Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 January 1950 — Page 13

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Mr. Lapson said about the only thing a man had to worry about inside was falling wet plaster. Maybe a little dust, a few. timbers. The rule over there is to keep out of the way of the workers and have a sharp eye open. Let's go. As soon as we stepped inside the door, Mr. Larson mentioned. that nobody expected to move in before May 15. That's the earliest. = "Let's start at the top and work down,” sug-

” gested Mr, Larson. He headed for the stairs,

“Can we take the elevator?” “No. Come on.”

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Careful . . . Ward E. Montford shows Irving N. Larson the plastering technique at the new American Legion headquarters.

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stark picture. It was overflowing with plaster bags.

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headed for the penthouse. fy : . Up another flight of stairs. We looked at the automatic equipment for the elevators and the airconditioning units. The next time you drive by and

look at the center of the building where the emblem | =

is, you'll know behind the walls on the roof there isn’t much to look at unless you're a technicalminded person. On the roof, and a fine roof it is, we found an enapty fifth of cough medicine. How it got up there, Mr. Larson couldn't explain. Some delinquent probably threw it up there, Probably. On the third floor, dodging men with timbers and trowels, we saw where the finance division, executive offices, stenographic pool and cafeteria would be. The concrete of the floor was completed in the south . Over it would go a synthetic ‘covering. Supposed to be better than linoleum. % “We'll be able to feed 117 people’ at a time,” sald Mr. Larson. “But with over 400 employees it's going to have to be in shifts.” On the second floor, Mr. Larson went right up to Ward E. Monfort who was plastering. He was one of five. No place for a man with a blue suit. “What did he have to say?” : “They're getting along nicely,” answered Mr. n.

Plaster Bags Plaster Museum THE SECOND FLOOR was one mass of bare walls, false ceilings, naked pipes, workmen and dust. So was the first floor. In the south building on the first floor, the museum room presented a

“Wait until we're through,” laughed Mr. Larson. “There won't be a bag in the place.” The basement, where Mr. Larson's magazine section will operate, looked like any basement with nothing in it. All it needed was lights, machinery, people. It won't be long. "That's about it. For the present, at least. You're better off looking at the outside. How did I get that| plaster on my coat? i

By Harman W. Nichols

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30—Joyce Ann Herr was born with an allergy that gave her constant misery from asthma. The child is six years old now, and although she is not yet as foxy as the other kids in her set, she has shown much improvement. Thanks to her daddy. It all happened like this, and let's get the record straight right now: Her pop is claiming no “cure” for asthma. Joyce Ann was a normal child at birth, but at the age of six months she developed the wheezes and coughs comnion to asthma. Her dad, Paul A. Herr of Neffsville, Pa., took her to specialists on allergies. : They tried a change of diet. They took away soft ‘foods, and re-jiggered the milk formula. They started nm» furnifure out of the house, thinking that 8din€ of the overstuffed chairs were bothering the child, The family even removed the feathers from all the pillows in. the house and replaced them with cotton. :

Calls Self ‘Half a Scientist’

BY THE TIME the baby was 3, she couldn't run 10 feet without coming up short of breath, Finally an eye, ear, nose and throat man was cond sulated. He asked one simple question: “What is the relative humidity in your home?” Mr. Herr, a short-haired little fellow who calls himself “half a scientist,” took an instrument reading at home and found the humidity to be around 18 per cent. The doctor said to get that up to 50 per cent. Mr, Herr, now with the Lancaster Engineering Corp., did things the hard way. He boiled water on the stove in the kitchen. ‘ He set two electric burners in the living room and kept ‘water bubbling on thém. He put a het plate in Joyce Ann's room and set a pan of water on it. He got his humidity. Inside of two weeks, the child was beginning to show improvement. (Many doctors have con-

tended for a long time that. regulated humidity relieves asthma.) The little girl turned out to be a sort of means to an end for her dad. Mr. Herr was in town recently to see the patent people about pushing his

Glowing Newspaper Ads Lured A Early Tenants To Marott Hotel

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» - R coll : ; Mrs. Ida Mae Bradley has been executive housekeeper of the hotel since before its opening. Here she consults with Decorator Kenneth M. Shields. Elmer Guillaume (left) mixes paint while George Newbold works atop the scaffold. of paint if used only to coat a pipe in the basement. It means

someone is having a redecorating job.

A gey party man, George J. Marott] founder of the hotel which bears his name, also was one of the city's leading philanthropists. He loved young people and scouting. He is shown here about a year before he died in 1946.

