Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 November 1950 — Page 27

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8 are saying hurry, dear, we’ll be late for the dinn, John, will you help me turn the turkey? , .. hope our families are enjoying the spread. Bill, how come we draw all the holidays? We must be lucky... . Nurse, the pain is coming back. + . . Bless our table, O Lord, apd bring to each of us. . .. You children are going to spoil your appetite if you keep on nibbling everything. . . . By next Thanksgiving I'll be out of here and eating decent chow. . . . Mister, can you spare an old man enough money to buy something to eat. I just hit this town... . You're wanted at the hospital right away... . If we only had a letter, if I could know he's all right. . . . Open the windows in the kitchen and let some of this smoke out. . . . I like duck better than turkey, the meat isn’t so dry. . . . Anyone else want another one before we eat? . , . Give me a hamburger with onions, side order of potatoes and cup of coffee. . . . Too bad it’s so miserable outside, after dinner we could have gone for a drive. . . . Honey, what did you do with that brown pair of socks” ... John. do something with the furnace. the living room is like an icebox. . . . Conductor, when does this train get into Indianapolis? Billy and Joan, we're going to male believe that our Daddy is with us. Remember what I told you last night? . . . I still don’t know why they have to come over here every year and stuff themselves. . . . I don’t ‘think this bird is going to be as tender as the one we had last year-. .. I'd much rather plan a Thanksgiving meal for 10 or 12 than for three... . Call the dogs in, Steve. We better start back or the old lady will have a fit. . . . Notv what did you forget? For erying out loud, if I ran my office like vou run your kitchen we'd be eating bread and water today. «..I wish 1 had gone to a school where you could go home for Thanksgiving. . . . We can't drive that far, IT have a couple of bad tires. ... I don’t see anything wrong with working Thanksgiving. I'd rather be here than sitting around with the in-laws watching them drink up my booze, ... Where to, Mister? ... Isn't this a pretty day? Here we are lying around the sand while the folks back home are freezing. . . . You boys just eat all you want. There's plenty left for seconds. . . . You know, dear, I was just thinkihg, maybe we should

. have invited a couple soldier boys for dinner.

«+. Jane, is David over at your place? Tell him to get home this instant. . . . Everybody should have their own place, I don't care how

small it is. ... I don’t want to hear another word about a television set. You should be thankful you have food on the table... . So

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson :

NEW YORK, Nov. 23—'Twas -my gorgeous mother-in-law’s birthday and the amazing thing was that I remembered it. For this date I had arranged an interview with another mother-in-law specialist, Herb Polesie. Herb’s the mother-in-law jokemaker on the "Twenty Questions” program, ll and he sometimes gives an im- f pression he doesn’t like mothers-in-law . . . his in particular: “She says her ' folks went west in a covered wagon,” Herb § says. “If you ever saw her, you'd §4

know why they covered the wagon . . . She has me eating f. out of her hand . . * She hates } to do the dishes . . . She leads a double life . . . hers and ours «.. We had a blessed event in ‘our house recently. She went home .,."

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NOW HERB is a mild little guy with a sweet disposition and 1 couldn’t*understand him hating his mother-in-law. Herb Polesie I went to see him and argue with him about it. “My mother-in-law’s legs attract men,” he said before I got started. “They're shaped like a magnet. “She says her folks were early settlers, but if you saw some of the unpaid bills around the house, vou wouldn't believe it. ny ” Sti TN oe oe yn trom ncn “I told her I had my life insured and she sneered, ‘You would! Always thinking of yourself first! ; *

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“A FELLOW trying to sell me an encyclopedia, ‘This will tell you everything you want to know.’ . “I told him, ‘I don’t need it. I have a mother-in-law’.” Sl __ It turned rout that Herb and’ his mother-in-

she likes to bet on the races, are close friends

and that they often go to the track and lose ""their money together.

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His mother-in-law lives in Weehawken, N. J, but Herb won't tell us her name. (He insists he

knows it.) “She's a cover girl—likes to stay under the Herb said.

