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out raking and rowing, whatever garden. Naturally, the State Fair was on my mind. reason for talking to Diane was that I write a column that might be a tribute 4-H boys and girls, !
ready out at the Fairgrounds. This was for next winter. Maybe for the needy around Christmas. We got around to talking about her gardening. Diane’s eyes lit up. She loves to work in the garden, One look at her mother revealed the true pride of a mother in a child's work. =~. “The garden is her pride and joy, and that it supplies us with all the vegetables we can eat,” said Mrs. Ellenberger. While I munched tomatoes that were almost too nice to eat, Diane, with some coaxing, told me what ghe accomplished. In three years she has accumulated 38 ribbons, At the Marion County Fair, Diane won class’ championship ribbons in gardening and canning, and two blue ribbons on 4-H record books. - Her gardening projects have brought her seven blue ribbons and three years in a row her vegetable :
year, Diane’s 4-H record book won first place at the State Fair,
Mrs. Ellenberger told me Diane does most of 4
the cooking during the summer when the canning starts. Just before I left, tomatoes bulging in every pocket, Diane opened the door to an old
—brought. blue_ribbons-at. the -|
Maybe I'm old fashioned old or a country boy at heart or just a guy who thinks a square meal on the table is important, but to me the sight of mother and daughter, working side by many was a of a chatint-
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They consider themselves
Blue ribbon girl . . . Diane Ellenberger, at 13, forgot more about cooking than some women will ever know.
Old Home Ghosts
By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Aug. 31—Old Marse Robert done snuck down South the other day, to roam his ancestral acres—one-quarter acre, ‘to be exact— and see how Grandpa Adkins’ old house is coming along. The house is coming along fine. The mortgage likewise. We even got a new ghost on the premises. But that so-and-so mocking bird who lives in the magnolia has got to go. The bum is eating up all my figs. : . For the benefit of the late-comers, about a year ago I took down serious with a fit of sentiment and drifted off to a little hamlet called Southport, N. C. There I retrieved Grandpa Adkins’ old house. Grandpa Adkins’ first two names were Ned Hail. He was the sea-captain-grandpa, The character
It was a brick house, too.
“Finds House a Mess NED HALL'S house in Southport was a mess
when I got it back last year. The roof was falling in. The wiring hung like mildewed gallows-rope,
and it's a wonder the old place hadn't caught fire
years ago, being built out of ancient resinous heart-pine. : The back porch had sagged away from the main structure. The plaster was peeled and the inside was all beat up. After nearly 20 years of careless tenants, the yard was a jupk-heap, and the old Smyrna fig tree was a disconsolate sprout in the middle of an ash pile. No self-respecting ghost would have been caught alive around such scurvy surroundings. Well, now the roof is new and the wiring is fixed and the yard is pretty. The magnolia bloomed and the pecan tree bore and even the fig tree yielded a couple dozen fruits. There's
_fresh paper and paint and all sorts of fancy doings. Yellow paper in Mamma Adkins’ room
and a floral nightmare in Ned Hall’s room, that keeps his ghost restless. a That's what Uncle ‘Rob says, anyhow. Uncle Rob is a retired engineer, and he and Aunt Mae
Owen’s Shadow
look after the place for me. Uncle Rob keeps hearing the old man walking around. Not that Uncle Rob believes in ghosts. Uncle Rob says: “It isn’t a matter of whether there are ghosts
E |parture.
A Tuesday on the General Patch for fi Stuttgart,- Germany,
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1950
Bauer Drops Deportation Fi
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Yields to Avoid Tries Chorus Girl Mom Parting From | me
caused former Ft. Harrison soldier Frederick Bauer to give up a five-year struggle against deportation to Germany. Mr. Bauer yesterday signed a voluntary waiver in New York U. 8. District Court, withdrawing a court appeal fighting the deportation order, ei ' He did so after immigration authorities ruled that his wife and two children, both of whom were {born after he was interned on Ellis Island, could no longer stay| iat the federal deportation site with him. Deadiine Tomorrow Deadline for his wife, the former Wilma Hite of Rockville, to leave the island with two children is tomorrow. They will be supported by the New York Welfare Department pending de-
Bauer and his family will sail
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Photo by Lloyd B. Walton, Times Staff Photographer
‘Yesterday as he signed the : y y Chorus girl and daughter , , . ‘Mrs, Barbara Young spends spare time between rehearsals with
waiver Bauer was wished “good
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“ib. state police from the Jasper post.
