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Outside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola

ISLE OF CAPRI, July 17--One day and one night on this island isn't enough. It's like having

. only one date with a girl you think you could

fall in love with,

I felt better after I figured out one is better than none and made the most of it. The greater portion of last evening was used in getting the grime off from, the train ride from Rome to Naples. ‘After a late supper of chicken and horrible Italian. wine, I © went window shopping. Except for the cameos, there were few articles that couldn't be -purchased in any 5 & 10 in the States. In fact, I think some of the stuff came from the States. 3 Mr. Sovola oS Ds THE CENTER of Capri was packed with tourists. Many American girls were enjoying the evening. I could hear them talking and laughing. - They were the type who had long, beautiful legs which they didn’t hide, supple bodies, attractive faces, long fingernails, long cigaret holders and eyes that told a Hoosier

lad this was the big league and he better go back to the hotel.

I flashed a big wad of lires ($6.82), ordered a Tom Collins at the American Bar, drank it with difficulty and headed back to my pocket Western. The man who taught the bartender how to mix a Tom Collins was never in the United States,

The manager of the hotel advised me to take a trip to the Blue Grotto. Since my time was 80 limited, he thought the Grotto junket would be the best. It so happened that a Greek mother and daughter were going in the morning qn a rowboat that the hotel recommended. One of the

island fishermen would be the guide. ow ow DO

THIS MORNING, and a more beautiful day I have seldom seen, I met the fisherman. He gpoke two words of English, “American” and “Coca-Cola.” Later I met the Greek mother and her daughter. They knew one word of English, “American.” Before the trip to the Blue Grotto was over they had learned “Coca-Cola.” The daughter was a fine specimen of young womanhood. She wore tight slacks, a tight green blouse and a huge red straw Capri hat, Her large hazel eyes, dark hair, smooth complexion, full lips, white teeth made me want to do cartwheels. And looking at her for the first time, I thought of Dagmar. Hadn't thought of her since I left New York. «oe ®

THE MANAGER explained the fisherman was 71 years old and perfectly capable of rowing to

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson v YORK, July 17—June Havoc is always go pleasant to interview. As she disappeared from her dressing room, stépping into an adjoining room that I couldn't see into, she called out: “Excuse me for going in here to take off my girdle.” “Oh, that's all right,” I grunted telerantly. “I don’t believe -in taking one’s girdle off even in front of an old friend,” she sang out. “Narrow-minded gal!” I thought, but didn’t pay It. Some actresses when caught in such. a predicament during my visits to their dressing - rooms, just ask me to close my eyes, and put me on the honor system.

>, Tb JUNE —who evidently lacks the flair for

public stripping that her sister Gypsy Rose Lee possesses—soon emerged fully clothed and off we

La went with her bearded husband, writer Bill Spier.

“June is a big hit on Broadway now in “Affairs of State.” “How long do you expect to stay in the show?” I asked June-—the wrong question. “Listen. T want to stick with the show. I want to see it through!” She said it with a firmness that was almost dramatic. And she proceeded to tell me that she was not going to be accused of failing to do her part to keep a show going. = o> SHE DIDN'T want anvbody to say she had left Broadway—deserted Broadway-—for Hollywood, “I've never LEFT this town,” she said, when we had sat down at Toots Shors’ and ordered gome supper. “True, this town hasn't always

