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‘Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola

DOES ANYONE know how a guy who doesn’t have a dog, keeps regular hours, loves peace and quiet can get an efficiency apartment? No, no—don’t say to me that Ironside Apartments are taking names. Don't tell me to put my name on a list 10 feet. long. This is serious. .One day the condition may become °* critical. . Let me tell my story (Mr. Apartment Manager, lend an ear just this once) ‘and you be the judge. For over five years I have had a living room, bed-

room and bath, No kitchen facilities.

It would be unfair and unkind to say that I have suffered. Eating out three and four times a day 18 fun. For a couple of weeks, that is » db SYMPATHETIC and understanding friends often invited me over for dinner. It was always a pleasure to accept. Two years ago invitations to dinner hit an all-time high. Seldom did free feedbags drop below two a week. : Last year I noticed a decline. It wasn't a seasonal drop because in 1951 the line on the chart continued to head for the floor. An analysis of the situation helps the understanding, but it doesn’t solve the problem. Food prices are going up., Money is getting harder >to hold. Economy measures must be taken and it's natural that hungry bachelors should feel the pinch first. The fact that often I didn’t know when to go home certainly contributed to the present predicament. Some buddy, for example, would invite me over for dinner on a Friday night after he had called his wife and discovered he was two hours late.

oS & WE WOULD get to his place in high spirits and totin’ goodies. Our jovial moods would melt down the little woman and we would wind up having a fine evening. Invariably the hour was late and the only alternative would be to stay overnight. I'm always agreeable, Saturday the hosts provided breakfast around noon. The afternoon would be spent in recalling some of the events of the previous day and someone would always get an idea to have din-

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW DELHI, Sept. 10—Such are tHe wonders of India, I interviewed Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and a snake charmer the same day.

To interview Nehru, the leader of almost 400 million people, and a gracious man, is ‘easier than to interview Truman, the leader of 150 million—but to get him to commit himself on the thorny subject of Russia and communism is not so easy. . There he sat at his desk in his office at Parliament. He wore the neat white, tight coat ... with a red rose out of about the third button hole. Hospitably, he shook hands and welcomed me to a chair in front of his desk. On his deck was a vase of the sweet-smell- . or ing jasmines. - Pandit Nehru Immediately I undertook to draw him out on the subject everybody's wondering abotit: In the pinch, would he be against Russia? Because Russia with its many, many millions, and India with 400 million—whew! what a parlay! “I was hoping to clarify your feelings about communism,” I ventured.

“Communism , . .” he replied in a low voice, “there are hundreds of kinds of communism. Have you read Karl Marx’ ‘Das Kapital?” “I tried once,” I confessed, although maybe I shouldn’t have, for I might get investigated. “I have written about it in my books”’-—he is sixtyish and baldish and he looked at me with plercing eyes—“and I have agreed with it to the extent that I have wholly disagreed with it.” @ ob

WAS IT TRUE, as I'd been told, that he felt communism was all right for Russia but not all right for India? “We can not tell other countries what to do,” answered the tall aristocrat who was educated at Harrow and Cambridge in England, and yet is the spokesman of the masses, and adored by many of them. “We have all we can do to handle our own affairs.” Sitting with her elbows on one side of his desk was Madame Pandit, his sister, ambassador to the U. 8., recently arrived on a short visit. Wearing a white dress, with a sky-blue sari over it, and with her greying hair cut Park Avenue style, she was truly a beautiful figure. < < <° OUR APPOINTMENT was for 10. been called into his office at 10:02. I knew in advance that he did not wear tne “dhoti,” the native white costume that ties around under the legs something like a diaper. Gandhi, when twitted about wearing it at international conferences, once said: “You wear your plus fours. I wear my minus fours” (Incidentally, I had followed the custom of many visitors and gone at 8 a. m. to the Raj Ghat, and, after removing my shoes, gone in stocking feet to the Gandhi memorial and placed a wreath there.)

We had

“dD PURSUING the Communist queries, I asked whether. there were any Commie-inspired riots here.

“The British took care of that,” Mme. Pandit laughed. :

“Do you think the Iran-British breakdown of

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Milked of Venom for Serum—

Scientist Gets

TEMPLE, Ariz., Sept. 10 [ume -~The lethal scorpion is los- §& ing his sting of death.

The tiny, crab-like creatures are being captured and milked of their deadly venom to make an anti-scorpion serum that can save the lives of their victims. Dr. Herbert L. Stahnke has appealed for 10,000 live scorpions to carry on his serum research and manufacture at Arizona State College and residents of southern Arizona and adjoining states are going all out to comply. . They have good reason.

