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wonders if movies are getting better than ever. There is one thing he doesn’t have to wonder about—the popcorn and candy stand. Popcorn has become big business in theaters. In the old days you built a theater and added a popcorn machine out in front. Now you build the popcorn and candy, stand and add the theater. It wasn't*too long ago that a downtown theater prohibited (tried is more accurate) patrons from carrying in popcorn because it” was too messy and. noisy. Public Sermald vienre all that. Cartoons which announce the intermission so everyone has a chance to get his favorite chewing and munching material are better than some Hollywood cartoons. They're real productions, not simple announcements. . Hp oo “ oo , MANAGERS of theaters have figured out intermissions are necessary. It gives a chance to those who didn’t buy popcorn on the way in te buy. Often a patron is in a hurry to get a seat and passes the stand. During intermission with his hat and coat in the seat, he's safe.

The latest records are played while the screen.

is ‘darkened and a line forms at the refreshment _ stand. The selection isn’t from soup to nuts, but if the frend continues, soup will be available. As the demand for popcorn, candy, nuts, soft I ‘drinks grew, walls were knocked out and in some cases eating space was sacrificed to make room for an elaborate stand. *

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DOUBLE FEATURE—Theater popcorn stands - are getting better than ever. Next week, threeinch sirloins.

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Dec. 5—Price Stabilizer Mike DiSalle, the wit of Washington, says many businessmen have complained to him of all the money they've been losing in the price spree. " “I think we need a congressional investigation,” grins Mike, “to find where people are getting all this money they're losing.”

a “DO YOUR CHRISTMAS shopping early—the way prices are rising,” says Henny Youngman; “what you buy today will be a big bargain by Christmas.” dS : HAS JOE DIMAGGIO JR., 10, persuaded po to continue playing ball? Joe's due in New York this week with his big decision. The Yanks hope Joe Jr. swung it but fear he didn’t. . . . Billy Rose is happy. He got that way looking over the almost $1 million advance on the “Cleopatra” bill coming into his Ziegfeld—of which he’ll get more’n a fourth as rent... . Joyce Mathews tells intimates, “Billy’s wonderful. You'd love him.” . . . Beautiful blond Fran Keegan, popular B'way showgal, just crashed Holywood. 1g¢fided a good ‘part at 20th in “The Girl Next Door.” v « o- oD : “GAMBLING’S closed down so tight,” laments Max Asnas, “that I can't even find a bookmaker that doesn’t pay off.” . .. When the Lambs Club honored Joe (“Show Biz”) Laurie Jr, and Abel Green, Laurie paid his respects to a certain friend. “I like him personally,” said Joe, “and -believe me, that’s a tough way to like him.” .., Washington officials come and go so fast that Harry Hershfield now addresses each one as “Officer of the Day.”

<> < ow TAFFY TUTTLE’S date told her, “Every time I kiss you, it makes me a better man.” Taffy: “You don’t have to get to Heaven in one night!” ode MRS. AL JOLSON denied the Hollywood report she’s engaged to Norman Krasna, when Mrs. Nathan Kramer asked her about it by phone from the Little Club. . . . Mike Todds-now wears

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK; Dec. 5-—It is possible that age causes you to oversimplify, in retrospect, but I never recall an unhappy Christmas. I had a doll, when I was very small, and did not develop into a sissy. Santa Claus brought me a little black

I do not believe that the color of this little jig dancer unduly influenced my adult reaction to my Negro fellow citizens. I loved the punching bag, ‘but did’not go around slugging people. The air rifle was fine, and so was the hunting knife, and the bicycle, too, but to date T have shot nobody, cut nobody, nor engaged in a sixday bike race. In those days I had implicit trust in Santa’s knowledge of a little boy's wants, and did not figure that Dancer and Prancer, Donder and Blitzen, needed to lug along a psychiatrist in the rumble seatgof Santa's sleigh.

