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Inside Indi | N annapolis By Ed Sovola. p :
EVER blow your pass? :
Underpass horn ha bits have had my undivided attention recently {op several hours, pas been ddded- to a stack of information gathered over a period ‘of several years. We're ready to reach a conclusion’ : one urge to blow a horn where it will make : § rst noise begins ‘with a feeling of well-being nd exuberance Intimately associated is a streak of playful and harmless exhibitionism.
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automobile horn in an under-
THINK OF ‘the times you have blown your
aly! hay 4 an underpass, What were the circumFapces Li Were going to a football game, oy were happy and there was no better Nas lo el off steam than to give a blast on Ne hor By no
means is horn-blowing confined to the male Sex, young or old. On S. Meridian St, in the underpass near the Union Station, three young ladies put on a demonstration that should have heen recorded, Each ‘blast of the horn produced convulsive laughter from the trio." They were acting, at the moment, with the aplomb of a 10-year-old leaving a school on the last day of classes, .
NOWHERE in my fotes do I have a married couple hlowing
Bint £ the car horn. How do I know the couple married? By the way they sit. The woman y
Y Is leaning against the door on her side, 1® MAn is intent on driving safely and there is of space between them.
three feet
OLD CUSTOM—There's no place like an underpass to blow your own horn.
It Happened Last By Earl Wilson
NEW YORK, Oct. 8 -Joe E. Lewis, “the beloved gambler,” says he has quit has reformed .. . may even go out crusading against gambling. Joe —-who makes about $200,000 a year as a night club explains that it was not the Kefauver Committee that turned him against
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gambling. It was one bad night he had last April “You can say it was in Nevada.” said Joe “I blew £35000 shooting craps. So. then I
started playing gin for $4 a point and went for
£21.500. In other words, I lose $56.500 in one night.” “How did you feel next day” the reporter asked. .
“Broke.” said Joe. “Immediately I started working for nothing again.” dh a IT IS NOT this columnist's cu sympathetically of gamblers But when ‘the gambler has given. up his sinful wavs, and even agreed to tell the world how wrong he was, per-
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haps it is a salutary thing. : “And so,” says Joe, “I haven't played since April , . . where can you play?”
Joe looks back on his losses and remarks, “If I didn’t gamble, I guarantee you I could have put the Marshall Plan in 10 vears before Marshall started it.” : Eafning $5000 a ~week as he does. Joe has always had money to throw away, so he's thrown it away. His most vivid are of losing. He got mixed up with a drunk one night in a gambling place.
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recollections
“WHILE I was just waiting around this place TI blew £10.000" “So a fellow lent me $1500 and I was tryin’ to get the $10.000 back. “There was a drunk around there who'd been
Joe said.
pesterin' me to go have a drink with him. I told him. ‘Get outa here. Can't. you see I'm busy losin my money . My 1500 was just ahout gone. and the drunk's &till pesterin’ me. Finally 1 favs to him, ‘Here, you shoot the dice for me.’ “So he takes the dice and gets hot. Pretty
soon I got my 10,000 back and the other fellow's 1500 and -a few for myself besides.” a“ bb “THAT JUST shows you must be smart to gamble,” 1 pointed out.
° Perfect Replica By Virginia MacPherson * HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 8 Ever legs de Nilo had? Willys of Hollywood says you can take a. squint .at Franca Faldini's gams and get a good idea. Mr. Willys says -Franca's pins have the same measurements as the famous Roman goddess of and beauty, Now if you've ever seen the statue you'll know her legs don't show, They're draped with a marble tunic. But this doesn’t slow our stocking expert down one bit. He savs he dug up the measurements on Venus’ pins from the Smithsonian Institute, where they keep things like that an file, and who can argue with a man who can recite you the leg measurements of every beauty queen from Rita Hayworth to Marlene Dietrich?
wonder what
kind of Venus Leg Expert
statue of the
love
“HISTORIANS know,” Mr. Willys said firmly. “Her ankles measured 8!; inches, her calves 13';, her knees 13'; and her thighs 191." They arrived at these statistics, he revealed. through something called “figure proportions” and ‘tunic calculations.” They've even got her glove size- seven. Mr. Willys said he took one squint at Franca's »
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Horn-Blowing Gives Us Important Feeling It leads one to believe that exuberance is at a
premium in the vehigle, .On the other hand, take a convertible, put a young man behind the wheel,
The data, 3 young lady practically in his lap, send them
through an underpass and you have an acute need for earplugs. I've noticed truck drivers hit their horns under the proper conditions. The driver has to be one of those individuals who doesn't give two hdots for the company truck. He has to have a helper who doesn’t give one hoot. All they care about is rolling it as fast as possible. In an underpass, they blow the works.
