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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola

SUPT. WINDELL FEWELL, Plainfield Boys School, had a surprise request from a former inmate, now living In Los Angeles, for a picture of the limestone statue called “Barefopt Boy" which graves the lawn at the school. The lad was released from the school in 1929. His reason for wanting a picture of the statue

was that he wants to show his family what he left behind.

Boy.”

Mr. Fewell is sending the picture along with

a long letter full of questions. Obviously, the boy, now a mature man, has been rehabilitated. The answer Mr. Fewell expects should be interesting. * ¥ b : AN OLD friend, Henry Schad, 1421 Linden 8t., who has played the part of Santa Claus in the city 51 consecutive seasons, celebrates his 77th birthday today. ° He says he has a lot to look forward to in his T8th year of life. The birthday doesn’t excite him much. Mr, Schad this week completed arrangements to play Santa Claus in Siberia, a little town in southern Indiana. On his recent visit there, a little boy, attempting to impress Mr. Schad what a busy place 8iberia was, told "him excitedly, “Yesterday, a binder and 10 cars went by the post office.” The kids of Siberia and vicinity will get plenty of attention from Santa Claus. o &- b INDIANAPOLIS Symphony Conductor Dr. Fabien Sevitzky, currently in the middle of the season with the San Diego Symphony Orchestra, is again enjoying a brilliant success. But the hard-working maestro still finds time to audition for replacements for our local orchestra. Last week, in Los Angeles, Dr. Sevitzky signed Cellist Gilbert Reese. We're wondering if Mr. Reese was told to pack a fur-lined case for his cello when he leaves sunny California. & Hb JACK HATFIELD, director of the Booth Tarkington Civic: Theater, returned . from a month's vacation in New York. Jack insists it

He was the sculptor of “Barefoot

The Barefoot Boy He Left Behind

was a vacation in spite of the fact he spent his time buying technical supplies for the coming year and seeing all the Broadway plays. Heat and summer replacements in several of the top productions, Jack says, took their toll, Only top flight shows have the front doors open, Broadway joins the rest of the country in experiencing a dearth of green. oe - A STRIP film, “The Heart and Diet,” is in the final stages of preparation under the sponsorship of the Indiana Heart Foundation. It will be available to doctors of cardiac patients for presentation early in October, reports Mrs. Kathryn Sheedy, nutritionist of the Lilly Clinic. = Mrs, Sheedy is head of the committee preparing the film. Several of the most prominent heart specialists in the" city are serving on the committee. The film is approximately 15 minutes in length and the first showing will be held at the Indiana Medical Association convention in October. < o “ J. EMMETT McMANAMON, attorney general, should be interested in the film on low sodium diet. Mr. McManamon, recovering from a heart attack four months ago, has been instructed to lose 10 more pounds by his doctor. Although he says he feels no {ll effects now, Mr. McManamon will take his doctor's advice and begin spending not more than an hour a day at his office. “It's going to be hard to take more weight off, the diet I'm on leaves me pretty hungry,” he groaned, oo ob SUMMER movie tonic: Walt Disney's tripleheader at the Indiana Theater, “Robin Hood,” true-life adventure, “Water Birds” and “The Little House” cartoon. Disney is getting better than ever. ah HERMAN W. KOTHE JR., manager of Fame Laundry, says there has been a 100 per cent increase in the wearing of sport shirts this summer. Maybe men finally are getting smart.

It Happened Last Night Having Beautiful Time

By Earl Wilson

SEATTLE, Aug. 10—How'd you like to live in

-@n air-conditioned state?

