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By Ed Sovola:

Inside Indianapolis

A FORMER fifth grade Spelling Bee champion of Lincoln School, northside of Hammond, raises his hand and asks for the floor. Tonight youngsters at seven centers start the pall rolling in the annual Times Spelling Bee. It’s going to be a lot of fun. In that vein, I'd like to give every contestant some last-minute advice. For several weeks now I've been scanning the practice lists of words in this newspaper, There aren't many words that should stop a bright youngster—if he doesn’t frighten himself to death and doubt his own ability, To get anywhere in a spelling bee you have to have courage and confidence. You have to think like a winner and never spell in defeat until you are called upon to spell and then fail. By that I mean don’t count yourself out with a wdrd someone else is spelling. 0) oe < THE WORD baccalaureate used to be my downfall. Even the thought of the word used to make me nervous. In a speHing bee one time I used two I's, For weeks following the spelling bee, I practiced spelling baccalaureate. I can spell it backwards—etaerualaccab. The fear is gone and today no word frightens me. I scoff at baccalaureate.

A good speller is a good listener. A good

speller takes his time and breaks up a long word in syllables. Take the word astigmatism. Perhaps you're not familiar with the meaning. Small matter. Spell it in four sections, just as it is pronounced As-tig-ma-tism,

SPELL IT OUT—A former champidn speller gives some advice to The Times Spelling Bee Contestants.

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Apr. 9—Rita Hayworth’s talking about a movie—and I want to tell Hollywood she's now a great actress . . . on shipboard anyway. On the De Grasse she gave us a flawless performance. I'm not saying this just because the Princess was kind enough to wink at me a couple of times (and me a commoner!)., (From Ohio! Where there is nothing commoner!) She had things she didn't want to discuss. In a soft, gentle voice she laughed them away. Wetting her red lips and smiling as charmingly as you could ask, she waited for more questions, some of which must have hurt. The tireless photogs “Kept asking for one more. Somebody demurred for her. “All right, I'll do it for you!” she told them, tossing the long red hair back against her mink. 4 & NOW WHO could knock that charm? When it was over, we hadn't found out a damn thing about the marriage, That's the good acting I mean. “Worst thing I could say about her,” said a gal reporter who admired her figure and her clothes, ‘is that she carried a red bag, instead of an alligator bag to match her alligator shoes. “And she shouldn't have worn white formal gloves with mink!” i BUT, added the gal with a sigh, “Everybody knows she's got enough money for an alligator bag. so maybe it was all right.” It was all right with me, "as IT hadn't even noticed it. Although there are reports that she may now get a “town house” here in the East 60s for a few months and sop up American ways, all over, she won't quickly lose the Continental touches she's aeqquired.

HER FIRST MEAL back in America “was at the Passy, a French restaurant, and up to press time she hadn't had the hot dog she announced she craved. say this without fear of contradiction, havi#g had spies out at hot dog stands all over town waiting for the momentous gustatory event. She went to dinner with Actor Paul Stewart and his wife and I learned exclusively that nobody asked for weenies. * oe <> HER FIRST business conference was with Martin Jurow of the Willlam Morris Agency, He talked to her about movie jobs—for which she now intends, you bet, to get plenty of loot, I frisked him carefully for hot dogs before he went up. Have to be alert in this job, see? THE GUESSERS trying to guess why Rita had come back alone mostly guessed that she was not exactly bored but wanting a little change, and now very uncertain about tomorrow. “Rita only wants one thing out of somebody said. “Happiness.”

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Apr. 9—If there is anybody in the house who can tell a simple bill-payer what the devil goes on with this new system of price controls on food, as recently dreamed in Washington I will send him. my undying thanks and also my butcher's thumb, on silver salver. (Butchers’ thumbs are going 5 “a at the present rate of $2000 the

life,”

an ounce, according to latest bulletin from Mike DiSalle.) .

