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Inside Indianapolis

- By Ed Sovola

THE SMOKE of charcoal broiled breast of mallard duck has cleared, the stomach is back “t6'its normal size, and the hat fits again. That means the annual Christmas party for press and radio men, thrown by the Indianapolis Motor « Speedway, is over. The memory still lingers on. :

When a fellow finds himself in such a mellow }

and retrospective mood, he has to sound off about a gesture that means more than food and drink in quantity and quality that makes one stagger home. ‘I'll try to put down thoughts that occurred before and during the party at the Speedway Golf Club, From the moment, a couple of weeks ago, that a letter was read announcing the time and date ofthe party, you had something special to look forward to with eager anticipation. “DD

YOU KNOW, for example, there will be men

there you haven't seen for months. Men who are engaged in this business of bringing into your home a friend with whom you spend some time each day. ; Through the years your paths have crossed when the competitive spirit ran high and advantage was the primary thought in mind. In the fourth estate fraternity, each of us is dedicated to bring to his home the best. It is a matter of great personal pride to feel your product is the best. There are times, however, when the path is all harmony and it leads to one place, has one purpose, one result, Such is the path that leads to the Speedway Golf Club, where “Tony and his gang’ are hosts. ow oe oo THIS YEAR we all had two special reasons for going. Wilbur Shaw, who suffered a heart attack last summer, was going to be at the same old stand. Scuttlebutt had it that Wilbur was as good as ever, You wanted to see him, shake his hand, ask if he saw your name on the “longest telegram in the world” which was sent to him in an Akron hospital. Lee Wallard was going to be there, Lee, always a man among men, and since June 3, well, at least a crash helmet higher, was someone you wanted to be in the same room with and wishing him well. The winner of the Memorial Day Classic remembered a friend in Reading, Pa. shortly after his greatest triumiph. Lady Luck took her eyes off Lee for a moment that day. Lee was burned horribly as he broke the law of self-preservation in the highest traditions of true sportsmanship.

LEE CHOSE to save lives of spectators and drivers even if the cost would be his own. How pleasant it is to greet and be greeted in a language that only friends can use to one another. It is something you can't buy. It is

a privilege that comes slowly.

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Nov. 29—Taffy Tuttle, the beautiful blond Broadway showgirl who has more men than mentality, has asked me to write her “men-oirs.’ “Why don't you write em yourself?” I asked her. “Nobody in my family's smart enough to write,” Taffy sald. “I had a brother that won his letter at college—but somebody had to read it to him.” * Taffy picks up this stuff from comedians. I finally told her I'd coilect her sayings that I've printed over the past few vears, Then I'd ask for more detalls, So » : “YOU REMEMBER that I came to New York when I was 16 to make my fortune,” Taffy said with a shake and a smile. “Yeah, and how you soon had a mink coat or ‘a reasonable foxsimile,” I sald, wincing a little. “But you got to have a whole story. Start out with some awful mistake you made your first week here.” “Let's keep Tommy Manville out of this!” Taffy said. G Bb WELL, MAYBE I better tell you about her first. She's not exactly dumb. But once when she went to a store to buy some DDT, she. forgot how to spell it. When she heard a quizmaster ask what a decanter was, Taffy answered, quick as a flash, “What, that's the comedian that's married to Ida.” Taffy's very popular and is quite a party-goer. Not long ago, just to be different, she went to a party she had an invitation fo. She can be as chi-chi as the Astors. At one party I saw her clutching a salami sandwich. Other people were ordering coffee. “Make mine a Tafly commanded. > + 2 BUT SHE'S SHARP. A salesman selling her soms insurance asked whom to notify in case of serious illness. “Some good doctor,” Taffy said. She's ravishingly beautiful, of course. Changes her hair color so much that somebody said she has a convertible top. She's only catty with girls who she thinks have mistreated her. Then she gossips about them. “So-and-So is so bowlegged,” she told me one

large demi-tasse, please,”

