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Inside Indianapolis
By Ed Sovola
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GRUNTIN', GROANIN' AND A growlin’
Pasha, poor of Pasha. Those were the words that rolled around in my
| Moggin when I went to see grappler Ali Pasha, “The
Frustrated Hindu” My tune changed considerably in’ his presence. The" bearded exponent of the *Cobra-hold” seemed to be in a bad humor. _ Diplomatically, I asked if he still was fretting about losing to Billy. Raburn Tuesday night at the Sports Arena. Pasha shook his head. He said Allah didnt wilP for a win. “I pray hard for win and rassle hard but it do no
good,” Pasha explained. “I in no bad humor.” That's good, Pash. % “Say, Pasha,” I said. “How about showing me a
few wrestling holds?"
Go to Sports Arena
“'PASHA SAID HE'D be glad to show me some nolds, even this Cobra-hold, but not in the Hotel Washington. Would I mind taking a little walk to the Sports Arena? “Great idea, Pasha. Maybe I can work out with you for awhile.” * Pasha took off his red fez and ran his hand across a smooth scalp. “You are not very beeg fellow,” said Pasha. ean get hurt maybe.” 1 convinced him that I had wrestled in high school (99-pound class) and knew a few tricks in the manly art of wrestling. “We won't get rough “Let's go.” We put on trunks at the Arena and climbed into the ring. The fresh air and the sun felt good on my body. Energy was fairly dripping out of my pores. I gave Pash a routine in footwork. “You want to dance or rassle?” What a sense of
“You
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humor. And me' with my best footwork showing. “Just limbering up, Pasha.
Just limbering up.
REMEMBER, THIS IS FOR FUN—AIi Pasha
demonstrates a headlock and shows what hap-
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On guard ow, I'm maving in. But when I holler you let go.”
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I grabbed his right = A maneuver I learned h high school. , Grabbing is one thing and holding on| is another, You know, Pasha is pretty strong. You might say fast, too. Suddenly T found myself -being choked to nt How. he got a head lock on me I'll never know,
. yo ' ¥ Getting Too Rough w I MANAGED to remind him that we were only playing and would he Please refrain from breaking my neck, “Sorry,” said Pasha. “You're neck ees so skeeny."’ “0. K. Let's not make it skinnier.” | Just to make things even 1 suggested that 1 get | a headlock on him. He agreed. “Hold tight and watch out for my Cobra-hold,” cautioned Pasha. Tut-tut, oh, bearded one. Before we go on with the story I better explain about Pasha's head and neck. His head is bald and slippery. Hard to hold. His neck must be a good size 35 (Pasha says 18) and short. I could have held on to Pasha's head if he'd stood still but he didn't. I steered clear of his beard. He flatly told me he doesn’t like to have his beard pulled. So, we come to the Copra-hold. Pasha had me in it. Little lights began to sparkle and the Arena became ‘a blur. 'I called for my reserve strength. The reserves weren't mobilized that afternoon. “PASHA —don’t forget we're only fooling.” * “1 know. Dees eesn't mach pressure. See?” “PASHA let go." Then he got the brilliant idea of showing me a trick in self-defense. 1 was to try and slug him with my right hand. He'd show me the rest of the trick, After the Cobra-hold, it would be a pleasure to slug Pasha. My right fist started for the end of his beard. Pasha clipped my wrist with his left hand and moved in “queeck.” Before I could say “Pasha” he had me bent over and was explaining that he could either break my arm at the elbow or break my shoulder. What a choice,
Wants Something Flashy “DON'T YOU HAV somethiuig flashy to show | me?” I asked after my arm was back in the socket. | Pasha said the airplane spin was pretty flashy. Of course, I wanted to know right away whether or! not he could lift me. That was a mistake He threw me across his ‘shoulders as if 1 were a sack of old rags and begah spinning “Pasha, you better come out of that spin. landing gear isn’t’ working today.” { He said he had no intention of throwing me. | That's good but it never hurts to make sure. We went into a lecture session. .Pasha said there were 330 different kinds of holds in wrestling. He also explained that you should never look a man in the eyes during a tussle. | “Watch the feet and hands,” Pasha said. “The head has nothing to do in wrestling except to figure things out.” Pasha had a special hold he wanted to show me for the windup. It's called the Boston crab. “That's a good hold, yes. I could breek your! back weeth it, easy.” I told Pasha that I'd take his word for it. A broken back, even if it were done easily, stil] doesn't
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pens when you stick your netk out, appeal to me. Pasha said he understood. — mneman—. Legal Marathon By John M. Anspacher ’ of a NUERNBERG, Aug. 8—The Nuernberg legal mara- children. The city where the Nazis once paraded
thon rolls on and on and on. And what it's costing the American taxpayer nobody seems to know. At least, no one here seems to want to make an estimate: Two years ago today in the London agreement, the four conquerers of Germany agreed to track down and punish Hitler's war criminals. In the American sone, there's still no end in sight. Six major trials, topped by the international session against the late Hermann Goering and asso-
* ciates, have been completed or are under way at
Nuernberg. The U, 8. army, meanwhile, is holding separate trials for concentration camp atrocity cases at Dauchau.