To the best of my knowledge no living person, includfing Albert Einstein and Virginia Hill, can tell you exactly how the new controls work. The salient fact that I glean is that the same foods will cost you more in some places than others, except those which are not controlled under the new ukase, except those, of course, which are not controlled at all—and not likely to be so long as the farm bloc exists.

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THE EXISTING regulations have been issued with separate emphasis for chain retailers, independent retailers, and wholesalers. Grocers are supposed to rejuggle the prices on their goods every Monday, according to the signs of the Zodiac and thé electrical impulses from the latest Washington scandals, but where it leaves the housewife,- the housewife knoweth not, The whole thing ‘reminds you of a dog show with no leashes. Even Washington, according to latest bulletins, is unsure of what exactly is going on, and promises revisions, whether up, down or sideways is hard to say. But there is precious little protection here for the ordinary lady with a budget to control; and no room in it to buy a slide rule and a copy of the latest commodity quotations.

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Kids, be extremely careful of the { and a in words such as immersible and colloquialism. I've known people who spell immersible with an a. Delineate is another tricky one. Ani in the place. of the e and you're out. T ¢ oS. LET ME caution: you against being overconfident to the point of being a show-off, That's what beat the bully I was up against in the fifth grade. You know, I won a pencil box. It had everything but a desk and a report card. Getting back to this cocky bully, he was so sure that he could spell licorice he didn't even stop to think. “L-i-c-o-r-i-s-e,”” he practically shouted, then turned his nose up in the air. It almost fell off when he was informed he was wrong. The mind can play tricks on you. A mental block can make you say things that sound ridiculous 15 seconds after you've opened your mouth. Another good practice is to become familiar with words. At every opportunity dig in a good dictionary. Get so you don’t hesitate one second when you hear believe or receive or necromancy, obsequious, formaldehyde. Td A CONCENTRATE ON words that make you hesitant. Give all your attention to the letter combinations for several minutes. Don’t spend half a day on each troublesome word. Approach a difficult word without too much internal fanfare. Remain on the offensive. Once ‘a word makes you perspire, it will forever torment you. A defeatist point of view has no place at a spelling bee. The stance should be erect, shoulders should be straight and high, the eyes ought to flash defiance at any and all words being fired. Allow the body to give moral support to your mind. Let your whole being reflect victory. Close your ears to the people who make up their minds about the winner before the contest is over. Just because Susie Jones gets straight A's doesn't mean she can’t fall on her face over a word like sexagenarian, ie dB REPUTATION MEANS nothing when you're up there all alone with claustrophobia as clear as mud in your mind and everyone is waiting to hear the letters come out. Mama and papa can't help. Friends can’t help. At random, let me give you a few words to play with before you take off for Brookside, Garfield, Kirshbaum, YWCA, Fairview Presbyterian Church, Tabernacle Presbyterian Church and the Emerson Ave. Baptist Church. Try your ability with these: vehemence, acerbity, anathematize, agnosticism, acquiesce homogeneity, bacillus. Remember, just spell out and if it’s wrong, sit down; if it's right, shake in your boots until it's your turn again. Good luck, get in there and spell.

Rita Talks Plenty, But Says Nothing

A lot of guys and dolls I know wouldn't mind having a little hunk of that themselves. “- & 'd THE MIDNIGHT EARL . .. After lunching at a drug counter at 50th and 6th, Frank Costello went, alone, to a midtown restaurant where he soon saw famous Fighting Ex-Cop Johnny Broderick. Spectators feared a bloody battle. For they'd insulted each other in the Kefauver probe. But Broderick, who was with a guest, controlled himself well. He walked past Costello, at the bar, and sat at a table. Costello soon left. They'd been feet away and hadn't spoken. The Blood-Spilling of the Century had been averted. > > GOOD RUMOR MAN-—Joan Blondell's dtr., Ellen Powell, 12 (by her ex-husband Dick Powell), made her stage debut with her mom in “Happy Birthday” in Birmingham ... Ann Sheridan and Jeff Chandler continue rOH'mancing . . . Dick Flanagan and Allan Graff had words at Jack Eigen’s’and almost battled for the overweight championship . . . New B'way dodge: Punchboard chances on “Guys & Dolls” tickets at $1 a chance on a board of 100 chances. Sold around restaurants by guys who don’t enjoy working . . . Showgal Pocahontas Crowfoot follows Comedian Tommy Noonan of Noonan & Marshall to London just 'cause she admires him . . . Daily Doubles: Greta Garbo & Baron Rothschild at the Colony, Constance Woodworth & Warren Johnson at La Vie En Rose (the néw class spot) + + « Betty Tunnel (in the Gary Wagner pix) is one of the beauties with the most titles. ee a :

