Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 April 1950 — Page 20
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Hot Rods Rods Set 3 For Big Thunder
Basket of Bolts Fans Ready To Take Spotlight May 28-31
By HAROLD H. HARTLEY, Times Business Editor RODS, those alley-born thunder buggies
which sizzle the highways and often took like peeled down |
THE HOT
potato bugs, are going fancy.
They're going to have an axpositioh, a show with spot-
lights and all the trimmings.
Don't think they're junkers, built “from a basketful of bolts from the nearest!
scrapyard. ' They've got going stuff in /hamed-gal doing a top husbandThe difference is that they
them, don't come off assembly lines, al polished up for sale,
» » n —fN- FACT, they-aren't built for The guys who wire them together do it because they want
gale,
that kind of jalopy. And some times the boys pour
Cadillac. One sank §:
So this year the local hot rodders went on the dotted line for the Manufacturers building at the
State Fairground for May 28-31,
an overlap with the B00-Mile },,140ry of Owens-Illinois Corp.,|
Race.
almost enough cash into them to buy a
-
{food recipes, a touch of, ‘romance just the right dish ‘for the ging-|
'holding job. {| And’ refreshing, too, for those
Construction Here Tops Record Pace
Residential wonstruction in Indi-| anapolis and Marjon County con-|
in the: early months’ in 1049, the banner year, The figures, released by ty ‘and county building officials, shows,
residential construction here. This is how building stacks up: INDIANAPOLIS
fleet flashbacks into class-picnie| * teens, and that long-remembered Starts ....«ieeoveetvies+121 units
thrill.of the slow moorilight saun-| ter along the soft bank of a way-| ward creek in June. ./ Circulation of the magazine is over two million with ad tie-ins on what shoppers find on Kroger shelves. A nickel’ a copy.
Crystal, 75 Cents?
THAT'S RIGHT. When stock-|
|
|glass containers, got their an-|
{Value .ve.oves
January, 1950 £22001: 9822,500,
Value ... F
ruary, 1950 IBLAREE + ansnnsnsvanesse $07 units] VAIUC ievsagssnssinsnne $1,753,085! March, 1950 ’ i Starts ...coieereenaess +153 units
evenness $1,081,330 January, 1949
BArts ..uvcuicevvinasvadT2 units
LOCAL HOT ROD hotties and Dual statements, the COMPANY IN-/Siarts ..........s......231 units
the “custom car” clan are led by closed.. a folder” offering “four yajye .,
Ralph Potter, who runs Ralph’s/Pleces of “Crystal Leaf” stem-| Hollywood Muffler Shop, out’ Mas-| Ware for $2.50. .
sachusetts Ave, and Burt Disney, out in Beech Grove.
| When you say “crystal,” you’ re! talking money. It's the kind
There are plenty of them around Which rings when you ping it with
this neck of the woods, and there, will be a few more “imported” from the hottest of hot rod coun-|lets (drinking glasses) on down | Starts .vovevsieesresses.00 units California, for Ah. 10 ¢ thimble-size. Bgdeur glasses, all| Value ....... .. $4
try, that's
filling fast.
of Indianapolis, The venture which has rolled into something close to $7 mil-| lion, over an original estimate of | {rent prosperity puff will hold Value
$5.4 million, has 647 apartments, a shopping center, and ultra
-..push-button living... dey
There are seven or eight apartments still_vacant and those, according to the management, are expected to have occupants by Apr. 15.
A Working Memorial
HERE'S A MEMORIAL the
whole town will like. The Advertising Club of Indianapolis, Inc., is setting up a sc¢holarship as a memorial to one of
the greatest men the advertising -business ever knew. t
The scholarship will honor
~“Merle Sidenér who died in May of
a
1948. He was an alumnus of Butler and highly interested in the school, The memorial fund will] be used to help a boy or girl} through his or- her senior year. It would be like Merle Sidener to want to help someone through school who was on the verge of having to give up for the lack of| funds.” The tuition will be $350 a year, and the Ad Club's passing the hat now.
Hoosier Bell Ringer
HERE IS ANOTHER boy from a little industrial town who is ringing the business bell.
He's James M. Blacklidge, na-|
tive of Elwood; and former. vice president of the Standard Transformer Corp. Chicago, who has| purchased controlling interest in| the Gramer Co. (coil windings, transformers). He is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Abb Etchison of Elwood and has been spinning around the electrical manufacturing field years, He tronic Pa¥ts and Equipment Manu-
RETIREE WHICH “18 Jast what ft University.
sounds like, an issociation of eliéctronic parts makers.
