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Inside’ Indianapolis By Ed Sovola

By SHOULD a new father of modest means pass out cigarsgithen a “personalized” box costs $4.40? The question has bothegpd me off and on for

=fbveral years. Recently it came to. a head. -A

young fellow, proud as a peacock wearing sequin spats, stepped up and handed me a cigar, “It's a boy,” he said. The ’ cigar-also announced the sex of the newcomer. Cigars have never heen a satisfactory way of using tobatco. Cigarets, my own brand, other people's, offered more pleasure, Even corn gilk is preferable to a cigar, Because the father was so confounded happy, thoughts that could have been words in an instant, died. Congratulations were ~Qffered and the usual Kidding took place.

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NOW WHY DIDN'T he spend the money on diapers or a blanket or- Pablum? And I'm sure there are other articles that are equally as imI can't think of them .at the moment.

Why spend a few bucks on a luxury item that a good percentage of men will smoke simply because it is free?” There was an answer and I was going to find it. At a drug store I.asked for a box of cigars with “It's a.boy” printed on the cellophane. The man behind the counter smiled and paused. “A boy, eh? It's fine to have a son congratulations.” he said.’ Then he produced the box of cigars and began wrapping it.

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fine wav to show your friends

“THIS is 2 oo. Kveryone all right? he

how happy you asked, All this time I'm smiling and feeling pretty good. No particular reason for feeling that way. What's the pitch? “Yes, everyone is fine.” “Is this the first?” “Yep, the first.” “As long as they're healthy, that's all that counts. The first is always the biggest thri}l.

Good luck to you. The short distance to the Circle was covered

in a bit of a quandry. I_ felt sorry that the

are,

It Hap

By Earl ‘ilson ‘

NEW YORK, Oct. 30—1If you like vaudeville if vou can remember vaudeville—you probably have your favorites. “Who's the greatest single entertainer today?

was my slightly loaded question as I undertook to start an ‘argument. “To my mind, Danny Kaye The man who stuck his neck out with that answer was Georgie Price. A great entertainer himself, he’s president of the American Guild of Variety Artists. “Al Jolson was the all-time greatest,’ continued Price, “put I'd have to leave him off my All-Star Vaudeville Team.’ “Ieave Jolie off!” I couldn't

believe it. ae

WE WERE ON this frivolous subject because Judy Garlands such a hit at the Palace two-a-day. And because “Show Biz, a new book bv -Abel Green and Joe Laurie Jr, has people reminiscing. “Jolson was a big hit, but not a great vaudeville star—he never played the Palace—his big success was later? Then 1 extracted his personal “greatests” vaudeville. You'll probably disagree with him. “The greatest 15-minute single act was Will Mahoney's.” Price said. “The punching bag dance, and dancing on the xylophone.” > SN

Kaye

Danny

DANCER: eorge White, later the producer. Single woman: Nora Bayes, Monologist Frank. . Fogarty, who became a Brooklyn politician, All round performer: James Barton.

Sister Team: The Aber Twins. Acrobats: The ‘Seven Abdullahs. ° > = Comedy Team: Dooley and Sales, Comedy Sketch: Edgar Atchison Ely (losing his fm] <&

teeth overboard while proposing: marriage). Comedy Juggler: W. C. Fields. Comedy Act: Imhoff, Conne and Corrine’s ‘Nuthouse.” Dra-

matic Sketch: George Beban’'s “The Sign of the Rose," in which he made “Helo-0-0-0 Rosa” famous. (Frankly, chums, T was still out in the corn

country in the Middlewest when vaudeville was strong, and I never knew most of these acts except by rumor.) >

OH YES, and the greatest Negro Performers: Single comedian: Bert Williams, Comedy Team: Moss and Frve doing “How High Is Up?” Dancing: Not Bill Robinson (‘whose greatness

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‘Americana

By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Oct. 30—Tt is with heavy intent

of prejulicing all witnesses that I venture the.

