Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 November 1950 — Page 13
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Inside Indianapolis
By Ed Sovola
IF MISS AMERICA begged me, I wouldn't kiss her now. No. suh. A man can take just so much and then he's through. Forever. I'm so mad I could crush a
yam. We might as well start from the beginning. A- while back a girl by the name of Yolande Betbeze became Miss America. A month or so ago it was revealed that Miss America would tome to Indianapolis. Talk (proved to be idle, too) went around that honey chile, honey lamb ought to be invited back next Memorial Day to kiss the winner of the “500.” It was perfectly all right with me. But .deep in the recesses of my li'l ol’ mind was an idea to get in on the act, Yolande willing, of course. Why not keees Meees Yolande on the leeeps and announce to the racing world and Wilbur Shaw what was to be expected in the winner's circle after the 1951 classic? Well, why not? I'm free, white and 81. I've been bussed before. With Kleenex in hand, lips freshly scrubbed, breath as sweet as jasmine, I rushed to the Bpeedway office, 729 N. Capitol Ave. 15 minutes before Miss America was scheduled to meet Wilbur Shaw and proceed to the track. The threetime winner of the “500” was going to drive Yolande around the famous oval. or : Wilbur had no objection to me kissing Miss America. In fact, the idea rather appealed to him. (As far as I was concerned, Mrs. Shaw.) a THE ENTOURAGE and Yolande appeared in a fleet of Nashes, big ones and baby ones. Don Ewing, president of the Pennsylvania Motor Inn,
Kissed off . . . "Mr. Inside" watches Wilbur Shaw and Miss America cavort. No kisses,
candy or otherwise, from the Alabama beauty
today, Ed.
It Happened Last Night
By Earl Wilson
- My Dad out in Ohio—who hates to travel away from God’s country—would bust if he ever talked to Yehudi Menuhin; the fiddler. “We've crossed the Equator four times this
.year and taken 63 plane trips since January,”
Menuhin was just telling me. “Damn fool!” my Dad would boil over. “Why doesn’t he get a sensible job so he can stay home and put his feet up some time?”
» EJ o YUP, DAD, travels certainly
we used to hitch up old Dick to the buggy and drive to town. Menuhin, the 34-year-old genfus, may be in Buenos Aires today, Paris day after tomorrow, and St. Louis next week. He's an Atomic Age wandering min‘strel, able to spend only one day so far this year at his home in Alma, Cal. ! “I take planes mostly,” Menuhin, a longhair with short hair,
make ~these fast trips by boat, train or packhorse.” 1 So at any given airport counter you'll see him and his BW. Diana weighing in—with 60 to 80 pounds of excess luggage.
zn nw 2 “It's the most awful waste of money, but what can you do?” Mrs. M. says. “I've got the prettiest evening dresses I haven't worn for three years because-they're too heavy to take slong.”
« « » 2 And there's always a little argument about what must go and what isn't really necessary. “"“yehudi has a six-pound amera that he uses once in six months "to get pictures of some black clouds, but that ALWAYS goes,” ‘she says.
“Afid he's always buying some bright pink-toed :
shoes in Zurich or Budapest to clutter up the Such talk stirs Papa Menuhin to inquire testily whether it's all right to take his vislin. Fact :is, the very solid violin case with two wolins, four bows, and music weighs about 20. pounds. - : : 0 I SSR rr A A 5 THE HCE PESPIE at ThE dirjorts dofi't make ws weigh the violin,” Mrs. Menuhin says.
Americana °° By Robert C. Ruark
BIRMINGHAM, Nov..20—We were speaking
the other day of Charlie Boswell, the totally blind ex-football star who lost his eyes in the war, and who has licked his infirmity miraculously. Charlie rides horses, is-the international blind golf champion of thre world, and, I am told, plays one helluva game of bridge. : be Charlie's golf game is worth talking about. H never fouchéd a club until a shell shattered in his face and put out his eyes. He now shoots consistently in the middle 80s. He has: grooved his swing, and never has to worry about keeping his eyes on the ball. He.ig a fine putter. He has mastered chip shots se. that today he relishes a sand trap. ' : : When Charlie plays golf somebody points his feet in the right direction, and. nestles the club-head belrind the ball. Charlie takes over from there. When he putts, somebody tells him how _ far he is away from the hole. He feels out ‘the terrain of the green and bats the balls gently into the cup. Before he is much older he will probably shoot a hole-in-one.
