Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 June 1948 — Page 21

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ONE THING ABOUT the ice house boys at me Union Station, they sure don't let any of it it under their. feet. Maybe you have noticed during your travels t commotion a passenger train causes when i pulls into a station, I don't mean passenger gmmotion. We'll forget about them for the time geing. I'm referring to the service gangs whose job it 1s to inspect and replenish the train so the in the compartment doesn't switch: to airplanes the next time he has to travel. I watched H. L. Bennett's gang in action the other day and I want to say they're a bunch of jes. Especially Kenmeth Ludlow, Robert Rabb and Ray Esaman who have just graduated rom Washington High Scheol and are pretty y about it. And don’t think these three boys are amateurs about the job they're doing. The irio were icemen last summer, too. :

‘We Want fo Be Big Shots’

THIS SUMMER they are resuming a career with the railroads which they hope will lead them 0 big desks in big offices, As Esaman said, “We want to be big shots.” OK, boys, but pere comes & train. The cars barely come to a stop before Mr. pennett's men are opening icp compartments and ng water into the cars, The whole procedure is spread out from one end of the train to the other.and in order to see them all working

ICY FINGERS—Trains stop at stations for something besides passengers. The icemen (left fo right), Robert Rabb and Ray Esaman, get their wagon ready with ice for the diners.

No Questions

WITH THE FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION AT FOUM EL HASSEN, Morocco, June 11—There's one place left in the world where a man can cmpletely write off the past. That's the French Foreign: Legion.

Maybe you hate your wife, hijacked a truckload of nylons or are sick of supporting your mother. Well, if you're able-bodied and in your right mind you can enter the Foreign Legion, no questions asked. » : Hardly anybody enters the Foreign Legion nnder- his - right name—fingerprints -and. such. J. Edgar Hoover trappings are out. ° The Foreign Legion lives up to its agreement to protect a recruit from yesterday's errors. For example—if thie gendarmes suspect the presence of a sought-after rough in a Moroccan post and appeals to the Foreign Legion for aid, the man concerned will be promptly shipped to Madagascar or Indo-China. “Never heard of him,” the commanding officer will say. Hearts broken on the wheels of romance The weirdest ory is about the two’ lads who slipped into the Foreign Legion “fo forget.” They both wound up. in an impossible desert outpost—Ilike Foum El Hassan. While every man keeps his own secret, these two chaps became buddies and gradually unwrapped their past. One night it came out— they had both joined the Foreign Legion to forget the same girl! . wis The desire of the men to turn their backs on previous events was clear everytime I.pointed my camera. They ducked as if I threatened to fire a bazooka. “Where I am,” said one lad, “is nobody's d----d business.”

Isolated From Outside World

MANY of the men have absolutely no con-

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8 letter and never receive one. Big news events are often reflected in the {reign Legion's recruiting office. When France ocked out the Spanish republic many republi-

‘tan officers slipped into France and signed up. * “THe “BroKerage. scandals (IAcluding the "Sta

visky mess) ‘in Paris during the early 30's sent some sharp bond -eperators to the desert. Then of course, there is always’ somebody who

Old Joke Lives

WASHINGTON, June 11—I knew it, day that old saw about jacking up the horn and running in an automobile beneath it was going to come true. Now, so help me, it has. ‘You want one of - Preston Tucker's new-fangled, -rearengined motor cars some day on a when, as, and if basis? Then buy the accessories now. You can spread 'em out In the living room and Admire the. pretty knobs until that happy day When you're new Tucker 8ix arrives. Then you take 'em down to the garage, where they'll be Installed for a ‘slight extra charge. Mr. Tucker, as you probably know, is having the devil's own time getting going on the making of his trick. automobiles in the world's biggest factory, which he leased from the War Assets AdMinistration in Chicago. 5 He's got dealers all over. Plenty of help to Make his ultra-modern motor car, the right mathinery—and no steel. The few pilot models he's been able to turn out cost three times too much ase he had to make 'em of black market

- Accessories Without the Car

AND THAT may explain how the old joke Came to life. His dealers—who have been subsistIng these. many months on the used car busihess—got the jolt of their lives when they received the special order blanks for the accessories-Without-the-automobile. . There are six different groups of these widels, purchase of any one of which entitles the r to a special sequence number intended to Bive him first whack eventually at the new cars. The deluxiest package of accessories cost $325.

