Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 April 1947 — Page 13

Diet e Service A | 14, — A soldier 1estenth of his » meat or other ether he is swele acific island or - tic cold. rom one-third te food as fat, given Il he wants from ' rations, But he nore in the Arctie, were made by Johnson, now at medical nutrition 0, and Robert M, ard fatigue labo=

vith the tempera= ahrenheit soldiers ories daily on the retic at 30 degrees snheit, they cone es daily,

_ surprised tone.

“THE VOICE” Frank Sinatra earned himself a new name “One-Punch Sinata” by bopping New York

columnist Lee Mortimer in a ritzy Hollywood night

spot last week. The fact that Mr. Mortimer weighed five pounds

more than Frankie didn’t mean a thing. When the = alleged insult was hurled at “The Voice” (pardon me,

“One-Punch”) he promptly “Let him (Mr. Mortimer) have it." And what a blow it must have been. Mr, Mortimer's attorney, Max Freeman, plans to file a civil suit in which he will ask “approximately $250,000” in damages, Even if “One-Punch” has to pay the $250,000, it probably won't break him financially—but what about the bobby-soxers? What do they think of Mr. Sinatra. now? What is the trend of thought since the warbler has used his hands for something other than hanging on a microphone? Bobby-soxers of Shortridge, Broad Ripple, Technical and Howe high schools expressed themselves, and on the whole, I would say Mr. Sinatra better keep his fists on that mike. (Didn't mean to slight you gals at other schools but I just couldn't hoof any farther.) Several teen-agers were genuinely shocked that he had the strength to hit anyone, let alone Mr. Mortimer, who tips the scales at 135. More bhobby-soxers were aghast that their idol broke faith with his teachings about tolerance. Others mentioned such singers as Bing Crosby, Perry Como, Andy Russell and Al Jolson, and said

. hig “didn’ t care for Frank Sinatra's type of singing.”

J i 1] Take Perry Como’

ACROSS THE street from Shortridge high school, seated over a coke at a drugstore soda fountain, Pat Maxam, senior, told me “I was surprised when I read about it, I never did think he could hit a tune, let alone a man. Besides, I'll take Perry Como when I want real singing.” “Como?” Cynthia May, senior, asked with a “Give me Crosby and Al Jolson anytime. And about this fight—I'm surprised he had the nerve to do it.” . Sue Goodman, sophomore, /thinks Sinatra “can't take it.” Sue alsd thinks that “He had no right to hit the columnist, especially after all his talking about tolerance. For that he should have had his (Sinatra's) block knocked off.” ~ One member of the coke group, Evie Staton, senior, gaid “Frankie shouldn't have hit the fellow but the fellow shouldn't sue. But I don't care; I like Crosby better anyway.” y At the Broad Ripple high school cafeteria, Jeanne Wilson, senior, expressed disgust at the whole incident and said, “I think it's all a publicity stunt and a bad one at that. Sinatra gives us advice on how to act but he sure doesn't set a good example.” Incidentally, Jeanne likes Sinatra's voice but doesn't like the publicity he's been getting lately.

Just a Publicity Hound SALLY LAKE, junior, flatly stated: *“I think Sinatra is a publieity hound. The story doesn't sound right.”

Inside Indianapolis ga

By Ed Sovola’

‘SECOND SECTION Bisa

+ Some Shortages and Some Higher Prices

| Coming Up, Say Food Experts

What will our new global polisies demand of Americans? Are you willing to pay 20 cents for a loaf of bread to fight communism with food abroad? To get the answer to these and other vilal questions NEA Service sent its food and markets expert Gaynor Maddox on a tour of the nation’s food centers. Here is his arresting report.

