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t : \ Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola GLENVIEW, Ill.—This flyin the birds. Sort ying business is for Understand, a scared. civilian is talking. The crew of the Navy four-engined job laughed off the thunderstorms, 200-foot ceiling over Indianapolis and the hour we spent hoping to find our way down at Weir Cook. It was a quiet group of Flying Farmers that climbed aboard the plane hj Ty Field in Florida. The reason was that a couple hours before another visit to the aircraft carrier was called off because of bad weather. If a huge ship remained moored to the dock, how was a plane going to take off? The commander of the airplane told us the weather was improving by the hour all the way to Indianapolis. Nothing to worry about. ; The sky was overcast and a sharp breeze jiggled the waiting airplane. All in all, the Flying Farmers were satisfied with the several days

they had spent as Navy guests visiting the famous Pensacola Air Training Station,

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A MAJORITY of the farmers had never seen how a military air station operates. As taxpayers, they saw where the defense dollar goes and why it takes so many. It was a shock to learn that they could buy 3000 tractors with the money it takes to buy one fighter plane. So it was a worried small group of men that was going to fly home with the Navy. It's an old human custom not to worry too much about the next fellow. How 400 farmers got home in their light planes was their problem. They could always choose their time of departure. We at Saufley didn’t. The takeoff was smooth. In a matter of minutes we were cutting through cloud layers and small drops of water slipped along the windows. Every man aboard was flying the plane. If you have ever tried doing that from the cabin, you know it isn’t easy. All of a sudden the plane broke through the clouds. It was clear above and ahead. Below was a vast sea of buttermilk. Still farther below were Florida swamps. Safety belts were loosened. Men moved in their seats like hens in a nest. * oa THE PLANE COMMANDER appeared and informed us that in about 10 minutes we would hit a thunderstorm. There was. a possibility that we might miss it. But, to be on the safe side, when a bell rang twice, that would be the signal to fasten safety belts .again. " Ten minutes later we were fastening safety

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Mar. 30—Sometimes we columnists are too bashful to mention that we are chronicling a hunk of history. But, well, shucks, I was sitting with Claudette Colbert in her elegant suite up in the New York sky. She offered me a cup of coffee and a solemn thought about her television debut come. Sunday night with Jack Benny on CBS. “I'm not going to wear one of those bathtub dresses,” ‘she said. “Bathtub dresses”? I choked. “Those strapless gowns,” she said. “I call them bathtub dresses. The girls look exactly like they're sitting in a bathtub.” s » » 5 AND THERE it was! It had been said. Thousands and thousands of words had been written on the subject but this was the term that scribblers of Americana would want to use 25 years from now to help describe our peculiar era. “I'm so sick of bathtub dresses,” Miss Colbert

Claudette Colbert

' continued severely.

“A lot of times the camera cut you off right here”’—Miss Colbert indicated her stomach—‘so you don’t see anything but a lot of white shoulders. “And do you know a lot of those shoulders don’t look good. I guess some of them don’t care what they look like as long as they're showing some flesh. “They should examine themselves!” SS > & » FAYE EMERSON was not among those criticized. Miss Colbert thought she probably looks very lovely sitting in a bathtub. “But some of these girls have bony shoulder blades, or they're big and look like they've got three busts and five hips.” 2 “>. h .S MISS COLBERT'S decision to go on TV is faintly historic. Most glamourpusses (except Joan Bennett) have feared they wouldn't look good and shied from it. “I'll probably look like I have black sockets instead of eyes, but I think the viewers will put ft down to the new medium.” “Does your doing TV mean you recognize that it’s here for movie people?” I asked. “Honey,” she said, “I think the handwritin’s on that wall—in big type!”

