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A Jook. An elderly couple was in the next car. The , woman at me as if 1 were pointing a smoking gun at her. Two more cars went by. A driver pointed

that he was turning oft 52 soon. Thanks—buddy.

Truck Driver Waves Back ‘I CHANGED my tactics. Instead of giving a car four or five fast signs with the thumb, I slowed up snd made one or two passes, A driver of a semitrailér truck waved. -Phooey. The hiteh-hiking business was slow, As I looked into the grill of each approaching vehicle my hopes rose. As I looked into the tail-lights, my hopes fell. A Mercury came in sight. Starting from my shoeJades I let him have the full 180 degrees. I was in luck. The 34th car was pulling to a stop. Harrison Graber of Finley, Ind., foreman at a local foundry was surprised when I told him what I was

“Do you stop for hitch-hikers often, Mr, Graber?” 1 asked. “I stop quite often, .I can't forget the time I used to hiteh-hike to school.” Mr. Graber said he never had trouble with hitchhikers but he was careful to a certain extent who he picked up. If a man looked toq,rough he'd go on. That made me feel pretty good. Back to thumb waving. A woman driver swerved to the left side of the road when she saw me. She indeed was being careful. I picked up several dirty looks... One well-dressed motorist behind the wheel of a long, sleek Buick definitely had that hoodlum-go-to-work look. As a change of pace I picked some dandelions. Maybe the bright yellow blossoms would help. The bouquet added nothing to my weary thumb and arm. A truck driver gave me a big horse laugh. The dandelions went into. the ditch. A casual arc with my thumb made a driver slow down and stop. As I ran up I noticed two men. Again I explained my purpose. Armor Peisker, 2107 E, 46th st, and Jack Adams, 4648 Evanston st., also registered surprise. Mr. Peisker, who was driving, said he seldom stopped for hitchhikers. “I don’t: know why I stopped this time except maybe because Jack was along.” 1 asked Mr. Peisker what his first reaction was when he saw me. “Well, I asked Jack—'Who is that guy?’ he didn’t know, but I stopped anyway.”

Jack said

Sloppy Eaters

WASHINGTON, May 10.—Careful study of the evidence forces me to conclude that admirals are sloppy eaters. At breakfast they smear strawberry jam between their fingers. They butter their knuckles at lunch. ‘At dinner they dip their digits in the gravy. This explains

. the navy’s desperate need for $8,000 fluted and pierced S&C finger-bowls (with gadroon-mounted borders) in sil- ¢ ver-plate of heavy quality.

The gold-braided gentlemen with the sticky fingers never have learned to dampen same gently. ‘The way they splash in their finger-bowls you'd think they were taking a bath. This is hard on the table linen. 80 the navy also has asked for bids on 30,000 r-plated finger-bowl! trays to match. Read Adm. W. A. Buck, chief of the bureau of operations and accounts and the old sea-dog in charge of finger-bowls, never did get around to .the 8000 discrepancy between trays and bowls. My guess (only a guess) is that some naval officers splash less than others and don't need trays under their bowls. Rep. ‘Noble J. Johnson (Ind. .brought up the subject of the sailors’ gooey fingers. He was disturbed over reports of the navy buying finger-bowls from the silverware manufacturers while it was peddling other silver finger-owls as surplus property.

Good Bowl Needed : THE BLUFF old admiral, veteran of many a meal at sea, said this was not true, except in part. It takes a good, solid finger-bowl to stand up under attack by an admiral or even an ensign. During the war the navy had to accept some ‘ersatz fingerbowls of cheap and flimsy silver-plate, like wedding presents.

‘equipment would cost.

A HORSE WOULD BE QUICKER—Hitchhiking isn't what it used to be. I thanked the occupants of the 62d car and the second that stopped and resumed my thumbing. Hitch-hiking is a tough racket. Badly in need of energy to go on, I went into the Blue and White Inn and bought a candy bar. Cliff Lockwood, station attendant, wasn't surprised when I told him how bad hitch-hiking was. “I've seen guys stand out there for two hours and not get a ride,” he said. : “I_got two rides in. two hours.” “You're doing good,” Mr. Logkwood said.