|e By GAYNOR MADDOX NEA Staff Writer : CHICAGO, April 14—Food is the first front in America's battle 5 : to check the spread of eommunism in the Mediterranean and the : ' Far East, KNOCKING HIMSELF OUT?—It may be | That's the opinion I have found among the top men of the wheat, news to '"One-Punch" Frank Sinatra what some | flour and meat business ir Chicago, Kansas City and Minneapolis. local bobby- soxers. thinks he : is And they made that statement even though it means shortages : {and Higher prices for you—the|————————— “I won't listen fo his program anymore,” said Dee American consumer. | ADD UP OUR domestic needs Moller, junior, “just because he's setting such a bad | Said Henry H. Cate, a rangyfor ‘flour, increased: buying power. ot Texan who is*a recognized leader | seed for next, year, wheat for esamp e. : ; among wheat and flour producers: {livestock feed; explains Herman At a drugstore near Tech, Harriet Parry, a junior = “Despite strong criticism; we Steen, vice president.af the Millers in that school, asked me: “If he goes around sup- should go right on shipping In- National federation. Then add about posedly teaching the youth of America how to act, [creasing SHOUAIS of Jog to Turkey 400 ~million more bushels the U. S. an reece and other parts of bought for famine areas. THat 2 why does he get into so much trouble?” the world, All we can spare—yes, leaves 100 million bushels to earry Dolores Wolfe, freshman, speaking on the subject even at-the expense of local short-|us over to the 1947 crop of winter said, “Sinatra should not have used force. Besides ages and ‘higher prices. America’s | wheat, which starts to market in he’s on his way out. Give me Al Jolson.” |biggest job today is to gel away July. “I think he's (Sinatra) wonderful,” Juanita France, | {om Hols and revolutions id stop| That, said Mr. Steen and all the the spread of communism by re- other wheat and flour experts I SEEOE, chimed in, “and what he does is his own busi lieving starvation.” talked to, is the “irreducible mininess.” 8 = imum.” It's just about enough to. Howe high school senior, Susan Foster, has no; BILL JACKSON agreed with Mr. | et by on here in the United

problem about singers. She likes Crosby the best and ‘Cate about sending our food abroad. [States thinks, “A public figure shouldn't fight.” Bill isn’t a big, shot; he drove the| “But if the government suddenly

Bing Crosby is also Hildegarde Koeppe's favorite taxi that took me out to Chicago's buys more wheat or flour for emersinger but she feels that Sinatra was “Justified in|stockyards. He fought in Italy,/SEncy shipment abroad . before

hitting the other guy but he should have used some |80t married, has a baby girl. Sai hoi. Mr. Steen Said, “prices will restraint with his feelings.” 2 il: oot_up and ‘there may be bread

“They cashed in on the publicity,” Joy Wilson,| “Sure, feed those hungry guys sorta i! in, Sothe parte ot He junior, said, “but I don't think Sinatra is as popular | |in Greece and Turkey and they| country in ale ay an June.” as he was. Besides, Crosby is. my favorite—there's {wan't fall for Red talk. : I'0 ‘COMPpATISOn.” | But young Bill didn't go along THE 1947 crop will be bigger |even than the 1946 record, the

And thus the bobby-soxers have spoken at four With Mr. Cate on the cost. city high schools. By no means do the above quotes “Haven't we the biggest wheat experts said. But it will be sub-

constitute the extent of my" survey. To print them COP in history? And the biggest | [ject 10: the same domestic drains all would be repetitious.in many cases. cattle population? That adds up plus further exports as our new But they do show which way the wind is blowing. [to a surplus. Send that overseas. globa 1 policy speeds up. Will this be of any help—"“One-Punch”? \Why should I have to pay for it?"| “Every time the government : ££ & 8 buys more grain for export, the MILLIONS of ‘other Americans price is bound to go up,” said

Cherry Trees

|like Bill are confused, too. They're Jack Benjamin, vice president of ‘behind their government's new the Uhlman Grain Co. in Chicago.

If we export more grain and By Frederick GC. Othman | poticy of using food to keep com-|qour hefore July 1 than the gov-

|munism- from spreading. But they| ernment now anticipates, we'll see

WASHINGTON, April 14. — The temptation this

day is to try some fancy writing about the gossamer white haze around the tidal basin. I mean those Jap cherry trees. They have busted out all over with flowers. No smell, but pretty as all get-out.

All morning I have been strolling under these

trees and sitting on the grass and letting the Potomac

breezes waft flower petals in my hair. This treatment makes the wranglers in congress seem #ar away. Causes a fellow to feel philosophical. Makes him

wonder,

Two years ago today, for instance, I wrote a piece about some misguided . patriots who started to chop from They'd ruined two of them when the police

down these cherry trees because they came

Japan, arrived. Odd thing (or maybe it wasn't odd at all)

was that the police felt a little ‘embarrassed about arresting the youths who demonstrated their feelings

with an axe.

