Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 June 1951 — Page 19

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RIVALS ROSES—Miss Jacquie Sue Loffland, Speedway City lovely, smiles through natural pic.

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ture frame of Tallyho roses during the annual rose festival at the Hillsdale Nursery.

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, June 9 -- Like a tourist, I strolled around Chinatown—to see how they're taking the war. It was a pleasant change from busy Broadway to walk down narrow, bending Mott St. I gaped into Joy Chang's beauty parlor. Into two “Korean barber shops.” And especially into Mr. Hong Wo's photo studio window, at pictures of some Chinese beauties coming out of their Faye Emerson dresses. How different from the Chinatown O. O. MeIntyre used as all reporters do into the insurance men and tong wars. I turned as all reporters do into the insurance office.of Shavy Lee, the “Mayor of Chinatown,” who does everything. “from marry 'em to bury 'em.” * +

BUT THE FIRST thing he said to me with a big smile on his fat face was:

“The Brooklyns won!” . No three words could have testified more eloquently to his Americanism. He lit a cigar and spoke further, and there was & waddle in his voice. (He weighs 250.) “We get news,” he said, “about a lot of people in China bein’ shaken down by the Communists. “They make them write to their relatives here and try to get money. It's like blackmail.” hi db

THE MAYOR yelled into the next room to another Chinese, “what news did you get lately?” “They write that you got to join the Communist Party or they send you to the front line in Korea.” The second Chinese was the assistant manager of Mayor Lee's restaurant, one Parker Chow—what an apt name for a restaurateur, “Chin's starvin’,” he said. “Where the hell do they get guns and ammunition to fight. It's simple—Russia’s makin’ 'em fight.”

Mayor Lee mentioned their anti-Communist League, their Chinatown blood bank—and the leftist paper, the China Daily News, which, so he said, isn’t read, nor even sold on the stands. Ss» UP A TWISTING STAIRS, I then climbed to the office of the China Overseas Travel Agency.

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, June 9-—It comes out just like it figured, just like the early threats sald. The meat growers are holding on to their steers, waiting either for a recession of the rollback or a quiet

maket on the black side. They did this under OPA, too, which is why you used to eat so much fish. I don't care how the gentlemen justify their actions on : beef, it’s intentional blackmail § against the government, with ‘ us folks as the victims. Maybe i i the government’s wrong in roll{ing back the prices on meat % while others stand steady. Possibly, since it is logical that a parti-controlled industry can’t £ work. But once in a while you weary of taking it ‘in the teeth. What Truman calls “special interests” fights it out with the special Interests inside the government, but the barked shin and the black eye belong to us.

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ARMOUR & CO., and Wilson & Co. have quit slaughtering cattle as of now, with Swift winding up its killing in a few days. No matter what the

Washington boys say about “customer resistance,” the answer is merely that the cattle growers are * holding off shipments for ene of two reasons an anticipated reversal of the government price cut or a‘quiet profit in the black market.

Neither aim is noble ‘in the mind or in the operation, but I have seldom met a more determined bunch of pressure boys than the cattlemen. Almost to a man they are tough plainsmen who wish no truck with the effete government arbiters. And ‘ like most big operators they are reasonably un- . scrupulous in how they obtain their wishes.

It's easy to understand their anger. They claim it costs more to raise a steer and market him than the price cut allows in payment for the critter. This is because some of the commodities, . such as feed, which go into cattie-growing, and labor, too, have TiSen in cost,

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A scared little old gray-haired woman, Mary

Lo Kee, mother of the owner, Sing Kee, was waiting for her son to return. >

Yes, she was born in China, “Oh, long time, maybe 77 years.”

There's not much business now, naturally, for

who wants to take a slow boat to China these

days?

Yes, it was a delightful afternoon among the tong warriors—now lolling idly in the doorways and among the dragons and the rich smells from the restaurants.

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THE MIDNIGHT summons for. alleged

missions to manager Danny Hollywood . . . The FBI's helping sew up the case against Frank Costello. Looks like he'll soon be cited . . . Gloria

Vanderbilt Stokowski, far from splitting with her

husband, sails tomorrow to join him in England. LE

GOOD RUMOR MAN: Top Democrats were asked if they objected to William O’Dwyer being

grilled again in Brooklyn. They said no ... Dan Topping enlisted in our no-collar campaign. Dined in Toots Shor’s without a tie . . . Chick James is Miss Defense Bond of 1951.

