Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1950 — Page 19

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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola

THE MAN SAID he pulied 141,683 fire alarm boxes since 1922. “That's a lot of boxes. You sure the figure is accurate? I'd hate to be off<two or three.” Herbert (Red) Aker, and you better call him Red, said he liked keeping. track of figures. Did it all his life. He whipped out a paper and pencil and asked me to take down some figures.

“I believe you. Not much good with mathe-

matics.” . We rolled on toward Belle Vieu Place and W. Washington St. Red was checking circuit 17 that day which carries 22 alarm boxes, any one of which could bring firefighters rushing to the scene,

False Alarms

WHENEVER you talk to firemen about alarm boxes, they never fail to bring up the subject of false alarms. Serious business. You see, when a box is pulled there's no way of telling it's a, false alarm until you get to the scene. All the while a lot of good men are risking their necks speeding to save property and lives. Red said each false alarm costs taxpayers about $75. He told of a conversation with an economy-minded citizen who also was concerned with the safety factor. The man didn’t understand why firemen couldn't drive slow to a false alarm. “Would you believe it if I told you fire alarm boxes were mistaken for mailboxes four times that I know of?” asked Red. ‘People actually get to fooling around trying to mail a letter and turn in an alarm.” “Out-of-towners?” > ‘Naw, just people not thinking of what they're doing.”

Fire alarm box . . . Herbert (Red) Aker has been pulling them since 1922.

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There are 503 actual boxes and 51 imaginary

boxes in our alarm system. A dispatcher at the : NF y : = Gamewell Division knows the location of the fool- Suk Joon - FRIDAY; FEBRUARY 24, 1950 gi PAGE 17 proof boxes and sends equipment to the critical TTT TTT :

area. The only place you can see the imaginary boxes is at headquarters and there they just show SLE olorful Scenes At 4th Ann Each box (forget the imaginary ones) is tested

onece-a-month. Three firemen have that duty: Red

Aker, Harley McKenzie and Herbert Oliver. . : Red pulled up to the box and sorted out his 4 > cards, made sure he had a winding key in his “on fm ma 5 OW hn : 0 iseu yy pocket ag pulled out a set of keys. He was ready. = ; ~. : a : : : . 4

He opened two doors before the mechanism ‘was exposed. The insides looked clean. He tapped a signal code with a sending key that was in the .box asking for permission to go ahead with the] test. A few seconds later he had his answer. Al lever was pulled and the alarm box went beserk. - Wheels and gears went round and round. Red said! four separate and consecutive signals should be punching at his office. We would know shortly. A couple of youngsters came up and Red told them if they ever monkeyed with an alarm-box:-when there was no fire their pictures would be taken by a hidden camera. The police would have| all the evidence they would need for prosecufion. They were sure nothing like that would happen to them. OK. “Who sent you the all clear?’ I asked after| we got the signal that the box was in order. “Charles England is on duty right -now,” Red} said. “But Lawrence Curry; Jack Costello and Ralph Treadway can when they're on.’ Red tapped another signal, wound the clock-| like spring which puts the mechanism into motion, | slammed the two doors shut and marked his card. | When he first started pulling boxes, Red used| to make the rounds on foot. Today he rides. Much | better way of making the route.

Preferred Way

AT HAWTHORNE LANE and Washington st. | Red found an alarm hox with a:broken spring. Most. unusual. Happens once in a blue moon and emphasizes the need for vigilance. Although he knows ¢ of alarm boxes that haven't been pulled for five, years, it would be someone's bad luck to run into one that was on the blink. Prevention doesn't attract ‘much attention and goes unsung but it's the preferred way.

th Neiing, ive ho or or ordinary happened Just before the lce-O-Rama curtain . Paul Evans, Billie. May Skating stars Roberta Demlow (left) and Alice Henderson need vitamins . . . the lce-O-Rama show a outine stu ed gave me some g0O . . } ope Ec a the end of our by He said a eigen Stewart, Shirley Fowler, Beverly Garwood (left to right). last night in the Coliseum used up a lot of hot dogs. ought to know where the nearest fire alarm box is. in his neighborhood. Also know how it operates s0 when an emergency arises precious time won't be lost. “Don’t pull an alarm box,” cautioned Red, “un less there's a fire.” Check.

