Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 February 1951 — Page 11

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Inside In By Ed © Tndianapolis

MOTHER NATURE can put lea better than I can, Cheaper, pu. SaYes OR trees

If you are as tired of winter as I . am, you'll understand what motivated Operation Foliage. Wouldn't a bed of tulips and green trees and a half dozen robins give you a lift?

For a starter, more of an experiment th , an anything else, I bought two gross of - pgper -wleaves with wire stems frgbhm-decoratol's supply

house.” A gross cost $1.25.

+ Just handling paper leaves made .me feel better. I'm sorry to say a number of early risers didn’t appreciaté the work across the street from the Chamber of Commerce building in University Park. it was dark when I began attaching leaves. The streets were practically deserted. The time was 5:45 a. m. About 6:15 a lone man walking south on Meridian St., came within 15 feet of the tree which was getting greener by the minute. Another five feet and I would have greeted him, He turned sharply and practically ran across the street. . * 5 ob A FEW MINUTES later two men with lunch bags in their hands walked past, They looked but wouldn't listen. Their steps quickened when I asked how they liked the leaves. What is the matter with people? Why should they run from a guy putting leaves on a tree in a park? No sense of humor? Do they like winter so well they can’t stand the sight of green leaves?

drop of water in a bucket.

A Crack at Winter— Trees Get Leav es

Dawn came slowly, reluctantly, almost as if ¢ it were an effort. Before the sky turned completely gray, the street lights went out. A lantern or a flashlight would have come in handy. Lu _ Passersby didn’t cross the street when daylight finally came. Most would walk. past, disbelief on their faces. A few would stop at the corner of Meridian and New York Sts. and. stare. Two young men walked from the corner to inquire about the leaves. They complimented the work. They said the leaves looked natural and wanted to know if I intended to put leaves on all the trees in University Park.

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THE LEAVES didn’t go as far as I thought. An old leaf-counter should havé anticipated that. On a similar tree, couple summers ago I counted 363,574 leaves. Considerably more than the 288 purchased for the job. But a blotch of green is better than no blotch at all, agreed? Bus drivers slowed their vehicles. Motorists came to a full stop and gaped, A few honked horns and whistled. ’ “Hey, come over to my house and put leaves on my trees,” called a gentleman. “I'm tired of winter; too.”

A girl in the Chamber of Commerce restaurant brought over a paper cup of hot coffee.

She said all her life she wanted to do something |

different and never had the nerve. She declined an invitation to climb the ladder and continue . the work. She's going to grow up a bundle of frustrations is she isn’t careful. | ® % 2 : HIGH SCHOOL boys with no inhibitions a all, jeered because I wasn't in the upperriost branches, ] “Whatsa matter, you scared or sumpin?”’ one rascal scoffed. “Why don’cha put leaves on that big tree over there?” If I hadn’t been up on the ladd«r and thankful he made no move to put his hands on it, we

- would have had a chat about leaves and bees and

smart alecks, + The two gross of paper leaves were like a To do the job right, figuring roughly 360,000 leaves, would cost $3125. I would need 2500 gross. Not counting the interruptions, two hours and 15 minutes were required to twist 288 leaves on the tree. At that rate it would be spring before I had 2500 gross of leaves on. > & %

AS LONG AS we're dreaming, which doesn’t cost anything, a man who is truly fed up with

¢ the weather and had the money to spend, could

Rushing the season . . . a tree in University Park sprouted leaves yesterday with some help from "Mr. Inside."

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NEW: YORK, Feb. 13—0One is lucky to know three or four people who can laugh at anything. Such a guy is Sam Levensen who went from Brats to Broadway. - Plump, spectacled Sam is the ex-Brooklyn teacher. Suddenly they're talling him the greatest monologist since Will Rogers. The years will tell whether Rogers’ crown belongs to Sam or Harry Hershfield or Herb Shriner or somebody yet undiscovered. But to illustrate Sam’s nature—Are you, for instance getting sick of giving? Are you a little burdened by all the “worthy causes” that could keep a man broke? . Do you see anything very funny about it? Heart . . . cancer . .. polio? Sam does. I slid down beside Sam at a TV rehearsal. He began laughing—Sam laughs enchantingly at his own stories, one of the few people who can do it inoffensively. - “There was this fund-raiser canvassing money house-to-house,” 8am chuckled. A man who answered the fund-raiser’s knock said, “Welcome stranger!” “How you know I'm a stranger?” the fundraiser said, “Because if you're a native, you'd know there's no use coming to me!” retorted the man, slamming the door. Sam rocked with la%ghter, pleasure to hear him laugh. “Bh b “THERE WAS another man,” Sam said, “who went around collecting money for a poor woman