New Car Driver Stops SWISH-—-SWISH—swish. I lost all count of the cars that went by. Almost desperate by now, I gave a new Nash an energetic thumb, Dan Jarodsky, a salesman from Paris, Ill, told me he usually stops for thumb travelers. The only times

Straits’ Significance

Dates Russia To

as Pivot of Truman

Doctrine: Merely History Repeating Itself

This is the first of a séries of

author of several books on

articles revealing the undercurrent

of the Truman: Doctrine, which will affect the state of this mation and the fate of the world for years to come. Dr. Byng, commentator, world problems, is a tecognized expert on the Middle East where he lived for many years.

THE, SIGNIFICANCE of

centuries,

and recent research seems to indicate that even the Trojan War was probably fought for

he didn't was when cars were right behind him or he was going too fast. - When I.told him how much trouble I was having, he said that was nothing. Two men he had picked | up the day before, stood for four hours in Brazil, Ind., before they got a ride. I must have an honest face. A woman and a little girl walked up to the intersection, It wasn't more than two minutes before » woman motorist stopped and asked if they wanted & ride. Sure thing. That's an angle I overlooked.

When my. arm ached from the thumb to my|*

shoulder 1 quit. Three rides in three hours is not enough’ for traveling. Hoofing along Kessler blvd. to 16th st. and the busline, I took one last fling. John McCormick, lumberman from Lawrence, Ind., pulled up. He informed me that because I was near the airport and off of the main highway he stopped, otherwise no soap. Too much rough stuff on the highways.

You're so right, Mr, McCormick: It is rough.

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~ By Frederick C.- Othman

It has turned 663 ‘of these battered bowls over to the war assets administration, along with 5375

By EDWARD J. BYNG

the Dardanelles as the pivot

of the Truman Doctrine is the latest phase of the turbulent role the all-important straits have played through many

Anglo-Russian rivalry for their control goes back to the reign of Tsar Peter the Great more than 200 years ago,

the glittering, gorgeous marble palaces of Turkey's former sultans. This unique region enthralls the

the possession of the Dardanelles, visitor ‘by merging Eastern and known ' to the .ancient Greeks™ * picare, elements into a grandiose

reminiscent of the most

Hellespontus. | glamorous passages of the “Arabian However, to speak of the “Straits | Nighgs. " problem” is to simplify the eo- | 2 a = graphic aspect 3f the malter.! BY CONTRAST, both shores of

Mediterranean are connected by! two separate straits.

separating Europe from Asia just north of fabulously beautiful Istanbul. The other, the Dardanelles, lies at the southwestern extremity of the Sea of Marmora, and is the gateway to the Mediterranean. . ; 2.8 8 NO CONTRAST could be more striking than that offered by the Bosporus and the Dardanelles. The former is one of the most enchanting beauty spots on earth. Many travelers rate its scenic splendor above the famed beauty of Naples and Rio de Janeiro. Aside ffom the use of mines. and some field fortifications, the Bosporus is only slightly fortified. Along its shores picturesque. villages~an<

One, the Bos- | | porus, ‘is a narrow sheet of water

| Actually, the Black Sea and. the: the Dardanelles. are. arid and. in--

fested with malaria. ‘The village of Kilid Bahr, on the European shore, and the city of Tchanak Kaleh, on the Asiatic side, are the-twin keys to this sordid-looking, hilly area of unique strategic importance. Should Russia. obtain the right to. erect fortifications of its own in the Straits area, the crucial region of these twin settlements would be.the logical site for them. The Turks have heavily fortified the Dardanelles, although some. of the forts are antiquated. The defenses are supplemented by a complex network of land and sea mines, sub-surface nets intended to entangle hostile submarines, “and an elaborate system ‘of field fortifications on both shores of the Straits. ® » f J “AGAINST %iGSern methods of

luxurious private residences alternate with forests of eypresses and

trays, mostly dented and none with piercing, fluting, or ‘gadroon-mounted borders. Adm. Buck wasn't sure what his new Suger-laving Infidtion seems to have hit the finger-bowl business. He figured that before the war 38,000 custom-built + finger-bowls would have nicked’ the navy for $26,700. The bill for 30,000 trays

, to match would have been $27,000.

