Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 August 1947 — Page 19

IF GOVERNOR GATES looks at the grass in the ear of the executive mansion or checks the base of She Juige beech. tree on. the aouth side of the place, my goose is cooked. Of course, I could plead mercy on the grounds that the power lawn mower ran away with me. There's an outside chance he'll just banish me from the state. My predicament came about when I heard that Ben Scott, custodian of the executive mansion, has 8 lot of work to do. Since I've never cut a governor's lawn, I volunteered my services, free. Mr. Scott, who has looked after the grounds for 10 years, naturally wanted to know if I knew my business. Sure, I did. Mr. Scott said: “You know the lawn is cut straight from the front of the house to the street and straight from the side of the house to the sides. That elimi Dates tracks.” There was no sense in telling Mr. Scott that I liked lawn’ mower tracks. They're neat. “Where's the machine?” Mr, Scott pointed to the four-car garage and said to use the old mower and confine my efforts to the backyard for the present, -

Doubts ‘New Man's’ Ability

THERE WAS a little problem of getting the mower to start. Al Otting, who was trimming one of the 300-foot long hedges, came over to see what the “new man” was doing. Mr. Ot#ing started the contraption. Mr. Scott looked at me as if he doubted my ability to cut the governor's lawn. I poured the gas to the motor, threw the clutch In and away it went. Wonderful. All you have to do is guide it. On the straightaway a man could take his hands off the handle. The machine clicked along the driveway straight towards a flower bed of peonies and marigolds. Mr. Otting's son, Eddie, and Jim Hickman, looked up from the brass doorknobs they were polishing long

"WATCH THOSE FLOWER BEDS' — Ben

Scott, custodian of the Governor's mansion, keeps

a weather eye peeled on a "new gardener"

who's mowing ‘em down.

Anzio—1947

ANZIO-NETTUNO, Italy, Aug. 28.—The soft summer breeze is trifling with the pines, and the cicadas hum lazily in the shrubs. On the beaches of Anzio a laughing group of 200 war orphans splash in the blue waters. The fishermen, squatting in the shade, are mending nets once The boats are bobbing just off-

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“shore, A tiny burro stops all traffic in the streets to

nurse his nfother. The little gafes are open, now, and the Romans have édme down to catch the breeze and duck the heat. You can see the marks of shrapnel still pocking the sides of the buildings, but at a distance little Anzio looks untouched. Only when you come close can you see that the new city is a surgeon's expert graft job—fresh white plaster molded into old gashes and rips and tears, whole houses and hunks of houses.rebuilt again.

Fields Are Green Once More

SOME OF THE fields are green once more, on the road from Anzio to Rome, green with wheat and melon and vine. But some are tangled, brown and uncultivated, even though Italy needs every inch of ground for food. These fields are marked with skull-and-crossbones. Land-mines are still planted there, cheating the soil of crop until the mines can be located and deactivated. ii Here is a tangle of barbed wire. There is a foxhole. There, another. Here, a mortar crater. Yonder’s where they dug in a jeep. Shellhole? No. They had a tank dug in there. What an odd house, undoubtedly a product of romantic Italian architecture. Its corner posts are plaster, but its wall are made of rectangular boxes which once held G. I. ammunition.

gr — Off in the distance you see the Alban hills,

blurred blue in the summer haze. They are peaceful hills, and the Pope has just left the Vatican to spend his summer holiday in the Castel Gandolfo. It is quiet and cool in the Alban hills today, and from their summit a man can lgok directly down at the beaches of Anzio-Nettuno,

Colman’s Secret

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 28—Linda Darnell, back from that European vacation, now will have to make up her mind about hubby Pev Marley. She told me three months ago that the vacation was a trial separation. They'll now decide whether to remain together, or call it a day.

Separation of Cornel Wilde and Pat Knight left the manager of the Cape Playhouse at Dennis, Mass., in a very embarrassing situation. Cornel and Pat were slated to co-star at Dennis next month in a play. Immediately after the separation, they called it off. They come and they go fast in Hollywood. I once figured it all out. An option drops every three and one-quarter minutes, stardom lasts only seven years, every third person in movietown has an ulcer from/worrying.

