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Inside Indianapolis

By Ed Sovola

FORTY-SEVEN members of the Civilian Defense Police heard Chaplain Cornelius Grifin speak at the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge, 1431 EB. Washington St. : When Chaplain Griffin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Griffin, 921 N. Riley Ave., ended his talk, for three minutes there was absolute silence in the.hall. It made you think of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's speech before Congress. When the wearer of the Silver Star medal, awarded to him for gallantry in Korea, sat down at the improvised speaker's tablo, 47 men had one thought in mind. It was revealed when the shock of his message and dramatic delivery wore off. Everyone agreed all Americans should have heard it. Officers of the Civilian Defense Police asked Chaplain Griffin to speak before the organization hoping he could inspire more interest in the movement to swell the Tanks of civillan defenders.

2 *'® o THE ORIGINAL goal for Civil Defense Policemen, to reinforce and perform’ some of thé

"duties of the regular police force, was 3000. Their

duties will be to.guard against panic, riot, sabotage, looting which often follow a disaster. To date 450 men have been trafned and 175 are currently in training. The Fire Department needs 2000 volunteers for auxiliary duty. The department is training 200. In a couple of weeks

BRITISH DEFENDERS—They know the ravages of war. Our Civil Defense authorities urge Americans to be prepared.

.i# Everyone Should Heed +. Chaplain a call for volunteers to the warden service will be made. It is hoped several nd persons will. answer the call, : » Chaplain Griffin, bearing the marks of. the wounds he recelved the night of Dee. 6 during fierce Aghting for the Changjin Reservoir, didn't warm up to the subject of civil defense. He be~ gan with the heat of a magnesium fire bomb. The Chaplain told how he saw the flash of the A-bomb, which was exploded in New Mexico, in his hospital bed in Oakland, Cal. He is deeply concerned over what would happen if the enemy dropped an A-bomb on an American city, perhaps our own. * & o

“IT IS PLAIN, common horse sense to prepare and assume worst can happen. One

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bomb; the atrocity and ferocity of which staggers. .

the imagination, would tax all of the city’s potential for survival to the breaking point in a matter of seconds,” said ‘Chaplain Griffin, “The city must depend on the generosity, patriotism and sacrifice 6f people such as you. You must bring your training up to its maximum efficiency and then devote your time to bringing others into the program. -You must not take indifference lying down, Bounce back, repeat and repeat to the point of becoming obnoxious.” We listened to words such as these: “It is better to light one candle than to sit and curse the darkness. ; “You men must set an example for all around

you. You must not shirk your duty to defend

your country in whatever you are called upon to do. Anything short of thig is hypocrisy. “The Koreans had no civil defense, Utter and complete destruction was the result. - “We're over a barrel. An attack on our eastern eities would mean the great Midwest would be used to save the population, “When the country was formed men gambled everything they had. Men must do it again, It will be your own faulf if we fail. die “IN EVERY HOME there should be someone who can administer Arst aid, someone who knows the basic facts abot fire-fighting and who in an emergency can assume the responsibility neces-~ sary for effective ction. : “In Korea we ae fighting a foe that gives no quarter, asks no quarter, has nothing to live for and less to die for. They don’t turn their backs in battle. His molto—f t moves shoot it.” The printed word can’t do justice to Chaplain Griffin’s talk. Ypu have to be within the sound of his voice to absorb his message, his courage,

- uncompromising faith in free men.

He paid high tribute to our fighting men in Korea. Chaplain Griffin said, if he had his way, he would be back with the men of the 2d Battalion of the Tth Marines, 1st “Marine Divigion. His orders, fjowever, are fo return to duty at Great Lakes temporarily and when the doctors give the sign, Chaplain Griffin will undergo surgery again. ; : Everyone remembers the Battle of Britain, It makes you er when we'll be put to the supreme test in a Battle of/the United States, God forbid. h

d Last Night bifante : le But || Biygmees Heppy:

By Earl Wilson :

