Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 August 1950 — Page 23
og with him. Disaster seemed to be In the air. Often "The last time I saw the oak, it had 14 lesves you get a premonition before you suffer a great and was growing so fast you could almost hear loss. Oakie was deader than a baseball bat. ; new sprouts popping. The tiny oak meant a great One wicket was gone. Oakie had been snipped -. deal to a lonely bachelor. Oakie was all I had. in half. He hadn’t been stepped on. A sharp inHe had his beginning . 21, the first day of strument was not used. I'm not an expert but it spring, as an acorn. Joe DeYoung, great tree looked like someone had clipped him off with a lover and stalwart in the State Forestry Division; thumbnail. What difference does it make? ce 2 —aEt. . the Oakie's gone. + If the guard hoops had been bent = torn up, as if running and playing children d passed’ or el ayer Gave Blessing through, I would feel better., One could call it an ee MAYOR FEENEY gave us his blessing with 8ccident. Nothing malicious. ' the project. It was in keeping with the “Boost In- It: Oakie bad withered and died from a rare| dianapolis” drive going on in this corner. I was disease—well, a man has to take his chances. You| : particularly happy because our work can't question the forces of nature, they Just have, es sii imme mem - - - — to be — which people could admire would be left behind; If someone felt an urge to hurt me, T would,
for, watch develop, The spring rains came and
SEL RIF SS
to my friends. _Oakie grew fast and straight.
money was no object.
Better to be safe than sorry.
We were both happy.
work, small as it was; I had something to care protect.
' acorn. I was there the day it happened. A tiny, pink leaf, like the finger of a newborn babe, so helpless, so soft, reached out. The sun came with his warmth -and every living thing in University } Park was restless and happy with secret promise. Weeks passed. Watching Oakie grow from a helpless wisp of a sprig, barely able to see over the tops of the blades of grass, to a sturdy young fellow eight inches high with 14 leaves, gave me some of the happiest moments of my life. Hoosier Monmapt. Co. graciously sent over a granite: supplied = Pablum. (fertilizer) and congratulatory messages —poured in. I almost bought cigars to pass around
build sort of a play pen for him. Cost money, but He needed protection. Someone might inadvertently step on him. So heavy wire wickets were placed around Oakie.
When Oakie was dry, I gave him water. When the grass grew around the stone and His base; -it was cut. About every week Oakie got vitamins.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1950
Plenty Of Work On Eround
much rather ha
awakened the conceivable.
the crime is all
Soon I had to
Why?
you want to hate people instead of trying to understand them. Of course, hate is the easy way out.!
Oh, the Pity of It All WHAT SADDENS ME fact that he is gone, is ali the things Oakie could have been, the beauty he could have added ina &DOE Of 08K gr Er TE SATE RAE PROV CTR TE WORRY THe" extended to those who approached him. Oakie ‘had a bright and useful future. i So, today my heart is heavy. Today no picture is printed with the column. picture of Oakie. stump, wire wickets and a stone, which might just as well be Oakie’s gravestone now. | Should a man once more to build his hopes and dreams? they worth the fears that go with them? What do you think should be done? _ Imagine clipping off” a small oak in a park.
them come right up and try to
punch me in the nose instead of destroying a planted thing in a park. Such pettiness is in-!
If Oakie was destroyed for the sheer pleasure of destruction, simply because he was alone and anyone could see becausé of the wickets and the stone that Oakie was important to someone, then
the more vicious. Almost makes
greatly, besides the
I wish I had a You can’t take a picture of a
plant n?
Are
Should he try}
eo |
No Groceries
+ few itemg of chow:
at 7% cents a pound.
Wanted an Even Break
34.95
would a Briton, a Frenc
a Pakistanian, an Egyptian, a or any other foreigner.”
is an American citizen who pays
~~ of “fair figgerin® x man is has already paid for.
: to 19317).