. ” [ EN J Pure Well Water . . Still Being Used (Part Two in a Series of Four) By VICTOR PETERSON BILLBOARDS advertising the products of the day partially: blocked the view. of luxurious Marott Hotel when its brilliant opening was held in November, 1926. The 10-story apartment house

of George J. Marott towered over the signs and seemed to frown

” - ” ONCE there was the guest who - constantly’ wanted things done for her apartment. That which Mrs, Bradley agreed to do, she didn’t want. That which couldn’t be done, she wanted done. Soon Mrs. Bradley learned to consent to everything. The woman was satisfied. She wanted nothing changed. Preparing for a festive party in the ballroom, a Hostess insisted

new humidifier past the “patent applied for” stage. He got some encouragement. His gimmick looks something like an air-| conditioner and at present is designed to serve a home instead of an apartment, although the latter may come in later. The principle, or objective, of the instrument is| to atomize water at a high pressure—breaking the| drops of water (maybe “spraying” is a better | word) into the air.

Equipped With Pump SINVENTORS DON'T like to give away their secrets, but Mr, Herr went so far as to say that his| gadget is equipped with a pump which builds up a pressure of 200 pounds per square inch——enough to get the moisture around the house. If the humidity is right, the suffering from!

asthma is eased, he claims. The machine works environment of a luxurious chaautomaticaly .and almost thinks for itself. It ad-|teau.” Jjusts itself to the temperature outside. Don't asg| And, appealing to those con- also were smitten with the hotel, waters of Fall Creek. He is re- rooms or private parlor on the Mrs. Bradley cannot guarantee, technical questions. All that is Mr. Herr’'s secret. cerned with health:

Mr. Herr, incidentally, claims there is a close link between kids and little chickens, “Chickens have asthma and colds, too,” he says. He thinks his invention would be a great boon to the poultry people. An egg is put in an incubator|

where the humidity is 86 per cent and when the|

chick pecks its way out of the shell it is exposed to an atmosphere with only 15 per cent humidity, Mr. Herr claims.

© “It’s the same as with humans,” he says. “The the banks of Fall Creek at Me- {rom the south terrace ponds.’

respiratory tract is dried up. But if you put a good | ridjan St. | It was

humidifier into the chick house I think you'd have,

a lot more chicks grow up into eatable friers oriromantic, the hotel advertised the Publicly to holt the depredations. Marott has been remarkably free Marott were cronies of card-party| yp. oon "che had fled .

fat laying hens.” |patio as a bit of Old Spain—| Hardly had Xugiangpolls re- of unfavorable - publicity. The Jers petore the hotel even germin- Worried what she might find, The Department of Agriculture is looking Into| “artistic evergreens, scintillating Povered from this blow when the clientele sought. by Mr. Marott He ko Mrs. Bradley entered the apartthe humidifier. [fountains, arched colonnades, Press carried the story of another has attracted other ‘of similar But as poker games go, even ment cautiously. She gasped with

Bright Ideas

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Jan, 30—Every once in a while a man like Lovic Plerce Herrington of Hamden, Conn., comes up with a downright brilliant idea. He had trouble heating his house. Only time he was comfortable in it was when he crawled into bed beneath his automatic electric blanket. # While pondering his heating troubles there one night in 1948, and worrying about the cold drafts in front of his windows, he put two and two together and-—1 have no doubt-—came up with an jdea that will make him a fortune.

Patent on Hanging Heat |

IT SIMPLY called for hanging electric blankets at the windows for drapes. Of course they'd have rose buds woven on ‘em, or maybe stripes, but never more would his house be cold, because he'd be petting radiant heat, regulated by a thermostat. He got to thinking also that hanging up a few pairs of electrified draperies would he a lot cheaper and easier than installing a furnacc. So he applied for a patent. This now has been issued, No. 2495414. Mr, Herrington has assigned manufacturing rights te Electric Heat Devices, Inc. of Pittsburgh, and hot window shades soon will be going into houses across the land. And that’s why I like to burrow into the U. 8. Patent Office files, where you never know what you'll find. Fact is, I found a lot of things: } Dominic Alfred Raffa, a Brooking N. Y., cigaret smoker, solved the problem of never having any matches in his ‘pocket. He invented the cigaret that you cam strike on the seat of your pants, It has a match head imbedded in the tobacco at one end. This is patent No. 2,403,832 and 1 don’t think the cigaret lighter people are going to itke it. Bruce Burns of Los Angeles has produced a machine for applying adhesive tape neatly; we can

hope that he now is working on a device for re-| moving same. Leon L. Simkins of Kalamazoo, Mich., has invented the electrically heated pencil for writing on ‘waxed paper. Should be handy for] grocers. From the San Diego, Cal, laboratories of| Charles J. Smith comes the mechanical refrigera-| tor for thirsty motorists. The car engine runs the| ‘compressor, the box fits handily in the back and|

an automobilist so equipped can take his cold society.

