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NEW YORK, June 20-1 walked ‘down 5th , Ave, and Broadway at night with Robert Halmf, 27, a Hungarian, who had been in four European Jails for political reasons. “The first jail I was in was a Nazi forced labor camp,” he said. “I escaped from that one.” “How?” I asked. We were approaching the Empire State building, so he stopped to

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confess or you commit suicide. I didn’t confess.” They accused him 8f American espionage. He was convicted and Sohiesiced: to two 3 years od Whils"gppealing the case, d a Judge, made his way on a bicycle to the Austrian’ border, got his bike tangled In the barbed and almost got caught’ again. . * ‘HE WAS so bruised and ‘beaten he crawled into a woods, but at last he got to the Vienna Press Club where he had friends , . , and so here he is now . , . : We thought it would be a good idea to drop in and see Claude Rains being tortured by Commies in “Darkness at Noon.” “I have been in a jail like that,” Robert Halmi said. “It looks a little like it, but the Communist jail is worse. Much worse. This is a kid glove jail on the stage there.” We went over to Ralph's and he had a drink. “To think I am in America,” he said. I asked whether he was bearing any injuries still, “Nothing serious,” he said. “Just some little knife stabs. ‘A few places where they put lighted cigarets on my back. But I'll soon forget that I ever had them now that I'm here.” ¢* LS THE MIDNIGHT EARL: Frank Binatra—on the phone in Hollywood—denied to us the rumor that he and Ava Gardner had a big bust-up. Says he supposes those stories’'ll continue, right up to the merger. His and Nancy's divorce negotiations are proceeding satisfactorily, Mickey Mantle, Johnny Hopp and Hank Bauer of the N, Y. Yankees live at 200 W. 54th St. N. ¥. C, and hang ouf in me old neighborhood— Max's Stage Delicatessen and Cecil's Tavern. . . . Joyce Matthews, off to Europe, denies it's with the idea of remarrying Milton Berle, also leaving, but says: “I hope if I see him, he takes me out.” * & © B'WAY BULLETINS: Dagmars ABC-TV show'll be called “‘“The Dagmar Story” based on life with Jenny Lewis (Dagmar) in W. Va. , . When Jackie Gleason's Poor Souls Club “honored” Bert Wheeler the other night, Bert found that whenever he sat down at a table, everybody got up and left (as a rib). oad A NEW YORK KID, asked to use the word “bewitches” in a sentence, said, “I'll bewitches in a minute.” , , , That's Earl, brother.

marvel. “I just had to kill somebody,” he said, simply. “I asked for a cigaret. I had this monkey wrench and I left it in his head. I didn’t pull it out.” » » 4 3: HE WAS 21 then, He didn’t Beem capable of it, this nicelooking boy, a great photographer. We kept walking, on over to the Times Square out-of-town newsstand. Irving Hoffman, his friend, was walking ahead, hurrying as usual, “Don’t hurry so much,” begged Halmi, stopping to gape at the lights. “I've waited 15 years to see this. I don't want to do it in a second.” His next jail was the Communists’ in Budapest. “The Russians came .n. They were going to liberate us from the Germans. They liberated me by putting me back in jail, “They were the cruelest. They tortured with the most modern methods. “They give you no cigarets, no newspapers. Nobody talks to you for three or four weeks. The guard's duty is not to let you sleep. “If you want to lie on the floor, he kicks you. If you collapse, he drags you up. “You have your first hearing. They slap you. Your teeth go.”

Mr.