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Not Fit to Print

By Robert C. Ruark

NEW-YORK, Feb. 24—Mr. -Arthur. Godfrey, a disreputable acquaintance of mine—low fellow with a fund of frightful stories and an unconquerable cowlick—is currently enshrined an the cover of Time magazine. It makes Godfrey no less répulsive to the eye, but does seem to call for a requiem of some sort. Time only comes out 52 times a year, and must use some discrimination in its

choice. of frontal adornment, considering we. do.

have 150 million people around. When the writer-research team was beagling out information on this freckled fragment of the Cro-Magnon era, they came round to my house. “We understand,” they said, “that you aré an old friend of Godfrey's. Tell us all you know about him.” This is what mother meant about hanging out in pool halls. I have known this platinum-mounted, beachcomber for years, and am occasionally seen in public with him, so I can’t say I never heard of the bum. It is a matter of sad fact that no frostbit coolie is planted so deeply in Lower Slobbovia that he is not constantly affronted by Godfrey, leering from the television, leering from the papers, leering from the magazines—or haunted by the aching croak of a laryngitic bullfrog, which is what Huck Finn, 1950, uses-in lieu of a voice.

Little of It Is Fit to Print - SO NOW 1 get to fretting about what I know of Godfrey. over the last 15 years, and finally de-

“cide that of what I know of Godfrey, very little is

fit to print. At least in family newspapers. I love this ancient urchin in a hearty, non-neurotic manner, but there again, it is merely a reflection of my own coarse tastes in humanity. What do I know of Godfrey—statesman, world traveler, nature-lover, bon vivant, intimate of

royalty, ukulele player and wishful singer?

“Well, he makes maybe nine million dollars-a minute, but my dog won't let him sing in the house, and he will eat that uke right out of his fist if Arthur so much as strikes a note. Now ain't this a thing to have to say about-a man who {s famous enough to get on Time's cover? So what else do I know of Godfrey, the man fn the iron-mask of ingrained Unbeauty? Well,

Ham and Eggs

one time.I wrote a piece reviving the ukulele, and: this literary shoplifter glommed onto the idea and. made the instrument a scourge among the people. Is this gratitude for a decade of faithful friendship? No, sire. This is petty larceny. § Godfrey? Sure, I know Godfrey. Godfrey, the ! warbling banjoist, who once earned five (5) whole dollars each week on a birdseed program in Baltimore... Godfrey, who got sprung out of the Coast, ? Guard by a drunken governor whom Arthur was | 3 ¢ able to prop, successfully, in front of a micro- co we XC phone. Godfrey, the rump-sprung desk clerk of J hotels where everybody registered as Mr. and Mrs. | ir John Smith? - Godfrey? The peddler of hot cemetery Tots? = The Chicago taxi driver? The boxing champion |® of the Mediterranean Fleet when nonpareil Jack! Dempsey was squirming in his diapers? Do you people really know how old this musty relic is?

Robs His Lawyer at Gin Rummy

‘SURE, I know Godfrey. This is the juniorgrade Roberto Rossellini of the mauve decade, who learned mathematics by playing pinchywvinchy with his high school algebra teacher. This, is the dead-eye diagnostician of his fellow man, who robs his starving lawyer at gin rummy, and once let the oil zillionaire, Glenn McCarthy, off the gambling hook because he thought McCarthy was a poor young fellow who couldn't afford to lose... If Godfrey was a bird Seg he would chase ; ; 2 ds: ih rabbits. Blackout for Lewis Undenboum, courtesy Billy Susan Matthews, 7, ond Sonja . . . ideal of a Photographers all over the place .". . Earl Herndon shoots Bill

Godfrey, you say? This is the man who sent Garwood. ; lifetime. Schmitz and Jimmy Stumph in their rabbit costumes.

me a vulgar ashtray for Christmas, instead of the -usual case of Scotch: ~The rich gét richer; {s what Jeweler on Trial

I always say. ! | Crown to Call 150 | |

What can I tell you of Godfrey, except that when he got in an accident once it punched three Witnesses in Hearing QUEBEC CITY, Quebec, Feb,

-holes in his heart; busted 127 major bones, but left his skull undamaged? What can I say except that his energy is limitless, his wit the liveliest, | his friendship boundless, and that he should live,| already, another 100 years? This would be stretch-| 24 (UP)--The prosecution hoped to complete the jury and begin its case today against. J. Albert Guay, accused of killing 23. persons by time-bombing an airliner

By Frederick c ‘Othman

© WASHINGT TON, Feb. 24.- _My Subject today is ham and eggs. Polish. ham and Chinese eggs. Communist breakfast food. These commodities have been entering our borders in increasing quantities lately, while our own hams and eggs pile up uneaten, and our Congressmen want to know how come. So they called in Stanley Andrews, the plain-spoken boss of the Agriculture Department's foreign office.

