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“ARE YOU A hypochondriac? T. E. Sullivan; director of the division of food and drugs, Indiana State Board of Health was asking the question. I just asked him to see his old patent medicine collection. iy A _ Although I knew what he was talking about, it seemed wise to look perplexed Everyone &nows what a hypochondriac is. dA !

ARE YOU the kind of person who is always

imagining he is ill and doctors himself? eontinued Mr. Sullivan. ° =. That's when ] became emphatic. Certainly not, Mr. Sullivan. After his little ‘joke. we proceeded to the collection of concoctions that were “sure cures” for things like tuberculosis, malaria, catarrh of the bladder, heart disease, dropsy, chills, tumors, scrofula. dyspepsia. asthma, nervous prostration, - adenoids, glandular formations and brown and white spots in front of your eyes. ¢ Oo 9 ig Maybe-somé of you remember the old medicine man and Indian doctors and the druggist + who sold pint bottles of the “greatest remedy known,” alcohol content 30 per cent by volume. Sod MR. SULLIVAN has quite a collection. The Board of Health keeps the elixirs for educational purposes. From time to time they are put on exhibition to show the progress that has been made in the field of patent medicines since adequate drug legislation and enforcement was put into effect. Most of the béttled goods were over 50 years old. They looked like too. 1 don’t know how they would taste. Mr. Sullivan discouraged sampling. . Does anyone remember Dr. Watt's Magnetic Blood Purifier? ‘On the carton there are two illustrations. One shows a man holding himself upright with the aid of a crutch, his arm is in a sling, around his neck is a muffler and his face is lined with pain. Under the poor fellow are the words, ‘“‘Before using.” > Sud & The other illustration shows a dapper gentleman, big sniile on his face, and holding a walking stick at a rakish angle. This one is labeled, “After using.” od ONE BOTTLE costs $1." You ean have six bottles for $5. The blood purifier is supposed to be “unequalled and unexcelled.” "Mr. Sullivan didn't know what a case cost. Dr. J. H. McLean's Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier (15 per cent alcohol) was designed to do away with chills, fever, cases of debility and lack of tone. Fifteen per cent alcohol roughly makes the cordial a 32 proof libation. That's stout. I'll agree that it should kill a chill If the good doctor's remedy didn't quite tone a man up, he could always turn to Hafeland's Original Swiss Stomach Tonic. The alcohol cone tent by volume was 25 per cent. Multiply by two and the tonic is 50 proof. Ah. BS He BS ON TOP of Mill's Grape Tonic, the makers ask a potential customer: “Feel Bad? Mill's Grape Tonic, a crushed fruit laxative. The new wonder for bad health. Builds up the system. Especially prescribed for weak and nervous men, women, children, invalids and aged persons. Acts on the system. One dose benefits. Lightning Medicine

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Nov. 30—One morning the B W. and 1 had come into Tootsie Boy's saloon and were sitting with Gentleman Georgie... talkin turkeys. By “talking turkeys” I mean talking shows anyway, there was suddenly a loud squash, and the Great Gleason sat down with us. “Do you notice my rosy complexion?” demanded the Great Gleason. “YY cs... four - Rosey,” snapped Gentleman Georgie. “Why, you poor soul, I will devastate you

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with my wit,” roared the Great ' Gleason.

“BE. W..” said Gentleman Georgie to me, “you should do a yarn about this fat ——poy. because he is'loaded with talent like he is loaded with stomach.’ “Gimme a fr instance.” I > 4 2 BUT THIS wasn't necessary because Gentle-

Jackie Gleason

said.

man Georgie's a doll and he calis them good. A Clark Gable he ain't.” A Gary Cooper he ai A genius he is. He's a ticket-dispenser and upon. giving the double-O to “Mr. Adam.” he sqiemn stated, “Mr. Adam’ won't last another eve” ... and it

didn't. After seeing the wonderful Lee Tracy in a now forgotten horror, George called for a menu and on the back of it wrote: ; “If this show's a hit, regardless of Tracy, I'll meet you in that famous Window of Macy.” The Gentleman is also the author of that thrilling song title entitled. “There'll Never Be Another You ... And Am I Glad™ : wa A SITTING THERE, the Gentleman the Great Gléason, whose prope “{§ quite prominent”in the television

that Jackie.

ness and

Savs

{8 alleged on good authority to have a program,

called “Cavalcade of Stars sis a “He is a colossal ad libber,” stazed Gentleman

Georgie.

