Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1951 — Page 15

19, 1951

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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovoln+. Cc

_ THE FOLLOWING everits | took place in Brown County and ail disbelievers in fairies and little critters of the wood can leave the room, I saw a leaf change. color. It was a remarkable sight. There were four in the party and 1 was the enly. one to see it change which leads me “to believe that I'm enchanted. , This time of the year a se- $M lect number of my friends §' make numerous trips to Bean- 8 blossom and surround countryside. Quite often yourfover, of nature's wonders hooRs a & ride. 2 Ostensibly the purpose. of the trip was to buy sorghum molasses and hittersweet. When it comes tn. Brown County, any excuse for driving the 40 miles is good enough in my book. I remember one year a bunch of us went to Brown County to see if the sun was shining.

THERE'S PLENTY of bittersweet on the market. The sorghum situation is a trifle mixed up. One owner of a stand told. us new sorghum won't be available for another week and a half. A ‘mile down the road we picked up a quart of “new sorghum."

The hills and valleys are still green.

Oh, here and there a sprig of ivy

is beginning to

turn, but the big paint pot hasn't been opened yet. Our safari came tn 3a stop at the cabin in

the woods we love so well. The stone patio was clean, the outside fireplace was begging for a fire. A soft breeze played over thé treetops and whispered to us that life can be very good,

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WHILE the stouter members of the party nursed ‘a tiny spark to life in the fireplace, 1 nursed a delightful beverage that was kissed by Mother Nature herself. Each mouthful was as mellow as the afternoon sun, carefree as the winds which scoot across the prairies and as Fich as the =oil which gave the nectar its birth. . The sun had about three more hours in the blue heaved. Shadows were crisp as taffeta. Chairs. were comfortable. the conversation was light and cheerful. There was music in the air. a vi ja, 2 a

- | Enchanted He Was— And a Leaf Bilushed

Hardy asters were dancing with the marigolds and a couple of tired zinnias were jealous. The foxgloves and. the coxcombs were whooping it up with the chrysanthemums and the dahlias. A. frivolou§ acorn dropped in their midst and the hardy asters showed some temper. The fall roses came to the rescue and it wasn’t long before the acorn was cutting capers.

TINY FINGERS of flame caressed the logs in the- fireplace until sparks” flew, The odor of burning wood wafted around us and if a man felt any better just then he'd burst. Here and there a few leaves were falling and if you looked closely you could see the parachutes that carried them gently to the ground. . I happened to lean 'way hack to catch a hetter glimpse of one swaying downward. My eyes caught sight of a spry sycamore leaf who was taking in the merriment below with more than casual interest. He wanted to join the party. He wiggled and strained but couldn't get loose. It wasn't time for him to break away from the fold. I told him so, His job was to stay put until Jack Frost pzinted the woods. He wouldn't listen. Just then‘*a girl leaf floated past him in her bright green formal with parachute to match. I believe she had on dem.golden slippers, too. She winked and made with the fat eve.

THE POOR GUY, flushed with the excitement of the dance below and his secret desires of taking a last fling, was overwhelmed. Ping -just like that-—from stem to stern he was bright red. I laughed at his embarrassment. He looked fo funny. I told him how fine he looked in red. I made sure.he noticed the tate of the girl leaf who wouldn't wait for him. . The flowers wouldn't have anything to do with her and soon the breeze blew her against the split rail fence. There she will stay, unwanted, unloved. : “You're. .the first to turn,” 1 said to the leaf. “There isn’t another leaf as pretty as you are. Blush on, my friend.” All the critters of' the woods gathered around to look at the frst fod leal of autumn. The flowers sang and the" wind whistled softly and everyone made 80 much noise that the moon had to come up and see what was going on. Unbelievable, I saw it. I felt enchanted. VT RE te