Surplus Shakers CONGRESSMAN JOHNSON, who hails from Terre Haute, where oysters and admirals seldom are seen, was interested also in the navy’'s stores of oyster forks. The atimiral said he was fresh out of oyster forks, Bt had Put in an order for more. We taxpayers can only hope they arrive by September, which has an “R” in it. “And how about 23,000 surplus salt and pepper shakers?” ‘demanded Rep. Johnson. “With the cut glass linings?” s Pressed glass, snorted the admiral. Not cut glass. And furthermore, he said, the navy is hanging on to nearly all of them. It has offered only 627 surplus salt and pepper” shakers for sale, along with 3750 gravy ladles, 209 unlined silver-plated mustard pots, 37.775 dessert forks and other cutlery too numerous to mention here. e unlined mustard pots cost $7 each; the gravy ladles $1.03. And I think the admiral, the congressman and .I have answered all pertinent questions as to naval eating habits, except one: What is a gadroon-mounted border on a silver finger-bowl? It is a rim with bumps on it. It is intended to discourage splashing.

Father-Son Team?

By Erskine Johnson

HOLLYWOOD, May 19.—Exclusively yours: Fred Astaire and Donald O'Connor as a father-and-son dance team is a great deal if it jells. Universal International has Donald and the idea. Astaire, according to the grapevine from: New York, likes both Donald and the idea.” The official announcement may be made any day. Red Skelton is complaining to M-G-M again, and rightly. so, about the inferior scripts and supporting casts given him. - Wails Red, “Bob Hope gets Bing Crosby. and Dorothy Lamour and what do I get— nothing,” * Red’s radio rating is skyhigh, his film rating in the cellar. Despite es to the contrary, Ann Sothern and Bob Sterling are still not reconciled. Even though they have frequent dates, Bob is still Tying at the

‘home of his mother, .

John" Truesdale, the former "col®mnist, “has written a novel, “Low Tide,” in which Katy Hepburn and

Spencer Tracy are interested as a possible movie. It's

about poverty in Venice, Cal, in 1947.

Plays 12 Characters BETTY HUTTON will do a wicked impersonation of Joan Fontaine in “Dream Girl.” Only it won't be announced as Joan. Betty will play a total of 12 different characters in this film version of the Broadway hit. Among fhem are a bride, the mother of twins, a murderess, a newspaper publisher, and an opera star. , Josef, the jeweler to the stars, is whipping up an-

other. costume for Ingrid Bergman's Joan of Arc. It will run into millions—of steel rings. . While Paramount starlet Mary Hatcher is in New York, ex-husband Jimmy Alexander is trying to effect a reconciliation. He's starring in “Oklahoma.” Carmen Miranda's next for Producer Sam Coslow will be “Mexico City,” a musical, Dick Haymes’ proposed summer appearance with Margaret Truman is getting farther than most. Margaret is considering the ides.

His Pictures ‘Moving’ DOUG FAIRBANKS JR. was taking a fencing lesson .on the set of “The Exile.” Doug tops his celluloid gymnastics in. this one by fighting a duel on the revolving blade of a Dutch windmill. I don’t

set. Whenever you see him' he’s rehearsing a leap from a housetop, a fight, a slide down a rope, or some other hazardous stunt, While the rest of Hollywood talks, Doug goes on making MOVING pictures. And very successfully. I might add. : Luise Rainer will dd “Joan of Lorraine” on the straw-hat circuit this summer, opening at the Cape Playhouse in Bennis.. ; Rochelle Hudson is back in tows to resume her film career. Despite that whispering. campaign, “Abie’s Irish Rose” finally is clicking at fhe box offices. Rabbis who saw the film described opposition to it as “the greatest to do about nothing in recent, years.”