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today: If you don't er. LA X

“Jaw, whom he calls “Hot Horse Helen,” because

PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS writing to him (as-

they do to your. chubby correspondent) asking for advice on handling mothers-in-law.

I tell them to be sweet, which is my natural ~

manner, but ‘Herb tells them to kid the mother-in-law-and, if she ‘gets bossy, to tell her to “Quit being a mother-in-law.”

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“Another thing,” says Herb, “never refer to your mother-in-law as ‘that old battleax.”

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By Robert €C. Ruark

‘MIAMI Nov. 23—The City of Miami Beach is

"a big blearéd and twisted right ‘now, result of ‘a

recent hurricane, and it comforts nobody here to learn that Mr. Benjamin Finkle, otherwise known. as “The Eye,” dwells oncs again in Florida. Mr. Finkle has a unique fame elaim. It was he who placed the whammy severely on the city in the now historic hurricane . of 1036. His annoyance at Dade County stemmed from a brush with the law, which placsy him mporarily in the jug. 8 iit measure Mr. Finkle fixed the community. with his malevolent orb, or evil eye ape : nd rains arrived, o I rs work back into the bay, and Mr. Firkle's touchy honor was clean again. . A a 3 IEVE that I may have discover . oe East, back in the early Washington days when he was bending his baleful stars on fist fighters. He was a mussy little man wit! sad cocker-spaniel eyes, a perpetual cigar, and 2 chronic aversion to spending any money Ww Jats soever. Also his right eye had a fishy gleam tha was presently translated into the Finkle twinkle. The Eye's constant companions were Mr, Sam (The Mumbler) Sobol—with whom he is currentlv ‘associated in Miami—Mr. Goldie Ahearn, and Mr. Lou Diamond. Mr. Diamond, ow dead, handled the fighters, He was called ‘“‘the honest brakeman,’ for the simple reason that he never stole a boxcar. As I recall this unholy trio, also abetted by Monsieur Alphonse Weill, another manager, carried a to a featherweight ch,

pionship, largely on the high octanage of Mr. ed disquieting eyeball.. & : said of Mr. Finkle that he won the IT MAY be said of Mr. Finkle that he won the with ‘his teans-Atiantie

dough. . . . That's Earl, brother.

fighter named Joe Archibald

‘Casa Seville.

-dleground, which won.

On Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving Day . . . Some will remember to be thankful. : . as

the potatoes burned, so open a can of beans. ..« + I wish we had the new car for today. . .. If I ate another bite I'd ‘blow up. ... Why don’t we just stay at home and relax. Do we have to go somewhere all the time? ... No, no, you're not going to help with the dishes. + + « Thanksgiving is sure different when the kids aren't arcund.... We'll build a fire in the fireplace later on in the evening, not now. «.. Hello, anybody home? , . , let's not talk politics today. ... Let's have a nice, quiet dinner. for a change. ... Whete did you say the peaches were? ... After dinner I'm _ going to write a long letter to Charles and tell him how much we all missed him today... . This is a bad one, Joe.. Better call for another ambulance. . . . It would bé cheaper if we went out and had dinner... . I said if you don’t quit shooting your mouth off, so help me, I'll go to some drive-in and eat. . . . Are the Smiths coming over or not? Let's get the food out here, I'm starving to death. ... My mother gave me the recipe for this stuffing. ... It’s just plain silly to drive 100 miles to eat dinner, . . . This your first year away from home, soldier? You'll get used to it. . .. Don't go in there on the sofa and fall asleep: You know we have to drive over to Bill and Ann's place. . : . Oh

doesn't mean the end of the world, honey. We'll start over again. . . . Tom, why don't we sell this big house and move into the city? If you hadn’t stayed out all night you would feel better today. ... Yes, yes, ves, Daddy will take you all for a ride after dinner. ... didn’t say TI would rather be eating at

you people came. Thought you'd never get here. . . Sweetheart, did I ever tell you you are the best cook in this whole cockeyed world? . .. Believe me, this is the last Thanksgiving I'm

room. worthwhile on anyway. . . . You take the drumstick and no arguments. The idea... . We don't have much, dear, but at least we're

together. There will be better days. There have to be.

