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JUST ONE more try, folks. If I don’t make it after this, I'll admit defeat, Indirectly, W. Bryan Karr, Marion County Polo Fund director, gave me the incentive to reach my goal of matching a 7-year-old polio victim's weight in dimes. : You remembér the total from the project with the scales in front of Woolworth’'s was $867.78. Sixty-five pounds of dimes would have . been $1176.50. Harry Geisel and I collected 68 pounds of coins with pennies throwing us off. We'll blame it “on the copper,
Told a Dismal Story
I WENT over to see Mr. Karr with some money that came in since last Tuesday after the results of ‘Monday's effort were published. The fund di-
board with ‘a polio sign on it. He crossed out the word winning and put in losing. Now the messag is “I'm losing because of you.” . : “The campaign is off that much?’ “We won't even come near our goal,” said Mr. Karr. The latest scoop is that $16,085 is in, The fund is in «need of $100,000. : The local chapter owes the national foundation $15,000. The epidemic fund is gone. A bill of $9000 i waiting at Riley Hospital. The chapter has no money for this month's bill. Each polio patient is costing the foundation on the average of $130 a day. ! What a gloomy interview Mr. Karr was giving. The only encouraging note was that with the Yibney still coming in, the griginal goal of $1176.50 might be reached. If it ‘were ‘reached, Mr. Karr
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2 Losing the race . . . Polio CS tions have been off miserably. Fund director W. Bryan | Karr, in a moment of despair, changes the “I'm Winning Because of You" slogan to "I'm ‘Losing Be- |
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> ~0 said, it would be the only goal reached in the polio ¢éampaign this year. : We figured up the cash that came in. There was $2.38 from J. H. Naile of St. Paul, Ind.; $18.10.! a pound of dimes, from a gentleman who wanted! to remain anonymous; $1 in dimes from John,! Dave, Sarah Jane; $5 check from Mrs. Laura F.| Haight and a check for $25 from Christena Court| No. 9, Order of Amaranth. {
Mrs. Ruth Flack, royal matron, told me over the phone that the women of the Order of the! Amaranth were friends of Ruth Curl, the polio} victim _ whose Weight I tried to match in dimes. The latest total was up to $898.96. ; “You may still get $1176.50,” sighed Mr. Karr. “I hope you do. At least we'll have one idea then! that will have been successful.” ~~ ~~ [° “It would be fine to tell Ruth that I finally matched her weight in dimes at that,” was my answer. “I'll see what the response is like. One more try through the column, Mr, Karr.” { on TT a ; ; i Send in Donations Any Time THE CAMPAIGN which was supposed to end last week, will officially close Sunday. But, that doesn’t mean you can't send in your donations! With no money to pay current bills the chapter is! shaking over the prospect of facing another sum-| mer. Give whatever your heart shakes out of your! purse, { This cornet will appreciate anything you can| scrape up in the near future. With $898.96 already! in, $1176,50 doesn’t seem so far away. It would be kind.of nice to make one polio fund goal. i
Mighty Mo Sins
By Robert C. Ruark|
,». NEW YORE, ‘Feb. 3—It is highly possible that
the Air Force public relations people shoved that : no more perfect sign-off to a disastrous 12 months could have been wished upon my alma mater.
I.suppose services, like people, get star-crossed in given years, and this past tour of duty just wasn’t meant for the Navy to get fat on. _. You know thosg days when you get up mad, with your face sleep-wrinkled and everything you - touch turns wrong? . That has been the Navy since early ’'49. Just no luck. You bust the mirror and spill the salt. You bet the horse and get beat by a picture. finish. You ‘send ‘the pants to the cleaners, and the rent--money is in the.watch-pocket: And then some competent captain, a career boy with admirals’ stars in his little ‘beady eyes, has to bog down the big, representative battleboat on a lousy mud-pile—where, as H. L. Phillips
-remarked;it-could- have -been--captured--by.clam-..
