Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 February 1951 — Page 11
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. D. E. PERSALL, ¥ Goodman Building, scratched his 73-year-old head i and said this was the worst weather he has en- - dured in 30 years: > i$
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nside Indiana, y Ed Sovola :
| YOU'D THINK it could never happe eather has left'many citizens pract
olls n, but the ally speech-
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Wow Po Yon : Like
The Weather. Pal?
| Yésterday I plowed around town asking people
hat they thought of the beaytiful snow that fell.
pers, I should have carried’along a bar of soap. .
© Very few of the persons questioned appreciated Mother Nature transformed Indianapolis ing } “marshmallow qd, ee ~ Only one man, Foreman Harold Dove of the ity Fingineering Department, who was directing | crew of shovelers engaged in shoving big files of this marshmallow down a sewer on Kenicky Ave. liked the weather, “This snow doesn't worry me a bit. I've flways enjoyed a change in the weather,” said ir. Dove. » ; eT.
MAILMAN HENRY BOGIE, 402 N. Meridian ., slogging through slush in the best tradition f the Post Office, didn’t say ‘a word, he just poked. n . “Did you hear the question?” “I heard it,” he said, turning me into a block bf ice with a glare. Then He proceeded on- his Way for about five steps. Apparently hi deep-
reeze treatment didn’t suit him because he gave”
me a second blast. Mailman Bogie didn’t’ care for the weather. : »
Really, ‘I expected more expression about the :
lements; one way or another, Isn't weather the avorite topic for discussion? > DD * i A GAY GROUP of firemen in front of Station 13 were reticent. James McGinnis, Joe Weaver, Harry Blume and Roy Stuckey were shoveling snow off the driveways. My question was directed ito Harry Blume. “The weather stinks,” Harry shouted, raising his shovel. It was full of snow and the snow was directed at me. His companions must have been.psychic, because they all-scooped up snow and came forward. What the heck, I didn’t dump the snow on Indianapolis, ‘
oo oe wtigle INDIANAPOLIS RAILWAYS Supervisor Roland Butcher, corner of Kentucky Ave. and Illinois
8t., sald I couidn’t print what he thought of the -
weather; . “Let me be the judge.” J Mr. Butcher spoke for exactly 13 seconds. . He
| was right in the first place. It can’t be printed.
“I'm going to slow down telling folks about
i the old-fashioned winters,” growled Fire Inspector i Bill Collins as he hurried into a downtown. building. “Terrible.” :
> dS elevator operator in. the
“Nasty, just plain nasty,” he added. Okay. Thomas Garrity, driving the snow conveyor machine along E. Market St., began, “They ean
- take this weather . . . they can take this weather . back north.”
A waving finger still has influence. William Poer, United Cab driver, used one. word to express his feelings—“Stinks.”
: Cupid Still Same
By Harman W. Nichols
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (UP)—I may have been a little careless in my weeks and weeks of
research.
