Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 September 1950 — Page 13
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Inside Indianapolis
: By Ed Sovola
BOSTON, Sept. 12—-Had Boston baked beans for breakfast, and for my money, they can dump them all off the docks like our forefathers did tea # couple hundred years ago. ;
At the crack of dawn (daylight saving dawn), ¥ was up ready to tie into a plate of baked beans. All night I dreamed of beans. Not one little dream had anything to do with ‘the international tun Batches, Tony Hulman, Indiana's representative on the U. 8. team, or the pretty wench with the holiow leg I met in the club car of the train. Beans. Boston baked beans, no less,
ahts Qwn Candle bs IRON i ll i v1 THE HOTEL dining room was busting with activity, One of the waitresses was splashing sleep
...out of her eyes by pouring ice water from a pitcher, The Hostess led the way to a table holdng a candle’
which F graciously lighted. The menu did not list baked beans. Even’under the powerful glass which XY carry for studying same, no trace of fresh or stale beans could be found.
Clearing my throat of the fog that had rolled in during’ the night, T ordered baked beans and brown bread. The temperature of the room was raised 85 degrees as I rubbed my hands : with glee. (Glee generates more heat than anticipation. Any physicist will tell you that.) . The hostess quit combing my hair. My waitress Whispered into my ear which she was holding: “Are you nuts or sumthin’? Shock prevented me from answering immediately and my adversary took this as a sign of capitulation. I studied the menu carefully again. Bacon and eggs I can get at home. Toast and coffee revolted my finer instincts. Often in. the morning, I'd rather eat the box than the dry cereal. I waited like a cornered animal until the waitress approached, sharpening her pencil with a cutlass,
‘Ya make up your mind?” she asked in a fine!
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Boston acgent. “Boston baked beans with brown bread,” I declared. “Look,” the girl said sweetly, Joining me at the table. “Let me explain the facts’
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of life. In Boston, people eat. beans Saturday
to be nice. I wanted Boston baked beans. In a few hours a ship was going to take me to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and before it did, Boston baked beans were going to be under my belt. Finally, the manager came over and said he!
alicwed to be put into general use in Boston, the;
could heat me a can of delicious pork a - oe Aa can of d alr S00 hea Ls
By means of a gadget that has recently been i
telephone, I called numbers with the rapidity of a!
caller at a bingo game. At the end of an hour, I! hai one. establishment offering Boston bdked| beans. The others could give me lobster, oyster,! scallops, beef, duck, sow belly, chow mein, pizza, martinis, smorgasborg, piano music, spaghetti and one house offered a three-hour sight-seein tour.
Seven Days Old?
A MOUSY little man in a dirty apron announced with pride that his joint had baked beans 24 hours! a day, seven days a week. When he shoved a. plate at me, they looked seven days old, With
pat of butter. ) Beans floated in a heavy substance resembling | tired gravy, cooked 24 hours. I must admit there] was a slight odor of beans floating upward from. the dish. 8 At last 1 was eating Boston ‘baked beans. I! was surprised how quickly 1 had my fill. When! the tines on -the fork curled away each time I! stabbed at the beans, I knew I was through, I'll try again on a Saturday when it's tradition.
Feet in Mouth
By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Sept. 12—I admire our leader for his talent at the piano and his delicacy at a poker table, but I find him difficult to purchase in the public relations department. So, I gather, do the Marines, who exacted one of the first full-scale apologies ever pried loose from a President. Mr. Truman is a wrathy lad, given to loud invective and unharnessed impetuousness. He has been known to call one man an “sob,” meaning something profane, for the record. I know of a nasty note he once wrote Bernie Baruch, in which he upbraided the old man for not hitting the streets with a tin-cup to rassel up some campaign funds, and in which he referred to “past favors I have done for you and yours.” An entire dynasty of Trumans would have been physically incapable of doing any favor for any minor sprig of the Baruch tree.
