Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 December 1950 — Page 31

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When Santa Claus came to Veterans Administration Hospital, Cold Spring Rd. : The ladies of the American Legion Aux Were in charge of the program. And a practical Christmas venture it was, too. It consisted mainly of the veterans doing their shopping— at the annual “Gift Shop.” Bap RED ~~ When you're in a hospital, oftentimes comPletely bedfast, bankroll flatter than two-day-old draft beer, family hundreds of miles away, Christmas can be a sad experience. With the Gift Shop, the Auxillary simply gathers gifts from its 421 units throughout the state, buys many articles, sets up a small department store and opens the doors for business. * ¢ : A VETERAN comes in, picks out gifts for all members of his immediate ‘family, puts a card with each gift, then turns over the packages to Auxiliary members, who wrap and mail. Joe's Christmas shopping doesn’t cost a cent. Say Joe can't come to the store. Well, ‘the store goes to him. Auxiliary workers load up a cart and visit the wards. A man can choose such articles as necklaces, clips, earrings, sweat-

ers, blankets, gloves, stockings, table cloths, belts,

wallets, toys of al!

kinds. television sets and

There aren't any other expensive luxury items.

You can readily understand why.

hd AUXILIARY State Chairman Mrs. Charles Warfel was as excited as a S-year-old. Jim Yellig, the original Sania from Santa Claus, Ind. was arriving from New York to help the men do

Santa ‘lends a hand . + « veteran Robert

- Scott gets his Christmas shopping done” early.

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK Dec. 8—In the little town in

" Ohio where I come from there are no saloons,

80 I'm impressed by lushes—anyway, the other midnight I found myself at Mezzanine Max's table at the Copacabana hearing about bad drunks—present company included. Stirring the dialog were Comedians Phil Silvers and Joe E. Lewis—and out popped a yarn about Life After Dark. Phil, the Copacabana headliner, started it, saying: “There’s nothing worse in a cafe than a guy who's drunk—uniess it's a dame who's the same.” <» <*

“YEAH,” GROANED Joe E., the $5000-a-week

clown. “I've had hecklers get so loud the custom-

ers yell ‘Throw the bum out. “I say ‘ladies and gentlemen, you embarrass me. Which bum do you mean?” His worst pest, Joe thought, was a Chicago guy who followed him to'heckle him, 4. © | “He followed me,” Joe E. said, “because he liked me! He says ‘Joe, I love ya.’ I asked how could I arrange for him to hate me. “Wait’ll you hear what happened. to him . ..,” sald Joe.

"doe E. Lewis

Phil listened attentively, so did Mezzanine Max, an attorney whose real name is Max Etra, and who's called that nickname because he has -a front table, mezzanine, at the Copa, every night.

> & @ . “WELL,” SAID Joe, “Phil's handling of heck lers is very polite.” : “Ssssh , , . Please . , . I'm very big in pictures,” he may say. Or: “Ohh, I'm sorry. I was being rude . . . talking when you were talking. Will you forgive me?” : ! > > IN CHICAGO, Joe E. said, customers used to sit with coats open showing two guns. Once Joe E. said to one of them: “Am I to regard this as a hint about my material?” The guy who loved him "and followed him around showed up one night when Joe was finishing in Chicago to go to Cleveland. “I was glad to get out of Chicago just to escape hind.” This night the fellow that loved him didn’t have any more

~ Phil Silvers sky does in thé Ten Commandments, ’ * PS THE GUY, sitting ringside, just kept jabbering. : Desperately, Joe had the electrician throw

Americana By Robert Ruark

NEW YORK, Dec. 8 — The new mechanical ‘heart, while undoubtedly a lengthy stride in science, is going to set the cause of love, as illustrated by song, story and posey, a far piece backward. It slays me even to contemplate a heartache that can be eased by a : shot -of machine oil. XN about this new heart thing, of course. It's about the size of a medium radio. It can, conceivably be harnessed as to retriever a corpse from the hereafter. It has been known to keep a dog alive for as much as 71 minutes, without help from the pooch’s own ticker, It can stand by for

You know

men mentioned it.