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LIVING IN the dark poses a number of horrid handicaps to happiness but I truly believe that Charlie Boswell is a happy man, an adjusted man. Certainly he earns a‘ living that is devoid of undue sympathy, since he holds down a department store job that would tax the’ abilities of any man equipped with eyes. He has memorized the city of Birmingham fn his brain. And with his cane, which is not painted white, he goes where ‘he wishes.. All be needs is initial orientation. He times his bus rides by curves and stops and. jounces. His wite, Kitty, could take him to work in their car.
He considers that a waste of her time and He’
handles his transportation on his own. Charlie uses the word “see” constangly. - has to “see” a man- about a deal. Such-and-such ! : have ever “seen.” He
Yehudi Menuhin.
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A Peek at Yolande ‘Stirs Up Corpuscles
who was supplying Nash horsepower, greeted me affably. Miss America was surrounded by manpower—two uniformed policemen—and Miss Lenora 8S. Slaughter, director of the Miss America pageant. A quick but thorough survey of Miss Betbeze sent the red corpuscles into a frenzy. My breath was short. Someone mentioned he detected a jasmine scent. I shut mah mouf. Clearly, Miss Slaughter was in command. Just to be on the safe side (what a mistake that was), I outlined my plan to the Southern lady with the powerful fingers. Before I .could get my guard ‘up, Miss Slaughter was poking a lethal forefinger in my chest informing me that there would be no “cheesecake,” no “gimmicks.” And no kissing. “Ah hev. wuked fo’ yeahs to make evathing konnected with the Miss America pageant wholesome.” (The finger continued to stab me in the chest.) “Ah will not permit this . . . this heah kissin’.” : “Madam,” 1 sald, “if you don’t stop you're going to poke a hole in my shirt.” She stopped. I fully expected my front to be stained crimson. Remember, my red corpuscles had just been jolted. “When is Memorial Day?” asked Miss Slaughter, casting a protective glance at Miss America. I reeled backward. At that point I wouldn’t have attempted to kiss the brunet from Alabama if a company of Union cavalry stood behind -me. Miss Slaughter impressed me as a capable woman, especially if her finger held out. A cry went up to get started for the Speedway. Wilbur, sporting a new crash helmet, was chomping on a pocket accelerator. I believe it was licorice. He has the angles.
"oo THEN A WONDERFUL thing happened. Miss Yolande Betbeze took one dainty step toward me and asked if I was the one who wanted to do the kissing. You could have knocked me over with a candied yam. “Ah sho am, Ma’'m,” I drawled, puckering “up. Hope Tose in my battered chest. But the charge to the automobiles was on. Miss America didn't have time to say anymore. Alas; I'll never know what was in her mind. Not with Miss Slaughter around. Dazed, hurt, bothered and bewildered, with the help of understanding Nash representatives, I flopped in the back seat of a Rambler and soon we were stepping out in front of the Pagoda, _. WHfle flash bulbs exploded, I stood at a safe distance, heart heavy, jasmine breath all gone, corpuscles dormant. While Wilbur Shaw buzzed around the track with ‘Miss America, Clarence Cagle, Speedway superintendent, came over and told me about the new Grandstand A. Men poured concrete for the first 25 feet of seats. It should be completed by Apr. 1. Mr. Cagle said eventually there won't be a wooden stand at the track. Fine. I don’t know whether T walked or rode back. I do know I didn’t kiss Miss America. Ah do declah, she all could beg me all on bend-: ed knee and it wouldn't do any good. Ah's __through. a SE 3a Get Jane Russell to kiss the winner of the “500,” Mr. Shaw. Without a bodyguard.