drinks with him and manufacture his own ice cubes| as he goes. Irwin Cohn of Leominster, Mass., has patented

cold fingered hunters. And let us consider Pau Andre Meuriot of Paris, France, who long had pondered the problem of counting people walking up and down stairs.

There ‘were machines that did this, but people

coming down were one and the same—to the machinery—with people going up. This would not do. Mr. Meuriot’s apparatus counts those on the way down and those on the way up and keeps them separate. If the figures do not jibe at the close of business each night, then there's somebody for certain hidden out, waiting to crack the safe,

Hamburger Goes Quaint

THE PATENT OFFICE, as you may never have realized, also issues what it calls design patents on such items as earrings, wrist watches, calico, and ladies’ skirts. These patents have to do with préttiness, more than anything else. You think up a” design that's handsomer than the next fellow's and you can patent it. That brings us to Rodney

E. Graves, a hamburger, lover of Williams, Ariz. tlon for her role® lin “Gone With

Only he got tired of plain old round hamburgers. He fixed that with Design Patent 156,955, a hold which turns out a hamburger in the shape of a cow, /

The Quiz Master

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Which of our senses do we utilize the most? Scientists estimate that sight accounts for 87 per cent of our knowledge of the outer world. ¢ ¥ o What is the distinction between a graduate and a registered nurse? A graduate nurse is one who has completed the basic course of study In a state-accredited school of nursing. A registered nurse is a graduate nurse who has passed the legal qualifications of practice as a registered nursé in the state. i ¢ * < ; i; Do oak trees produce a new crop of acorns each

The oaks with rounded lobes of thelr leaves

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produce a new crop of acorns every year. White oaks, post oaks, and burr oaks are among these oaks with pointed lobes on their leaves take two seasons to produce a mature crop of acorns. * ¢ < In what city is a monument dedicated to birds? Seagull Monument in Salt Lake City, Utah, commemorates the rescue by seagulls of the crops when attacked by hordes of crickets in the second year of settlement. This is the only monument SB birds in the United States. * wv

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down with an aristocratic air. In the mind of Mr. Marott this was no ordinary hotel, It was a home for people of distinction. In the years to come it became known as the stronghold of many of Indianapolis’ leading families. Newspaper advertisements, designed to lure tenants, glowingly gushed its charm and appoint-

the marble pillers supporting the room De removed as they marred the sweep of the view, A temporary guest, but a con sistent repeater over the years, always brought her private silk sheets for the bed. Another, who had lived years in the tropics, put his shoes on the dresser every night on retiring. He explained to Mrs. Bradley, “I suppose it is a habit I needn't follow in the Marott. In the tropics you never know what spiders or snakes are going to nest in the shoes overnight if they are left on the floor.” :

AND- WHAT one guest did fo sought after, swimming happily in the muddy mal until the ladies retired to their bathing through an entire winter,

ments. “Home satisfaction at rentals within your means. Unparalleled living conveniences, appointments of cultured taste and inimitable beauty. All the exclusiveness of a separate home with the service and convenience of a fine club. Here you may live in the splendid

Just after completion, the Marott looked down upon billboards which partially blocked public view of the new hotel. : So OTHERS, not north where neither’ men

“There is no assurance these Smoking were permitted. are the fish from the south| It was then the men would band

particularly its gurgling pools on|ported to have said: “Air completely changed every the south side—the home of dart{four minutes. Health-giving day-| ing goldfish. |

nor His companion was an 18-inch alligator which lived in the tub, Perhaps the greatest consterna-

|Hght Jrnetrates every (oom. Nothing was breathed for # t.rrace ponds, It could be they together, most likely at the invi- tion in the hotel's’ history came rystal-pure deep well water.” long time. Finally patience Was yous come downstream from tation of Mr. Marott, for a ses. NTOUgh the playfulness of chil “2 =» exhausted and newspapersigather north or swum upstream sion of poker around the green dren who were permanent resi-

