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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola oN

“YESTERDAY was what yeu would call a black: $day, and I'm not talking about the weather.

The brass of the G. C. Murphy Co. aren't satisfled with the toy window I trimmed. They ed know there are two sides to a window. The mess,

- - {f you want to call it that, isn’t entirely my fault,

For the benefit of those who don’t know the full story, I want to explain how I became a trimmer for a day. Display ‘work used to be my racket in my younger days. I wanted to try my hand at it again, With the aid of Don Wilson, head trimmer of Murphy's, I talked Manager W. H. Meckling into letting me trim a Christmas toy window. 2 Let it be known, because Don Wilson shouldn't get into trouble over this, that he gave me more help than a trimmer usually gets from the boss. Don understands a man can get rusty after a few years. “Sb AT 9:30 A. M., yesterday, Don had No. 11 window cleaned out and a huge wagon packed with Christmas “Layaway” toys. He also had a tool box in the window. Lucky he told me the tool box was to use, not display. ,There was some talk around the store that I took too long to trim the toy window, had the aisles blocked with empty cardboard boxes, and that I gave a little girl a toy rubber elephant,

LOOK, ALL HANDS—An old window trimmer, "Mr. Inside,” ran into trouble at the G. C, Murphy Co.

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

HONG KONG, Sept. 14—D’you want to go up to the border of Red China with us and see some Commy soldiers face to face? It's only about an hour from our air-condi-tioned room at the Hotel Gloucester. A jeepload of British soldiers with rifies and Tommy-guns escort us to the border. Here we are! The Commy soldiers, a few feet away from us now, wear light-colored denims, caps, tennis shoes—and bulges on their hips. We're at the railroad station called Lo Wu. A woman is down on the ground, beating her head against an iron post and crying. She is forgetful of her baby of a few months, lying in the hot sun, and of her other child, of 3 or 4. o & oS

“SHE HAS done this act every day for 10

days, trying to get us to let her in,” a British officer says. “But she hasn't the papers. We can’t let her in.” ° The Commy soldiers are studying the funnylooking American with the greasy notebook, camera and Hawaiian shirt, who is wandering around. Meaning me. v I walk over by the iron post where the woman is. It is “the border.” “Don’t get teo close!” cautions British SubInspector Laurence Power. “They'll pull you across!” We ask about the gal Commies, supposed to be on sentry dity here. They are all resting just now. That makes us very sad as we always wanted to see one. ‘ : Now we shoot over to Man Kan To. another sentry post, where, some months back, there was “an incident.” > » 2 “WE HAD a shoot-up with the Commies,” explains British Sub Inspetier Ivor L. Maynard. “Some people from the other side came running over here firing guns. We don’t know where they got the guns unless from the Commy soldiers. “We told them to go back or we'd give them the heavy stuff. They didn't go back so we gave them the heavy stuff. “The corporal got one of them good and proper. Afterward he got promoted to a sergeant for it.” Now people, cattle, and chickens are crossing the border. The Commies, curiously, use bluecapped coolie porters to carry bags, while the non-Commies use red-capped coolies. > > HS “PENICILLIN IS allowed to cross over, I guess they need plenty of it on the other side,” one Britisher says, smiling. “But newspapers are prohibited. I saw one officer snatch a newspaper out of a Commy soldier's hand.” I get busy with my camera, trying to get pictures of the Commy soldiers. Suddenly one of the Britishers says: ‘

Window “Presser A guy would have to be pretty hardhedrtéed not to give the little elephant away. Sure, it might not be good business. I'll pay for the darn ele-

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phant. Ah, but a little blonde-lady of about three .

is mighty happy. I was working in the corner of the window placing this elephant when she came up. She ooked at the elephant a long time. Those big, lue eyes staring ‘so longingly at the toy made me weak in the knees. When I pointed to the elephant she rolled her peepers at me. . That's when G. C. Murphy Co. parted with one elephant: ale a : LET THE CHILD believe in Santa Claus. The smile she cut loose with was worth a herd of ‘elephants. Her mother was a bit flustered. ‘1 was glad she didn’t tell her daughter not to accept gifts from strange men, She can wait-with that stuff for a few years. . I'm inclined to believe a toy window was the wrong type for me to trim. I'd find myself fooling around with some gadget or other. Toys are really getting to be snazzy. Much better than a willow whistle or a slingshot like I used to have. Now that the. project is over, I can see where the mistakes were made. Don Wilson told me before he left for other windows to price the merchandise as it was put in. I forgot. With people pecking on the window telling you that something fell ovér and giving instructions, you can’t concentrate. A tavern owner distracted me by writing on a piece of paper that he needed a bartender By his gestures I gathered he thought bartending would be a better deal than display work. It so happens that I used to be a bartender and if need be. could do it again. oe &* oo