Halmi

* o> @ HE OPENED his mouth and showed two holes in his mouth, “This was my first hearing, this was my second hearing. Thank God I only had two hearings. Some people don’t have any teeth left. “They kick you from behind for about 3 hours and you can't stand up. After a while you

Americana ‘Agony Columnist’ Is

By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, June .29--My favorite agony columnist, a lady whose initials are M. H., is getting harder in the mouth all the time as she advises the tortured souls who cast themselves at her feet and beg for counsel. About a year ago, as I remember, M. H. so roundly bhelabored a man who said he liked to go duck-hunt-ing that I am sure he went out into the blind the next day and beggeti the ducks to nibble hirh to death. Because the fellow liked to shoot ducks, said the oracle, he was a thwarted throwback to the saber-fanged caveman, and one of these days he was a cinch to come home and scalp his grandma. The old girl is at it again. Here we have a poor harried character who is being driven inte the cold streets by his wife's love for the radio. The man, whose initials are E. J. says:

wife feels lonely, misunderstood and rejected in relation to you-—a stepchild of fate in her own experience, just like those heroines of the soap operas. * + ¢ “WHAT CAN be done? Face the fact that you are being dishonest, that you aren't putting your cards on the table; that you are trying to show your wife in an unfavorable light and thus plausibly justify your unstable disloyal behavior ~—which has its origin in your own vague neurotic discontent

And M., H. mounting her broom. whisks off,

lowing charges: . All of a sudden he sour-faced, selfish boor who mistreats and neglects his wife. He has been called dishonest, a card sharp, a wrecker of his bride’s character and a potential adulterer. If Mra. E. J. reads it

and wants to go to court, she can stroll home with a divorce. >

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“This is about radio and my wife. The two are pretty close companions, During the day she hears the soap operas. .. . Evenings, when I am home, she tunes in on the slapstick socalled comedy programs. She loves them: but they are torture for me. ¢ & &

Appendix as a muttering, while he will go out

lovin

worship Red Skelton or day in the ropewalk, He is As the realization of his

poor old man doesn’t Dr. Kildare's Other steady relief from a long, hard now standing there he digests M. H.'s palm-reading. bestiality sinks deeper,

looking for a blonde, He will

come home sobbing drunk, and bash his ever-

jin the kisser. 8S would never have oscur if hadn't dropped his problem into ae he M. H., who is plainly down on all men. His wife is obviously a mean-tempered, selfish, inconsiderate shrew, who never snaps off the Jade exfim to complain or hit him up for a ew frock. ‘hy he hasn’ this is hard te figure, . Ma's Moughed her ore Granting that anybody who a psychiatry-hitten soothsayer ance, there is still too much d orders of the brain and soul i used to limit {itself to first or second date” You plant enough ideas and you maybe wind u

“TO MY mind, radio is valuable enly for .. symphony and news. However, my wife doesn’t care for my preference and won't listen to these Programs. , .. Some evenings I go to the movies rather than listen fo jeer choice of radio fare. Once I went to a hotel for the night. Often I come home late from the office, because I figure I will encounter less radio racket that way. What can be done?” Waving her witch hazel wand, and calling on the spook of Sigmund Freud, M. H. says: “In my opinion, the foregoing recital is so ruch whitewash. You are looking for an excuse to negleet your wife. . . . “In all probability, you are a dour, indifferent, uncompanionable spouse, and I daresay your

seeks advice from is a little off balark ‘hinting at disn a medium whieh “Shall I kiss him on the kind of harmless stuff, in the head of the simple P with an ax murderer, :

Outside Indianapolis Freedom Needs Heart By Ed Sovola As Well as Muscles

Continued From Page One The United States manganese for steel production, heast 2nd 3ecepied tin, cobalt, we would suffer indus- p 1

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ave ; command of the oceans by force. ful than the slave world which service on Galled back inte She You still have tg go in and get/is built on force of arms. But the ingly took on rea willthe material and joad it on your crux of this strength of NATO sibilities begause they Bis ships. is unity and it depends on all of Preservation of freedom was hi Trade routes must remain open US. p

mount. Life withe t 4 or as a nation we suffocate. More! What NATO is trying to do 1s he worth living. Wie aun