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their Christmas shopping. Mr. Yellig, I mean Santa Claus; was a patient in the hospital last’

spring. He had a lot of friends who were still nfined. Mrs. Felix (Star) Brown, chairman of the Cold Spring Rd. gift party, racéd around among the veterans ‘saying Santa Claus will be at the shop. He promised that he'd be there. One thing, he had plenty of snow to travel on. An icy hand grabs you in the pit of the stomach when you see some of the men come in to shop for Christmas. A young fellow with a leg. missing was grinning from ear to ear as he wheeled himse!f around the table, | a 3 A GRAY-HAIRED, tired-looking veteran of World War I was pushed into the room by a World War II veteran. The vounger man was trying hard to cheer his companion. One intense man, 55 or 60, did his shopping in silence. He had, or seemed to have, a great deal on his mind. The veteran stared at a pair of earrings a long time. Then he picked them up gently in his hand, turned them over, jiggled them as you would a pair of dice. Finally he put them in the bag used for carrying and shipping gifts. : ¢ % 9

A JINGLE of sleigh bells announced the arrival of Santa Claus. The whole atmosphere of the room changed. Mr, Yellig was a classy Santa, His outfit, laugh, wholehearted enjoyment of the part he was playing brought smiles to the faces of the men. Many didn’t have much to smile about, either. Robert Scoft, a young man from Ohio, was Santa's first customer. Bob picked a gift for his mother and two nephews. He said the meh appreciated the Gift Shop more than they could say.

" “You know, I wondered how I was going to | - |

send anything nome this year.” Bob said. “Gee, I wish next year I can be out of this wheelchair and really get into the spirit of the season.” HS

MR. YELLIG was informed he was to speak

to all patients over the radio hookup. He was anxious to visit Ward 3, where he had been a patient. boys who needed some help from Santa. Quite a deal the Legion Auxiliary put on. Even a spectator’s spirits rose several degrees

~ after witnessing what nice things people can do

for one another. I might as well tell you about the missing item, which I mentioned earlier. A couple of the Impossible, but they thought if among those gifts for their families, a few small bottles of Christmas cheer sparkled, a fella could really warm up to the season. No doubt. Still a good ‘party. Things look rather bleak, but maybe soméday we all can Have the kind of Christmas we want. There's always that hope.

On Topic of Prunks: . Bad Ones—and Worse

the spotlight on the party which had its collective backs turned to him. The -rest ofthe -crowd-was-very quiet. So the reaction to the spotlight came loud. Joe's friend, who loved him, turned when he saw the light, then said to the others: “Look pretty, everybody!” “Why?” one of the others asked. “Why, cantsha see? Somebody's trying to take our picture!” Afterward, police found two train tickets on the guy. “Where do you think he was going?” said doe E. “To Cleveland. So he could love me there!” * > & AND WITH that Joe added, “I'm afraid some of them get to believe my definition of drunk. I always say a man’s not drunken as long as he can still lie on the floor without holding on. Some of them,” Joe E, said, “actually get so drunk they pay their rent in advance.”

eb @ THE MIDNIGHT 'EARL:--Dorothy Kirsten, canceling off Danny Thomas’ TV shew, said she’s just had a nervous breakdown. . . . Frank Sinatra keeps seeing his dentist about his choppers . Purtiest V-neck belongs to Helen Perry, blonde bass player in “Pardon Our French.” . .. Louis

. Nizer's wonderful line about Ferdinand Pecora:

“He was defeated for mayor but elected to a longer life” . . . Yawn Dept.: Milton Berle and Joyce Matthews celebrating her birthday at El Morocco, wouldn't say whether they will or won't remarry. Miltie vacations from TV Jan, 2 and 9th . .. Ramon Navarro, back from Rome, was at the Colony. He proceeds to his San Diego ranch . +i» B, 8, Pully, who plays a mobster in “Guys and Dolls,” says, “To get me an understudy, day gotta go to da Tombs” , . . Connie Anderson's doing “The Elephant Rock” dance at the Old Knick. - * D> & EARL’'S PEARLS: —Nadine Conner in a lownecked gown on TV led Jackie Gleason to say: “These days sopranos not only show off their best arias but their best areas.” $B» B B'WAY BULLETINS: CBS goes all out on Ed Murrow’s 1-hr. radio show, “A Report to the Nation,”" Friday night, 9-10, eoproduced by Fred Friendly , . . What film comics fear TV's the end of them? (Several!) ... Toots Shor's at Atlantic City taking bows on his N’'Yorker profiles . . One movie star didn’t bounce checks at one swank cafe here probably because he never got a check! . « + The Deep River Boys who worked their way

to Europe on the Queen Mary, bought their own’

plane to fly back. " WISH I'D SAID THAT: “Prices are rising so fast, ‘the good old days’ will soon mean last week.” —Jack Gilford. ; . Wally Wanger's - Goldwynism: week movie stars are a dime a dozen.” Earl, brother.