But so far as I can learn, something has happened to the “sugar-is-sweet-and-so-are-you” tag line in 1951 Valentines. I made the rounds of the better stores and the lesser ones and didn's find a single verse that started out with “roses are red, violets are blue,” etc. Otherwise, I can report with authority that the people who play on the cupid in us on Feb. 14 haven't muyéh changed the original format, which is built around hearts and flowers and lace. And the comic valentine still specialized in such old standbys as nose-thumbing-at-the-boss. In this country that goes back“as far as 1830. Tote JEANETTE LEE of the Hallmark Company is an expert on cards. She says that valentines of gentle humor have replaced the nasty ones that make a man sore. “Comic valentines today,” she said, “are sort of affectionate jests. But at the turn of the century, they were malicious and spiteful” In the long ago, a girl must have bubbled with tears over: “ ‘Those charms divine might well be sainted, “But cupid whispers they are painted. ‘ ‘Your rasping voice, whate'er you say “ ‘Will make all lovers fly away!” » & & A SAILOR is the main character in one of Mrs. Lee's favorite valentine anecdotes. Last
Americana By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Feb. 2—It may surely become temptingly possible to apply a federal collar to civilian manpower in the dreary days ahead — and, indeed, Mr. Truman and cohorts have already spaded up the ground with one of those stock threats they get off every so often. This is the implied club over the head of labor, which certainly would settle the government in the habit of economic dictatorship, almost amounting to slavery. The idea of complete labor control was seriously entertained in the last waft, especially by .the late Harry Hopkins. It got yelled down as insulting to the homefolks. There is a delicate difference between the draft of labor and the draft of manpower. for military purposes. Somehow a guy will quit a good-paying job and allow himself to be shipped to get shot at in a current equivalent to Siberia in the name of Mars, but will scream like a wounded horse if you tell him you want him to work in Newark when he feels more in the mood for Brooklyn. ’
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LABOR pass
IT IS odd that you can draft a man to fight. He will beef, but he will fight. Draft the same man to work in a factory and he cuts down his principle function. Shift him to a place he does not wish to inHabit and he can become a wily saboteur. One of the bitter lessons the Germans learned with slave labor was that it was awful tough to keep it busy, and doubly difficult to divert it from sabotage. duttt The entertainment of an idea for a gross labor draft would be unique in our history to date— to tell a man or woman where, when, and how
- he must work, asd for how much—and would
probably spell the wreckage of a land which so
: far has bumbled along on an approximation of .
free enterprise. It would hammer the last spike into the structure of a police state, and is pretty horrifying to think about. > rb . THE HARSH direction of unwilling labor
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Snowbound . . . The Great Emancipator sits and ponders in University Park. It's been a hard
winter for you, Mr. President. :
ON THE CIRCLE, in front of Penney’s, Everett Harvey, operator of a Central-Keystone bus, said, “I'm sick of this weather. How many more days before spring?”
Mayor Phil Bayt came through in grand style, |
“The Lord has thrown everything at us this winter except one thing. I'm going to start building an ark.” Yeah, and I'm booking passage for exclusives stories. : Sh
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: TRAFFIC OFFICER Forest Allison, standing ankle-deep in snow at lllinois and Maryland Sts., wanted a change. "I -understand a new cold wave is coming. I'm glad of it, this one’is getting tiresome. No
joking, son, I've been on the police force for 32.
years and this winter has been the worst yet.
One week it's sleet, next week it’s ice, then snow,
then more snow, cold, rain.” Sniff.
University Park was quiet, lovely under a thick .
blanket of snow. Mr. Squirrel was In hiding, probably nibbling on the acorns he stole from™me
last spring. There were no pigeons or starlings
in sight. sb
I PASSED the statue of Abraham Lincoln. The Great Ejynancipator wore a white mantle. His boots were covered with snow. The great man had his right arm outstretched as if he were saying, “I'll endure it, but I don't like it.” So will we. By next July, we'll wish we had some of it around. . Let 'er snow, it's winter.
But Valentines Are |
“A Little Different
February, a tar rushed into a card shop, grabbed every valentine in sight that was captioned “To My Wife.” To the sales girl he explained: “I'm getting one for every married man aboard to send home. We're shoving off in 20 minutes.” . . > b>
THE CARDS this year are split between the comic and the sentimental. For my money, they are all a little corny, still, but maybe I don’t qualify as an expert. Here are a few samples: “To a glamour girl-— “You think you've got a beautiful head, “But I've seen better on a glass of beer.” or: . : 3 “How'd you like to he my spouse “I wantcha ‘round “To haunt my house!” or: “Speaking of your charms and such, “You've got that skin folks loathe to touch. “Get lost—pickle puss.” > But on the sweeter side of life: “If you're a rag, a bone and a hank of hair— “I'm goin’ into the salvage business.”
