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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola
PASSPORTS are a good subject for conversation. Discovered that in Room 283 in the Federal Building. : » The personnel In ‘the Passport Application office could be the main reason. ‘On second thought, let's give the credit to Mrs. Thelma Riebeling chief deputy; Mrs. Elizabeth Bradbury and Anne L. Fink, deputy clerks. For a starter, did you know that prior to Bept. 22, 1922, if an.American woman married a foreigner she automatically lost her citizenship? And if she wanted a passport she would have to be repatriated. Several times the passport office was thrown into a mild state of confusion when a woman learned the cold facts. At first the news sounds funny to someone who was born and reared in Indiana. Later, when the government stands firm, the situation isn't laughable. Especially when you're in a hurry to cross the ocean. ¢ © @ GETTING a passport isn't difficult for an American citizen if he’s prepared to meet all the requirements. All you have to do is bring two snapshots, 214 by 2% inches, printed on thin paper with a light background; a birth certificate or a certified copy of the certificate; if a person is a naturalized citizen, He's required to bring the naturalization certificate; one witness and a money order for $0 payable to the Secretary of State. In about two weeks after the application is filed, the passport should come by registered mail. Mrs. Bradbury said the chief difficulty is
DOOR TO ADVENTURE—The fun starts with the passport questions.
It Happened Last Nig By Earl Wilson
NEW YORK, Apr. 20—-“Everybody who has talent must be a little bit crazy,” Ferenc Molnar said. The 74-year-old Hungarian genius, who has written 42 plays and about 70 books of novels, sketches and short stories, was sitting across from me in his favorite restau- . rant, Marcario’s, on W. 58th 8t., having tea. “Toscanini’s crazy,” Molnar announced. “He's 84. Why does he
don’t I have a little garden?
Declares Men More
Vain Than Women
the birth certificate. The fact that a person was born ‘isn’t important. The government is interested in where and when. Older persons have difficulty with birth certificates. Years ago the practice of certifying births was unknown in many communities, A baptismal certificate with the church seal is acceptable as evidence curred shortly after birth.
Another way of producing the evidence of
where and when is to get an affidavit from a judge. An affidavit is easy to get when relatives who will swear to required Information are alive. ® ¢ ONE APPLICANT who couldn't think of anyone in his immediate family who remembered a specific time and location brought in scrapbooks for evidence of birth. The ladies saw pictures of the applicant in convention parades, on picnics, poses in various parts of the country. There was. no question of the man's birth. The scrapbooks still didn’t tell when and where. Besides, attaching the bulky scrapbooks to the application would be difficult if not unwise. Washington would frown at the evidence. Mrs. Riebeling said younger people, between the ages of 15 and 30, usually can’t give the dates of their parents’ birthdays. The questions have to be answered. Applicants must answer the number of times they were married and the termination dates of the marriages. There have been instances when this was difficult. When you have four or five behind you, the memory begins to play tricks. The three passport ladies were agreed that men are more vain than women. Mrs. Bradbury recalled several males who would not admit their hair was gray. When they finally gave in since the evidence was in full view, they ended the discussion by saying, “Well, it used to be brown.” : . * o> & A WOMAN is never asked her age. The clerk simply looks at the birth certificate. Mar, persons with a sentimental attachment to their birth certificates bring a certified copy. Certificates are not returned from Washington. A passport appiicant is asked if he has any distinguishing features on his face and hands. The ladies have heard descriptions of body birthmarks, incisions, moles before they were able to halt the co-operative customers down.