On His Own
"CHARLES F. RICKETTS,
| Steady
for
a fingernail.
| The stemware comes
in gob-|
ONE OF THE reasons the cur-
awhile is that inventories are in| good shape. Last year the boys were dump-, ing their stocks of manufactured goods, and at the same time were {choking off material orders to, thin down plant investment. | | But’ they're straightened out ‘now, and in most instances there won't be any more inventory tinkering this year. i
Check Tips on Missing Bryn Mawr Student
BRYN MAWR; Pa. Apr. " Hf UP)<=The $5000 reward for information leading to 19-year-old | Gertrude Nauman, missing Bryn] | Mawr college student, has brought several “tips” now being ¢hecked, {state police said today. The college junior has been missing since Mar: 24 when she left the Bryn Mawr campus to return to her Harrisburg, Pa {home for a 10- ~-day spring vaca-| | tion, Her father, Spencer G. Nau-| | man, Harrisburg attorney, posted, the reward when she failed to appear for classes after the vaca-/ [tiem
Files for State Representative = |
James E. Walpole today an{nounced his candidacy as state representative from Marion County, subject to nomination in the} Democratic primary May 2. Mr. Walpole, a lifelong Indianapolis resident, .resides at High St. with his parents, and Mrs. Martin H. Walpole. A graduate of Cathedral High School, he served three years in
Mr.
charge he attended Notre Dane!
Now employed as loan officer in the Peoples State Bank, he is A member of St. Patrick's Church, Knights of Columbus, American Legion, 40 & 8, and the Notre
manager of sales for Van Camp's Dame Club of Indianapolis.
Division of
Inc.,
Stokely-VanCamp,
in Providence, R. T, will represent the company. He has been with Stokely-Van-Camp for 21 years and for 10 years managed the
old reliable, pork and beans.
: Gingham Reader
[leather to patients in Billings and|gfeiPts - 3.832.258.048 30.193.90%-035 taining aureomycin, streptomycin KROGER'S is adding a new Indianapolis Veterans Hospitals, Sete R atice ie 3314 768.580.7134 OF terramycin increased the magazine, Family Circle, copy- in connection with the VA occu- Public Debt 255.747.183.794 21 685, 398.008 growth of animals * ‘remarkably.”! | Gol 2 Reserve 24 345.989.0285 24.313.815.872
tailored for the shopping house
«wife. .
for two years has resigned to enter the brokerage business where he Course
Red Cross Arranges in Handicraft
A course to teach volunteers general handicraft instruction will be started Apr. 18 by the Red
company's Cross.
“plant at New Bedford, Mass, The class will meet from 9:30
Side thought: -One of the com- , pn, to 4 p. m.. Tuesdays and Fri-| "WASHINGTON, Apr pany’s biggest earners is still'that qa u5 for six weeks.
craft in jewelry, felt,
- pational therapy program.
Volunteers are asked to call the
It has tips on | home decoration, Red c ross at Lincoln 1441.
Today's Weather Fotocast
PARTLY CLOUDY AND CLOUDY ARIAS
NN A NN NS
NEN
MUS PATOrE om 1950 (ow LA DW. L A WAGNER ALL RIGNTS RESERVED.
|Co.;
ment Women will 7 scal year through Mar. 31, compared with nutrition be -trained to teach metal handi-|s’ year age
yarn and
ensnersassnees «$1,349,950 Three-month Comparison
1950 1949 Starts ... 681 units 372 units (Value. ....$3656,885 $2,162,650
MARION COUNTY (22 incorporated towns omitted) January, 1950
11 Ves ivae $1,578,070 January, 1949 Starts Bis snes eve ‘as
February, 1949
Starts ........ vieesrees..49 Units Value ........civiuuni.. ..$430, 600 March, 1949 Starts ..... senseiannnve 134 units] alue BAER aye $849,750] Three-month Comparison < 1950 1 Starts ... 363 units 219 units Value ... $2,734,070 $1,484,950
‘Group Honors George N. Craig
George N. Craig, national commander of the American| Legion, has been named
Surging Ahead
tinues to surge ahead of building. |
month-by-month comparison i. ;
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{Value ae -$375, a" Thess Wabath Coll ot don and adviser are spending a a week of heir spring vacation on SURFS +veeivrverreresres 69 units’ a flight to Mexico. the plane at Weir Cook Municipal Airport are (left to right) E. C. Value wane po Te & Gullion, assistant to the iar: and tour conductor; Dr. John D. Forbes, Crawfordsville; W. Paul rc
Tippet Jr., ar ordemlioy Paul Smith, Columbia, Pa.; Robert MeCurd, Indianapolis, and; Charles
| Borne, Elwood.