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In Bedford Dual Shooting :
Poolroom Owner Found Slain %
. Times State Serviee ~~ BEDFORD, Aug. 31-—A Heltonville house painter was sought today in the “triangle” shooting of his wife and the slaying of a pool room operator, Charles Willis, 52, was found dead early this morning in his poolroom, with a bullet wound in his temple. Mrs. Charlotte Martin, 44, wi taken to Dunn Memorial Hoepital, Bedford, in critical condition with two bullet wounds in the stomach. . Her husband, Glenn Martin, 48, was being sought by the Lawrence County sheriff's department and
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Accuses Husband
Sheriff Zelbert Hawkins said Mrs. Martin accused her husband of the shooting. The sheriff said Willls and Mrs. Martin had been arrested earlier this week in Heltonville on a disorderly conduct charge and were fined after plead ing guilty. Willis’ body, hunched over a couch in his poolroom, was found after Martin sent the Heltonville . undertaker, Leston Jones, to the scene, Sheriff Hawkins said. “He told -the undertaker to go
luck” by Assistant U. 8. Attorney Harold Raby. : “Thank you,” he replied. “You might as well send me to Moscow.” His wife, who was at his side, cried angrily: “My children’s birthrights have been stolen. They can take my country away from me but they can't take my American guts to fight.”
her 3.year-old daughter, Darlene, who is shown trying out her mom's makeup.
Glittering Burlesque Show Guardsmen Given Has No Backstage Glitter Job Protection
‘Line’ Members, Some Married, Face Strenuous Adjutant General
By IRVING LEIBOWITZ
or whether they ain't ghosts. It's the foolish things they make you do when you are trying to make up your mind whether they are ghosts or whether they ain't ghosts.” From what I heard when I was in Southport, Ned Hall's ghost rousts up about 5 a. m., which
is the time the mocking bird knocks off his lonely|
concerto in the magnolia tree. Pa’s spook walks through the upstairs—momentarily disconcerted by the new bathroom at the end of the hall— and then tippytoes out for his spectral cup of coffee atthe pilot-house;,-and of course, an-early squint at the sea. ; . Ned Hall's shade inhabits the waterfront un
in scarred rocking chair the piazza. a “the rocker Flom +g
it in the house. Said it bothered her asthma.
all you hear out of Ned Hall until 5 a. m. All
told, he is as docile a h’ant as you'd ever care!
to meet. Not at all surly, like my incend! folk and causing the cows to curdle their milk.
He's a Pleased Ghost
UNCLE ROB says Ned Hall will never burn this house down, because he is a pleased ghost, while Grandpa Ruark was a chronically displeased ghost. Come to think of it he was a chronically displeased live man, too. Nothing suited him. The mocking bird in the magnolia, Uncle Rob! claims, is the ghost of the original inhabitant. | “He's grayer'n I am,” Rob says. “He's too old to be alive.” I put no faith in this because I caught the hoary old troubador in the fig tree, ea _his_head .off, and no.ghostly-mecking : drills holes in figs. Momentarily'I am saving for an air rifle, and Marse Robert will shortly have a report on whether this fowl is composéd| of flesh or ectoplasm. Ghost-bird or no, he better keep his bill out of my fig tree. .
By Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31—I always thought
_ the cavernous marble halls of“the Senate Office
building would make a good setting for a detective story, Little did I realize, even as I was thinking about it, that a rip-snorting Sherlock
Holmes saga was taking place before my unsee-
ing eyes. How was I to know that Sen. Owen Brewster
—{R.. Me.) was in fear of his life? That the little
guy without front teeth was Abner (Chick) Lappin, accused of shadowing him into the caucus
room? —And—that the big husky with the cold blue eyes, the wavy hair and the bulge on his hip -
was Police Lt. Joseph W. Shimon, the wire tap expert, retained by the Senator to trail the lispy Lappin? a
Outcome Still Vague
THIS TRUE-LIFE detective story still has not reached its final chapter; I have only the vaguest idea how it'll turn out. The clues are what the
Senators of the investigating committee call con<’ fusing. Somebody obviously isn't telling the truth.
