Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 July 1950 — Page 11

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Makeshift Booze

NEW YORK, July 31—They tell you of runs on sugar, of nylon and auto tire forays, of stripped grocery shelves, and you can say it is only- temporary hysteria which is bound to blow over. But it looks like real business when a liquor salesman says that the inventory of Scotch is momentarily nil, that the price of Scotch has been raised abroad, and finally that the first consignment of cane-spirits gin was offered his customers. This, I hate to admit, could be the first swallow for what may be a long and parched series summers. There are many horrors to any war, but among the first rank of atrocities were the tipples they worked off on civilian and soldier alike in the last business. I do not know who got the good booze—all I know is that I didn’t. It is my best guess that the stuff the people choked down us was a subtle form of sabotage, shaped to wreck morale and weaken us at the roots.

Oh, That West Coast Beer

NOBODY KNOWS, today, what became of Scotch-type Scotch, or the people who made it and sold it to a rich and thirsty population, but the assumption is they committed hara-kiri when the peace came, just like Goering, to avoid lynching. What happened to the odd Portuguese and domestic brandies, ‘what happened to the canespirits gin—these are happy mysteries, because I don’t even like to think of them in retrospect. As for the West Coast beer—pure essence of green gall—they shipped to the Pacific troops— well, the War Crimes Commission didn’t ferret out enough culprits. It is unfortunate that people take a little wine for the stomach’s sake, and doubly abhorrent to the bluenoses, but it is a matter of uncut fact that In times of stress people are apt to crave.a snifter of something to lighten the pain of fear and

I recall that I once lend-leased a jail, in Italy, into which I was forced to place an entire guncrew, which had grown so playful on Italian Marsala that they had confused each other with the enemy, and were happily proceeding to a massacre. I was also present, once, at a celebration of Bastille Day, in Casablanca. Two officers (and gentlemen) of the American Navy, fired by a combination of pink Moroccan champagne, com-pass-cleaning alcohol and grapefruit juice, spearof yheaded a parade of 5000 Senegalese troops, bowing to the cheering populace until the gendarmerie led them away. , This shows what can happen to a fighting man who has been nurtured on Bourbon-and-Branch, or even a decent brand of gins ersatz and his better nature is submerged. He is beckoned to degrees of folly he would not contemplate had the octane of his alcohol remained constant, He sasses Ris superiors, and, if he is a civilian, becomes detrimental to the home front. I hope, fervently, that if we proceed into another emergency, the government will stand firm on the allocation of nerve-balm, and will set up a rigid system of control. Manufacture of some types of makeshift booze should be punishable by a penalty reserved for people who fabricate dud shells and inferior explosives. Anybody who attempts to sell a type-type anything should be shot without trial. If Mr: Truman needs an administrator for this governing board I willingly offer my services, and would not think of accept-| ing a salary. {

: Gullet Is Important, Too IT WAS Napoleon, I believe, who said that an

army travels on its-stomach, and I hasten to ap-| pend the postscript that the gullet is important,

boredom and death and taxes. too. Having sacrificed all my taste-buds and Soldiers drink. Civilians drink. No matter trachea-lining to the last unpleasantness, I am what you do to combat this unfortunate habit. ill-equipped to survive this on-and-off. hot-and-soldiers and civilians alike will find wavs to beat, cold conflict unless a Bureau of Standards keeps the curfew on guzzling. They will make jungle-" a stern and firm eye on the output of grownup's juice of old field jackets, seasoned with brass cough syrup. One visitation of Scotch-type Scotch,

polish or purchase the native brews at Lord knows what expense to their innards.

and we will all switch to Vodka, ably what Stalin has in mind.

Ed Sovola, author of Inside. Indianapolis, is on vacation

Paging Webster

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WASHINGTON, July 31 — President Truman facilities He said they meant factories. to make! wants the legal power to take over whatever guns and such as that. Not farms. facilities he needs to fight the Korean War. “Facility is a good word,” he added. “I doubt That's fair enough, but what is a fadility? A if vou could find a better one.” barn full of cows? A field of radishes? Or maybe Of course, he said, if a farm full of dairy a team of horses? cows were located next door to an Army camp This question our statesmen argued at length, and the soldiers badly needed milk then he

the Senate's caucus room, where the crystal chandeliers these many years have shown on the faces of history's makers and on the midget that climbed on J. P. Morgan's lap.

