Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1951 — Page 41

By Ed Sovela = | . A FINE GUN collection at a local sporting goods house convinced ‘me momentarily that our ancestors must have been a great deal less trust-

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Our Ancestors Were Sneaky, but Ingenious It for any reason the gun backfires, he loses, of

course. “ ~~ Another cute item is the snuff box pistol.

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lectively. We still hear of differences being settled with the smoking gat. Thugs continue to relieve rsons of profits at the point of roscoes and naons haven't outlawed the mailed fist.

to go before we reach the top of the brotherhood ladder, when you examine Henry Spenger’'s gun collection at Winders & Strieby, 534 Massachusetts Ave., you feel some progress has been made. At least our generation isn’t so sneaky as to have a )istol built in a belt buckle. It's just one of the many trick guns the Carthage gun collector has loaned Garry Winders and Bob Strieby. It's an ancient agent of death designed to be worn under one’s shirt, Mr. Winders thought the barrel should protrude through a hole for best results, . : ® &

FOR CLOSE extermination the belt buckle pistol is very effective. a * The wearer, with both hands in plain view, is master of any situation. Should his enemy make a move for his shooting iron, Sure Shot simply pulls a string, which is already in his hand, and a ball of lead the size of a marble is on its way.

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TRICK GUNS—Bob Strieby displays a collection of weapons that would make Hopalong Cassidy run for cover. :

By Earl Wilson re

NEW YORK, Mar. 17 —— Josephine Baker lashed Broadway into a great sweat of excitew+ ment at 1:30 a. m. Wednesday — there was a rumor she'd gone temperamental. “There eez no dressing room for Josephine Bakair!" her husband had howled and gesticulated. . And he and Josephine had screamed out of Monte Proser’'s Cafe Theater where she was

already one night late for a $4000-a-week en‘gagement. : : “We only desire respect for Josephine

Bakair!” husband Jo Bouillon (Jo Soup for short) had repeated, as they dashed. Inside the new spot, Milton Berle, Gypsy Rose Lee, Abel Green, Sidney Kingsley and others didn’t know, That's the way it was when I arrived: The former St. Louis and Harlem gal who's now the biggest sensation of the decade had Just left. “Oh!” groaned Monte: Proser, slapping his brow. “I need a drink.” He didn’t have time to get one. ¢ <o < HAZEL SCOTT and her husband, Adam Powell, had just fled after Josephine to fetch her back . .*%. and soon she did come ... and out came a different story. Carrying five gowns on her arms, she'd arrived from the Strand to find her smallish dressing room far from big enough . . . and with no place to make her swift changes except in a backstage corridor that was quite public. “Trois jours . . . etc,” Jo the husband exploded. He was saying that he had been trying .for three days to make sure that the dressing room was OK for Josephine Bakair. Proser and assorted confederates worked on ge dressing room for Meez Bakair, and while eet was far from sateesfactoree, she went on. At this moment there was further consternation. “Ou est 1a orcheeds?? somebody demanded. In the interim thé orchids had been lost. But they were found. And at last Josephine Bakair took ze stage and made ze geratest treeomph of zee whole year whereupon Mussyew Monte Prgsair have one fahntastique beeg dreenk and feel bettair. “ od THE MIDNIGHT EARL: The smart guys offer 3 to 1 Costello won't be deported. Claim it would be “unpopular.” . ABC Prez Bob Kintner snagged Igor Cassini to disc jockey from El! Morocco 11-12 nightly. . . . A famous young football star is on a Lost Week. . . . Joe

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Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Mar. 17 — Well, sir, it's been about six or seven weeks now since the boys blew into Washington on their price fixing kick, and all I know is that it cost me a buck-and-a-quarter to get a neck tm in Minneapolis last week. Not counting tip. The cost of everyday, nonluxurious chow is up again from’ five to ten per cent since the great brains took over, to stave off disastrous inflation and keep the currency tethered to some semblance of worth. In New York, at least, we are facing a rent tilt up to 15 per cent. Where is all the fine talk about stabilization of prices and “holding the line,” I believe it's called? Who is holding what line? Who is controlling what? And the answer is a loud, clear cuss word.