It Happened Last Night Gis in Korea Fool

By Earl Wilson

SEOUL, Korea, Sept. 19 here are afraid men." They doubt if you care about their war , . . and wonder why more Hollywood and Broadway stars don't “find the time” to come over. “Why are people back home =o indifferent?” some of them asked. A shapely Pennsylvania WAC who'd been back in NY on leave said: ‘Nobody at home seemed to know or care much about this. I was glad to get back here.” A Broadway columnist with a “nightclub pale” was out-of-place here. I flew up from Tokyo in a C-54 that carried soldiers and blood plasma and had pictures of hare-hosomed Japanese stripteasers on the cockpit walls. a Ob -&

Some of the Glz up they're America's’ “forgotten

WALKING around Kimpo Airport. T saw ‘scores of bearded, sun-baked, starey-eyved fellows behind a fence. “Who are they? Prisoners?” T asked. “They’re our hoys,” a corporal said. back to Tokyo for R and R.” “R and R” means Rest and Recuperation . . . five days off every three months . . . three in Tokyo, two going and coming. That's what they live, and die, for. Some were sagging and spiritless, just lumps of men, life almost drained from them as they sat on the ground waiting for planes. “What day is it?” one weary officer asked me. “The chaplains,” he said, “have to remind us when Sunday comes.” “ & H THEY ARGUED about the effect of the Communist “big push” evidently just starting. “They've built up during the truce till they outnumber us 35 to 1.” a major said. “Oh, Ridgway hasn't been idle,” answered another. It was a good reply. Gen. Ridgway, who visits the front, is considered one of them. Wearing the suntans that they'd lent me, I jeeped around ruined Seoul. A significant sight was some Red Cross ambulances carrying wounded, moving very slowly. <> «> o 1 SAW ONE quite attractive Korean gal—she wag an officer in uniform—checking credentials at a certain point. But it was a depressing city. My Beautiful Wife had obtained $10. worth of Army scrip in Tokyo and spent all but 70 cents at the PX. She'd given me the 70 cents—and no more—to get wicked on in Seoul. It was more than I needed. Army signs on telephone polés warned soldiers, “Native Liquor Blinds.” A big street sign said: “Native Liquor Has Killed 11 in This Area. Will You Be Next?” One lively place was a 1. 8. officers’ club bar in an old Buddhist Temple, It's open from 5 p. m. Ao 10:30 p. m. “We need a name for thiz saloon,” one man said.

“Going

Americana Ry Robert €. Ruark

NEW YORK, Sept. 19—Some future indication of the neceszary compromise among television theaters, and other media of entert2inment came out of the late fight between * .* . Robinson and Randy Turpin-—the first really solid boil-down I've seen. There was quite a rumpus. Radio and television rights to the tussle were denied. Motionpicture exhibitors outbid radio and television for the right to show the scrap. Theaters with large-screen video were able to , flash the fight as it progressed. | Those without were able to bill it as an extra feature the following day. And the fight drew big, well over a halfmillion bucks. It seems that the answer is right in there. For instance, I got on my horse and went out to watch the thing, whereas if it had been televised I might have remained snugly at home and seen it twice as clearly And closely. I must have been multiplied by many. ’

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THE THEATERS did good business, toon, whereas: generally they starve .on any evening when a big sports evew® ig being held. And the subject nf the attraction the promoters who stage these things—did swell, as well as fighters themazelves, who made a pack of jack. Nobody suffered but some of the eye-witness customers, the TV owners, and indirectly, the TV-set sellers, who peefed because they didn’t get a de luxe look for free. A great many silly things were said, under quick pressure, from Washington. Silliest ut--terance came out of Rep. Pat Sutton (D. Tenn.), who muttered somethihg about’ the failure of television to cover the event “violated a right that should not be denied the tax-paying public of America.” Onis

Some legislative Joe in Boston said that “an:

event of this importance might well fall within the’ public domain.” Somebody else wants to determine whether the homehound public was miaaing 1 for gports events because of “unreasonable

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“Well, since it's near the 3sth Parallel, why not ‘The Parallel Bar'?" somebody replied. It wasn't very hilarious—but it was the only smile I could find in Korea. : < oe oe THE MIDNIGHT EARL IN NEW YORK ... Frank Costello—a celebrity now—gets requests for his autograph. When two Long Island schon! - boys asked for his signature at his Long Island 8olf course, he gave it to them—on two $5 bills. Gene Tierney’s escort in Italy while she’s been touring without Oleg Cassini has been handsome, talented Renzo Rossellini, Roberto's . brother, (Write your own exclamation mark.)