diggers. This could be the crowning catastrophe to a service which has been battling for recognition and reaping only ignominy. 0
Biggest of Navy Sins
IN THE ARMY there is no sin greatér than going to sleep on sentry-duty. and I have no idea
_ what the big sin in the Air Forces is, unless it is
“wearing an uncrushed cap. “But there is no bigger damnation in the Navy than running your vessel aground, be it rowboat or carrier, Roosting_her on the rocks, or being blown into a cape “is enough to blast everybody concerned: Especially the skipper, because the Navy takes the view that the old man -is responsible for what happens to his billion-dollar baby, drunk or sober, asleep or awake, aboard or ashore. ot. when, you slough the only symbolic battle
of John Paul Jones! ~ i This past year was-the time when us wishful admirals had us a big fat carrier's keel laid, and Looie deferise ups and offknocks it without. mentioning the offknocking to. Johnny Sullivan, the then secretary of our global fishing fleet,
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This was the year of our pop-off guy, John] Crommelin, a captain who had a pretty good point | but who kept making it so often everybody I| know got sick of hearing him holler, | This was the year when we stage some pretty! good maneuvers down in the Carib Sea and the) Air Force steals our play with a non-stop refuel] flight round the globe. : 3 . This was the year of the big hassle in Con-| gress, with the Navy getting a large chance to talk back and reorganize the combined operation. We knock everything and everybody, real loud,! and we view with alarm and downrate tie atom bomb, and then we stick our bestest, bestest battle< craft on a stinkin’ sandbar.. f
Speaks His Mind, Fired
OH, MOTHER, how come I didn’t sign on with the infantry? Here I sit with my pretty blue suit] in-the-mothballs, and -today-I-will--maybe trade: it for that bus driver's costume they just whipped] up for the Air Force,
This past milestone was the year they fire ¥ Adm. Denfeld for speaking his mind, and put a| SS secretary in to steer the Navy that don’t know BB - a holystone from an Irish pennant, and then we + ofl got to run a boom-boat named Missouri on al mudbank in-the Chesapeake. Smet. Every time somebody pulled or hauled or tugged at the mighty Mo—Mighty Schmo, I would you know- that all them guys from Missouri sitting in Washington made cracks about us. . This is the service that will: save -the world from atomic destruction,. This’ is now the service that can-be captured by infantry, and not even! the Japs sank that Tow. . : i - So I just sit here and hleed for. Dartmouth. 1942, and old Capt. Briggs, and Navy regs, and Tecumseh at Annapolis, and_the spook of John.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—Nearly everybody's
insisting that Congress spend less “money this
year. And nearly everybody (the same bodies) is demanding that the gentlemen spend more. This gives lawgivers ulcers, I pity ‘em. : ".:Thé multimillion-dollar schemes to do go deeds, deepen rivers,” help the farmers, build bridges and_aid the Orientals are piling hip-deep They're all important, all helpful, and every one that becomes ; law will keep -Uncle Samuel's books in the Tred that much longer. If a Congressman votes aye on any of these, he’s a bum; if he votes nay, he's a ditto. Fo Let us consider, for instance, Eklutna. That's a lake 34 miles north of Anchorage, Alaska. It may give you some idea of what the economizing Senators are up against.
Their Light Bill Is Sky High
THE CITIZENS of Anchorage are in a jdm. Their electricity costs like sin, ‘but their lights keep going off anyhow. Their city just outgrew their power plant. They even bought the back half of the wrecked oil. tanker, Sacketts Harbor, ‘towed it to the mudflats outside of town, fired up the boilers and turhed them to generating current. Alaska is a topsy-turvy place. Near by is the Jonesville coal mine, but the black diamonds from
its shafts sell for such a high price that the :
management uses diesel engines to run its generators. The oil for these is imported from California. * ; Up and down the Matanuska and Tanana Valleys are farmers who've got to have electricity, or go thirsty and for a reason as weird as any I ever heard. ~The deep soil beneath the farms of the latter valley in particular stays frozen the
Liodge 749 and presented them \the, club's _néwly installed no grand, Mrs. Lucille Pfaff. “It was one of the grand
year round. Unless a farmer pumps his well every three hours ‘day and “night, it freezes sond. There is no doubt that Anchorage needs a new,
power plant. So the Governor of Alaska is here, moments of my life.”
