Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 November 1950 — Page 13
«by block fighting for Seoul (and remember:
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wo IN E NAME of a big neighbor, Indian:
{ aetls, I tried to help a little neighbor, Beéch , yesterday. . Little neighbor needs a library. in front
added to the $15,600 Beech Grove already has in its library
"After a half day’ Ss work on the Circle of the Canary Cottage, $21.68 will be
and civic center " fund. Dr. Leon 2 FL W. Berger, presfjdent of the committee, says his town needs $50,000 to start “building nex t spring. Well, $21.68 doesn't sound like much, but there's consola~ tion in the thought that it's better than. nothing. And you can't disregard the spirit with which the donations were “Merry “A n y thing that is cone for the children is good,” said a woman as she stipped a half a buck into the jar. One of our eity detectives came . up - with
this thought: “I got 5.10% of on: Neighborly act . . . Needed:
joyment out of One library in Beech Grove. a library when I was a kid." The officer dropped two chunky pieces of silver. Several parents leading=small tots sent them over with coins to “the hank for other nice boys and girls.” A little fellow was reluctant to part with a quarter, but mama twisted his arm and
It Happened Las st Night
By Earl Wilson
NEW YORK. Nov. T-Alwayz wiliing .to help youse people learn about things chichi. I've been frolicking around wearing a $50,000 diamond anklet. That's right, dolllling, anklet. On my right ankle, which is shapely as a fireplug, I've been lugging 50 carats of ice. held on by. a ducky green ribbon and two diaper size grafety pins ..and the keeeeeutest bow! Aforesaid foolishness started because Peggy Cummins, the lovely British acdtress, was chosen ‘“the- gal with the most gemlike gams.” David Gurfein, a diamond importer, .lent her a $£70.000 diamond anklet, hoping mebbe that N.Y. dolls. would want to ? wear diamond anklets to the Met Opera opening. “Diamonds are an Faris best friend. Bud,” I gaid to Gurfein, quoting my old friend Hal Block
“*How's ‘about Jetting me wear that ice around tonight?” SSure,’ said, generously hq “It's insured.” First thev asked me, “Which of vour legs is prettier?”
“1 really have no favorite,” I blushed. timidly hitching up my pant legs to let them choose, Ty & > THEY TOSSED ME for it, and when I came down on my head, my right leg had won. which would 1 wear—one worth 30 Big Ones, or 50 Big Ones. or 70 Big Ones (Big Ones being $1000 in Broadwayese.)
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“Morocco dipping her fingers in a demi-tasse.
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Helps Beech Grove Library Fund Drive
everything came out all right. Hell learn the virtue of generosity if mother has to break his arm. The girls in the Cottage sent out $1.75 in coins. Mayor Al Feeney stuffed a ‘$5 bill in the | jar. Cracks. like “Let them grow up stupid” and’ “Why don't they move into the city?” didn’t make you feel 50 hot. I doubt, though, if those people really meant what they said. af Whenever you work. ini public, you rum inte - all ‘kinds of people. I'd like to mention Anthony Brooks, a native of Wales. Mr, Brooks, who is 71 years old, is a landscaper by: ‘trade and philosopher and poet by choice, SSB
HE TALKED at some length of hisWales and how much pleasure and comfort books have given him all his life. All because of his early experiences with books. “His interest in them never flagged. Mr. Brooks slipped a dollar bill into the jar. Beech Grove has a real neighbor in. Mr, Brooks. One woman chatted for a few minutes telling how she would be glad to give for a library but circumstances prevented her from being neigh: She needed a job to make some money so | -she-eould buy a set of false teeth; ~~ ~ “Without teeta it's hard fo find a job.” she said. “But if I don’t get a job I can't get teeth.” People sure have troubles.
