = = shore. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (UP)| The Indiana Commandery of " =» — Any. girl receiving 86,000 tele- the Military Order of the Loyal] Love has flown out the wine phone calls in one day would Legion of the United States will|dow for the Loves of San Fran seern to be pretty popular. But deposit a memorial wreath on the cisco. Mrs. Mary Love, 38, filed one named Yehud! considered it/ statue of Abraham Lincoln in gyjt for divorce agamst Jack » Jstaoun, th ded . ¢ | University Park Feb. 12 com- Love, - 30, After seven years of ehy 8 the recorded voice al memorating the 141st anniverthe U. 8. Weather Bureau that sary of rs birth. Com- marriages She charged cruelty. mander Garvin M. Brown is in| prediction and current tempera- charge. : ture and humidity readings are

~ » ” Mrs. Dalton Keefer of Connells. yw ou ville, Pa., gave birth to twins yes« Chester M. Wasik, 38, Park terday, eight hours and a mile Anyone can listen to Yehudi by | Ridge, Ill, has won his bachelor's and a half apart. A daughter lifting the telephone and dialing degree after 18 year's study as a was born at home before Mrs, Y-E-H-U-D-I, or if preferred, part-time college student. He'll Keefer could be rushed to a hos|receive it at Illinois Institute of pital. Her son was delivered

nx» | Technology, Chicago, tomorrow. eight hours later in a hospital. THE TEMPERATURE reached | with the exception of two de- PER

8 calls Were the Army, he has taken at least|8t., and Bobb U. Harper, 820 N. 178,027 that|one college course throughout the Pennsylvania St. have been noti-

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|ing major, he 1s celebrating his tion ups of Modern Willard F. McDonald, assistant] een maroceut ive Mop co Rov op: Reoduetd Rp I Dror Weather Duran eBiel, had Only gomery Ward & Co., Chicago, gained membership in. the Presi ) . ~ » « volume of calls “the public keeps Jimmy Nordberg, 12, Powell, Senta Club. aking tie atnons quiet as long as it's happy. Wyo., polio victim, returned t0'and Mr. Harper in the Century RRR pr school today without leaving his Club, placing 22d among the top A special telephone connec- 50 producers. links him with his sixth = —Adm, Forrest P. Sherman was c.4e classroom. Mary Rechner, reported to be

sworn In today with hearty PA | Hollywood's highest paid women wishes for a “happy ship,” to| Walter Zullowski, Detroit, is a executive, said today she + JI

succeed ousted Adm. Louis E. stubborn man. He fell Denfeld as Chief of Naval Op- thin ice into five feet of erations. $ret} water while fishing on

SHERMAN TAKES HELM 0 WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (UP) yon

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