Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1949 — Page 3
Te Washington hn Verse Form
._ George Holmes Pens Book of
_ Sprightly Poems
By DAN KIDNEY Times Stall W . WASHINGTON, Dee. 24 Those
nial observance next year might well prepare themselves by boning up with George Sanford Holmes’ mew book of sprightly verses.
" ®¥es, This Is Washington,” and
nets of the Potomac Shore.” Some of the vérses appeared In the Washington News and other Scripps-Howard papers during the time Mr. Holmes was a cOrrespondent, Later he spent a decade of service as a Government publie relations man and that also Is ", reflected In those writings. Bome of the verses go back to his newspaper days in Denver. The ones dealing with reporters and politiclans are particularly interest. ing to the professional, although the layman cannot miss the point. White House and Capitol; Pentagon and Mall are covered in this Holmes tour and all are treated with an” admixture of joy and reverence. That Mr, Holmes is a ‘man who loves this town is made clear in the first poem from which the book takes its title. It opens: “1 loved you from the moment in
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the glare
standing there As if to say, “Yes, this is. Wash“ington!” With the White House now un-
i ‘dergoing repair, the verses called jeony Scene” are particularly
House tinkerers, spare ur blow Balcony, lest men
- forget PS This captious world's most famous portico . Since Romeo made love Juliet.
. He shocked the carping press to build it there
persistent torch, That he might have a breath of evening air In slippered comfort on his own back-porch.” ow loath to leave the place y President, is spelled out in House Bedtime Story.”
0 tell us not with sobbing lips
favorite bedtime story, That White House burdens
* eclipse Its pleasures and its glory; strain And register dejection, ‘We note they like to run again And seek a re-election. We read how White House woe
. Exceed the strength of mortals, 2 And yet when men are quartered
They hate to leave its portals; We think the tale of tears is _ bluff And cannot be deride it. For those who dwell inside it. It may be that it casts a pall O'er all who live within it,
1 - could only win it: Each craves that task, Not fears its ills and bother,
"That he may serve another!” “80 Mr. Holmes’ verses are full
igs & Company and t price
dence. Gl Family Medical Care Plan Continued
~—Pefense Secretary son has turned down a proposa
4 airmen.
military dependents should be | continued.
stopped
since Congress million a year, Here's an Example Of True Loyalty
4pitlé of the siender volume is bo
1 stepped from depot gloom into
Of summer morn; and saw you!
‘And those who flourished arts].
It}
Though Presidents may show the
For seldom are four years enough
- But it any 4 man would give his presidential
when “the term is up he'll
sense and savvy. The puitinner
is two dollars. You pores ‘ an easier-to-read guide book to this town. It describes both “wir front and back In charming ca-
WASHINGTON, Dec.-24 (UP) ‘Touts John-
to eliininate free medical care for families of soldiers, sailors and
He sald In a letter’ to Budget Frank Pace Jr, that several studies have “resulted in the PE conclusion that medical care of
Mr. Pace had written Mr. John- ' son recently suggesting that free medical attention and cheap hospital care for dependents could be raised military pay scales some $300
T Ahoussnds. of sight-seers expected| |“ ae + to eomo here for the sesquicenten-|
the subtitle is "Shrines and Son- Fhe
‘Alley Dwellings’ “Are Modernized
By DAN KIDNEY
> Sal Writer WASHI TON, Dee. 17-— Combining a ‘Sense of the his<
toric with some of the shrewd-
ness of real estate promotion, a young man from Wayne, Ind., has rehanilitat eral
“alley dwellings” along t Georgetown canal towpath and } has the young Intellectuals bid ing for berths in them. He is Charles A. Baird, who was secretary te Rep. George Gillie, Ft. ayne Republican, * until the Congressman was defeated for re-election in 1948, At that time Mr, Baird had already launched his Georgetown housing experiment and was well established in a national stamp agency whose headquarters is now in one _of his his toric. houses, The National Park Ser took over the old Chesapeake & Ohio canal and established a sight-seers tow-boat servige - But the buildings along the towpath remained unsightly and were classified as slums untilMr. “Baird interested the Park Service in landseaping and he wernt to’ work on’ Fevamipinig the houses In genuine Georgetown style, The history of the canal extends back to 1785 and one of the seven Georgetown locks,
Hunter, 20, Adrift On Rickety Raft, Rescued From Bay
"WOLFVILLE, N. 8. Dec. 2) (UP)-—A young duck-hunter was rescued today on “a thousand-to-| one chafice” after drifting help-| lessly all night on a rickety raft| in the Bay of Fundy. David: Sterling. 20, was cast! adrift last night when strong tides liswept the tiny raft on which he was standing from its moorings at| nearby Boot Island. Two fellow hunters said he dis-|appea-ad before they were able to do anything.