No End Seems in Sight
THERE ARE AT least a dozen trials pending at Nuernberg. Some veteran trial officials admit privately that there seems to be no end in sight. What the U. 8S. treasury has paid out a, ady and what the eventual bill may be appear be secrets. But here's some idea of what the American taxpayer is supporting at Nuernberg alone: Assigned to the palace of justice are 800 military and civilian personnel, .Only 75 are soldiers and a few are officers. The bulk are judges and attorneys each drawing between $8000 and $10,000 a year. The Nuernberg setup has assumed an air of importance. Attorneys, researchers, secretaries and adminstrators have i"settled down” in requisitioned German homes. Some have married here and have
their might is full of American-made automobiles— many of them the latest models. Strange, but true, the happiest men in town are the defendants and their attorneys. Reconciled to court action, most of the defendants are taking imprisonment philosophically and prefer to be tried at Nuernberg than elsewhere in Germany.
Feel Prestige Is Heightened
FOR DEFENSE ATTORNEYS, means an extra food and extra tobacco ration. Also,! they feel their prestige has been heightened by approval to appear before “a high American tribunal.” Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor estimates that ==ore than 200 Nazi “big shots” will have been brought to trial | before the Nuernberg cases close. | When the international tribunal Oct. 1, the United States launched immediately a program of These began with the trial of '23 Nazi doctors! and scientists accused of inhumane treatment of concentration camp internees. After eight ‘months, this trial has just ended, and within 10 days verdicts and sentences will be announced. . Later will come the trial of 24 leading directors of the 1. G. Farben cartel. The American trials are only part of the overall | legal marathon. Each of the other signatories to the| London agreement—Russia, Britain and Prance—is| deeply involved in its own war crimes trials.
A U.S. Rooter
By Deborah Kerr
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 8.—I was surprised when I was invited to write this column for Erskine Johnson. Surprised, but pleased! Somehow I've never fancied myself as a columnist, but like most everyone else, I've always thought it would be fun to try it just once. As a matter of fact, life has been full of surprises for me since 1 arrived in California six months ago. The first stirprise came when I learned that actually there is no such town as Hollywood. All my life I had been hearing stories about America's famous movie capital. It came as something of a shock to discover that. really it's just a small part of the sprawling metropolis known as Los Angeles, I've learned, however, that Hollywood is very definitely a place. It's a place where things are done on a grander scale than most anywhere else in the world. The studios themselves are a great deal larger than the ones I had been used to in England.
Fast Moving HOLLYWOOD, IS A place, too, where they don't believe in wasting time, Exactly two weeks after I stepped ashore from the Queen Elizabeth in New York City, a very excited young actress, 1 was playing “ a romantic scene with Clark Gable. That's fast moving for any girl! It’s a place where everyone goes out of his or her way to be helpful to a stranger. I had that brought
home to me rather amusingly while I was making my test with Mr. Gable for “The Hucksters.” I was very nervous, even though Gable himself
We, the Women
at least 30 years of happy marriage behind her, will sit, down and write a book called “How to Manage
8 Man Without Nagging." It will be a best seller, Because wives don't really want to nag. Contrary
of * fo the masculine belief, the tendency to nag isnt part
of woman's nature. The woman who nags her ‘husband sad children just doesn't know any better alicia te Suing shew: 16 do ME Coins she Tos must’ be done.
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(While Erskine Johnson is on vacation, outstanding Hollywood personalities are pinch-hitting for him.)
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did everything in his power to put me at ease, Nevertheless, when the scene was completed I was certain I had failed. I remember I was in my dressing room feelipg’ nice and miserable all by myself, The wardrebe girl happened to walk in. She saw how dejected I was. “Never mind, dearie,” she said, “even if you don’t get the part, it was worth traveling -the 5000 miles just to get kissed by Mr. Gable.” I couldn't feel nervous after that.