May is usually a good month for passports. |
Last year the average number of applications were 11 a day. Holy Year events in Rome had its effect. This year the clerks consider it a big day when they handle five. They think the war situation has a bad effect on pleasure travelers. Regardless of how your passport picture turned out, the passport is the best evidence of citizenship. There isn’t anything better. It proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that somewhere on record the government has some pretty vital information about you. Not only does Uncle Sam know you were born, he knows where and when,
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Be Little Bit Crazy
ONCE HE tried to stop by choosing to read a seed catalog which, he felt, would be so boring he'd go right to Sleep. “On the second page, I got to thinking, ‘Wh Why am I livin: in a hotel without flowers around me?’ I got sc excited I got up and started planning a garder So . .. I had to go back to taking the pill.” + > &
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FRIDAY, APRIL 20,1951 About People—
=. TV Decides J There's Been Too Much V
Plunging Necklines On the Way Out
Despite the recent propriety of Miss Faye (she-put-the-V-in-tele-vision) Emerson, the nation's telecasters have decided to do something about plunging necklines. | Warned by [Robert Swezey, [New Orleans, f that they must do something about over - ex- ! posure of female stars “before Miss Emerson | somebody does it for us,” a wmpe- # cial committee was set up yester~ ' day to look into the situatiga. The committee also way assigned by the National Asgsocia-| tion of Radio and Television | SE ONaty m |Broadcasters to make necomSMILING HOOSIER—They call him "Smiley" and for good mendations on “excessive | com-
reason. Cpl. Billy Miller, Bridgeport, mechanic on a F-51 Mustang |mercials.” | on Mrs. Helen Evans, audience's of the Fifth Air Force's 35th Fighter Interceptor Group in Korea, | Aloof | tional broadcast here.
was caught in the midst of one of his famous smiles while replacing | Nightclub entertatmér’ Joo .E | Audience applause acclaimed . + . 2 . . . a landing strut on Ww F-51 Lewis says television is the great.| Mrs. Helen Evans Queen for a
est thing that's happened to him/ Day at Jack Bailey's national —because he refuses, to be tele- broadcast for Mutual System vised | yesterday at Murat Theater. The only big-time gagster who wai ih Won er Sandicacy u ” Mr. Lewis finds omen after has “held out, P the crown. Her crown made night club owners ‘are scrambling
her wish come true. ¢ to get him for their floor shows. 1 wi h “I'm their boy,’* he beams, “I| Along with the rest of the
’ | over-capacity crowd of women ar apd get those fat (and a few men) Mrs. Evans . |
ck Bailey confers queenship choice, at Queen for a Day na-
SAILOR'S WIFE CROWNED—Ja
wrote she'd wish to talk to husband George, boatswain mate, at Pearl Harbor, if she were a queen. Included in her Prizes was arrangement for the call. The winner, mother of Mary Ann, age 3, and Johnny, age 1, lives at 450 Shelby St. Mr. Bailey will be master of ceremonies for Indianapolis Home Show opening ceremonies at 4:30 p. m. today. >
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No White /Meat Only the Issue Changed—
Julian Dickenson really cu P : crow” last night in Wichita, Kas. i M Sh Mr. DR a national ad- on er e OWS jutant geney'al of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars, promised a - Supporters on the
, ago to “eg.t one tough old crow” if the Wichita VFW Post re- . placed the Lubbock, Tex., post as the largest in the world. . When’ the year long member‘ship drive was celebrated at a banquet. last night-—with Wichita in first place-- Mr. Dickerson was served roast crow with a few
feathers still attached. People had changed the issue in their minds. Last week it was “It doesn’t taste bad,” he said. the up firing age bothéred - en
(Then he was served steak along them. Today it was the conflict stone Ave., graduate nurse: “I
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te Increa Policy Uppermost in Minds of People And Only 8% Back President Truman By TIMES CITY STAFF a i MacArthur is better than ever. THe SIANE? N That was the gist of opinion expressed today when The Times resurveyed a panel of local people who last week expressed their
views on the ouster of Gen. Truman. :
still want to conduct a symphony? Why shouldn't he sit
down and dream? He's crazy!” os » 2 . “ARE YOU crazy?” 1 inquired.
“I have to be crazy. You can't write comedy if" you're not. “Garbo’s crazy. I'm a private admirer of hers. She's the greatest living actress in any language. she’s crazy. She wants to be ugly.
