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THEY WANT TO KNOW-—Members of the House committee investigating the Internal Revenue Bureau suspect that some witnesses have been lying. Committee members are shown from left to right: Rep. Eugene J. Keogh (D. N. Y.), Rep. Thomas J. O'Brien (D. Nl), Rep. John W. Byrnes (R. Wis.), and Rep. Cecil King (D. Cal.), chairman.

In Indianapolis By Ed Sovola

UNCLE SAM isn’t the only one who says “the mail must go through.” Les Kinnett, supervisor of mail and stationery at Allison’s Plant 3, says it too. Getting into an Allison plant to watch others work isn’t simple, especially when. you start off with that reason. A guard at the door makes you wait while he checks with the plant, makes you show credentials, sign slips, pin on a badge. wwe ownstill don't get dn... .4n. escort comes out

to take you to your destination. ‘Nowhere else. | . (I wish someone would make identification badges

that would look attractive on your lapel. It couid be done with a little imagination.) Les is proud of his operation. Through his department, 90,000 pieces of mail flow a week. That's a small city operation. It isn’t much when you compare it with the main Post Office in the city, which handles over 500,000 pieces of mail a day. But don’t sneeze at 90,000 in Les’ presence. ¢ So TWO MAIL TRUCKS, property of Allison, are on the move all day, from plant to plant and to the downtown Post Office. They are on the move at 6:15 a.m. One truck picks up only first class mail and the other parcel post. Les knows almost to the minute where they are. The schedule is tighter than a water pump in 10 below weather, At Plant 3 the mail is sorted, opened, routed to the proper big wheel or office boy. Mail which is addressed simply Allison, is processed in Les’ workshop and distributed later around the seven other plants in the city. Trucks aren't the only vehicles Les worries about in his own quiet and inimitable way. He has a three-wheel mail bicycle for long plant runs. Four mail pushcarts operate throughout the Pentagon-like corridors and offices.

A WEAKER MAN watching Mail Carriers Glen Burkhardt, Francis Chrismore, James Early-

' wine and Donna Jean Clarleswood would get diz-

zy from the hustle and bustle. But I'm used to watching and the chair Les provided was padded and comfortable. “Why all this eclock-watching and worry?” I asked. “The package Glen has In his hand right now probably contains the latest joke some guy in accounts payable is sending to Joe Blow in purchasing.” “That could be,” Les said, almost smiling, “but it could contain something important, too. Some departments have to have certain information at a certain time or it throws them off.” The 2000 words I heard about the cost department, accounts. payable, timekeeping, purchasing can be boiled down to this: The centralized departments depend on one another. eo

THE BICYCLE and pushcart mailmen make eight deliveries a day. The longest trip takes an hour. In between deliveries mail has to be sorted, packaged or bagged. Big wheels in the plant, little wheels, even the nuts and bolts, expect their mail five minutes before it gets there. Like anyone else. The other guy’s priiblems are of no concern to you. Between the hours of 7:30 and 9:30 a. m.

It Happened Last N ight

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 11—Beminked Nancy Sinatra, looking lovely and luxurious, was at 21 with Hollywood producer Freddie Kohlmar. She came near getting the same plane Frankie & Ava were due to ‘Come in on, but they happened to switch. What a chummy trip that'd have been. Gary Cooper and his mother-in-law, Mrs, Paul Shield, dined at the Colony. Reconciliation, maybe? . , . It's so warm, says Binnie Barnes, that the Santa Clauses are wearing tropical worsted Santa Claus suits . . . Alan Gale told at the Celebrity Club of a millionaire who went silly over a shapely doll; as he put it, “her uplift was his downfall.” ¢ > o BILLY ROSE'S exhumed Eleanor Holm’s old vaudeville salary records (of the days when she was still Mrs. Art Jarrett) in his efforts to prove she wasn't accustomed to heavy sugar and isn’t entitled to $1250-a-week. Joyce Mathews gaily celebrated her birthday this week. She was either 29, 307 31 or 32. Marty White says Billy believes that “Variety is the spice of wife.” pS BS JOE DIMAGGIO came in to NY via Del Webb's [vate plane and dined quietly at the Blair ouse with his .roommate; Gentleman Georgie Solotaire. Joe will weigh many things before ving his Big Deeision. Gentleman Georgie will now the answer ahead of most people. But beng a discreet secret-keeper he won't even mention it to his diary. . -