“Big $5000-a-That's

Mechanical Heart Is a Blow to Love

hearty, we assume he spends most of his time in a machine shop. What we have done is just wreck two pages of the dictionary with a meddlesome invention. I admire progress, but eventually we learn an entirely new language and tear down all the old signposts of the day when man knew less about man and handled him with considerably more imagination. : : The word “atom,” which a short time ago meant teensy-weensy, now connotes hugeness and horror. Likewise a heart used to beat, pulse, tick or hammer. Now it goes “pocketa-pocketa wheep,” like the tremendous machine once foreseen by Mr. Walter Mitty. Only I doubt you will be able to fix the new mechanical heart with a fountain pen, as a My. Muty in his dreams.

SAY WE also have mechanical

/ Visit a To Veterans Hospital

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Ah, but first, there were a couple of !

~stuck-with something.”

"About People—

‘Love Better Than Ever, Liz Hopes

| Miss Taylor Says Latest Separation

From Mate Temporary

Screen beauty Elizabeth Taylor) {today hopefully described her] separation from hotel heir Cohrad (Nicky) Hilton as “temporary.”| (and said: “We hope to work! ithings out.”

| Statements of the 18-year-old! jbride of seven months were issued | ton the set of her latest picture “Love is Better Than Ever.” Liz {went home to mama and papa, tMr. and Mrs. Francis Taylor, rafter a "big fight.” Nickie ac{companied his hotel chain owner |tather on a business trip.

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Nick Liz

He Who Gets Trimmed Puts

| Nathan H. Black, 75-year-old] {| Brewster, Mass.,, barber who |charges 50 cents for a haircut,

{complained today it costs him $1, Runs Full Campaign {when he goes to nearby Hyannis!

{ ’ i The hopes of Phyllis Cox lie [tor nis own teem ” jon a large lunch table at Manual | " i High School. (Hoosier Who's Who-ser | Phyllis is one of the latest en- | Carter Byfield, Indianapolis, is tries in The Times “Miss Teen{among 24 students of Anderson Ager of 1950” contest. The |College chosen to represent that Manual High freshman said her |school in “Who's Who Among CAmpAaign” is being directed by |Students in American Universi- 8irls with whom she lunches |ties and. Colleges.” Son of Mr. every day. There usually are

Manual Freshman

and Mrs. Lester Byfield, 961 East about eight girls at that lunch

table. Also boosting Phyllis’ quest for Miss Teen votes are members of her Sado Sub-Deb club at Manual. They and the lunch table troupe are. lining up support among freshmen and other students. Phyllis appeared as a singer in the Manual High vaudeville show

“last night and Wednesday night. Carmel, Cal., forest theater care ‘However, she joshingly said, “I'm

0! » he ante 8 avowed Commie not sure if my voice will win or after City Council fired him for|10%¢ friends and votes.” “incompetence,” and said the, Council suffers “mental myopia.” Mr. Duxbury had signed .a t. loyalty oath saying he didn’t advocate overthrow of the government because “it will fall of its own Tottenness, _ Ne

: . Christmas. Spirit

Dr., Woodruff Place, the 1944 {Washington High School! grad was chosen outstanding football {pleyer in 1948 and .is president of the “A” Club.

Myopic, Not Color-Blind

Norman Duxbury, 67-year-old

{school girl who receives most from The Times.

EL {awarded: a 16-inch. Philco tele-

{tourage of other Miss Teen win-

Four-year-old Jewel Edwards Ners in a visit to Camp Atterwas back today with the mother Pury. They will present soldiers she has never known, after.a| there with three other Philco TV court order took her from foster, Sets. mother, Mrs. Evel Sessions, | Birmingham, Ala., hod to have votes in each high school, outside “bought” the child from her Of the winner's school, will be

Mrs. Sessions broke down when Part in the Camp Atterbury

a deputy sheriff called for the Presentation. child last night. Left behind were

‘toys Mrs. Sessions gave Jewel in School students alone. Relatives, ” Bs aris Craps gaye natural Neighbors and other friends may months ago” under Russian iIn- years ago when the Japanese

