Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 December 1951 — Page 27
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By Ed Sovela os
THE: SWALLOWS of Capistrano herald the
coming of spring.
Do the starlings of Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument, Federal building, Bankers Trust, Business Library, University Park, U. 8. Royal. tire sign, Massachusetts Ave. and Ohio St., herald the comMen of science have been ~~, baffled for years by'the swal- aN lows of the Mission of San Juan Capistranes Wm. S. Kreke, superintendent of the . Monument, is baffled by thef§ starlings. “We may have to issue umbrellas around here,” said Mr. “I'll take
pigeons any day.” Starlings, in recent years, have made a habit of coming into town for the winter. They R leave in the spring for the open- - road. When the first chill winds sweep across cornfields, starlings head for downtown Indianapolis. .
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THEY BEGIN arriving about dusk and leave shortly after dawn. Regardless of flying conditions, starlings manage to get back. Department of Conservation ornithologists say the starlings feed on farmlands in the daylight hours, just like Crows. \
Mr. Krekeé and Postmaster George J. Ress will have no ‘truck with a suggestion that we build a-legend around our starlings. In fact, they're plotting ways of getting rid of the pests. No solution yet. The swallows of Capistrano did quite a lot for the Mission of San Juan. For example, last year a major network set up broadcasting facilities to describe to the world the arrival of swallows on Mar. 19, St. Joseph’s day. Why couldn’t something similar be worked out for our star]ings? Heck, tourists by the thousands flock to Capistrano each year to watch the swallows sail in on spring zephyrs from the South.
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THE MATTER of punctuality hasn't been established for the starlings. All those who
It Happened Last N ight
By Earl Wilson
NEW YORK, Dec. 6—Sugar Ray Robinson will turn dancer after the Graziano fight, then later devote his time to a Fred Astairish act, teamed with Pete Nugent, after his ring retirement some four fights from now. Told me so himself at Billy Eckstine Night at Sugar Hill. “Can’t go on fighting much longer,” he said. He's just committed himself to one big fight for a Harlem cause spearheaded by Cardinal Spellman. oo oo oe GLAMOUR DOLL Linda Darnell — you'd have thought — might have had ‘chartreuse jaundice” during her six weeks’ illness . . . but she says it was dirty, messy old yaller
her yellow all over. 5 3 : “That alabas- ; . ter skin of yours Linda Darnell turned yellow?” I asked, horrified at the idea, about it. “Yes, and the most horrible shade. The most ghastly, hideous, brownish, greenish yellow. Your eyeballs and fingernails got yellow. | You couldn’t look in the mirror. You got itchy in patches. You couldn't stand it"
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LUSCIOUS LINDA was very sick those weeks she lay flat on her back in the London clinic. “I had a temperature every day—I still have one.” “It was up to 103. For weeks I couldn't eat hot food. I wasn’t able to get out of bed to take a tub bath.”
when we talked
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THE MIDNIGHT EARL: Gen. Marshall was picked for the FDR Four Freedoms Award. . . . Frankie and Ava will fly to Weisbaden, Germany, where Frankie’ll entertain troops. , . , Mickey
Americana By Robert €. Ruark
« NEW YORK, Dec. 6—I confess complete puzzlement over the preoccupation of the very young with narcotics. You read all the stories, see the statistics, and it still doesn’t tell you why kids seek escape in the form of marijuana or the more serious narcotics. Something has to be lacking in the kids which can be complemented by the lice that encourage addiction as an aid to big business. You can understand, if not pardon, the prevalence of addiction among adults with excessive strains on their physical and nervous systems. I know doctors who worked so hard during the war that they began to summon extra stamina with a jab in .the arm, and so wrecked themselves on their own prescriptive shoals. * D>
YOU CAN understand invalids—people who hurt so bad that they buy surcease from pain with dope, and who then seek pain as an excuse to procure more dope. You can understand the people who keep the odd hours—musicians, say— who need a recurring “lift” to keep them flying. At least there is a “need,” or the excuse of fancied
4 ‘meed,” to warrant experiment with false stimuli.
