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It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK; June 19-—Aly Khan made the Beautiful Wife-and me ‘a couple of big. shots on the Paris “week-end” * from which we've just returned. He dropped around to the Hotel George V to have a drink with us at the bar—me, an Ohio clodbuster, the BW an ex-ste-nog from Omaha, St. Louis and Kansas City. “He's sweet, he’s darling” the BW drooled later. “No wonder the dames go for him,” she gurgled. eo PB JOAN FONTAINE told me she finds him ‘‘utterly charming” too but as to the question, “Will they or won't they?’. the answer is: They won't, even serious. “We've never really been alone,” Joan told me. “Does he have . . . er... sex appeal?” I asked Joan, (I Cover the Heart Beat, see.) “So do you!” said Joan, who certainly notices things. “He dances with everybody at his table. He couldn't very well not ask me to dance,” Joanie said . Delicately I asked whether they discussed that other girl . , . what was her name? Rita Hayworth. “No, never. He doesn’t volunteer anything because I guess he's a pretty honorable man,” Joan said.

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<> > THE PRINCE just plain shook hands (no hand kissing) when he met theBW. He had proposed meeting us at the hotel because we’d be getting on a Pan-American plane to go home an hour afterward. “I'll come there, You'll have a lot to do,” he said. Our room was a mess, not fit for a Prince, so we went to the bar. “lI don't drink alcohol. Except a little wine which I don’t think hurts you,” he said, ordering Perrier water. The BW wanted champagne and strawberries but wondered whether it was the right hour. “The hour doesn’t matter,” the Aly said with a touch of gallantry, “The thing that matters is that you want it.” He ordered it and thank goodness, paid for it. ¢ > 9 ABOUT .RITA, all he said was, “You're a married man. I feel about my wife as you do about yours. “Obviously I know thousands of people and obviously 1 go out with thousands of people. It means nothing.” He wore a thin black sweater with his chalk stripe suit. He confessed in his glib English that he isn't much of a dancer. “Since my skiing accident, I'm 6 centimeters wider in one leg. So when I dance, I'm lopsided.”

Dried Egg By Harman W. Nichols

WASHINGTON, June 19—The Army Quartermaster Corps has “cut down GI gripes by introducing meals of dried foods that are a little closer to Mom's cooking. Dehydrated dishes during World War II caused more grumbling than tough topkicks and cocky shavetails combined. To future soldiers, I can say that you are in for some pretty fine meals. As of now, I am pleasantly bloated after a completely dehydrated meal. The menu consisted of whole acidified eggs, nonfat (skimmed) amd dried whole milk, diced and granule white potatoes, green split pea soup, chicken noodle soup, onion flakes, sliced cranberries, sliced apples and dry yeast.

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A QUARTERMASTER CORPS officer who likes his job and would just as scon keep it by remaining anonymous, gave me some facts about the improvement. “The dehydrated foods we used in World War II weren't too bad, but the way our cooks prepared it, turned the boys against it,” he said. “Looks are the thing. “I heard about a mess sergeant over in Korea who has the fighters on his side because he had a course in psychology at school When he serves the dried eggs (as he almost always does) he leaves a few egg shells around. The GIs gobble their breakfast and run back down the mess line for seconds, as if they didn’t know the dried product from the fresh thing.

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The crash of his private plane the other aky, killing the young pilot, his employee and friend, saddened him. : “My poor private plane,” he said. He'd planned to fly to England for the Ascot. Now he wasn't going. . “It's not worth while anyway,” he said. “We had<20 horses ready to run. But 17 of them are coughing and haven't a chance.” _ Would ‘he pose for a picture with us? He would. 1 “But I feel such an inbeceel being photographed,” he said, for the first time slightly mispronouncing an English word, “Let me know when you come back and we'll have dinner,” he said, and then with an “Au revoir,” he walked away, limping a little on the lopsided leg in a way that made me feel sorry for him. The BW said, “He's sweet. He's got the same sweetness you have.” “Don’t overdo it,” I cautioned her.

