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YOU'RE GOING to the opening of the state

fair today. By the way, how much walking do you plan to do? Oh, you want to see the whole works. That's fine. You're talking right up my alley be~ cause I can let you in on a few vital statistics about distance

In order not to frighten you away from the biggest show in Hoosierland, I'll tell you right now that if you plan to see all there is to be seen, you'll have. to walk approximately nine and a quarter ‘miles Surprised? hb ' The figure nihe and a quarter miles comes to you exclusively by way of my pedometer and my sturdy size 11 feet. (A pedometer is*a watch-like contraption you hang on your belt which measures distance as you walk. Don't ask me how it works. All I know is every time you take a step something clicks inside and if you take enough steps you wind up with a figure like nine and a quarter.) All right, let's go to the state fair. I took a streetcar and got off in front of the 38th st. entrance which leads directly between the cattle barn and the show horse barn. y With my pedometer firmly fastened on my belt I headed for the administration building for a map of the grounds. This took 345 steps. I counted the steps just for curiosity and because the pedometer doesn’t register such infinitesmal distances. It is marked in quarter miles.

Grandstand’s a Popular Place

FROM THE administration building my direction was east to the farm bureau and the Indiana uni= versity building. Since my main objective was to measure distance, I casually inspected the displays. The grandstand is a popular place at the fair, Bo, it got the full treatment. From the entrance to the very top of the stands it takes 314 steps. Of course, you may have better seats for the races and

a . is END OF THE ROAD—A cool drink and an aching foot in the breeze is testimony there's a lot to be seen at the state fair if you walk nine and a quarter miles,

Villa Virtue

NETTUNO, Italy, Aug. 20. — The Villa Vice is stuck on the side of the hill on the waterfront, like a dab of mud on a steep curbstone. It is a house of half a dozen stories, about three above ground and the rest below the protecting brow of the hill, I thought maybe that it would please Ernie Pyle to

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know that all is serene with the Villa Vice, because

that's where Ernie got his greatest fright during the war, Anything that hgppened afterward was anticlimax to Ernie, including his 1000-to-1 shot death on Ie Shima, When they first set up the Anzio-Nettuno beachhead, they shoved the correspondents and the PRO officers and men into a house on the townside portion of Nettuno, The shells hissed over all day, and the bombs dropped all night, and the boys felt pretty naked. So they moved them down to the Villa Vice, which was at least half protected by a hillside.

From Vice to ViNure THE VILLA VICE was named the Villa Vice because of some of the habits of the visiting journalistic prodigies, which included the drinking of whisky and the thinking of evil thoughts. This title, however, was too ribald for such a pure organization as the 5th army, so it was changed to “Villa Virtue,” which probably was more in keeping with the actual character of the sharecroppers who dwelled therein. In the Villa Vice lived a dozen or so correspondents with the necessary complement of public relations officers. On a 24-hour basis, there probably has never been a more uneasy coterie of literary lights, All night long the hombers came over, laying a pattern of eggs up and down the town, and the shells of these eggs spattered -anfd plunked against the correspondents’ hidey-hole. You can imagine

Movie Pests

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 29.—Judy Garland, getting back. her health in a sanitarium in Maine, almost had a relapse after reading that Ann Miller would replage her in M-G-M's “Easter Parade.” After half a dozen hot coast-to-coast telephone calls, the studio succeeded in quieting her down. It was all a mistake. Judy, not Ann, will co-star with Gene Kelly in the picture. Judy returns to Hollywood Oct. 1. Tyrone Power, 1 hear, isn't too anxious now about marrying Lana Turner and has told her so. The reason for hig Africa trip may be so the lady will finda new romantic interest. Ty is hoping absence doesn’t make the heart grow fonder, Those movie pests are with us again, A Los Angeles movie-goer just wrote a letter to the manager of her favirite theater. She sent me a copy. It reads: “Dear Sir: . “We go to the theater to see the picture and listen to the accompanying dialog. We buy loge seats because it is quiet, or has been, up to now.