Americana By Robert C. Ruark trials of 534 indi-

progress in Miami

MIAMI, Nov. 30—As -the viduals and seven corporations for. the next several months after a striking: crackdown by a special gr jury, a lawyer @ named Robert Givens will « e to serve. He will serve free, although: his robust. He had neglected his own private practice to act as a special counsel for .the jury. . for a small fee. : Colonel J. R. Younger, president of the Miami Crime Commission, has served in that capacity for a year without pay. —=V | With the exception of Dan Sul- |Z | livan, ‘a special investigator, the men who forced a showdown of Miami's. corruption and hoodlum rule, not only devoted persoral effort but sizable chunks of their 4 own cash to simonize .a city whose law was being specially+dictated by outs} racket interests, '

= dy ; IT WAS cited by the jury that the goverjior's special investigator, W. O. Crosby, had inferentially been used as a catalytic.agent to Abét.a muscle-in job by the big syndicate on the local 8. and G. gambling operation. The jury prom claimed. that two gamblers, - Harry old Capone mobster—and Jack Friendlander had actually chosen deputies to be assigned to the gambling squad ~for 'the purpose of forcing t local outfit 4hto ‘cutting in the big boys from up

north, : : . A city councilman, William Burbridge, urider Te oath, admitted acquaintanceship and Joint’ own-

ership. of property with Harold Salvey., one. of the big guns of the 8. and G. racket lads. Two , sheriffs got fired, first, and indicted, second. along with seven deputies who were shown to be in- ' extricably tied to the horse books : : One. deputy, Jack ‘Byer; a former employee of a gambling house and a bookie wire service, . ‘and who was related to two known gamblers, still was announced as employed in the sher-

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Old Patent Medicines Cured All—But Deaths

Sick? Tired? Weak? . . . Name your trouble and pick your cure from the State Board of Health collection of old patent medicines.

Co.” Np one, is left out except those who are already’ dead. = We examined next a bottle called Respirozone. This medicine was designed to relieve spasmodic asthma. The alcohol content was 30 per cent by volume or 60 proof. This had us stumped, maybe you can figure it out: “Relieves spasmodic asthma bv allaying hvperaesthesia, relaxing muscular tension and subduing inflammation by resolution, rationally meeting the pathological requirements of those Cases. ‘up Cd ct dh fiz Of course, if vou really felt bad, you could get a bottle of “Dandelion Alterative, Nature's Givat Remedy.” The list of things it can do and the number of organs in the body it would stimulate are too numerous to mention. Gb bs BERGEN'S Asthma Cure “is an absolute specific for asthma and hay fever. Consumption in its early stages yields readily to this wonderful ‘medicine. Bronchitis relieved in a few hours and cured in a short time. For coughs and colds— there is no equal. Try a bottle and get one good night's rest. Vaucaire’s Improved Tonic is labeled “The Periect Bust Developer.” On the label is shown a flat-chested woman hoisting a slug of Vaucaire’s Improved. Mr, Sullivan and I examined the illustration rather carefully and we couldn't deterxine whether the woman was taking her first slug or not. I was tempted to pencil in the words “Before Using,” but Mr. Sullivan put the bottle away. : . Name your trouble, friend, and in Mr. Sullivan's collection there is a bottle that will cure it. The puzzling thing is that most of the stuff is dark brown. rather thick and -bead§ up when shaken vigorously : Mx. favorite is -Dr. Shreves’ Anti-Gall-Stone Remedy. You don’t take a glassful or a teaspoonful or tablespoonful. .Dr. Shreves recommends a. ‘dessertspoonful after meals. To be continued until the contents of one bottle have been taken.” Burp.