It was a real

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“He told people she owed for coal and groceres and was about to be evicted because she owed four months rent. 5 “One woman who gave some money said to him: ‘Sir, it’s nice of you to take it on yourself to get .money for the poor woman. Who are you?" “The man said: T'm the landlord.” Sam got a Teal belly laugh out of hearing himself tell that one and I did, too. Another fellow, asked for a contribution, told a canvasser: “Well, I have my own to give to,” Sam related. “T don’t want to be fresh,” the canvasser came back, “but I hear you don't give to your own.” “That's just the point,” replied the fellow. «1 don’t give to my own—why should I give to total strangers?” Sam and I both enjoyed that one, too. Sam had to get up and start his TV rehearsal. I lade a mental note that if I ever break an arm or leg, T'11 call Sam. He's sure to have 10 jokes about it. Maybe that's why this new man is so great. , >. dy db THE MIDNIGHT EARL: Clara Bow--not ill, as rumored—is writing her memoirs, “This Is It,”

Gossip’s War Crime By H. D. Quigg

WITH U. 8. FORCES, Korea, Feb. 13 — This is the story of a breathless young lady with long black hair, a flat face and baggy black trousers. She was supposed to be a “professional gossip” for the North Korean Communists. She denies it. k Gossiping—in the form of spreading the Communist doctrine among South Korean villagers while a foraging party of North Korean troops was stealing them blind—was one of her assigned duties. She was a member of the political and educational section of a North Korean division.

Other duties included giving lectures to units of her division and entertaining them by leading

o the singing of political songs.

One day she got fed 6 with the whole thing... She was tired, hungry, ill. She did not approve of stealing food from South Korean villagers. She did not like communism, she says. Many from her unit were deserting.

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AN AMERICAN transport plane flew over, blaring instructions through a loudspeaker on how North Koreans could surrender. She followed them. She walked in and surrendered to a South Korean police unit, which put her in jail and questioned her. She later was questioned by Marine 1st Lt. James Baker Chandler, 31, Wynnewood, Pa, and Sgt. Al Mainard, Decatur, Ala. She said that her name was Kim Bok Hi, that she was 21 years old and was born in a North Korean town, where she went to a girl's school and taught for a time .in a ‘primary school. 2 ;

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transform University Park adequately with 275,000 gross of leaves at a cost of $343,750.

. Buying such a quantity, he might get a discount.

Regardless of what happens to the paper leaves, I feel better for taking a crack at winter. The hundreds of winter-weary citizens who saw a tree grow yesterday morning and got a chuckle out of it, made the work involved a pleasure. Laughter is good for the liver. Wouldn't it be funny if the leaves started to grow? It would be spring and we'd all be enchanted.

Sam Can Laugh At Everything

at her Santa Monica beachhouse. . . . Jerry Bean-

bag Lester's pushed his pay to about 4-Gs-a-wk. . « . Saloons protest that the “tie-in” squeeze is being worked on them again. They also say the booze shortage is phony. . . . Mike Todd and “Peep Show” star Lina Romay ain't happy with each other. . .. The State Dept. OWI-type bureau is ‘hunting a boss. Elmer Davis doesn’t want it. « + + Gov. Dewey's man to head a state probe of racketeer-politician links could be Housing Boss Stichman. . . . Martha Wright, who'll be Mary Martin's successor, and her husband, Teddy Baumfeld, have split. . . . The Marquessa de Portago had a baby daughter. . . . Toots Shor’s off soon to Hot Springs for his annual drought. : * o> 9» B'WAY BULLETINS: Johnny Meyer laughs at reports of a divorce. His wife, Patsy Lydon, has been visiting friends in Virginia but they’ll both leave for Nassau. . , . Frank Sinatra, confined to bed with pleurisy, virus and lar tis, 1 he’ll do his Saturday TV show. . . I gitis Jnglets flew to Hollywood after his wife had a minor operation. . . . A big TV comedienne is getting ready to call her marriage quits. . . . Meat prices