signifies exactly nothing. What is all this fool{shness about the new names and faces when exactly zero gets done? You're kidding a housewife on a budget? . When bacon goes from 65 cents to 68 and eggs go up four cents a dozen and coffee climbs up four cents and pork chops jump another four, it is very difficult to make sweet music with the names of Charlie Wilson and Mike DiSalle. Because the names don’t mean anything unless the names do something about the predicament, and all the lady of the house knows. is that it is getting tougher and tougher to feed the family. To hell with promises, she says, Where are the results? I have noticed recently that an insurance company which does a fascinating come-on for a retirement plan has jumped the desirable security figure from $200 to $250 a month. This same com-

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them when they sound off with proud talk which,’

buckskin shirts, you were mighty careful whose snuff you pinched. A gadget like that would easily make you break with the habit, Mr. Strieby hauled out a cigar case. Unlike the snuff box, the cigar case actually holds cigars in one half of the container. In the other half is

Despite the fact that we have a long way .-a tiny pistol capable of shooting seven cartridges.

The pistol, as far as Mr. Strieby knows, was not ‘designed to light cigars. ) i Tie AL FOR THE MAN who wants to take a firm grip on any situation, there are the hand squeeze guns. They look like hand and wrist developers. Squeeze the gun in the palm of the hand and step back. Vicious. . A ftriple-threat weapon is included in the weird display. At first glance you think you're

. looking at a sword. Examine is more closely and

you find a two-shot pistol in the handle. Slip the hilt off, spread the sword a full 180 degrees, attach a cord and you have a bow, Another gun is built on the lines of a fancy dress sword. The scabbard is a work of art. The barrel of the weapon serves a dual purpose. It's a combination sword and pistol. In close quarter fighting, the odds are heavily in favor of the man handling the scabbard gun. eo © @ - FOR THE SPORTSMAN who relishes a hand-to-dagger fight, ithere’s a weapon that resembles a hedge trimmer. The blade is short, broad and sharp. In the handle are two ‘single-shot pistols that fire> above and below the blade. The guns ‘are fired with the forefinger and the little finger. Several pocket knives, ranging in size from a large toad stabber to the type you would hang

- from your watch. chain, all. have built-in. pistols.

Mr. “Strieby calls-one dagger” the “worry blade.” In the handle of the ugly-looking blade. ‘is a repeater pistol. To fire you merely turn the dagger point toward you and point the butt of the handle at the target and squeeze . For more bodacious shooting, a man could choose the. pistol with four barrels that fan out from ‘the grip. One pull of the. trigger and you send four shots off. The marksman's hand doesn’t have totbe particularly steady for results. * AN INTERESTING example of early gun smith ingenuity is the Sharp pepper box. There are three models in the exhibit. The barrel is They're the forerunners of the repeating pistol. i On exhibit to the public, beginning tomorrow, will be more than 200 guns. The trick guns are not a major part of the display. Smith & Wesson revolvers, wheel, matchlock and flintlock rifles, “dueling pistols, guns from China and Turkey and an unclassified brass rifle from the Civil War, capable of shooting seven shots, are included in the exhibit. : I could be wrong about our ancestors. The atom bomb is quite a gadget, too. But, as I said, after you view the collection, you can't help but feel some progress has been made. ;

Josephine Walks Out and In Again

Adonis was in the Chatham bar when Sen. Kefauver and O'Conor walked in. The manager got Adonis out fast to avoid embarrassment. . . .