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Nov. 28—1t is with some boyish disenchantment that we read the newest story of mink coats in Washington, where it would seem that there are two or three reported collaborators on the purchase of a fur coat for Mrs T. LaMar Caudle, fair wife of the ousted tax fraud prosecutor. This coat rates as a mere rag alongside the lush wrap owned by Mrs. E. Merl Young, the White House stenog who figured in the last batch of influential irregularities. Mrs. Caudle’s fur benny seems to have been priced at about $5000, with tax, and was bought wholesale for some $2400, with the last $900 on an unpaid bill. being supplied by a legal friend, I WOULD have no way of knowing the devious ramifications of this current essay on the perishability of mink, but it seems that cut-rate pelts stand for a cheapening of governmental standards of influence-peddling. We started off mild, I recall, with some food freezers, but we were just feeling our way along then, and then we got into the heavy sugar. We were doing pretty good on the symbol standard with La Belle Young's 9-grand mink tent, but now we suffer a sudden lapse of $2400, with a hunk of the tab unpaid. Tsk, tsk. Penny-ante stuff, The distaff department tells me that there isn’t much in the way of regal mink that can be bought today for less than 10 grand, which removes it from our ken, but it seems to me that In a hypothetical case of favor-currying with a tax sleuth, the favor-currier should not be tendering such a meager-priced present. It is a sad commentary on the state of the nation. & 6 THE PROBLEM is that politics have dropped ‘almost to petty larceny, where a moth-eaten muskrat soon will be the criterion of the fix. - We dip from there to squirrel-dyed tomcat. Please, I plead, let us keep the standards of corruption high, or we lower the income-tax deductions of

the malefactors, thereby driving the nation into °

a state of panic. We lived more grandly in the days of the Howard Hughes investigations, when nonflying airplanes went into the multimillions, and in the days of the Tucker dream of new autocars, and aven in the old days of Benny Myers, the backslid general, who got much too rich for a general's pay check, . " Let us spread the dough oun lavish ol

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SAME OLD STAND—Tony Hulman and Wilbir Shaw built a better path to the Speedway.

“Remember the time . . , ” is the standard opening of a brief conversation. Someone else has just pinned your ears back with a well-chosen endearment reserved for such occasions. Wilbur Shaw and the “Chief” (Tony Hulman) were at the door wearing chef's hats and white aprons. With each you have some special experience to recall. “Why weren't you in Nova Scotia this year?” asked Tony. Then you tell him that one trip to the International Tuna Matches is enough to last a long time. A “I feel fine, never felt better in ‘my life” laughed Wilbur. “Are you bringing your slingshot to the Hunter's Party this year.” Hunter's Party. The thought makes you grimace. It's still a moot question who had the most fun and felt most miserable the next day. “I think I better leave the slingshot home this year.”

PRETTY SOON you lose count of the nums= ber of times your hand is filled, how many duck legs and shrimp you've eaten hefore the main course of mallard breast. Lee Wallard hasn’t lost anv of his spirit. He did a valiant job .keeping up with the wellwishers. Voices get louder, the room gets smokier, the atmosphere wetter, comradeships stronger. Everyone is in the-same boat and paddling like crazy. There are no deadlines, no angles, and good intentions have long ago disdppeared down the drain. Men only. Hi, you old. . ..

Taffy Is Too Dumb Not to Get Along

night, “that when she™sits around the house, she really sits around the house. “Is she having dates with anybody now?” I asked Taffy. “Yes. Anybody!" Taffy said.

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TODAY'S DAFFYNITION “Marriage ties are the kind wives buy their husbands for Christmas.” —Nat King Cole, > o 4 9

THE MIDNIGHT EARL ... Margaret Truman and Jimmy Durante are sought by the Palace to follow Judy Garland in vaudeville—they'd make more'n $20,000 a week , . . Artie Shaw's gal, Doris Dowling, 1s in St. Clare's for an appendectomy. The 1055 NY police sergeants are alarmed by a rumor that Comm. Monaghan’ll shift them all just before Christmas, cutting into their gifts from “friends” in their precincts. The Dick Reynolds-Marianne O'Brien marriage looks shakier. Dick took back two cars and moved out a piano she gave him ,.. Rumors of Faye Emerson and sponsors tiffing aren't true. They say she goes to their conventions and gives them ‘‘class . After Paul Meltsner’s painting of Albert Einstein sold $1 million worth of bonds, Mr. Einstein wrote Meltsder: “I'm glad that my corpse has been of such great use in this connection . . . Mar! Blanchard appears in Columbia's “Ten Tall Men.” EARL'S PEARLS: Stenogs and others needing to reduce are just suffering, alleges Nanette Fabray, “from sandwich spread.” <> <« <> WISH I'D SAID THAT: “Nothing improves a woman's

Mari appearances faster than a Blanchard man's."—Susan Peters <- > <“ BACHELORS (says Charlie Jones) can't get

over the idea they are a thing ‘of beautv and a

boy forever , .. That's Earl, brother.

