Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 December 1950 — Page 11
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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovela shopping days until New Year's. wish it were over. Too complicated. to the calendar, Sunday night is the proper time to toot the horns. Early reports from the confetti front indicate otherwise. 1 know several sectors that expect action as early as Friday evening. The only thing that worries me, as usual, is the call for aid the morning after. Unless help comes from untapped sources, Wiagaire ol’ suggestions will be made. Why people turn: to me in the hour of need is unexplainable. and I'd like to be ready.
9 2 IN MY possession are four standard remedies for an exploding dome, For several years they
have withstood the test. In some cases, the supreme test.
I'd like to pass them on to interested parties and ask for others. If you have a pet formula that has passed the bureau of standards, drop me a note. That is, if yours are different. It would be especially nice to get a few that
don’t require salesmanship for the afflicted to accept,
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They do
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Take your pick . . . the "doc" would like to swap remedies for the coming New Year.
It Hap By Earl Wilson
NEW YORK, Dec. 26—William Farnum told me this story of the finding and losing of Jim many, many more nights before Christmas. I saved it till today though it goes back 58 years—to 1892. “I met Jim when I was 16,” .said the whitehaired old stage and movie star—74 now. He sat in the Lambs Club, sipping beer. “I was a boy trying to be a man, and an actor. “I'm from Bahston,” Farnum smiled. Their little road troupe was doing “Othello” next, but the fellow playing Iago slipped and broke his leg. They'd have to cancel. “I had just a walk-on part. I jumped and said I could play Iago!” : > > & JIM, the director of the troupe, also the star, said, “YOU, Willie?” “Like all kids, I had a good memory. I knew the part. So Jim said, ‘We’ll give you a chance, Willie.” ” Willie was great. “Very good, Willie!” Jim said. He gave him other hard parts. He kept saying “Very good, Willie.” ye hated that “Willie” name. He wished 'd quit gi him raises (which he er got anyhow) Ee call or Bill. di The company broke up and, like magic, William and Dustin Farnum became big Broadway stars. In 1906 Bill Farnum was “Ben-Hur.” He made $10,000 a week ($520,000 a year, tax free) doing Zane Grey's “The Last of the Duanes.” > > & ONE DAY he heard that his old boss Jim had been hit by hard luck. He started looking all over show business for him.
A Good Cause
By Harman W. Nichols
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 — The VIP's in the nation’s capital can forget they are big shots once in awhile and wear their hearts outside for all to see. A flock of VIP's (very important persons) have agreed to participate in a radio show. to raise
money for the Associated Services of the Armed.
Forces, successor to the USO, People who attend the show, to be broadcast from Constitution Hall, will pay a good fee and all of the money will go to provide entertainment for the fighting servicemen. The show will take the place of the radio program, “The Original Amateur Hour,” and this time is sponsored by the ladies of the press coop here «The Women’s National Press Club. * ¢ % EVERYBODY, the VIP's and the gals themselves, will work for nothing. The sponsor of the Original Amateur Hour is picking up all the ¢hecks, ‘ The darlings of the press to get their “stars” took - the congressional directory and ripped it asunder.—They called on people who couldn't say “no” and asked them to display their talents, if any. x rst to say “yes” was Vice President Alben W. Barkley and his lovely lady. They appeared on the show last year, which was sponsored then for the benefit of the heart fund.
Just Ask Us
Who is the Secretary of Commerce? Charles Sawyer. When was the first safe depostt vault opened?
The Safe Deposit Co. of New York opened
a safe deposit vault June 5, 1885, at 140-146 Broadway. Four vaults were located on the ground floor, and were constantly guarded. The safe deposit box is an American idea, but there is nothing new in using a community vault for safe keeping of private wealth. For years, banks have used their strong vaults for safe keeping of the securities and personal wealth of their
clients. In the Middle Ages the goldsmith’s strong
hox was the community place of safe deposit. In classic times it was the temple. In times it was the circular earthwork into which
pened Last Night
12-ounce glass, fill it half full of cold tomato juice. Yum, yum. Then pour ice cold beer into the glass. Bring it to the top. Stir well with a spoon or a thermometer and drink. Repeat the treatment in a half hour. The only thing you can taste is the juice. The cold mixture is soothing to the palate and tummy.