Gives Useful Hints

up a bureau to handle mother-in-law problems. Herb’s mother-in-law getd a little miffed if he doesn’t insult her on the air regularly. My gorgeous mother-in-law watches my column to make sure I mention her frequently. One time when Herb complimented his mother-in-law on a dress and asked if it was new, she said, “I live in this dress!” “It looks like you take in roomers in it, too, Herb said. Well, she mu%t love the guy, away with that!

to let him get

THE MIDNIGHT EARL William Green's retiring as head of the AFL after 26 years. . . . Paul Robeson’s 15-room Connecticut home's for sale. . . . Six officers of a female armed service resigned after a Kinseyish § mess involving wire-tapped love §™ chatter. . . . Toots Shor still declines big money to do TV unless his guest stars are paid. . . . A famous orchestra conductor is getting a reputation for forget ting his foreign accent unless he’s on his guard. . . . Rosetta Shaw, a Lou Perry singing discovery, is going great at the

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TV TATTLE — The rumor v Fred Allen’s quitting TV is un- A true. Concerning Bob Hope's $2 ta Sh million suit against Joh Crosby, Rosetta Shaw Fred said: “Crosby should sue Hope for flattery.”

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America’s Thoughts

Mother-in-Law Expert |

Lower Egg

Some Cities

- Withdrawal of Support May Drop Price at 30 Cents

or three months.

Jan. 1.

prices always decline during

{ production.

lary and February. Can't Unioad: Stock

The Bureau of

would average even

of egg powder it had to buy |support.’

, He said {he government expects! to lose $85 million of the $100 million it has invested in dried eggs.

“Bought to Hold Price Under the support program,

{government bought up dried egg {powder from processors who paid [Midwest farmers a minimum of for ‘“nest-run,”|

[25 cents a dozen lor ungraded, eggs. Rep. John W. |Mass.) said it was {supports were dropped.

Heselton.

{supports for butter other foods weren't too.

and

The government has been buying eggs in unlimited quantities since May, 1948, to hold prices at

a given support price level. eggs have been bought in form of dried egg powder so government could have large ventories without having spoil, = The dried egg

{most 3.5 billion shell eggs,

3 Dynamiters Held

As Delinquents

‘Likes Chemistry,’ One Youth Says

Three boys, one of whom said the had a “flair for chemistry,” were tharged “yesterday with de: {linquehcy in the dynamiting of a

. Harpo and Chico Marx may join the NBC |yacant house Saturday: night.

Sunday lineup. The Hartmans are expected-to do the Dec. 10 b’cast. FE 2 : WISH I'D SAID THAT—'‘Often when a man sells a girl a bill of goods, she gets the goods and he gets the bill.”—Jerry (Old Knick) Bergen.

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off to Nassau

___ WHO'S NEWS—Brad Dresser’s of fo manage the Jungle Club. . . . Arline Judge lasted two weeks in that fur business. ... Woolie Donahue and ad exec John McCullough are sharing model Joan Castle's date book. . . . Margaret O'Brien's off for Puerto Rico to do the Ed Gardner

show. . . . Burgess Meredith's switched back to beautiful Kaja Sundsten. They may marry next month.

may buy Ray Murphy’s house at 603 Park. . . . Mike Romanoff’'s restaurant-shopping in N, Y. and Chicago. . . . Gloria De Haven flies in- to see comic Mickey Manners. . : claims. a new record for cross-country travel —62

hours in a Muntz jet. . . . Rex Harrison and Lili Palmer jazzed it up at Eddie Condon’s. * ote oe

TODAY'S BEST LAUGH —Herb Shriner mentions an actress who was face-lifted so often the doc took off her ears and put on handles. The Ames Brothers define blackmail as innuen-

