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Inside Indianapolis

By Ed Sovola

DO TRAVELERS listen to ssnoumeethehity at

Terminal Station? Always had a

mation went in'one ear and out the other.

The fact that sharp ears are required to hear the bus caller's voice certainly contributes to the general. Inattentiveness of ™e 4 public, In the morning when few busses are warming up or-pulling out, you can hear an announcement, Along about 5 pm, it's almost impossible unless a person is standing in front of a speaker. There are two on the east side of the bus hanger. =~.

A young fellow acted sur-

. prised when I asked if he had heard an announce- - . ment, “What announcement?” he countered.

“ 4 +

IT WASNT two seconds after the bus caller stopped rolling off the destinations and lane numbers when I asked a middle-aged man. He

shook his head impatiently.

One soldier admitted he wasn't. paying any attention. And two women said they didn’t hear a word, I should have known better. They were chewing the rag furiously, If the roof had caved ‘in #'m sure they wouldn't have stopped. The situation was rather discouraging. Men, womén and children were dashing between busses, bumping each other with luggage, Roing, going someplace without paying need to the: man who

sounded like Sports Anhouncer

describing the running of the Kentucky Derby. I tried the question on an elderly. gentleman who seemed to be- intensely interested in the activity. The old boy said he doesn’t have much to do and enjoys watching people at bus and He doesn’t listen to the announce-

train stations. ments. > & 9» I TOOK THE matter of poor

two bus drivers. They informed me that travelers never have and never will listen to information given them over the public address system.

It Hap By Earl

_ NEW YORK,

son Oct. 2-

Anyway, lovely Lana sat at the Copacabana

‘ringside—which is not so unusual, Out there in the middle of the

Wilson, a pretty face,..and a fair voice, out of Omaha, was trying to sing the production num-

bers .., . with laryngitis. Her voice was huskier than

every few minutes it would crack completely. The willowy Wilson wench was thinking she would have to do something desperate, ‘Miss Turner managed to tell her something. stated Lana.

“Keep that up, honey,”

sounds sexy.”

And thus it was that the Voice With the Smile

got ‘a formidable successor, the

Crack. The crack in Julie's voice proved more + «+ it was a break . Nowanights, New York's richest Society folks pile into Vincent Astor's St. Regis Maisonette to hear Julie's voice crack:

than a crack

» 4 9» JULIE, 26, Good Girl in a Naughty City, sleekest. chick you can imagine. Her humorous songs of love

imitations—done with a leer and a “drop dead” look from Julie—attract the John Jacob Astors and the Dan Toppings and others to the room. Julie may sing for them ‘Shakespeare Ruined My Youth,” written by Ell Bass, which goes:

J] was true to Shakespeare, And Bernard Shaw who I But the immortal Bard, And the imimortal Beard, Couldn't get this mortal, Her room and board. When her voice does that

wrap. themselves from their fair applaud mightily. Or maybe Julie cracks her cultural contribution:

They said that I'd ‘be big, When I played Lady Macbeth, But Dagmar’s even bigger, Without wasting her breath.

J ig Last Night or

-Once upon a midnight Foon a Sram g as SERS sap ex That'd he some story. For “Jutte. whose professors at Omaha University couldn’t discourage her from being an. Earl Carroll Girl when a unit came through town, quickly worked herself up to a Featured Singer .

leggy and low-necklined, but a

peculiar dip or crack, Mr. Astor, Mr. Topping and others un-

suspicion infor-

Little Attention Paid Bus Cal I ers

They also said the station could use another speaker on the west side. The volume could be turned up, too. But the occasional traveler, their estimation, still relies on the direct question.

He may be informed where to get his hus when he buys a ticket. He might even hear the infor-

udnoky

oR Be bus pointed out.

I checked the clarity of “Westfield Franklin Camp Atterbury, lane 4”

mation over the speaker. Nevertheless, the man isn't satisfied until he asks a driver and has the

lane 3.and close to Market

St. You have to be awfully sharp to hear it.