Make Plenty of Noise :

“NOW THE yokels who eat the popcorn, smack their lips at every bite, rattle the kind of waxed bags YOU sell them, and who talk and blabber during the picture, have invaded the loge section. . *Will you please do one of these two, things: “1. Sell these hungry peasants only raisins or

Meet the Answer Man

NEW YORK, Aug, 29.—Louis Klein hasn't quite made up his mind, but he may button his lip and refuse to answer strangers’ questions today. “It's kinda an anniversary,” Louis ‘said, staring

moodily across the green tof of his news-stand at

unbrushed. early-morning Broadway. “I'm here 20 years and I figured last night, at. 500 a day, I've an-

the number won't be quite as high. a As I steamed past the radio center toward the race horse barns my pedometer registered a half mile. It clicked beautifully as I went in and out of the

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SERRE New Army ‘Career’ Plan Offers

not doing the fair halfway. * Looking south at the full panorama of the fair

| ¥. . - n across the track is a mighty impressive sight. You Pro moti Oo n h Yo u h must try it. Don’t miss seeing the forest by just look~ : ! ing at the trees. | ! : x i

The new 'tunne! came into sight. Why not g've it, . a whirl? From end .to end, stairways and all, it took 441 stéps and I was back at the I. U, building. I furned west and gave the Purdue building the full treatment. Then the agriculture and horticulture building resounded to the patter of my pounding feet. You may not take in the whole midway but if you do it will require 1077 steps. That's the works. By that time my pedometer showed three and a quarter miles. * From the midway I pointed the pedometer toward the youth blilding. To cover all exhibfs it took me 450 steps. Up and back in the auditorivm on the second floor, 90 steps. The poultry building with its thousands of potential drumsticks was next, I was hitting four miles about that time. You won't want to miss the. conservation depart ment exhibit. You might even going up the fory est fire observation tower. You do that on your own. My dogs were just starting to bark then. After walking around all the displays in the woman's building, it Sook 788 steps, my pedometer! pointed to five and a half miles. « The manufacturers building is a sight for sore eves. It takes 651 steps to see a lot of things you'd like to have. Oh well. A thorough job on the cattle barn, every aisle,’ there are six, took 1632 steps. There's a lot of steak thar. | The show horse barn is a pick-me-up for sore feet. How you wish you had a horse under you as you pound out 550. steps. The pedometer keeps click=| ing away and shows the surprising figure of seven and three-quarter miles, Didn't think you could walk so far, did you? {

Overlooked a Few Exhibits |

ALL AROUND the Coliseum on the inside and up T= to row J in section 14 takes 352 steps. Again I say you might cut that down if you're in the front row. To see all there is to see of the sheep and swine

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of ‘stamina you'd like to have you go over to the draft horse barn and take 512 more steps. I thought I was through but a check on my map showed: that the. first aid station, state board of health exhibit and the state police headquarters were overlooked.

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Enlistee Can Climb From Private to Master

Sergeant in Minimum of Five Years

With longing eves turned toward every concessipn| By LOUIS ARMSTRONG class, senior sergeants and maXter stand and something col@ to drink, I shuffled to the! Personnel of Indianapolis army sergeants. exhibits. Fortunately it didn't take long to take recruiting station have a new sell- Advancement will be determined them in. ing point they think is a winner. (by tests, For example a corporal,’ When I finally sat down my pedometer registered, It is based on the army's new following the required time in grade, nine and a quarter miles. My feet registered about “career guidance plan” which: has will be permitted to take technical a 180 degrees. received approval of various en- proficiency test for sergeant. If he Was it worth the effort? I'm going back listed men's boards throughout the passes he adds a stripe. } tomorrow-—-no kidding. country. When a man reaches the grade : { It is a plan, scheduled to go into of sergeant 1st class he may take A m————— affect March 1, in which a man test for commission in the officers {can work up from private to master reserve corps. If he passes he resergeant in a minimum of five ceives a reserve commission without years by passing the required ex- attending officer candidate school. aminations, « . | Warrant Officers Ranked