-are up in B'way restaurants. . . . Today's Daily

Double: Shelley Winters and actor Jerry Parris. * + ¢ : ; WHO'S NEWS: Archduke Franz Joseph is building a revolving (solar) house in New Hampshire from his own design. . . . Anita Loos’ book, “Sex Doesn't Last” has . already received producer bids. + + « Max Baer will do a 26-

week wrestling tour for a promised 100 grand. . . . “Peep Show's” Christine Fredricks

weds Bob Person of the “Kiss Me, Kate” orchestra. . . . Nine § private schools folded since the draft. , . . John L. Lewis was Yvette told to diet by his doctors. . . . Caesar Petrillo entertained 30 at the Hickory House and dispensed many a germ free handshake with his pinky.

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EARL'S PEARLS: An economy wave, according to Yvette, is a home permanent.

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TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: "Cops are suffering,” says Peter Donald, “from a nervous shakedown.” © & @

WISH I'D SAID THAT: “Somebody ought to publish a ‘Who's Whose on B'way’ "—Mary McCarty. Jack Carter figures every time he goes off the wagon he's taking a leave of abstinence . . . That's Earl, brother, ;

Kim Bok Hi Got Fed Up

blouse, white socks, an® the low rubber shoes which are practically standard Korean footwear, she kept her eyes lowered as she told her story. She toyed with a strap on her jacket and spoke in a hurried, hushed voice. She refused a cigaret. eo + Te : HER FATHER had been a member of a North Korean religious group and had fled south when the Communists came. She and her mother and the other 150 women of the town were forced to join a women’'§S union in 1947. Then, last December, the local Communist bosses ordered her to join the North Korean division. She was one of 15 women and 135 men: in the political and educational $ection. She said 60 women went along with ithe division—15 in propaganda, 20 in clothing and supply, and 25 nurses. . Bok Hi, volunteered that she did not approve of the division's methods in sending foraging parties to steal from the South.Korean people. Usually 30 to 60 soldiers went on these missions, with one woman along for spreading propaganda. She said she never did ‘that. eo

THE NORTH KOREAN division, she said, had infiltrated in small groups through United Nations lines on night marches ‘and had got together later at a pre-arranged place. Their function had been mostly guerrilla work. But after the Marines hit them, they had been harassed constantly. She had been hungry most of the’ time since then.. And the North Koreans had been moving so fast to keep out of the way of the Marines that she just couldn’t keep up. That was one of the reasons she

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Times Cooking School HighlightsAll Attendance Records Smashed

~The Indianapolis

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1951

~Times Photos by Bill Oates Mrs. Marie Daugherty proudly shows one of her Philcocooked dishes to Hayes A. Hollibaugh (right), of Radio Equipment Co., sponsars of The Times Cooking School, and Art Wright, of The Times, master of ceremonies. Wes

Mrs. “Grace Britton, 2410 Broadway and Mrs. Irene Dice, 1047 W, 36th St. (right), look over the gifts Mrs. Britton received at the first session of The Times Cooking School as the homemaker married the longest. Mrs. Dice, 84, the oldest homemaker in attendance also received gifts,

Welfare Asks $625,000 Loan

Agency Runs in Red, County Council Told

The Marion County Welfare Department today asked the County Council for a loan of, $625,000 so it can cdrry on its regular; business. y | The Welfare Department head, John Mueller, told council members the money is needed because there is not a sufficient balance JE in county funds to keep up wel-| 3 fare payments. E “Our department has been run-| {ning on a shoestring and a day- ° to-day basis for more than a } year,” Mr. Mueller said. id County Auditor Roy . Combs stressed the fact that no new appropriation. is being asked, but that not enough money is available to keep the department run- . ning. Payments on the welfare appropriation for this . year are made in installments.|i However, the fund has been als} lowed to decrease to : H where it reaches a deficit nearly every month. “This means we're running in’ the red a good share of the ci]