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THES MIDNIGHT EARL—Roulette, etc. is vack IENY for the first time in years, in an Fast Side restaurant. Is this

the beginning of its return on a big scale? Just asking!... A 52d St. fleabag is the big dope clearing house. . . . Walter Toscanini flew to his mother’s bedside in Italy... “The King and I” nosed ahead of "Guys and Dolls” as the hardest-to-get B’'way ticket. s n » » GOOD RUMOR MAN-—With Joan Crawford and Yul Brynner (who's estranged from his wife, pretty Virginia Gilmore) is it love or television, or both? Anyway, he'll direct her TV show. . . . It may soon be charged that Abe Reles was killed so that his mouth would be shut and some famous politicians would be protected. . . . Bert Wheeler will claim he's been damaged $900,000 worth in a libel suit he’s starting. ... A bachelor, says Annamary Dickey, is a man who's depriving some good woman of a divorce and alimony.

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EARL'S PEARLS—Mary McCarty hears that some farmers are in trouble because they’ve been sowing wild oats with the help of rye. ‘ oo Pb TODAY'S BEST LAUGH-—Alfred Hitchcock bought the biggest steak he could get in England ona recent trip there, but being a little shy about other diners’ seeing it, covered it up—with a mushroom. Funny, says Nelson Case, a man’s pants can be baggy, as long as they're money-baggy . . . That’s Earl, brother.

Mess Sergeant Uses Psychology

“After the diches are washed, the mess man gathers in the shells he found someplace, washes them up and saves them for the next day. “This same sergeant discovered something else that has helped us. He works on thestheory that any dried food is tastier and retains its natural color better if it is not overcooked.” The new dried eggs are called acidified because they are made slightly acid during the drying process. One result is to boost the keeping qualities three to four times as long as the World War II type. The natural color is retained, too, and the eggs taste more like the untouched honest labor of a hen. > & : MY QUARTERMASTER spokesman explained that selection of dried foods was made with considerable thought and planning. “There is no sense,” he said, “in perfecting dehydrated parsnips, turnips or spinach. The average soldier turns his nose up at these things even when he gets them right out of the garden.” The reason for the dried foods in the first place was three-ply: To save space in shipping, to send food overseas that would keep until served, and to provide the man in the field with something that, in an emergency he could prepare for himself. The Quartermaster Corps and the Commodity Credit Corp. of the Agriculture Department have worked closely for a long time in developing the “mot bad” food that is being served in mess halls today.

Hedy’s Auction Puzzles Filmlan

BEAUTEOUS Hedy Lamarr, thrice-divorced, had Hollywood puzzled today with an announcement she will auction off $1 million worth of personal effects—including four wedding rings. After the sultry screen star married her fourth husband, nightclub operator Ernest Stauffer, last Week, she turned the belongings over to auctioneer Arthur B. Goode, to go under the hammer Monday. Items included a French provincial dining room set, children’s nursery furniture, paintings, $200,000 worth of

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jewelry, 480 dresses, 75 pairs of shoes, several,

mink coats and wraps, lingerie and nightgowns and an autographed grand piano. *

Silent Love In Detroit, Mrs. Pauline Hrybyk received a divorce after testifying her husband didn’t like her to serve refreshments to guests because “they might stay longer.” She said her husband was “too used to being a bachelor, and she had to buy a parrot to keep her company because he was so quiet. -.-

Missing Mule In Pinckneyville, T1., a judge ruled farmer T.ouls Misselhorn needn't pay $190 damages to a motorist whose car was damaged when 't nit a Jnule, since the motorist couldn’t prove the mule belonged to Mr, Misselhorn. Nobody could prove it. The mule disappeared fmmediately after the accident—and Is atill miss-

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- Great-Great-Grandma

Mrs. Frances Fusch had a double reason to celebrate her 88th birthday yesterday -in San Francisco.

Her great-granddaughter, Mrs. Alice Klee-

meyer, 20, gave birth to a gix-pound daughter,

Linda Susan. The child became Mrs. Fusch’s 47th descendant, following eight children, 14 grandchildren and 24 great-great-grandchildren.

Ten-Shun!

When soldiers of the 45th Division formed outside headquarters building at Camp Crawford In Japan today and held a salute for several minutes, passersby looked in vain for a flag or bugler. M/Sgt. James H. Edward explained: “We don’t have our flagpole up yet, the bugler fs on leave, but, rain or shine, we stand retreat at 17:51 hours.” Pop Criticized Although late for Father's Day, Author Philip

Wylie today said the average American father is a moral slacker and a hypocrite.

Writing in Look magazine, Mr. Wylie said.

Pop is the kind of fellow who regularly cheats en his income tax, pads his expense account, is

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unethical in business and carries on love affairs behind his wife's back.

