Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 September 1950 — Page 11

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- THERE'S no other way, I'm going to have to use the word metamorphosis in this piece about Lou Stratton. He's a talker for the Raynell Show on the Midway at the Fair. Notice I didn't say barker, although Lou stands out: in front of ‘the Raynell tent and encourages you to plunk your money on the line and step

inside to see—not a girlie show—a production.

~how-readily admits that he wa¥ "a sideshow barker at tent shows. For years he barked. “Hurry, hurry, hurry . Then one day came the metamorphosis. He was in Sioux Falls, Jowa. During a lull in the hurry-hurry routine (a barker breathes, too). a group of rowdy tellows went ‘by chanting the familiar come-on.

Tries Disc-Jockey Line

IT HURT Lou's sensitive ears. He didn't take to the mockery kindly. He asked himself if that is the way he sounded. It didn't sell him. Didn't convince him anyone ought to buy a ticket. Lou had a bad day thinking about the years of barking. That night he listened to a disc jockey make with the informal chatter. That was for him. Lou slept well. Next day he surprised himself and the people who paid him bccasionally. The ticket sellers had a busy day and night, and Lou was a fair-haired boy. The barker was dead, long live the talker. : : Lou can’t sit still when he tells about the gradual change that has come over the business. He admits in his Arthur Godfrey-type of opening he might exaggerate, but the says he doesn’t misrepresent. You see, Lou is sold 100 per cent on the show under his tent. I was curious to learn how a man becomes a talker or barker to begin with, It is better than

+ punching a clock in a pickle factory?

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Talks oter-than he barks . . . Lou Stratton, State Fair midway come-in-and-see artist, says the barker is on his way out.

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At the age of 2, his parents brought him to j s ; ; - a MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1950 } PAGE 11

this country from Greece. Morristown, N. J,

wasn’t the town-for Lou. Neither were the schools.

—They -didn’t-teach-magie.- When Lou-turned 14,-he~

was big enough to grow a beard, and the open road looked good enough to travel on. . nx IO IS En ‘ran S, 3ay | is ¢ rs, When he was 16, Lou was working in spots like

the Bowery in Detroit and Colosimos in Chicago. That was in 1936. “For applause and food and drinks;” Lou added. That arrangement wasn't |

satisfactory. . ’ : de . : He hooked up with a carnival. Same thing. ‘ Lou noticed, however, the barker got paid regu- § ] : LC 3

larly and took a percentage of the gate. Off came his beard. No more tricks except with the tonsils.’ Money talked. . The war, No. II. caught up with Lou and he. wound up in Army Intelligence.. Three days after: his discharge, Lou was on his way to Tokyo with| a USO troupe with a part in “Three Men on a; Horse.” The troupe played in Tokyo, in Seoul, Okinawa, and Manila. His two lean years as an actor at the Pasadena Playhouse in California paid off. He works now from May 1 to Nov. 15. Then it’s Florida for the winter. He asked me where else and in what kind of business could a man have a 5!2-month vacation. Tough question.

When Lou is talking, as he will have to do here until Sept.—8, he Says he won't average three square meals during the eight-day stand. He lives on fresh fruit and juice almost exclusively. The pressure makes his tummy sensitive. He would gag with solid foods. After the show breaks up, Lou takes on provisions. And he uses the winter months in Florida

Wife Hates Moving

MRS. STRATTON despises packing every Saturday and hitting the road. Lou doesn’t mind. Because his wife packs every Saturday, Lou says he knows she loves him. And I always thought it was the other way around. Some-of his chatter-goes like this: “Step under the awning, folks, nine men went to the trouble of putting it up. ) | “Here come four more people.- Watch me lead them into a.trap. “Inside you will find 1000 uncomfortable, hard, boards to sit on. You'll think they're easy chairs,

when you watch the show. All shined up for the judge's eye. Karen (left) and Wilburta Latimer, Warsaw, ready their prized Their are laughs and thrills for the eager visitors to the Fair, “When I ask you to buy tickets, throw rocks. . “After you see the show and you think there’ 5 !" hours Sroeing stock. With them it is haisy: like golf might be to the city born. work. Like this man, they do not reflect the joy about them.

another even half as good as what you have seen, come out to either of the two ticket windows and tell us why you should have your money back. We'll tell you why you shouldn't.” One of these days there will be another metamorphosis. A talker will change into a comedian.

