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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola
“IT'S A home away from home.” That's what the service man thinks of the Service Men's Center, 111 N. Capitol Ave. “Everything is out of this world.” Jou hear that about Phe Pantry Shelf, one of the many features in the
just “home away from home” that makes Indianapolis an outstanding service town in the country from the standpoint of what’ voluntary workers do for the men in uniform. I saw the Pantry Shelf on Sunday: night beginning at 6 p. m. until 8 p. m., Watching the men pass through the line makes you understand why the ladies who werk at the Center continue week after week. : “Gb
IT MUST GIVE them a great deal of pleasure to know that somebody's son is digging in and coming back for a second helping. Once yon start, vou can't say you're too busy or too tired to work.
Mrs. Marguerite Esterline can he cited as an
example. A year ago Mrs. Esterline hegan to make the coffee. She now has the job permanently. You should see her beam when a sol-
dier compliments her “java.” Along about 5:45 p. m., the men begin to drop whatever they're doing. :And there is plenty to do at the Center. The. ping pong players and the pool shooters cut their games short. The dancers begin walking off the floor. The artists,
photographers, book lovers begin gravitating to the third floor. o o& o*
BY 5:55 THERE'S a line of men that stretches around the huge room. At 6 on the dot, when Mrs. Wally Welch, co-director of the Pantry Shelf rings her loud hand bell, the kind that used to be used in schools, a shout goes up.
PANTRY SHELF—With Gls who know Service Centers best, Indianapolis has the best. "loads"
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Marine sergeant for action.
It Happened Last Night
By Earl Wilson
NEW YORK. Oct. 9 Some of Broadway's sacred names got gently spoofed by Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy in the pleasant new Waldorf Empire Room show.
They pretend that in their gudience is the famous producer, “Oscar Hammerhead 13th.” They then offer “Call Me Merman” starring
“Ethel Madam,’ and go into’ their awn version of “The Thing and 1.” all about the Thing of Siam They likewize Kid the disc jockeys who, they say, “play lullabies for gamblers, L gale GE LANA TURNER'S departing hushand. Bob Topping, was at the E! Morocco wolves table — solo— "w ob Politicians hear Mayor Impellitteri’ll cut short
his trip because of the Halley threat SS » |B»
LORRAINE CUGAT'S gone far since break-
ing with Coogie she starts her own TV show on ABC Oct. 13 Publicist Dave Green, the Easton. Pa. hoy
who made good on B'way and lovely model Jody Ward (formerly Mrs, Louis Quinn) were married on the Isle of Capri
MAE WEST'S turning down movies co-star-
.ring Jane Russell or other woman stars she says,
“T don’t need ’'em, honey.”
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BERT LAHR and Ham Fisher have discovered, they say, that a common laundry soap grows hair on bald-headed men. Lahr sits in his dressing room at thé Mark Hellinger, his head covered with lather, looking like the inside of a washing machine. o- oo oo
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GROUCHO MARX is back on TV--and we find particularly timely an exchange he had months back with Raymond Darby, who is in Los Angeles politics, having been elected a supervisor “Tell me,” said Groucho. “how do vou become a supervisor?” “You run for it,” said Darby innocently. “Before or after you're elected?” Groucho.
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ARTHUR GODFREY asked listeners not to phone CBS for baseball scores, as this tied up
Americana By Robert €. Ruark
. NEW YORK, Oct. 9 It iz possible. to find a curious ptihlic-health aspect in the recent murder of Willie Moretti by his eriminal colleagues, and in the general air of distrust for the other. The murders of Bugsy Siegel, the Binaggio boys and sundry other minor chieftains, would indicate that the house that Frankie built is in need of drastic repair. That is good for the nation as-a whole, if only because it indicates that the recent crackdowns on crime are beginning to divide the ranks of the hoodlums, They had been semirespectable much too long. Back in the dear, departed Prohibition days, the gangsters used to shoot each other up with great eagerness, before Frank Costello finally put together a truce, and the tacit agreement to co-operate. The occasional upstart who did dissent was quietly ice-picked by a member of Murder, Inc, an enforcing outfit with stock fees for guns to hire. It was very neat,
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THE NEATNESS seems to be disappearing. Best hazard on the slaying of Moretti was that his associates were afrald he would sing loud and clear in upcoming investigations of graft and general corruption. It was hinted that poor,
of one hoodlum
departed Will had once acquired a case of what,
the boys call Big Casino, which ended in the same paresis that finished Al Capone.