Great Gleason Heavy on Talent

Once when Gleason was dieting (a couple of tons ago) Frank Sinatra said, “Did you really: lose 90 pounds?” and Gleason said, “Yes, I lost enough to make another you.” Milton Berle told him, “You are my favorite comedians.” Gleason gatd: were one of mine.” : Tommy Dorsey gave a birthday party, and calmly assured his trusting friends it was his 45th. “¥sn’t this wonderful . . . celebrating something that took place five years ago!” bellowed Gleason. : eo Bb DO YET SOME think that The Great, who is a Scotch drinker, was greatest when Jack Haley asked him to go into his swimming pool. ° “What. go into THAT!” said Gleason. “Why,

three I wish you

it's all chaser!”

When I had written down all these hilarities, I said thanks to Gentleman Georgie for the idea and apologized to Bennett Cerf and John Crosby and all the other writers in the joint for stealing this story from them; then 1 told The Great Gleason I would write a piece about him. “Thanks.” the Great Gleason said ‘If you do. IT will forever after love every hair in your lip” do dh db Earl's Pearls . . . Winnie Garrett hates the sissies down in Greenwich Village Who have so much fun making a lass of themselves. WISH I'D SAID THAT: “What's a wedding ring but a one-man band”"--Herb Sheldon. O& & ALL OVER: Del Casino and model Phyllis Hunt are engaged . . . Anita Martel, the English | actress, will marry comic Roger Price . . . Kitty Kallen goes to Puerto Rico Dec. 9 for a one day polio benefit for Conrad Hilton The new budget for the Kate Smith show (five times weekly} is 213.000 a day ... Billy Eckstine's taking his entire entourage of 27 to Hawaii for a week's vacation. . . . . Se Pb S WHO'S NEWS: Ellve Marshall, screen and TV actress, married Val Grund, arranger. on the Ken Murray show . .-. The Michael Halls named the arrival Jethvrn Adrian . . Her friends hear Gilda Grey's very ill in Arizona. : : “Politicians wouldn't - be so cocky,” thinks athie Norris, “if they only realized that todav's President is tomorrow's 3-cent stamp.” . . . That's Earl, brother. ”

Honest Men Can Make Trouble for Hoodlums

THE GRAND JURY said that “it had been alerted :by the public press (and radio) after the much-heralded, visit of the Kefauver Committee to Miami, and swung into action after hiring special . counsel and investigators provided for by special acts of the last legislature.” This is an especial compliment to a small Rroup of men who didn’t like what they had on their hands and proceeded to attack it. Seri. Kefauver’s information was almost wholly supplied by investigator Dan - Sullivan of the crime comsion. Mr. Sullivan's shocking scrapbooks are ost denuded today by Sen. Kefauver. who ommed on to their contents as part of his rerring investigations. . THe special grand jury. the) revelations of graft, corruption and crime. and the final indictments are all children of press, radio. and a handful of determined citizens who decided to set about breaking the stranglehold of mob on Miami. The upcoming prosecutions will be masterminded by the same men who forced the pimple to its head despite the lackadaisicality of the law and the cynicism of local political groups. > & A PEOPLE: WHO obstruct big-time racket obligations still get hurt. ‘In taking on ‘the vested interests of billion-dollar racketeering the mén

Russell—an +whb birthed the Miami Crime Commission risked

bodily harm as well as the opposition. of heavy racket sugar. big racket business, and heavy political pressure: :

Not much, mavhe. will come in the way of :

heavy punishment for the malefactors in the upcoming trials, - because bribery, gambling, and perjury do not draw terribly tough raps. But the city is currently clean, the law has been shaken up, and the behind-the-scenes operators. hate been forced into ‘the unfriendly light of

public disapproval. Even more important. the : intricate c¢onpection of .local racket to the huge

network of organized-crime- has been clearly drawn. : : on No matter what the eventual outcome, one .