Bridges’ Jury
women appeared close to
aes and two union aids.
The jurors were scheduled to resume their study of the cas? at ‘noon (Indianapolis Time).
night the jurors asked Federal
\Judge George B. Harris to clarify oq return, the group was “taken one of the counts in the indict-/¢. 0. 2 rige” {60 to 80 miles an hour that made ft was the first of the three, riding in an ordinary railroad| {charging that Mr. Bridges, J. R. coach seem like a covered wagon| IRobertson and Henry Schmidt on an unmarked trail. |
ment.
{conspired to defraud the government by having Mr. Bridges swear he never was a Communist. !
Corp.,
i F ig ‘when the little. 31,700 gan FRANCISCO, Apr. 4 Hi runs like the, very. dickens, ot - CRIT i
ppe dict today as .it began its fifth division of Geners] Motors ay a of deliberations on the fate is the last word in rail transpor-
f C10 Longshore Leader Harry tation.
Monon, (propelled car amazed a Allison engineering experts an Before being locked up last Indianapolis newsmen yesterday. | motive.
Runs Like the Dickens—
New Self-Propelled Rail
ou for bth Day (Car Amazes Engineers
By CL IFORD THURMAN It ures like 2 kitten but runs like a scared rabbit.
Bray
smiss ion made by
lcomotives, {Budd engineer, explians.
Now on test runs on the Monon |
~~ Good to choice head. brought $28] "Harry K. _Harwick; to ‘$29.50; common -and medium; Y
It sfops and starts very much dipped downward to. $12. 'Railroad between Bedford and like a big automobile. It has a
the revolutionary self- fast get-away and can stop on big Woman Esca group._of disc brakes much quicker and in pes Injury; i
d much shorter space than a locoIt can slow down for|
The bulk of good to
{to $16.50. The tap of $16.50 was ‘Weights 250$15.50 to $16. Hee “weights “were scarce in
“Lig weight 120-160-pounders
prices were strong’ to calves, 325, and_sheep, 75.
choice ( scaling 180-250 pounds sold at $16 price tags read $25 to $27 and
‘grades -Quota~—— tions on light weights reached $15, while. common grades sold down-
sold at $13 to $14, with a few/ Ward to 87. high Late estimates of stock receipts bringing as as $1 4.50. were hogs, 6600; cattle, 1800; -
Bee op night at City
asking prices for the steers. Fully Steady
Yearling; heifer, cow and bull! prices were fully steady. Several loads of average good 1050-1100-pound steers sold at $27 to $27.50 and a small lot of thoice yearlings held above $29. The bulk of medium and low good light to medium weight steers and mixed yearlings brought $23 to $26.50, while most good heres sold at $23 to $23.50. | Heavy heifers, #00 pounds and, go
ap, usually commanded $24 to|SDEan &
$24.50. | Lincoln Nat Lite armon- Hes ington com’
Good beef cows brought § $19.50, A 0 $21; common to medium, $17 li Homes
19, and canners and cutters, 114.50 to $17. Medium and good $1
N Ind Rb oi viet pi rade sausage bulls sold §
uD Be om nd
im
lower in aerate active
e acti Onited Telbohone 6% $18.75 to $27.50. and cull prices Union Title
5 Sllen & Ste se 5 im erican Loa 2: 1 a . asian} Morley Batesvil Tele ‘Slug Pierces Collar - Sees ROCKFORD, Ill. (UP) — Mrs. | Ghent" ng" “Oats 8)
harp curves very much like a mo-| umb -58 63 From Greencastle to Bedford,| 8 {Doris McDonough felt something |torist slows down on the highway hit her in the back of the neck | dois Salo & Color 88 88
at a smooth, gliding, when the danger spot is past.
On approximately 250 gallons of fuel oil—véry much like you! burn in your furnace—it can go 700 miles without stopping. Light-Weight Steel | The car, built for test purposes, The new car, built by the Buddicost $128,750. 'A big diésel loco-! of Philadelphia, is of light- motive costs. approximately $150.-
The first count actually is based | {weight stainless steel. Inside i{’s.000 per unit and it takes from
“Out- on the second, which accuses Mr. like a luxurious parlor coach. two to three units to pull a siza- |
standing Hoosier of the Year” by.Bridges..of swearing falsely he.pudd representatives explaifi thé ble. train,
the Sons of Indiana organization was not a Communist at his citi- interior can be appointed to suit! the individual railroads.
in New York City. P. E. Tobin, president of the 20-(year-old group of 1000 planted Hoosiers City, said the honor would be con(ferred on Mr. Craig during the
“|spring dinner of the organization
{Apr. 21 in New York. A scroll, citing Mr. Craig for “meritorious achievement in the fight to preserve American ideals {against threatening philosophies from abroad,” will be presented during the dinner.