Traveler Menuhin Is Baek Again
ONCE in Puerto Rico, a five-seat Army plane he was in crashed in a field of sugar cane, but the field was soggy, so nobody was hurt—and that’s his only bad scare up to now. “I don’t know how many times I've crossed the Atlantic,” he said. “Since ’'42 at least twice a year, and often four times.” He's looking forward to Dec. 19. He'll be back home in Aima—for all of two weeks. He has become fun-seeking, particularly when filling out all the customs questionnaires about “purpose of trip” and “where did you spend last night?” ete. 7 ; < "8 FOR THE FIRST he often answers “Smuggling” and for the second, “In my wife's arms."
He's still traveling, so maybe nobody ever reads"
the stuff.
Yup, Dad, as I was. saying, it's changed a little since ‘the days when we thought we were going some if we got the one-lung Ford off the mud road and into town once a week. : "8 39 THE MIDNIGHT FARL . . . Good Rumor Man: Prediction: Police Commissioner Murphy will resign. Magazine articles. will make him .s0 desirable to Big Business that he'll find it hard to reject a big job . . . Jerry Lester and his TV star, Dagmar, are out of harmony . .. Jerry's considered now for one of the big NBC Sunday night shows + . Faye Emerson and Skitch ! Henderson’ll wed in Mexico . . . Corlis Leachman (onetime “Miss Chicago”) emerges as a big hit in “A Story for a Sunday Evening.” '
5 2 a Earl's Pearls . .. Taffy Tuttle tes Jane Harvey, the Martinique singer, that a secretary takes notes on her knee so her boss’ll take note of her knee.
= = TODAY'S NONSENSE: Ed Wynn in his fine TV show proposed a puppet show for babies . . to be called “Howdy Didie” . . .Corlis Leachman Patti Page offers the Goldwy
“like mother uséd to make.” ”That’s Earl, brother.
Blinded Ex-Gridder |
Even *Sees’ Happiness
goes. to New York annually to “see shows.” He attends sports events constantly, and “sees” them through the eyes af the announcer, his companions, and the roar of the crowd. He “saw”
South Pacific, and he says Mary Martin is the
cutest gal he has ever “seen.” : = 0 Hh RA : THERE 1S at least one instance of Charlie going off on a football week-end with a sportswriter friend, who promised solemnly to look after Charlie. Said chum got loaded. Charlie spent the week-end steering- his buddy around. “One of the first true cases of the blind leading the blind,” Charlie says with a snort. : I mentioned earlier that Charlie was furious at fate when the medicos told him, finally, that he was kaput in fhe eye department. Then and there he made up his mind to accept none of the
usual social crutches of the blind, especially the
war-blind. He gets furious at overaccented sympathy. His life—from the dressing of his children to a Saturday stint at the barbecue pit—is as normal as that of any man with sight—except, of course he can't see. “I never measured a distance in my blind life,” he says. “I am not sensitive, though. You just take me to the door of my department store, and some pretty old girl will steer me to the elevator. After that I'm home.” ool
TO SEE Charlie among his sports stock in the department store is a sart of miracle in itself.
From-.a fishook to a shotgun, he knows his inven- -
tory as intimately as -he knows the razor he shaves with or the necktie he knots impeccably every morning. Charlie has' full disability pay from the Army, of course, but today he doesn’t need it. He can compete who has his sight. : oe Charlie Boswell is a happy man, happy with his home, his job, his wife, his kids. Charlie is having a pretty swell time, eyes or no eyes, which ought to be of some atd and comfort to the lads who come home from Korea today . a mighty mean trick of fate.