Felt Guilty About It

WE STILL hadn't heard about the atom bomb but we Nobody much had time to look at the Those few who did somehow felt Some ladies in a club with a name I can’t remember now started a movement to call

then. It looked like we might lick Japan, weren't sure. cherry blossoms.

guilty about fit.

the trees victory chetries.

This was remindful of my boyhood in St. Louis,

CA Pf Sb

‘don’t understand they’ll have to pay wheat jump to $4 a bushel, said Today things are different. Nearly 200,000 visi- Some of the cost with their daily|;..0c E Skidmore, head of Gentors are in Washington. They're giving congress a : . eral Mills central division. quick glance and they're walking’ through the public! | 1 Sand i ] Davelel ® x = rooms of the White House, but their main idea is to [reatly Sv diles f oh Te IN MINNEAPOLIS, Harry A. see: the cherry trees. The Japanese cherry trees,’ {pre ue ng pr aL wi ” tried to BUllis, president of General Mills, straight from the imperial horticulture station out- WhO KNOW the ANSWeTSs. wi ‘thought we must face the fact side Tokyo.

|ask the same questions you and Bill | that were in Evrope lor. keeps Just to look.at the blossoms in 1947 is enough to|the taxi driver would have asker. eh make a citizen forget his troubles and I guess that |

In Chicago's stockyards, wheat and must pay the price for checkwas Mrs. William Howard Taft's idea in the first | exchange

and offices where crip. "8 the Reds. : |and prices and international policy!

“I wouldn't be at all surprised

place. are all men talk. about, they © see bread go o® cents a loaf {between now and July 1” said r echoed what Mr. Cate had told me “ : Orders 80 Cherry T ees in his Kansas City headquarters. {Mr. Bullis. “I think it much wiser SHE ORDERED 80 flowering cherry trees" from # {to warn the public of that fact and

Japan in 1907 and planted them along the Potomac. MR. CATE IS provident of the] tell them the reasons than to let {them go on dreaming.” the

Dr. Jokochi Takamino, a wealthy Japanese living Flour Mills*of America and was on | In the kitchen -arithmetic, here, was so impressed with this small spectacle that the wartime wheat flour milling Hiri answer to the problem of stemhe imported 2000 more trees as a gift to the city. |dustry advisory board. He dis-| ming Red expansion hits your The poor doc nearly committed hara-kiri when agreed with those trade groups Who meat larder as well as your breadthey arrived. They were so full of scale and as- feel they, and not the government, | pox, : sorted Oriental diseases that the bureau of plant should decide how much food to| nn quarantine ordered them burned and hoped against send and where to send it after| ONCE we export more than 15 hope that none of the bugs escaped. Apparently June 30. That's when federal con- per cent of our total beef supply, they didn’t. y | trol of exports will end, unless|the price of steak will jump and The government of Japan was as red-faced as renewed by congress. ~ the supply will diminish. Dr. Takamino. It spent the next two vears choosing “The state department as well] That figure came from- P. C. perfect buds at the Arakawa nursery and grafting as the department of agriculture,” |Smith, Swift & Co. vice president. them on disease-free roots. The imperial horticul-| |said Mr. Cate, “are better. posted |Some important cattlemen think turists did the job. This time they shipped 300 trees, ! {than individuals or groups.. .-. on|he's too optimistic—that an inhalf yashinos with single white blossoms and half! food needs throughout the world.|crease beyond 5 per cent of the

MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1047 ; try

Our ‘War v: ith Bread

BE a i

a ia SS

BATTLE BEGINS IN THE WHEAT FIELDS The harewerkin Kansas farmer . houetted against the dawn as he plants his wheat helped make o tall grain in the background a record crop in 1946. But 1947's winter crop won't be this. high until June. Of the '46 crop, there's "just enough left to det by."

