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|. SUNDAY AFTERNGON with firemen would be pleasant enough if they didn’t rush out to fires or .~- Jump t& attention every time & bell sounded.

~~ On a day of rest recently, I pounded on the front door of fire headquarters, 301 E. New York '8t. A stout gentleman who introduced himself as Assistant Chief Arnold Phillips after I told him I wasn’t mooching a handout, opened the door. “We're Malsbing Sunday dinner” Roast pork, dress candied sweet potatoes, re esis. “Anything left?” = . *“T doubt it, altnough therg may be a bit of

Tries fo Be Carefree

~~ NICE GOING, of boy. Mentally kicking my-

self but careful not to let Chief Phillips notice anything except a jovial and carefree countenance, I picked a bread crumb off his shirt and dipped it into a spot of gravy on his tie, We laughed. His was full and deep. My laugh was hollow.

Hps and loosening belts. A typical Sunday afternoon activity. “Good chow, men?” Good chow, they sald. Should have come sooner. Doesn't matter, fellows, I'm not very hungry. Never eat much for Sunday dinner. Makes me sleepy, you know. Ha. : Pvt. Jim O'Donnell and Capt. Joseph Maier, cooks for the day, stood around feeling happy that every last bite of their cooking was gobbled

up. .- Success. - Half of the men on duty prepared to wash the dishes. The other half retired to the “

room.” A few read while a foursome began a game of hearts. Chief Phillips said the men take -@ turn at cooking. Every new man that comes in starts his training with pots and pans the first week. In six months they're on the ball. - = = Several times the alarm bell ‘would go off and men rushed to their trucks. They returned when the dispatcher called out the number of the equip‘menttogoout.

but in a split second (left to right) Pvis. Don Wallace, Bill Keers and Ed Schmidt and (back ~ fo camera) Capt. Frank O'Maley and Pvt. Al Sheets may be fighting flame and eating smoke,

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| Disciples of Christ ‘have ap- Searching for an Indianapolls We talked some about Sunday fires. On thel,..,4 15 ail other religious bodies

~. the little woman how to get heat into the joint.”

‘tion house. What's this?

and the rescue squad got the bell. | r house out east was on fire. Both pieces of equip-|lésséning present-day

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the coffes, aie Talk was of the fire and how stupid it was

Java time... . . fine stuff on Sunday afternoon

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ladder and rescue squad are going to be called.” | + .Chief Phillips said he wouldn't be a bit sur--prised. Lt. Francis Commons said his rescue truck made 997 runs in 1949. The chief added that that| was a record. ; 1

average, there aren't more runs made, said Chief Phillips, except if there's a sudden drop in temperature.

| “You see, if there's a drop on Sunday, usually the United States to give the 24 years old. She gained notoriety the old man is home. The wife takes care of the country’s stored surplus of food in January, 1944, when she was furnace six days a week and everything is fine is needy peoples of the world. | Thé Disciples acting through Indianapolis police officers.

until the man of the house gets an idea to show “Yeh,” Capt. William Lich said, taking the floor At 2 p. m,, music, plenty of brass and drums

York Philharmonic, could it? No, it's the Boy Scout band. Every Sunday they practice, Four privates thumped a table playing hearts.

few more gongs. A few more tall tales. time. Wallace, Bill Keers, Ed Schmidt and Al Sheets

slug.

Just when things were most ceful, Engine 7 abroad might ‘go a long way to- mitted to the isolation home. She Flannary, now a sergeant, walked | convicted of forcing him to drive | ge Jes g She into the Log Tavern, 919 - Ft imo the country near Lawrence Indianapolis, she gave addresses tensions Bave birth theré to a girl, and Wayne Ave. on a tip that the where they forced-wse trom

A two-story ward increasing good wil

Out of the two-gallon pot, Privates Don of Compassion. ? | The Disciples also made the] and Capt. Frank O'Maley poured themselves a point that a gift of the American When she

ment were rolling before I could jerk. out my press Which might. lead to war.

pass from my billfold. You have to see them to really appreciate the speed firemen can generate.

Back in 45 Minutes

CHIEF PHILLIPS listened to the dispatcher for progress on the fire. Shortly it was under control. No other equipment would be needed. Forty-

{in America to join in an imme-|1 1946. {diate petition to the Congress of gq 5 Ethel Marie Taylor, now

their International Convention | o.o4 their escapes in the history from his superior. “One Sunday during a cold based their appeal on the fact of the Women’s Prison. o

that hunger and suffering are, Police, according. to Inspector widespread and ‘resulting largely John J. O'Neal, have had numerthroughout, floated to the main floor of the sta-|from the war to which America ous “tips” on the fugitive, but Couldn't sbe the New| contributed. The convention head-|all have proved false. quarters are located here with Dr. | G. M. Cook as Executive. | The appeal recalled that the] In the dining room men were smacking thef® Chauffeur Bob Hopwood was on watch. Four Ten Disciole e Christ have set for|irouble since she was 12. The sat on a bench smoking and talking. The dishes themselves a goal of $1.5 million were washed and everyone was taking it easy. A for relief to be raised Mar. 5 Coffee through 12. during ; their Week */5SiPPl

1 and so was pregnant at the time.