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HAPPY motorists with the blast-type, Greyhound. bug horns, are more inclined to take advantage of the terrible acoustical conditions present in all underpasses. Also the cowboys with jet tailpipes. We can include persons with squeaky, weak horns. Qut in the open,-the sound is ridiculus. In an underpass the sound is magnified to the delight of the owner. =r. The marked increase of horn-blowing in manmade tunnels leads a student of human hehavior to believe that the slighest opportunity to tap the horn is taken by persons who otherwise would stifle the urge. Usually the initial blast starts a chain reaction. I've heard them. IF YOU have ever driven in the Holland Tunnel or on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, you remember it is forbidden to blow your horn. Frustrating to say the least. To the inveterate horn man, the law is maddening.
It is a rare sight to see an elderly gentleman
driving a long, sieek machine through an underpass and indulge in a bit of whimsey. Fifty yards away his eyes begin to sparkle, his foot applies more pressure on the accelerator. About a quarter of the way in, the old gent squeezes down on the horn ring. The sound and the ensuing echoes make him straighten in his seat. He turns his head slightly from side to side A smile appears on his face and he is a picture
of =atisfaction. His day is made a trifle more exciting. Now, I ask you, why?
he is still a little boy at irritating noises has not
COULD IT be that heart and the love of died within him? Yes, Do horn-blowers in underpasses get a lift, feel their own importance more, satisfy that human yearning for recognition, no matter how shight® Yes. ) : : Ars there motorists wha despise the practice? Yes. Especially when the guy in’ front beats them to it and they don’t want to do as monkey does, .- Am I a horn-hblower .in an underpass? Yes and for the life of me I can't tell you why. I only know why vou do it.
Gambler Joe Lewis Wishes He Hadn't
“No. you gotta be lucky,’ joe admitted. “But you do have to know percentages, and when to het.’ “Do vou know when?” “Of course I do! Why do you think I got holes in my shoes? Why do you think the government is calling me up all the time?’ Joe —now appearing for his 11th straight season at the New York Copacabana-—often tells his night club audiences, “This is just a hobby with me. My real business is playing the horses.” And he tosses a bunch of losing tickets out on the floor to prove it. But since he's reformed, he's going to quit the horses. too . . . not just now . . . but in a few days. No need to be in a rush about it.
FOR ALL HIS TALK about his gambling, Joe's perhaps the greatest and most conscientious He often picks out some newcomer at a table and publicly tells him, “You won't like me at first, but I grow on vou.” A ringside customer fell asleep at the table once when Joe was appearing in Saratoga. The slumberer happened .to be a table away from Bernard Baruch. Joe walked watched intently Addressing the sleepy one, Joe said, “T don't mind you falling asleep, but you-hurt me when you didn’t say good night.” o> o> & BARUCH'S guffaw was heard all over the place Baruch became a Joe E. Lewis fan at once. When a big testimonial was given Joe last fall, Baruch was there, Once in the Chicago Chez Paree. Joe was bothered by some troublesome drunks. Finally he decided to embarrass the whole table of them
over to the. snoozer. Baruch
by having the spotlight turned on them. thus pinpointing them for the rest of the crowd. As the spotlight fell on them. the loudest drunk boomed'out to his fellow sots “Stand up,-.everybody. They're taking our picture!”
“Are you going into television” 1 asked Joe, “I'm still trying to get on the radio.” he. said “HB
WISH I'D SAID THAT "A sugar daddy.” says Norman Kaye, “is a form of crystallized sap.” , ,, That's Earl, brother.