BUT AS I rode through the greening fields of winter wheat with Robert L. David, of the Uhlman Co., he argued in favor of removing all export controls after June 30. Exports and car shortages alope caused high prices of whesty not speculation, he said; in a free and open. market, prices Would: 4 just themselves. ack Willis

And in Kansas City, J: Jr., vice president of Ismert Yamert Hincke Co., said “if the

Kitchen Arithmetic—Price Of Our New Global Policy

If you back the mew Truman Doctrine of fighting the spread of Russian influence in Europe and Asia with increasing food exports, big food men predict to Gaynor Maddox:

1. Bread will go up to 20:cents before July 1.

2. There will be brief shortages of bread in scattered areas from the middle of May until end of June.

3. Lard and oil will be tighter, particularly if we supplement our

grain exports with desperately needed fats. Proble is saved chlo 0 we 4. Once we export more than 15 per cent of our total beef supply, San oe a not be any ‘bread fast enough,

price of steak will jump and supply diminish. y bread shorts,

age in Junge." 5. Some government wartime controls over food will be resumed ® ® 8 and many food processors will welcome this, despite their public | UP IN Minneapolis, the protests.

flour men back our new global policy, but warn we're down to “hard tack” right now. 7 Regardless of wheat prices, | AND IF foreign countries des-|tion. But one more of the best|W: Miles of Pillsbury Milling | perately in need of fats, such as|informed men in the business told|XPects to see “many mills run & {lard, were allowed to buy all i they secretly want export con-|Pefore new harvest is in.”

6. Congress will continue government licensing of all food exports after June 30 when it is scheduled to die.

need from us, “the American house- | trols continued. “Let's don't worry about $3 of wife would face a drastic shortage! “They know H controls are re-|S9 Wheat” he said.” “The big job almost immediately,” said Wesley moved,” he said, “desperate foreign|i to get bread, Public resistance | Hardenbergh, president of the nations would raid our mfrkets (oF high prices can be relied upon American Meat institute. and create economic havoc.” to adjust things.” fi Mr. Hardenbergh is convinced we| The same argument, milling ex-| Ship flour rather than wheat to

are going to fight the spread of|perts contend, holds for the wheat Europe, he warned. communism with food, not military|and flour picture. force. His reason: The army hasn't # 2 '® bought any increased quantity of| EXPORTS, plus an alarming lack lo

food for its own uses, as it did prior|{of box cars to move wheat to Wife " " 2 i fo pela war IL z |mills, may cause “bread shortages| IN THE x =» te hs + B. Arthur, economist for Swift.|soon in scattered sections of the|r put on a white duster and "took a different stand. “The United | country, these men said. watch grain being milled to a States cannot afford to let our ex-| «“r'm for government control when A’ Tor a 10 this . ports of food expand to the point | we're virtually in a state of war,” sacks ready for shipment. hit > that would cause inflation, regard- declared G. S. Kennedy, a leading| “I mouldn’t be ised 0 308 *

less of our human sympathies,” he {flour and feed man in Minn esota. said. “The best kind of ald to those! “If the government must have

, countries threatefied by communism wheat and flour instead of bullets,

this place empty and shut in a month or 50," he said.

where sauerkraut during the first world war was ina month of & 0 ; known as liberty cabbage. Those cherry trees were kwanzans with double pink blooms. No bu32s: |T am willing. to take their judg-|total supply would upset our domes- | is for us to remain strong here ati then th been shipped in disrepute. There was something almost shame- Mrs. Taft was gratified. So was the doc. And ment even though it does cause tie market. Right now we're export- | { home.” [oe ts oles ma em ir Europe. They are not equipped to ful about them. Their very beauty made this shame come to think of it, so am I. End of philosophical dislocations and shortages and | ing 2 per cent, ® nn from ihe autoniobile and. other ape mill — over there — the war the worse. essay. ‘higher prices in this country.” . | England's recent beef purchases TODAY, PACKERS and livestock dustries to get wheat to mills rg wrsegea Jos o Sheip mills, We | Why has last year's billion-bushel | jolted our markets, Thomas E. | people openly protest renewal of ducing flour for export. They have [chip the a eat for Sour hen ——————————————— — | Wheat Crop, an Elle ~time high, al-| Wilson, chairman of Wilson & Co.,| government export controls, fearing begun this, but the program must|Americans are going to be out of : most disappeared? said. a general return of federal regula- ibe stepped up drastically.” | fobs.” : . £ Sho With Soul By Erskine Johnson | this : — es | ouis he Gunman Robs Filling Station Here Spring Comes to America— ; - Early today a lone gunman held of 501 Bright st. arrested at - 246 2 HOLLYWOOD, April 14.—There are ladies’ shoes best performance of the year for “Watch On the up Marcus Humble, 33, Gaseteria India Os ka Mis Ci H Li = , -— ) na ave. ’ with just soles and others with souls. Rhine.”. He almost didn't get the part in the stage station operator, 2ist st. and Capi-| William Peters, 2354 N. Gale st. y i’ Se, t i1Zens ive Quiet Life, = Seymour Troy designs the latter for Hollywbod play. They didn't think he was the type. [tol ave, and escaped with $14. [reported vandals splashed black a

