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ing in the galley offered him a chance to put away all the chow he could handle. The boy did all right. He's ready to hit the books. Shooting the 40-mm. guns was SA Ralph Harney's meat. Harney lives at 3005 Sharon Ave, He was first loader on one of the USS Hyman's notma. » “This was a pretty good deal” Harney said. SR SA Leo Carr, 5321 Sunset Ave. rates the Panama cruise the best of three previous sea rides. Carr went to Bermuda twice and Puerto Rico
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The men are arranging a big preview of Lt. Lauch’'s production. So far there's one hitch. Who's going to bring the beer? Great cruise. Great bunch of guys and I venture to say, Lt. Lauch has nothing to worry about except how to cart empty cans and bottles away.
By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Jan. 23-1 can always tell when I am back in New York, because they always have a crisis of some kind. If it ain't O'Dwyer or a transportation strike it is either gambling scandals or water shortage or Frank Costello and I dunno which I need less. We will cite this water thing, which is new to me, if not to you. I am taking my usual shower in a cabinet which not only has a down-pourer but boasts some sidebar sprays. I am using up fluid like crazy, and getting reasonably clean in the process, when the factotum runs in and gives a horrified yelp. “Washing!” says the factotum, as if I had been discovered pilfering the piggy-bank. “You not only aren't supposed to wash in it, but you're not sup‘posed to drink it, either, The department of health just got out a bulletin saying water was harmful to the insides, They say you can dig your grave with a water-glass.” I muttered something about water unmixed with bourbon being apt to have a corrosive effect on the inner man, which was grandpa’s theory and good enough for me, I kept on sozzling in the shower and the factotum screamed again.
The New Black Market
“HONEST to Gawd,” the factotum said, “they will put you in jail for this. This is the new black market. You aren't supposed to be clean, not if you are an honest citizen.” So I cut off the spray and mumbled some more about being a tax payer, but that doesn’t make any difference. Cleanliness is next to ungodliness in my home town, and there is a thriving black market in car-wash-jobs—8$5 bucks at the autoeasy, or sly-shampoo shop, and if you ask for water in your whisky you get sneered at as unpatriotic. I suppose there is a serious water shortage, and next week there will probably be a serious air shortage, and then we will run out of grass this summer, or some such, and if this is civilization I am tired of it. They ought to organize it better say. like my reprehensible friends, Hal Davis and Herb Landon of Keynon and Eckhardt. The firm
deals in public relations, The boys’ handling of the water shortage is.as superb as the resolution of the grain shortage by Mr. Chuck Luckman, the late boss of Lever Bros. By late I mean not currently present. Hal and Herb stuck me for a lunch check, which is automatic heresy in the huckster set, anyhow, and suggested that they were going to cure)
the abnormal, illegal use of water by a piece of
powerful public relations. These would naturally be in the interest of Borden's Milk (plug) and its subsidiary exploitation medium, a radio program called “County Fair” (unplug). “We have a letter from Cmdr. Merle Macbain in the Navy,” crowed this devilish team, which once flew three cows to Greece to prove an,obscure point. “He says the way to save water is to take a Navy-type shower. He says the Navy's rule for taking showers is ‘wet down’ turn off, soap, rinse, turn off.’ This will save at least 20 gallons per shower. “Now,” says Mr. Davis, a recently ordained vice-president, “We have this pretty model named Paulette Hendrix from Savannah, Ga., and we will 80 shoot pictures of her taking a shower the Navy way with a gob hat on. In return for this free lunch you are allowed to come along.”
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Ruark Gets Dispossessed SO WE proceed to the hotel which is supposed | to supply the free room for the publicized shower | and there is no stall-shower, at all, and they must | have a stall-shower for Miss Hendrix to be taken| a picture of, in. I remember that I have a stall-| shower and before I can wiggle out of it I have]
been hi-jacked of my shower, |
So Miss Hendrix is in a bathing suit, in my shower, using up my water, plastering herself with soap bubbles, and posing for shot after shot in her cute little navy hat. This will save water, they! say, but it does not save my water, which I am
not allowed to use to erode my own grime. And| 5
so again I say if this is etvilization I will go back | to Funa-Futi and also that is why I know I am/
back in New York. This is the citadel of culture where we do everything the hard way.
Plot Thickens
By Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 — Sen. Herbert R. O’'Conor, the Baltimore, Md., Democrat, was trying to explain the fuss about basing points and this, in part, is what he said: “The Senate amendment to this section defined the term ‘the effect may be’ to mean that there is ‘substantial and probative evidence’ of the specified effect. The amendment to this section adopted by the House would define the term to mean that there is ‘reasonable probability’ of the specified effect. The compromise language adopted by the conferees to this section sought to define the term to mean that there is ‘reliable probative and substantial’ evidence of the specified effect.” That, it is plain to see, is why the gentlemen are snarling at each other. All I wish is that somebody—maybe Sen. O’Conor—would come along and explain what is a basing point, anyhow?