WISH I'D SAID THAT —“A decided blonde is a gal who just decided to be one yesterday. — Johnny Parker. > TODAY'S BEST LAUGH—A Florida traffic cop told Raye & Naldi he'd just heard the wildest speeding alibi yet. A fellow stopped for doing 70 said, “I can’t understand it. I must have had a 20-mile-an-hour tailwind.” SO B'WAY BULLETINS—Singer Billy Eckstine licked the virus in a day with a new drug (Bacitrin) and returns to his fans at the Paramount . . Hearing Toots Shor'll ride an elephant for the Heart Fund, someone warned him about the law prohibiting overloading of elephants . . . Zaza Gabor Sanders and baby Francesca, 5, joined the Happy Gabors here after Papa George won the Oscar. <> o> > EARL'S PEARLS—Today's Silly Definition from Annamary Dickey: “Dietician—a fast worker.”

Miss Dickey

oS SN WISH I'D SAID THAT: misquoted” —Arthur Maisel. o* oo oo

ACCORDING to Ham Park, next to the butter knife, nothing in the average home shows less wear, than the family Bible . .. That's Earl, brother.

“Silence can't be

Washington ¥iddles And We Pay For Ir

you cannot tell me that I need calculus to figure the going price of cabbage. Nor a set of interlocking formulae to set a ceiling on.grub. Pigs is pigs. Quotes from on high have said it may be six months before a solid dollar-and-cents stabilization may be placed on humble eatments, and that it will be impossible to fix the prices at a pre-Korean level. This is governmental hocus-pocus unknown to the average man. They can. damn well fix you # swift Incometax increase on an overnight basis, or declare you in on a war, or make you eligible for a draft, or tell you that you can’t buy a spare tire for your car. But they can fritter around with ® trigonometric approaches to what fills your belly until caviar is underselling beans. bo & Bb : AND TI WILL tell you why, in simple little words. The political approach to price-fixing on food is a tremendously delicate: thing, apt to enrage the farmers and the bull growers and the dairymen, whose vote is necessary, What I think they overlook is that they are underestimating the anger of the housewife who is'not married to a farmer or a cattle raiser, and who shrieks aloud at the tilts in her grocery bill. And who blows her top at such an obvious inequity as different prices for the same commodity, for controls here and no controls there, and for fiddling and faddling with any definite step to anchor the living cost which currently eats her alive. > $ : IF CONTROLS there must be, controls should start at the bottom and work up. This is with the producers of meat and vegetables and fruit and poultry and fish and dairy products. You allow so much markup for the middleman and the retailer and boom, out comes an anchored price that even I can understand. But the way she stands now I don't know from next Tuesday about the cost of dinner, and I don’t think you do, either.