Starlet Has Legs Like Venus de Milo
pins and “knew at a glance” she and Venus had the same shapely stems on oe oo i QUICKER'N you could sav “15 denier. 66 gauge” Mr, Willys whipped out the yellow measuring tape he carries for emergencies like this and found out he was right, by golly, . “I've been looking for Venus’ legs for 25 years,” he said breathlessly, “f was so excited I went right down to my Tfacfory and made Franca a pair of 24 karat gold-plated stockings.” Franca was properly impressed. A 20-year-old Italian actress with exotic green eyes, she's ipent a lot of time in concentration camps where they don’t issue many 24-karat gold stockings. oo > oo “I FEEL SO PRECIOUS,” she grinned. “But what do I do if I get a run? Get it vulcanized?” Mr. Willys was indignant. When he makes fold-plated stockings, he informed her loftily, they are “guaranteed not to run.” Franca pulled $250 worth of gold-dipped nylon on each leg and pranced to work in Hal Wallis’ “Sailor Beware,” starring Martin and Lewis. : The zany comics ogled her shiny stems and sent out for.a jar of jewelry polish to keep ‘em twinkling.
Too Many Beers—
Youth Wages Savaye Fight
On Club Spree With
LAMAR, Colo., Oct. 8 (UP) only
Shooting Victim Still Critical
A 27-year-old father today remained in critical condition dn General Hospital as police waited
Mom
thing he remembered was to question him about the fatal
A, quiet,’ bookish youth fought a When he woke up in the hospitaligshooting of his 24-year-old wife
brief but savage gun duel with
his wounds. three patrolmen in front of police
sult of ‘too many beers” on his hard.”
He said- thé whole thing Just headquarters last night as a re- was a ‘result of He said he had been to a
and found attendants doctoring Saturday.
Albert Wyatt, 1454 8. Moreland Ave., with two bullet wounds in
working too his chest, was still in too grave
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By BILL FOLGER | EADERSHIP «+. Saerifice . . . Teamwork. Minister . . . Meatpacker + + « Student.
.That's what it takes to build a church. Ask the 36 members of Centerton Mission. They know, They're building one with their own hands. Their leader is an inspired 24-year-old minister with curly black hair, rosy cheeks and alert eyes. His name is Vernes Collins. He's always dived gn Centerton, a rural community on Ind. 67 about 25 miles southwest of Indianapolis.
” = 5 . LIKE OTHER members, of his congregation, he believes God directly reveals His will to His followers today as He. did
more than a century ago to Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon faith.
So when Vernes Collins returned to Centerton in 1946 arter 16 months of service aboard Navy subchasers and aircraft carriers, he believes he heard God calling him to the ministry, and he says he saw a vision®
WORKER—Vernes Collins works summers in the cooler at Stark, Wetzel & Co., where it's always 40 degrees. Warm clothing
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of a more active Centerton
Mission. Instead of meeting monthly as they had been, the members would meet every Sunday. Instead of worshipping in homes, they would worship in a house of God which God would show them how to build. Today that vision is coming true. A little more than six weeks ago the 36 members of this branch of the Re-organized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints broke ground for their building in Centerton on land donated by Floyd Mason. -
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NOT ONE of them had any professional building experience. Some had done carpenter work on their farms. One was a painter. But most of ‘them had to learn building from the ground up. They buy materials with their own ‘money. They donate their work in their spare time. especially week-ends. Whole families turn out to ‘help. The women ‘serve sandwiches and steaming coffee to the hungry volunteer workers. And the little church is going up:
Lifeblood of Economic System—
U.S. Needs Twice As
By P. W. LITCHFIELD Board Chairman, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Ca
KRON, O. Oct. 8 Ours is a country that grew great because-from-the beginning we have been a people of broad vision and great energy. We pushed back frontiers
We have never waited for a path to be beaten to our doors: we have blasted mountains to make a path to wherever the products of our ingenuity could be used. Wherever we saw the need, we eut a wider, a longer, a better path. The result is probably the greatest mileage of road “and highway in the world. Unfortunately, great as the mileage is, it is not enough. As a simple, demonstrable fact, we do not have half enough roads today. If our highways are the arteries that carry the lifeblood of our economic system, our country is on the verge of a serious illness. We do not have enough roads to meet our economic. or social needs today. As we grow bigger, this lack of roads will choke us. Today, half the wage earners in the United States get to and from their jobs by highway transportation, As our business and industry grows it tends to spread farther bevond resi-
~ and hewed trails through impenetrable forests.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Paul W. Litchfield (right), who wrote the accompanying dispatch on the nation's highway situation, has been associated with the rubber branch of the automotive industry since 1900, when he joined Goodyear. He has been chairman of the board of that company since 1930, and also has been a leader in the development of lighter-than-air eraft.