$5,641,000

Mr. Combs said, °

te Symi suggested the ou A record-breaking crowd applauded the first session of The Times Cooking School . . . even overflowing into the big balcony. :

from Mar. 1 through June 15. gms ' : . spp gue gs The county should be able to > Fire Routs 250 Dog Believed Rabid Dies Fight Over Welfare Files tain it at about 1 per cent In-| \After Biting 2 Persons | __° ; fl y erest, he, said. : : | A third dog believed to nave T° -Stat Pp lit | I al . Summons ‘Assessors From Linden Hote been rabid, which bit two persons; ops e S 0 ; ica : ssues Council President Howard Over the week-end, died today inp By IRVING LEIBOWITZ

| : |Morse called a ‘meeting of the ty Pal og Pon died] The fight to open the state's secret welfare files today became

} . T th {county and township assessors Breaks Out Twice re reported as|the top political issue In the state legislature. this afternoon to discuss avail-| hi d I Ibeing positive rabies cases after! Key Republican lawmakers, pledged to open the relief rolls to able money. | In Third Floor Room the heads were examined by the|the general public, suffered a temporary setback yesterday when

“We don’t Know the total val-l rore than 250 persons were! f {the Indiana Senate failed to pass the measure. luation of property under the re-! P (State Board af-Health,

assessment ” Mr. Morse said. “We routed from their sleep early to- = The dog which died today, Be lang ea for the bill and 24 Democrats ant,” Mr. : : : may wake up and find we are a/day when a fire destroyed a room longes, to Wikiany Robinson, 2% following the strategy laid down office and came back to the Senpoor county.” lin the’ Linden Hotel, 317 N. Illi- : . |by their party leaders. The meas- ate full of fight. Of the total $5,641,000 Welfare bitten both Mr. Robinson and his Leading the attack was Sen Depart : t budget, abo ty “inols St, and filled the building three-year-old daughter. juze fajled to pass because %, 75 Stemle, minority floor Dagar ent | ue ige a [mi smoke. | - Police said one of the other two, lacked — rote for a constitu- 260 J. © Hie, iotity Door The remainder is made up trom Firemen aid the Blaze gtarteqiiogs as wiovn B have De Republican Sen. Kendall of|282inst opening the welfare files

{ple about the provisions of the bill,” the senator said in explaining his vote. Then he voted with his party against the bill.