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GOOD RUMOR MAN: Frank Sinatra's already making honeymoon hotel reservations y=% here for about Sept. 24, But his ; financial settlement with Nancy could delay the Ava weddin' Frankie's new film. “Meet Danny Wilson,” previewed terrifically . Judy Garland's Hollywood-bound to enter her dtr. in school . . . Crooner Eddie Fisher, now a GI, sings in uniform on Milton Berle's Tuyesday TV show . .. Helen Grayco (Mrs. Spike Jones), was a guest on Spike's Comedy Hour TV show Sunday. -

Helen Grayco Ee oe oo B'WAY BULLETINS. Gene Tunney reveals that a finger of his left fist was operated upon for contracture months ago and iz now ok. If the ailment had come a few years earlier. he might never have been Champ . .. How good can you get? Even Robert Young and Josh Logan couldn't get seats for “The River” . . . Jay Russell asks. “Weren't these cops watching Harry Gross guilty of Gross negligence?” : “wD EARL'S PEARLS ,". . Some men would find their stumbling block, says Peter Donald, if they looked under their hats. ; oe oe oo TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Lynne Gilmore tells of this B'way showgal dialogue: “My boy friend is buying me a mink coat” , . “How do you know?" , ,, “Cause there goes his wife in a new fox.” oo oe oo RHUBARB . . . Maidie Norman, the Negro actress: mentioned for an Oscar for her part in the exciting picture, “The Well,” is from Lima,

0.. in God's country. Eleanor Roosevelt's her latest fan ... Bob Dana will do TV . .. Dancer Ray Malone injured himself hoofing at the

Paramount and will be out a day. dh Bb WISH I'D SAID THAT: “Many girls climb the ladder of success, lad by lad”—Ken Later. Showgal Taffy Tuttle's selgan: “Never put off

till tomorrow what you can put off till next winter.” , , . That's Earl, brother. Free Loaders’ Fever Afflicis TV Viewers

I never heard such foolishness in my life- a foolishness that is the growing fruit of the freeloading illness that afflicts us.

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UNTIL, some advertisers competed among themselves to bring fights and ball games and bad vaudeville and curtailed drama to the guy

with one eye on the home TV screen, we had been in the practice: of paying for what we watched in the way of amusement. Not to my knowledge has the public been allowed free apcess to haseball and football stadia as something which “might fall in the public domain.” : I will guarantee the movies still charge admission to the public, and the dogs they unleash on TV audiences not only don't compete with fresh products but have been bought and paid for by the advertisers. Nor has anyone hinted that a live performance of a Broadway show is the right and privilege of everybody, free,

THE SPORTS EVENTS haye been carefully cutting their own throats, in: past, by taking the TV dough from advertisers while the stadiums and gvms have often heen stripped of attendance, This i= particularly true of boxing, since anvone in his right mind would rather stay home with his feet up than mash himself in a mob to reap an intimate view of some other spectator's head. Same for foothall-—and, to a degree. baseball. : . All entertainments worthy of watching cost heavily to stage. If TV. gets the cream, then some arrangement must be worked out to pay for the right to show them free to a prospective customer for an advertised ware.