I'm not going to coax and plead this year. If you want it, take it and hush. [NE & No. 2 requires a bit of foresight. Say you
have been over at the Smith's to see '50 out. You come home. Naturally you wént to be bright and chipper the next day. Okay, take a 12-ounce tumbler and 4ll it full of water. Yes, water. Pop two aspirins in your mouth and drink up. Drain the glass, you know how, Then fill it up again. Drain that, hang your clothes up neatly in the corner, brush your teeth and £0 to bed. Friends have said, “Oh, I couldn’t drink that much liquid, I'd drown.” Nonsense. After a barrelful, nobody can convince me another 24 ounces of clear, cold water is impossible, * + > 3
No. 3 REMEDY is nutritious and the curative powers are tremendous. Take 10 ounces of milk, heat it slightly, break a raw egg into the milk, pour 1 ounce of your favorite poison, preferably bonded, beat thoroughly, pour into a glass, sprinkle with pepper and then—bottoms up. Oh, Marvin, that is good. No. 4 also requires a bit of planning for the future, Just before ‘the evening gets into full swing, open a bottle of beer and put it someplace where it won't be knocked over and where you can put your mitts on it in the morning. This is known as the stale-beer cure. Excellent results and painless. > + THERE you have my all. Others could be mentioned, but they are too complicated, timeconsuming and if not handled properly, often lead to trouble. Surely you have several favorites that you'd like to share. When the phone starts ringing either Saturday morning or Sunday or Monday, I want to be able to say, “Good morning. This year you have a choice of 22 or 27. Il start reading from the top of the list and when you hear one that suits your taste, hang up. Thank me later.” I could make the suggestion that this year you exercise caution. Really it is the best remedy. An ounce of prevention is worth more than 12 ounces of cure, anytime. That's my rule every year.
And would you believe it, I still have fun.
Here’s a Yule Story From Willie Farnum
“I looked for years. I felt if he hadn't given me my break, it'd have taken years longer to make it. Maybe I never would have.” A lot more years passed—it came a day before Christmas.
Farnum, playing a bum in a film, dressed in rags for the part, rode in his limousine down to
Los Angeles’ Bowery to pose in a breadline outside a mission.
* > o HE WAS to hurry back to his car, two blocks away, after the shot. “Something pulled me inside. “I sat with these derelicts and saw their misery. One beside me smelled. Several had beards. One had a long beard. . “It was like a religious meeting. I got up and made a sincere speech. I told them to have hope. I grew animated and loud. a “I sat down, exhausted. “As I did so, the bum with the longest beard croaked in a very old voice, ‘Very good, Willie’.”
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IT WAS, 3 care of Jim till he died.
Years later Farnum’'s millions were wiped out
in the crash.
He began playing, and still plays, minor parts. He is wealthy in friends and will never, never be in need. People who are inclined to get softhearted and rather siobbery and sentimental at Christmas time feel that this may be because the Man Who Runs Things is thinking, “Very good,
Willie!” (Copyright 1950, Post-Hall Syndicate, Inc.)
USO’s Successor Gets Show’s Take
SPEAKER Sam Rayburn followed. So did four members of the Supreme Court, five cabinet mem-
bers and the representatives of a dozen embassies The Armed Services kicked into the thing
with a dozen major generals and vice admirals. Senators and Represntatives will be in evidence.
Forty-five minutes of the show will be aired
—on Jan. 25.
At last year’s show there was a congressional Dignified Congressmen _ and other brass blew their lungs out through ka-
band which was a howl.
zoos and beat on wash tub drums and the like Their theme song was “Camptown Races.”