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COMEDIAN JACKIE GLEASON, in an open letter to us, blasts Milton Berle for allowing Fat Marko of his cast to appropriate his increasingly famous expression, “Away We Go.” Gleason— angry because somebody accused him of lifting it from Berle—asks “Mr. Television” not to mar his title by gaglifting, and warns him not “to wheedle out of it by saying a member of his cast is to blame.” We, being neutral, invite Berle's answer,

EARL'S PEARLS: Jones who claims he heard one duck tell another: “Oh, quit trying to walk like a woman wearing slacks.”

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WISH I'D SAID THAT: “Seems odd, but if you want gossip to die, you have to keep it from passing on”—Samuel 8. Biddle , . . That's Earl

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Meat Conireoel Mess Leaves Us in Middle

No man likes to operate at a loss, or what he feels is too narrow a profit margin,

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BUT IT'S STILL a strike against the people, in order to force the governmental hand, and like John Lewis’ annual effort, the ordinary Joe winds up paying for it. You pay for it either in shortage or the soaring illegal prices demanded by shady meatpackers who are out for the big grab. A couple months ago one of the bigger Texas boys wrote me flatly that what's happening now would happen. It wasn’t even stated as a possibility. He just said that cattle raisers wouldn't hold still for a rollback, and that they would stage a sit-down in cattle delivery that would automatically create a black market, I believed him then, and now I know he was accurate. It always comes back to the same thing. No system of control can be 100 per cent effective, because some sharp guy can always figure a way to whip the restrictions. But the most nearly effective control is the one that handles everything, beginning at the

bottom and tapering to the top. Anything short .

of 100 per cent is like trying to plug five holes in the roof with one finger.

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THE GOVERNMENT to date has made the most childish mess of its attempt to stopper the flood of inflation that literally keeps meat from the average table. No more pitiful piece of foolishness can I remember than the early exhortation to “voluntary” controls, and the parti-con-trols which have since been put lamely to work have only increased the spiral in other fields. As we stand, it is a horse-opera written by idiots, with the villains triumphant and all. the little Nells taking the rap. I don’t know the answer. Maybe there isn’t one. But whatever we ard doing right now is not it. The best brain I know says it’s all or Hothing at all, “full control or no control. He also says you can't give guns and butter simultaneously to the people without wrecking the people’s ability to buy either, because of competition in the labor and material pools. Right or wrong, what ain't we got? We ain't got steak,

They Don’t Like Reds Dn In Chinatown

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| Lisa Kirk quotes Charley |

A Hoosier on Safari—

(Gene L. Williams, 29- -year- -old vice president of Gaseteria, Inc., is an enthusiastic hunter and amateur gunsmith, Me fulfilled a dream lost fall by making a seven-week safari through Tanganyika, East Africa, ofter big game. The Times today publishes the first of several excerpts from “African Sofari,” the story of his trip).

.,. Part One me®hunting in Africa always has seemed to be the ultimate in hunting. Through the help of several friends I arranged a

hunting trip through Tan-

ganyika, East Africa, from Sept. 15 through Nov, 1.

some 3500 miles, making a general circle from Nairobi, Kenya Colony, down into Tanganyika, over to the southeast side of Lake Victoria, below Lake Victoria approximately 200 miles and swinging back toward the east and Nairobi, completing the circle.

My professional hunter was, Bill Jenvy, an Australian, 29 years old. Many professional hunters are young, and his age was not unusual. He was an excellent hunter, an excellent camp manager and a prince of a fellow to travel with, » » ¥

UR PARTY consisted of Jenvy, myself and 14 native boys who had the jobs of cooks, gun bearers, porters and personal boys.

| The natives seemed to have { one job; to make their bwana (master) as comfortable as possible. We were wakened every morning by our boys, who handed us cups of hot coffee. | When I sat down to a meal, my | personal boy uld put on a white gown and wait on me as { I have never been waited on in my life. Our native cook was {

a talented individual, too. He ~ prepared four and five-course dinners every evening.

The outfitters and profession- | al hunters who manage these | trips provide the finest accom- | modations imaginable. We had { fine tents, dressing tables and chairs, cots with air mattresses | and fresh linens; everything | would lead you to believe you { were staying at the Waldorf

| The Statehouse—

Some GOP Hoosiers Abaft Ta

By GENE L. WILLIAMS

During the trip I traveled «

: SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 1951

SOME GUN—Gene Williams examines his high-velocity 22 caliber rifle with telescopic sight.

instead of being out in the bush. I have hunted in many different situations, but I have never found any hunting in the slightest way comparable to the accommodations on an African hunt. ® » » UR luxury item on this trip was two cases df soft drinks we carried along. We had no refrigeration, of course, 80 we drank it warm. After a week in the bush I got so I could really enjoy a warm soft drink.

We traveled in two vehicles, a one-ton truck similar to an Army Command Car and a three-ton truck in which we carried the supplies. From the command car we did a great deal of our reconnaissance and hunting.