Surplus?

By Frederick c. Othman

WASHINGTON, Sept. 4—I can’t help thinking about the $29 billion worth of stuff, from foot powder to flying machines to fly screens, that the War Assets Administration sold at such a bargain in such a hurry not so long ago. Now these items are going at retail for fractions of what they” cost the taxpayers—and the Army's buying up large quantities of the same materials new and at full price, so’s-the Navy. Take pants. White duck pants for sailors are costly items, but anybody can buy 'em today from a surplus store at 99 cents a pair. It's sad, somehow, that our government can’t walk into these shops and buy back the stuff it sold so cheap in the years we thought we were at peace.

. What Nine Pennies Will Buy

. An acquaintance of Ben H. Han-

SOME of the prices being charged today, even at .retail, are amazing. A can of foot powder, bought originally to ease the dogs of weary GIs, can be bought for nine cents. The same nine pennies will buy a government DDT bomb, a surplus pair of sun glasses, or a steel mirror. Army wrist compasses are going for 98 cents, five-gallon gasoline cans for $1.98, folding beds with springs for $4.45, air pillows for 29 cents and all-wool sleeping bags for $2.98. . Teepee tents made from government surplus parachutes are selling for $3, rubber floats which cost $8. are going at 47.cents;.and- Marine Corps. sun hats for 55 cents. Air Force flying slippers, originally parts of electrically heated suits for aviators, are selling at a.dollar a pair. Officers’ shoes are bringing $6.45. "Genuiné U. 8S. Army cavalry spurs, in

Evansville Slaying Honor Indianc’s Worthless Check Grocery Bill

‘Oldest Bricklayer |

Suspect Arrested | | Indiana's oldest bricklayer, =. Suspect Arrested | Fifth Round Pay Hike | Chevrolet found acceptance so, Confession Without Marking Prisoner [Frank Sacks, 82, Evansville, was | ’ i {vigorous that to date Chevrolet; = 3 y WF 3 f 3 2 ae Bene Pa J Won't Help in Long Run has fot been able to keep up wih! By GEORGE WELLER, Times Foreign Correspondent ice Station roma ot TL Seize Pepe Torreon meer A GRO VIENNA, Sept. 4 There's.a naw. invention. the-Russian's- have: tied ee aaces, wr an pix Hloneymoaner Ty HAROLD i HARTLEY, Time ines Baler | Another demand wie nas 005 00, 1hY 1 Wave no sine: The whch Employee Ki Mr. Sacks, who has been active! Qn |ndiana Charge , (Chevy floored 14 the one for four- he v ao. ; ploy : in the trade 63 years, was pre- : 9 LABOR DAY finds the working man coming out of his door sedans. It's standard in the isa wheel of torture, its Soviet inventor is likely to remain modestly

EVANSVILLE, Sept. 4 (UP)—

-Philadelphia junk man. They exploded in his

(sented a framed hand-engrossed

stock in some forgotten warehouse since the Indian wars, are selling at 55 cents a pair. They're the one item in all the long lists that would be of no conceivable use in Korea today. Rubber boats built for the Air Corps are going for $16.95 in the one-man size, and $34.50 in the six-man variety, Signal Corps safety belts for linesmen, which cost the government $16, are priced at $3.75. One of the most surprising values is in German military binoculars—'fust released by the U. 8. Army,” according to their present owner—for $75 a copy. These glasses have been used, but they are in excellent condition.” Originally they were worth $800.

Uncle Sam Sold Out

THE LISTS go on and on. The government's surplus department long since has sold out of these useful items—known to the trade as consumers’ goods—and they're now being peddled by mail order. So I suppose that when, as and if we have peace again, the government will return to the surplus business. This gives me the shivers: I re-} member top well the Congressional hearing concerning sales from the last war. These involved so many items of stupidity

ry Trout Yaa wopetined 3 Ag This Yous lady inspecting a new hat at the Fair is a a Bridegroom, That’ s her « In the re toon te the curious gawk at a Midway show. In the foreground » case-of aluminum nails.bought- at bargain by a} OMe, Sandra idegroom.. LL. of. Knox. rsa : woe -concessionaire fakes. time: off: to read The Times. Seuss ;