NEW YORK, Sept. 29—Beloved Jimmy Durante . . . here planning his return to television « « « NOW enjoys appearing at out-of-doors sports events since finding & new joke for such occasions. “What's duh use?” he demands, looking at the open sky. “Worked hard all muh life and wound up wit'out & roof over muh head!” Jimmy's very cautious about adding new jokes, just as Al Jolson was, says Charles Isaacs, who, wrote the above gag, and for Jolie as weil, } One Jolson was given a gag to the effect that he only gave gifts to old friends. Oscar Levant was to reply, “To be an old friends of yours, you still have to have your stubs from Magellan's tri $id > u “When shown this line, Jolson said, “Who the hell is Magellan?” “A guy who had a ship that went ‘round the world in the 16th Century,” he was told. “No wonder I don’t know him,” Jolson said. *Let’s get the name of somebody who went around more recently.” _ Instead they made it “you have to be Columbus’ cabin boy’-=and Al was pleased, ; oS 2 SON SLUGGER, who's a Jerry Lewis fan, suggests this would be a good headline for a train wreck story: “Choo-Choo Makes Boohoo,” ® © SWIFTY MORGAN, the Hollywood and Miami character who peddles neckties to B'wayites and is reputedly well-to-do, was caught selling ties last night while not wearing a tie himself. When twitted about it, he answered: “You don’t think 1'd wear this junk I sell, do you?” > > 2 ACTRESS DIANA LYNN was alert in the Ken Murray TV show when, after somebody said to her, “The Answer is in the air,” she ad libbed: “No, thank goodness, the answer is on those cards down there by the A THIS ONE'S AROUND ‘again with a new heroine . . . about the clod who wanted to marry or her money. Dagmar { neYs 0 THE MIDNIGHT EARL—Looks like still more delay in the Frankie & Ava wedding—but not a long one. Frank has agreed to all Nancy's requests—it's a matter of getting all papers signed. Untold in the Harry Gross scandal is how one retired police inspector was sent to a mental institution to keep him away from questioners, for

Americana = : By Robert C. Ruark .

sW YORK, Sept. 29—Young master John Hor Selby comes to fown today, all the way from Tanganyika, and I aim to get real even with the fellow. Harry's She! igent whe ran me ragged frica this past summer, a rite elephants and buffalo, caterpillars and lions and thorns and mud and mountains. Hunter Selby is 26, and he has never been outside East Africa before. He is accustomed to the soothing sound of lions roaring and hyenas howling outside his tent, when he bothers to sleep in a tent. He hates radio. His wants are simple—about 12 unds of meat a day, a botof gig,» buffalo wounded and in the bush. His help is not unionized. His head boy, Juma, | ! the highest pald of the troupe, and he gets 2 bucks a month and his chacula. If Harry need his toenails cut, he hollers for Juma and Jums comes running with the toey-cutta. Ha

t. sticks out his foo to introduce the young De

I know how brave he is with hori alo, but he hasn't been .caught the rush-hour herd that charges the doors of 4 im

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he might have invo police supervisors

is squirming now Brand new investigation of some alleged nagy business is under way . ..#arold N, Saphin, son of Al/Saphin, and a veep of Monarg! Saphin, mar‘ried Marjory As Chargel, pretty wu

Miss Kelly

tell me the name of this school?” 'm just a football player here''—

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¢ & ¢ AID THAT: “A phony is a B'wayite who on wication says he has a leading part in « + when he's the usher.”’-—Henny Youngman. 4

Ph a» EARL'§PEARLS: Phil Baker maintains he's so henpecjpd that he cackles in his sleep.

e o> @ . B'WAJ BULLETINS: Marlene Dietrich’s furipok for snapping her in unglamorous attire . ./Republic Pictures wants Madeleine Carroll to flay leading lady for Vaughn Monroe's

Special Services . op H)’S NEWS: Leo Durocher entertained Eddie's patrons for 45 minutes at a spener he attended ... J. Arthur Rank star,

nly” and discreetly left the table, at which oned Nairobi, Africa ... TV equipment’s being installed at Loew’s State . .. At pianist Del s Borracho . opening, Jack Coleman bought champagne all around and vowed he’s manying model Virginia Bailey. little boy awoke at 4 a.m. and asked his mother to tell him a story. “Just be patient, #,” she said. “Daddy will be home soon and hear a honey.” . . . That's Earl, brother.