Africana By Robert C. Ruark

SOMEWHERE IN TANGANYIKA, July 17— When I mentioned an intent to grapple with the king of the beasts I had rather assumed that you stalked out to the suburbs of Nairobi and whistled one up. This seemed reasonable enough a couple of days ago, when I wasn't met at the airport by my white hunter, Harry Selby, as is customary. Mr. Donald Ker of the firm of Ker & Downey Safaris, 1.td., which iz bossing my show, wag apologetic. “I am sorry Harry isn’t here,” he said apologetically. *But the game department asked him to nip-out this afternoon and shoot a rhino in the park. Mussed up one of the locals rather badly, 7 the think it's gone rogue. I tried to save it°for you, but your plane was just a touch late.” Harry was back in town at 7 p. m, after having shot the rhipo, and the next morning the game department called again to say there was a big leopard loose ahout four miles from town, scaring the natives into spasms, and did Mr. Ker have anyone in mind to shoot it as a special favor? “This sort of stuff hasn't happened in 15 years,” Mr. Ker gaid. . “Not since they used to call me up to go shoot the wildebheeste off the landing strip at the airport so's to let the planes come in.” de a IT WAS THREE days and four nights ago that we left the leopard to his own devices and took off into the wild. The Armac Road lasted about 40 miles and after that Harry Selby’s land rover, a sort’ of specially equipped jeep, climbed its own hills with the tenacity of a goat and made its own roads through the bush, Mr. Selby, a darkish, handsome youngster of 25, drives a very fancy brand of jeep. It seems to he part of him and answers special demands at a secret signal. Ia can swim, climb trees, and bake bread with the grass seeds in the radiator ill. ol might mention that the soul T left in New York has now caught up with me, because heavy raiis have wrecked the skimpy trails over the

One of Starving Twins,5 Months Old, Dies

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (UP) — Five - month - old Helen |two- -room Nicely, one of the starving i

fant twins brought to General| qu, rather

trition.” Hospital attendants said her brother Harold was still “do-| ing well” today. A poverty-stricken farmer and

have the ego he needs,”

i Heat Overcomes Roofer A roofer was overcome by heat his wife appealed to the hospital on the East Side yesterday. Sam for help, claiming they were re- Stanféy, 71, Flora, was working fused welfare assist slice ney He a roof at 1258 Roosevelt Ave. County, they'He refused medical attention, 3 9 »

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One Pay on Ca ri Just Isn't ert

the Blue Grotto. I had my doubts, _ “These people must do this to earn extra money,” explained the manager. “They are very poor. The trip is nothing to him. ) will be 1000

It would take him 30 minutes.

lire for you.”

Put on that basis and as long as the Greek girl was going along, I motioned that we ought to get the show on the road. We took the funicular railroad again to the dock. I must say that riding a car that depends on one steel cable isn't my idea of fun. In the fisherman's small boat, I sat in the rear seat next to the girl's mother. That wasn’t they way I had it planned. Over our heads was a white canopy. The boat was clean and new. LE . THE WOMEN and the guide talked constantly in French. I watched the girl, the oarsman, in

‘case of a heart attack, and sometimes glanced

at the purity and colors of the water, Motorboats zoomed past us and . we tried to return the cheery hand-wavings as the rowboat pitched and tossed. The fisherman was an expert with the oars. I would judge he had another month of life left in him. In front of the Blue Grotto we encountered at least 50 rowboats, Half of the occupants were selling postcards, souvenirs, oranges and soft drinks. The salesman all but came into our boat. It was necessary to buy a ticket to get into the Grotto and ‘transfer into a smaller boat. Our guide remained with his hoat. We had to lie down in the bottom and it worked out that - I was beside the Greek girl. Ah, things were picking un. How we laughed. After much scraping and pulling on a chain, the new guide hauled us into the Blue Grotto. We sat in the seats and took in the beauty.of the water, Everything inside is a silverblue, The movement of the oars breaks the water into tiny waves of cascading precious stones, I can see why you hear so much about the Grotto. Once around the internal vault which is 90 feet wide, 160 feet long and 45 feet high, and the guide headed for the entrance. I was ready. The Greek girl squealed a little louder as we hit the deck again. For some reason I couldn't get settled comfortably. There was no chance for me {o retard the progress of the boat and soon we were outside and transferring to our own boat. I smiled at the girl's mother to show her I liked the Blue Grotto. She nodded without displaying any emotion, That's the way it is, some people have no appreciation of nature's beauties. The guide burst forth in song and I joined in. My heart was gay. He was singing “Hurry Back to Old Sorrento.” 1 made up English words like “Oh, baby, mother wasn't around.” Grotto. Yeh, man.

