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NEW YORK, June 20-—Johnny Johnston doesn’t go around yelling about it. But his close friends know he’s glad his life as “Mr. Kathryn

Grayson” is over.

Singer Johnny is now winning kudos in “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.” He has returned with-

In the last few weeks to being “Mr. Johnny Johnston.” This is not a tale of bitterness. Though they are divoreing, Kathryn, recently ‘“exposed” as the bosomiest Hollywood actress, came to see him on his big opening night, And one recent morning she phoned him, Hollywood to New York, and said, “Goodby. I i called to tell you I'm leaving B for Honolulu on a vacation.” Eo But the fact was that while they were living together as husband and wife, Johnny was always in Kathryn's shadow— and since she out-Russells Jane, she cast a very large and important shadow. “I became a beachcomber and a golfer," says Johnny. * & 0»

Kathryn

AND YET before his marriage to the luscious Kathryn, he had been a considerable personality on his own. As he likes to remember now, he introduced a song called ‘That Old Black Magic” in a Paramount picture, “Star-Spangled Rhythm.” “Just think, if I hadn't done that song, there might never have been a Billy Daniels!” he said to me the other day. “Crosby was In the picture but he refused it,” Johnny admits laughingly «now. “They made me do it.” “But it didn’t help me enough,” said Johnny. * SS

I REMEMBER Johnny vividly and favorably. ‘He had arrived in New York around 1943—when

the bond drives for World War II were just get-

ting well under way. I had agreed to take a War Bond show to Washington. ® 37

Joe Cotten, Joy Hodges, and numerous others went along—also this unknown Johnny Johnston. He had a “gittar” or banjo with him, and whenever he went on to sing, there was another

hour shot to hell, as the other entertainers were likely to say. igs

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, June 20--The uses of psychiatry as a sales gimmick are many and varied, but have seldom been used so successfully as in the sale of sleep. ; The merchandisers of slumber have practically arranged it so you're afraid to hit the sack without a bumper crop of their gidgets and gadgets and gizmos. “A skilled psychiatrist,” says a sign in the sleep shop of a firm called Lewis & Conger, “can root out night fears if you have the time and the money but . . .” and then goes on to tell you how to build security with a neon night-glow lamp, a personal siren: burglar alarm, instant room intercomTnieation devices, instant Vv amps, instant fire signals, and, wonderful to behold, a “book for deconditioning night fears.” A variety of posters calls your attention to the psyche and its ramifications. “Freud versus sleep shop,” says one. “What do your positions signify?” I can answer that one easy. It means the old lady has rolled over again and I am trying not to fall off the bed. ody : THERE ARE ALL sorts of beds available, of course. There is the “tete-a-tete bed, to promote cultural exchange.” There is the “veto bed, for ambivalent mates,” - whose subhead savs “sometimes I hate you, sometimes I love you.” This bed offers either “reassuring proximity or cooling aloofness.” In short, it is a big bed. Of course, there ‘is a: “freedom crib” for the kiddies, a “thermostat-controlled haven for the modern. baby.” It looks more like an aquarium than anything else, but I suppose the modern child thinks he is a fish anyhow after a certain amount of scientific indoctrination.

About People—

ened Last Night

they wanted om to, They woultn's let SKIP A FEW days. : ington to Broadway.

There was a club on Broadway known then

as the Hurricane.

Practically unknown entertainers used to be

given “celebrity nights” there.

One of the unknowns given a “celebrity night” on a hot summer evening was Jackie Gleason, One of the singers was Johnny Johnston, who had followed his triumphal tour of Washington by efforts to get booked in

now the TV star.

New York-—all of which were unsuccessful.

“Monte Proser happened to be there,” says Johnny, referring to the founder of the famous

Copacabana with Joe E. Lewis,

“That started things going and eventually I

got about $9000 a week.”

And so an MGM talent scout caught him at the Copacabana, and he was signed for Holly-

wood,

He went out—and there he met, wooed and

married Kathryn Grayson. He soon found it was difficult being the husband of a glamor doll. But they had a baby, and it became increasingly difficult.

