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Inside. Indianapolis By Ed Sovola
SATURDAY If you're in the Butler Bowl. watching the Bulldogs ‘take on the Purple Aces of Evansville, notice Don Essig, water boy. Actually, it's a misnomer to call 12-year-old Bullpup Don a water boy, He's really an ice boy, an ammonia water. boy, Butler football players never drink water during the game. That's right. Don't be fooled should you see Don or Trainer Jim Morris run out on the field with a bucket and bottles. The water is flavored with ammonia. A man would have to be awful thirsty to let a swig go past His tonsils, which is exactly what Trainer Morris guards against. | He claims, despite friendly howls to the contrary coming from the bench, that no football player ever died of thirst during a game. He has
seen players get waterlogged. Perfect condition for a fine bellyache.
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WHEN DON hands a water bottle to a panting Bulldog, he steps back. The contents are used to cleanse the mouth of that cottony feeling. Just as soon as the bottle is handed back and the spray hits the grass, Don moves in with a small piece of fice. . Now you see why Don shouldn't have “Water Boy’' stenciled on his T-shirt? The School 70 lad peddles ice. But what he totes isn't important to
PAUSE THAT GAGS—Bulldogs Frank Speckman (left) and Mike Marmion grab a bottle ‘of gargle water from Bullpup Don Essig.. Players don't drink during a game.
It Hap By Earl Wilson
NEW YORK, Oct. 25--For about three weeks now, I've been going without a wateh. I may never carry one again. , : It’s not that I have anything against watches. Watches have something against me. (And.not just watches, but that's another story.) “Earl, we want fo present you with a lovely watch,” somebody says. Three weeks later it's gone on strike. A watch will leap right out of my pocket and commit suicide. Not long ago 1 was very bright on a radio program (I was able to give my name without prompting) and won a Swiss watch. ho Nn ONE DAY the winder got gtuck. I took it to a jeweler. He couldn't even get the back off of it. “You'll have to take this back to Switzerland,” he zaid. . “I don't think I can get away right now,” I told him. : Finally I told the donors to take the watch back. They said they'd give me another one. I1often wonder if they didn’t give me the same one. The second one quit, too. “To heck with it, I'll just wonder what time it is,” I said. o o oe THEN Frank Palumbo, the Philadelphia night club man, gave me a roulette watch—the kind you can gamble with. The funny thing about thiswatch was that it also Kept time. As 1 was hanging my ‘pants up pne night. it said farewell and leaped out of my pants pocket. The -Beauliful. Wife whs going fo get if fixed, the next day. - . ? That was in 1947, Last Christmas a charity organization for which I'd done a really trifling fayor, gave me one of the finest watches made.
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I WORE it ‘on my round-the-world trip. The watch quit the second day. 2 It made the trip full of fun. though. because when I was in Japan ‘and China, I not only didn’t know what péople were saying; I didn't know what time it was, Talk about the Mysterious East.
How I envy men who are compatible with
Americana By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Oct. 25—The old ensign: looked at the football crowds and scowled. The old ensign was wearing faded khakis from the last war. The college boys were wearing snappy sports jackets and bright plaid pants, “Look at me,” the old ensign said disgustedly, “playing sailor again after six ~ vears. I'm too old to play war and I am for sure too damned Hid to be an ensign in the Coast Guard when a bunch of punks are being exempted by the draft boards all over the country while they put the arm on the tired old graduates to go back to service again.” The old ensign volunteered in 1942, leaving a wife and two kids to gq into the service as an apprentice seaman, although he is a college graduate and might have sweated out a commission if he hadn't been overanxious, : He worked his way up several grades, and finally made a commission in 1944. Then the war ended in 1945 and the ensign went back to wife, kids and interrupted business. dN “I FIGURED I was out,” he said. “The Coast Guard didn't say anything to me about reserves, organized or otherwise, and I never had a line from them in six years. I am doing pretty good with my contracting business, making 10, 12 thousand a year. Got swell kids. Oldest girl's in junior high now; the other will be there next year. I find that three women in the house are expensive. “gp all of a sudden comes the little note and, bless gawd, here is Buster, fractured mad and far from home. Had:to close down the business, and I'm living off savings, because, believe me, chum, you can't make it on $260-something base pay--not when you got a wife who likes nice things and two nearly grown kids. : “1 am real sore. Among other things it is not dignified to be a damned ensign at my creaky old years. And I sure get no enthusiasm for the gervice when a lot & Palnks run around loose.” THE MAIN POINT of the old ensign's beef is that he has given his fair white body to Uncle Sam once, in a real war, and he does not see