| that this contributed little mood music to the busi- | Can Climb Higher variant fice grades IEludé ness of typing dispatches because correspondents are | + But the “career” doesn't stop class. senior Warrant officer ahd} very sensitive people, | there. Ahead will be four warrant chief warrant officer. Pay corre“We were scared all day long and all night long,” | officer grades instead of the pres- sponds to the ‘Arst Your ratiks “of says Lt, Johnny Chioda, who was a sergeant then ent two and easier access to the commissioned officers 50 that al and who was kind enough to escort me to the scene.| commissioned ranks, : “It wasn't a panicky sort of fright, but a sort of con-| Capt, Joe C. Tyler, head of the the pay of a major stant jitters. We were sitting there playing type-! station, outlined the plan: Since the local station opened writers instead of guns. ¥ mean, you're doing all of| The war department is com- ic mee in Sept. 1045, it has en! the catching without pitching. . | pleting a new analysis of all job listed a total of 3970 en for the! Brandy Incentive ro. Ty on # army. Tis best month was Nov. 1045 “COUPLE OF THE boys drank a, little bit. One will receive equal pay. hen #1 men wero enigied. Je of them couldn't write—he:said—without a jug of | Technical ratings will be a Was ay yp 5 Year brandy beside him, but once he had his jug he did abolished and a new serjes of chey- Ren r were eeu! ‘tot hee a more work than anybody else. Used to turn in six rons will carry an emblem for each li Se Tees ng o Ts A pieces while the other guys turned in one or two. But job field. jim each month,

i Personnel of tHe station include Jgstly We Worked While, we.wajlen. if You know What Four Sergeant Grades |three officers, 25 enlisted men and

Bob Vermilion of the U. P. and Ernie and Wick Sergeants will be renamed. Therg one civilian who think the army is Fowler of the Dallas News were snoring happily one: Will be sergeants, sergeants 1st good enough for any man. morning about 7 o'clock when a Jerry bomber came

EE i ‘Gay Paree’ over and hatched a litter of 500-pound bombs right ay raree smack on the Villa Vice.

The building shivered with explosions. e men! Is Lonely Paree | leapt from their sacks, and a second later one of . . To U. S. Visitors |

the walls érashed and buried Ernie's bed. The air Race lon Here was full of furniture, and for a moment, every man in the room thought he was dead. Vaughn Edwards, of the BBC, was entombed in the plaster, but after a tentative wriggle, found he/

By Robert C. Ruark

chief warrant officer would draw!

5 of 6 Pilots. Named Paris? Better bring a friend. " ” was unhurt. He peered up through a hole in’ the For Sunday Event ao Jace 5a spb lo Be Joely debris, and saw a pair of G. I. boots passing: by. Six army jet-powered P-80s will, A jjttle blond Woman from Chi“I say, you chap,” "the correspondent said, “I'm rumble over Indianapolis Sunday cago walked ints the lobby of the calling up to say I'm all right.. Don't bother about/afternoon at the half-way mark in Hotel Scribe and asked the porter! me—start rescuing the other chaps.” Mr. Edwards felt very heroic, for a second. 3 {tween Cleveland and this city. | istered.

“So-and-So,” said the G. I, with deep feeling.| Piloted by veteran army filers, the| It seems that she was eager to “Where's ‘Oinie’ Pyle?” }

" ; city. five days, | By Erskine Johnson

/ ie ~ SELLING JOB—S/Sqt. E. G. Smith of army tecruiting station here discusses the

you take a mere 786 steps. Then to look at the kind new "career plan with applicant James Jones, 1255 Standard ave. The plan calls for

Roark'’s Travels—

Examination

TESTING—Two recruits, Everett Van Landingham, 342 F. 30th st. (loft), and Joseph Dale Fishel, Brooklyn, Ind., are given their classification test from T/Sgt. H. H, Tucker. Tests will play a big part in the army s new ‘career’ plan. “hy

FORWARD MARCH—On their way to life in the new army are these men leaving the recruiting station for a ride to Ft. Knox where they will receive their physical

= examinations. The station has enlisted nearly 4000 men in the last two years.