Glossaries Didn't Help Him
THE BOYS have been battling about the basing point now for two years. Last year when the argument was going hot I sat with ‘em for days, trying to learn what the shooting was about. They even passed out special glossaries to explain the special language that surrounds basing points. All I got for this effort was a headache. 1 wrote a piece for the papers about basing points, suffering over every word, but I finally. filed it in the wastebasket on the theory that you'd never understand it, because it didn’t make sense to its author, On second reading, that is. The months have passed, the battle has grown bitterer still and this time, so help me, I'm going to tell you about perhaps the most weirdly complicated subject ever to give a hard-working Congressman the heebies,
Say you mail a letter. That takes a three-cent| stamp, whether it goes across the street or across the continent. The short-haul letter helps pay the freight for the long-distance one. So, fine. | These many years the makers of cement, | sugar, steel and numerous other items have fol-| lowed the same system. A sack of cement made] in Pittsburgh cost the same in Philadelphia as it| did in Boston. Pittsburgh was the basing point)
and freight rates made no difference in the cost]
of stuff shipped in the Pittsburgh zone. | Sixteen years ago the Federal Trade Commission said the cement makers were bamboozling| the customers with this postage stamp system; it| claimed that a sack of cement shipped a mile and| a half ought to cost less than the same sack! hauled halfway across the continent. charged the cement boys with restraining trade by setting up hocus-pocus freight charges.
| High Court Said They're Illegal THE CEMENT makers went to court. Fifty! thousand pages of testimony, 49,600 sheets of ex-! hibits and 14 years later, the Supreme Court ruled that basing points were illegal. It held, in effect, that the further away from the mill a sack of cement went, the more it should cost. That started such howls as you never heard before. One business chieftain after another testified that the ruling would bankrupt him. Others said they'd have to spend millions moving their factories closer to their consumers. So the House passed one bill makirg it honest to use basing points again, The Senaté# passed another, slightly different. They can't agree on which is best and I can only presume both sides | know what they're talking about. I've listened carefully and 1 don't.
Woman Slashe By Husband Dies
Mrs. Dora Stover, 69, slashed puai
Hospital where her husband was reported in critical condition today. Harry Dell Stover, 72, her hus-
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ting Mrs, Stover several times during the argument, police said. A roomer, Carl Schultz, 20, found Mrs. Stover critically
wounded in a chair Wednesday|sevelt's
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morning. Her husband was found [ened ron contended against discrimination of all kinds, exempli-
in another room with his throat
cut. Mr. Schultz sald the pair/fying the “American democratic had argued most of Tuesday spirit and temper at their best.” night.
Police sald Mr. Stover later
| I admitted striking his wife with a Girl's Lawyer Ponders ‘flashlight and cutting her wrists. Appeal in Slaying!
A razor and corn knife were found covered with blood in the house,
cm ia Mrs. Roosevelt Civil Rights . . Wins Geist Award | NEW YORK, Jan. 23 |Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt won the $500 first prize today in the anIrving Geist during an argument Wednesday awards for the most distinguished in her home, 728 E. Pleasant Run contribution to interfaith and in-
terracial understanding for her ral g Pkwy., died last night in Genera. United Features
The awards were set up in 1948 by Irving Geist, New York businessman and philanthropist in|the campa - band, wounded himself after cut-|cOOperation with the Newspaper| Sana. yesterday. a in 3 Guild of New York for editorial material appearing in New York City newspapers. The judges said that Mrs. Roo-
BRADY, Tex, Jan. 23. (UP) Mrs. Sandra Peterson remained Mr. Brown stated and petitions
Backing Sought
Petitions demanding the ouster Dixiecrats in Congress and urging immediate action on President Truman's civil rights program were being circulated in In‘column "My diana today. 8 » | Edgar G. Brown of Washington, D. C., director of the National Negro Council, launched
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tures in Indiana yesterday in Indianapolis churches. The petitions, addressed to President Truman, Vice President Barkley and Speaker Rayburn urged passage of anti-lynch legislation, repeal of poll tax and pas- | sage of non-regregation and nondiscrimination laws. Mr. Brown sald signatures were |afixed to petitions in Indianap-|
effectively re-
Case other Hoosier communities. Goal for the state is 100,000 names. The campaign is nation-wide,
Mrs. Stover had been an In- in jail today while her court-ap- Will be circulated throughout the
valid for the past several months, police sald. Her husband is a reker. |
pointed attorney studied whether COURLTY. - to appeal the life sentence given DIDN'T GET TO DINNER
She Dr IpIon, “but her T6F & Hiteh-hike slaying, CHICAGO, Jan—28 (UPy=Mry.