ANOTHER THING, there was too. much mer¢handise. To put it all in the window a man would have to stack it, warehouse style. I did the best I knew how. ~My sense of balance isn’t what it used to be. Why when.I was in the business, I could balance on one foot while carrying a dummy, ladder and a can of paint, Nothing was ever knocked over. Yesterday the old feet constantly tang'ed with something. Don’t understand it. Maybe it was just a bad day. Of course, when you kick one thing over that means six other toys go down. Disaster almost took place when the six large rubber balls I was carrying popped out of my grasp. Those balls should never have been wrapped in cellophane. They bounced all over the window. Sort of funny. Mr. Meckling didn’t think it was funny. 4 4 HE TOOK A LOOK at the window and in a few minutes Don came in and said that it would be agreeable with the G. C. Murphy Co. if I quit. “I'll straighten the window up before ..."” “Don’t bother,” Don said, picking up boxes out ‘of the aisle. : If that's the way they feel about it, OK. I've seen worse toy windows. Can't think where, right off hand, but I've seen them. - Well, haven't you?

Writer. Red Soldier Trade Shots (Camera)

“Do you see them over there—taking your picture, too?” “Where?”

“That second bloke there! He's got the cam-

~ era behind his back now.” .

It is sort of funny under the circumstances. I am taking their pictures—they are taking mine. We were equally curious about each other. “Yours,” says the Britisher, “will be shown in Moscow next week under the headline, ‘American Spy.’ ” = - > 4

THE MIDNIGHT EARL IN NEW YORK— Long-haired Actor John Carradine played a fiery real-life role when he tried to crash his estranged wife's suite at No. 1 5th Ave. Four cops tossed him on his hairdo.

” 2 » EARLS PEARLS = Lena

“A housewife is a woman who at the end of the day gets a very sinky feeling.”

n s = WISH I'D SAID THAT — “TV dresses are so low, they just about make a skirt”— Susan Peters.

u 2 = JOAN PETERS, Ohio State coed. who became Howard Hughes’ dollface, is “guarded” against wolves at 20th-C-Fox where she’s now working, by a man and woman believed sent by HH. One would-be wolf (now retired) is her boss—Producw\r Georgie Jessel! Paul Hartman's new part4 ner'll probably be Maxine BarMiss Peters ott partner of Don Loper when that was a great team. They talk it over nightly at Gogi's.

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. GOOD RUMOR MAN: Barbara Hutton'll return for a doctor's look-over , . . Frank Sinatra's ex-mgr., Capt. Bobby Burns, reported for duty in Korea . .. Frank Albertson, lead in “17. js In Roosevelt Hospital with a heart attack ... NY loses the Colgate TV Comedy Hour to LA after the Eddie Cantor show. Why don’t somebody do sumpin’ to keep TV here? “ob H

TODAY'S BEST. LAUGH: - “I've been approached about a late hour TV show. My neighbors want me to turn it down.”—Henny. Youngman. Taffy Tuttle recalls the spinster who told the burglar, “I've got plenty of money. Go ahead. I dare you to frisk me!” . . . That's Earl, brother.

Horne likes Charley Jones’ line, °

Big Week at Anderson—

Methodists Observe Triple Event

By EMMA RIVERS MILNER Times Church Editor :

A NDERSON, , Sept. 14—

“™ The First Methodist Church will open a gala

week Sunday to mark three

of the highest high points in its long life in this city. Sunday, the stately stone church will furnish the setting for the dedication of a new education building and begin the celebration of its own 50th anniversary. Simultaneously, the citizens of Anderson are congratulating the Methodists on 125 years of Methodism here. The church has been completely redecorated. A leading spirit in laying the ground work for the new $300,000 education building has been Dr. Wesley Bransford, minister of the church.

» = = IT WAS DR. BRANSFORD also who started the custom of keeping the church open all

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FULFILLMENT—A now Methodist educational building (left) in Anderson.

day, every day, contrary to the custom of many Protestant churches. He also influenced

his members to cease passing the collection plate during Sunday morning worship and to

seek gifts privately without interrupting services. Bishop Hazen G. Werner of the Ohio Area, Columbus, will preach at the night serwce Sunday and dedicate the new building.

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CHARLES E. WILSON, president of General Motors; Detroit, a former active member of the Church, will speak at an open meeting Wednesday at 8 p.m. He has chosen for his subject, “Religious, Social and Economic Progress.” The meeting will follew a dinner for men at 6 p.m. Another outstanding program of the week will be on Thursday night when Dr. J. Manning Potts, Nashville, Tenn., editor ©f The Upper Room, will give

First Visit to N. America—

Princess To See A Changed Canada

By JAMES MONTAGNES

-children to

the address. In addition, special dinners and talks by nationally known Methodists arescheduled for every night except Saturday. = » =

DR. BRANSFORD will preach Sunday, Sept. 23, and receive a class of persons into membership of the church. At 4 p.m. that day, parents will bring tHe€ir infants and small churcly’ for Dr. Bransford to baptise and remain afterward for an anniversary tea.