Record Dates By BOB BOURNE ~ | 15 months police through < | igut the” Midwest have been

“gun moll” ‘who escaped from /the Indiana Women's Prison Nov,

involved in the shooting of three She is one of two women to make

Later Escaped The Taylor girl has been In {first record goes "back to 1937)

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School Yor {Girls as incorrigible. |

was arrested

later escaped while on an errand. holdup men were there,

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came back. Lt. Commons; Privates Ochs, Wallace and Dan Strieterimeler, on the rescue truck,

looked like they were returning from a minstrel show, :

‘Capt. Lich jumped off Engine 7 and jokingly]

asked Pyt. Robert Schiedt who he was. Pvt. Ed Foley lit a cigaret. Most of the men, red-eyed, -coughing from the smoke, shirts wet with perspiration, stuck cigarets in their mouths. Next came

for people to leave a house with candles burning.

In the middle of “the afternoon. When they re-|,

turned the place would be anything but romantic. In an hour, everything was normal at the station again. There was an occasional cough-<and red eyes hadn’t cleared up but for the most part you -wouldn’t have known two squads had been to a rip-snortin’ fire. LL To The Boy Scouts pounded and blared out music. Cards hit the table. The two cooks went into the kitchen. Soon supper. More talk, radio music, coffee, chatter, bed. Maybe a fire or two. Don't like those fires. You never know which one will be real hot. §

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NEW YORK, Feb. 11—If anybody cares what his descendants are going to look like, I can tell “you. They will have no feet. They will be completely dumb. They will have either one huge,

...headlight-like eye, or else they will have two little

_- rible fashion t'other eve when Mr. Bernard M.

pig-eyes and one big bright one, planted squarely the middle of the forehead. They will have one ; at ear, and one tiny little ear. And their heads will be distinguished by a large, round hole. "This fs bound to be the shape of our nation, be_cause 1 know now that television 1s permanent. This horrid truth was brought home to me in ter-

Baruch quit talking about the hydrogen bomb and the British elections for something more important. Milton Berle, to be followed by boxing bouts, was on the TV set. Prior to this I had been to call on an actor, suitably surrounded by guests. These were guests who might normally be expected:to provide a

bright evening, conversation-wise, since they were

equipped with the usual malices that accompany people in thé entertainment dodge.

TV Blots Out Small Talk

NO SINGLE shard of usable chit-chat came

- from these people, apart from their natural nasti-

ness when somebody questioned the talent of a certain director—in the television business. Or a

"tain sponsor—in the you-know-what. We had one spirited hunk of argument, sandwiched between “leave it to the girls” and a limp newsreel. It was where to put the furniture, in order to accommodate television. One man, a generous sort, allowed that in the modern house, a television set was as necessary to every room gs a chair or an ashtray. A selfish, inhibited type ventured that in his house, the TV would be allow-

able only in the bedroom, for his own slothful-.en-—-tertainmen’ :

pil AARNE ge a Ee AN TR Se eh RS TNE A Oh, sure, as Abe Burrows came aboard the video, we did have some extraneous conversation. “Why is George Kaufman working?" one man said. “He's got nothing but money.”

~~ By Robert C. Ruark:

“Shhh,” another man said.

“Television has killed the art of conversation,” another man said. “It sure has,” still another Joe remarked. “Shhhhh—shush!” the second man said. . So then we lap-dissolved to Paul Whiteman, tricked out in a cowboy suit and leading his band with a pearl-handled gat, in what seemed to be ballet about a western cowtown. Ballets about cowtowns I don't need even when I am exposed to them in the flesh, and Toscanini can still do it for me with a baton, instead of a colt 45. =

Mere is the 6-day work-week calendar followed last year by the coal industry. The shaded days were “mining holidays.” The BLACK DAYS were days when most of the coal miners were called off their jobs by the dictates of a UNION MONOPOLY.

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Ethel Marie Taylor . . . the gun was strapped to her leg.