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Don. He'd carry cannon balls if he were asked to, The fact that he can mingle with the players of his beloved Butler, cheer for them in victory, cheer for them in defeat, is important. This is “Don’s second year as ice boy. Sorry, water boy. I'm still surprised at this ice and ammonia water discovery. Don stumbled into the job by accident. "He was in the “Hardwood Gang” section of the Fieldhouse during an Olympian game when he heard a water boy was sorely needed. He volunteered his services. LE EE DON MET Trainer Morris, Equipment Manager Charlie McEifresh, Coach Tony Hinkle. He began to show up for Butler basketball games. An eager, fast, bright and polite boy can find plenty to do around an athletic department. From basketball, which Don loves as much as football, he drifted with his bucket and bottles and towels on the baseball diamond. Baseball, incidentally, is Don’s first love. And he's a baseball player of distinction himself. Last year as pitcher of the City Champion Broad Ripple Legion Juniors, Don received the George Lilly Award given to the most valuable player in the playoffs. ‘Two years ago Don answered the call for the opening football practice. He was expected. Today, in the opinion of Charlie McElfresh and Jim Morris, Don is indispensible. Locker room talk leads one to believe will grow up to be a great basketball player for Butler, a star on the baseball team and captain and lowest sheoter on the golf team. Don shoots
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= * le Ee eg YOU ASK Don about football. He shakes his burr head and tells you he doubts very much whether he'll play football. “I'm too little for football,” is Don's explanation. Five years on blackstrap molasses and yogurt and he'll be ready. “Iron Man Essig” will be his name. Saturday Don will report to Charlie at 8:30 in the morning. He'll check the air in the practice footballs, pass out coffee to the coaches, ‘see that the necessary equipment is packed in bags to go out on the fleld, get his buckets, towels, ice ready and watch Jim mix that ammonia wafer. On football days Don is usually late for sup-
, per. Equipment has to be sorted and put away.
After all, you can’t guard the stuff all day and not complete the job after the game is over. » 2 * “>
I ASKED Don if he talks to the plaffers when he runs out on the field. No. The lad speaks when he is spoken to during the game. He fills the hand that reaches for a piece of ice or ammonia water. He has a head on his shoulders. Another oné of his responsibilities is to retrieve the kickoff tee from midfield after a Kick. Invaluable man to have around. More so because he gets such a thrill out of being water boy. Watch this Bullpup go Saturday. Watch and remember, because in about seven or eight years, he's going to be a Bulldog. He will if he eats his blackstrap and yogurt. Ammonia water is an excellent chaser. .
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Watches and Earl Just Don’t Tick
watches. And don’t think this is a hint for somebody to give me a watch. . My house is choked with old watches now. Whoever gives me a watch must give me repair money, too. That, nobody can afford. “deb THE MIDNIGHT EARL . . . It's surprising how many N'Yorkers think Eleanor Holm and Billy Rose—despite threatened legal action-—will reconcile again. Josephine Baker wants to bring a smart Folies Bergere-type show into some swank NY cafe. Movie Star John Payne had a little bouncer trouble at Red's bar on 3d Ave. . . . Who remembers when Joe DiMaggio and ex-wife Dorothy Arnold were going to get remarried right after the baseball season? B'WAY BULLETINS: Leland Hayward, who criticized movies on the radio, was added to RKO Theaters board of directors. . . . J Justice Stanley Reed, his health improved, won't quit the bench after all.
0 db GOOD HUMOR MAN: A great actor, star of a new
show, got temperamental. They rushed his understudy in. He got quickly untemperamental. . . « A newsphoto service and a movie office expect shakeups.
. + « Herb Shriner, the new Will Rogers, —is being snared for literature by Doubleday.
. + Judy Johnson's the Sid Caesar singer... .- Roz Russell. and Van Johnson, without
“Judy Johnson
their Tate s-Who a Fe ROM R-Hol Wood, Were at.
El Morocco with friends, but nobody suspected
a thing. oe o> “ WISH I'D SAID THAT: “Chivalryv's what makes a man . . . at risk of life and limb . . .
defend a lady's honor from . . . all other wolves but him.” —Polly Trotter. de EARLS PEARLS: An alcoholic, reports the Copacabana's Joe E. Lewis, is a gent who drinks between drinks. “ bb 5 A B'WAY COLUMNIST, like charity, covers a multitude of sins. . . . That's Earl, brother.