Mr. Molnar,
“She puts on her black glasses and crazy hats so she'll be ugly. But when she takes them off
you see she’s beautiful.” . 4
MOLNAR'S OUR hardiest playwright. In 1908, his play, “The Devil,” was produced by four
companies in N. Y. simultaneously.
Now his play, “The Good Fairy,” in which Helen Hayes once starred, will come to B'way ‘Make a Wish”
in a musical adaptation, titled starring Nanette Fabray. Long ago in Budapest, he was a romantic figure with many glamourous women crazy about him—some of them married. “Now I am a retired Lothario,” he said. “You have always made less love, and more hard liquor in America than we did in Europe.” oo oD EVERY MORNING he's up at 5 in his room at the Plaza. ’ “Then I work. I write very little. mostly polish the old shoes. I+shine.” that he polishes literary pieces. Molnar considers Hemingway “as great at least a< De Marnassant.” He was so in »» of Shaw that he declined a chance to meet him. Molnar doesn’t smoke or drink (except for a little wine). “It's not character. If you are afraid of the undertaker you stop very easy.” Molnar has for 40 vears taken)a sleeping pill. And {it still works on him.
A Visit to Zoo By Harman W. Nichols
WASHINGTON, Apr. 20 (UP)—The monkeys, the elephants and the hippos don’t give a hee-haw about things international. Disrespectful as it may seem, I went out to the Washington Zoo on MacArthur Day in the Capitol. (The General apparently didn’t mind.) I talked with the. birds and the bees and with my old friend Doc Bill Mann, the headkeeper. We made the rounds. First we visited ‘‘Amvet,” a two-year-old lion which was donated to the 200 by the veterans of World War II. “Amvet” was sound a a-snooze,
Now 1 He meant
But
to try to sign MacArthur. . .. Nancy Andrews is a great bet for the Ethel Merman role in the “Call Me Madam” road company. . . . Julie Wil: son stole the London “Kiss Me, Kate” notices. . The famous Savov halltaom will be torn down for a housing project, but a new dancery’s planned. . . . Warners is testing Billy Hayes of NBC “Show of Shows” to remake “The Jazz Singer.” : ® OO FLASH! Mrs. Clark Gable flew to NY—alone and flies right out to the Bahamas. The ex-Lady Ashley, rumored splitting with her husband, will be under an assumed name. That’s the plan now, subject to change when she hears the secret’s out. Looks Like The End. * & 9 GOOD RUMOR MAN: The Duke and Duchess of Windsor sail for Europe. May 24. On the same boat, Jimmy Donahue and mother, and Elsa Maxwell. . . Joyce Mathews made her periodic denial about remarrying Uncle Miltie. (She wants him to win the Derby first?). . . . Blix Donnelly, veteran Phillies’ pitcher, was sold to the Boston Braves—first member of the champ Phils to be peddled. . . . Jackie Gleason, hottest new TV comic, refuses to do the Colgate Comedy Hour with Martin & Lewis—Not again’ ‘em, just wants to work alone. . . . Marion Colby arrives soon at the Latin Quarter, * © EARL’S PEARLS. . . .Donald Richards feels that some movie and TV gals’ fan mail should be addressed to their sweaters. ® & WISH I'D SAID THAT: “Many a woman goes to Reno to get debossed.”—Al Weinreb. * © 9
TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: “Truman's suffering from MacArthuritis.”—Jane Morgan. ® 4. 4
TAFFY TUTTLE mentioned at Majors Cabin that a bachelor is a rolling stone who gathers no boss. .. . That's Earl, brother.