. The butter and cheese, Agriculture said, can’t be sold to U. 8S. consumers because it would only force the government to buy
amounts on the open market to
! be President Truman’s secretary.
y sum Candy Co. Everybody had i he, and everybody was trying to
| Pays $1500—No Sugar
_...Mr, Lubben, but he never did “sugar quota, as he indicated he
Lubben couldn't remember.
the Senator.
turer of Eatsum Candy. Three hours later, without the
. 5 RETR ONE YP A a
ture gallery. One Victor Messall
: NEW YORK, Aug. 24—Mr. Ed Pooley, a Texas editor, is a man who likes to take a full cut at 4 foolishness from time to time, especially when it concerns governmental double-talk. He has just embarrassed the Department of Agriculture rather severely by sending in his personal check for a
Mr. Pooley’s check was not large—only $27.50. All he wanted to buy was 100 pounds of canned meat, at a nickel a pound; 100 pounds of butter at 15 cents a pound, and 100 pounds of cheese
BROTHER POOLEY, who lives in El Paso and pays his income taxes by check, didn’t feel he was asking a favor. It is a matter of fact that our government is offering surplus foods to foreign countries at these mild prices. . “I feel sure,” Ed wrote Secretary Charles Brannan; “that -you-would-just-as-soon-have-an-Amer-fcan take advantage of such bargains as you an, a Dane, a Norwegian, an Arab,.a Greek, a Turk, a South African, Czech, a Hungarian,
This seems reasonable on Mr. Pooley's part. He
is his money which makes possible the sale of these bargain-basement eatments to a flock of, strangers Mr. Pooley does not know. On a basis
gven Tucak with tfangers buymg things he
Mr. Pooley will get his check back, with a sharp i note of disapproval. The meat was killed in Mex- ' ico as a result of our recent interference in their rt. hoof-and-mouth epidemic, and does not qualify for p ‘ all the inspection requirements under the 1931 Smoot-Hawley tariff laws. (What ever happened
1 | | But it does not work out this way. It seems
OPA Echoes
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24—There was this portly gent who lost his candy business in New York to the racketeers during OPA sugar shortage And there, too, was this rugged-faced individual in a Hollywood-style sports jacket, who used to
Talk about your 10-20-30 drammer! bated-breath business in Room 457 of the Senate Office building, where the Special Crime Investigating Committee was looking into the matter of thugs muscling into legitimate enterprises. ” ; faced one with the reddish
gang of hoodlums taking away from him is Fat- ben.
“HE EVEN came to Washington, he said, and patd-zbout-$1500:to-a-fellow. -who-claimed-he.once.. | was Mr. Truman’s campaign manager and had his ! walls plastered with photos of himself shaking hands with the big-shot politicos. He Smpresied
uld. Sen. Charles W. Tobey (R. N. H.) wondered - who this Washington wonderworker was. Mr.
“Perhaps during lunch you can sit down quietly with a cigaret and recall his name,”
“Sir, I don't smoke,” replied the ex-manufac-tine, Mr, Lubben came up with the name of the Washingtonian who owned the autographed pic- — So Sen. Estes Kefauver(D.-Tenn.);the-chair-
] man, called Mr. Messall, who just happened to be i in the room. He turned out to be a blondish
By Robert C. Ruark
on Mr. Pooley’s
The bargain
order, as required by the price-|
support law, This is known as bureaucracy in full flower, or how to make an enemy out of the grocer by not paying your bills. .
grub that Mr, Pooley can’t buy
is offered to members of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization for feeding” which is not supposed to affect ordinary commercial food marketing. The countries are required to pay their own dollars, not Marshall Plan bucks which we sent ‘em.
“supplemental
This last note surprises me. It seems eminently normal to me now that a nation which is on our
our own money Mr. Pooley,..
three cents.
large taxes. It
feast to an BUT THEN,
eye with Henry
culture, corresponding
hold up prices two points.
days.
This was Mr. Lubben
“Who's he?” blanket Jacket.
, David
an angle, sald “Well,
t his mone ge ¥ “My records Lubben.
in--the-
Messall.
‘suggested ator.
his clients. benefit of nicoof pictures of
I never saw you,” “and I never accepted a fee from you.”
“Yes, but 1 don't advertise it,”
dollar cuff should be allowed to repay us with
for foodstuffs procured through
our own taxes but not available to our own people. That is the grand design, and shouldn't be disarranged by making them get up their own dough. It spoils the motif.
being very disagreeable, points
out that the same butter which is being sold to the foreign friends for 15 cents a pound is being offered for resale in this country for 63 cents a pound, giving the government a profit margin of
“I do not like to believe,” Mr. Pooley writes, “that my government would deliberately hold up prices of the necessities of life to its own citizens and virtually give them away to other peoples.”
Ed’s Not a Visionary wi 8 nile
you see, Mr. Poole does Rott un-
derstand the grand concept of ‘global meddling. He does not understand how it is enriching to the soul to pay a buck a pound for meat when the| neighbors get it for 15 cents. He is the kind of man who would quarrel with the plowing under of little pigs and would never have seen eye-to-
Wallace.