Kiss of Death

RONALD COLMAN told me he doesn't worry. Maybe that's the answer to his lohg record as a romantic star—24 years. “The White Sister” first made the ladies’ hearts skip a beat over him in 1023. His film this year is “A Double Life.” He's playi #8 Bhakespearean star who goes a little crazy an tries the Othello kiss of death routine on a waitress who is in love with him. Tt works. The girl dies and the police track him down. I hope it doesn't start an epidemic of women wanting to be kissed to death by Ronald Colman.

Inside Indianapolis

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enough to shout a word of warning. The warning was appreciated but there wasn't a thing to worry about. Right in front of the flower bed is an | PAGE 19 pipe which stopped the mower. This is a ror!

age but you can't beat a hand lawn mower for safety. | v On the way back to the garage the machine he haved better and it was under perfect control. grass fairly flew into the air.

The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1947

“How am I doing?” I asked Mr. Scott.

“Stay away from the flower beds, trees and espect- or ally from that Chinese raintree near the hedge," called Mr, Scott. Yes sir,

Everyone went about their business. Mr, Scott clipped the shrubbery on the south-side-of the house! where I was in full view. Everything was going fine until a beech tree got into the way. What should have been a close shave turned out to be a direct hit. Lucky beech trees don't bend. After the lawn mower was put away in the garage and I convinced Mr. Scott that my intentions were only the best, he handed me a rake and pointed to the front lawn. “I'd rather hoe in flower beds,” I said. Mr, Scott with a true caretaker’s concern for beauty, walked with me to the front lawn before he went back to his shrubbery, He mentioned that in the fall leaves tumble down about as fast as they're raked. Mr. Scott didn't think much of my suggestion to dig up all the maples, elms and beeches and plant some more blue cedars. Raking leaves isn't bad. First you go to the garage for a drink of water, then you play with “Sheeta,” the governor's friendly Boston bull dog. After that you watch the cars roll along Meridian st. When a car with an out of state license plate goes by you get tha man-of-distinction look and try to! make the people think you own the place. Eddie Otting came around the bend of the drive- | Way sweeping leaves. “How often do you do that?”

Wearing Out 5th Broom EDDIE said the job of sweeping the driveways never ends. Since the first of June he has worn out | four brooms. Before school opens he expects to wear | out a fifth. Mr. Scott came over and I asked how I was doing | as a leaf-raker, | “You're doing all right except you're a little Slow,” | he answered. “There's an awful lot of grass h snappy comeback. “Three acres is all,” . Scott said. Mr. Otting turned Me. underground sprinkling] system on. “Can someone finish raking the leaves while 1 watch the water?” Mr. Scott, a patient and understanding man, said it could probably be arranged. After all, isn't a Job half done better than not at all? Everyone should have an underground sprinkling] system. It beats a water hose all to blazes. Makes a | good setup for hot days, too. My last question was about the grass I had started | to cut and didn't finish and the beech tree. Mr. | Scott smiled, patted me on the shoulder and said not! to worry. The grass would be cut tomorrow an Pee cw has wou! tow dis. a bel GROOMED FOR SALE-— A special night is set aside each fall at the Lexington, . Talk in the future tense is okay but what happens’ Ky., sale for horses from Two Gaits. Leo Jr. and Ed McNamara (left and center), sons i e governor finds out? . TD rE uile=like sending them wo ot the owner, check a filly groomed by Leo “Rily (right). Ohio, maybe? 22

— MeNamar Family Has Ready “Supply

Of Top Breed Stock in Hamilton County |Namara took him back. The Me

By VICTOR PETERSON Namaras raced him, and as a twoHOOSIERLAND, ONE of the nation's hot spots for harness horse yao, oid he won a gross of ab®ut!} “ . . ,,| racing, has a ready supply of top breed stock right in the state. They were looking down our throats in '44, too, Just north of Indianapolis in Hamilton county is Two Gaits farm, $26,000, at that time a world record Ie Johuny Chioda, Scranton, Pa. said. “Jerry| owned and operated by Leo McNamara and his sons, jn earnings for a pacer of that age. ad all the guns In the world on those hills. All The world’s second largest producer of harness race horses, the | Today True Chief has been res

