The Minneapolis Star from Minneapolis, Minnesota • Page 64

MINNEAPOLIS STAK Dec. 4, 1952 -Tilt i 64 2 Die on Icy Highways i i i- -J Icy highways glazed that car headlights sometimes were reflected from them (see. inset, right) today brought death to two motorists. Felix Kohn, 38, New Prague, driver of a pickup truck carrying butter, burned to death when his vehicle apparently skidded, then stalled in the path of a semi-trailer on the Keventj -eighth street Belt Line. Jul M.

Hannaford, 67, Manitou Island, White Bear Lake, prominent St. Paul business executive and churchman, was killed when his car went into a skid and collided with a bus on highway 61, am ile south of White Bear Lake. (Story on Page One.) Adams. If, DURING THESE crowded days, you have to order a taxicab from one of the cafes in the loop, stick right there until the cab calls for you. If the taxi arrives and you're not around to1 respond, in most cases the cafe will be charged a half a buck for the service.

Because of this, many of the cafes, if they place the order for you, will get Sour name at the same time There may be more hope for some of you amateur song writers. A survey has just revealed that of the 40 top popular tunes of 1932, a dozen were written by unknowns, newcomers to the composing profession. Ordinarily, they're rare Strange new gadget looks like a typewriter, nas a sianuaiu tji'" in 7 board, but types not. at all. Instead, the keys sound notes, ana you have a scale of 22 octaves at your disposal.

To play a tune, you follow a lettered script, as you would in typing. Some the melodies written for the instrument turn out to be basic exer-cises for tvpists. Can't help wondering, though, how "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party would sound on it. Take a letter, dear. LET L'S PRAISE this day.

Made now is a wooden coat hanger for substantial litizens. They come three inches wider Ihan the standard sweep of hangers, the better to drape tho garments of the beefier set What's in a name: A new variety of blueberry, classed as the largest and best-flavored of them all, is called Herbert Shivery thought: Part of the duties of that air force weather expedition party which has been established on a floating ice island up in the arctic has been to take soundings of the sea on which the island floats. And most of the time, the thing has been drifting on top of I4 Kolo tor MlnneapnlU Stir br Jack a(lfu Flames and smoke rise from wreckage of pickup truck and semi-trailer after collision at Seventy-eighth street Belt Line about 2'2 miles of water hall touch in toys has been dreamed up by R. A. PichI over in St.

Paul. For his youngster he made what he calls on electronic dingbat. It has plenty of switches, buttons, colored lights and a buzzer in a businesslike case. All the switches and buttons do nothing but light the lights and buzz the buzzer. And that, for a youthful experimenter, seems to be enough.

FATHER'S LITTLE HELPER: Take a look at those old license prates you're about to throw away. The numbers, cut out of the plates, might just be approriate for your house, cottage or boat To all of us. the hues of our. flag have always been red, white and blue. It's only in the last 10 years or so, though, that the exact colors were set.

All flag manufacturers now are supplied with the precise shaole standards, and all new flags are of exactly the same colors. An instrument called the spectrophotometer measures the intensities, a job the human eye can't do If you lug both reading and sunglasses around, on the market now is a double spectacle case that will hold both pairs of cheaters and save space in your pocket I If Smiths seem numerous in this country, take a look at Scotland. They're thicker there than anywhere. Smith is the name most frequently encountered in Scotland and they number 16 to the thousand of population New on the mail order lists are shipments of kindling wood. The stuff is loaded with resin and turpentine, it lights easily and gives off a pleasant aroma when it burns.

And it's called "fatwood." A MINNEAPOLIS WRITER hits the current issue of Mademoiselle magazine. He's Russell Roth. His piece in the magazine is titled "What's Happened To If you're an old penny squeezer, it'll take just about 72 pounds of the coppers to trade even for a SI0O bill. The advice of bankers, (hough, is not to save pennies too diligently. Too much collecting of that kind would bring about ait actual shortage of the coins.

v. Minneapolis Sla, phot by ck Oillis tricate the trapped man. Driver of the semi-trailer, Harold J. Bistodeau, 622 NE. Adams street, jumped clear of the burning wreckage.

Driver of the pickup truck (left), Felix Kohn, 34, New Prague, was imprisoned in the cab of his vehicle as gas tanks of the pickup and semi-trailer caught fire after the Belt Line collission. Drivers of passing vehicles hitched the burning vehicles to other trucks and pulled the machines apart and then used hand extinguishers in an effort to ex- Or Is there one already at your house? Wrinkle in house design hereabouts is to include a hot air register in the front clothes closet. The heat keeps winter coats and stuff nice and warm, and the circulation airs (hem out and dries them in case it's blowy outside. HOW ARE YOU AT fibbing? Tests now show that men in general are bigger liars than women. The only age at which the lovelies may exceed in this department is when they're in grade school.

Otherwise the so-called stronger sex tells the biggest whoppers and tells them oftener. Aren't you ashamed, Pa? Lying tapers off in both sexes, incidentally, during and after middle age. And the higher your IQ, the less apt you are to trifle with the truth If you're just bursting to eavesdrop on ihose code messages you get on short wave radio, out now is a set of records designed to teach ou to read the Morse alphabet Around we go again in a cycle. The crewcut is losing its name. More and more it's been called the short pompadour, as it was back when.

Remember when it was every kid's ambition to have a slick long pompadour? Give Await Department PIANO. JU 2220, DR S297. Part labrador. PA 8107. S0 1S511, AL 2373.

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When Dion swerved the bus in an effort to avoid the Hannaford car, the vehicles collided head-on. tmU Ira Driver ot the White Bear bus (lelt), Fred Dion, 187 W. Sixth street, St. Paul, said the automobile (right), driven by Jule M. Hannaford, went into a skid on a curve near Hannaford was killed in the crash.

Dionc, alone in the bus, escaped injury. Metropolitan's 'Carmen' to Be Flashed Across U.S. on Theater TV Direct from the slage of the New York Metropolitan opera house, (he opera "Carmen" will be televised to a nationwide sion of the opera was first presented. Xadine Conner as Micaela, the gypsy girl; Richard Tucker and Robert Merrill also will appear. The streamlined "Carmen" will be shown in Minneapolis at the Gopher theater.

Rudolf Bing. the Metropolitan's general manager, said he hoped the theater TV presentation "will lead to future productions In regions of the country where otherwise we can never hope to present opera as we do in New York." The i.ew production of "Carmen" was rated "the best show on Broadway, dramatic or musical" by New York critics when it was introduced last year theater audience Dec. 11. The uncut, three-hour performance, under the baton of Fritz Reiner, will be presented as a benefit for (he Met, the artists contributing their services. In (he cast will be Rise Stevens, whose interpretation of slir Al Carmen created when the modernized "Is fine all-purnosp rard is Merry Christmas, Is prosperous New Year, is happy birthday is also good for inreaienins: Vl i XTVv I i -5 I 5 1 SK 1 A 11 1 OFF THE KECORO Rv RM, lL- JnrVk I I 1 I RICHARD TICKER TT 1T1 yrf jMT I j' 1 In streamlined opera 7 I w--iSmff0 i ir I i 1.1 RICHARD TICKER -1 1 RISK STEVENS AS A MciiQ soprano uill MODERN CARMEN slur in TV upcrit "Never mind (he rollrse rndowment or life hisiirnneJLi.i.t NADINE CONNER IN TWO COSTl'MES AS (iYPSY GIRL, MICAELA At left, the old version; tit ri'jht, the believable nnr ROBERT MERRILL Will sing Excamillo rol cover him for SlO.onO llabilitv and projtrrty damagel" i.