I'll remember the Blue

June Lacks Gypsy's Flair for Stripping

wanted me. I've sat here for months waiting for a job. “You see, the stage deserts actors once in a while, too. Being in love with the stage is like being in love with a very bad man.”

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HER fo SBAND said June wants to be terrific. stage actress and come hell, high-water, or television, she's going to do it. “And she doesn't even have an agent to help her,” he said. “What do I need with an agent?” June asked him, =e “She's a good business woman,” Bill said. “She says she doesn't know what percentages mean, but it's funny it always comes out right.” It turned out that June may, however, confidence. “People don’t realize an actor doesn't always she said. “I'm awfully, wretchedly insecure when fans recognize me. My whole spirit sinks to my feet. I'm afraid they're going to <€ay, ‘You're awful. I hate you.”

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oe JUNE and Gypsy remain the closest friends (if sisters can be). They share Eva, the maid. “You know me—very quick with the dollar.” June said. “Well, 1 eat with Gypsy when she's in town.” Gypsy, her son Erik. de Diego, the painter. she will entertain Gls. WISH I'D SAID THAT: Eileen Barton bagpipes were inverted by a Scotchman caught a cat in his vacuum cleaner. . Earl, brother.

and hushand, are over in Europe,

Julio where

says who

«+ That's

‘Annie. the Truck Is a Willing Girl

mountain ranges and at least five miles an hour. the special occasions when we must backtrack to pull Annie out of a. pig hole. Let me introduce Annie. Annie is a truck that carries all the gear and most of the hoys. She is called Annie because the British name for truck is lorry, Any truck whose surname is lorry, it seemed to me in a fit of brilliance, had to be first-named Annie. She is a willing girl, is old Annie, but she sticks in the mud awful easy, and wheezes something frightful on the hills,

*, *, So

SOMEBODY ONCE remarked that Africa was a mighty big country, and after a trip through the high Masai country down to Tanganyika, I'm inclined to think he had something specific in mind. The Masai are a colorful tribe of handsome, prideful people who live mainly off milk and blood, but they inhabit an awful amount of rugged real estate, full of mountains and stones and things. There is also a huge plain, an animal refuge called the Serengeti, which is a sea of exceedingly dusty grass literally seething with animals. We saw 14 lions in 12 hours, for instance, one of which we viewed from the jeep at the range of fix feet. At six feet a lion is larger than 1 remembered. This one looked at mama and yawned, Mama did not yawn back. She was not bored. We have heen pitching a fresh camp each night. And I might say that in addition to being larger than suspected, Africa is also noisier than I have been led to believe. oo oe THE HYENAS SIT just outside the tent and giggle and growl and whoop. The lions roar, and the leopard, and the baboons bark, and the birds yelp and scream and complain angrily about the intruders in their midst. : The bees whoop and the tsetse flies whizz and the mosquitoes buzz and everything bites. The female sector of this expedition did not sleep her first night in a tent. She remarked bitterly that she had not been raised in a place where hyenas tripped over the tent ropes and lions pinched provisions from the kitchen. From time to time I suspect this Jane is hot fit mate for this particular Tarzan, who spent most of last night swinging through the trees, renewing old acquaintances with the monkeys.

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| and the cornbelt,

| Aug. 17.

"Plowing Match and Soil

| bers, | ian plowmen. At 24, | Timbers is one of the youngest

| is married and has a 3-year-old | daughter.

| plowing scene in 1948 when he

| ‘Many hundreds of German fam- | their fallen sons or husbands

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Countless Experiments Made—

Science Steps Up Cancer War

By PAT McGRADY

Selence. Editor, American Cancer Society Written for The Times)

IN LABORATORIES all over the U. S., brilliant scientists and young researchers alike are striving for one goal—the control of cancer. .