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THE VALENTINES this year, as always, run, |
in price to what the public will bear. From ones costing a few cents—up to and over $5 for lacy things to “wife” or “mother,” complete with red satin hearts and stuff pennied by high-paid writers of sugary sentiment. :
Danger of Complete Labor Control Cited
demands, the establishment of what the Russians call commissars; what might generally be known in gangster terms as “enforcers.” To tell a man to uproot his home in Denver and proceed to factory “X” in Oakland, Cal, or to send a female typist to labor in a radar plant in Seattle when she would rather plug a switchboard in South Carolina is a sad and bitter business, calling for tough executives. Too many tough executives can get out of hand, and swim selfishly free-style in a labor pool. Short of martial law there is no reason to allow the state to take over the direction of civilian labor, and even martial law is a debatable situation that should be charily delivered into the hands of anybody. There is no necessity for direct administration of manpower by the Washington boys, when a more suitable control can achieve the same end without the possibility of vicious abuse. : This, according to wise men as experienced as Bernard Baruch, would be the simple application of priorities to industry. If a man would wish, say, to manufacture television sets instead of radar equipment in a time of global tension, you just wouldn't give him the raw materials he needed for his frivolities. You put him out of business subtly. ; . deb 3 YOU DO not have to take a worker by the nape of his neck and hurl him cross-country to labor in the widget factory. You just close up the gizmo factory in which he has been earning overtime, and hint gently that work may be had in Dead Dog, Dakota, where they are making vital fillers for WAC’s lipsticks. Man goes of his own volition. Or don't eat. The enslavement of the many by the few is relatively easy to contrive in a time of war. We lead easy; we follow fast. The quality of our current leadership is not high; nor are the motives of the mighty free from healthy suspicion. We: will undoubtedly hold very still for a military draft, but when they start that happy talk about a government mobilization. of: all “manpower, which means womanpower, too, you better balk, holler whoa and kick out a slat. The entire concept of manpower: control is too easily amenable to abuse.
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Two hundred boys and their] fathers will be entertained tonight at the annual YMCA father and banquet tonight at the Cen-|
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[tral Y. moment of it. ;
{Ojibwa Indian, and Bert Servas, 'a magician, will provide the en[tertainment. Benediction will be
1 given by the Rey. Peter Vroom. Presentations will be made by | {William Miller and Judge Lloyd] —| D, Clayeombe will be toastmaster,
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The Rev. John Kirkpatrick, the [YMCA story teller, Joe Friday, an f
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1951
PAGE 11
|About People— Gun Totin' Girl Scares
She Stops Workers From Ruining Her Hill Slide
Of Kill-loys
Dentist Faces Court In ‘Vice’ Case Maybe
Some women learn young that’
{when they want something, they really’ want it, g Sanding crews had just started working on a hill in snowy, suburban Silver Spring, Md. yesterday when a girl about 15 appeared. A rifle was crooked in her arm. | shoot,” shé said. The workmen left. ! : = .
Landfall
A wealthy student, Guillermo Carvathe, bought a life insurance policy at the Merida, Venezuela, airport before taking off on a flight. On thé spur of the moiment, he named as- his bene|ficiary the pretty young lady |who sold the policy. ’ { The plane crashed and Car{valho was killed, The insurance +—$35,000 worth—will go to the salesgirl, Yole Sergent. " ” s
Jungle Claws
Dorothy Lamour, Holl ‘8 (gift to the jungle, hitched up\h sarong today and sniffed that To
foreign jungle
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sult American
Dottie is mad, at Kerima, the British “J un gle . Girl” who made ‘ headlines recently by saying ‘American men are sissies. © “The American man is the nic- ; est, kindest, sweetest guy in the world,” exclaimed Miss Lamour. “He doesn’t have to kick women around to prove he's a male. :
Miss Lamour
queen's gonna in-,
manhood. 3
\gambling material has been de-|
“You spoil our slide and I'll
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cars.
hick for a takeoff.