Finally they agreed it was no good that way and Johnny came back to New York just a few

months ago. "io 0 HE HAD, one time, six or seven years ago, piqued the interest of a great director named George Abbot who had wanted him for a show called “On the Town.” But at that time Johnny was too busy to take it. Abbott, however, had the memory of a director. He asked Johnny to go into “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.” Johnny, a boy from Kansas City, Mo., who sang in Chicago bars on the way up, grabbed the opportunity, Meet Mr. Johnny Johnston! eB WISH I'D SAID THAT: Vaughn Monroe says a woman is as old as she looks—before breakfast. > > @ TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: The Reds in Korea are taking such a beating Marion Carter hears the Russians are exporting oil for the lumps of China. That's Earl, brother.

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Psychiatr Used In Sale of Sleep

I like particularly the “mattress clinic,” which asks rather rudely if “you are a monogamist if you seek a mattress forever faithful.” And the sign in the pillow clinic which asks: Is your pillow too buxom? T'll thank you to mind your tongue, Lewis & Conger. It just so happens I like big pillows. > S&H THE ONUS, as is usually the case these days, is placed firmly on the male. “Does he smoke rashly in bed?” and the one for “wistful wives” . . + “does he fall asleep at the wrong time?” Here in one stroke is a double-barreled accusation of built-in guilt of homicidal carelessness and overweening callousness. Mr. Norman Dine, the sleep genius who compiles these come-ons, has succumbed to a fit of honesty in one placard. This says that if you can relax you don’t need the sleep shop at all, a rather rash admission for a man who condemns rashness in smoking in bed. He may be right, though, and I offer him a recipe for relaxing. : Rap yourself gently over the head with a bottle of bourbon until the eyes begin to blur. Have yourself convoyed to the bed chamber and pull off your clothes. Leave the clothes as. they fall on the floor. * SS PLACE YOUR HEAD on a pillow that does not necessarily have to be fickle, sybaritic or too buxom. Open the mouth. Snore. Pull all the blankets off your bedmate, if any, and thrash wildly about, kicking, swinging arms and grinding your teeth. I have been sleeping successfully for years, and this is my recipe for relaxation, and I have not yet been to the clinic to learn whether my mattress is forever youthful. I don't care what the thing does when I'm out of town so long as

it don’t bite me when I am trying to catch a little rest.

Lack of Mirth Control Is Costly

Plainclothesman Joe Becker and check-jumper Fred R. Finotti, 27, played peek-a-boo for keeps in a Pittsburgh hotel lobby, although chuckling bellhops, clerks and guests never realized it. After Finotti returned once too often to the hotel where he had failed to pay his check several times before, he saw Detective Becker approaching. He looked for a place to hide, then cupped his hands over his face and peeked through two fingers. The detective grinned, then laughted, then guffawed. So did Finotti. The tall, strapping youth finally found it so funny he dropped his hands to hold his stomach. When the giggles were over, Mr. Becker led Finotti away to jail.

Backfire

In St. Paul, Minn., Mrs. Lyla J. Nielsen told the judge her husband tried to train Rowdy, the family dog to bite her. When Rowdy wouldn't co-operate, Lester Nielsen beat the animal for not carrying out orders. So Rowdy bit Mr. Nielsen, Mrs. Nielsen got her divorce and won custody of her daughter—and Rowdy.

Out on a Limb

While a church group was having a peaceful picnic on a riverbank near Watertown, Wis., 38-year-old John Kunter hove into view, swinging from limb to limb of a tree and bellowing the cry of the ape-man. The Milwaukeean admitted in court he had followed a few drinks with a swim across the river and a little aerial exerfise. The judge grounded him for a 15-day rest in jail,

Tough Skunk

In Hamburg, Ill, farmer Ralph Nixon found a big skunk killing his chickens. The belligerent

State CIO Leaders

Join in Controls Plea State CIO leaders and directors of their affiliated unions today in|

‘Couple Marks 25th Anniversary $250 Theft at Hotel

Today the Rev. Linstrom of Southport are start-|

skunk turned on Mr. Nixon, who ran into his |

house, got a gun and shot the white-striped animal.

“But before I could get back and kill it,” said | the farmer, “the skunk had killed three of my |

dogs and seven chickens.”