The tale, as I gathered it from sworn evidence, goes something™“like this: A mysterious citizen started dogging the footsteps of Sen. Brewster about the time he opened his investigation in 1947 into the operations of movie and airplane magnate Howard Hughes. Wherever “the big, bald gentleman from Maine appeared, his human shadow was close behind. This worried the Senator. Was somebody looking for an opportunity to conk him? He got so concerned finally that he called in Lt. Shimon, the super-sleuth. They took a stroll through the senatorial corridors. The Senator walked in front. The cop in mufti paced three yards behind. At the elevator ‘outside the.caucus room, Sen. Brewster
The Quiz Master
| . nodded his head toward a snappily dressed indi-| vidual with his mouth tightly shut. “Put the finger on him?” inquired Sen. Claude Pepper (D. Fla.), chief of the investigators. -- “You might put it that way” replied Lt. Shimon, fingering the golden badge on his chest. The lieutenant identified the little man as Mr. Lappin, whom he'd known a long time. That night
ing, with the Senator in front, Mr. Lappin behind, and the lieutenant behind him, Next thing anybody knew. Lt. Shimon was setting up wire taps at the Charlton Hotel, and trying to install microphones in the ventilators at the Mayflower, seeking to learn who hired Mr. Lappin. Exactly what he did nobody knows, be-
cause he never reported to anybody. All he did!
was send Sen. Brewster a bill for $283.20 to pay his hotel bills. So fine. Mr. Lappin. : :
tq1| Dish about 8 p, m., when it takes up its old gation : ou ! That's where the| old captain used to go to smoke his pipe-after supper. Mamma Adkins wouldn't let him smoke
About 9 p. m. the stairs groan as Ned Hall walks up and the bed creaks a little and that’s
grandpa, who was given to frightening the colored
Rehearsals for 40-Week Stand Here Probes Firings
The French-born Bauer was accused of being a German spy while in service at Ft. Harrison here. In Federal Court here he {lost his U. 8. citizenship on the {finding that he once had joined {the Germany army. Bauer, a naturalized American, contended he told authorities of | his forced enlistment in the army {and that the deportation was the result of a political plot stem{ming from his photographing Indiana “brass” with nude
“Chorus girls wanted.” That's what the newspaper ad said. “, , , No experience necessary. Apply dally to Fox Theater." I always wanted to go backstage at a burlesque and see what was on the other side of the glittering footlights, It doesn't glitter. I found the show girls fitting costumes and getting ready for
opening today. In their street a clothes they looked just like girls Gets 1 - gars in street clothes. And they were, Some were married, some were B c single. thind the girl in the chorus.” J. P. Cheatham Awaits Show girls don't dance, — Transfe r to Prison . They just strell, pose, sway--{barely moving while the chorus John Paul Cheatham, 22, to- line kicks and whirls. day awaited transfer to Pendle- Have Lots to Learn
ton State Reformatory to serve a 10- to 20-year term on a- first:
degree burglary conviction. ithe orchestra pit.” Ro atham oan Pen ‘Costumes change every week, temporary positions. yesterday in Criminal Court 2. A And the girls have to furnish| Yesterday, State A jury returned a guilty verdict their own makeup and shoes. after 20 minutes of deliberation. p {smiling and parading to music Cheatham was charged with| ans steady work. | Some of the married girls bring | mer maneuvers. a
erans Affairs today announced that ‘all National Guardsmen called into federal service will be entitled to job. protection’ while they are away, : At the same time, the Indiana
beginners were given jobs as! industries,
positions when they return.
| | The beginners had lots to learn. ers are not. covered by the proAlways follow the girl in|Visions of the Selective Service
front of you, “even If she falls into | Act, which guarantees re-employ-
stealing $460 worth of clothing and jewelry from the home of
The State Department of Vet-
Adjutant General's office opened Most of the girls had an investigation of the reported previous stage -experience. The! firing -of Guardsmen byprivate
“show girls.” That's the girl be-| Harvey B. Sout, state service. officer of Veterans Affairs, said all Guardsmen who leave private
will be automatically: As Comm ln entitled to reinstatement in their i an
He said that many state work-
ment rights, because they hold
dj. Gen. Robinson Hitchcock said he instituted Forty weeks of posing, strolling, the probe of firings after| ©. Guardsmen complained they sa were released for attending sum-
The latest such case reported]
up
-there.-was.-a.- parade from-the -Senate-Office-build-|
‘The investigators called]
Frederick and Wilma Bauer « « « threat of separation ends five-year fight.
Honor Member of Year
The Indianapolis Optimist Club will honor its “Member of the Year” tomorrow noon in the Sevlerin Hotel. The recipient of the (honr, who will not be known to the membership until his name is announced, is chosen for his work on behalf of the club.
SERTOMA CLUB MEETS “Dr. Ralph M. Roberts, Rich mond, Va., president of Sertoma International, spoke to the Indi-
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the Marott Hotel.