Anyway, come spring. Beech Grove hopes to start on the Hbraryv and civic center. Harry Fleenor was appointed chairman of the landscaping committee recently: He has gone into action already. & wo THE PROPOSED site of the building will be
the wooded section bail field along Main St. the creek and beautify “We should have a beautiful we're through,” said Mr. Fleanor. I hope so, Neighbor Fleenor. I've always heard “where there's a will, there's a way.” The $21.68 wiil buy a couple shovels and picks. At least you won't have to dig with your bare hands,
by “The Beech Grove footTownspeople will dredge its banks.
library when
Broadway's Latest: Anklet of Diamonds
Then
her maid came in, flung the 75 G's worth down, and sad : : “Migs Wilder. I had more fun wearing your bracelet to parties Everybody thought it was real.”
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THE MIDNIGHT EARL
« « Frank Costello
has a sense of humor. We asked him how he got so tanned on his vacation, and he said: “Played golf. That's my racket. His WHAT? . +. TV folks bet that Fave Emerson and SKkitch Henderson wed by Christmas (then do a Mr.-and Mrs. program, maybe?! . .. Elise Gammon, who aids Don Ameche on his TV show, is the new "Migs ‘Rheingold. Bad boy Max Cossman Weber, who escaped {rom a Mexican jail. is believed in the U. S. mavbe N.Y. plotting to slaughter Happy Meltzer, now under probe in
Philly, or Mickey Cohen. fritz, Perle Mesta's Wash'n succes
Mrs. SS0r,
Gwen Cawas at El Explained it revives her. Henry Morgan's slated for a twice-a-week late T v show .’» Lovely Jane Harvey's singing is one of the attractions La Martinigque's offering ro .
EARL'S PEARLS . .. Jean Carroll, Latin Quarter comedienne, tells us the famous old cannibal saying: “One man's meat is another man’s person.”
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WHO'S NEWS: Margaret Truman's sure Democratic. Joe Smith (of Smith & Dale). introduced. her to His Mrs. ‘as just “Margaret.” . ... Orson Welles, plumper now, plans a-#4Rovie in Rome about the bandit Guiliano. Ilona Mas: sey about with Charles E. Denney of NBC. . Jack O'Brien's boek- on Godfrey, published by Harold Crofshian, will come out in one-half million copies. ‘Sexiest- looking figure in town is
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. Lawrence Burnell and Sheriff James Cunningham (left to right] . ocralic workers Se election turnouts with sheriff candidate at 2d Precinct, 9th Ward, 13404 E. New- York St. Mr. Burnell is precinct committee man.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan W. Smith . . . Republican candidate for sheriff. pulls curtain lever as he prepares to enter voting booth in 10th Precinct, Ware Township, s at Warren Central High School.
Mrs. Andrew Jazobs (left), Rep. Jacobs and Election Clerk . the Democratic candidate and his wife voted ery today in th Precin ct, 21st Ward, which is at School 70, 510
and poll workers Mrs, . Brownson got a hearty greeting from election
Republican Congressional Candidate Cheer Bronte (left), his wife Dorothy P. Shufelton and Mrs. Marvin Lugar . . . workers at Shortridge High School, where he when he brought them a jug of coffee. Mrs,
“I'll take the cheap little 330.000 number,” 1 luscious Renee deanmaire in “Les Ballets de. aid “Paris” at the National. yo “That's retail and includes the tax Gurfein.____.___ ot Lr explained, practically. B WAY BULLETINS: Pat 0 Brio n's wife, >a a Eloise, Is Rory (Toot's. son) Shor's godmother . Rocky Graziano’'s manager Jack Healy, I WENT limping off to Kl Morocen:-where bought Cliff Guffin’'s Sutton House Restaurant Hopalong Cassidy, Carlton Ai2op and others were Jd Gardner's in from. Puertd Rico. Yene
furious with jealousy, then to Toots Shor's where Dean Jagger, Henry Morgan, Jack Carson, Lew Parker and numerous others said by golly a diamond anklet is just the thing they wouldn't be caught dead wearing.