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Mar. 30—Nothing seems to make a great deal of sense these days, or had you noticed? All the academic arguments about the 38th Parallel, as if they were discussing the House rules for a croquet game. The draft is cut, at

the same time they announce they are hiring commercial soldiers and calling up high-ranking reserves. One of the best men I know with a phrase, Joe Mitchell, wrote a piece one time about being hit on the head with a cow when he was a boy. I will steal Joe’s line. Every time I pick up a paper or enter into a conversation or clock a TV get today I feel like I have been hit on the head by a cow. It is a tremendous world, today when a dignified mobster like Frank Costello has an at{empted robbery on his home as a result of the publicity he received for not showing his face on a television show. Under ordinary circumstances not even a “cokedup moron’ would make a pass at the privacy of

Mr. Costello. . “hb

WHAT I mean, you feel numb all the time. You know things are happening, but the impact is like the feel of your lips when the dentist shoves a needle into the gum. Just numb. Something has happened to values, somewhere along the line. There seems to be no more right and wrong, no more black and white, no more good and bad. There just seems to be a broad gray area which eneompasses everything. There is a sort of general despair, as if we had all been let down. Everything is in a hassel —clay feet coming unstuck from idols, stupidities on high, and cynicism rampant.

there .some joker ahead behind that cloud?

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A Groundling’s 125 Years Aloft

belts and watching lightning in the distance. You asked yourself: Was this trip necessary? Despite the fact that you knew the pilot was a veteran of World War II and thé Korean War, you asked yourself if he had his rabbit's foot along. The co-pilot, also a veteran flyer of World War II, the Berlin airlift, Alaska duty, Pacific, came up for mental scrutiny. Time hangs heavy for people in a plane at 7000 feet. You know you'll be on the ground again sometime. But how? Each sudden drop or lift takes your breath away. \ You close your eyes and see the headlines of a newspaper announcing that a Navy transport crashed and early reports show no survivors. The eyes pop open. The buttermilk below is still there. Did the crew that overhauled this veteran of the Berlin airlift and the Korean War do a good job? Did they know the plane was going to be carrying a precious cargo—you? Was

Was a jet swooshing up below us? Was it only your imagination or were the engines actually humming less efficiently? . 4 » BIRMINGHAM was below. Then Nashville was contacted. From Evansville we learned that the weather wasn’t improving. The minute hand on your wristwatch seemed to be standing still. We were above Indianapolis. And we stayed above for an hour hoping for the ceiling to lift. It didn’t. Now what? The plane commander | informed us we were going on to Glenview. We'd be there in an hour. For some that meant 125 | years. About 122 years lates, the plane began to lose | altitude while it made wide circles. The clouds | came closer and closer. Before you could utter a protest, somebody zipped a gray bag over the plane. Did the pilot pay close attention to his | instrument flying instruction? The beautiful, beautiful ground appeared. Airport lights looked so gay. Tires squealed and the plane lost speed. Everyone applauded and talked | just to be talking. { “> Oo H THE COMMANDER said a plane would take us to Indianapolis as soon as the weather cleared up. A cry went up not to bother. Were the trains still running? We'd take a train back, thanks. I looked into a mirror on the bus. My hair hadn't turned to silver even after scraping against all those silver linings upstairs. . The birds can have flying. I don’t figure on sprouting tail feathers in the near future.

Claudette Calls It Bathtub Dress Era |

THE MIDNIGHT EARL . . . Margaret Truman's exclusive NBC contract, just signed, calls for at least 11 appearances in ’51 and '52 by which she could earn in one season up to $41,000 (TV, $4000 a show; radio, $2500). She’ll appear monthly except this summer. Earlier guesses that she'd make more than her father were based on working weekly—not ltkely now. >

GOOD RUMOR MAN: Sophie Tucker denies she might retire; says from Doctor’s Hospital, “I'll be out in two days. I got work to do.” She canceled St. Louis and Springfield, Ill., dates and is 20 pounds lighter. . . . Bud Barry, NBC Veep, marrying Florence Morris, formerly of ABC? . . Glenn McCarthy becomes a grandpa in November. . . . Wrigley sponsors Joey Adams’ “Rate Your Mate” show this summer. Great interest also in TV version of show. . . . Sen. Kefauver’s report will urge increased pay for police, blame low pay for corruption. Will also ask tighter tax laws for gamblers, and would bar tip sheets and gambling odds information from mails. oS do