Right after

“Ben Davis,

lane 2” was an-

nounced, I went up to a man with lunch bucket

and asked,

“Did you hear that the Ben: Davis bus is parked in lane 2?” I thought if I repeated, the man would remember unconsciously, Wrong,

dol

ONE KIND and helpful’ lady heard the Louisville and Cincinnati call. antly and told me I could find lane 8 on the other ‘side of the station. She even showed me where the lane markers were hanging.

She smiled mogt pleas-

So there are travelers who do know’ what the

score is.

less.

Glen McCarthy to shout.

speaker.

Those who travel the same wear the blankest looks. They know where they're going and what bus to take. A few words are exchanged with the bus driver and the old commuter slumps in his seat, sees nothing and hears

bus dally

At 5 pm. a stranger who was a little late and entirely dependent on the public. address system, would be lost. The noise in the station is deafening. To make yourself understood it is necessary

It seems to a guy who enjoys poking into problems of our everyday life, if we're going to have a public address system in operation, we ought to tune it up so it can be heard all over the joint. Everyone can't have his head in the

Let those who have daydreams slumber on.

volume up with

at that, floor, Miss Julie

a Chorus Girl. Tallulah's, and

when

“It

Voice With the

. for her. (and poorest)

“How terrible—Julie customers whispered, “thankful to Monte Prosser for paying her that $75 fo help keep herself, a mother and brother. Julie already had a little fan club who liked her but didn’t dream of her being a star,

You can’t force a man to listen and remember the Ben Davis bus in on lane 2. But the man who piles in with only a couple minutes to spare, ought to be able to hear it,

loud and clear.

Cracked Voice Helps Julie to Stardom

London voice coach, Says she may some day be a : . V eet deere os GANG hotpl, group. of, Stee AT nk rs ae

Tsay oe ESI

. « then right back down to

Laryngitis cost her her voice for three months just when she was going good, and to eat she had to go back to chorining at $75 a week. “That was my low i fo

she says.

It was a humiliating comedown.

ilson’s back in the line.” not knowing Julie was

* 4 9»

HEAD FAN was Nick Kelly, then Copacabana bouncer, who warned her“of wolves , , , and

warned the wolves, too.

is the chicest,

Her laryngitis over, she san in Miami Beach. And there t

at Mother Kelly's

agent, Baron Polan, saw something in Her nobody.

and its tawdry

Hover, her boss.

else had seen—a big star. Julie was in the papers at Ciro's last year about a low neckline being too low for Herman

Funny thing about the publicity stunt was that Julie, whose songs make her sound rather wicked,

didn’t like that . . . ‘cause she never wears neck-

adored.

lines too low. (Just low enough.)

One song she sings, called “12 Good Moi and

True,” says:

Up to then they kept me in jail And wouldn't let me travel about.

companions te

voles on this

The crack in Julie's voice is no longer from

‘laryngitis. It's rehearsed. It curves in pleasantly, for comical effect, at the right moment.

* > 2

“I'M SURE anybody else could do it, body else's been dopey enough,” says Julie. Which is overmodest. She was a big hit in London In “Kiss Me, Kate.” She's just turned down a movie offer from 20th Century-Fox. Cunella, the

Americana

By Elizabeth Toomey

NEW YORK, Oct. 2—The quickest way for American women to get put back on a pedestal, so far as comedian Jack Carson is concerned, i=

for them to send their husbands over for a quick look at women,

JSAll the women vack here looked like queen at least princesses . Carson sald after getting back from his first tri “The girls“ over ther: were very Pleasant and friendly . .

when I got back . . . well, to England and ‘Frarice.

nothin’!

Carson played a two- week engagement at the Somebody asked him

Palladium in London. about the girls in the chorus line, glum.

“They shoulda barked,” he muttered.