Six weeks later she became a {when she was sent to the Mis- | suspect in a series of holdups. |

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panion, John Edgell, now 37, and| placed them both #n-% policé car.!

get in, Edgell pulled a gun beneath his shirt and began fir-| with a wound in his neck. Officers, Klein and Flannary the .abdomen. eo . - Officer Kleifi Was wearing his! results. badge in his lower vest pocket,|

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sawed-off shot gun that she had| For that crime, Edgell strapped to her leg under her tenced to 10 to 25 years at od dress. ; \gan City and Marie Taylor ‘was , : {sentenced to 10 to 25 years in the They: also arrested her COM-~ yr diana Women’s ‘Prison : She sefved until November, Officer Klein got Into the car 1946, when she escaped. She was with them and Sgt. Bader and was a member of a six-woman Patrolman Flannary were on|work detajl at the Indiana State both sides of the car preparing to! g hool for the Blind * AS they . were gettifig their wraps to go from pack to the prison for the night,

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and the bullet was deflected by it. | Midig Sescrived 37 Jie. Alle Even today he credits the badge women's Prison as a small, pretty with saving his life. Edgell and oi. Mrs, Krueger says that as (the girl were wounded by return... grew older she became pret=

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In 1946 she was described as The couple was wanted for five feet, six inches tall, weigh= 0 {three police officers, Sgt. Ralph! questioning in connection with a'ing 128 pounds, with marcelled She first got in trouble here Bader, now an inspector; Patrol-| holdup and kidnaping of Paul B. auburn hair and blue eyes. She on/man - Joseph Klein, now a ser< Simmons, messenger for a was born in Charlestoown, W, {surplus food stuffs to the needy /@ vagrancy charge and was ad-geant,- and Patrolman Thomas! jewelry company. They were later Va, and has no living relatives, During the time she lived in

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NOW I AM the first to admit that I am a dull fellow, and that most of the people I.know can qualify in my flight, but the sound of the human voice, especially if it comes from something blond and cute and young and pretty, is net unpleasant. There are certain cliches of the tongue which are fun ‘to exploit, phrases like: “Let's all go down to Pete's for a nightcap,” or “do you live alone or with your mother?” or, even, “When did you first begin to care?” I grant that this is basic, even rudimentary conversation, like “Me Tarzan—You Jane,” but you have -to start somewhere to perpetuate the race, and under televisiqp this start is being throttled. “Shhh” will eventually mean anything from

certain actor-=in-the television business: Or & cer- where's the ttle girls room? to-“Shush! Gor=|

geous George is grunting!” I dislike the whole pattern, but seem powerless

before it. What you eventually got is a nation full|

of people with one big, caulifloweréd ear, from listening to television, and one teensy weentsy one, atrophied from conversational disuse. eyes. Rhetoric departs the lips, so we are predestined to be dumb,

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everything you want right there in the pretty little box” with the screen onto it. Shhh! Kukla, Fra and Ollie! LZ

combination coffee pot and alarm-clock with built-

in radio. Red plastic with gold trimmings and

electric lights. =~ | This sample of the brave new world of tomorrow, which cooks your coffee during your sleep

and keeps it hot while waking you with- soothing, .

music so you'll be in the mood to drink it, I have * accepted without qualms, No implied bribery involved. I earned it. / About=six months ago, it was, that I wrote . ® little essay here about modern improvements

—~around the house, such as garbage chopper uppers

that do not flinth at bones, electric dishwashers, fceboxes without freezing coils, and stoves which light up like juke boxes, decide - for themselves how long to cook a steak, and—for all I know— write the ¢heck for the butcher at the end of the month,

Just One Sour Note SOME OF THESE wondrous devices we have in our own house. So long as a fuse doesn’t blow there's seldom a d moment in our kitchen. 1 complimented Genera. Electric for this happy situation and only one sour note crept into my piece. 1 couldn’t understand how this mighty corpora-

tion éould have been so asleep at its own electronic *

to let an Italian firm in Milan get a in world-wide marts with the greatest

Little did I realize that the scientists at Sche-

nectady had taken it to heart. No Italians were| going to get ahead of them; they muttered as|

they fiddled with their slide rules, their siphons, and their relay switches. No word did I hear from them until eureka, they did it. io

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SO IT WAS that there arrived at my house; with their compliments, one of the first of their new line of waking-up coffee pots. It is a beauty. © What happens is that an electric clock turns

-on. the radio inside the works and simultaneously} .

throws a switch which causes boiling water to gush up from the bottom glass globe to the top one, where the coffee grounds are, and back again.

The music continues to play, but the coffee].

stops boiling, while an auxiliary system too deej¢ for me to- explain keeps it at drinking temperature. As I say, I am delighted to have it. I hope the firm sells a lot of them. There's only on trouble. ; . I have to pour the coffee into the cup, myself. Poor, tired me. :

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Bedside Gadget. _ By Frederick C. Othman Ei WASHINGTON, Feb: Se omts oe - give.

.me a free deep freeze, but the General Electric ==Co. has presented me with-an-eléctronic bedside

Having written ‘that item, I forgot about it.

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