hope that Mr. Serge Rubinstein, an unsavory type if there ever was one, will be kicked out of the country by the immigration lads who are

now considering applying the bounce. I can get real loose in the language when 1 consider Serge, because he is not the lad to go to court to get you. Courts come to him, as do jails, and all he has is money and guile to stand them off. Rubenstein is the delightful kind of international financier type who once had himself ruled a love child—although I had a stronger word in mind--to pick up a phony citizenship, which has later been denied by the Portugese, Rubinstein seems to me to he a mirror of the international conscience today. He makes me sore when 1 even think of him. This is the classic spoiler, the boy you would love tn have in the family if your name was Ma Barker and your address was Murder, Inc.

>» B IN THE LAST WAR he bought himself ahout

ppened Last Night

Brisson,

‘up into two.”

Help Proud Pop Bo Enjoy His Pay

imaginary pride wasn't lasting. Personal selfish-

ness of the moment prevepted: truth from coming . .

out. Why spoil the salesmar’s fun? More than that, why spoil your own? “nn . ON THE CIRCLE the box of cigars opened and anyone, man or woman, who whnted one, could ‘have a ¢igar. They were all gone in 15 minutes. . : Most women refused a

was

cigar. Two congrat-

ulated me, said they would take the cigar home

their husbands; one woman, went a little farther. She was delighted, happy for ne, wanted to kmow when the event took place, how the mother was and what the baby's name was, This prevarjcator had to do some fast talking. Several male pedestrians turned their noses up at the cigars. “It's a boy” was of no interest to them. Perhaps they had four or five at home, Maybe their corns hurt. |

THERE WERE men who eagerly took a cigar pecause it was free and a “thank you’ was the extent of their appreciation. The real charge came when a perfect stranger shook your hand, took the cigar and enthusiasticaTly offered congratulations. I had two men decline a cigar and say that it ought to be given to someone who smokes stogies. In each case, a compliment wag paid.

When the box was empty, there is no use denying it, I was up in the clouds. [That was one time an experiment, a study of a question,

produced results that weren't even contemplated.

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FROM THIS DAY forward, when a cigar with a blue or pink bow is handed me, I will. take it and be doubly glad for the giver. It's his moment of luxury. which he wants to share with the world and how small some of our worlds are. Passing out cigars is one way of crowing about the most important addition to society. A new father is entitled to that. Life can be

sweet. How sweef it must be to see a part of vou begin. : “It's a boy.” has a pleasant, strong, proud ring to it, don’t you agree?

1 hang my head in shame,

Georgie Price Picks Top 10 Vaudevillians

was his sensational personality and lovableness™) but the Nicholas Brothers. “The greatest freak headline attraction’ added, “I'd say was Thomas A, Edison.” “Edison in vaudeville!" I said. “Yep. I was with him Orpheum, in Minneapolis. “He demonstrated how a talking picture " could be made. There was never such a demand for tickets. The demonstration was a flop, though. The equipment kept breaking down.” i a» .

2. Price

In 1913, at the

“WHERE DO you put il.ion Berle?” * “He was a kid with these people, though great. He's the greatest comic master of ceremonies ever.” Price had left off Smith & Dale, Victor Moore, Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Lou Holtz and Bill Gax-

ton. .the Duncan Sisters, Ethel Barrymore, the Marx Brothers and McIntyre and Heath. “What about Judy Garland?” I asked. “1 haven't seen her.’ confessed Price, “but I'd

say she's the greatest star who's ever worked her way up from Hollywood to vaudeville.” o - oo THE MIDNIGHT EARL: Ted Williams fully expects to be traded to the Yanks to replace DiMag as crowd-puller. NY may swap Bauer. Jensen, Coleman, Morgan and Silvera for him. “fe GOOD RUMOR MAN: Bellytosser Samia Gamal's agent, Jerry Rosen, gets her $3500 a week in a Pittsburgh cafe. . .. Betty Lorraine, hoofs in the new Versailles show.’ : oe < oe R'WAY BULLETINS: Carl Betty Lorraine the Serutan Set's ‘Sinatra, was at his . Eddie Foy went Grossinger's

greatest at his Plaza opening. back to .the hospital. . Jennie recovering from surgery.