Dr. Adolph H. Schmidt, R. Oct. 17.
ing on a Louisville man, to whom, Some of the married girls Cheatham tried to-smuggle-a det- mitted their-husbands-didn’t ter written in jail, Tuesday. The the idea of them parading around! letter hinted the had been burglaries.
anapolis Sertoma Club today in}
R. 14, their children to rehearsals,
Police sald he also was im- the management.
plicated in several North Side the girls who have worked there! burglaries.
for years have special privileges. Hubbys Oppose Idea
Meanwhile, police were check- | ad-|
{sville man the stage. Others said that once involved in some of the their husbands met the rest: of] oe JA the show people “everything was | okay.” y ! Cat Fit | Every girl was emphatic that : | people misjudge “burlesque peoFRANKFURT, Germany, |ple.” Aug. 3 (UP)—A family in Muehldorf, Bavaria, was enjoying a mushroom dinner last night. Suddenly they noticed their cat writh- ° ing under the table. Papa, who had given the cat some of the mushrooms, rushed the family to a hospital. They had their stomBack home they found the cat still under the table. But she and seven new kit tens were “doing well.”
“We're just like anyone else,” one girl said. But she wouldn't let me use her name,
a 10-day sentence at hard labor
and two days of rest,
eo. ofe ; Civilians to By KENNETH BUSH -One hundred and twenty-nine
Lies, all lies, he said. He added in passing that' adults were ready today to add
the dentist still was working on his choppers, and that was why he could not talk any more distinctly. He said he did not know Sen. Brewster, except on sight, that he never had shadowed him anywhere, and that he was no sleuth. Rather, he said, he was a press agent.
Quotes Howard Hughes SO MR. LAPPIN quoted the late Sen. Josiah Bailey (D. N. C.) as saying Sen. Brewster wis a political prostitute he believed guilty of tapping his phone. Mr, Lappin also quoted his friend Mr. Hughes (whom he met once in Mexico City with Cary Grant) as saying Sen. Brewster had tried to blackmail him into merging Trans-World Afrlines with Pan American Airlines. ‘Wow! Take it from there, Sherlock. Dr. Watson, maybe, can hand you the needle. The mystery at this writing is too deep for me.
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What is the largest single source of state tax revenue? . General sales taxes are still the largest single source of state tax revenue despite sharp rises in corporate and individual income-tax receipts. . ® & 9 How should the flag be flown on Memorial Day? The flag should be at half-staff until noon and at full staff from noon > Sumter, ce ; wr
the United States 18 the Koma: Catholic. The second largest is the Baptist and the third Methodist. | ES ’
Where was allspice first grown? Allspice is strictly an American product in spite of efforts to introduce the allspice tree into the East Indies and other spice-producing countries. Its name is derived from the resemblance of its * flavor and fragrance to a combination of spices, with cloves, Nulmey anq_ciansmay predominating. > ; * 3 ‘Who was the first of our Presid ts’ wives to ‘have a college degree? Lucy Webb Hayes. goed How_frequently does the chai:. Uniteq Nations Seony. Souned change? . rotated mon
[lives at 1128 N. Missouri St.
8 for safety to the three R's. Children walking to and from school will again be directed across . streets by 129 civilian guards who will augment police traffic control in school areas, Part of the group met for instructions yesterday in Municipal Court 4. Typical guard is Mrs. Jean Dooley, mother of three youngsters of school age. Mrs. Dooley,
guard duty for two and a half years, Assignment to her post Sheldon St. and Roosevelt Ave, {came after she voluntarily as(sisted children across the busy street. Her three children are Ronald, 10, Russell, 8, and Margaret, 7. All attend School 33, . Policeman’s Father W. D. Shoemaker is another long-time guard. He has. been at his assignment for three years. Father of Police Cycle Sergeant Leonard Shoemaker, Mr. Shoemaker guards at Lincoln and East Sts. Mrs. Georgia Fields, who has been with the -guard for four years, is with School No. 4. She
1544 Shelton St. has been doing |
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practice that is frowned on by came from Lt. James Cashman, But some of |419 N. Rural 8t., who said he
like CASes were reported.
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will now mean eight days of work gj
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‘Charles 8. Preston and- Forrest Nim off to the poli ; iW. Davis, listed as candidates Cohen, who arrived in Wichita
filed In Lake County to place on to retirn to his hotel.
{members began
lost his job when he returned)
from Air National - Guard exer- | cises, ; | Gen. Hitchcock said two other!
Progressives Ask To Enter Ticket
Party Still Active Despite Wallace Move
By NOBLE REED Pre on the fighting through
Although the national organi-
ROSEVILLE, Cal, Aug. 31 ization of the Progressive Party (UP) —Prisoners at the Roseville gisintegrated with the resigna-| jail went on a five-day week to- ition of Henry A. Wallace, the Inday, the same as other city em- diana group today asked permis-
The Marion County Progresve Party with headquarters at
petition with the local Election
635 N. Pennsylvania St., filed a {
candidates for the Legislature on the county election ballot,
They are: Willard B. Ransom,
for state representatives. Another County Files A similar petition has beén
the ballot one candidate for State Representative, Jean Barbier. ©
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Marion County Election Board, the |
checking party's petition of 1490 signatures. Under the law such peti-
. {tions must be signed by at least
1019 legal voters. If enough legal signatures are checked out, the Election Board
is expected to approve placing the | |names on the ballot."