Good Definition Needed

THERE WASN'T anything amusing about the discussion of facilities, though I do wish the

supposed the President could call. it a and seize it. He doubted this was likely. But he hadn't entirely convinced the Senators and in particular the one-time manufacturer of ‘phonographs de luxe, Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind.). Sen. C. said he was suspicious of the bill Mr. Truman wanted passed. Three times more he used the word suspicious, and he went on: “1 want to help pass a bill that will help win this Korean thing, but I don't want a bill that will put the government in control of everything] for the next five, 10, or 20 years.” Tne Attorney General said Mr. no such intention. Sen. Capehart said he still was suspicious. This caused Sen? J. Allen Frear Jr.

This book says simply that a facility is a thing which promotes the ease of any action. If our Attorney General could have quoted that, he might have saved a fight upcoming. J. Howard McGrath, the pink-faced boss man of all things legal in the government, sat down (D. Del.) to go harumph. | n the Senate Banki nd Cur b, ittee’s oe . { : Senate end Tprrency Committee's Suspicion Like 5th Column | lamps hardly had caused the turquoise on his “I HAVE heard the word, suspicion, used finger ring to glow, before the Senators were several times this morning,” he observed. ‘Sus-| demanding to know what the President meant by picions have caused more trouble in this world Wanting to seize facilities. than realities.” “What about this word?” Qian sed Chairman Sen. A. Willis Robertson (D. Va.) suggested Burnet R. Maybank (D. 8. C.) in.accents so that the talk about facilities and suspicions was southern it was difficult to understand him. using time too valuable to waste. He urged “And what about the President's power to seize speed on getting the bill, known as the Defense them? Some people think that it would give Production Act of 1950, to a vote. He aid he'd | him the right to seize a man’s farm if he felt like it. Can't you think of a better word?” McGrath thought. He put his chin in his fist, and thought hard, but he couldn't improve .on

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the committee would stay on the job Saturday. g The chairman pleased him. And I went lo¥king for a dictionary.

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‘Never Again’ By Harman W. Nichols

WASHINGTON, July 31—Men, don't ever sit You'll find yourself with one happy girl in your corner and a lot of others who would just as soon give you finis, gunwise or razgorwise. I tried it a few times before, and should have known better, I tried it again. Same old story. This time it was one of the semi-finals in the eontest to select a Miss Washington, sponsored by radio station WWDC. The finals winner goes to Atlantic City in September with a chance for fame and glory.

Certainly a Cutie

THERE were five of us judges in the jury box. The gal we picked—most of us—for first place was Geneva Tomlin, a 23-year-old brunet. She was a cutie"all right, 22 hat size, 35% inch bust, 24 inch waist, 368 inch hips, and size TAAAA shoe ~—to take the measurements from top to bottom. The losers looked daggers.

There were four categories for judging. Talent, face, figure and charm and personality. For talent, Geneva gave a dramatic reading. A scene from “Alien Corn” by Sidney Howard. ’ She did very well. Also fine on the face department, the figure, and the charm and personality. ~ I can’t tell Geneva whether she's going to weather the storm of the finals in Washington; or how she might fare in Atlantic City. But if she gets in the big league of beauty business, I can tell her this: The competition is rough. The judges there are not amateurs, like IT am. They look for more than shapely shanks, figure and talent, They look for poise. Like knowing

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how to handle your knees when standing up there| in a bathing suit before the judges. Also like knowing how to walk down the ramp while show- | ing off an evening gown. There has been a rash of leg, or cheesecake, art recently of kids competing among our various| states for the honor of going to Atlantic City. Let a tired old man give you competing girls a little advice. Almost all of you are going to go back home shedding tears. There is only one -winner. Sure, she is good for at least $50,000 during a year, plus a new car, plus a couple of minks, plus a new tele-' vision set, plus more posing for news pictures; than any little girl can stand. It wears a girl down. The 14 girls behind the winner also take home things like scholarships, and other trinkets. But, believe me, they earn ’em. Take a look at what these little lovelies gq! through. They all come to Atlantic City, thinking they are going to win. They are subjected to the| doggondest routine you ever saw. Breakfasts before the critical judges, luncheons. Grueling re-| hearsals. Locked up during the off hours and can't] even talk to their own dads over the phone. {

Sometimes There Are Boos

. SOMETIMES subject to the boos of goons among the audience in the huge auditorium off the| Boardwalk in Atlantic City. Maybe the kids will take back a sc holarship,| or nothing. But remember, fame is fleeting. One of the first Miss America’s walked without picking up her big engraved trophy. The press agent for the pageant now uses it] for a spittoon. And that's a fact!