FARL'S PEARLS: A bachelor is a guy, tends Henny Youngman, who has no ties except those that alwavs look like they need pressing.

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WISH I'D SAID THAT:

con-

“Everybody always

said money wasn’t important—but it took taxes to prove it."—Fred F. Finkelhoffe. “ - &

MARIO LANZA's great weight inspired Jack Carter to say, “He's Caruso, Gigli and Pinza rolled + + +» That's Earl, brother,

Serge Rubenstein Should Be Bounced

financiers who know him, but the trouble with his particular kind of talent was “that he always used it negatively to wreck what he touched. We have ruled the guy elegible for deportation, but the problem is where to send him. where he was born, doesn't want any part of him. I am sure Japan has had him, and Canada, and

Europe. I suppose one of the less savory banana republics might receive him, since they are inured to the idea of providing sanctuary to outcasts, and he might even fit the scheme in Argentina today.

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1951 8

Cracks in the Kremlin Wall—

CHAPTER EIGHT EE in NOTE: Mr. Crankshaw is a By EDWARD CRANKSHAW British historian and editor THE SOVIET govern- whe has studied Soviet Russia ment has not concealed for many years. the existence of forced This is the eighth of a series : . of 12 articles from his book, labor. It hides its extent “Cracks in the Kremlin Wall," and the conditions under which Just published by Ying Prey it is carried out, There have - - been frequent references in the the GPU (now MVD), which

Soviet press to good work done by prisoners, Mr. Molotov himself was explicit onthe subject in the '30's, when the question of importing Russian timber cut by slave lahor was raised by the British government, The nature of the Bolshevik dictatorship, the nature of the Russian people, the peculiarities

of Russian geography, the hostile isolation of the Soviet Union, and the Russian tradition of arbitrary violence--all these helped develop forced: labor to its present monstrous proportions, The disillusioned bread- and

land-seeking masses had to be terrorized and coerced. The industrialization had to be forced through at a breakneck pace while corn needed tn feed the people was exported to buy machines. : Everyone who stood in the way of the forced rationalization of the Soviet economy had to be removed, ” n n MOREOVER, new areas had to be opened up for gold and other metals. Great construction projects had to be carried

out in areas where -nobodv would go to live of his own accord. even for high pav.

The™winters in these regions are’'the coldest in the world, In summer the ice N= Just below the surface under a sweltering sun t thousands of a desolation

at turns

square miles into of bogland * The

carry

organization these projects

Work to Win—

obvious out

was

F arm Boy Shows Opportunity St

thus developed a vested interest in prison labor. ; Who is to tell how many prisoners are taken for reasons of security, how many to make an example of idle workers how many because the MVD projects needs them? And who can possibly deny that the whole nightmare has become the total embodiment of Soviet muddle, improvisation, hand-to-mouth opportunism, defeating its own purpose and at the same time making it impossibly hard to end? »

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THE DELEGATE of the American Federation of Lahor to the United Nations Economic and Social Council produced in 1950 a photostat document giving guidance to the MVD in the Baltic States and listing as persons to be arrested and removed to forced labor in Russia

the following categories of people: Persons who have occupied

prominent positions in the civil or communal service. Prominent members anti-Communist parties: Social Democrats, libérals, Small farmers. Active members

of the

of Jewish,

\ Bund and Zionist organizations,

Mystics, such as Freemasons and Theosophists. Industrialists, wholesale merchants, owners of large houses, shipowners, owners of hotels and restaurants. Persons who have been in the

Times. Specia

T. PAU L, Minn.,

Oct. 30— Bill Copeder. an 18-year-old

Minnesota farm boy, is one of 1951's top examples of

what young men can do if pride in fine workmanship.