WE SEE by the latest Life that psychiatry has now started to second-guess toys in relation to children. To quote: “Out of affection U. 8. parents haphazardly shower their children with too many toys. But in the midst of plenty of playthings a child is often starved for the few toys he actually needs.” A couple of psychologists at Carnegie Tech have been busy for months second-guessing St. Nick in terms of what frustrates little Vermin and what does not. This is one field I should like to keep the soul feelers out of. What lrappens between Santa and the child ia’ strictly business for Santa and the brat, and should not be subject to rat mazes, conditioned reflexes, and litmus. paper of-= the mind. We have managed to confuse and contrive every single other aspect of living—for the Lord’s sweei sake, let us keep the pysche peerers away from the red sled and the tears-crying doll baby. ; FE Ta : I DO NOT WISH to know what the good doctors have determined by ratio of reaction to this or that stimulus in the way of roller skates or erector sets. Nor do I care to hear any baleful conjeoture from the boys about the affection I . had for my doll baby when I was 4, T-was real fond of this doll, even though I was a boy-—and, as I recall, took time off to beat the tar out’ of ‘a contemporary cousin who sneered at my feeling ¢ for my friend, the doll 1t is very likely that this willingness to fight for the right fo play with dolls connotes something exceptional in my make-up, but whatever

In time 1 was graduated from inanimate dolls

dame for.the first time at the age of 7. Took ‘her to the movies, by golly, and bought her ice

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SOME MANAGERS frankly admit they were worried about allowing seda pop to be carried into the theater. It was an awkward situation. Customers don’t like to be told where and, how to drink and eat. It was useless worry. e small paper eup of soda pop always was drained to the last drop and. rarely spitled. ’ Soon ice cream appeared on the scene. Managers envisioned spotted seats, sticky seats, slippery aisles, irate customers. Demand for ice cream continued. Old-time managers were aghast. If your television set has kept you from seeing a current western movie, you probably don't know that besides ice cream; yqu can get a malted: milk. . * + NO SANDWICHES or, plate lunches as yet. I talked with one downtewn theater manager who is as happy as a new father with his new refrigerated candy counter, new storeroom for butter, milk, nuts, candy. Housewives will appreciate the man’s feelings for storage space. “We're not going to go into the restaurant business,” snorted the manager. : “Ah, ah, ah—be careful.” : “Well, as far as I know no theater in town, and certainly not mine, is going into sandwiches,” he hissed. . “You better tone down a little, How is your lotion machine doing in the women’s rest room?” “Fine, fine, say that was a smart move.” “How are your comb machines doing?” “Good in the men’s room and slow in the women's room. Women just don't buy combs.” Dd WORRIED. is the motion "picture manager these days. His job is growing. Combs are not selling in the women's room. Butter is going up and malted milks were just a wee bit too frosty yesterday. : Napkins are given with each box of buttered popcorn. A friend of mine who is interested in having the classiest stand in town, is considering having fancy napkins with the name of his theater printed on them. Maybe a crest even. ow 2, oe WHY DID the popcorn business get so big all of ‘a sudden? Because theater owners finally realized patrons want to chew on something when they go in a movie. Paper on the floor is no bother. Movie-going must be encouraged. “Waiting for all seats” isn’t used as often as managers would like. They say sandwiches won't be handled in theaters. They hesitate about ruling out the automat, The way 1 see it, we’ll be able to go to a movie someday, order a full-course dinner, smoke, have an apertif, shoe shine, manicure, hair cut. You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet; that’s my prediction as I gaze in my frosted malt. Marquee of the future: “Special T-hones tonight. Added attraction, Shirley Temple in ‘Grandma Goes to the Moon.’ ”

Mike Calls for An Investigation

$12.50 socks, . , , Linda Darnell looked really soulfully at Bob Levitt when they dined at the Blair House. Linda, who looks too thin, is on a fattening-up diet. . . . Judy Garland did $9700 worth of" business at the Palace the other day, her best yet—due to the willingness of so many to stand. : LE

A PENTAGON general who evidently ‘doesn’t follow show business told Danny Daye, when the USO honored him for his‘ job in Korea: “Only one other star has done a job like you have done and that, of course, was Frank Benny.” oot dy THE MIDNIGHT EARL .