There are many things entailed in getting their craft in the air, Indiana Air National Guardsmen learn at Camp Grayling, Mich. Sgt. Bill Wright, 2124 Broad- | way, holds up the proposed Utility Flight insignia any one of the 113th Fighter Squadron. The Utility Flight | is part of the squadron but
wants an insignia of its own.
gS po
No, Mr. Pooley is not a visionary economist, in the modern sense, or ‘even a follower of Lord Keynes. All I wish is he was Secretary of Agri-| or even President. straight line is still the shortest distance between
To Mr. Pooley a
By Frederick C. Othman|
citizen with a deeply lined face and a coat of alternate cream and chocolate-colored stripes. The fact that he was secretary six years to Mr. Truman when he was Senator and managed the latter's election campaign in Missouri .in' 1940, he said, made no difference. “I don’t know any Mr. Lubben,” he began.
He didn’t brag about it. stood up behind him and said:
“Well, I know you. I went in to see you with Lt. Frank G. Harris.
demanded -the one in the horse-|
said Mr. Messall, |
will show you did,” snapped Mr.
campaign manager?” asked “Sen. Kefauver.
snapped Mr.
|
“Well, did you brag to Mr. Lubben and show| were stabbed. him the picturés on your wall?” insisted the Sen-|
statesmen. “But I haven't ex-|
ploited them,” he said. { Mr. Lubben glared at him. Mr. Messall ad- out a rear door. justed his solid green tie to his loose-collared white] shirt and got out of there. for the time being.
End drama. At least
e's i
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Ensign McCallum, six-foot-twe, 170 pounds, whose live at Belvedere, Cal, took off with his
oths
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strafing vesize. Ab- icles he said, t quality. i saw some- CL roan gold, 0 Hooked Biiice a Mr-Thorp rs. » § gun emplacement and made a : couple of passes at it. ; » { “On the pass, he started h shooting at me.I got hits in the
engine and both wings and was so low I fouled up some telephone wires as I tried to get altitude.
n. “The engine was spitting but I managed to call 1 other p es -In
out. They led me out to sea. “I just got over water when the engine quit. I fired my guns and jettisoned rockets to get rid of weight. About five or 10 feet over
‘water my right wing tore off and
the plane plunged in. As soon as I stopped, water was up to my chest. “I was trying to get the life raft out when the plane tilted almost vertical, so I had to swim without the raft. I did have my Mae West on, bless it. i “There was an island not far away and I could see people on shore watching me. S80 I swam out to sea. Pretty soon I came to a rock about 20 by 25 feet that stuck out of the water 18 feet. “I climbed up on the rock. That was about 6:30 p.m. My watch was ruined. I cleaned up my 38a handkerchief and right. “About 2 a. m. there was just a foot and a a of rock weft. It
{
Foot-and-Half of Rock Saves u. S. Flier
By JERRY THORP, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer ABOARD CARRIER WITH U, 8. TASK FORCE 77 OFF and-a-half of rock, jutting from the Yellow Bea, provided a haven for a rugged Navy flier—keeping him from death at the hands of the North Koreans or from drowning. “I wouldn't recommend the experience to anyone,” said Ensign Elmer McCallum Jr., 26, who already has resumed combat flying.
| was sure a crummy feeling. Then the water started going down. was Tacky. T learned later that/™ tides are .not quite so high this time of year. “That was when boats began put-putting all around the rock. One character kept yelling, ‘hey, . Joe’ I was awfully quiet. They tried their blinkers, flashing U. 8., U. 8. I knew it wasn’t our boys though. Our boys would have] come on in. “Just after sun-up the characters in the boats started jabbering like crazy. By that time there was enough rock out of water so I could keep out of their sight. All at once they streaked off toward the island. I turned around and there was a British destroyer whipping up toward me. They had| me aboard in just a few minutes. “These British are great people, They really took care of me the several days I was with them, I had my own Chinese steward, I would punch a buzzer and he would pop in with a beer. They dressed me. in British uniform shorts.” Ensign McCaflum recited his experiences so calmly after returning to the carrier that a shipmate remarked: “Gosh, he ain’t
Sgt. Tr Sgt. David
Gardner, Southport, with hand on prop, watches . Reeves, 43 N. Vine St., putting coolant in the F-51 ! engine. In the background, Sgt. William Long, 4940 W. 14th St., changes a prop governor. Helping are Sgt. William Mayer, 2942 N. Colorado Ave., ar and Pfc. Gene ene Marks, of Fishers.