A few months ag e gradated from St. Paut"%ocational School. Now he's an apprentice

in the tool and die department of a precision instrument factory. Some day he may become an engineer. The big milestone in his life sp far, however, was winning one of the year’s nine Industrial Arts outstanding achievement awards in competition with high school students all over the U., S. He earned it by a combination of old-fashoined pride in good workmanship and new-fangied scientific teaching methods. Son of a Swiss dairy farmer, Bill is a quiet,’ decided to become a machinist by the time he completed grade school in Edgerton, just outside St. Paul, in 1946. = » =

AFTER A YEAR of regular

high school, his 'vocatisnal aptitude tests show he Was ideally suited for the trade he

wanted to make his future. He enrolled in St. Paul Vocational. That year his dad brought him a good metal lathe for Christmas. Bill started right in repairing farm implement parts, his father recalls.

St. Paul Vocational makes a point of appraising students’ needs as an.individual while they ready for a.real job

. That means courses ‘Mich ‘students make somereal that fits into a practtern for future work. Amachine’ shop and and. die classes, Biil got acquainted with lathes, planers, shapers, surface grinders, drill presses, filers, vertical milling machines, and all the tools and gauges which are the heart of his trade.

slender boy who -

they are encouraged to take

After the first vear, he was recommended for transfer to the tool and die maker class as part of the select group of young men most likely to succeed in that difficult field. E = a : HIS NEW TEACHER was David E. Geske. who graduated in 1929 from the same classroom. Geske came back to St. Paul in 1941 as a faculty member, and now is rated by Principal A. C. Taylor as a teacher who can get the most out of his students. Bill's Industrial Arts Award, which’ he received last month at Dearborn from Ford Motor Co., sponsors of the program for the past two yearsd is the

result both of Geske's inspira-

tion and ‘Bill's own work. In the 1950 Industrial Award program, Gesk?® had his first outstanding achievement award winner, an ex-GI named Clinton Lightfoot, who with a set of plastic injection molds for pencil heads. When Geske flew to Dearnborn with Lightfoot, the teacher pocketgs the®*plastic salt and pepper shakers on the pYane's dinner tray. That build-up award. thought to .produce those tiny Bill said he could. = ; ~ s MAKING A PLASTIC injection mold is probably the most difficult project undertaken in the ‘tool and die course, but Bill's work was good enough to bring him top honors at Dearborn this year, along with such other complicated entries as a rotor discharge casing, an' antique ma-

was the start of the for Bill' Capeder’s Geske asked Bill if he he could build a mold shakers.

High Pressure Football—No. 2—

Kentucky Alumni Put On The Pressure

By HARRY GRAYSON

Times Special Writer

EXINGTON, Ky.,

Oct. 30—Kentucky is a land of fast

horses and beautiful women. Add football and basketball to the speed department.

> > & MY IDEA of deportation procedure would be simple. You would put theold draft-dodger in rr Dr. Frank L. McVey, boat, take him outside the eight-mile Jimit, an A after having heen presi . . va 4 "ad : ent of the University of Kenfind out how well he could swim. This would not tucky for 20-0dd years. Cur

be as brutal as it sounds, since he would undoubtedly have a fix in on the sharks, and a tidy black-market rescue rig standing by.. Probably provided by the RFC. As it is we will probably keep old Serge, free on bond, free to operate, free to foul the air we breathe, because with his dough and easy ap-

—15_draft deferments, and finally went ta jall-— proach to buyable folk, he can go forever on

_ after, of coursex the shootin’ was over.

By money and influence he repeatedly ducked a serious charge of stock-rigging, in the ripe case of the Taylorcraft Corp., and by some miracle of justice was acquitted. To thé best of my knowledge nobody has had at him on income-tax evasion, but that, too, is a minor miracle of oversight. :

Rubinstein used the White House extensively during the war as a gimmick for his dubious

- businesses, according to the photostatic copies of

invitations I keep in my files to comfort me when I am feeling low. He has operated on high levels for low purpose, always, and to:me is symbolic of the filthiness of our times.