movie queens, New York socialites, and anyone else who cen pay from $18.50 to $65 a pair. We met Seymour (shoes with =souls) Troy at a swanky fashion salon Alter taking what is desctibed as a “personality shoe¥test.” They-set out nine pairs yurchas d by seven ;movie queens, and we had to

“a green pair,-and Carol -Landis, black &uede. with

silver trim. But 1 missed on Judy Garland, gun metal, Ginger Rogers, heavy moccasins, and Ann Dvorak, plain blue leather, All of the shoes were made by this Troy fellow from New York, who is one of the nation's foremost shoe designers. Everyone copies Mr. Troy's shoes. He says, “They may steal the thought but never the soul of my shoes.” Mr, Troy. carves his model shoes out of soap, claims “it's difficult to draw them on paper.” The fashion trend this year, he says, is closed toes with open backs. The most expensive shoes he ever designed cost $300 a pair. He made 12 pairs of them, all of rhinestone, before the war and has Sold only seven of them.

Plus Luck, of Course "PAUL LUKAS, who won an Oscar in 1942, has a pretty sober observation on this Academy award business. “There's no trick to it,” he says. “Just a terrific role in a terrific picture, and you're in.” Plus luck, of course. Paul says he was lucky to win that Oscar for the

And he almost didn’t get the role in the screen | Mrs. Sallie Beach, 904 Ft, Wayne paint on his garage. version. Jack Warner wanted Speneer Tracy, but ave, was slugged and robbed yes- | Two marines were arrested for Mr. Tracy turned it down, saying, “There's only one terday as-she entered her apart- fighting at Illinois and Market sts. man for the part—and. that's Paul Lukas.” \ ment. The thief took $10. Pvts. Robert’ Peterson and James ‘Just give me a good role in a good picture,” |. In other week-end crime © two Smith, Crane, Ind, were charged chulkles Paul, * S01.” .

| with keeping a room for. pool seil- officer and profanity.. In the ‘scuf-

Herr PWnere™ 1 Pies OR PCH e Brent: rN eds is eabrictizig PES ow RIOD HRT ANEHTRNOIS MER Iotbonl “Tasy | ie they. kngcked sawp; Ratrolman

were Lorena Drante, 30, of 548 N. Fred Titus, who. was freatad at’ City» Senate ave., and ‘Anna Harris, 26, | hospital.

and 20-years of marriage, - ;

wow hy

Got $7000 a Week

HE CAME to Hollywood from Hingary in 1927, immediately became Pola Negri's leading man. He'll, never forget Pola. “Instead of just a chair, she had a big couch on the set with her name on it. She was getting $7000 a week on a. straight 52-week-a-year contract, Her | oplion came up, called for $10,000 a week. “Business was off, and the studio agreed to re- | new her contract but at the old salary of $7000 a week, Pola screamed and said, “I won't take your , lousy $7000 a week. I quit. And she did.” - Paul gets his best role since “Watch On the Rhine” | as the Swiss guide in RKO's “The White Tower, " Paul said he got quite a kick out of reading in somebody's column that RKO's Boss Dore Schary had said: “I MUST have Paul Lukas for the role of the Swiss guide.” “He said that” Paul chuckled, “because if RKO hadn't cast me in a picture by May 1, they would have had to pay me off for a Whole picture. That's why he just HAD to have me.’ Modest fellow, Lukas. But one of Hollywood's | finest actors. J

Carnival—By Dick Turner

We, the Women

rn MANY times have you been’ shopping and heard clerks and salespeople use’ the same disinter-

ested phrase they used throughout the years of. short-.

ages and scarcities? You ask for an article, and the clerk shows you exactly what you want. But he is likely to say halfheartedly, “This is all we have in that line.”