Please don’t Shropshire sheep for the ring at the Indiana Stats Fair. Hundreds of hopeful entrants in events spend but to traveling workers on the Midway each day is another day of

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was arrested on his wedding

- | cock,” 44, who. was slain with a £ctoll by the Indiana. Brick- trip through Mississippi yesterday |UP with his gracery bill. > - Cybernetics Joao pee SR ey ave [tached to a large wheel. The ickax as he worked at a gasoline| Masons Apprentice Competition. |ang accused of passing worthless The fifth pay raise, which will be about 10 1 per_cent,, | At the headquarters ‘of the Czech| Prisoner ~séats himself P The presentation was made at|cheécks at an Indiana Lake resort]. THIS 1S A WARK WORD, an 9 n service station, was arrested to- AlI-Opening-ceremony-st-the state} while he-wooed- the gir}-he- later will help, but it won't help much in the long run. Hmportant ene, = - police at-4 Bartolomeo: Si, Pra-(© ay and-—bends over with his day as a suspect. championship contest on the Fair| married, the FBI announced to- Long since he has learned that the more he earns, the With the exception of atoms, Bue, it 1s affectionately known as Ba sown Lo hid, Kies and- is Sheriff Frank™ McDonald re- Grounds. Mr. Sacks was present day. eit ts to tive. His] perhaps the greatest efforts of | Stalinovo Kolo or Stalin's) x “ - ; 3 jo on. : i \ more” it cos 0 1 ithe Armed Forces are being made Wheel, - | wheel is rotated by hand at high fused to say who the suspect was.|to chieer on Charles Heck Jr.| Special Agent Harvey G. Fos- 8 Method | speed until the prisoner is nearly : kines wages are a part of the cost [ike the Man lin the direction « { cybernetics. Sure Metho | 8 ! : But he said Hancock “knew thé/Evansville's entry in the contest./ter identified him as Danny J. I flight trol. “Stalin's Wheel" has been found unconscious with nausea from “man” and the sheriff regarded Mr. Sacks is a gold card mem |O'Brion, alias Danny Mayo andjof living, a part of the price, THERE'S GOING TO be a me- | t means fUght contro an_ exceptionally sure method of countless somersaults.

‘Evansville:

Mr. Hancock's ody was found in the riliing station early yesterday. the blade of a heavy pickax imbadded six inches in his battered skull. Sheriff McDonald said the sus-|

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“Winner -of- yesterday's prelimi- $200-in bad checks on a Buffalo, has changed in the rolling dection. nary event in the contest was|N. Y, bank while staying at alaqes” He's better educated, for William S. Showalter, Indianap- hotel on Lake Wawasee neargne thing. And he is no longer |

Competing today with Mr. JAugust. | American living standard. eck are Richard : T. Kelley,] He said Manager Ray Nielson| -ffe’ wants more telephones, Bloomington; Gilbert Roberts, of the South Shore Inn observedipaths with showers, better cars,, My good friend, J. R. Townsend, and Merrill E.[that O’Brion struck up an ac-| automatic washing machines and phoned mé a day or two ago and

the arrest, at 8355 a. m., as “anger OL FRAKAYers THON Tock] be ster. said of the things he buys. morial setup for Ernie Crane. [| tnx been worked out, #0. that] extracting comressions from politi Qs Honsd We Sie == “important lead” in" the investiga

Fos g 1 Mr: ter-said-0'Brion- sued’ * The nature of the working man| Ng cold stone with. nice .words 'a plane may take ‘off, find. its!eq) prisoners; without leaving any|

carved on it in hard-to-read Ro- target, drop ‘its bombs with ac-iie|1tale marks. It differs in this. It Will be a memorial as warm. | smooth landing to its concrete or meqjeval torture, whose victims| and as human and as useful as LUn¥ay. thad their limbs twisted out of '{hrown at him he was. Controlled flight surpasses the (shape. : . - rocket idea. Rockets explode, are “Stalin's Wheel” is a chair ata total loss: | eee ee