But the business of being a kid, rich or poor, ugly or pretty, fat or thin, is such an exciting thing that it needs sedative more than stimulus. All the glands are oversecreting and the energy abounds until you are fair to slip your skin, Anything that happens is dramatic, anything at all. Why a teener should need a “lift” passes comprehension, * S @
A RECENT grand jury, acting on the revelation of marijuana sales in high schools, shot out a bulletin of high advice for parents. Keep the kids at home, the jury said. Find entertainment and recreation for them there. Chaperone their parties. Know where your children are, “and not just think you know where they are.” There has been no recorded case of complete supervision of a youngster in the normal public sense, once the child passes puberty and slides through the fingers of his parents, It is impossible to ride herd on a budding adult with twice your energy, twice your resources at subterfuge. About all you can do is raise him as well as you can on balanced diet, good behavior and the basic precepts of God, prior to his 15th birthday, and then hope it pays off. : But you surely cahnot keep in constant touch with a colt or filly in whom the sap is just starting to stir-—not without you chain them to the radiator. “da
SUPERVISION is not the answer to any sort of delinquency, after the kid is old enough to be delinquent. Something got mislaid in the formative years, something vital that should
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should show Interest hate the starlings and: think only of ways to discourage their squatting. : Swallows are punctual, They even shift their schedule during Leap Year so they always arrive on Mar. 19, <Bird watchers who get paid to know about birds are stymied. Exactly where the swallows come from isn’t known. Why they leave
‘Capistrano each Oct. 23 is a mystery.
It’s a mystery to Mr, Kreke why the starlings pick én Miss Indiana, -every nook and cranny:of the Monument and the standards along the sidewalk. “It's a fright,” wailed Mr. Kreke, losing the romance of our discussion entirely, “the way those birds mess up the Monument. I have to have two men cleaning every day.” Mr. Kreke thought the interior would be safe once the top was rebuilt, He was sure the observation booth would be starlin proof. Suspected openings were covered wi screen wire. Starlings have managed to get in since the top has been worked on.
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POSTMASTER RESS, until recently, was in charge of the welfare of the Federal building. The problem is in the hands of a building superintendent now and he is on vacation. His assistant is new (one-day’s experience when I talked to him) and starlings are the least of his worries “edcept when I'm entering or leaving the building.”
I can't interest anyone in glamorizihg the starling. Mention starling and you hear the words poison, dynamite, shotguns, clubs, traps. The only weapon not mentioned—so far-—was the atom bomb.
If you've ever been out on the Circle or near the Federal building late in the afternoon, you surely have felt the thrill of thousands of starlings arriving to spend the night.
How they chatter and rustle and scold to find a comfortable spot for the dreary hours between dusk and dawn. What strange and mysterious power brings them to the same structures each evening? What person, who has ever searched for a place to live, can speak unkindly about starlings? I'm telling you, it's a sight to watch them arrive by the thousands. I could watch for hours—oops.
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Sugar Ray Says He’ll Turn Dancer
Mantle told us in the Stage Barber Shop that the docs found his injured leg OK. . Eleanor Fluornoy, the ex-model, is now a chic milliner. The new Lady Mendl, now here, is resting up froth her 81-year-old hushand’s fast pace. . Gen. MacArthur visited Phil Silvers’ dressing room after seeing “Top Banana.”
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TIME, INC, seeks a TV station. . . . Phil Regan’'s daughter Marilyn wed Air Force Capt. Don Sachs. . Lawrence Langner and the Theater Guild cabled Ingrid Bergman asking her to star in “Joan of Are,” either the London or U. 8. road company. , . . Five-times-wed Bobby Martyn said at Gogi’'s that Diana Muckerman, Bernarr Macfadden’s granddaughter, “is prettier than ‘any of my ex-wives.” . . , Kim Hunter and dancer Bob Emmett will wed. : oo ob BOGART’'S MOVIE, “African Queen,” will be rushed into an L. A. house by United Artists Dec. 23 so it can be in the Oscar race . . . Hazel Scott and Rep. Adam Clayton Powell had an audience with the Pope the other day . . . Lovely model Madeline Tyler will marry Andy Feinman, theatrical lawyer. 2 : Larry Parks and Betty Garrett have been invited to do films in England. (They were a big hit at the Palladium) . . . Dick Flannigan looks very hot in the race for Democratic Club presidency . . , Norman Krasna, Betty Hutton’s one-day fiance, now goes around with “the new Jean Harlow,” Marilyn Monroe. - 2. > > » EARL’S PEARLS: Guys born with silver spoons in their mouths, says Winnie Garrett, usually never stir afterward. aD TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Epitaph reported by Robert Q. Lewis: “My wife’s now at rest (and so am I)”
; db . WISH I'D SAID THAT: “Government official— a man who can complicate simplicity,” Art Ford. : Wh < < “RENO,” suggests Sammy Kaye, “is the land of the free and the grave of the home.” That's Earl, brother.