Say 30d all Vigne hed shel, Wg came here for {farm currently is booming as inferest continues to mount over I horse tired to stud. say mon land rig races. Always a good busi- ~~" —

“You never saw traffic move so fast as it moved ous times, recent] Each year at Lexington, Two | Other top stallions at stud Inon these streets. You ride past an MP and look I ta Eo unusually high; Gaits farm has a special night set clude Ohief Abbedale, Victorious back and a shell lights and there ain't any more|gtakes has given the trade a strong aside for the sale of its stock alone. | {Hal, Brown Prince, Colby Hanover MP. Everything was dug in. I was a sergeant shot in the arm. A total of 48 head were sold last and Scotland's Comet who still in the public relations then and for the first day| . 2 {year for more than $100,000. holds five vols Jeoordt: N or so we set up shop on dock. SUCCESS a follow the first! A higher sale average Is expected] ons Now aip) gl 1 c mare “Everythi s dug in. , Roa : Sept, 29 when Two Gaits' stock goes On the farm are: . omas, erything was dug The jeeps dug in. The year the farm was established on ~~ Fo" © 0 © 00 Fo Lotly 50 Jr, Richard and Michael. The tanks dug in. Even the dogs dug in. We hadda'a modest scale in 1934. Mr. Mc- ini are bein . roomed for Yi others, James, John, Joseph and refuse to let some nurses stay in the correspondents’ Namara originally was going to [*40 & BORE ETO Robert, also have put in a stint or| Of the hundreds reared on the farm § since establishment villa one night, account of a rule which said no!desl in heavy European stock. [1% d o McN d five ' more. in 1934, mixed company, and the next day two of the three, Purchases of foreign stock, trans- esides Mr. McNamara and five

f nine sons actively engaged on| _- were dead and the other is wounded. d sale changed oe w mind Jodie ang ves 85 the farm, there are 15 employees. Roark's Travels—

HOME OF CHAMPIONS — Two Gaits farm near Carmel, wind, ; is the second largest breeder of harness race horses in the world.

START OF BUSINESS — Hal Dale was the first stud obtained by Two Gaits farm. He is the sire of 126 horses which have attained records.

RECORD HOLDER — Leo McNamara, ‘owner of Two Gaits, holds one of his prize studs, Scotlands Comet, who still holds five world marks.

| THE BUYER later rejected the| § {horse for this reason and Mr, Mc~| §

By Robert C. Ruark

TYPICAL SCENE — These yearlings are but a few

‘Nine Thousand Guys’ | There are seven homes for fam"WE FINALLY spread out and start for Rome, , Aunst the advice of experienced is ot hein. "| 2(000-Y ear-Old Redwood Forest i in n West

Accomm d tions and the GI out front goes to sleep and when he , jg.year-old pacer, Hal AL

Dale, a3 glude two stallion barns, a ering wakes up he finds a Jerry in his foxhole with him. ; gialijon to head the pacing di- filly barn, yearling colt barn, s Plays Host fo 1500 Visi ors Daily aH You see. what was left > those Jarmiioires = the | vision of a breeding farm. {barns with 124 box stalls and 0 way up? The reason there isn't anything left i5| A good racer in.his own right, breeding building. Several other thing, and then they insist on because there was a Kraut mortar or machine- -gun set Hal Dale did not have much of a ‘barns and tenant homes are under! One Tree Has Diameter of 17 Feet; Fire nger doing it,” says Mr. Potts. up in all of them. This was supposed to be the great record as a sire of top stock. | egnstruction, Bars Campers in 424-Acre Tract There are good hiking trails in By ELDON ROARK, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer the area. One of them crosses and MUIR WOODS NATIONAL MONUMENT, Cal! Aug. 28.—This virgin

strategic move of the Italian campaign.” But his confirmation and blood . 2a Lt. Chioda, who is still on active duty in Italy, lines were good. He proved to be TODAY the McNamara’s have! recrosses Redwood creek. But the d tes: |2DOUt 225 head, of which some 100 forest of redwoods has about 1500 visitors a day during the vacation footlogs are the kind I've always |has produced the second greatest gro for breeding purposes only, The | season.