Syracuse, Ind., the last week iInicontent with the crumbs of the

pect was arrested “on the out-| told me with-compassion how the But the controlled plane can be. ] } Moscow bythe skirts of- the-city" and taken to Wyseos. Marien, oa suburb who also] [when he comes ao right insurance people ry about Ernie used over and over again. And] New Commander | (8tatni Bezpecnost) Vanderburgh’ County jail for was a guest at the inn. = = {Crane, how he had used his years: even if it is shot down, there is; questioning. The sheriff said he Tool Used When the checks were re-| THESE THINGS he is getting. to make. insurance men under- N0 loss of life VI Te ca According to a member of the was about 40 years old. {turned marked “no funds,” Mr.'And while competitive industry stand what they were doing to Over the Fence anti-Communist Hit Seven Times | Foster said, Mr. Nielson tele- must fight cost, which means for serve their fellow men. Mr. Hancock >was hit seven phoned the woman seeking in- the most part wages. the labor-| " ” . YOU WILL NOTICE that there | times with the pick by an it On Babi ies’ earts formation about O'Brion. But he, jer's - insistence on the right tol SO SOME OF THESE days ig pothing on the fence they . Himes w b {learned she and O'Brjon were buy more of the goods hé makes there will be a quiet little lunch- knock ‘em over at Victory Field, recently in Prague

vending machine at Thoni’s Serv-|/ican Medical Association here. Convicted Thief Finds tion’s wealth. in | 800d which 1s in them. I ro anya hate is gy te ice Station on U. 8. 41. A 23-day-old baby boy was There are a few bad actors in 0,4" here's more than you *"*!" 4 Co Young Griggs delivered a paper| 0 so batients on whom tne State ‘Owes’ Him Days iabor. But there are some o | (nink, Humming Bird early -yesterday and found the t ased. ‘with ‘OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. YS ner side of the fence, too. body. I te a “Willis 3. Potts,| (UP) — Oklahoma owes John SA Button Brakes? | HANDLING CHILDREN de[ous ph William 1;.|Henry Lawson 20 days in ail. _SO TODAY LET'S try to under-| AUTO MAKERS have been mands rare skill with words and |

ant who apparently knocked h

unconscious with a blunt. Oe Cuts Valve Open lon a honeymoon, {rooming prosperity. find a way for Ernie Crane fo signs. no biatant ads, no

ment - first. Bobby Griggs, 14, a

newspaper carrier boy, found thé In Abnormal Cases lcheck through several states re- jour surplus goods. It doesn't have his heart is stilled.

be o But when Kroger built {ts No wom: it body about an hour after Mr. | By Science Service {sulted in ‘O’Brion’s arrest near {the dollars. So we have to be ur It will be that kind of a me- |uper- market just across the way would show such wonds Bok Jay les , CHICAGO, : -Seph.. 4A NeW; Custom, Miss, yestepday' by ajown hest market, | mortal. {from the field, it put its blue] court.

The motive apparently was rob- valve cutter for operating on-sick highway safety patrolman. And when I say market, I mean 01 will be glad to tell about {nian he an A i bie ] ’ , ; the man, and in these days a lot] hearts in small children is re-|O'Brion was taken to Madison that, for-there is no greater plea- ithe fence.

bery, Sheriff McDonald said. Between $400 and $600 was. missing

from a hiding place in a cigaret ported in the Journal of the Amer-

‘Most Gory Murder’ Stanley Gibson,

“He was killed: either because Riker of this city and Dr. C. R. tty|ily;- takes home his pay he recognized the bandit or be- Leininger of San Rafael, Cal [OPER SAITNE Fil or Pe vie and the ida: cause the man was a fiendish| The instrument is used to cut days and fined killer,” the ‘sheriff said. “It's the/the constricted valve in the open-

’ ’ \ tist I know, puts | Capt. Roy L Raney Il to the questioning chammost gory murder I've ever seen.” (ing between the pulmonary artery ting television set, that ‘they see a| Their answer is simple, They | Yet one den mia cell to the q g : The pick, a 14-pound tool withland the right ventricle of the work out the Bee and subtracting! movie (with popcorn) once in a say they want to ‘make cars easi- them in the chair, gets them out | Cast. R h ne a 4-foot handle, crushed Mr. Han- heart. Babies born with this con- a ne Jor So0g Amos with| while, . ler to drive. |without a tear or a tantrum. | ap aney has been ap- Pa : : : a eyers, :

times back of the right ear, twice| The new instrument, made by!