Pity but Not Sympathy For Teen Dope Addict
be contained in the youngster himself, and not be blamed upon the people around him.
My guess, and gosh, it is a guess, is that the current crop has been coddled into weakness by too much attention. There seems to be an awful lot of whining out of the young, and an awful heavy effort to smooth'the path of the young. And they don’t need it.
It is a rare privilege to be verging on an adulthood, and throbbing like a good motor with latent power, with the wide world ahead and the parents behind, and a lot of delightful trouble in store. Security is a foolish word that should
‘ not be contained in the vocabulary of the teener
—security is a word to fret over later, when the scalp begins to bald and the arches start to sag. Just being young is the complete adventure —who needs a sniff or a shot in the arm to heighten the thrill? >
DO NOT give me the business about underprivilege and poverty and the other lame crutches -to excuse blanket delinquency. Preachers’ kids and rich men’s sons get into troubles, too, just as slum kids get to be President and governor and chairman of the board. I think that somewhere along the way we have fostered a streak of rottenness in our youth today, nurtured a sector of softness that is unhealthy. I .have pity but no sympathy for the young dope addict, I think he is a dumb jerk but would have wound up in some sort of trouble, somehow, through nobody’s fault but his own, and despite the best ministrations of his friends and family. 2
Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith
Q—A friend just sent me a bulb of a sacred Indian lily. Shall I plant it now in a pot or wait until ‘spring and set it in the ground? Mrs. Anna Smith, Montezuma.
A—The big fat bulbs of the sacred lily of India will produce their spectacular flowers with-
out any winter planting. Store your bulb in the
basement or some other cool spot. Watch for growth to begin on the stored bulb from late December to February, Then pot the bulb in some dry stones if you like, simply to hold the forth-
Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times
coming flower stalk upright. For it grows to
huge size. It grows rapidly without water or soil and produces a beautiful rose-colored calla lily-like bloom. But how it does smell.. One
owner of a sacred lily told me that if you re- |i
move the tongue (pistil) in the center of the blos~ som you also do away with the odor. In the spring after the ground warms up set the bulb outdoors in a shady moist spot for the summer, 5
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CHAPTER 4—
By BURTON B. TURKUS AND SID FEDER
TAKE A list of two hun- . dred murders, £11 unsolved,
apd a map on the wall with
a mark on it for each murder, and you have the District Attorney's perfect recipe for how not to be jubilant with his job. I can vouch for it. The list was on the desk of the brandnew assistant district attorney, charge of the Felony and Homicide Section, early in 1940. That meant me. The map was on the wall behind the desk.. Every section showed some scattered lawlessness, But in the northeast, to the naked eye, it was all marks and no map. There, in Brownsville, East New York and Ocean Hill, it was a blighted area—a pesthole. In one strip less than two miles long and three-quarters of a mile wide, two dozen or more men had been shot, stabbed, strangled, hacked to bits or cremated, and left in the gutter, on vacant lots or in stolen automobiles: >
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WE HAD. the medical examiner’s reports on them; we
~had.the statements of witnesses,
for what they were worth. But we did not have one item bn which to peg a case; no case on which to get a conviction.
We knew there were mobs working. - Any detective could tell you that. We knew, for instance, that Kid Twist Reles, fat and vicious, had an outfit in Brownsville with his pal, Buggsy Goldstein, and that they would stop at nothing. We knew Happy Maione in Ocean Hill headed a gang of hoodlums, which included the moronic Dasher Abbadando, and we suspected they were no strangers to bookmaking, prostitution and loan-shark activities.
We felt that Louis Capone, in spite of his dignified res-
taurateur’s front, must be con-.
nected in some way, because he showed a remarkable interest in these thugs. We knew Pittsburgh Phil and Vito *Gurino were tied up somehow in the goings-on. But neither we nor anyone else dreamed that these men were more than just local aggregations, limited to the areas in which they roamed. #8 =» : EVEN hoodltims like Johnny Torrio and Al Capone operated
The ROKs . . . Ready and Willing . . . No
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URDER. INC.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This Is the fourth of a series which gives the factual story of organized crime in America. Mr, Tiuckus, the country’s most successful prosecutor of underworld criminals, today tells how he started on the long job of investigating 200 unsolved murders. Sid Feder, who collaborated with Mr. Turkus in these articles, was a press association
staff man for 17 years, author:
of books and magazine articles. These chapters are excerpts from the hook, MURDER, INC, just published by Farrar, Straus and Young.