EVEN to ‘this day the Marott| carted this * notice on July

depends exclusively upon its own|*¥4$%" |wells. It does not even tap city| 300.00 reward for the arres' mains to water the formally land-| 20d conviction of the person or

‘from hatcheries near ‘Martins- felt-covered table or engage in bil-| dents. ville.” liards in the basement. One day, as Mrs. Bradley made

Thus ended the great thefts w #8 her way down a corridor, a maid

Cod . or’ nf ompds TAD. Streaming from an apart persons who stole the goldfish One -solved, the other a mystery! An indefatigable lover of cards, , scaped lawns of the hotel along 4 to this day. Mr. Marott often would play ment. She waved her arms

' crazily, 8he was near hysteri only after repeated! In'its quarter century of ex- through most of the night. Many| gq. could give no ea.

For those inclined to be a bit/thefts the hote] finally sought istance catering to the public, the of the men who moved into the, .. ions other than point to

atmos-| theft at the Marott. This time the tastes. these were decorous horror and turned to flee. Then

phere of romance enveloping this Prized canary was missing from # = = Neverthless, the residents of summoning her courage she becool pleasance.” |its eage in the lobby. BEFORE the war many were the Marott still were just people. gan to investigate. . As the years passed and the Philosophically Samuel ' Kings- the sumptuous formal parties held As people, they had and have as, There coiled on chairs, davene mellowness of acceptance cloaked Pury, manager, moaned, “Well, we in the massive ballroom with its many eccentricities as the next ports and in the beds were huge the Marott, it advertised ‘our|Still have the paper on the wall.” [sparkling crystal chandeliers and person. leering, poisonous snakes. She roster now includes the home ad-| It seems, however, the case of ponderous marble pillers. Mrs. Ida Mae Bradley, execu- moved warily from room to room, dress of many charming and cul-{the missing canary was merely) It was unthinkable for the la- tive housekeeper since before the Nothing happened. tured people.” junrequited love. The wanderer gies to appear in the dining room hotel was completed, probably! The snakes were stuffed, sou The merchant prince of shoe-|later was found outside another for dinner in anything but long knows better than any other the venirs the youngsters had brought dom, who began as a bootmaker cage flirting with a blue love bird. gresses. Tea and cocktail parties whims, the foibles, the likes and back from a, trip. They reposed for his father in England, liyed| = & =» |flourished in private apartments dislikes of permanent residents majestically ¥gsthe apartment un to see his cherished hotel become, AND the goldfish. At the in-|and residents talked about re-'and temporary guests. til the children tired of the game, the center of Indianapolis high stance of interested parties, Mr. cent or planned trips abroad. She firmly believes every guest a ‘Marott surveyed several schools] The men were equally as for-/in the hotel can smell a brushful (Tomorrow: The Social Hub.)

turned their house into an In- high school boys had given him a To Ba Mar. 16-17

Former BI idacksmith Forgets About Paid Up ferno. Their father, Roy Swope, ride while he was en route to the

Insurance Policy; Company Reminds Him 33, had left the girls and their grocery. But the ®oys took his Mary Dammrich will co-star ope Martin O. Olson of Tarzana, Cal, old-time blacksmith. for- Prother. Eddie, 8, asleep while he mother's grofery money and posite Jerry Stevens and Don Mc got that he invested $20,000 in a paid up life insurance policy in went downtown to get their dumped him out “an awfully long Clure in the operetta, “Sweet | 1896, payable in 50 years plus interest. It took Detective George mother, who was working. Eddie way from home.” he said. hearts, io be presented Mal. 18 { Pinchin, head of the Vancouver, B. C., Missing Persons Bureau, smelled sr. oke .and awakened > fr ‘. v and 17 in the Warren Central |three years to find Mr. Olson and tell him the company was willing CCCT8Is Lee. Peter Wering, 21, Grand High School auditorium. 'to pay up. He'll collect $50,000. ooo : fr Rapids. Mich. telegraph messen- Miss Kathleen Hergt, vocal . x =u they thought they might have bet- CGTand Rapids, Mich, ambu- ger. didn't. agree with his boss music teacher, will be in charge Actress Ona Munson honey- ter luck with a mine detector, !ance drivers delivered Mrs. Cecil about Peter's shoes. The boss of the production. moon today in Hollywood with They were trying to find their Krussel's twin boys with a pair of Sontehded peters wooden hoes automobile which crashed through darning scissors. Warren Pyl- Would awaken apartment dwell. ,... .7 3 Eugene. Burman, the ice of Lake Winnebago two man, 23, and his helper, Russell ers. Peter fefused to change i. Rolyne Walmer ey: | well-known art-je weeks ago. It's resting under 11 Wheeler, 21, ‘were rushing. Mrs. shoes but he agreed to delives Phyllis Rossell Jane ll Dr list and ballet ¥ [feet of water and ice— just where, Krussely to a hospital when she telegrams in his stocking feet, , Pollard ‘Carolyn McClure, (designer. The the Scheids have hot been able to Went into labor. The youths de- Starting tonight. Martha Katzenberger, Barbara |actress, who won determine. {livered the twins in 25 minutes. fr Gale and Etta Clare Steinkam an Academy . & » {The bables were crying lustily| Three champion Ohio coonhunt- Sav P Award nomina- Jack Dunsford, formerly of In- and the mother was smiling when ¢® Caught 75 coons. The best of- The Fey. Clyde O. York, pastor dianapolis, has been appointed they reached. the hospital. fer they had for the furs was ©f the Southport Presbyterian assistant director of public infor- $65. Amminitior, hunting per- Chureh, oii adaresh he Segre mation at St. Louis University, " mits, ‘gasoline, clothes, repairs . J » © on effective Feb. 1. A Navy a Y Clarence Howe, northern TIli- 40 00st them $732.58 and 400 the subject, “God Designs— Youth Tw ‘|nois farmer, operated his private nore of lost sleep. “Great sport, Builds.” lan extended Mr, Dunsford formerly was edi airlift today to supply feed to ! p. eat sport, tor of the University News at St, Pp though,” they said. The

