Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1948 — Page 37

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SUNDAY, NOV. 14, 1948

Gestapo Tactics

NEW YORK, Nov, 13—According to information I have received, grand juries acting under: Department of Justice instruction, are jailing citizens in California for refusing to answer questions concerning the Communist facts and fancies of their friends. i First, an exgerpt from a letter from a writer who is classified by his editors as a Democrat. “I had to cut my Texas visit short. Iris ‘(his wife) was ill. I flew home just in time to see her routed from bed at 6:30 a. m. by a Federal Marshal, kept in court 18 hours, then fingerprinted, mugged, and jailed as a common criminal. “Her cellmates were two drug addicts, a murderess, and a prostitute. (This is) because she had refused on advice of legal counsel to answer certain questions pyt to her by a grand jury.

She’s Out for a 5-Day Rest

“SHE IS OUT for five days—exhausted, but will be hauled back before the grand jury and the same judge on Wednesday and probably sent back to jail. We know a lot of Republicans and Democrats—and we certainly know a few people who we believe to be Communists. The grand jury demands that we inform them of who these people are, what their plans are, and legal counsel say these questions violate at least three amendments to the Constitution. “The situation is incredible here. Sixty heads of families are in hiding, and we are rushing around trying to find homes for their children and cash to keep their homes going. Our phones are tapped. Cougsel informed us our homes had been wired—and advised us to see none of our friends until the legal decisions had been arrived at. I drove two women to San Diego the other night because a friendly cop had told them all planes and trains were being watched for them.” And so on. And I don’t like it even a little bit. And especially I don't like it here. Not even if the guy and the lady are Communists, and I'm told they aren't. I have nothing but contempt for American Communists, fellow-travelers, fronts and sympathizers. I think they are silly, for a start, and potentially poisonous. You can shoot them if you

(Ruark’s column is a regular daily feature in The Times)

The Othman Poll

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13—A scientific poll, it says here, shows that 43 per cent of American industry is guided by scientific polls of what the customers think. These surveys by the Messrs. Gallup, Roper, Crossley and other seers govern the kind of movies we see, radios. we hear, autos we buy, food we eat, and clothes we wear. I am beginning to wonder «and I wouldn’t be surprised if President Truman hasn't developed this same suspicious attitude; I mean there seems to be no need to go into ‘the reasons for this skepticism. Who knows? Maybe 99 per cent of all ladies do not, either, prefer soap oprys on their radios. It is barely possible that the great majority of movie fans are not amused when the hero stops chasing the Injuns to accompany himself on the mandolin while he croons a song of love. The polls show that the average American man prefers to eat beefsteak, French fried potag toes, coffee and apple pie. How long has it been, sir, since you ordered that for dinner? The greatest little poll takers in the land, it turns out, are the automobile makers. They claim that they tailor their motor cars to the order of the American public. So it is that all the streamlined new models come delivered without any sun visors to mar their sleek beauty. And up has sprung a new industry, manufacturing sun shades for motorists to bolt on their windshields, so they can see where they are going.

Did Anyone Ask Us These Things?

HOW MANY AUTOMOBILISTS, 1 wonder, voted for tin pants to cover their wheels in such complete modesty that they need a can-opener to

* Read Othman Daily in The Times

By Robert C. Ruark

wish, but only on proof amassed in dignified court, on established charges for which there are legally established penalties. This night-riding, throw-em-in-the-clink if they don’t talk routine sickens me, a little. Too much like the late Germany. Too much like the current Russia, where a whispered = criticism can get you buddenly suicided. 3 Unless we rewrite a lot of law, I can’t see where you can legally rough up a citizen in order to make him rat on his acquaintances, even if the acquaintances are evil and deserving of punish-| ment. Grill him in court, yes. Hit him with contempt, yes. But no pre-trial star chamber stuff. None of this into-the-cell business because of lack of co-operation.’ Not unless you start with a stunning precedent. Along these lines I demand that Henry Wallace be thrown into the jug until he identifies all.the Communists who work in concert with him—until he spills all- their plans and plots. Mr. Wallace's communistic association is proven. His preference for their company is common public knowledge. Heave him in the jug with two cocaine peddlers, a murderer and a panderer. Tickel his tootsies with a hose until he sings.

‘I Would Hold Still Then’

THEN I WILL hold still Tor this unofficial Gestapo operation. I will hold very still for it if the bulls beat up on Vito Marcantonio, a little. Joe Curran, although he fled screaming to the capitalists for help when the Commies pulled the rug out from under him in the national maritime union—Joe knows a lot of Commies, too. Work him over. Then you have a legal precedent. I am for smoking out the Commies and for sending them all to lower Slobbovia, but this Los Angeles operation ain't the way to do it, if you like the way we live here. When official law enforcement adopts a Ku Klux Klan technique, I oppose it, because the margin for error is too great. There is always the chance that a fondness for red neckties, plus a little vicious slander can get you beat up and vagged. I like red neckties myself, but I don’t want to have to prove my unfondness for Russians to a sheriff.