Hollywood Reds (by the House Un - American Activities Committee) is coming to anend...

Howard Hughes’ new romantic target is Kathryn Grayson. ] For his fine job handling the Eleanor Holm vs. Billy Rose case, Atty. Louis Nizer -should get a fee ofw-ultimately—$50,-" 000 and up, B'way figures . . . Pearl Bailey balked at doing “Shuffle Along” in its present form. So it'll be doctored . . . Cecil Chapman invited her exhusband Sam Chapman (her business partner) to the reception after her marriage to Tom Rogers. Sam didn’t take a girl friend .. . Mary McCarty's doing her typically great job at the Waldorf Empire Room. es » FARL'S PEARLS .'. . Mae West quotes Art Paul's line about the gal in the nudist colony: “Nothing looks ‘well on her.” Bh BP “TOO MANY PEOPLE,” claims Coleman Jacoby, “drink on an empty head” . .. That's Earl, brother.

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Keep Psychology Out of Christmas

cream, and her name was Martha. ~ At no time did mother hatred, mother worship, or father .antipathy enter into the deal. You could just call me a guy who likes dolls. > * @ WHEN THIS ONE was playing with whatever Santa dumped down the chimney, it never occurred to him that he was frustrate or unfrustrate. I banged away at the punching bag with no mild idea that I.was belting the whey out of grandmother . . . just punchin’ the bag. When I slew sparrows with the airgun I was not working off a resentment at the kindergarten teacher. Just shootin’ sparrows. It does not seem that a child must be “helped” to play; as the psychologists put it. Let the little bum get along on his own with his rubber ducks. My old man monopolized a steam engine, once, that Santa had brought me, and I was sore for days. It was my steam engine. Let the old man go buy his own steam engine, LR EE A TOY FOR a child is anything that is out of routine, be it a raghaby or a sack of candy. The happiest child I ever saw was a country kid who gravely informed that Santy had brought him “a crokernut and a or’'nge.” Coconuts and oranges were out of routine for him, yet monkeys consider them daily monotonies. ° We have started ‘a campaign of confusion against the human being, to where we enlighten him so heavy-handedly that he is a mass of conflict and complex from cradle to bier. My ided is that while he is young enough to get a bang , out of a woolly pup or a set of blocks, let's nots try to tell him what he wants. Let him tell us, even if he” has to do it with gurgles and sign

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Louis (Lepke) Buchalter

‘By BURTON B. TURKUS AND SID FEDER

AS A member of the District Attorney's staff, I prosecuted the board of directors of the Extermi-

nation Department of Murder, Inc. 1 sent seven men to the electric chair. 2 Five of these seven were

members of the Brooklyn Combination, the branch office which served as the firing squad for the national crime ring. The other two were ranking magnates in the national underworld. One was Lepke, whose real name was Louis Buchalter, most powerful .of all labor and industrial racketeers. The other was Mendy Weiss, his operations manager, who cooly ordered murder on a countrywide scale. By mergers, trade agreements and intensive salesmanship the Brooklyn combination had grown from a position as just another gang across the East River to one of preeminence in its field in the national crime industry. Louis Capone, for instance, had excellent connections with the Purple Mob in Detroit in the loan-shark operation, which covered a wide portion of the nation. Ho ” » J.OUIS was no relation to ‘Scarface Al, except that both were murderers and thugs. Suave and well groomed, with iron-gray ‘hair, Louis had the appearance of a diplomat. Capone ran a pasticceria— the old-world trade name for a

THE ROK .. . READY AND WILLING . . . NO. 8—

U.S. Has Long Range Expansion Plans

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1951

)ER, INC.