Anti-Lottery Bill
Action Delayed
House Group Wants Time for Study
Action on the anti-lottery bill |
providing stiff penalties for the manufacture or possession of’
layed indefinitely by the House!
Public Morals Committee. = Following a hearing yesterday, Committee Chairman John M. Harlan, Richmond, said members wanted more time to think it over. The
“Don’t ever say he isn’t the conquering type . ., that he can’t be masterful. He saves that for when he’s alone with his girl.
Number, Please | LT. ROGER ROBINSON wants to know with whom he talked during the $11.50 telephone call {from Korea. ..: { During a lull in military duties, [Lt. Robinson decided te. call his |wife in Waurika, Okla. The operator put the call through and (Lt. Robinson chatted happily for {15 minutes with the woman on {the other end of the line. Then /the woman called “dad” to the |phone, and he advised Lt. Robinson to “take care of yourself, son.” : 3 Later, the lieutenant wrote his wife and referred to the call. “What talk?” she wrote back. {Neither did Lt. Robinson's father | know anything about it. | “Come to think of it,” Lt. Rob-| |inson wrote in another Jetter.! | “Parts of that conversation were
prison terms and fines up to $1000 for the printing, possession and purchase of material that could {be used for lotteries. It was introduced by Rep. Thomas Has|brook, Indianapolis Republican, ‘as a major move toward ‘“breaking the back of lottery syndicates here.” Ma Bayt, Prosecutor Fairchild, riff Smith and a delegation of ministers appeared before the commiittee urging passage of the bill. Committee members said they would consider the measure again next week. They indicated they| might amend the bill to apply to| Marion County only if voters in their home districts were not interested in it.
Child Adoptions.
A Senate bill for tighter control over child adoptions would cost
yesterday.
{a little puzzling.”
Cold Cash A policeman caught a fleeting
{bandit in Detroit last night, but couldn't find the $13 loot.
Gree. Théy searched the area, { probing in eight inches of snow. | MecGree found the bills and]
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Attorney General |
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Aid Appointed |
Lewis K. Murchie, prominent Indianapolis attorney, today was named deputy Attorney General. Mr. Murchie, who has served
(as deputy county prosecutor un-
{der Herbert Spencer and Georgé {8. Dailey, will assume his duties
.[immediately. 3
He will work out of the Sec{retary of State's office, assigned [to the safety responsibility division. Once active in State Chamber of Commerce work, Mr. Murchie has been prominent in Democratic political circles for many years. \
Boy, 2, Scalded Here,
Condition Is Serious A 2-year-old boy was in serious condition in General Hospital today from burns he received yesterday when he “knocked over a bucket of boiling water. 2 Jesse Lancaster, son of Mrs. Mavis Lancaster, 1539 Kentucky Ave, was scalded on his hands, arms and face. His mother had
|taken the bucket from the stove
and placed it on the floor.
charged that the measure was|zero weather gets my goat.”
an “attempted power. grab” by! the State Welfare Department. Under the bill, adop
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onomy Measure
yesterday a Senate bill aimed at! saving. the state $14,000 a year. | The measure eliminates the duplicate auditing . of gasoline! tax refunds in the state auditor’s office. Five jobs are abol-! ished.
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WOMAN'S SECTION |i THE SUNDAY TIMES
Carl Smith does a variation of what motorists in Indianapolis have been Operator of Smith Flying Service, 4100 Massachusetts Ave., He found the white blankef too
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{baby little more than an hour
measure would provide gouple had expected triplets.
nt. Pittsboro about two years. The
Y /dren would-be under sipervision'Pet of Miss Green, he was a Mut have slipped throush by {of the agency for 12 months be-!present from friends in Tennespocket,” Sala suspec raon Mc-| fore the placement became final. see,
the house and sleeps in a hole * Gov. Schricker signed into law beneath the woodshed. During
average doesn’t hibernate all winter but comes to the kitchen door occa{sionally to demand a handout. {This year he hasn't been aroun since before, Thanksgiving.
grunted as outsiders appeared at said, r the mouth of his hole in the confidential, because of their crit-
ground and asked for a weather ital nature--we don't want the prediction. [that stuff, do you?
any self-respectin’ groundhog to sliding through skudding clouds | come out today.”