Before Fighter Zooms In
compares it with the old
Sa. Herbert Nierman, 465 E. Sumner Ave., 5s. Others in the phote (left to right) are Sgt. Ro os! Cple. Raymond Haney, 811 N. Colorado Ave. Mitchell, Greenwood.
Photos by Lloyd Walton, Times Staff Photographer, It's time for full-dress when the air guardsman gets busy on his details. Here, has Shipes stencilled on his new cover.
ert Fatout, 1932 N. Moreland and. Tech, Sgt. Herman
____signia and, of course, refueling.
Local Man Shot Malayan Terror—
In Police Chase
Another Captured In Anderson Burglary,
Times State Service
ey two Be today shot {and seriqusly injured an Indian{apolis man and captured his com-| | panion when he returned to the|
Mr. Truman's one-time helper said he'd been|gcene of the crime, relations. business. here. since.. 1941...
“If St-John's
and he'd represented 150 firms and never had any; with bullet wounds inflicted by| complaints.
| pursuing officers is Clinton Crab-|
COTEbtree = Has been sought Indianapolis police since Satur-|
[tavern fight in which five people
"An Anderson
{ cruising past Murray's
Mr. Messall said he'd never bragged to any of Market, north of the business And as for his photo gallery, he's district, at 2 a. m. today when been here 17 years now and has a large collection| the policemen saw one man inside.
the store, As they drove around the store to check, two -men fled]
|
“Hospital mere, British-held-Singa |—it is a manhunt.
|
[tree, 25, of 133 S. State Ave, —
{in an equatorial sea of 8 million destroyed in a fire.” (yellow, brown and black faces— | {represent the hated West.
“Police pursued them across va- |
cant lots which surround the] store. They fired a volley of shots, {hitting Crabtree, who called: “I, {give up. I'm shot”. His companion got away.
‘Police spottea an Indianapolis,
Sy parked three blocks from the tore. At about 5 a. m. today an-.
{other car with two men in it drove!
alongside the parked car. One
him. The driver of the second!
vehicle fled.
Officers identified the second | man as ‘Francis Manuel, 25, .of
1521 Carrollton Ave. They said white civilians, 20 white policemen and 170 Tommies and at least his clothing matched the descrip- 700 Oriental supporters.
tion of the second burglar. Manuel and Crabtree are both held for investigation in a second-
Sheets said.
orderly conduct, violation of the
tion of property, drunken and reckless driving, receiving stolen
I
goods, second-degree burglary: and a paternity and contempt of
court action.
DRIVER KILLED BY TRAIN
even, shook up.”
BY munists “and ca
|day night in éonnection with a/munists for this objective: ‘Kill all white people and their (supporters, sabotage their, Saual EF Was] property, weaken the land [traveling ina jeep when they Super for the “inevitable” Kremlin
strait-jacket. To the manhunters, the 20,000 fired on. An Indian railway guard!
quences of such attacks and you'll understand why large sections
degree burglary, Detective Walter Of Malaya are paralyzed today. “To seek out and kill or capture, Crabtree has a long record|the 7500 (estimated) with Indianapolis police. His rec-/20,000 Tommies, 70,000 police and ord, which dates back to 1043,(1500 Malay soldiers daily comb shows 20 arrests on charges in-/the jungle, and units of the Royal cluding. assault and battery, dis-|/fleet sweep adjacent waters. The British are also manhuntfirearms act, malicious destruc-\ing But picking at the green jungle is like seeking a bedbug in a mountain of mattresses. Still, they've managed to trap and kill ‘1000 outlaws, capture that imany more and hang more than
300: (Tommy is not as eager to finHARTFORD CITY, Aug. a ish off the foe as you might (UP)—William J. Davis, 85, was/think. If a patrol kills a bandit killed yesterday when his car was it has to bring him back to town |struck by a passenger train Sere.ifor identification, And it's back-
By FRED SPARKS, Times Foreign Correspondent SINGAPORE, Aug. 2¢—Unliike Korea, the battle for
r ol cut- ‘throats
were ambushed.” “The night train from Singa{pore to Kuala Lumpur was again
t_Europeans—easy to spot was killed. Most of the mail was/
“The body of a 8akal, who had been murdered in Perak by the
The guerrillas have adopted the| guerrillas, was found yesterday| tactics of the mankilling tiger who in a river.” (The Sakai, a peacelives in the jungles which blanket | ful, backward jungle people, have Malaya — a lonely peninsula as {been loyal to the British.) large as England.’ They never do fair battle. They leap-and-run. Read today's police report and tin dredging company in Pahang you'll quickly understand the ma-last night.” ture of this manhunt: “A European police “officer, a as suspects in the recent burning (Malay police sergeant, and two/of a rubber refinery jn Singapore man got into the Indianapolis car special and police immediately arrested killed in Perak today. They were damage.”