Clerks Fumble Around :

OR YOU set out to buy a ihechanlcal gadget

and find in store. after store clerks who are supposed

“to be selling the appliance know nothing about it. i ~They fumble as they try to demonstrate and then ex- ; plain, “I'm not just sure how it works.” phen

"Right now it beems_ store owners and managers . acc

By Ruth Millett

I —— | ought to be worrying about teaching their salespeople | how to sell,

Must Learn to Sell

MANY of those holding down selling jobs have no, real experience in selling. They took*their jobs during | the war years. Then if a clerk had what the wi

wanted, all he had to do was say, “If you want it

you'd. bétter ‘buy it now, We may not have another 3 ‘shipment.” 1 = But if they are to hold their jobs in the ‘future. Cre Nn seavier. we

thay'l have to learn how to sell. The American cuslo "Another good thing to ‘remember in this business—never. bonds

tomer isn’t” going on “selling” himself forever—not ster he has stocked up on the long list of wants . over to, tie or, shoastrings while there's customers. on pil the fring line!" : hone

during the era of siprtages.

4-14

Leu. 8 PAY. OFF.

‘and I'm almost as good as Van John: women were arrested and charged | | with disorderly conduct, resisting an |.

- {the whirlpools of civilization

[even about the Republicans—with= op yg,

An Example of Good Old American We

Life Is Pleasant Beneath Big Oaks

“+ By ELDON ROARK SerippssMoward Staff Writer

" OSYKA, Miss., April 14.— If any of you folks caught in’

TARVATION a and threats of war abroad. Strikes and a -of more strikes at. home. Vendettas of politics in Washington. Taxes, the budget, menace of inflation, terror of the atom bomb. . From such grim grist comes news that commands so much and So many head¥nes on: gots “PAU today. - Yet— ; A a Spring moves ov er our ‘land. : Hope flows in the hearts of the people who turn again to the F homely pursuits and chores that spring brings. 9 They are the people who fed and clothed a great portion of the world for several years. They bore their share of the d and risks of war. For the most part they have reconverted themselves to the tasks of peace. To report what these people are doing and thinking, The §F Times ‘and other Scripps-Howard newspapers have sent ju

fear that the good eld American way. of life is passing— or may be endangered—come down to this quaint town near the Mississippi-Louisiana ling. ; Here you will fiid men who still snap * the . blades of thew pocket- — knives, who can get as many man-|in exactly ‘one. hour pa will be said R. E. er hours of whittling out of a good |home, hungry, - ex-G. I. who served with 4 stick as their forefathers ever ‘could,| yg STRANGE that more little and who have calm confidence in| uns don’t adopt the Osyka glum. their ability to handle any situa-|g ctem Many hamlets blow a sawe i find A al mill whistle or sound a fire siren nd ere you find women who still| ey noon but, as an Osyka man|.ase of fire. “Before the

know how to cook, and who serve ,,inted out, that's too late to do |i; sent hands into the whopping big meals: at noon ine any good. It's %ime to eat then. called them: in. 10- meals stead of sissy little lunches. No. blow the whistle or ring the ! Cutrer’s ' Silver i 3 3 «1 bell at 11 as a warning %o-the Cutrer

iS i ) When M ( YES, Osyka is a long way from | women to quit chatte over the . : ; the world of labor-management pack fence, or to ering of the Waugh it ily _” spasms, international colic, eco-|gower garden and hurry Into the syeaple Osyka. hand nqic rashes and urban ulcers. Life | iichen. With an hour's notice Was at a mest here is pleasant beneath the big|ihere can't be any excuse for a citi oaks that shade even the main poor meal. valable.

business street. The women are much in favor of Nearly all the stores Have roofs the bell. that extend out.over the sidewalk.| «why we just couldnt get along And many of them have chairs without our 11 o'clock bell” says and benches where folks may sit|pleasant, attractive Mrs. A. G. oo station

and loaf. These people can talk who runs & boarding house, to you calmly about the crops, Yu

Russia, the Balkans, the weather— years. “It never

out shouting or getting purple in the face," And here you'll find delightful customs that have lived through the years because they are good, "For instance, the ringing of t town bell every morning Lo That ;