‘The Indianapolis Times

Volunteers But Not Amateurs—

Fortville Citizens Make Hobby Of Protecting Life and Property

By CLIFFORD THURMAN Times Staff Writer

FORTVILLE, Apr. 9—FIRE! A fire alarm in Indianapolis—or any metropolitan area—is taken as a matter of course, Screaming fire sirens and speeding red fire trucks attract only passive interest. People watch as the engines streak by but business goes on as usual. Not so in this historic Indiana town. A fire alarm in Fortville means| ~~ at least seven men, and perhaps more, will lock up their places of business and run to the Fire House. If at night these same men will leave their beds, churches, social functions or anything else in order to race to the Fire House. Wi 8 MIZE of Seconds mel ap They are the members of the every section of town. BusinessFortville Volunteer Fire Depart- men lock up their stores, profesment, an organization of civic-igjonal men leave their offices and minded citizens who make a hobby those working in various plants of protecting life and property in nearby drop their work and run and around the town. to cars to get downtown. Members of the Indiana Volunteer Firemen’s Association, they|ord of efficiency and can boast are constantly training, studying that no serious conflagration has and planning ways and means of made any headway in Fortville in

saving lives and property from many years. I es by Ney party The Fortville Fire Department

“ is a neighborly organization. They may be classified as “vol- yr. pare think nothing of making unteer firemen" by the paid pro-/) 0 rung to McCordsville, Oakfessional fire fighters of the lar- landon or other neighboring towns ger cities, but they are by no i, aeqist other volunteers. They means amateurs. The Fortville stand ready to make even longer Volunteer Fire Department is a .,nq if another community needs highly organized group and each pair help. member knows his job. | The volunteers are tentatively Chief John Skinner, Fortville on duty 24 hours each day but businessman, explains that week- the outfit is so organized that at ly meetings are held at the Fire|least seven men are available for House. The two fire trucks, one any run at any hour. owned by the city and another] Two Trucks Now owned by a community group of| qn, portyille Volunteer Fire

300 members on a subscription | : {Department dates back to the basis, are kept in perfect order at days of a two-wheel cart for an

imes. | all Himes |old fashioned hand pumper. It Stores Locked Up

{was first mechanized in 1917 with Not all the duties of the volun- the purchase of a model T Ford

teer fireman are glamorous like Are truck.

| The city owns one modern fighting fire or saving lives. pumper truck mow and the com-

In case of fire in Fortville or vicinity the alarm is turned in to the telephone operator on.duty in the telephone office. She in turn, presses the button that sets off the big siren at the Fire House.

lines and chemicals in order, mak- munity Fire Co. ing certain all mechanical equip- only used for the protection of ment is kept in good order.

The department has a high rec

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MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1951

Business Stops For

THE WHISTLE IS BLOWING—Forre

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Fire Siren

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st Davis, Chief John Skinner, Francis Steele and Robert ‘Rob-

erts, members of the Fortville Volunteer Fire Department, run to the Fire House.

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There's the drudgery of cleaning munity truck, a much larger one, to “all alarms. 2quipment after fires, keeping hose is owned by the Fortville Com- truck operates within a six mile|lieutenant. Other active members Robert Roberts, deputy marshal; This truck is|radius of Fortville.

LET ER ROLL, BOYS—Ready for a run (left to right) are Chief Skinner,

Mr. Roberts, James Howell,

Lt. Jack Hudson, Mr. Steele, Ben Skinner and Forrest Davis. ?

The community Jack Hudson, Fortville jeweler, is Donald Plain,

In addition to Chief Skinner, shal; ‘members. The city truck responds|Jim Howell is assistant chief and Durham,

Herman Priest,

include Ben Skinner, night mar- Francis Steele, manager of the Richard Hawkins, Virgil|Greenfield Gas Co., and Forest Francis MeClintock, Davis.

TREATMENT—In the operation tent at Camp Atterbury a "wounded" soldier is treated for a fractured leg. Examining the “casualty” are (left to right), Sfc. Annunziato T. Arcudi, Cp. William G. Kipphorn, Capt. Sumner G. Fredd, commanding officer of the Clearing Company, and Sfc. Raymond E. Martin of Esther-

ville, lowa. po

About People—

: charged -today with selling fire- Greased Lightning

Niving in the “House of Seven)

{heartsick with loneliness. All four members of the John flew the famed X-1 on its record- England alone T. Bingham family searched for breaking flight. He said the plane against 45 million Englishmen,” the bird “who will talk with any- was desigmed to fly at speeds up Mr, Daynes said.