and more the government would to build er give itself the all-im-| beljef, the we have to control, allocate and re- Portant jead in time, It takes over and taking > Jork, giving strict the individual's economy. 'WO Years to get an airplane from faith that in unity there was ho s That's the very thing we den't drawing Boasd wii the Bj ® ¥ a P § want to happen. ppropriations an ot air to e DURIN Here you have freedom reduced effect that we're going to have a great ING he eoquetuatious, oe to the simplest terms, What is/93-8Toup Alr Force isn't protec-|[jniteq States rd s a. the answer? Can the free na-/lion. You can poke your finger we're clever, Americans por ell tions, will they interddpend on one through it. If the stuff isn't to se

cigarets, toothpaste another? I'm told Gen, Risen- MOVE. fly, shoot, our trousers are wognes autos, fads of all ry hower has the utmost confidence/around our ankles. (travel, pleasure. We cap sell that they ean. | I was asked to examine, for a! 0

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someone big and stropg to lean help preserve it? Did I hderstang freedom. (make near enough neise about the [process of law, n. Without due the Rev. Fr. Edward J. O'Leary, educated Pandit Nehru as a choose, quit a job, awn property, Father O'Leary addressed a Te ODNOsiEs of Comamznint | This heritage of freedom we “It would be Wise fof the United "His middle-of the-rosd policy is fied on the keystone of liberty! er sald, {and traditions. of an ‘ancient na- understanding. ( be more detrimental to the So-|the lecturer pointed out that more| \ int, They are being adhered to, lin recent months, (tered and solved. The top echelon adopted, India is now in her tor- (he forums and- dinner meet.| I TALKED, Fy 0.2 young He described the wheat-for- {how he felt about NATO. He said thousands of lives, Father!

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Story Behind Story On Draft Bill

By THOMAS S. HANEY

WASHINGTON, June 2 stap. President Truman picked up his pen.

the group assembled in his

9 (CDN)~It was the last big Smiling at office, he scratched his name

on the document hefore him. At once the revised draft regulations became the

law of the land. But there is more to the story than a few swift and

simple strokes of the presidential hand. Six months’ work preceded that moment. " 8ix months during which the minds of hundreds of men and women wrestled with the problem of what the nation ought to do with its young manhood during the period of half-peace and half-war that lies ahead. Six months that produced millions of words in a debate engaged in by other hundreds representing every shade of opinion from violently pre to angrily anti. That is the American way. ” » ” THE "STORY started last January with the 824 Congress. The old draft law was due to expire this month. Doing something about it was one of the 82d’s first hig jobs. By informa! agreement. the Senate made the draft the subject of the first bill introduced

in the new session. The measure was put in the hopper Jan, 8, wr

(What happens between the time a major legislative bill is introduced in Congress and the President signs it making it law? Thomas 8. Haney has traced the history eof the new draft bill to answer that question.

Immediately on {introduction the bill was referred to the Armed Services Committee for study and recommendation. From the committee it went to a subcommittee under Sen, Johnson, Texas Democrat, Public hearings began Jan. 10, Meanwhile, similar wheels were turning in the House of Representatives at the other end of the Capitol, ’ A draft bill was presented to that body Jan. 19 and referred to the House Armed Services Committee for ation. Hearings began a week later. Mr. Johnson was blunt when he opend the Senate study. “For a long time we have dealt with manpower piecemeal; we have improvised our solutions to manpower problems day te day," he ‘declared,

| Fiscus and Jerry Sargent, with Mrs, Fiscus at piano. lene and Jane Weaver, The local folks like home town productions.

done.

TALENT FROM INDIANA UNIVERSITY—Dot Krichbaum, Kathy Owens and Bettye Jane Mont-

que first ha

adding. “this is a luxury we can no longer indulge.” u ” ” THE SENATE subcommittee spent 15 days hearing 145 witnesses. In addition it received

hundreds of other written statements and briefs on every phase of the manpower question. All the testimony was printed in a volume containing 1243 book-gized pages. At the same time the House Armed Services Committee was busy taking another 969 pages of testimony. Feb. 13 the Senate subcommittee made a formal report on the draft bill to the full committee. The entire group then approved the bill—but with some changes in the ferm of amendments. That wal Feb. 21. Floor debate began Web. 27. A number of Senators announced they would press for additional changes by offering amendments of their own. Sen. Morse, Oregon Republican, proposed five himself. Bach amendment wag ceonsidered separately. Finally the bill and all surviving amendments went to a vote Mar. 9. It passed 79 to 5. Meantime, the House committee ended 12 days of hearings. At an executive meeting on income tax day, Mar. 15, the group decided to abandon its own bill and report favorably

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FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1951

Others are Barbara Snodgress, Mrs. Ida Har.