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EARL’'S PEARLS: Jan Murray courted his wife under ideal conditions—the moon was out and so were her parents. - as & CUFFO NOTES: B'wayites kiddingly suggest to Johnny Broderick he fight Frank Costello in the Garden for the Runyon Fund and give Costello a handicap of six bodyguards. Johnny says, “When the chips are down, I'll’ be there.” . . . Chicago cafes were ordered to keep out hoodlums. Railroads will ask a 1, -cent-a-mile passenger -rate rise. . . . Judy Garland was at El Morocco with Boy Friend Sid Luft. . . . Sarah Vaughn got a Cadillac from her hus- °

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FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1951

A New Category of Quiz Kids—

Maximum Fine Would Be Small Money for Most of 31 Cite

By CHESTER POTTER Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Mar. 30—For refusing to answer questions of the Senate crime investigating committee, 31 racketeers or gamblers face prosecution. : They have béen cited for contempt of Congress. If found guilty, they can be fined from $100 to $1000 and/or sent to jail for from 30 days to one year.

For most — if not all — of these defendants, the maxi-

much longer jail sentences than one year.

" n ” THE COMMITTEE has ended its public hearings, feeling it has focused the eyes of the public on the naticnal rings of organized

fixers. But it got no help from the 31.

when asked key questions. Uniformly, they said their answers might incriminate them and therefore they wouldn't talk. Others, such as Jake (Greasy Thumb) Guzik of the Chicago

shoulder-holster set, and Morris is

Kleinman and Louis

|erime and its links with political |

| |

Rothkopf, /doesn’t expect to—are Cleveland characters with inter-'and Rocco Fischetti,

state gambling connections, kept surly silence. Beyond giving their

mum fine is small money. names, they wouldn't talk. { | on ” 5 {And many of them have served] THERE WERE still others that

the committee didn’t hear — because they couldn't be found. These subpena dodgers have been hiding for months. : The committee reported to the Senate that these characters

Morris Kleinman

couldn’t be found, and the Senate gangsters; Murray L. (The Camel) |

authorized the issuance of war- | racket man; John and George face prosecution in Federal Court

rants for - their arrest.

Humphreys,

Frank Costello

Frank Costello, the kingpin, | another Chicagojand Frank Erickson, are due to!land;

If the committee goes out of | Angersola, alias King; Samuel T. in New York.

away scot free. They may be brought before any

any time they are picked up.

uo 2 o THOSE WHOM the committee still waiting to hear—but

Chicago

Early Indianapolis—

White River Contained Many Kinds Of Fish Which Were Easily Caught

FISH, GAME AND SKUNKS Last of a series From: “Early Reminiscences of Indianapolis” By JOHN H. B. NOWLAND AT THE TIME of which I am now writing (1821) White River abounded with fish of great variety and choice quality. Its waters were as clear as crystal, and the fish could be seen

at the bottom in shoals, and a person could almost select from the number and capture any one desired. >

If a minnow was cast into the stream, a number of bass

would dart at it at once. The people from “in yonder on White River” came out in the fall when the weather began to get cool with seines; and, provided with salt and barrels, would load their wagons in a short time with the finest.

” = on WHEN the river was frozen over, people would supply themselves with fish, when they could find them up next to the ice, by striking on the ice over them, which would stun them until a hole could be cut and the fish taken out. Fish were not the only game taken from White River in those days. The more substantial and valuable was the fine fat deer with which the forest abounded, and most generally taken at night in the river. The process

| was called “fire-hunting.”

In warm weather, the deer would wade in the shallow water at night, to get the long grass and cool themselves, and could be approached very near, at least near enough to make sure of one of them.