Half a Loaf

Frances Langford and Jon Hall, who just celebrated their 13th wedding anniversary, figured it up today and decided it was really only their seventh “That’s all the time we've had together,” the *iny plonde explained. “Out of the past 13 years, we've been separated off and on—for six years.” But it wasn’t the usual brand of Movieland “separations.” It was work that took them opposite directions. While Jon was making films in Hollywood, Frances was singing on the beaches of Africa . .. or eJtaly . .. or Alaska . . . or-the South Pacific After the war she toured nightclubs, made personal appearances and starred in her own TV show in New York

‘Blind’ Luck

In San Leandro, Cal, 25-year-old Walter Fuery got sleepy, parked his car on a railroad track and setled down for a nap. A freight train rearing toward him was stopped by a warning light, changed from green to red by the motion of Mr. Fuery's car on a switch.

Zzzzz-272-7Z-1 In Chicago, jail keepers were troubled about Pavlo Strykowski, who had slept 23 out of every 24 hours since being arrested Mar. 3 on an assault charge. But a Polish-speaking guard altered the situation. After a visit to the 27-year-old Ukranian displaced person, the guard reported Strykowski was a window-washer by trade and wanted to work. He got his chance without delay.

Anything but Shoes

Sir Garnet Wolseley, the world's only shoe repair man with a nobleman’s title, comes to Canada today from Cheshire, England, to look for a new job. Sir Garnet, who inherited his moneyless, 200-year-old Irish titles last year, and his wife, a former telephone operator, said they wanted to live in a “fresh country.” Both 35, they said they would accept any job . .. except shoe repairs.

Refunds

Among 22 persons scheduled to get refunds on unfairly high fents paid more than a year ago in Alexandria, Va., are E. B. Loughlin, Johannesburg, South Africa, and Lt. Cmdr. B. H. Britten, Ankara, Turkey. They will share in a total of $14,075 which Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Hart were direcied to return to former tenants. ‘A judge decided the tenants had paid almost twice the legdl rental,

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under English tutors. But the difference since the end of World War II

is evident on every hand. The Germans are acquiring an American accent against their better judgment, and certainly against their increasingly militant nationalism. It isn’t happening because the Germans like us any better than they like the British or the French, or, as a matter of fact, each other, Americanism is infiltrating Germany by osmosis—almost literally through the pores.

= » - i LIKE THE MOST 'mportant | single element in ia's trend is the . American 7 himself. Working quietly, as an individual, and certainly without intent, the GI is roving to oe what certain observers always thought he would *urn out: to be, namely, the greatest propagandist of modern times. The propaganda he spreads isn’t always exactly what idealists in America would 'ike it to be, but it's effective. >

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POW Education Program Fails—

Time was, before the war—before all the wars—people in Germany who spoke any English at all sounded like Oxonians. This was understandable, because most teachers of English in Germany had studied in England, or

Have six years of occupation by American Gls changed the Germans any? hichard Hol fander, a Washington aewspaperman who saw the German reaction to the LL. N conguerors when he was ‘on the 3rmy, has now gone bavk © see the dif ferences under (he u. 8. Occupiers. Here's his dispatch:

History probably will point to two GI propagandists. The first was the one who came to” Germany in 1945 as the conqueror. The ther is the GI who came to Germany to make the Occupation a career. In some cases he’s the same GI, but the difference 's one of approach, The Conqueror acted like one. In the early days, he traded in the open Black Market. / He sold Mickey Mouse watches to the Russians for fabulous sums, He exchanged PX supplies with the hungry Germans for cameras, porcelain und, it is alleged in 2 song sung by Marlene Dietrich, submarines, He strode the streets of Frankfort. Stuttgart, Munich

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‘Wretched Existence’

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Uncle Sam Gets Told Off But Satire Sells Job We've Done

PARIS, June 19—Evil, brutish Uncle Sam gets told off in a neat little red, whité and blue propaganda booklet circulating here. But it’s sarcastic propaganda, and even Communists can understand that it does a pretty good job of selling America and the Marshall Plan.

cruel America (pictured as “The Man With the Cigar Between His Teeth”) is to

France.’ But the cruelty takes very pleasant forms. To wit:

“His misdeeds can’t be count~ ed . . For example, he fur- | nishes us, under the name of the Marshall Plan, carburetors which we lack, thus multiplying our traffic difficulties.” And it singles out Monsieur Metallo, one of America's victims. Uncle Sam was horribly vicious to poor Metallo. As the booklet tells it, this it what happened:

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On the surface, it seems to be telling a story of how

“THIS BRAVE young man ‘was living in sweet idleness, leading, thanks to his unemployment, a princely existence. But The Man With the Cigar Between His Teeth saw all this.

