Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1951 — Page 21
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* By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Aug. 18—A colleague who is slumming in Europe has just presented the annual report on Master Charles Luciano, the expatriate 'murder-commander, pimp, and drug peddier, and the gist seems to be that old Charlie is as innocent as ever. And poor, too. Reduced to
1 wish to commend the enterprise of any man who takes the trouble to spade up a bum like Lucky, but I would also like to condemn the dignification of a thug by allowing himself serving speech in print, If you axe in Italy an interview with Luciano is roughly as difficult to achieve as an interview with a press agent with' a torch singer to sell. And the song is roughly the same. “I am innocent,” the man says. “I wuz robbed. I never had nothin’ to do with the prostitution business. Dope? Horrors! Where did I stand with Costello? Which Costello, the one with Abbot? I am being persecuted. I am being crucified. Me, a war hero.” (That he was in Dannemora all during the war seldom comes up.)
® 2 % . I HAVE LIVED in three hotels with Luciano, over a period of weeks, and even the boyish enthusiasm with which I am perpetually endowed would not have excused a conversation with him.
He was eager to talk, too, eager to be friendly, eager to do anything that would semisquare him away back home, I didn't figure that an interview with an ipso-facto thug would improve either the quality of current literature or the moral digestion of the nation. It is possible to deal with proven crooks without drinking with them or whipping out the pad and pencil to ask them to comment on their early, misspent lives.
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THROUGH some portions of the press Luciano is’ gradually assuming the proportions of a martyr, & sort of misunderstood boy who pines for the land he loves and lives a life of hardserabbling boredom in Italy, when he is not being sorely persecuted, I remember at one time the
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hoary old highbinder even went so far as to hire Gen, John C. H. Lee's former press agent to clean him up, and got a more or less audience from the local correspondents in Rome,
Charlie Lucky is a man of deceptively meek mien who looks rather like a nice uncle and who is quiet and well-behaved except when he is having a business associate's feet burned. He is known in the mob as a “good kid,” a free spender, and a kind friend to helpless ladies.’ He also is supposed to know where a few political bodies are buried—and that I am inclined to doubt. How the mechanics which sprang him were aligned will always be something of a mystery, but if there was business done to earn him a graduation certificate it was probably worked on a higher level than Luciano himself.
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THE POINT I am trying for is that Luciano himself is no glamor figure, no colorful crook, no nothing except a banished bum who probably engineered a dozen murders in his time, and who certainly was the architect of the big narcotics traffic from 1931 on. In Europe he is still associated with prostitution, through his chum Ralph Liguori, another expatriate crook. He is thought to have a heavy thumb in narcotics, still, and he sure isn't poor. Frank Costello took him a suitcase full of scratch when he was thrown out of the United States, and another heavy parcel was handed him in Cuba at a later date. Meanwhile, some of our more colorful.crooks occasionally find excuses to go abroad, possibly for business conferences. * % 9 I DISLIKE seeing Luciano interviews in the papers. I much prefer a simpler technique, which is to ignore the scoundrel casions when you wish to have him thrown out of wherever he is, or cause him an unpleasant«ness which is the right of all such scum. After all, if there was much justice around he would have been unpleasantly dead a long time ago, and a cement sack-suit would fit him better than a halo.
Ed Sovola, Mr. Inside Indianapolis, is on vacation.
It Happened Last Night
By Earl Wilson
NEW YORK, Aug. 17—-An astonishing thing happened when I was interviewing actress Nano#® Kelly—the child admitted she was 30 years old. “I say it in self-defense,” declared Nancy. “Everybody thinks I'm 50. “Last year,” she said, “a young man came u to me and said, ‘I've always liked o you. I saw you once when I was just a kid. “So I said to him, ‘How old are you?" He said, ‘I'm 30. “1 said I was just 29!” NANCY, WHO has been starring in “Season in the Sun,” and will soon ‘star in_a. new, show, “Twilight Park,” supposes this is quite natural, since she was making movies at 4, and has been regularly employed in pictures, on the stage or in radio since.
Nancy Kelly Nancy recalls a stage play, “Give Me Yester-
day,” ' starring Louis Calhern, when she and Peter Donald, the radio and TV story teller, had the kid parts. “Lou Calhern hated Peter Donald,” Nancy remembered. “On closing night he shut him up in an old wardrobe trunk. “Peter missed his cue and everything.” “That wasn't very nice,” I said.