The climax of the whole observance will come that night at” 7:30 o'clock when the DePauw University Choir, directed by Prof. George Gove, will sing. Dr. Clyde E. Wildman, recently retired president of DePauw, will speak. The First Methodist Church made no effort to match the materials of the half-century-old edifice in erecting its edu-

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PASTOR—Dr. Wesley Bransford guides the congregation of the First Methodist Church, Anderson. :

cational building. Instead, the structufe just completed stands as a new ‘‘personality” of buff brick with stone trim. i = = = " A LARGE AUDITORIUM occupies the second floor. Here, young people will have dramatic programs and other entertainments as they give their talents to their church. A library with a huge fireplace and asphalt tile floor

of World War II and the Korean

dominates the main floor. And on the ground level, a large recreation room will afford a meeting place for Boy Scouts. The new building also includes a kitchen, a cloakroom opening off the entrance lobby and many Sunday School rooms. It adjoins the church so that. “come wind, come weather” the members may pass from one building to the other with cone venience, !

And they'll see the wide St. Laws

War. But, on their coast-to-coast-and-back tour, they'll see what the average tourist wants to see, besides what the Canadian government wants them to see. From Niagara Falls to the Canadian Rockies, Elizabeti and Philip will do some first-class, western hemisphere rubber-necking. They'll travel by boat, train, air

rence River, over 1000 miles ine land from the Atlantic, wheres. ocean-going vessels dock. ,

» » #w THERE IS ANOTHER two-day holiday scheduled for them at this point, which they will probably spend at a resort near Montreal, Then they will make a two-day visit to Washington, the only time they will be on U. 8. soil. The and automobile. Most of this will skyline of the U. 8. will be visible ; be on regular commercial car-|at other points, however, notably ! riers. They'll arrive in Canada onthe skyline of Detroit from Wind-

the SS Empress of France and Sor. Ontario.

leave on the SS Empress of Can-| The last stops of the trip will ~ ada, both vidios gai liners, De the beautiful Maritime ProvThey'll sample both transconti- NCes. They'll see the small fishnental railroads. When they go by ing villages of Nova Scotia, the air they will" use government Smallest Canadian province, transportation—a Royal Canadian Prince Edward Island, and the Air Force DC-4—and on the Pa- oldest British overseas territory cific and Atlantic Coast sections|at St. John's, Newfoundland, dis

of the trip they'll be on Royal/covered in 1497 and continuously Canadian Navy cruisers. British ever since.

: The only part of the dominion ¥ = 5 a . dustrial cities and picturesque of Loe FROM THEIR SIGHTSEEING

Sr “ REE ; they'll miss will be the far north, " . ’ “we . . . i , highspot f the trip/the land of Eskimos and Indians, BrendhCanastan villages) Theyyt ARsY STOp.This is Pushes City, where Princess Elizabeth and ae Biwi 3 Iie {Ep the 354 of Be mos snd Intent and timber forests; they'll see the rince Philip will land after sailing up the St. Lawrence. nadian Rockies, on the Pacific/winter when they arrive.

And old Canada and the new Canada, Coast and in the Maritime Prov-|Canada would rather show off the Flying over northern Manitoba, tablishments will also be shown to inces of the Atlantic seaboard.

’ lories of a Canadian autumn, te FroWing giant vat has Sprung they'll see the new railroads push- the future queen and her consort.| mpair first view of the Rocky g one : Dy oy y 3 ing through the bush to servel They will visit army camps, air|ygo inine will come at Calgary.| y 20 strategic metal mines discovered force bases and naval yards. 36 hours, as they If You Miss

Their trip has been arranged so . ’ {For the next P g only In the:past two years. In|They'll see the big jet aircrafti,.. ea west, they will hardly ever

Times Special Writer

"TORONTO, Canada, Sept. 14—If Princess Elizabeth believes everything her =

mother and father tell her,

she's in for a shock. For the Canada she'll see on her visit in October is a country that has dramatically changed from the Canada King George and Queen Elizabeth saw in 1939.