with a number of his leading citizens, to plead! P ; ¢ floor meeting hall at Hamilton! that .are above price, | 3 ’ .. Pfaff, at the conclusion o [room and the with “the Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Je hageaniey - filed ceremony Ave. and E. Haspugton Sst. {Some things no money can buys outside, and then lowered the t na { 7e Committee. : which elevated her to the highest, gpp had to give up the Re-| hse 1 ean never OP® window. . A burglar lock snapped nat they want is for Congress to spend $20.5 post in the lodge. i bekah—but the Rebekak’s did not yy, - matter how. hard: 1 may isto blace, Clamping the window million building a'dam at t | 5 = iv “3 | j closed, e was imprisoned | 8 hy vid of the Jake and FOR Mrs. ‘Prafr, as for her fel: Bive her up. try. prisoned. in
putting in- a hydroelectric power plant. This! : would include a good road to the lake and about 10W. lodge members: over Map
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room and formed a “V” before the platform. -
(from the corresponding spot on the r like{carnation to the flustered yet solemn woman on the platform. Finally, at the “V’s” “point the . —~ ” = a ny Le a rien he. automatically elevated to noble tr B; Frederick Cc Oth {bound the single carnations into, ¥ y > IM CIN a bouquet of pink and green, the
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a n ” n MRS. PFAFF also belongs to {Order of Eastern Star 393, Bar-|~ “oo THE 24: formalsclad matrons marched: into: the-darge-assembly bara Frietchie. Chapter Daughters, ..
Inte a memory book go a flower and ribbon from the bouquet Mrs. Lucille
Pfaff received on installation as noble grand of Southeastern Rebekah Lodge.
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No idle club woman, Mrs. Pfaff sandwiches lodge activities into a busy schedule of housekeeping and home building. She and her husband, Harold, pitch in to do construction work on their new home.
. agent, |the big chunks of concrete, If all| gent suit asks Miss Andrews | goes well they plan to move into! ng [Their new homnié by spring:
{of America and its auxiliary. 8he| y..ownin i Marquerite Gr Jenniece | ; g pet dog belonging to q aves Jen | e formation. One stepped from the left wing tries to attend most of these pe % Sing Even its severest critic might be|of the “V" to read a short verse. As she stepped back one stepped TNe€eLiNgs but she's made no atight to present a single pink tempt to win offices in either of nearly total —use—of “his legs them and the Re
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That, she feels, is summed. up|, | £ 8.8 i months after election For more! fii a Mets poem nthe front of pring. cleaning... little... CALLY.|.... Pree “Indianapolis students «w= than a year she was too ill to her lodge scrapbook which reads: | “There are some things in life
“'Tis the love of the Friends
“This is the moment Mrs. Pfaff had worked and waited for gav el of office from Mrs. Betty Bailey, installing officer, in colorful services.
to! | Katherine Miller, Wil Wile Ly Li 7 layer broke just as he reached Katherine Miller, Wilma Wil- ___ noble grand is one of the nicest] er-spantel, Hams, Joan Hearn, Patriek-Hay-—-However, Mrs. Pfaff didn’t be- things" that has ever happened. |‘ the = hing springer spa ey 2 2 / ; AP
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Japanese Painter = Doing Bradley Portrait
Head of Joint Chiefs of Staff Takes
Time Out From Official Duties in Tokyo
Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chairman of the U. 8. Joint Chiefs of Staff, took time out from his official duties today to sit for a ‘|Japanese portrait painter in Tokyo. The portrait was to be a gift to the general from Maj. and Mrs, Harry Spitz, old friends of his, who commissioned Hakushin Kaneko to begin the portrait from a photograph. : Then they arranged for Mr \ thof 3519 N, Gladstone Aves
Kaneko to call at the U. 8./°% {Embassy today to “get the flesh|and Mrs. Earl Smith of Stilesville,
Ind. His wife, the former The- ™ resn Winzenreed, i8 a native of Indianapolis, =
tones and paint in the general's battle ribbons.”
“Generals are usually very particular about their ribbons,”
the artist said. “oO Bradley " » . Herman Berg, violin professor at DePauw, will be guest soloist with the Hoosier Symphony, Danville, Tuesday. He will play the Bruch Concerto, Thomas E. Wilson will conduct. ” » » gee MASE. Patth Andrews. singer with the Andrews Sisters Trio, has
4 » ”» » Five Trenton, N. J., cousins to. |day, claimed the body of Andrew Krasczski, 50-year-old Phila|delphia recluse in whose tiny home were discovered bank books showing deposits of $40,000. He lved frugally in his. four-room home since the death of his mother. =
” » 8 | Ex-actress Marion Hughes Van {Eps seeks $935 monthly support for herself and infant son in a separate maintenance suit again Actor Willard Parker, She charges cruelty. Th
” ” - : blond Frederick -D, Kershner Jr. Son of Dean Emeritus Frederick D. Kershner of Butler School of - Religions will receive a doctor of philosophy degree at the University of Wisconsin” in~Madison next week. Mr. Kershner Jr. a member of the history departs ment faculty at Ohio University, Athens, was graduated from Buts ler in 1937, He and his wife, the former Miss -Marian Bowman, Butler graduate, are visiting his parents at 4257 Clarendon Road.
