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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola

THE WORLD may beat a path to 122 8. Capitol_ Ave. You know that cliche about building a better mousetrap. Mr. and Mrs. John I. Steinberger, who operate Stein's Food Products, above address, have what théy think is the world's best mousetrap. They didn’t build it, They're using it. In a day or so, 1200 “Mouse-Teaser” traps will arrive from Westfalen, Germany, and the Steinbergers will be the country’s sole distributor of a trap that is so ingenious, a mouse ought to bring his own cheese to get caught. No mice were around to demonstrate how the trap works so Mrs. Steinberger took over. You had to use your imagination. THE MOUSE-TEASER is a veritable little Riversidq Amusement Park. It includes trapdoors, ramps, upright tunnel, a walk-the-plank contraption and a water tank. The Steinbergers have had two sample MouseTeasers on the premises for eight days and the response has been terrific. Unfortunately. no testimonials have been given out by the mice. A mouse approaches a rather handsome entrance with a picture of a mouse on the trapdoor, Inside the cage-like anteroom is a ramp. It's

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It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Sept. 12—It's funny about gals. Some never find out what gents go for. But some do—like Ray Milland's new leading lady, who's going to be a star, just as sure as Billy Rose likes money. The story starts with my pal, Bernie the

Bachelor Kamber. “Get me,” he announced last spring. “I'm now a talent sleuth.” He was hunting a gal, he sald, to look sexy without talking. I told him to save me one if he found two. “I want to give her a break in a picture,” he alleged. : “Uh huh” I said, but I thought, “Hah hah.” And I asked how a guy gets jobs like that; z oH @ HE WAS PATIENT. The gal was needed, he said, for Milland’s no-dialog picture, “The Thief.” < “The reason I'm screening the gals,” he said, “is...” “I was wondering why,” I heckled. pte “They're shooting the Rita Gam gal's part here in New York. If they were doing ft in Hollywood, they'd have a million babes there to choose from.” Months passed. The other night we were at Bill Miller's Riviera with this beautiful gal, Miss Rita Gam, once of Pittsburgh but for many years of New York. Did I say Miss? And also her husband, Sidney Lumet, director of “Danger,” the TV show. * > 9 RITA LOOKS so much like Ava Gardner I was glad Marie the Bullfighter wasn’t around. Fact 1s, Frank Sinatra congratulated her husband on HIS Ava. Her husband said he'd had his for four years. “Now what really got Rita the job?” I asked. “Truthfully,” said Bernie, “there was an ac-

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Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Sept; 12—In dreadful anguish, {ike unto passing the camel through the needle, I have spawned several books in my time—all unimportant, writ by hand, no social significance, and dispensed by carrier pigeon. I never mentioned one by name to peddle it, like some of my confreres who lay in the plug on a weekly basis, quoting title, price and publisher. But I will write a piece about my new one, whose name escapes me, Or rather, I will write of the effect of birthing & book on its papa. I think motherhood is easier. It isn’t 80 much the trouble ef the’ labor or the pangs of producing as the effort of raising it from & pup. : To write a book is no simple i thing. One needs paper, a typewriter, a ceftain basic stupidity, and time. Also arrogance. Any bum who sits down and figures he has 300 book pages of importance is' an arrant ass. Nobody has that much to say worth saying. Neither Shakespeare nor Artie Shaw. A THE TROUBLE with writing books is that there are so many commas and paragraphs and things, so much bricklaying and lathe-nailing to do, in between the pregnant portents, that it is Just dirty hard work even if you are plagiarizing. A creature who writes books for any reason except his or her own amusement is.nuts. And if it is amusement you want you can look at the national scene and bust a gut, for free. Except Kathleen Winsor. This girl writes for fun, and the government sanctifies it. She writes a real bad one first, called “Forever Amber,” and & worse one later, called “Star Money,” and she was so right, doll, and the government decides that she was killing herself for her own delectation. 80 the Treasury gives her back some $20,000-plus, like 26 or 28, I forget, out of collected faxes. d then the government also awards a simiJar(§um to a divorced husband. The pair gét better than 50 G's back from starving Sam, as we call the ship of state these days. Bob Herwig, the husband, was an ex-football player. The government figured it owed Herwig 20-plus G's as Winsor’s divorced mate, because of community property regulations, on a book she wrote before she divorced him and married Artie Shaw, Artie was a clarinet player. >

> » THIS IS what the trade calls a powerful piece. [ am coming out strong for no income taxes on Artie Shaw's new book, which was obviously written for his own amusement, too. There could be no other explanation for the book. If, Miss Winsor's first divorced husband got dough’ from the income taxers for a book written for, Miss Winsor's own amusement, then Mister Shaw, now divorced also or likewise from Miss Winsor, simply must be shown amnesty by the collectors for a book written for his own

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Mice Will Find Thrills In New ‘Last Swim’ Trap

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lowers and trips a trigger.