- Current wheeze: “I hear So-and-So is getting paid

$50,000 to throw the investigation.” . . . Movie actor John Carroll is now mentioned for Ray Middleton’s spot in “8S. Pacific.” A @ Bb GOOD RUMOR MAN: Lenore Lemmon’s marriage (her 2d) to Hamish Menzies, is set for Thursday in London. . . . Chic Farmer joined Jack Eigen’s Guest Room as host & publicist. . . . New Rochelle should welcome new citizen Mickey Alpert. He gets people on TV... . Kukla to Ollie: “You snap out of everything.” Ollie: “Yeah, I'm a snapdragon.” . .. CBS tried to cut F. Sinatra’s TV show to 2; hr. as Chicago did, and was swamped even more with calls. Abandoned the idea. .. . Jerry Lester pretty sure to have own 1-hr.-a-wk. show next year, as we predicted earlier. . . . Suzy Delair's teamed with Laurel & Hardy in a film in Paris > So WISH I'D SAID THAT: “Hildegarde is a Milwaukee Talkee’’—L. R. Oakley. . > Bb TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: “Before marriage a man calls his wife dear, afterward, expensive”—Murray Weinger. “4 * 0 B'WAY. BULLETINS: Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh turned down a $400,000 Hollywood offer to co-star in a film. After tr American and British taxes, they'd retain $16,000. Rodgers and Hammerstein are preparing an Italian version of “South Pacific” for Europe. . . . Former Follies girl Mousie Green will’ wed 25-year-old producer Jack Segasture. . : Mary Martin beautified Morocco’s Champagne Room. . ., .Maurice Chevalier will tour Canada in May. . . . Today's Daily Double: Betsy Von Furstenberg and actor John Carlisle. The new opening for Monte Proser’s La Vie En Rose is Easter Sunday. His star, Marjane, arrived in town. . . . The. Leo Gorceys are expecting in May. > > EARL'S PEARLS: Jan Bart tells of a GI whose girl cabled him, “Couldn't wait. Married your father. Love, Mother.” A sign outside a Ft. Monmouth Army mess Hall reads, “Food Will Win the War” and under it some irate GI scribbled “Yes, if you feed it to the enemy.” . .. That's Earl, brother.

Jan Bart

Who's Holding What Price Line. Buster?

pany used to quote $100 a month as the nice price for the man of modest.means to quit his toil on.

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OUT IN the Middle West the desperation of the white-collar worker who pulls down as much as $5000 a year is stamped on his face. Five grand used tq be the big dough for a professional. It separated the men from the boys. After taxes and rent and grocery bills $5000 buys few haircuts at $1.25 a throw. Things’ were not so rugged when we were involved in a real war, on two fronts, with 12 million men under arms. Why, says Mrs. Doe, has It got to be so rugged now? Don't kid me,’ buster, don't sing me no songs. -I am making the same money or maybe less, and you guys tell me you got everything under control, but what are you controlling? Nothing. The great American middle class is having its brains beaten out today and it knows it. It stands face to face with ruination by a bevy of small operators in high places, and recognizes the fact of ruination. We who seek security are beginning to distrust savings and insurance. The papers spin you a daily story of lying and deceit as the only formula for prosperity. > >

AND THEN Washington has the colossal conceit to .tell you everything's fine, everything's under control, don't worry bud, we got it made. The stupid arrogance of the fumbler is almost beyond tragedy. It tends more to burlesque. In the failure to control we have cost ourselves, already, as much or moré in billions as the tax raise President Truman has asked, and in less than a year. We have accomplished exactly nothing constructively and have wrecked personal economy of millions of people since last summer. The wreckage is apparent in the failure of families to make ends meet, in the cost of gro ceries, in the fading value of the dollar. And the boys we hire sit down there and contemplate the scandal of the RFC, the disgrace of government everywhere, and then give us fine talk ahout the spurious destruction of inflation and the rnonexist-

ent curb off living costs, : ~~

Indianapolis ’

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For Trial i

By DR. EDGAR

might be no mistake,

seem to have offered no resistance. A bystander friéndly to Jesus, who had evidently followed the group of men brought by Judas, drew his i sword and wounded the slave of the high priest, who was perhaps the leader of the crew, ~ ” LJ