Was Flying Too Low Held in Raid 3 fhe On ‘Hangout For Teen-Agers
| 2 Dental Groups
To Probe Activities At Office Here
A once-prominent Indianapolis dentist arrested yesterday in a filth-ridden East Side office that {police labeled a “teen-ager vice _ |hangout” was arraigned in Ju. 'venile Court today.
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. | Dr. Laurence William Simons, + |44, of 1512 E. Washington St. is {held under $600 bond on a charge of contributing to delinquency of minors. 3 7 Through his attorney Simmons 1 |plead not guilty and said he would seek an early trial. Simons was arrested in the squalor of his once-prosperous dental office by a combined raiding party of juvenile® and city heaith authorities.
bids Youths Testify 2
FOB | ‘The arrest grew out of state~ ments of two n-aged youths. when they were called into Juvenile Aid Division as habitual truants. The youths sul uent- - er ly admifted a burglary and said LEE : they spent truant hours “hanging Expect 3, Get 4— x out” in the dentist's office: and
Boston Policeman's Wife iam = > me Gives Birth to Quadruplets
Investigators had to clamber Mother Is ‘Fine,’ but ‘Speechless';
over some 35 liquor bottles when Babies Are Reported in Good Health
they arrested the dentist yesterday. Teeth extracted three days before still lay with bloody and - rusted tools in his cluttered office, Meanwhile, tod J BOSTON, Feb. 2 (UP)—Quadruplets were born today to the societies and tha Y ony Senta wife of a $63-a-week Boston policeman. ; ; ] They were the first quadruplets born alive in recorded Massachusetts history, z The babies, two boys and two girls, were reported in good health. Mrs. Robert J. Allen, 31, of Hyde Park gave birth to the first
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Board ‘also were taking action against the dentist. » ; Dr. Henry Morrow, member of the State Dental Board, said he ‘ was sending clippings from yesand a half after her husband| It required only 14 minutes for ser vay 8 Tine ot et ry a akth sped her to the Audubon Hospital a1 four births. The first baby, &| members of the board. He sald
in Ee auto aches sald she was 8irl, was delivered at 6:11 a. m. he will ask an investigation and in “fine” condition but was/(Indianapolis time). Then came|a special meeting of the five “speechless with surprise.” The two boys at 7:15 and 7:20. Anoth-| Member board to: consider refollowed ivi thlfiites later, "OF 08 the dentist's'license.
. jer girl folle He said the board frequently -
The four babies, weighing a' ihe infants were so fragile that total of about 10 pounds, were, ysiclans tponed any attempt placed in a single incubator and PRY® pos Pinas been called on in the past to taken by ambulance to the Chil-|to weigh them. However, doctors| intercede for patients of Dr. $i. dren’s Medical Center where more estimated the biggest baby mons who claimed he took ad-
advanced facilities for their care weighed in the vicinity of three vance payments for dental work were available. | pounds. he would not perform. Dr. Mor-
Shadow? Shucks, I's the Cold— °° : an him sn eve to Hoosier Groundhog's Just |: ims ein Too Smart to Come Out he
riding ex. pedition, Pharoah of Pittsboro Scoffs at Legend,
rt of filth a a make ie report © and i conditions fn the office available to the board. Ay Health Board inspector also e will Does What Comes Naturally make an “accumulation of BIth" “I ain’t a’comin’ out!” ; réport to the dental board. It was Pharoah the Hoosier groundhog talking. His deep voice| Officers still are investigating rumbled out of a dark hole in Hendricks County, near Pittsboro./improper narcotic prescriptions Pharoah is the pet and personal friend of Miss Trula Green, RR 5,/issued by the dentist and this inPittsboro. formation also will be given to *“ This here sunshine ain’t a'foolin’ me none,” Pharoah remarked the dental board. as his piercing eyes out ~ .