How About Lifting ‘Halo’ of Collegians?
why he has to give it the second time when the nation’s bulging with brash young talent that has not even offered itself once. I am with him all the way, and I resent“deeply that crack Draft Director Lewis Hershey made about “taking the halo off fatherhood.” Before we remove the halo from the fathers, and start wholesale inroads into the ranks of the retreads, let us yank the halo off the college boys. Their education is no single snitch more impertant than the literal wreckage of the life of family men who have already done more than their bit. It is estimated that about 90 per cent of the draft boards are deferring students who pass the college deferment tests—largely, Gen. Hershey says, “becuse of the tremendous pressure of the higher education lobbies.” ~The colleges, it seems, built up tremendous enrollments in the post-war, greatly expanded staffs and facilities, and want to keep their student bodies at inflated peak.
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I THINK it is little short of criminal to use the college boy as a selfish gimmick at the expense of men like the old ensign; men who lucked out a war, came back alive, and worked hard to reform his life and prepare a future for his family. Yet these men—not willful menibers of an organized reserve or a National Guard -- have earned a right to some peace and prosperity unless the nation actually embarks on an all-out war.
Universal military training, had it not been juggled - so handily as a political issue, would have resolved many of the inequities of military service that have arisen lately, and especially the loose administration of the draft laws, which seem to fluctuate entirely according to Gen. Hershey’'s flighty fancy. I also challenge the right of the Navy and Coast Guard to drag back their unwilling alumni
on the technicality- that they were never dis-
charged, only deactivated. Most men who got out of those services were under the impression that they were through with uniforms forever. Being a willing member of an organized reserye is one thing, but being subject to arbitrary call after one stint of service is.as unjust as enwing the college man with a cloak of immunity Jom service at the expense of the weary old re-
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Cracks in the Kremlin Wall—
Soviet Army Is Slow,
CHAPTER FOUR’
/ By EDWARD
CRANKSHAW
THE QUALITY and fighting power of the Soviet divisions’ are extremely mixed.: The real strength of the Soviet army as an attacking force is not, as most people seem to think, in its foot
soldiers, but in its tanks and artillery, including special rocket devices of the Katusha kind.
There are a great many tanks of the kind used during the last war, the medium T-34s, some of them equipped with new and bigger guns. In addition, there are a number of heavy Joseph Stalin IITs, which strike terror into the hearts of Western commentators. But these are of little use in a break-through, since they can carry only a very
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their 122 mm. guns. The Soviet supply system is such that what a tank does not carry itself it is unlikely to get when mest wanted.
These Joseph Stalin IIIs are first class in defense or in a glow, grinding advance. But we are not invited to consider the Soviet army in defense. What we are asked to consider is a head-long rush through Europe. There is only one way of carrying out a fast-moving attack, and that is by the use of fast-moving troops, perfectly co-ordinated. Thus, if such an attack is what we "expect, we must rule out of the critical action at least two-thirds of the Soviet army as it now is, which reduces its numbers to more manageable proportions. The great mass of the Soviet infantry is quite incapable of taking part in a blitzkrieg. Even those infantry divisions which are said to be mechanized do not zs a rule allocate motor
NOTE: Mr. Crankshaw is a British historian and editor who has studied Saviet Russia for many years. This is the fourth of a series of 12 most hopeful articles from his hook, “Cracks in the Kremlin Wall,” just published by Viking Press.
transport permanently to regiments and battalions, as -in Western armies. Instéad, they keep the trans-
port. inioa; divistonal-pook; withs-
its own company of drivers. This is due not only to the shortage of motor vehicles but algo to the fact that in the average Soviet infantry battalion there are very few men capable of the simple care and maintenance of motor vehicles. For the rest, the infantry rely mainly on horse-drawn transport. The columns on the move, straggling over the countryside with their little wooden carts like large pig troughs on spidery wheels, are, apart from the armament of the soldiers, indistinguishable in appearance and scarcely distinguishable in character from their ancestors of the Napoleonic Wars. In connection with motor transport, it should be added that the supply of trucks and other motor vehicles from America was far and away the most Important item in the military aid to Russia provided by the Western Allies. At the time of the Stalingrad envelop-
They Can't Fight Back—
‘Pirates’ Prey On Parisian Designers
By ROSETTE HARGROVE
Times Special Writer
ARIS—With a vo-ho-ho and a bottle of indelible ink, the fashion pirates are making life miserable for
Parisian dress designers.