* 4% +

HE WENT to the Folies-Bergere in Paris “like It's true what they say about the

any tourist.” girls there being scantily clad,

they didn't have anything to show off anyway.” “You mean like being flat chested?’ he was

asked. Carson nodded solemnly. murmured.

The husky comedian spent most of his spare time on his European trip taking pictures to use as background settings for his television show,

the Four Star Revue.

‘l Loved Dr. Wharton'—

British and French

told a friend,

but no-

TODAY'S WORST PUN: “I'd hate to be in your shoes—your feet are smaller than mine.” *

But some kind man Up and put up my bail And I put up with him When I got out. Julie says, just like the good girl she is, “I have to fight my epposition to that rial. It's so phony, it's Just the oppo I am. I have to fight it.” Don't fight it too hard, gal. People will say you and your voice are both cracked.

of matete of what

4 Comie Tony Farrar

WISH I'D SAID THAT: When a fellow says his wife is giving him a hard time, he probably means she’s baking biscuita every morning—Henry Stampler. That's Earl, brother.

Jack Carson Ap orlses

enthusiastically.

or boy friends come up to it.

iunciation. here .

. but for look: ress’

French. British.

“I TOOK NEARLY 3000 feet of film,” he said

tiful city you can imagine, ‘the city is so beautiful the women just can't The girls just aren't as fresh and dainty as American girls. ashion show-—Jacques Fath,” Carson said, careully giving the name the correct French pro“The clothes are + + I like the simple way American women

omen

“That Paris is the most beauMaybe,” he suggested,

I even went to a

tod fancy over

Then the comedian: started worrying that the

and he looked

“Oh, yes, he said, “only “Nothin’,” he ? derful .

Wife No. 10 Slays Husband

Entertaining Spouse No. 4

SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 2 Mrs. Paula Wharton, the second, ninth,

Wife No. four refused, she told police, and Mrs. Wharton fired

people in England and Fr he enjoyed his visit.

ance might not think

al,

“MAYBE you shouldn’t say I thought all the girls were terrible,” “I did see a pretty Irish colleen on the train eoming up from Manchester. pretty girl in front of my hotel in Paris one day. and there was one thing I liked very much In London,” he added, brightening. “When they wait for you at the stage door, to get your autograph, they just automatically queue up, two by two. your autograph and thank you and leave.

he suggested uncomfortably.

And there was a

Then they politely ask for -Won-

Any pretty girls in that line? we asked. The comedian blushed. “Well, they were usually older,” he confessed. ‘For some reason, I

appeal to mothers.”

s brilliant young

and final wife of a .10-times mar- several shots through the door. ried veterinarian, was held today|Mrs, Zuccarello was not. injured. |

after she fatally wounded him| nrg Wharton telephoned police. | “There he is,” she told them!

while he entertained spouse No.! four.

Police sald murder charges would be filed against her. They sald Arthur E. Wharton, 50, chief meat inspector for the San Antonio health department, died instantly with three bullets in his back. He had been separated from the last Mrs. Wharton since May, they said. Wife No, four, Kathryn Zucca-

_rello, 43, a nurse, -told police that

she and Dr. Wharton were chatting early Sunday morning when Mrs. Wharton entered. Mrs. Zuccarello said she fled and took refuge in the bathroom where she locked the door and lay sremblng in the bathtub, She said she heard three shots then Mrs. Wharton came to the bathroom door and pounded on it, saying she had just killed her

husband and would kill Mrs. TR

: iio om a x

when: they arrived, “I killed! him.” She handed them Dr, Whar-

ton’s pistol,

Dr, Wharton had made 10 trips| :

to the altar, His son, Arthur KE. Wharton Jr., 26, an employee of the Texas highway department, said Mrs. Wharton had been his father’s second, ninth and 10th wife. Mrs. Zuccarello, the son said, was Wife No. Four on his fath-| er’s roster, Mrs. Wharton last night made an admission of ‘the slaying iol police. She was dictating a vontession] to police when. her attorney] Maury Maverick Ir, appeared! and stopped 3. During her. police, Mrs. Wharton sohbed aver

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The Auditorium Boom—

There's

PART II By HENRY BUTLER

OCAL auditorium booms -

rise and decline.