At the same time it pulls up the ramp extending

over the water tank. y There's no way out of the cage. outlet is up the ventilated tube. goes.

plore new sights, He goes on the ramp. with the weight and Mr. Mouse is in the drink, without a life preserver or a paddle. oH ob >

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BEFORE THE MOUSE hits the water, the ramp he lowered lifts the trapdoor on the front of the trap. It's ready for more business. No need to go into details about the mouse in the tank. Once a day Mr. Steinberger empties the water tank and puts fresh water in it. He is especially enthusiastic about the self-setting feature. In fact, that's what prompted him to write a friend in Germany about the Mouse-Teaser. He was tired of having his finger snapped by the conventional wire trap. The Mouse-Teaser is not new in Germany. The Steinbergers have been in this country for 14 years. Just for the heck of it they inquired and wound up getting the distributorship. It was still in production, much to their surprise. I don’t know what the mice will think of the super-duper portable “last-swim” pool. But if I were a mouse and it was my fate to get caught, I would prefer going in style. a.

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SIGHTS AND SOUNDS: County Auditor Roy Combs has salesman troubles. . . just got the county's accounting system clicking . . . hurray . and tax bills are coming off in time . . . phooey . . . swamped now with machine bookkeeping salesmen who want him to throw out present equipment . . . throw them out, Roy. ... Attorney Al Meyer, the only man in town who can wear a seersucker suit all day and look like an Esquire ad. . . . hissed at im on the Circle. . . . Joe Cripe of the Convention Bureau turning his head at Market and Pennsylvania Sts, like a Legionnaire during a convention . . , and just back from his vacation, too. . . . (Didn't you think she was a bit hippy, Joe?) ... The Post Office resounds with the patter of little feet these days. . . . Senior Assistant Superintendent of Mails (whew) Ervin Rumple has arranged Cub Scout tours for September. . . . Theme: “The Mail Goes Through” . . . Purpose: (our own idea) . .. indoctrinate the Scouts with postal knowledge while they hike . , . the combination could produce a fine brand of mail carriers . . . helping old ladies across streets today . . « carrying old bags tomorrow.

Ray's New Heroine Is Sexy, Silent Type

countant in the next glassed-in office. When these 70 gals came in, he'd just occasionally lift his eyes off his books. “When Rita came in, he didn’t look at them the whole time.” “That's a scientific way to find a star,” I mentioned. “Besides,” said Bernie, ‘pretty dames get pretty monotonous. What I liked about Rita was her umbrella.” “Is that some part of a dame I don't know about,” I said. “Oh, it's a gay Parisian parasol "with red tassel and patent leather stem that everybody likes,” Rita said. ee > @ THAT-—and Miss Gam, of course—were submitted to the writing-producing-directing team of Clarence Green and Russel Rouse. They found she was a big TV star—had been

Ferrer, They and Producer. Harry Popkin signed er. . After she made their picture—and was swell —BMGM grabbed her for a long deal, She reports in Hollywood Oct. 1. In five years she ought to be famous and rich enough not to have to talk to us bums of the press. “All because the scene had to be shot in New York where she was?” I said. “Nah,” said Bernie. “They changed their minds and shot it in Hollywood anyway.” “Then the real reason was .. .?” Rita supplied the answer. “My sexy umbrella,” she said. PN ob THE MIDNIGHT EARL ... Rita Hayworth told Attorney Bartley Crum she arrives here Sept. 18 and sails on the United States next day. But as to a reconciliation—quien sabe? . . . Joe E. Brown'll do Milton Berle’'s off-week on NBC TV. With a circus type show. A Hollywood star with plenty family’s taking a curvy singer around to the spots . . . Political references have been ruled out of Margaret Truman’s script on the Jimmy Durante show. That's Earl, brother.

Authorship Is Tough, With or Without Tax

amusement after she shed him. Else there is no justice in the land. I am sorry if this is confusing, but this is the way she sets. It is just not fair for Miss Winsor's

first divorced husband to get money for Miss

Winsor's art if Miss Winsor's second divorced husband, a book writer for true, is forced to pay the taxes which afflict us ordinary authors. And you cannot say that an habitual, known clarinet player is an ordinary author. o> Pb HAVING exhausted my Zola mood, I will come to a summation of my own fresh triumph in the arts. It has got as many pages as most books, and more than some. It is tenderly dedicated to my liver, without whose constant encouragement the author would be dead. If it makes any money it will be taxed, never you fear, because I was never married to Kathleen Winsor. Or even to Winston Churchill, who classifies his literary output .as antiques and beats the rap that way. Speaking critically, I would say that my chef d’oeuvre could have been written far better by any one of Billy Rose's ghosts, or even by book reviewers, And so, as the sun sinks over Clifton Fadiman’'s memoirs, off we go to get shredded by the critics on the TV, press and radio. Like I said, kids, the pain of authorship cometh not in the process of production. It arrives when some foureyed sadist chuckles once for the studio audience and says, simply: “Whatever possessed you to write this thing anyhow?”