If TV can't compete with the theaters, that's TV's headache. But at no time does the free loader have the right to complain merely be-

-cause he hought a set. He bought it on his own

‘risk, and if the medium doesn't deliver he's just been chumped again. The world may owe us a living, but free entertainment it owes us.not. - i Ta : ri 5 : ie v :

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~The Indiana

Allen’s Lane in Evansville—

By RUTH ELLEN THOMPSON

Evansville Press: Staff Writer

LLEN’S LANE is a street of middle-class suburban homes. Small

neat houses with newly cut

lawns line the street. Allen's Lane is also ' Parallel 38, U.8. A, : It. is untroubled, serene. In some. sections chickens pick in back yards and along the road new housing division site close to the road and life seems untroubled to most of its residents. In one new ‘house, 1323 Allen's Lane, an earnest young man discussed the Korean War. - EJ ” ~ EDWARD NOLEN is 3 veteran of World War II—three years in the Air Force. Today he is a salesman. His wife and two small boys were finishing supper in the kitchen; the smell of American goulash was seeping into the room where he talked. “We haven't accomplished anything in Korea,” Ed Nolen said. “I certainly haven't any hope for the present peace talks.” Up and down Allen's Lane the attitude is the same. Most residents of Parallel 38, U.S.A.

congider Korea another word’

for mistake. But, ‘as Ed Nolen sees it: “The Russians are trying to win the world by economic measures. They are consistently outmaneuvering this country. Their attempts to bankrupt the

ceeding. Prices and taxes are £till going up.” ” » ” TF THE PEACE talks break off and full scale war ‘is resumed the veteran favors bombhing supply bases and lines in Manchuria. He even feels that such bombing might be the means of discovering the Rus-' sians, real attitude toward allout war, “They'll put up or shut up if we hit them hard enough. Korea has been a mistake. In my opinion we shouldn’t have gone there in the first place, but now we're in, we'll have to see it through." ~~ - Tw On the subject of a third World War, Mr. Nolen wasn't sure. He said, “Personally 1 am convinced that the only place to stop Russia, if we're going to stop ‘her, is in Russia. During

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1951 Sar

This Is 38th Parallel, U.S.A.

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a ’ : 7 . : : ; : Xn WAR GAMES ON 38TH PARALLEL—Take these boys due west about 9300 miles, and Johnny Greubel, 8 (left), would be invad-

ing Gary Gene Chamberlin, 6, in North Korea. They're playing war games along the 38th Parallel on Allen's Lane in Evansville.

the last war we didm'¥ stop Germans in. France or Italy, we stopped them in Germany. Rusgia will be the same way.” Not all 38th Parallel residents wepe as well informed on the war and its progress. : ” ~ ”n

MRS. GEORGE SCHULTZ, a housewife at 912 Allen's Lane, admitted knowing little about the war in Korea. . “I don't like to read or hear about the war, so I just don’t bother,” she said. She hasn't been able to ignore it entirely however, and now like most of her friends is hoping for a quick and peaceful settlement. Across the street, T. P. Lewis, a 37-year-old vteran, was better informed on the war, although he was surprised” to learn that he lived on the 38th Parallel. He saw no hope for the peace talks, “looks as if we'll have to fight it out”: was indignant in Korea, “Does

Panama High Hattie—

Trouble Is Brewin

By DOUGLAS LARSEN

Times Special Writer

PANAMA, Sept. 19—Ships using the famous Panama

Canal are traveling through troubled waters.

All is not

well, either in the U. S. Zone or in the Republic/ of

Panama. Morale of. the 4000 Zone emplovees, American citizens

whose principal mission is to keep the Canal operating, is at

rock bottom. -Great numbers are threatening to go back to the States, claiming that they will be forced to do =o. Barely reconciled to a recent drastic cut in their number, Canal employees are now going through the first major reorganization of the complicated Canal activities since 1912. The reorganization is aimed at making all of the Canal enterprises pay for themselves. Since it was opened, the Canal has accumulated a deficit of $193. 000.000 for U. 8. taxpayers. - To get the big ditch on a paying basis it is likely that rates must be raised for ships passing through. And Zone residents fear their already high cost of living might go higher if government commissary prices go up, which is very possible, » ” ~ IN ADDITION to that dismal prospect, Canal employees have just been given the shocking news ‘that henceforth they will

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have to pay Federal income taxes, from which they have always been excused because

they worked out of the country.