Paresis has a tendency to unhingé both tongue and mind, which was amply illustrated last year when Willie popped his yap before the Kefauver Committee. .-Rather than risk another session of Willie's garruloisness, they sent four hard guys with gats to forever quell his loquaciousness,
There were the rifle execution of Bugsy, and
: the repeated attempts on the life of Mickey Cohen,
the big kill in KC, added to the jail sentences, revelations and assorted confessions, plis the intimidation that suddenly caused gambler Harry
“the labor of love.
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Local GI Center
“Chow time. - Come and get it.” The ladies of Kast Tenth Methodist Church and Brightwood Methodist Church sent 56 pies and 39 cakes. Homemade pastries make a big: hit
with the men. Sa
PFC. EUGENE ROUSSELLE, Queens, N. Y. has this comment: “One of the best places I've ever seen. There's always plenty to eat and the pies and cakes are out of this world. And the cookies wow.” The contributing church organization always sénds workers to pass out the pastries, Mrs. Mary Espy and Mrs. Alice Stanbaugh were from East Tenth Methodist Church. and Mrs. Ethel Foster and Mrs. Carol Harman were from Brightwood Methodist Church,
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YOU WOULD THINK the men would gripe a little about going through a chow line away from camp. Some of the ladies are concerned and wish some other way of feeding the men could be devised. 1 can say they have nothing to worry about. The men don't mind. Pretty hostesses pass through the the men. The servers, many with sons service, are ready with a cheery word to new or old customer with a healthy appetite,
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THE “SWILL QUEENS” always come in for a share of the kidding and joviality that abounds in the Pantry Shelf on Sunday night. They're the workers who pick up the plates, empty ashtrays, even carry chairs when needed. Last Sunday Mrs, Tempole Kennedy, Mrs, Rosemary Smith, Mrs. Mary Cutsinger and Mrs. J. J. MacDermott handled the silent butlers, They are members of the American Women Volunteer Service.
line with in the the
The line slows up in front of the pie and cake table. It's hard to choose from so many different home creations. Often a man will take a piece of pie and a piece of cake. There's no limit on anything, meat, potatoes or sweets,
TRY TO IMAGINE how much work is involved in feeding from 500 to 600 men at one sitting. The food has to be prepared, delivered to the Center and served.
the volunteer workers get, if je gratitude from the men for
The only pay you can call it pay, what they're doing. 8gt. First Class John Renaldi. Scranton, Pa, says: “I've been in 12 years and have been in a lot of Cerfters and thiz fs best I've ever seen. Everybody is swell here.”
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PFC. ALFRED PASACK, Taunton, Mass. speaking: “Back home they were never like this. The Sarge and I are going to miss it when we leave." Pfc. William Theobald, Bridgeport, Conn. smacking hiz lips: “Everything is wonderful. This ix the first place I head for when I come to town.” “bh You can be proud of vour Service Center, whether you work- there or not. It's a bright star in your town.