2 2 s THE BOW of a canoe would be filled with dirt in such a way as to prevent any damage to the craft by a fire which would be made on it. The hunter, paddled by a companion, would stand just behind the fire and completely hidden from view of the animal, which would be almost blinded by the light. In this way, I have known two persons to take several deer in one night. Just opposite the mouth of Fall Creek was a great resort for deer, and they could be found there at almost any time of night.

Few Places to Turn—

TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Mrs. Oscar Levant | and children,"“Eastering at the L. A. Beachcomber, saw people drinking coffee grog. “What's that?” said one. Mama. “Let’s have some!” exclaimed the child.

“Coffee and rum,” explained

“Oh, you forget,” said the elder sister, “we're not allowed to have coffee!” S&S

WISH I'D SAID THAT: “She’s not exactly unattractive; it's just that she’s the kind of a girl you like to be with when your wife walks

in.”—Herman Schubert. That's Earl,. brother.

Diet of Cheapness And Blunders Cited |

THE PRESIDENT of the United States has become the butt of many bad jokes, and a great many of them deserved. The nation’s capital is almost a cuss word, and when you see where the leaders have run, with their leadership, it makes you feel like crying a little bit.

Sacredness has slightly departed law and order—I see where Judge Leibowitz estimates that the New York police take 25 million bucks a year in graft alone. The word ‘politician” has lately stopped somewhere between “fool” and “knave.”

We have been treated lately to a horrid diet of compromise and expediency, of cheapness and blunders, to where the average kid might wonder if honesty were the best policy, since he has seen so little of it around lately. > oS THE AIR of bewilderment thickens. when you | see the hoodlums standing on their :‘‘Constitu- | tional rights,” when ‘constitutional rights” merely means to them a lawyer's gimmick to maybe save them from a jolt in the can. They never ‘heard of the Constitution until recently; yet it is developing that these simonized bums have a | heavy thumb on the scales of the nation’s law,

as administered by elected politicos: The tax thing has got so out of fist that the incentive to labor lessens daily, and security is a sometime thing. Youth seeks social security -and spurns rugged free enterprise. Some odd things have happened to the marriage by-laws, as rigged by our fathers, and it all seems funny and distorted, as an image seen in a wavy mirror in a fun house. Seems to me we are standing in need of a dose of mental and spiritual sulphur and molasses, and a fresh indoctrination based on the Rover boys and Horatio Alger. I would like to see it once more where a boy can “marry the banker's daughter, by dint of hard work, instead of achieving fame and fortune by throwing basketball games.

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Problem ‘Alarming,’ Yet No City Has Adequate Hospital Facilities

By RUTH GMEINER United Press Staff Correspondent ’

WASHINGTON, Mar. 30 — Distraught parents and juv authorities, confronted with an epidemic of teen-age drug addiction, force an addict to take the | find few places to turn to for advice or treatment. Many cities report addiction among youngsters unde | become an “alarming” problem. Yet no city has adequate hospital facilities t [victims of the vicious habit. -

The majority of addicts— most conr2 to light when they are arrested for crime—literally have to “kick the habit”

pathic wards. They writhe in agony while they undergo “cold turkey” treat men t—sudden withdrawal of drugs—for 10 to 14 days. Without further treat-

ment, many soon resume the |

habit.

Inadequate federal and

21 has

| | | |

in | locked cells of jails and psycho- |

narcotics forces admittedly are unable to stem the rising trade in illegal drugs United States.