dential areas and there will be more people traveling farthers to and from work, over roads that even now can't carry them: ” ” n IN EVERY PART of our country the trend is rapidly toward «dispersion. You can see it in towns like Los Angeles, or Houston, or New York, or towns too small to he on the map. You can see how fast we are approaching a crisis from the fact that 90 per cent of our food and 75 per cent of all our
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MINISTER—He helps Floyd Mason (right), donor of the land where members of Centerton Mission are building a new church with their own hands.
STUDENT—The rest of the year he's a student in the College of Education at Butler Uni-
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versity, where he's preparing to be a high school biology teacher.
The cement-block basement is just about finished. Not one of the men had any previous experience in masonry, even though Hubert Mason laid the first block. When the basement is finished, they'll start on the
frame sanctuary, which will measure 24 by 36 feet.
Vernes Collins is proud of the
members of his church. “It's through their labor, sacrifice and unity.” he savs, “that the’
building is possible.”
P. W. Litchfield
freight depend for distribution upon highway transportation What's more, there are more than 25,000 communities in this country entirely dependent upon motor vehicle transportation for their daily existence. Not only are we not making provision for- our growth, even now we don't have enough or good enough roads to meet our needs. We are putting more vehicles on ouryroads and at a greater
‘But It Has By No Means Been Abandoned’'—
Pressure From This Nation Aids Franco
By LEON DENNEN,
He added: “But.it has by no
ANTI-FRAN CO
HE TALKS WITH enthusiasm about the project —and if you ask him, he'll tell you the history of his faith. About 100 vears ago his people broke with Brigham Young. For one thing, they did not believe a man should have more than one wife, So they stayed behind in Nau--voo, Ill, when Brigham Young led the rest of the Mormons on the long trek to Utah. Later Joseph Smith Jr. became their leader. His ancestors still hold
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rate than any of us ever anticipated. Since the war, new motor
vehicle registration has. increased at the average of 3,700,000 per year. Our 6 per
cent of the world's population uses 78 per cent of the world's passenger cars and 51 per cent of its trucks and buses. It is igcredible that a country that tdkes pride fn the fact that the automobile is ra necessity,” allows its highway building program to lag so far behind that today 99 per cent of our roads are only two lanes wide—or less. Difficult to believe as it may be, about half the principal rural highways, carrying more than 1000 vehicles a day, are less than 20 feet wide
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” » ” THE TIME has come to do something about this. If we are to pass on to our children a country with as much opportunity as we had, we must now create a broad comprehensive and integrated highway building program. And once we have such a program, we've got to protect ft from politics and keep it out of the pork barrel, ’ For years the large sums of money collected as highway-use taxes have tempted politicians and between 1934 and 1948 the
positions of readership in the church. Vernes Collins studied the history of his church at Graceland College, Lamoni, Ia. in the 1948-49 school year. Now he's a senior at Butler University-—not in the School of Religion but in the College of Education. As a minister he receives ‘no salary. So he's preparing to be a high school biology teacher in addition to his duties as a minister. : This summer he worked in the cooler at Stark, Wétzel & Co.
hways
states diverted $2,393,000,000 of highway funds to other purposes. In other words, for that period. we. did-not—-get—104,000 miles of road for which .we paid. Fortunately, in 21 states the constitution has been amended to prohibit such diversion. To get the Kind of highway program we need, 48 states will have to take action. That is some progress, but not enough. If we are to grow, we must build-our roads according to our needs, and not to political expedience. We don't always build or improve our roads where we need them as we need them. For instance, too often mult!lane roads are built where they are not needed because of political pressure. And that's why you will find two-lane roads being built where the traffic requires two, three, or four times that width, Our problem, then is to first use all the money available to build the highways we need. and. then prepare for the future by turning our technicians loose on the problem of building better highways more cheaply. It is a problem of vital importance to every person in this country— and his children.