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By Ruth Millett

A KINDLY man suggested we set aside one day a year #5 Bpinster’s day ‘to honor the women who, through often important to their communities and the stand-bys of their families, get little recognition in life. In spite of his kind intent, a Spinster’s day would be a cruel blow to that group of women.

Would Point to Failure IT WOULD only serve to set them apart, emphasize their loneliness and point up their failure to achieve what all women are supposed to regard as the only really worthwhile career—marriage. No, if we want to do something for ‘the spinsters of our community let's start treating them like everybody else. Let's quit putting so much emphasis on the fact

that they aren't married. alLet’s quit regarding them either with ridicule or pity, referring to them as “old ‘malds” and wondering why they never married. Let's take them in to the social life of our communities.

Farget Their Promises. WAR WIVES discovered during years of separa-

«tion from their husbands just how monotonous is

a social life made up entirely of association with other women, Many of them promised to be more hospitable to unmarried women and widows once their own social lives were back to normal. , - . But they. have evidently forgotten .theif promise. For the life of widows and spinsters is still limited, and hostesses still regard an extra woman .as a handicap.

Spanish-American War Veteran, 94, Gols. Married

BAKERSFIELD, Cal, May 19 (U. U., P.).—Lawriston G. Berdrew, 0, who believes .in “living today as ever,” honeymooned today with| non, 37

first saw four days ago.

Berdrew, a Spanish - American, climaxed a. correspondence courtwar veteran, and Mrs. Grant were ship between Bakersfield and Mrs. married Saturday and moved in, though you expected to' live for-| with Bs daughter, Mrs. Edith Gag- |

Grant's home in Andover, Mass. Mrs. Grant, daughter of one of

, while they wait for their Bergrew's former schoolmates, nd Mrs. Jennie Grant, Ot He a sa el

5% Sridesioom first met when she

Wife Also Sightless,

RAYMOND SUMMERS who is

stand at Market and Illinois sts., neatly dressed. A short block away

1 asked him if there Was an elevator in the monument. “Yes, sir!” the blind newsman replied. “Take you right up to the top. Get a beautiful view of the city.”

pi » » » I LOOKED at it, and then I looked at his sightless eyes. Maybe he hadn't been blind very long.

“Have you ever seen the monument?” “Oh. no,” he said. “But I know

what it looks like because others have told me. My wife's cousin almost got the contract for putting the Goddess of Liberty on tbp. His name’s Charley Newby, and he's 92 now. . He was a contractor years ago. He was. the second lowest bidder on the statue job, He would have bid lower, but he thought he had it. " He didn't care about the money. He wanted the honor. He has always regretted he lost it.” »” = ” RAYMOND was born in southern Indiana, and came here as a young man to attend the School for the Blind. And here he met the blind girl who, became his wife. Five children were born to their union, and four of them, all grown, are living. Blind Mrs. Summers raised those

children and did all of her housework—cooking and © all-without help.

“I'm mighty proud of my wife,” Raymond said. “She’s as good a housekeeper as there is in the United States.”

bours-a day, six days a week. He comes downtown on the street car alone, and goes home alone, He has

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Blind News Vendor Great Indianapolis Booster, ’ Tells Visitor About 'Fine View’ From the Monum:

Has Four Children,

Does All Her Housework Without Help

By ELDON ROARK

blind must be one of Indianapolis”

finest citizens. Certainly he is one of the city’s best boosters. I met Raymond while out for-an early stroll. He was at his news-

2 heavy-set man with rosy .checks, was Indiana's imposing Soldiers and

Sailors Monument, the hub of downtown Indianapolis.