virtually powerless to fight Twice a vear in the winter and summer--the big French houses hold showings to introduce their new creations. And twice a year they find these supposedly exclusive designs somehow have got out. A few days after the showings, they are on the market in Rome and
London and Stockholm and New York. How’ It's the work of
methodical, well-organized fashion pirates, the Parisian couturiers. One of the gang--called an “observer’’ attends a showing. He or she gets in in the guise of a fashion reporter or a prospective purchaser or a member of the staff of a legitimate buyer.
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rates do try to make sketches. But the real pros don't need to do that. Trey have amazing memories. They watch, each model carefully, note each detail with a practiced eye, if possible examine the creation close up. All the while, they are continuing their act. But once the showing is” over, they rush to their hotel room and put everything down. They reproduce the model in careful skeches. They write down every detail with painstaking care and phenomenal accuracy.
Sometimes, they telephone their reports—using codes—to their headquarters. Others
don’t trust the phone or the mail; they hop a plane and take their information to the head-
quarters personally. = = ®
IT'S A SIMPLE job for talented s pattern makers and seamstresses to whip up a copy
And the fashion industry is
back. of the creation from the ob server's reports and sketches.
And, in a few days, the dress that a Parisian couturier took months and thousands of francs to create is on the racks of department stores all over the world—selling as a “Paris original . To combat the pirates, the French designers have done everything possihle. They've screened their invitations to showings, to try to keep observers out. They've employed detectives to watch for people making even the smallest note. They make prospective buyers put down a deposit, deducted from eventual purchases. But nothing works. If the pirates can't gain ac-
cess to' the showings, they try.
other tactics. They bribe lowpaid employees of the fashion houses, Betting possession of the ~Meren pattern (called, 3a “toile”) of the original. Sometimés there is leakage of information from fashion artists or from the small artisan who executes embroidery details on certain models.
» » "x BUT» BY AND LARGE, it is the “observer” technique that is the most troublesome to the designers. Once the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture—the organization of leading Parisian couturiers—got a red hot tip on a pirate den. The group's representative and a policeman raided the place. But the gang was evidently warned. The two raiders were stalled for 30 minutes in an elevator in the building. When they finally reached the suspect apartment, it was empty, Later, the organization learned that every telltale scrap and sketch was swept through a, communicating door to the next building
‘I Need A Lawyer'—
Legal Assistance Is N
By NOBLE REED
‘MY HUSBAND gets drunk and won't support us...
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around with other men and
neglecting the children. . . . I want a divorce.”
“We are being evicted we do? “How can we get a GI loan .«iau service allotments and benefits?” “They're fogeclos ing our mortgage . . . what can we do?" Thése are just a few of people’s troubles that pour into the offices of the Legal Aid Society, 106 E. Market St., every day. They are the legal problems of hundreds of Indianapolis residents who can’t afford to hire lawyers to help them protect their personal rights.
» n » DURING the 10 years the Society has been operating as a charitable institution, cases involving legal action over family troubles led all the rest. Law suits handled on family conflicts, including divorce’ decrees amd non-support actions, reached their peak back in 1945 and 1946 when the coming home from the armed services. ’
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RUNNING a close second place in people's legal troubles are the hundreds of law suils involving all kinds of conflicts between landlords and tenants evictions and rental disputes These housing troubles reached their peak in 1946 when the society handled 501 land-lord-tenant cases, It was the only year since the Society was started in 1941 that RQousing + cases exceeded family disputes.