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Speeding Wheels of Progress Bring Sad

(their Allison jet trophy race be- if there were any’ Americans reg- pilot of the Southern Pacific ferry, Sacramento, cast an eye upward as he steered his big sidewheeler under the

Shooting Stars will be participating find someone from back home to trains, motor coaches, trucks, autos and buses carrying thousands of in the first annual jet race of the talk to, for she had been completely commuters. But there was a mere handful of passengers on the Sacra ~ National Air meet held in the Ohio isolated” in the French capital for mento, built to seat 1900, Sa . ——————y

“5 Glint to Eye of Ferry Skipper

WHAT HAS become of all the ferries? . “Some have been sold to other {companies as far away as Argen{tina, Some have been condemned and are now used as houseboats and fishing clubs. Some have been |scrapped,” said the captain. | When I climbed up to the pilot _| house and met the captain, the boat ; "| was tied to the San Francisco pier, became mates, and mates became| On the deck below us were a few Yes, it makes old-timers like the =. io. | tourists. They were having a great

* West Coast Captain Recalls Operation of 43 Boats by Firm in 1930 as Against 2 Today

By ELDON ROARK, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer ®AN PRANCISCO, Aug. 20.—Capt. H. H. Valentine, master and

Bay bridge. Streams of trafic were flowing across the bridge's two decks—electric

| The planes will round & pylon\ qu ripel’E LADY had arrived captain sad — this thing that has 1, jg30 the Southern Pacific and time letting the wind blow their

erected atop the Allison plant at... 0 tales of the gay life and happened on San Francisco bay.

its afliated companies operated 43 hair, taking pictures, looking at the

Municipal airport shortly after 3:30| on qartul times to be. had. So far, When Captain Valentine came ferries, And that year they carried ocean-going vessels, the islands and

frankfurters packed in rubber bags, ‘and deputize'p, m. at the half-way point on the how each usher as a special policeman to exercise some 500-mile course. restraint on their talking out loud during the picture.| The engines of the planes were he * “2. Erect cages for them way down front with red built at the Allison plant here #nd|

or t J i a’ lanterns on them. There they can eat popcorn,|the local division of General Motors sitting on cafe terraces sipping boats and the water, bul Who als0 erates; two ferries,

{ endless cups of barley coffee with!wanted to enjoy a home and a -M ilroad ngers talk, laugh, giggle, make jungle noises and scratch Corp. will award trophies to the ,.. lap covered with French DWE |r He a get a job in the an we rg cpr nil got pretty rough in the bay some-

|fast-expanding ferry business.

thémselves without annoying those who really come first three pilots .to finish the to see the picture and enjoy it without interruption.” course. One of these ddys I'm going to print up a couple | Five of the six veteran army of million theater traffic tickets and distribute them pilots have already been named for to all theater ushers," The violations would be listed the race. They are: and checked as the situation demands. After thres| Lt. Col. David ©. Schilling, Sel-|s ay toot Hine or ooniier Al violations, these movie pests would be barred from fridge field, Mich.; Lt. George La- giant have a good time in a. . theaters forever. \ {Rose, Andrews field, Md.; Capt. copyright, 1947. by The Indianapolis s