‘Ege’ Puizx Wham * On Miami Beac

Mr. Finkle had an early aversion to Adolf. It is a matter of record that when Pvt. First Class Finkle landed in Paris, Mr. Hitler was apprised of the fact and promptly committed ‘suicide. ; 2 Since ‘serving with distinction in the Armed Forces overseas—he never got court-martialed— The Eye has returned to a three-fold career. He now puts the shriveling stare on rasslers, race horses and occasional prize fighters. He has

. briefly considered the idea of a career in tele-

vision. And he is trying out his special whammy on Joseph Stalin. If successful, it will be the first instance in which the Iron Curtain has been pierced bya glance. ae

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AS A MATTER of cold fact, The Eye whammied the entire Kentucky Derby field, except MidHe is considering college football as an extension of his talent, since, he remarks: “I got a two-platoon eye.” ? Insofar as rassling is concerned, The Eye says: put it on recently in Charlotte for Bibber McCoy's opponent. and Bibber win easy. I am a little ashamed of putting the eye on rasslers, but the pay is steady and it keeps me in practice for bigger things.” : The Eye informs me that his military career suffered, a bit, when he put the ocular blast on a general whose softball team had not lost a game -in three, years. Both The Eye and his commanding officer were immediately shipped overseas, grim treatment for a victorious sorcerer of 40-some years.

Mr. Finkle says he is not sure how long it |

will take him to disintegrate the Russian empire,

but he feels that Mr. Stalin is weakening from the |

effects of his long-distance assault. The Eye figures roughly that 1954 should see him triumphant over Communists. In the meantime, he has flexed his ocular muscles against Miami, and would be perfectly happy except for one thing:

“lI am taking the eye on the road now. I—

eyeballs has forced him to ||’ form.

The case against of fourth boy

was continued. An adult

charged in Municipal Court with {unlawful possession of explosives. | In statements to the court two {boys admitted stealing three cases {and 18 sticks of dynamite from a!

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[contractor's warehouse.

| They stole them, they told the

Price Seen in

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (UP) | —Abandonment of government egg supports may drop prices! more than 30 cents a dozen in! some cities ‘during the next two |

Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan announced late yesterday the government will halt its costly; egg support program

With or without supports, egg |

winter and spring period of flush | I | Better-than-average aby : ¥ {quality eggs recently have whole- | put the bird into the oven at 6. ... The flood |saled in New York City at 25 to| {30 cents higher than last Janu-|

about time egg He sent {Mr. Brannan a wire asking why| some abandoned,

them inventory now contains the equivalent of al-

the!

for

the

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All the the in-

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|court, because one of the boys Judge Dan

[liked to “mix powders and make

{things explode.” Blew Up Chimney

mite,” one statement of a 16-year-old read, “we found a house on E. B'WAY BULLETINS —The Duke of Windsor 21st” St. with only the chimney and standing. I put a stick and a half

under it and blew it up.

“Then last Saturday we decided . ‘Donald O'Connor lt5 go to an abandoned house at 200 S. Kitley Ave. We put seven Obliged to relieve Mr. Dawson of sticks in the chimney, lit the fuse Dis guardian duties because of a : technicality. Mr. Dawson failed to “We came back later and found Make an inventory of the holdthe side of the house blown out. !ngS of his ward. Then I took 19 sticks, and when

and left.

we were ready to set them

theard the police siren. We ran .|away but rememibered the police

Met Through Clubs .

FAN

Thanksgiving Day, 1950

tle David's guardian.

Jack I.. Walker,

“i , ~._ evangelist who claims he spent Right after we got the dyna- pours in heaven, filed the law

suit to have Mr. Dawson removed

of guardianship.