Another Nasty One
THEN THERE was the abusive letter Mr, Truman wrote, in high anger, to a rather famous Baltimore newspaperman, who was big in his business when Harry was hustling haberdashery. This letter is little known, but its contents were s0 viciously virulent that the President of the United Sates wrote a second letter pleading for the return of the first letter. The newspaper guy is a pretty nice fellow: He sent the letter back. I
-pastily-would-have-retained-it-for-the archives:
‘There have been the tough, jut-jawed instances when Harry played feuhrer with the general préss, and, finally,-he ran his neck out too far with the crack about the Marines. This was when he referred to them as the Navy's police force, and mentioned caustically that “they have a propaganda machine that is almost equalto Stalin’s.” This was such an obviously stupid sideswipe of the tongue that Hairbreadth Harry was swiftly forced to apologize on the front pages of the newspapers of his land. Thé Marines, in the annals of fighting, stand somewhat more sacred than motherhood, and certainly the first feeble glint of cheer from Korea resulted from ‘their arrival on that dreary peninsula, As’the ballad says. when he had saw what he had did, he took his foot puten his face and apologized. Uncle Harry's unhappy faculty for filling his mouth with feet cannot be too terribly pleasing to
~ tragically impracticable by the foolish mistakes of
his constituents. His dogged loyalty to some of! the jerks who surround him cannot be too gratify-| ing to the mass which calls him “chief.” Somehow it gravels you to see a President eating crow on the front pages of the nation, as the result of
a dumb utterance more easily creditable to a lahgh Geryis, Pfc. Erwin Hoelzle; Pfc. Hugh Skiffington, Pfc. John Dacenzo and Pvt. Joseph Grudza, and Col. Albert Kilburn (in truck) unload equipment in the mud.
leader or a football coach.
I might be a little unreasonable in what I, as a citizen, expect of my commander-in-chief, but about the least you can ask is an approximation of dignity. We didn’t hire him to play a piano or cavort at poker with ersatz Gen. Harry Vaughan. We didn’t hire him to indulge a talent for profanity at the expense of the press. We didn’t] hire him to sneer. at the only segment &? our fighting forces that was ready to ride, professionally, in a war that had otherwise been rendered
Harry's henchmen. | You realize that being President is a rough! chore, full of frustrations and annoyances, -fraying to the nerves and hard on the digestion. But it is also the most-honored job in the nation, and nobody forced Harry to run in the last elections. It is a big job, and worthy of surface bigness in the conduct of its incumbent. Franklin D. Roosevelt made no friends when he publicly bestowed an iron cross on a reporter at the start of the war with Germany. A lot of people don’t. like the columnist whomi Truman| called an “sob,” for the record, but I daresay nobody cared more for Truman for heaving the designation at him.
Brush With MacArthur |
HARRY’S RECENT brush with Gen. Douglas} MacArthur cannot have done him a great deal of good, since Mr. MacArthur's record is as close to impeccable as that of any fighting man. And]: Harry's slur at the Marine Corps was the hasty action of a politically foolish fellow. ? i We elected this man, small as he may be, and so we are stuck with him and his cronies. We cannot
tne beans were two slices of white bread and a!'Ba |
expect much of a small-bore politician, but it| ~
seems to me that at least we can demand personal dignity from the guy so long as he is on the pay-
on earth,
Pumped Heat
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McLEAN, Va., Sept. 12—Neighbor of mine half 2 mile down the pike, name of Everett P. Carman, is heating his house, and keeping it snug with cold. water. Uses a widget called a heat pump. Doggonedest thing I ever saw. This is a ‘break for Mrs, Carman: All her guests rush down to the cellar to see this mechanical wonder at work. Nobody crunches potato chips into her living room rug,.or even dirties her ash trays. The callers are in too big a hurry to go below,
Work Like Kitchen Refrigerator -
WHERE the furnace used <o be is a smallish
~ped-steel box. This contains an electric motor, a. two-cylinder compressor, and a watet pump at-.
tached to the well. Mr. Carman is in love with this machinery. oor ’ : As he explained it, the thing works exactly fike -a kitchen refrigerator, which extracts the heat from the food you put in, and blows. it out
“through a vent in the rear. His heat pump does
the same thing, except that it lowers the tempergture of well water instead of pork chops.
Cool the wafer with his refrigerator and you . ' also get heat, which, in the Carman home, blows
out through warm air registers in. every room. In the summer he merely touches a couple of walves on top of the box and the innards reverse themselves, thus blowing out cool air. No matter how hot it is outside, or how cold. the Carman house remains at 70 degrees exactly. No fuss, no pother, no ashes, no fumes. Just a gentle buzz. What floored me for a minute was the fact that Mr. Carman is assistant chief of the coal pranch of the U. S. Bureau of Mines. With a heat
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the train wreck in which their buddies died. They are (left to right) TOL {Gr What {2 Supposed 15 De the biggest i" Cpl. Joseph J. Patkus, Pfc. Joh
Pvt. Elliott Langley, all of Philadelphia.