spoke to the driver. We drove through the twin-city|a sound buy for today Hal Dale! of Nettuno, and out into the country. |dreamed of—five or six feet in diher a xz WS Saying tL Phists Jaid, hii landing | number of record performers in the oihers are yearlings and weanlings | The tress liere are about 3000 years old. and ‘ave Known. as , |ameter. re soing ng the a a and—on. There" . die | hich will go on sale, redwoods—not to be confused with the giant sequoias which grow] Ranger Potts ye Ju Bhs nave You are. ' | AT THE LEXINGTON, KY. fali| Besides their own, however, out- at high altitudes in the Sierras. The redwoods attain greater heights }°00 i b uly oe _ op _ intes The crosses were primly arranged, so that any sale last year, offspring of Hal Dale FE en Aue suipad i iin] the sequoias, but not so much always bring their visitors, says that defies everybody. way yoy Jocked they Mads 3 Pimisht row, The sold at more than $4000 each. son 208 such us boarded, The tallest living Shing in the Ranger W, D. Potts, y » 0» rass between as - 5 ST 3 YT. Jromn, Sng Js Share| |and bred at the farm. They came world is a redwood—364 feet. It is

: ag t halisstall Bes - hae No camping is permitted in the] AND NOW for a few odds and can liag ung at hall-sta ore the neat w 424-acre tract, and no one is. al- ends: Although Petaluma, Cal, is overseers’ house. A sign said that 1t was forbidden GTOW-Bar Frees Irom-20 States and Catiata. not in this forest, however. The|, Lod” s vomain in it after dark|“The World's Egg Basket,” we didn't While the farm is filled with fine tallest here is 246 feet, and the Fire is the great fear. Between find eggs any cheaper there—81

to take photographs of individual graves. | Cc . “Nine thousand guys,” said Johnny Chiods. “Nine \«UFIOUS Boy Borger, the MeNamar §ve up largest in diameter is 17 feet, 150 and 200 years ago fire swept cents a doen. And speaking of | Curious to see five pups, 11-year- QDE years ago ey, lee Jus a nn through here and killed many trees Petaluma, the W. C, T. U, has »

thousand guys.” { {wouldn't look right for a dealer to 4 TT — a Curtis Henderson, 1314 Yandes race horses against men r to WHEN PEOPLE elsewhere Aland damaged others, They couldn't drinking fountain in the heart of broiling in heat waves, the picnick-|survive another bad one, [the business section.

, got stuck yesterday under the bought from them. b ers Hers are frolicking. in Jackets) “. vu In crossing Colorado, Utah and By Erskine Johnson tron Pore of lus home. Before they retired from the rac- | ONCE IN A WHILE the rangers Nevada, we drove on Highway

He crawled through a hole in the ing fleld, however, honest business and sweaters, It's always cool In| | |catch people who are trying to| Much construction work is concrete block foundation, but was! practice gave them one hei The girl is a film newcomer, Shelley Winters.\unahje to return after visiting the | top stallions, of, Sr us dternal inde, [spend the night in the Svaeds, “Tell done .on i, and the going 48 In her first kissing scene with Colman, she couldn’t|g, — canine family. Police True Chief was sold for $1700 m! This is where San Franciscans some people they can't do some- ¥ough in Jiaces. Buin also seem to get it right. They ran through it for six jhad to use a crow-bar and enlarge 1942 with a veterinary's statement | ) rot : 3

fakes, minally Director George Cukor stormed: | [the hole to release young Hender- that a spot in his left eye from an! Packing of Bomber Plant hl ae =n elley, what's the mater with you today? linjury would not hurt his sight. : Shelley blinked a very pretty pair of eyes and said: WE ENTERED Califoinis at Lake