No Excuses

Hdrold E. Montag. school supply manufacturer in Atlanta, Ga., paid a $500 contempt-of-court fine yesterday for refusing to serve on a federal jury. Although Mr, Montag pleaded he would be out of town and had been called-to previous jury duty five times since last September, Judge-Frank Hooper, who imposed the fine, commented: “The busiest men make the best jurors.”

Very Swarm for June Downtown Pittsburgh really buzzed yesterday for an hour while a swarm of bees hedge-hopped through the shopping center, scattering pedestrians and creating an hour-long traffic jam. While waiting for Fire Capt. John Herron, the city’s bee expert, to arrive, police wouldn't accept the word of a passerby that the bees were harmless, even though the man thrust his hand into the swirling mass and brought it out, unstung, Capt. Herron finaily eased the situation with a shot of cyanide gas.

Honors for One

Because Newton, Mass., always stages elaborate going-away ceremonies for departing groups of draftees, there will be no exception Monday when Raymond R. Costa, 20, answers the Selective Semwice call by himself. Young Costa will get good wishes from Mayor Theodore R. Lockwood, a free breakfast and pen-

and-pencil set and escort to induction by the SendOff Committee.

Teen-age Gl Admits

A teen-aged soldier who sid he

and Mrs. R. H. 1.4 been wounded in Korea and

Washington, D. C., expected t0/ing the second quarter century of| Wa AWOL from Camp Atterbury

urge extension of price and wage their marriage after a gala celebration last night.

The Rev. Mr. Linstrom, pastor

controls by Congress. Heading the group is Loren J. Houser, CIO regional director, Called to Washington with 250 CIO leaders of the nation by CIO President Philip Murray, they were to “air inflation” and rail “congressional lethargy” about its continuance. + The price and wage control act expires June 30 without extension by Congress.

27 Cars Derailed

MUSKEGON, Mich, June 20|

of the Southport

tion, officiated.

Dro Named

{and baseball star

today the derailment of 27 cars| versity, today was promoted from of a Pennsylvania Railrbdad/alumni field secretary to assistant No in- alumni secretary.

) Jay Collins, 1950 IU graduate, last might which littered a wide was named to fill Mr. Dro’s for-

freight train near here. Juries were reported in the wreck|

area with debris. .|mer position.

and Mrs. Lindstrom renewed their marriage vows in a ceremony before relatives and friends last night in the church. Dr. Olive McGuire, executive secretary of the Indianapolis Baptist Associa~

IU Alumni Secretary

Times State Service BLOOMINGTON,

{ (UP) — Authorities investigated [.0P¢Tt Dro, former basketball

today admitted taking $250 from the Linden Hotel. Dale Shotwell, 18, of 2033 Hoyt Ave, was held on a preliminary charge of burglary. Police located him after he had registered under a false name at two other hotels. He signed a written confession saying he had emptied the safe at the Linden while the night clerk’s back was turned.

Civil Air Patrol Head to Co-ordinate State CAP Maj. Gen. Lucal V. Beau, commanding general of the Civil Air

Patrol, today was here to co-

ordinate state activities of the ICAP. | The General also was scheduled to speak at the noon luncheon of the Downtown Lions Club and

Baptist Church,

Assistant

June 21

at Indiana Uni-

Now Johnny Is Mr. Johnston

Because Johnny stayed in there singing’—as off,

Word of Johnny has come back from Wash-

EMBARKATION CONFERENCE — Details Naval Reserve are discussed by

| Indianapolis unit; Lt. (jg) C. J.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1951

rvists Off To

undeen, operations officer of the USS Daniel Joy,

Hoosier Rese

for the Great Lakes training cruise of the Indianpolis Le to right] Lt. Cmdr. John Barnett, battalion commander of the C. J. Kavanaugh, 2029 Churchman St. and Capt. F. F. gear as the Indianapolis Reservists board

Knachel, assistant inspector instructor at the Indianapolis Naval Armory.

and other luggage preparatory to boardin ing local Reservists on training cruise,

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Eniwetok Eyewitness—

‘Very Important Dog’ Disobeys General

By REP. F. EDWARD HEBERT ENIWETOK, June 20—VIP in military circles designates “very important persons” ... At least they think they are important or somebody else does . . . Anyway

the tag is always tacked onto Congressmen when visiting military reservations . . . Eniwetok is no exception . . .