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been blind since he was five, and

about Indianapolis is that it's so level. blind people. - ’ Later I went to the monument, paid my quarter and rode to the top. - Its construction was started in 1887 and completed in 1901 at a cost of $600,000. It rises from the center of a terraced plaza to a

level.

The commemorate the valor and fortitude of Indiana's soldiers and sailors in all wars prior to world war L » » . WHEN THE monument was opened, the staff employed .by the state ‘to operate and maintain it was’ composed entirely of civil war

Spanish - American war veterans, whose average age is 70." So if you visit it and hear someone. talking about “the 'war,” that's the one they mean.

“Walter Henderson, white-haired elevator operator, gets —disgusted sometimes. A few days a group of high” school students rode up with him and some of them had never heard of the Spanish-American war! He" vonders what theyre teaching in high" school nowadays.

‘Smallest Midget’ Dies NEW ALBANY, Ind, May 19 (U. P.) —~Rites were planned today for Vance Swift, 31, a 34-inch midget, who . died Saturddy'. while on a vacation fishing trip with his}

family here. .He was billed as “America’s smallest man” by a midget. troupe.

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SPOTLIGHT ‘ON DARDENE ES This map wr Turke graphically. illustrates why ‘Russia. would ‘like to get its han

during” the recent war carefully Dardanelles : that: Winstoh ‘Church camouflaged air fields were set up| ill, then: first lord of the admiralty

in this region. With proper aerial{in 1915 organized the British cam-power-based on these fields, bolstér- | paign on the Gallipoli peninsula,

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‘the -land fortifications, the|which flanks the Dardanelles-on the

strategic picture would improve European side.

considerably in the defenders’ favor:

Even during world war I, when|

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"CITY BOOSTER—Blind Raymond Summets, Indianapolis ‘news

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psychology at Ohio’ State, where there are 5465 coeds, and—isn't it wonderful? — almost 20,000 single. men. ;

“By and large,” the‘ professor: remarked, professorily, “I'd say the

‘main drives, psychologically speak-

ing; are social climbing, mating and a good time. The economic factor is in-there somewhere, 100.” You girls may think you're going to college in_ order to get a’ better job. But, it seems, you ‘usually wind up by getting a guy and pushing him toward a better job, says Prof. ‘English. Most coeds at Ohio. State agree with Prof. English. Candid as most of the coeds were, quite the sincerity of a little freshnone - approached the issue with man girl who once was called on the carpet by the late President Ale fred H. Upham of Miami university because her grades were far below

| standard.

“Young ‘lady, just why did you come’ to college, anyway?” Dr, Upham ‘asked. - “Well, sir,” she answered, “I come to be went with—but I ain't, yet.”

|Erner, Armor Win Bridge Tourney Here

Winners. in the city open pair bridge tournament sponsored

were announced today.

by |! the Indianapolis Bridge association |

Coeds, Here's One. Theory On Why You're in College

Says a Man

Who Is Also a Professor

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nited Press’ Staff Correspondent +. COLUMBUS, O,, May 19.—~You oeds you can quit searching your warn? little souls "for the answer to why you're ‘in college, It's because of the ney, girle=-thoss wonderful guys in sports Jackets and slacks. | erga pido The “intellectual lite” is the incentive or only. one out of 10 girls who enroll in college, according to Prof. Horace B. English. He teaches

Plan $12 Million Expansion at N. D.

Times State Service than $12 million. ‘are being at the University of Notre Dame. hall,’ a student union building; a

Notre Dame war dead, a new library,

The Rev. John J. Cavanaugh; C. 8. C,, president of Notre Dame, expressed the-hope that construction

begin within the next year and that

They are Harold Erner Armor, first place; W. H,

and J. H. | Mile

SOUTH BEND, Ind, May 19.— {Seven new buildings costing - more

Plans include a graduate residence

liberal and fine arts building, & war|’ memorial chapel dedicated - to the

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