> + RUBINSTEIN has ever heen a genius at cor- ‘ ruption—corruption in Japan, corruption in

Canada, his port of entry to the states, sori. tion here, Hels» gus, tos, according 19 the

appeals, through court after court. His trial in the Taylorcraft thing was years in the building, and he ducked the entire dangerous war on repeated deferments,

IF YOU WONDER why I got so wrought up about a guy that I once staged a one-man demonstration to keep him in jail, it is simply this: I knew a nfce gent who caught one down the stack at Salerno at a time when this illegal foreigner, Rubinstein, had just rigged a fresh draft deferment through pull, lies and possibly bribery. Rubinstein affronts every shred of decency in the ordinary American, and besides he isn’t our

boy, but an undesirable import. In the days of

by shooting him; but that's illegal now isn't worth going to jail for. The best thing we can do is lose him, I.ose him fast, or let us thef begin to speculate out loud as to just who is. Interested. in keeping the rascal here. | ' .

the old West somebody would settle him fae and he

iously old-fashioned, McVey helieved that the autumn assault and battery should be treated like any other extra-curricular activity, say the Glee Club.

The result was that while the University of Kentucky was a member in good standing of the swift Southeastern Conference, it really played in an entirely different and much slower league.

Meanwhile Baron Adolph Rupp had come from Kansas bringing with him the finest college basketball 2 the country. The shooting Wildcats won the National Collegiate Athletic Association and National Invitatfon Tournaments and

somethihg like 12 straight con-

ference titles. ¢« This gave Kentucky alumni and friends the football urge. , Dr. Herman 4. Donovan, the new president, came from Kast ern State Teachers of Richmond, Ky. He had been a class~ mate of Guy Huguelet, pref -

strictly

academic, retired in

dent of Board of

Trustees,

Kentucky's

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BASKETBALL, TAUGHT Kentucky that it. pays to advertise, something H uguelet knew in the first place. A basketball coliseum, across. the street from Stoll Field, accommodating 12,000 and costing more than $4 million completed in May, 1950. Losing football was not regarded by Huguelet as morale building, He had a warm ally in Donovan. Both believed that Kentucky was richly entitled to a football team measuring yp to its size and position in the scholastic scheme.

With Huguelet Kicking in $10,000, a fund-ra#sing campaign in the winter of‘ 1945

grossed more than $100,000. Paul (Bear) Bryant was brought on from ‘Maryland as head

coach, Kentucky was in high<

pressur» football with hoth feet. A hooster organization called the Stace (“Cats spelled back-

ward) Club came into being in

Arts -

wop -

was"

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diplomatie “service, permanent representatives of foreign commercial firms, relatives of persons who have escap:d-abroad. All these were taken, husbands separated from wives, and, sent off to ‘the remote regions of Siberia,” in dreadful convoys. : " = n UNLESS the Kremlin poses to conquer other the MVD can expect windfalls of this kind

prolands, no more

But prisoners can still he ob- -

tained in a hundred and one unexpected ways, A village gets up a petition

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SALT AND PEPPER shakers were given to Bill by his teachBill made a plastic injection mold to produce them.

hogany desk, and an ultra high

frequency transmitter and receiver, - Bill had ‘graduated by the

time ‘he heard about his award. In ¢his apprentice job“ learning to shape’ up experimental designs for engineers at the instrument company, he probably will have earned his spurs as a journeyman within the next three years, Since he's on the night shift, he helps around the Farm for a few hours each day, and still fixes parts for his father's farm equipment on the lathe he got for Christmas six years ago. Later Bill may enroll at the University of Minnesota to study engineering. But first he wants to become a good journeyman. He believes in taking one step at a time toward achievement, an idea he got in the new-fangled course at St. Paul, where they teach pride in good wormanship.