By IRVING LEIBOWITZ BEHIND THE SCENES in Indiana politics, a strong Taft-for-President movement gains strength daily. Some of the most influential Republicans in the state

|. Schortemeier, an Indian- | apolis attornéy who was a | classmate of Sen. Taft at | the Harvard Law School. Mr. i Schortemeier was Republican Secretary of State from 1924 to

| 1928. He then made an unsuc-; | cessful bid for governor.

The Taft movement in In- | diana was described as “wholly | voluntary” by Mr. Schortemeier, { who. explained that the Ohio | senator has “lots of. friends here.”

Mr. Schortemeier has been in constant touch with Sen. Taft | and his advisers ever since the | senator won an overwhelming | victory last year over Democrat | Joseph Ferguson, state auditor | of Ohio. { The main job confronting Mr. | Schortemeier and his asso- | clates is to swing the Indiana | Republican delegation to Taft. The objective is “solid support.”

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Mr. Schortemeier, who fondly | recalls his Cambridge campus «days at Harvard with Sen, Taft, thinks the nation “needs some- | one like Bob to pull us out of the mess we're in now.” { There are some Hoosier Re-

| publicans with unlimited politi-

| cal ambitions who frankly do | not like the Taft movement. | Most of these politicos think | the Hoosier delegation to the

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No Arguments ‘About Ireland For Gen. Bradley

LONDON, June 9 (UP) — An {Irish reporter tried at Gen. Omar {N. Bradley's press conference today to question him about Britlain’s “occupation” of Northern {Ireland. “Look here, you can't get me into an argument about Ireland.” |Gen. Bradley said. “Some of my {ancestors care from there.” | » » ~ {| BUT WHEN Gen. Bradley re{ferred to “Northern Ireland,” the | reporter retorted with: | “We, sir, refer to them as the {six counties.” The six northeastern counties of Ireland. are a part of the United Kingdom, The Irish Republic demands them as part of an Ireland that ought to be unified.

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are leading the drive to swing the GOP presidential nomination to Qhio’s Sen. Robert A. Taft. Sparkplug of the Taft bandwagon is Frederick E.

1952 Chicago convention should have a favorite son candidate, preferably themselves. Right now, key GOP’ers privately tell intimates Indiana’s Homer E. Capehart is a good bet to get the favorite son presidential indorsement of the state delegation on the first ballot, But they also say the delegation will probably swing to one or more other candidates on later ballots. Then, there are some Hoosier optimists who think Sen. Capehart, as a compromise candidate, can go the whole route and wind up with the nomination. This view, however, ig not widely shared. It is a safe bet that Sen. Taft is not hurting his presidential opportunities in Indiana when he visits here June 23 as guest speaker at the official GOP Freedom Dinner.

PSC Feud THE DRAMATIC withdrawal of Public Counselor Walter

Jones in the Evansville transit case, points up a controversy between Mr. Jones and the Public Service Commission that threatens to break out in the open again. Mr. Jones stomped out of the

. hearing last week when PSC

Chairman Hugh Abbett introduced two exhibits in the case. According to Mr. Jones, this is against state law. And he told the commission that although he intended to use the exhibits himself, he objected to the practice of the commission submitting exhibits. “That’s like letting a judge take part in a court fight and then hand down a ruling,” he explained. Now, Mr. Jones has formally asked Attorney General J. Emmett McManamon for an official ruling. If. that doesn't work out, he may again appeal to Gov. Schricker. He did that before.

GOP Controls Courts

NO MATTER who wins the 1952 elections, the Reublicans will still retain control of the state’s two. highest courts—the Supreme and Appellate. GOP has three holdovers on five-man Supreme Court bench ~-Justices Arch Bobbitl of Ind:anapolis, Floyd Draper of Gary and Frank Gilkison of Washington. Only Democrat holdover is Justice Paul Jasper of Ft. Wayne. Up for re-election will be Republican Justice James A. Emmert of Shelbyville. Four Republicans on the sixmember Appellate bench are holdovers—Wilbur A. Royse cf Indianapolis, Donald E. Bowen of Bloomington, Harry Crumpacker of Michigan City and

x took with me a .257 bolt action rifle for light game, a .375 Magnum bolt action rifie” for

larger game, a 470 Rigby double-harrel rifle for large, dangerous game, a 12-gauge

shotgun for guinea fowl and partridge, a .22 rimfire rifle for the same purpose, and a 45 automatic pistol to wear during sleep. But on second thought it was rather foolish to carry the pistol, since danger of being attacked by any animal while asleep is about as remote as being struck by lightning. I also took along a 35 mm. camera, a light meter and a 16 mm. movie camera with a unipod stand. While hunting, I wore khaki pants and shirt, a felt hat, leather boots or tennis shoes and’ a warm leather jacket.

