Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 March 1951 — Page 11
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By Ed FOR traffic h mjita
Be Tar Ta up and down your spine, "P Don't get the idea that this
needle or in any way disparage doing the best they can. The younger nien, | ,’ Who' realize they're not paid for shooting th eir mouths off at every slight oppor-
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IN nis respect I'm thinking of one traffic officer in particular, He is so ornery, is capable of infuriating people to the breaking point with a word and a glance, is in such a deep rut of thinkIng every.person driving an automobile is a dope, I don’t think you could teach him simple
courtesy with a baseball bat.
I have watched MPs work many hours. Love to watch someone work well.”There's a bearing, an attitude about the military police that commands attention, respect and response. You can see it in the’ faces of the motorists and pedestrians. When an MP gives a signal it is obeyed quickly, He doesn’t have to snarl. “Awright, let's move It” or “Wake up, you're in the city
now.” LJ
* % aA MOTORIST pulls to a stop at a light and immediately knows the man giving signals is on “the motorist . unconsciously, Furthermore, that antagonism most drivers feel towards a traffic officer
the ball. In turn, becomes more alert,
me there.
Whea the light changes, te. MP, standing
rather instead of directing traffic.
It Happened Last Night
By Ear ilson
NEW YORK, Mar. 6—Josephine Baker, for 27 years the star of the naked Follies Bergere in Paris, arrived in town dresséd to her chin—she brought 35 gowns—so I put her on the spot about
France's nudity.
“I'm not shocked by nudity,” Miss Baker, who
admits to 45, said. “You wouldn't be after seeing I said.
“It's nothing bad,” she argued. ~ hands around the Folies Bergere
at the nude girls.” “What's
brought her here to open at the
in-one of the probable triumphs of her lite.
“The matter with them?”
Baker. “I don’t think nude women are temp--
ting.” Miss Baker, a product of St.
came a star in Harlem before she went to Paris,
arrived at a decision.
“You know the opinion I get of you American men . . . you are hungry for love! You seem intoxicated with the idea of nudity. “You talk about Paris nudity! Why, Bikinis
are from America.
“I've seen ladies dressed from head to foot
that were more immoral looking than girls completely naked.”
.Did I make it clear that Miss Baker, a famous
clothes horse, has never appeared
however, in 27 years, seen many square acres of
nakedness bouncing around the show spot.
“What I think it Is,” said Miss Baker, . “American men have been brought up the conservative way to think that a lady should not be undressed in front of a man.”
By the way, people anxious to
throat and say Miss Baker's much more than 45 will have to get tickets at the box office and
stand in line. She says she has a to that effect.
Inside Blair House By Harman W. Nichols
WASHINGTON, Mar. 6—John
slim, sandy-haired teletype mechanic who works
for United Press.
The other day, he got an assignment to in-
stall a UP news ticker machine
for President Truman's use. So he arranged an appointment, climbed into a taxi—and here, in his own words, is how it feels to go into the place
where the President lives, Brady speaking: & ¢
“BLAIR HOUSE,” I said to the driver.
He turned-around-and looked “What House?”
“Blair House,” I said as importantly as pos-
sible.
The cabbie must have thought I was a big shot because he said “yes sir” and took off like a Jet plane. We got to Blair House in about two minutes, I stepped out of the cab, paid off the
driver, and turned around to find looking me over. “What do you want, buddy?”
I explained I wanted to go into Blair House to install a teletype. They asked for identification s0 I hauled out every card in my wallet; They took me to the little guard house where one of them phoned the man I was supposed to see and
confirmed my appointment. LE
INSIDE Blair House, two ushers took me in tow and we started to the President's study. En rolite, I took a few hasty ganders at the place.