COACH PAUL BRYANT — Hegshowed how the other half lives.

Lexington. It remains very much alive, and. gets movies first. Its more active members receive blocks of

choice seats at home games.

= ” ” WITH THE UPSURGE, more horse, cattle and sheep breeders and farmers, Lexington business men, hotel proprietors and whatnot became They: finally had something to stand up and cheer about besides horses and basketball. 4 Gov. Lawrence Weatherby writes to ‘particularly bright

out-of-state prospects, extolling the virtues of the university. The Dartmouth amendment to the NCAA code prohibits an institution or its coaches from

game ~

interested.

to- have its church reopened. Twenty signatures make “this legally possible, and 23 signatures are forthcoming; but the MVD arrests four of the petitioners, so that the church remains closed and the labor

force is richer, The upravdom, the official housemaster, of a large block of flats is told that his zeal in the Communist cause is

pected: he had better prove

himself by Siscovering sedition

in his block. So the upravdom carefully reports two or three individuals whom he does not like, or who

sus

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have been caught in careless

and in the middle of the. night they are taken away. A factory fails in its plan, or certain machines keep breaking down, There is a desperate hunt for scapegoats, and these, when decided on, are taken away. Throughout the whole Soviet Union there runs a crazy network of spies and informers. But how long will they succeed in keeping sedition underground?

talk;

NEXT: The Sinews of War,

(Copyright, 1951. by Edward Crankshaw.)

ill Exists

WORK TO WIN is Bill Capeder's ar in life. He gill does chores around his folks' farm, with time off for a chat with qirl

friend Beverly Wothe.

WINNING WORK is this plastic injectton mold which Bil Capeder explains to H. A. Teichroew of the faculty of the St. Paul Vocational School.

bringing prospects 0 the campus and there working them out, but there is nothing to prevent an alumnus -synthetic or real from extending a warm invitation. Giving you a rough idea of how diligently the Stace Club and Affiliated groups and indi viduals operate, Kentucky heat

62 other colleges to Steve Meoil

inger, remarkahle sophomore end from Bethlehem, Pa., High and Fork Union Military Acad-

‘emy of Virginia

Bear Bryant visited Meilinger

at Fork Union in January, 1950, and the large and lightfooted pass-snatcher had his

transportation and paid to Lexington. He signed a grant aid form, tantamount to a football scholarship at Kentucky, which bars any other Southeastern Conference school from doing business with a player.

expenses

Returning ‘to Bethlehem, -

Meilinger took the University of ennsylvania entrance ex: amination, which is when a Kentucky assistant coach poked his head through the door. His instructions were not to return without Meilinger. “That =uit looks a bit fraved, Stevia boy,” said the assistant

-coach,

Meilinger quickly had a brand

one and a watch to hoot, got itself a new star,

Low And Kentucky bright and shining =

= » PLEASANT

LIFE 1S for’ Kentucky's ‘ varsity, They re. sidd in two old duplex apart. ment houses Across the campus from the stadium, although a nniversity rule confines the freshmen tn dormitories, A training table for 100 {z= main-

“tained in a reserved section of

the cafeteria

In 12 games. at home and on the road last season, including the rousing ‘New Orleans Sugar Bowl victory over the nation's numbér one ranking team, Oklahoma, Kentucky played to 407,000 paid admissiohs at an average of $3 or $1,221,000. Stoll Field seats 36,000. Only two Kentucky boys were on the squad that edged Okla~homa in the 1951 New Year's -Day engagement. Kentucky ‘alam~i journey out of the state to land top material. Officially, a Kentucky football player gets no more than any: other Southeastern Conference: mana free ride plus $15 a month but it easily can be’ seon that there are additional advantages - down here in a

sports country. + Rear Brvant showed Ken-' tuckians how the other half

it.

lives An football, and they like vy