First let us consider ham a la Boland. ‘Those ~ Poles, Communist or not, aren't so dumb. Instead of dyeing their spare potatoes blue and burying them, they feed the spuds to the pigs. This makes a tenderer, more flavorsome meat. “Then they cook the ham,” Mr. Andrews told the. House Agriculture Committee. “They boil it, spice it, pray over it. And for the people who like that oomph taste in ham, their ham is good.” Rep. Eugene O'Sullivan, .the Democratic ham

— fancier from Omaha, said he presumed Mr. An-

drews was joking when he mentioned prayer. Mr. Andrews said, yes, he was being facetious, but that, as a matter of fact, the last time he was in Poland he saw the farmers praying over their hams on the hoof.

Doubted Prayer Was a Factor MR. O'SULLIVAN. said he doubted if prayer had as much effect on the, flavor as the fact that the Poles hang up their hams in the smoke house for months, while nature takes her deliberate ° course. “Instead of embalming hams with a hypodermic needle like some of our processors do,” he continued, ‘they actually cure their hams.” Anyhow, said Mr. Andrews, the Poles claim they can’t afford to eat their’ own hams.” For every pound of ham they ship us, they buy a pound-of our lard. “This they spread on their bread,” he said. All right, said the lawgivers, that takes care

of ham. Now what about. the oriental eggs, arriv-

ing here at the rate of nearly 500,000 pounds a month?

“And while we have 78 million pounds of our) own eggs in a cave in Kansas that the Secretary of Agriculture can't even give away,” lamented | Chairman Harold D. Cooley of N. C. Mr. Andrews indicated that maybe the Chinese were better egg preservers than we are. They | separate the yolks (which they sell to bakers) and the whites (which they peddle to medicine makers). edhe chair, said he-had-to-agree—Once whe; “he was in. Cc ina he had the privilege of consuming an egg that was an even 100 years old. I ist interject here that I sampled one of Rita these elderly eggs one time, myself. The yolk was wr a % ” y | RT , aid i iy jet. black;#the white was a deep purple and slightly ed i .. ] Re —- "a J 60 The defense dai oud Lait translucent, while the flavor was about the- same i 1 : acter: witnesses or ors n ¢aap as that of household ammonia. In my own opinion, | would testify that Soo 292 3 a Chinese egg tasted worse even than an American| Me wife were happily ' rare

| egg powdered by the Agriculture Department. { and had not quarreled, < Mrs. Guay, 29, attractive and

“But how do those Chinese do it?” insisted Rep. | “i LT raven-haired, died with 22 other

Cooley. Mr. Andrews said they packed their. hen trust] occupants of a Canadian Pacifi | yeeupants a Cs 2 acific “Airline DC-3 transport which

in salt’ and turn the rest of the process over to father time. “A sort of natural process,” he

ing the truth a touch, because if you want the solid dope on Godfrey, he dyes his hair, paints on his freckles, and is really Jesse ® James. in a bizarre plot to murder his wife. i Ten French-speaking jurors, all

men, weré selected yesterday, the first day of what was expected to be a lengthy trial. Crown Prosecutor Noel Dorion expected to call some 150 wits nesses from the United States and. | Lo ta prove. that Guay, EHEC JEW er or. Ter engineered the crash Sept. 9 to “get rid of” his wife,

The Quiz Master

What is the proposed Lucretia Mott Amendment to the Constitution? The Lucretia Mott or -Equal Rights Amendment provides that equality under the law galt not be denied or abridged on account of sex. U. women, of course, have been able-to vote the adoption of the 19th Amendment,” but still,

there exist a number of réstrictions on women's Jroperty and legal rights in many states.