. Ld v » Willard Nance has been named editor-in-chief and Barbara Carr, tassociate editor of the Attucks ono {Tiger for this semester. Others Donald J Crooks, 34, of Mt, [named to the start of the school lemens, Mich., - former para-| Paper follow: Marilyn Harris, trooper; Fisked Wie He={o save un Henneth. Wilson, Myron: Farris: 5000
Melcher, In the action, filed in 4 Hollywood, Miss | Andrews accuses § her husband, Martin Melcher, jof cruelty. Mr. {Melcher is a film
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neighborhood children. Mr. Terry, Joann Rhodes, Marvalynn Crooks, who lost an eye and Jones, Fred Shack, James Pyles, tyr Poenald-Thomas, Marshall Blulett, France, ‘edged out on the thin ice Inez Allensworth, Marjorie Per[of the Clinton River and plunged kins, Della Rankigs, Grace Terry, headfirst into the water. The J0%¢phine — Amos, Lillie Scott,
vy Alene — eps; —13arba : Williams, Arbellia Sims, Solomon
Mrs. Clara Kelly, 37, of Chicago, toy CRICARD, | wards and Martha O'Bannon.
wondered if she hadn't started her;
she set out/p.ve been elected to offices in lo wash & window. She sat on puter Accounting Sotiety, Wil the sill with her legs inside the yun, ¥. Shors, accounting profes rest of ‘her body gor and faculty sponsor of the group, has announced. - Elected to. . offices were: - George Greer, Eldorado, Ill, senior, president; Riley DeMasie, sophomare, son of °
|sub-freezing temperatures for 40 Mr. and Mrs. Johi> DeMasie Sr.,
minutes before neighbors saw her
how much the lodge meant,” she recalls.” There was always some-| one coming to visit me, to bring] me flowers or to send cards. I'll never forget how wonderful the} lodge sisters were to me.” As soon as she could tackle the
$1 million for ski lifts, picnic tables, and a moun-| County, Indiana, and the nation, tain lodge. The lake has no fish, but the woods the elevation to noble grand repsurrounding it are full of wild sheep and bear, resents more than a title It i The Bureau of Reclamation calls it" a wonder. the culmination of years of har land. : : ; . | work, an honor bought with loy-, Furthermore, says the bureau, the people have alty,. devotion and old-fashioned no place much to have fun. It says they travel €IPOW grease. . stairs Mrs. Pfaff was back at the long distances regularly t | Mrs. Pfaff’s start in the Re- 8 Mrs. f mE be aim ents they, ckah lodge was like that of semi-monthly lodge meetings. She
5 | She served {many of her 32,427 sister lodge started all over again. She ; It Would Take Only 50 Years i .néembers in Indiana. A: friend/twWo six-month’ terms as conduc
2 V : | bekah urged her td tor, one term as warden and JOSEPH M. MORGAN of the bureau wrote a/joro ‘wag ‘turmished het with an worked hard on the drill team. book “about the project, illustrated with photos of : .
