14 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Wednesday, Aug. 24, 1949
RIGHT ARMS LONGER THAN LEFTS
Ben Makes a Business
Of Catering to Odd Fits
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
Washington, Aug. 24 VP) Some congressmen have longer right
arms than left arms. That also goes lor some vice presidents and
members of the supreme court.
i Also there are fat necks and
I thin necks. Stuffy bellies and
Warden Probes
Con's Death
Warden George Alexander
today readied for the proposed
state board of control investiga
tion into the suicide of 24-year-old
Oran A. Brownlee at the
Oregon penitentiary March 17.
The board will probe into
complaints that Brownlee did
'not receive timely medical at
tention after he was found dying
in his cell with his wrist slashed.
Alexander questioned guards
and members of his staff but
wished not to make a complete
statement until he knew all the
facts.
But he had this much to say:
"Brownlee tried to commit sui
cide several times before and us
ually just scratched his wrist a
little. Each time they ran him up
to the hospital"
The warden said that on the
night of the suicide the guards
found him lying on his cot and
"thought he was all right. At
first they thought he was fooling
had just scratched himself
again. Later they took him on
up to the hospital where he
died."
Brownlee, a veteran who had
been discharged from the serv
ice because of nervous instabil
ity, was reported to have caused
prison officers considerable
trouble. He was committed
March,17, 1948, for car theft.
Gov. Douglas McKay promis
ed "a full and impartial" inves
tigation. Bus Company
Offer 'Final'
' Olympia, Aug. 24 (IP) Rep
resentatives of the Motor Coach
Employes union (AFL) agreed
early today to submit a "best
and final" company offer for
settlement of the North Coast
; Greyhound bus strike to its
: members.
Governor Langlie announced
the agreement after nearly 13
hours of almost continuous ne
gotiations between the union
and company representatives in
his office.
.'' "The company has made what
It calls its best and final offer,"
Langlie said. "The union com
mittee has asked its internation
al representative to submit this
offer to the membership of the
union for ratification or rejec
tion." !; "The offer will be submitted
without recommendation, but
with a full statement concerning
the Issues and the negotiations,"
the governor continued.
C. W. Van Arvey, internation
al representative, said the vote
: will be taken within a few days
"as soon as we can work it
. out."
' The strike, now in its 10th
week, will continue during the
union referendum, he said.
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skinny ones. Fellows who need
long tails on their shirts and
guys who need short ones.
All of which is none of my
business.
But it is the business of a
slender chap who manages a
place on 15th street called the
custom shop. His name is Ben
Long, and he can tell you more
about the length of the shirt
tails of the biggies than they can
themselves. He keeps a record.
Ben adjusted his horn-rimmed
glasses and shocked everybody
within hearing with the remark
that there are more than 2,000
patterns for a collar.
That's not including the kind
which Rep. W. Kingsland Macy,
R., N. Y., wears. His collar sticks
up in the proper Herbert Hoover
manner and he buys them by
the dozen from a New York con
cern. When a big shot, like a repre
sentative of a senator, first goes
into the shop he goes through a
screening as if he were being
fitted for bi-focals.
He is cased and measured
carefully.
Long, or one of his assistants,
pulls tape measures across
shoulders and around the
middle. They ask the subject to
extend both arms for measure
ment. The back also is measured
for the probable length of the
shirt-tail.
"Also," said Long, "we try to
fit the personality of the man to
the shirt."
A wrong kind of collar can
make a fat man look latter or a
tall man look taller.
"For instance, in the case of
a fat man, we try to give him
a longer point on his colar,"
Long said. "It keeps him from
looking too chubby. Also, in a
custom made shirt we are able
to five quarter sizes in the neck
and one-half sizes in the sleeves.
To a big shot that makes a lot
of difference. Whether he slicks
out too far at the neck or in the
sleeves."
Long has had many a trying
time during his experience in
shirting the great and near
great of the capital.
Big shots, he finds, are more
fussy than the little man who
comes in humbly and asks for a
simple $4.50 job.
Some of the wealthiest men
on Capitol Hill will bounce back
after paying more than $200 for
a dozen shirts to yelp that the
sleeves are a sixteenth of an inch
too short.
"Others will gripe if the col
lar buckles a little," Long said
What Long is proudest of, is
the fact that he also mukes
blouses for women.
One of the most famous de
signers of women s gowns in
Hollywood dropped in not long
ago and ordered a couple of
blouses for his wife.
We were just a little excit
ed," he said.
He put all hands to work.
They came up with a half a
dozen things of rare, silky
beauty.
The fashion expert fingered
the finished product and, with
out asking his wife even to try
them on, placed an order for a
half dozen.
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fires, burning over 22,240 acres and claiming 63 lives, threaten
their village. (Acme Telephoto)
PITY THE POOR POSTMEN
What Is Put in Mail Boxes
Enuf to Drive 'Em Crazy
By JAMES W. HART
Pittsburgh U.R) A mailman's life is never dull, according to
Charles F. Musiol, general foreman of the post office claims
inquiry department here.
Musiol bases his claim on the variety of items plucked from the
green street boxes each day by his staff.
He is of the opinion that every
mail box is
ra's Box.
a potential "Pando-
Pittsburgh has some 3,000
mail boxes within the city lim
its, and each gives up at least
one mailed-by-accident article
every day.
The items range from lighted
cigarettes tossed in by prank
sters to snoopy cats or house
hunting turtles.
Recently, a postman was chal
lenged by an irate garter snake
which evidently had decided
that the dark roomy confines of
the mailbox made an ideal ma
ternity ward.
Tipplers often mistake the
letter drops for trash baskets
and deposit their empty bottles
for the mailman. Other folk toss
half-e a t e n sandwiches, gum
wrappers and garbage into the
"convenient" boxes.
Often a cat lover will be
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and simultaneously cursed with
the job of giving them away. An
easy method, some feel, is to
drop the whole family into the
mail box with a note instructing
the postal authorities to "find
them a good home."
Other cats, lust curious, man
age to find their way into the
box and then can t get out. As
often as not, their liberator is
clawed when he sticks his arm
in to scoop up a batch of letters.
Another occupational hazard
faced by the mailman is the pos
sibility of being stuck by pins
of costume jewelry which slips
from the clothing of letter-mail
ing women.
Secretaries, Musiol believes,
are the greatest contributors to
his "collection." In their last
minute haste to get rid of the
mail and catch a trolley home,
they dump lipsticks, false teeth,
money, compacts, corn-plasters,
keys, spectacles and sundry
other items into the drops.
No matter what the intruding
article might be or how it got
there, the postman delivers it
to Musiol's department in the
federal building. There it re
mains for 30 days, while the
owner may claim it.
If unclaimed, it s shipped to
the parcel post dead end depart
ment in New York. When the
New York "warehouse" be
comes overcrowded, an auction
is held and the items are sold
to the general public.
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Truman Plans
Busy Labor Day
Washington, Aug. 24 VP)
President Truman is planning to
make three airplane flights on
Labor day Sept. 5, concluding
them with his first visit home
to Missouri since Christmas.
His schedule for that day as
now planned calls for flights:
From Washington to Pitts
burgh for an address around
noon to the Allegheny county
free fair.
From Pittsburgh to Des
Moines, Iowa, to address the an
nual convention of the Amvets,
an organization of veterans of
World War II. This address will
be made in the afternoon.
From Des Moines to Missouri,
after the Amvets talk, to spend
a couple of nights at his home,
in Independence, where Mrs.
Truman and daughter Margaret
tare spending their vacation.
Mr. Truman is going to Phil
adelphia next Monday to address
the annual convention of the
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