Harold Acker of Anderson. Two Democratic Appellate judges, Warren W. Martin of Boonville and F. Leroy Wiltrout, are up for re-election. Another clean Republican election sweep, such as the GOP state victory last year, would leave only ene Democrat on the two top state courts — Justice Jasper.

Statehouse Roundup STATE EXAMINER Otto K. Jensen has established some

A strong advocate of the-in-dependent college, Dr. Clyde E. Wildman will retire this month after 15 years as president of DePauw University. He has held that office for a longer tenure than: any other man in the school's 114-year history. A recognized leader in liberal education, his career has included” study in foreign lands, public-school teaching, college teaching and administration.

President Since 1936

A native of Greensburg and’

a DePauw graduate in the class of 1913, Dr. Wildman accepted the presidency in 1936.

Sen..and Mrs. Taft... Future First Family?

Through Africa Ih Luxury

Early in the safari, Mr. Williams ond his guide passed through the territory of the Mansa, a large tribe — famed for fighting ability. Here is what he discovered: = FROM birth until he is 13 or 14, a male Massai is reared

by his mother and has no responsibilities. Then at 14 he undergoes the tribal circumcision ceremony and

becomes a warrior of the tribe. He joins a group of 20 or 30 warriors who guard the cattle and make war, if the elders order it. These groups usually make themselves a large camp hut out in the grazing fields and are provided with a like number of Massai maidens as young as 12 years of age. For several years the warriors live m this large come

pound with the girls.

When they reach 25 or 30, the men become tribe elders, buy up wives and settle down to run tribal business. Price of wives varies with supply and and ranges from three sheep to as much as 10 | cattle, or approximately $5 to $100. Any promiscuity among the women occurs only before marriage. This standard does not hold true for

the males.

The Massai have resisted the advance of civilization “in every possible way. A good Massai still wears a souple of hides, the dress his forefathers wore. He smears his hair with oil and clay and braids it, and smears the sticky, gummy mess over his body. For food, the Massai draws blood from the jughlar vein of his cattle, mixes it with curdled milk and allows it to ferment a day or two before eating it. It is amazing how healthy and well-developed they stay on this diet.

E did most of our hunting at an altitude of between 4500 and 6000 feet. Even though we were directly on the equator, I don’t believe the

temperature ever got over 90

degrees and the mo and evenings ‘were quite chilly. The climate might be described as similar to that in the mountains of Wyoming in summer. On Sept. 10, I left Indianapo~ lis by air for New York. From there, I continued by air to London, Tripoli, Cairo and Nalirobi, where we landed Sept. 12. I was taken to the Norfolk Hotel, famous all through Africa for its fine accommodations,

sort of record at Wittenberg College, Springfield, O. Last week, he was re-elected, for the ninth time, chairman of the college’s board of directors. In ‘Washington again this week trying to build up sentiment among top Democrats to urge President Truman to attend the Democratic Midwest Conference at French Lick Aug. 23 is State Chairman Ira L. Haymaker. Thirteen Young Republicans

DePauw's Dr. Wildman to Retire

Dr. and Mrs. Wildman, who was a 1915 DePauw graduate, will make their home in Indianapolis following his retirement, He has been instrumental in acquiring more than $3 million in grants and endowments. Four major campus buildings have been constructed during his tenure, and three others have been acquired. During his presidency, Dr. Wildman has liberalized the col-

lege curriculum, reorganized the

faculty, and ‘attempted several experimental projects in general education,

guest in the hotel there were six or seven native servants.

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] ser~ vants within ready to come at your : That afternoon I met Bill Jenvy. We g next two days in Nairol : small items I in getting packed NEXT: begins.

attend National Young GOP convention in Boston June 27, according to Berry Hurley, president of Hoosier group. . It seems that Louis O. Hiner the newspaper reporter who turned bureaucrat and later gave up “in disgust,” grabbed onto an old bureaucrat cus tom during his short bureaus

cratic stay at the Office of Price Stabilization here. In his weekly reports to Chicago, Louis kept asking for more “help. ” Former Democratic State Treasurer Shirley ¥. Wilcox, of New Albany, was in Washington talking about job prospects with top Democrats. Statehouse observers predict Public Service Commissioners Hugh Abbett, Lawrence Can-.

lower transit fare in Evansville to 10 cents. Recently, PSC hiked fares there from 10 cents to 15 cents or two . tokens for 25 cents. | Members of the state's “Little Hoover” commission meet at Statehouse Tuesday to name director who will be :

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