_ 1 consists of a specigl radio to fit under the dash-

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« By Ed Sovola oy & man would have to be In about 50 places at once. I can't do it. x { The main idea was to keep one's efes open and stand clear of the ice wagon or else one

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leave the ground to perform their duties. The train was a shorty and merely whetted! the crew's appetite for bigger and better things.| Three cakes of ice were shunted off the ice cart into a compartment in about 15 seconds. Norman Neal and Hubert Williams had the water hoses connected to the cars and merely waited until the overflow splattered on the tracks. Kenneth Ludlow trailed after Charlie Loutt, head inspector, and made off as if he were working.| There are trains like that where you have plenty) of help to go around. Then there are other times.!

Move Like 60—Maybe 70 |

IN SPITE of the fact that the men get ready for a rush period, they have to move like 60. Maybe 70. For example, the Louisville train had! Just"begun to chug out’ of the station When Ludlow! spotted Train 66. The “Sunshine Special” also was scheduled .to arrive and it did before the compartmepts were opened on 66, Things began to get a little blurred. First think I knew Rabb and Esaman were getting a| He claimed it was getting warm in the ¢ar and he Yaa positive there wasn't a bit of ice left in the! X. | When they were opened. he declared “That isn't enough ice.” KEsaman threw me a wink. | Evidently the boys have heard that story before. Ice carts whirled around the passengers and porters as if a race were going on. ‘I could hear| Mr. Bennett shouting to car inspectors George Ramsey and Charlie Loutt. Immediately after the ‘verbal exchange, Mr. Loutt, head inspector, was shouting to the ice boys to “get cuttin’.” By the time Rabb and Esaman finished| flipping small chunks of ice into the diner on 66, | the diner crew, on the “Sunshine Special” were about to have a fit. They should know you can 80 just so fast, Rabb didn’t get off his double decker cart which is used for the diners. Esaman wheeled | it into position while Rabb chipped the big pieces! into little ones, Time was wasting. Esaman| pitched the chunks to Rabb who did the fancy, footwork on top of the diner. In spite of the| thouting and yelling both trains pulled out on| me. : . A whale of a lot of ice was thrown around) in the 10 or 12 minutes the trains were .in. Mr.| Bennett didn't think I saw a very good example of how his men ice trains. 5} “You should see us go when we have five trains in at one time,” he said. Yes, I should. It would be a good trick.

By Fred Sparks : |

don't ‘like to hold. tral | y least of all for the ly for auyeing aad " i “This isn't going to be bad,” said Rabb. “No a e nv | diner.” That meant the boys wouldn't have to! : er

(Photos by John Spicklemire, Times Staff Photographer)

~~ CAUCUS CONFERENCE — State "Republican Chairman Clark Springer (center) is discussing..details of 1 th district caucus sessions with William H. Foust (left) and George L. Denny (right) at Claypool Hotel last night. The caucus was marked with factional strife among local GOP. leaders. S : "a

got involved with the wrong wife—or e¢ollected two of his own. : ‘However, there is little time to brood about the melancholy past or the confusing present. From the first flickering rays of the hottest dawn you can imagine, the men jump to with rockette| precision. : { Between the heat and the endless muscle labor, | a double chin is unknown and a balloon of shim-|

I marched on a maneuver with the Foreign ‘Legionnaires and personally attest to the baking! bitterness of playing-at-car under the Moroccan sun. I sweated like Mae West in a beauty salon hot box. |