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a large part of the 200-or-so unsolved murders plaguing us was wrapped up in. an appalling aggregation of .about a thousand = assassinations -all over the country, and could be laid to the same crew of Kkillers, we would have laughed at them. There was, we agreed, one jumping off spot to begin the cleanup. These thugs had things pretty much their own way. We could start pushing them around. That is where we started.
..olice were assigned to
every street corner where loungers congregated. Wherever one of these bums was loafing, he was made to move. Toughs were yanked off the corners at every opportunity and charged with any “rap” on which we could bring them in. One day in late January, 22 of the hoodlums were rounded up in one batch. All were convicted of vagrancy or consorting with known criminals. All were treated to stays of 60 or 90 days at the state’s expense.
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THEN the Felony and Homi- *
cide Section pondered where to turn next. And just about that time the postman dropped a letter in my office. It was on the stationery of the City Workhouse. Its message was: “I am doing a bit here. I would like to talk to the D. A. I know something about a murder in East New York. Harry Rudolph.” We decided to see what was on Rudolph’s mind. The first thing Rudy said was, “Those rats killed. my friend Red Alpert. I saw them do it.” ° The Alpert murder ran true to form. It was listed:
By JIM G. LUCAS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
ABOARD ROK FRIGATE APNOCK, Dec. 6—A few days ago, the Apnock took three direct hits from Communist shore batteries near Wonsan. Two were above the waterline, in the steerage room. The third pierced
the engine room at waterline. Cmdr. Shin Jang Sup sur:
veyed the damage ‘as repairs got underway. . “It'll be five ¥ weeks before we can fight again,” he said sadly. The Apnock has beén in | the thick of | things ever since she#g joined the South Korean navy. Original-_ ly christened ° the USS Muskogee, she fought through World War II as a Russian frigate, renamed the Murmansk. When the Russians reluctantly handed her back, we gave her to South Korea. » ~ » THE APNOCK is the only United Nations combat ship to shoot down a Red plane in the Korean War. That happened near Sinmi-do, a small. island off Sinuiju last April. Sinuiju is in northwest Korea, only a few miles from the Manchurian border. When the Apnock steamed in to shell highways and rail lines along the coast, five enemy Yaks came after her. The Apnock took two bomb hits, but her antiaircraft guns clipped one Yak, which crashed before it could get back to land.
The Apnock was hit the last
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Editor's note: Jim Lucas concludes his comprehensive series on the ROK armed forces with an appraisal of the South Korean navy—with its 60 ships and hard-fighting, aggressive seamen,
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miles from Wonsan. Cmdr. Shin told the story through Seaman Whang Tong Huen who speaks English.
“We were only 3000 yards off -
shore,” the skipper said. “That is not far, but we do not have big guns—only three-inch—and it is necessary to get in close to be sure we do not miss. “Many other ships-are around, and we want to show them the Korean Navy is very good.” » = » FIRST TO reach the crippled Apnock was the U. 8S. destroyer Hanson. The Hanson supplied electrical power and clamped a temporary patch over the engine room hole at waterline. The Apnock’s wounded ‘were transferred to the battleship New Jersey. Meanwhile, the New Jersey knocked out the guns which had disabled the Apnock. A few minutes later, our fleet tug Moctobi arrived with two emergency pumps. The nine-foot-deep water in the Apnock’s engine room was lowered to four. With her food supply under water, the Apnock was towed to Pusan. Just ahead of a typhoon.
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WHEN THEY START TO SING—The big shots sing as long and as loud as the small punks.
“Alpert, Alex, alias Red. 19 years old. Small-time hoodlum. Shot at edge of a yard Nov. 25, oss. No witnesses.”
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RUDY TOLD us who-did it: “Those Brownsville ‘guys, Kid Reles and Buggsy Goldstein and Dukey Maffetore.”
Detectives called Rudolph, a “full mooner,” meaning he was “off his rocker.” A “full moon-
er’s” wheels do not go around in proper synchronization.
But fact or fiction, Rudy was naming names. It was enough to ask a grand jury for an indictment. ‘And that would keep “Kid Twist” Reles, the Bug and Dukey off the streets, They were picked up. The average citizen no doubt imagines that all you have to do to get the little guy to talk is to put the squeeze on and everything gushes out.