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

time ago you offered a beginner's léaflet oniAfrican violets. .I had intended sending for .. it but didn’t get it done. Now I will appreciate it if you will send both ‘this and the second one in the same envelope, which I enclose. H. M. L.,, American States Insurance Co. A—A number of readers who sent their stamped, _ self-addressed envelopes for the leaflet on African violet troubles asked that the begin- . ‘ner's leaflet be sent with it. So far as possible these requests were filled. But it is very difficult

"Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column fe iin The Sunday Times

"in handling a quantity of mail to keep differing - requests from getting mixed up. If you did not

get leaflets, do forgive the hard working gal opened, filled and sealed the many let- . ters poured in. And if you will send ane

self-

other envelope, stamped and

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Mail Flow Heavy At Allison’s Plant

ALLISON MAILMAN — Glen Burkhardt pushes a mail cart but his eye is on bigger wheels.

and 3:30 and 5:15 p. m., the Central Mail Department of Allison’s in Plant 3 is a madhouse. That's what Les said. In the morning the mail department has the incoming avalanche. In the afternoon the bulk of the mail is going out. Four clerks work for two hours with no thought of taking a break or smoking a cigaret. Just listening to Les talk convinces you that only in an emergency would you ever write a letter to Allison. No use making his work any more complicated than it is. op A YOUNG BOY or girl requires at least three months’ experience to become valuable. It takes that long to learn the technique, names, departments and procedures; routes. An exceptionally bright newcomer can do it in less time. The only hitch in this is that the mail department is the starting point for working up. About the time a sharp boy gets to know his way around, some department head puts the finger on him and Les is looking for a replacement. Everyone, including Les, is happy. You can’t hold back a promotion. After 12 years Les just shrugs his shoulders and starts all over again. Take a boy like Glen Burkhardt. I- followed him. He’s fast, polite, eager. He doesn’t want to push the mailcart forever. Glen sees the Cadillacs out in front of the plant. That's what he wants to push some day. To the front door, Glen, and watch the wheels on that pushcart, I'm tired.

Nancy Sinatra, Ava Almost Meet

JUST AN HOUR BEFORE.the death of New Yorker Editor Harold Ross, I'd been listening as New Yorker Contributor John McNulty discussed Ross’ genius. McNulty’'s. one of the writers about whom a favorite Ross story was told. McNulty (supposedly) was proposed to Ross for a job as a reporter and Ross snapped, “Reporter, hell! He'll start out as managing editor just like everybody else does.” < <> < WHEN PHIL SILVERS, star of “Top Ba-* nana,” was honored by the Friars, the compliments (from Milton Berle) ran like this: “I can say a lot of nice things about him—but I'd rather tell the truth,” But Milton's mother Sandra stole the show with a record she sent. On it she said, “It's not true that Phil Silvers burlesques my son in his hit show. But so what if he did? It's good for a lot of laughs. Wh: the——!" ¢ & THE MIDNIGHT EARL . . , Despite all other stories, a high govt. official says there’ll be no BEET vg steel for other than defense use after Jan. 1. 6 . Look for Secy. of Labor Tobin to be the brains of the Democrats’ ’'52 campaign, Jack Dempsey owns a chunk of Chicago's De Forest Training School for TV and ; @ Radio Engineers and is: listed Miss O'Hara as “Director of Student Wel-

fare” : . .'Linda Darnell, due to her jaundice, is

- w&on the wagon for six months . . . Sam .Gyson,

center of a controversy, b’cast the last time from Howie’s Restaurant . ... Shirley O'Hara's a Mexican contribution to TV. HS JACK E. LEONARD, whom we believe to be the funniest man in town (now at the Paramount) cracked that Sam Levenson, the teacher who became an entertainer, did so well, “he now owns three schools” . . . Jose Ferrer gets $200,000 from Paramount for playing the life of the French artist Toulouse-Lautrec . « «» Gloria Green, daughter of ‘the ex-Gov. of Illinois, will be bridesmaid when Barbara Newsom weds socialite Johnny Little . . . Today's bravo: Joe Grimm's songs at the Edison Green Room. eB EARL’S PEARLS . . . A poor boy, contends ‘Charlton Heston, 38 often Just a rich boy with a girl. Tl ¢ ©

WISH I'D SAID THAT: “Men must have will : power but women need won't TOWertneTally

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The Indianapolis Times

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1951

PAGE 13

CHAPTER 8—

By BURTON B. TURKUS and SID FEDER

BUGGSY SIEGEL'’S ego was the most incredible part of; this fantastic bum.