n must have been down to 50 degrees out by the lake last night. Women carried their heaviest fur coats, and then shivered in ’'em. Men huddled in topcoats. They carried blankets to the watershow—as we do to football games, And they bundled up in them, while their teeth chattered. Me—I thought how happy my chums must be back on Broadway—sweltering. y “Maybe you'd like to step inside,” our host said, as we returned from the Aqua Follies, “where you can keep warm.” This in the awesome month of August! Yes, friends, readers, countrymen, come to this greenly glorious Switzerlandish state to keep cool. As soon as the Beautiful Wife and I stepped off the Great Northern’s swanky “Empire Builder,” some 2800 miles as the Old Crow flies from Toots Shor’s, we asked to be shown Mt. Rainier, 185 miles away. “Mountie is being temperamental,” somebody said. “The only place you'll see Mr. Rainier today is on a beer bottle.” But—though we did see the beer bottle label referred to—at sunset the haze lifted, and we saw Mt. Rainier herself, clear, beautiful and golden—as rememberable as the Matterhorn. “It's cool here,” an explainer explained, “because we're right between the Cascade Mountains and the Olympics—and cooled by Puget Sound.” No kidding—there’s a virus going around— and a woman we know had pneumonia last week. $d de BUT TO SEATTLIANS, this isn’t cool enough. They revel in boat races—and in a great “Seafair” akin to New Orleans’ Mardi Gras. A businessman was dolled up in plumes and finery and given the title of King Neptune III Out to the Aquacade they go to cool off, (Brrr. Some hot chocolate, please.) Women never store their furs here. Yet men don’t even need overcoats in winter. You figure it out. There’s one word for it: wonderful. "Twas a b-r-r-r-r-utiful water show we saw— enlivened by Katherine Rawls, 11-year-old Marion Park, of Miami, all those Ohio State guys, Bruce Harlan, Earl Clarke and Joe Marino, great men all.

Sitting there with frost on my head I thought .

of those hardy souls, Ella Raines, Gypsy Rose Lee, June Havoc, Frances Farmer, Ann Sothern, Martha Wright and others who grew up here. No wonder they're hardy. My only relief was to laugh at comedian Johnny O’Brien. \

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK—The last time I saw old Andrew Higgins he drank the best part of a quart of bonded bourbon out of a huge old-fashioned glass and never blinked. He had numerous bodyguards and sons whipping around at his beck and whistle. He was telling me a lot of tall tales about how he supplied an integral E— Tem piece of machinery for the first atom bomb, and drawing the bow pretty long. ; This happened about six years ago outside of New Orleans, in the big Higgins plant where old, Andy was in the process of whipping up some pre-fab houses of nice ice-cream colors and what seemed alarmingly simple manufacture. Whatever happened to his housing project I couldn't say. Possibly not much. Andrew Jackson Higgins got famous for building lahding craft during the recent war to end war, and as time passed the appellation “Higgins Boat” became as much of the fighting vocabulary as “Jeep.” Some of his boats were not s0 capable at first, and got their bottoms ripped off. He improved as the war continued, But Andrew J. always built them fast, even if some were semifunctional. He did Syeryiung fast. HE WAS A FABULOUS old boy, Andrew J. was. He went bust a couple or three times, and

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—Please give instructions for making a

eompost pile. A—Yesterday I mentioned the new method of

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sheet composting. But there are some occasions

when a compost pile is necessary. Here then is one way to build such a pile. Dig a shallow (5 to 18 inches deep) hole. A convenient size is 4 to 6 ft. either way. Tramp some coarse material such as cornstalks into this. This bottom layer absorbs leaching plant food from the pile, Place 2 or 3 inches of soil over this. Then an equal layer of manure (or peat moss or ‘ground corneobs if you can’t get manure). Over each layer sprinkle lime (estimate a pint to about a wheelbarrow load of decaying material). ~ Then continue to build up the pile withsleaves, manure, lawn clippings, weeds and even garbage. Anything that will decay can go into the pile. Every 12 to 18 inches layer in more soil. And if you want it for enriching as well "as loosening poor soil sprinkles complete chémical fertilizer over each layer of soil (enough to whiten it like a light snow). Keep sides slanted in. Finish off top with saucer shaped hollow to catch rain. Water the finished pile thoroughly. ‘ Never let it dry out. Turn inside out in about three months, M you want to hurry the petting poossss. . f : GN . :

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“You can’t take it with you, and if you did it would melt,” he said. “I got a friend who's got a bathroom that's out of this world,” he added. “Of course, that makes it a little inconvenient.” We were thinking of going out and catching him again before continuing our “Around America” tour, but the Beautiful Wife had already caught something. The sniffles. Boy, a hot water bottle and the electric blanket! After all, this is August. oe <> Se