One thing that rises but

“doesn't decline is level of cost.

Every cursory study of the four main auditorium booms ®ince 1919 reveals constant faetors, ONE: ready financially to assume the big new coligations, Or that's what conservative eritics of ‘auditorium proposals always ‘say. TWO: The selection of site is food for perennial debate. If you look at some of the past debate on this subject em- * balmed in fast-browning newspaper clippings, you get the impression the debaters are agreed on only one thing: “Let's postpone this rash undertaking as long as we can.” . THREE: - The proposais of one administration tend to be killed by the following administration. For example, in August, 1937, Mayor John W. “Kern was interested in a scheme advanced by a private syndicate to build a huge auditortures (from the drawings, a kind of ‘capsule Radio City) which would be available for lease by the. city. In November, 1937, incoming Mayor Walter C. Boetcher vetoed the plan with the comment, sirable in Indianapolis, but I will not permit the taxpayers to be burdened at this time with an increased tax levy to erect or rent and maintain one.” Perhaps - Mayor Boetcher acted sensibly. in turning down

this particular scheme. Perhaps

it was impractical, though certainiy the hotel part of it, if it ‘had been erected at 1937 - costs, might have done very well with the onset of World War II prosperity.

ANYWAY, the 1937 plan died. But the need lived on. By 1944, we find 4000 residents, organized by Mrs. Frederic H. Sterling, president of the Indianapolis district, Indiana Federation of Music Clubs, presenting a petition to Mayor Robert H. Tyndall urging the building of an auditorium. Mayor Tyndall accordingly set up a District Auditorium Authority %o draw preliminary plans. One of the first things the Authority did was conduct a nation-wide survey to de-

The city never is quite

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DREAM SKETCH-—A sketch of an auditorium on the old Shortridge High School site at Michigan and Penn Sts. was made in 1946 by Ayres, Kingsbury & Ward, architects, for the State Life Insurance Ce., owner of the Shortridge block. A huge ex-

termine the financial soundness

of municipal auditoriums. Next thing you know, headlines read, “Survey Opposes City Auditorfum.”’ Another turp-down, despite such recurrent laments as the Convention Bureau has made almost annually. Tim Tippett, writing in The Times for Oct. 21, 1938, quoted Henry T. Davis, then secretary-manager of the Convention Bureau, as saying “In our files we have listed approximately 300 conventions which, because of lack of facilities, we are unable to accommodate.” ” » ” A BIG PART of the problem evidently has been disagree-

Ready for Cold Weather—

Better Winter Gear Bound For Korea

By DOUGLAS LARSEN Times Special Writer

~ WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 —United Nations troops in Korea should be able to stand the bitter cold winter

far better this year than they did last year. Elaborate plans for getting

necessary winter gear to the §

troops were begun last June. Quartermaster Corps spokesmen say there's enough winter clothing now in Korea or on its way to keep every man warm and protected throughout the winter. Only a few items which might be needed for replacément: later in the winter are in slightly short supply now: Several of the new items of cold weather clothing, in Korea or on the way, have been greatly improved on the basis of last winter's experience. Tn addition to the efforts of the Quartermaster - Corps to make the winter in Korea more hearable, the Surgeon General has been preparing for the coming cold all summer. Last year's Korean winter weather alone accounted for 5000 casualties from frostbite, plus aggravating conditions of many battle. field wounded. = » ~