OPPOSITION rested by secret police. They were ators even se retly supported the
: T $ Writ first nightclub venturq, made in tavern with his mother, Mrs, ® condition to be questioned about ASHINGTON : Oct g__ means been abandoned.” leaders recently charged that charged with responsibility in the strikers, company with his mother, [Viola Miller, and that they had iat APpaIently eas murder and ’ r= Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower ¢Missaries from the American recent strikes in Vizcaya province. Hig successor, Se Solis Rutz The amateur gunman, Allen danced briefly before he left, He * Suicide attempt. The regime of generalis- sSuprems commander of the Congress and Pentagon had ex- "as 37, is a die-hard and much-dec-
22, who said he blacked Said he had “several” beers. Authorities, however, still have si is s ge De rolls Fos un] “This was the thot te 3 had jot ruled out the possibility of a pe Frane A Frame has integrated Suropean forces, plansioraly to drop their opposition toimrancidey Hernan. Ab lo, slugs after he had kicked in the ever been in a place like that,” double-suicide pact. |peen Teprieve y strong U. to attend the next NATO council Franco, The statement by Gomez panel Moreno Gil. Nicholas front door of a sporting goods he explained. | A passing motorist found Mrs.|S. pressure” from the threat of meeting at Rome in November, It indicites the success of their Parades Alvarez and Fernando store across the street from the : Goldie Wyatt dead with three bul-|an armed revolt and Spain Will is possible that he may personally efforts. » Sanchez Gama of ‘Bilbao and : THE APPROACH of the ‘police station and. armed himself Three Autos Dunked {let wounds in her body. Her hus: be nominated again in November urge that Spain be admitted. Franco meanwhile, in anticipa- Nicholas Martinez Esturo of Bara- youre iB BR re with a high-powered rifle and two . {band was found near the car for membership in the North At- His views on the inclusion of tion of favorable reaction by the caldo: British e Selions 8 el) i pistols. ’ - LAFAYETTE, Oct. 8 (UP) ——|parked beside a cornfield on'lantic Treaty Organization. Spain in Mediterranean defense NATO council, is taking strong At the same time, Franco dis- either the Tories or ahor would Veteran Police Chief John Three automobiles and their four High-Low Road, a half mile west! Trifton Gomez, one of the top plans, along with Greece and meakures to decapitate his oppo- missed Fermin Sanz Orrio as chief favor the admission of Spain into Dotts, 60, a. participant in ths occupants were dunked into Wea of 4000 8. Harding St. {leaders of ‘the - Spanish under- Turkey, have already been made sition. i of the government-controlied na- the NATO at this time. : pre-dawn affair, sald he guessed Creek south of here last nighf| The tragedy took place as the ground, informed me: “Because clear to American visitors. Al- During August and September tional labor organization. Al-| The shaky French governmen Miller had been ‘reading too when a bridge collapsed. A fourt } Wyatts’ two daughters, Joyce, 5, of strong. U, 8. pressure, the though he has no love fora number of Basque leaders of though an “old guard” Falangiat is even less in a position to do so
erted pressure upon dissident gen- AMONG THOSE JAILED were orated Falangist, - distinguished ruthless exploits during
the Spanish civil war,
many dime novels.” J motorist. braked his car to a stop and Judy, 2, were attending a/armed anti-Franco revolt origin- Franco's brand of dictatorship, he the Union General de Trabaja- nimself, Orrio is known to have However. Britain's vote will tak Miller, himself, told news- with the front wheels ‘hanging birthday party at a neighbor's |ally planned for September has said the West needs the Spanish dores (Spain's underground trade Tavored labor reforms in Spain place befora the November Counmen from his. jail cell that the gver the edge of the abutment, home. 3 been postponed.” ilink ‘in its defense, junion federation) have be#a ar-/and some of his close collabor-|cil ¥meeting. : v » . : «0 7s 5 oy ] : > ’ > . 2 - » : 3 » § £ Eh % i . 4 3 : Tw 5 { Z ¥ : 5 » - * =