The first thing that struck
Blair House seems to be all living rooms. We
side Indianapolis
THE past severil weeks downtown RiDaveq With 8 snap. ta. the, signals of
Ele Ahy any attention at all to the whiteyou have felt a shiver of pride run
our traffic officers,
Snappy . . . Pvi. Lee W. Broadwell would 54 on a ship in the middle of the
the matter with them?” her manager, Ned Schuyler of Miami, who had
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Let's Salute Our MP Trae Men
almost at attention, whips his hand up, stops traffic that is moving, briskly directs the other line to move, now. All this is done without shouting, without
angry whistles. An MP's signals are clear, impartial, ‘brisk and visible. For special directions, an MP points to a vehicle, then points to the direction it's supposed to go. Sndom " there an argument,
PVT. LEE W. BROADWELL, 175th Military Police Battalion, Company B, is typical of the IED WEG 7s taking Part vi"tneie raining ou our intersections. I told Lee many, many local citizens think the MPs are doing a swell job. That sort of embarrassed him. " “We're doing a job,” he said. No doubt you have noticed on a couple terrible days, cold driving rain, an MP went about his work as if the rain didn’t touch him. The snap, tire’ alertness never dwindled. I asked Lee why they didn’t get in out of the rain. * * ° LEE LAUGHED, “The orders are to direct traffic from this time of the day to this time, We direct. The orders don't say to”stop because it's raining or snowing.” “What happens if you forget your raincoat
is intended to
SEES | egislators Shown During Waning Hours Of This Year's Assembly
~gome morning and then it starts to rain while you're working?” “Well, I'll tell you. If I'm not dressed properly for the weather, that’s just tough. The best thing for me to do when I get back to the post is to have a talk with the chaplain and have him punch my card,” answered Lee.
What are his views about Spel with
gE vx was ‘Yils praise for-the help: the “city polide have pn the trainees. He quoted several rules from the training manual. An MP {is required to conduct himself fn a military manner. His work is to be done in a military manner. The primary function of the military police is to protect military personnel and enforce military regulations. When Lee compietes his service in the Army, he wants to go back to sea. Ever hear of such a thing? Lee has been a merchant seaman for seven years. He left Pendleton, 8. C., for the sea. > * 9 WHEN HIS SHIP was going through the Panama Canal, the mail came and with it Lie's draft notice. During his years as a seaman, Lee saw most of the world. The opportunity the Army offered didn’t excite him in the least. He would like to see the world at peace so he could go back to sea. That's his life. Lee was pleased that someone came up and told him the military police have been making a good impression on the people. That's what the military was trying to create. They have succeeded. A good job deserves recognition just as much a bad job should be given attention. A"salute an for men like Pvt, Jee W. Broadwell. May their ERAS TER Sh ateY an. )
Finds Nudity Not Shocking
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“But you can say anything,” she said, “because age to me doesn't exist. It doesn’t matter,” ® &
THE MIDNIGHT EARL: The House: UnAmerican Activities Committee says it will produce Commy membership cards of more than 20 Hollywoodians—including some stars... The Duchess of Windsor’s illness probably ended her innocent friendship with Russell Nype. (Haven't been able to communicate since)... Biggest draftdodging gimmick: Faked homosexuality. Doctors seeking a fool-proof test.... Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom, star of the Western film, “Skipalong Rosenbloom,” announced from under his sombrero in Toots Shor’s, “I'm a-hankering for abar mitzvah.” . .. Ray (“South Pacific’) Middleton, Wome who leaves that show in June, has two big new shows offered him.
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so much of it,”
“The. stagedon’t even look
wondered Strand Theater repeated’ Miss
> ¢ ¢ EARLS PEARLS—Peggy Lee mentions that husbands who drink whisky often wind up with wives for chasers. * © ¢ B'WAY BULLETINS: Martin Attlee, Clement's son, is due here to do public relations for an English auto . Frank Costello’s on his way to Mexico City from Miami (still vacationing) . . . Herbert Hoover may. do a column. . . . Savings Banks will seek permission to raise interests . . . The Nat King Coles are expecting . . . Today's Daily Double: Luchow’s owner Leonard Jan Mitchell and Joan Deiner. . . . Prettiest cuties to hit tHe "stem in years are rehearsing for Monte Proser’s Paradise production of “Billion Dollar Baby.” * ¢ TODAY'S BEST DEFINITION: “Egoist— one who's always me-deep in conversation” — Ted Ray. Commedienne Connie S8awyer out-taffys Taffy Tuttle with this pun—she thinks a stalemate is an ex-husband. . .. That's Earl, brother.