Buy Home HOLLYWOOD is a place, too, where I hope to spend a great deal of time in the future, I expect to make frequent trips to England because that, after all, is where my roots are. And I have friends and family there who mean the world to me. But I am part of the motion picture business and I like the fact that life in Hollywood revolves .about the movies. 1 like movie people and I enjoy being with them. My hushand, Tony Bartley, and I have just recently purchased a home that stands high on a cliff and looks out over the Pacific ocean, We would consider it ideal if our lives could be adjusted so that it would be possible for us to spend six months of each year here and six months in England.
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Girls Like Marsha Thacker Keep Telephone Lines Humming Here
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TELEPHONE GIRL—Miss Marsha Thacker, one of 750 long distance telephone operators of the Indiana Bell-Telephone Co. here, reports for duty at the main office as she has done diy! for four years. Her day starts at 7 a. m.
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WOMAN AT WORK—At this switchboard, Miss REST PERIOD—AL 9 a. Thacker helps to handle 17,000 outgoing long distance calls that clear through office daily. From this board
she frequently handles ship-to-shore and overseas calls.
And before I begin sounding, like a chamber of | EE
commerce spokesman I shall] remark simply that Hollywood is probably the only place in the world where an actress would be asked to write a column. If I want to be invited back I'd better wind this up by giving thanks that I've been able to get this far at all .
By Ruth Millett
She doesn't understand masculine psychology enough to see that men resentfully put off doing anything they keep being reminded of, and that they take no pride in a job they've been nagged into,
Non-Nag Notions SMARTER WOMEN employ all kinds of tricks to avoid nagging, They figure out a way to make a man himself decide that a job has to be done, instead ‘of nagging him into doing it. Or they use goodnatured kidding to get him at it. If they are stymied long enough they may just go ahead and hire someone to do the job.
PHOTOS BY HENRY GLESING, TIMES STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER CHECK IN—Returning from rest period, Miss Thacker checks in with Mrs. Iris Brown, ring operator, for assignment. Girls do not always work at same switchboard:
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from her duties, usually stepping into company snack bar and then going to lounge room for few minutes relaxation. nick, Jean Cummings, Miss Thacker and Kethigen Howell
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dulges in her favorite summertime recreation, -a ‘sunbath at Broad : Ripple swimming pool. Lo
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TOOLS OF TRADEToking the elevator to the fifth ‘floor, Miss Thacker gets her own special headset before toparting to duty on the sixth floor.
m..and 2p. m., Miss Thacker takes a’ |5-minute ' ‘break’ '
In photo above are (left to right): Jeanine Kin-
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Roark’s Travels—
By ELDON ROARK, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer women's track and field events, DENVER, Aug. 8~Mrs, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, the golf cham-| It was in Dallas that she became pion and all-round athlete, doesn’t go in for any special training. an all-American basketball player, Bhe eats anything she wants and as much as she wants. She| She was a golf professional four doesn’t go for sweets much because she just doesn’t like them. years before she got reinstated as an She hasn't any set hour for going to bed and for getting up. “When amateur and went on to win every I'm in competiton I just get all the sleep I can” major title, iricluding the U. 8. and British; She isn't sure just what to
— is all right, leave air Port Arthur, Tex., of Norwegian ex-|aim at now. nit: traction. She went to high school in PT
: Beaumont and started playing bas-| SHE LIKES pretty things and Some of her women friends here |kethall, but her athletic career be-|uses cosmetics—got. about $150
The woman who ‘never nags her family doesn't] necessarily have a better disposition than her nagging sisters. vi Lido fi roi
shoot about 110, but she- likes 10 gan when she moved to Dallas. It worth"—and she doesn't. wear manpiay with them. That's when She was from there that she went to the nish: clothes. - relazes, - . | Olympics at Los Angeles in 1932 and| Her 300-pound husband. George, MRE. ZAHARIAS ‘was born in won international in Whe we an enthusiastic goiter even beck
Babe Didrikson Zaharias Worked Hard to Regain Amateur Status
in his wrestling days. He met Babe |property in California. Mrs. Zaat an open tournament in Los harias would concentrate on her Angeles in 1038 when they were|golf. She quit the pro game bepaired together. They hit it off ascause most of the women's pig tourid i Sowh the ais ways, sittehs naments are for amateurs. stroke for George finally reinstated beat her by one stroke. a oa ne On Dec, 33 of that same year they years. That was tough, because she
were married in'St. Louis. Then loves and they went Australia, where | “The the ger But they
WHEN THEY RETURNED {o this they, wanted. {eountry, George decided to hang-up| “A now we his trunks, and become a wrestling {what we set omoL:. He owned considerabie smiling