JESUS UTTERED a brief

“protest. : 2X. ‘Have: you come out to ar-

| rest Me with swords and clubs,

as though I were a robber? 1 have been among you day after day in the temple, teathing, and you mever seized Me. But let the scriptures be fulfilled!” He was alluding to the words in Isaiah about the Suffering Servant of Jehovah, with whom, as we have seen, He had before identified ‘Himself: «#*When he was oppressed, he humbled himself, And opened not his mouth; Like a sheep that is led to the slaughter, . . He opened not his mouth.’ In the confusion that fol-

lowed, the disciples made their | escape, though Peter put in an

| around him, who only escaped / “

appearance in the courtyard of the high priest's house later in the night. The high priest's crew tried to hold everybody they could fay their hands on. The story in Mark of a youug man with just a linen cloth

by slipping out of it when thet posse tried to -hold him, is told !

t6 show that they ‘were picking up everybody found near Jesus. There is a similar incident in the ' Greek papyri of a man's escaping arrest by the very same device.

» . ” o n SO JESUS was left alonwith His c&tors, who took Him down - across the Kidron into

| the sleeping city, to the house | of Calaphas the high priest.

The high priest's palace was

YOU'VE READ how,

Jesus Is Taken to High Priest

SUNDAY,

CHAPTER SEVEN

J. GOODSPEED

JUDAS HAD told the” temple officials that he would walk right up to Jesus and kiss Him, to show them which one to arrest. "Men frequently greeted their friends with a kiss. He did so affectionately, saying, ‘‘Master!” so that there

The posse closed around Jesus and seized Him. The disciples

EDITOR'S NOTE: The drama of Christ's last days on earth, climaxed by the Resurrection, is full of lessons for the world today. It was in that final pe ,flod of His ministry that Jesus did His most intensive work. A new Interpretation Christendom’s classic story has been written by Dr. Edgar J. Goodspeed, who at 79 Is an outstanding New Testament authority.

This Is the seventh of 13

articles taken from Dr. Goodspeed’s book, “A Life of Jesus,” recently published by Harper & Brothers. * :

probably lqcated in‘ the southwestern quarters of the city, and the houses of the priestly aristocracy were in the same general neighborhood. Thus they could be readily reached, although it must have been in the small hours after midnight,

The high priest and his household were roused from sleep with the news that Jesus had been taken. As soon as they could be reached and summoned the high priests, elders and scribes were got together, the three’ groups that formed the Sanhedrin, the official council of the Jews. iy : By “high priests” the gospel story means the present and past high priests; the scribes, as we have seen, were a Pharisaic _ minority, though as far as Jesus was concerned they were in agreement with the S8adducean priests and householders. ° Peter, who had slunk along at a safe distance, had the nerve to work his way into the open courtyard about which the high priest’s residence was built. In the chill of early morning, the waiting guards had made a fire out there to keep themselves

| tossing germ bombs into water reservoirs.

Biological weapons also could be used effectively against erops and livestock,

| the Civil. Defense Administra-

tion says. These are a few of the pos-

| sibilities if enemy forces should

ever carry germ warfare to this nation and to Indiana.

= n ” BUT-—don’t hold your breath. Here's why: In the first place, germ warfare is no secret super weapon. In the second place, Indianapolis and every city «in the U.S. have a major defense for germ warfare already in op-eration-—their network of efficient public health agencies. Thirdly, the greatest “antigerm warfare” weapon that could be devised is already standard equipment in every home in Indianapolis, Marion

| County, Indiana, and the na-

tion . .. a bar of soap.

n on # AUTHORITIES don't con-sider-germ—warfare-a--probable. threat, either to Indianapolis or the tion. But just as Indianapolis civil

| defense officials are studying {| all possibilities of atomic at-

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tacks and defenses against

| them, so are Indianapolis deI"fense and health officials con- | sidering every angle of biologi-

cal warfare, Here are a few facts the study by national and local officials have produced: . “Germ warfare” phrase, vastly overrated.