Louis, who be-
_ Peggy Lee
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jump down my
birth certificate
A Mechanic Uses President’s Phone
O. Brady is 2 walked through three sitting rooms and I saw
three more off the corridors. The furniture is neat, but kind of old-fash-foned and not as snazzy as I. expected. Some house servants were busy cleaning in one of the rooms although I could swear it didn’t seem to need any cleaning. In one of-the rooms I spotted a grand piano. I halfway expected Margaret to show up and start practicing with the vocals but she didn’t. For that matter, I didn't see the President either. He already had left for the White House office when I got to his study and met. an electrician there, The two of us started working on where to put the machine. I was busy but I sneaked a look around. A couple of nice couches and easy chairs. The President's desk was covered with gadgets and I noticed most of them had his initials on them. The biggest object was a barometer. The walls were lined with books but I didn’t get any chance to see what Mr. Truman's reading tastes were like. > Bd WHEN we decided where to put the machine, I asked if I could call my office. A guard said “Sure, use the President’s phone.” So I sat down where Harry sits and phoned in. I had to resist the temptation to tell them where I was sitting. I told my wife about Blair House when I got home. I was just getting wound up about how the Secret Service didn’t phase me when she asked what kind of drapes Mrs, Truman had on the windows. “I didn’t notice,” I said. “You're not very observant,” said my wife.
in Blair House
at me:
two big guhrds
me was that
Press Hunt for Victim Of College Prank
NACHITOCHES, La. Mar. 6 (UP)—Another search of the Red River began at dawn, but hope remained today that 18-year-old Allen Kaplen, Northwestern State College freshman, Would be found somewhere alive. Mr. Kaplen disappeared Thursday night during a college prank, in which an “outraged husband” appeared with a shotgun while he - was being taken to what his fellows described as a “hot date’ a hoary campus .gag. It was feared that he had
fellen inte the river as he ran,
although another youth’ in the party said “I told him not to run toward the river.” The youth's father, Norman Kaplen of Chelsea, Mass, was expected to fly here today to aid in the search and talk to college officials.
Purple Hearts Given
To 6 War Correspondents
8TH ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Korea, Mar. 6 (UP)-—Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway awarded purple hearts to six American war correspondents today for
Dives Into. Furnace wounds received in action against the enemy.
YPSILANTI, Mich, Mar. 6 They included Jack James;
(UP) — Alfred Lewis, ,33, com-|{nited Press; William D. Blair, mitted - suicide ‘yesterday by div- Baltimore Sun; Philip Potter, Baling head first into a flaming coal furnace. Lewis, a University of Michigan union employee, had been despondent, according to his mothen :
ternational News Service; Fred B. Waters, International News Photos; and Kugene Jones, National Broadcasting Companyn
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motorists? Lee dismissed that question by . sayin .arén’t supposed Yo. any Argus. Ine ; gies Sat aia a: s & ¢ » ed ~
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* TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1951
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LET'S GO, PLEASE—Warren Cox is being shown the exit
turbance on the floor of the legislature.
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HOW MUCH LONGER, DADDY?—These two atiractive youn
by House doorkeeper George Corey after Cox caused a dis- Senator, were just as anxious to see the hectic session end as their ; with him during the waning hours of the meeting. The 87th General Assembly ended at 11:56 p. m.
* GETTING FILLED IN—Sen. Walter Kelly, Indianapolis, got filled in on what happened yester-
day by reading The Times before the night session started.
a shave before things got under
ladies, daughters of a state
addy seems to be. They. sat
es Photos by Lloyd Walton
TIME FOR A QUICKIE Sen. Judson H. West took time: for.
way last night;
Gentlemen, You're In The Army .
“Every Draftee Gets His Chance; Observed From Early in Training
How Leaders Are Picked HE patrol was walking through the woods of Ft. Dix
reservation. Suddenly, snipers started firing out of the
trees.
The men hit the ground. Patrol leader Boyd W. Ghering
Jr., faced the problem how to search out the hidden foe and
“eliminate” them.