“He brought machinery, raw materials. The factories reopened. Everywhere the big chimneys began to smoke again, the motors started to turn.

“Now this poor Monsieur Metallo works every day. No more unemployment compensation; he has to be content with pay hardly four times higher. And

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BERLIN, June 19—Germany is losing its -B

and a dozen other fallen cities, and, somewhat casually for an American, he left GermanAmerican offspring in many and many a bombed-out household. But he had a certain apple-pie air about him, and so, when he finally went home, many Germans remembered him with some fondness, » # n WHEN THE OCCUPIER came along. he wasn't ‘welcomed, by any means, He represented a long-term job, one that Germans now living might never see the end of. But this Occupier brought a lot of America with him. If he was going to stay a long time, he wanted things he was accustomed to around him. The Conqueror GI had told the Germans about America— about the refrigerators and autos and abundant fcod. When he left, most of this was still pretty unbelievable hearsay to the Germans. The Occupier, on the other hand, set up an overseas version of the United States in the midst of the rubble. ? The Occupier GI is learning German, bu* not as quickly as the Germans’ are learning American Bh. The Occupler is ‘a®’propaganda unit with an effect’ &l' out of proportion to "his numbers. He isn’t making the Germans want to fight the Russians—nothing could do it short of actual invasion from the East, if that ~but his cultural infiltration, for better or worse, is a deep penetration indeed. * » - o THE U. S. INFLUEN is through another medium, as the following story will illustrate:

Between His Teeth’

water on his dinner table has been replaced by wine. “And this is not an isolated case! No! The same bad luck has happened to thousands, to dozens of thousands of ‘Metallos,’ in the four corners of the lovely country of France.”

» ” =» SADISTIC Uncle Sam wasn’t content with just improving the economic condition of the people. The booklet makes ft clear that America's cruelty went much deeper than that. “By inundating France and the Continent with his frightful drugs (penicillin, streptomycin, sulfanilamides), The Man With the Cigar Between His Teeth has condemned to partial unemployment one of our most active corporations (the doctor). “Our old locomotives are unemployed. too, thanks to him, and replaced by frightful modern machines. And the venerable boats we had left have been supplanted by steamboats, cargo boats, oil tankers and fruit boats.

Indianapolis Naval Reservists Off For Trainin

SHIP. AHOY—With the Chicago skyline as backdrop, officers and men of the Indianapoli: Naval Reserve swing up the dock toward the USS Daniel Joy (DE 585) and the PCE 845, on which ships they will take their annual training cruise. he ae “ v * »

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NIGHT LIFE IN BERLIN, 1951—The

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On Dec. 17, 1944, a few hours after the start of the counteroffensive that became the Battle of the Bulge a young German private named Eddie Loemann was captured by an American patrol that had not yet begun to retreat. / Eddie was cut on the forehead. Even before the wound healed he was on his way to the United States. He had been told for months by the German propaganda machine that going to the United

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he ate everything in sight. In the United States, he was sent to Indiana. For the rest of the war he worked in a cheese factory. » “ ” AS A PRISONER. he was exposed to certain classroom work, some of it involving lectures in democracy. He was Impressed by what he heard, but not as much as he was impressed by the abundance of life he saw around him. He fell in love with American movies, American dance rhythms and American salaries. The lessons in democracy were supposed to make him what was called an “educated” prisoner-of-war. The “educated” POWs eventually were supposed to go home and act as leaders in rebuilding Germany. It was a great idea. The only trouble seems to be that it worked too well. The “educated” POWs were educated in Americanism to the point

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“And our dear old oil lamps, relics of the Occupation! By putting our dams back in workking order, he has made them useless. As for the wheat in our fields, it is harvested to the very last blade by his murderous engines.” » EJ » THE BOOKLET, illustrated with drawings that bite as much as the sarcastic text, next draws a comparison between diabolical Unele Sam and benevolent Uncle Samovar, “the founder of the celebrated Marshal Plan (Marshal Stalin, of course. )"” This latter is truly France's friend (sarcasm drips heavily here). Listen to what the booklet has to say about Uncle Samovar’'s plan: “Everyone knows this wonderful work, of immeasurable social importance, destined to come to the aid of Europe's oppressed peoples. The system is simple. countries that accept

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