Many Countries Represented THE Foreign Legionnaire’s white hats and

Esquire. However, they are needed umbrellas to, reflect the wicked sun—which could drive a hatless man mad in a few hours or scorch his neck] like a well done strip of bacon. ! Constant. footslogging maneuvers—for this is an old-fashioned army in an old-fashioned coun-| -{ry—afe to impress the hated natives as well as to keep the boys shooting straight. ! 1 saw a camel caravan of Arabs pause to watch our group charge, whooping and hollering, up a hill, Both sides exchanged glances that, ir! looks could kill, would have littered this waste with bleached corpses. - But, presently, the main danger in Moroccan ‘maneuvers “is the local population of scorpions and cobras, not Moslems. After ‘sacking out in the field overnight the) men carefully shake their shoes which, for some| reason, always attracts the scorpions. “| People who advocate (1) a United Nations] force or (2) admitting Europeans into the U. 8.| Army, would @lo well to study the Foreign Legion. | Here at Foum El Hassan the following countries | are represented: 4 Germany. France, Greece, Belgium, Romania,

POLITICS — Politicians take over the lobby of ths Claypool Hotel as pre-convention activities opened last

night. Big deals were to be made in closed hotel rooms. - floor room in the Claypool Hotel. .

Hungary, - Turkey, ‘Switzerland, Spain, Russia, | Italy, Poland and others. i All these men work together, and fight well”

together, 2 “Most soldiers; ~~ must be admitied, seldom knew what the shooting was all about. These Foreign Legionnaires simply don't care—and no-| body has ever bothered to tefl them.

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By Frederick C. Othman

to-be, covers for the seats-to-come, and luggage! to go under the hood of the someday Tucker six.| “What?” cried Prospect Othman. “Yep,” said dealer. “Suit cases. Special airplane type, to go i? beneath the hood.” NTL an

Sew a Suit Around This Butfen EIGHTH DISTRICT HUDDLE — Republican delegates from the eighth district

GIVE HIM the $325 now, he said, and within] : - } hl , . A went into a huddle to plan their strategy for operations on the convention floor at

30 days I'll get a large box containing all these | ; the Coliseum today. .They are (left to right) Ellis Kays, Pikee County chairman, Roy I'll also get an application blank for my number, 7 Y \ 9 ys. ik unty ' y which will be filed at the factory and when my|

night. :

SEEKS TREASURER JOB-—H. Dale Brown, director of the State Bureau of Motor Vehicles, is pictured here with Mrs. Brown as he closed up his campaign headquarters for the GOP nomination for Treasurer of State.

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CAUCUS — Delegates from the sixth district hold an informal caucus before their reqular district meeting. Virgil Vaught, chairman, conducts the session in fifth GA A ph eraite . |

GOP CROWDS JAM LOBBY—This is only part of the crowds that jammed the Claypool lobby and corridors during pre-convention caucus sessions last

pieces for the automobile that does not yet exist.| Springston, B. H. Hartman, Morton Schiller, Ervin Taylor and Fred Malotte.

sedan finally rolls off the production line it will have my name on it. ” ' “Not such a bad idea, either, when you think about it,” said the Tucker man. “Makes a kind, of a deposit on the new car, gets some money| going to the factory, helps cut out the black] market.” | I told him I'd wait’ until I could get some wheels and maybe an engine before I bought any other accessories, thanks, and I walked out | of there worrying. This thing may spread. People will be trying to sell you a kitchen sink to fit into the house they may bulld later. Or

Truman Found Spiking Myth Of 'Mouse in White House’