HE WAS SIGRTED early today] {by volunteers and police who had lined the shore and kept flash-
lights trained on the water] throughout the night. i Police Chief Lawrence Parker
said it was “a thousand to. one| chance” that he did not drown in| the fast-running current. The Royal Canadian air force earlier had assigned planes fo fly over the area and look for him.| They failed to take off after police
“by Miss Marie M. L.
| International
Vd 7 N ’ oy $ 3 4 A . Zz FJ te Ae “oy / x dg a A CA : : > : ny ; a x. an 0 a : : yess N : et - if Fg . LR a ra Sy 4 THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES & SUNDAY, DEC. 25, 1949 Angus Ward's Own Story— :
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CYR T 1 pry [ere with its hand-operated gates, forms a waterfall directly in front of the Baird houses. » » » FIRST: of the old houses was , purchased by Mr. Baird in 1947 | and remodeled into duplex apartments. Much of the work was done by the new owner himself after he retired from his congressional post on Capitol Hill. He retained the old numbers 3065 and 3067 on the towpath which bears the offi-
af IN |
Historic Canal Houses Remodeled;
Witnesses for Defense Forbidden in Consul’s ‘People’s Court’ fist“
Detention on Diet of Bread and Wo er Ends As Case Is Settled ‘In Accorda
In his concluding article, Angus ward, vu. s. cool general, tells of his trial by a Communist Court. As Told to CLYDE FARNSWORTH, Scripps-Howard Staft Writer TOKYO, Dee. 24—"You are accused. of kicking and beating
Chi Yu-heng. How about it?” i Those were the words flung at me ani four of my aids by a 1 Chinese Communist prosecutor on Oct. 24, n days after the ‘Incis
sulate, , © dent occurred inthe con ! William Stokes arrived
T denied the accusation, Consul liberty! { with a car for us.
“We deprive you of and the Te will be settled in| The last act’ of the Mukden |accordance with the law,” replied | farce was. the trial of the “Amer. the prosecutor through an in- ican spy ring” on Nov. 26 and terpreter. deportation of the entiré foreign The five. of us were then staff of the consulate 11 days later, lushered into different rooms. All were unheated and crudely fur-! _ The deportation Srdet was past. nished. There were no bars on the] though no Amiéricans were de-
» w » 1 eadwindows. ‘We were .at police h fendarits. However, Vice Consul
quarters. | i Almost every day of our deten-| Stokes was‘required to be pres-
tion we were questioned separately. The questions were monoto-| nous and repetitious. | Poorly Clad for Cold I was permitted to sit but it {was cold. The prosecutor and his
{people wore cotton padded clothe" R00 Fh ned out of the ing. I had on only the Mghtiy, i. “iiition at 3:45 a. m. on clothing I was wearing when ar- |Dec. 7. We were in a third-class rested. car—20 men, women and chil. When they saw that the cold; "(he dog four cats. It was was bothering me they made me |, ...}1y cold and the benches isit by an open window. After i.e yary the first week I was sick. Chinese Communist s oldier The room where I was confined guards patrolled: the aisle with was about 12 by 14 feet b 3 bayoneted rifles, We were perfloor was cold concrete. The bed , ii.4 t5 ook out the windows
was an iron cot with a mat on it. but 1 saw 1 nothing extraordinary It was too short for me but the ,, phere along the line,