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Cyclone Division Gls Bone Up

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As Indiana’ $ National Guard division began training at Camp

Instruction in the 50-caliber machine qun took up the time of these Hoosier National Guards. Atterbury this morning these tankers were in their Sherman, ready

men as the Cyclone Division began its field training tour. (Left to right) studying the weapon they might use in combat, are Pfc. John Gisler, 1635 N. Alabama St.; Sgt. Forrest Barton, 482 S. Exeter Ave.; Sgt. William Hayes, 1209 N. Oxford St.; Cpl. Dale Weaver, 440 S. LaSalle St., and Sgt. Ernest Langsford, 1124 Broadway, all of Indianapolis.

Huckelberry and Neal M. Boas. They'll button up in their tank when maneuvers begin.

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The Army's manuals still take second place to comic books among soldier-readers. Sgt. Richard Kirkham, 3838 Fletcher Ave., Indianapolis, takes time out in his bunk for some light reading. That smile comes off when the manuals come in.

Recreation has its role in training for war and these Hoosiers of the 51st Infantry Regiment “maneuvered” in the new pool at Camp Atterbury. (Left to right) are Rct. Donald Bruner, Pvt. Paul D. Edmondson, Pvt. William Roszell, Pvt. Russell E.. Bishop and Pvt. Howard McGuire. All are members of Greensburg’ s Co. B.

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Hoosiers didn't waste much time getting down to the business of learning how to line up a North Korean, or anyone else, in the sights of & rifle. Sgt. William Wise, 1217 N. Rural St, is squinting along the doughboy's favorite weapon. On the left looking on is Cpl. Cliford Summer, 2304 N. Gale St, Sgt. James Pagel also of 2304 N. Gale St. is at the right. [Photos by John! Spicklemire, Times staff photographer).

Some youngsters are bound to get homesick the first day at Guard camp. Here, Ret. Harry Canfield, |7-year-old soldier from Madison, calls "Mom" to tell her "everything is OK." Soon he'll | be too busy to do much more than write a letter home now and then.

About People—

Cheap Radios For Iron Curtain Attack Held Possible

By OPAL CROCKETT |paper with legal action. The film: The “heig ht of immorality.” ac- ager . of Coe College, Cedar 1 ‘ iat: " wasn't shown. ~ "carding to Boriard N. Baruch, is Rapids. Iowa. | RCA engineers “believe” they can turn out the radios needed aw reached by those Former student -of Shortridge

to take America's story to Communist-ruled peoples, Brig. Gen. | Indianapolis Press Club. mem- who profiteer at High School here and graduate

{David Sarnoff, board chairman of RCA, said found in Washington. bers will have to learn about. the home while of DePauw, he joined DePauw's ble to mass pro- birds and the bees from someone American sol- staff in 1934 managing the uni- |. may Ue possible P p Charlie © haplin, film come other than Dr. Alfred Kinsey, In- diers fight versity's real estate holdings be|duce miniature radigs for $2 eac dian, said today he forced can-!diana University professor and abroad. The el- ing named comptroller in 1946. and distribute cellation of a {author of books on sex. He re- der statesman, # a = —r them behind the planned showing [fused to.speak;at the club's instal- who last week Betty Hutton, film star, in-

|1ron Curtain, he said. “There are {ways to get those receivers behind the Iron Curtain,” he added. He urged that ithe “Voice of America” broadcast program be

of one of his silent films when he learned it was being used to raise funds for a left - wing hews- z paper. The Daily People’'s World had advertised that a

lation on any subjéct, on a day of his choice, Dr. Kinsey told M. W. Fullington, member of the club's entertainment committee, he speaks only to scientific groups because he’s busy with Iresearch. Receives 10 to 12 invitations to speak every —day, he said.

dicated today tion with her exhusband, Ted Briskin, may be in the making. “We're still in she- said,

urged Congress to impose immediate controls on wages, prices and rents, declared vesterday in Washington that that would call after arriving in to the colors” and Chicago to visit “those who would until Wednesday.

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expanded a nd a (showing of ‘The The-Rev! T. L. Livermore of profit and profiteer” is con- Shes. juat ye ' vested in a gov- =+Circus” would be A \ London said today that brides temptible. e Mr. riskin ¥ grnment agency Hen. Sarnog held as benefit Mr, Chapin) arriving late for the ceremony at 8 a2 >» and hinted they of cabinet department rank. . performance: for. the publication.’ his church will get a “quickie” Howell H. Brooks, comptroller may soon have

The acter said he talked with ceremony to. make up for the lost of DePauw University since 1942. anannounce-

“Voice of " pr tiv is Vaice of America” resents 4. 1has been named business mad ment to make.

that a reconcilia-