Judge

Mr. Dawsc

Dawson: |

guardian?” “I will not

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: resign -under fire,” The boys come from three In- Mr. Dawson said, “even {hough

spent under

Technicality Cited White

said ' he

. AP Lr nee: Sg en a A IL TRA TRY. ete ay ten—as- the boy government “control ef land and

e Indianapolis Times

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1950

Court Removes Dawson 5 New Liquor As Little David's Guardian Permits OK'd

Boy and Father Leave Indianapolis, Say Business Ended, Won't Be Back

Little David, his father and his evangelist group left Indianapolis yesterday saying they would not be back. They said their business here is finished. ? It was the ‘climax of a two-day fight in Probate Court during Commission has granted 75 new which tempers flared and legal minds battled as Little David liquor permits since the ban was|. watched apparently unconcerned.: The action ended yesterday as tell White renioved at- voice that if I don’t resign, I'll be orney James M. Dawson as Lit- kicked out.”

father of the

to get a complete accounting .days in which to make a complete

the money the

was

contended there was no property in his care which would -make up an _ inventory. At the conclusion of yesterday's : [ERE IIA The 19 sticks. When we| >! ne, Judge White-asked Mer—A—speeia} meeting of property ~ reanre-bacik-to-get-them, the potice got us’ the statement concluded.’

dianapolis high schools and are I don’t want the job. But I can

|sophomores or above. They met

‘through club work, they said.

Announce Cast

The fifth is William Goodall, 21 pan i « lof 936 E. 58th St. * For Civic Production The youths were. released in Jack L. Hatfield, Civic Theater

{custody of their parents pending director, has announced the cast for the Civic’s December produc-

|{investigation by juvenile court.

MINES CAUSE FIRE DAMP A blue flame which appears

tion.

certain pieces of land probably is Hartman, due to methane, also called marsh Robert Rutherford, Nancy Rickgas or fire damp. If there are ley, mines in the vicinity it may be Loomis ard Peg Lyda will appear escaping from them; it is also in the play, which opens Dec. 8 at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the playground formed by the decay of vegeta- at the Indiana University Bldg. IOOF Hall at Pershing and W.labout 20 mills busy in the United at the Fair Grounds. I

tion,

edy by William McClerry.

on Donna

Howard

Leigh Collins, Joan

Ashley,

“Good Housekeeping,” com-

Fred

Rowdabaugh,

Robert

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Danger Seen In Protestant Church Union - -|

British Archbishop

| Urges Faiths to Keep

Separate Identities | ‘By FRED B. HUBBARD . = | MELBOURNE, Australia, Nov, !23 (CDN)—S8hould all the Protestant churches in the world band {together to form one common |church? This question, which has often intrigued churchgoers, was answered firmly for the Church of England the other day by a dise {tinguished visitor to Australia. Declared Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, spirit ual head of millions of Anglicans and primate of all England: “There are great dangers in having only one church. The church of Rome is” an example of the danger that arises in a strongly constituted church which {brooks no opposition .in its own ranks. . “I don’t want the separate churches to lose their own identities yet, and it would be extremely difficult to write a constitution.” Sees Inter-Communion While ruling out a “constitutional reunion,” the primate saw

one step Protestant churches could make for closer relationships.

“I look forward to the time,” (he declared, “when by assimila{tion churches will be ready to exchange their ministers, their people, and when there will be full |inter-communion between. them.” | The archbishop made equally firm points as he paid visits to Australian capital cities. He said for example that the welfare state “is a fine experiment, but is in the process of trial and error. I think that we shall prove in England that it does make for a wellordered, coherent, and cohesive society.” Of communism, the primate said: “I do not think communism as a philosophy will spread now. There is a general return to a feeling that whatever else is right atheism is wrong.” War May Be Necessary Of war, he said: “War is sinful |« . . but it may be’ necessary for # = ' [Christian states to choose war as the only way in which to protect those things of which they are the guardians.” : Of the church and politics: “In|terference by the. church in poli= {tics can only have fatal conse|quences. Instead of interfering, |the church must co-operate with the state.” Of education: “Man’s confounded inquisitiveness has split {knowledge into so many specialized fields that it takes a lifetime |for everybody to learn a little bit . » « and they have no time to look at one another's fields of life.” CT COPYHRAY, 1950, Tor THE THAN RAST Tes

] Photo Montage by Lloyd B. Walton, Times Staff Photographer. Thoughts and prayers for the welfare of our service men at the front in Korea and in training camps across the country rise above the festive celebration of our American Thanksgiving Day.