The Princess is making her first visit to North America. It's also her first foreign tour on her own, She and her husband, Prince Philip, will cover 10,000 miles in five weeks beginning Oct. 2. They will go from the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast and back again, with a side trip down to Washington: They'll see all of Canada, except the vast wilderness of the north. They'll see modern In-

Winner-Take-Nothing

Americana Seen U. S. War Motto

1 By Robert C. Ruark

: NEW YORK, Sept. 14—The old man said a : . thing the other day that must have struck a ‘ vibrant chord in a lot of Americans. Gen.-Mac-1 Arthur, more or less musing, allowed as how that 1 the Japs may wind up “firmly established within i the protective folds of our own cherished liberties, while we ourselves shall have lost them.” We did a great and wondrous thing in our magnanimous construction of the peace treaty with the Japs, who, yesterday, were being described as sub-human demons worthy only of painful extinction in the best Bull Halsey fashion. And, certainly, America has been something less than vindictive in its approach to Germany, whose basic citizenry used to be floridly described as pagan. It leads a man to wonder

with the good krauts and the good nips we used to be mad at. And the idea, just to us basic boys, of fresh tax raises to keep our vanquished happy is noble in mind, and smart too, and we still don't like it. > o> o WE WERE dumb enough to disarm, overnight, and now it appears we have to feed the world, and let the people push us, everywhere, and pay dearly for the privilege of winning, and it just goes a touch against the personal grain. I expect we need a strong Japan, and a strong Germany, and must pay for the privilege of rerodding some folks that we took great pains to frisk, at some additional expense in blood, sweat and tears, to coin a phrase, We will do it out of expediency, but you can’t expect us to love it. But now it seems they are going to call the married guys again, and already men with heavy overseas time have been hauled back from a deserved rest to go back to war again, and the gist is what does it get us? We have nearly wrecked the economy” looking after everybody else, with complete wreckage around the corner, been our motto so far, and the longer we go, the and we encounter very little but ingratitude nothinger we seem to get. among our neighbors, eo DB “> eb I THINK it is just too marvelous fér words WE HAVE already drifted, the General said, that we have forgiven our enemies in the best into something very nearly like totalitarianism Christian sense, and built a new concept of the here at home, with ensuing suppression of civil victor's reaction to victory. It is probably good rights that they told us loudly we were fighting

somewhat if, in modern times, it is not better to lose the wa

than to win them. Winner-take-nothing has

i business, too, in our increasing open enmity to for in.the last mess, that Elizabeth and Philip will un- ; Z the Russians, and so is arming Europe and so We have no clue as to whether, if we tangle derstand the Canada of 1951, It Dortnern outa, they'll stop of plants at Montreal and Toronto, pe out of sight of one of the in-| Your Paper aia is ECA. with the Russians, our grateful Japs and grate- is a nation that has grown from oc Mod¢ PP and paper mi [Lhe Bay al shipbuilding yards on ,,merable snowcapped peaks. |

under 11,000,000 to over 14,000,-/ 1°" of Kapuskasing. Lawrence River and on| There is a two-day holiday |

000 ina n Vears. | They'll be shown how Canada the Pacific Coast, and possibly the ¢ jh equled after they reach the] of Ronis In A ouen oe ua forging ahead industrially. atomic energy plant at Chalk pacific. It is expected they willl tion from Europe, including tens/Frem the air, they'll be able to River, north of Ottawa, \spend it somewhere on ar near of thousands of farmers and pjSee Tuushirooming Sevelopiuenis of . Ey i Vancouver Island, before they = liberal sprinkling of scientists and|/POSt-war housing outside cilles N n the eastward trip. Ce iberal sprin Bo : Rjenti a. 8 4 like Edmonton, Winnipeg anil, AND: IRE che Ring. and Ee tourist attractions await : fe Montreal. Big modern factories, een Mi 9, they'll tour vet-, ~" \¢ Canada's largest city, | THE ROYAL COUPLE will see dot the landscape on, the outskirts erans’ hospitals. These, too, have Montreal. They'll see the mag-

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ful Germans won't rise and take another bust at us as we lie panting in a weakened condition. he . : This is a pessimistic piece, I will admit, but you can feel pretty pessimistic today if you work at it. From all the happenings since V-J Day, it seems to me the winner is the: loser, and the guy who started the fight picks up the marbles. At least he is no worse than even with the fellow.

But will you pardon a human fraiity if I say that only yesterday a fellow whom we called kraut so-and-so was popping at a few of us with submarines, and people we called nips and slants and japrat whatevers knocked over Pearl and cut off a few heads of captive airmen. As an alumnus of that old fraternity I am prepared to Hi love my neighbor, but not™frantically until I've i had time enough to get accustomed to him.

iy 2 14 or 15 million of us are going to who kicked His, teeth in to save the world for how Canada’s northern frontier of such cities. . reatly eXpanded im 12 years, to nificent view of Canada’s biggest Na : need a little indoctrination. in this come-all-ye confusion. Stn Cy Ca Is gradually being pushed back.! Canada’s expanding military es- take care of the injured veterans harbor from historic Mount Royal. Songer. — ——— “ : i . : . Limi} = =o % Fo . ) wo ate a i : is . iy . y ; : iE i : . : : ant, ; r= . ” ~ . " A = . Sb a 3 : a _ So ‘ ra ; Ls ! Pie . . = en pL Lg ’ 2 2 ; Toe - ” : i