is a scare it is

possible of course, that enemy agents might try to spread ill-

IDENTIFYING GERMS—Dr.

cal research, Indiana University

Factory managers have been warned, in case of war, to be on guard lest saboteurs spray pestilence into fresh air ducts of plant ventilating systems.

ness, death or plant destruction by the use of germs. But there are many reasons such methods are unlikely. . n y ” TALK OF GERMS that woul! kill millions of people at enc« is nonsense. This arose from an experiment in the last wa in which scientists tested a pov erful poison called botulinu toxin, trying its potency by gi: ing small doses to white mice. The experiments showed one ounce of the toxin would kill about 840 billion mice. Some dreamer started computing the weight of a human being against that of a mouse and came up with the fearful answer that one ounce would kill about 220 million human beings, more than there are in the whole of North America. On paper this looks bad. But the practical side is more reassuring.

v o ” 5 PRESUMING that someone --had-a-full ounce of this poison and that the 200 million living North Americans -were jammed together in one place. there would still be the problem of Leven distribution-—a puzzler the equivalent of trying to divide a7 single aspirin tablet among the residents of New-York City. Anyway, laboratory workers already have succeeded in a toxoid to make people resistant to the poison. This one example points u all the obstacles that mal germ warfare an improbability. The problem of finding a dead]; enough germ; distribution «¢

L. W. Freeman, director of surMedical Center, is seated at the

ectron Microscope which magnifies 25,000 times.

“ (Original

woodcut owned by the John Herron Art Institute.)

MARCH 18,1051 —

MOB SPIRIT—Duerer's wood cut shows the’ people reviling Jesus.

warm, and Peter edged up to it and warmed himself. » ” ” MEANTIME, in the inner chambers of the high priest's palace, that official and his full council were trying to find a

charge .on. which they eoSl:

make a claim to the governor that Jesus should be executed. Under their own law any charge had to be supported by at least two witnesses, and they could find nothing serious anough to bring against Him before the Roman governor which could be supported by more than one witness. One man said he had heard Jesus say He would tear down

like it. 2

the germ to affect a large group or.area, and the skill and swiftness of American laboratories and public health networks which quickly isolate a germ, quarantine it and develop a preventive vaccine or a cure. There's another comforting thought: The all-encompassing U8; vaccination program. already has immunized citizens ‘n most major contagions. ” ” n IT BOILS down to this; Biological warfare is simply special kind of attack. It ould be used against people. livestock or food crops but it ouldn’t wipe out a whole naion or even a city. Indianapolis, like the rest of he state and nation, already a8 & formidible defense weapon in its’ public health hoard which spots and controls Il contagious outbreaks, Even if germ warfare became \ reality, the most powerful ounter weapon that would be eeded is already at the disosal of Indianapolis citizens, rdinary sanitary precautions.

n ” n IN EVERY WAR in the past, verms have been a factor. Plague cut down the Crusaders

“dictions of His But.nobody could be found to

OUCH—Dr. George Rasch innoculates Jack Anthon of Westfield, demonstrating a precaution against biological warfare hazards. Jack doesn't

“unusual insects immediately. Give all possible help to authorities, a

their sanctuary built by men’s hands and in three days build another made without hands — perhaps an allusion to His preresurrection.

a TPmerate this. : The high priest finally got up, moved dramatically. forward into the center of the gathering and, seeking to provoke Jesus into incriminating Himself, said to Him: * ' a ‘Have you no answer to make? What about their evidence against You?” Jesus made no reply, He scorned to answer the’ governor's puppet, who thus hypo-

Soap Is Germ War Defense ‘Weapon’

Biological Attack by Enemy Possible, But Danger Is Termed ‘Vastly Overrated’

By DONNA MIKELS in the “next” war, enemv

agents may attack civilian populations by surreptitious!y

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Council Passes -. .