The U. 8S. Narcotics Bureau is |

pleading for a stiffer federal law, with mandatory jail sentences for

|“repeater” dope peddlers, as the

only “realistic” way to stamp out]

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the illicit traffic. -

” ” o BUT Dr. Harry J. Anslinger, chief of the bureau, said the “immediate” need is com-

Report It Can-Do 1200 MPH—

Cutlass Becomes First Operational

Plane of Type to Be Built in Number

By DOUGLAS LARSEN Times Special Writer DALLAS, Tex., Mar. 30—Mass production is now under way

on America’s first operational, supersonic airplane, the Navy's

F7U-3 Cutlass: The first of a secret but

“substantial” number of these

strange-looking twin-jet fighter planes are coming off the line of the huge Chance Vought factory. - It is reported that test models of the Cutlass have achieved

sonic cruising speeds. “This means that in normal flight they travel about 760 miles an hour. The same reports say that the Cutlass has flown at speeds from 900 to 1200 miles an hour in level flight under test conditions. 4 8 8 OFFICIALLY, however, all that Navy and plant officials will say is that the plane is in the “more than 600 miles an hour” class. The only official announcement of any military plane flying faster than sound was on the Air Force's experimental XS-1. The Pentagon revealed that this tiny, experimental test plapg. broke the sonic barrier on Oct. 14, 1947, and after that made numerous flights “several hundred miles faster than the speed of sound.” Since then, although it is will known that intensive rgsearch and development has n car-

ried on with many types of supersonic airplanes, the services have not admitted that any other plane has crossed the sonic barrier.

o 8 n f THE BIG significance of the Navy's decision to buy a-.large quantity of Cutlasses is that apparently they've licked enough of the complicated problems of supersonic flight to attempt routine operations at that speed. That means the day of commercial supersonic flight is not far distant. Despite the plane's amazing speed, it will operate off the deck of carriers. Secret devices slow it down to. a little more than 100 miles an hour for landing. It is 39 feet across, 40 feet long and has a gross weight of 20,000 pounds. This great weight will require the beefing-

"up of launching devices now

used for jets on carriers,

smuggled into the|

an these fugitives have gotten | Croft and Louis Levinson.

Joe Adonis, whose right name

authorized 18 Joseph Doto, is one of the 31 {subcommittee for questioning at|Who talked but didn’t talk enough.

Adonis faces two prosecutions for

and in Washington, He will be

When the squirrels were emigrating, which was nearly every fall, they could be taken in the river without trouble. !

Nor was this all: The woods were filled with turkeys. , ” n ALTHOUGH they were rath-. «er harder to capture than deer in this way, yet they could always be taken by a hunter that understood his business; indeed, I have known the hunter to set behind a log and call them within 10 steps. Sometimes, they were caught in a log pen to which a trench about 15 feet long was dug and corn scattered along it. The turkey would feed with his head down until inside before aware of it.

Those persons who had not the time nor inclination to hunt, could procure game at almost nominal prices from the Indians.

» ” ” A SADDLE of venison for 25 cents; ‘fine fat turkeys, of the largest kind, for 12145 cents, or three for a quarter; indeed, the Indians were not very close traders, and would take almost anything offered them. Another kind of game was plenty, but of no value to the white man—the shunk. The dogs never failed to let it be known when they met one in the woods.

addicts. “As long as addicts are on the

| cure!” Only three states—New Jersey, dearth of factual informati Louisiana and Kentucky—compel youthful drug users. 0 treat the youthful treatment.

The federal narcotics addiction

|Some of these answered some existence Mar. 31—the date set Haas, Samuel (Gameboy) Miller,| {queries and still drew contempt for its expiration—that doesn’t| Morris (Mushy) Wexler, John [citations because they kept quiet|me

contempt. He refused to answer [certain questions in New York!

o 5 n THE OTHER ‘silent ones” and the places where they face prosecution are: -Anthony J. Accardo, James Lynch, Arthur Longano and Salvatore Moretti, in the District of Columbia; Walter M. Pechart, San Francisco; Pat Manno, alias Patrick J. Manning, Chicago; Jack Dragna,

Chicago; {Doyle and Jacob Guzik, in the Chicago; Charles tried by United States attorneys Joseph Aiuppa, Cleveland; Joseph)| /{in both places.