Zone employees also are very bitter because they feel the Army. is seriously neglecting their safety in the event of an enemy attack on the Canal. Accustomed to the war-time 50,000 troops, plus heavy naval and fighter plane defenses which guarded the Canal, residents are worried because. no fighter planes are based in the area, that there is almost no naval defense and that only a few antiaircraft battalions with antiquated radar which they have been asked to help man—exist. ” ” ”

THEY ARE COMPLETELY dissatisfied with the Department ‘of Defense's contention that the Canal .can no longer be considered a top-priority defénse area. Military experts claim the only potentidl. enemy, Russia, doesn’t have the means of making an outright armed attack on the Canal. Further, they say the U. S. now has a two-ocean Navy in case the Canal is wrecked.

By ANDY ANDERSON Seripps-Howard Staff Writer REAT SLAVE LODGE, Northwest Territories, Canada, Sept. 19—Twelve of us are sitting near the dock on the lake here waiting for the bushhopper to land his plane which will take us off to Yellowknife and end a week

of the most fabulous makinaw trout fishin’ I have ever experienced.

And as things go up here there is a pool of some 325

which will go to the person who picked the time the avia-

Third

tor's pontoons will hit the of g water. Bush- . Hoppers never Series

arrive on time. They get here as close to when they are expected as possible. No one seems to mind. And as we sat there the 10

fishermen and two. aviators who °

flew us from Houston to Yellowknife by special -plane began talking about the had had and we set out to make

an estimate of the number of

fishin’ they

fish which had been caught and turned loose. Leonard Morriz, the Cody, Wyo. big game guide who owns and operates the lodge here, zet the estimate for five days for 12 men az 3000 pounds caught and turned loose. About 700 pounds will be flown back home by. proud anglers. When the plane finally got in it carried a drum of fuel ofl, about 30 2x4s 10 feet long, and various other supplies. Nearby is a deserted Indian village. It is occupied usually by a family of Chipewyans. They trap during the winter and and last year they did right well. So the father and the oldest son loaded women and

children into canoes. The dogs,

twenty of them, were Inaded inte another and. with papa and the oldest -son in the head canoe, they headed for Yellow-

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anyone snow why we're there? We haven't proven anything; we haven't gained anything.” He reflected almost timidly that the war made the employment situation brighter, but deplored the logs of human life,

» » o FARTHER DOWN the street two sisters looked at Korea from different viewpoints. Betty Nenneker. 14, had just returned from her second day at Reitz High School where she is’ a freshman. Betty thought Korea “unnecessary,” but had hopes for the peace conferences. While we've lost a lot in Korea we have shown that the United Nations can work together, she feels. Should the peace conferences fail she approved use of the A-bomb. “But not the H-bomb,

“it's just too powerful.” She was

the first person to mention the H-bomb. Her 11-year-old sister, Sue. a seventh grader, was more positive in her expressions. 3 “We haven't gotten anyplace,

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EXPLOSIVE SURROUNDING S—Political unrest among Pana-

we've just wasted time and lives,” she said. “Russia wants an all-out war.”

” » ” DOES RUSSIA want that war now? Sue wasn't sure but Betty was, } “Ruseia doesn’t want an allout war with us,” she said. “She would rather take over the world a little at a time.” Never once did any Allen's Lane resident refer to the enemy as the North Koreans or as Communists. They all said flatly and positively . . . Russians. They feel, on the whole, much as Raymond Tompkins does. A clerk in his family’s grocery he had four brothers in World War II. g “Looks as like I'll next,” he grinned. Ray hasn't really given the Korean War much thought. “I work in the grocery all day and when I leave I like to take a ride or listen to the ball game.” He, like most of his neigh-

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ma natives, like the ones gathered for this demonstration, make life in the Canal Zone uneasy because of anti-American overtones.