jwould have: been difficult to erton, he seemed to have turned justify if the professionals had out most of the 40,000 population. climbed aboard. It would have| Mr. Truman's advisers say they been necessary to tap the Demo- doubt Democratic Party pros By CHARLES T. LUCEY, Secripps-Howard Staff Writer {cratic party's not-very-robust till. | could have run the show better ~ BEATTLE, June 11—A balance sheet of President Truman's So there have been blunders, but anyway, they add, the pros cross-country trip showed moderate success as the first week ended, Eight thousand empty seats Yu od I ow Jon in the but his efforts suffered from lack of the professional political touch Rosi BE. Truman ina hell a not mew- Py occur in ey maybe a milking stool for your future cow. They'll of a Jim Farley. d |Eagiier 165.000 had watched the campaign. be peddling bridles without horses, wedding rings Mr. Truman left Washington at an extreme low in_ popularity. President parade with his old 35th | To offset Omaha, they say, he to bachelors who have no prospective brides, and| pio grew steadily larger crowds as he moved toward the Pacific. Division buddiés. Just about has been seen by big crowds In chairs without legs. The latter will come later His facility for dishing up a - = Co |everyone had seen him, and probs many places—and that, the whole at-45 etry gost. Te) [Bifty off-the-cuff speech improved. (trip Was the commencement ad-iably many stayed home to hear. day's stay in Omaha considered, This Tucker has started something. * Like sell- "ol “0 ony more important fAress tomorrow at the University him by radio and save a traffic-|® Was successful there. He has ing a hat band Without a hat, a pencil without a, =" nything—he is killing any |0f California. It was to be non- jammed trip to the auditorium. Wyong. Idaho. Monta a lead, or a ribbon without a typewriter. suggestion that there's a mousy political and Mr. Truman agreed] Mr. Truman's White House ot ’ no: na An Bread'll cost extra as an. accessory to go with (FETC oT White House. 0 It. He aecepted bids for four|aldes “took it for granted” the| ngton. any observers the butter and anybody buying an ice-cream soda") Ul un acoressive course Other major addresses under non- 35th Division would turn out a rated his Butte speech the best will have to pay extra for the use of the glass. for a campaign he promises will {he hak ever delivered. .

political banners. But when the big crowd. for the meeting. But | ‘And I think I'll take a button down to a tal- be one to remember. itrip was announced local poli-|it didn’t. - The professional poli-| lor and have him sew a suit around it.

He has chosen his main issue— ticians clamored for Mr. Truman ticians. would have packed that Irvington Civic League ————

the record of the Republican Con-|to come to their town, . (hall. : | . ss—and is defining it in More] Moecked By Empty Seats | Advisers Volos Doubts Plans Meeting Today ! y 8 |

??? Test Your Skill 297 biting language each day. A few good journeymen poli-|

Fumbles Happen be wholly non-politi¢al and the yesterday too. - Yet there have been fumbles, question arose whether Demo-iof a half million the President home of Mr, and Mrs. W. 0, WelWhat record ‘did Ralph Kiner of the Pittsburgh and a question is raised whether cratic National Committee repre- drew not more than 6000 in ler, 6901 E. Washington St Pirates establish in 19477 [vit wouldn't have been better to'sentatives should go along: to midafternoon at a stadium seat-| Mr. Weller is president ; Lowell ng mark last sea- | have acknowledged the inevitable smooth the way-—to plan: meet- ing’ 10,000, : : ) : Afterward,

Fumbles There Have Been on Western Tour But Scrappy Speeches Prove Popular

had good crowds in Nebraska,

. Too Much Caution Leads to 2 Deaths . In Refrigerator a ———————————— HAVERFORD, Pa, June 11 (UP)—Mrs, Frank Murta of nearby Llanerch, décided that a large unused refrigerator on her hack porch was a hazard to her four-year-old daughter Nanéy and

her playmates, ve She hurried home from a neighbor's to tie a rope around the door. " Ten-year-old Jimmy Wolcott was playing behind the Murta home yesterday afternoon. His sleeve caught on the refrigerators handle and the door swung open, ~ » »

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'Murta’s daughter and ‘four-year |v Samuel Mitchell.

The, little boy ad. gin dud |8, Kemper, vice president; O. W. squeezed inside the Bix. «door

son by hitting eight homers in four games. The political nature of his trip and to, ings, to_iron out feuds. A however, “a B Walters, treasurer, . . pped a. former record was sevén, made by the late Tony have called in professional poli-| The White House said no. The crowd downtown strecis Ta AE Xiriay 8 They ated beciuse the in Liasserk as a member of the New York Yankees |ficians to organize it. © *. trip is being paid for out of theito ses him, showering ‘paper and | chairman of the membership com-|sulated walls deadened their in1036 Bi Salo HE ; Thé original aiicher point of the White House travel funds. This ticker tape. And earlier at Brem: mittee, i frantic cries for help. A bo % | Jp lt A te i : oo! bo 2 : +k A as wa vr: oA pg as FR f 1 oh ;

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