Corruption Standards Are Going Down

IF-T WERE going to set out really to buy up a chunk of influence, I would be waving that sable stole for openers, with a 92-gkin Labrador job, or one of them silver-blue things. even a chunk of chinchilla to spread the glad tidings of my willingness to play ball with the right wives of the right people. I would scatter diamonds like litchi nuts in a Chinese restaurant, and the odd vacht would be tied up around the corner. I consider it arrinsult to the biggest-spending nation in history that an accusation of influencebuying be predicated on a tired two-bits worth of fuzz for milady's back. It bespeaks the smalltime, the leaky-roof circuit in monkey business.

OF COURSE, there is one thing to be said: The sudden drop in value of gift mink could mean we are finally on an anti-inflation kick, where by even the favor-seekers from the counterjumping fraternity in Washington are dismayed at the high cost of everything, and are atiempting to lower the cost of collusion. This might be commendable if true, but, alas, I fear it is not. Except when it comes to the disbursement of moneys they never dreamed of before the millenium of the Truman regime, the boys who play ducks and drakes with our future are strictly the type who seek to trap an elephant with one wrinkled peanut. And not even a very big elephant, at that.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—Wa have a lot of tree leaves. I read what you said about some material that would make them decompose fast but I have not been able to find out what it is or where to get it. Mrs. Ruth Gleich, 5159 Atherton, South Drive. A—Preparations to hasten decay of leaves and other dead plant materials are sold In seed stores and garden shops under different trade names. You might also be able to get such

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times

materials in a hardware store if it has a good garden department. If your family is the energetic type vou can get amazingly fast decom position of leaves and wonderful soll improve-

ment by spading your garden during winter and .

dropping leaves into each trench across the garden. Earthworms will accumulate in the buried leaves, They chew them up, digest them into the finest kind of top soil, Right at root level. If you try

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"The Indianapolis Times

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1951 i

Report From France—

lke’s Job Demands Diplomacy

By ROSETTE HARGROVE Times Special Writer

'OCQUENCOURT, France, Nov. 20... Building an international

army, as the planners of

the European Defense Force are doing here at Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters, is a job that requires tact. There will be men from France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, the U. 8. .Great Britain, Norway and Denmark in the European Army, What language will be spoken? What food will be eaten? What uniform will be worn? How long will the men serve? How much will they be paid? Taking up the problems one by one, here's the way the EDF's architects now feel about them. It has already been decided that English, French and German will be the three key lahguages used in the field. During recent maneuvers in Ger-

many, that arrangement was used satisfactorily. There were a few minor technical hitches, but virtually no serious confusion, u ” ” THAT MEN of ten different nationalities can understand each other and work in harmony has been proved at Eisenhower’s headquarters here. Of a staff numbering around 250 officers, less than half are Americans. The feeling is ‘that the same harmony can exist on a larger scale in a 3,000,000man combat force. Food is another problem. Although the: combat units will be confined to men of one nationality, the service units— signal men, engineers, medical corpsmen and the like—will be mixed. Hence food will have to be standardized. Exactly how the menu will be controlled, so that Belgians don't get spaghetti and Frenchmen don't get hamburgers, hasn't been worked out yet.

The authorities hope to come up

with a common gastronomical denominator, w ” # ” THE UNIFORM of the EDF

will probably come about by an evolutionary process. No one uniform is being planned. For one thing, certain nationalities have decided preferences in some articles of, clothing. A German soldier is uncomfortable without boots, but others prefer low shoes and would be miserable in boots,

Nevertheless, some uniform uniformity is already happening. "As clothing supplies in France, for example, are running short, leaders have ordered American uniforms. The Eisenhower combat jacket is particularly appealing. Nowadays, only his insignia differentiates the French poilu from the American soldier.

Battle uniforms may therefore soon become standard in the co-operating nations. But

there will probably be no attempt made to create one dress uniform for the EDF, because these are part of the individual nation’s military traditions. = un ” LENGTH OF SERVICE should be the same in each country, the planners feel, to eliminate gripes and grumblings about favoritism. Just how long such service will be is still

MIXED UNIFORMS—Machine quns these EDF soldiers are learning to use are standardized, as will be all Europe's defense arms. Uniforms of French, Norwegian, Italian, Belgian and Greek (from - ration for French members of Europe's defense forces, Problem is

left to right) students are now varied, but may soon become standardized in the field.