I have just completed a nationwide tour of these laboatories, to find what progress has been noted. And there has been progress, although no be duds. They'll be duds as far definite, complete cancer cure is As cancer is concerned, but yet known. they'll add a little something to But each project is meaning- Our general store of knowledge, ful. so they wan't be complete A biophysicist is working on Wastes of time. a new method of analyzing But perhaps one of the scientrace metals in blood. A cytol- lists is even now on the right ogist has isolated a peculiar (rack. You get the feeling after structure from cancer sells. talking to hundreds of them "8 a that cancer will be controlled A BIOCHEMIST has found a eventually. ~The answer will change as Come from the basic of fundacancer takes over the cell. An Mental research now going on. immunochemist has discovered It may not be for 20 years, but

that embryonic glands grow It Will come, i It's impossible to describe

every research ‘project. Many sound. far removed from the basic problem and others are far too technical for the average person to comprehend. But here are a few that are encouraging, that show how the dread disease is being attacked from every angle: Viruses have been proven to be responsible for certain kinds of animal cancers, although no one has yet tagged them with causing human cancers, Nevertheless, work on viruses con- fe) causes tinues. In Bloomington, an imThat's munochemist has found a way science is trying to find to explore the interiors of out, viruses and determine what It may be due to an enzyme chemicals comprise them. Protein molecules are the foundation of living matter.

or.a horrgone secreted by a gland. Perhaps it's the result of diet, nerves, habits, customs, drugs, rays, chemicals, viruses, other organisms, In some laboratory in some city, some scientist is investigating each one of those possibilities and many others, un n » EACH EXPERIMENTER has hope, Each feels that his work is leading to an eventual answer to the riddle. Most of them, of course, will prove to

protein destruction in Duans Hormones are substances secreted by glands. They may have a great deal to do with certain types-of cancers. A Salt Lake City scientist has found, in experiments on mice, that an adrenal hormone plays a part in development of leukemia, a cancer of the white blood cells, He thinks it's partly the result of insufficient hormone production by the outer membrane of the adrenal glands, located above the kidneys. Genes are even smaller than’ cells, Each cell has thousands of genes strung out like beads on long chromosome fibers, They control inheritable chars acteristics. Some scientists, like a group at Stanford Uni= versity in Californja, think gene changes cause cancer, This group has been able to cause gene changes with cancere causing rays and chemicals, Cause of cancer is, of course, basic in finding the cure. Hundreds of causes of cancer’ are already known, but there may be one underlying cause for all cancers, Science is trying to find out if there is, and if so, what the chief cause is. One interesting experiment took place in Portland, Ore, - and at Stanford, where scients ists gave one animal two known chemical causes of cancer, Strangely, the animal developed neither type of cancer. The two apparently cancelled each other out. Those are samples of some research’ projects being conducted in America's laboratorCANCER RESEARCHER—Someday the disease will be caged, too. ies. Time alone will tell whether any of them are on the right track.

animal species. Some of .these may never cancer, contributed a little understanding of that basic unit of life, the cell. And it is an abnormal

But each

2 ” un SOMEHOW A, CELL goes

lungs, or a woman's breast, Something happens to it,

comes. What

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They are proteins.

NEXT: Care of cancer pa-

Or maybe it's due to a vitamin, tients today.

u. S. vs. Canada—

Plowmen Sharpen Skill For Contest

Times Special Service

BETHANY, Mo., July 17. —Brawny plowmen from the American midland, the best who have ever turned

final = plowing matches From err . these expert American plowmen “wilt be picked to pit their know-

h inst the Canadian They’ d Have Tough Time er ens nn Against Lonesome Louie

The national

a furrow in the vast wheat- ig the drama for a two-day pro- Hines Special Service : gram which will bring an esti

ai BROWNFIELD, Tex. lands of the Great Plains Eaten : mated 50,000 farmers and city E T WL Dit, tne : : people flocking into this small , northern Missouri community. The national field day and plowing match Jast year attracted nearly that many spectators to the. site near Urbana, O.