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THERE WILL be musical saws and the dele-
Farnum's best Christmas. He took
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About People—
Doctor Gives His Debtors Yule Break
Cancels Accounts Due Him in 39 Years of Practice
Dr. Lee Roy MacBurney, in an advertisement in the Great Falls (Mont.) Tribune, announced: “I have canceled and burned all notes, records and accounts {due me over 39 years, Wishing {you all a Merry Christmas and
{Happy New Year."
Bonus ) In Memphis, Tenn. the E. C.| |Ballengers, who won the grand $3100 prize earlier this month on the NBC radio-television show, {Break the Bank, got an extra [Christmas sur prise—a whitefaced burro shipped by strangers in Texas. | A red ribbon was tied around the burro’s neck, and a card at-| itached in the crate, shipped from| {San Angelo, Tex. said only “From |your Texas television public.”
Framed Again
Screen Hero Errol Flynn had more woman trouble last night! when Mrs. Ruth Heberle, 35, broke into his luxurious Hollywood home, chased- his cook around the house | and hurled gar-! den furniture i and potted i plants into his . swimming pool. | Mr. Flynn is h one ymooning! aboard his
Mr. Flynn
Wymore.
because man calling himself | Errol Flynn had been “bother-| ing” her by calling every morning | for séveral months. She refused to believe Flynn has been abroad! for the past two months. i
Ducky Hunting Walter Handy, Chester, 15, and Woodrow Wells,
| 52, his son,|
18, three Christmas Day duck- in Hoosier history. |nunters, were trapped by ice 'n &| March 21 will find Indiana in small boat near Camden, N. J.the “tail end of a winter cold It took police, firemen and the spell” he said after studying his
Coast Guard to rescue them. Later the Handys drove back to the Delaware River to {their equipment.
| They ducked.
‘Thanks, Anyway Bobby, Buddy spend a lot of time playing cowboy in Pittsburgh, but they still think deeply about what goes on in the adult world where things are “getting bad.” That's why they tried to enlist by mail when they figured Uncle Sam. needs help, and accepted philosophically the Army's rejection of the brave offer of three boys—aged 10, 11 and 13. . “We were pretty sure we were too young,” said Bobby, 13, “but
M. W. Starn Heads Millersville Lodge
Lodge will be installed at a pub-
will be held in
we thought we'd ask, anyway.”
Officers of Millersville Masonic
yacht, “Zaca,” in. Europe with his wife of wo | ate months, Patrice
Mrs. Heberle told police she R wanted to “beat up” the actor | rce [e IC S | a 1
{Mark Purcell, added woe to trouble today as he predicted a late) spr ind of one of the coldest winters' Ager of 1950” prize—a 16-inch /Philco television set—to her |school if she wins. Norma's family already owns a set.
REDS INVADE
FIRST U. S.
ST CAV. DIV. LANDS AT
Christmas day ironically enough marked the six-month anniversary of the South Korea on June 25. The maps above trace the course of the war's two beachhead, the Allies’ comeback, the liberation of Seoul and the Inchon landing that won the r . right highlights the second phase—the entry of the Chinese Reds and the beginning of a totally "new war were overwhelmed and forced to refreat after reaching the
Rushville ‘Prophet’ | Sees Rough Prospects
RUSHVILLE, Ind, Dec.
(UP)—Indiana’s “Mr. Weather.”
wind vanes for the first official,
three days of winter.
|stalled on tracks of the Pennsyl- ®"® vania-Reading Seashore lines and| After the first few days of cold, jor Red Cross. was struck by a freight train./however, Mr. Purcell said there iwould be warmer weather for
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and Tom Toda stay that way until about the
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several days. of cool,
Another few days then warmer again to third week of April. Cool in April
The last week of April will see | it turn cooler again for the next!
i ; jafter graduation I don’t Know, cg.operation with the Radio three weeks with a little warmer where to turn. But I. do want to Pp
{go to college and maybe some day take up law, home economics or county Philco dealers. pnb N | Going to the winner will be the Pita , Oteen, N.C., and one year
predicted for the third week of May.