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1950
Eight Hoosiers ‘What's Superman D On Casualty List + eTE0 | Ro
6 Wounded, 1 Hurt, Another Missing
Eight new Indiana names apipear on the Defense Department casualty list released today. WOUNDED IN ACTION Cpl. Joseph P. Gallagher, son {of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gal{lagher; ‘1341 E. Tabor St. Pfc. John W. Cron, Marines, json of Mrs. Mary J. Cron, 1233 'E. Tabor St. ! Pfc. Robert J. Brown, son of IMrs. Frances M. Brown, Marion. { Cpl. William D. Clark, son of ‘Mrs Catherine M. Clark, Shelbyiville. 2 i i Pfc. William FPF. Shepman, {brother of Miss Janet K. Shepman, Richmond. { Cpl. Roy E. Gushwa Jr, | Marines, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy |E. Gushwa, Elkhart. i | A INJURED _ a | M/Sgt. Ellsworth J. Taylor, son tof Mrs. Dora E. Ward, Leopold. MISSING IN ACTION Pfc. Herbert V. McKeehan, son
of Mrs. Ethel M. McKeehan, {South Bend | In his last letter to his mother, |
Pfc. Cron mentioned .the ‘very. cold weather” in Korea and he said that he “sure would like to | have a homecooked meal” Mrs.*Cron hasn’t heard from her son since he was reported; wounded on! Nov. 8. Enlisting in. the Marines three years ago Jan. 28. Pfc Cron was stationed at Parris | Island, S.C., before. being sent overseas. He landed in Korea in July. | A student at Manual High School, he joined the service as soon as he was 17. Hospitalized in Japan Cpl. Gallagher is in a hospital {in Japan recovering from wounds received in Korea Nov. 2. He wrote his mother that he “just - got the flash from a hand tion. grenade.” He suffered a concussion and an eye injury. | Fighting with 70th Heavy Tank (Battalion, First Cavalry Division, {Cpl. Gallagher “picked up a lit{tle shrapnel” in September. He
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|complications set in later and he| . or . i lhad to be sent to a hospital for| Divorces Declining, Home Life Is More Pure, {a month, 2 : | . - . I ntuate’ of Manual itignl Dr. Kagawa Tells Baptist Church Session | School, he enlisted in ‘Army Jan.| By EMMA RIVERS MILNER, Times Church Editor A new Japan with new freedoms and ideals is rising out of the
|7, 1948. He plans to make the |Army his career. ruins of war, according to Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa.
‘Hunt Philippine ‘Bandits leader. said this and many. other things in a filled First Baptist { Church last night.
‘Who Killed American |
MANILA, P. I, Nov. 20 (UP)— this morning and is scheduled for! around” in slacks. he said. {The Philippine constabularyitalks this afternoon-and tonight: «phe Japanese imitate every {scoured the countryside 30 miles) Women of the city will sponser thing Christians do,” was Dr. |south of Manila today for three @ Kagawa meeting at 1:30 p. Mm. Kagawa's pronouncement as he ; Lined. a today in the St. Mark United Lu-|tried to impress his Indianapolis armed bandits who killed 8|heran Church, and young people listeners with their responsibility |Seattle, Wash., businessman and yj) hear the Japanege Christian, ag Christians. : {wounded a Russian_companion. iat 7:30 p. m. in the Third ®hris-| “Time was when Japanese The American. John Herber, 58..4ian Church, |women walked behind their Huslwas: shot-in- the chest and ab {bands on the stréet,” he went on
He spoke-yesterday afternoon to ministers and church workers
Divorces Decline
|domen yesterday. near Silang - ~~ “Now : . |while_ motoring to Tagaytay in| “Polygamy almost has Sisape i i Sr os [Cavite province with three friends. peared, divorce has lessened], - eS arr ” : [Cavite pov) Krivenko, 55. a Rus- Pr and Japanese home life have heen admitted to the govsian businessman, was seriously is purer due to Christian teach-|STImERL : stitatl { Tabs wounded in the abdomen. ing,” was Dr. Kagawa's state-| e rev cons a on.p apa American businessman Frank ment last night. All through his Prone t 2 re ie : same Halling and Krivenko's wife Boet- address, whica tiie large audience Dey fresdom 0 Shesen. kina - the others in the car, es- came through a driving rain to T® gi Lae Press oF a eungs \caped unhurt. (hear, he repeatedly held aloft bi a ee as sy ® Dr | Mr. Halling told authorities his copy of the Bible. SHI vi Rights, according to Dr. ; He seemed fo punctuate every Kagawa.