Hulse starts the tractor (a - Ferguson System implement) in the center of a field. It starts to plow in a small circle, turn= ing the soil to the inside, Working with a single bottom mold~ board plow, Louie plows at a depth of 12 to 14 inches. Once set and started, thetractor keeps going. During a 24-hour day, the machine covers about 15 acres. It needs attention only four times during the period — morning, noon,

July ; kind of eerie, the folks endurance and skill against the

to hear Loneplowing champion of Canada

down here allow, some Louie chugging along in

The occasion is the National the middle of the night. Conservation Field Day, an annual. World Series in the eyes of farmers, to Pe held this year near Bethany. The white hope of Canada, who will face America’'s finest down the length of a well-turned. furrow is young Robert Timbers. He farms 160 acres near Stouffville, Ont, and descends from a long line of expert plowmen. Both his father, Winfrid Timbers, and his uncle, Fred Timare noted among CanadRobert

some Louie is a tractor belonging to farmer Curtis Hulse. What makes the scene even more peculiar is the fact that culturally speaking. will be the = I.onesome Louie doesn't have a National Soil Conservation driver. There, in the still, yelField Day phase of the pro low Texas moonlight, is this gram. Spectators will have tractor, going around in eircles : ail the opportunity of inspecting all by itself night and midnignt The rest ; S Inthany of the time it citugs along in seven farms in th® Bethany It's not aimless tractoring Nie o IE g vicinity on which some of Mis notte out His ever-widening circles, souri’'s best farmers have dem- around it those n # & onstrated how soil corserva larger and larger circles 24 WITH LOUIE working at the tion methods can control soil ; shai i . 1 Yate] ur conservation part of the job, : wours a day, absolutely un o Wi ROBERT TIMBERS -- A long © losses and increase farm in- Hed. Hut there's a defin Hulse himself is {reed for other : come. controlles ut th 8 “7 work or leisure. During one of line of expert plowmen. : ite purpose; the tractor 18 gp. oicuve periods, he figured

There will be a tractor rodeo, he ov the clifac . . : and expert nimrods will be on ~ Dreaking up the surface of the out that the driverless tractor ground has produced results.

hand to demonstrate how a well . 3 » managed farm pond can pro aw : In a very dry period, ths duce the kind of smallmouth IT'S PART OF Hulse's soil acres that Louie had deepbass fishermen dream about. conservation program. The soil plowed produced one-fourth of And the farmer who walks 500-acre farm is primar- a bale of cotton per acre. Tha off with the American plowing lV with a clay base. The land that had not been treated championship Aug. 17 will cross best way to topsoil vielded only one-seventh of a the international border this fall bale per acre. to show Canadian plowmen how louie was happy to hear that, Yankees can cut a furrow. but he kept on plowing.

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OF MORE lasting value, agri-

though. Hulse

machine goes

champions in the history of

Canadian plowing events. He British Isles. He has walked

off with honors at virtually every match entered since 1948. Ralph B. McGill, representative of the U. 8. Soil Conservation Service at Bethany, who is general chairman for the national match and soil conservation field day, says many localities throughout the midwest are now holding local and semi-

” on 4 YOUNG TIMBERS first made headlines on the Canadian

on his sandy, keep the away ig to break bring the clay

was crowned king of the plowmen at the International Plowing Match in Canada. That year he won a free trip to the

rom hlowing the ground and

to the surface.

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Dreamed of an Angel—

God Told Mama Lucia

litter

To Bury Forgotten Nazis

zinc coffins and for

German dead who still the tran the countryside. Since that first day, the morning after her dream, she has discovered 700 bodies, Some 250 minds she ‘has eased of these she has been able to identify by their name tags. Write to her gratefully She has advised their relatives all through German consular wants. But agthorties js on the way

Lucia - Api- She

By JULIUS HUMI

Times Staff Correspondent

SALERNO, Italy, Juy 17

portation of cemeteries.