the state $5 million, the Senate from the darkness. “I ain't afraid |Brefafee Judiciary A Committee was told! of my shadow, that legend is old
: | stuff. Mark W. Rhoads, former Mar- shadow and it ain't gonna hurt
|lon County Juvenile Court judge, me—but this dadblamed al F
I reckon I know my own
Punxsutawney's Groundhog ound One Look Enough
Seer of Gobblers' Knob Sees Pale Shadow, Digs In for Six Weeks More of Winter
CANOE RIDGE WEATHER WORKS, GOBBLERS' KNOB, PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa., Feb. 2 (UP)—The grizzled old groundhog of Gobblers’ Knob waddled from his winter den today at 7:41 a. m. . (Indianapolis Time), looked at his pale shadow and ambled back underground. Faithful followers of the old weather seer said that means six |more weeks of winter.. According . Ito tradition, had the groundhog, /fident that the groundhog, called \which also is known as a wood- a fake by scientific weathermen, | chuck, not seen his shadow, an|would see his shadow. |early spring would have been on In fact, the trail to the Weather {the way. | Works was filled with stragglers N | Members of the Punxsutawney Who had tarried in town to make
| _| last-minute sure-thi bets on a N | Groundhog Club, headed by Pres mtn ol ng
jdent F. A. Lorenzo," gathered y : early on the wind-swept ridge for| Club members Joe Lanny 30 their annual groundhog day cere- Study weather co . Upo monies. | Jeing the suit s peeping rays, they . hn Dr. Lorenzo, a physician, gg bi omg eo
(the members first observed a oo. 0. lL porida vacations.
| maze of what appeared to be fine lwire raised above the den of the (he usual high spirits of the
_| old. weather seer’s followers were ISroundog: ich 1a Rpows in Bu | lowered somewhat as they clam-
“We thought the old fellow haa bered in safari Sashion Bp the installed television,” Dr. Lorenze Tidge because of recent attacks said, “but closer inspection onthe, alisuiiiy of their pahe showed it was only the old weath Re lovers of the Gobblets® er prophet's plentiful whiskers. Knob weather prophet are used He, was just testing the air— to snide remarks about their d Br-r-r—before coming out.”
- Pharoah has been a resident of
All summer he plays around
Indiana = weather
groundhog by followers of a rival “He had many interesting ob- club which pays homage to a woodchuck at Quarryville, Pa. That's been going on for years, Unkindest Cut But the heresy of a statement bv the National Geographic Society that the groundhog is shiftless. sleepy and undependable cut them to the quick. Dr. Lorenzo contended that the records show the short-legged
me alone,” Pharoah servations to make,” Dr. Lorenzo
“Let “but we're keeping them
“You don't believe old fellow bothered with WashAll I know ington mail.” s that it is too danged cold for, "Early bits of hazy' sunlight
had made the club members con-
Lincoln and Gettysburg
There were S100 cugmivies 5 Buried hastily or not at
little weather forecaster is “just as right—or ‘as wrong-—as our By Ralph Lane best human weatherman.” He invited members of the soHH i cietv to visit with the “old prog7), TA) nosticator of the Knob and see
for themselves” However, when the faithful zathéred at the old seers’ den, only one member bf the society was on hand--Dr. Lorenzo, hime self. “I'll stick with the old 'chuck,” he declared. “After all some of those geographers used to think the world was flat.”
7 sacred ond delicate du-7 ties of orator
pe) ero Governor Curtin of Pennsylvonia set aside 17 acres on Cemete Hill, where the honored d iY] | could lie decently buried, state , by state.
of the day. 7°
DIANETICS MEETING "he Indianapolis. ' Dianetics Study Group will meet at 7:30 . p.m. today at 49% 8S. Delaware St. A program has been planned
for all interested in dianetics.
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