Adm. Burke
The Apnock is one of four frigates with the South’ Korean Navy. They're all named for South Korean rivers, Americans serving with them say the ROKs make excellent sailors.
“They have a naval tradition,” Lt. Cmdr, C. J. Oleniacz of Buffalo, N. Y., said recently. “Real national spirit. They like to fight.
» . ~ “THEY KNOW THEYRE just as "good sailors as anyone. They'll tell you right quick about the Korean Adm. Il Sun Shin, who they claim whipped the American Navy around 1880." The South Koreans now have more ‘than: 60 ships,” all on
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Actually the big shots talk faster.
Harry Rudolph, the mooner”’
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‘reaction. ’
Dukey Maffetore was on the fringe of the gang and know but a limited “song” to sing. But he mentioned “Pretty” Levine. So we went and got “Pretty.” Actually, Dukey ‘and Pretty. had already been marked for execution. They were recognized by their bosses as potential weak spots in the organization. The order for their execution had been issued the same day 22 of the hoods were sentenced for vagrancy and consorting with criminals. They knew it. . ? oy 8 8 SO PRETTY sang. He told of the murder of Alpert. Continuing his song, Pretty
of upstate New York, the Catskills, and revealed half a dozen assassinations. All appeared then to involve Brooklyn gang stuff only, as if the mountains were something of an annex for the combination,
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UP TO that point, whenever a body had bubbled up to the surface of a Catskill lake or was left on a dusty roadside, aJl that Sullivan County authorities had was a corpus delicti. No witnesses, no motive—no anything. Pretty’s revelations shocked Sullivan Coun-
.ty District Attorney Bill Deck-
elman, __ “We,” was his amazed gasp of realization, “have been a dumping grounds for the last 10 years.” (Copyright, J by Burion B. Turkus
TOMORROW: Song of Mur.
dipped next into the playland der on a Holy Day.
active duty off both coasts. Most of them are small, and they're work horses. One evacuated 7500 civilians from Hungnam last December with only one engine in operation. ROK ships serve a number of other functions. Our Navy
men say they're extremely useful for close inshore blockade work, for supporting guerrillas and for transporting troops
: and supplies between islands.
They also carry raiding parties into North Korea. Because ROK skippers are familiar with the Korean coastline, they're particularly valuable at this kind of work. “If anything,” Cmdr, Oleniacz said, “they're over-aggressive. They'd go into the most impossible situations if we’d let them. It's not unusual for a ROK ship to strip itself of crew members and send them ashore as raiders. That happened at Inchon last - year, ROK sailors were ashore 18 hours ahead of anyone else. Did it on their own.”
» ” F 4 CMDR. OLENIACZ believes the South Koreans are capable of defending their own shores and insuring the integrity of Korean waters. He thinks ROK frigates could hold their own against enemy submarine attacks. 5
“They've improved 100 per cent since I first saw them,” he said. “The thing that impresses me most is their efficiency aboard ship. They're good seamen.”
Another American officer said
he was impressed with the ROK shipboard cleanliness. Even
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engine rooms are spotless, he said. The ROKs maintain a shipyard and naval academy at Chinhae. Three U.S. officers and six enlisted men assist them. Chinhae Naval Academy graduated 71 ensigns in June. All of them immediately went aboard U.S. ships for further training. Also in June, the ROKs built their first ship, a migelayer, and flew their first Navy plane — a pontoon. equipped AT-8 trainer type. Americans immediately dubbed it “Fleet Air Wing One.”
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BURKE, who's on the United
Nations truce team at present, and Vice Adm. Harold Martin, commander of the U, 8. Seventh Fleet, have taken a personal interest in Chinhae' Academy.
The ROK Navy is headed by Rear Adm. Won Yil Sohn, who served with the Chinese Navy and studied in Germany. A number of South Korean officers served with the Japanese Navy, and a few were Japanese Navy pilots. Since July, 1950, Cmdr. M. J. Luosely of the U.S. Navy has’ served as liaison officer with the ROKs. He presently carries the title of commander of ROK Naval Forces in Korea.
“The ROK Navy can take care of "itself,” Commander Oleniacz summed up. “I object only to the food. It's rice and seaweed soup for breakfast, lunch and dinner, seven days a week,”
Last of a Series
Mustrated by Walt Scott