Bob Entertains An African Visitor

the rhumba in El Morocco, or watched the oodoo rites in the Stork Club, of observed the pddly suicidal samba In the Copa. Nor has he ever seen television. I keep wondering what he will make Hf Milton Berle, Maggie McNellis and

Dagar, oe + @

. HE GOES to a baseball game, for sure, since hie, must not miss our. quaint native custom of screaming curses at the players, the umpires, and each other. He has heard his share of eerie jungle noises, but he has not yet sat next to a table at which a girl-lunch. is in progress, hearing the manamouki carve up absent friends with tongues vastly sharper than a young Masal warrior's stabbing spear. He has seen the tribal scars and stretched earlobes of the African woman—I shall stand near to catch him when he first takes a gander at the tribal scars, plerced ears and stretched earlobes of the “21” club cocktailers. is an expert stalker of game, but there are things gbout stalking he never knew. He will learn much when he sees dhe of our young women on the prowl for one of our young men, using all the wiles that woman has successfully employed since Eve {id it to Adam using apple bait. Harry is. skillful ‘at moving in on quarry, without attracting the quarry’s attention, but not nearly so. guileful a young blood with a blonde in his

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School Bell Rings At Kingan'’s

AT TURN OF CENTURY—Bishop's house bought by Indianapolis Water Co. in 1891.

By OPAL CROCKETT JE, NTERPRISE has fastened locks on the doors of the Circle's last house,

* once open to troubled hu-

manity. Through its rooms now flow city water business transactions in place of the ecclesiastical tea of the past century. Few people notice the Circle's last house that once was the home of the bishop of Christ Church, : The two-story house rises back of the Indianapolis Water Co. at 113 Monument Circle. Until 1891, when bought by the water company, it was the home of Bishop David Buel" Knickerbacker. : Through the rooms now abustle with the business of supplying water for a big city, Bishop Knickerbacker (1883-

1894) meditated and mused on -

the morals of the masses,

» TE BISHOP'S kitchen, where tea was prepared for religious, civie and literary gatherings, is now the office of the manager of the water company. All roms of the house were converted into offices by the company and are still in use. Telephones buzz in the ivory brick and frame house at one time serenely ‘quiet except for the chant of morning and evening prayers and Scripture reading. Through the rooms where the bishop pondered on correspondence and prepared for afternoon calls and trips to Christ Churches over the state now people hurry on business errands. In the rooms where the devout talked and the despondent stopped for

words with the bishop-—now business conferences are held. The downtown rectory, witnessing life at its best and its worst in the growing city, had abundant company as a place of refuge—a place where someone cared. The Circle was a church and rectory center.

» » ”

NEAR the bishop's house were the First and Second Presbyterian Churches, Wesley Chapel, Plymouth Congregation Church and the bishop's own church, then, as now, at 121 N. Meridian St. It was in these churches and nearby rectories that pastors and church officials performed remedial social work and dominated civic life. It was their job to guide pioneers in the city that had become Indiana's capital just a few years before. Before becoming a house for the bishop, the house had been the home of Dr. Isaac Coe, a pioneer physician and founder of the city’s first Sunday school and of William H. Morris, a prominent citizen, At the time the water company took over the rectory, downtown workers enjoyed leisurely lunches they took to work with them in the shade of the trees on the Circle without worrying about traffic. Automobiles had not replaced horses, and at the present site of the Circle Theater was a livery stable. . » » THE WATER company had only 50 employees. That's 300 less than today’s total. The bishop’s kitchen became a meeting place for meter read‘ers. There men talked about the day’s business and the company’s first car, purchased about 1901.

HE STARTED THERE—Emest G. ©. Summers of 1242

The House On The Circle .....