THE MIDNIGHT EARL IN N. Y.... NBC Commentator Tex McCrary, who got leave of absence to campaign for Ike, wants to go back to work now. But NBC says he'll have to wait until after the election— they don't want to show “political favoritism” « All Khan used the office phone at the Blue Angel to call Rita in Hollywood. They spoke $6.25 worth. Two Saratoga spots, trying to buck the gambling ban, were quickly stopped by police . . « British Actor Robert Newton, asked to sign for a B'way show, insisted on time off to attend the coronation ... Orson Welles’ latest honey is Italian actress Cosetta Greco . « « Estelle Gregor, of the Latin Quarter line, is the saddest of all showgirls—she’s allergic to fur. Farouk, the king-sized ex-king, saw the handwriting on the fez two years ago and started buying NYC real estate. An American entertainer, now overseas, will front for him in an East Side restaurant this winter. Meanwhile, a local yachting equipment firm has his cancelation of a huge order . . . Colony diners: Marlene Dietrich and Ivan Patcevitch , . from Texas to visit Copa girl Joan Kyne. * EARL’'S PEARLS . . . Herb Shriner hears a friend back home opened a shoe shine stand recently, and he’s doing so good he branched out into two colors.

LARRY GREEN, at the Park Sheraton, told of the newest auto transmission, “The Idiomatic.” It's for idiots who can’t shift for themselves . . . That’s Earl, brother.

Miss Gregor

Not Many Left Like Old Andrew Higgins

somehow bounced back. He was the greatest free-style cusser I ever met, and he cusses mostly in falsetto. His normal voice was a booming bass, but when he was really feeling contemptuous he would adopt sissy mannerisms and squeak his bad words in a mincing tone that was double emphatic. He would cuss a bit in soprano and then holler fit to bust the chandeliers in his regular basso and then lapse back into his mincing act. It was highly disconcerting. Old Andrew was surrounded by‘a gross or so of sons, most of whom he was mad at all the time. The day I visited him he was feuding with one of his eldest boys. He took a quarter-pint belt out of the bourbon jug and started to cuss. “I'M WAITIN’ for one of my damn’ boys to come back and apologize to me for me being so rude to him,” said Andrew J. “Damn and blast and unprint, but I really give that damn’ boy hell. What I give him hell for was not having a blueprint ready for me when I say so and we had a helluva fight. . He's a good boy. Plenty smart, but no such-and-so kid of mine is going to give the old man that kind of back talk.” Mr. Higgins dismissed his erring spawn and proceeded to trade uriions.. He was the man who once liquidated all his enterprises inorder to hotfoot the local AFL union. Andrew J. started afresh and gave his business to. the CIO, just to see his archenemies boil. He claimed he withstood 52 unauthorized strikes during the war, and was something more. than libelous when he touched the subject. You could see the blisters raising on the paintwork. <> -¢ 0b ANDREW J. HAD a talent for trouble. He violated national law once by bucking the State Department in the Argentina elections, back when Juan Peron was just beginning to come to full power. Andrew J. said the hell with pussyfooting around. He wanted to do business with Argentina, and said so out loud, a cin for which

“How the ding-dong are you going to do business with people that hate you?” he exploded. “We spend all this slam-bang money to make friends with these South Americans, and then we do our best to make 'em hate us. Lotta idiots playing foreign policy.” . @“ Sn IN MY MISSPENT youth I have observed competent tippling on quite a few fronts, but I never -saw a man with quite the command of Andrew J. While I was nibbling at two mild slugs of old ancient something, Andrew J. destroyed the remnants of the quart. He drank it neat, with back-tossed head and a single smooth rippling motion of his throat. It didn’t seen to faze him any. His face was red when he started. I don't know whether he was a good man or 2 bad man or how much mark he left on the world. But he was a tough old boy and all maleman and there aren’t too many of his like left. I hope there’s bourbon where he’s stationed, and boats or for his restief) brain and heavy hands to wuld : : lt wo , - 3

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TESTING—Harold

OR ; White, Jeffersonville, (left),

PBX REPAIR—Max Bare (left), plant staff assistant in Indiana Bell Telephone Co.'s craft training school, supervises William Fleshman, Jeffersonville, as he changes a sleeve on a PBX terminal. The school graduated 250 during first half of this year—specializing in wire splicing, phone installation, equipment repair a

and Bob Best, South Bend, are identifying "pairs (of wires) in working a telephone cable. This is done to be sure of making the proper connections between

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the newly installed phone and the central office.

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splicing job under the watchful eyes of J. J. Petraits,

p supervisor. This cable, containing hundreds of strands of wire in addition to the TV carrier, is the same type connecting WFBM's transmitting station with the telephone company's relay tower.