TO BOARD ESCORT CRAFT—Enlisted Indianapolis Reservists unload seabags g USS PCE 845, one of two ships carry-

Gen. Elwood (Pete) Quesada is proud of a pedigreed

cocker spaniel which he brought from England . . .

Around the dog’s neck is an identification badge which reads VID, for ‘very important dog” ... | of its obedience , , . The Gen- | eral holds a piece of meat in his right hand and announces his dog can spell . , . He then tells the dog not to eat the meat | while he is holding it in his r-i-g-h-t hand but that he can eat the meat when he holds it in his l-e-f-t . , . But the General had an embarrassing moment.

Gen. Quesada is proud °

Goldwyn-Mayer . . . Was the General's face red when the dog snapped the meat out the r-i-g-h-t hand before he said l-e-f-t hand . . . Even a general’'s orders are disobeyed at times. ” = WE ALL undoubtedly get different reactions to different things... Following the “bang”

at Eniwetok,. Gordon Dean, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, was suggesting to a photographer the desirability of a certain feature of the mushroom cloud . . . Quipped the photographer: “That was a hell of an expensive flashbulb, wasn't it?”

» » » I WAS discussing the explosion with Dr. Ernest Lawrence of the University of California, famous Nobel Prize winner . . “Doctor, the reaction must have

You Only Need to Hit One—

| U.

By JIM LUCAS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

| OFF WONSAN, June 20—Dick Peterson, skipper of

the tanker Navasota had read the message twice.

whistled softy.

“Visibility zero at Wonsan,” he said. | We had hoped for a better break. The Reds have

I laid an estimated 15,000 mines on Wonsan's coastal shelf.

{ They control the beaches | even after 125 days of assault. Our tanker—26,000

mables—was a prime target, We got the weather message

last’ night. Now, at § = on a. m., the Navasota was outside Wonsan. We could see nothing. Inside the harbor, however. the morning bo mbardment § had begun, We § could hear the & roar and rumble of the

guns, Destroyers and frigates

Mr. Lucas

appear on television tonight.

were pounding the beaches.

tons and loaded with inflam- |

Occasionally the re-

turned tha fire.

The frigate Sausalito plowed through the murk toward the Navasota. It would lead us through ‘the narrow channel which had been cut through Wonsan's treacherous mine field. Already the minesweepers were about their morning chores—brooming it down for mines.

enemy

» » » “HERE WE go,” sald Dick Peterson. “Hold your hat.” This was old stuff for the men of the.Navasota. Once a

week they bring in fuel, mail

and provisions, They take-out

| mail and passengers.

The Navasota followed the Sausalito into the channel. The ships moved slowly between the bugys. Outside those buoys there

”

been simultaneous,” I remarked

« «+ “Oh, no,” replied Df. Law™

rence without a smile. “It took a long time. It must have taken at least one-tenth of a second” . +» + A tenth of a second is undoubtedly a lifetime in a league where time is measured by the millionth of a second. » » ”

ONE of the lectures on the blast was by a young Navy lieutenant . . . From the very beginning he impressed on us the necessity of keeping secret the information he ‘was about to give us . . . His discourse consisted of high-sounding explanations of higher-sounding formulas and equations , .. In the midst of his explanation he turned to the backboard, rubbed out a mark and apologized profusely «.. He had made an error of a hundredth of a thousandth point in his presentation! , . . When he fin-

Ford Truck Prices Up

DETROIT, June 20 (UP)-—The

| Ford Motor Co. raised prices aver-| |aging 3.8 per cent on all its truck| |models, but said that simultane-| {ous adjustments of parts and ac-|

. lcessories prices will result in a

‘net reduction of about 1 per cent.

were mines. You only need to |

hit one. : Our tanker was loaded with every conceivable kind of cargo. Its decks were packed with small boats, generators and

| galvanized garbage cans.

| well in the channel,

By now the Navasota was Her men

long ago quit worrying. Clerks

wins |

| |

kept up their typing. A few gun-

| ners lolled around their guns.