Later . Morgan apologized and said he would be. caught dead wearing it, but that's the only place he'd be caught. : : The trouble was that.I had to pretend I had
a bite on my leg all the time to have an excuse to haul up the pants leg. £ Ey “What lovely gams vou have Earl" said ~several lovely girls, interested _ for the first time in playing footsie with me. I got home safe but, in the opinion of several
people, far from sotind. 2 idea me_a lotsof the time Honeychile
Wilder, the | from a jewelers and ‘forgot for Ihree days t4 return it - when she found it was gone! Worried her head off, poor girl,
for a weék.
“The: Second Team By Fred Sparks
REGIMENT IN
and returned to the Coast
vegetarians roots,”
sadolescence and maturi ty answering the teacher's
“MBUNTAIAY a
Fowler completed his research on Jimmy Durante . Cafe Society's singer Harvey Grant's been dating Gloria De-, Haven. Marion ‘Hargrove \joined Argosy . Who gave Peggy Maley that fabulous white mink > . Cotillion ‘Room's Sianley Melba is very i]1 Dope peddling fo be next “scandal facing a
few cops . Today’s Daily Triple Ann Ruth erford at El Morocco with Billy Bloomingdale and at “21” with Ernie Byfield Jr o .
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TODAY'S BEST. LAUGH: “Politicians ars nothing but straw votes and |/TAss — Jerry Bergen at the Old Knick.
DR oe D2
WISH I'D SAID THAT:
“Trouble is there
are too many Democratic and Republican Senators and not enough Unite States Senators” Ed Ford, borrowed a $75,000 necklace
Dancer Rosanne defines the transition Vetween as "when you go from questions to questioning
the teacher's answers “That s Earl, 7 Drothe T,
“Ain Reds Use I. 8S, Arms, Young Spies
WITH THE 7TH MARL NE Northern Korea. "160 “road wii HERTH FO REA Net GER Thin Chinese. from. Manchin S-the-east-ropgy—y— RE Ia Si ight gay, ja the second I sbeak fo. lighting+ Marines. and here I {ist iy what they have told me about the dew foe whe li The North Korean ARETE SFP Hire- “ied: has Burt, ASR sommes SEE ror ONE: “He is very expendable. They overran
Ivan—who has yet to be discovered on this battlefield —belongs to Stalin’s first team. How does it feel to these Marines to be all of a. sudden fighting the second team-—a : better team? One Leatherneck ‘put it this way: “It's as if you were slugging it. out in a barroom brawl with a fellow. You're licking him when suddenly there's a cloud of smoke apd when it clears he's a foot higher and can punch twice as hard.” : In the last 48 hours I've seen these Marmes convince themselves that this Chinese team is a much better team The fighting ability of the new ‘foe is visible to me as 1 stand near the battalion aid station get up inside a tent with damp straw on the ground. Down the nearby 2000-foot mountain, comes a stream ‘of wounded and dead boy Marines. Two hundred. casualties from this regiment in 48 hours. More than at any time since the block This was to be the home stretch). . ‘Some wounded are brought down roped together in stretchers lowered along the siippery tire dar
one of our machinegun posts by sacrificed bodies. piling up dead and screaming of their muzzles. (Regimental figures 800 Chinese our guns in a 48-hour period!)
a tarzan- like yell when charging.
crawl for the rest of my life or time I hear if a bugle blow,”
durance—"They're mountain goats.”
padding straight up the side 8f one angular slope in a frontal attack. '
night terror and guerrilla tactics —infiltrate after dark, quiet as mice. sters as *
sters—10 to 14—assigned to- CCF. They walk around the ‘Marines’ pesition during the day —slip back to give the Chinese the lay of the land at night. gave them candy bars.’
__and | moves like an _army-—not like the careless:
sheer weight of They kept coming and coming, wounded in front ay But they kept coming grounded by
TWO: These CCF-ers use pugles, whistles and “My skin will
said one Marine.) They have incredible physical en They came
THREE:
FOUR: They're all nbvious ly well trained for
They've ‘been? using young ‘line runners.”