Spoofing Famous Enlivens Waldorf
phone lines, but to call Clrcle 7-8300 where they could get them easily. (Clrcle 7-8300 igs NBC.) & &
THE MIDNIGHT EARL --Fred MacMurray canceled a TV show his wife had a heart attack. . . . Income tax agents are probing the fat Rifts radio TV writers get for writing in free “plugs” ahout products, Anita Loos said at Quo Vadis that she’ I open her new play. “Gigi,” in New York in November. . At the hall game, a Giant fan bellowed to
Robinson, “Come on, Jackie-—show ’'em you're human. Strike out!” eae TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: “T met a 400-pound policeman which is a lot ot bull!"-—Robert Q. Lewis, “@* % ob
GOOD RUMOR MAN: Friends of a pretty NY redhead, now off to the Virgin Islands for a divorce, insist it’s she who'll be Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr. . ... John Ringling North and Gloria Drew are together again--in Rome. . . . Needed: An understudy for Dolores Gray of “Twa on the Aisle.” Betty George turned in her notice. oe o> oo
R'WAY BULLETINS: Nat (King) Cole, on tour with Duke Ellington, flies in daily for one of the ball games. . . . Veronica Lake of the new hairdo is around with Sam Chapman, Ceil’s ex. . . . It's rumored again that License Com. McCaffery is giving the Mayor his resignation. . In_one church this week a worshiper asked for a praver for the Dodgers. “No, I'll not pray for either team; it's not the American way." replied the clergyman.
“Besides, I'm a Giant fan.” Ma—tflyyly ALL OVER: Joan Fontaine just shakes her
head and looks blank when asked about Aly Khan, After another Theater Guild air show, she returns to LA to see her children. . .. Lou Walters’ new cafe, “The Gilded Cage,” is already making a profit. > D> WISH I'D SAID THAT: “Dumb! cavities in all his wisdom teeth” nor.
He has —Donald O’Con-
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BILLY REED of the Little Club has invented a champagne diet. In 3 days you can take off 50 dollars. . . . That's Earl, brother.
Will Moretti Slaying Bring Gangland Cleanup?
Gross ta forget to remember. The untouchable Frank Erickson drew a bit in the cooler, ns did the dapper Joey Adonis. On the whole, i would seem the good folk are finding precions little right with wrong, and are discovering that the, can do something about it.
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THIS APPEARS to make the polished hoodlums who have achieved semirespectability and an air of good citizenship nervous. Their legitimate industries were running well, killing was reduced to a minimum, and the forces of law and politics had been so anointed with olive of), and palm grease, the illegitimate dodges almost seemed legal. Now they say they fear a wholesale series of gang slayings, like in the olden days, and I figure that's fine. When distrust within the ranks mounts so high that the boys are gunning each other, the resultant confusion is apt to breed some startling revelations as to just who was mixed up with whom, and for how much. Even if nothing of lasting importance develops, at least the breakup of a well-founded, smoothly operational organization of crime will ‘have been tem-
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AND A FEW of the old rats, grown fat and suave and sleek, will suddenly assume their old position in the public eye as what they are - just rats that got their hotels and racing franchises and hauling contracts and beer factories and bottling works and whisky monopolies and political protection with a gun and brass knuckles and lit cigars to burn the feet of former frisnds,
I say that “fear” of a general gang war is the wrong word. I think a gang war would be just dandy, and the more who get it behind the ear the merrier. Weep not for Willie nor for any who collect the big one. They've had it coming, all of them, ever since they into big business with the butt of a gun, :
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Everybody's sa ‘Millionaire’ or
U. S. Is A Dream To |
By RICHARD KLEINER
Times Special Writer
NEW BEDFORD, Mass.,. Oct. 9— Nina Fortin, ‘a 17- = 7 year-old bride from Italy, She was convinced her ex-GI husband was an. American
BRIDE, GROOM, LAWN. MOWER—There aren't many back home.