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—We plan to move into a new home. What would be your advice on landscaping? I want to do most of it myself. Norman Shepard, 3037 Graceland. A—Most important point to my mind is discrimination in choice of plants. If your budget is limited (as most budgets are these days) do part of your -yard at a time. That will spread the cost over a period of several years. Don't settle for inexpensive plants” just because they're inexpensive. That is not to say that high price will determine what is best for your particular

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times

yard. Visit nurseries and well-landscaped yards (most. people love to show them to admiring visitors). Get acquainted with shrubs and trees that appeal to you. Then by all means unless you have an unusual horticultural background get a reputable landscaper to help you with final plans. Avoid door-to-door self-styled “landscapers.” For really satisfying results need knowledge of balance, line, ‘and a good horticultural background as well. Enjoy your landscaping job by taking your time to it and choosing plants you'll get pleasure from as you watch them grow and take care of them,

The ramp is sprinkled with flour or With the weight of the mouse, the ramp This releases a spring which drops a door behind the visitor.

~ The Indianapolis Times

\ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1952

The only Up the mouse Another ramp stares him in the face. He must either go down the tube or on the ramp, Of course, a mouse likes to go forward and exIt dips

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Witt S. Morgan.

CAREFREE YEARS—Senior dance in 1931 b By GEORGE McEVOY

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MEMORIAL—Stuart Hall, a fitting shrine to a great educator.

temporary teacher, at 1923 Tech rally.

THEY'LL HAVE a birthday party tonight at Technical High School. A lot of the old grads and faculty members will gather to toast the “old boy” on his 40th year. They'll have a lot to remember.

The school was a U, 8. arsenal during’ the Civil War. If it could speak it might brag a little, as old soldiers often do. It might tell how Morgan, the great Confederate raider, planned to invade Indianapolis but was forestalled by the arsenal's might.

But our memories start in 3012, when the foresight of Milo H., Stuart gave birth to Tech. There were only eight teachers on that first faculty, one of them is the present principal, Hanson H. Anderson. There were but 181 students. But Milo

Stuart had a dream --a plan for

a comprehensive school teaching not only the arts, but the art of making a living. ~ - ” MR. STUART also was principal of Manual High then and

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Tech was little more than an annex to meet crowded conditions, But like all well-nour-ished things, it grew. By 1916, Tech equalled Manual in enrollment, Two years later, its boys were to march off to France. The school now has a huge honor roll, covering three wars. Finally, on May 22, 19186, after a Supreme Court ruling, Tech was made a separate school and Milo Stuart left Manual to center his attention on his dream. The school: still observes May 22 as “Supreme Day.” Tech started to roll—and in sports it romped. The baseball team won the city championship in 1919, the basketball team won it in 1920, and the track team took the grand sweepstakes in the same year. They were setting the stage for great Tech stars like Emmet Lowrey, present coach of Tennessee University who led*the hoopsters to the state finals in 1929; for Johnny Townsend of the 30's, and. for others all the way up to the remarkable court ace, Joe Sexson. ” n o IN 1930 Milo H. Stuart bade farewell to Tech. He was succeeded by DeWitt 8. Morgan,

art (left), with William Jennings Bryan and Elizabeth Kaltz, con-

HEAD MAN — Hanson H, Anderson.

ORIGINAL FACULTY—Front: Miss Esther Fay Shover, Marie K. Binninger, Osmond Spear, Em-

ily McCullough, Elizabeth Jasper. Rear: Hanson H. Anderson, present principal, Clarence Hanna

and Ralph Yenne.

who later served as city superintendent of schools until his death in 1944. He left Tech In 1937 to assume the city post and Mr. Anderson was named principal of the school he'd served since its infancy. Tech's list of former students who have attained distinction is ever growing. There are men like John A. Watkins, present Democratic candidate for ~ Governor, and Alvin E. Schellschmidt, : vented the motor used in’ the

man who in-,

first iron lung. There are too many to list. It reads like a Hoosier Hall of Fame, Tech is today the largest high school in Indiana. It has 14 buildings on a 76-acre campus. It has more than 4500 pupils learning everything from printing to English literature from electronics. to journalism. But it has more than that. ° A plaque unveiled in Stuart Hall in 1941 above the bronze bust of Milo H, Stuart tells the story. - ’

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THIS BUILDING HONORS THE MEMORY OF MILO H. STUART 1871-1933"

FIRST PRINCIPAL 1912-1930

HIS VISION, WISDOM AND LEADERSHIP INSPIRED AND DIRECTED THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ARSENAL TECHNICAL SCHOOLS ON THIS HISTORIC BITE

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