Albert Anastasia

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the third of the series which tells the factual story of organized crime in America. Mr. Turkus is ithe country’s most successful prosecutor of underworld criminals. He was known as “Mr. “Arsenic” to the gangland bosses, Sid Feder wno collaborated with Mr. Turkus in this series is the well known former press association staff man, author of books and magazine articles. These chapters were excerpted from the book, MURDER, INC. just published by Farrar, Straus and Young.

shop dealing in thick black coffee, rich pastry and assorted delicacies. One of the regular patrons was Albert Anastasia, overlord of the water front. Back

“in the early days before ®yndi-

cation, when the Brownsville thugs of Kid Twist Reles and the Ocean Hill hooligans of

Happy Maione were just wild

punks, Louis used to feed them. Capone held considerable power in the Syndicate through his. Detroit contacts. When Dukey Maffetore, just a punk in the mob, turned informer in the spring of 1940, he mentioned the matter. “The Purple Gang and the Brooklyn combination,” Dukey explained, ‘‘controlled the loanshark racket all over. They had a real close deal. Every week they exchanged money for the shylocking.” Our informers said both Capone and: Anastasia were allied with Joseph Doto, who is far better known by his underworld label of Joey Adonis—or Joey A., for short. In those days, Adonis lived in his bomb-proof

By JIM G. LUCAS

Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

TAEGU, Korea, Dec. 5—Lt. Col. Thomas Ross of Birmingham, Ala., operations officer for the Korean Military Advisory Group, thumbed through the papers and

reports on his battered desk. “We know what we want to do and how we're going to do it,” he said.

Am e ricans responsible for # training and rebuilding the South Korean army look toward the fu- ; ture with 3 guarded op- & timism. They are not fooling t.h e m s elves. Korea will be a tinder box for a long time. The battle against communism in Asia will continue for many years.

The Korean army now has around 250,000 officers and men. It will be expanded. Just how much can't be revealed. But it will be the force which Brig. Gen. C. E, Ryan of Boston, head of the Advisory Group, believes will be “capable of - all-out resistance” against Communist aggression.

At present there are 10 divisions. Some of the divisions are good; others could stand improvement. A Korean division has fewer men than an American division. It lacks the balance, firepower and the behind-the-lines support we've come to accept as a matter of course. Until recently the Korean divisions had little except manpower. They were essentially an infantry outfit. ?

Jim Lucas

THE SONGS OF CHRISTMAS

EDITOR'S NOTE: What are the expansion plans for the South Korean army? It's a matter of serious concern for American military advisers on the scene, as Jim Lucas relates in today's article of his series’ on the ROK armed forces.

THERE'S NO PLAN to organize more divisions. Colonel Ross says the present 10 divisions are gil the Korean economy can support. Some manpower must be allocated for reconstruction and industry. “They don’t particularly need more riflemen and foot soldiers,” he said. “They desperately need good leaders, technicians and a nucleus for expansion if they are ever attacked again. What we want to leave behind is a professional army as modern as we can. make it and which can defend its country’s borders and expand if trouble starts.” The rearmament program involves among other ‘things: ONE—Expansion of replacement training centers to provide ‘manpower sufficient for a peacetime ‘army. TWO—A military academy patterned after West Point. THREE—An army training center. FOUR — Expansion of field training centers for divisions. FIVE-A command and general staff college to train future leaders, SIX--Organization of medium artillery and tank battalions.

Dukey Maffetore

home in Brooklyn, and for years had been especially close to Lucky Luciano and Frank Costello. Today he resides in a mansion in Ft. Lee, N. J., high on the Palisades towering above the Hudson, but close enough so that his influence can still be felt in Brooklyn — politically, socially and industrially. One of his neighbors still is Albert Anastasia, who followed him across the river and himself built a palatial home on the Palisades. » ”n » ~HNTH-1951,-Adonis-had been arrested time and again on charges up to and including assault and. grand larceny. He had good friends, though, and his total penalty had been a fine of one hundred dollars. In May of 1951, he was hauled in on gambling charges in Bergen County, N: J, and pleaded non vult—meaning no defense, 7

It appeared that at last the law had overhailled “Mr. A.” for he was eligible to a sentence of eighteen years. Instead, he drew a term of two to three years from Judge J. Wallace Leyden, and his attorney said he would be eligible for parole in 10 months. The New York World-Telegram referred to Mr. A, at his sentencing, as “the laughing boy of the underworld.”