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“NEITHER WAS Peter at that age!” replied Nancy spiritedly. , “What did he do? “Water-pistol stuff on the stairs, that!”
It’s an old story—about the actress who is not as old as people think she is because she was a child star—but it's true in Nancy's case. It was after “Susan and God” on Broadway that John Golden let her take an offer from 20th Century Fox and go to Hollywood. Then 17, she WS S00nAst 2% TREE BI voto Avy AREY CSTUE TY WAND Conary Ey sel as an adult,” Nancy was telling me before I started off on my round-the-world tour. “®» Hb “THEN ONE ‘afternoon Ty said, ‘Would you like to go to the ball game tonight?” “1 sald, ‘I'd like to, but I'd have to take my father and mother, too, because I'm not allowed out’.” Under the circumstances, of course, didn’t take Nancy to the ball game.
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Mosquitoes Over Miami
By James Cook .
MIAMI, Fla., Aug. 18 (UP)-—Mosquito repelfent outsold suntan lotion in drug stores here today as tourist-packed Miami warred against the peskiest mosquito invasion in the city's history. Los Angeles just laughed and laughed. “There's nothing humorous about it,” snapped harried Fred Stutz, chief of the Dade County mosquito control unit, Mr. Stutz has kept four new spraying machines {n constant operation and reported spending $1500 in the “last month just for flying his spray planes. Mr. Stutz also is using trap, truck, and shovel to stem the invasion. But the mosquitoes keep coming.
$$ 9 & ; “WE'VE SOLD more mospito lotion this summer than ever before,” said the pharmacist at a Cocoanut Grove drug store. Women come into my store fanning them away with palm fronds.” A druggist on vacationist-cluttered Miami Beach said his supply of mosquito medicine was “cleaned out last week” and a Coral Gables drug store manager reported that his stock of repellent is “going much, much faster than suntan ofl” The Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce, never much help to Miami in times like these, donated a supply of tiny, mosquito-eating gambusia affinis—that's a fish—to the Miami Jaycees “to help the less fortunate people of Florida” in their fight against the aggressors. This needle was almost as bad as that of the mosquitoes. The Miami Junior Chamber packed them right back on the plane with a note that “4t would be inhuman to put these specimens in the same waters with our great game fish.” ® & 2
NOT WITHOUT precedent, the Miamians blamed the whole mosquito problem on Los Angeles “smog.” And Miami Jaycee President J.
Marines Plan Release
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (UP)
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Veteran Actress, But
It was at this time that Nancy was in a picture with Spencer Tracy, and got a girlish crush on him. One day Hedy Lamarr came on the set to see Tracy.about a future picture. Nancy hated her bitterly. “I was completely shattered,” sighs Nancy, reliving it. Nancy was in “Jesse James,” “Stanley and Livingstone,” and in other pictures in which they felt she should be cast as a much older girl than she was. . “ bb H» “I STARTED out great guns And was a star much before I was ready,” she says. “Well, little by little, I got worse pictures. “One of the things they said was that I had no sex appeal. How could I? I was orly 17! I wasn’t formed yet!” And thus she became a star too soon — although the $150 a week she got helped her be choosey in the things she was to do later. Nobody can say she doesn’t have sex appeal now. Nor that she isn’t formed! . Currently the beauteous Nancy is taking off just a curve or two because in the coming play, ‘Twilight Park,” she's to be 25—playing for the first time a girl younger than she really is. do a
SHE PLAYS a free-lance magazine writer who gets angry about unsolved Central Park crimes. She exposes police conditions. She objects Yo police brutality. She says if the cops used psychiatry instead of brutality, there'd be fewer criminals.
Nancy also cautions anybody else about going to Hollywood to be a star at 18. “They have a law, or had one, that you could only work eight hours, if you're a minor. To get around that they would set my hair at home before I went to the studio. ’
“Then I worked my 8 hours and went home. I'd get up so early, that%y the time I got home andygot my dinner it was time to go to bed." == ‘No wonder the poor girl never had any fun Hollywood! i
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WISH I'D SAID THAT: “In Russia,’ figures Donald Richards, ‘courtesy of the road means giving the other driver the left of way.” ae “we oe TODAY'S WORST PUN: Arthur Little Jr. says it was so hot the other evening, he made a date with a snob—so she'd give him the cold shoulder. « + « That's Earl, brother.
