Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 May 1947 — Page 11

THURSDAY, MAY — Veteran, Movie Star Despite Loss of Hands, Visits Here |e Says, After 7 sell Wins (JE y |16-Yeor Fast

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Harold Russell Wins ‘Nice Guy' Vote .

If Hollywood ever adds a “nice guy” recognition to its annual Agademy awards, the handless vets eran of “The Best Years of -Olr Lives"—Harold - Russell—would -get/ the Indianapolis vote, Le Here yesterday for a one-day visit | on a nation-wide tour, the ex-| sergeant of < the airborne troops | spent most of Mis time in the ns terest of war veterans. ; At the Veterans’ hospital on Cold | Spring rd, he showed other ex-G.| I's that a man with courage can | overcome most any physical handi-| cap. At the American Leagion| headquarters he urged the executive | committee to fulfill its organiza-| tion's obligations to the ex-soldiers.

Speaks at Luncheon

He won recognition, too, at Legion headquarters, for he was’ named consultant to the Massachusettes delegation of the Legion.! There” was a talk at the Lions] luncheon, a couple of radio broad- | casts, then he was on his way] again on the trip which will end | in Sin Francisco at the “I Am An| American” celebration,

PLEADS FOR VETERANS —

Harold Russell, handless veteran

Although the tour is sponsored | . . " f by Samuel GoldWyn, producer of 7 Lk IPoVIS; Best. Years ° “The Best Years of Our Lives,” | Our Lives," spoke to the Amerand although the picture is cur-| jcan Legion executive board

rently: being shown here at Keith's theater, nothing was done to éxploit the film. There was no per- | sonal appearancé at the theater. | There was no attempt to increase the crowd at Keith's because of what ‘Harold Russell might do. “Mr. “Goldwyn ‘will not exploit Harold's handicap” said George Relntalh Bubijeist, from the Gold- 1.p50ks” that have replaced the 3 {hands which were lost when ‘a There 18 no fanfare no attempt charge of TNT was set off by a at the usual Hollywood “hokum.” | 4 tactive fuse at Camp Mackall, There are just three persons in the IN C. in 1044. He was filling his entourage—Harold Russell, his at- | assignment as an instructor in demtractive wife, Rita, and Mr. Weiss- olition when the accident hap-

yesterday in a visit to Indianapolis, :

Our Lives” hasn't taken the “nice guy” attitude away. Harold modestly accepts congratulations with something like this: (“Me an actor? I'm no. actor.” He isn't embarrassed about the

CHICAGO, May 8 (U. P.)—Jack Park drank some tea and milk yesterday and said eating was “about the most wonderful thing in this world,’ ' ‘ “It must be a &well habit,” he sald. Mr, Park—21, healthy and handsome—hadn’t eaten a bit of food in 16 years, and no solid food in 19 years, until last Friday. Mhen. he was 20 months old he swallowed lye while hisimother was doing the family washing,

. ~ HE HAS received all nourishment —until now-via a tube through the abdominal wall into his stomach, And he hasn't been sick a day. On /the advice of his physician, Dr.: Ralph Rigby, Salt Lake- City, Utah, Mr. Park came to Chicago. He underwent an operation at the University of Illinois research and educational hospital April 15. Doctors made a contact between his upper and lower food passages with a needle. They kept open an opening with a braided silk thread.

» ” n THE OPENING in his esophagus was enlarged gradually until he was able to swallow. His diet is now confined to liquids. But in a few months he will be able [to eat almost all foods. Mr. Park said that after the | pecideny he was able to swallow {small amounts of liquid foods until {he was 5. Then resulting scars completely blocked off the esophagus: i2i a | “This tea and milk is the first food I can remember swallowing,” (Mr. Park said. “And it sure is an |experience.”

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Dewey Campaign

Owosso Front Porch To Be Scene

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press’ Staff Correspondént

WASHINGTON, May 8-—Gover-nor Thomas E. Dewey will take his Republican presidential campaign on tour this summer in a folksy visit to the home town front porch. Governor and Mrs. Dewey will visit his parents in Owosso, Mich. and probably her parents in Tulsa, Okla. Mixing official business with family pleasures, they will attend the governor's conference in Salt Lake City;*Utah, in the second week of July. / Advance Agent Capital discussion of the governor's plans suggest that the jour-

ney may be extended to put. him face to face with party leaders in a score of states. If so, Mr.” Dewey's trip will be an (appropriate follow-up of the jourwid that Lt. Gov. Joseph H. Hanley of New York will conclude toward the end of this month. Mr, Hanley embarked in mid-April on a sixweeks motor trip through the Mid- | west and Southwest in the role of | patriotic speaker. Mr. Hanley is an (orator of distinction and patriot of | parts. Without Publicity But this politically alert city in{stantly construed his journey as the first positive move to corral Re[publican national convention dele- | gates for Governor Dewey. Other than at the Utah gover{nor's conference, it is not yet known {whether Mr. Dewey will do any |talking on his summer swing.

Willie Is ‘Ready to Die’; Walks "Last Mile' Tomorrow Doomed Youth Will Go to Chair 2d Time;

ting on a show” -en route. They| with his

rc y . av] " le a day eoach on the Pennsvl them, Harold vania from Dayton to Indianapolis.

‘'m No Actor’

One thing you like about Harold | Russell at the start is the indiffer-| ence to his sudden success. Even winning two. Academy awards ‘for his work in “The Best Years of |

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doors, picks up a glass. On the train trip from when’ Mrs. Russell wanted a

{a paper cup from the container and {carried the’ water to her. | Harold prefers to forget about his|. ypnjess Louisiana's portable electric chair fails again—it worked yeshandicap and to be treated like to. gay Francis will be electrocuted for a 1944 murder “between 1 p. m. any other person. He wants—and ,n4 4 p m.” (Indianapolis time) tomorrow. } | ready to die,” Willie said himself, except to tie his own today, “and the sooner the better.” |_locale of the murder of a St: Mar|He doesn’t ‘want another accident tinville druggist for which Willie, him live |then only 15, was tried and con-

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“Because of his attitude toward ofr the life and success and his manner- through a Scheduled execution May |victed,

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Willie has that accident figured|Alonzo (Blackie) Jones, hitchhike out, He believes the Lord let him slayer of two persons. live through his first trip to the | was applied at 12:20 p. m, and A ventriloquist act, featuring the [chair because “he wanted me to get Jones was pronounced dead nine “Little Squirt,” will be presented as|my hell -on earth.” the entertainment program of to-| morrow night's monthly meeting of |Martinville, La., jail in the heart {of Longfellow Evangeline state park

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!minutes’ later. ‘1 Want to Die’ Willie has been held in the spic-"land-span New Iberia jail chiefly | because St. Martinville couldn't {board and handle a full-time pris{oner. {| “I have been in this Jail sweatjie it for a year,” Willie said. “Now

to work this time—-I want to die because as soon as I do I am going to the Lord.” Material things don’t interest him. He doesn’t even ask for cray fish, which are getting fat now in this Bayou country. His only in-

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