W. 34th St. parked his horses back of his boss' quarters in former church annex.

Among those congregating in the basement around 1902 was Ernest G. G. (Ernfe) Summers. Mr. Summers, 49-year employee of the water company, is now yard man in the company’s distribution department, As a boy he fed the horses driven by his father, the late G. (G. Summers, foreman of new construction at the water company. The bishop's kitchen was deposed at beginning of the century by T. A. Morris, water com-

WRITING FOR BUSINESS—Miss Marguerite Lamar meets her class, composed of (left to right)

F. M. Dean, R. E. Nelson, Fred Brandenburg, Howard Wilson, Al Riegel and Miss Ann Waurster, .

HERE'S a new kind of stake at Kingan & Co. The alert meat-packing outfit is staking employees to the benefits of higher education, right in the plant. It's a broth of cooked up by men who feel that college work is the marrow of the bone of knowledge. They want workers who want to improve themselves . , . and Kingan is willing to pay to get them. Say President H. Frederick Willkie: . “We're continually asked to sponsor ‘athletic teams, picnics, dances and other activities. I think it's better to work on the head than on the back. “A man’s head is his only advantage. A bird can outfly him, «a dog can outrun him, a fish

can outswim him and a fly can

outbite him.” ana

MR. WILLKIE'S attitude is

. shared by other officials, and,

evidently, by many

employees. , one week

4 r the 98 are en-

a scheme, ;

Classes at one of the three university night courses In Indianapolis. Special lure of the plan lies in its financial advantage. The employee who chooses a course at the plant pays the course fee, which goes to Butler University’s expenses of supplying the. teachers. At the end of the course, the grades are handed out. . ~ . IF A STUDENT receives an “A” grade, his Initial cost will

be refunded by the company. If he is marked “B"” he gets 75 per cent of his outlay back. A "“C” calls for a 50 per cent return,

The. sluggard scholar ‘who stumbles into a grade of “D" or

failure gets nothing back, Naturally, the man who wants to learn more but who feels he can't afford it has a gilt-edge opportunity to agitate his gray matter, gratis. And he won't be cutting <¢lasses, for

pany manager, In its march from culinary to managerial achievements the kitchen, however maintained a womanly touch. | ” ” » MISS BLANCHE TULLIS went to work as secrefary to T. A. Morris in 1901. She served five managers including H, 8. Morse, now retired and living at 5649 N. Pennsylvania St. Had she not retired in 1946 she

- might have had trouble in mas-

rector.

fear the instructor will slice his grade off at the ankles. Most popular course so far Is informal public - speaking. Which ‘is not: surprising . . . everybody likes to talk, Next in order: Personality workshop, principles of accounting, business law, history of Russia "and Eastern Europe, writing for business and secre.tarial science. n » » CLASSES are held one or two evenings a week, starting about quitting time at 4:30 p. m. Other classes at differing times will be scheduled later if interest warrants,

LAST HOUSE ON CIRCLE—One-time religious and literary meeting place added to as g i

SHE WORKED THERE"

PROSPECTUS—Miss Lois Purcell scans a Butler University bulletin with Milford Anness, Kingan education and training die

_ the

and now used

ness

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College Ave.

tering the name of the present

manager, Alfred Norris, this one with an “n” not aa “m."”

# (Hany

ment—“Miss Indiana.” high hat then, Miss Indians took a brief rest in the com~ pany driveway before she was escorted to the monument, 2 The bishop's house took & back seat in 1907 when the

front ‘and receded still farther

tion reading, in “Enter, rest and pray.”

President Willkie said the type of course doesn't much matter. “I don't care what anybody takes,” he said. “It can be mu~ sic appreciatoin, or anything, as * long as he uses his head.” Charles E. Brown, personnel director, a sparkplug in the edu» cation scheme, said the possi~ bilities are limitless. One hope for the future is establishment of fellowships for those who want graduate degrees, “I might go after some courses, myself,” sald Mr, Brown. “I have four hours’ credit toward my Master's des gree, and I'd like to get the rest.” The Kingan plan is not original here. Several versions are going on at industrial plants elsewhere. But this one has many well-wishers in Indians apolis, ; i os

“l THINK it's a very fe move,” said Butler's rai " M. O. Ross. “And it's 1 an interesting experim

‘to the man who bot " I | : \