In today’s issue of the American Magazine & Bloomington as "Television Town.” American Ma; Fred Brownell spent a week there watching the nity take part in the operation of WITV. The pleased to print an abstract of his story as it o)

newsstands of America today.

By FREDERICK G. BROWNELL = OF ALL the places in the United States i might expect to find a cam us of television talent, Bloomington is one of the

If fact, you can prove

that it's impossible for Bloomington to have any te at all. In the first place the city is top small. And in

second place, it's in the wrong position geographically. :

When Sarkes Tarzian first decided Bloomington should

have a TV station of its own

the experts said he was nuts. Less than 18 months old, Station WTTV is today very much a part of the life of the community. Bl onians

oomingt ; insist they wolild rather tear

down the city hall or dishand the fire department as tear down the TV mast, » » » EVERYBODY In town gets into the act in one way or another—from Mayor Tom Lemon and Indiana University President Herman B Wells to the pretty waitress who serves your coffee in the Hotel Graham, the energetic drugstore clerk who tries to interest you in an electric shaver while selling you a tube of shaving cream, and your part time taxi driver who, it turns out, is also studying to be a lawyer, At WTTV, every night, is amateur night. Audience par. ticipation ‘is casual and continuous; many shows are cast informally on the spot. = Bloomington, however, would never have had television if it , Weren't for Mr. Tarzian, an electronics genius with a knack for making money. Bloomington’s response to home-grown entertainment has been tremendous. Television sets have walked out of dealers’

showrooms almest faster than

they could be brought in the back door. . i At WTTV local high school

A FEW DAYS after that ana House members were proposing amendments of their own, each suggestion coming up for a separate vote. Then the bill with all its new changes was put to a vote of the whole House. It went through, 372 to 44, But it wasn’t ready for the President's signature yet, While the bills had started out approximately the same, each had been changed considerably by the amendments in the two committees and from the floor. A House-Senate conference was needed to straighten out the differences. Ranking members of the two Armed Services Committees were named as conferpes. They began a series of meetings in late April and continued for : more than a month, trying to make all the conflicting amendments match. Agreement came the end of May. With a report on how they had acted and why, tifey went back to their respective bodies of Congress. Unanimously the Senate accepted the conference report June 1. The House followed suit a week later,

” o 8 MR. TRUMAN'S signature made the draft proposals law--public law No. 51, tion came . fron. the National Archives office which sees that new laws go on the statute books in proper order and that the originals are filed correctly.

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I SPENT a week in Bloom ington not long ago, discussing TV with the amateur entertain ers who make up the bulk of the local programs. I even ap peared briefly before one of WTTV's cameras without dire effects to either it or me. One thing I discovered Is that it's fun to act on video. Another {8 that you can get a tremendous

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grown programs. The Important thing, however, is that WTTV is and will «3 continue to remain, a commu- i nity project. It's guys and gals : like Jim Ramage and Betty iq Hall and Eddie Rogers and Dot Krichbaum, performing for the fun of it, that make Blooming- J ton TV a thing of heauty and i a joy forever. 174m JThat isn't just my station” Sarkes Tarzian told me, “It ; really belongs to the town. I ! don’t even attempt to give folks 3 here the'kind of entertainment Si they want. They give it to themselves." :

The office has to be ex in careful. Printing a copies of the Jaw has been held by the courts to mean that the law really contained the section i with the error, : ne With the draft law the office switched to a new type of printing, one based an “It's the first since 1 bh said the girl in charge of the work. “Far years we've heen. looking for a bet method.” , That, toe, .is the American

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