Los Angeles Happily Offers Sndeo
Arnold Mims declared that a mosquito of Florida—"“which state has the biggest and best of everything”-—would make breakfast food of one of those little fish “if it got in his way.”
When the indignant L. A. Jaycees heard this, they promptly offered to match California's gambusia affinis against Florida's gambusia affinis in a mosquito-eating contest at Dallas, Tex., alleged home of the famous “B-36" mosquito. Miami airline hostess Cynthia Everett, meanwhile, belittled the notion that Florida mosquitoes are bigger than mosquitoes residing elsewhere. Miss Everett, whose c¢ream-and-peaches complexion doubtless would entice any mosquito with even fair eyesight, described the mosquitoes in’ her neighborhood as “little black things” and said “when they bite me, they do it in a sneaky sort of way. They zizz up behind me and nip me before I know what's what.” ou > THE ONSLAUGHT of the mosquitoes nat only has produced personal irritations on Florida's “Gold Coast,” but has brought about political reverberations. Rep. George 8mathers (D. Fla.) has appealed to Congress for federal aid against mosquitoes. State officials have placed anti-mosquito planks in their platforms, and new bond issues and taxes are being proposed,
A Miami medical doctor, Carlton Deederer, has threatened a court suit against the Dade mosquito control unit, charging that one of Mr. Stutz's planes sprayed him right in his own back yard. : “Stutz is experimenting on the people of Miami ° and I no longer wish to be one of his guinea pigs,” said Dr. Deederer.. A bride's father complained that his*daughter's twilight lawn wedding was ruined by Mr. Stutz's sprayers, Rather than marrying in a sweet atmosphere of roses, the father lamented, his daughter was wed in the aroma of DDT.
Senator Predicts Meat
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re- the search when he took a $20, this bill tothe First National Bank at the black marketeers” because Warsaw. The bill was counterfeit. Agents here were called into ac-| nge.”
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 1951
Probing the Unknown—
Growing IU Research Program Makes Mark In Scientific World
| research program which is
BACTERIA BERTILLON—Indiana University's Dr. L. S. McClung (above) makes "quick technique’ identification of an intestinal disease organism.”
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MORE DIALS THAN TV—Dr. Frank T. Gucker Jr. adjusts the complicated chemical apparatus with which he looks for ways to
eliminate smoke, fog and smog from the air.
STARLIGHT SNAPSHOT—This huge cloud of gas (inset,
center), the Great Nebula of the constellation Orion, was photographed by Prof. James Cuffey at Link Observatory.
Top-Ranking Specialists Work On Widely Varied Projects
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BLOOMINGTON, Aug. 18—Why the sky is blue . . .
fish dying of old age . ..
accident-proof automobiles . . .
These are projects in Indiana University’s growing
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Top-ranking research specialists on the IU campus, here in the heart of Indiana, are inch-
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University staff work in genetics is internationally outstanding; in other subjects, it i= nationally known; in all
fields, it is part "of the neverending effort to pierce the unknown.