{other prominent Hoosiers. who (have been honored by the organization. . These include Wayne (Coy, chairman. of the Federal {Communications Commission; Le-| roy Wilson, president of the! {American Telephone & Telegraph Emil Schram, president of the New York Stock Exchange,
Ernie Pyle.
Chemical Society
is chairman of the" Elec- the Army. « Following. his dis- To Honor Students
" The 14th ‘student meeting of. THRE TATE R SeetTon or the Ameri", ‘can Chemical Society will be held
Friday, Apr. 28, in the Antlers Hotel. Guests of the meeting will make
inspection trips of Indianapolis factories, starting at 8:30 a. m,, |and will attend a faculty symposium/at 3 p. m. Dr. Harry Fisher of the Nattional Research Council
dinner at 6:30 p, m. in the hotel. Dancing will follow the dinner.
‘VU: S. Statement
4 expenses and receipts for the curren
Xpénses
INDIANAPOLIS CLEARING . {Debits
HOUSE
will] ‘speak on “The Road Ahead” at a —Two agriculture scientists have
$ 5.05%.000 24,202.000 factor in
: VPRSHNEION State Collegs
_zenship hearing in 1945.
The third count charges Mr.!
mit perjury.
The “builders insist the “new
With the powerful General Mo- rail transportation and in some
trans- Schmidt and Mr. Robertson aided tors diesels and the Allison-made cases will be placed on long runs in New York and abetted Mr. Bridges to com- transmission the Budd Rail Car with more |has many advantages over -{itsequipment, such as lounges, bars| held him while a 55-year-old man,
luxurious interior|
Conviction would mean a maxi- giant big brothers, the diesel lo-'or miniature diners.
mum prison sentence of. seven years and $15,000 in fines for each defendant.
Australia Won't Let |
Bridges Come Home SYDNEY, Australia, Apr. 4
|" Mr. Craig will join the ranks of (UP) — A high ranking govern-
ment official said today that Australia would refuse to accept Aus-tralian-born San Francisco Labor Leader Harry Bridges if the United States tried to deport him. Mr. Bridges faces possible deportation on charges of having lied when he denied in an application for citizenship that he was a
959 and the late Wendell Willkie and Communist.
“I know of no international |agreement whereby we would be |legally obligated to receive a de{naturalized American -deportee {who was born in Australia,” the don’t think we America’s baby,
official said. “I want him. He is not “ours He added that if the San Fran-| cisco jury finds Mr. Bridges guilty, “Australian laws prohibit the entry of convicted felons. ”
Report Wonder Drugs
Spur Animal Growth SEATTLE. Wash... Apr. 4 (
v {reported that some of the new “wonder drugs” used to fight | disease are also able to make ang {mals grow faster, i
[ The scientists,
attending the
(UP) \—Govern. {Washington State College annual|
feed dis-,
for night
conference
{manufacturers, last
t Yea RL 0 iH 988180 § 26. $308.02 148 closed that feed supplements con-
Previously, vitamin B-12 was the only known important growth the animal kingdom, said Dr. ®, .L. -R. Stokstad of IL ederle Laboratories, Pearl River, IN. Y., and Dr. James MeGinnis of
i
| Accuses Wife of Trying To Hack OF His Leg
QUEBEC CITY, Quebec, Apr. 4
ar ———
| (UP)—-Georges Aubert told Judge | Maurice Brasset vesterday that he! didn’t think much about it when| his pretty 21-year-old bride twice! threatened to poison him after
they were "married four months
280. “When she hit me on the head | {with an axe last night and tried| {to clip off my: leg after 1 had! | fallen to the floor, I decided it was) serious,” he said. | The court ordered her to under-| | 80 a mental examination.
| a | mio evtn teense esate
Official Weather
UNITED STATES WEATHER BUREAU 4 1930—
—— - me |
| Sunrise T3i2s Sunset 6:12 Pr ecip 2 hours § ending 1 7:30 a. m 70! FTotal Yrecipitation since Jan. 1 31.8 } Xcess sl fie J ” 11 mm . [men a po vna— FOT0CA 4 T } re The following tabi le shows the Jempers ure in other cities igh Low LIGEN o fro : {Atlanta 8: 61 &) scares | Cl ARsICTED eo. 3 | SHOWERS =] ARLA i Cincinnati 57 | Cy AVE JKlevelan 3 i 3 . / enver : x . oRizrLs ~~ ow vansville 4 vw, ® ? t. Wayne . Le =F THUNDFR re Ft. Worth 42 STORMS Ls L1RAIN Ia dianapolis City) &
——— ee iA AND TONIGHT—Showers and thunderstorms 2 are forecast for the Atlantic seaboard
The
ox Trough
Shwies Aoaight as a cold mass of air advances eastward and clashes with warmer southe Hantic States into the gulf, is the expegted position of the
colder weather is indica
rly winds. for the center of the nation.