|wedding trip to Louls U ' h “™/three hungry horses surrounded Italy and France in March. uls' University, where he was, gooqwaters of the Pecatonica Coast-to-Coast At 10,000 MPH

Mr, Berman leaves next month |8raduated. He also served on pi or near Free | port. He went up for London to design a ballet for the staff of the St. Louis Register.|, =~. neighbor's light plane to find ® A rocket liner that could be built new , . . one to

h r | » » ~ the Sadler's Wells Company. Miss Washington surgeons hoped to- the missing horses and spotted) take you from to coast to

Munson formerly was married 10) Gay that 10-year-old Margaret|them on a patch of land which had | Director Eddie Buzzell. It was| {been turned 'int island by the/ {Mr. Berman's first marriage. Ann Jackson, victim of a brain} Howe and the relgr coast in one hour , . , is described in PARADE Magazine next Sunday.

3 (tumor, could be given a “50-50|flood. Mr. Howe and the neighbor The. Rev. Ernest A. De Bor- chance for life” in a delicate op-|flew home, loaded corn and hay,| |denave, deati of church schools in eration. The child, the daughter and dropped them to the nags. the Protestant Episcopal Diocease of an unemployed St. Petersburg, They said they'd continue the air-| ’ {of Virginia, will become the 16th Fla., mechanic, was rushed to lift until the water recedes. |. Re Be iar a retto n-n» ' . r of historical Christ Church Washington aboard an Air Force vanced the possibility of + wodket travel really’ is ++ «» When you read PARADE'S illustrated story.

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following day, Feb. 7, Charles F. Fleming, Indiana's secretary of state will speak to students. His subject will be |“Murder ‘on the Highway." War. ren Central's Driving Club, under the guidance of Miss Marjorie Forsyth, will sponsor his appear ance, . . Sydney K. Neil, Warren Central English instructor will speak on the subject, “Canada in Fact and Fancy,” before the English and science section of the Marion County Teachers Professional Meeting Feb. 11 at Manual High | 8ehool. hg | Mr. Neil recently came to Amers

|in Philadelphia Apr. 1. The 254. C-54 mercy plane. Tiny . Bootsie Scheuer, 6, of |year-old Christ Church is the Vl. Seattle, Wash., knew herabrother Georgia © Lee Swope, 11, of would come home safe. “I prayed

{birthplace of the Protestant! : |Episcopal denomination. Omaha, Neb. wrapped her sis< him home,” she said. Her brother,

- ach ters, Cathy, 2 and Norma Jean, 4, Teddy, 10, was missing 11 hours| PARADE MAGAZINE |i, ¢ where he ater Edward Scheid and his wife/in wet towels and carried them before he stumbled through the ; Comes With fio Rhy Canada 3 ye fished with a grappling hook in|out of their smoke-filled home just|snow and below-freezing tempera- THE BIGGER ~ [Manitoba He has |Campbellsport, Wis., SUNDAY TIMES ¥ log years on

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