Pvt. Ghering had hever| The author is a World War
been in such a spot, except | II veteran who was indugted
when he was “playing cops| into the Army at Ft. Dix, N. J,, and robbers” as a boy. | eight years ago. He's. been re-
visiti he ol lace and the Yet he did the sensible thing.| Yialng he A a He detached two men from his is the third of six articles. patrol, ordered them to shoot .so| = as to draw fire on themselves., TEN: Is he able to cope with Thus the snipers in the trees ynforeseen difficulties? were soon located and invited to] The men who come out best in come out of ambush. {the eyes of their buddies and offiThat is a typical “problem” in{cers are asked whether they de-
combat leadership devised by sire to attend Leader's Course,
tCol. George S.-Beurket,. chief of Only those who wish to de so {basic leadership training at Ft. are selected. Each unit command-
er may also nominate two men who didn’t meet the C&A cri-
“The war in Korea has show teria but who showed outstand-
again how vitally important it is
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. By George W. Herald
Talent Scouts on Lookout For Leaders
for us to produce a steady flow] iE, leadership qualities during § |of competent troop leaders,” the The WR {s now 5 “must! |colonel told me. “That's why we . ahvons who wants a co try to find and train likely yone 5 a com now ry mission, The years of the “90-day
timore Sun; Frank W. Emery, In-{"
{candidates as early in the game
wonders” are over. Even sergeants with years of Army service must take the course before they can
as possible.” . 2 During the second week of basic training, every regimental ; Ch commander receives a roster of BDPIY for officer Sandidare x hoo, Size oir oo sts Eh between them and the réokies in qualify for Leader's Course. Dur- asn A pupils. dle calied “stu ing the next five weeks, these men are kept under close observation by their" officers. » = “
IN ADDITION, the Army asks|
" » n I ATTENDED a lecture given by Capt. R. W. Dunne, who had {been wounded in the stomach in
- Korea 10 weeks before. Like many all trainees to fill out “character other Korean veterans, he was
rating sheets’ on each other. The instruct i sheets contain the following Wes. 0 Litving a8 3p Jguucor Mm tions: | His subject was “Development ONE: 1s Pvt. Miller the type of | or Personality,” and he raised the mal So ps on to have as ;,astion wether the camp environTWO: Is he a likable person? ment doulg chthpe and Srustrate »} Dare Sa Be dependable? {| Student Samuel F. Calderone, ‘FOUR: Is he cultured, well "ho used to be a second-string read? |catcher for the New York Giants, FIVE: Does he have a fine ap-|félt it certainly could and expearance? [plained why. Student Alex J. SIX: Does he show courtesy to! |Cerski Who had been a military others? policeman in Berlin, took the opSEVEN: Is he calm and ef-|Posite view. ficient? Does he get a job done? Soon, most of the men were EIGHT: Has he got enthusi- eagerly debating mental frustraasm? Does he join in all activ<tion—a ‘handicap which none of| ities? -
of humor?
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rank
THIS ISN'T KOREA—The ‘Soldiers are combat trainees mopping up "enemy" woods at Ft. Dix, N. J.
“They're the cream of the crop,”
declared. “We try to select men whom West Point itself would be proud to have.”
“And those who fail to meet, your expectations?” I inquired.
“We drop them in the middle) of the course,” he answered. “Last | week-end, a boy with a three-day-| pass came back after six days. He was a crack shot but we had] to let him go. We simply have no! time to fool around with screwballs.” » ...» MOST OF the students, how-| ever, strive to live by the tenets| of the Leader's Code they pledged to honor on entering the course:| “I become an Army leader by| what I do. I know my strength! and my weaknesses and I aim] constantly at self-improvement. 1 carry out the spirit as well as the, letter of orders I receive. “I take the initiative and face
\them..seemed to suffer, Their {any situation with beldness and| Pittsfield, Pa. NINE: ‘Does: he possess a sense poise, alertness of mind and gen-|confidence. eral appearance were impressive./requirements, I Stat Nin the job! —I'm praying!”
No matter what the
until it is ‘done; no matter what
sibility. “I train my men as a team and lead them with tact, enthusiasm
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ren ————
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snipers in the
“These things I do selflessly in my escort, Maj, John F. Casey, the results, I assume full respon- fyjifiliment of the obligations of
leadership.” Has this
nation anything’ to
and justice; they know I would fear as long as the best of ‘its
not consign’ fo them any duty
I keep them informed and make!
their welfare one of my prime,
concerns.
: ot How's That? WATH U. 8S. 2d DIVISION, Korea, Mar. 6 (UP)—The jeep
was running through a Commu-
nist ambush. Bullets were flying. Sgt. Donald Christian, 26, of Taylorville, Ill, was manning ‘the machinegun in the back and heard the driver muttering something. “What'd you say, Scottie?” he | shouted. Pvt. William Scott of RFD 2, shouted back: “Hell, I ain't talking to you
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sons, remain
TOMORROW: know to score.
imbued with such {that I wouldn't’ perform myself. noble principles?
The right te
Beating in Alley Sends
Man to Hospital Here : A 38-year-old Indianapolis res dent was in fair condition in eral Hospital today after he was beaten by several men in an alley
behind 441 Indiana Ave. Vernon Grooms, 612 St., the men were or
robbed him.
Mr. Grooms was found by Riley, 36, of 83¢ W. 11th St, a ¢4 Mr. Riley told: police”
driver. saw three or four men
|Mr. Grooms into the alley.” men fled when Mr. ‘Riley |
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Ipggached, he sald.
was unable to tell police whether they
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