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Two Girls Bruised In_Auto Mishaps
Two 5-year-old girls today nursed cuts and bruises f separate mishaps with automobiles : i oF
Ye v : Donna Jane Nicholas, 311 E. 224 St., was treated in Methodist Hospital, She was brushed by a cab driven by Benjamin Bovard, 1545 Shepard St. as she started across 22d St. in front of her home. rn Marsha Copeland, 1503 Massachusetts Ave., ran off the bank of
- Too Sulit in doing u good Job, ) a yard at 1019 Windsor St., into were slugged. . wa or police say. Accidents among gg oy ; the side of a car driven by Paul| Police believed the Jug hay ip of th school children going to dnd. from Sgt. W. C. Harkless, Indianapolis Police Department, explains McCain, 1610 E. i2th St. Her} baen dropped.or hidden tn hoa order ofcent since the safety group was he proper use of safety signs fo civilian safety guards Mrs. Jean | 4104 doctor to treat|short time after the and was : private holdup organized in September, 1945. Dooley, 1544 Sheldon St., and W. D. Shoemaker, 520 Weghorst St. leg cuts suffered by the took to jal. Boe ; ish ik 4 > bela, ali a
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| : i 6 ’ Texas Puts ‘Bee yees: % ~~ sion to file & ticket of candidates, Police Chief William Elam said tor the Nov, 7 election. 1
[31 (UP)—Los Angeles gambler
ce the names of three
get his wife, and that he'd shot ther,” Sheriff Hawkins said. Mr. Jones went to the poolroom, a block and a Half away, but in the interim Mrs. Martin had {made her way to the funeral {home and collapsed on a porch. {She was rushed to the hospital in | Bedford.
Walked Away
The sheriff said he learned that Martin then went to the home of Eithe! Hunter, three blocks north of the poolroom, and told Mr, Hunter: pi. “It's all done, now. I suppose ithe sheriff will be here In a little bit. There’s nothing I can do about it.” \ ie | Martin then walked away, {leaving his car at the Hunter home, Sheriff Hawkins said. Willis worked in a stone mill and operated the poolroom as a sideline, the sheriff said. It had been closed for several weeks,
Gl Lives in Style Of Air Base
SOMEWHERE IN KOREA, Aug. 31 (UP)-—The field telephone rang while the air base was under attack and a 19-year« old private answered. : “Private First Class Tompkins, e commander, speaking,” he
He wasn’t kidding, Air Force Pfc. Stanley K. Tompkins, of Kirksville, Mo., was
colonel's electric razor and helping himself to the colonel’s liquid refreshments. He also slept in the colonel’s bed-—when he had time to sleep, ~ “ . 5 PFO, TOMPKINS was the only Air Force man left at the base. All the rest had been forced to pull out by a North Korean ad. vance but Pfc! Tompkins volune teered to stay behind and keep communications open for groun: troops defending the ‘base. - And he did. ‘Throughout the
Force Advance Headquarters knew they could get solid infor
Pfc. Tompkins, the “youngest colonel in the Air Corps.”
On Mickey Cohen
WICHITA FALLS, Tex. Aug.
Mickey Cohen, hunting for a henchman who left him holding the. bag for a $25,000 bail bond, {decided to get out of Texas today |after two tough rangers roused 'him from his sleep and carted ce station.
Falls yesterday on “oil business,” was fingerprinted. and- photographed before he was permitted
| The pudgy Title gangster was asleep when Ranger Captains M. IT. (Wolf) Gonzaulles and Bob Crowder rapped on his hotel door. They told him to put on his |clothes and accompany them to headquarters. “Mickey decided to leave Texas of his own free will by air ime {mediately,” said Capt. Gonzaul- | 1s.
Ring Taken in Holdup Found in Police Car
A’ cigar store owner who lost his diamond ring in a holdup Aug. 21 had it back. today. It was found yesterday under a seat cushion in Police Squad Car No. 27. The ring was identified as the property of Angelo Ministratta, 60, of 2163 N. Illinois St. It had been tori from his finger by one of three men who staged the $1300 robbery. : Mr. Ministratta, his partner, James George, 42, of 1129 Central Ave. and several patrons
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