“It will be quite cool during the physical education.”
last week or 10 days of spring,” Mr. Purcell said. {
years have been more than 90
Spring Due, If Norma Jean Wins, She May Give Prize to School
26/ Jean Rhyne, who at the age of 15 {will graduate next month from Crispus Attucks High School, says ing to follow his earlier fore- she may give the “Miss Teen-
He bases with an A-average and honors, is
getibis prediction for the followingi, member of the Student Council, Their auto Season on studies of the current, Attusks Sisters, the Future
| Teachers of America and the Jun-
basketball base and shortstop). Her big love, however, is bowling, in which sheaverages a heavy 145.
Mrs. Charles Rhyne, 817 N. Senate 1s will get His predictions for the past 34 Ave, high schools :
Six Months of War in
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Korea
v. 5. TRoors AN A
COUNTER-
U. S. FORCES BREAK OUT OF TRAP IN NORTHEAST
1 1ST MARINE DIV.
FORCES DIG ABOVE SEOUL PENDING CEASE-
MacARTHUR REPORTS UN CASUALTIES DUR. ING RETREAT SINCE NOV. 27 TOTAL NEARLY
UN BEACHHEAD ED AND MISSING.
Yalu River boundary of Manchuria.
She's in Race For ‘Miss Teen-Ager’
A pretty smart apple, Norma
Norma, who will leave school
She's quite an athlete, playing and baseball (first
Norma Jean Rhyne
Wants More Education Says Norma of
There's so much I'd like to do ig being sponsored by The Times Seymour
Equipment Corp. and
YALU
Korean War. North Korea Communist armies invaded ; hases. At the left, the Communist drive to the Pusan | first phase of the war. The one on the
in which the Allied forces
Jins Visiting Nursing Staff
Mrs. Anna Seymour To Work Here
Mrs. Anna Seymour, graduate of the Lincoln Hospital School of Nursing, Durham, N. C., has become a member of the nursing staff of the Indianapolis Visiting Nurse Association. She attended
Mrs. Seymour
Instructive Visiting Nurse Associa tion, Washington, D. C., and rural field practice with the Durham [City and County Health Depart-
[of any Indianapolis or Marion ment. i her future: County Philco dealer. The quest, Other positions held by Mrs.
include two years as {staff nurse with the Polio Foun!dation, Charlotte, N.C., one year
city and as charge nurse in tuberculosis
{service with the Veterans’ Hos-
as staff nurse with the Richmond
Norma's parents are Mr. and TV 16-incher. Winners in other qo and County Health Depart
Any person can cast any num- and her entourage will go
Philco ment, Richmond, N. C. - radios. “Miss Teen-Ager of 1950") = o!
per cent accurate. His mild aud per or votes for their favorite Camp Atterbury, where they win Lodge to Install
extremely wet winter forecast 1ast nigh school girl by depositing distribute three TV sets to the
year turned out to be the warm-| est in years and the state was)
deluged with rain, and resultant i=
floods. |
Mr. Purcell's predictions aren't’) for Indiana alone. They also hold |
| Ohio, Illinois and lic ceremony, followed by a dance, [OF Kentucky, Onio, 1 |
at 7:30 p.m. Friday. Ceremonies]
western Pennsylvania.
gation from Texas will, as the boys and their wives did last year, put on a square dance wear-
ing Texas boots, 10-gallon bonnets and popping | “Big |
off blanks from six-shooters as they put a Foot Up and a Little Foot Down.”
Some of the talent will be good, too. Under Ted Mack's direction it can’t be otherwise.
Wait until you- hear Rep. Albert Gore (D. Tenn.), saw his fiddle. There is a man who can ‘cut the strings. And maybe Margaret Truman will be there, too. She’s been invited. And so has her pappy, Harry.