In =pite of the down-grading nf the Canal Zone as a defense area, the military maintains elaborate counter - espionage

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knife where they will stay until the money is gone. Then they will come back, just before cold weather sets in, and the grown men will run trap lines for many miles,

: ” o o WE WENT TO ONE of the islands to see the caribou trails. Huge herds of the caribou migrate in a few weeks. When! they come down from the Bar-

rens they have to cross this

operations. All Russian or suspected ships are hoarded hy Marines hefore being permitted to go through the Canal.

lake which is the seventh largest fresh water lake in the world. At the narrows near here are several islands and the big

‘herd enters the water and swims ‘from island to island, finally landing on a sloping rock on the mainland. They

have actually trampled a wide road up the mountainside. The caribou never take the same trail on their trek south but follow the crop of caribou moss, a close-growing plant that is. half-buried in the ground. The caribou has a nose shaped like a small shovel blade and this permits him to raise the plant from the ground, shake out the dust. and sand and then eat it. The crop of caribou moss arbund here is 800d this year and the trappers are hopeful.

” ” ® A DAY OR SO AGO we all went fishin’ far down the lake, which meant taking lunches. Ray McLaughlin, one of .the . Buides, took along some tinfoil ‘and glazed paper and showed us a new trick about cooking fish. He wrapped them in the paper and tin foil, buried thé fish about six inches under y acs 5% z . 7 . Za

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bors, saw no point in fighting a war unless you are fighting to win. » » 5 “THE REDS are stalligg for time and feeling out the United Nations. dt the present,” he commented. “We should go all out to really win or forget the whole thing.

“Why we aren't fighting with everything we have I don’t know. If we're not in a position to fight we should get into shape fast.” He summed up his hopes for a peace. settlement with a las conical, “no chance.” All along the 38th Parallel in Evansville, both north and south of it, the people wanted to know “what are we fighting for?"

_ But except for that query _ few Parallel 38 residents have

heen touched by the Korean War. : To Parallel 38, U.8 A. the Korean War iz distant (9300 miles due west) and generally just something of a bother.

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The 10-mile-wide strip of land bisecting the Isthmus of Panama which they occupy is zurrounded on both sides by an explosive political situation in the Republic of Panama featuring violeit anti - American overtones. ” ” 5

FORMER PRESIDENT Arnulfo Arias who is known to be very unfriendly toward the U. 8. ° and who was accused of proNazi sympathies during the war,

is now in jail on a vague murder charge. But he is said to be gaining strength in the National Assembly. Adopting the martyr role, he has won the sympathy of large groups of the Panamanian population and is said to be increasing his behind-the-scenes influence in the government steadily. He was largely responsible, when in power, for forcing the U. 8. air bases out of the Republic. If he should come back into power the Zone officials fear he could make it very unpleasant for them. There are all sorts of rumors about the connection of Arias and his followers with the Communists. Nothing has heen proved on this point. But the activities of the Commies in the Republic are well known. They are aimed at maintaining a constant state of unrest, And their main theme iz anti-American- . ism, the same as that of Arias

ground and then built a fire over it. Boy, was it good! The horthern lights are bheginning to appear here. Right now they are not too bright but later they will be a sight worth seeing. All of us got up last night to see them. All of us are anxious to get

to a scale, We have been really pouring in the food up here and for. the first time

since I was a kid I had homemade bread. You wouldn't ex pect to get it here.in a camp a jillion miles from nowhere but if the cook didnt bake it there would be no bread. The last fish caught on this * party was brought in by Tommy Hicks, co-pjlot and Paul Weeks of Shreveport. It was a big mackinaw that weighed 38 pounds, which is

"a pretty fair country fish. It

was the biggest fish caught

* here this year and will prob-

ably win the prize offered for the biggest trout of the year caught by a sportsman on the vast lake. \ hifi Read’ Rod Reel's Indiana fishing eolumin every Sunday a