By Frederick C. Othman.
pump in his cellar, how could he look a coal miner in the ‘eye? ' . He was without shame. He said his heat pump . burns more coal probably than any furnace of comparable size anywhere. Only thing is it uses the coal at the Virginia Electric Power Co., far) away from Mrs. Carman’s white lace curtains.’ Her husband's pump runs all year and he figures, that he is, indirectly, the coal miners’ best indi-| vidual customer. That's one of the rubs with heat}. pumps. They're expensive to buy and also to run.| Mr. Carman figures that the cost of heating | his home is comparable to what it would be if! he had an oil furnace and fuel were 15! cents| per gallon. He also calculates that a heat pump
“installed with a “well, ‘water pump, ‘and circulating
air ducts in a small, six-room house such as his| | today would cost about $3000. } { This explains why there are so few heat pumps in American homes; even though they have been , available for the last five years. They cost too] much for the average householder.
More Popular in Moderate Climate
WHERE the temperatures are more moderate and electric rates are low, heat pumps are somewhat more popular: Mr. Carman, who qualifies as an expert on household heating and who now is
engaged in writing an official government study i
on heat pumps in general, believes that if they ever get into volume production their price will drop drastically. As of now they're handmade, . like crown jewels. . - Mr. Carmen’s had his for four carefree years. #le feels sorry for the rest of us, with old-fashioned ‘chimneys in our houses. As he points out, without smoke, you don’t need a smokestack.
Franklin Alerted for '"Mercy' Pretty Girls
Task in Troop Train Crash
InterCity Action Unit Official Asked
To Stand By to Help Families of Victims By GALVY GORDON, Times Staff Writer—Third of a Series FRANKLIN, Ind., Sept. 12—This town of 8000, nerve center of pivilian agencies providing morale and assistance to the 28th Divi-| sion at nearby Camp Atterbury, was alerted for an “angel of
mercy” task today.
Army officials asked Warren Spangler, Chamber of Commerce, head and secretary of the Inter-City Action Committee, to “stand
—by”-to-render assistance 10 fam... oc ine problems it aces
flies of men killed in yesterday's train accident.
sweethearts are believed to have th preceded their soldiers to e
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ber of Commerce in the Willard|be canceled. Hotel, clearing station for servfce housing in the nine-city area served by the ities, to fulfill fe Te Franklin with its 1000 industrial
prior to planning for the flow of Franklin:
troops. ONE: Housing of division train crash “brass” and their families and Yet dstuie the tic sud- those of some 50 Gls. : TWO: Maintenance of. at least f. : upon them, was apathy and, per- one full time service center and Q haps, even a little antagonism to full Red Cross facilities. : yf tH THREE: Alerting of pastors for: “round-the-clock” spiritual advice of Sunday enter-|
Brought home with
denness that the soldiers were
the re-activation of the camp, Mr, Spangler said:
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iin aiding these men who may be, . committed to enemy fire in our, Some wives and children and jerenge” said Mr. Spangler. A series of conferences between 5th Army officials and members, y 3 camp area. lot the committee, charged by their {own request with Meanwhile, the Franklin Cham- needs of the troops, probably will
Col. James A. Murphey, commander of the camp, said yesterwas|day’s tragedy miay serve as the needed shot in the arm. Here are the special problems workers had a nousing lem | members of the committee see for
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BEANBLOSSOM, Sen, Homer E. Capehart, warm- eration today to listen in excellent (ing, up his campaign for re-elec-tion, e_them Sunday. ~~ !that ‘100 per cent mobilization
| sergeant as they arrive at Comp Atterbury for training. The "C" battery boys.are among thou: | sands arriving at the Indiana milit
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ifor war’ would be Imposed on Itiom: rr r———— {the American people “right after! ithe November election.” “We will have to have ration- his dociors said in a bulletin 15-1 e ing when the President invokes sued near midday after they vis-| price controls,” test of leadership is in. keeping losopher: this country out of war and not| getting it into trouble.” . Cites Loans to England { The Senator charged that the thigh Boge broken in a fall in his foreign aid program has become garden. Sunday. : - lp: cd i hi aE nich 15. back, : . row government ‘preaches against To Attend Meeting firing on us in Korea.” : “We loaned England money that any operation on a|eggs, potatoes, peanuts, etc. ; which was used to build war| a ny Mr must be) Bs pos few Peat ever think | employees from central. Indianaljan Hills, Wynnedale and Warten weapons to be sold tp Russia and | ra - which in turn are being used to regarded as serious, he : | Kill our boys in Korea.” he said. semi to concur in their weighty wo oq that the American prop- The dinner is sponsored by the ering the proposed budget of the The Senator also accused the concern. SES No 2 atio ! {administration in Washingten of Nurses said he was in fine spir- dangered by: the inroads of so- ment Credit Companies, Iie, | “coddling Communists” and ‘per- its, and paid particluar attention oi. icc government -thinking. mitting a magazine published by to radio news of his accident and mbna oven i ‘the Russian embassy to he dis- operation They said he showed DUCKS LIKE EEL GRASS tributed as