. |Bdward L. Bishop, Langley field, #nd The Chicago Daily News, 1 Andrews Sisters Busy mye ee

|Va.; Capt. Robert Armstrong, and Now He's Heard

» THE ANDREWS SISTERS have offers for night Capt. Richard H. Barner, both of, club bookings which would keep them working March field, Cal. The sixth pilot steadily for the next two years. \will be either Maj. Joseph H. Perry, About Everything That luscious cigaret gal at the Chanteclair res- Selfridge (field, or Capt. William WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (U.P taurant, Karen La France, is a French countess. T. Whisner Jr, Andrews fel [ow elf te jour 4 a |T. Raymond Dunn, a clerk at the at's what her press agent swears, anyway. | | { postal station in the treasury buildBetty Hutton just received a revised script of “The ling, believes he now has seb d Sainted Sisters” from Paramount. It's a natural for ORD DAY ne mn Sul - - heard about everything. new, subdued Betty, who wants more. acting ‘ psf wi in, ‘ : By | A woman left his window in a . J huff when Mr. Dunn insisted he did mmy Durante says his only fear in’ Hollywood have 3-cent stamps in a shade is the close-up—“Every time I shake. .my head my atch her new a d! nose keeps getting out of focus,” ry an

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papers she can't read. + Bince- the lady has been sending enthusiastic postcards about Paris

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ADS | Farm Bureau Asks

SCATTERING FRAGRANCE; GIVING | For Double Dues OUT SCENT; SWEET-SCENTED | The first special meeting in 28 PERFUMED {years of the Indiana Farm Bo {Inc, recommended yesterday that OH, DEAR, | USED {annual dues for the 84,000 member. TOO MUCH OF THAT | ue doubled, from $5 to $10, The increase will be effective Jan. 11, 1949, if two-thirds of the 92 Hoo-

hq) By Robert Richards >

“I point over my, shoulder and answer, ‘over there.’ “The guy looks mean and says, ‘that ain't what somebody else told me. They said it was acrdss the street.’ - : ’ “1 don’t say nothing then. I got to keep my temper. i That's what kills" me. I nearly bust a belt.” | (ster counties ratify the proposal, Mr. Klein's newsstand is next to a buflding which! ; President Hassil E. Schenck said. houses almost all of the song publishing firms on the y he fe | Mr, Schenck said that the board eastern seaboard. Famous names chin with him every| NF ‘of directors had been considering an : Seis | - 3 indrease for the past five years. ¥- : ¥ ‘added that Ohio is the only other |corn-belt state still charging 5, w..u {Nlinois getting $15 annually, and Towa, Michigan and Wisconsin $10.

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day. “I got Milton Berle, Billy Bose, Lena Horne, Bill Robinson. I got a hundred of them,” Louis said.) 2 “I'm in playwrights up to my whiskers. They come 3 s after a first night.” |. , N. Y., just a half-block

went into operation. Deck hands was opened nine years ago.

Carnival =By Dick Turner

ever, the only gay times she's here as a young sailor from Den- 6,117,186 vehicles and 40,211,535 pas- the city’s skyline. It's three and had have been eating her meals in mark 42 years ago, there was plenty sengers, r hotel room, going to, bed at 9, of opportunity for a man who loved) Today the Southern Pacific op- takes 20 minutes. The round trip

three-fourths miles across and it

| costs 32 cents. They - carry Capt. Valentine said the weather times. A sou'easter will stir it up plenty. And from October to March there is a lot of fog. Then the

baggage, express and mall, No commuters ride them now. That AS TOWNS sprang up and grew vast volume of business came to an

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back home to her folks and friends 4 around the bay, more boats abrupt end when the Bay bridge pilots have to be mighty careful

because ocean steamers cross the — ferry routes. :

Handle VA Claims On Current Basis

A spokesman for the U. 8. Veterans’ Administration here said today that claims are being handled on a current basis, in response to charges by an Illinois congressman that the agency is not servicing claims. The only delay in the Indiana region has been in claims for outpatient dental service, he added. Rep. Melvin Price 4D. TL), a member of the house veterans committee, said the Veterans Administration “has been months behind in handling claims and in “we future it will be even. farther behind.” Y “The Veterans Administration al-' ready was short of help, and under the funds allowed by congress will have to discharge many of the employees it had during the past fiséal year,” he declared. : 3

Plan Pitch-In Dinner |#* North Park chapter 0.

Auxiliary chap- | ter, O. E. 8, will meet at 2 p. m.

{Tuesday in the temple at 1522 W.

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