The ROKs .-. . Ready and Willing . .. No. 4—

U.S. Building Tough South Korean Army

By JIM G. LUCAS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

TAEGU, Korea, Nov. 20—Brig. Gen. C. C. Ryan is a

professional American soldier with a whale of a job on

his hands.

It is a job some people think should have been done

five years ago. If it had been

done, we might have been spared a lot of trouble and bloodshed. pgs ars ‘General "gr 3 Ryan's job is _.& “a to build up a first - class army for the war - torn Re- 3 publie of §

Korea. But he doesn’t argue about the past. He's concerned about the future. : : And he =avs

Jim Lucas

now the South Korean army is on the way to becoming one of anti-Communist military Asia, although :it still has a long way

to go. It will take two to three vears before the ROKs, as thev are called, will be able to defend their borders by themselves

the strongest forces in

The South Korean Army could become one of the strongest anti-Communist military forces in Asia, sums up an American general who Is over-

seeing the training of the ROKs. From U. S. advisers in the

field, Jim Lucas adds to the picture of the rehabilitated Southern Korean forces in his series on their potential worth.

assuming there is some sort of peace settlement, = » » BUT THE AMERICANS assigned to these troops say they never were as bad as they were pictured. They held most of the battle line in the dark summer of 1950 and even today they hold half the line across their beaten-up peninsula, Gen. Ryan's headquarters is an old two-story stucco building, cold and drafty in the winter, hot in summer. He shares

She Got What She Wanted—

Ex-Grocery Clerk Now

By GAYNOR MADDOX .

Times Special Writer EW YORK, Nov. 29—The United States can raise or produce anything raised or produced anywhere else

in the world and do it better.

That includes everything

from Italian tomatoes ™to-equipping our armies with the

rations, So believes Tillie Lewis, a small, busy woman in her early forties who began her career as a clerk in a Brooklyn grocery store. Today she is president of Flotill Products of California, the largest assembler of C-ra-tions for the Army and one of" the big-five canners of fruits and vegetables. : This big boss in a skirt con trols three large canneries, two in Stockton and one in Modesto, with a payroll at times over a million dollars a month for 1500 employees. At one Stockton plant, on some days 37 freight cars arrive with C-ration conmiponents from 52 cities in 23 states while a stream of trucks from western farms deliver tons of fruits and vegetables dally for canning at

finest

her other plants. This ambition-¢

motored woman, whose academfeo career ended with one semester of high school, is now seeing her girlhood dream approach fulfillment. ” y » “MY DREAM WAS to build an industrial empire for myself,” she told me in her New York hotel suite, obviously determined to appear relaxed durIng our interview. “America is practically feeding the world today. That's why I am so hopeful of seeing my dream poma true moon, Besides the

contract to assemble C-rations, we are doing a big job for the Quartermaster Corps canning fruit and tomatoes. I guess it is fair to say that I am an asset to our national defense.” Brushing back her luxuriant blond hair, Mrs, Lewis added: “Yes, I believe in price control when it is necessary. Otherwise our economy would run away with itself. I think the present set-up is very fair because the Capehart amendment takes care of hardship cases.” ” = ” WHEN A RESTRICTIVE tariff cut down imports of the small pear-shaped Italian tomatoes considered perfect for

canned tomato paste, Mrs. Lewis decided to raise them in California despite warnings from soil experts that it could not be done. “But I was determined,” she says. “I started building my first cannery in 1935 and the hammers have never stopped pounding. One of my Stockton plants is more than a third of a mile long. At another, more tomatoes are packed than at any other’ plant in the country.” A chain smoker, she paused to light another cigarette. “Did I tell you we just built three large new wanshouses for ‘the C-ra«

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this structure with the South Korean chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Lee Chang Chun. Lt. Col. Thomas Ross of Birmingham, Ala., operations officer for Gen. Ryan, has a desk beside that of Brig. Gen. lee Yong Noon, operations chief for the ROKs. - = = AFTER FOUR MONTHS of sizing up his task, Gen. Ryan says this: “My combat advisers tell me the South Korean soldier is just as courageous ‘as any in the world. Given the proper conditions, he’ll fight as well as any other troops. “We must admit the Koreans have cracked at times, there is no way of glossing over that fact. But when we examine the reasons, the wonder is they so frequently have done such a good job. ' hg = = x “I DOUBT WHETHER it is posible for any small nation having a small industrial plant and comparatively few resources to stand by itself against a major power. “On the cther. hand, with properly trained forces, it could hold its own against comparable strength. I'd say we're

speculative, but the feeling hera is that it will have to be lengthened in most countries. The pay rate is a ticklish subject, Any attempt to work out an average would be tough on the American ‘boys, who make far more than any other nation's soldiers. But if it is left up to the ipdividual participants, there are liable to be

envious glances cast at the Americans’ fatter pay envelopes.