{jailers took off one end of the] ' lbed and put a wooden bench] Records Are Safe against it so I could stretch out. - Behind us in Mukden the Brit. Mrs. Ward sent me a sleeping ish consul had become the cusbag and clean clothing and bread, todian of American real and also two tins:of salmon. The movable property left there. As jail diet was bread and water— far as I am aware #11 the propthree cups of water three ‘times erty we brought out, including a day for drinking with a slice or consular files and records, reached two of bread. Tientsin safely with us. © In the mornings we had a basin| At Tientsin they took us into of warm water for washing.|/the passport control office where There was running water and a|guarintees were required that toilet which was far from hy- we would -remain available to gienic. There was a bare electric|atthorities while we were in bulb which was kept on all night.|Tientsin and would leave when Six Trips to Court |we were supposed to. The Amer- ”) 'hen the case transferred to ican consular people there took [the “Peoples Court,” .we were/us to their homes. moved into another detention; On the morning of Dec. 11 we {house where each was confined went down to the pier, through {again in separate ‘rooms, We! customs, and then boarded the | made six trips in all to the “Peo-| tender that ‘carried us out to the iples’ Court.” {Lakeland Victory. There were no audiences for|- I am now looking forward to {preliminary hearings but the room six months’ leave and a new aswas crowded for the trial, es-|signment which I doubt will be pecially by press representatives./in the Orient—and that will suit The court personnel was entirelyme. Chinese, consisting of the Chinese language recorder, the English interpreter, the presiding judge, two associate judges, the English) language recoraer, |. When we came to testimony for the formal trial, everything {was slanted. There was no sift-| {ing\ of evidence. I was not per-| | mitted any defense witnesses and {I couldn't speak in my own be-|
Ordered to Leave Mukden On Dec. 2 a representative of (the “Pebple’'s Government” came {and said we were to depart from Mukden during the 48-hour pe{riod beginning at 8 a. m., Dec. 5,
(Copyright, 1949, Scripps-Howard Newspapers.) —————————————————————
Silent on War
. Record in Court HUDSON, N. Y., Dec. 24 (UP) ~—Court records revealed today that a disabled veteran of the Bataan Death March, charged
half. oe om The sentence for me was six| “ith 8rand larceny, kept his war months, imprisonment but when €Xperiences secret even as he
Fy Dutch CECT
seanal barge as exciting as the ships upon which he served, but he 1ikes to watch the crowds of amusement seekers wha pack it in summer for the slow trip through the locks. - = - } HE HAS just completed re-
! modeling 3073 and 3075 on the
towpath. He lives in the former and leases the latter which has a two-sided central fireplace in the living room and beamed ceilings in the bedrooms,
teaching English at the Amert=~1 should remain treasurer of the | society for life, He was justi reelected for a third term.
can College in Istanbul, Turkey. Miss Lubitsa Nenadovich, Harrisburg, Pa., is also with the | State Department and the other | two girls are Mt. Holyoke graduates employed by the Central | Intelligence Agency, They are
Miss Clarissa Craig, Baltimore, |
and Miss Susan Crane, New
York City. All four graduated |
in 1046 from the School of Advanced International Studies and this is the first time they
cial title Canal St. but has no Because of the bright colors have been together since then. automobile road closer than! ,..4 on the doorways and As treasurer of ths Indiana nearby Thomas Jefferson St. | trim, the whole Baird Jayout State Society of Washington, Two government secretaries,” has been given the. title \af Mr. Baird invited the Hoosiers
Miss Ruth Ellen/ Thomas and t Miss Ernestine Hamburg, now eeeupy 3065 which 1% entered through a side terrace with a white gate. The house green door at
with the little 3067 is occupied Gysen of an employee of Monetary Fund. who moved to the towpath because the canal reminded her of her native land ! Native “towpathers” ,and keepers of the ®anal barge live at 3071, They are Mr. and Mrs, Arthur Miller and their Arthur and Captain Gus who runs the barge with its twqghorse tow. Their little house was once part of an old tavern, the remainder of which has been converted Into the Towpath Apartments