Death Sentence

critically sought to challenge’ Him, 2 The high priest made on# more frantic effort. “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?” The Sads ducees were very reluctant to’ utter the name of God. The’ First Book of Maccabees, a Sadducean book written a cen= tury earlier, never mentions the name of God. But with this question the high priest gave Jesus the opportunity to utter His great conviction, and He did not hesitate to reply.” °° - “I am! and you will see the Son.of Man seated at the right hand of the Almighty, and com=" ing in the clouds of the sky!”

” n » “THIS startling assertion gave the. high priest all he wanted,

He was sure he could get-a coh

viction - from the- governor on this statement, but in a .great

: pretense of horror and sorrow, . at such blasphemous words, he

tore his clothes, Oriental-fash-ion, and cried out to the coun= eil: ws “What do we want of wits nesses now? Did you hear His

blasphemy? What is your de cision?” Thus put, the question was

unanimously carried and the council condemned Him to death, Yet Jewish scholars say that to claim to be Messiah was no crime in Jewish law, They think it more likely He was condemned for planning to destroy the temple, the charge on which the testimony did not agree, but which may have arisen from what He said about the certainty of its future de= struction, as reeorded in Mark.

It seems more reasonable to.

conclude that charge was the one Mark gives, to which Jesus pleads guilty, as they put it—which was essenti= ally, as they viewed ft, blag phemy. It was also one they eould lay before the governor, since. it would seem to him fo mean that Jesus meant to make Himself king.

TOMORROW: Peter owns Jesus.

Dis-

RESEARCH—Mrs. Shirley A. Reidelbach, laboratory technician, makes a smear-for microscope study of germs possible to spread in case of an

all-out biological war attack. -

Six Secrets for Survival

ONE:

Keep yourself and your home clean.

TWO: Report sickness in your family, sicknesses or deaths in poultry or livestock or plant diseases and

“THREE:

blood sample vaccination or cooperation in neighborhood

cleanup drives.

FOUR: - In case of bombing, stay inside until the all clear signal is given; cover broken windows to keep

out possible contamination.

FIVE: - Don't take chances with food and water in open containers after an attack gsi boil ‘all food and

water 10 minutes. |

SIX: Don't start rumors and disregard wild talk— a panic could cost your own life. =

at the gate of Jerusalem, typhus riddled the Moors in Spain, dysentery thinned Napoleon's Grand Army as it moved on Moscow. In the Boer War typhoid fever laid low more men than bullets and in World War I1 malaria was a threat in the South Pacific.

In these cases germs, not generals, decided the outcome of conflict. But these were natural germs, naturally spread.

Experiments to date leave no doubt that this is one form of war in which man has not “ime proved” on nature.

Pupils Not Sure It's Their 'Fair' City

A HOOSIER dissatisfied with Hoosier land? Perish the thought. Unfortunately, it refuses to oerish -— at Technical High School, anyway. A recent survey of 200 teenagers shows that only 33 pupils, or —- ulp ~~ 16 per cent, would prefer to spend the rest of their lives in Indianapolis, 8ix per cent were undecided. And a huge 78 per cent-—166 traitors-—voted for elsewhere,

The second half of 3 ques-

tion, applying only to the wouldbe expatriates, ran thus: “If not here, where would you prefer to live?” Ten per cent, or 16.6 pupils {meat trick), said horrors “Anywhere but Indianapolis.” School officials did not state publicly the intended fate of the brash 16.6. According to rumor, however, a crew of workmen immediately descended to an old Civil War dungeon beneath one of the ancient brick buildings to prepare it for occupancy. :

Of those who showed a defies nite preference for other climes, California and its surrounding states drew the fattest bid, Thirty per cent said they would like to live in the land of milk and honeys. New York City got an 8 pe cent nod, Texas 3 per cent, an far-Eastern states 3 per cent. Several pupils specified a cleaner region than the capital of Hooslerland — leading to a suspicion that John Gunther

may have been right after all: - § y ne ve “5 a

“the decisive

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