This regiment captured a dozen Korean youngrould
(Said one Marine: ‘ “After we
dn
FIVE: The CCF is organized and efficient.
Ing _peak:hopping air ambulance of this cari’
aign. : - me +P 5 & &» o> 35 i at
MOST of ‘these casualties are from ome pat: talion, badly mailed by the Chinese on thé mountain outpost, surrounded and cut off for almost 36 hours and fed by air. Many of these boy Marines have been shot _ and killed with American weapons—Thompson submachine guns and mortars . . . all these nasty instruments of modern warfare we gifted to Chiang Kai-shek. All of them. now the propefty, ™ victory and’ “By i phinder, of Chinese Communist tarces (the CCF) are now turned agaion us “here in the.
at camouflage amd have picked the stickiest part of North Korea to engage us—the. country is similar! to North Italy where ‘the Nazis blocked ‘our drive for a frozen month.
tars they have. Japanese rifles (collected after Nippon's imperial drive folded) and Russian burp guns, small arms and T-34 tanks. have been unable. to bring up our 45 > whig¢ h the south simply ‘won't take their bulk.
rable of North Koreans ha ~ fired a few shots, and fled. 4 : They make excelent use ‘of “terrain
Who In Weeks paar sosse away their guns
are good ed
SIX: Besides American Thompsons and mor-
(So’' far we -tonners : Road bridges to
ran clobber the T-34.
. , Com nant, 1930. for The Indianasoiis Times
Counc Shuts Rent Curb Vote
Extension Now Post-Election
About People—
‘Still My Sweetheart,” Says Truman of Bess
President Recalls First Meeting During Talk Near Independence ? Proshyserian Church
The * First Presbyterian Church in Independence unfor gett: able me mory
Political Faiths Show * Widely All Over Town
Party Faithful and Paid Workers Join in Twin Choruses, ‘We Can't Lose’ By CLIFFORD THURMAN
cation of a Liberty to sires rot the chiral Ds —June--the President .
City C ouncilmen 12st nig Bell, replica across the
iFg-buttonsand badges proclaiming The heard of elections. Tt ruled in fi i r - citing an 1898 decision attorne y general: “A person becomes of age for
has recommended they be contin-«a little blueceyen.
It is either coffee the more. SEubaan.
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spirit seemed body safe bet to say solitary -strang dianapolis home-folk friend
: “hust up. the monotony” This measure -was needed’ 1 : » was in order but - wrong place. She couldn’t seem to , * understand why.
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| Would Go Off Deep End NEFFS, 0, Nov. 7 (UP)—Elev« jen of the major mines closed today in the coal mining area of Belmont County as carloads of Aphrodite Finales claims the miners went to vote.. title of New York City’s youngest Indo-China’s biggest rice bowl. A voter. She'll be 21 tomorrow. Gen: Mark Clark. chief of Army French spokesman said pressure
‘The 28th. Sataciry Division has REDS TIGHTEN ‘been credited with the best health
sisted, sometimes carried into the, record in the Fifth Afmy head- (UP)-—Communist ‘forces tight-: ‘voting-places and in other cases |quarters, carrying babies escorted in and out of the polls announced today. by anxiolis workers. Joters and the hordes working’ field forces.’
cars, crippled persons were - SAIGON, ‘Indo- China, Nov.
! Svar Wes Wins Vote
B. ened today their "Squeeze near ‘commanding general Hanoi and the Red River Delta,
{mothers One miner here, when asked
if he and fellow miners were. takAn amazing knowledge of state! |ing the day off to vote, said: will visit the camp southeast . of . the big northern history enabled her to vote today. | He will be welcomed’ copa vl Hanol had become ithe When her slection board refused | “number one problem," .
“Hell, yes, and if Taft gets heat we're going to take tomerraut arpealed to, You." :
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