Holland,
SONS,
the
“Rainbow Row.” One of the quartet of government. girls oc= cupying®3075 is Miss Betty Lou Firstenberger of Elkhart, Ind. 8he is now with the State Department after three years of
to an open house and let them
inspect his handiwork. Wheti He
told some of the members of the small investment and hard work which went into the towpath development, they decided he
RCT ula CISL RINT: along "Rainbow ET
the translator read it he said faced a possible jail senténce. postponement for one year. He! Only when a letter was read may have meant parole or pro-| in court, telling of the part bation. When we were taken back George L. Dycus, 37, of Dallas, to the cells I didn’t know we had| Texas, took in the death march {been set free, |d'd he admit he had been in the Prisoners Sent Home | Army 14 years. The letter was | I was having a piece of bread written by a woman friend in {and hot water when the warden, Oklahoma. +who-spoke English, came in and After County Judge Willlam E, said; "Oh, you're not ready.” CIT O'Connor read ‘the lettsr Mr. “Ready for what?” I said. Dycus pleaded guilty. Upon rec“To go home; you are going) ymmendation of District Attor{home."” |ney Thomas P. Kennedy, Judge At 9 o'clock that night Vice| 0’ Connor suspended sentence.
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sald they believed his survival A Navy lteutenant with PaBOSTON, Dec. 10 (UP)-—Be- was ‘impossible in the rough! cific sefvice in World War II, cause Harvard bridge was ‘closed Fundy Ray waters. Mr. Baird doesn't consider the ~for-repairs, a Harvard student, James Are, swam across the| » Charles River from Cambridge to “ Boston when he had, an errand to, do. He refused tq cross by the =~ C= Boston Univéraity bridge. | =n Fogle Creek plan end planting et the home of Mr. ond Mis, y Fe ther Plays Double { # z = Edward S. Dowling, 6067 Garver Road, Indianapolis. Part at Wedding | ay <7 ' COLOR IN YOUR YARD May we’ take the opportunity this Christmas day, to bi GRAND RAPIDS, Mich... Dec.! ; thank o fri , ! yy 10 (UP)—Henry Vanden Bosch, Among the dwarf evergreens, flowering trees and shrubs at Eagle ur _many riends and customers, for their con 49; played a double role in a Creek, there " o de range of oles ond exturg. A Sciied side ti d t : - ge i landscape orchitect knows how to select and place these, so that rat an ) i mint ett auve thi a Merr your yard is ever changing with the season, and olways beautiful, H . on pa ronage, tet and may you enjoy a riage to Roger Marsman, then be- | ) . appy New Year. , ERR Ww SELECT SHADE TREES NOW New Year. the sesond half of the ceremony. Ch Fo. , J | d Sal —————— ristmas Shade trees carefully selected and properly located, add both color Ee - ’ Factory Authorized 0s & Service nd comfort to your home. Now is the time to fselect ond trons4 . Parker * Be er] To our Friends and Patrons the — 1 ol lant them. Remember thot » we serve customers ‘within 100 miles “ os doy Lis. Sood Food § of the nyrseryy. } a - er A r i. wo Rpr © Frterbrook > LCN ® Norma Multikoler EAGLE CREEK NURSERY 0. 1 ¢ HOOSIER ; Wt + 82nd St. and Lafayette. Road (USS: 5) I x U i hol ] EN SHOP y a. 5k TEL, CO. 2361 INDIANAPOLIS ~od " WE i TY 4 . It " ’ Mec v : ” hi - - a - ; 3) 5 - — . + A 4 EL 3 ed " i i a ul ERY Y i A Be ' i 'y a 4 ly » vy v
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Hope State B loss was $1344
BID FOR AIR SEYMOUR, Sen. Homer E. today had a bl proposed air 3 mour civic off They also a E. Jenner (R. diana Congres: nearby Freen site. i The first leg i arate alr acad { * In Congress b) i The former Air Station a Atterbury, nea lumbus, also h for the acaden
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