Need l.ove of Jesus “To preserve this beautiful new constitution, we need the love of Jesus,” he adaed simply. Now and then the speaker toughed briefly on ‘the suffering endured by his countrymen. He, himself, ate so many mulberry leaves in an effortto satisfy his
{that all were robbed.
FOE Chief
{vivid remack wtih this gesture ito dramatize the tremendous effect the Holy Scriptures. have had on his island home. |. “I bring ‘expressions of grati‘tude from th2 churches of Japan to the-churches of America,” were his opening words. “As soon as
the war was ‘over, you began -to hie ned] Tv Stee ty send many missionaries to us hunger immediately after the war
and packages also of the neces- that’ he “almost became a silksities. Christian. brotherhood Worm.” He recalled the millions
transcends enmities” killed and other millions ‘“‘dis- | T Missi W Th solved” by the atom bomb. - | TACRS mon Yom But such - references, dlways
RIBS RARY RAVER EI RIERA RE information rachis a back to Francis Xavier; whocame Money formerly BATMATKEd 400 years ago under the sponsor-- armaments now goes to-—educate. ship--of. the . Roman Catholic the children. including the blind Church. He showed how it .lan+ and deaf. Th: emperor no longe? ‘guished for many years and’then is a demi-god, and countléss Bibles
was renewed by all denomina- are being printed. and distributed tions in the 19th centw among the populace. He contrasted the differenced be- reek —— tween the Christian concepts. of Suspend Woman Doctor
the missionaries and those of a . . traditionally non-Christian Accused of Kidnaping superstitious country. SANTA FE, N. M, Nov. 20 William B. Hornblower, San “I didn't love Nature as a boy (UP).— The. New Mexico State Francisco, grand worthy presi- but feared her,” Dr. Kagawa re- Board of Medical Examiners todent “of the Fraternal Order of called. “Woods and streams were day suspended the license 6f Dr. Eagles, will address members of peopled to me with evil spirits, Nancy Campbell, brilliant woman {Fountain Square Aerle, FOE, at/devils and ghosts. But American obstetrician who: confessed kid{8 p. m.. Thursday. . boys love Nature.” 3 naping a 9-year-old girl. Mr. Hornblower will speak on, The changes. in. the dress of Dr. C. J. McGoey. secretary of {fraternity objectives, including Japanese girls indicate—their re- the state agency, announced the {the war preparedness measures cently gained freedom, their suspension but added that? the {taken by the lodge. Ipresent-day status. Whereas for- board would take.no action on The attorney is a former mem- merly, they walked sedately in revocation until all the evidence {ber of the California lesgislature. their long kimonos with wide is in. {cr ra ER ee rt et io gee mtr ini AP
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Rickey Williams, 4626 Hinesley Ave. and Mitzie, same address .
Japanese Are Fast Imitating Christians; |
Dr, Kagawa, who is heralded as Japan's greatest Christian
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The. Japanese leader traced. the. were-sulokiv-felowed-ty hon rier il -rmcan-1-J 3) . Out Windo = Sess nr sen ae Seen Climbing Out Window
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paneling In Murder | Emmett Street,
H.L Wahl on Trial =
Both Marion County criminal | courts began impaneling juries to= day to hear first degree murder trials. ’ In Criminal Court 1, Harley IL, Wahl, 44, 928 Darnell St., began. the fight for his life in the beat-ing-drowning of his common-law wife. Wahl is charged with the murder of Louise Woodford, 28, of the Darnell St. address. The body of Mrs. Woodford was found _ Apr. 26 in Wahl's home. An autopsy indicated she had died from a brain injury and drowning. x = Bn Criminal Court 2, Emmett Street, 67, of 440 Hiawatha St. {was on trial for the July 21 shoots ing of a 28-year-old neighbor. | Police said the - shooting sioccurred over an argument in a card game during which Robert {Ward was Killed.