Hved In Indianapolis 28 years.
Ind. Methodist of shooting Lewis Pat. jsweetheart, Jack A. A brother, Ernest Massy, aleo/terson, 34, of Brady to death cause he Tuled to Koop a he had given her a ride,
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'olis churches yesterday and that #pilled the beans about the whale the campaign would be carried to of a time we veterans had “down
Americans Evans, be- en and slow horses.”
C. A. Garver of R. R. I, Russiaville, a sheep-shearer the Hoosier way the past 15 years, watches the new method.
Earl M. Hankins of R. R. 5, Peru trys his hand under direction of Mr. Warner. Object of the Australian method is to keep the animal relaxed, off its feet, so
wool may be clipped clean only once. Going over the skin more th wool.
Warning to Veterans—
Aussies Spill The Beans On
By FRED B. HUBBARD Times Foreign Correspondent SYDNEY, Australia, Jan. 23-
Calling all ex-GI's who served in Australia: ‘ Somebody, fellas,
| “military men were nothing but bored and saintly during their “stay.” | That, however, is not the way {ohe national newspaper here remembers things. Out to give Mr Ruark's “mama” a ‘true picture”
has just
”" ' y " “ under.” Be on the lookout for mi Way jin Mown the angry wives . . . and frying pans. "Blast of the Wolf Some Americans are currently We Yanks. recalls Smith's intent on painting’ tame pictures “blew into cities like the blast
of how Yank servicemen behaved of a giant wolf whistle. with a {here in wartime. Even columnist single mission--dames,”
Robert C. Ruark, visiting Aus-| “The only thing that could side-| ~with-his-wife, says-he-e of choco-| chased only fast wom-|late ice cream.” : ‘ American's “concentration ‘on Why says Mr. Ruark, a veteran sex and food are two wartime Australis himself ‘lasting impressions A 3
For € Speed Aussies Are Top Sheep Shearers, Hoosiers Learn
Picture Story by Henry E. Glesing Jr.
sheep donated for a sheep-shearing school for Hoosier farmers, part of the Purdue University farm training program. Conducted in a barn on his farm, the school demonstrated a relatively new "relaxed" technique of clipping sheep—the Austra-
= -eame ttpci-them-was a tuttl fruitl sun-| Mys. Peterson, 18, of Somer-|Rosalle Lynch, 40, today sald she “to explore mama's theory that dae with a double serve
of the most{magnet for floosies who an ed on them like a locust pack.
o PF re RR |? - R a » th Ww ge By BN RE Darrell Stoops of Sharpsville holds the sheep on its side, ree laxed, to try the Australian method. He took fourth place honors
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Ed Warner [extreme right) of Sunbeam Corp., Chicago, explains to 40 farmers at the school correct procedure of holding the animal so it does not jump when being clipped.
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Prof. Henry Mayo (right), sheep specialist from Purdue University, helps Wal. ter Weschke of Hartford City begin shearing operations. Prof. Mayo was in charge of the school, But Mr. Warner of Chicago conducted the demonstration on the farm, two miles north of Amboy. . Good Times Our Gl's Had Down Under have of the Yanks,” says Smith's. | The line Yanks shot the galsidearments, studied attentions, “They never seemed to treat sex|here also gets a mention from the| orchids, expensive gifts, taxis, and as an adventure, but more as an|paper, which recalls that “typicall IASBL club parties they got from acquired habit. {Bowery specimens put themselves! copyrieht, 1950. by The tudtanspolis Times “And eat! A large T-bone steak over as scions of old Philadelphia apd Chicase Datiz News. Ine, was to them a snack. They drank families or relatives of Hollywood 6 Held, Hunt $710,000 enough strawberry malted milks stars. of h G to give every cow in Australia a “Chick. : coops became spacious Aga K an ms strained udder, ranches, Ozarks shacks became! MARSEILLE, France, Jam. #8 “Worse than that they carried old South Carolina mansions. (UP)- French police. holding six around salt shakers to give our Hundreds of Yanks had person- men alleged to have stolen heer a bit of life. O ur beer, mind ally lunched with Tyrone Power $710.000 worth of jewels from the you!” or Carmen Miranda. They talked Aag Khan, today pushed a search Magnet for Floosies about their cotton-picking slaves, for the missing gems. That tale about there being only their seats on the Wall- Street - Lindsay George Watson, a forkangaroos in Australia also wop't Stock Exchange! « mer French army major of Scots hold water any more, Bays Australian girls, thinks Smith's, tish ancestry Who Wal KFrest Smith's: ; ‘have taken .a long time to adjust in Strasbourg Friday, appeared “Their dollars made them the themselves to a “Yank-free™ post-befors an examining rate descend-jwar Australia, "| here and was formany. : » 4 . “ 5 d ay g