Miami “vane 18 TR Minneabolt s -St Paul .....s. Nn 32. New Orlea CEA 74 62 New York va +83 43+ —Okishoma ony. . +88 38 aha . «4 3 San Antonio . 88. 531 San Prancisco . . 61 4 8st. Lows. : 68 36
Kansas. City . Los Angeles acrags sien 38 88
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BE THRIFTY IN 'S0—8UY ROUND-TRIPY neseryamions: fA RKET 8321
and .it can get away just as fast as she was standing in front of Ind Limestone ds 75
{coach will revolutionize short-run
by business time the next morning. Keep dates regardless of slippery
ndols Public Loan Ss “ a
{her home. Three hours later "when she | took off her coat in her house, a p 22 caliber bullet, which had pene-| Sly bub go os [trated the collar, dropped to the ride Se Termine Fumo floor. She was unhurt. -
jatpls Rs Rall ass Ss 67s av elephone ar Packing 4s
Police Probe Beating i
Of Youth, ~18;-by-Man- 3
_Palice__today investigated the unde a ior and Leck
large.
No. 1 old boy in the 1100 block Cottage | Butter Fal—No. 1: 55: No. 2. 82. Ave. last night. . Paul Parrish, 1023 Lexington
Ave. said a 19-year-old youth|
No. 2 truck wheat. (So 0. 2 white corn. $1.4 | ke 2 yellow corn, $1. %.
islugged and kicked him. RY 3 Salt. ar: $2.41
fs Fin SHET
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{Local Produce : J
26¢-—and—no Ad over, 23c¢; ger, is FRE... 3405 -60cks ¢| reported beating of an 18-year- {Rd sass, 1ic. and No. 3 poultry. 4c ies
Local Truck Grain Prices
tion Departme ters. District win . receive the co pins which sig best spellers i Then at the May 6, the one himself or her will gecelve th watch, suitably gold champion will receive | designating tl they. finished... "Trip te. More &War grasp of the ] pion late in M D. C. First, ti ‘trip to Wast week's stay dt Hotel with fu trips each day The champic to spell only National Pres: If the Indian comes nationa -she) will get another $100 to New York ( champion can spelling bee is The Times § to any gramm ‘has not passed
a port to the co signed for his of ‘the first pr spelldowns wil Participants sl ter at 7:15 pi n Towns County seh spelling bees i They will cond to select two | resent each tov town semifina ship finals mi
~ Apr, 27.
Many pupils practice words in The Times them might word list. He words: epitaph _epoch equipage equipped equivalent eradicate ermine errant erroneous espiona, flasco
fiction us
fidgety fiend Following 1
spelldowns: TUESDAY. oleman Comm Michisan St. —8cl 75 Holy (Tin Evangelical Garfield Commu Ravmend Sts. —Sc 35. 64, 72. St. Roc! Heart grade schoo - Northeast Com: 801a St.—Schools 73, St. Rita. St. . Bales,
Rhodius Commu
King. Thomas Aquinas. WEDNES
36. 40, 42, 63. 87,
Paul's Evangelics THURSDAY, Central YWCA, -— Schools 3, 5 9 Cro: Ca Evangelical. Seve
Communal ¢ en Scho 00ls 6, 12, 2 So
Potter Preth Tudor Hall gra
— Vaccine
To Scoll Pox Ou
GLASGOW, (UP)-~Royal flew mbre th: . fmallpox vac «ay to help | possible mas every person | Dr, Stuart uheatthrofficer; mass. vaccina a few second after the ei period ends te “
“BY TONIC a pretty good. outbreak is,” than a few pear, we will { woman and cl land.” An 11-mont of smallpox la two the death firmed cases the fear of a land. ; Bartender: Employing NEW YORI bartenders’ ui female cafe disapproval o Members of - Restaurant marched in fi while Rose M prietress, and mixed drinks said it was a be a waitress bartending to ““We are r barmaids as union if we
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retary-treasu men out of w