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+ axiom is amply illustrated here: Any group of

honest men, if they get mad enough, can make

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1950

About People— :

Actor Picks Intelligent Girls for Love

| Glenn Ford Doesn't Have Any Use for ‘Dumb Little Blondes’

Glenn Ford, today said intelligent cuties Have it all over stupid girls when it comes to s-e-X. “Leave us face it, ‘love - making is an art,’ said Glenn, “a subtle and wonderful art. And 1 defy anybody to show me a stupid woman who can do it better than an ‘intelligent one. I wouldn't give you 2 cents for these dumb

Hollywood actor

Mr. Ford little blondes.”

This observation came as a ‘rebuttal to Producer Cy Young, {who said stupid women have more A

8. A. Pill Prize Glenn M. Jackson, manager of Haag's Drug Store, 2128 W, Washington St. is the first Indianapolis druggist to win a prize in ‘the $11,000 Inhiston Mystery Photographer contest. Mr. 10-milligram

dispiay of the anti-histamine tab-

Jackson's

let for colds and hay fever was one of the first snapped by a mystery photographer touring the city in search of the most effective ezhibits. The shot automatically enters him for one of the five $700 grand: prizes due later.

Fishy Tale

Frank Dismore, skipper of the

Eastport-Lubec ferry in Maine, spotted a 150-pound “deer™swimming in Passamaquoddy Bay yesterday. He lassoed it, hauled it aboard and shot in on deck, he said. »

Long-Term Investment

Hollywood Film Star Wendell Corey, who deposited 68 cents in ! a-Westfield, Mass.,, bank 27 vears ago,

is in danger of losing the money. Bank accounts inactive more than 14 years can now he appropriated by the state. Bank treasurer Spencer “A. Reed wrote Mr. Corey a vesterday, ' saying, “We certainly would like ‘to (keep you as a depositor. This is especially true of the girls in the bank.”

New Trooper Robert W. Wiot, Terre Haute, will begin his duties as an In-

Mr. Corey -

‘diana State Police trooper tomor-

row at Putnamville post. A Marine veteran of World War II, he replaces former Trooper Jesse South, Rockville, who resigned.

Quick Work

Elementary School Principal Ira Abney rang the fire alarm in a hurry after he smelled smoke under a stairway in the 44-year-old bulflding in Laona, Wis.

More than 300 children filed out

in a minute and a half. They were singing in the gymnasium of a nearby high school when the roof of the building they had fled collapsed a few minutes later.

Elusive Spinster

Police in five eastern states are looking for Miss Marion .Beckert, 60, speedy and eccentric .dog-lov-

er, who outran the cops in a dash ““!

for freedom after arraigament in a Leonia, N. J., court. -

Miss Beckert ‘was given her choice of spending 90 days in jail or paying a $400 fine for keeping 31 dogs at her home in a sedate residentidl ‘ distriét, . She chose’ neither. Instead she 2uddenly darted from the courtroom and disappeared. ’ Boston Clean-Up Producers of Cole Porter's new musical, “Out of This World" to day were or dered in Boston, Mass, to get back to earth and clean up the show g Miss Beatrice: J. Whelton, assistant city cenr8or, gaid the cos- \ fumes ‘in some cases left noth. ing to the

‘Mr. Porter tion and’ that the words of one

worldly imagina-

song ‘‘are not even heard in the better class of gin mills.”

| A Christmas Carol

x roa SEN ~ No sooner had the Ghost of Ch : the hand thon they were in a small vil ~Heaven!" said Scrooge. “1 was bred in

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Handy Spot for Parking Tickets

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| Republican Smith Will Find Office Help