._ Post-Thanksgiving Lifting of Ban Brings Outlook Is Bad Flood of Applications For Radio Listeners

: | Indiana's’ Alcoholic . Beverage

By Science Service WASHINGTON, Nov. 23—Bad news” for radio listeners is that short wave radio broadcasts probMore than 200 applications for ably will be blacked out from the little—but valuable—scraps of [time to time during the six days paper which permit a merchant to following Thanksgiving. sell bottled whiskey to the public| * Radio forecasters at the NaI A are on file here. tional Bureau of Standards here ; Re court gave Mr. Dawson 20 ¢« Thousands of others are on file predicted that a severe storm in with the various county liquor the jonosphere would cause recepboards over the state. Here they tion 10 be disturbed with weak are processed and approved or re- signals and fading—and occasjected before going to the state onal blackouts—Friday through

i a lifted--on--new--tquor-licenses—in-by the tone of the court's

October.

Given 30-Day Deadline “So ordered,” the judge said as he walked from the bench.

accounting of the funds of the boy preacher. : The custody of the boy ndw

reverts fo -his father, who was liquor hoard. : next Wedriesday, SE appointed guardian in® April bY! The Democratic-controled liquor ! : a Florida couft. board “has indicated that no Col. Welsch. Named Little David testified he now

“freeze orien i! go back on the Acting Chief at Fort ermits. for a ng ti t > v f A 'ong Ume to Tome Col. Harry A. Welsch, senior. New Controls Hinted ‘army instructor, Officers Reserve Legislative efforts to put.ad- Corps, is in command at Ft. Benditional controls on the sale of Jamin Harrison during the illness liquor ar€ expected to crop up dur- of Sol John H. Gibson. a ng the January session of fhe Cok W Sa ry = dndians.Geueral Assembly. tom an inspection ol tie Ae “THe Tiqior board Han been ae: own ORC School AIR IoWR, Pag cused. of “playing politics”: for i an Jae conference at “Fi. Hfting the ban on new liquor. per- Monroe, 3. Se . its He said new procedures -and Top Republivans’ eriticized the changes in ORC were outlined for ; the coming year. Representatives of all continental armies in the

lives in Florida with his father, mother and two sisters,

Landlords to Hear . Federal Control Talk

owners to hear the. prablem of

business “will be held here “to: Morrow. . William Schmidt, Chicago, national president of the Property Owners of -Amerjea, Ing. ‘will address the. state chapter on “Shall All Property and Business in U. S United Statés were present. Be Owned and Continfled by the An: effort to raise the price of . ” “ederal Government?” AAR: dL SN . nl oer will be held in_the Liquor censes will be hudied by Wabash Biologist ‘ Claypool Hotel ‘at 8 p. m. with Wo legisiative committees, it was : : Store Association President J, F.|disclosed. : Named Academy Fellow

McCawley chairman of the dis-| cussion. !

move as. an effort to ‘pressure’ tavern ewners ‘into line as contributors.

spo — | Times State’ Service OLD STEEL TRANSFORMED CRAWFORDSVILLE, Nov. 23 : rr en Transforming old railroad rails|— Pr Willis H. Johnson, chairSPONSORS CARD PARTY into useful products, such as|/man of the ‘biology department, The Order of the Rainbow forifence posts, ~ bedsteads, clothes| Wabash College, has been named Girls will sponsor a card party poles, wheelbarrow nandles and|2 fellow of the Indiana Academy equipment, keeps(of Science. The' honor is in recognition of his contributions to the field.

By Charles Dickens

{States and Canada.

Michigan Sts.

/A Christmas Carol

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