“Mr. Cukor, I've be iti si I Tahoe, and it is as blue and besuEn hr ee we fe Tvs Comival—ty Dick Turner Machinery Halted Suddenly r= «ss vue sot wae you think I'm in a hurry to finish this scene, you're i. 2000 Civilians Lose Jobs on Secret Orders; | California inspectors looked through Deny High Pay Protest Brought Closing #

crazy.” r baggage to make sure that we weren't bringing in any plant Gag Man -r \N © | I GERALD L. FREEMAN, United Press Staff Correspondent OMAHA, Neb. Aug. 28.—More than 2000 civilian machinery pack- California industries,” the head in-

3 OYSTER in a bowl of soup once displayed its Tou hear Noous the Hokies Wie contempt for a screen comic by stealing a cracker off | | ers at Pt. Crook were without jobs today after an officer, acting on spector said, “but we are stil an his spoon and then squirting him in the eye. The| | secret orders from the war department, closed the plant without agricultural state. And we already comedian was one of the Three Stooges and the) | notice or explanation, {have enough pests of our own.” ‘oyster” was Ray Hunt. The men were employed at the Martin bomber plant packing and | preserving machinery used to build planes during the war, ar. The n ma-

Ray, a pfop man of the Mack Sennett school, is I the pearl in the oyster for Hollywood's slapstick —————————————— er WwW D {chinery was the property of the | | amry air forces. | Rep. Howard Buffett (R. Ne (R. Neb.) | ie AY

comedians. Ray's specialty is physical gags, and| he's got a million of om. like Tus latest or 3 Hany] | ®ral Wurtz of Omaha, an em- recently complained that the Chi-| Von Zell comedy, “Radio Romeo.” It's a fountain ployee at the plant, said the men cago concern was compefing “un-| pen that squirts whipped cream all over the set. |! | were told to stop work immediately fairly” with local industry in the| lat about 3:30 p. m. (Indimnapolis labor market by offering wages,

“I've got a million gadgets,” says Ray. “I've got | | everything in my prop box from a needle to a bat- | time) . yesterday. higher than those prevailing in| | “We all dropped whatever we Omaha.

tleship.” | were doing and went to wash up,’| Rep. Buffett sald that several {Mr. Wurtz said. “We left some of|local business groups had com|the machines only partly crated. (plained that men were leaving jobs| ds Bre

Ray mixes his own pies for pie-throwing scenes. | | He prefers a light crust filled with flour, whipped “After we changed clothes, we in factories Here to take . better lwere told to line up to receive our paying work st the Pt. Crook plant. |

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cream and a can of blackberries. “It makes just the right kind of a mess. Those pies you buy don’t splatter right.” pay. We left immediately after| Lt. Col. Walker sald, however, | * JHE'S A being paid. As soon as the last when he ordered the cloing that) CLOSE Fo man was out, they locked the doors, the action “had no connection with | OF THE

Dividend Widow of Judge Landis Dies in Chicago at 75 They paid us to closing time yes-|local squabbles.”

p & L CHICAGO, Aug. 28 (U. P.).—Mrs, he ” .

Lt. Col. BE. 8. Walker, who flew Busi Hi to Omaha from Wright field at| ysiness Loans t

Dayton, O., to close the plant, said New Peak for Week he was not permitted to make any| WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (U, P).! statement concerning the action. |--Business loans rose to a new peak | Officers at Ft. Crook said there of $12,301;000,000 in the week aire | was “something big” behind the Aug. 20, according to the federal re- | 3) action but refused to reveal any-|serve thing further. Such loans—commercial, irdus-| The men, mostly from Omaha trial and agricultural and vicinity, were employed by the ) Movers, Inc, a Chicago firm in charge of packing f+ (and erating the machinery for pos