" : ® : aR night. It's tradition. On other days we eat regular . . J ) ! food. Why don’t you have a couple eggs and be ! n 3% nice?” My Hoosier dander was up and I didn't want | y
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Be v i _ Sgt. E. L. Metka (left) and Cpl. John W. Miller, both of Harrise ' burg, take a break in advance billeting duty for the federalized Pennsylvania National Guard. i
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Pennsylvanians unload for war training. At Camp AHerbury yesterday (left to right) Cpl. Jean
* The Division band of the Pennsylvania troops plays as trucks prepare fo leave for barracks at | Camp Atterbury with Nationad Guard men called to active duty. The Pennsylvanians arrived at the ‘Hoosier encampment yesterday and took up the serious matter of Army duty despite the train wreck which marred the opening of the training. >
Pennsylvania National Guardsmen at Atterbury read about
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Photos by John Spicklemire, Times Staft Photography. 1 Here's a train carload of cooks arriving at Camp Atterbury to provide Army fare for the Pennsylvania soldiers stationed there for training. The "Dutchmen" set up camp at Atterbury yesterday,
ary camp. Some clean carbines bd most of ii take # easy. shaw on Mend, Garholz Demands yohr,® Sireve | Adjustment Boar
. Listens to Radio | a S. Cut Costs «toss, “svn: Slashes Budget
About Operation U. sms agerrt rims _ Officer (jg) John B. Stroup, died -
By ROBERT. MUSEL Says Government Does in Japan, Sept. 3, of injuries-suf-| , Beech Grove Rate
United Press Staff Correspondent h h orb a : ‘Business as Usual’ ered When he was run over by a’ . lowered by 15 Cents
LUTON, England, Sept. 12 ‘ " , train. | n George “Bernard. shaw, 94, 1f-the rest of the country is to. He served ‘three years in the, The Marion County Tax Ade
-/hounced back from a serious op- stop “business as usual” for the Pacific theater’ of operations dur- justment Board today chimed in ing World War II, beginning on with the ax-swinging County Rew Suites and eomirieune ne Council as it cut the propoged enlisted. budgets of three cpunty municipal “This ir-what-Rebert-PoGerholz, — W..Q Stroup. who. was 41. lig DRILL - a president of the National Asgoci- ‘his Indianapolis address as 2501 ation of Real Estate Boards, told Brookside Ave. week, today cut 15 cents from the Indianapolis Real Estate! Surviving are his wife. Mary; Beech Grove tax-rate, 12 cents | Board today noon. ‘his mother, Mrs. Grace “Herndon, from Speedway City and 3 cents “The!ited the Irish playwright and Ph) There ig no reason why the gov- and a sister Mrs. Blanch Allen, from Rocky Ripple. Hr. Shiv showed amazing ei its domestic admini-|both of Indianapolis, and another
Members of ."C" Battery, 108th Artillery, receive instruction on good housekeeping from their
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duration of the war, the governspirits and with evident apprecia- .
. ment ought to cut its own’ spend tion to broadcasts about his con- g
predicted here last night
ing pattern.
“He passed a comfortable night and his condition is satisfactory,”
he said.
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business to do, he said. > ww. He pointed -out that while the Finance Firm Workers
cuperative powers after under-
tions, A delegation from Southe igoing an operation to mend a|
port appeared asking that their budget be passed as is. “The board approved the Souths hoarding, it is still the biggesi| . {port proposed rate and those o ALTHOUGH doctors hadipoarder of foodstuffs such” as| Approximately 250 consumer Clermont, Williams Creek, Speed(finance company executives and way School City, Lynhurst, Merid-
i , to-!| of questioning the constitutional-|Will attend a. dinner meeting Park. a. did. not oy a law these -days. And he morrow in the Claypool Hotel. Today the board began
erty. right. is bein ravely en- Indiana Association of Install: County Board of Education. The he 23 budgets of Marion County and ip. a trial - psychologist and manage- . Oa ment consultant, will speak on RICE PRODUCTION Eel grass is the favorite food “Customer Good Will-—the Price- | World rice
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J. Arthur Kiss, Chicago, indus- dianapolis will be considered later. 3