“10 Most Wanted
| Listed by FBI "Ask Public to Keep Sharp Lookout
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (UP) —The FBI called on, Americans |today to keep a sharp lookout for {the nation’s “10 most wanted leriminals” It warned that ail of them are believed to be armed {and are dangerous. ' -The agency said anyone with information about those on its latest list of “public’ enemies” should get in touch with the nearest FBI field office or headquarters here. Tips from citizens led to the capture of several fugitives on eaclier lists. Includes Three Murderers The latest roster includes three murdecers, five robbers, - an escaped convict -and one man wanted for assault. : They are; Thomas J. Holden, 55, wanted for murder—five feet ____ |niné, 142 pounds, draws his lips | tightly over his teeth. Henry Randolph -Mitchell, 55, bank robber—five feet five, 155 {pounds, a daring gambler. Glen Roy Wright, 51 robber— five feet eight, 130 pounds, gune shot scar on left forearm and face . scars. ut an Morris Guralnick, 35—stabbed girl in love quarrel, escaped New York, two upper front teeth missing. : Morley Vernon King, 49, strane gled wife to death—six foot, one, slight limp, accomplished chef, speaks Spanish, French and Italian. : Henry Clay Tollett, 56, bank. ‘obber and prison .breaker--five "feet, eight, 180 pounds, southern accent, ‘Henry — Goldie — Clay” tatooed on left calf. William Francis Sutton, 50, - robber, five feet eight, 155 pounds, a conservative dresser, avid sports fan and gum-chewer. Frederick J. Tenuto, 35, Philae delphia hoodlum, five feet five, ® sensitive about height, slight fors eign accent. : : | Thomas Kling, 44, attempted ‘robbery, five feet five, 124 pounds, numerous tattoos, including “Rose lof No Man’s Land” on his left
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Cackles
TROY, N. ¥.. Nov 20 (UP) — Farmer George arm.
Moore reported today that | Meyer Dembin, 38, New York one of his hens laid a 15- hoodlum and opium addict, fives ounce, orange-shaped egg, foot eight, well-dressed ladies’ measuring nine inches by man, likes to gamble.
eight inches. . cS 3 is STAGE ROTSITE oF naps Sonal Zone Official Dies JAKARTA, Indonesia, Nov. 20, "ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. Nov, (UP)--Indonesian police were ex- 20 (UP)—A Lyle Prather, 62, died pected today to follow up a week- yesterday at Ventnor City, N., J, end, roundup of alleged Commu- just. 30 days a¥ier he -relired as nists with a new wave of arrests: General Manager of the Panama . , Informed sources said the raids Railroad Co., Canal Zone. Death were “only the beginning.” was attributed to a heart attack.
Pclies M='; Tavern Robbers
“Two men were caught in the act of burglarizing an Indianapolis tavern. a 16-year-old boy was nabbed on the roof of a heuse, and police investigated two other burglaries last night and early today, . .. Mark Connelly, 18, of 225 N. Park Ave. and Howard Tyree, 18, of 214 N. Park Ave., admitted burglarizing a tavern at 229-N. Park Ave. They were nabbed after police saw them climb from a window and run. 2 4 mt rife Arrested a block away. ‘they and a quantity of wedding bands led officers to the rear of the valued at $1200 were stolen from .. tavern, where 32 fifths and 25 the window of the Brightwood pints of assorted wines. were Jewelry Co., 2329 Station St. found. They were to be arraigned early today. - : in Municipal Court today. Mrs. Nan Maker, 51, of 2333 A 16-year-old boy was turned Station St., told police she heard over - to Juvenile Aid .Division the plate glass window crash and after police caught him on the saw a’ red car speed away. roof of the horhe of James Miller,/ The office of 6 the Clemmons . 225 E. Terrace St. _|Trucking Co., 501 8. West St., was Rug Stolen ‘ransacked sometime over the Mr. Miller called police when he week-end. heard the boy scrambling up the| Delbert Eskew, 844 N. Oxford roof toward a sécond floor win-|St., told police $8 was taken from dow. [the petty cash box after the safe A diamond engagement rihg'combination was battered off.
A Christmas Carol :
By Charles Dickens