Don’t Give a Hoot For 5-Star General
Lee, the Orangutan, gave off a lot of gibberish as we approached his cage. Lee and Doc are fast friends since Mann hand-fed him when he was a baby. Lee had no comment, either. The pigmy hippo, Gumdrop the 12th, was too tired and disinterested in the affairs of the world even to grunt as we paused by his waterhole. There was a happy fellow. No loans due, no lend-lease to worry about. No family to support. Jenny, the giraffe, had her neck over the wire
fence looking for a tree to chew on. Finding none |
blissfully ignorant of the fact that a .five-star within reach, she backed onto her haunches and General was speaking before the Congress and chawed what she had 18 her South. collecting the acclaim of a million people in a ASHOK, one of the few male elephants in the parade down jam ed Pennsylvania Ave. country, had only one thing on his mind. WaterWe dropped by the cage of the tiger triplets. squirting. He did a pretiy job on Doe apd Their mama has refused to feed them and they me " good were turned over to a mountain lion. One of the ’ “trips” is named ‘“Nickie” after me. “Nickie” caren there Doc. Manu and I visited with the was napping. So were his brother and sister. For a sultry day and with big things going on * ¢
down town the attendance was pretty good. As THOSE TIGERS, said Doc Mann, were born
many small fry as you'!! find on any week-day in Washington and therefore are alittle on the = Gpo0 hand. snooty side.
The popcorn and peanut men were thriving. All the animals know Doc, their master, even
Yonkeys happily looked at people. People haplook t A though they wouldn't recognize five-stars if five Ply looked at monkeys. Nobody said a word stars stared them in the eye, ‘
about the state of the world. Doc figured it wil go on like that at the zoo for a long time yet.
‘Operation Housing'
“Operation Housing” has been Operation Housing, Army Finance Center started «by the officers’ of the Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Ind. Army Finance Center at Ft. Har-| There is a (permanent) (temporary) home for (family) rison. + [#+ssee..0 persons (group-women) (group-men) at Public co-operation in listing| Address as ‘ all available temporary and hous-| erereriiiaiiertneetatitiiiiiiiiinas. ing facilities is being recruited for This is (apartment) (house) (room) (share home). the rapidly growing military! (Military) (Pérmanent Civilian). colony. SP ENN s esters esata nssRstan abit ssarentanees Local residents are urged to an Name
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CONTEST-CONSCIOUS JUDY—Judy Foster (Nina
| looks on, in a scene from
: Parsley mails her entry for cash prizes as Randolph Foster (Norman Co
A Date With Judy" to be presented by r class of Carmel High School. The curtain rises at 8 p. m. in the school auditorium.
{with the rest of the guests. Quite a Start
Jearned yesterday that there's: first time for everything.
Gl Joe Lights Up as All The Brass
ALBANY, Ga., Apr. 20—The enlisted men never thought they'd live to see the day, but they claim it actually happened: A /group of officers at Turner Air Force base had to go out and “poll. cigaret butts. The officers involved, if possible, were even more stunrved than
Turns to Ashes;
By United Press
The whole town was talking| Stooping over for a cigaret butt, | bout it, but none of the service-'as any GI or veteran will testify,
{missed saving another child.
{that Mrs. Pennings had been ab to swim.
Award, Not Medal
Audie Murphy, most decorated ce up” hero of World War II, is free to
marry again. His former wife,
| Hollywood.
{mem wanted to be quoted by is a job that even the lowliest Dallas, Tex. Monday.
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{was reported, |cealed glee. |
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Whole Town Talking townspeople brass hats at the nearby air base 'assigned junior officers to the Division, which includes national policing detail last Sunday be- SWéfd units from Mississippi, New cause they had been lax in carry- Jersey and Virginia, declined of‘ing out an order to keep the grounds free of trash. The officers who failed to make larged upon sure that enlisted men did the accounts. job, were required to trim grass, [sweep up debris and pick upithe brief experience with menial
cigaret butts with their hands, tasks had thle desired effect on according to reports. Enlisted men the officers.
{watched the clean-up operation, it men retrieving’ cigaret butts now with poorly con- before the ashes have time to get
{private considers beneath his dig-
nity. that The Desired F.flect
ficial comment.
incident had ‘been
cold.