The German

the bodies fo the

families whose

ilies owe the knowledge that, alwavs

have been given a decent burial That's

the reward Mama Lucia

and her

more recognition

dream. In April, 19486, works hard to identify H . >

THE GERMAN Consulate | advised her that the paring papers for het Bonn, There a minister has expressed the wish to thank her personally for the sacrifices she has made. If Mama Lucia accepts the invitation, it will be reluctantly. She still feels she has much work to do. Authorities believe that at least another 2000 bod- > jes of German soldiers are still scattered somewhere in mountains that ring Salerno. Until the government can form dts own searching com mission, Mama Lucia will do the job. The angel in the dream was a powerful emissary.

others, and hopes that

some day she will be ahle to

are pre learn the identity of all of them. When conditions permit, some work for she would like the bodies to be

her. returned to their homeland. Lucia, “Mama 8 on.» SHE HAS BUILT special boxlike zinc coffins, into which she puts the bones of the soldiers she finds in the mountains. These boxes are stored in the chapel of St. Glacomo in Cava. From there, they are taken to the cemetéries of, Caserta and Naples for burial. She has never accepted any outside help in her grim, but goul-satisfving, work. She even pays for the construction of the

to visit

known as

Cava Dei Tirreni, near Salerno, She found the bodies of 13 German soldiers on a gentle hilltop overlooking the beaches of Salerno. They had died in fierce battie

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MAMA LUCIA came to be-

lieve that it is her divine duty LUCIA APICELL ABefore her. a grave for German war

dead: in the background, over the mountains, lies Salerno beach.

United Nations Urged To Set Up Intelligence Unit

By ERNIE HILL Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Members would be on their own; At the present time there is no ihe SpPontiment of Yeu Matthew UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., July, Among the signers to the recom- initiative to go to such trouble gych legion. In the case of Korea, gway i rovids 17 (CDN)—The United Nations mendations are James T. Shot- spots as Iran, Indo-China, Ma- was asked to send Three Stes Sugges do lis urged to establish an intelli-| ‘well, Sumner Welles, and Clark laya, Yugoslavia and Formosa, as mary troops as it could, for the appoin eit ER |[M. Eichelberger, director of the|and keep the United Nations in- 5 ™aH2 tive security commission a |American Association for the formed about aggressive maves, The job of supreme military vise countries on military ats {United Nations. The observers would report di- commander would be a perma-|ters, the sproiutment of 8 pon The proposals are expected to nt one under the recommenda-| lical co-ordinating co a Propo, irect to the General Assembly or ne the designation of a United NaEe et aaneral Assembly meet.|the Security Council on potential |tion of the report. In Korea ation coniliator to mediate disfiliated with the influential Amer- ID§ When it convenes in Paris in military disturbances which could this time, the Dnlted Staten 1%: = ‘putes to prevent wa: a jean Association for the United November. jupset the peace. charge 6f running The recommen a ons ie Nations. ; The intelligence unit would. be! The internationalized legion is tions war Mat the request of “the Cogan Yang Ne oo, The proposals are contained in made up of representatives from visualized as a permanent United Security Coppell. 44 ton. the CRE ol discussed at & fua 41-page report sent to the 60 14 countries now comprising the Nations police force with an avis The study fa te Heal ee Se A United Nations delegations, Sec- Peace Observation Committee. It tion arm ready to go to any tro firing of ges ong as Ma u meeting. ; retary General Trygve Lie Bd itas never functioned. (ble spot and quell disurbances. |thur by President Truman and 4

each country

legion. and appoint a permanent supreme military commander. The suggestion comes from the| “Commission to Study the Organization of Peace” which is af-