Sheriff McDonald said. However, blades. Less bleeding and dis-| The_ religious schogl of fhe In-| |greatest cathedral of commerce in

married that afternoon .and left/may be the salvation of our mush- eon where a few men will try to except the &coreboard. Uherske Hradiske

| The FBI was notified and al The rest of the world can’t buy go right on working, even though screaming posters. with a cigaret butt

County (Miss.) jail. of women, too, who earn and cg .'i “io humble trade than re-

- le see it | suend the biggest chunk of the na |vealing the good men do with ze As many as 8500 people see it

After spending 60 days in theistand the fellow who works Read plagued as to why, since the Young imaginations. sees that | clutch is gone from the floor-| Bo you can see what trouble a

(board, they haven't put in a larg- dentist has when he drills the} fer, more comfortable brake pedal. | {tooth of a tender-ager.

(they're fed, clothed and "sheltered, | Counting an added 30 days to that they have a car, a radio or

However, . Lawson, . who has {brother in the lodge, it can be bring the car to a swift but get honey.

he added “that the murderer turbance of heart rhythm are ‘dianapolis Hebrew Congregation: ithe world. - ‘be sure of ‘one thing. They Will (mouth, like the flower, to get the rank of Rear Admiral. He as- | bloody.

‘seemed to Jow where 10 go for other Aivamages of the new in- '975- N. Delaware st, will start] - She mongy 4 5 strumest. : = <i)

And that's the. and -on ‘which continge to ‘follow “the popular decay.

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bb h f- inter roves tne cars of merit on: ‘Foprdgre. Wheel One Russ

|priced” cars,” Chevrolet was first} - ‘Humane’ Device Effective in - Forcing

The wheel has been brought from Moscow to Prague by high

When he sags, he is unbound and dashed with cold water to man letters. - curacy, turn around and return inlrasnaot from the Catherine Wheel ‘bring him to. While he is still

{vomiting. volleys of questions are

The wheel js a relatively hue mane method of coerced confession. But the other imports from

security police are less original.

who hag just escapéd three women are positively known to have been tortured by a single method

was the burning of the breasts

Holds Out for Month

In the political prison at Ruzine, near Prague, there lies today a young priest of 35 who held out for a month of two hours torture every day. The object of (the torture was to compel him to confess who delivered to him a copy of a pastoral letter which he read, in defiance of Commun= {ist authorities, from his pulpit. . Every day at 2 a, m.—favorite | Soviet hour for arrests and inter|rogations—he was taken from

He was compelled to stand with ; " “a der of the 9th ¢ y was stru ree dition may be “blue babies. 1 For when he gets old and lies| And someday they hope to get Here's his magic story: * { pointed comman |his hands clasped above his head . sock's skull. He Kk three dition may a 20-day deficit for the-county. | For Ther be BRU OL ace id of the brake pedal altogether, He tells them about the hum-| Coast Guard District, which J ee tity i ipiming bird and how i goes deep! f a priest facing an altar. on the right forehead and twice Bruno Richter of Glen Ellyn, IIL, served five felony terms, said he Sather around in a small funeral or make it so small, that toet | comprises all. of the Great prayer of ap : : * on the left side of the head. was devigeil io, decréase the size, not he in opening: a home that probably belongs to a pressure on a floor button will into the mouth of the flower to Lakés area and ‘additional Then he was ordered to-bow low ° There were no. fin, rints or of the woun e hea ade) arg court. : other clues left in kbd de- by- previous instruments which © e account with the

| “ repeating the words, ‘well said of. him that he spent smooth stop. Then he gets out hix “humming states. Capt. Raney, whose meaning “1 am an ox."

* bird,” a buzzing drill, and tells head ters will he in Cleve- ed, he was beat ite a thorough 1d De d-ormped cutting RELIGIOUS SCHOOL , TO ro OPEN ‘his mind and muscle building the In the new models, due out in eadquarte When he flagg e Was beats » Tausacking. iba December and January, you can how it will go deep into the child's land. will be promoted to the en till his nose and face were

| or. 1988. by 1 by ™ {line, will have high styling; And| It works, not a whimper © | sumed command Sept. L. {* "aod the \ IL