Nevertheless, the latter course seems to be the only practical solution. Military budgets vary drastically from nation to nation, and it would be a hardship on some to dictate salary terms, For the present, pay

CHOW DOWN—Bread and wine are important items in the

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scales will be left to the various nations, y n x

ONE THING that definitely

will be standardized is arms, If each national combat unit used different weapons, errors in. ammunition supply could easily be tragic. A unified arsenal would cut down on such mistakes, and

also make the problems of supply and parts much simpler. All these problems, plus others which beset any military

force, are being worked on, There is a feeling of optimism, however; a feeling that the problems will be licked . and

quickly.

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how to satisfy appetite preferences of all 10 nations.

training an ‘army that would

hold at all costs and resist to,

the bitter end. “Only two vears before the ruthless attack by the Communists, Korea was a new nation, completely lacking in military tradition. It had no officer organization, few arms. The army's mission was simply to handle disorders. When South Korea was invaded it had no heavy artillery and only a few outmoded aircraft. It lacked everything needed to fight a modern war. “The attack on June 235, 1950, caught the Korean army and its American advisers by surprise.” = = = GEN. RYAN said that despite all their handicaps and the surprise of the overwhelming attack, the ROK First Corps, for instance, fought savagely, maintained its cohesion and eventually battled its wav back. If this had been an American action, he said, it undoubtedly would have gone down in our military history as epic. While American aid was be-

ing rushed from Japan, Gen. Ryan said, this decimated, poorly equipped Korean army stuck together and fought

Runs

ASSEMBLY LINE finds Tillie Lewis [center) checking the pro-

duction of C.rations. Her cannery is one of the industry’s big five.

WHAT ABOUT THE opportunities for women in American industry? Her dark eyes became im-

personal. “There are many factors in suocess—ambition, hops and sti tiveness. Being & er 40.do va {

with it, one way or another. If a woman has these qualities, she'll be successful. If not, she

won't,” she stressed. “It's the same with men, isn't it? Only I do think women oftén pay too high a price for success, They

bravely, despite some notable instances of cold feet, especially later. Many Americans lost their lives because of these instances and a handful of uncelebrated colonels, majors, captains and lieutenants rallied the Korean troops, sometimes at pistol point.

2 2 = “OUR NATION will never know the debt it owes this handful of officers,” Gen. Ryan said. “But the Seuth Korean army never ceased to exist as an army.” It did not disintegrate, as the North Koreans ex. pected. “Four months after the blitz which was intended to annihilate it, the South Korean army stood at the Yalu River with its friends.”

Gen. Ryan said ths South Korean army today well deserves the tribute that Gen. James Van Fleet, U. S. 8th Army commander, paid to one of its divisions - the 6th ROK. In a message to the Korean division, he said:

“You have decisively demon- -

strated your superiority over the Communist enemy.”

TOMORROW — The Korean tralnee, and what. makes him tick,

Cannery

take more serious interest Im politics, particularly local politics, “And I believe women should enter the defense industries,” .she said. “But only those industries near where they live.. Then they can work on defense and also keep their homes together at the same time.” The rebirth of integrity in our national and industrial life is one of the first requisites of our accelerated defense program, she insists, “I mean that for every man Jack of us, And I'm not talking politically. Also we must develop even better labor-management relations than we now have if our national might is to increase.” ~ = » HER HUSBAND IS Meyer I. Lewis, formerly western direotor of the AFL in charge of 11 states. She met him in 1940 when he arrived to investigate a strike at the Flotill plant. The strike was settled in an hour, He joined the company as gene eral manager the following year and married the boss in 1948. He came into the luxurious hotel suite as she was telling me of her almost maternal. relations with her men and women workers. Looking a lot like the actor, Edward Arnold, and radiating unaffected friendliness, Lewis smiled at his cyclonic wife. “Did Tiille tell you she's a good eook 7” he asked me, “She's