Although there are scorpions across three-fourths of the United States, arid - southern Arizona and portions of adjacent states have the only known deadly species. Centru-

Sting Out

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For a Kitchen

ner out. I'm always agreeable. While the friend's wife cleaned the house, 1 would shower and “shave and - try not to use more than two bath towels. While the wife showered and fixed ap, friend and I amused ourselves by mixing things or running out for .fresh supplies. : By the time Saturday night was old and ready ta depart forever, we would all ‘be fast friends. Of course, that always called for a cup of coffee for the road. Besides we had to go back to their place to get my overnight bag. eS SD ONE WORD would lead to another and pretty soon it would be too late to go home again. I like to get home on Sunday afternoon, though, and sort of get ready to go to work Monday and hit the ball : Seldom did I get a second invitation to a Friday night dinner. That was all right. Some-. one else always managed to show up and have me either meet the wife or see the dogs or the kids. That wag in 1949 and 1950. It's been a lean 1951. Could be that I've worn out the welcome mat? Restaurant food any more is sticking in my throat. I'll bet I've eaten in every joint fit to eat, north, south, east and west. Every evening at 8 o'clock I'm lost. I hanker for a homecooked meal, my own ice cubes. With a little efficiency, I would be able to invite the friends who were kind for so many years and are kind no more. “> BH oH SURELY in a town of this size, there must be an efficiency open. It doesn't have to be too fancy. I would like it furnished. There ought to be a living room, bedroom, bath and a kitchen. I can supply excellent references from friends and present landlord. I can even get one from my mother who wants to come up here occasionally and cook a meal. She thinks I'm wasting away on restaurant food. And she is right. Five years without cooking facilities are enough for any man. On camping trips I'm a whiz. It shouldn't take long to get into the swing of a kitchen. All who have ever hunted for an apartment will understand this plea. I wish they would understand to this extent, that if a waiting list has more than 50 names on it, I'll have to pass it by. There must be an easier way. There must be Help. x)

Interviews Nehri: But Learns Little

il negotiations will lead to trouble?” I asked. “I don’t think they will break down, ultimately,” Nehru replied. Since they'd already been tharacterized as breaking down, he seems to expect they'll be patched up. “And do you think another world war can be avoided?” “Why ask me? There are so many others who would know better.” Wearily, he rubbed the rim of his hair. “We have not much contact with Russia, really,” he said. * >

THE 300 OR 400 Americans here think Nehru was America’s friend even before the 190 million loan, but that, because of geography, he can’t speak out. Nehru has no bodyguards. He's always called Pandit (meaning teacher, akin to “pundit”). He's not a grass-eater, as vegetarians laughingly call themselves. We asked if he'd pose for a picture. “All right, if you wish,” he said. - There was sun only on a ledge outside his office. He stepped there willingly, though the sun beat down on him fiercely. “Aren't you in the shade?" the photographer asked anxiously. “I'm NOT in the shade,” Nehru said definitely . and with half a smile . . . and we said goodbye. It was on the way back that we met a snake charmer named Chotunath, who delighted us with his python and scorpion (with fangs re-

moved) for which he piped a tune. We had better luck interviewing him. He kept saying only one thing: “More rupees.” + : “° OS ob

THE MIDNIGHT EARL IN N. Y.... Jackie Gleason’s TV price is now up to $10,000, following his latest Colgate success... . King Peter of Yugoslavia and his Queen Alexandria, known for their past differences, are staying peacefully at her mother’s, the Princess Aspasia’s house, in Venice, and will visit here shortly.

» o 2 EARL’S PEARLS... Comic Tony Farrar is convinced the hardest job a man has is to convince his wife even a bar gain costs money. :

s = = B'WAY BULLETINS: A “name” singer has troubles: Her one and only is married. . + » Milton Berle has a slice of “Top Banana.” ... Mae Murray wants to return to show busi- Y ness. . . . Grace Hartman's sunk » almost $10,000 into her new Muss Corrl act. . . . Lorraine Cugat and Horace Schmidiapp are a midnitem. . .. Today's Daily Double: George Ross and Model Eleanor Nelm. . . . John Carridine, becoming acquainted with Fire Island night life, just avoided several fisty arguments. . . . Holland's sending some of its TV expeffts here to study American methods. . .. Adrienne Corri may soon be séen in “The River.” Seaman Jacobs would have you know of the lark horse who won a beauty contest—a white horse came in second and a chestnut third. That's Earl, brother.

of Scorpio breathe. A®hole is cut into the windpipe to permit respiration, but even that sometimes fails to save the victim. - Dr. Stahnke, director of the Poisonous Animals Research Laboratory at Arizona State Collége, has been studying scorpions since 1935 and says death from their stings can be eliminated. He is a nationallyrecognized authority on scorpions and their habits. on o ” HIS GREATEST PROBLEM has been obtaining live, mature scorpions. A scorpion must be five years old before it is mature enough for “milking.” Another deterrent has been postal authorities who have such a healthy respect for scorpions they ‘will not allow /their shipment by mail. Many persons with captured scorpions’ have not contributed to

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The death-dealing ones are only about an inch and a half long, but in a 20-year period, . deaths from scorpions outnumbered fatalities from rattle-

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" Many present-day. residents. live in constant fear of unknowingly disturbing a scorpion in a shoe, clothing, woodpile, or anywhere there is moisture.

The chances of adults escaping death from the sting are good with proper treatment, but for children under 5 years the risk is grave. a

- Sometimes immediate treat: . ments of ice packs helps, but

usually if stung by the lethal scorpions the child: will go into

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Stahnke’s collection because of the inconvenience of getting them to the laboratory. . Dr. Stahnke hopes to have serum in every hospital in the deadly scorpion area hy Fall. Spring and Fall are the seasons when most scorpions are encountered.

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