Atterbury Medics Simulate War Scenes

MEDICS SIMULATE BATTLE CONDITIONS—Members of the 103d Medical Battalion of the 28th Infantry have set up a complete clearing station at Camp Atterbury to "evacuate' soldiers in battle. Here Sfc. Walter M. Dill, "seriously wounded," is carried gently by member, of the battalion. Supervising;is Ist Sgt. Samuel B. Tompkins, center.

RESTING WELL—This “patient" has received immediate

wounds" and is resting while awaiting evacuation. Watching him while he sleeps is Pfc. Raymond E. Martin.

One Woman in House too Many?

How'd You Like to Have 10 of 'Em?

to 1700 mph at R0,000" feet alti-

Bachelor Actor Is Only Man Living In Noted Hollywood Boarding House

Husbands who have difficulties living with one woman could take a tip from Hollywood actor Bill Phipps—he shares a house {with 10. § They're not wives and it is not bigamy. about it. Mr. Phipps is just a bachelor and happens to be the only man

There's nothing illegal:

Garbos,” Hollywood's famous body.” Even the Binghams’ pup, | boarding house for hopeful young | Chance, sniffed the air hunting! actresses. for his friend.

“Sure we share the bath,” the! The family said the parakee

“it's all one big happy family. I|pecked by constantly’ saying, see the gals wandering about the | ‘Chance is a nice boy, Chance halls in curlers, cold cream and is pwetty.” a Nat what you'd prince Stands Mute “But that's not why I'm a| Arriving in Cannes, France, bachelor. I don’t mind almost today from a big game hunt in getting strangled by nylons on|Africa, Prince the shower rack. In fact, I'd like{Aly Kahn deto get married. I just can't find clined to discuss the girl.” the state of his

He explained this isn’t the first marital affairs time he has lived with a flock of With Rita Hayfemales. In college he was a Worth. hasher in a girl's dormitory and Miss Hayworth slept in the basement. |arrived last week “This is really luxurious,” My [18 the hi hi Phipps says. “We have a tile| swimming pool, a tennis court...

two children and everything. And all for $10 a | denied any rift week.”

with her royal Water Everywhere

hubby. She said she planned to stay in New York In Wakefield, Mass, Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Drinkwater were

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Prince Aly

for a while and had no immediate plans for making a movie.

water illegally.

Joins Bird Gang Ito crack the sonic barrier, said

today . A Worthington, O., parakeet | flown “several hundred miles” Joined the bird gang” yesterday faster than the speed of- sound. and left an entire household Maj. Yeager

hour at sea level.

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But he would not say how fast he flew because it is a military

secret.

Lost Princess

The future Queen of nd

is recorded as | census takers. Princess Eliza-, (beth didn't fill]

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handsome young actor shrugged, almost had the boxer pup hen- "0" oc

visiting with her Navy-officer hus-

band,

of Edinburgh, in

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the Duke

“lost”

by British

other Briton at home answered such questions as whether they shared the kitchen sink,and bathroom with anyone else. ,

Schoolteacher

Broke and Broken

Gerald Daynes {went back to his Brooklyn class-

room today with a broken heart and almost empty pocketbook. Mr. Daynes said he had spent $7500 in a futile effort to win

custody of his daughter in a Brit-

{ish court and lost Xeverythin Maj. Charles Yeager, first pilot| put $18. Feyerything

His 3-year-old daughter, Laurel,

until §

he is 21.

wife, Eunice, 29, will retain care

Sound travels at 760. miles an and control.

“It's a lousy feeling to be in

Lone American

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in Washington he had will be a ward of the British court Dayne’s estranged

‘Sweetest Girl' Contest

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Times. none can be returned and th decision of the judges will be- final Commerce, Dayton (0.), Chamber

meeting of the Sales Executive Council at 6 p. m. today in Marott

Apr gp "et dav lor submiiting entries of Commerce and Engineers’ Ciub.

medical care after "battle