Nearly 100,000 Hunt Criminals
“An attempt was made to mur{der the European manager of a
“Four Chinese are being held!
Malay constables were which did $2 million worth of
By terrorism of this kind the bandits have killed roughly 40
Small figures, true, but consider the nerve shattering conse-
Sreaking. business to lug a body over mountain trails where hours are measured in yards, not miles.) Here is today's report of government successes: “Security forces killed two Chinese bandits during a jungle patrol near Ipoh area. Another escaped after throwing a grenade, which failed to “explode, at the patrol.” —'"Police raided a Jungle camp near Negri Sembilan today. A quantity - of Communist docu-
assassins,
~Mataya is not-a-war',
. ay )
After plenty of work, two F.51s take to the air for summer. maneuvers. Where the crew cerned, the propellers are right, the engines are in A.1 shape and there's plenty of fuel. The are of the 113th Fighter Squadron. Tomorrow the ground crews will do the whole thing And on it goes, day after day. And with each day come new stripes, horseplay, discussions
In other parts of the globe
‘Shadow Army’ in Singapore Inspired by Russian Leaders
Strike Swiftly, Predpoesr] in Jungle. ELEY yw po
the servants and puppets of the
Kremlin are lighting and fanning the fires of disorder, sabotage
and rebellion.
Malaya where a jungle manhunt.
CR “bandits
~“A unit of Royal Marines
killed two bandits in the Kuala!
Kesong area. Three members of the patrol were wounded by a bandit hidden In the roots of a tree.”
__Times Correspondent Fred Sparks, . reported. on. the. of a Red army in Soviet-held Germany, is now. in Singapore
-pinis down British troops.
The. first of Mr, Sparks reports from Singapore Ti iene Son en wg Chit BARAIC Was sh Bo
dead while attempting to musdes a rubber planter on an estate in east’ Johore.”
during a raid on a wm south Johore.”
‘Malays Waéakened for Red Chinese Push
These attempts at slaughter and sabotage are zapping ability of the~people to resist if and when China's Red General Mao gets his Moscow-stamped travel orders-to march on Singapore.
It is a fifth column actively at work. ‘
"So far it has failed to incite popular revolution. In any election
now I'm sure the jungle-jumpers bill in Milwaukee. By personal bravery and prodi-| gious effort the flow of rubber and | tin has kept the great harbor of| Singapore busy. * —This-is—-not-only -vital—-to--Ma-; laya, but to the economy of the] free West for this peninsula is/ England's largest dollar earner. Still: Joe Stalin is winning the opening skirmish of the battle for Singapore, and meanwhile, British troops which e¢ould be used in Korea are pinned down here as thoroughly as if they were crouching in a foxhole. The manhunt costs the British almost $250,000 daily. Englishmen and Malayans are dying here.
‘would do as well as an anti-beer
Americans and Koreans are {dying south .of the 38th. French and Indo-Chinese are dying outside besieged Saigon.
4 Burmese are dying on the road
to Mandalay. | Filipinos are dying in the rice paddies of Leyte, Luzon and | Samar, | In not one of these five “littie™ Oriental wars does a single Rus sian endanger his skin, The main man to be hunted, wisely enough, {isn’t here, | Yet the Soviet Saten. is the inispiration, if not guiding |genius, of these wars-by-remote jeontrol. | TOMORROW: Creeping ter For in the jungle.
. Hit-Run Car Drags Dragged three blocks along a pavement when struck by a hit-and-run Clif, 6-year-old Glenn White, 649 Locke St., was in fair condition today in General Hospital. The boy was crossing 16th St.
at Cornell Ave. when the car);
struck him last night. He was
hooked to the bumper and” was rg
dragged to 19th St Veluy falling Wissn si theca, cotati
sr
Boy Three Blocks
ing four persons, did not stop after the accident. The boy's cheek was gouged to the bone and the flesh was torn bone-deep from the back of a right leg.
of the i otra
—“Three bandits were shof