By Frederick C. Othman

get at the tire before they change it? How many customers urged the manufacturers to do away with running boards? How many demanded hoods so high and seats so low that the short driver has to proceed by instinct and at his own risk? The more you think about polls and their effect on life, the more you're inclined to make your own poll. How many women really insisted on long skirts? How many men? Did the great majority of citizens demand neckties that look like atomic explosions? Who, if anybody, begged some bakers to produce bread that never goes stale, never gets dry, never mildews and tastes like blotting paper? . How many people cast their: ballots for popcorn stands in movie theaters? How many marked the X's in favor of slippery floors at home? How many shavers prefer their lotion to smell like double-distilled heliotrope? *

Who Wanted Smaller Whiskies?

AND TALKING ABOUT DISTILLING, were the customers really consulted when whisky began| to come in fifths instead of quarts? If people liked push-button radio sets before the war, why don’t they now? Who asked the flying machine operators (there are some exceptions) to p! five narrow seats abreast instead of four wide ones? What women wanted shoes with their toes sticking out? Did all males suddenly demand hats with narrow brims? Who wants his cornflakes molded in the shape of little men? These questions I want answered. So does Mr. Truman and so, too, does a fellow named Dewey. It'll probably take another poll to satisfy us,

Slave Mart Owner Hunts New Crafts Police Desk Sergeant

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 13 (UP)|mated that 90

—Mariam B. Wilson of Charles- southern plaptations were made| ROCKFORD, Iii, Nov. 13 (UP) ton, S. C., has been making a by slave labor, but she added the| Rockford police don’t. ‘mind

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leisurely trip through the Southiwant to part with any authentic|helping out with crossword puz- | part of their residences.

in search of slave crafts. Miss Wilson said her slave]

mart museum in Charleston 's Boy, 2 Drives Truck

MANHATTAN, Kas, Nov. 13/Charles McDonnell and asked: (UP)—Lewis Botterman’s anger Miss Wilson was excited about| yo tempered with amazement| word for sawhorse? I called sevwhen he reached the slow-moving eral machine shops, and they said

as wel] as a slave-made wooden pickup truck which had banged to try the police station.” {into his car as he backed from a|

the only museum devoted to the preservation of slave crafts. It contains more than 100 exhibits.

two types of slave-made bricks she found in southern Louisiana, |

mouthpiece of a mule bridle.

She said slave crafts are not driveway. At the wheel was the|gested Sgt. McDonnell exactly scarce, but are frequently two-year-old daughter of Mrs. difficult to track down. She esti-! Yvonne Byrd.

per cent of an Solves Real Puzzler

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zles, if the people say it’s included in their chores as public servants. A woman telephoned Desk Sgt. “What's

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Inside Indianapolis: How to Take a Vacation and Get Paid for If

By ED SOVOLA EVER FEEL like kicking yourself for getting into the business you're in? Isn't it awful when you look around and find so many guys (not half as bright as you are, either) with beautiful

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northsiders about the delightful and picturesque southsiders. I don’t say that with any bitterness, because any man who can talk to the public for 55 seasons has something on the ball. More power to Mr. Holmes, I say in one breath and, I wish I were in shoes, in the next, If you've never attended a Burton Holmes lecture, you should, just for your own dissatisfaction with the way things are going. The man is quite a character. I won't say he’s “the

most ‘unforgettable character”

I've ever met or listened toy but he's some place close to the top. : » » » - IN SPITE of his 78 years, Mr. Holmes bounced out on the stage of the Murat Theater promptly at 8:30 p. m. with the air of a man who has seen the best life has had to offer and is satisfied. He looks like a scientist. Something of a more distinguished looking Smith brother. When he begins to speak you wonder where the British type accent came from, Certainly not from the streets of Chicago. I know. I used to run around the streets on the west side and the only accent

If ‘a man were clever enough, he could take a vacation for six months, talk about it the rest of the year and get paid for his efforts like Burton Holmes, who has been doing it for the past 55 years and is still going strong.

material on their bodies in such a way that it is pleasing to the eye. One or two, it doesn't matfer. Not from where I sat. Mr. Holmes does more than just explain the movies. His secret is in the power of suggestion. He tries to make a person believe he didn't come to

you learn there isn’t fit repeating. Anyway, Mr. Holmes cuts a fine figure of what you'd like to look like when you're 78. Or 68. Or even 58. And speaking of figures, he soon lets his audience know that the old eyes are in no way worse than they used to be. the Murat to see movies of # = = Florida. No. The man or womTHE MOVIES of “Fabulous an with the purchase price Florida" are amply sprinkled ‘came to the Murat to take a with girls who wear just enough trip to Florida.

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trees, several billion oranges and two of the cutest orange pickers 1 have ever ogled at. At that point, the bearded one got corpy. About the only place. He had to make a erack about the Florida “peaches” in an orange grove. Oh, Jack. The audience, largely made up of persons with graying heads, listens with rapt atten ! tion. Probably dreaming of go= ing there someday when the mortgage is paid off. With 119 different topics in the two-hour “visit” to Florida, the lights go on and there you are, still in Indianapolis, out a couple bucks, your. own twoweeks vacation nine months away and it’s raining cats and dogs outside. ” » 2 YOU FEEL kindly, though, toward the pleasant man with the rd and facility to talk for twd hours in circles and out of circles in spite of it all. How does 2 man get into a business like that? It isn’t fair, You can crank your projector and say that again. “Fabulous Florida,” indeed. Fabulous Holmes it should be. 1 get so peeved with myself sometimes I could bite stuffed olives at “The Surfside Beach Club.” * Rrreally, as Mr. Holmes

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