Charges that would make

honest men fight had him. throwing out his chest. Yet he would tear anyone apart who dared call him “Buggsy” out loud. He insisted on being addressed with the dignity befitting his station. “Call me Mr. Siegel,” he once demanded of another hood. “That's my name, isn’t it?” Buggsy performed feats which he felt entitled him to universal respect from all mobsters. Our informers in Brooklyn told of the time Buggsy went to a New York hospital for a check-up. One. night he told the nurse not to disturb him, he needed sleep. When she peeked in his room occasionally she saw a form in the bed. Buggsy had stuffed pillows under a blanket to resemble his contour. But Buggsy slipped downstairs and out. 5 = 2 A WAITING car with two friends took him to a, house on Ft. Hamilton parkway, in Brooklyn. Tony Fabrizzo lived there, but not very long after Buggsy left the hospital. They found Tony dead with 3 bullets in his chest. at, bis. door.

Phe Turse just knew Buggsy

had been in the hospital all night. Buggy's hospital alibi is presented here solely for its relation to national crime. A guy so smart just naturally was singled out to bring to California — organized, gangstyle crime. This unrestrained thug established the. beachhead of organized crime in California in 1937. Arriving, the Bug cased the layout thoroughly, and decided that the quickest “earnings” lay in motion pictures. Buggsy’s organizational

FORMOSA

By JIM LUCAS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

TAIPEH, Formosa, Dec. 11 — Free China's most pressing need is a modern

air force, her chief of staff

asserts. Gen. Chou Chih-jou, Nationalist Defense Ministry chief of staff and currently its air force comsmander, is disturbed, he said, because few jet pilots have been trained so far. “The day of the pistondriven airplane is gone” he said. “Unless a man flies a jet, he has no business in the air, Not ‘many jets have arrived in Formosa. No jet. pilots have been trained. It was planned, but those plans have not been carried out.” Gen. Chou said Communist China has several thousand modern jets and is obtaining more every day. The Nationalist. Army, he said, is fully prepared to deal with invaders. The Japanese estimated during World War II they could successfully defend Formosa with 21,000 soldiers. Free China has something over 400,000 in her ground forces. The remainder of her 500,000 mensunder arms are in the Navy and Air Force. ” » » A GREAT deal has been accomplished,” Gen. Chou said, “but a great deal remains to be done.”

He said it would be possible for the Nationalists to recruit 2000 to 3000 soldiers monthly on the mainland and bring them to Formosa. But, he said, that is not practical now. The Formosa, economy would hardly support more population, and it would be difficult to screen out Communist infiltrators. Like all airmen, Gen. Chou’ is keenly interested in the Korean air war. He wanted a detailed comparison of our Sabre jets with the Russian-made MIG15's. He was eager to hear about

Mr. Lucas

the new Red jet—the MIG-19, re-

THE SONGS OF

MURDER, INC.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the eighth installment of av series. Mr. Turkus is the prosecuto® who sent seven killers of Murder, Inc. to the electric chair in the famous Brooklyn investigation. Mr. Feder is the well-known newspaper man and author. These chapters are excerpts from the book, MUR-

DER, INC., just published by .

Farrar, Straus and Young.

upbringing told him, that the big name stars were the ime mediate target at which to aim. The Bug was a ‘natural for Hollywood. Handsome, smoothtalking, bon vivant, he had a brashness, built around his well-padded ego, that was made to order for film society.

HE WAS soon hob-nobbing with top-name stars. That made his first California collection all the easier. Just what this involved, I learned when I went to California to investigate a murder our Brooklyn informers mentioned. They involved Buggsy in their singing. So I made a visit to his cozy thirty-five-room Holmby Hills hut, a $200,000 pile of white brick complete with swimming pool. In it he had set up his uncomplaining

«Brooklyn wife: andstioirrAmpy . daughters. His particular de-

light in this palace was his own private bath, done in maroon marble. The' master was not at home when we got there. Word of my visit apparently had leaked, although we took every precaution. 5 We admired the lavish taste displayed hy the connoisseur from the slums. Most noteworthy was a pair of priceless pistols carefully tucked away in a wall safe. We especially admired the Bug's account books that were found upstairs.