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millionaire, though he millworker. He had a car and a. television set. To Nina, he was a rich man. Nothing she saw her first day in America changed her mind. The home of hig parents, where the couple will live temporarily, is not luxurious, by American standards. But Nina's brown eyes sparkled at the wonders of her new life. With one simple wedding ring, she's been transformed from a little Italjan peasant girl into a rich American wife, She held court in the living room. as about a dozen new
relatives crowded around to meet her, George Fortin, for the
moment, seemed more like a father than a husband as he watched her. “Gee whiz,” said George firmly, “I hope they don’t stay too long I want to take her for ice cream.” = » » ONLY the day before. Anna Maria Farano Fortin and George had been on the Greek steamship, Nea Hella It was
the climax of a mance that started in the little mountain village of Passiano George was a. GI, and he and his buddies went for a walk. They met a group of children and gave them candy. One little girl -she was nine then caught his eve because of her big eyes and friendly smile. She took his hand and led him up the dusty road to her home. Her family welcomed him and he came often. They . exchanged addresses and he said he'd send for her when she grew up. But he was only ‘kidding. He forgot her. fhe didn't forget the handsome American soldier, however She started writing to him and he answered. They were. married in Passiano last June. = = = HAND IN HAND, they stood at the rail of the Nea Hellas and watched New York harbor. She wanted to know which was Brooklyn, because so many people from Passiano had relatives who lived in Brooklyn. He pointed out the Statue of Liberty and told her that people could walk all the way up to the torch. She still doesn't believe that one.
then 27,
At the dock were George's parents and other relatives, Her big brown eyes darted
about as she stood on the dock. She smiled eagerly, her face lighting up like a Christmas tree. Everything was new, everything was wonderful. They drove through Hoboken, where the ship docked. There was a street that had stores on both sides.
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had. built a dreamworld.
told her he was only-a “Just like Rome,” Nina whis-
pered in an awed voice, They stopped off for coffee at the home of a cousin in Union City, N. J. then drove right to New Bedford All along the road, Nina's eves were glued to
the wonders that flashed past the windows. 2 There were things a girl from Passiano found hard to believe really existed. Wooden a y houses—sheid never seen them NINA'S FAIRYLAND INCLUDES TV — When husband Georges before. - The wide roads—six turned it on, she couldn't bring herself to touch the screen. times the size ‘of Passiano’'s main street, told it was all right, nothing were OK in Passiano, but in And the cars! Only three would happen, but she couldn't New Bedford cars in Passiano, ahd only the bring herself to touch it any- One of the guests was 7richest families have them. how, year-old Barbara Fortin, There was a tear in her eve as She went outside and sat.in George's Brother's daughter. she thought that here she was George's green car with the She's always been a favorite of at last, in the fairyland of her fancy chrome-and-red radiator ‘his and he'd told Nina all about dreams. cap. She wants to learn how her. They hit it off #wnder#00 8 to drive. Chromium on any- fullv-—the little girl followed AND THEN they came to thing fascinated her—she fell her new Aunt Nina everywhere.
the. neat green shingle house in
in love with the dinette set and
George's parents were going
New Bedford's North End. She , its gleaming chrome legs. marketing and asked Barbara marveled at the tall television And everything she saw cap- if she wanted to go. But the aerial, which pulls in programs tivated her. She can speak child wouldn't leave ° Nina. from Boston and Providence, only a few words of English - Nina (laughed, and swept Bays She ran her hand lovingly over mother, father, table but she bara off her feet and swung her —the-glteaming white refrigerator learned how to. say “so nice.” around and kissed her. and gasped a little as she and she said ‘so nice” a thou- ‘So nice bambino.” she said, opened it up .and saw all the sand times. perhaps thinking of her four good’ things inside, na = vounger sisters back home. She pushed the lawn mower NINA likes to make dresses, She'd promised to write first there are not many of those so she noticed the pretty things .thing. but hadn't vet. in Passiano. She tried out the her new aunts and sisters-in- They all asked Nina what red garden swing. She watched law wore. She was dressed in she'd seen &o far that zhe liked the television set work, and, a: nice skirt. and bloyse she best. asked what would happen if bought in Rome. As George “Tute,” said Nina—everyshe touched the screen. George says, “The things she made thing.
NINA'S DREAM WORLD COMES TRUE—Outside his modest frame house in New Bedford, Mass., George Fortin points out the neighborhood to his young Italian bride, Nina, while his mother
watches. It was Nina's first day in U.S.