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state and federal monies. | flle did not vote. He was/ for a full hour, a half hour over RE room. Hotel employees and the{Roena 8t., in the Mars Hill ares. DAAVINS sick at home. the Senate debate deadline. Rabies-Control man registered in the room, John go «| The bill is still eligible to be| He pointed out that Indiana ies-Lvoniro Voyles, 308 E. North 8t., believed! [brought up on the Senate floor| Would lose $18 millioh in federal o : they had extinguished the blaze {for action again. Republican|?2id if the bill passed, thus creat. Bill Is Pushed and firemergwere not called. | renders said ga tight ras not|Ing a heavier load on Hosfer taxThe state Senate has acted to Later the fire was discovered to, . over and reported they would| Payers. halt the rabies epidemic threat- have broken out again. This time] [0 em ISCLISSe lagain vote on the bill when they The senator recalled that in ening Marion County. {firemen were called and bell boys iwere at “full strength.” pe as 2 ember oF 3 Bee A bill, giving the state veter-{ran through the five floors of the | Sen. D. Russell Bontrager, Re-| A $slon siving _Ihotel alerting people. Ca ehart, General \publican lawycr of Elkhart, and|2PPointed by the Senate to ininarian power to declare guaran- j thor of the measure, said vestigate relief in the state. He { ~au i» I . tine against rabies in any county,| They calmly told the people Agree on Needs co-a tment of thalsaid the commission . then detownship or town, was passed there was a fire in one of the re 8 She bil was oy ale amen of the| lined to fechmmend Mane the i mes ate vice yi e wno a mp late yesterday by the Senate and |rooms and sugpesied jiey pees) COLUMBUS. Feb. 13 — Acute i are peop ¢ {names of relief recipients public. seit to the House. an Picpare to leave the bullding housing needs here and in other| = (goeialistic Scheme’ “You would think Harry 8. pits ncading the Tahics outro {if it became necessary. {communities were discussed in He defended the bill as the| Truman himself, was going to Wing Jo sar on Coun Aw- | Prevented Panic detail yesterday when Sen. Homer | ~-¢ CF I “tyrannical rule of 2nd out ‘the rellef,” he said makers, Republican Hoyt hloore : |E. Capehart visited bulging Camp 2PSWer to Y |“That's a. bunch of poppycock, and Democrat Walter F. Kelly, 8 Their action was credited with Atterbury. |a bunch of bureaucrats trying 0! that's hatred, that's malice.” physician. preventing what might have be-| Mayor Robert L. Stevenson said | 0TC® Socialistic schemes on il He pointed out that the averBoth lawmakers cited statisticsicome a panic as smoke rapidly ioq that § t |diana. | Het dole i yi i : today a en. Capehart, Maj. 7, age relie ole in neighboring showing Indiana leads the nation filed the rooms and .poured from Gen. Withers A. Burress and They have tried to Intimidate states was higper than in Indi in the number of rabies cases. windows into the street, lother military authorities were in U® by telling us Jeders) 21 wa be : The measure would require alll n, oo o¢ the blaze firemen had complete agreement on the ur- halted if we open the Weliate mn, piogest surprise of the dogs be vaccinated when the area g |files,” Sen. Bontrager said If [th re in is quarantined to go to floors above the burning|gent need for housing for military 'n 3 ans Indiana should se. heated debate on the welfare bill j-aey are. n Quarainés. room, chop holes in the plaster personnel families in the imme- ne Japp the federal relief pro-| Same when Democratic Sen. BLAST ROCKS DALLAS CLUB and turn their hoses down them. |diate future. en om |Judson West, Marion County ate ‘i « : Water caused damage to the! ‘“We simply discussed the situa-| a. & {torney, explained his vote. [a DALLAS, Tex, Feb. 13 UP = |oors Below, tion generally,” Mayor Stevenson|, Senale- Twesident Brotem As originally drafted by the. | gambler Herbert (The Cat) Noble The lobby of the hotel is five Said, “but Sen. Capehart and Gen..t “op yooiciature, also spoke in{Republicans, the bill made wel- | 3 Burress were in hearty agree-| B18 AMIEL 4; | fare lists available ‘to certain | was rocked by an early morning stories high with a balcony at g behalf of the measure. . |explosion today. Pulice blamed it each floor. ment on tie housing ets here Declaring that the present ubife officials, Sen. West, at lon dynamite-happy hoodlums.| Damage was undetermined, but 23 In other erbury com-|...ctice of keeping ‘welfare files On® time, vy 3 hy 8 wen {Thete were no injuries. Nine at- {munity cities. “contrary to Ameri [af enough and added an amendT |was expected to be considerable Study Building Plan |secret was “contrary ment of his own opening the wel[tempts thus far have been made in the newly decorated hotel. | pos Fee med aid a ca principles,” Sen. Van Ness" Fo ba on The Cat's’ life. William . Schreuder lives in|housing commiitte headed by jr. {called on the Senate to “purge the Yesterday, Sen, West changed ” |Room 305 which is directly across|win Miller, local manufacturer, | chiselers from the relief rolls. his mind. He sald he was ‘Stamps Have (the hall from where. the blaze wag studying plans for immediate After he /easire falieq (rol against his own amendment and : “ started. [construction of a multiple unig BSR COR (RRL CS ring | WAS sorry that he ever introduced A Language | “I opened my door and. the apartment ‘building which should ep » t smoke just poured in,” he told ease the situation in Columbus. Fo bill wp Sain Jor a firemen. “I quickly slammed the . He added that approval of Sen.| ot er id oot. defsuted door and went to my window to|Capehart and Gen. Burress should | 0 that it failed to pass : get air.” expedite the construction. y rua : J. C. Ruhley, who was in a Ther may ra question ol wi will TY Jasin at : fifth-floor room, fled down the/priority,” Mayor Stevenson said, “When we ublicans e @® It wag popular in grand- [fire escape clad only in his trou-|"if there is, the approval of the at full strength, we will bring it Four Boys Are Caught mother’s day and is gain- |[sers. Senator and the military will be/up again,” the senator declared. . . rk y ing new interest today. | _ Only one alarm was turned. in {of unlimited help.” ; | The co-sponsor of the measure, Burglarizing Ma et ou : t ‘but it brought all the heavy Speculation was rife in Colum- Wesley Malone, Republican of Four boys, aged 10 to 14, were {Use stamps .to say what | downtown fire equipment to the DUS concerning a material in- Clinton, told the Senate the only caught in the act of burglarizing you dare not write. Learn | 4 in the population of the opposition he had to the billithe Pay-And-Take-It Market, 663

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