Dollars in Your Pocket=—
Expanded Social Security Adds Millions To Rolls
How Law Affects Newly Covered Workers Is Explained by Expert
By HENRY SCHINDALL Certified Public’ Accountant
CHAPTER SIX
The recently expanded Social Security law now takes under its
Spokesmen for the 40th Air
But a major told the United Press he thought the “greatly en- ” In the eye-witness | against Producer According to those accounts,
They have enlisted
wing, in addition to those formerly covered, an estimated 1,000,000 | persons engaged as household help, 1,000,000 farm workers and about 4,500,000 self-employed.
Housewives employing maids,
cooks and chauffeurs, who meet
the tests of the law, and farmers employing covered agricultural
workers now have new duties. You must first determine whether your household help comes under Social Security. If so, their wages are subject, begining Jan. 1, 1951 to a deduction of 1!2 per cent. You as employer must pay these amounts to the government together with an equal amount out of your own pocket. You
| pay this quarterly when you
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file your Social Security tax return. Your first payment was due Apr. 1. It must be paid on or before Apr. 30. Neither you nor your domestic has any choice in the matter. If the requirements are met, they are covered. You must decide, report and pay.
s » » TO FIND OUT if domestics are covered, ask yourself these two questions: oo
ONE: Have I paid the domestic at least $50 in cash in the calendar quarter, exclusive of board or lodging? (Calendar quarters are the three month
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This is the last of a series about "your Social Security. It ®lls you .how to figure the amount of your benefit.
retirement
periods beginning Jan. 1, Apr. 1, July 1 and Oct. 1.) TWO: Was the servant working for you at least 24 days in that quarter? (A part of a day counts as a full day.) If the answer to both questions is “yes,” then the servant is covered by Social Security
for that quarter. The servant
is also covered for the next quarter if she is paid $50 or more in that quarter, even though she does net work 24 days in that next quarter. . For example: A maid gets $8 a day, works two days each week from Jan. 1 to Mar. 31, and ‘then one day a week from Apr. 1 to June 30. She has met the $50, 24-day test in the first quarter, and the $50 test in the second quarter. But for the third ' quarter beginning July
Back Pay
Screen star Dorothy Lamour
won $84,945.80 in Hollywood yesterday. Superior Court Judge Frank G. Swain approved the actress breach of contract claim
Benedict Bogeaus. She charged Mr. Bogeaus owed her the money in un-
Miss Lamour
Mrs. Clarence Pennings jumped
{into 16 feet of water to rescue! |a 3-year-old cousin and barely Week right after the announce-| Arthur made a wonderful speech. ment by the President were less| I haven't changed my mind at all. | It was the first time in her life QUtspoken in their criticism. of his/I think the President should have
petite film and could not agree with,” [star Wanda Hendrix, pocketed Miss Martha Schafer, of 44 “It was the most insulting experience I ever had in the service,” her final divorce decree today i
{in policy.
Although the lines still were Gen. MacArthur on the radio. I [tightly drawn, with the Generalistill say Truman was in the | | A Little Chute, Wis, woman in front by a vast majority, peo- wrong.”
a ple ‘have toned down -their 'ménts about the ‘great deal, Less Outspoken
le action today.
“I don’t blame the President they don't get rid of the war over MacArthur there, we'll have it here.” now, as I did last week. He was|
|for relieving Gen. right in that. But now I
n dianola Ave. Before the two men had an o
p-| ; Mr. Murphy plans to marry air- portunity to express their views| let Ave, line hostess Pamela Archer inito the public last week, Miss |Schafer, an airline employee, said! (the whole thing was “a big mis-|
take.” 8 Per Cent Back Truman
cent backed the policy {President and the
|a neutral opinion.
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paid salary for her work in two his case well.
pictures.
1 she will not be covered unless she again meets the $50, 24-day test in that third quarter, . = ” 5
How Do You Report. on Covered Employees? First, request a Social Security return (Form 942) from your local collector of internal revenue. (Check your phone book, under U. 8. Government —collector of internal revenue for the address. Post offices and SSA offices may have a special postcard for this request.) Second, fill in the form—it is very simple—sign it and mail it with your check or money order for the full tax to your local collector of internal revenue. The first’ return is due Apr. 30. Similar returns must
. be filed by the last day of the
month following each -calendar quarter (Apr. 30, July 31, Oct. 31, Jan. 31).