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Crime’s ‘Silent Ones’ Face Trials

Lou Rothkopf Licavoli, alias Jack White, Cleve

Peter Tremont, Chicago; David

|N. Kessel, San Francisco; Carlos

Marcello, John J. Fogarty, Phil (Dandy) Kastel and Anthony Marcello, New Orleans; Pete

|Licavoll, Russell Trilck, and Mike

Rubino, Detroit; Joseph A. Poret« to, New Orleans; Stanley Cohen, San Francisco; Ralph O'Hara, George Bowers, John

District of Columbia. Kleinman and Rothkopf also

| (The Wolf) Decarlo and -James! will be prosecuted in Washington,

Settlers Found Plenty O

hospital at Lexington, Ky. now|

has a record number of juvenile

patients—‘“and still they are coming.” Dr. Victor H. Vogel, chief medical officer, admits condi-

tions at Lexington, where teenagers are not segregated from older, hardened addicts, are ‘far

—youngsters with some hope of rehabilitation. Many others are placed on probation, often free to return to their addiction or, worse, pass it on to assoclates. n EJ 2 PARENTS, teachers, and juvenile officers have discover a on

no psychiatric advice.

A committee of 42 community,

and official agencies is studying teen-age addiction in New York. A pamphlet has been distributed

There are no statistics, no medical histories, |

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What Hope For Teen-Age Drug Addicts?

'pulsory hospitalization of drug| to Lexington only “the cream” | Baltimore and St. Louis estabe

lished narcotic squads after the

rising rate of juvenile addiction

was brought to public attention.

{Chicago has doubled its force. De« [troit and Washington have cone ducted big cleanup raids of dope

peddlers, snaring some whole« salers in the process. 2 n ”

THE U. 8. Public Health Serve ice said there is undoubted need for closer supervision of adolescents by parents. In an effort to give children independence, many

'to teachers describing the symp- Parents have been too lax.

from ideal” but “if no other hos-!

to treat them.”

Some cities, such as New

toms (excessive twitching, stom-|

ach cramps, watery eyes, rest-

lessness, yawning).

New York authorities hope, too, ! pital is available we are willing to make hospital beds available]

to drug addicts of all ages. There

is a move to establish an upstate |

York, report they ark sending ‘camp for teen-age users.

Supersonic Fighter Now Being Ma

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DETAILS of the plane's armament are secret, but it bristles with many heavy caliber guns. The newer models of the plane will be powered with two Westinghouse J-46 turbojet engines, each with more than 6000 pounds of thrust: After-burn-ers for getting additional power from the exhaust gases of the engine give it a large part of its exceptional speed. To enable the pilot to maneuver the plane at its supersonic speeds, its controls have hydraulic boosts. This requires that an artificial “feel” of flying, which simulates the control forces of conventional

ss-Produc

planes, be built back into the control system. . 4 2 8 TO STAND the shock of supersonic flight, there is more magnesium in the frame of the Cutlass than has ever been

used on any previous aircraft. It has no conventional tail surface. . Two rudders on the trailing edge of the swept-back wing control horizontal direction. “Ailavators,” which are combined ailerons and elevators, give it lateral control. The wings fold up for more efficient storing aboard the carrier. The pilot sits far up on : nose of the plane in a pres-

ed For Navy

“The tragedy is that when they (the parents) wake up it is too late,” one spokesman said. The worse tragedy is that many youngsters who try a shot of heroin for a thrill may find they are “hooked” for life. There is no assured ‘‘cure.”

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NOW YOU SEE IT—Here's Navy's supersonic Cutlass in flight.

surized cockpit to protect him at high altitudes. The position gives him far more visibility than a pilot gets in most fighte er planes. 5 ” ” MORE than 6000 persons are now employed at the Chance Vought plant here. This plant, plus the Consolidated Aircraft Co. plant in nearby Ft. Worth which is turning out B-36s, makes this: area one of the busiest aircraft production cen ters in the U. 8. In addition to Cutlasses, Chance Vought's Dallas plant is turning out a few of the famous Corsair fighters which are being used for closg supe

port of ground troops-in