Gone With Fleming

By IRVING LEIBOWITZ | Secrétary of State-elect Leland Smith, Republican, learned today that he will come into an empty office tomorrow. : 7 ! "All the office help oe aving ‘with the present secre ‘vot’ |state, Charles F. Fleming, Demolerat. : : | Most of them have found jobs in private ay or have gone to other state posts. 3 . i Mr. Smith will have to fill vae cancies in the Corporation Divise {fon and the Securities Commis lsfon. The situation in the Bureau of. Motor Vehicles, which employs more than 350 workers, has been icalled “not critical” by Commis» isioner Mahlon Leach, although

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Photo by Bill Oates. Times Staff Photographer A policeman with only one eye open could use up a bookful of traffic tickets here. The Times given a firsthand account of the camera spotted the following violations:” Car at lower left is in No-Parking zone. Car at upper left personnel situation by Mr. Flemwas left on sidewalk by driver who found parking lot filled. At right, cars from parking lot at 25 Vir-

Teen-Age Candidate

Sharon Lee Frank, 2947 Ruckle St., is bidding for votes from Employees her classmates at Shortridge High School as a Miss Teen Ager Ww

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candidate in The Times-Philco Contest, Details and coupon, Page

Miss Teen-Ager Campaigns Open

Organized Drives For Support Begun

Organized campaigns to support candidates. in The Times search for “Miss Teen-Ager “of 1950" were underway today. ‘Get out the vote” was the. cry ‘in several groups supporting their high school's most popular girls. The high school girl student receiving the most votes on coupons

he had not

set

eats, groceries and

Jennings said.

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“THE

Thieves All Sef To Go Into Meat Business

Talbot Ave., wondered today if Teac up a group of hungry” burglars in a competing business, (go fOr the 1951 session of the Gen- Washi “They got a truckload of stuff sab > ashington, D. C., will here, including three sides of beef, whole sides of pork, hams

other

cash,”

Mr meet also with state department numbers

MEAT alone was worth

Sanitation Group Pickets City Hall

1 Action Follows

Conference Yesterday

Striking City Sanitation employees set up picket lines in front iof City Hall today. This is the second time the City Hall has been the scene of picketing since start of the 93-day strike. It followed a conference ‘yesterday between some of the former employees and sanitation officials.

The first line, early this month, was withdrawn: without explanation a few days after it was organized. | Today's action stemmed from Banitation Board President Oscar Barry's statement, that striking employees would have to file ap-

many workers have left. Enough Left “We have enough people left to carry on,” Mr. Leach said. . Mr. Smith, of Logansport, was

ing by long distance telephone this morning. ‘ - Mr. Fleming also ifformed Mr, Smith that te newly elected secretary of state had failed to quale ify for office by not filing his ° campaign expense receipt. ; Statehouse observers were spec ulating =s to what will happen if Mr. Smith fails to get his ree ceipt into the secretary. of state's office, as required by law, bes fore the deadline today at mide night. Mr. Smith said he was fore warding his receipt immediately via a special courier.

New Style Money Coming Here Soon

System Changed In Printing Bills The money changers soon will

have a new kind of money to change. el

A new system of printing Fede

|plication for jobs' if they wished eral Reserve notes, designed to

‘to be reinstated. | ‘Operating Satisfactorily’ “When they asked if openings existed, strikers were told the sanitation plant was “operating satisfactorily.” Mr. Barry said he also told the turnover”

the plant. after consideration of applica

save costs, will change the ape pearance of the bills. Series numbers, signatures of the Secretary of the Teasury and the "Treasurer of the United States, and insignia denoting Federal Reserve districts, formers

delegation that usual ‘employee ly. were engraved in the created vacancies at The Bureau of Engraving and These would be filled Printing needed 108 different de-

- signs for each denomination to

tions, he said. The City took this print them.

stand shortly after start of the

strike. State, Union,

wage increases It also

pervisor. State Colleges Meet To Draw Up Budgets

— * mps——————— — —————— as." ati is a's RUEFULLY inspecting his , Jools ae anes looted North Side market, Wii. [Our state co a am: Pe- Jennings, -57, of 1745 S. Teachers College ndiana State

ers College, Indiana University and Purdue University—met today with Budget Director Lytle Freehafer. to map budget requests

eral Assembly. Mr. Freehafer is expected to heads this afternoon in an effort to cut down budget requests.