® o> @ What animal weighs the least at birth? #8. 1s probably the opossum. The young are

‘born. ii: a very immature state, and very small,

Weguing Trem 12 to 25 grains,

said. “The winds and the rains do it.” From behind the bandstand The Times camera catches a gleaming oval. of ice surrounded by thousands of spectators as the fourth Ee ey . Fe Must Have a Better Method , annual Ice-O-Rama draws to a successful close. " ‘ploded in the baggage compartWELL, if our chairman ate an egg that was ) : ment, as the craft winged over 100 years old, their method must be better than Sort of Barometer— Sault Au Chichon, Quebec. ours,” suggested Rep. Francis Case (R. 8. D.). Cl cl bh C lb } Ch Li b S it 4 R | years} powdered eggs deteriorate in two or three au e e o er anges ingerie 0 ul er Oo es. Vando B. Ottinger That they do, agreed Mr. Andrews. Even when . For Rough-and- Tumble Parts Star Says it. T hadn't figured, of course, on “I get tired of seeing the furn i- Dies in Son's Home packed in vacuum ting, they get strong. . leather underwear ! ture arranged the same old way Times State Service He added that he'd been in London the last few| She's Even Worn Leather Unmentionables Miss Colbert said - she feels she chuckled. “So I start pushing ZIONSVILLE, Féb. 24 — Servdays. trying to sell a load of our eggs to Sir By VIRGINIA MacPHERSON, Uni , ‘ about panties the way housewives chairs around. This makes things ices for Vando.B. Ottinger of $ ERSON, United Press Staff ( J , oe . ' ; Stafford Cripps. The British have been suffering nN ac’ RS er les Fork spondent 51,04 their homes. more interesting. I've had lingerie Zionsville, who died Wednesday HOLLYWOOD, Feh. 24 Claudette Colbert said today her hat cos « py Wepd . with these now for a good many years and I don’t underwear “is sort of a barometer’ of how her career is going. w Ad F that cost $1.98, and I've had some in the home-of a son, Virgil Qt< suppose there's anything that tastes quite so queer “For different kinds of roles I wear different kinds of under-. ant / S or that cost $200 tinger, near Jamestown, will be asa powdered-egg omelet. Sir Stafford,"who has to things,” the dark-eyed movie star explained. . ' Miss Colbert's happy to be get- held at 2 p, m. tomorrow in Phil"eat breakfast, too, withheld decision. She said for folksy heroines she climbs ito unmentionables Sunday Times ting back into lace. She wrenched lippi Funeral Home here, Burial _ From now on I think I'll just have a bowl of ‘that look and feel like burlap sacks ® Did you know that you her back. recently, and for the will be in Salem Cemetery. He oatmeal in the morning. Ham and eggs are too! (Comes a romantic, glamorous can get your WANT AD - Past two months her lingerie’s was 81. blamed confusing. . job and she hauls out her lacy 20th Century Fox's “All About in the big SUNDAY been mostly of the plaster-cast Mr. Ottinger was a retired ph > r ape . farmer y < . black fluffy-ruffles and .nylon- Eve.” And don't go getting wild TIMES up to noon on and banddge type. farjier. He lived here most of - - and-net thingamajigs. eyed ideas. This'is no fig-leaf job SATURDAY? That's But that hears out her “barom hs lite He was torn Wg ra 299 | And for those rough-and-ready ariss Co b +” 52 ve “black right, just call - RIley- eter” idea: It meant Miss Colbert YIU€ eé was a member o C rr Test Your Skill ?22?\m: she has. been known to wear fe ih ee 5551” before noon tomor- Was unemployed. . Fellows Lodge, : 3 {leather panties. That's what she Xv lingerie troubles #76 of fay : row and your Ad will ap- rn z Survivors nee, INS Siar - p h rie ibies ¢ / LE ONS . sons eimar an oy mger, Is there an estimate of the number of personal pas . . a own making,” she added.” “I be- AL as Baby Suffocates Carmel; two daughters, Mrs. Doraircraft in operation in this country? t was for the movie, ‘Three jjave in giving my career a good, ® The cost is small. The re- TERRE HAUTE, Feb. 24 (UP) othy Lovetf, Carmel, and Mrs,

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