n ” ” ATOMIC SCIENCE — Findings here may some day help mankind to utilize, peacefully, the terrible power unleashed so
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destruction. Dr. Allen C. G. Mitchell, department head, with Dr. L. M. Langer and Dr. R. G. Wilkinson, is working in the “low energy” range—around 2 million eftectron wvolts—with gamma rays emitted by radioactive nuclei. ’ In the “medium energy” field --radiations up to 20 million electron volts—Dr. Milo B. ampson operates the univerty cyclotron, second largest in the United States when put into use a decade ago. ‘ High energy radiations-—bil-lions of electron volts—are observed by Dr. R. W. Thompson and Dr. J. G. Retellack in the cosmic ray laboratory, which, when completed, will be one of PERE tnt tha ‘ammiry, ” ” ” $ PSYCHOLOGY—Prof. Douglas” G. Ellison is directing asgistants in search of an answer to a fascinating question . , . “Can machines be made which will correct the errors of the men who operate theme! Some day, the psychologists may produce a formula allowing design of machMes that will filter out human Then-—to cite two possibilities » : bil
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u vu oy GENETICS —Three men are blazing separate trails in genetic research on the IU campus. Dr. Herman J. Muller, 1946 Nobel Prize winner, is advancing his study of X-ray and heat mutations in fruit flies, His research is financed partly by the American Cancer Society, gince knowledge of mutation may help to understand cancer, Dr. Tracy M. Sonneborn has contributed that human characteristics are handed down from parents not only through genes, as previously known, but also through factors in the cytoplasm, a jelly-like mass whieh surrounds the cell nu cleus, Dr. Ralph Cleland sees evolution in action by studying evening primroses. These flowers are peculiar in passing on to offspring only the genes of one parent. Dr. Cleland proved this was due to the arrangement of chromosomes in circles instead of in pairs, is in most organisms. ” ” » 7001L0GY More fish die of old age and other natural
causes than are caught by fish-
ermen, A study of Indiana's fish population, under direction of Prof. David Frey, turned up this. discovery. It has resulted in gradual relaxation of state fishing regulations during the ast few ycaia. ” ” ” CHEMISTRY--One of the projects here is concerned with
the blue of the sky and the red hues of sunset. Dr. Frank T. Gucker, de-
partment head, has major in-
terest in aerosols, minute solid
or liquid particles are respondible for beautiful eolor in the heavens; In less attractive form, they occur as smoke, smog and dust. Dr. Gucker seeks ways to eliminate the
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A ROSE IS A ROSE—Dr. Ralph Cleland examines the evening primroses from which he draws evolutionary conclusions about genes and chromosomes.
In the biochemistry section, Dr. Harry G. Day is in charge of experiments which dndicate tin fluoride may be twice as effective in preventing tooth decay as sodium fluoride, the
substance recently added to Indianapolis’ water supply. og «0 o ASTRONOMY -—The galaxy owe live in— popularly called the Milky Way-—is only three thousand million years old, by estimate of Dr. James Cuffey. Dr. Cuffey’'s study of star clusters reveals that. they are breaking up. But the process is not far along, indicating that our galaxy must be comparatively young. Dr. Frank Edmondson, department head, studies movements to and from the sun of hine and aranga etave 100 times fainter than the faintest star visible to the naked eyes. He also has charge of the Link Observatory research on astereids (minor planets), an important study in that field.
5 ” on PHYSIOLOGY-Data for the U. 8 Army is being compiled on ways in which bodily functions are affected by moiktiire loss, heat, humidity and fatigue. Staff members, working under Dr. P. M. Harmon, investigate efficiency of hotweather ciothing. 1
ANATOMY Here, cancer research in several directions is being carried on by Prof. J. D. Van Dyke, Prof. R. G. Mur-
ray, Instructor Richard MeAlphine and Dr. R. L. Webb, department head. » on o
MATHEMATICS « In the gcience on which all others depend, only paper and pencil are needed to supplement the probings of the mathematician's mind. Prof. T. Y. Thomas and his staff are concerned with the theory of shock waves in gases flowing at supersonic speeds, the turbulence of flowing liquids, fluid dynamics,” behaviour of gases at low pressure and theories applicable to complicated mechanical situations.
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GEOGRAPHY — Prof. 0. P. Starkey diregts extensive research In. prgblem lands of southern Indiana, areas born of #oil erosion and exhaustion, strip mining, and depletion of forests. Past studies have been made in such widely-scattered locations as Southern California, Nova Scotia and Pudget
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BACTERIOLOGY There are
11,000 kinds of ign 4 ™
more than 100 are harmful to man. Most of the rest are necessary to human existence, Identification of different tvpes of bacteria is important. Until recently, it took a minimum of 24 hours to‘iden~ tify bacteria by the fermentedsugar test. Dr. L. 8. McClung and Dr. E. D. Weinberg have reduced this technique to 20 minutes with some types. although the method is not yet perfected.
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GEOLOGY —Applied research by two earth-inxestigating agencies the IU campus has a quick pay-off value for Hoosier industries. Under Dr. Charles F. Deiss, the university's department of geology and the associated Ktata Canlagira) Svwwvev dhe after new uses for Indiana ie stone, carry on surveys in coal and other industrial minerals, and conduct programs on sand and gravel clay and shale, The department is a vast storehouse and clearing house for informa. tion on oil drillings and olle , | bearing strata. yh Scientific research—at Indi= ... ara University and elséwhere— . . medium by which man . .
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