Joey Adonis’ connections with Costello, and certain Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland and Western mobsters, in gambling in Florida, Saratoga, and Nevada have been most remunerative. For years, he also has en-us joyed — until the summer of 1951, at least — an exclusive government-protected monopoly

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SEVEN-—Qrganization of several more infantry regiments to be used in the field—at least during the initial training period — with American di-

visions. n » ”

COUPLED WITH this goes a construction program. It- will involve building military posts from Pusan to the demarcation line. It also envisages permanent buildings for a score or more schools set up by the Advisory Group, including the military academy and the command and general staff college. It will cost several million dollars. Tank companies are being organized now. Latest U. 8S. medium tanks are being used. A year ago South Korean engineers fastened explosives around their bodies and hurled themselves beneath the®™ treads of North Korean tanks. They had no tanks of their own. The South Koreans are learning to use other modern implements of war — medium and heavy field artillery, bazookas, recoilless rifles, Al-

Brooklyn Killers Sent All Over Country for Assassination So Local Mobs Could Have Alibi

Frank Costello

for hauling automobiles from the Ford Motor Company's largest Eastern plant, at Edgewater, N. J. That Joey A. outranked Anastasia in Murder, Inc, is a virtual certainty. To this day, Adonis stands high on the national board of governors of the Syndicate.

IN FLORIDA, besides gambling, the Brooklyn combination was associated with other mobs in the jewelry robbery racket, When Abe (“Kid Twist”) Reles began his remarkable recounting of the varied virtues of the Syndicate, the jewel “heists” were prominently referred to. “A lot of people think this Brooklyn troop-is just a smalltime outfit,” he said, putting the proper perspective on matters, “Well, we got good connections.

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A MATTER OF LIFE—South Koreans are leaning fo use all

ready they have mastered some of the intricacies of electronics. Americans say their communications are good. The South Korean air force now flying in support of the ROK First Corps—is likely to be expanded, Much ROK equipment must eventually be replaced. We have given them what we could but much of it has been old and almost useless, The - South Koreans apparently are trying to do as much as they can. They realize, of course, that their best represents only one per cent of the total effort required to keep them in the field—and they are

pathetically anxious to do more. -~ » » ”

THE ROKS NOW operate several medium maintenance companies in support of frontline units. American trained, these units are still not up to American standards. But they are capable of rebuilding and repairing howitzers, tanks, small arms and other front-line equipment.

lllustrated by Walt Scott

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Lucky Luciano

Abe Reles

You know how the New York gangs case dames with a lot of jewelry in night clubs, and thex take them. We been working with the Chicago and New York guys in Florida for a couple years now, and it's even better.” There were any number of other connections the troop acquired, The bookmaking operations reached across New Jers sey and into Pennsylvania, Through Lucky Luciano, there were narcotics over a wide area, Florida gambling was so closely linked that many underlings were given jobs as “spotters” or strong-arm men the clubs there, Some of the same executives of 10 years ago still run the Flor ida traps today. .

(Copyright, 1051, by Burton B. Turkus and Sid Feder.)

TOMORROW: The “Full Mooner” sings. :

kinds of implements of war in

These in turn are supported by a single forward depot in central Korea. A supply base is at Pusan, where all Ameri. can supplies are transferred to the South Koreans and routed to their units. A South Korean heavy maintenance company is turning out some items of war—hardly enough to make much difference now, but perhaps the start of a modest munitions industry. The Korean National Defense Department has some arsenals, Hand grenades are made from discarded American beer cans. For an explosive charge, the Koreans dug up caches of TNT the Japanese buried when they went home. They also are trying to make rifles, pistons, headlights, springs, etc. “Our mission,” ‘Gen. Ryan says, “is to raise the standard of performance of the South Korean amy to a maximum level of efficiency. I would say the new South Korean army will do a mighty fine job.”

"Tomorrow-—-The ROK navy,