» o ON THE ny trip the Navasota used her guns to sink a couple of enemy small boats. Her men talked of nothing else. It made them feel that they were a part of the war. I had boarded the Navasota two days earlier on the last leg of a trip from Japan to Wonsan. I had been flown first to the carrier Princeton just off Korea in the Sea of Japan. I was transferred by a boatswain’s chair from the Princeton to the destroyer Tucker and from the Tucker I had been hauled aboard the Navasota. There's no more helpless feeling thin when you're dangling between two fast-moving warships. The rope grows taut and whines and sings. For one helpless minute — which seems an

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the training cruise on Lake Michigan.

INSPECTION—Rest of Indianpolis units stand inspection Joy (DE-5a5) flagship of. the Great Lakes Reserve training fleet. Cruise will last 30.

until June

ished he again warned us that all he had said was a secret... I couldn’t resist the temptation as I looked at him and solemnly said: “Bub, as far as I am concerned, it is still a secret.” » » »

EVEN old-timers can't escape the apprehension which accompanies each new explosion of an atomic bomb ... At Eniwetok there was an Air Force major who was a veteran of nine atomic bomb explosions... The major and some companions took up a position of vantage on a landing dock on Parry Island . , . As they waited for the explosion there came a deafening blast before the scheduled time . . . Through instinct the crowd headed for “shelter , . . The bomb had been exploded prematurely, they all thought +... A prankster had exploded a firecracker! » »

AND THEN

» there was the

| day the chaplain went to the |

Chinese cook to make a suggestion about his menu . « 18 seems the Chinese cook, always seeking to please, each day decorated the menu with a strip of seminude girls . . , “Don’t You think it would be a good

S. Ships Play Tag With Red Mines

Scripps-Howard War Correspondent Jim Lucas is with the U. S. naval forces which since Feb. 16 have been laying

| slege to Wonsan, North Korea's

biggest port. It's a grim and dramatic struggle in which the

Navy controls the harbor and |

the islands In it and the Chinese Reds hold the beaches. The siege is now in its 125th day and far exceeds the longest previous U. 8. naval assault

the 47 days at Vicksburg. This |

is the first of a ‘series by Mr. Lucas, telling the story of the fight for the port city.

hour — you hang motionless above the churning waters while they pick a. spot to put you down, Your eyes are glued to the whirling propeller which could cut you to pieces.

~ » . IT WAS 10 a. m. when the

"Navasota dropped anchor at

Wonsan, A frigate came alongside to take on fuel. It then shoved off. Other ships maneu-. vered alongside to wait their turn. At noon the fog lifted. Wonsan lay shrouded in mist. Ranged along the coast were

GETTING SHIPSHAPE—E. A. Edy,

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idea not to have this menu om Sunday,” asked the padre . . . Of course he meant to leave off the seminude girls from the Sunday menu , . . The following Sunday the menu cards served were blank with the exception of .the seminude poster girls and this notation at the top: “No menu today!” » » -

HONESTLY, I heard this all the way out on Eniwetok . . . “The H-bomb is the atom bomb dipped in Hadacol.”

Canadian Troops Lose Passes After Jail Raid

| WAINWRIGHT, Alta. June 20 | (UP)—The army cancelled passes {for 1000 infantry replacements /today while it sought Quebec recruits blamed for raiding the town {jail to free a buddy who wasn't there. Officers at this military camp where men of Quebec’s royal 22d regiment and other volunteers are training for Korean duty said the jail invasion was a waste of time, The soldier who was to have been freed had been returned to camp several hours earlier,

| enemy was not firing back at { the moment. - | Dick Peterson took mae aboard the USS Bass — des | stroyer — and introduced me to Capt. David Harris, a Georgian commanding the naval forces here. ; ¢ “Welcome to Wonsan,” Capt, Harris said. “They're trying to 1 | drive us out, But they won't, 4 | To get rid of us they'll have to ; | sink every ship T've got.” 4

Indianapolis Marine Held as Deserter

A 19-year-old Indianapolis Mas rine is being held as a deserter by the FBI here. Pvt, Fletcher Nicholas Poulas, absent without leave from Pendleton, Oceanside, Cal, since Dec. 11, 1950, was . yesterday by two FBI agents the vicinity of the 5100 block Wests Bt idan S ( ge Poulas first denied his identity and showed fictitious selective

ships firing at the targets. The