{mother, Mrs. Viola Edwards, re. cast ballots for their favorite high|

{fused to allow the child to take School girl. them, }

| » ” » ‘All Greek to Willie | Ten-year-old Willie Strauss, in Marion County. | { Philadelphia, didn’t know much! — f

{about Greece, but he knew what, : 1 {to do when his teacher told me Reservists Given

to prepare a booklet about that : "rt land. He wrote to Washington to Yuletide Reprieve

Greek Ambassador Athanase G.. They'll be home for Christmas. | Politis. : | Induction of several hundred | I.looked up in the dictionary Indiana enlisted reservists has to see what ambassador meant'peen postponed until Jan. 4. and there is nothing there that The reservists were scheduled!

says you do anything like this,”|to report between Dec. 16 and Willie wrote.

mother you might remember when! You were a schoolboy

search is conducted by The Times with co-operation of the Radio

“I know just how it is to be ra — stuck with something” the Am- SCIENTECH CLUB SPEAKER bassador replied as he sent -the “Airport Operations” will be the

* Angie Evans, Sally Sferruzzi,

Phyllis is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Cox, 1222 Cruft|

Says Korea Actio

Miss Teen-Ager will be the high i

votes on official ballots clipped | She will be;

“But I told my jap 1 for extended active duty.|

"Miss Teen-Ager' Candidate gg Stalls Circle Hopes on Lunch Pals

y Phyllis Cox , . . freshman can-

idate.

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The girl who receives most mosa, Burma and possibly other Bernice Mozingo. {countries by now if the United

| Nations had not acted in Korea, father for $500 two year ago. Siven a Philco radio and will take Navy Undersecretary Dan A. Died at Pearl Harbor

Kimball said here last night. | He said the present Korean

Voting is not confined to high crisis stems from a Chinese Com- _ The Navy has remembered 1232

,munist decision “made many

fluence.

“We hold the Soviet Union

The “Miss Teen-Ager of 1950" morally responsible for not stop- garbor.

ping the original Communist aggression in Korea,” Mr. Kimball

/Equipment Co. and Philco dealers Said. He made the charge in a ,,q.4

Pearl Harbor day speech prepared. for delivery before the Navy League. “The entire world knows the Soviet Union has provided nearly all of the material assistance required by the Communist aggressors in Korea,” he said. Asserting that the Korean situation “may well be a very real showdown,” Mr. Kimball urged American “patience, unity and a refusal of hasty action.” If “all-out” war can be avoided

The men granted delays willifor as long as six months, “ and got report Jan. 4 to the stations in-|said, the United States will be! Complete “harmony and agree“—laicated on their original orders. better off than if it had started ment’ was-announced by Marion =

jrearming extensively right after ithe last war. Present planes and

{weapons are better than those

{material and returned 15 cents in subject of P. H. Roetger, super-| available then, he said.

[stamps Willie had to borrow on intendent at Weir Cook Municipal {his allowance. Willie's teacher|Airport, at a noon meeting Mon{gave him a G-plus—highest mark day of the Scientech Club at Hoor tel Antlers.

MISS TEEN-AGER OF 1950

The Times Search for the Most Popular High School Girl Sponsored by the Radio Equipment Co. and Philco Dealers of Marion County. :

This 1s my vote for the following girl student in an Indianapolis City, Parochial or Marion County High School.

HER NAME. ......coxessissasartvadnssi

My NBG: sessssssssasansserssnsnsssannsscstssosnstonsesbns

RAGLESS. .. coi vrsassrsnssassissnsssssstssnsisssnsssssassnsns

DO NOT MAIL. DROP COUPON IN BALLOT BOX AT ANY PHILCO DEALER IN MARION COUNTY.

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A Christmas Carol

Teeth Follow Owner's Staggering Course A guy needs his teeth.

A set of false teeth is en route to the state farm at Putnamville,

428 W. Pear! St., who was sent-

day. The missing dentures were found in the receiving ward of General Hospital today. Vandiver lost them there. Sunday while being treated for five hours for a drunken condition.

HOOSIER GI GIVEN AWARD Pfc. Virgil V. Arnold, New Goshen, Ind., has been awarded a bronze star medal with "“V” bar, the Army announced today in Tokyo. Pfe. Arnold is with the 35th Infantry Regiment of the 25th “Tropic Lightning” Division.

" FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1950

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Carol Strother, Virginia Sentman and Susie Wallace . . ladies of Howe High School will reign as queen tonight over the Hornet-Franklin bas-

the monument shaft will be de-|

Slowed Red March

‘{vision set and will lead an en Show down Might Be

| Near, Navy Aide Says | The “Communist yoke” might PY Mrs. Lawrence Beaman, and {have fallen ever Indo-China, For. Camp Fire Girls, directed by Mrs.

following Bruce Vandiver, 55, of neuvers.

enced there for 60 days lst Mon-,

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Transit Boss Charges Delay of Hearing Causing Hardship By IRVING LEIBOWITZ The state's Public Service Come mission today was branded “unfair” in some transit utility cases, = ; | W. Marshall Dale, boss of the city's transit system, leveled the charge while waiting for the Commission to set a date for hearing the Indianapolis Rail ways case. | The last Rallways petition was filed Sept. 22. One hearing was {held and the PSC adjourned withtout announcing a new date. Mr. Dale said the delay in ‘hearing the case was causing the transit firm “undue hardship.” In addition, Mr. Dale said, it was “unusual” that another transit firm could file for a rate increase, have a hearing and get the ine {crease within three weeks. Cites Ft. Wayne Case Mr. Dale referred to the Ft, Wayne Transit Co. which res teeived a rate increase Nov. 27, “|The Ft. Wayne firm filed for the lincrease Nov, 10. In labeling the PSC “unfair” Mr. Dale said he would co-operates with the Commission engineers jand other officials in providing ‘data for the fare case. At pres-

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Yule Decorating

| Expect Annual Event On Schedule, However

Snow and ice have slowed in- | stallation of Monument Circle decorations sponsored by the In{dianapolis = Citizens Christmas Committee, Inc. Although work is being carried lon in the east and west pits, dec{orations installed by ‘firemen on

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cago and other Commission engineers. are examining reports at Railways headquarters. Mr. Dale explained that the firm's need of new equipment was {underscored by the snowstorm, {which put out of commission {many outdated busses and trole ileys unable to cope with the exe {treme conditions.

CHINA DRAFTS MILLIONS : r TAIPEI Formosa, Dec. 8 (UP) {layed for safer conditions. |—A Nationalist military source Committeemen said the show- said today the Chinese Commuing of the annual Yule decora- nists are conscripting millions of tions is expected to open on men between the ages of 17 and

. schedule at 7:30 p. m. Thursday. 35 and placing all China on a war

{A. J. Thatcher, city superintend- footing. ‘ent of recreation, will serve as master of ceremonies, | ‘ Committeemen will meet for a More Results af pre-opening dinner in the: Clay- : . 2 pool Hotel at 5:30 p. m. Thursday. Less Cost Using Plans call for Mayor Bayt to]

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Navy Honors Men Who

{ PEARL HARBOR, Dec. 8 (UP) men who lost their lives nine

bombed the battleships Arizona and Utah in the attack on Pearl

High-ranking officers gathered on platforms erected over the exe! superstructures of the /sunken vessels yesterday tg univeil plagues honoring the men! who went down with their ships iDec. 7, 1941.

All in Harmony, GOP After Filling License Post

Statement Follows Haerle Appointment

County Republican leaders today in the appointment of Edwin Haerle, 11th district GOP chairman, as director of the $40,000 a year auto license branches here. i The appointment was announced last night by Secretary of State Leland Smith along with a harmony statement issued by County GOP Chairman John W. (Jack) {Innis following a month of ma-

A compromise agreement for the appointment of Mr. Haerle {was reported in The Times yesterday in advance of the formal an(nouncement. | Normally Chairman Innis would have been in line for the lucrative + ? {post but he stepped aside in what Edwin Haerle vo Iwas termed a “harmony gesture.” which promoted the candidacy of “I am in complete agreement Congressman-elect Charles {with Mr. Haerle's appointment Brownson and en "the and feel that it is in the best election of Cale J. Holder to the |interests of the party and the State GOP Chammanship, a {public,” Mr, Innis said, | The Marion County GOP power | The appointment was regarded behind the appointment ties in ‘as a victory, for the old James L.|closely with the Sen William BE. ‘Bradford wing of the party and Jenner machine of the State GOP ‘the Republican Veterans group organization. RN

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