Questions from readers ‘on ANY subject will be answered here. Mail questions to The Times.
hogs for the next season by 7.4 million and reduce the production of hogs for the first quarter of 1934 by 15 per cent. i , What is the definition of cybernetics? The comparative study of the control system formed by the nervous system and brain and raechano-electrical communication systems, such ns computing machines. How large do snaping turtles grow? The common snapping turtles of North America grows to about 23 inches, including the carapace (shell) of about 12 inches and a flashy tail of nbout 11 inches. The alligator snapping turtle 's the largest North American land or fresh water turtle. called a luggerhead, it lives in streams that flow into the Gulf of Mexico. It
When was the Cherokee Strip opened?
1893, the Cherokee Strip settlers
Oct. 81, 1511, on the door of the Castle Church
What motion picture was voted the best in
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office as shipful master.
yron W. r Starn will take/who remembered reciting poetry wor-
ee ie fl the lodge hail at Woman Who Recited ’
Blvd. . | Rea Millersville FO Lincoln Is Dead I"
TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 26 (UP) || —Mrs. Bertie Shérman Drake, 95.)
for President Lincoln and being | patted on the head by him; died
Shuey, warden;
Mr. Starn
Harm, treasurer; Ben H. Bossert, secretary; Cecil W. Gentry, senior deacon; William P. Smythe, junfor deacon; Byron C. Miller, chap-
warden;
lain; Giltner A. /Knipe,
tyler, trustee for three years.
will be installing officer.
State Plan Urged
here Jan. 7.
senior steward; Estel ‘R. Snyder, junior . |steward; Raymond E. Billhymer, and Lenis N. Firestone,
Past Master Lisle W. Tinsman
To Cut Tooth Decay|
Special treatment of Indiana 3° public water supplies to reduce tooth decay will be recommended on a statewide level at the midwinter officers meeting of the Indiana State Dental Association
The Council on Dental Health, headed by Dr. Maynard K. Hine, will present a resolution urging the artificial fluoridation of public}
Other * officers|yesterday. | will be Ernest W. : senior/came to the Northwest in 1888.] Ernest/She is survived by a daughter, H. Knipe, Junior|Dr. B. Elizabeth, noted Pacific
Henry
Born in Bridgeport, Conn., she
Northwest physician.
Death Trap
|Times ballots in the showrooms|soldiers there.
- 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.
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DO NOT MAIL. DROP COUPON IN BALLOT BOX AT ANY PHILCO DEALER IN MARION COUNTY, ;
J Lewis,
New Officers
Marion Lodge No. 35, F. & A, M., will install officers at 8 p. m, tomorrow in the Masonic Temple. James L. Sykes, Indianapolis public account- ! ant, will becom worshipful mas ter. % Virgil C. Whitt will be the, new senior warden and Edwin B. Mayhew, 4 juniar. warden. 4
Drummond, i treasurer; Harry Mr. Sykes || Strombaugh, secretary; Carlton {V. Pickett, senior deacon; George junior deacon; Clarence Feely, senior steward; Orville E. Garrity, junior steward; Paul E, Boerner, tyler; Otto L. Mayberry, Masonic Temple director; Everett Ross, Masonic Relief Board, go
Radio Broadcast Promotes Scholarship
Times State Service i GREENCASTLE, Dec. 26—A radio broadcast is responsible fc the establishment of the la DePauw University sc! gift sg, it was set up in of a young man who never attended the institution. $ Dr.” Merritt 'N. Pope, ¢ agronomist of the U. 8. Department of Agriculture and father of ithree DePauw graduates, gave $3000 for scholarship aid after hearing a former DePauw man, Claude Mahoney, tell a Hoosier | {story on a Washington, D. C.,
memory of his son, Thomas, killed {in action while a co-pilot over {Germany in 1944. He would have enrolled in DePauw had he