5 = ~ “ RENTAL disputes dropped every vear since until 1950 when there were only 138 Cases. But legal actions over family disputes have continued at a high rate with 318 cases last year after a start of only 72 back in 1941. - These domestic relations cases jumped to 144 ‘the next year, subsided to R84 in 1943 when husbands went to the armed services. But the next year, 1944, family disputes jumped to 360 and
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ment it nay, indeed, have been a decisive item. Further, as recently as 1947,
among all the milifary transport which was still on the roads, I myself did not see one single truck, apart from a handful of dilapidated pre-war vans, which was not either American or British or captured German. The spares for these must now be running low. Ld ” = WHEN SUPPLIFS are brought up to the Russian lines they do not come in response
LEGITIMATE SPECTATORS—Movie actress Irene Dunne (second from left) watches a showing in the
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to elaborate indents from jndividual units and- formations. The base simply sends up what it has in the way of. stores in the general direction of .the front, Convoys are intercepted and broken up and individual trucks directed to those unitd which seem to need the stores most urgently. When a Russian soldier goes away io war, he simply goes. That is the end of him as far as his family is concerned, unless once in a
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while he gets a le'tter through, or until he turns up on leave, or until one of his comrades turns up to say that he is missing or dead. This may be a great advantage in a- long slogging cam=paign. But we are asked to envisage a sharp, overwhelming advance. And the very qualities which make the mass of the Soviet army so Tormidable in a slugging match grise from the primitive nature of the average Russian infantryman. He is a peasant. which is the last thing required in fastmoving warfare. This means, in either the Soviet army, in attack, may be used as .a slowe moving horde, designed to ine crush the apposition by sheer weight of numbers or its armored spearheads may be used, largely unsupported, for swift-moving enveloping movements,
effect, that
” x a IN THE FIRST contingenev the horde may be cut to pieces ¥¥ a numerically far inferior mechanized force, cooly handled and fighting with boldness and resolution. In the second contingency the Soviet army loses in the critical phases of the battle its tremendous advantage of sheer size. In both contingencies the actual disparity between the Russians and the forces arrayed against them is seen to be misleading. It is worth emphasizing in this connection that during the last war the Soviet generals were ‘reluctant to mount an attack until they were assured of .
a local superiority of six to one,
(Copyright. 1951, by Edward Crank<shaw, Distributed by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.:
NENT — Stalin's War. Against the Peasants.
salon of Paris designer Molyneux. But sometimes "observers for fashion pirates get in.
while the raiders were trapped in the elevator, More successful was leading
designer Christian Dior. He spotted a man at his showing - making reugh sketches. Dior himself grabbed the observer and turned him over to authorities, who took his passport away -the man was .an Italian -and turned him loose. He made his way back across to Italy on foot and has never been in Paris since. But most of the pirates are too smart to be spotted so easily. There is big money in the racket--some say it runs to millions of dollars annually—and it pays to be careful. ®
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Ways and means to stop the piratical practice are constantly discussed in Paris. people advocate barring reporters, photographers and fashion artists from the two big yearly showings. Others say the models should be run through at a swifter pace, so
Some
"the observers can't have time to
absorb all the details. But this has been tried without too much luck
~ = = THE ULTIMATE solution, most designers feel, is some method of copyrighting or registering designs. They think that they should be protected from plagiarists as much as a songwriter or an inventor.
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WHAT'S YOUR TROUBLE?>—William Traylor, attorney at Legal Aid Society office, listens to the troubles of hundreds or people every year, helps them through legal obstacles and defends them in court.
in 1945 they reached a high of
‘ 471, the first year of Army dis-
charges. ” ” »
MANY of the cases that year involved' charges by husbands that they came home and found
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their wives had beén unfaithful ... and wives who learned that: their husbands had been “stepping out” or didn’t. care for them any more. Family legal actions, especlally divorce, are never under-
Meanwhile, Parisian designers are suffering, Private
buyers don’t attend showings in the numbers they once did, because they have no protection, that the original they buy won't show up as a $7.98 model two weeks after they spend $250 or more for it. Overseas buyers ‘don't come, because they'll see the same models at home in a short time—and cheaper. { So the Parisian’ couturiers worry and some go out of business. Those who are left are just hoping for something to come along, something that will make the fashion pirates walk the’ plank.
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taken by the Society unless the cases have been referred to the office hy some social agency.
William Traylor, full-time attorney in the Legal Aid office, said the Society doesn't help set divorces for indigent couples just because they happen toi want one.” “We act only when the best interests of society are served.” ” n 3 RANKING third among people's troubles requiring legal aid are actions involving debts and contracts (installment buy=ing! These reached their peak dur ing 1949 and 1950 when families in the low income brackets over-reached their pocketbooks and got into trouble on delinquent payments. Contract and debt cases in which the Society had to provide free legal advice and appearances in court totaled 259 in 1949 and.247 last year. All cases handled have avers aged about 1000 a year, reaching 1664 in 1946. A The Society is financed jointly by the Community Chest, dianapolis Foundation and
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