TRAINING TEAMS have |

been instructing the troops on how best to prevent frostbite. .This includes instructions on the proper use of the clothing, on how to keep feet as dry as possible and on how to ventilate the clothing. Men who will be in the front lines have been instructed to rotate foxhole duty more fre‘quently, giving men a chance to use warming stoves more often.One of the newest anti-frost-bite items is a foot powder which has been devédloped by the Surgeon General and which will be supplied troops in-pack-ages of seven envelopes each, with one day's supply in each

ON THE INSIDE under-

wear is loose and baggy.

envelope. It is supposed to reduce foot perspiration at least 24 per cent and is composed of a tale base with potassium alum, starch, borie, acid, salicylio acid and aluminum chloride.

ment on what constitutes financial soundness of auditorium projects. On this point, the American City for October, 1950, carried a municipal-auditorium survey, finding that 174 cities have auditoriums. Three of those cities — San Francisco, Denver and Oakland —are well in the black in their auditorium ledgers. But the magazine

points-out that no general rules

can be drawn concerning auditorium finances. A building that seems to be losing money in itself may be making a great deal for the community at large. In the fourth major auditerium proposal since 1919, Mayor Philip Bayt and his Off-

IN THE MIDDLE new wool

shirt replaces sweater,

Feet, wet from perspiration, are particularly vulnerable to frostbite. : ~ » ” ANOTHER NEW protection against the cold to be used this winter {s a casualty bag. Simi-

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position Hall on the north end and a smaller music hall on the south end were to provide all the facilities an auditorium would need. Ramps were to lead to the underground parking garage

exavifed beneath Obelisk Square.

Street Parking Gommission seem to be embarking on the same Mediterranean of fair

and foul weather as their predecessors. Favoring them are popular demand, parking needs, pressure from the Convention Bureau and other interested organizations and the definite advantage the city has in the Tomlinson Hall site (no need to buy ground. = - ”

LIKELY TO RAISE storms are disagreement on site (the former Shortridge site across from the plaza has many advantages), problems of financing and, last but not least, the high currently estimated cost

ON THE OUTSIDE a fur-lined

hood for fast moving.

lar to a sleeping bag, but with numerous openings so wounds can be treated while 2 man is in it, it is supposed to keep a man alive against the cold down to ‘minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit. In the actual treatment of

troops

of the project — reportedly around $8 million. That figure undoubtedly will frighten many taxpayers. To offset the scare it may cause, a well managed publicity campaign might introduce facts and figures on convention spending in other cities. For one thing seems constant in the history of our auditorium booms. That is fear of cost, dread of-increased taxes. May= be it’s a peculiarly Hoosier phobia, as some observers believe. Certainly it has obscured all along the community's need for a big hall. And it has killed before birth all the good things an auditorium could bring us.

The End

frostbite, new, proven tech niques will be used. Theres will be emphasis on keeping patients -from smoking during early stages of treatment. Injured parts will be washed more frequently with a nonirritant. Rooms in which patients are kept will be at 72 to 78 degrees, instead of being kept chilly, as was formerly’ done. Most important, doctors have been instructed te wait longer before amputating frozen limbs. It has been discovered that frozen limbs which doctors formerly believed had to be amputated can be saved by waiting, plus the intense use of penicillin and the other wonder drugs. ” ” os FROM HEAD TO. TOE, cold wedther clothing furnished the has undergona major

and_minar improvements. The

hat has been changed so that

when the ear flaps are let down the inside size of the hat remains the same. And the fur lined hood has been made so it can be worn with other than the coldest weatljer outside garments. When a man is moving fast he needs the hood but might not need the heaviest jacket. The “layer” principle is still the basic idea of the Army's Winter clothing. But some of the layers have been improved and some eliminated. Loose or baggy underwear is the new fashion. Over that is a new heavy woolen shirt which elimi-

nates the need of a sweater.

Wool layers no longer rub against another wool layer, or against a mohair layer. This makes the clothes easier to put on and take off and it keeps layers from creeping up on each other. A special frieze material

which feels like a thin, nylon towel has been substituted for the pile mohair liner.