! ; application blfhk. From time to time she filled in copy beck th 30 low Sy TA 8 hve Lr, fer, wh or, I called him gn that word, wonderland but he mother. paswed the Fifi stand-jany Jon wy Bo sald it really was.. The prettiest lake on this|" 0" St by a membership com- Sate FIEOC 88 JCC oo rellow continent. Tt RX only had some tah on 5 mittee which investigates appli- ry Bngary 9 oY he eo So there you are. Or rather, the cants. In 1942 she became. a Re $23 aga 8 seve i e Plu Pr Joseph O'Mahony J Tathe A 3 care. Sen. member of the order of friend- cheerful brunet : sie gran - quandary, They're sympathetic to the Anchorites,| TP, iove and trut, a branch of Shp: iol him. Tn December who spend more nights than not in th ark bat| te, 0dd Fellows. Jerrup oe atrally elovatod.t § e dark, but! Right away Mrs. Pfaff liked she was automatically elevated to if they get their millions, the line forms at the the lodge, and the lodge liked noble grand and in the colorful Hg others wanting, money far similar proj t heir. For the first year she Slleflinstaliation orem nY bo ofnec.” v : ects | are equally as deserving. ‘I'm
glad I'm not alearly in her second year she was, Mrs. Pfaff takes her lodge duCongressman, i ¢
( |rewarded with appointment as ties seriously, She has a busy
{inside guardian. In the same year schedule on her own. She keeps {her sisters of the lodge rewarded; house at 755 Massachusetts Ave,
’ 27? Test Your Skill P27? the Hard - working ~ newcomer works parttime and has helped
: |again—she was nominated and her husband, Harold, build their
The Quiz Master en = ly : 11 3 Santa Cl er Is r a town calle n aus? _ There is a town by this name in Indiana. Tons of mail are sent there at Christmas time to be remailed with the Santa Claus postmark. _
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~~ Who founded Suomi College? y ae .| peratice Ave. __Supmi College located in Hancock, Mich., is the = The election was more than a - It's nothing unusual to see the only college in America founded and supported by tribute to Her energies. It meant lodge’s noble grand helping her Americans of Finnish descent. Ady * Mrs. Pfaff" had “started through husband unload or put into place
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Encouragéd and cheered--with! pep their smiles, 2 [ AR RE ) ‘Tis the Faith that is .there,\ Dr’ M:“Giiffoss, Butler presithough ° mistakes. 1 have dent, has been named a a
made, ’ a of the National Commission on That has made all my work|Accrediting. The commission is most worthwhile.” composed of 30 :
Glovers Fight [dents ‘ix "eacn At 8 Tonight
who've. walked by my side and calied firemen who. released
from the Association of American -Colleges,
® Tonight's round. of the the Association Times-Legion Golden |of American - Gloves will be the semi- Universities, the final eliminations . . . |Association of
one of the most exciting sessions of the annual
Land-Grant Colleges and Uni-
amateur championship versities, and the battle. National Asso- ; | ® The time is 8 p. m. The [ciation of State Dr. Ross
{ place is the N. Pennsyl- | vania St. Armory. ® The Armory box office opens at 6:30 p.m. Down- . town ticket centers close at’ 4:30 p.. m. at Bush- - Callahan, Em-Roe's and | © The Sportsman's Store. | ® Prices are: Ringside and { first row balcony,- $2; downstairs reserved, $1.50; general admission, $1 for either adults or children. Prices include
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sn » . Charles E. Gurrther of Indianapolis, Purdue senior in electrical engineering, and Donald Sytherland,” Newark, N. J., have been named as the Purdue team: to icompete-in the Boston University debate tournament Feb. 10 and 10. Mr. Giinther is a brother of Mrs; Orville
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4105 E. 11th St., vice president; Russell Webster, senior, son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell M. Webster, 3217 -Broadwgy, treasurer; Miss Marjorie. Lowe, senior, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Dill, 518 BE. : Drive, Woodruff Place, secretary,
Aa 2 « Margo Whiteman, 18-year-old {daughter of orchestra leader Paul (Whiteman, will “marry Thomas" {Clark Haas, 21, in Lambertville, today. Mr. Haas is asi#istant director of Paul White- © man's television show.
¥ = =» = 3 | A- Muscatine, Towa, bride of ' {four months sued a photographer |for $5400 because he didn’t show lup ‘to take pictures of her wed|ding. Mrs. Norma King charged
{their oral agreement. ; =
f ® "8 | For more than a year Deryck {Cawtharn, St. Cloud, Minn., store manager, knocked on doors, huntling a house for his family. He found ‘one—a couple of hours before he was ordered transferred {to Marshall, Minn.
———————————————————————— : STEAL $15,000 IN RINGS. =~ SCRANTON, Pa. Feb. 3 (UP) - Z Rings valued at $15,000 were : {stolen last. night from the hotel room of Alfred A. Reilly, 81:year-:
{old New York jewelry salesman.