No. 4—

‘We Must Have Jets’ To Fight Mao :

FROM

Siegel how to gain control.

Some of the very top film idols had been “loaning” him sums in four and five figures since shortly after his arrival —and no record indicated they ever were repaid! The only deduction possible was that Buggsy dfd not have to pay back—that here was his first neat dividend in the California territory.

8 2 2 . IT SEEMS he had managed to achieve considerable power

DEADLY WEAPON—Nationalist China's Gen. Chou Chih.

jou wants to use jet fighters...

EDITOR'S NOTE—This is the last of a series of four articles about Formosa by Scripps-Howard Staff Writer, Jim G. Lucas,

cently seen along the Yalu River. “We must have jets,” he said several times during the interview, \ 8 = ” " AN anti-Communist military alliance for Asia, he said, would be “very desirable, purely from a military viewpoint. Politically, it might be difficult. The presence of British troops in Hong

CHRISTMAS

Kong, for instance, might complicate things. “In any Asian military alliance,” he said firmly, “Free China must have a part. Free

China has been one of the greatest factors in the struggle against Asiatic communism, She has been in the fight for many years. “The Communists on the mainland, under Mao and his gang, have one of the largest cells in Asia. People on the mainland, however, are hostile to the Communists. They're hoping urgently that Free China will, as soon as possible, return

in the organization of the

movie extras. Bit by bit—as he had seen Lepke do it in the garment unions—he gained control. Then he showed his hand. He used the silk glove approach, rather than the schlammin, or lead-pipe, technique. “Look, George,” he would confide to a high-salaried star, as if offering a great favor, “I'm putting you down for $10,000 for the extras.” “What kind of a bite is this?”

..to free them from the yoke of

Red tyranny. The leadership of Free China is known to the people of Asia, Free China is a beacon toward which all nonCommunist Asia looks. 8 8 “MILITARILY, we have one of the largest anti-Communist forces in Asia, a factor which cannot be ignored: For decades,

China has been fighting communism. We are still in that fight, We aré¢ devoting all our resources to it. “I firmly believe that the entire population of Free China and that on the mainland are willing to give everything to the struggle against world communism.”

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ZXepke Taught Buggsy.

« +o to shatter Mao's Communist cell on the mainland of China.

llustrated by" Walt § Scott

The Fantastic Bum, Buggsy Siegel, Picked Up Tips From Another Bum About Easy Money

was George's immediate reaction, “What have I got to do with the extras?” “Tsk, tsk,” the Bug countered, “I guess you just don’t understand. Take your next picture, now: script. written, director named, scenes set, stagehands ° drawing pay. The producer says, ‘Go’. Then what happens? The extras walk out—just like that, You can't get more, because they're ‘all in the same outfit. So--no picture.” This, George could easily understand. Many made “loans” to Buggsy., For one year alone, -they totaled

' $400,000 Even more remarks

able, many of the stars were socializing with Buggsy at the same' time they were paying! The hood from the East became the darling of the very

screen society he was museling. #® » »

LOCAL PAPERS referred to hint as “the Hollywood socialite.” An Italian countess, whose calling list included titled heads of Europe, introduced him to the best people. He was pointed out as “that wealthy Hollywood sportsman.” It was not too inexplicable when you consider that the Bug had never been convicted of any serious crime. In fact, when we were after him and looked for rogue’s gallery photo graphs, the only picture on

record, as I recall, Was an. 88s...

clent likeness in the files of the Philadelphia police, Buggsy fancted two-hundred-dollar suits, of which he always had twenty-five or thirty. He was proudest, though, of his hand-made twenty-five-dolfar silk shirts, His name was linked romantically with a star who 1s still established in film and television. That, of course, was befors Virginia Hill discovered Cals

ifornia--and vice versa. * (Copyright, 1081, ot Burton B. Turkus

sid TOMORROW: Virginia Hilt and the Blackout of Buggsy.:

Gen. Chou said the speed with which United States military aid reached non-Commu-nist Asia “will have a great deal to do with how rapidly an anti-Red alliance could become effective.” ” » s THE ALLIANCE, he sald, should include Formosa, Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Indo-China, Siam, and Malaya. “If this alliance is set up,” he said, “moral support is the thing we: want most from our allies. I believe that with real co-operative, collaborative spirit and determination - to share everything, an anti-Communist military alliance in Asia could be made very effective,”