New Way of Life For Retired Teachers
By FRED ZAVATTERS Times~ Special Carrespondent EATTLE., Oct. .9—1t's called retirement, but it means the same thing—too old to work and too voung to die. More and more school teachers are hearing the words that lead fo a life of loneliness or a back bedroom in some relative’'s home. Teachers in Seattle have one solution for this problem. They built the Ida B. Culver House, a co-operatively owned modern apartment where retired teachers may live comfortably on their small pensions. But Culver House is not an “old ladies” home.” The 36 women who live there are active members in the community with interests that range from child welfare work to playing the stock market. Instead of sitting around in rocking chairs, the ex-teachers
are getting a chance to do things they've always looked forward to. All the members
have felt a “1. was a
psvchological boost, sick, tired old
SONG OF RETIREMENT—After-dinner singing is a favorite pastime at Ida Culver House, Seattle,
woman until I came here,” one
teacher said. “Now I've returned to the university as a student, and 1 feel ten years younger.” Although (‘ulver House has been in operation only about a vear, it's the product of more than 22 vears' effort. In 1928
a small group of teachers, led by Mis Ida B. Culver formed th
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Each teacher in residence pavs £50 a month for food and up.keep of the building: pensions average $100 a month. The house has few restrietions. Each teacher has her own key and may come and go as she pleases. Overnight and dinner guests are welcome; only a small fee is charged.
“It's like a sorority but thev don't lock us out after 10 p. m.,"” one member said.
“We never have arguments,” Miss Myrtle Whitham, president of the house, said. “If there ara disagreements, we settle them in regular monthly open house
meetings.” where retired teachers have found a new way of life in a unique community of their own. To be eligible’ for Culver House, a teacher must have taught in a Seattle schonl at Seattle Educational Auxiliary In 1937, Miss Culver died and some time during her career. to provide a home for teachers left the bulk of her estate to There's a long waiting list. who reach the retirement age 'P® SEA. To finance a new The present residents are womof 60. Dues were set at $ community house, 36 teachers en but men:-are eligible. Two per vear or $25 for a life mem- Paid yor lieume leases oh such applications have Deen re- >* apartments In the building. A ceived from men, but they're bership. . room with private bath cost pretty far down on the list “There's no one lonelier than $3750; with shared bath, $3000. “Might be fun to have a feu i, retired teacher,” prospective R= » men around the place.” one members were warned, “Let's CULVER HOUSE is oper- widowed teacher mused. io something about it." ated by four paid employees. “They're so stimulating.”
+ NATO CHATEAU—Spwered castle that once housed German “occupation troops will now house bachelor officers at SHAPE.
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Aaharaja’s Castle to House Families
GOING UP—Prefabricated walls rise in St, Pictures and Text
By MAX WINTER ST. GERMAIN, France, Oct. 9.--A 46-year-old chateau, once the residence of the Maharaja of Andor, next month will become the nucleus of a village for the officers of 14 North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries,
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AROUND THE Chateau D'Hennemont is being built a modern, pre-fabricated community of éoncrete and brick apartment buildings to house the families of officers on duty at Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's SHAPE headquarters at nearby Roequencourt, * The nine three-story apartment buildings, which will be completedggin November, will he almost liduen in the trees of the Jassbling estate,
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" ue 8 bo 2 LO ee Germain to house families of NATO officers. which at present is owned by the French govern= ment, Right now the spidery steel arms of cranes lifting the pre-fabricated walls into place make a sharp contrast to the old-world atmosphere of the chateau. More than 650 French workmen are on the project. The 263 apartments dre “designed to accammodate families ranging from a married toile to a couple with four children. The NATOvillage wil incude a garage for 400 cars, a kindergarten, shopping facilities and a recreation field. & “4% & IN THE. TOW ERED chateau itself will he an . officers’ club, a reception hall and quarters for 30 bachelor and transient officers, who will aleep in roama where rman officers were billeted. “uring the World, War 11 occupation of France.