clipped from The Times ‘will re- more than $1000, and it would Public Service Firm ve a Philco television set and have been a good three-man job- : i . will head an entourage which will Just to carry the stuff out.” he Gets Go-Ahead on Loan go to Camp Atterbury and present added. The State Public Service Com-

three television sets to the soldiers : Other Prizes Offered

The girl réceiving the most votes. in each high school, outside of the .top winner's school, at will receive a Philco radio. and will be honored with “Miss TeenAger’ at the celebration at Camp Atterbury

An individual. may vote " Each

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any coupon and prop-

number’ of ‘times

| rly filled out is counted as ol ote. All ballots must: be dropped | in vote boxes which have been | placed im showrooms of Philco iealers. | The search conducted by The I

Times is sponsored by .the Radio Equipment Co. .and Philco dealers | of Indianapolis’ "and Marion | County.* KILLS DEER WITH FIST I * BEAVERTON, Mich, Noy. 30 |

(UP) —Harold Eddy said today he failed to halt an oncoming ‘deer with a shot in’ the neck, so he | kayoed it with his fist, . 2

The burglary of the market mission today approved an order tatjvesy will at 2860 Clifton St. was the fifth’ authorizing of that type in the neighborhood Company of Indiana to float bank ing of the. within thé last four months. Cash loans totaling 40 million for the row and merchandise had been talcen purpose of completing a post-war breakins “at ‘bakery, a drygoods store and two groceries. :

the earlier

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16s Search for the Most Popular High School Girl | Sponsored by the Radio Equipment Co. and |

The utility is one of the largest electric suppliers in the state,

Philco Dealers of Marion County,

This is my vote for the following girl student in an Indianapolis City, Parochial or Marion County High School. |

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Perse tse trates RE

County and Municipal organization hich called the strike, has been demanding 15 cents an hour de- ~~ manded discharge of the plant superintendent and collections su-

Designs Cut to Nine This information now will be printed on the bills, cutting the number of designs to nine, George B. Loy, special agent in charge of the Indianapolis office of the See cret Service, reported today. First to circulate the bills is the Federal - Reserve Bank of Riche mond, Va. The. Chicago district, in which‘Indiana is located, is expected to release ‘its new billg soon, R * The overprinted _ information will be arranged differently than on-the old bills, Mr. Loy said. The Federal Reserve seal containing the name and number of the dis trict will be smaller and sure rounded by 30 sharp points. Check letters and the words

be dife ferent locations. : The new bills will have serial

from E00,000,001A to E00,360,000A. : '

Hobart Creighton Luncheon Speaker

Hobart speaker of House of Represene speak on legislative the luncheon meets | Kiwanis Club. tomore at the Claypool Hotel. On Saturday, newly elected state officers will meet in the Riley Room of the Claypool Hoe tel for installation and organiza’ tion. Clint Barnes ‘is the governore

elect,

Creighton, the Indiana

problems at

DIVIDEND INCREASED = The Indianapolis Power &

Light Co. increased ‘its dividend from 40 to 45 cents on commen stock for the quarter, The dividend is payable Jan. 15 to shareholders of Jan. 2. The company also met its preferred divie dends of $1 and $1.05 each.

reese tet. CRASH INJURIES FATAL MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. Nov, 30 (UP)—Mrs. Joan Weickjenant, 20. Jackson, Mich., died today of injuries suffered in a traffic ace:

= DO NOT MAIL. DROP COUPON IN BALLOT BOX AT I cident Monday on U. 8. 12 east of iv

miami fay shun St i Sl oe a a

ANY PHILCO DEALER IN MARION COUNTY.

"By Charles Dickens

Here. Her husband, Peter, is ree covering. |