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STATION INSTALLATION—These meén under the instruction of Mr. Bare roper method of installing a phone in a house. The $ Robert Becker, 4218 E. | Ith St. and Frank Vertacnik,

WIRE WORKER-—Marion Lentz, 1247 S. Moreland Ave., is practicing making cross-connections on a distribution terminal. This is the terminal box handling telephone connections for an entire neighborhood. The training school at 16 N, Belmont Ave. has facilities and instructors for teaching all phases of telephone instal lation and upkeep.

Danville. The various courses at the school last from one to three weeks after

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which the men return to their regular jobs with the company.

GAS CHECK~Ray Casper, South Bend, is usin plosimeter'’ to check for explosive gas in a manhole before entering to work. The men are also taught to use "ampules" which test air for the presence of carbon monoxide. The telephone compan inaugurated "formal" training in all branches of line and repair Ry for their employees in 1945.

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Stevenson Knows Power Of Women

By HELEN FLEMING CHICAGO, Aug. 9 (CDN)—

The women closest to him all his life have been exceptional representatives of their sex. Gov. Stevenson’s mother, his only sister, his former wife each has been a positive personality, never to be dismissed as “a mere woman.” His mother and sistér lavished great affection on him and provided stimulating fam-

ative years. They are probably largely responsible for giving the Democratic presidential candidate a

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+ real liking and respect for wom-

en—an attitude which, added to his other assets, has brought invaluable political returns,

- = - GOV. STEVENSON'S mother, Helen Davis a

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Her father W. O. Davis, published and edited the Blooming-

unusual for a small-town girl

He sent her to Europe twice, with her sister and in the care of a schoolteacher aunt. Many of Helen's letters home were published in the family newspaper.

” n ” ADVENTURE also. cama to Gov. Stevenson's mother in a less glamorous guise. She was allowed to-travel to Nebraska oby covered wagon one summer and live there .in a sod house with two aunts who wanted to establish a. homestead claim. In 1892, Helen Davis was married to the son of the first Adlai Stevenson, during ‘ the latter's term as Vice President of the United States. Her bridegroom, Lewis, took

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on their wedding trip. After those lively and inter-

Adlai E. Stevenson probably ton (Ill.) Pantagraph. esting years, Mrs, Stevenson will never underestimate the Mr. Davis provided his daugh- never settled down to a life of Ta ——— ~power-of-a-woman-— ppc a stay mhpinyg ng that was: dl ull routine.

She was a completely devoted mother to Adlai, born in 1900, and his sister Elizabeth, born three years earlier.

on n o “MOTHER never hesitated to

take us out of school,” says Gov, Stevenson's sister, now Mrs. Ernest IL. Ives. “She

thought what we learned about nature and people outside the " school was as valuable as any-

thing learned in the classroom.” There were: winter trips to

the Gulf Coast and Florida to vist Grandfather Davis, now + retired. “8 #8 TO COMPENSATE for some of the interrupted schooling, she and her husband took a Bloomington schoolteacher along. one summer when the family. went % Europe.

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In the family, Adlal’'s name was affectionately transposed to “Laddie”’ by his mother, Mrs. Ives was called "Buffie,” as she eB Ld ce

While Adlai was attending

prep school in the East, and eventually studying law, his sister continued to travel with their mother. The two spent a winter in California in the 1920s so that “Buffie” could study at Pasa dena playhouse, Then she was allowed a brief try on the professional stage, she says, “and decided I had no talent.” ” » »

TO HER BROTHER, she has been—like her mother—an example of a woman who is lovable even while competent. Their mother died in 1936. “Buffie” Ives’ strong sisterly

affection for Gov. Stevenson :

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impressively

Though Gov. - Stevenson's marriage ended in divorce and his sons are much away from home, the Iveses help provide the affection and inspiration

““{hat from boyhood he Nas #§=""

sociated with the word “home.” Gov, Stevenson's wife of 21 years, Ellen Borden Stevenson, is both a bright and decorative individual, nh 8 9 THOUGH SHE and her husband disagreed on some subjects—a reticent silence has been maintained as to the details—they apparently did not disagree on-the upbringing of their three sons. They made their home first in Lake Forest, Ill, an elite suburb of Chicago, but later on a 70-acre farm in the country near Libertyville, Ill CE Today, Ellen Borden Stevenson is a unique figure—a woman Who bowed out of marriage -

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