WHAT IF your domestic objects to deductions? You are responsible for paying over the domestics portion of the tax, as well ag your own. If you wish, you may choose not to deduct anything from wages, and pay the domestic’s share yourself. ” ” 3
WHAT IF your domestic is a
‘relative?
Your children under 21, wife, husband or parents are not : covered even if they meet the
Mrs. Iness Strahl, 1122 8. Key- I still think Truman was right,”
tests. Other relatives, however, are covered.
WHICH FARM workers are now covered? Only farm workers who receive cash wages of $50 or more in a calendar quarter in which they are ‘regularly employed” are covered. For this purpose, ‘regularly employed” means continuous employment throughout a calendar quarter. In following calendar quarters, he continues to be covered if he works at least 60 days in each quarter. " » ” WHICH OF THE ployed are covered? To be covered you must earn at least $400 in net income from your own business, or as a partner, during your taxable year, Professional persons in their own practice are not covered. These include physicians, lawyers, dentists, optometrists, veterinarians, architects, public accountants, funeral directors a nd professional engineers. Farmers and clergymen are also exempt, :
self-em-
5 ~ 8 WHAT IF you have both selfemployment income and covered wages? If ‘the total is less than $3600, both types are countéd. If they add up to more than $3600, count only $3600. You do this by reducing the self-employ-
ment income reported to the = farm.
‘amount needed to bring the
t
Preside a ;
Folks who were adamant last
blame Pennsylvania St, housewife: &T [the President for setting a for-'saw them both on television and leign policy which his high commander had no part in making Arthur was the right man. He sald seemed very sincere in his talk 55 In- yesterday.”
Few people changed their opin-{SPeech yesterday, we still need ion and the shifts were such that More facts.” percentagewise 76 per cent still! favor MacArthur's views over the!
present foreign policy. Eight per roliton Ave., last week was undeof the cided. She now says: remainder for MacArthur. His speech yes-
either wanted more information terday was the most wonderful lor declined to express other than thing I've heard.”
Bven those who went along strongly for President Truman {with the Truman plan agreed that has the same opinion. the General's speech yesterday should have heard the telephone was sensational and that he made calls I got.
first $3600 of such income is
{heard both President Truman and
. Mrs. Henry G. Bender, 410 N. Oxford St. housewife: “I heard both of them and I thought Mac-
left MacArthur in command. If
Mrs. George M. Weber, 2475 S.
I haven't changed my mind. Mac-
ing a good job and should have been kept. She now states: “I haven't heard enough of the Truman side of the argument. I'm undecided. While Gen. {MacArthur made a wonderful
‘All for MacArthur’ Mrs. W. B. Atwater, 6180 Car-
“I'm all
| A housewife who previously was But, “you
People called me all {sorts of names,” she says. “But
total to $3600 for the taxable year. For example, if you have covered wages of $2000 and ems ployment income of $5000 in a calendar year, you report only $1600 of self-employment ine come ($3600 maximum less $2000 wages).
2.8 o HOW DOES a self-employed person pay his tax? If you are self-employed, you will pay your Social Security’ tax once a year when filing your income - tax returns. Generally you will pay for the first time about Mar. 15, 1952, covering the year 1951. A special schetiule will be filled in, the tax figured and paid at 21 per cent of self - employment net income: The schedule is then attached to and filed with your income tax return. ee
” - ” > WHAT DO we mean by self. empldyment income? Your net income from a shop, factory or other business owned entirely by you;,-or your share of parthership net income if you are a partner, is your self employment income: Only the
counted for social security pure poses. In figuring your self-employ-ment income, do not include dividends and interest (unless you are a security dealer); or rents received from real estate (unless you are a real es bs broker) ; or any income fr ;